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http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7333527	Right Ho, Jeeves	1934-10-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	729737	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729737	Bertie returns to London from several weeks in Cannes spent in the company of his Aunt Dahlia Travers and her daughter Angela.__NEWL__In Bertie's absence, Jeeves has been advising Bertie's old school friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, who is in love with a goofy, sentimental, whimsical, childish girl named Madeline Bassett.__NEWL__Gussie, a shy teetotaler with a passion for newts and a face like a fish, is too timid to speak to her.__NEWL__Bertie is annoyed that his friends consider Jeeves more intelligent than Bertie, and he takes Gussie's case in hand, ordering Jeeves not to offer any more advice.__NEWL__Madeline, a friend of Bertie's cousin Angela, is staying at Brinkley Court (country seat of Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom).__NEWL__Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie come to Brinkley Court to make a speech and present the school prizes to students at the local grammar school, which he considers a fearsome task.__NEWL__Bertie sends Gussie to Brinkley Court in his place, so that Gussie will have the chance to woo Madeline there, but also so that Gussie will be forced to take on the unpleasant job of distributing the school prizes.__NEWL__When Angela breaks her engagement to Tuppy Glossop, Bertie feels obliged to go down to Brinkley Court to comfort Aunt Dahlia.__NEWL__In addition to her worry about Angela's broken engagement, Aunt Dahlia is anxious because she has lost 500 pounds gambling at Cannes, and now needs to ask her miserly husband Tom to replace the money in order to keep financing her magazine, Milady's Boudoir.__NEWL__Bertie advises her to arouse Uncle Tom's concern for her by pretending to have lost her appetite through worry.__NEWL__He offers similar advice to Tuppy, to win back Angela.__NEWL__He also offers the same advice to Gussie, to show his love for Madeline.__NEWL__All take his advice, and the resulting return of plates of untasted food upsets Aunt Dahlia's temperamental prized chef Anatole, who gives notice to quit.__NEWL__Not unreasonably, Aunt Dahlia blames Bertie for this disaster.__NEWL__When Bertie attempts to probe Madeline's feelings about Gussie, she misinterprets his questioning as a marriage proposal on his own behalf.__NEWL__To his relief, she tells Bertie she cannot marry him, as she has fallen in love with Gussie.__NEWL__Bertie relays the good news to Gussie, but even with this encouragement, Gussie remains too timid to propose, and Bertie decides to embolden him by lacing his orange juice with liquor.__NEWL__ More and more, it was beginning to be borne in upon me what a particularly difficult chap Gussie was to help.__NEWL__He seemed to so marked an extent to lack snap and finish.__NEWL__With infinite toil, you manoeuvred him into a position where all he had to do was charge ahead, and he didn't charge ahead, but went off sideways, missing the objective completely.__NEWL__—__NEWL__Bertie learns from Jeeves that Gussie lost his nerve Gussie ends up imbibing more liquor than Bertie had intended.__NEWL__Under its influence, Gussie successfully proposes to Madeline.__NEWL__He then delivers a hilarious, abusive, drunken speech to the grammar school while presenting the school prizes.__NEWL__Madeline, disgusted, breaks the engagement and resolves to marry Bertie instead.__NEWL__The prospect of spending his life with the drippy Madeline terrifies Bertie, but his personal code of chivalrous behavior will not allow him to insult her by withdrawing his "proposal" and turning her down.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Gussie, still drunk, retaliates against Madeline by proposing to Angela, who accepts him in order to score off Tuppy.__NEWL__Tuppy's jealousy is aroused and he chases Gussie all around the mansion, vowing to beat him within an inch of his life.__NEWL__In the face of this chaos, Bertie admits his inability to cope, and appeals to Jeeves for advice.__NEWL__Jeeves arranges for Bertie to be absent for a few hours, and during that time swiftly and ingeniously solves all the problems, assuring that Angela and Tuppy are reconciled, that Gussie and Madeline become engaged again, that Anatole withdraws his resignation, and that Uncle Tom writes Aunt Dahlia a cheque for 500 pounds.__NEWL__Bertie learns his lesson and resolves to let Jeeves have his way in the future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2059694	1632	2000-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	739474	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=739474	The fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia (modeled on the real West Virginia town of Mannington) and its power plant are displaced in space-time, through a side effect of a mysterious alien civilization.__NEWL__A hemispherical section of land about three miles in radius measured from the town center is transported back in time and space from April 2000 to May 1631, from North America to the central Holy Roman Empire.__NEWL__The town is thrust into the middle of the Thirty Years' War, in the German province of Thuringia in the Thuringer Wald, near the fictional German free city of Badenburg.__NEWL__This Assiti Shards effect occurs during a wedding reception, accounting for the presence of several people not native to the town, including a doctor and his daughter, a paramedic.__NEWL__Real Thuringian municipalities located close to Grantville are posited as Weimar, Jena, Saalfeld and the more remote Erfurt, Arnstadt, and Eisenach well to the south of Halle and Leipzig.__NEWL__Grantville, led by Mike Stearns, president of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), must cope with the town's space-time dislocation, the surrounding raging war, language barriers, and numerous social and political issues, including class conflict, witchcraft, feminism, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, among many other factors.__NEWL__One complication is a compounding of the food shortage when the town is flooded by refugees from the war.__NEWL__The 1631 locals experience a culture shock when exposed to the mores of contemporary American society, including modern dress, sexual egalitarianism, and boisterous American-style politics.__NEWL__Grantville struggles to survive while trying to maintain technology sundered from twenty-first century resources.__NEWL__Throughout 1631, Grantville manages to establish itself locally by forming the nascent New United States of Europe (NUS) with several local cities even as war rages around them.__NEWL__But once Count Tilly falls during the Battle of Breitenfeld outside of Leipzig, King Gustavus Adolphus rapidly moves the war theater to Franconia and Bavaria, just south of Grantville.__NEWL__This leads to the creation of the Confederated Principalities of Europe (CPoE) and some measure of security for Grantville's up-timer and down-timer populations.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3178582	The Redemption of Althalus	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	724729	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=724729	The story revolves around Althalus, a professional thief with a gift for storytelling and a reputation for uncanny luck.__NEWL__After numerous disasters (Althalus believes that luck has left him for good), the thief decides to return to the savage lands of the north, where he grew up, and decides to rob a fort.__NEWL__After arriving there, and amusing everyone with his stories, Althalus breaks into the storeroom during the night only to find out that all the talk about gold in the fort were lies, and that there are only bags of worthless copper coins and a handful of brass coins.__NEWL__Furious, Althalus steals all the brass coins and leaves – only to become chased by every man in the fort, its owner taking advantage of the situation to claim the theft of a non-existent fortune.__NEWL__He escapes to Hule, where he finds refuge in a camp.__NEWL__A man named Ghend arrives there a short time later and presents Althalus with a proposition.__NEWL__Ghend hires Althalus to travel to the "House at the End of the World" to steal a book.__NEWL__Although he suspects something is amiss, Althalus accepts the job and heads there.__NEWL__After several days of travel he finds the house and manages to stumble upon the book, only to realize that the House is occupied by a talking cat who has trapped him.__NEWL__After several days of being trapped he finally decides to listen to the cat and thus finds out several astonishing things.__NEWL__The book is called the Book of Deiwos, Deiwos being the God who created the world, and the cat (named Emerald or Emmy by Althalus) teaches him to read it.__NEWL__After two and a half thousand years, Emerald reveals to Althalus that the book can be used to accomplish feats of magic ...__NEWL__Emerald tells Althalus that he has actually been in the house for many, many years.__NEWL__The intervening two millennia have seen many changes in the world, including the initial stages of an ice age triggered by the evil God Daeva.__NEWL__She also tells Althalus that Ghend is Daeva's agent, and is working to establish Daeva as the ruler of the world.__NEWL__The cat and Althalus set out to gather a party of people who are destined to save the world from Daeva's dominion.__NEWL__They try to find the knife which will guide them to each person.__NEWL__Having arrived at the knife's depository, they are told that the knife has been taken by Eliar, a member of the army.__NEWL__With this new information they travel to Osthos, where Eliar seems to have become a slave.__NEWL__Deciding that they will have to buy off all the slaves, the two travel to Emerald's private gold mine and collect twenty blocks of gold, which Althalus converts into coins.__NEWL__With their purses full, they return and meet Andine, the queen (or "Arya") of Osthos, in her palace, posing as slavers.__NEWL__However, Andine won't sell Eliar to them.__NEWL__Emerald worms her way into Andine's affection in an attempt to persuade her to give up Eliar.__NEWL__Finally, the queen agrees to sell the other slaves along with Eliar.__NEWL__With the deal struck, Althalus leads his troupe out, but overhears Eliar planning on attacking him with the other soldier slaves.__NEWL__To break the soldier's loyalty, he randomly picks a soldier and sends him several thousand feet into the air before bringing him back down and releasing the slaves, except Eliar, whom he keeps chained up.__NEWL__In the morning, Eliar decides that he will follow Althalus.__NEWL__After buying some horses they head to Awes, where Emerald tells Eliar that he must show the writing on the knife to every priest in Awes and ask if they can read it.__NEWL__While doing this they discover an agent of Daeva, who screams in anguish after seeing the knife.__NEWL__Eliar quickly slays him and they hide the body under a pile of rocks.__NEWL__A young priest finds them, but it turns out that the priest is none other than the fourth member of their party, Bheid.__NEWL__With their new member ready, Emerald "reads" the knife, which leads them back to Osthos, where their fifth member is destined to be none other that the queen of Osthos: Andine.__NEWL__Returning to Osthos, they camp out behind the walls of the city for the night.__NEWL__Formulating a plan, Althalus and Emerald sneak into Andine's palace unnoticed.__NEWL__In her chambers, Emerald captures Andine in a spell, causing her to be little more than a puppet.__NEWL__Leading their newest member out of the city, they rejoin their group and decide to hastily leave before morning comes and Andine is discovered missing.__NEWL__Andine wants no part in this and focuses on killing Eliar, but the enchantment on the knife forces her to listen to Althalus, and so, with their newest member in tow, the party travels to Hule, to find their sixth member.__NEWL__While traveling towards Hule, Bheid tries to quell Andine's hatred towards Eliar – with limited success, but it appears to be taking effect when Andine refrains from making any scathing remarks towards Eliar.__NEWL__During the night, Althalus and Eliar hear someone sneaking towards their camp and capture the boy named Gher, who, it turns out, is their sixth member.__NEWL__Emerald finally sorts out the problems with Andine by using Gher as a voice, Andine (having a change of heart) helps clean up the beaten up Gher and they head to Kweron to find their final member; a "witch".__NEWL__In Kweron, Althalus and Emerald hatch up a scheme that involves Bheid; Bheid will pretend that he has come to collect the "witch" for interrogation, as well as predicting avalanches and lightning strikes (which Althalus will provide).__NEWL__Bheid is, at first, reluctant to lie that blatantly about something, but in the end, he agrees.__NEWL__After a conversation with the priests of the village, he finds out that the "witch" is about to be burned alive.__NEWL__Through the respect he has gathered by his "forecasts", he can convince the priests to give the enigmatic Leitha into his care.__NEWL__Before leaving, Leitha reveals that she can "hear" the thoughts of other people.__NEWL__The group decides to travel back to the House at the end of the world.__NEWL__Dweia reveals the origins of why they must do what they do:  Deiwos, the Sky God – and Dweia's brother – created the world, and filled the planet with living things, whom Dweia cares for.__NEWL__However, Daeva's only role is to destroy parts of the universe, but only those which Deiwos and Dweia allow him to.__NEWL__Daeva tries to change this, and has Ghend find each member of his "chosen ones" to prepare to take over the world, and to do this he needs Deiwos's book, to copy it and make a book of his own for this purpose.__NEWL__After learning this, Althalus introduces Emerald, who in reality was Dweia all along, to the "family" and quickly explains the situation to them as well as telling them about Eliar's ability to use the doors of the House to travel through Spacetime.__NEWL__After getting acquainted with living in the house, they use the doors to return to Arum where they try to win Albron's (the knife keeper's) clan as allies, and show him the House as an act of trust.__NEWL__They know that they will need an army to combat Gelta's archaic forces from the past.__NEWL__Calling a clan meeting they hire all the Arum clans and prepare themselves to fight against Gelta's army.__NEWL__Thanks to the more modern warfare of their time, Gelta's forces are easily crushed and, although Eliar is injured, with the help of Althalus's powers, the remaining part of the enemy forces is defeated.__NEWL__Ultimately, Ghend and Althalus face off in the House at the end of the world, ending with the destruction of the Book of Daeva, the defeat of Daeva, and the saving of the universe.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28491	The Betrothed	1827-01-01T00:00:00Z	45334	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16538019	Castle of the Unnamed	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	724284	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=724284	The setting is beautiful but marred with poverty.__NEWL__It begins with Renzo and Lucia (Lucy), a couple living in a village in Lombardy, near Lecco, on Lake Como, who are planning to wed on 8 November 1628.__NEWL__The parish priest, don Abbondio, is walking home on the eve of the wedding when he is accosted by two "bravi" (thugs) who warn him not to perform the marriage, because the local baron (Don Rodrigo) has forbidden it.__NEWL__When he presents himself for the wedding ceremony, Renzo is amazed to hear that the marriage is to be postponed (the priest didn't have the courage to tell the truth).__NEWL__An argument ensues and Renzo succeeds in extracting from the priest the name of Don Rodrigo.__NEWL__It turns out that Don Rodrigo has his eye on Lucia and that he had a bet about her with his cousin Count Attilio.__NEWL__Lucia's mother, Agnese, advises Renzo to ask the advice of "Dr. Azzeccagarbugli" (Dr. Quibbleweaver, in Colquhoun's translation), a lawyer in the town of Lecco.__NEWL__Dr. Azzeccagarbugli is at first sympathetic: thinking Renzo is actually the perpetrator, he shows Renzo a recent edict criminalising the making of threats to procure or prevent marriages, but when he hears the name of Don Rodrigo, he panics and drives Renzo away.__NEWL__Lucia sends a message to "Fra Cristoforo" (Friar Christopher), a respected Capuchin friar at the monastery of Pescarenico, asking him to come as soon as he can.__NEWL__Fra Christopher's back story is told.__NEWL__He used to be the son of a rich merchant and his birth name was Ludovico.__NEWL__He had a steward named Christopher, who was very faithful and had a family.__NEWL__While traveling along a road, Ludovico and his enemy had a standoff over who would lose face and pass on the outside.__NEWL__A fight broke out and an enemy bravo killed Christopher.__NEWL__Ludovico then killed Christopher's murderer.__NEWL__Ludovico then decided to become a friar after wrapping up his worldly affairs with Christopher's family and the family of the man he had killed.__NEWL__Ludovico became a friar, taking the name Fra Christopher.__NEWL__ When Fra Cristoforo comes to Lucia's cottage and hears the story, he immediately goes to Don Rodrigo's mansion, where he finds the baron at a meal with his cousin Count Attilio, along with four guests, including the mayor and Dr. Azzeccagarbugli.__NEWL__The power dynamics of the people at the dining table is evident.__NEWL__When Don Rodrigo is taken aside by the friar, he explodes with anger at his presumption and sends him away, but not before an old servant has a chance to offer his help to Cristoforo.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Meanwhile, Agnese has come up with a plan.__NEWL__In those days, it was possible for two people to marry by declaring themselves married before a priest and in the presence of two amenable witnesses.__NEWL__Renzo runs to his friend Tonio and offers him 25 lire if he agrees to help.__NEWL__When Fra Cristoforo returns with the bad news, Lucia and Renzo argue about how to proceed.__NEWL__Lucia is a god-fearing woman and doesn't want to get married by law.__NEWL__Renzo doesn't care and wants to get married no matter what and acts harshly to Lucia.__NEWL__Eventually, they decide to put their plan into action.__NEWL__The next morning, Lucia and Agnese are visited by beggars, Don Rodrigo's men in disguise.__NEWL__They examine the house in order to plan an assault.__NEWL__Late at night, Agnese distracts Don Abbondio's servant Perpetua while Tonio and his brother Gervaso enter Don Abbondio's study, ostensibly to pay a debt.__NEWL__They are followed indoors secretly by Lucia and Renzo.__NEWL__When they try to carry out their plan, the priest throws the tablecloth in Lucia's face and drops the lamp.__NEWL__They struggle in the darkness.__NEWL__The plan fails and the five flee.__NEWL__In the meantime, Don Rodrigo's men invade Lucia's house, but nobody is there.__NEWL__A boy named Menico, friend of Lucia and Renzo, arrives with a message of warning from Fra Cristoforo and they seize him.__NEWL__When they hear the alarm being raised by the sacristan, who is calling for help on the part of Don Abbondio who raised the alarm of invaders in his home, they assume they have been betrayed and flee in confusion.__NEWL__Menico sees Agnese, Lucia and Renzo in the street and warns them not to return home.__NEWL__They go to the monastery, where Fra Cristoforo gives Renzo a letter of introduction to a certain friar at Milan, and another letter to the two women, to organize a refuge at a convent in the nearby city of Monza.__NEWL__They lament leaving Lecco.__NEWL__Renzo, Lucia, and Agnese part ways.__NEWL__Lucia is entrusted to the nun Gertrude, a strange and unpredictable noblewoman whose story is told in these chapters.__NEWL__A child of the most important family of the area, her father decided to send her to the cloisters for no other reason than to simplify his affairs: he wished to keep his properties united for his first-born, heir to the family's title and riches.__NEWL__Growing up to be a nun she thought she was more superior than others.__NEWL__As she grew up, she sensed that she was being forced by her parents into a life which would comport but little with her personality.__NEWL__She was kept in a convent for most of her life and dreamed to escape.__NEWL__To become a nun, Gertrude must go back to the outside world and reflect if she wants to leave it forever.__NEWL__She is excited until she finds that her own family locks her up inside ignores her.__NEWL__She finds solace in an affair with a servant boy.__NEWL__When her father finds out, he is furious and threatens and manipulates her into agreeing to become a nun permanently.__NEWL__ __NEWL__The fear of scandal, as well as manoeuvre, menaces, and manipulation from her father, induced Gertrude to lie to her interviewers in order to enter the convent of Monza, where she was received as la Signora.__NEWL__This forms Gertrude's personality and mental state badly as her hate of being a nun seeps into her actions.__NEWL__("the lady", also known as The Nun of Monza).__NEWL__Later, she fell under the spell of a young man of no scruples, Egidio, associated with the worst baron of that time, the Innominato (the "Unnamed").__NEWL__Egidio and Gertrude became lovers.__NEWL__When another nun discovered their relationship they killed her and buried her under near the garden wall.__NEWL__Renzo arrives in famine-stricken Milan and goes to the monastery, but the friar he is seeking is absent and so he wanders further into the city.__NEWL__A bakery in the Corsia de' Servi, El prestin di scansc ("Bakery of the Crutches"), is destroyed by a mob, who then go to the house of the Commissioner of Supply in order to lynch him.__NEWL__He is saved in the nick of time by Ferrer, the Grand Chancellor, who arrives in a coach and announces he is taking the Commissioner to prison.__NEWL__Renzo becomes prominent as he helps Ferrer make his way through the crowd.__NEWL__ After witnessing these scenes, Renzo joins in a lively discussion and reveals views which attract the notice of a police agent in search of a scapegoat.__NEWL__The agent tries to lead Renzo directly to "the best inn" (i.e. prison) but Renzo is tired and stops at one nearby where, after being plied with drink, he reveals his full name and address.__NEWL__The next morning, he is awakened by a notary and two bailiffs, who handcuff him and start to take him away.__NEWL__In the street Renzo announces loudly that he is being punished for his heroism the day before and, with the aid of sympathetic onlookers and political unrest brewing, he escapes.__NEWL__Leaving the city by the same gate through which he entered, he sets off for Bergamo, knowing that his cousin Bortolo lives in a village nearby.__NEWL__Once there, he will be beyond the reach of the authorities of Milan (under Spanish domination), as Bergamo is territory of the Most Serene Republic of Venice.__NEWL__At an inn in Gorgonzola, he overhears a conversation which makes it clear to him how much trouble he is in and so he walks all night until he reaches the River Adda.__NEWL__After a short sleep in a hut, he crosses the river at dawn in the boat of a fisherman and makes his way to his cousin's house, where he is welcomed as a silk-weaver under the pseudonym of Antonio Rivolta after he confesses everything to Bortolo.__NEWL__The same day, orders for Renzo's arrest reach the town of Lecco, to the delight of Don Rodrigo.__NEWL__News of Renzo's disgrace comes to the convent, but later Lucia is informed that Renzo is safe with his cousin.__NEWL__Their reassurance is short-lived: when they receive no word from Fra Cristoforo for a long time, Agnese travels to Pescarenico, where she learns that he has been ordered by a superior to the town of Rimini.__NEWL__In fact, this has been engineered by Don Rodrigo and Count Attilio, who have leaned on a mutual uncle of the Secret Council, who has leaned on the Father Provincial.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Don Rodrigo has organised a plot to kidnap Lucia from the convent.__NEWL__This involves a great robber baron whose name has not been recorded, and who hence is called l'Innominato, the Unnamed.__NEWL__Gertrude, blackmailed by Egidio, a neighbor (acquaintance of l'Innominato and Gertrude's lover), persuades Lucia to run an errand which will take her outside the convent for a short while.__NEWL__In the street Lucia is seized and bundled into a coach.__NEWL__After a nightmarish journey, Lucia arrives at the castle of the Unnamed, where she is locked in a chamber.__NEWL__The Unnamed is troubled by the sight of her, and spends a horrible night in which memories of his past and the uncertainty of his future almost drive him to suicide.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Lucia spends a similarly restless night, during which she vows to renounce Renzo and maintain perpetual virginity if she is delivered from her predicament.__NEWL__Towards the morning, on looking out of his window, the Unnamed sees throngs of people walking past.__NEWL__They are going to listen to the famous Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Federigo Borromeo.__NEWL__On impulse, the Unnamed leaves his castle in order to meet this man.__NEWL__This meeting prompts a miraculous conversion which marks the turning-point of the novel.__NEWL__The Unnamed announces to his men that his reign of terror is over.__NEWL__He decides to take Lucia back to her native land under his own protection, and with the help of the archbishop the deed is done.__NEWL__The astonishing course of events leads to an atmosphere in which Don Rodrigo can be defied openly and his fortunes take a turn for the worse.__NEWL__Don Abbondio is reprimanded by the archbishop.__NEWL__ Lucia, miserable about her vow to renounce Renzo, still frets about him.__NEWL__He is now the subject of diplomatic conflict between Milan and Bergamo.__NEWL__Her life is not improved when a wealthy busybody, Donna Prassede, insists on taking her into her household and admonishing her for getting mixed up with a good-for-nothing like Renzo.__NEWL__Donna Prassede tries to warp Lucy's mindset of Renzo by making he seem evil.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Renzo and Agnes institute a correspondence using trustworthy literate people to write and read from them.__NEWL__A few letters in, Agnes does what she had promised Lucy and gives Renzo 50 crowns and tells him about Lucy vow to not marry him.__NEWL__Renzo is enraged and refuses to accept both.__NEWL__He wants to return the crowns and ask Lucy why she made that vow.__NEWL__The government of Milan is unable to keep bread prices down by decree and the city is swamped by beggars.__NEWL__The lazzaretto is filled with the hungry and sick.__NEWL__Lazzarettos are sometimes churches or convents as in Chapter 30-33.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Thirty Years' War brings more calamities.__NEWL__The last three dukes of the house of Gonzaga die without legitimate heirs sparking a war for control of northern Italy, with France and the Holy Roman Empire backing rival claimants.__NEWL__In September 1629, German armies under Count Rambaldo di Collalto descend on Italy, looting and destroying.__NEWL__Agnese, Don Abbondio and Perpetua take refuge in the well-defended territory of the Unnamed.__NEWL__In their absence, their village is wrecked by the mercenaries.__NEWL__These chapters are occupied with an account of the plague of 1630, largely based on Giuseppe Ripamonti's De peste quae fuit anno 1630 (published in 1640).__NEWL__Manzoni's full version of this, Storia della Colonna Infame, was finished in 1829, but was not published until it was included as an appendix to the revised edition of 1842.__NEWL__The plague is not believed to actually be the plague by many, slow progress helps doubts arise in common people and even doctors.__NEWL__Most people in Italy think it has to do with Frenchmen enlisting witches to make poison from spiders.__NEWL__The spider poison is then spread around and that is how they believe the plague is spread.__NEWL__ As more people get sick, the capuchins help them in the Lazarettos.__NEWL__A memorable one is Fra Frederick.__NEWL__The Tribunal of Health is the government of Italy realize they need more people to help contain and manage the plague.__NEWL__Three classes are created under the Tribunal of Health.__NEWL__The 3rd class is the monatti who do the brunt work of carrying and deposing of the dead bodies, the 2nd apparittori are people who precede funerals, and the 1st class is the commissaries who oversee both of the lower two classes.__NEWL__ Another story/rumor is spread to back up the spider witch poison theory.__NEWL__ The end of August 1630 sees the death in Milan of the original villains of the story.__NEWL__It happens like so, back in Don Roderick's place, he is joyful and makes fun of the so called illness.__NEWL__Until, one night after a party he catches the plague.__NEWL__In his fright, trusts Grizo to go get a doctor for him.__NEWL__Grizo betrays him for Don Roderick's riches and turns him into the monatti.__NEWL__Grizo is then hit by karma when his greed to check for money in Don Roderick's clothes makes him fall ill too, and dies quickly.__NEWL__ Renzo, troubled by Agnese's letters and recovering from plague, finally decides his decision to go look for Lucy his cousin Bortolo has put down for so long.__NEWL__He returns to his native village to find that many of the inhabitants are dead and that his house and vineyard have been destroyed.__NEWL__He also finds Tony there, sick and brain damaged.__NEWL__The people put money in a bowl of vinegar to clean it from the plague.__NEWL__ There is a new way of life during the plague__NEWL__Renzo sees while traveling.__NEWL__Those who have survived the plague walk boldly while those who are healthy and have not, are fearful.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Renzo also finds Don Abbondio and gets information on what has happened.__NEWL__Don Abbondio urges him to go back, Renzo refuses.__NEWL__The warrant, and Don Rodrigo, are forgotten.__NEWL__A childhood friend of Renzo's tells him that Lucia is in Milan.__NEWL__He travels to Milan.__NEWL__Im Milan, it is mostly deserted.__NEWL__People are very wary and sad.__NEWL__Renzo sees all the empty houses and a mourning mother.__NEWL__While trying to ask for directions he is accused of having the spider poison.__NEWL__In the paranoia, everyone in the city believes it.__NEWL__Renzo is then caught between the growing mob and the monatti.__NEWL__The monatti grab Renzo and save him.__NEWL__ In the monatti cart, Renzo is ill at ease.__NEWL__The monatti act like bullies and cheer to the never end of the plague.__NEWL__After riding for a bit, they reach the lazaretto.__NEWL__Renzo escapes the monatti and sees all the sick people.__NEWL__Chapter 33 ends with Renzo stepping over the threshold of the lazaretto hoping to find Lucy.__NEWL__On his arrival in Milan, Renzo is astonished at the state of the city.__NEWL__His highland clothes invite suspicion that he is an "anointer"; that is, a foreign agent deliberately spreading plague in some way.__NEWL__He learns that Lucia is now languishing at the Lazzaretto of Milan, along with 16,000 other victims of the plague.__NEWL__But in fact, Lucia is already recuperating.__NEWL__Renzo and Lucia are reunited by Fra Cristoforo, but only after Renzo first visits and forgives the dying Don Rodrigo.__NEWL__The friar absolves her of her vow of celibacy.__NEWL__Renzo walks through a rainstorm to see Agnese at the village of Pasturo.__NEWL__When they all return to their native village, Lucia and Renzo are finally married by Don Abbondio and the couple make a fresh start at a silk-mill at the gates of Bergamo.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7616460	Stig of the Dump	1963-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	732229	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=732229	Barney is a bored young boy staying with his grandparents on the chalk Downs of southern England.__NEWL__One day, he falls over the edge of an old chalk pit close to his grandparents' house, tumbling through the roof of a den.__NEWL__While exploring the den, Barney encounters its owner, Stig, a caveman with shaggy, black hair and bright black eyes.__NEWL__The chalk pit is disused and full of people's dumped rubbish.__NEWL__Barney and Stig quickly become friends.__NEWL__They learn to communicate with each other without language, as Stig speaks no English.__NEWL__Stig's den is a place built out of discarded rubbish, which motivates Barney to help Stig make it look more attractive.__NEWL__They spend time repairing and improving Stig's den, collecting firewood, going hunting, and at one point catching some burglars who break into Barney's grandparents' house.__NEWL__On another occasion Barney is cornered by the bullying Snarget brothers, who become uncharacteristically docile when Stig appears and are impressed by Barney's friendship with Stig.__NEWL__Although Barney mentions Stig to others, no-one (with the exception of the Snargets) believes that Stig is real.__NEWL__Barney starts to give thought to where Stig has come from.__NEWL__During a very hot, sultry mid-summer's night, when Barney and his sister Lou are unable to sleep, they find themselves transported back in time and out onto the Downs.__NEWL__To their surprise, they meet Stig, back with his own people, engaged in the construction of four gigantic standing stones.__NEWL__They spend a night camping out with the people of Stig's tribe, and helping to shift the final stone into position before sunrise.__NEWL__As dawn breaks, the tribe disappear and the stones suddenly become ancient and weathered; but Stig is still there.__NEWL__Stig got transported forward in time with the standing stone which led him to the modern day.__NEWL__Barney and Lou do not share their adventures with anyone, and their parents never realise the truth of Stig's existence, although they jokingly talk about him as a kind of magical being that can fix particularly "odd jobs".__NEWL__It is left unclear whether Barney sees much more of Stig, or even whether Stig stays in the rapidly-filling rubbish dump.__NEWL__A figure that resembles Stig is sighted working with junk in various locations around the area; but the book concludes that "perhaps it was only a relative of his", suggesting that Stig may not be the only caveman alive in the modern world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5180471	Cradle	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	700955	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=700955	In 1994, the US Navy is testing a new missile, but after the launch it mysteriously disappears and it is clear that if the rocket reaches civilian areas they will be in big trouble.__NEWL__Carol Dawson, a journalist, is alerted by an unusual sight of whales in the Miami area, and decides to go and write about it.__NEWL__Armed with special equipment provided by her friend, Dr. Dale Michaels from MOI (Miami Oceanographic Institute), goes to investigate the rumors of a missing missile belonging to the Marines and that could be behind the mysterious whale behavior lately.__NEWL__She hires the services of Nick Williams and Jefferson Troy, owners of a little boat so she can get to the Gulf of Mexico and investigate closer if a missile has something to do with all of the above.__NEWL__They end up finding an unknown artifact, bringing a lot of doubts about its nature, and even if it is part of a lost treasure that could be worth millions.__NEWL__Old friends of Williams and Troy noticed the finding and just like the old times, they want to steal it from them.__NEWL__In the background of the story, the author talks about a submarine snake civilization on a planet called Canthor, and how they were struggling to stay alive due to new threats into their ecosystem.__NEWL__It is revealed later in the story that the artifact found in the sea is actually a cradle that contains seeds with altered superhumans, which were extracted from earth millions of years ago and were altered so they could live with other species (including the submarine snakes) on earth.__NEWL__The spaceship that carries the cradle is crewed by robots/cyborgs and has hidden itself on Earth's ocean floor to make repairs.__NEWL__Dawson, Williams and Troy found the damaged ship in the bottom of the sea while looking for the missile, and were asked to gather materials so the ship can be repaired and it could go back to its mission.__NEWL__Before leaving earth, the ship asked the humans to keep the cradle because it would enormously help the human race to have such superhuman seeds to develop faster and better through time, but in the end the humans refuse in order to avoid future wars between the human and superhumans.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3921585	Anglo-Saxon Attitudes	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	711904	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=711904	The novel deals with the significance of two connected events that happened on the same day, long before the opening of the novel.__NEWL__The first was the excavation of an ancient and valuable archaeological idol, a phallic figure unearthed from the tomb of an Anglo-Saxon bishop Eorpwald, known as the "Melpham excavation".__NEWL__Gerald has long been haunted by a drunken revelation by his friend Gilbert, who was involved with this excavation, that the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated to embarrass Gilbert's father.__NEWL__Gilbert told Gerald that he put the idol there.__NEWL__Gerald, while feeling that his friend was telling the truth, pushed the matter to the back of his mind and tried to forget about it.__NEWL__He now feels ashamed that he, a history professor, has never had the courage to try to resolve the matter one way or another.__NEWL__The second is that Gerald Middleton fell in love with Dollie, Gilbert's fiancée, and had an affair with her when his friend went off to fight in World War I. When Gilbert was killed at the front, Dollie refused to marry Gerald.__NEWL__He ended up marrying a Scandinavian woman named Inge but continued his affair with Dollie, who became an alcoholic.__NEWL__Gerald and Inge later separated.__NEWL__Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is full of side-plots and coincidences and contains a host of eccentric characters.__NEWL__Some of these characters are Gerald's family.__NEWL__Robin, his eldest son, is a womaniser who cannot decide whether to leave his wife or his mistress.__NEWL__Kay has an unhappy marriage and a deeply embittered view of her father, whom she appears to blame for everything that has gone wrong in her life, including her withered hand (which was actually caused by her mother).__NEWL__Gerald's estranged wife, Inge, is a grotesquely deluded woman who cannot bring herself to acknowledge her younger son John's homosexuality or her daughter's physical disability.__NEWL__Gerald feels responsible for Dollie's plight and for those of his children.__NEWL__He feels that the knowledge of his complicity over the Melpham affair has drained his morale and made him withdrawn and indecisive.__NEWL__The novel begins with him resolving to make good the 'bloody shameful waste' of his life, by investigating the Melpham affair and making peace with Dollie.__NEWL__He also attempts to develop better relationships with his grown-up children and with Inge.__NEWL__By the novel's end, Gerald achieves a measure of peace with his past.__NEWL__He persuades Dollie to come forward with a letter from Gilbert's father's colleague, Canon Portway, proving that the Melpham incident was a hoax; then he and Dollie begin a platonic friendship.__NEWL__He gives up on achieving good relations with his family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q308982	Eldest	2005-08-23T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	711958	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=711958	Eldest begins three days after the events of the preceding novel, Eragon, in the dwarf city of Tronjheim, inside of a hollowed mountain named Farthen Dûr.__NEWL__Farthen Dûr is in the southeastern part of Alagaësia, the fictional continent where the Inheritance Cycle takes place.__NEWL__Throughout the novel, the protagonists travel to many different places: Ellesméra, the elven capital city in the forest Du Weldenvarden, on the northern portion of Alagaësia; Carvahall, a small town located on the northwestern part of Alagaësia in Palancar Valley; and Aberon, the capital of Surda, in the southern portion of Alagaësia.__NEWL__The story is told in third-person through protagonists Eragon, Roran, and Nasuada.__NEWL__Eragon is nearly always accompanied by his dragon Saphira.__NEWL__Due to the multiple points-of-view, multiple stories take place concurrently, and the protagonist characters do not meet often.__NEWL__Several other characters return from Eragon, including Arya (the elf warrior, daughter of the elven queen), Orik, Roran (Eragon's cousin and a major character), Ajihad (the leader of the Varden, who dies and is replaced by his daughter Nasuada), and Angela (the herbalist).__NEWL__Some new characters are introduced in Eldest, such as Oromis and his dragon Glaedr.__NEWL__Murtagh appears briefly as a minor protagonist but then reappears later as a primary antagonist with his dragon, Thorn.__NEWL__Eldest begins as Ajihad, the king of the rebel Varden force, is ambushed and killed, while The Twins and Murtagh are assumed dead.__NEWL__Ajihad's daughter Nasuada is elected to command the Varden, and decides to move them to Surda and oppose the Empire openly.__NEWL__Eragon and Saphira decide to travel to the forest Du Weldenvarden to be trained as a Dragon Rider by the elves.__NEWL__The dwarf king, Hrothgar, adopts Eragon to his clan and has his now foster brother, Orik, accompany him to the forest.__NEWL__There, Eragon meets the stranger who had contacted him, revealed to be a Rider, Oromis, with his Dragon Glaedr, the only Dragon and Rider secretly alive.__NEWL__However, both are crippled, and so cannot fight Galbatorix directly, choosing to pass on their knowledge.__NEWL__Eragon and Saphira are taught the use of logic, magic theory, scholarship, and combat, among other things.__NEWL__However, having received a back injury in the previous book, Eragon is beset by agonizing seizures, which debilitate him.__NEWL__He also struggles with his romantic feelings for Arya, while Saphira has similar struggles toward Glaedr.__NEWL__Arya becomes aware of his feelings, and distances herself from him, not to interfere in his education, while Saphira is violently rejected by Glaedr.__NEWL__Eventually, in an ancient elven ceremony, the Agaetí Blödhren, Eragon is affected by powerful magic, turning him into an elf-human hybrid, and healing his back injury.__NEWL__He makes another romantic attempt on Arya, but she harshly rejects him, and leaves to rejoin the Varden.__NEWL__Meanwhile, unknowing of all of this, Eragon's cousin Roran plans to marry Katrina, daughter of Sloan, the village butcher.__NEWL__While the village is at peace, they are unexpectedly attacked by Galbatorix's soldiers and the Ra'zac, who had killed Roran's father, Garrow.__NEWL__Roran fights the soldiers with a hammer, which becomes his signature weapon.__NEWL__The Ra'zac and most of the soldiers escape, saying that they want information from Roran.__NEWL__The entire village then sets up defenses, and during a second invasion, the Ra'zac escape again.__NEWL__One night, Roran wakes up to find Katrina being attacked by the Ra'zac, who sneaked into the house.__NEWL__They seriously injure him and capture Katrina.__NEWL__Sloan, revealed to be in league with the Ra'zac, is then flown away by them, along with Katrina.__NEWL__Torn between chasing after Katrina and staying behind to defend his home, Roran rallies almost the entirety of the village to travel to Surda and join the Varden.__NEWL__On the way, they journey to Teirm, where Roran meets Jeod, Brom's friend, who informs him about Eragon, and decides to go with them.__NEWL__With Jeod's help, they steal a ship, and journey toward Surda by sea.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Nasuada struggles under the burdens of leadership.__NEWL__She hatches a plan to fund them by selling magically-crafted lace, to alleviate their financial troubles.__NEWL__She also meets Elva, a child supposedly blessed by Eragon in the previous book.__NEWL__Eragon is revealed to have botched the blessing with poor phrasing, accidentally forcing Elva to feel the pain of others.__NEWL__Elva uses her abilities to save Nasuada from an assassination attempt.__NEWL__Nasuada eventually learns that Galbatorix is fielding a massive army against them, and sends for help from the dwarves and Eragon.__NEWL__ Eragon has a prophetic dream of the coming battle, and decides to interrupt his training to aid the Varden in battle.__NEWL__Oromis consents and provides him with numerous gifts to help him, but insists he return to finish his training after the battle.__NEWL__He journeys with Saphira and Orik to the Varden's camp, reuniting with Nasuada and Arya, and meeting Elva, promising to rid her of his failed blessing.__NEWL__The Varden are then joined by an army of Urgals, who seek an alliance with them after being freed of Durza's control.__NEWL__ As the battle begins, it goes poorly for the massively outnumbered Varden.__NEWL__Roran and the dwarves arrive mid-battle, and begin to turn the tide in favor of the Varden, but an unknown Dragon Rider unexpectedly arrives and kills Hrothgar.__NEWL__Eragon engages this Rider, who proves an even match, and unmasks him, revealing him to be Murtagh.__NEWL__Murtagh reveals he was kidnapped by the Twins, who had betrayed the Varden.__NEWL__After the dragon, named Thorn, had hatched for him, they were both forced into loyalty by Galbatorix.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the battle proceeds, with the Twins revealing themselves and causing massive losses among the Varden, until Roran kills them.__NEWL__Murtagh and Eragon resume their fight, with Murtagh easily defeating Eragon through magic.__NEWL__He shows mercy to him, on account of their old friendship, but takes Eragon's sword Zar'roc, which he claims to be his inheritance, revealing that he and Eragon are brothers.__NEWL__ Ultimately, the Varden win the battle.__NEWL__The book ends as Roran asks Eragon for help in rescuing Katrina, to which he agrees.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3210024	Forever Free	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	712030	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712030	William Mandella, protagonist of The Forever War, lives with his wife Marygay on the icy world Middle Finger, a planet of the Mizar system.__NEWL__Dissatisfied with the state of their society, they eventually decide to jump forward in time, using the time dilation of interstellar travel.__NEWL__Their intention is to travel for 10 subjective years, at relativistic speeds, into the future, during which 40,000 Earth years will have passed on Middle Finger.__NEWL__They, along with other Forever War veterans and other disenchanted humans on Middle Finger, hope that whatever they will find upon their return will be more to their liking.__NEWL__This requires the consent of the posthuman group mind now known as 'Man', and of the alien group mind Tauran race.__NEWL__When permission is denied, William and allies hijack the ship.__NEWL__One Man and one__NEWL__Tauran join the journey.__NEWL__After Marygay and William head away from their planet, a series of unexplained occurrences happen and the ship starts to lose antimatter mysteriously.__NEWL__They abandon the ship and return home.__NEWL__Instead of the intended 40,000 years, they have only been away 24 Earth years.__NEWL__Upon arrival, they find the planet still intact, but seemingly vacant; everyone having literally disappeared at the same time as the incident on their ship.__NEWL__They then return to Earth, and realize that all other humans, Man and Taurans have disappeared, but robots and wildlife remain.__NEWL__ On Earth, a shape-shifting being, an Omni, reveals itself.__NEWL__This being has been on Earth and the other inhabited planets for millennia and is not certain of its own origin.__NEWL__The Omni reveals that its race had given the humans and Taurans language and controlled their level of technology, but did not know what caused recent mass disappearances.__NEWL__The Omni and the lone surviving Tauran discuss the possibility of 'nameless' beings causing the unexplainable phenomena.__NEWL__Meanwhile, more Omni appear, but some of the remaining humans and other Omni spontaneously explode inexplicably.__NEWL__The Omni conclude that William and Marygay provoked the 'nameless' and must convince the 'nameless' to leave the universe alone.__NEWL__Then, the 'nameless' appears—a god who evidently created the universe as an experiment to observe.__NEWL__The god compares the action of William's group leaving the galaxy on a 40,000-year round-trip as similar to a laboratory mouse escaping its cage, prompting it to take drastic action.__NEWL__The god announces its control over physics, life, death, and ability to time travel.__NEWL__The god discusses timelines as not linear, but an infinite "table" of possible events, reveals the existence of other "tables", but declines to answer if there is a higher power above them.__NEWL__The god declares this experiment "over", declaring that it would leave for another galaxy and only return to observe resultant events in 1,000,000 years.__NEWL__The god departs, returning to life the exploded beings, and restoring the vanished beings, whom the god stored in stasis.__NEWL__After the god's departure, the Omni peacefully reveal themselves to humanity, Man and the Taurans, and all worked together to overcome the detrimental effects caused by the mass disappearance.__NEWL__Religion was strengthened due to proof of a god, while science required rechecking of fundamental laws and universal constants, with the god having altered the speed of light.__NEWL__William and Marygay return to live on Middle Finger, reuniting with their son Bill.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q860577	Demian	1919-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	735197	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=735197	Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a middle class home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words meaning "world of light" as well as "world of illusion".__NEWL__Sinclair's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth (see Plato's cave and dualism).__NEWL__Accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate and friend 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self.__NEWL__The novel's eight chapters are these:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q152267	White Fang	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z	910	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2009	Yukon	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	703539	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703539	The story begins before the wolf-dog hybrid is born, with two men and their sled dog team on a journey to deliver the coffin of Lord Alfred to a remote town named Fort McGurry in the higher area of the Yukon Territory.__NEWL__The men, Bill and Henry, are stalked by a large pack of starving wolves over the course of several days.__NEWL__Finally, after all of their dogs and Bill have been eaten, more teams find Henry escaping from the wolves; the wolf pack scatters when they hear the large group of people coming.__NEWL__The story then follows the pack, which has been robbed of its last prey.__NEWL__When the pack finally brings down a moose, the famine is ended; they eventually split up, and the story now follows a she-wolf and her mate, One Eye.__NEWL__One Eye claimed her after defeating and killing a younger rival.__NEWL__The she-wolf gives birth to a litter of five pups by the Mackenzie River, and all but one die from hunger.__NEWL__One Eye is killed by a lynx while trying to rob her den for food for the she-wolf and her pup; his mate later discovers his remains near the lynx's den.__NEWL__The surviving pup and the she-wolf are left to fend for themselves.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, the she-wolf kills all the lynx's kittens to feed her pup, prompting the lynx to track her down, and a vicious fight breaks out.__NEWL__The she-wolf eventually kills the lynx but suffers severe injury; the lynx carcass is devoured over a period of seven days as the she-wolf recovers from her injuries.__NEWL__One day, the pup comes across five indigenous people, and the she-wolf comes to his rescue.__NEWL__One man, Grey Beaver, recognizes the she-wolf as his late brother's wolfdog, Kiche, who left during a famine.__NEWL__Grey Beaver's brother is dead, and so he takes Kiche and her pup and names the cub "White Fang".__NEWL__White Fang has a harsh life in the native camp; the current puppy pack, seeing him as a wolf, immediately attacks him.__NEWL__The Natives protect him, but the pups never accept him, and the pups' leader, Lip-Lip, singles him out for persecution.__NEWL__White Fang grows to become a savage, callous, morose, solitary, and deadly fighter, "the enemy of his kind".__NEWL__It is at this time that White Fang is separated from his mother, who is sold off to another Native camp by Three Eagles.__NEWL__He realizes how hard life in the wild is when he runs away from camp, and earns the respect of Grey Beaver when he saves his son Mit-Sah from a group of boys seeking revenge for White Fang attacking one of them for trying to beat him for no reason.__NEWL__When a famine occurs, he runs away into the woods and encounters his mother Kiche, only for her to chase him away, for she has a new litter of cubs and has forgotten him.__NEWL__He also encounters Lip-Lip, whom he fights and kills before returning to the camp.__NEWL__When White Fang is five years old, he is taken to Fort Yukon, so that Grey Beaver can trade with the gold-hunters.__NEWL__There, a malicious dog-fighter named "Beauty" Smith connives to get Grey Beaver addicted to whiskey, and then when drunk sell White Fang to him.__NEWL__White Fang defeats all opponents pitted against him, including several wolves and a lynx, until a bulldog called Cherokee is brought in to fight him.__NEWL__Cherokee has the upper hand in the fight when he grips the skin and fur of White Fang's neck and begins to throttle him.__NEWL__White Fang nearly suffocates, but is rescued when a rich, mining expert, Weedon Scott, stops the fight, and forcefully buys White Fang from Beauty Smith.__NEWL__Scott attempts to tame White Fang, and after a long, patient effort, he succeeds.__NEWL__When Scott attempts to return to California alone, White Fang pursues him, and Scott decides to take the dog with him back home.__NEWL__In Sierra Vista, White Fang must adjust to the laws of the estate.__NEWL__At the end of the book, an escaped convict, Jim Hall, tries to kill Scott's father, Judge Scott, for sentencing him to prison for a crime he did not commit, not knowing that Hall was "railroaded".__NEWL__White Fang kills Hall and is nearly killed himself, but survives.__NEWL__As a result, the women of Scott's estate name him "The Blessed Wolf".__NEWL__The story ends with White Fang relaxing in the sun with the puppies he has fathered with the sheep-dog Collie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5602464	Green Darkness	1972-11-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23346	Sussex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	730784	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730784	In the 1960s, young Celia Marsdon is a rich American heiress who, upon her marriage to English aristocrat Richard Marsdon, goes to live at an ancestral manor in Sussex, England.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, strange things begin to occur — Richard begins acting out of character, and Celia starts to have strange fits and visions.__NEWL__Celia's mother, Lily Taylor, has befriended a Hindu guru, Dr. Akananda, and it is he who discovers what's wrong with the young couple.__NEWL__The troubles of the present time can only be solved by revisiting a tragedy from the past.__NEWL__The book then moves back in time to the reign of Edward VI, as lovely young Celia de Bohun and her guardian aunt take up residence with the noble Catholic family of Anthony Browne as "poor relations.__NEWL__" Celia is a fascinating and believable character, full of contradictions and human failings.__NEWL__She is headstrong and impulsive; innocent but coquettish; and can easily attract male attention.__NEWL__She creates a scandal when she becomes infatuated with the family chaplain, Stephen Marsdon, who in turn desires Celia but does not want to break his vow of chastity.__NEWL__They are forced to part, but never forget each other.__NEWL__Time passes; King Edward dies and his persecution of Catholics ends, only to be followed by his successor Queen Mary I's persecution of Protestants; the Browne family fortunes prosper under the Marian reign; and sympathetic characters harden into detestable ones.__NEWL__When Celia and Stephen finally meet again, nothing can stop the passion between them.__NEWL__It ends tragically.__NEWL__The Tudor story and the narrative returns to the 1960s to find resolution in the present and lay to rest the tormented souls of Stephen and Celia so that Richard and his wife can live together happily without visions of their past lives coming between them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q219457	A Journey to the Center of the Earth	1864-01-01T00:00:00Z	18857	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12317310	Hotel Phoenix Copenhagen	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q35	Denmark	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	723638	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723638	The story begins in May 1863, at the home of Professor Otto Lidenbrock in Hamburg, Germany.__NEWL__While leafing through an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga, Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel find a coded note written in runic script along with the name of a 16th-century Icelandic alchemist, Arne Saknussemm.__NEWL__When translated into English, the note reads: Go down into the crater of Snaefells Jökull, which Scartaris's shadow caresses just before the calends of July, O daring traveler, and you'll make it to the center of the earth.__NEWL__I've done so.__NEWL__Arne Saknussemm Lidenbrock departs for Iceland immediately, taking the reluctant Axel with him.__NEWL__After a swift trip via Kiel and Copenhagen, they arrive in Reykjavík.__NEWL__There they hire as their guide Icelander Hans Bjelke, a Danish-speaking eiderduck hunter, then travel overland to the base of Snæfellsjökull.__NEWL__In late June they reach the volcano and set off into the bowels of the earth, encountering many dangers and strange phenomena.__NEWL__After taking a wrong turn, they run short of water and Axel nearly perishes, but Hans saves them all by tapping into a subterranean river, which shoots out a stream of water that Lidenbrock and Axel name the "Hansbach" in the guide's honor.__NEWL__Following the course of the Hansbach, the explorers descend many miles and reach an underground world, with an ocean and a vast ceiling with clouds, as well as a permanent Aurora giving light.__NEWL__The travelers build a raft out of semipetrified wood and set sail.__NEWL__While at sea, they encounter prehistoric fish such as pterichthyodes (here called "pterichthys) and giant marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, namely an ichthyosaurus and a plesiosaurus.__NEWL__A lightning storm threatens to destroy the raft and its passengers, but instead throws them onto the site of an enormous fossil graveyard, including bones from the pterodactylus, Megatherium, and mastodon, and the preserved body of a man.__NEWL__ Lidenbrock and Axel venture into a forest featuring primitive vegetation from the Tertiary Period; in its depths they are stunned to find a prehistoric humanoid more than twelve feet in height and watching over a herd of mastodons.__NEWL__Fearing it may be hostile, they leave the forest.__NEWL__Continuing to explore the coastline, the travellers find a passageway marked by Saknussemm as the way ahead, but it has been blocked by a recent cave-in.__NEWL__The adventurers lay plans to blow the rock open with gun cotton, meanwhile paddling their raft out to sea to avoid the blast.__NEWL__On executing this scheme, they open a bottomless pit beyond the impeding rock and are swept into it as the sea rushes down the huge open gap.__NEWL__After spending hours descending at breakneck speed, their raft reverses direction and rises inside a volcanic chimney that ultimately spews them into the open air.__NEWL__When they regain consciousness, they learn that they have been ejected from Stromboli, a volcanic island located off Sicily.__NEWL__The trio returns to Germany, where they enjoy great acclaim; Professor Lidenbrock is hailed as one of the great scientists of the day, Axel marries his sweetheart Gräuben, and Hans returns to his peaceful, eiderduck-hunting life in Iceland.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q595128	Going Postal	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	712274	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712274	As with many of the Discworld novels, the story takes place in Ankh-Morpork, a powerful city-state based on the historical and modern settings of various metropolises like London or New York City.__NEWL__The protagonist of the story is Moist von Lipwig, a skilled con artist who was to be hanged for his crimes, but saved at the last moment by the cunning and manipulative Patrician Havelock Vetinari, who has Moist's death on the scaffold faked.__NEWL__In his office, Vetinari then presents Moist with two options: he may accept a job offer to become Postmaster of the city's rundown Postal Service or he may choose to walk out of the door and never hear from Vetinari again.__NEWL__As exiting through the door in question would lead to a fatal drop, Moist decides to accept the job.__NEWL__After a thwarted attempt at escape, Moist is brought to the Post Office by his parole officer Mr Pump, a golem.__NEWL__It turns out that the Post Office has not functioned for decades, and the building is full of undelivered mail, concealed under a layer of pigeon dung.__NEWL__Only two employees remain: the aged Junior Postman Tolliver Groat and his assistant Stanley Howler.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Vetinari is holding a meeting with the board executives of the Grand Trunk Company, a company that owns and operates a system of visual telegraph towers known as "clacks".__NEWL__He notes that since they have taken full control, the quality of service had gone down considerably.__NEWL__Despite unnerving most of the board, Vetinari fails to make headway, especially with its chairman, Reacher Gilt.__NEWL__It is rumored that, from his penthouse office in Tump Tower, Reacher Gilt plans to usurp Vetinari as Patrician.__NEWL__As Moist attempts to revitalise the postal service, he discovers that over the few months before taking the job, a number of his predecessors have predeceased in the building within weeks of each other in unusual circumstances.__NEWL__He also discovers that the mail inside the building has taken on a life of its own, and is nearly suffocated as a result.__NEWL__Moist introduces postage stamps to Ankh-Morpork, hires golems to deliver the mail, and finds himself competing against the Grand Trunk Clacks line.__NEWL__He meets and falls in love with the chain-smoking, golem-rights activist, Adora Belle Dearheart, and the two begin a relationship by the end of the book.__NEWL__Dearheart is the daughter of the Clacks founder Robert Dearheart, though the company was taken away from her father and the other founders by tricky financial manoeuvring.__NEWL__She still has useful contacts amongst the clacks operators.__NEWL__The unscrupulous Clacks chairman, Reacher Gilt, sets a banshee assassin (Mr Gryle) on the Postmaster, but only manages to burn down much of the Post Office building.__NEWL__The banshee dies when he is flipped onto the space-warping sorting machine.__NEWL__Lipwig makes an outrageous wager that he can deliver a message to Genua, 2000 miles from Ankh-Morpork, faster than the Grand Trunk can. "__NEWL__The Smoking Gnu", a group of clacks-crackers, sets up a plan to send 'the woodpecker' (a Discworld equivalent to a killer poke) into the clacks system that will destroy the machinery, halting the message that Lipwig will race against.__NEWL__Lipwig talks the Gnu out of it, wanting to leave the semaphore towers standing.__NEWL__Instead, Lipwig and the Gnu, using Trunk documents in Adora Belle's possession, intercept the message and replace it with a message from the dead which serves as a confession of guilt by the Trunk.__NEWL__This plan succeeds.__NEWL__Gilt is soon arrested and finds himself in front of the Patrician, offered a similar choice to the one Moist faced in the beginning of the book: run the mint or exit the room.__NEWL__Gilt, however, chooses to walk through the door to his death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7078827	Of the City of the Saved...	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	712522	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712522	Beyond the end of the universe exists The City of the Saved, an urban sprawl the size of a galaxy.__NEWL__Within it every human being that ever lived, from the first australopithecine to the last posthuman, has been inexplicably resurrected.__NEWL__For three hundred years, the uncountable inhabitants have enjoyed their unaging and invulnerable second lives.__NEWL__But now, the unthinkable has happened.__NEWL__Someone has been murdered.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2560269	The High Crusade	1960-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	735622	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=735622	It is 1345, and in the English town of Ansby (in northeastern Lincolnshire), Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville, is recruiting a military force to assist king Edward III in the Hundred Years' War against France.__NEWL__Suddenly, an enormous silver spacecraft lands outside the town.__NEWL__It is a scouting craft for the Wersgorix Empire, a brutal dominion light years from our solar system.__NEWL__The Wersgorix attempt to take over Earth by testing the feasibility of its colonization.__NEWL__However, the aliens, having forgotten hand-to-hand combat since it was made obsolete by their advanced technology, are caught off-guard by the angered Englishmen, who mistake the craft for a French trick.__NEWL__The villagers and soldiers in Ansby storm the craft and kill all but one Wersgor, Branithar.__NEWL__Sir Roger formulates a plan that with the captured ship, he can take the entire village to France to win the war, and then liberate the Holy Land.__NEWL__The townspeople, with all of their belongings, board the ship at the baron's instruction, and prepare to take off.__NEWL__The people of Ansby are mystified at the advanced technology aboard the ship, which they come to call the Crusader.__NEWL__Being unable to pilot the Crusader Sir Roger directs the surly Branithar to pilot them to France.__NEWL__Instead, the alien wrecks the baron's plan by throwing the Crusader into autopilot on course to Tharixan, another Wersgor colony.__NEWL__The Crusader arrives at Tharixan in days, and Sir Roger learns of this new world: it is sparsely-populated, with only three fortresses, Ganturath, Stularax, and Darova (the chief base).__NEWL__The humans capture Ganturath but destroy the Crusader in the process.__NEWL__Word spreads of the invaders and a meeting is arranged between Sir Roger and his soldiers and the chief of Tharixan, Huruga.__NEWL__The humans and Wersgor hold talks that do very little to give either side any advantage, but a truce is agreed to.__NEWL__Sir Roger, in order to intimidate the aliens, makes up tall tales about his estate, "which only took up three planets" and his other accomplishments, including a very successful conquest of Constantinople.__NEWL__Sir Roger demands that the entire Wersgorix state submit to the king of England.__NEWL__During the talks, Baron de Tourneville ignores the truce, and orders the capture of the fortress of Stularax.__NEWL__Unfortunately, the entire base is obliterated by an atomic bomb.__NEWL__In retaliation, Huruga attacks Ganturath again, but loses.__NEWL__He is forced to give up.__NEWL__Now comes Sir Roger's most outrageous plan; having captured Tharixan, he sets out to overthrow the Wersgorix Empire itself.__NEWL__He enlists the help of three other races oppressed by the Wersgor: the Jairs, the Ashenkoghli, and the Prʔ*tans.__NEWL__Meanwhile, one of his main soldiers and friend, Sir Owain Montbelle, hatches a plan to return to Earth, something that Sir Roger has lost interest in.__NEWL__With Lady Catherine, Sir Roger's wife, Montbelle corners the baron and demands that he help the people of Ansby get back to Earth.__NEWL__De Tourneville gives in, but attacks Sir Owain in person.__NEWL__At the climax, Lady Catherine betrays Montbelle and kills him herself.__NEWL__Unfortunately, she also destroys the notes that could have helped get the villagers of Ansby back home.__NEWL__Sir Roger goes on to topple the Wersgor Empire and build one for himself.__NEWL__He manages with the help of not only the species under the Wersgor, but from members of the Wersgor race who rebelled against their government.__NEWL__The religious figures in the story go on to establish a new branch of the Roman Catholic Church.__NEWL__A millennium after the main events of The High Crusade, the holy galactic empire founded by Sir Roger and his people finally reunites with long lost Earth.__NEWL__A spacecraft from Earth comes across the empire, and is welcomed by the descendants of one of Sir Roger's leading soldiers.__NEWL__There is, in the epilogue, a reference to events on Earth since 1345.__NEWL__The captain of the Earth ship is described as being a loyal subject of an Israeli empire.__NEWL__It also appears that Huruga wound up as an archbishop.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1517608	Making History	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	719323	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=719323	The story is told in first person by Michael "Puppy" Young, a young history student at Cambridge University on the verge of completing his doctoral thesis on the early life of Adolf Hitler and his mother.__NEWL__He meets Professor Leo Zuckerman, a physicist who has a strong personal interest in Hitler, the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust.__NEWL__Michael assumes this is due to his Jewish heritage.__NEWL__However, it is later revealed that Leo was born Axil Bauer, the son of Dietrich Bauer, a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz who – when the Nazi defeat became certain – gave his son the identity of a Jewish doctor that he murdered.__NEWL__Leo has developed a machine that enables the past to be viewed—but it is of no practical use as the image is not resolvable into details.__NEWL__Together, they hatch a plan to modify the machine such that it can be used to send something back into time.__NEWL__They decide to use a permanent male contraceptive pill, stolen from Michael's girlfriend (a biochemistry researcher), who, due to his continual distraction, has left him to take a position at Princeton University.__NEWL__They decide to send this pill back in time to the well in Braunau am Inn so that Hitler's father will drink from it, become infertile, and Hitler will never be born.__NEWL__When Michael awakens he is completely disoriented.__NEWL__He soon discovers that he is in the United States, at Princeton University.__NEWL__Everyone he encounters is surprised that he is speaking with an English accent.__NEWL__It takes some time for Michael's memory to return.__NEWL__He realises that his plan was successful, history has changed, and for some reason his parents must have moved to America.__NEWL__Initially he is elated and tells his new friend Steve how happy he is because Steve has never heard of Hitler, Braunau am Inn, or the Nazi Party.__NEWL__Steve corrects Michael and reveals that, while never hearing of Hitler, he is all too well aware of the Nazi Party.__NEWL__Michael begins to discover the history of this new world.__NEWL__It turns out that without Hitler, a new leader emerged, Rudolf Gloder, who was equally ruthless.__NEWL__In fact, Michael and Zuckerman have replaced Hitler with a Nazi leader who was even more charming, patient, and effective, and as committed to the Final Solution as Hitler had been.__NEWL__In this alternative timeline, the Nazis won a mandate in the Reichstag in 1932 and built up an electronics industry of their own.__NEWL__Unlike Hitler, Gloder proceeded with stealth, ensuring peaceful unification with Austria in 1937.__NEWL__More alarmingly, Gloder's Nazis also had a head start on the research and development of nuclear weapons, which led to the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad, eliminating Joseph Stalin and his Politburo in this alternative 1938.__NEWL__The Greater German Reich annexes Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Turkey, and invades the remnants of the former Soviet Union.__NEWL__In 1939, France, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and the Benelux nations capitulate, although Britain rebels in 1941, leading to the execution of several dissidents, among them the Duke of York (the historical King George VI) and George Orwell.__NEWL__Jews are exiled to a "Jewish Free State" within the former Yugoslavia, where most of this world's Holocaust occurs.__NEWL__The United States develops nuclear weapons in 1941, leading to a Cold War between Nazi Europe and the United States.__NEWL__The latter has never gone to war against the Japanese Empire in the Pacific.__NEWL__As a result, this United States has become far more socially conservative.__NEWL__Because there was no sixties upsurge of social liberalism and decriminalisation of homosexuality in (Nazi-occupied) Western Europe in this world, the latter is still a felony, while racial segregation is still active.__NEWL__Students at Princeton are purely white, the only blacks on campus being manual workers—and students feel free to harass them and call them "nigger".__NEWL__ Steve turns out to be homosexual and in love with Michael, and when he discovers Michael's background, he marvels at his talk of gay pride marches, urban gay communities, and a mass social movement in Michael's world of origin, regarding it as "utopian".__NEWL__Much to his own surprise, Michael reciprocates Steve's feelings.__NEWL__Michael is apprehended by the authorities, who believe that he is a possible spy—since Britain had been under Nazi rule for nearly half a century, anyone speaking like a Briton is suspect.__NEWL__Michael learns that the water from the well in Hitler's home town was used to create "Braunau Water", which was the instrument to sterilise the European Jews, wiping them out in one generation.__NEWL__In a cruel twist of fate, the person who perfected the synthesis was Dietrich Bauer.__NEWL__Once more his physicist son, Axel, is wracked with guilt and has developed a Temporal Imager.__NEWL__With Michael and Steve's help, they plan to send a dead rat to poison the well so that it will be pumped clean of the sterilising water.__NEWL__As they begin to do this, they are interrupted by the federal agents that apprehended Michael earlier and they end up shooting Steve, who dies in Michael's arms just as the time alteration occurs.__NEWL__Time changes again.__NEWL__Expecting the disorientation, Michael comes to his senses faster now and discovers that almost everything is back to how it was, except that his favourite band, Oily-Moily, never existed.__NEWL__He gives up his career in academia, figuring he can at least make some money "writing" the songs that he remembers from the previous reality.__NEWL__Finally, Michael is reunited with Steve, who is English in this universe and also remembers the previous reality.__NEWL__Their gay relationship is no longer criminal.__NEWL__Every chapter told by the first-person narrator in the (changing) late 20th century reality is followed by one in the German past.__NEWL__These early such chapters depict Hitler's father, an abusive husband and father and a petty tyrant in his job as a customs inspector; Hitler's mother, a gentle and sensitive woman escaping into fantasy from the harsh reality of her life; the 10-year old Adolf Hitler standing up to his father...__NEWL__Later chapters take place in the trenches of WWI, told from the point of view of Hitler's comrades in arms: ordinary German combat soldiers, completely unaware of the hidden power struggle going on around them between the two potential leaders of the future Nazi Germany—Adolf Hitler and the charismatic officer Rudi Gloder.__NEWL__In one scene, Hitler tricks Gloder into a foolhardy heroic act and getting himself killed; but in the changed history, where Hitler was never born, it is Gloder who tricks another soldier into this act, and gets decorated for recovering his body.__NEWL__Later on, the ruthless Gloder murders a fellow soldier who discovered his opportunist machinations, followed by the past-war scene where Gloder joins the budding Nazi Party in 1919 Munchen and becomes its star demagogue.__NEWL__The significance of some details in these past scenes only becomes clear much later.__NEWL__For example, there is an early scene where Hitler's mother's vomits when trying to draw water and getting out of the pump a stinking maggot-filled mass; this turns out at the book's end to be the result of the protagonist sending back in time the rotting bodies of dead rats in order to prevent Hitler's father from drinking the sterilizing water.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3889312	Red Star	1908-01-01T00:00:00Z	738608	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738608	Leonid, the narrator and protagonist of the story, is a Bolshevik revolutionary and mathematician living in St. Petersburg.__NEWL__The novel begins with an explanation of Leonid's few relationships within the revolutionary movement and with his love interest, Anna Nikolaevna.__NEWL__Despite his intimate relationship with Anna, Leonid confesses in the opening pages that their ideological differences concerning the revolution were too extreme for him to overcome.__NEWL__It is at this point in his life that Leonid, informally known as Lenni, is visited by Menni, a Martian in disguise.__NEWL__Almost immediately after they become acquainted, Menni invites Leonid to assist in a project designed to study and visit other planets, such as Venus and Mars.__NEWL__At first, however, Menni fails to reveal that the true purpose of the visit would be for Leonid to teach his own culture to Martians and to simultaneously understand and experience theirs; this point is only revealed to Leonid after he has embarked on the journey to Mars.__NEWL__The trip is accomplished by the "etheroneph", a combination of nuclear rocket and anti-gravity device.__NEWL__On their way to Mars, Leonid is exposed gradually to Martians and their society.__NEWL__He is introduced to all of the other Martian travelers, such as Netti and Sterni, who he remarks as bearing very few individually distinguishable features, even when comparing opposite genders.__NEWL__With the help of Menni and Netti, his doctor, Leonid is able to speak the Martian language by the time they arrive.__NEWL__During an attempt to acquaint himself with all of the other travelers, Leonid partakes in a scientific experiment with an elder Martian named Letta.__NEWL__However, the experiment fails and causes a puncture in the etheroneph's hull, causing Letta to sacrifice himself and plug the hole with his body.__NEWL__As a result of this, Leonid feels responsible for the elder Martian's death.__NEWL__This is also the first notable instance of a strong emotional response by the crew, as they are deeply saddened by Letta's passing (especially Netti).__NEWL__Part 1 concludes with their arrival on the planet of Mars.__NEWL__At this point in the novel, Bogdanov details some of the aspects of the socialist Martian society as seen through Leonid’s eyes.__NEWL__First, Leonid comments that the red hue of Mars is actually due to the red vegetation that covers the planet.__NEWL__Secondly, he remarks on the living conditions of the Martians, noting that they are indistinguishable from one another.__NEWL__Thus, even a Martian like Menni, whom Leonid perceives to be more accomplished individually than most of his peers, lives in the same housing as the rest of his Martian compatriots.__NEWL__Thirdly, Leonid learns that there is no professional specialization among Martians such that an individual can enroll himself for work in a clothing factory one day and switch to food production the next day.__NEWL__In fact, job assignments are chosen based on societal need, and there is furthermore no requirement for an individual to work at all; yet, almost all Martians decide to work a varying number of hours anyway in order to feel fulfilled and accomplished.__NEWL__Leonid soon learns that there is no focus on or appreciation for the individual whatsoever in this Martian society, but rather admiration arises for collective effort and decides to leave.__NEWL__Eventually, the unfamiliarity of Mars and the stress of his mission exhaust Leonid to the point of being delusional and he becomes bedridden with severe auditory and visual hallucinations.__NEWL__Just in time, Netti is alerted to his condition and treats him for his severe illness.__NEWL__While Leonid is recovering, he finds out, contrary to his original assumption, that Netti is female.__NEWL__His previous feelings for her are then only deepened and they quickly fall in love with one another as Part 2 comes to a close.__NEWL__As Leonid continues to build upon his relationship with Netti, he finds himself increasingly enjoying his time on Mars.__NEWL__He has formed strong bonds with a number of Martians, such as Netti and Menni, and has found himself a steady position working at the clothing factory, albeit at a noticeably less efficient pace than the Martians around him.__NEWL__However, it is soon after this period that both Netti and Menni are called away for what is described initially as a mining expedition to Venus.__NEWL__While they are away, Leonid develops a relationship with Enno, another fellow shipmate from his arrival to the planet whom he assumed to be male but is in fact a female.__NEWL__During their time together, Enno revealed that she used to be the wife of Menni, and likewise Netti used to be married to Sterni (yet another shipmate).__NEWL__This revelation of Netti's previous marriage emotionally shakes Leonid, and he resorts to speaking with Netti's mother, Nella, who produces a note written by Netti in which she confesses her love for Leonid despite her previous relationship.__NEWL__It is here that yet another idealized socialist aspect of Martian society is realized - the fluidity of love and the ability for a Martian to have multiple lovers and maintain multiple relationships, both at once and over the course of a lifetime.__NEWL__While discovering many other things about the nature of personal relationships on Mars, Leonid uncovers frightening information.__NEWL__He discovers that the council in charge of the Venus expedition was vying for either Venus's or Earth’s colonization as a possible solution to their hitherto untold problem of overpopulation on Mars.__NEWL__It is revealed to Leonid here that the true motive behind Menni and Netti's expedition to Venus was to consider its hospitality.__NEWL__Yet, as the recording of the debate that Leonid is watching seems to conclude, Venus is seemingly inhospitable, leaving Earth as the sole suitable host to be colonized by the Martians, for slowing population growth was out of the question and seen as regressive.__NEWL__The argument presented by Sterni in this conference states that colonization of Earth is the only feasible solution and that such an expansion would only be made possible if Earth’s human population was eradicated.__NEWL__It is only through the negative feedback presented by Netti and Menni that a final effort to visit Venus is allowed.__NEWL__As Leonid’s emotional state is not fully recovered from his exhaustion, this news sends him into a state of psychosis.__NEWL__His resolution is to murder Sterni, which he proceeds to do.__NEWL__Part 3 closes with Leonid's realization that his act of murder likely only cast Earth and its inhabitants into a worse light, and he commits himself to leave Mars and subsequently returns to Earth in a hopeless mental state.__NEWL__Leonid finds himself in the mental health clinic of Dr. Werner, an old comrade.__NEWL__In a meeting with Dr. Werner, Leonid attempts to confess his murder of Sterni but Werner casts it aside as a symptom of Leonid's disease, and tells Leonid that none of the events on Mars actually occurred, and that his memories are simply an effect of his delirium.__NEWL__In his stay at Werner's clinic, he spends one day searching through Werner's office and finds the scraps of a letter containing Netti's handwriting, thus convincing him that Netti is on Earth.__NEWL__Once he is fully recovered, Leonid leaves the hospital with the assistance of a friendly guard and rejoins the revolutionary fight, but this time with a matured perspective.__NEWL__The novel ends with a letter from Dr. Werner to Mirsky (a character assumed to be Plekhanov).__NEWL__In this letter, Leonid’s reunion with Netti is described and it is inferred that they have returned to Mars together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5684222	Hawaii	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	738767	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738767	The novel tells the history of Hawaiian Islands from the creation of the isles to the time they became an American state through the viewpoints of selected characters who represent their ethnic and cultural groups in the story (e.g. the Kee family represents the viewpoint of Chinese-Hawaiians).__NEWL__Most of the chapters cover the arrivals of different peoples to the islands.__NEWL__With the exception of Chapter 1, all the chapters are of standalone novel or novella length.__NEWL__Chapter 1:__NEWL__From the Boundless Deep describes the creation of the Hawaiian land from volcanic activity.__NEWL__It goes into flavorful detail describing such things as primary succession taking root on the island to life finally blooming.__NEWL__Chapter 2:__NEWL__From the Sunswept Lagoon begins on the island of Bora Bora, where many people, including King Tamatoa and his brother Teroro, are upset with the neighboring isles of Havaiki, Tahiti etc.__NEWL__because they are trying to force the Bora Borans to give up their old gods, Tāne and Ta'aroa, and start worshiping 'Oro, the fire god, who constantly demands human sacrifices.__NEWL__Tamatoa suggests to his brother and friends that they should migrate to some other place where they might find religious freedom.__NEWL__After finally agreeing to this plan, his brother secretly sets fire to Havaiki to take revenge for the human sacrifices they have been demanding from Bora Borans.__NEWL__Later they take the canoe Wait for the West Wind and sail to Hawaii.__NEWL__Later some return to Bora Bora to bring back with them some women and children and an idol of the volcano goddess, Pele.__NEWL__Chapter 3:__NEWL__From the Farm of Bitterness follows the journey of the first Christian missionaries to Hawaii in the 1800s and their influence over Hawaiian culture and customs.__NEWL__Many of the missionaries become founding families in the islands, including the Hales and Whipples.__NEWL__ Chapter 4:__NEWL__From the Starving Village covers the immigration of Chinese to work on the pineapple and sugarcane plantations.__NEWL__The patriarch of the Kee family contracts leprosy (a.k.a.__NEWL__the ‘Chinese sickness’)__NEWL__and is sent to the leper colony in Molokai.__NEWL__Chapter 4 includes a fictionalized version of 1893 historical events known as the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.__NEWL__Chapter 5:__NEWL__From The Inland Sea focuses on Japanese workers brought to the islands to replace Chinese laborers; the latter begin to set up their own businesses.__NEWL__It also covers the bombing of Pearl Harbor.__NEWL__Chapter 6: The Golden Men summarizes the changes in Hawaiian culture and economics based on the intermarriages of various groups in the islands.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3621952	Area 7	2001-10-31T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	726183	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=726183	The President of the United States is visiting America's most secret military installation, Area 7.__NEWL__Assigned to his protective detail is Shane Schofield and his team of Marines including Gunnery Sergeant Gena 'Mother' Newman, Staff Sergeant Elizabeth__NEWL__'Fox' Gant and Buck 'Book II' Riley Jr.__NEWL__They are plunged into a race for survival when an Air Force general, Charles "Caesar" Russell, unleashes a plan he has been working on for over 15 years.__NEWL__Despite being 'executed' on the day of the president's inauguration, Caesar is revived, and with a squadron of 50 elite Air Force soldiers (the 7th Squadron), have taken control of Area 7 and initiated a lockdown.__NEWL__A transmitter, attached to the president's heart before he was elected, has been activated; a satellite sends and receives messages to and from this transmitter, which is powered by the kinetic energy of the president's heart beating.__NEWL__If the satellite does not receive the messages from the transmitter, 14 Type-240 Blast Plasma-based nuclear warheads in the airports of the major cities of the United States will explode, destroying these cities, and making way for a new, racist, Confederate America.__NEWL__As long as the President's heart beats, the messages will be sent to the satellite, and the nuclear warheads will not detonate.__NEWL__To prevent the president from trying to escape Area 7, Caesar also overrode the launch codes on the Nuclear Football so that to prevent the detonation of the warheads, the president must place his hand on the fingerprint sensor on the Football (that is being kept in Caesar's possession) every 90 minutes.__NEWL__While moving through the underground complex Gant and her group, including the president, come to a cell block and find a scientist locked inside one of the cells.__NEWL__After being released and questioned, it is discovered that the prisoners being held at Area 7 are "volunteers" that the scientists use to carry out experiments.__NEWL__It soon comes to light that there are ways of opening exits out of Area 7, and that two have already been opened by another scientist, Dr Gunther Botha.__NEWL__In addition to opening two exits, Botha has also shut down main power to the complex, so that it is now running on auxiliary power.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Schofield and his group, after fleeing from the ground level hangar, make their way into the sublevels where they find a bedroom of a 6-year-old boy named Kevin who lives in a cube.__NEWL__Schofield's group then meets up with Riley's group, and the president reveals that the reason for his visit to Area 7 is to check on the progress of a vaccine being developed for the Sinovirus, a genetically engineered virus that differentiates between the amount of pigmentation in a person's skin, allowing it to target only people of a specific race (however people of Asian descent are immune).__NEWL__The president explains that to develop a vaccine for the Sinovirus (and protect America from biological weapons containing the Sinovirus) the scientists had to create a genetically engineered human, a boy named Kevin, whose blood could be used to produce antibodies, and the prisoners being held at Area 7 are used as guinea pigs to test the vaccine.__NEWL__Botha is killed during a chase on Lake Powell the President and Scarecrow escape to Area 8.__NEWL__When they reach it they realize Echo unit from the 7th squadron are being paid 120 million American dollars by the Chinese government to bring Kevin to them.__NEWL__Schofield and the President follow onto the 747 which has a mounted X-38 in an attempt to rescue Kevin.__NEWL__Schofield hijacks the X-38, escaping with the president and Kevin.__NEWL__Later, Schofield and Gant finally face off with Caesar back in Area 7. were ever accounted for, in the three bipod speedboats on the lake.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3793573	Il conformista	1951-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	705675	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=705675	In the prologue, the reader witnesses numerous formative events from a short period in Marcello's childhood.__NEWL__In the first, Marcello coldly kills several lizards in the yard between his home and the home of his neighbor and friend, Roberto.__NEWL__He tries to coax Roberto into offering approval of this behavior, and when Roberto doesn’t comply, they fight and Roberto leaves.__NEWL__Marcello later obtains a slingshot and fires a few stones through the ivy that covers the fence around Roberto's family's house, only to find that he has killed their family cat instead of Roberto.__NEWL__Marcello is mortified not so much by his actions but by what he perceives as the abnormality of his sentiments.__NEWL__Marcello also witnesses a fight between his parents that is later revealed to mark the beginning of his father's decline into mental illness.__NEWL__Marcello's mother and housemaid discover that his father has vandalized a photograph of Marcello and his mother by poking holes through their eyes and drawing streaks of blood on their faces.__NEWL__His father ultimately chases his mother around the house and attacks her in the bedroom, leaving Marcello torn between whether to rescue his mother or aid his father.__NEWL__It is revealed that Marcello's father often physically abuses the boy.__NEWL__The final section of the prologue covers Marcello's torment at the hands of his classmates, who use his somewhat effeminate appearance to question his gender.__NEWL__One day, five classmates follow Marcello home from school and try to force him to wear a skirt, but their attack is interrupted by a chauffeur who happens on the scene and offers to drive Marcello home.__NEWL__En route, the chauffeur appears to proposition Marcello, offering him a pistol in exchange for unspecified actions.__NEWL__The chauffeur, who reveals himself to be a former priest de-frocked for indecent behavior, ultimately stops himself before initiating any actions with Marcello and begs the boy to ignore him if he tries to speak to him again.__NEWL__Marcello doesn’t fully understand what is happening, and his desire for the pistol leads him to go with the chauffeur again a few days later.__NEWL__This time, the chauffeur, named Lino, locks himself in the room with Marcello and tells the boy that he won’t be able to escape the (still unspoken) abuse to come.__NEWL__During the struggle, Lino's gun comes loose and Marcello grabs it.__NEWL__When Lino tells Marcello to shoot him, he complies and flees out the window.__NEWL__Part I opens with Marcello, now a state employee of the Italian Fascist government, looking through old newspaper clippings for information on the incident with Lino.__NEWL__He ultimately finds an obituary that blames the death on an accident during the cleaning of the gun.__NEWL__While Marcello does not feel true remorse, he does seek some absolution for this incident throughout the novel.__NEWL__A colleague of Marcello named Orlando asks Marcello to participate in a mission to Paris.__NEWL__A former professor of Marcello, named Quadri, is now an anti-fascist agitator, and the Italian government would like to infiltrate his organization.__NEWL__Marcello is also due to be married shortly to a woman named Giulia, and offers to take his honeymoon in Paris so that his presence there would not be suspicious to Quadri.__NEWL__Marcello also takes confession, despite his apparent atheism, as a prelude to the Catholic wedding his wife expects.__NEWL__He confesses to murdering Lino, and the priest indicates that he can seek absolution if he feels true remorse for his actions – an emotion that Marcello does not appear capable of feeling.__NEWL__The section closes in the days leading up to Marcello's wedding, and we see his mother-in-law lavishing praise upon him, in stark contrast to his mother, who now lives alone in squalor.__NEWL__His father has been in an asylum for six years and suffers from the delusion that he is one of Mussolini's top aides.__NEWL__On the way to see his father, Marcello's mother gives him a wedding present but indicates that she won’t be attending the ceremony.__NEWL__Marcello and his mother make their monthly visit to his father, who neither recognizes them nor even acknowledges their presence.__NEWL__Part II covers the honeymoon and the odd interpersonal relationships that unfold between Marcello, Giulia, Quadri, and Quadri's voluptuous young wife, Anna.__NEWL__En route to Paris, Marcello makes a scheduled stop at a brothel in a small, unnamed town in France, where he is to meet Agent Orlando for further instructions.__NEWL__At the brothel, Marcello is mistaken for a client, causing him some embarrassment before Orlando arrives to tell him that the new plan is to kill Quadri.__NEWL__Marcello needs simply to confirm Quadri's identity to Orlando to fulfill his duties.__NEWL__As he is leaving, Marcello realizes he has forgotten his hat, but when he goes to retrieve it, he finds Orlando with his arm around a prostitute to whom Marcello feels a strange attraction.__NEWL__Marcello experiences the same feeling when he and Giulia head to Quadri's apartment, as Anna reminds him in some ways of that prostitute, and Marcello tells himself that he is in love with Anna despite her apparent dislike for him.__NEWL__Anna allows Marcello to begin to seduce her, but always keeps him at arm's length, even telling him that she and Quadri are aware that he is a spy there in service of the Italian government.__NEWL__While Anna and Giulia head out shopping, Marcello is accosted by an old man who first mistakes him for a beggar, and then mistakes him for a homosexual or perhaps a prostitute, revisiting the humiliation of the incident with Lino on Marcello.__NEWL__When the old man refuses to take Marcello back to his hotel, Marcello pulls his gun and demands to be let out of the vehicle.__NEWL__Marcello's feelings for Anna intensify alongside a growing contempt for her when he sees her attempting to seduce Giulia and realizes that her interest in him is merely for show.__NEWL__Anna's pursuit of Giulia leads to an argument in a nightclub where Giulia tells Anna that she is not a lesbian and has no interest in an affair.__NEWL__At a dinner, Quadri asks Marcello to post a letter for him on his way back to Italy, as Quadri's activities are monitored and the letter might be intercepted otherwise.__NEWL__Marcello refuses, and Quadri takes this as a sign of solidarity, as Marcello could have taken the letter and turned it over to the authorities instead.__NEWL__However, Marcello does confirm Quadri's identity to Orlando, and on a trip to Savoy, Quadri – as well as Anna, who left with him in response to Giulia's rejection – is killed by Orlando and his men.__NEWL__The epilogue briefly explores Marcello's conflicted responses to his role in the murders of Quadri and Lino, including his attempts to rationalize away his culpability.__NEWL__The epilogue takes place years later, on the night that Mussolini falls from power.__NEWL__Giulia reveals that she has long suspected that Marcello was involved in the murders, but her sorrow is more for their own safety than for Marcello's victims or his duplicity.__NEWL__The two go out for a drive and walk that evening, and while Giulia tries to convince Marcello to make love to her in a wooded area, a stranger arrives and calls to Marcello by name.__NEWL__Marcello is floored to see that it is Lino.__NEWL__Marcello shows real emotion for the first time in the book when he screams at Lino and blames him for ruining his life by taking his innocence.__NEWL__Lino defends himself by arguing that the loss of innocence is inevitable and is merely a part of the human experience—“That’s normality,” says Lino.__NEWL__That speech leads Marcello to the beginning of acceptance of his own non-conformity.__NEWL__The novel's closing passage has Marcello, Giulia, and their daughter driving to the mountains to evade possible reprisals for Marcello's role with the government.__NEWL__En route, they drive into an air raid, and their car is strafed with bullets.__NEWL__Giulia and the daughter are killed in the first wave, and Marcello falls out of the car, wounded.__NEWL__Realizing his wife and daughter are dead, he waits for the second wave to return.__NEWL__The novel ends with Marcello hearing the planes approach.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3363301	Paradiso	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q241	Cuba	720905	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=720905	The novel relates Cemí's struggles with a mysterious childhood illness, describes the death of his father, and explores his homosexuality and literary sensibilities.__NEWL__He lives in the world of pre-Castro Havana, and the Cuban Revolution only appears as a secondary plot.__NEWL__Some of the later chapters incorporate narrative experiments in which several alternating stories, set during widely divergent eras and having no immediately apparent connection with José Cemí, are interwoven and eventually merged.__NEWL__(In a letter to Julio Cortázar, Lezama explained that these chapters represent Cemí's dreams after the death of his father.)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7663532	Syrup	1999-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	726973	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=726973	Set in the present day, a young marketing graduate named Scat comes up with an idea for a new product for Coca-Cola called 'Fukk'.__NEWL__He approaches Coca-Cola to sell his idea for $3 million but finds that Sneaky Pete has already claimed the trademark.__NEWL__Scat then leaves his apartment with Sneaky Pete and moves in with Cindy.__NEWL__Cindy eventually throws him out and he goes to live with 6 and Tina while managing the summer marketing campaign for Coca-Cola.__NEWL__He eventually succeeds with the campaign.__NEWL__After that Scat tries to undermine Sneaky Pete's effort to run a new secret project for Coca-Cola, the first feature length advertising movie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q905449	The Midwich Cuckoos	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	727199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=727199	Ambulances arrive at two traffic accidents blocking the only roads into the English village of Midwich, Winshire.__NEWL__Attempting to approach the village, one ambulance-man becomes unconscious.__NEWL__Suspecting gas poisoning, the army is notified.__NEWL__They discover that a caged canary becomes unconscious upon entering the affected region, but regains consciousness when removed.__NEWL__Further experiments reveal the region to be a hemisphere with a diameter of around the village.__NEWL__Aerial photography shows an unidentifiable silvery object on the ground in the centre of the affected zone.__NEWL__After one day, the effect vanishes, along with the unidentified object and the villagers wake with no apparent ill effects.__NEWL__Some months later they realise that every woman of child-bearing age is pregnant with all indications that the pregnancies were caused by xenogenesis during the period of unconsciousness that has come to be referred to as the "Dayout".__NEWL__When the 31 boys and 30 girls are born, they appear normal, except for their unusual golden eyes, light blonde hair and pale, silvery skin.__NEWL__The children have none of the genetic characteristics of their mothers.__NEWL__As they grow up, it becomes increasingly apparent that they are, at least in some respects, not human.__NEWL__They possess telepathic abilities and can control others' actions.__NEWL__The Children (they are referred to with a capital C) have two distinct group minds, one for the boys and another for the girls.__NEWL__Their physical development is accelerated compared with that of humans; upon reaching the age of nine, they appear to be sixteen-year-olds.__NEWL__The Children protect themselves as much as possible using a form of mind control.__NEWL__One young man who accidentally hits a Child in the hip while driving a car is made to drive into a wall and kill himself.__NEWL__A bull that chased the Children is forced into a pond to drown.__NEWL__The villagers form a mob and try to burn down the Midwich Grange (a farm where the Children are taught and live) but the Children make the villagers attack each other.__NEWL__The Military Intelligence department learns that the same phenomenon has occurred in four other parts of the world, including an Inuit settlement in the Canadian Arctic, a small township in Australia's Northern Territory, a Mongolian village and the town of Gizhinsk in eastern Russia, north-east of Okhotsk.__NEWL__The Inuit killed the newborn Children, sensing they were not their own and the Mongolians killed both Children and mothers.__NEWL__The Australian babies had all died within a few weeks, suggesting that something may have gone wrong with the xenogenesis process.__NEWL__The Russian town was recently "accidentally" destroyed by the Soviet government, using an "atomic cannon" from a range of .__NEWL__The Children are aware of the danger and use their power to prevent aeroplanes from flying over the village.__NEWL__During an interview with a Military Intelligence officer, the Children explain that to solve the problem they must be destroyed.__NEWL__They explain it is not possible to kill them unless the entire village is bombed, which would result in civilian deaths.__NEWL__The Children present an ultimatum, they want to migrate to a secure location where they can live unharmed.__NEWL__They demand aeroplanes from the government.__NEWL__An elderly, educated, Midwich resident (Gordon Zellaby) realises the Children must be killed as soon as possible.__NEWL__As he has only a few weeks left to live due to a heart condition, he feels obliged to do something.__NEWL__He has acted as a teacher of and mentor to the Children and they regard him with as much affection as they can have for any human, permitting him to approach them more closely than others.__NEWL__One evening, he hides a bomb in his projection equipment while showing the Children a film about the Greek islands.__NEWL__Zellaby sets off the bomb, killing himself and all of the Children.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7698352	Tempest-Tost	736671	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736671	In Tempest-Tost an amateur theatrical group sets about mounting a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.__NEWL__Romantic young scholar and assistant director Solomon ("Solly")__NEWL__Bridgetower, womanizer Roger Tasset and repressed middle-aged math teacher Hector Mackilwraith vie for the rich, beautiful and indifferent leading lady Griselda Webster.__NEWL__As the production moves forward, each man presses his suit with characteristic blind-spots as small rivalries and ambitions are pursued by Griselda's precocious sister Fredegonde (Freddy), the vain Professor Walter Vambrace, his socially awkward daughter Pearl Vambrace, and the mischievous musician Humphrey Cobbler.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16386635	Leaven of Malice							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	736673	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736673	The book starts out with a false, anonymous engagement notice between Pearl Veronica Vambrace and Solomon (Solly) Bridgetower published in the local newspaper, the Bellman.__NEWL__The wedding is to be held on November 31 at the local cathedral.__NEWL__The notice creates a stir in the community.__NEWL__Professor Vambrace, the father of Pearl, is outraged, considering it an insult directed at himself and his family, due to his longtime feud with the Bridgetower family.__NEWL__He threatens the Bellman's editor, Gloster Ridley, to sue the Bellman for libel.__NEWL__Mrs. Bridgetower is also outraged, although she confines this to her personal circle.__NEWL__Matters are not helped by the fact that Solly, while having once invited Pearl to a ball, is still besotted with Griselda Webster, a local beauty and heiress, who is definitely not interested in him (cf.__NEWL__Tempest-Tost).__NEWL__Vambrace consults a lawyer, a relative of his wife, who suggests that he not go through with the case, and that the newspaper is as much a victim of the hoax as he is.__NEWL__The lawyer's partner, Snelgrove, however, says otherwise, and offers to take the case himself.__NEWL__The case is looked into by both Snelgrove and Ridley's lawyer.__NEWL__Along with several major and minor characters in the novel, they pursue a quest for the person responsible for entering the false wedding notice, who is dubbed 'X'.__NEWL__The climactic scene takes place at the Bellman, where the principal characters gather and the identity of X is revealed.__NEWL__After all the chaos, Solly proposes to Pearl, who accepts.__NEWL__The Bellman's editor, however, insists they deliver their engagement announcement to the paper in person.__NEWL__The novel explores themes of innocence, guilt, and judgement.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4658301	A Mixture of Frailties	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	736678	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736678	The protagonist in Frailties, Monica Gall, is a working-class girl with a beautiful but immature singing voice.__NEWL__But the novel begins before she is introduced, somewhat after Leaven of Malice ends, with two of its protagonists, Pearl Vambrace and Solly Bridgetower now married but stuck in a difficult situation.__NEWL__When Solly's demanding mother Louisa Bridgetower dies, possessed of a much greater fortune than anyone except her lawyer knew about—over $1 million, more than $9 million today—she leaves instructions in her will to start a trust for the education in the arts of a young woman, in Europe, until such time as her son has a male child.__NEWL__The income from the rest all goes to the student.__NEWL__Until and unless the boy is born, Solly can't touch the money; his only unencumbered inheritance is a measly $100 (and he and Veronica must live in and keep up his late mother's house).__NEWL__This is Solly's mother's revenge on him and his wife for marrying against her wishes, an event that arises directly out of Leaven of Malice.__NEWL__Monica becomes the beneficiary of the Bridgetower Trust, and goes to England to study with several teachers chosen for her by Sir Benedict Domdaniel, a theatrical knight who works as a conductor.__NEWL__Her experiences form the bulk of the novel.__NEWL__Meanwhile, back in Salterton, Solly deals with maintaining the Bridgetower estate on limited funds, and attempts more and more desperately to have a child with Veronica, so he will come into his conditional inheritance.__NEWL__Monica is the daughter of a difficult mother also.__NEWL__Her family are Christian fundamentalists who exploit her talent by proselytizing on a local radio music show for which she is the best singer, but deprecate Monica's talent.__NEWL__Monica grows as an artist under the tutelage of several teachers, including the rakish Giles Revelstoke, a frustrated composer and underground newspaper publisher.__NEWL__They eventually become lovers, with Monica supporting his aspirations.__NEWL__Monica's mother dies, and when she returns for the funeral she finds how little she can now relate to her family and hometown.__NEWL__Returning to England, Revelstoke writes a critically acclaimed opera but embarrasses himself when he attempts to stand in for the conductor.__NEWL__In a fit of anger he insults Monica who writes him a letter breaking things off.__NEWL__When she goes to visit him, she finds that he has committed suicide by turning on the gas as suffocating himself, while clutching her letter.__NEWL__Fearing for her reputation, Monica takes the letter and leaves.__NEWL__She later learns from the coroner's inquest that Revelstoke had still been alive when she found him.__NEWL__The metered gas had shut off after she left and he would have survived had he not aspirated on his vomit; Monica could have saved him if she had called for help, a decision which torments her.__NEWL__Monica returns to Canada to find that Pearl has had a son and that the trust will be dissolved, which makes Monica happy.__NEWL__At loose ends, she receives a letter from the much older Sir Domdaniel, proposing marriage.__NEWL__The book ends with her cabling him with her answer, but the reader is not told her decision.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4657351	A History of the World in 10½ Chapters	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	717167	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717167	Chapter 1, "The Stowaway", is an alternative account of the story of Noah's Ark from the point of view of the woodworms, who were not allowed onboard and were stowaways during the journey.__NEWL__The woodworm who narrates the first chapter questions the wisdom of appointing Noah as God's representative.__NEWL__The woodworm was left out of the ark, just like the other "impure" or "insignificant" species; but a colony of woodworms enters the ark as stowaways and they survive the Great Deluge.__NEWL__The woodworm becomes one of the many connecting figures, appearing in almost every chapter and implying processes of decay, especially of knowledge and historical understanding.__NEWL__Chapter 2, "The Visitors", describes the hijacking of a cruise liner, similar to the 1985 incident of the Achille Lauro.__NEWL__Chapter 3, "The Wars of Religion", reports a trial against the woodworms in a church, as they have caused the building to become unstable.__NEWL__Chapter 4, "The Survivor", is set in a world in which the Chernobyl disaster was "the first big accident".__NEWL__Journalists report that the world is on the brink of nuclear war.__NEWL__The protagonist escapes by boat to avoid the assumed inevitability of a nuclear holocaust.__NEWL__Whether this occurred or is merely a result of the protagonist's paranoia is left ambiguous.__NEWL__Chapter 5, "Shipwreck", is an analysis of Géricault's painting, The Raft of the Medusa.__NEWL__The first half narrates the historical events of the shipwreck and the survival of the crew members.__NEWL__The second half of the chapter analyses the painting itself.__NEWL__It describes Géricault's "softening" the impact of reality in order to preserve the aestheticism of the work, or to make the story of what happened more palatable.__NEWL__Chapter 6, "The Mountain", describes the journey of a religious woman to a monastery where she wants to intercede for her dead father.__NEWL__The Raft of the Medusa plays a role in this story as well.__NEWL__Chapter 7, "Three Simple Stories", portrays a survivor from the RMS Titanic, the Biblical story of Jonah and the whale, and the Jewish refugees on board the MS St. Louis in 1939, who were prevented from landing in the United States and other countries.__NEWL__Chapter 8, "Upstream!", consists of letters from an actor who travels to a remote jungle for a film project, described as similar to The Mission (1986).__NEWL__His letters grow more philosophical and complicated as he deals with the living situations, the personalities of his costars and the director, and the peculiarities of the indigenous population, coming to a climax when his colleague is drowned in an accident with a raft.__NEWL__The unnumbered half-chapter, "Parenthesis", is inserted between Chapters 8 and 9.__NEWL__It is in the form of an essay rather than a short story and offers a philosophical discussion on love, and briefly history.__NEWL__There is a direct reference to Julian Barnes in this half chapter.__NEWL__A parallel is drawn with El Greco's painting Burial of the Count of Orgaz, in which the artist confronts the viewer.__NEWL__The piece includes a discussion of lines from Philip Larkin's poem "An Arundel Tomb" ("What will survive of us is love") and from W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939" ("We must love one another or die").__NEWL__Chapter 9, "Project Ararat", tells the story of a fictional astronaut Spike Tiggler, based on James Irwin.__NEWL__Tiggler launches an expedition to recover what remains of Noah's Ark.__NEWL__There is overlap with Chapter 6, "The Mountain.__NEWL__" Chapter 10, "The Dream", is an account of a modernized version of heaven, where even Hitler is found.__NEWL__It is individualised for each person and the occupants eventually "die".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q903318	Brazzaville Beach	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z	725513	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=725513	Brazzaville Beach consists of three separative narratives.__NEWL__The first is Hope Clearwater's reflections on her current life whilst living in a beach house on Brazzaville Beach.__NEWL__The second narrative is a description of her former marriage to John Clearwater, a mathematician, who gradually goes mad resulting from failure to make progress in his academic research.__NEWL__The third narrative, and by far the most graphic, is the narrator's account of her work in a national park called Grosso Arvore (Big Tree), where she tracks the movements of a small band of chimpanzees that have split off from a larger group in the north.__NEWL__John Clearwater, Hope's former husband, is a mathematician thirsty for discovery and fame.__NEWL__This part of the narrative is set in London, where the couple share her flat in South Kensington, and southern England, where Hope works as an ecologist on an intriguing hedgerow mapping project in Dorset.__NEWL__At the beginning of their marriage the two are very much in love with Hope believing that John is the ideal man for her owing to his rather eccentric but empathetic character and strong intelligence.__NEWL__She is uninterested in working after getting her PhD until her former Professor forces her to take on the hedgerow mapping project.__NEWL__After being interviewed by Munro, its leader, Hope discovers she is pleased to be working once more, losing weight because she is outside all day, and enjoying the disciplined approach she has to adopt:__NEWL__However, whilst Hope's work is going well, her husband's is going badly with John failing to make progress with his mathematical research into chaos theory, and Hope finds herself unable to deal with its consequences.__NEWL__The first signs are when he is caught digging an illegal long trench on the Knap estate in Dorset, work that he feels will help him visualise the mathematical formulae he is trying to come to grips with (having worked before during their stay at a rented cottage in Scotland).__NEWL__He then breaks into hysterics in an Italian restaurant back in London and matters are made worse when Hope discovers he is having an affair with the wife of a Polish university colleague.__NEWL__Their marriage breaks down and irretrievably and tragically, John commits suicide.__NEWL__Hope flees to Africa to recover from the ordeal.__NEWL__The Grosso Arvore Research Centre, where Hope seeks asylum, is the creation of Eugene Mallabar.__NEWL__After studying wild chimps for the last twenty-five years, Mallabar knows more about them than anyone else on earth.__NEWL__He is the author of "The Peaceful Primate" and "Primate's Progress" and the recipient of million-dollar grants.__NEWL__Mallabar has just finished writing a magnum opus that will be the last word on the subject of the seemingly gentle beast with which man shares 98 percent of his DNA.__NEWL__Hope Clearwater, however, slowly comes to the realization that the chimps are up to no good as the two groups of chimpanzees she is studying come into lethal conflict.__NEWL__Males from the northern group, led by the alpha male Darius, start patrolling into the southerners' territory and then start to kill, with extreme cruelty, the rival males - one an old chimpanzee called Mr Jeb, and the other Muffin, an adolescent.__NEWL__What she sees brings Hope herself into conflict with Mallabar, and threatens the very existence of Grosso Arvore research project and his lifelong study of primates.__NEWL__In tandem with the other two narratives are Hope's recollections of her affair with Usman Shoukry, an Egyptian mercenary airforce pilot flying sorties in a MiG-15 against rebel army groups.__NEWL__Hope is able to meet him when she carries out supply runs in the reserve's landrover to Brazzaville, the provincial capital.__NEWL__He surprises her one time when he designs the world's smallest aeroplanes by strapping on wings and landing gears to house flies made from match-sticks and paper.__NEWL__They are both genuinely fond of each other during their time together, with Usman making plans to buy one of the run-down houses on the beach where they go to relax and swim, until he meets an untimely end on one of his missions.__NEWL__Hope herself gets caught up in the civil war when she and Ian Vail are captured by Dr Amilcar and his atomique boum volleyball team, who commandeer their landrover to return more quickly to the UNAMO stronghold in the Musave River Territories following a failed offensive against the Federal Army.__NEWL__The story intertwines different narrative strands as the reader is led into the vortex of Hope's complex world.__NEWL__Accompanying this are the author's detailed descriptions of chaos theory, the social and professional wrangling between the different project members working at the Grosso Avore Research Centre (Ian and Roberta Vail, the thoroughly dislikeable Anton Hauser and the Mallabars themselves), along with the human-like behaviour of the chimpanzees as one group sets out to destroy the other.__NEWL__The aggressors' motive is to ensure the return of the alpha female, Rita Lu, to her original group which has become dysfunctional during her absence, and these chimpanzee wars only come to an end as a result of human intervention.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1751870	A Game of Thrones	1996-08-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	713577	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713577	A Game of Thrones follows three principal storylines simultaneously.__NEWL__Upon the death of Lord Jon Arryn, the principal advisor to King Robert Baratheon, Robert recruits his childhood friend Eddard "Ned" Stark, now Warden of the North, to replace Arryn as Hand of the King, and to betroth his daughter Sansa to Robert's son Joffrey.__NEWL__Ned accepts the position when he learns that Arryn's widow Lysa believes he was poisoned by Robert's wife Queen Cersei Lannister and her family.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Ned's son Bran discovers Cersei having sex with her twin brother Jaime Lannister, who throws Bran from the tower to conceal their affair, leaving him comatose and paralyzing his legs.__NEWL__Ned leaves his castle Winterfell and departs for the capital city, King's Landing, bringing along his daughters Sansa and Arya.__NEWL__Upon arriving in King's Landing to take his post as Hand, Ned finds that Robert is an ineffective king whose only interests are hunting, drinking, and womanizing.__NEWL__At Winterfell, an assassin attempts to kill Bran while he is unconscious, and Ned's wife Catelyn travels to King's Landing to bring word to Ned.__NEWL__Catelyn's childhood friend, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, implicates Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf brother of Cersei and Jaime, in the assassination attempt.__NEWL__On the road back to Winterfell, Catelyn encounters Tyrion by chance, arrests him, and takes him to the Vale, where her sister Lysa Arryn is regent, to stand trial for the attempt on Bran's life.__NEWL__In retaliation for Tyrion's abduction, his father Lord Tywin Lannister sends soldiers to raid the Riverlands, Catelyn's home region.__NEWL__Tyrion regains his freedom by recruiting a mercenary named Bronn to defend him in trial by combat.__NEWL__Ned investigates Jon Arryn's death and eventually discovers that Robert's legal heirs, including Joffrey, are in fact Cersei's children by Jaime, and that Jon Arryn was killed to conceal his discovery of their incest.__NEWL__Ned offers Cersei a chance to flee before he informs Robert, but she uses this chance to arrange Robert's death in a hunting accident and install Joffrey on the throne.__NEWL__Ned prepares to send his daughters away from King's Landing and enlists Littlefinger's help to challenge Joffrey's claim; but Littlefinger betrays him, resulting in Ned's arrest.__NEWL__Arya escapes the castle, but Sansa is taken hostage by the Lannisters.__NEWL__Ned's eldest son Robb marches his army south in response to his father's arrest, and in order to relieve the threat on the riverlands.__NEWL__To secure a strategically necessary bridge crossing, Catelyn negotiates a marital alliance between Robb and the notoriously unreliable House Frey.__NEWL__Robb defeats a Lannister army in the riverlands, capturing Jaime.__NEWL__Tywin sends Tyrion back to King's Landing to act as Hand of the King to Joffrey.__NEWL__When Ned is executed, Robb's followers declare the north's independence from the Seven Kingdoms, proclaiming Robb "King in the North".__NEWL__The prologue of the novel introduces the Wall: an ancient barrier of stone, ice, and magic, hundreds of feet high and hundreds of miles long, shielding the Seven Kingdoms from the northern wilderness.__NEWL__The Wall is defended by the Night's Watch: an order of warriors sworn to serve there for life, defending the realm from the fabled Others, an ancient and hostile inhuman race, as well as from the human "wildlings" who live north of the Wall.__NEWL__Jon Snow, Ned's bastard son, is inspired by his uncle, Benjen Stark, to join the Night's Watch, but becomes disillusioned when he discovers that its primary function is as a penal colony.__NEWL__Jon unites his fellow recruits against their harsh instructor and protects the cowardly but good-natured and intelligent Samwell Tarly.__NEWL__Jon is appointed steward to the leader of the Watch, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, making him a potential successor to Mormont.__NEWL__Benjen fails to return from an expedition north of the Wall.__NEWL__Six months later, the dead bodies of two men from his party are recovered; these re-animate as undead wights before being dispatched by Jon.__NEWL__When word of his father's execution reaches Jon, he attempts to join Robb against the Lannisters, but is persuaded to remain loyal to the Watch.__NEWL__Mormont then declares his intention to march north to find Benjen, dead or alive, and to investigate rumors of a "King-beyond-the-Wall" uniting the wildlings.__NEWL__Across the sea to the east of Westeros live the exiled prince Viserys and princess Daenerys, children of the late "Mad King" Aerys Targaryen, who ruled Westeros before being overthrown by Robert Baratheon.__NEWL__Viserys betroths Daenerys to Khal Drogo, a warlord of the nomadic Dothraki people, in exchange for the use of Drogo's army to reclaim the throne of Westeros.__NEWL__Illyrio Mopatis, a wealthy merchant who has been supporting the penniless Targaryens, gives Daenerys three petrified dragon eggs as a wedding gift.__NEWL__Jorah Mormont, a knight exiled from Westeros, joins Viserys as an adviser.__NEWL__Initially terrified of her new husband and his people, Daenerys eventually embraces her role as Drogo's "khaleesi".__NEWL__Drogo, however, shows little interest in conquering Westeros, and an impatient Viserys tries to browbeat his sister into coercing Drogo.__NEWL__When Viserys publicly threatens Daenerys and her unborn child, Drogo executes him by pouring molten gold on his head.__NEWL__An assassin seeking King Robert's favor attempts to poison Daenerys, finally convincing Drogo to conquer Westeros.__NEWL__While sacking villages to fund the invasion of Westeros, Drogo is badly wounded, and Daenerys commands the captive folk healer Mirri Maz Duur to save him.__NEWL__The healer, angered by the Dothraki raids against her people, sacrifices Daenerys's unborn child to power the spell to save Drogo's life, which restores Drogo's physical health but leaves him in a persistent vegetative state.__NEWL__With Drogo completely incapacitated and unable to lead, much of the Dothraki army disperses.__NEWL__Daenerys smothers Drogo with a pillow and has Mirri tied to Drogo's funeral pyre.__NEWL__She places her three dragon eggs on the pyre and enters it herself.__NEWL__When the fire burns out, she emerges unharmed, with three newly hatched dragons.__NEWL__Awe-struck, Jorah and the remaining Dothraki swear allegiance to her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q300370	A Clash of Kings	1998-11-16T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	713590	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713590	A Clash of Kings depicts the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros in civil war, while the Night's Watch mounts a reconnaissance to investigate the mysterious people known as wildlings.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Daenerys Targaryen continues her plan to conquer the Seven Kingdoms.__NEWL__With King Robert Baratheon dead, his purported son Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne.__NEWL__His reign is far from stable, as both of Robert's brothers, Renly and Stannis, have claimed the throne as well.__NEWL__Two regions attempt to secede from the realm:__NEWL__Robb Stark is declared "King in the North" while Balon Greyjoy declares himself king of the Iron Islands.__NEWL__The war among these contenders is dubbed the War of the Five Kings.__NEWL__Stannis Baratheon, publicizing the claim that Joffrey is a bastard, claims the throne as Robert's eldest brother and subsequent heir.__NEWL__He is supported by Melisandre, a foreign priestess who believes Stannis a prophesied messianic figure.__NEWL__Renly is supported by the wealthy Lord Mace Tyrell, and has married Mace's daughter Margaery.__NEWL__Robb's mother Catelyn Stark meets with Renly and Stannis to discuss an alliance against Joffrey's family, the Lannisters, but she is unable to reach an agreement with them.__NEWL__Melisandre uses magic to send a shadow to assassinate Renly in the middle of the night, and Stannis sieges High Garden, Renly’s kingdom; after witnessing Renly's death, Catelyn and Renly's bodyguard, Brienne of Tarth, flee the scene.__NEWL__ Tyrion Lannister, Joffrey's uncle, arrives at the capital city of King's Landing as acting Hand of the King, the senior adviser to Joffrey's reign.__NEWL__Tyrion improves the defenses of the city while jockeying for power against Joffrey's mother, the Queen Regent Cersei.__NEWL__Learning of Renly's death, Tyrion sends the crown's treasurer Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish to win the Tyrells' support for Joffrey.__NEWL__Catelyn's daughter Sansa, a hostage of the Lannisters, is regularly abused by Joffrey.__NEWL__Riots break out in the city due to Joffrey's cruelty and food shortages caused by the ongoing war.__NEWL__Robb wins several victories against the Lannisters while his younger brother Bran rules the Northern stronghold of Winterfell in his absence.__NEWL__Against Catelyn's advice, Robb sends his friend Theon Greyjoy, Balon Greyjoy's son, to negotiate an alliance between the North and the Iron Islands.__NEWL__Theon betrays Robb and attacks Winterfell, taking the castle and capturing Bran and his younger brother Rickon.__NEWL__When Bran and Rickon escape, Theon fakes their deaths.__NEWL__Stark supporters besiege the castle, including a force from the Starks' sometime ally House Bolton.__NEWL__However, the Bolton soldiers turn against the Stark and Greyjoy forces alike, burn Winterfell, slaughter its inhabitants, and take Theon prisoner.__NEWL__Catelyn's daughter Arya is taken north posing as a new recruit for the Night's Watch.__NEWL__The recruits are attacked by Lannister forces, and the survivors are taken to the gigantic castle of Harrenhal, which is controlled by Joffrey's grandfather Tywin Lannister.__NEWL__For saving his life during the attack, a mysterious man named Jaqen H'ghar promises to repay Arya by killing three men of her choice.__NEWL__Arya leverages this offer to help Northern forces retake control of Harrenhal.__NEWL__Jaqen gives Arya a mysterious iron coin and tells her to find him in the foreign city of Braavos if she should ever desire to learn his secrets.__NEWL__Arya soon escapes the castle.__NEWL__Stannis's army launches an amphibious assault on King's Landing in a battle on Blackwater Bay.__NEWL__Under Tyrion's command, the Lannister forces use "wildfire" (a substance similar to Greek fire) to ignite the bay, and raise a massive chain across its mouth to prevent Stannis' fleet from retreating.__NEWL__When Stannis's troops storm the gates, it falls to Tyrion to lead the Lannister troops into battle.__NEWL__Stannis's victory seems to be assured, until Tywin Lannister arrives with his army and the Tyrell forces, defeating Stannis.__NEWL__During the battle, Tyrion is attacked and injured by a knight of Joffrey's Kingsguard; by the time Tyrion regains consciousness after the battle, Tywin has assumed the post of Hand of the King.__NEWL__A scouting party from the Night's Watch learns that the wildlings are uniting under "King-beyond-the-Wall" Mance Rayder.__NEWL__The Lord Commander of the Watch, Jeor Mormont, assigns Jon Snow to a group sent to investigate Mance's aims, led by Qhorin Halfhand.__NEWL__Hunted by wildling warriors and facing certain defeat, Halfhand commands Jon to infiltrate the wildlings and learn their plans.__NEWL__To win the wildlings' trust, Jon is forced to kill Qhorin.__NEWL__He learns that Mance Rayder is advancing towards the Wall that separates the wildlings from the Seven Kingdoms with an army of thirty thousand wildlings, giants, and mammoths.__NEWL__Daenerys Targaryen travels south, accompanied by the knight Jorah Mormont, her remaining followers, and three newly hatched dragons.__NEWL__At the city of Qarth Daenerys's dragons make her notorious.__NEWL__Xaro Xhoan Daxos, a prominent trader in Qarth, initially befriends her; but Daenerys cannot secure aid because she refuses to give away any of her dragons.__NEWL__As a last resort, Daenerys seeks counsel from the warlocks of Qarth, who show Daenerys many confusing visions and threaten her life, whereupon one of Daenerys' dragons burns down the warlocks' House of the Undying.__NEWL__An attempt to assassinate Daenerys is thwarted by a warrior named Strong Belwas and his squire Arstan Whitebeard: agents of Daenerys' ally Illyrio Mopatis, who have come to escort her back to Pentos.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q431927	A Storm of Swords	2000-08-08T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	713625	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713625	A Storm of Swords picks up the story slightly before the end of its predecessor, A Clash of Kings.__NEWL__The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros are still in the grip of the War of the Five Kings, wherein Joffrey Baratheon and his uncle Stannis Baratheon compete for the Iron Throne, while Robb Stark of the North and Balon Greyjoy of the Iron Islands declare their independence (Stannis's brother Renly Baratheon, the fifth "king", has already been killed).__NEWL__Meanwhile, a large host of wildlings, the tribes from beyond the Seven Kingdoms' northern border, approach the Wall that marks the border, under the leadership of Mance Rayder, the self-proclaimed "King Beyond the Wall", with only the undermanned Night's Watch in opposition.__NEWL__Finally, Daenerys Targaryen, the daughter of a deposed former king of Westeros and "mother" of the world's only living dragons, sails west, planning to retake her late father's throne.__NEWL__At her father's castle of Riverrun, Robb's mother Catelyn Stark releases the captive Jaime Lannister, Joffrey's uncle (and, secretly, father) in order to secure the release of Catelyn's daughters, Sansa and Arya, who Catelyn believes are both being held hostage by the Lannisters in the capital city, King's Landing.__NEWL__Jaime is sent south, escorted by Brienne of Tarth.__NEWL__Robb's army returns to Riverrun, having vanquished the Lannister armies in the west, and Robb reveals that he has married Jeyne Westerling, violating his promise to be wed to a daughter of House Frey.__NEWL__These actions alienate and infuriate some of Robb's allies, weakening his military position.__NEWL__Jaime and Brienne are captured by mercenaries working for Roose Bolton, who is nominally an ally of Robb's but is secretly plotting to undermine him to become Warden of the North.__NEWL__The mercenary captain Vargo Hoat has Jaime's sword hand cut off.__NEWL__Brienne is thrown into a bear pit by Hoat, and Jaime risks his own life to rescue her.__NEWL__Bolton releases Jaime and Brienne and they travel to King's Landing.__NEWL__Arya Stark, traveling in the Riverlands, is taken in by the "Brotherhood Without Banners": a band that defends the smallfolk of the Riverlands, led by Lord Beric Dondarrion and the red priest Thoros of Myr.__NEWL__The group captures Sandor "The Hound" Clegane, Joffrey's former bodyguard, and offers him trial by combat for his crimes.__NEWL__The Hound kills Beric, but Thoros resurrects him with the power of the fire god R'hllor.__NEWL__The Hound kidnaps Arya and flees with her, planning to ransom her.__NEWL__In order to return north to defend the region against Greyjoy attacks, Robb needs the support of the Freys.__NEWL__The Freys propose a wedding between Catelyn's brother Edmure Tully, now lord of the Riverlands, and one of Lord Walder Frey's daughters, to compensate for Robb breaking his marriage agreement.__NEWL__At the wedding celebration, the Boltons and Freys turn on the Starks, massacring Robb's bannermen.__NEWL__Robb is murdered by Roose Bolton, while Catelyn's throat is cut and her body thrown into the river; Edmure is kept alive as a hostage.__NEWL__These events become known as the Red Wedding.__NEWL__Arya and the Hound witness the massacre and escape.__NEWL__Later, the Hound is wounded in a skirmish, and Arya abandons him.__NEWL__She takes a ship to the Free City of Braavos, where the assassin Jaqen H'ghar had told her she could find him.__NEWL__In the epilogue, a re-animated but decayed and mutilated Catelyn is leading the Brotherhood Without Banners, and she oversees the lynching of two of the Freys who were present at the Red Wedding.__NEWL__The smuggler-turned-knight Davos Seaworth attempts to assassinate Stannis' advisor Melisandre, a sorceress and priestess of R'hllor, blaming her for Stannis' defeat in his prior assault on King's Landing.__NEWL__Davos is imprisoned for treason, but at Melisandre's behest, Stannis releases Davos and appoints him Hand of the King.__NEWL__Melisandre uses the blood of Edric Storm, a bastard son of Stannis' late brother King Robert, to curse the three rival Kings.__NEWL__Balon Greyjoy's death is reported shortly thereafter.__NEWL__King's Landing welcomes the Lannisters' new allies, the Tyrells, as liberators, and King Joffrey sets aside his betrothal to Sansa Stark in favor of Margaery Tyrell.__NEWL__Joffrey's grandfather Tywin Lannister, the Hand of the King, compels Sansa to marry his dwarf son Tyrion, to enable Lannister control of the North; but Tyrion refuses to consummate the marriage against her will.__NEWL__Margaery and Joffrey's wedding is held as planned, but during the wedding feast, Joffrey is poisoned and dies.__NEWL__Tyrion is accused of the murder by his sister Cersei, Joffrey's mother, and arrested.__NEWL__Sansa escapes the castle with the help of Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, who admits to her his culpability in Joffrey's death, incriminating Margaery's grandmother Olenna as well.__NEWL__Littlefinger and Sansa depart King's Landing for the Eyrie, home of Catelyn's sister Lysa Arryn.__NEWL__After Balon, Robb and Joffrey die, as Melisandre predicted, Davos has Edric smuggled to safety to prevent Melisandre and Stannis sacrificing him for the power in his blood.__NEWL__Davos discovers a request by the Night's Watch for aid against Mance Rayder; Stannis prepares to execute Davos for treason but changes his mind after Davos shows Stannis the Night's Watch's plea.__NEWL__The spymaster Varys and Tyrion's lover Shae testify falsely against Tyrion at his trial.__NEWL__Prince Oberyn Martell, of the southern region of Dorne, offers to represent Tyrion in a trial by combat against Cersei's champion, Gregor Clegane, who was responsible for the death of Oberyn's sister Elia.__NEWL__Oberyn nearly wins, but is ultimately killed by Gregor, although the poison on Oberyn's spear leaves Gregor dying in agony.__NEWL__Tyrion is sentenced to death.__NEWL__Upon returning to King's Landing, Jaime gives Brienne a sword reforged from the hereditary sword of the Stark family, and sends her to find Arya and Sansa and return them home.__NEWL__Jaime refuses to believe that Tyrion killed Joffrey, and helps Varys free Tyrion from prison.__NEWL__Jaime reveals that Tyrion's first wife Tysha, whom Tywin had gang-raped by his garrison, was not a prostitute as Tywin told him, and genuinely loved Tyrion.__NEWL__Outraged, Tyrion swears revenge on Jaime, Cersei, and Tywin; during his escape, he murders both Shae and Tywin before fleeing Westeros.__NEWL__At the Eyrie, Sansa is disguised as an illegitimate daughter of Littlefinger, and Littlefinger and Lysa are married.__NEWL__Lysa reveals that Littlefinger had convinced her to poison her late husband Jon, and to pin the blame on the Lannisters, which was the catalyst for the events of A Game of Thrones.__NEWL__Lysa threatens to kill Sansa, thinking she is trying to seduce Littlefinger, but Littlefinger intervenes and, after revealing that he had only ever loved Catelyn, pushes Lysa to her death.__NEWL__The detachment of the Night's Watch under Lord Commander Jeor Mormont are attacked by undead wights and the Others, hostile inhuman creatures from the far north.__NEWL__The Watch suffer heavy casualties, although the steward Samwell Tarly kills one of the Others with a blade of obsidian.__NEWL__Soon some of the Watch mutiny and kill Mormont, but Sam escapes with the help of a wildling girl, Gilly.__NEWL__Sam, Gilly, and Gilly's newborn child approach the Wall, assisted by a strange figure riding an elk, whom Sam calls Coldhands.__NEWL__Among the dead are most of the Watch's senior leadership.__NEWL__Robb's brother Bran and his friends, having escaped the Boltons' attack on the Stark castle Winterfell, are guided north by Bran's dreams of a three-eyed crow.__NEWL__At the Wall, Sam guides them to Coldhands and returns to the Night Watch's headquarters at Castle Black, having sworn to keep Bran's survival secret even from Jon Snow, Bran's bastard brother and Sam's fellow Watchman.__NEWL__Jon, on a mission to infiltrate the wildlings, convinces Mance that he is a deserter from the Night's Watch, and learns that the Others are driving the wildlings south towards the Wall.__NEWL__Jon and his captor Ygritte also begin a sexual relationship.__NEWL__After crossing the Wall, Jon escapes the wildlings and returns to Castle Black.__NEWL__The approaching wildling army attacks Castle Black; but Jon takes command of the defenses and repels several assaults, during which Ygritte is slain.__NEWL__After that, the Watch's surviving leaders Janos Slynt and Alliser Thorne falsely accuse Jon of treachery, and send him north of the Wall to kill Mance under a pretense of parley.__NEWL__As Jon is talking with Mance in the wildling camp, Stannis' army arrives, routing the Wildlings, and Mance is imprisoned.__NEWL__Stannis offers to legitimize Jon and make him Lord of Winterfell in exchange for his support, but Jon decides to decline Stannis' offer, and is elected by the Night's Watch as its new Lord Commander.__NEWL__Daenerys Targaryen learns that large slave armies can be bought in Astapor, one of the cities of Slaver's Bay, and buys the entire host of the warrior-eunuch Unsullied by offering one of her infant dragons in exchange.__NEWL__Upon payment, Daenerys orders the Unsullied and the dragon to turn on the slave traders and sack the city.__NEWL__With the help of her maturing dragons, she frees all the slaves of Astapor, including the Unsullied.__NEWL__Daenerys' army then conquers the slaver city of Yunkai; but the lords of the neighbouring city of Meereen antagonize Daenerys by killing child slaves and burning the land to deny her resources.__NEWL__Consequently, Daenerys besieges the city to no avail.__NEWL__Daenerys discovers two traitors in her camp: Ser Jorah Mormont, who had spied on her for the late King Robert, and Ser Barristan Selmy, the humiliated former Lord Commander of King Robert's Kingsguard.__NEWL__Daenerys offers both men the chance to make amends by sneaking into Meereen to free the slaves and start an uprising.__NEWL__Meereen soon falls and, in retaliation for the murdered child slaves, Daenerys has the city's rulers put to death.__NEWL__Selmy asks for Daenerys' forgiveness and becomes Lord Commander of her Queensguard, while Jorah, who refuses to admit any wrongdoing, is banished.__NEWL__When Daenerys learns that the council she left to govern Astapor has been overthrown, she decides to remain in Meereen to rule it herself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2292400	A Deepness in the Sky	1999-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	714151	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714151	The Qeng Ho arrive at the OnOff star shortly before the Emergent fleet, a few years before the sun turns on, at which point the Spider civilization will "wake up" and continue its climb into a technological civilization.__NEWL__A reception held by the Emergents doubles as a vector to infect the Qeng Ho with a timed "mindrot" virus.__NEWL__The Emergents time an ambush to take advantage of the onset of symptoms.__NEWL__During these events, a concurrent history of the Spider civilization unfolds – mainly through the picaresque, and then increasingly political and technocratic, experiences of a small group of liberal-minded and progressive Spiders.__NEWL__Their struggles against ignorance and obsolescent traditions are coloured with oddly human-like descriptions and nomenclature, prefiguring some major plot revelations towards the end of the story.__NEWL__Far above, after a close fight, the Emergents subjugate the Qeng Ho; but losses to both sides force them to combine and adopt the so-called "Lurker strategy", monitoring and aiding the Spiders' technological development, waiting until they build up the massive infrastructure and technological base that the visitors need in order to repair their vessels.__NEWL__The mindrot virus originally manifested itself on the Emergents' home world as a devastating plague, but they subsequently mastered it and learned to use it both as a weapon and as a tool for mental domination.__NEWL__Emergent culture uses mindrot primarily in the form of a variant which technicians can manipulate in order to release neurotoxins to specific parts of the brain.__NEWL__An active MRI-type device triggers changes through dia- and paramagnetic biological molecules.__NEWL__By manipulating the brain in this way, Emergent managers induce obsession with a single idea or specialty, which they call Focus, essentially turning people into brilliant appliances.__NEWL__Many Qeng Ho become Focused against their will, and the Emergents retain the rest of the population under mass surveillance, with only a portion of the crew not in suspended animation.__NEWL__The Qeng Ho trading culture gradually starts to dilute this, by demonstrating to the Emergents certain benefits of tolerated and restricted free trade; the two human cultures merge to some extent over the decades of forced co-operation.__NEWL__Pham Nuwen, the founder of the Qeng Ho trading culture, is living aboard the fleet under the pseudonym Pham Trinli, posing as an inept and bumbling fleet elder.__NEWL__He subverts the Emergents' own oppressive security systems through a series of high-risk ruses.__NEWL__During his plotting he begins to admire the Emergents' Focus technology, seeing it as the missing link in his lifelong goal to create a true interstellar empire and break the cycle of collapse-and-rebuild that plagues human planetary civilizations.__NEWL__The plan to wrest fleet control from the Emergents, however, requires the co-operation of Ezr Vinh, a much younger Qeng Ho who, through attrition, has become the Qeng Ho "Fleet Manager".__NEWL__Ezr's position as the unique liaison officer between Qeng Ho and Emergents leads him to despair, and he accepts Pham Nuwen's offer to join a plot against the Emergents as a way to personal redemption as well as to take revenge against the Emergents.__NEWL__However, his understanding of Pham's ambitions for Focus technology leads to a confrontation between them over the future use of Focus by the Qeng Ho.__NEWL__With new knowledge of the effects and victims of Focus, Pham is forced to admit the cost is too high, and the two reach an agreement and continue their plotting.__NEWL__The critical moment comes when the Emergents attempt to provoke a nuclear war on the Spider home-world in order to seize power.__NEWL__The conspirators subvert the Emergents' systems and put their plans in action, but so do a small group of Spiders who have become aware of the humans and have been working in secret for years to subvert their Focused as well.__NEWL__Together, the two sides successfully defeat the ruling class of the Emergents.__NEWL__The combined Emergent/Qeng Ho fleet now negotiates with the Spider civilization as a trading partner.__NEWL__Pham announces his plans to free all of the Focused in the entire Emergent civilization, and, if he survives that, to go to the Galactic Center to find the source of the OnOff star and the strange technology remnants that have clearly traveled with it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1886814	The Notebook	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1002490	New Bern	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	714218	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714218	The novel opens with Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home.__NEWL__He tells her the following story:  Noah, 24, returns from World War II to his town of New Bern, North Carolina.__NEWL__He finishes restoring an antebellum-style house, after his father's death.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Allie, 24, sees the house in the newspaper and decides to pay him a visit.__NEWL__They are meeting, again, after a 7-year separation, which followed their brief but passionate summer romance when her family was visiting the town.__NEWL__They were separated by class, as she was the daughter of a wealthy family, and he worked as a laborer in a lumberyard.__NEWL__Seeing each other brings on a flood of memories and strong emotions in both of them.__NEWL__They have dinner together and talk about their lives and the past.__NEWL__Allie learns that Noah had written letters to her for one year after their breakup.__NEWL__She realizes that her mother hid the letters so that Allie could never receive them and would conclude that Noah had forgotten about her.__NEWL__They talk about what could have happened between them without her mother's interference.__NEWL__At the end of the night, Noah invites Allie to come back the next day and promises her a surprise.__NEWL__She decides to see him again.__NEWL__During this time, her fiancé, Lon, tries to reach her at the hotel.__NEWL__When Allie does not respond to his calls, he begins to worry.__NEWL__The next day, Noah takes Allie on a canoe ride in a small lake where swans and geese swim.__NEWL__She is enchanted.__NEWL__On their way back, they are caught in a storm and end up soaked.__NEWL__When they return to his house, they talk again about how important they were to each other, and how their feelings have not changed.__NEWL__Noah and Allie share a kiss and make love.__NEWL__Allie's mother shows up the next morning and gives Allie the letters from Noah.__NEWL__When her mother leaves, Allie is torn and has a decision to make.__NEWL__She knows she loves Noah, but she does not want to hurt Lon.__NEWL__Noah begs her to stay with him, but she decides to leave.__NEWL__She cries all the way back to the hotel and starts reading the letters her mother returned to her.__NEWL__At the hotel, her fiancé Lon is waiting in the lobby.__NEWL__ The man stops reading the story at this point, and implies to the audience that he is reading to his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and does not recognize him.__NEWL__Throughout the story he explains he is also ill, battling a third cancer, and suffering heart disease, kidney failure, and severe arthritis in his hands.__NEWL__He resumes reading the story and describing their life together: her career as a noted painter, their children, growing old together, and finally the diagnosis of Alzheimer's.__NEWL__He had changed the names in the story to protect her, but he is Noah__NEWL__and she is Allie.__NEWL__They walk together and Allie, although she does not recognize him, says she might feel something for him.__NEWL__That night they have dinner together.__NEWL__Referring to the story, she can't quite remember who Allie chose.__NEWL__Recognizing her husband, she tells him that she loves him.__NEWL__They embrace and talk, but after almost four hours, Allie fades.__NEWL__She begins to panic and hallucinate, and forgets who Noah is again.__NEWL__ The nurses have to come in and sedate her.__NEWL__Later, Noah has a stroke and cannot visit Allie.__NEWL__When he recovers, he goes to visit Allie late at night, as he is staying in the same care home.__NEWL__When Noah tries to sneak past the nurse station, the nurse on duty states that she is going for a coffee, even though she has one on the counter.__NEWL__The nurse also tells Noah she won't be back for a while and not to do anything while she is away.__NEWL__Noah realises it is just a ruse to let him go see Allie, and he goes and finds Allie in bed in her room, asleep.__NEWL__She wakes up, recognizes him as Noah, and tells him that she loves him.__NEWL__They kiss and fall asleep next to each other, believing their love will take them away together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1373644	Eugénie Grandet	1833-01-01T00:00:00Z	11049	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q193821	Saumur	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	710301	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=710301	Felix Grandet, master cooper, married the daughter of a wealthy timber merchant at a time when the French Republic had confiscated the lands of the Church in the district of Saumur.__NEWL__When the land was auctioned his wife's dowry and his existing savings enabled him to buy substantial property, including some of the best area under vines, all at a very satisfactory price.__NEWL__Though there was little sympathy locally for the Revolution, Grandet rose in esteem and became mayor, later yielding the post under the Empire only because Napoleon had no liking for republicans.__NEWL__At this time his only daughter was ten years old and in that same year more wealth fell into Grandet's lap by way of inheritance of the estates of his mother-in-law, grandfather-in-law, and grandmother.__NEWL__We gradually learn of Grandet's miserly habits which included rarely admitting townspeople to his house.__NEWL__The principal exceptions were his banker des Grassins and his notary Cruchot, both of whom understood better than many the extent of Grandet's wealth and that since he was 60 in 1819 when much of the action is set, that the wealth must one day devolve on Eugénie.__NEWL__Naturally, they had candidates to marry her in the form of Cruchot's nephew President Cruchot de Bonfons who was president of the court of first instance, and the des Grassins son, Adolphe des Grassins.__NEWL__The townspeople take a lively interest in the competition, which is only natural since some sort of inheritance was the major route to prosperity in the early nineteenth century.__NEWL__Throughout this sequence we are treated to details of Felix Grandet's parsimony; this may have developed initially through sheer lack of funds but by now is total vice.__NEWL__He counts out slices of bread in the morning though actually never parting with cash for it since one of his tenants pays part of his rent in kind; most other consumables are supplied in a similar way.__NEWL__Mme Grandet is given no more than six francs at a time for pocket money.__NEWL__Though his house is impressive externally it is old and run-down, and he is too miserly to repair it; their servant Nanon puts her foot through a rotten stair but faithfully saves the bottle she carries.__NEWL__The novel illustrates Balzac's belief that money had taken over as the national god.__NEWL__ On Eugénie's birthday, in 1819, Felix Grandet is celebrating with his favoured coterie of Grassinistes and Cruchotins.__NEWL__They are disturbed by a confident knock on the door and a young stranger is admitted, who hands a letter to Felix.__NEWL__It is from brother Guillaume, unseen and unresponsive in Paris for 30 years asking Felix to assist Charles his son to travel to the Indies.__NEWL__Additionally and confidentially, that Guillaume having gone bankrupt, is planning to take his own life.__NEWL__The next day newspaper headline announces the fact of Guillaume's death, and debts, which causes Charles to break down.__NEWL__While he sleeps Eugénie reads a letter to his mistress and assumes he is dismissing Annette and planning to marry her: Another letter Eugénie reads impels her to collect up the rare gold coins her father gave her on her birthdays.__NEWL__Later she offers the gold to Charles who asks her to guard a gold dressing case given to him by his mother.__NEWL__Meanwhile Felix had made 14,000 francs on dealing in gold coin and preparations were made for Charles to depart to the Indies.__NEWL__Felix devises a way of profiting from winding up his deceased brother's failed business, aided by des Grassins.__NEWL__After Charles has left (not realising that Felix has swindled him out of his jewelry for a pitiful sum), Eugénie pines secretly for Charles, and is comforted by her mother and Nanon.__NEWL__On New Year's Day, Felix asks to see Eugénie's store of rare gold coins, an annual tradition.__NEWL__Enraged upon discovering that Eugénie has given them away to Charles, he shuts Eugénie in her bedroom, and gives orders that she is to eat only bread and water, and leave her room only to attend church.__NEWL__Appalled by this, Felix's wife, who has been patient, loving and supportive throughout their married life, is physically ground down by their austere life and Felix's behaviour towards Eugénie.__NEWL__As she lies ill in bed, she repeatedly begs Felix to forgive Eugénie, but he refuses.__NEWL__ Felix only changes his behaviour upon being visited by the notary, M. Cruchot, who warns Felix that if his wife dies, Eugénie will be her heir rather than Felix.__NEWL__As such, she would be entitled to demand half of all the property that Felix and his wife jointly own.__NEWL__Felix accordingly becomes more friendly and forgives Eugénie, but his wife continues to get sicker.__NEWL__A doctor tells him that drugs will be of little use: at best, with care, Felix's wife will live until the autumn.__NEWL__When she dies, Felix persuades Eugénie to sign away all of her entitlement to her mother's share of the joint property: he promises her a pittance of 100 francs a month.__NEWL__Eugénie agrees to this, although Felix subsequently goes back on his promise.__NEWL__ Years pass, and Eugénie continues her same existence, assuming many of her mother's duties in the household.__NEWL__Eventually, Felix himself sickens and dies, leaving Eugénie extremely wealthy.__NEWL__Eugénie lives the next few years in Saumur with her faithful servant Nanon and Nanon's husband, M. Cornoiller, and remains unmarried, waiting for Charles.__NEWL__ Meanwhile, Charles has made a fortune (several million francs) trading slaves in the Americas.__NEWL__He, like Felix, has the Grandets' fatal flaws: greed and avarice.__NEWL__His business activities include the illegal and the unethical, and he has continuously been unfaithful to Eugénie, whom he soon forgets, blinded by both greed, and by rage at the memory and realisation of Felix having swindled him.__NEWL__Deciding to return to Paris, he decides to marry into a noble but impoverished family, the d'Aubrions, to advance his social standing.__NEWL__In Paris, M. des Grassins - representing his father's creditors - approaches Charles, asking for the balance of the debts.__NEWL__Charles however taunts him, saying the debts are his father's rather than his own, and has him thrown out of the room  Charles then writes to Eugénie of his new engagement, telling her that he does not love his new fiancée, but that love is merely an idealistic dream, and that Eugénie's simple country lifestyle is completely incompatible with his own.__NEWL__He also demands the return of his dressing case, and encloses a check for the balance of the gold coins.__NEWL__Eugénie is shocked by this news and cries.__NEWL__She is also visited by Mmme des Grassins, who has a letter from her husband, in which, outraged at Charles's behavior towards him, he declares his intention to stop protecting Charles from the creditors, and have him officially declared bankrupt, ruining Charles's newfound social standing.__NEWL__Later that day, her priest comes visiting to advise her to fulfill her Catholic duty to marry and produce heirs to her fortune.__NEWL__She decides to marry Cruchot, under the conditions that he must never attempt to consummate their marriage.__NEWL__Cruchot readily agrees, motivated by Eugénie's wealth, and ensures they both sign a will under which the deceased spouse leaves their entire fortune to the survivor.__NEWL__ Cruchot is sent by Eugénie to Paris to pay off Charles's creditors in full, ensuring no bankruptcy is called.__NEWL__She also sends Charles a letter agreeing with him that she is indeed very different to him, and their lifestyles are indeed completely incompatible.__NEWL__Charles realises that Eugénie is actually extremely wealthy (having been fooled by Felix's miserly behaviour): Cruchot taunts him with the fact that Eugenie is actually far wealthier than Charles.__NEWL__ Cruchot goes on to become president of the superior courts, but dies before achieving his final ambitions of attaining a peerage, and before Eugénie's death, which both he and Eugénie knew he had long hoped for, in order to inherit her wealth.__NEWL__After his death, Eugénie - inheriting Cruchot's wealth - remains in the old Grandet household, living as parsimoniously as they had always lived, donating her accumulated wealth to charitable causes.__NEWL__The novel ends as it begins, with the latest round of suitors paying visits to the Grandet household, in the hope of marrying the wealthy Eugénie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736540	The Girl Who Owned a City	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1297	Chicago	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	728793	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728793	A deadly virus has swept the world, killing off everyone over the age of twelve in the span of a month or so.__NEWL__In the town of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, outside of Chicago, ten-year-old Lisa Nelson and her younger brother Todd Nelson are surviving, like all the children in the story, by looting abandoned houses and shops.__NEWL__Although there are abandoned cars in every driveway and lining every street, Lisa is the first child to think of driving one.__NEWL__She is also the first to think of raiding a farm, and the first to look at the dwindling supplies in stores and deduce that groceries come from warehouses.__NEWL__She finds a supermarket warehouse and raids it, enlisting the help of Craig Bergman, a neighbor boy two years older than her, but makes clear to him and all the other children in her neighborhood that the entire warehouse and all its contents are her exclusive property, not to be shared unless she chooses: she assures them all that she will burn the warehouse and everything in it rather than be forced to share against her will.__NEWL__She considers relocating to the farm, but decides against it because it is difficult to defend (other children are starting to form gangs) and because "planning and getting the world back to the way it was, with schools, and hospitals, and electricity" are much more "exciting" than "hiding away on a farm ...__NEWL__digging in the dirt all day".__NEWL__Lisa and her friends are approached by the "Chidester Gang", led by Tom Logan.__NEWL__Suspecting that Lisa has a source of supplies, Logan offers a food-for-protection deal, which Lisa declines.__NEWL__Unhesitatingly taking charge, she forms her block-long stretch of Grand Avenue into a militia, armed with guns, Molotov cocktails, and primitive weapons.__NEWL__When the militia proves unsuccessful at defending the "Land of Grandville" against "the fearful and cruel army of Chidester and Elm", and Lisa's house is lost, Lisa comes up with the idea of moving the "child-families"—and the entire contents of the warehouse—into the local high school, and transforming it into a fortress-city.__NEWL__Within the city, Lisa is the only authority, by virtue of the fact that she saw the abandoned high school and thought of moving there: this has earned her sole title to the "City of Glenbard" and everything in it.__NEWL__A year after completion, things proceed according to plan until Logan and his gang manage to stage a successful attack on Glenbard, during which Lisa is shot in the arm.__NEWL__Todd and Lisa's friend Jill rescue her, and Jill performs basic surgery to remove the bullet from her arm, dosing her with whiskey for pain relief.__NEWL__When Lisa recovers, they retake the city from Logan, who has meanwhile learned that conqueror and leader are two very different things.__NEWL__Glenbard's "citizens" have shown no sign of rebellion, or of preferring Lisa's leadership to Logan's (or vice versa), but Lisa lectures him into relinquishing control of the city to her.__NEWL__The book ends with a foreshadowing that the citizens of Glenbard will at some time be forced to face far larger armies, led by now extremely powerful dictators, tyrants and warlords.__NEWL__If any semblance of a free society is to exist in the new world, the citizens of Glenbard must make themselves capable of protecting and growing it by gaining in knowledge, power, and organization, and at the same time continuing to incorporate leadership and respect for the individual person into their society.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764849	The Slow Natives	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16775340	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16775340	Set in sub-tropical Queensland, the novel examines the relationships between suburban Brisbanites including a priest, nuns and a couple and their teenage son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4868498	Bata, Bata… Pa'no Ka Ginawa?	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	16813732	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16813732	The novel began with an introductory chapter about the graduation day from kindergarten of Maya, Lea's daughter.__NEWL__A program and a celebration were held.__NEWL__In the beginning, everything in Lea's life was going smoothly – her life in connection with her children, with friends of the opposite gender, and with her volunteer work for a human rights organization.__NEWL__But Lea's children were both growing-up – and Lea could see their gradual transformation.__NEWL__There were the changes in their ways and personalities: Maya's curiosity was becoming more obvious every day, while Ojie was crossing the boundaries from boyhood to teenage to adulthood.__NEWL__A scene came when Lea's former husband came back to persuade Ojie to go with him to the United States.__NEWL__Lea experienced the fear of losing both her children, when the fathers of her children decide to take them away from her embrace.__NEWL__She also needed to spend more time for work and with the organization she was volunteering for.__NEWL__In the end, both of Lea's children decided to choose to stay with her – a decision that Lea never forced upon them.__NEWL__Another graduation day of students was the main event in the novel's final chapter, where Lea was the guest-of-honor.__NEWL__Lea delivered a speech that discusses the topic of how life evolves, and on how time consumes itself so quickly, as fast as how human beings grow, change, progress and mature.__NEWL__Lea leaves a message to her audience that a graduation day is not an end because it is actually the beginning of everything else that will come in a person's life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5058036	Celia en el mundo	1934-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2807	Madrid	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	16813808	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16813808	Published after Celia novelista (1934), the book picks up the story that was left off in Celia en el colegio (1932).__NEWL__Celia's uncle, Tío Rodrigo, had arrived at the school where Celia attended class with the nuns and had rudely taken her away, without her parents permission or consent, because he strongly believed that the nuns were a poor influence for Celia, and her mind would only be filled with uncultured foolishness rather than educational nourishment.__NEWL__Celia is taken to her uncle's home in Madrid, to live with Basílides, Rodrigo's servant, and Maimón, a young Moor boy; two characters who could hardly stand each other's presence.__NEWL__Rodrigo wants the nine-year-old girl to "see the world", but not the world as in "earth", the world as in "real life".__NEWL__Living with her uncle, Celia spends many days without the company of boys and girls her own age, but rather that of older people.__NEWL__Her uncle asks her to behave when he takes her out with his friends to restaurants or to the park, but Celia hesitates; the grown-ups she spends time with make such curious, sometimes silly, remarks that Celia feels she must have a say in their conversation.__NEWL__Rodrigo's rule for Celia in order for her to be a well-behaved little lady, is for her to speak only when spoken to and to remain still the rest of the time.__NEWL__At home Celia deals with constant arguments between her uncle and Basílides, as well as the latter's beloved pet owl, and the battling between the servant woman and Maimón.__NEWL__Celia, Rodrigo, Basílides and Maimón, as well as the animals, the owl Casimira and the cat Pirracas, spend their summer in a French villa.__NEWL__Basílides has a hard time adapting to this strange place where no one can understand her Spanish, but Celia manages to make a couple of very good friends.__NEWL__The young girl Paulette becomes Celia's best friend and companion during the summer, visiting each other at their houses or spending time at the beach.__NEWL__The two have another friend, a girl named Claude.__NEWL__Claude is from a poor family and has an older brother named Raymund that cannot join her during her vacation, because their family cannot afford to send them both on holiday to the beach.__NEWL__Celia comes up with a plan to help Claude's brother through numerous schemes to earn money from people, including the selling of Rodrigo's berries and flowers as well as telling the people she meets at the beach about the sad situation of Claude's family, especially her brother's.__NEWL__Celia's aunt and Rodrigo's sister, Julia, arrives just in time to help Celia's cause, but soon the aunt contributes to a lot of bothersome hassle within the French villa.__NEWL__When summer's over, Tío Rodrigo bids farewell to Basílides and Maimón as he sends them back to Madrid, Spain on train.__NEWL__Rather than return home, Celia and her uncle and invited to spend Christmas with Paulette's family in a grand castle, where Celia again stirs up plenty of trouble.__NEWL__When the two girls are severely punished over a series of mischief, Celia tries to escape with Paulette, who's being sent off to a school in Paris, and manages to crash the car she had stowed away into against a tree.__NEWL__Unconscious and believing herself dead, Celia wakes up to the voice of her own father, who's come to return her to Spain, because he wants his daughter to bloom as a Spaniard, and believes the constant changing of culture and language is too much for her young mind.__NEWL__The book is told in first-person from Celia's perspective, like in all previous books, following a third-person introduction from author Elena Fortún's.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817754	Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon	1913-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16814004	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16814004	The story opens with a discussion between Barton Swift and an old friend, Alec Peterson.__NEWL__Alec is trying to convince Mr. Swift to finance an expedition to locate a hidden opal mine, but Mr. Swift is reluctant.__NEWL__In the middle of the conversation, Tom is flying one of his airships, but gets tangled up in power lines.__NEWL__Mr. Peterson cuts the wires, saving Tom's life.__NEWL__Tom is so grateful to Mr. Peterson that Tom is willing to finance the expedition himself.__NEWL__In the meanwhile, the story segues to Tom's next invention, a cannon bigger than any that has been built to date.__NEWL__Tom hopes to sell his invention to the United States government, for use in protecting the Panama Canal, which was still under active construction at the time of the story.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817759	Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone	1914-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16814286	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16814286	Tom and his father are arguing about Tom's latest idea, a photo telephone.__NEWL__Mr. Swift is adamant that the idea will not work, but Tom has some ideas in mind, and refuses to back down.__NEWL__Tom read about a recent news event where a photograph was transmitted over telegraph lines, and there is no functional difference between the wires used for a telephone to those used in telegraphs.__NEWL__In the meantime, some shady occurrences are happening in the neighborhood.__NEWL__Tom and Ned are almost run over by a speeding motor boat, operated by a con-artist known as Shallock Peters.__NEWL__The feud between Mr. Peters and Tom begins when Mr. Peters refuses to acknowledge the accident.__NEWL__The animosity between the two only grows deeper as Mr. Peters tries to buy Tom out of some of his inventions, under the guise of making a profit.__NEWL__Tom refuses to allow anyone other than himself permissions to his patents, and this infuriates Mr. Peters.__NEWL__Later, Tom learns that his good friend, Mr. Damon, is having serious financial troubles.__NEWL__As the plot gets thicker and thicker, one of Tom's airships is stolen, and then Mr. Damon unexpectedly disappears.__NEWL__All this while Tom is desperately trying to get his latest invention working.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7659108	Switchers	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z	16782931	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16782931	Two young Irish shapeshifters (or Switchers) face the menace of an encroaching Ice Age caused by monstrous creatures in the Arctic.__NEWL__Having recently moved to Dublin, Tess finds solitude in her power to Switch (shapeshift), escaping city life in favour of the animal world.__NEWL__However, she is troubled by a boy named Kevin, who constantly follows her home when she gets off the school bus, and claims to need her help.__NEWL__He soon reveals that he is also a Switcher, and that he has joined her on several of her recent excursion as an animal.__NEWL__However, Kevin is almost fifteen years of age, and once a Switcher turns fifteen, they lose their powers (something of which Tess was not aware).__NEWL__After much prodding, Tess agrees to follow Kevin to a house owned by an elderly former Switcher named Lizzie, who reveals that enormous, ice-dwelling Arctic slugs called krools have been roused from a millennia-long slumber by recent oil drilling in the area of their hibernation.__NEWL__Now that they are wakeful, they have begun to lower the temperature of the Earth so as to make it more comfortable for themselves, and will not stop until they have brought the entire planet into a new Ice Age.__NEWL__Only Tess and Kevin have the power to stop this.__NEWL__In the forms of whales the two Switchers swim to the Arctic, where they rest as polar bears.__NEWL__During a dream, Tess suddenly realises the meaning of Lizzie's advice about "being what isn't".__NEWL__She explains to Kevin that because they have been so focussed on what exists in the here and now, they have closed their mind to alternative possibilities, such as Switching into creatures which once existed and are now extinct.__NEWL__Armed with this knowledge, the two transform themselves into mammoths, in which form they continue their journey.__NEWL__A krool sees the mammoths approaching, and resolves to consume them to appease its hunger.__NEWL__As its enormous body rears up to swallow them, however, Tess makes a sudden leap of imagination by Switching into a dragon.__NEWL__Kevin follows suit, and together they melt the krool with their fiery breath.__NEWL__Unfortunately, an American military helicopter sees them, and, mistaking them for UFOs, attempts to destroy them with missiles.__NEWL__The creatures evade these attacks, and begin to move about the Arctic, killing all the krools they can find, thus causing the snowstorms all over the world to die down.__NEWL__While Tess and Kevin are returning to Ireland, the war-planes pursue them once more, this time attacking with a napalm bomb.__NEWL__They swerve away from the explosion, Switching into birds as they do so, but Kevin's Switch comes a few seconds too late, and he is caught in the blast.__NEWL__Tess waits in the sky above the bomb-site until the dawn of Kevin's fifteenth birthday, but it is clear that he died in the explosion.__NEWL__She returns to Dublin, and speaks to Lizzie, who is not nearly as upset about Kevin's death as Tess had expected.__NEWL__Lizzie explains that she does not know whether there is an afterlife or not and therefore is not in a position to think about where Kevin now is.__NEWL__Tess returns home, and her parents are overjoyed to have her back.__NEWL__However, they notice that she has gone through considerable changes during her absence, and is more isolated than ever before.__NEWL__For the next several months, she considers what to become when she turns fifteen, and finds a downside to almost every option.__NEWL__Tess becomes increasingly lonely as time passes, until one night, she is visited by Kevin, now permanently in the form of a phoenix.__NEWL__Her friend made an immense leap of faith as he was swept up in the explosion, allowing him to survive because phoenixes by nature rise from their own ashes when killed.__NEWL__The book ends as Tess prepares to become a phoenix and fly with Kevin over the city.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4853755	Banaag at Sikat	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	16783203	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16783203	The novel is about two friends: Delfin and Felipe.__NEWL__Delfin is a socialist, while Felipe advocates the works of an anarchist.__NEWL__As a socialist, Delfin believes and wishes to spread the principles of socialism to the public, where the citizens could have more right in all the businesses, properties, and other national activities.__NEWL__Although he is poor who studies law and works as a writer for a newspaper, Delfin still strongly believes that a society inclined to the cause of the poor through peaceful means, a challenge that could be achieved through violence.__NEWL__On the other hand, Felipe – who advocates anarchy – believes in the forceful way of destroying the existing powers and cruelty harbored by the rich landowners.__NEWL__He wants to dispel the abusive members of society who rule society.__NEWL__Even though he is the son of a rich town leader, Felipe hates the cruel ways of his father.__NEWL__He would rather see a society with equal rights and equal status for all its citizens: where there is no difference between the poor and the rich classes.__NEWL__Due to his hatred of his life as a son of a cruel and rich landowner, Felipe left his home to live a life of poverty.__NEWL__He left his life of luxury in order to join the common class of society.__NEWL__He decided to live with Don Ramon, a godfather through the Catholic sacrament of confirmation, in Manila.__NEWL__Later on, Felipe also felt hatred against his godfather who was just like his father: a rich man cruel to his helpers.__NEWL__Felipe fell in love with Tentay, a commoner but with dignity despite of being poor.__NEWL__Felipe was forced by his father to return to their home in the town of Silangan, but was only forced to leave the home after teaching the farmers and household helpers about their inherent human rights.__NEWL__Don Ramon, Felipe’s godfather, has two daughters.__NEWL__Thalia was the eldest and Meni is the youngest daughter.__NEWL__Delfin - Felipe’s friend – fell in love with one of these two siblings, Meni.__NEWL__Meni became pregnant and was disowned by Don Ramon.__NEWL__Meni decided to live with Delfin to live as a commoner.__NEWL__Because of what Meni did, Don Ramon left the Philippines, together with a favored household helper named Tekong, but was murdered while in New York City.__NEWL__Don Ramon’s body was brought back to the Philippines by Ruperto, the long lost brother of Tentay, Felipe’s sweetheart.__NEWL__It was Ruperto who revealed the reason why Don Ramon was killed by an unknown assailant: he was ruthless to his household helpers.__NEWL__The novel ends at a scene when Felipe and Delfin decided to stay for a while at the grave of Don Ramon.__NEWL__They talked about their principles and social beliefs.__NEWL__They left the cemetery while approaching the darkness and the depth of the night.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16386390	The Iowa Baseball Confederacy	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16783210	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16783210	Gideon Clarke has two obsessions, baseball and playing the trumpet.__NEWL__His life in the small town of Onamata in Iowa in 1978 is dominated by his desire to prove the existence of the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, a minor league 'active' in the early part of the 20th century, and to show the world that a team from this league played against the Chicago Cubs in 1908.__NEWL__Gideon has plenty of time to pursue his baseball obsession since his father (who was killed by being struck on the head by a ball at a baseball game) has left him in a financial position where he has no need to work.__NEWL__Unfortunately, there is no shred of evidence that the Confederacy ever existed or that the game against the Cubs took place.__NEWL__An almost subconscious knowledge of the events of 1908 shared by both Gideon and his father has been the root cause of their life long obsession as they strive, unsuccessfully' to validate what they believe to be the truth.__NEWL__Gideon is married to Sunny, with whom he is deeply in love in spite of her habit of disappearing for long periods without an explanation other than her desire to be free.__NEWL__He accepts these periodic disappearances philosophically, and we learn of the parallel to his mother Maudie who was working in a traveling show when she met and married Gideon's father.__NEWL__In the book both Maudie and Gideon's sister have long departed the family home, and we find out that his sister is on the run as an urban guerrilla.__NEWL__Following his father's death, Gideon is informally adopted by his neighbors the Barons who also care for a Down Syndrome girl called Missy, for whom Gideon has a kind of brotherly affection.__NEWL__Gideon's best friend is called Stan; a minor league baseball player who dreams, in spite of the march of time that he can still make it in Major League Baseball.__NEWL__When Gideon discovers that his neighbor John Baron once played in the Confederacy, he becomes convinced that some sort of rift in time can take him back to 1908 and provide the ultimate proof of the game against the Cubs.__NEWL__He meets up with Stan on the site of the old baseball ground and they slip seamlessly into July 1908.__NEWL__Gideon passes himself off as a sports writer and he is adopted as the Confederacy Mascot.__NEWL__Stan is introduced as a baseball player and later becomes a member of the Confederacy team.__NEWL__The game against the Cubs starts normally enough, but instead of the professionals crushing the local farmhands, it becomes a titanic struggle between two well matched teams, neither of whom will give way.__NEWL__Accepting a draw is unacceptable to either side and so the game continues day after day, with the Cubs refusing to return to Chicago to fulfil their allotted major league fixtures.__NEWL__Along with the game itself Gideon encounters a mythical Indian figure named Drifting Away who was punished centuries ago by his grandfathers.__NEWL__It gradually becomes clear that the shadowy Drifting Away is influencing the game in favor of the Confederacy and that his own future is linked to the outcome.__NEWL__Gideon also meets and falls in love with Sarah, with her membership of the Twelve-Hour Church giving him scope for sneaking away to spend many nights of love making with her.__NEWL__Although the game starts normally enough it becomes increasingly surreal as it proceeds through its more than 2000 innings and weeks of play.__NEWL__Visitors to the game include the President of the US and Leonardo da Vinci.__NEWL__Players die or disappear and the later stages of the game are played in the pouring rain that increasingly threatens the town.__NEWL__The statue of the Black Angel from the local cemetery ends up playing in right field and batting .300.__NEWL__However, the more Gideon meets with Drifting Away, the more he realises that their paths are in conflict and he understands that his love affair with Sarah cannot end happily.__NEWL__The game is finally ended on Day 40 by Drifting Away striking a home run, with the town being simultaneously washed away.__NEWL__The next morning in the seemingly restored town Gideon witnesses Sarah become the first person in the county to be killed by a motor car.__NEWL__Gideon and Stan return to 1978, where Gideon realizes that Sunny is gone forever, and learns that John Baron is dead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1750849	The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16763654	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16763654	Becky Bloomwood lives in a flat in Fulham, London, owned by her best friend Suze's wealthy, aristocratic parents.__NEWL__She works as a financial journalist for Successful Savings magazine, which she dislikes.__NEWL__Becky admits to knowing little about personal finance, and is thousands of pounds in debt due to reckless spending on designer homeware, clothes and beauty products, which she rationalizes as 'investments'.__NEWL__Despite this, she still receives letters offering her credit and department store cards.__NEWL__Visiting her parents in Surrey, they order her to either cut back on her spending or make more money.__NEWL__On her way to a press conference at Brandon Communications, Becky notices a scarf she has long craved on sale for 50% at Denny & George, but realizes she has left her credit card at the office.__NEWL__The shop assistant agrees to hold it until the end of the day.__NEWL__At the press conference, Becky is greeted by a staff member of Brandon Communications, who questions her about some breaking financial news, which Becky has to feign knowledge of.__NEWL__After the conversation, Luke Brandon, head of Brandon Communications, informs her that one financial group recently bought another, and it is rumored that Flagstaff Life is going the same way.__NEWL__During the conference Becky realizes that she will not have time to return to the office for her credit card, but only needs 20 pounds more to buy the scarf.__NEWL__Luke overhears her asking a friend to borrow some money, and pauses the press conference to lend it to her, after she invents a story about buying a present for her hospitalized aunt.__NEWL__Later that week, Becky's flat mate Suze invites her out to dinner with her and her cousins, including Tarquin.__NEWL__Luke is having dinner there with his parents.__NEWL__Luke's stepmother, Annabel, compliments Becky's scarf.__NEWL__Becky claims her aunt gave it to her, to avoid arousing Luke’s suspicions.__NEWL__Luke asks Becky to come shopping with him at Harrods.__NEWL__She initially enjoys shopping with him for luggage, but is upset to learn that it is actually for his girlfriend, Sacha.__NEWL__She tells Luke off for humiliating her.__NEWL__Suze and Becky find a magazine feature about eligible millionaires, including Tarquin and Luke.__NEWL__Tarquin asks Becky out, and compliments her scarf.__NEWL__While Tarquin goes to the bathroom, Becky looks at his checkbook, and is disappointed.__NEWL__Tarquin returns and Becky feels he saw her looking at the checkbook.__NEWL__Becky loses interest in Tarquin, despite his wealth and admitted he's just not her type.__NEWL__Throughout the story, Derek Smeath, Becky’s bank manager, is trying to contact her to discuss her overdraft.__NEWL__Becky offers various implausible excuses for not meeting him, until Smeath realizes she is unable to repay it, and insists on meeting her.__NEWL__Out of excuses, Becky goes to hide at her parents' house, telling them she has a stalker.__NEWL__Becky learns that her neighbors made a financial decision based on advice she gave them absentmindedly and they stand to lose thousands of pounds.__NEWL__Mortified, she attempts to make amends by writing an article exposing the bank's duplicity on the Daily World.__NEWL__The article is successful, and leads Becky to appear on a daytime television show, The Morning Coffee.__NEWL__ __NEWL__However, Becky did not realize the bank was a client of Luke's PR firm.__NEWL__He is angry with her, believing she wrote the article in retaliation for him disrespecting her.__NEWL__Becky mentions tried to call Luke several times to get his side of the story, but Alicia selfishly hung up on her believing her to be nothing more than a fanatic.__NEWL__They square off on television and Becky drives her point home about Flagstaff Life's duplicity.__NEWL__Luke concedes that she was right about them defrauding their customers and announces that Brandon Communications will no longer represent the bank.__NEWL__Becky becomes a regular on the Morning Coffee and a caller asks her how she can make her bad financial situation disappear because of poor decisions she's made.__NEWL__Hearing the story hit home to her, she advises the caller to take responsibility for finances because running away from the problems will make things worse.__NEWL__Afterwards, Becky takes her own advice, talks to Smeath, apologizes for her behavior, and agrees to meet him to discuss her debts.__NEWL__Luke invites Becky for a "business dinner" at The Ritz.__NEWL__They end up sleeping with each other at the end of the night, and Becky misses another meeting with Smeath.__NEWL__However, Smeath writes to say that the meeting can be postponed, as her finances have improved thanks to her television work, though he will continue to monitor her account.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817767	Tom Swift in Captivity	1912-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16764797	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16764797	Tom Swift is approached by Mr. Preston, the owner of a circus, and begins to tell the story of Jake Poddington, Mr. Preston's most skilled hunter.__NEWL__As it turns out, Jake went missing just after sending word to Preston that Jake was on the trail of a tribe of giants, somewhere in South America.__NEWL__That was the last Preston has heard of Jake Poddington.__NEWL__Preston would like Tom to use one of his airships to search for Poddington, and if possible, bring back a giant for the circus.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7717772	The Big Rock Candy Mountain	16661865	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16661865	Elsa leaves her family home after breaking with her widowed father when he becomes remarried to Elsa's best friend.__NEWL__She moves to North Dakota where she meets Bo Mason, who runs an illegal saloon or blind pig.__NEWL__Despite being disturbed by Bo's sometimes violent behavior, Elsa strikes up a romantic relationship with him.__NEWL__Against her father's advice, she becomes engaged to Bo.__NEWL__The Masons try unsuccessfully to run a hotel, with sons Chester and Bruce now in early childhood.__NEWL__Bo's relationship with Bruce becomes increasingly abusive, especially around issues of toilet training.__NEWL__After an especially strong outburst of violence against Bruce, Bo abandons his family.__NEWL__Bo has begun to establish a relatively stable life for himself running a bunkhouse in Saskatchewan.__NEWL__In the meantime, Elsa moves back in with her father after her son Chester gets in trouble for engaging in sexual play with a girl in the orphanage he attends.__NEWL__After returning home, Elsa considers getting a divorce and marrying a former suitor, but eventually she accepts Bo's offer of reconciliation.__NEWL__This short section of the book is told from the perspective of Bruce.__NEWL__The family spends an idyllic summer at their homestead.__NEWL__Also, Bruce begins to regain memories of the abuses he suffered in infancy.__NEWL__The 1918 flu epidemic has arrived.__NEWL__Down on his luck, Bo realizes that because of the flu epidemic he stands to make a small fortune if he begins bootlegging whisky to Canada, due to the perceived medicinal benefits of alcohol.__NEWL__While Bo is away in the United States purchasing whisky, the flu epidemic hits his home town and eventually Chester is forced to guard the family homestead himself while all the other family members are sick.__NEWL__It is now the Prohibition Era.__NEWL__Bo has supported his family for several years by bootlegging, but eventually the family decides to leave the small Canadian town they live in on the Canada/Montana border after Bo is arrested for bootlegging on the same day his son, Chester, is arrested for arson.__NEWL__The family is now living in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Chester Mason is about to graduate from high school.__NEWL__His parents attempt to steer him away from his romance with an older girl, Laura, and into a promising career as a baseball player.__NEWL__However, when the Masons' house is raided by the police, Chester quits his baseball job and elopes with Laura.__NEWL__Bruce's study at law school is interrupted when he learns that Chester has died.__NEWL__In addition, his mother's cancer is worsening, and eventually Bruce returns to his family for his mother's sake.__NEWL__Elsa Mason dies of cancer, and a rift subsequently develops between Bo and Bruce Mason, during which Bruce considers murdering his father.__NEWL__This section is told first from the perspective of Bo Mason, who is now an aging widower in Salt Lake City, oppressed by frequent feelings of self-hatred.__NEWL__Eventually Bo kills himself after murdering a former lover.__NEWL__Bruce then attempts to look back on the tumultuous history of his family and try to come to terms with his role as the sole survivor.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6690221	Love & Sleep	1994-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16663141	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16663141	The previous novel is briefly addressed in the book's first section, "To the Summer Quaternary" with the pretension of being a synopsis of book a project Pierce is preparing for possible publication.__NEWL__From here, the narrative shifts abruptly to Pierce's boyhood, describing his early life with his cousins near the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky.__NEWL__While cleaning the ashes from burning garbage one day, Pierce sees some embers escape, and cause a minor forest fire.__NEWL__His older cousin, Joe Boyd, immediately blames Pierce for the whole incident and frequently arises in conversation for the rest of the novel.__NEWL__As a result of his blame, Joe Boyd often excludes from the secret clubs he forms with his siblings.__NEWL__After the death of Pierce's Aunt and his cousins' mother Opal Oliphant, the children are neither homeschooled nor attend school, and Sam Oliphant instead orders a large number of books at a time from the State Library to keep the children busy.__NEWL__Pierce finds great interest in the encyclopedias of mythology and occult, and eventually constructs his own mythology, presenting to his cousins as another secret club called the Invisible College, rival to that of Joe Boyd's.__NEWL__Sam eventually comes to request for the children a tutor, answered by a local Nun, Sister Mary Philomel, who trains the children in strict traditional Catholicism, despite Sam's antipathy for religion.__NEWL__For a short period, the children secretly shelter a girl known as Bobby Shaftoe in their home.__NEWL__The plan backfires when Bobby becomes violently ill and eventually infects the other children.__NEWL__At this point, they reveal to Sam their having her in the house.__NEWL__Her father Floyd eventually returns for her.__NEWL__When the children try to visit Bobby at her home, they are terrified by Floyd's apocalyptic threats.__NEWL__In the Renaissance, Giordano Bruno is revealed to have safely made the journey to England and is living in the household of John Florio.__NEWL__Bruno serves on some diplomatic meetings with Florio, and eventually comes to lecture at Cambridge (nearly missing a performance of Dido, Queen of Carthage).__NEWL__He meets John Dee who, impressed by Bruno's intellectual daring, invites him to his home.__NEWL__Dee and Edward Kelley abruptly leave England following the supernatural childlike being from the previous novel, Madimi, to the continent eventually to the court of Rudolf II who commissions them to create an alchemical stone.__NEWL__In the present, Pierce is continuing to work on his book, exploring various systems of thoughts with possible modern applications.__NEWL__At the same time, his neighbour Beau Brachman independently happens upon many of the same topics including Hermeticism, though he interprets each through a strongly New Age-influenced approach.__NEWL__Rosie Mucho continues with her separation proceedings from her husband Mike Mucho, coming to trust Mike to care for her daughter Sam for periods of time.__NEWL__Mike is expanding his work from psychotherapy to exploring speculative religious practice with his patients.__NEWL__Rosie is very much distracted with the declining of health of Boney Rassmussen, who is on his own quest to find the Philosopher's Stone which Fellowes Kraft had, while alive, teased him existed in Prague.__NEWL__In short order, Boney dies leaving a Will containing many impossible requests, including being buried in a private field he did not own, and all his possessions to a girl named "Una Knox" who doesn't appear to exist.__NEWL__Rosie Mucho confides in Pierce in this time, who comforts her during the funeral proceedings.__NEWL__Eventually Pierce becomes frustrated with his book project, taking a grant Kraft's foundation had offered him to take a research trip to Prague.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6470323	Lady Lazarus	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z	16670308	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16670308	As an adult, Calliope has become one of the best-known poets in America.__NEWL__But she has also been famous since birth.__NEWL__She is the daughter of rock stars Brandt Morath and Penny Power, whose resemblance to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love is underscored by Brandt's suicide at the height of his fame, while his daughter was still a small child.__NEWL__Unlike the real-life Frances Bean Cobain, Calliope is a presumed eyewitness to her father's death, an event that traumatizes her into not speaking for several years.__NEWL__When she does regain her voice, it is as a poet, and ultimately as the book's co-narrator (she shares the task with a music journalist who, in a post-modernist trope, bears the same name as the author).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4659031	A Prisoner of Birth	2009-03-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16706128	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16706128	After proposing to his childhood sweetheart Beth Wilson, Danny Cartwright takes her and her brother Bernie to celebrate at a nearby pub.__NEWL__In the pub, they are accosted by four people.__NEWL__Danny, Beth and Bernie attempt to leave the pub without getting involved in a fracas, but Spencer Craig, one of the four that confronted them, follows them out of the pub along with his friends.__NEWL__A fight breaks out; Bernie is stabbed and dies.__NEWL__Danny is blamed for his murder in a well-orchestrated plot by Spencer (a barrister) and his friends: a popular actor, an aristocrat, and a young estate agent.__NEWL__Danny is arrested and convicted.__NEWL__Sentenced to 22 years in Belmarsh prison, the highest security jail in South-east London, United Kingdom, he encounters his two cellmates, Albert Crann, known as "Big Al," and Sir Nicholas Moncrieff.__NEWL__Meanwhile, outside the prison, Beth is pregnant with Danny's daughter.__NEWL__Sir Nicholas slowly teaches Danny to read and to write.__NEWL__Their friendship grows closer, and Danny decides to dress like his friend in the hope that it will help his upcoming appeal.__NEWL__Danny begins to gather evidence for his appeal with the help of a young lawyer, Alex Redmayne, but unable to present the new evidence, Danny's appeal is denied, and he must serve his complete sentence in Belmarsh prison.__NEWL__He tries to escape several times but of no avail.__NEWL__Nicholas is murdered by a fellow inmate and his death is made to be seen as a suicide by the murderer.__NEWL__The dead body is mistakenly presumed to be that of Danny's by the guards due to similarities between Nick and Danny's height and features.__NEWL__The timely intervention of Big Al leads to the subsequent escape of Danny who pretends to be Nick (who had completed his sentence in prison).__NEWL__On the outside of the prison, Danny pretends to be Nicholas.__NEWL__He finds that he must sort out his friend's family affairs before pursuing his goals of clearing his name and taking revenge upon the four individuals who framed him for Bernie's murder.__NEWL__A lengthy legal battle between himself and Nicholas' hated uncle Hugo leaves Danny Cartwright in the possession of over 50 million pounds with which he plans to expose Spencer Craig and clear his name, so that he will be able to live with Beth and his daughter.__NEWL__Danny is caught out by Nick's friends and is held in custody.__NEWL__While his counsel begins Danny's bid for freedom his accusers are all brought to justice.__NEWL__Alex's father (an ex-barrister, QC, and Judge at the High Court) gains Danny's freedom and his name is cleared.__NEWL__Danny has another child and is called Nick in honour of his friend.__NEWL__Alex (his barrister) is made godfather for all his hard work in freeing Danny.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718299	The Black Death	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23156	Devon	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16585777	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16585777	The novel is set in Victorian England and concerns John Carter, an architect who leaves London to become a junior partner in a prosperous building firm in Thornton Bassett, a village in Dartmoor.__NEWL__His hopes for a new life fade as he discovers a sinister mystery.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4780071	Apocalypse	2004-10-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16543334	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16543334	The book begins with a group of people (later revealed to be ancestors of the Skaerlanders) attacking a mysterious man on a rock.__NEWL__The man does not flinch as he is beaten to death and thrown off a cliff.__NEWL__The story then moves into the present, with a family of three on board a yacht on a sailing voyage.__NEWL__The protagonist, Kit, and his parents, Jim and Sarah Warren, are taking a final voyage on their yacht, the Windflower.__NEWL__Once a wealthy family, Kit's father has recently declared bankruptcy, and their yacht will have to be sold when they return.__NEWL__However, they are flung into a nasty storm and lose all their equipment's signal.__NEWL__During which time, Kit picks a small carved boat out of the water and glimpses a man who resembles him in every single way, except age.__NEWL__They run aground on a mysterious island and find it difficult to get their yacht back to sea.__NEWL__Kit goes exploring and sees the man he saw at sea again, as well as a young girl about his age, who quickly disappears.__NEWL__As Kit is exploring he experiences cold spots that he is certain isn't the wind.__NEWL__A large wave hits the rocks nearby and washes the man into the sea.__NEWL__Kit is surprised and very confused.__NEWL__He returns to the boat and tells his parents about his findings.__NEWL__They do not believe him, however.__NEWL__To prove his point(that there are inhabitants of the island), Kit takes them up a mountain nearby.__NEWL__They find a small village over it and go over to it to ask for some help.__NEWL__However, when they arrive, the villagers react with hostility, especially when they notice Kit.__NEWL__They pull out some clubs and charge at them.__NEWL__However, an elderly man with some authority reprimands the leader, Brand, and questions the family.__NEWL__Despite their description of their predicament, the man is unhelpful and contemptuous towards them.__NEWL__He tells them that they have 24 hours of safety, so the family leaves the village and quickly go back to their vessel.__NEWL__They pack up and prepare to leave.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Kit goes off exploring and notices the girl from the day before again.__NEWL__He chases her and loses her.__NEWL__However, after a bit of searching, he finds her pinned against a rock with a couple of men.__NEWL__The more muscular of the two is attempting to rape her.__NEWL__Kit attacks them and manages to free the girl, who runs away and jumps off a nearby cliff.__NEWL__Kit goes back to his boat and takes his dingy to sail around the island.__NEWL__He finds the girl again and manages to run aground.__NEWL__He meets the girl and follows her to her hideout.__NEWL__She tells him the names of several villagers and that her name is Ula, the two who attacked her were called Uddi and Zak, the old man was called Torin and the eldest woman is called Wyn.__NEWL__She also explains that the island is called Skaer and that it is going to suffer an Apocalypse (come to an end), as everything is dying on the island and the women are all infertile.__NEWL__Kit returns to his yacht and discovers that the tent is slashed open and his mother and father are both missing.__NEWL__He searches, but cannot find them, so he returns to the nearby village to confront the Islanders.__NEWL__However, he is attacked and chased by the angry Islanders, whose attention is briefly diverted by the same man.__NEWL__Ula, however, appears and provides Kit with enough cover to allow him to escape.__NEWL__He follows her back to her cave.__NEWL__Ula explains to Kit that the Islanders are a religious community who believe themselves to be Torchbearers to God and that they will be saved from the Devil.__NEWL__The Devil is apparently the man Kit keeps seeing.__NEWL__She leaves him for a moment to find his parents.__NEWL__He leaves the cave and goes round to the back of the island, where he sees the man building a cairn and is forced to help.__NEWL__However, they are attacked by the Islanders.__NEWL__Windflower is destroyed by the flaming torches of the Islanders.__NEWL__Kit manages to escape, but is knocked out when he is touched by the strange man on the chest.__NEWL__Ula manages to get him to the safety of a cave by the time he regains consciousness four days later.__NEWL__She reveals that the man had forced all the islanders to leave.__NEWL__Wyn has stayed behind.__NEWL__Ula and Kit go down to confront her, during which time, Ula reveals that Uddi is Wyn's son and hates Ula because she had killed his brother (who had raped her).__NEWL__She tells Kit that his parents are in the church nearby and are starving to death.__NEWL__He goes up to the church and discovers that she was lying - Uddi and Zak and Brand are in there.__NEWL__The men attack him and manage to pin him down and strip him naked.__NEWL__They then torture him and attempt to get him to tell them where the Devil was.__NEWL__He does not know, so they hang him in a crucifix position against a very rough wall.__NEWL__His back is grazed horribly and his body sags under his own weight.__NEWL__Kit is left to die and Ula is captured.__NEWL__The man, however, releases him and gives him some water.__NEWL__Then he takes Kit and jumps into the water with him to get to a boat.__NEWL__The remaining islanders appear and attack them.__NEWL__The man insists on rowing the boat himself, but is bludgeoned to death by the Islanders.__NEWL__A wave suddenly appears and threatens to drown them all.__NEWL__Kit manages to escape and he and Ula return to shore, with the island now empty.__NEWL__They climb a hill to get back to the village, when they run into Torin, who had also sheltered in a cave.__NEWL__He insults them while throwing stones at a nearby cairn.__NEWL__He tells Kit that his parents are on a rock nearby and are starving to death.__NEWL__Ula enquires on her own parents.__NEWL__Torin tells her that her mother died at childbirth and that her father was worse than the mother, who lied and concealed his evil from the community.__NEWL__When Ula asks when her father died, Torin responds "Even as you watch," and throws himself to his death.__NEWL__She is filled with grief and buries Torin in a cairn nearby.__NEWL__Kit makes plans to go to the rock and find his parents.__NEWL__They return to the village and Ula gives the weak Kit some food.__NEWL__Later that night, Kit wakes up and cannot find Ula.__NEWL__Despite his searches, he still cannot find her.__NEWL__However, she quickly returns and explains that she had gone to get his dingy, Splinters.__NEWL__However, she reveals that she cannot come with him, as she wants to be the last Skaerlander to die on the island before the Apocalypse arrives.__NEWL__Kit accepts her decision but notices that the two are suddenly speaking stiffly and awkwardly.__NEWL__Ula then passionately kisses Kit.__NEWL__She helps him out of his clothes, strips her own off and the two make love.__NEWL__The next day, Kit and Ula part and Kit sets off for the rock that Torin had told him about.__NEWL__He reaches it and finds his parents barely alive.__NEWL__He helps them into the dingy and they set off for land.__NEWL__Two days later, they meet with a fishing boat and are rescued.__NEWL__Kit learns from the Skipper's daughter that the island is now known as Cairn Island.__NEWL__After about a day of rest and a lot of catering to suddenly, they lose all radio contact, just like at the beginning and the story ends with the Apocalypse suddenly happening.__NEWL__However Kit remembers Ula's advice to 'Love as much as you can' and tells himself that together they can stop the apocalypse.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1212222	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16767793	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16767793	The title is based on a folk song of the era.__NEWL__Based on extensive research into the many contemporary accounts of Jesse James' crimes and personal life, the novel weaves a third-person narrative of actual events with fictionalized imaginings of the lives of Jesse, his brother Frank, and their followers, including their guerrilla activities during the American Civil War and their insurgency afterward as notorious bank and train robbers.__NEWL__Though the James brothers achieved folk-hero fame for claims that they openly shared the loot from their robberies, the novel reveals they kept all the money for themselves.__NEWL__Late in their career, the James brothers encounter Charley and Robert Ford, both of whom Jesse eventually recruits into his dwindling gang.__NEWL__Bob Ford is portrayed as a fawning sycophant who is obsessed with Jesse's national celebrity and hopes to one day attain similar renown for himself.__NEWL__As Jesse faces increasing pressure from the authorities, he begins to suspect those around him of conspiring to betray him.__NEWL__Indeed, the Fords end up negotiating a deal with the governor of Missouri to capture or kill Jesse in exchange for the offered reward and exoneration for their previous crimes.__NEWL__Following Jesse's murder, the Fords receive the promised acquittal and a portion of the reward money, but find themselves almost unanimously detested and ostracized by the American public.__NEWL__The stories of their subsequent lives and deaths are recounted against the backdrop of their notoriety as America's most reprehensible blackguards.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q859773	She Came to Stay	1943-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	16761092	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16761092	Set in Paris on the eve of and during World War II, the novel revolves around Françoise, whose open relationship with her partner Pierre becomes strained when they form a ménage à trois with her younger friend Xaviere.__NEWL__The novel explores many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst, and the other.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817769	Tom Swift in the City of Gold	1912-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16750592	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16750592	Tom receives a message from his missionary friend whom he saved from captivity in Africa during the adventures of the preceding volume.__NEWL__The message describes a wonderful underground city, filled with treasures of gold, somewhere deep in the heart of Mexico.__NEWL__Not one to turn down adventure, Tom accepts the challenge to find the lost city.__NEWL__Around this time, Andy Foger and his father had lost their fortunes and are off after Tom's trail in order to steal the treasures from him.__NEWL__In order to make the trip possible, Tom must remodel his previous airship- a hot air balloon with an enclosed cabin.__NEWL__Accompanying him on the journey is Ned Newton, Mr. Damon, and Eradicate.__NEWL__They set off on a tramp steamer to Mexico.__NEWL__On this steamer, they uncover two mysterious passengers who they confirm to be the Foger's.__NEWL__In Mexico, they hire a team of Mexicans who catch onto the city of gold plot and chase after it in competition with Tom as well as the Foger's.__NEWL__To make things worse, Tom had been warned about "Head Hunters" by his missionary friend.__NEWL__After finding the underground city and losing the trail off the two competing parties, Tom's gang end up accidentally sealing themselves into the city for about a week.__NEWL__They finally escape when their enemies release them unintentionally.__NEWL__The Foger's and the Mexican team show up at the entrance with the escort of the Head Hunters.__NEWL__By trying to get in, they let Tom and his team out.__NEWL__Before the others can explore the city, an underground river floods it and they make off with a huge wealth of salvaged gold.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6097876	Ivan the Terrible	2007-06-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16614375	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16614375	It is Ivan's first day of school.__NEWL__He can only speak Russian and it's Boris's job to look after him and translate for him.__NEWL__St Edmund's is a civilized school, but Ivan isn't civilized.__NEWL__Boris knows that he is going to have trouble teaching Ivan.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7114906	Owls to Athens	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16777586	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16777586	The book features the continuaing adventures of a pair of Greek traders from Rhodes.__NEWL__Sostratos and Menedemos arrive in Athens in time for the Dionysia.__NEWL__Sostratos spends much of his time visiting with his old teachers.__NEWL__His cousin, Menedemos finds himself having a sexual encounter with an important Athenian woman.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6731002	Magical Melons	1939-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537	Wisconsin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16589977	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16589977	Set between 1863 and 1866, Magical Melons takes the form of a collection of stories about the Woodlawn family, with many stories overlapping chronologically with the first book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q107360094	Sweet William	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z	16591831	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16591831	Ann lives in Hampstead and works for the BBC in Bush House in London.__NEWL__She is recently engaged but her academic fiancé Gerald is leaving for America, intending her to follow.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards she meets William, a Scottish playwright who sweeps her off her feet and moves in.__NEWL__Within days she has "encouraged adultery, committed a breach of promise, given up her job, abetted an abortion".__NEWL__But William's a compulsive philanderer, twisting the truth to cover his tracks...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2601146	Armance	1827-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	16617888	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16617888	Octave de Malivert, a taciturn but brilliant young man barely out of the École Polytechnique, is attracted to Armance Zohiloff, who shares his feelings.__NEWL__The novel describes how a series of misunderstandings have kept the lovers Armance and Octave divided.__NEWL__A series of clues suggest that Octave is impotent as a result of a severe accident.__NEWL__Octave is experiencing a deep inner turmoil; he himself illustrates the pain of the century's romantics.__NEWL__When the pair do eventually marry, the slanders of a rival convince Octave that Armance had married only out of selfishness.__NEWL__Octave leaves to fight in Greece, and dies there of sorrow.__NEWL__Armance is based on the theme of Olivier, a novel by the Duchess Claire de Duras, whose scabrous nature forbade publication.__NEWL__But Stendhal has very quietly inserted the secret, without talking about it openly.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q976946	Shanghai Baby	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	16618146	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16618146	Twenty-five-year-old Nikki - whose friends call her Coco after Coco Chanel – is a young Shanghainese writer, fascinated by the West and Western culture.__NEWL__A graduate of Fudan University, Coco has written a successful collection of short stories, The Shriek of the Butterfly, which, unusually for China, have sexually frank themes written from a woman's point of view.__NEWL__Coco now wants to embark upon her first novel, a semi-autobiographical work set in Shanghai.__NEWL__The novel opens with Coco working as a waitress in a Shanghai cafe.__NEWL__Whilst at work, she meets a sensitive-looking young man, Tian Tian.__NEWL__Coco and Tian Tian start an intense relationship and Coco leaves her parents' home to move in with her new boyfriend.__NEWL__However, Tian Tian, a talented young artist, is extremely anxious and shy.__NEWL__His mother left him in the care of his grandmother when he was a small boy, after his father mysteriously died.__NEWL__Tian Tian now refuses to speak to his mother, who is living in Spain, although he lives off the money she sends him.__NEWL__Tian Tian's problems cause him to be completely impotent and unable to consummate his relationship with Coco.__NEWL__Coco soon meets another man – a large, blond German named Mark who is living and working in Shanghai.__NEWL__Coco and Mark are intensely attracted to each other, and start an affair, despite the fact that Mark is married and Coco is living with Tian Tian.__NEWL__Mark seems to want only pleasure from the affair, and Coco is torn between conflicting emotions.__NEWL__Tian Tian, sensing that something is not right, becomes more and more withdrawn and starts to use drugs.__NEWL__He embarks on a trip to the South of China, leaving Coco alone in Shanghai.__NEWL__Coco continues her relationship with Mark, even after meeting his wife and child at a company-sponsored event.__NEWL__Coco discovers that Tian Tian has become addicted to morphine, and travels to him to bring him back to Shanghai, where he enters a rehab centre.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Tian Tian's mother returns from Spain with her husband.__NEWL__Mother and son are reunited, but Tian Tian is unable to overcome his hatred of her.__NEWL__Mark tells Coco that he is moving back to Berlin and so the two must part.__NEWL__Coco spends several days in Mark's apartment.__NEWL__In her passion, she does not tell Tian Tian that she will be absent.__NEWL__When she returns to her own flat, she discovers that Tian Tian is gone and is at a friend's house.__NEWL__He has been informed of what he already suspected - that Coco is having an affair.__NEWL__Mark departs from Shanghai and Coco and Tian Tian resume living together.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, Coco wakes up to find Tian Tian dead from a heroin overdose.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7670427	TIM Defender of the Earth	2008-01-17T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16783984	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16783984	The story begins with the newly appointed Prime Minister, Mr Sinclair, being taken by Dr Mckienzy to a top-secret underground lab.__NEWL__There he views TIM (Tyrannosaur Improved Module) sleeping in a giant tank.__NEWL__Mckienzy explains that the military have been developing hybrids to fight their wars, but all except Tim have died.__NEWL__Mr Sinclair tells her that he considers her experiment a failure and instructs her to close it down and euthanize Tim.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a class visits the British Museum.__NEWL__Chris meets a security guard, who shows him a strange bracelet, which glows when Chris goes near it.__NEWL__The guard clamps it on his wrist and tells him that he is now joined to the Defender of the Earth.__NEWL__Dr Mckienzy floods Tim's enclosure with gas, to poison him.__NEWL__Tim breaks out and rampages over London, scared and confused by the world that he finds himself in.__NEWL__He blocks London Bridge, which Chris and his parents are driving over.__NEWL__As he gets close to Tim, Chris's bracelet starts glowing, and Tim suddenly feels peaceful.__NEWL__He trots into the Thames and wades off.__NEWL__Swimming in the sea, Tim runs into the Kraken, who informs hims that he is going to be the 'Defender of the Earth'.__NEWL__The next morning, Anna's father, Professor Mallahide, is giving a demonstration to an audience that includes the head of the army and Mr Sinclair.__NEWL__He reveals to them that he has created a swarm of nanobots for the military.__NEWL__His audience is unimpressed when he demonstrates by changing a squirrel from grey to red, but when his nanobots eat the squirrel alive on his orders, increasing the swarm, they give him permission to continue his work.__NEWL__Once they have departed, Mallahide restores the squirrel to full health, calling the prime minister and his friends morons.__NEWL__ Chris returns to the museum to ask the guard that gave him the bracelet to remove it.__NEWL__When he learns that the guard has no way of doing that, he stalks off.__NEWL__Mallahide orders his machines to devour him and make him one with the swarm.__NEWL__Just as he is almost gone, he thinks of Anna and regrets his decision.__NEWL__Then he is completely eaten and the experiment appears to have failed.__NEWL__Anna waits in her family's flat for Mallahide.__NEWL__He does not appear, and at 11 o'clock, his work rings to tell her that there was an accident at the lab, and her father has died.__NEWL__She is lying in bed, with a counselor sent over by the government sleeping on the sofa, when her father turns up.__NEWL__She begins to argue with him.__NEWL__The noise in her room wakes the counselor, who comes up the stairs.__NEWL__Mallahide hears her coming, and disappears into thin air.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5554088	Get Out of My Sky	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16759057	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16759057	Rathe and Home are planets which form a double planet system where each keeps the same face towards the other.__NEWL__Since the side of Home that faces Rathe is entirely ocean, Rathe was unknown to the population of Home before an expedition to the middle of the far ocean to observe an eclipse.__NEWL__Having discovered Rathe, and realizing that it is inhabited, the people of Home are consumed by xenophobia.__NEWL__The slogan "Get out of my sky!" has been taken up by demagogues.__NEWL__The people of Rathe knew of Home from ancient times, but did not know it was inhabited.__NEWL__The inhabited side of Home was discovered by an expedition to a third planet.__NEWL__Now they too are afraid of the unknown intentions of their neighbors.__NEWL__The planet of Rathe and Home are locked into a deadly nuclear arms-race, each possessing weapons ready to launch a fiery consummation of the policy of Mutual Assured Destruction.__NEWL__Although satellite images show that Rathe possess only atomic (fission) weapons, less powerful than Home's thermonuclear arsenal, there is still enough megatonnage on each planet to totally destroy the other.__NEWL__In a huge tent, a man almost dances a message out to the assembled masses.__NEWL__He whips up a frenzy of anti-Rathe sentiment, but as the crowd join in, he acts visibly and physically shocked, cowering and shaking.__NEWL__He begs the congregation to listen and to see reason before it is too late...__NEWL__Both Rathe and Home are deserts - Rathe one of sand, Home one of water - and after a Naval expedition to observe a total solar eclipse (rare in the three-sun system of Rathe and Home)__NEWL__Aidregh - the Minister for the most powerful island nation on Home - is struggling to maintain the balance of power among his fellow ministers and prevent the terrible war that will result if a more xenophobic minister seizes power.__NEWL__A secret manned space-flight to a nearby planet of Home shows that Rathe had also visited the planetoid.__NEWL__This Home expedition also shows that Rathe has atomic 'firing plazas' each holding large enough atomic weapons to totally devastate Home.__NEWL__The Home expedition has been in flight for over a year, rushing back because of the importance of this news.__NEWL__As a result, the crew are exhausted.__NEWL__The captain dies suddenly of an embolism brought on by stress, lack of sleep and an overdose of amphetamine.__NEWL__Unknown to the rest of Home, Aidregh has a microwave video-link to Rathe, which he uses to contact Margent, a Ratheman liaison.__NEWL__Margent and Aidregh discuss the feelings towards the war each planet has, and finally Margent suggests that a Home contingent, including Aidregh, visit Rathe to settle the problem once and for all.__NEWL__The rocket journey is scheduled for a year later.__NEWL__Dr. Ni (an old friend of Aidregh) and his daughter, Aidregh and his son Aidresne and several other Home-men eventually arrive on Rathe.__NEWL__After being secluded for several days, they are reunited and Margent describes how his planet has 'lost its mind'.__NEWL__Rathe, it seems, is the home of telepathic and psionics that exploit what is known as Voisk forces.__NEWL__The psionic abilities are limited by connections - replacing a circuit-board from a computer will not stop it from working, as long as the board is replaced with a suitably connected schematic diagram.__NEWL__Margent - now revealed to be a title, not a name - is one of several Rathemen in charge (who all look worryingly similar to each other) describes how his world was once much more powerful in psionic powers than now.__NEWL__The war effort, it seems, and the need to think in terms of total destruction of another world, have effectively crippled what psionic ability the Rathemen once had.__NEWL__To prevent the war, Margent suggests that Aidresne and his betrothed Corlant (who is Dr. Ni's daughter) be taught a psionic 'trick' that allows them to influence others' decisions.__NEWL__Aidregh and Ni strongly oppose this, because of the risks, and Aidregh himself volunteers.__NEWL__Aidregh is painfully taught the trick of charisma that allows him to psionically project his feelings to others so that they might be influenced by it.__NEWL__Before an assembled audience of Rathemen, and at great risk to his own mind, he attempts this.__NEWL__Succeeding through great difficulty, the Rathemen agree it is time for the people from Home to return and convince their fellows that the war is unwinnable, and that there must be peace.__NEWL__Aidregh gives a public talk, almost dancing his message.__NEWL__In a huge tent, he almost dances a message out to the assembled Home masses.__NEWL__He whips up a frenzy of anti-Rathe sentiment, but as the crowd join in, he acts visibly and physically shocked, cowering and shaking.__NEWL__Using the Voisk force he has been taught, Aidregh begs the congregation to listen and to see reason before it is too late...__NEWL__There is still time!__NEWL__This is where we and the grass grow up like music...'
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2437576	To the Islands	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16759597	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16759597	The novel is set in a remote Anglican mission in the Kimberley in the far north of Western Australia.__NEWL__The protagonist is Heriot - based partially on the figure of Ernest Gribble - the principal chaplain of the mission, who commits an act of violence against an Aboriginal man, and who subsequently disappears into the wilderness.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7774210	The Well Dressed Explorer	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16759791	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16759791	The novel follows journalist, George Brewster, who moves from city to city, from empty love affair to empty love affair, until he dies.__NEWL__He is married, but faithless to his wife...and is ultimately a "pathetic figure".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6038363	Inspector French and the Starvel Tragedy	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q163	Yorkshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16602997	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16602997	Three people are burnt to death in Yorkshire.__NEWL__But what initially appears to be an accident turns out to be a case of multiple murder, arson, and body snatching.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3500842	The Enchantress of Florence	2008-04-11T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16693908	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16693908	The central theme of The Enchantress of Florence is the visit of a European to the Mughal emperor Akbar's court and his claim that he is a long lost relative of Akbar, born of an exiled Indian princess and an Italian from Florence.__NEWL__The story moves between continents, the court of Akbar to Renaissance Florence mixing history, fantasy and fable.__NEWL__The tale of adventure begins in Fatehpur Sikri, the capital of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great, when a stranger arrives, having stowed away on a pirate ship captained by the Scottish Lord Hauksbank, and sets the Mughal court talking and looking back into its past.__NEWL__The stranger begins to tell Akbar the tale, going back to the boyhood of three friends in Florence, Il Machia, Ago Vespucci and Nino Argalia, the last of whom became an adventurer in the East.__NEWL__The tale returns to the mobs and clamour of Florence in the hands of the Medici dynasty.__NEWL__An eight-page bibliography follows the end of the story.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4968288	Bring Larks and Heroes	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16791083	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16791083	The novel is set in an unidentified Penal colony in the South Pacific, which bears a superficial resemblance to Sydney.__NEWL__The novel is concerned with the exploits of the colony's "felons" (a term which was not in general use at the time the novel is set, which Keneally explains his use of in a brief preface as being more appropriate than "convicts"), in particular an Irish Marine named Phelim Halloran.__NEWL__Halloran joins the marines after leaving prison and finds he identifies more with the Irish prisoners than his mainly Protestant English superiors.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q716712	The Girls of Slender Means	1963-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16792059	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16792059	The book centres on 'The May of Teck Club', a fictional institution said to have been established by Princess May of Teck during the First World War "for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years, who are obliged to reside apart from their Families in order to follow an Occupation in London".__NEWL__It concerns the lives and loves of its desperate residents amongst the deprivations of immediate post-war Kensington between VE Day and VJ Day in 1945.__NEWL__The story is framed by the news, in 1963, that Nicholas Farringdon, an anarchist intellectual turned Jesuit, has been killed in Haiti.__NEWL__Journalist Jane Wright, a former inhabitant of the Club, wants to research his story.__NEWL__The bulk of the novella is taken up by flashbacks to 1945, concerning Farringdon and the Club, to which he had been a frequent visitor.__NEWL__The narrative climaxes with a tragedy that results in the death of Joanna Childe, an elocution instructor, and led to Farringdon's conversion through the evil heartlessness he perceived in the behaviour of Selina, another club resident.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7753099	The Narrows							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16697904	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16697904	The novel's non-flashback narrative arc occurs within the period of a few months.__NEWL__At the beginning of this time, the Powthers move in as Abbie Crunch's boarders.__NEWL__The main action begins when Link “rescues” Camilla Treadway Sheffield (who gives her name as “Camilo Williams”) from the advances of Cat Jimmie, a disabled veteran.__NEWL__Link does not realize that Camilo is white until later in the evening.__NEWL__Eventually, Link and Camilo begin a clandestine affair, primarily meeting in New York, though sometimes spending the night in Abbie's house in The Narrows.__NEWL__On one of these occasions, Abbie finds the two in bed together and angrily throws Camilo out of the house.__NEWL__Link finds out, when Bill Hod leaves an old newspaper around for him to see, that Camilo is really Camilla Treadway Sheffield; in other words, not only is she white, but she is also rich and married.__NEWL__Link fears that Camilo is merely repeating a pattern from the days of slavery: “I bid two hundred; look at his teeth, make it three hundred; look at his muscle, look at his back; the lady says one thousand dollars.__NEWL__Sold to the lady for a thousand dollars.__NEWL__Plantation buck.__NEWL__Stud.”__NEWL__He breaks off the relationship with Camilla, but she is convinced that he must be seeing another woman.__NEWL__In revenge, she screams and tears her clothing, accusing him of attempted rape when the police arrive.__NEWL__There is little circumstantial evidence for her accusation and, in the intervening time before the trial, Camilla begins drinking too much.__NEWL__One day, while driving intoxicated, she hits a child with her car (thereby destroying what credibility she might have had in court).__NEWL__Her mother, Mrs. Treadway, bribes Peter Bullock to keep the story out of the newspaper.__NEWL__However, Mrs. Treadway and Captain Sheffield still want to assure Camilla's victory in court, so they kidnap Link and try to make him sign a confession.__NEWL__When he “confesses” that he and Camilla were in love, Captain Sheffield shoots and kills him.__NEWL__In the aftermath of Link's murder, Mrs. Treadway and Captain Sheffield are arrested.__NEWL__Abbie, however, realizes that Bill Hod will not rest until Camilla has paid for her part in Link's death.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, she resolves to go to the police, tell them of her suspicions, and therefore end the chain of violence.__NEWL__She takes J.C. Powther along with her, symbolizing her “adoption” of him and her resolve to care for him as she had failed to do for Link.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3235157	Daughter of the Forest	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16628640	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16628640	Sorcha, the youngest child of Irish Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, loses her mother at childbirth, and is raised almost entirely by her six older brothers.__NEWL__She is more or less ignored by her father.__NEWL__When her father's new wife, the Lady Oonagh, attacks Sorcha and her brothers, Sorcha alone is able to escape.__NEWL__Sorcha's brothers, however, are turned into swans.__NEWL__What follows is a twist on the classic tale of "The Six Swans".__NEWL__Sorcha learns that if she can spin six shirts from the painful starwort, remaining absolutely silent until the last one is completed, she can free her brothers from Oonagh's spell.__NEWL__Sorcha agrees to this and spends several years in the forest, hiding from Oonagh as she works on the shirts.__NEWL__At first she survives in the Forest, relying on the help of the Fair Folk and her only companion—her brother Cormack's dog, Linn.__NEWL__Her brothers are able to visit her twice a year as humans as she labors on her task to make shirts out of starwort, a needle-like plant whose touch is poison and disfigures the hands.__NEWL__One day, she is raped by two brutal men, who are led to her by the village idiot, who thought her a faery.__NEWL__They also kill Linn, and her brothers find her hurt and bleeding.__NEWL__Padriac heals her while three of her other brothers, (including formerly peaceful Finbar), go out and kill her rapists with the help of the Fair Folk.__NEWL__After years of solitary struggle, Sorcha is saved from drowning by a British lord, Hugh of Harrowfield (a.k.a.__NEWL__"Red").__NEWL__When Red returns to Britain, Sorcha unwillingly accompanies him.__NEWL__Red correctly believes that Sorcha has information concerning his brother, Simon, whom Sorcha had nursed back to health after Simon's capture by Lord Colum.__NEWL__Sorcha remains with Red as she continues to work on the shirts.__NEWL__Though under Red's protection, Sorcha encounters a new danger in the form of Lord Richard, Red's uncle and the one behind the attacks on Sevenwaters.__NEWL__Sorcha must fend off the gross advances of Richard even as she continues silently working to save her brothers.__NEWL__Though she earns true friends in John, Ben, and John's wife Margery, the majority of Red's household believe her to be a witch, and they play cruel tricks on her.__NEWL__As the days go by, Red and Sorcha gradually fall in love, though they are separated by his need to find Simon and her fear of men after her rape—as well as her belief that he only loves her because the Fair Folk bound him to her as her protector.__NEWL__While his marriage to Elaine, who is Lord Richard's daughter, draws nearer (engaged since they were children) and while Elaine is kind to Sorcha, Lord Richard continues to constantly threaten and harass her.__NEWL__Red takes Sorcha to a hidden shore, where only he and Simon ever went, and proposes, telling her that he has ended his betrothal to Elaine.__NEWL__She is fearful that he will try to claim his rights as a husband, but he assures her that, if she wants, the marriage will be only in name and will protect her.__NEWL__He gives her a ring and then leaves to search for Simon and find out the truth about Lord Richard's involvement in his brother's capture.__NEWL__One summer, in Harrowfield while Red is gone, Sorcha is caught with Conor, one of her brothers, and is accused of adultery.__NEWL__Lord Richard turns everyone against Sorcha and decides to burn her at stake.__NEWL__On the day the shirts are finished, all six of her brothers come flying to her.__NEWL__Red returns home, outraged when he sees Sorcha tied at the stake.__NEWL__Unable to speak, Sorcha quickly throws the finished shirts on her brothers, but because she did not have time to finish one of the sleeves Finbar is cursed with one wing.__NEWL__Her brothers are extremely protective of her, and declare her marriage invalid.__NEWL__They refuse to allow her to be alone with him until Sorcha insists on it, and she is the one to tell Red good-bye, believing he will forget her once she is gone and still under the delusion that he only loves her because of the Fair Folk's intervention.__NEWL__He lets her go, and Sorcha and her brothers return to Sevenwaters, only to find it a mess.__NEWL__Some peasants recognize them and inform them that their father is not well, and they hasten to the palace, where Donal, Lord Colum's former general, informs them that their step-mother has recently disappeared.__NEWL__The family slowly rebuilds Sevenwaters, and Sorcha finds out from the Lady of the Forest that Red was under no spell, but truly loved her.__NEWL__This causes her much pain until one day, he shows up and declares that he has abdicated his rule and wants to stay with her, and Sorcha kisses him so passionately that she makes Liam, her eldest brother, blush.__NEWL__Almost all of the mysteries are solved, except for their half brother (the son of Lord Colum and Lady Oonagh).__NEWL__Two of the brothers set out to find him, while Conor travels away with the Druids.__NEWL__The seven children of Sevenwaters thus separate to lead their individual lives.__NEWL__Liam stays with Sorcha in Sevenwaters, and Finbar disappears in the waters, leaving only a feather behind.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5071866	Change of Heart	2008-03-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16622189	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16622189	A man, Jack, is killed by an impaired driver, leaving his wife, June, and his daughter, Elizabeth behind.__NEWL__At the scene of the accident, June meets Kurt Nealon, a police officer, who becomes a close friend and later June's husband.__NEWL__A number of years later, June is pregnant and Kurt plans to create an addition onto their home.__NEWL__A young man named Shay Bourne offers to help with the addition, to which June explains is "the beginning of the end."__NEWL__Elizabeth, June's eldest daughter, and Kurt are found murdered.__NEWL__Shay, the construction worker, is identified as the only suspect.__NEWL__The case unfolds during the trial which becomes a media sensation.__NEWL__The jury convicts Shay of two counts of capital murder.__NEWL__The jury deliberates on the death penalty, and after much time, 11 members agree, with Michael Wright, a young man about Shay's age, being the last juror to agree on the death penalty conviction, after being coerced by the other jury members.__NEWL__Shay Bourne is transferred to the I-tier at the Concord state prison.__NEWL__Shay resides in a cell next to Lucius DuFresne, an artist.__NEWL__During the night, Shay confides in Lucius that he wants to donate his heart to a little girl he saw on TV in need of a heart transplant.__NEWL__The little girl that on television that Shay spoke about is revealed to be the daughter of June and the late Kurt, Claire, who has a terminal heart condition.__NEWL__ June agrees to meet Shay in for a restorative justice meeting.__NEWL__There she asks him, "Why did you do it?" to which Shay answers cryptically, "She was better off dead."__NEWL__Out of spite, June agrees to take Shay's donated heart once he is executed.__NEWL__Maggie, an attorney, begins the legal process to petition the commissioner of corrections to allow Shay to be hanged rather than executed by lethal injection, so he will be able to donate his heart to Claire.__NEWL__Claire's doctor is able to determine that Shay is a perfect heart transplant match.__NEWL__ Maggie, Shay's lawyer, arranges a dinner meeting with Dr. Christian Gallagher, a doctor she's consulting to discuss organ donation for Shay.__NEWL__June sneaks Dudley, the family's spaniel, into the hospital to make Claire feel better, and a nurse reveals the upcoming transparent to Claire, which June hadn't discussed with her daughter yet.__NEWL__ Shay's trial begins, and Father Michael testifies to Shay's religious belief that he needs to donate his heart to Claire to be redeemed.__NEWL__Father Michael uses Shay's quotations from the Gnostic Gospels as his religious foundation.__NEWL__Ian Fletcher testifies as an expert on the Gnostic Gospels.__NEWL__Father Michael, privately, admits to Shay that he was on the jury that convicted him to death.__NEWL__Father Michael is able to locate Shay's sister, Grace, and tries to convince her to forgive Shay for setting the fire that ultimately disfigured her face.__NEWL__However, Grace actually started the fire in an attempt to kill their abusive father.__NEWL__Shay took the blame to protect his sister.__NEWL__While Shay testifies, all of his chains (including the belly chain and handcuffs) fall away from him for no apparent reason.__NEWL__ During Shay's trial, it is revealed that Kurt was sexually abusing his step-daughter, Elizabeth.__NEWL__At the time of the murders, Shay walked in on Kurt assaulting Elizabeth.__NEWL__Shay killed Kurt, who accidentally shot Elizabeth instead of Shay.__NEWL__ The trial concludes, and Shay is granted his request to be executed by hanging to be able to donate his heart to Claire.__NEWL__Three weeks after Claire's surgery, she is able to go home.__NEWL__While resting at home, Grace, Shay's sister, visits her.__NEWL__Claire sees that her dog Dudley has died, but when she picks him up and holds him to her chest, his heart begins to beat again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4015968	The Accidental	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23109	Norfolk	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16622708	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16622708	Set in 2003, the novel consists of three parts: "The Beginning," "Middle" and "The End".__NEWL__Each part contains four separate narrations, one focusing on each member of the Smart family: Eve, the mother, Michael, her husband, Astrid (12) and Magnus (17), two children of Eve's from a previous marriage (to Adam Berenski).__NEWL__Opening and closing the novel, and between each part, we have four sections of first-person narration from 'Alhambra' – who we can assume is Amber, the Smarts' uninvited house-guest.__NEWL__The novel opens with Alhambra telling us of her conception in 'the town's only cinema'.__NEWL__We then come to "The Beginning", which consists of a third-person narration focused first on Astrid, then Magnus, then Michael, then finally Eve.__NEWL__Through each character we obtain a different view of how Amber came into their lives, and who they believed her to be, when she arrived unannounced and uninvited at their Norfolk holiday home, claiming her car had broken down.__NEWL__Through "The Beginning", we learn of Astrid's obsession with video-taping her life, seemingly as proof it existed; of Magnus' involvement in a school prank which resulted in the suicide of one of his classmates; of Michael's affairs with his students (he is a university lecturer); and of Eve's writer's block.__NEWL__The second first-person narration we have from Alhambra is altogether different from the first – here we are not offered her history, but rather a history of 20th century cinema – a past which she seems to adopt as her own, as if she were each of the characters in those films.__NEWL__"__NEWL__The Middle" deals, again, with each of the family members' experiences of Amber: she throws Astrid's camera off a bridge into the road, she seduces Magnus, and reveals flaws in Eve and Michael's relationship.__NEWL__"The Middle" ends with Eve throwing Amber out of their holiday home.__NEWL__The third first-person narration from Alhambra follows, which is much the same as the second.__NEWL__We then have "The End", which takes us to the Smart home once they return from holiday.__NEWL__The house has been emptied of all possessions – we must assume, as the family do, by Amber – leaving nothing but the answering machine, which contains messages forcing Magnus, Michael and Eve to face up to their past.__NEWL__Magnus and Astrid seem freed and excited by the experience of losing their possessions, their past – Michael also seems to find some redemption.__NEWL__Eve, however, runs away from the family, embarking on a round-the-world tour – eventually ending up in America, where she goes in search of her old family home.__NEWL__"__NEWL__The End" ends, ominously, with Eve seeming to take up Amber's mantle, arriving at someone's house as an uninvited guest.__NEWL__The book then finishes with a short section from Alhambra, reinforcing her connection to the cinema.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7617168	Still Walking	2008-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q801	Israel	16569570	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16569570	The narrative takes place in Tel Aviv, at the dawn of the 2006 Lebanon War.__NEWL__Mickey, an ex–Special Forces officer, and ex-Shabak agent (Israeli Security Services), has spent the night in a casino, losing a fortune.__NEWL__Now, at 4 AM, Mickey is lying in a rainy, darken alley, having a severe heart attack.__NEWL__While Mickey recovers, we find out that he is married to Laura, presently an alcoholic, and formerly—like most characters entangled in this story—a vivacious, beautiful and promising young individual.__NEWL__We also find out that Absalom, his son, both condemns and loves him, and that he is involved with Olga, a Russian immigrant and former prostitute.__NEWL__We find out that Mickey was shamefully released from his elite unit, for inappropriate compassion—sparing a young Arab terrorist, and later from the Shabak, for unjustified cruelty—killing an innocent Arab, father of six.__NEWL__We follow Mickey as he discovers that his family, mistress, and brothers in arms cannot prevent him from sinking into the pit he dug for himself.__NEWL__We watch as Mickey struggles to compensate for his transgressions, while eluding the mafia goons that are after him for his gambling debts.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817766	Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera	1912-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16771582	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16771582	Tom Swift is still working on his long-term project, a noiseless airship, when he is approached by James Period, the owner of a motion picture company.__NEWL__Mr. Period wants to hire Tom to travel around the world and take motion pictures of strange and exotic places.__NEWL__These films will be shown in theaters, hoping that the exciting content will draw crowds.__NEWL__At first Tom declines, but eventually his adventurous streak wins out, and Tom sets out with friends for some old-time reality motion pictures.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5158155	Conan the Defender	1982-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16525158	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16525158	The book opens around noon in the mansion of Albanus the wizard, Vegentius the Commander of the Golden Leopards (the bodyguard regiment of Nemedia's Kings), Demetrio Amarianus (a landowner), Constanto Melius (a noble), and Sephana Galerianus (the rejected mistress of King Garian).__NEWL__They are gathered to plot the usurping of the Dragon Throne of the kingdom of Nemedia.__NEWL__During their meeting, Albanus demonstrates magic to placate and wow his guests by summoning a fire elemental to destroy one of his servants.__NEWL__The conspirators are impressed by this and desire to have some magical devices of their own: "As a token that [they] are all equals.__NEWL__" Melius chooses a sword imbued with the skills of six master swordsmen.__NEWL__The sword grants its wielder sword mastery.__NEWL__Moving the focus of the novel to Conan, it describes how the city of Belverus in Nemedia is unsafe, the tariffs exorbitantly high, starvation rampant, sedition brewing, and King Garian's ineffectiveness as a ruler.__NEWL__In reality, Albanus is busy funding and controlling all the unrest in Nemedia as a means of focusing hatred on King Garian.__NEWL__Conan is attacked in Belverus by Melius, who it later turns out was driven insane and "possessed" in a fashion by the tortured spirits in the magical sword which Albania gave him.__NEWL__Albanus didn't know that the blade could cause such madness.__NEWL__Conan is rescued by the town guard who finds, to their horror, that they have just slain a noble.__NEWL__Conan picks up the blade and wraps it with the hopes of selling his weapon for a few pieces of silver.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Conan meets up with Hordo, a friend of his from several previous and mostly unsuccessful quests who is now a smuggler.__NEWL__Hordo tries to get Conan a job as a smuggler as well but is punished by his boss for not being cautious enough (exposing a smuggler fetches a high bounty).__NEWL__Hordo decides to quit his job and join Conan in his mercenary venture.__NEWL__Hordo is often used as a foil to Conan, contrasting the intelligence of Conan to Hordo's less sophisticated thought process and abilities of perception.__NEWL__The pair visit a tavern where Conan's fortune is foretold by an old man.__NEWL__The same fortune appears on the first page of the first mass-market printing.__NEWL__The first part of the prophecy comes true, as Conan thwarts an attempt by a lady patron of the tavern to pickpocket him.__NEWL__Leaving the tavern, Conan and Hordo noticed they are being followed by what turns out to Ariane, a poet and patron at an inn called the Sign of Thestis.__NEWL__Suddenly, the three are attacked by an army of foot soldiers.__NEWL__Soon, all of the foot soldiers are slain.__NEWL__both Hordo and Conan spend the night at the Sign of Thestis, telling stories of their adventures.__NEWL__Conan learns that the patrons (including Ariane and Sephano, a sculptor) are plotting an uprising against the king along with Taras, and the mercenaries he's hiring, to aid in his coup.__NEWL__Conan and Hordo are soon attacked by more armed murderers.__NEWL__Conan realizes someone is out to kill him, though he knows not who.__NEWL__It turns out later to be Albanus trying to recover the magic sword and cover up all traces of it.__NEWL__Upon returning to the inn, Conan sells his mystical sword to Demetrio, an agent of Albanus, for fifty gold marks.__NEWL__Conan uses the money from his sword to start his own free company of mercenaries and teaches them horse archer techniques unknown to the Nemedian forces.__NEWL__The next time he returns to Belverus, Conan receives a message that he should meet Hordo at the Sign of the Full Moon.__NEWL__The patrons are worried that they may be betrayed, but Conan removes their fears by vowing he'll never betray them.__NEWL__At the Sign of the Full Moon, Conan is ambushed and attacked by assassins.__NEWL__He is also pursued by the Belverus town guard who have also been paid off by Albanus.__NEWL__The message was fake.__NEWL__The next day, Ariane sets up a meeting for Conan with Taras to see if Conan can be hired for the uprising.__NEWL__It turns out Taras is not hiring mercenaries and intends to kill Conan as per Albanus'brequest.__NEWL__Their attempt is thwarted and the assassins are all killed by Conan.__NEWL__Ariane, having followed Conan, sees the butchery and believes that Conan has betrayed them.__NEWL__The horse archer skills get Conan's company a job in the Nemedian military and Conan a room within the palace, much to the dismay of Vegentius the conspirator.__NEWL__Conan winds up practicing his sword skills with King Garian and besting Garian each time.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Albanus has captured Stephano the sculptor, and forced him to create a likeness of King Garian.__NEWL__Conan is asked by the king to deliver a letter to Albanus.__NEWL__While at the palace, Conan sees Stephano and later tells Ariane where Stephano has gone.__NEWL__Ariane goes to find Stephano at the wizard's mansion but is captured and hypnotized by Albanus.__NEWL__During a walk through the palace grounds, Conan and Hordo come across Vegentius wrestling with his men in tests of strength.__NEWL__Seeing Conan, he challenges him.__NEWL__Conan defeats him after a long battle where the two giants trade blows that would fell a normal man.__NEWL__Conan now recognizes Vegentius as one of the men who plotted against the king and attempted to kill Conan in an ambush the other evening.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, King Garian summons Conan to his throne room.__NEWL__The king wants Conan to deliver a message to Lord Albanus because he must borrow money from him because the kingdom is running out of money.__NEWL__Conan takes this opportunity to tell him of Valentius's plans to see the king dethroned.__NEWL__King Garian, listens to him and then assures Conan that Valentius has been loyal to him and not to worry.__NEWL__As Conan and his free company ride through the city to leave, Hordo tells him of strange changes where people have been clearing the streets as if afraid of something or given orders to do so.__NEWL__Conan arrives at Albanus' mansion.__NEWL__where he's questioned at sword point by the lord's guards of his intent.__NEWL__Conan grows suspicious when the guards and staff don't treat a royal messenger with hospitality.__NEWL__While waiting, Conan sees a drunken Stephano in the courtyard below.__NEWL__Furious that the gods would send Conan, the man he wanted dead, to deliver a message and taunting him, Albanus sets his plan in motion.__NEWL__Fortunately, Ariane breaks free from her enchantment and warns Conan about the wizard's true motives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817755	Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight	1912-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16807486	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16807486	Tom has finally perfected one of his latest inventions, a noiseless airship.__NEWL__This is a project Tom has been working on since the last few volumes, and now that it is finished, it appears that Tom is suddenly under scrutiny by United States border agents, who are tracking smuggling operations which utilize airships to move goods out of Canada, and avoid paying duty tax.__NEWL__Once Tom convinces the agents that he is not involved in smuggling, he is hired to help break up the operations.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6773068	Marrying Buddha	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	16674623	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16674623	Set four years on from the events of Shanghai Baby, Marrying Buddha continues the story of Coco, a writer from Shanghai, now aged 29.__NEWL__The plot intersperses Coco's adventures in New York City, and later in Madrid, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, with her journey in China from Shanghai to the Buddhist monastery on Mount Putuo (Putuoshan).__NEWL__In New York, Coco meets a Japanese-Italian documentary filmmaker named Muju and after a short romance moves in with him.__NEWL__Muju is a divorcee with strict ideas about women's roles and behaviour.__NEWL__He prefers his girlfriends, for example, to be competent cooks and willing to demonstrate their expertise for him.__NEWL__Coco, who cannot cook, finds it difficult to adapt to life with Muju.__NEWL__After a few months, Coco meets another man, the all-American Nick.__NEWL__When she travels to Spain without Muju, she resists embarking on an affair with Nick, who coincidentally visits the same cities and stays in the same luxury hotels as Coco.__NEWL__In Buenos Aires, Coco and Muju meet again, but Muju is disappointed with what he feels is__NEWL__Coco's snobbery and arrogant, self-centred behaviour.__NEWL__The two argue, and soon after returning to New York, Coco travels home to Shanghai without knowing whether she and Muju are still lovers.__NEWL__In Shanghai, after resuming her old, pleasure-filled life, Coco travels to the place of her birth, Mount Putuo, where she spends time with an elder in a Buddhist monastery.__NEWL__Later, Nick pays a surprise visit to Coco in Shanghai, and Coco finally relents and sleeps with him.__NEWL__After he leaves, Muju pays a surprise visit to Coco in Shanghai, and Coco sleeps with him, too.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, Coco learns she is pregnant, but she does not know who is the father, Muju or Nick.__NEWL__Marrying Buddha is supposedly a continuation of the Wei Hui's semi-autobiographical story of Nikki/Coco, a young Shanghainese author of erotic literature.__NEWL__The novel is set in various locations, but mainly New York, Shanghai and Mount Putuo, site of Coco's birth and a Buddhist monastery.__NEWL__Although there is some mention of the events and people from Shanghai Baby—in Marrying Buddha, Coco embarks on a tour of Spanish-speaking countries to promote that novel—some key characters and plot points, including the suicide of Coco's then boyfriend Tian Tian are not referred to at all.__NEWL__In addition, new facts that were not mentioned in Shanghai Baby emerge: including that shortly before the events of Shanghai Baby, Coco attempted suicide by slashing her wrists and that she had a boyfriend with Mafia connections.__NEWL__In New York, Coco is a student at Columbia University, an observer of American life and an avid consumer of American brands and culture.__NEWL__She visits Chinatown, shops at Barneys New York, Barnes & Noble, and Bloomingdales, and is perplexed by the American men she dates.__NEWL__Soon, she meets Muju, a half-Japanese, half-Italian documentary filmmaker.__NEWL__At first, Coco is not impressed:__NEWL__Muju buys her a humidifier as a gift.__NEWL__However, Coco is soon won over by Muju's knowledge of tantric sex practices and Eastern wisdom.__NEWL__After a few months, Coco moves into his apartment.__NEWL__Things do not always run smoothly though:__NEWL__Muju expresses his deep respect for women who can cook delicious meals, just like his ex-wife, who one day turns up and does just that.__NEWL__When Coco tries to cook Chinese food in Muju's kitchen, disaster occurs – she burns the shrimp and a drop of fat jumps out of the frying pan and burns her cheek, temporarily marring her complexion.__NEWL__Muju and Coco fight, and when Coco throws a jar of designer face cream into the toilet, Muju is disappointed by her immaturity.__NEWL__Later, Coco and Muju try out new tricks in the bedroom, and Muju displays his knowledge of Eastern wisdom by refusing to ejaculate and sharing a variety of Japanese traditional sex aids.__NEWL__Coco suggests a threesome, and Muju is impressed when she is not jealous of the American prostitute whom they invite to their bed.__NEWL__The two are happy, although the relationship is not perfect.__NEWL__It is shadowed by the fact that Muju has some faults that Coco cannot reconcile.__NEWL__For example, he refuses to ever accompany anyone to the airport, he refuses to ejaculate, and he is missing a joint on one of his fingers.__NEWL__Muju is similarly frustrated by Coco's lack of self-control, her inability to cook, and her desire for a baby despite her immaturity.__NEWL__Whilst out one evening in New York with her visiting Chinese cousin Zhu Sha, Coco meets Nick, a middle-aged but very attractive New Yorker: He looked very like George Clooney, but even more handsome, slim and stylish, dressed entirely in black Armani.__NEWL__He seemed about forty-five years old...__NEWL__When he spoke I was startled by his magnetic voice.__NEWL__Hearing him talk was like ice-cream to the ears Initially, Coco refuses to embark on an affair with Nick, rejecting his advances despite her attraction to his magnetic, ice-cream voice.__NEWL__When Coco travels to Madrid to promote her now best-selling novel, she bumps into Nick in a restaurant.__NEWL__Coincidence following coincidence, Nick is also traveling on to Barcelona at the same time as Coco, and is staying in the same hotel.__NEWL__Coco is very attracted to Nick, but manages to reject all his advances.__NEWL__After Barcelona, she leaves for Buenos Aires with only his contact details.__NEWL__In Buenos Aires, Coco meets up again with Muju.__NEWL__Things seem to be going well, until Muju criticises Coco for her behaviour towards the wait staff in the hotel:__NEWL__Muju took a sip of tea. "__NEWL__Perhaps you weren't aware of it, but for a second there you demonstrated unnecessary arrogance".__NEWL__I nearly spat the bread out of my mouth.__NEWL__"I've no idea what you're talking about.__NEWL__" My voice trembled and my hands clenched themselves into fists.__NEWL__Coco is extremely upset at Muju's criticism, and although the two are reconciled in New York, Coco decides to return to Shanghai to start work on her new novel.__NEWL__In Shanghai, she is surprised to learn that Nick is also in the city.__NEWL__Coco is delighted, and the two meet in the Shanghai Ritz-Carlton hotel, where Nick is staying.__NEWL__To impress Coco, Nick buys her a very expensive Ferragamo Christmas tree.__NEWL__Back in his hotel suite, Coco is overwhelmed by this purchase and lets Nick make love to her without contraception.__NEWL__The very next day, Nick flies back to New York.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards Muju flies to Shanghai to see Coco.__NEWL__The two make love in her apartment, without using contraception.__NEWL__Muju ejaculates for the first time, surprising Coco.__NEWL__After Muju leaves, Coco discovers that she is pregnant.__NEWL__She decides to keep her baby, although she is not certain which of her two lovers is the father.__NEWL__The novel is interspersed with the story of Coco's visit to her birthplace on Putuo Island.__NEWL__There, she gains wisdom from her discussions with a Buddhist elder at the monastery in which she was born.__NEWL__It is this wisdom that allows her to cope with her pregnancy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817760	Tom Swift and His Sky Racer	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16745293	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16745293	A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park.__NEWL__Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but his plans mysteriously disappear, which means Tom must redesign his new airplane from the beginning.__NEWL__A side-plot through the story is Mr. Swift's failing health.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817752	Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16747736	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16747736	While Tom Swift is working on his latest new invention, the electric rifle, he meets an African safari master whose stories of elephant hunting sends the group off to deepest, darkest Africa.__NEWL__Hunting for ivory is the least of their worries, as they find out some old friends are being held hostage by the fearsome tribes of the red pygmies.__NEWL__Swift builds two major inventions in this volume.__NEWL__The first is a replacement airship, known as The Black Hawk.__NEWL__This new airship is to replace The Red Cloud, which was destroyed during his adventures in Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice.__NEWL__This airship is of the same general construction as The Red Cloud, but is smaller and more maneuverable.__NEWL__Of foremost notice is Swift's invention of the electric rifle, a gun which fires bolts of electricity.__NEWL__The electric rifle can be calibrated to different levels of range, intensity and lethality; it can shoot through solid walls without leaving a hole, and is powerful enough to kill a rampaging whale, as in their steamer trek to Africa.__NEWL__With the electric rifle, Tom and friends bring down elephants, rhinoceroses, and buffalo, and save their lives several times in pitched battle with the red pygmies.__NEWL__It also can discharge a globe of light that was described as being able to maintain itself, like ball lightning, making hunting at night much safer in the dark of Africa.__NEWL__In appearance, the rifle looked very much like contemporary conventional rifles.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2847696	Flight of the Nighthawks	2005-09-30T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16686626	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16686626	Leso Varen is still at large and the Conclave of the Shadows must find a way to neutralize ten thousand magical warriors that are hidden in a cave on the other side of the world.__NEWL__In Kelewan, Magnus and the Tsurani magicians are studying a Talnoy and discover that is a beacon for a huge army of alien invaders.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Kaspar, Talwin and Caleb have been sent to The Empire of Great Kesh to uncover a nest of Night Hawks who are plotting to overthrow the government.__NEWL__Flight of the Nighthawks focuses primarily on the adventures of two young boys, Tad and Zane, and the organization they become involved with, the Conclave of Shadows.__NEWL__The story picks up shortly after the end of Exile's Return (2004), the final book in the preceding Conclave of Shadows series by Feist.__NEWL__The book begins in the town of Stardock, where the two boys are still living at home.__NEWL__Marie, Tad's biological mother and Zane's surrogate mother (Zane's parents having died years earlier during an attack by trolls on the town) is concerned about the boys' tendency to get into trouble, and when her lover, Caleb (son of the magician Pug), comes back to Stardock, she begs him to take the boys to be apprenticed.__NEWL__Caleb consents and travels with the boys to The Empire of Great Kesh to find them an apprenticeship.__NEWL__Along the journey they are ambushed by bandits and Caleb is gravely wounded.__NEWL__The boys manage to bring Caleb to a friend, and unbeknownst to them, an agent of the Conclave.__NEWL__The Conclave is able to heal Caleb, and while they decide what to do with the boys, Caleb decides to formalize his long relationship with Marie and marries her, adopting the boys as well.__NEWL__The Conclave becomes aware of trouble in the capital of Kesh, where nobles are being murdered, ostensibly as part of political maneuvering between two factions to establish the next emperor.__NEWL__The Conclave sends three sets of agents to investigate: Talwin Hawkins and his assassin-turned-servant Petro Amafi, Kaspar and Pasko, and Caleb and the boys.__NEWL__During their time in the city, Tad and Zane are aided in a fight by a boy named Jommy who has been living in the streets, whom Caleb also takes into his care.__NEWL__The Conclave's agents discover that the necromancer, Leso Varen, has entrenched himself and intends to use the secret guild of assassins, the Nighthawks, to cause utter chaos in Great Kesh.__NEWL__Kaspar realizes that Varen has taken over the body of the Emperor, while Caleb falls into a trap set for them by the Nighthawks, and barely manages to escape alive.__NEWL__The Conclave agents regroup, and make plans to root out the nest of Nighthawks and foil Varen's plan.__NEWL__Pug and Magnus (his eldest son and Caleb's older brother) venture into the sewers to locate the Nighthawks' hideout, but both possible locations are empty.__NEWL__The Conclave realizes the Nighthawks have established themselves in the palace itself, and the entire royal family is in danger.__NEWL__On the eve of Banapis, the midsummer celebration and the biggest festival of the year, Varen reveals himself and attempts to kill the members of the royal court.__NEWL__He is stopped by the Conclave, with Caleb and the boys stumbling into a Nighthawk staging area and assisting in its destruction, Kaspar managing to aid in securing the safety of the emperor's heirs, and Pug, Miranda, Nakor, and Magnus opposing Varen's deadly magic.__NEWL__In the end, Varen's body is destroyed, but his soul manages to escape again through a rift into the world of Kelewan.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3209073	Wrath of a Mad God	2008-03-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16686635	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16686635	On the world of the Dasati, Pug and the other Conclave members must find a way to save their people from the magician, Leso Varen, and the wrath of the mad god he has awoken.__NEWL__Miranda must find a way to save herself from the clutches of the Deathpriests who have her held captive on the world of Kelewan.__NEWL__Wrath of a Mad God finishes the Darkwar saga.__NEWL__Pug, Magnus, Nakor and Ralan Bek have reached the Dasati home world, and are now working with the followers of the White, what they called their pantheon of gods who were evicted from the second plane by the Dark God.__NEWL__Macros learns that the living Gods of Midkemia—including the Nameless—made an agreement with the gods of the second plane of reality (if they are not one and the same), and a result was that the soul of Macros was forced into the second plane of reality after his encounter and subsequent death at the hands of Maarg the demon king of the 5th plane of reality.__NEWL__Ralan Bek is not the God Killer, containing not a sliver of Nalar the nameless one, but he carries a sliver of the Dasati god of war to prepare the way for the true God Killer.__NEWL__The Dark God turns out to be an obese Dread Lord, feeding off the countless souls of the dead in the Dasati realm.__NEWL__The Dreadlord had previously invaded the third and fourth plane of reality, consuming all life within both realms.__NEWL__His ultimate goal is to devour enough souls in the second plane to transport himself into the first plane, where the world of Midkemia resides.__NEWL__As the invasion of Kelewan begins, the Dasati take many prisoners and throw them back through the rift to the Dasati world straight towards the waiting Dreadlord who consumes the souls of the falling bodies.__NEWL__The Dreadlord is eventually defeated by a combination of two factors as it tries to travel through the rift to Kelewan; the God Killer, which is revealed to be the tiny sliver of Nalar sheltered by Leso Varen, is released by Nakor in his final act and attacks the Dreadlord from behind, whilst Pug puts a rift in front of Kelewan's moon and slightly adjusts its orbit, forcing a massive chunk of rock to collide with the Dreadlord as it tries to emerge from the rift.__NEWL__For once, Nalar, the mad God of Evil, worked in concert with the other gods of his pantheon, to prevent the Dreadlord from subverting his role as the ultimate force for evil in the first plane of reality.__NEWL__Continuing on with the two stories, one book -theme started in the preceding book, Miranda, who remained behind in the first plane of reality, escapes from the Deathpriests of the Dasati.__NEWL__She travels to Kelewan, and there leads the Tsurani in the defense of their, ultimately doomed, home-world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817747	Tom Swift and His Air Glider	1912-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16753145	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16753145	While testing out one of his many airships, Tom needs to make emergency landing for repairs.__NEWL__He complains of the poor quality platinum used for his magneto, and is overheard by an escaped Russian exile.__NEWL__The man tells Tom of a secret platinum mine, deep in Siberia.__NEWL__The man also explains that his brother is still in exile, and will be more useful in locating the mine.__NEWL__Tom organizes an expedition to save the exile and find the platinum mine.__NEWL__It is to note that the Russian revolutionaries in the book are referred to as the Nihilist movement.__NEWL__However, given the time in which the book takes place, the author would more likely have been referring to Bolsheviks.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7315223	Reservation Blues	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16576920	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16576920	The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of Coyote Springs, a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation.__NEWL__In 1995, Thomas Builds-The-Fire, Junior Polatkin, and Victor Joseph, who also appear in Sherman Alexie's earlier short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, meet American blues musician Robert Johnson.__NEWL__Johnson had sold his soul to the devil in 1931 and claims to have faked his death seven years later.__NEWL__The three Spokane men start a band: Thomas Builds-The-Fire on bass and lead vocals, Junior Polatkin on drums, and Victor Joseph using Johnson's enchanted guitar; they are later joined by Chess and Checkers Warm Water, sisters from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q482424	An Episode of Sparrows	1955-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16796064	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16796064	The novel focuses on children in Catford Street, a working-class street in South London, with much stone and asphalt but only a few patches of green.__NEWL__They are seen through the eyes of a pair of well-situated sisters in middle age, one sympathetic to the children, the other not.__NEWL__The main character is a difficult young girl named Lovejoy Mason, who is unofficially fostered by an aspiring restaurateur and his wife, with whom she has been left by her irresponsible mother, a sub-tenant of theirs.__NEWL__Lovejoy finds a packet of cornflower seeds and plants a small garden in a wrecked churchyard otherwise filled with rubble from the Blitz.__NEWL__Although some other children dislike and humiliate her, Tip Malone, who heads a gang of local boys, comes to take an interest in Lovejoy and her project.__NEWL__Ultimately, several adults become involved in the children's lives as a result of Lovejoy's garden, with significant consequences for their future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6819770	Merlin Effect	2004-09-28T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16723048	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16723048	Kate Gordon travels to a remote lagoon in Baja California, hoping to help her father discover a sunken ship that disappeared centuries ago.__NEWL__In time, she learns that the ship may have carried a mysterious drinking horn out of Arthurian legend, which possibly ended Merlin himself.__NEWL__As she explores alone in her kayak, Kate encounters several pieces of the puzzle: a terrible whirlpool, a group of ever-singing whales, a seemingly ageless fish, and a prophecy that, under certain conditions, the ancient ship may rise and sail again.__NEWL__She plunges into an undersea world of bizarre creatures and terrifying foes.__NEWL__But to save the life of her father, she must find some way to regain her own free will, and to succeed where even Merlin failed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5566569	Glamour Girl	2008-10-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16795100	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16795100	Leanne has turned the tables on her career and is now managing her little sister Jodie's glamour career.__NEWL__Jodie will do anything to get to where she wants to be and is determined to be even more famous than Leanne ever was.__NEWL__So she hits all the parties with one thing in mind – get noticed.__NEWL__She decides that to top it all off she wants the perfect man – Ben Ridely, the owner of a leading property company.__NEWL__But she's too busy spending his money to realise that it's not coming in the legal way.__NEWL__Jodie needs to be careful because if she's not she could end up in big trouble.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764981	The Snake Stone	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z	16795515	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16795515	Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Constantinople towards the end of the Ottoman Empire Constantinople, 1838.__NEWL__In his palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II is dying and the city swirls with rumors and alarms.__NEWL__The unexpected arrival of a French archaeologist determined to track down lost Byzantine treasures throws the Greek community into confusion.__NEWL__Yashim Togalu is once again enlisted to investigate.__NEWL__But when the archaeologist’s mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out there is only one suspect: Yashim himself.__NEWL__As the body count starts to rise, Yashim must uncover the startling truth behind a shadowy society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, encountering along the way such vibrant characters as Lord Byron's doctor and the Sultan's West Indies–born mother, the Valide.__NEWL__With striking wit and irresistible flair, Jason Goodwin takes us into a world where the stakes are high, betrayal is death--and the pleasure to the reader is immense.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1767831	Naïve. Super	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20	Norway	16649342	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16649342	The story is narrated by a man in his mid-twenties who suddenly becomes disillusioned and confused by life and therefore quits university.__NEWL__The narrator becomes fascinated by both modern scientific theories of time and relativity.__NEWL__He reads a book by Paul Davies, exchanges faxes with his meteorologist friend Kim, and also engages in repetitive childish activities such as playing with wooden BRIO children's toys and repeatedly throwing a ball against a wall.__NEWL__In the end, the narrator visits his brother in New York City and returns to Norway with a renewed sense of meaning in life.__NEWL__While the narrator's name remains unknown throughout the novel, the author uses his own name at the end of the book, raising questions about the true narrative standpoint throughout the text.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3629098	Loitering with Intent	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16649707	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16649707	In London in 1949/1950, Fleur Talbot is struggling to complete her first novel, Warrender Chase.__NEWL__She manages to secure a job working for Sir Quentin Oliver as secretary to his Autobiographical Association, whose eccentric members are seeking to write their memoirs.__NEWL__(Being a Spark novel there is much play on the inter-relationship of texts, with Newman's Apologia and Cellini's Autobiography figuring as Fleur's essential reading.)__NEWL__Fleur assists them and begins to notice that parts of her novel start to occur in real life.__NEWL__Fleur becomes increasingly suspicious that Sir Quentin may be blackmailing, poisoning or corrupting the association's members.__NEWL__Sir Quentin meanwhile discovers Fleur's novel in progress and seeks to suppress it.__NEWL__Fact and fiction intertwine with Sir Quentin's fate matching the fate of the character Warrender Chase.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7960828	The Good Husband of Zebra Drive	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	16588581	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16588581	Mma Ramotswe meets her second cousin, who comes to the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency for help.__NEWL__Tati Monyena works for the hospital in Mochudi, where a series of three deaths in the same bed in the intensive care unit, at the same time, on the same day of the week has caused concern.__NEWL__While she is in Mochudi interviewing staff, her assistant takes the afternoon off, and a client arrives.__NEWL__Mr JLB Matekoni, first class mechanic who shares offices with the Detective Agency, meets the client, Mma Faith Botumile, who believes her husband is cheating on her.__NEWL__Matekoni wants to handle the case himself.__NEWL__His wife, Mma Ramotswe, agrees to this after careful thought, balancing the role of women in her agency and the importance of her husband.__NEWL__Mma Grace Makutsi, assistant in the Detective Agency, is engaged to a wealthy man, and her life is changing.__NEWL__One of the apprentices in the garage, Charlie, has an idea to run his own taxi service, with a used Mercedes Benz car he will buy on time from his boss, Mr JLB Matekoni, so he gives his notice.__NEWL__Discussions in the office get tense, as Mma Ramotswe discussed the absence of Grace Makutsi during office hours, to go shopping.__NEWL__Grace abruptly quits and goes home.__NEWL__The next day, Grace Makutsi seeks a new job, having the name of an employment agency in hand.__NEWL__She is startled to meet her nemesis, Violet Sephotho, as the “head hunter” looking to fill positions for experienced secretaries.__NEWL__There is no chance of a good position from her sarcastic, one-time classmate, which gives Grace Makutsi a moment to realize how much she likes her work at the Detective Agency.__NEWL__She takes a cab there, arriving mid-morning.__NEWL__Mma Ramotswe is glad to see her back again.__NEWL__She promotes her to associate detective, meaning she can handle a case from first interview through to the end.__NEWL__The next day, a client will be arriving while Mma Ramotswe will be in Mochudi to make progress on the hospital's case.__NEWL__Grace Makutsi meets Teenie Magama, who knows an employee is stealing from her printing business, and needs proof.__NEWL__That evening, Phuti Radiphuti gives Grace an engagement ring, a diamond from Botswana.__NEWL__He is pleased that Grace did not get another job, as he knows how much Mma Ramotswe relies on her.__NEWL__Charlie's taxi service starts when he picks up a customer before he has his permit.__NEWL__He is distracted looking at her in the rear view mirror and drives through a red light into a truck; although no one is injured, his car is ruined, and he resumes his apprenticeship.__NEWL__While Charlie is away, Mr JLB Matekoni follows Rra Botumile from his office twice, to find the woman he is seeing.__NEWL__The first time he witnesses him speaking with Charlie Horzo, the bad guy of Gaborone, about financial events that will cause the stock to fall in his employer's company in about two weeks.__NEWL__The second time, he brings a camera with him, and takes a picture when Rra Botumile meets a woman at a house.__NEWL__When he brings the photo to Mma Botumile, a sharp-edged woman, her husband comes home, to see that the photo is of his co-worker.__NEWL__He had been following the wrong man, not the husband.__NEWL__He reveals a strong side, telling Mma Botumile not to insult him, sticking to business.__NEWL__He reveals the conversation he overheard, which Ra Botumile understands: his colleague has been giving out private company information, a serious breach of the law.__NEWL__At the hospital, Mma Ramotswe meets with Dr Cronje, who feels these deaths were all of natural causes.__NEWL__Their conversation is tender, as she senses his feeling of belonging nowhere as a biracial man, in contrast to her knowing exactly where she fits in life, in Africa.__NEWL__She then speaks to the cleaner, who uses a very long extension cord to clean the area where the deaths occurred.__NEWL__This woman recently changed her procedure; she had been unplugging a machine so she could plug in the floor polisher she operated.__NEWL__This is the explanation for the deaths, which Tati Monyena learned, and then directed her never to use the outlets in that room.__NEWL__The woman did not know the effect of her prior procedure and needs her job.__NEWL__They resolve this delicate situation without putting the blame on her, the lowest level staff.__NEWL__Grace Makutsi visits the printing company, where her undercover as a customer is quickly blown.__NEWL__With a notion from Mma Potokwane at the orphan farm, giving responsibility to a boy who was stealing, Grace Makutsi suggests a similar ploy for the employee suspected of the thefts, on her second visit.__NEWL__It does not work quite as well, as he steals all supplies on hand and disappears.__NEWL__There is no need to fire him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17105297	Evan Harrington			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23204	Hampshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q174193	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	16531658	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16531658	The second of Meredith's 'mainstream' novels, the work is loosely autobiographical in inspiration; and concerns the social climbing family (three married daughters; one unmarried son) of the recently deceased tailor, Melchisedec (The Great Mel) Harrington.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1917911	A Year in Provence	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z	16694742	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16694742	Peter Mayle and his wife move to Provence, and are soon met with unexpectedly fierce weather, underground truffle dealers and unruly workers, who work around their normalement schedule.__NEWL__Meals in Provençal restaurants and work on the Mayles' house, garden and vineyard are features of the book, whose chapters follow the months of the year.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10339147	Son of the Shadows	2000-09-01T00:00:00Z	16640199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16640199	In this novel, Liadan grows up in Sevenwaters with her twin brother Sean and her older sister Niamh.__NEWL__They are the offspring of Sorcha and Iubdan (formerly Hugh of Harrowfield).__NEWL__Liadan follows in her mothers tradition in learning the healing arts.__NEWL__Niamh has great beauty and is 'expected' to wed Eamonn, a neighbouring chieftain.__NEWL__Eamonn actually asks for the hand of Liadan, she says that she will give him an answer in one year.__NEWL__While staying at Sevenwaters, Eamonn tells a tale of a recent attack by a band of mercenaries.__NEWL__Upon this attack, all his men were killed, and his life was spared by a man called the Painted Man.__NEWL__He swears that he will kill him.__NEWL__During the festival of Imbolc, a young druid named Ciarán tells the tale of Aengus Óg and Caer Ibormeith and catches the fancy of Niamh, they are soon having a secret love affair.__NEWL__Liadan discovers their secret during a walk in the forest.__NEWL__When the truth comes out, Ciarán leaves the Druids and Sevenwaters and Niamh is forced to marry the Uí Néill chieftain, Fionn.__NEWL__Liadan goes with her sister on the trip to her new home and on the way back she is kidnapped by an outlaw and brought to the camp of "The Painted Man."__NEWL__In order to attempt to save the life of their smith who was injured in an accident.__NEWL__She accepts the task and eventually falls in love with Bran, their leader.__NEWL__When Bran finds out that she is actually daughter of Hugh of Horrowfield, he sends her back home.__NEWL__When she returns to Sevenwaters, she finds she is pregnant with Bran's child.__NEWL__The Tuatha Dé Danann demand that she and her son remain in the forest, but she refuses to comply.__NEWL__With the help of Finbar she realises that she has his gift of sight and the ability to read and heal the minds of others.__NEWL__Sean, Liadan's brother and heir to Sevenwaters, wants to purchase the Painted Man's fighting force in their long battle for the sacred islands.__NEWL__All of the leaders go to a counsel to discuss the feud with the Britons.__NEWL__Liadan and her sister visit Sean's future bride and Eamonn's sister at his estate called Sídhe Dubh.__NEWL__During this visit Liadan discovers that her sisters husband has been beating and abusing her, she uses her mind gifts to help Niamh.__NEWL__With the help of Bran they plan on secretly taking Niamh out of Sídhe Dubh and take her to a Christian nunnery where she can be safe.__NEWL__At the last moment Eamonn and Fionn return and attack Bran and Gull as they escape with Niamh.__NEWL__Eamonn returns from the chase and tells the tale of how Naimh slips on the rocks and fell into the bog and died, all that remained was a cord that Liadan made for Niamh that held a white stone given to her by Ciarán.__NEWL__Liadan finally gives birth to her son and her mother and father realise when the child is born that his father (Bran) must have been the son of John and Margery, kinsman of Iubdan when he was Lord of Horrowfield.__NEWL__Liadan names the child Johnny.__NEWL__Shortly after the birth of Johnny, Sorcha dies.__NEWL__But before her death Liadan tells Sorcha, Iubdan and Finbar the story of Niamh's abuse by her husband; the escape from Sídhe Dubh with the help of Bran; and her belief that Niamh is not dead.__NEWL__On her deathbed Sorcha tells Iubdin that he must return to Harrowfield and learn the truth about John and Margery's son.__NEWL__Ciarán returned in hiding as a tinker during the ceremony for Sorcha.__NEWL__He tells Liadan that Niamh is indeed alive and safe.__NEWL__He also tells her the truth of why they could not wed. Ciarán is the son of Lord Colum and the Lady Oonagh, he is half brother to Niamh's mother.__NEWL__So their union was forbidden by blood.__NEWL__This was why they were not allowed to wed and that he could never be a druid since he carried the blood of the sorceress Lady Oonagh.__NEWL__Ciarán gives Liadan a gift for helping rescue Niamh for her abusive husband and returning her to Ciarán, a mysterious raven Liadan names Fiacha.__NEWL__Bran comes to Sevenwaters in secret to meet with Sean and meets Liadan, she tells him of his son.__NEWL__After Bran leaves, Liadan has a vision of her Uncle Liam's death; a vision of Eamonn telling Aisling that she could not marry Sean and then her suicide.__NEWL__They then learn that Fionn was recently strangled in his sleep.__NEWL__Liam was indeed killed by a Britons arrow and his nephew Sean takes control of Sevenwaters.__NEWL__Sean fearful for Aisling convinces Liadan to go to Sídhe Dubh to bring Aisling back so they can be married.__NEWL__Liadan has had visions of Eamonn torturing Bran.__NEWL__When she arrives at Sídhe Dubh she learns from Eamonn that he indeed has Bran held prisoner.__NEWL__She makes a deal with Eamonn, in exchange for not revealing that Eamonn betrayed his kinsman Liam and sacrificed his life in exchange for the Painted Man capture.__NEWL__Aisling will be allowed to go Sevenwaters and Liadan can leaves with Bran and Gull if she can find them and leave before dusk.__NEWL__With the help of some magic and Fiacha they make it safely through the bog that surrounds Sídhe Dubh.__NEWL__Liadan learns Bran's hidden truth about his childhood during her fight to bring him back from the torture inflicted on him.__NEWL__She reveals this to her father Iubdan and she convinces Bran that his future might lie in returning to his roots at Harrowfield in Briton, while his men talk of setting up a school for warriors.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5097899	Child of the Prophecy	2001-08-01T00:00:00Z	16640940	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16640940	Fainne is a sorcerer's daughter growing up in Kerry.__NEWL__Her mother, Niamh (Son of the Shadows) had drowned in the sea when Fainne was quite young, her father Ciarán, the son of Lady Oonagh (Daughter of the Forest) and a former druid (Son of the Shadows), teaches her the art of sorcery during her childhood, including the Glamour, the art of changing one's appearance at will.__NEWL__Fainne becomes close friends with Darragh, one of the tinkers who returns every summer.__NEWL__When Fainne is old enough, Ciarán decides that she must go to her mother's family at Sevenwaters to learn of her heritage, after her grandmother teaches her some new lessons.__NEWL__Fainne's grandmother arrives just after Ciarán departs and teaches Fainne with very strict and harsh methods how to use her gift to make people bend to her will and do her bidding, especially men.__NEWL__After her grandmother's training is over, Fainne is told that she must go to Sevenwaters and thwart the long scheme of the Túatha Dé Danann to get back the sacred islands.__NEWL__The alliance that is preparing to take back the islands forcibly from Edwin of Northwoods is led by her cousin Johnny, the child of Liadan and Bran (Son of the Shadows) and child of the prophecy (that a child of Briton and Erin and of neither, marked by the raven, would save the sacred islands).__NEWL__To force Fainne to do this, her grandmother threatens her father with sickness and a slow death.__NEWL__Her grandmother gives her a charm to wear to protect her from the people of Sevenwaters; in reality, this charm allows her grandmother to see Fainne and to partially control her thoughts.__NEWL__During the trip to Sevenwaters, Fainne and Darragh's easy friendship is broken when they quarrel over the use of her sorcerer's gift.__NEWL__Darragh gives up the travelling life and accepts a job taking care of horses.__NEWL__Fainne arrives at Sevenwaters and gradually becomes accepted as part of the household.__NEWL__After she settles in, she is goaded by her grandmother to start a fire which disfigures her young cousin Maeve and kills a visiting druid.__NEWL__While Maeve is slowly recovering, Fainne and the other young girl cousins are invited to visit Eamonn at Glencarnagh, where Eamonn shows great interest in her.__NEWL__Disappointed at Fainne's continued lack of progress, her grandmother threatens harm to all those Fainne loves, including Darragh, who visits one day.__NEWL__Fainne then bargains with Eamonn for marriage in exchange for information that will allow Eamonn to kill his longtime enemy the Painted Man, Johnny's father.__NEWL__Fainne returns to Sevenwaters and Eamonn's formal proposal of marriage is refused by her uncle Sean.__NEWL__She turns into a moth to spy on a secret meeting at Sevenwaters.__NEWL__Johnny and his mother Liadan decide to take Fainne to the island of Inis Eala where they are preparing for the final battle for the sacred islands.__NEWL__Darragh forces his way into the band of warriors by showing his prowess as a swimmer.__NEWL__Given hope by an unexpected encounter with her uncle Finbar (Daughter of the Forest), Fainne transforms into a dove and follows the warriors to the final battle for the islands.__NEWL__Johnny and Bran lead a small secret mission to sink the Britons' ships, during which Eamonn's spy mistakenly attacks Johnny instead of Bran and is killed.__NEWL__An injured Johnny is captured by the men of Northwoods.__NEWL__Johnny's men believe him dead but go on with the attack under Bran's leadership.__NEWL__Fainne transforms back to human and awaits the right moment to act, coached by the Old Ones.__NEWL__During the battle, the overrun Britons use Johnny as hostage to force the alliance to retreat.__NEWL__Johnny challenges a Northwoods champion to single combat, with the terms being complete control of the islands.__NEWL__During their fight, Fainne comes out of hiding, pushed by her grandmother to kill Johnny at this pivotal moment.__NEWL__Eamonn saves Fainne from death but dies from the Briton arrow himself.__NEWL__At the last moment, Fainne defies her grandmother with the help of her uncles Finbar and Conor the archdruid and is punished by the sight of Darragh being pushed off a cliff.__NEWL__Ciarán then appears to protect his daughter from his mother, who boasts of killing his wife Niamh.__NEWL__Ciarán is almost killed by her himself, but Finbar throws himself in the path of Lady Oonagh's death bolt and dies in his stead.__NEWL__Thwarted, Lady Oonagh reveals the second part of the prophecy, that once the child of the prophecy has retaken the islands that person must climb up to The Needle and remain in solitude watching over the islands.__NEWL__Johnny, a warrior and leader, is not suited to this task; all believe the prophecy has failed.__NEWL__Then Fainne volunteers, as she meets all the criteria of the prophecy: she is both of Erin and Britain and has a scar given her by her father's familiar Fiacha, a raven.__NEWL__Her childhood learning the lore in silence and solitude has prepared her for this task.__NEWL__The Túatha Dé Danann reveal themselves to take Fainne away.__NEWL__The Lady Oonagh still threatens to kill Fainne and is finally turned into a mouse by Fainne and is quickly eaten by a passing bird.__NEWL__The Fair Folk then tell everyone that they all must leave the islands that night or else they die, as the prophecy has been fulfilled and they must begin their lives anew.__NEWL__Fainne is brought by the Fair Folk to the Needle where she and her descendants must remain performing the old rituals, shrouded in the mists hidden from the world until man again remembers his bond with the earth.__NEWL__How will she have descendants she asks?__NEWL__It seems that the Fair Folk and the old ones saved Darragh and turned him into a selkie and Fainne sings him back into a man.__NEWL__Darragh tells Fainne that he is willing to give up his original life to be with her.__NEWL__They are left alone on the island.__NEWL__The island is then shrouded in the mists only to be seen briefly by the occasional seaman until that time in the far future when men again remember.__NEWL__There is an excerpt in the end that gives the readers a peek into Fainne's life.__NEWL__She has two children, a boy and a girl.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10860728	Isle of the Dead	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16714937	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16714937	Lief, Barda, and Jasmine have destroyed the Sister of the North and must travel to the Isle of the Dead, the westernmost point of Deltora, to defeat the Sister of the West.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764525	The Sister of the South	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16714940	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16714940	After destroying the Sister of the West, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine return to Del, the southernmost point in Deltora, to find the Sister of the South.__NEWL__They find that someone is poisoning people at the palace, and a bizarre beast attacks them several times.__NEWL__After Josef dies from poison, they discover that an addition to the Palace Chapel was forcibly added by the Chief Advisors, and that this is where the Sister is.__NEWL__Nevets kills the mysterious beast just as the Topaz Dragon arrives to destroy the Sister.__NEWL__It is discovered that Paff, Josef's new assistant, was the Guardian and was poisoning the people and projecting the beast similarly to Kirsten's specter.__NEWL__She kills herself out of grief.__NEWL__Just as it seems the quest is finished, it turns out that Josef had deduced a terrible secret: the Shadow Lord had a contingency plan.__NEWL__The Sisters' magic, poisoning the land, was also imprisoning a far worse threat: a creature called the Grey Death, a flood of grey liquid that kills everything it touches.__NEWL__Imprisoned at Hira (a.k.a.__NEWL__the City of the Rats), in the center of the land, now it is rising to destroy the land.__NEWL__However, the Shadow Lord did not count on the dragons working together.__NEWL__With the Opal Dragon, Hopian, now awakened, the seven dragons kill four of the seven Ak-Baba and destroy the Grey Death with their fire.__NEWL__The epilogue claims that this victory will be celebrated by a festival called Dragon Night, and that the heroes will marry, have children, and live the rest of their lives peacefully and happily.__NEWL__It is also hinted that the dragons will repopulate.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7428271	Saving Faith	1999-11-09T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16632451	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16632451	The botched attempt on Faith's life led to an all-out hunt for her by three parties – the FBI, the CIA and her boss, Danny Buchanan.__NEWL__Fleeing for her life, Faith was not sure who she can trust, including the stranger Lee Adams who saved her life and admitted being hired to watch her.__NEWL__While Faith was on the run, Buchanan planned on turning tables on Thornhill before it was too late, but found himself outclassed as an amateur against a professional spook.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the FBI began to look among their staff for a traitor, with suspicions falling to the dead agent, and Brooke Reynolds.__NEWL__Despite the setbacks, Thornhill began masterminding several separate moves to deal with Buchanan, Faith and the FBI.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6383211	Keeper of the Doves	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16638957	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16638957	Amen McBee is born in 1891, the disappointing sixth daughter of a wealthy family; but grows up well-loved and into an awareness of everyone's strengths and weaknesses.__NEWL__Her twin sisters Arabella and Annabella teach her boldness and humour; older sisters Augusta and Abigail inspire more kindness.__NEWL__Her father is stern but loving, her mother loving but frail, and she also lives with her father's cold spinster sister.__NEWL__Amen's maternal grandmother, a progressive spirit bearing gifts of cameras, arrives during her daughter's new pregnancy, which culminates with long-awaited arrival of a son.__NEWL__Amen is also learning of the more secret parts of the family history, especially the death of an infant sister, and the mysterious Mr. Tominski, who might have saved her father's life as a child, but now inspires only fear in the children.__NEWL__He lives as a hermit on their property, caring for trained doves, until a misunderstood word brings tragedy and changes the lives of Amen's family.__NEWL__Amen starts to write poems.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7751631	The Miracle at Speedy Motors	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	16593147	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16593147	It has never occurred to Precious Ramotswe that there might be disadvantages to being the best-known lady detective in Botswana.__NEWL__But when she receives a threatening anonymous letter, she is compelled to reconsider her previously unconquerable belief in a kind world and good neighbours.__NEWL__While she ponders the identity of the letter-writer, Mma Ramotswe has a further set of problems to solve, both professional and personal.__NEWL__There is an adopted child's poignant search for her true family, and Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's pursuit of an expensive miracle for their own foster daughter Motholeli.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5247566	Death of a Gossip	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16738220	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16738220	Eight people of varied background meet in the fictional village of Lochdubh in Northern Scotland.__NEWL__They attend the Lochdubh School of Casting : Salmon and Trout Fishing, owned and operated by John Cartwright and his wife Heather.__NEWL__What should be a relaxing holiday amid glorious Highland lochs and mountains becomes a misery.__NEWL__One of the party, Lady Jane Withers, a society widow and notorious gossip columnist, upsets everyone with her snobbishness, sharp tongue and rudeness.__NEWL__Lady Jane soon learns that each of her fellow guests has a secret in their past that they would prefer to remain unknown.__NEWL__When her Ladyship is found dead in Keeper's Pool, no-one is surprised and everyone is relieved.__NEWL__Hamish Macbeth, Lochdubh's local policeman, has to search for a murderer amongst the many suspects.__NEWL__No-one is willing to talk.__NEWL__With the assistance of Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, the love of his life, Hamish solves the mystery in his usual unorthodox style.__NEWL__Hamish's success does not endear him to Chief Inspector Blair, a senior detective from the nearby fictional town of Strathbane.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51839753	The Woman in the Window	2018-01-01T00:00:00Z	57473228	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57473228	Anna Fox suffers from agoraphobia due to a traumatic car accident and lives a reclusive life at her large home in New York City.__NEWL__She recently separated from her husband, Ed, who has custody of their nine-year-old daughter Olivia.__NEWL__However, they frequently talk on the phone.__NEWL__To pass the time, Anna spends her days drinking too much alcohol, playing online chess, communicating with other recluses through the "Agora online forum," watching old movies, and meeting with her shrink and physical therapist.__NEWL__She also spends time spying on her neighbors, including the Russells, a family that moved in across the street.__NEWL__There is Ethan, the reserved and polite teenage son; Alistair, the controlling father; and Jane, a friendly woman with whom Anna shares many interests.__NEWL__One evening, while looking out the window, Anna witnesses Jane being stabbed and calls the police.__NEWL__The Russells deny that any sort of attack took place.__NEWL__The police, including detectives Little and Norelli, also don't believe Anna's story as another woman who claims to be Jane is alive and uninjured.__NEWL__Anna insists the woman claiming to be Jane is not the same woman she met before.__NEWL__Anna has a number of encounters with the Russells and becomes convinced that something is suspicious about them.__NEWL__After she receives an anonymous email with a picture of herself sleeping, she calls the police.__NEWL__A detective confronts her with the tragic truth: Her husband and daughter died in the car accident that triggered her agoraphobia, and she has been imagining her conversations with them.__NEWL__Knowing her medications can cause hallucinations, they theorize that Anna could have taken the picture and emailed it to herself.__NEWL__Anna realizes that the murder may have been a hallucination as well.__NEWL__Anna finds a picture she had taken of the Jane she met and shows it to Ethan.__NEWL__He breaks down and tells her the truth: Jane and Alistair are his adoptive parents, and Katie, the woman Anna assumed was Jane, is his biological mother.__NEWL__Katie tracked down the family in order to see her son again, but her frequent unwanted visits led to an altercation with Jane, which resulted in Katie being stabbed.__NEWL__Alistair and Jane hid the body and lied to the police.__NEWL__Anna urges Ethan to talk to the police, but he convinces her that he will talk his parents into turning themselves in.__NEWL__Ethan later sends a text confirming he and his parents are going to the police.__NEWL__That night, Anna realizes that Ethan mentioned something that he couldn't have known.__NEWL__She is startled by Ethan in her room, where he confesses that he has psychopathic tendencies, that he has been sneaking into her home at night to watch her, and that he has stalked other women as well.__NEWL__He reveals that he was the one who killed Katie because of his resentment about the abuse and neglect he faced as a child under her care, and that his father knew, but kept it a secret to protect Jane.__NEWL__Realizing that he intends to kill her too, Anna flees.__NEWL__He pursues her to the roof where she pushes him through an old skylight to his death.__NEWL__Alistair is arrested as an accessory to Katie's murder, and Anna slowly starts her life over again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56290967	Macbeth	2018-01-01T00:00:00Z	57474638	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57474638	The book opens at a dockside in Fife.__NEWL__A shipment of illegal narcotics is due and Duff, an inspector in the police, has received an anonymous tip-off and plans to intercept the shipment.__NEWL__Things go badly and Inspector Macbeth and his SWAT team have to save the day.__NEWL__This convinces Chief Police Commissioner Duncan to promote Macbeth to the head of the Organised Crime unit, which Duff is unhappy about.__NEWL__At the Inverness Casino, Macbeth and his oldest friend and mentor, Banquo, meet three drug smugglers, led by a man called Hecate.__NEWL__They predict that Macbeth will eventually become Chief Commissioner and that Banquo's children will follow in the future.__NEWL__Macbeth is surprised and mentions the prophecy to his partner, known only as Lady.__NEWL__She convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan at a party a few nights later.__NEWL__Macbeth feels unable to murder an unarmed man but as he leaves the bedroom, he sees a reflection of Duncan preparing to shoot him in the back and turns, throwing a dagger and killing Duncan.__NEWL__Lady wipes blood on Duncan's bodyguards to implicate them and Macbeth later shoots them as they appear to be reaching for weapons after they are confronted by Duff and Macbeth.__NEWL__The Deputy Chief Commissioner, Malcolm, is temporarily promoted to replace Duncan but Macbeth admits to Banquo that he murdered Duncan and convinces him to dispose of Malcolm.__NEWL__Malcolm signs a false confession in the guise of a suicide note and, following the discovery of the note, Macbeth becomes Chief Commissioner.__NEWL__Concerned by the prophecy about Banquo's offspring later replacing him, Macbeth arranges the murders of Banquo and his son, Fleance.__NEWL__Although Banquo is killed, Fleance escapes.__NEWL__Macbeth fabricates evidence of illegal activity against Duff, and his SWAT team are sent to kill him.__NEWL__Duff escapes to the Capitol, where he meets up with Malcolm and Fleance and the three decide to confront and depose Macbeth.__NEWL__After killing her own child, Lady is haunted by images of babies and loses her mind.__NEWL__Without her guidance, Macbeth becomes more unhinged, seeing everyone as a danger to him.__NEWL__He captures Tourtell's illegitimate son, Kasi, and uses him to try and blackmail Tourtell into declaring a State of Emergency, an act that would make Macbeth the de facto ruler in Fife.__NEWL__Lennox, a former inspector who worked for Hecate, is paralysed saving Mayor Tourtell.__NEWL__He is taken to Hecate in a wheelchair and drops a hand grenade into the drugs operation, destroying it and mortally wounding Hecate in the process.__NEWL__Lady commits suicide, leaving Macbeth with only two colleagues who support him.__NEWL__The three are holed up in the Inverness.__NEWL__Fleance attempts to attack them from the rear, but Macbeth stops him.__NEWL__Seyton, one of Macbeth's colleagues, prepares to kill Kasi, but Macbeth stabs him before an old steam engine is released from its plinth and sent downhill into the Inverness.__NEWL__Crashing through the walls, it severs the ropes holding up the chandelier, which crashes down onto Macbeth, injuring him.__NEWL__Macbeth goads Duff into killing him, so that he can be reunited with Lady.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54432962	Calling Sehmat	2018-05-14T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843	Pakistan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843	Pakistan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	57414479	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57414479	The story is set in India and Pakistan of 1971 and revolves around Sehmat Khan who is born to a Kashmiri Muslim father and a Punjabi Hindu mother.__NEWL__Sehmat is a young college-going girl when she learns of her freedom-fighter father's impending death from cancer.__NEWL__As a part of his final wishes, her patriotic father convinces Sehmat to marry a Pakistani army officer, the son of his friend who is a high-ranking Pakistani army general himself.__NEWL__His intention is to place Sehmat as an undercover operative within the Pakistani army household.__NEWL__Before the actual ceremony, she is hastily provided spy training by members of the Indian intelligence organization RAW.__NEWL__After marriage, Sehmat not only manages to gain confidence of her new family and their friends, but also starts to gather vital information that she passes on to her handlers.__NEWL__Eventually she comes across plans, what appear to be, to sink a key Indian naval target using a submarine.__NEWL__At great risk to herself, she promptly manages to relay this information to her handlers who realize that the target in question is which at that point is anchored in the Bay of Bengal as a part of India's naval strategy for the looming war.__NEWL__They are able to provide an early warning to the Indian Navy which proves vital towards India's war effort.__NEWL__Towards the end, Sehmat is discovered but manages to escape with the help of her handlers.__NEWL__She ultimately returns to India, pregnant with her Pakistani husband's child.__NEWL__Her child goes on to grow up and join the Indian Army as an officer himself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56491386	The Poppy War	2018-05-01T00:00:00Z	57405059	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57405059	The novel centers on a poor orphan, Rin, who studies in secret to test into the elite Sinegard Academy.__NEWL__Kuang said Rin's life is meant to parallel the trajectory of Mao Zedong.__NEWL__Grounded in the real-world history of Chinese wars and adding a fantasy drug element inspired by the Opium Wars, The Poppy War is a dark and fatalistic tale of warfare.__NEWL__When a conflict surfaces between the Nikara Empire and their neighboring nation, the Federation of Mugen, Rin is called to the front lines.__NEWL__She must decide whether to make a deal with the gods to unleash her shamanic powers.__NEWL__Her decision may change the war but result in the loss of her humanity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54824098	Christodora (Novel)	2016-08-02T00:00:00Z	57614047	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57614047	In Christodora, Tim Murphy tells the story of diverse characters living in an iconic building in Manhattan's East Village, the Christodora.__NEWL__Milly and Jared, with their adopted son Mateo, live unexpected experiences with their neighbor Hector, a former AIDS activist and a current addict.__NEWL__There are radical changes that occur in their personal lives and community: first, the 2000s hipsters rising after the 1980s junkies and protestors, then the emergence of the wealthy residents of the 2020s.__NEWL__This time travelling novel illustrates the difficult human experiences behind AIDS and puts the destructive power of hard drugs under the spotlight.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q53106103	Diablo Guardián	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	57373671	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57373671	Diablo Guardian is a story in which colloquial language predominates, out of inhibitions and can even be considered vulgar, but that is only a hook to catch the reader; another is the way in which the author gradually captures the attention, as the protagonist's day-to-day goes by and also that, in the middle of the plot, the leading role is stolen and directed towards another character.__NEWL__Violetta decides, in an accelerated moment of frustration, to steal two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars from her parents and cross the border to New York, with this she intends to seek a more accelerated life, full of waste and addictions; once achieving her goal of reaching the heart of New York, Violetta manages to live there for four years in which she learns to live by seduction.__NEWL__Capturing wealthy people in the lobbies of the most luxurious hotels, finding Nefástofeles in one of them, a rogue even more alive than her, who poses as a supposed heir who dazzles her and from that moment on, Violetta's life takes a turn.__NEWL__180 degree turn.__NEWL__Nefástofeles becomes a dagger stuck in the girl's back until she returns to Mexico, where she meets another unique character, "Pig".__NEWL__A writer, who by conformity ends up working as a simple publicist.__NEWL__After Pig's entry into Violetta's life, the Guardian Devil's time arrives.__NEWL__What becomes the crucial moment in history, since it is time to close your eyes, roll the dice and send everything to hell, but this is only done when you really believe that everything is going to end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54488394	The Burning Maze	2018-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	57296986	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57296986	The story begins a few days after the events of the previous book, "The Dark Prophecy".__NEWL__Apollo, in the body of the 16-year-old Lester Papadopoulos, ventures through the Labyrinth with 12-year-old Meg McCaffrey and the satyr, Grover Underwood in a bid to find the third emperor of the Triumvirate Holdings.__NEWL__As the trio face a continuous attack of strigae, Grover unleashes the cry of Pan, the lost god of the wild, and brings them to Aeithales, which is later revealed to be Meg's former home.__NEWL__Mellie, the wife of the satyr Hedge, asks Apollo and Grover to go and check up on Hedge, who is in an army surplus store nearby.__NEWL__The duo goes there, only to face Naevius Sutorius Macro.__NEWL__They escape, when seemingly, a horse, comes and contacts somebody.__NEWL__They head back, and Apollo reveals that the horse is Incitatus, and the third emperor is Caligula, the most feared and bloodthirsty Roman emperor, famous for his murderous reign and insanity.__NEWL__Apollo and Meg along with Piper face Medea in the Labyrinth and defeat her with a poison dart and decide to steal Caligula 's shoes.__NEWL__Mellie reveals that Jason Grace and Piper McLean had gone into the Labyrinth.__NEWL__Apollo and Meg pick up Piper, who is moving away to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and Jason, who is at school and occasionally has fights with monsters disguised as teachers.__NEWL__Jason secretly tells Apollo that he had met with Herophile, the sibyl inside the Labyrinth, who told him that when the next time the duo comes, one of them will die.__NEWL__Fearing Piper's demise, Jason keeps this to himself.__NEWL__Apollo, Meg, Jason, and Piper sneak into Caligula's ship to steal his shoes, which are a priority according to the Dark Prophecy.__NEWL__All of them are captured by Pandai, loyal servants to Caligula.__NEWL__They escape with the help of Crest, a young Pandai and Apollo find the shoes, but then they are captured by Incitatus the righthand horse of Caligula.__NEWL__Jason engages Caligula in a one-sided battle to buy time, only to be stabbed twice by Caligula's spear and kicked by Incitatus.__NEWL__Jason calls his venti (air spirit) before dying, helping the others escape.__NEWL__Upon reaching Piper's home in Malibu, Piper blames Apollo as the reason for Jason's death.__NEWL__Caligula meanwhile sails North to Camp Jupiter.__NEWL__Apollo, Meg, Grover, and Crest enter the Labyrinth and are faced with riddles that seemingly lead to Herophile's prison.__NEWL__However, Apollo gives the wrong answer to one of them.__NEWL__Facing certain death, Apollo decides to find the cause of the flames that have been engulfing the southern lands for a long time and discovers the dead but still burning body of Helios, the lost former god of the sun being used by Medea, a witch whom they had a short run-in with, and Apollo promises to exact revenge for Helios.__NEWL__The trio reaches the Herophile and is faced with another prophecy.__NEWL__They get out with the help of Meliai, ash-tree spirits Meg had earlier planted.__NEWL__They kill Medea and, Incitatus but lose Crest's life.__NEWL__Apollo and Meg entrust Aiethales's safety with the Melai and continue their journeys.__NEWL__Piper moves away, Jason's body is given to Apollo for burial at Camp Jupiter, and Leo takes Hedge, Mellie, and Piper to Oklahoma.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55360330	Conversations with Friends	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z	57590426	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57590426	In Dublin, college students Frances (the narrator) and her best friend and ex-girlfriend Bobbi are noticed by Melissa, an essayist and photographer in her late thirties, when they are performing spoken-word poetry.__NEWL__Melissa invites them home, where they meet her husband, Nick, an actor.__NEWL__Their four lives become increasingly entangled as Frances begins an affair with Nick, and Bobbi and Melissa grow closer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54488439	All Systems Down	2018-02-08T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	57519630	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57519630	All Systems Down begins with a North Korean cyberattack that destroys infrastructure across Western nations, including banks, dams, and the power grid.__NEWL__Russia invades Eastern Europe while China and North Korea invade several US-allied nations in Asia.__NEWL__The book focuses on one character in particular, Brendan Chogan, an out-of-work parking enforcement officer.__NEWL__While interviewing for a security guard position, Brendan recognizes danger when a computer virus strikes Portland, Oregon, destroying internet access across the city.__NEWL__This is just the beginning of the attacks.__NEWL__Soon, the country descends into further chaos when citizens nationwide lose their cellular service and electricity.__NEWL__Traffic backs up as vehicles are hacked.__NEWL__Local water systems collapse as generators fail.__NEWL__Meanwhile, hacker Xandra Strandlien's boss at U.S. Cyber Command sends her to Oregon.__NEWL__Intelligence on Chinese–Russian joint military exercises has led to a fear of a post-cyberattack armed invasion, and the Oregon Coast, which has no military bases nearby, is a potential target.__NEWL__As Brendan and Vailea struggle to secure their home and stockpile food and water, the city descends into chaos.__NEWL__It is there they meet up with refugees, whose storylines converge on Portland.__NEWL__These characters include Kelly and Orion, a pair of pilots whose Super Hornet gave out over the Pacific Ocean, and Annalore and Ireana, campers forced to cross the Coastal mountain range with their children.__NEWL__Both sets of refugees witnessed first-hand the invasion on the Oregon Coast — an armada of Chinese and Russian ships that have slammed into the shore near Tillamook.__NEWL__At the same time, Xandra has flown across the country with a civilian pilot, Lorenzo, and his daughter Carmen.__NEWL__Each of the several groups has faced enormous challenges with the collapse of modern technology, fleeing and fighting as necessary, to finally converge at the home of Brendan and Vailea.__NEWL__There they concoct a plan not just to survive the cyber war, but to hit back against the enemy.__NEWL__Kelly and Orion had spotted a Russian submarine in the Willamette River, which leads Xandra to reformulate some of the code the North Koreans used to dismantle the US Navy.__NEWL__Brendan, Xandra, Kelly — and to Lorenzo's dismay, Carmen — jump out of Lorenzo's plane and into the river, adjacent to the submarine.__NEWL__When Xandra is shot, she gives Brendan a thumb drive with the code, and with Kelly's help they sneak onto the submarine and upload the malware to the Russian intrafleet computer.__NEWL__The code does more damage than they could have hoped for.__NEWL__Not only does it disable the Russian submarine, but it also spreads across the armada.__NEWL__In North Korea and in China, the hacking units are celebrating their victory.__NEWL__But even as they hold victory parades, the lights in their cities go suddenly dark.__NEWL__The code they built to destroy the imperialists has slipped its orbit and come home to them.__NEWL__Blackouts cascade across the region.__NEWL__The cyber war is not over.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54488469	The Flight Attendant	2018-03-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	57496998	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57496998	Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes up with a hangover in a hotel room in Dubai to find a dead body next to her.__NEWL__Afraid to call the police, she continues as though nothing has happened, joining the other flight attendants and pilots traveling to the airport for a flight to New York City.__NEWL__She is met in New York by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Dubai.__NEWL__Still unable to piece the night together, she starts to wonder whether she could be the killer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8028003	With Kitchener in the Soudan, A Story of Atbara and Omdurman	1903-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22878375	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22878375	Gregory Hilliard Hartley is a young man, brother to the heir of an English estate.__NEWL__When he marries a young lady lower on the social ladder than his father wished, he is expelled from his father's house.__NEWL__He soon travels to Egypt, due to his knowledge of Arabic, and obtains employment with a merchant firm.__NEWL__When the Dervishes attack and destroy his employer's warehouse, he joins the army under Hicks Pasha as an interpreter.__NEWL__The expedition is destroyed, and no news is heard of Gregory.__NEWL__His wife lives in Cairo, uncertain of his fate.__NEWL__Years pass, and she brings up their young son, also named Gregory, and ensures that he is taught several native languages.__NEWL__When she dies, Gregory is left alone in the world, with a small bank account and a mysterious tin box only to be opened when he is certain of his father's death.__NEWL__Gregory obtains a position as interpreter in the expedition under Lord Kitchener which is advancing into the Soudan to attack the Dervish forces.__NEWL__He endures many hardships and dangers in the great campaign, and gains high distinction, while continuing his search for his father.__NEWL__Soon, a discovery leads him to a clue, and the tin box, once opened, reveals a surprising discovery about his true identity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4020470	Winter Rose	1996-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22967905	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22967905	When Rois Melior, the wild daughter of a widowed father, first sees Corbet Lynn step from the woods, she is attracted to him despite a sense that he is not what he appears to be.__NEWL__As he rebuilds his family's decaying estate, Rois and her sister Laurel both befriend and eventually fall in love with Corbet.__NEWL__The seasons progress as calm, sensible Laurel begins to change, forgetting her earlier betrothal and becoming obsessed with Corbet.__NEWL__In the winter, Corbet mysteriously disappears and Laurel begins to waste away, much like her mother did.__NEWL__The town believes that the curse that Corbet's grandfather laid upon his descendants has claimed him.__NEWL__Only Rois, who has been able to slip in and out of the woods since she was a child, is able to chase after Corbet and save him and her sister.__NEWL__But the power of the fey is a tricky magic, and even as Rois untangles him from his past, she is in constant danger of being ensnared herself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q208971	1Q84	2009-05-29T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11357338	Sangen-Jaya	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	23008930	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23008930	The events of 1Q84 take place in Tokyo during a fictionalized version of the year 1984, with the first volume set between April and June, the second between July and September, and the third between October and December.__NEWL__The first two books have a dual narrative (like several of Murakami’s earlier novels).__NEWL__One tells the story of a man called Tengo Kawana and the other follows a woman called Aomame.__NEWL__Their stories draw closer together and eventually unite into a single narrative.__NEWL__In book three, a third protagonist is added in Ushikawa, a character who had appeared in Murakami’s earlier novel, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.__NEWL__The book begins with Aomame getting out of a taxi on the Shuto Expressway.__NEWL__After descending a flight of stairs, she starts to realize that she has crossed into an alternate dimension.__NEWL__This world is very similar to hers but with several differences, the most obvious of which is that the Earth now has two moons.__NEWL__We learn that Aomame is a hitwoman and that she specializes in killing abusive men.__NEWL__In her part of the story, she befriends a policewoman called Ayumi, who is later murdered, then works with an old lady called “the dowager” to assassinate the leader of a cult.__NEWL__Tengo, meanwhile, is tasked with re-writing a novel written by a teenage girl called Eriko Fukada.__NEWL__He later discovers that her magical realist novel is actually a true account of her life in a cult and that she did not write the story but rather dictated it.__NEWL__The novel is called Air Chrysalis and involves a race of supernatural beings called “the Little People.”__NEWL__Aomame and Tengo, who had known each other when they were ten years old, attempt to find one another, each believing that they are destined to fall in love.__NEWL__When Tengo has sex with Fukada and Aomame assassinates the cult leader, it opens a portal through which Tengo impregnates Aomame.__NEWL__The two later find each other and escape into what they hope is the real version of 1984, but which appears to be another world due to subtle differences they notice.__NEWL__As with many other Murakami novels, the ending is ambiguous.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7288746	Ramage and the Drumbeat	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22981328	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22981328	The book follows Lieutenant Nicholas Lord Ramage and his experiences commanding the cutter HMS Kathleen.__NEWL__Dispatched by Commodore Horatio Nelson to carry messages to Gibraltar while transporting the Italians refugees rescued in Ramage.__NEWL__During the voyage, the Marchesa and Ramage exchange rings through a faked shooting competition.__NEWL__Soon the Kathleen encounters the crippled Spanish frigate, La Sabina.__NEWL__Deciding that it would be imprudent to leave the hulk drifting at sea, he forces the ship to surrender to his far inferior armed ship by demonstrating that he has the means to blow the stern off the immobile ship.__NEWL__He takes La Sabina in tow.__NEWL__Soon after, two British frigates encounter Kathleen and remove the prisoners from the hulk in tow.__NEWL__The captain of one of the ships also takes charge of the Marchesa, to the great reluctance of Ramage and herself.__NEWL__Soon after, Ramage and the hulk drift into a Spanish fleet returning to the port of Cartagena, Spain.__NEWL__Though Kathleen is captured, Ramage, with the help of Jackson, passes himself off as an American sailor pressed by the British, and receives liberty from the Spanish.__NEWL__While in Cartagena (with other foreign and non-foreign refugees from Kathleen who had fake Protections)__NEWL__Ramage spies on the Spanish admiral José de Córdoba, stealing several official documents from his house.__NEWL__From these Ramage learns that the Spanish fleet will soon sail for the Atlantic.__NEWL__Realizing the danger of the situation, he steals a xebec and returns to Gibraltar, where he finds the recaptured Kathleen.__NEWL__The Commissioner of the port then sends Ramage to find Sir John Jervis and warn him of the battle.__NEWL__After a squall, he encounters the fleet, which quickly proceeds to Cape St. Vincent where they fight the Spanish fleet on 14 February 1797, Kathleen acting as a support ship for Lord Nelson.__NEWL__Entangled in the battle, Ramage and Kathleen become integral in the fouling of aboard San Jose, allowing Nelson in to come into battle.__NEWL__The British fleet is victorious, capturing four ships, and Ramage nearly dies from a wound which knocks him into the sea.__NEWL__However, he is rescued by several of his sailors, but gains no credit for his role in the battle.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5453878	First Term at Malory Towers	1946-01-01T00:00:00Z	22981589	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22981589	Twelve year old Darrell Rivers is travelling by train to her new boarding school - Malory Towers - for her first year.__NEWL__She quickly befriends several of the girls in her dormitory, including lively Alicia and artistic but scatter-brained Irene, though she has trouble getting along with the spoilt Gwendoline Mary Lacey and the withdrawn and unfriendly Sally Hope.__NEWL__Gwendoline, in particular, tests Darrell's temper.__NEWL__When Gwen takes advantage of shy Mary-Lou's fear of swimming by holding her down in the water, Darrell rushes in to rescue Mary-Lou and gives Gwen several slaps (or in more modern versions, a horrible shaking) for teasing her.__NEWL__She even flares up at the head girl Katherine for not punishing people like Gwendoline and making sure that they learned their lesson.__NEWL__Soon afterwards however, Darrell regrets her loss of temper and apologises to Katherine and Gwen.__NEWL__Mary-Lou becomes devoted to Darrell, annoying her with her efforts to become her friend.__NEWL__Later, Darrell attempts to boost Mary-Lou's self-confidence by pretending to have difficulties in the water and allowing herself to be saved by Mary-Lou.__NEWL__During the half-term break, Darrell asks Sally if she would like spend the day with her and her parents, but is turned down.__NEWL__Later, when Darrell asks Sally about her baby sister, Sally denies having one.__NEWL__Their conversation devolves into an argument, and Darrell pushes Sally to the ground.__NEWL__The next morning Sally is seriously ill, and Darrell begins to worry that she caused Sally's illness by pushing her.__NEWL__A doctor is called to see Sally, and it happens to be Darrell's father, Dr. Rivers, who is nearby after the half term holiday.__NEWL__Things are sorted out when Darrell's father explains that he came to operate on Sally and says it was not Darrell who made Sally ill.__NEWL__Sally admits to Darrell she does have a sister, but pretended she didn't because she was jealous of sharing her mother with the baby.__NEWL__Darrell and Sally become friends when Darrell shares her own experiences of being a big sister.__NEWL__Gwendoline becomes increasingly jealous of Darrell's growing popularity and decides to ruin her reputation.__NEWL__She destroys Mary-Lou's favourite pen and smears ink on Darrell's shoes to frame her.__NEWL__Darrell's denials are not believed by most of the other first-formers, who recall her fierce temper.__NEWL__Even Alicia, with whom Darrell wants to be best friends, does not believe her.__NEWL__Only Sally and Mary-Lou herself stand by Darrell.__NEWL__Determined to help Darrell, Mary-Lou collects evidence (Gwen's inky shoes) to show that Gwen broke her pen, satisfying the first-formers and proving Darrell's innocence.__NEWL__Term ends with Darrell turning down Alicia's friendship to be with Sally and Mary-Lou.__NEWL__She leaves by train with Sally, promising she'll be back at Malory Towers next term.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7261728	Push	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22769681	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22769681	Claireece Precious Jones is an obese, illiterate 16-year-old girl who lives in Harlem with her abusive mother Mary.__NEWL__Precious is a few months pregnant with her second child, the product of her father raping her; he is also the father of her first child (who has Down syndrome).__NEWL__When her school discovers the pregnancy, it is decided that she should attend an alternative school.__NEWL__Precious is furious, but the counselor later visits her home and convinces her to enter an alternative school, located in the Hotel Theresa, called Higher Education Alternative Each One Teach One.__NEWL__Despite her mother's insistence that she apply for welfare, Precious enrolls in the school.__NEWL__She meets her teacher, Ms. Blu Rain, and fellow students Rhonda, Jermaine, Rita, Jo Ann, and Consuelo.__NEWL__All of the girls come from troubled backgrounds.__NEWL__Ms. Rain's class is a pre-GED class for young women who are below an eighth-grade level in reading and writing and therefore are unprepared for high school-level courses.__NEWL__They start off by learning the basics of phonics and vocabulary building.__NEWL__Despite their academic deficits, Ms. Rain ignites a passion in her students for literature and writing.__NEWL__She believes that the only way to learn to write is to write every day.__NEWL__Each girl is required to keep a journal.__NEWL__Ms. Rain reads their entries and provides feedback and advice.__NEWL__By the time the novel ends, the women have created an anthology of autobiographical stories called "LIFE STORIES – Our Class Book" appended to the book.__NEWL__The works of classic African-American writers such as Audre Lorde, Alice Walker and Langston Hughes are inspirational for the students.__NEWL__Precious is particularly moved by The Color Purple.__NEWL__While in the hospital giving birth to son Abdul Jamal Louis Jones, Precious tells a social worker that her first child is living with her grandmother.__NEWL__The confession leads to Precious' mother having her welfare taken away.__NEWL__When Precious returns home with Abdul, her enraged mother chases her out of the house.__NEWL__Homeless and alone, she first passes a night at the armory, then turns to Ms. Rain, who uses all of her resources to get Precious into a halfway house with childcare.__NEWL__Her new environment provides her with the stability and support to continue with school.__NEWL__The narrative prose, told from Precious' voice, continually improves in terms of grammar and spelling, and is even peppered with imagery and similes.__NEWL__Precious has taken up poetry, and is eventually awarded the Mayor's office's literacy award for outstanding progress.__NEWL__The accomplishment boosts her spirits.__NEWL__As her attitude changes and her confidence grows, Precious thinks about having a boyfriend, and a real relationship with someone near her age who attracts her interest.__NEWL__Her only sexual experience thus far has been the rape and sexual abuse by her mother and father.__NEWL__As she tries to move beyond her traumatic childhood and distance herself from her parents, her mother turns up to announce that her father has died from AIDS.__NEWL__Testing verifies that Precious is HIV positive, but her children are not.__NEWL__Her classmate Rita encourages Precious to join a support group, as well as an HIV-positive group.__NEWL__The meetings provide a source of support and friendship for Precious as well as the revelation that her color and socioeconomic background were not necessarily the cause of her abuse.__NEWL__Women of all ages and backgrounds attend the meetings.__NEWL__The book concludes with no specific fate outlined for Precious; the author leaving her future undetermined.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7741306	The Iciest Sin	1990-10-04T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22752263	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22752263	Additional Secretary for Department for Home Affairs Mr Z. R. Mistry requests Inspector Ghote's assistance on a strictly private matter.__NEWL__Unfortunately Mr Mistry has not selected Ghote for his zeal or powers of deduction but because he is "not in a position to make trouble".__NEWL__Thrust into a tangle of illegal activities including blackmail and murder, Ghote finds himself balanced on a knife-edge between right and wrong as he faces his greatest ever test as a detective and a person.__NEWL__The title is explained early in the novel by the character Z. R. Mistry: "Blackmail," he said, "Perhaps the most hateful crime, short of murder, that is to be found.__NEWL__I once read of it described as the iciest sin."__NEWL__(Keating, The Iciest Sin, Hutchinson, 1990, page 2).__NEWL__On the dedication page Keating attributes the line "Blackmail is the iciest sin" to Rebecca West.__NEWL__Senior government official, Mr Mistry, requests Ghote's assistance on a "private matter".__NEWL__Mr Mistry's neighbour, Miss Daruwala, is blackmailing a Mr Pipewalla.__NEWL__Ghote is told to break into Daruwala's flat, spy on her then use what he sees to force her to leave India.__NEWL__Ghote considers this housebreaking and blackmail but cannot refuse.__NEWL__At home Ghote's son, Ved, attempts to blackmail Ghote into buying a computer by threatening to tell Protima, Ghote's wife, their television was bought on the black market.__NEWL__The next day Ghote blackmails a locksmith to get keys to Miss Daruwala's apartment, which Ghote's searches until she returns with Dr Edul Commissariat, a famous scientist.__NEWL__Ghote hides overhears that Commissariat submitted someone else's thesis as own work.__NEWL__Miss Daruwala demands "one lakh in cash" (100,000 rupees).__NEWL__Commissariat murders Miss Daruwala with a swordstick and burns the documents that incriminate her victims.__NEWL__Afterwards, Ghote leaves his hiding place.__NEWL__He did not arrest Commissariat because the Doctor is a humanitarian and Miss Daruwala's was a blackmailer.__NEWL__Feeling responsible Dr Commissariat's fate, Ghote tells Mr Mistry that Daruwala is dead but not who murdered her.__NEWL__Inspector Arjun Singh of Crime Branch investigates the murder, reported by Ghote's anonymous phone call.__NEWL__Ghote's is assigned to a blackmail case.__NEWL__Tabloid newspaper, Gup Shup, has blackmailed people into paying for an entry in Indians of Merit and Distinction.__NEWL__Freddy Kersasp is the ringleader but the evidence points to his office manager, Shiv Chand.__NEWL__Ghote arranges a sting operation, in which two people witness the payment.__NEWL__Ghote returns home and finds Mr Ranchod, Mr Mistry's servant, waiting.__NEWL__Ranchod believes Ghote is blackmailing the murderer.__NEWL__Unwilling to tell Ranchod the truth, Ghote pays him one hundred rupees.__NEWL__Ghote's sting operation goes well and Shiv Chand is arrested.__NEWL__Chand refuses to testify against Freddy Kersasp who is in the USA.__NEWL__Days pass.__NEWL__Inspector Singh's investigation makes no progress.__NEWL__Ranchod demands more money.__NEWL__Kersasp returns and fires Chand.__NEWL__Chand tells Ghote everything, but Kersasp's blackmail victims refuse to testify.__NEWL__Ghote learns that Kersasp was the prime suspect in a robbery and murder thirty-seven years ago.__NEWL__Enquiries in England reveal that Kersasp did not raise the funds to start his newspaper by running a magazine there, as he claimed.__NEWL__There is insufficient evidence to convict Kersasp, but Ghote is ordered to blackmail him into leaving the country.__NEWL__Ghote does so.__NEWL__Ghote refuses to pay Ranchod when they next meet and several weeks go by.__NEWL__Then Inspector Singh is transferred to the Vigilance Branch of Bombay Police (Internal Affairs) and the Daruwala murder case abandoned.__NEWL__The next morning a notorious gangster, Mama Chiplunkar, approaches Ghtoe.__NEWL__Ranchod has spoken to Chiplunkar who intends to blackmail Ghote for confidential information.__NEWL__The following day Chiplunkar repeats his demand and Ghote gives in.__NEWL__In court Shiv Chand is found guilty.__NEWL__Ghote plans to push Chiplunkar under a train and arranges a meeting with Chiplunkar at Grant Road Station, using information about a raid as bait.__NEWL__A perfect opportunity to kill Chiplunkar arises but Ghote cannot bring himself to do it.__NEWL__Ghote rejects Chiplunkar's blackmail attempt and escapes on a train.__NEWL__Ghote considers suicide, as he believes Chiplunkar will soon expose and disgrace him.__NEWL__He waits two days then learns Chiplunkar has fled to Ahmedabad.__NEWL__Ghote is called to the assistant commissioners office where he learns Chiplunkar has purchased Daruwala's flat as a hideout.__NEWL__Ghote deduces that Ranchod is hidden there, waiting for Chiplunkar's order to testify against Ghote.__NEWL__In spite of this, Ghote assists the search team in entering the property.__NEWL__Inside they find Ranchod dead from an overdose of narcotics.__NEWL__Chiplunkar returns home and is arrested for drug possession.__NEWL__Anything Chiplunkar says about Ghote will be ignored without Ranchod.__NEWL__Ghote goes home and tells Ved that he can have the computer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7773295	The Wall-to-Wall Trap	22863545	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22863545	Ted is a publicity department executive at the Manhattan office of Above All Pictures, a movie production company in the mid-1950s.__NEWL__His high salary affords him a nice car and furnishes his large apartment, where he lives with his wife, Roxy, and their two children.__NEWL__Although Ted has experience in the specious marketing game played between publicists, actors, directors, producers, and tabloid journalists, he feels trapped in office politics after a rumor is started that he is about to be fired by his new boss, Larry.__NEWL__Larry takes the Machiavellian approach to management, even convincing Ted to shed crocodile tears over his potentially destitute family during a business dinner with a magazine editor.__NEWL__Ted hopes to secure a headlining article to back up a publicity stunt for Above__NEWL__All's latest movie.__NEWL__Without the article, Ted's stunt will backfire, the movie may flop, and Ted is certain to be fired.__NEWL__Ted's former boss, Willie – who had left Above All to be a television executive in Chicago, Illinois – had a more lenient management approach.__NEWL__Willie is virtually blind to incompetence and seeks unconditional loyalty.__NEWL__He surrounds himself with yes men and rewards those that let Willie all but run their lives for them.__NEWL__Ted perceives it as security through fealty.__NEWL__Before Ted leaves Above All for Chicago, he and Willie have a falling-out.__NEWL__ Ted now strives to prove himself to Larry and the other executives at Above All, to thwart the rumor of his imminent firing.__NEWL__Ted acknowledges Larry's cutthroat methods, but prefers the stress over sucking up to Willie.__NEWL__Ted's wife wants him to reconcile with Willie and take a cushy, stress-free job in Chicago.__NEWL__Ted contemplates leaving the industry altogether, knowing it will mean sacrificing his lavish lifestyle and his socializing with the well-to-dos in the movie industry.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6547048	Like	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q350	Cambridge	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22756099	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22756099	The novel is told in two parts: the first is set in present-day Scotland where Amy Shone, a seemingly itinerant and illiterate drifter has just found work as the caretaker of a caravan site and camping ground.__NEWL__She lives with her nearly eight-year-old daughter, Kate, and their patchwork lives are thrown into relief with glimpses of Amy's more glamorous past, when she was a Cambridge scholar.__NEWL__When a random phone call for an interview brings mention of her one-time friendship with a young actress named Aisling (Ash) McCarthy, the mysteries of Amy's unraveled life begin to settle.__NEWL__The second half of the book is a journal, written by Amy's old friend and actress, Aisling McCarthy, found in a box of Amy's old journals that her daughter Kate has read.__NEWL__Ash's journal is a headlong rush through her relationship with Amy from its dizzy beginning to its fiery end.__NEWL__Ash's journal highlights a tale of opposites - with twin desires as well as a subtle metaphor of Scotland and England themselves: two countries forever connected and forever apart.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2247783	Beat the Reaper	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z	22963253	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22963253	The plot, written in first-person and alternating between present-day scenes and flashbacks, concerns Peter Brown, a medical resident in the Federal Witness Protection Program.__NEWL__In the flashback chapters Brown narrates how, under his real name of Pietro Brnwa, he fell in with a Mafia family and became a hitman after avenging the deaths of his grandparents who had survived the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.__NEWL__In the present, Brown must help save the life of a mobster who knew him as Brnwa, lest the patient reveal Brnwa/Brown's location to the local crime boss.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7758274	The Prince of Tides	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22950159	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22950159	Tom Wingo is a middle-aged man with a wife and three young daughters who has recently lost his job as a high school English teacher and football coach.__NEWL__He learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempted suicide yet again.__NEWL__Starting in her childhood, Savannah experienced visual and aural hallucinations involving bloody figures and dogs which tell her to kill herself.__NEWL__Savannah moves to New York City and becomes an emerging writer of poetry, writing about her past as a way to escape from it.__NEWL__After many years, Savannah attempts suicide and nearly dies, the hallucinations still haunting her.__NEWL__Tom agrees to go to New York to look after his sister until she is well again.__NEWL__Before he leaves his home in South Carolina, he learns that Sallie, his wife, is having an affair.__NEWL__He is not completely surprised as he has not been very affectionate toward her.__NEWL__ In New York, Tom stays at Savannah’s apartment, as she is in the hospital.__NEWL__He meets with her psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein, and agrees to stay in the city until he has filled Susan in on the dysfunctional childhood he and Savannah shared.__NEWL__Susan does not think it is a good idea for Tom to visit Savannah for a while since contact with any of her family greatly disturbs her.__NEWL__Susan and Tom grow close during all the time they spend together talking about Savannah.__NEWL__They are very different people: Susan is a wealthy Jewish psychiatrist who lives in New York City and Tom is a Catholic teacher who grew up poor in rural Colleton County, South Carolina.__NEWL__They often butt heads, but they develop a relationship of mutual comfort and respect.__NEWL__Susan tells Tom about her shaky marriage to Herbert Woodruff, a famous concert violinist, and her husband’s affair with another woman.__NEWL__Tom and Susan spend a lot of time together socially as well as professionally.__NEWL__He also agrees to coach Susan’s difficult teenaged son, Bernard, in football.__NEWL__Tom recounts his sad and horrific childhood for Susan in hopes that it might help her save Savannah.__NEWL__We learn that Tom and his siblings, twin sister Savannah and their elder brother, Luke, were the offspring of an abusive father and uncaring mother.__NEWL__Their father, Henry, a WWII bomber crewman who survived being shot down and managed to evade capture by the Nazis, thought that the best way to raise a family was by beating them, and did so regularly.__NEWL__He was a shrimp boat operator and, despite being successful at that profession, spent all of his money on frivolous business pursuits.__NEWL__One business attempt was a gas station that he advertised with a live tiger, which became the family pet, Caesar.__NEWL__These attempts leave the family in poverty.__NEWL__Their overly proud, status-hungry mother, Lila, was only concerned about the family's public image and would not let her children say a word about their father's abuse.__NEWL__Eventually, Tom reveals the most traumatic event of their childhood, which ultimately caused the first of several of Savannah's suicide attempts.__NEWL__A man the children nickname "Callanwolde,” who they first encounter in the woods next to their grandmother's home in Atlanta, later escapes from prison with two other men and goes to the Wingo home on Melrose Island, South Carolina when the twins were 18.__NEWL__They rape Tom, Savannah, and Lila.__NEWL__Luke, who was working outside, comes to the house, sees the men through the window, and releases Caesar, who kills the men raping Lila and Savannah.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Tom kills the man who raped him.__NEWL__Lila and the children dispose of the men's bodies and she makes them promise that they will never tell a soul about what happened.__NEWL__After the revelation of the rape, Susan feels that she is even closer to helping Savannah.__NEWL__Tom says the worst thing that happened to their family was Luke’s death.__NEWL__This is the incident that caused Tom to have a nervous breakdown and lose his job.__NEWL__He then tells the story of how Luke died.__NEWL__Lila ends up divorcing Henry many years later, and marries Reese Newbury, a prominent landowner in the city of Colleton and the father of Tom's childhood rival.__NEWL__Lila had gained Melrose Island in the divorce settlement, and sells it to Newbury, who in turn sells it to the Atomic Energy Commission, who are beginning construction of production plants there.__NEWL__Luke, an ex-Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam, decides to fight for his land and the city by using guerrilla tactics to destroy bridges and building equipment, leading him to become a wanted man.__NEWL__An FBI agent approaches Tom and asks him to offer Luke a deal of only three to five years in prison in exchange for his cease-fire.__NEWL__Both Savannah and Tom track down Luke, and they try to persuade him to give up instead of being killed by the FBI.__NEWL__Luke agrees to the deal, but on his way to the rendezvous point to surrender, he is shot and killed by a soldier who did not know about the agreement.__NEWL__Luke's death was the driving force behind Savannah's latest suicide attempt, and Susan and Tom figure out that in order to save Savannah, she would have to write poetry about Luke's life the way she wrote about her childhood.__NEWL__Tom and Susan begin an affair, but Tom realizes that he still loves Sallie.__NEWL__During his time in the city, he becomes a new man.__NEWL__He falls in love with life again and owes much of his transformation to Susan.__NEWL__After saving Savannah, Tom and Susan part ways and he returns to his family in South Carolina, reconciling with Sallie.__NEWL__He becomes much closer to his wife and daughters as a result of his time in New York.__NEWL__We later learn that Susan ends up divorcing Herbert and is now dating a lawyer.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Savannah recovers from her suicide attempt, and she and Tom become closer to each other.__NEWL__Henry, after being released from prison for drug trafficking, is confronted by Tom about his abuse.__NEWL__However, he does not remember ever hurting his family.__NEWL__Although Savannah and Tom can never completely forgive Henry for the damage that he did, they look forward to getting to know their father better, who acts like a changed man.__NEWL__Despite an earlier apologetic conversation between Lila and Tom, he and Savannah have not completely repaired their relationship with their mother.__NEWL__At the novel’s conclusion, it appears that despite all that has happened, everyone will be all right.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2247404	The Snowman	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q585	Oslo	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20	Norway	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20	Norway	22951256	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22951256	In 1980, a married woman has illicit sex with a lover while her adolescent son waits in a car outside; their lovemaking is disturbed when they think somebody is looking at them from outside the window, which turns out to have been only a tall snowman.__NEWL__Twenty-four years later, Norwegian police inspector Harry Hole investigates a string of murders of women around Oslo.__NEWL__His FBI training leads him to search for links between the cases, and he finds two of them—each victim is a married mother and a snowman appears at every murder scene.__NEWL__Looking through cold cases, Hole realises that he is tracking Norway's earliest known serial killer.__NEWL__Most of the victims vanished after the first snowfall of winter, and snowmen were found near each scene.__NEWL__Further digging leads Hole and his team, including newcomer Katrine Bratt, to suspect that paternity issues with the children of the victims may be a motive for the murders.__NEWL__They discover that all of the victims' children have different biological fathers from the men they believe to be their father.__NEWL__Following DNA testing, results lead the investigation down a few wrong turns and several suspects are eliminated from the inquiry.__NEWL__Within a short time, Hole and Bratt are romantically drawn together, although Hole does not pursue her overture.__NEWL__Hole sees her as a kindred spirit and a brilliant, dedicated detective in her own right.__NEWL__However, suspicion falls on Bratt being the killer after she attempts to frame one of the prime suspects.__NEWL__Hole chases her across Norway and catches up with her at a previously discovered murder site.__NEWL__She is apprehended and committed to a psychiatric unit.__NEWL__Hole's superiors, concerned that Bratt's arrest for the murders will damage their reputation, suggest putting Hole forward as a scapegoat for the press.__NEWL__Harry's superior, Gunnar Hagen, intervenes and offers himself as scapegoat in Harry's stead.__NEWL__When another victim is discovered, Hole realises that the killer is still at large.__NEWL__Due to a random thought triggered by a chance comment, he makes a vital connection that ultimately leads him to the identity of the true perpetrator.__NEWL__His success in finally apprehending the killer obviates any need for a scapegoat, and Bratt, following further mental stability checks, returns to her post in Bergen.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5071935	Changes	2010-04-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22748367	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22748367	Susan Rodriguez contacts Dresden to tell him they have a daughter, Margaret Angelica ("Maggie" for short), who has been kidnapped by the Duchess Arianna, the widow of a Red Court duke that Ebenezar McCoy thought he had killed several years earlier.__NEWL__Dresden goes to Edinburgh to seek help from the Council.__NEWL__However, upon his arrival, he discovers Arianna is there, hosting a peace conference with the rest of the Council.__NEWL__Dresden openly challenges Arianna to a duel to the death over his daughter's kidnapping, but is prevented from carrying it through by the other members of the Council.__NEWL__Infuriated, Dresden returns home.__NEWL__After an explosion destroys his office building, Dresden learns from Karrin Murphy he is under investigation by the FBI.__NEWL__After being released and having a talk with his fairy godmother, Dresden is eventually directed to the Norse God Odin, who tells him that the Red Court is going to use Maggie for a powerful blood curse that will kill everyone related to her, including Dresden.__NEWL__Dresden decides to investigate Rudolph, the Chicago police detective who implicated him in the office explosion, reasoning that he must have implicated Dresden because of pressure coming from the Red Court.__NEWL__During this investigation, he encounters the 'Eebs', a husband and wife team of Red Court vampires who have been sent to both assassinate Rudolph and to dissuade Dresden from going after Arianna.__NEWL__After a close call with them, Dresden returns home, only to have his apartment firebombed.__NEWL__During his subsequent attempts to rescue the other residents in his building, Dresden's back is broken, and Sanya shows up just in the nick of time.__NEWL__With no other options open to him, Harry turns to Queen Mab; accepting her offer of the Winter Knighthood in exchange for her healing his broken spine and granting him the power he needs to save his daughter.__NEWL__The Leanansidhe, who has been assigned to aid in this quest by Mab, joins in the planning.__NEWL__With help from his godmother, Sanya, Karrin, Thomas, Molly, Susan and Martin, they set out on the first leg of the journey to where his daughter is being held.__NEWL__Along the way, Harry uses a sending stone to communicate with Ebenezar, informing him that Maggie is his daughter.__NEWL__Upon learning this, Ebenezar changes his mind, encourages Dresden to do what he needs to do.__NEWL__Confronting the Red Court, the Red King grants Harry an audience.__NEWL__The Red King agrees to allow Dresden to duel Arianna in exchange for Maggie's life.__NEWL__After Dresden finally kills her, the Red King refuses to honor their agreement.__NEWL__The group then engages in a seemingly hopeless battle against the Vampires, only to be joined at the height by the Grey Council -including Odin and Ebenezar - and an army of kenku, birdlike creatures from the Nevernever.__NEWL__After a seeming betrayal by Martin that causes Susan to lose control and drink his blood, Dresden learns that all of Martin's actions have been to put someone in a position to destroy the entire Red Court in one blow, namely Susan.__NEWL__The curse had originally been aimed at Ebenezar McCoy, revealed to be Harry's maternal grandfather, through Harry and his daughter.__NEWL__Dresden instead carries Susan to the altar and cuts her throat with her permission, unleashing the Bloodline Curse upon the Red Court and killing every last one, now that Susan had become the youngest vampire of the Red Court.__NEWL__The few half vampires who are not killed by the removal of their vampire halves, as well as the Red King's Mortal followers, are almost all destroyed by the angered captives of the Red Court.__NEWL__In the aftermath, Dresden realizes he can never provide the sort of home for Maggie he wants her to have.__NEWL__He entrusts her to the care of Father Forthill with a request that she be put in the safest possible place.__NEWL__Later, while recuperating on Thomas' boat, Dresden is shot and falls over the deck rail into Lake Michigan.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4791614	Ark	2009-08-20T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22796625	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22796625	The events of Ark overlap with those of Flood: in preparation for a flood that will completely submerge the Earth's continents by 2052, the billionaire Nathan Lammockson builds Ark Three, a gigantic ship that will sail the waters of the drowned Earth.__NEWL__Skeptical of the project's viability, the U.S. government recruits billionaires Edward Kenzie, Patrick Groundwater and Jerzy Glemp to fund the construction of Ark One (later renamed Project Nimrod'), a generation ship capable of superluminal travel using an Alcubierre warp drive.__NEWL__The plan is to fly Ark One to an Earth-like exoplanet and rebuild civilisation on the new world.__NEWL__The nature of Ark Two is top secret.__NEWL__Ark One requires 80 humans, of maximum genetic diversity to prevent inbreeding among their descendants, to be trained from a young age in spaceship maintenance.__NEWL__These "Candidates" include: Holle Groundwater, daughter of Patrick, specialising in life support systems; Zane Glemp, son of Jerzy, specialising in warp drive physics; Kelly Kenzie, daughter of Edward, a natural leader who is named mission commander; and Wilson Argent, a pilot.__NEWL__They train in an Academy in Denver, Colorado, repurposed as the U.S. capital after the flooding of Washington,__NEWL__D.C. Progress on the Ark's construction is slow, so the military takes over the Project.__NEWL__Initial plans to assemble the Ark in space are scrapped in favor of a Project Orion-style nuclear drive which will send the ground-built Ark towards Jupiter.__NEWL__There, it will gather antimatter particles created by gravitational interactions with Io to power the warp drive; in addition, a sunshade will allow its telescopes to conduct spectroscopic analysis of exoplanets in the hopes of discovering the chemical signatures of life.__NEWL__Mere weeks before the launch, some Candidates are forced out to make room for "gatecrashers", whose presence on the ship was guaranteed in exchange for funding from their affluent parents.__NEWL__Grace Gray, protagonist of Flood, is one of them.__NEWL__In addition, military mutineers (nicknamed "Illegals" by the crew) force their way onto the ship.__NEWL__Nevertheless, the launch is successful and by 2042 they have gathered more than enough antimatter and head for a promising "Earth II" planet in the 82 Eridani system.__NEWL__During transit, it emerges that Zane has dissociative identity disorder due to abusive parenting and sexual molestation by his Academy tutor, while Wilson begins challenging Kelly's leader status.__NEWL__A pregnant Grace gives birth to a daughter, Helen, and the crew suffer deaths and damage during a fire caused by a Candidate's attempted murder of an Illegal.__NEWL__Kelly loses respect when she amputates the instigator as punishment, which increases Wilson's power.__NEWL__Nine years later, they arrive and discover that Earth II is sub-optimal: its high axial tilt creates temperature extremes on either side of its equator, making very little land livable.__NEWL__It is also poor in minerals, presumably exhausted by a previous civilisation which has left ruined buildings behind.__NEWL__The crew are of three minds over what to do next: Wilson, Holle, and Grace join a majority deciding to push on to "Earth III", which is 30 years' travel away in the constellation of Lepus.__NEWL__Kelly leads a group returning to Earth, while a minority colonise Earth II.__NEWL__Once the colonists land, the remaining passengers split up the ship's two hulls and the warp drive to go their separate ways, losing simulated gravity in the process.__NEWL__When Kelly's group water land on the flooded Earth, they make radio contact with scientist Thandie Jones, who discovered the cause of the flooding in Flood.__NEWL__She in turn contacts Edward Kenzie, who despatches a submarine to take them to Ark Two, which turns out to be an underwater habitat powered by the geothermal heat of Yellowstone.__NEWL__Edward berates his daughter for failing him, and Kelly learns that former Candidate Don Meisel and Ground Control commander Gordo Alonzo have both died battling angry displaced persons.__NEWL__She awkwardly reunites with her estranged son and her lover from her Academy days.__NEWL__Edward hopes to eventually colonise the Earth's mantle with a race of genetically modified humans.__NEWL__(Baxter had earlier explored a similar idea in the novel Flux).__NEWL__Meanwhile, the situation in Holle's hull deteriorates as Wilson leads a corrupt gang with his Illegal henchmen.__NEWL__Kelly had kidnapped the ship's only doctor, so Zane is no longer undergoing therapy and spreads rumours that the ship is actually a virtual reality simulation.__NEWL__The shipborn children, having never seen Earth for themselves, believe him and start a mutiny.__NEWL__Hoping to reveal the ship to be a simulation, they remove a metal plate from the hull, causing an uncontrolled decompression which kills and injures many passengers.__NEWL__Wilson escapes in a landing shuttle, but it has been sabotaged, so he returns to the ship in a space suit while the shuttle disintegrates from the warp drive's gravitational effects.__NEWL__A despondent Zane later commits suicide.__NEWL__Holle assumes control of the ship and executes the head mutineer, but keeps Wilson alive because she needs his piloting skills to land on Earth III, a cold tidally locked planet with dense air, a dynamic atmosphere and a red dwarf sun that fortunately appears a familiar white to the human eye.__NEWL__Since the remaining shuttle cannot seat all the passengers, Holle encourages the passengers to reproduce copiously: since children weigh little, many will fit on the shuttle, thus increasing genetic diversity.__NEWL__She sends three adults to accompany them: Wilson, Helen Gray and the Illegal Jeb.__NEWL__Helen and Jeb, whose children are not allowed on the shuttle due to genetic proximity, resentfully board.__NEWL__Wilson sets them down safely on a lake and they prepare to settle on their new world.__NEWL__The remaining crew on the Ark plan to conduct a survey of the planetary system and beyond until they die.__NEWL__Three pendant stories have been published since, two in Asimov's Science Fiction: "Earth II" and "Earth III"; all later published together as "Landfall:__NEWL__Tales From the Flood/Ark Universe".__NEWL__"Earth II" is set approximately 400 years after the events in Ark and deals with the struggles of the descendants of the 15 Ark One crew members who choose to settle there, rather than continue the journey to Earth III.__NEWL__Since Earth II lacks many of the resources needed to build an advanced society (e.g. oil, coal, uranium, precious metals), its peoples (who have now split into warring nations and city states) have largely reverted to pre-industrial technology, reliant mostly on stone, iron and wood. "__NEWL__Earth III" is set approximately 1000 years after the events in Ark and deals with struggles of the Ark One crew members who choose to settle on Earth III.__NEWL__It is revealed that Helen Gray, Wilson Argent, and Jeb Holden fought and killed each other several years after their shuttle landed, forcing the 37 children who went with them to grow up on their own and develop their own society.__NEWL__Zane's quasi-religious idea of the world as a simulated reality persists; however, there is a growing movement of disbelievers.__NEWL__A third tale, "Earth I", followed in a collection called Universes (also published under the title "Landfall"); it is set approximately 10,000 years later and brought characters from several of the now colonised worlds together and revealed the fate of the raft–dwelling survivors on the original, flooded Earth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7456285	Set in Stone	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22982754	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22982754	Samuel Godwin, an aspiring artist, is forced to drop out of art school following his father's death.__NEWL__Without any qualifications, he contemplates what to do for work.__NEWL__Wealthy businessman Ernest Farrow advertises for an art tutor for his two daughters, and Godwin successfully applies for the position.__NEWL__He moves into Farrow's mansion, Fourwinds, with adequate time to pursue his own art.__NEWL__Godwin becomes infatuated with Farrow's youngest daughter, Marianne, but questions remain unanswered.__NEWL__Marianne wanders the grounds at night, while her sister, Juliana, is always quiet and sad.__NEWL__Godwin discovers the previous art tutor, a talented sculptor, was sent away from Fourwinds before he finished his masterpiece.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736265	The Ghost Drum	1987-01-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	23012121	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23012121	The novel is represented as a tale told by the "most learned of all cats".__NEWL__At the beginning and at the head of each chapter, the cat introduces the scenes and the characters.__NEWL__At the end, the cat asks the hearer/reader to pass on the tale so that it may "make its own way back to me, riding on another's tongue.__NEWL__" A slave woman gives her new-born daughter to an old witch to be raised as a "Woman of Power".__NEWL__The witch teaches the girl, Chingis, all her arcane wisdom, including the use of the shamanic ghost drum.__NEWL__With the drum she can enter many other worlds including the ghost-world, the land of the dead.__NEWL__When Chingis's apprenticeship is complete, witches come from all around to congratulate her, but the shaman Kuzma envies and fears her potential for greatness.__NEWL__The Czar Guidon, the latest in a long line of ruthless rulers, has married by the counsel of his advisers, but he is deathly afraid of being overthrown by his son.__NEWL__He imprisons his pregnant wife, Farida, in a windowless room at the top of the tallest tower in the palace, and when she dies in childbirth he orders that his son, the Czarevich Safa, should never leave the room.__NEWL__Marien, Safa's nurse, raises him there.__NEWL__When he becomes restless at his imprisonment, she dares to speak to the Czar about him and is summarily executed.__NEWL__The Czarevich spends many years alone before his psychic cries of distress reach Chingis, and then, with the help of the ghost drum, she finds and secretly spirits him away.__NEWL__He is filled with astonishment and wonder at the world he has never seen so much as a glimpse of before.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Czar dies, and fighting breaks out in the palace as his sister Margaretta ascends to the throne: she determines to find her nephew, intending to kill him.__NEWL__Kuzma, arriving in the form of a polar bear, offers to help her.__NEWL__Using his shamanic knowledge against Chingis, Kuzma succeeds in killing her and capturing Safa.__NEWL__However, in the ghost world, Chingis enlists the help of her mentor and of Marien and Farida, to return to her body and defeat Kuzma.__NEWL__The four spirits take over Kuzma's body and destroy Margaretta before returning to the ghost world to await rebirth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735096	The Fox Cub Bold	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22805766	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22805766	Having left White Deer Park after the defeat of Scarface, Bold is exploring his new surroundings which he refers to as "the real world".__NEWL__He sees a magpie, which criticises him for being out during the daytime and feeding off scraps that many smaller animals would be grateful for, instead of hunting for his own food.__NEWL__Next he encounters a carrion crow who warns him that humans could be about.__NEWL__Bold ignores this warning as he sees nothing to fear from humans and in the following days he encounters several humans who do no harm to him at all, which increases his confidence.__NEWL__A few weeks later, Bold discovers a game wood on some farmland and develops a taste for game birds (mainly partridges and pheasants).__NEWL__He sleeps in a badger set, but its owner soon arrives and wakes him up.__NEWL__Bold is friendly towards this female badger and she warns him about the humans in the area.__NEWL__Bold ignores this warning too and upon coming across a collection of animals killed by the gamekeeper kills and eats a bird in front of it as an act of defiance.__NEWL__However, a few days later he discovers the female badger in a snare.__NEWL__Though he manages to save her by biting through a wire, this wire snaps back and injures his eye.__NEWL__The badger is grateful and offers to help Bold whenever he may need her.__NEWL__One day, Bold hears the sound of gunfire and discovers he has been caught in a pheasant shoot.__NEWL__When a dog comes towards him to get a dead pheasant, he tries to run away but runs towards the hunters because his bad eye prevents him from seeing them.__NEWL__One of the hunters then shoots him through the leg.__NEWL__Bold limps across the field with his injured leg dragging along the ground and eventually reaches a ditch where he is out of sight.__NEWL__Bold sees a dormouse nearby and tries to catch it, but is no longer nimble enough.__NEWL__Bold is unable to move far from the ditch and his diet consists mainly of slugs and insects he can find nearby.__NEWL__Unfortunately, those do not provide enough sustenance and Bold becomes very weak.__NEWL__He is found by the crow he met previously and Bold asks the bird for help, but the crow refuses until Bold tells him that his father is the famous Farthing Wood Fox.__NEWL__After this, the crow agrees to help him and heads off to find the badger that Bold helped.__NEWL__She eventually arrives with three of her kin__NEWL__and they feed Bold.__NEWL__One of the badger's offspring suggests that Bold should return to their set until he recovers.__NEWL__A few days later, Bold prepares to travel back to the game wood with the female badger, whom he has decided to call Shadow because she constantly watches over him.__NEWL__Due to Bold's injury they travel very slowly and when Shadow goes hunting Bold decides to leave as he do not want to be dependent on others.__NEWL__He finds an abandoned earth containing the remains of another fox's catches, which he gratefully devours.__NEWL__The next day he tries to catch a vole but has no success.__NEWL__He then resolves to live by raiding the food supplies of humans as revenge for his injuries.__NEWL__The next day, Bold travels to a nearby farm and comes across a pair of bantams which have been allowed to make their nest in the open.__NEWL__They notice the young fox and escape, but Bold is able to eat the eggs that they have abandoned in their nest.__NEWL__He returns to the farm a few days later and catches one of the bantams (it runs towards him after being startled).__NEWL__While taking it back to his earth, he meets Shadow again in a Swede field.__NEWL__Bold does not want to talk to her as he does not want to share the bantam but Shadow see him.__NEWL__Despite offering part of the bantam Shadow insists that Bold has all of it.__NEWL__Bold returns to the farm the next evening but the remaining bantam has been locked away and the farm dog sees him, forcing Bold to escape.__NEWL__Two humans use their terrier to track down Bold and dig up his earth, but when they see his weakened state they assume he cannot be the culprit and that his mate must have killed the bantam.__NEWL__Assuming Bold will not survive the winter they leave him alone.__NEWL__Bold again meets the crow, who suggests that he scavenge for food in a nearby town.__NEWL__It takes Bold several days to arrive, but when he does the two friends agree to collect food for each other in their scavenging.__NEWL__The crow is the first to look for food and after telling Bold that he has eaten some food left out for a dog or cat Bold decides to call him Robber.__NEWL__As Bold is injured he cannot jump over fences meaning he cannot get into most gardens, so his scavenging is limited.__NEWL__One evening while scavenging Bold sees a vixen in one of the gardens, but she completely ignores him and Bold feels humiliated.__NEWL__Several days later Bold sees the vixen in the garden once more and tries to dig his way in but she comes out to greet him.__NEWL__She tells Bold she moved into this town during the winter because food is more plentiful and offers to help him hunt__NEWL__but Bold's pride causes him to reject her offer.__NEWL__The vixen sees Bold again a month later and tells him she wants to hunt with him, and this time Bold does not refuse.__NEWL__Together they catch some rats and Bold calls her Whisper because of her stealth.__NEWL__Whisper offers to let Bold stay in her earth, but he goes back to his usual home to give one of the rats to Robber.__NEWL__When Bold tells Robber about Whisper, the crow insists that his friend forget their agreement and go to live in the vixen's earth, which Bold does the following night.__NEWL__Bold is unable to jump the wall to get in, but they find a hole through which he can enter.__NEWL__In the earth Whisper mistakes__NEWL__Bold for a much older fox and asks where he was born.__NEWL__Bold tells her he was born in White Deer Park and that his father is the famous Farthing Wood Fox, and Whisper makes a plan which Bold knows nothing of.__NEWL__A few days later they come across a large dog who barks loudly outside their earth.__NEWL__One day Bold cannot get back into the earth because the wall has been mended and the dog pursues him, so Bold hastily tries to make a new hole but gets stuck.__NEWL__Robber comes to his rescue but the dog turns out to be friendly and he helps Bold to make the hole in the wall big enough for him to get through.__NEWL__The dog, a mastiff, tells them his name is Rollo and that he is very lonely during the day as his master has left him nothing to play with.__NEWL__He visits the foxes frequently during the day in the ensuing weeks, even though the foxes are trying to sleep during the day.__NEWL__As mating season arrives the two foxes mate and Whisper is soon carrying Bold's cubs.__NEWL__Whisper tells Bold that she chose him as her mate because he was a cub of the Farthing Fox and she wants their cubs to be born in White Deer Park.__NEWL__Bold is crushed by this but he reluctantly agrees to lead her there.__NEWL__The foxes are fed for their last few days in the town by Rollo, and they head off back towards the country.__NEWL__Heavy snow makes travelling difficult for Bold, so their pace is very slow.__NEWL__Whisper wants to speed up but traveling through the slush exhausts__NEWL__Bold and he collapses on open land.__NEWL__He insists that Whisper go to find cover while he rests.__NEWL__Robber, who has been tracking their journey, discovers Bold on the ground and promises to bring Bold some food.__NEWL__Robber heads back to Rollo, who agrees to bring a bone he has buried to Bold and Whisper.__NEWL__While waiting, Bold digs himself into the snow to hide himself.__NEWL__However, two men with two greyhounds are chasing a hare.__NEWL__One greyhound kills the hare, the other chases Bold.__NEWL__Fortunately, Robber arrives and distracts the greyhound until Rollo gets there.__NEWL__Rollo then grabs the greyhound by the neck, shakes it, and casts it away.__NEWL__Rollo brings the foxes his bone and the hare killed by the other greyhound before heading back home to his master.__NEWL__As the foxes approach White Deer Park, Bold leaves Whisper while she is sleeping and hides himself away, forcing her to finish the journey alone.__NEWL__She arrives at the reserve and meets Charmer, who immediately tells her family of Bold's return.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Robber has noticed Bold go into hiding and offers to feed him, but the injured fox wants to wait for his death.__NEWL__Robber notices Fox and Friendly searching outside the park and leads them to Bold, joining up with Vixen and Charmer along the way.__NEWL__The foxes arrive and Fox tells Bold how proud he is, before the young fox passes away.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5139752	Coco and Igor	2002-07-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22888014	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22888014	Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring has its Paris premiere on 29 May 1913.__NEWL__Coco is mesmerised by the power of Igor's composition, but the audience is scandalised by its discordant, rhythmic music and Nijinsky's primitive choreography.__NEWL__Coco finally meets Igor seven years later, at a dinner hosted by Sergei Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes.__NEWL__Igor has been forced to flee Russia – with his wife and four children – following the Russian Revolution.__NEWL__Coco invites him to bring his family to stay with her at her villa in Garches – 'Bel Respiro'.__NEWL__Couturière and composer soon begin an affair.__NEWL__Both experience a surge of creativity; while Coco creates Chanel No. 5 (with perfumer Ernest Beaux), Igor's compositions display a new, liberated style.__NEWL__But Igor's wife, Katerina, becomes ill with consumption and an unbearable tension takes hold of 'Bel Respiro' and its occupants.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735646	The Gallifrey Chronicles	2005-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22765663	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22765663	The Eighth Doctor, accompanied by Fitz Kreiner and Trix MacMillan, overthrows the tyrant Mondova on an alien world, prevents a time-travelling alien from interfering in Ancient Roman history, and stops a Dalek (never named as such, but heavily implied) invasion of Mars.__NEWL__Against this backdrop, Fitz and Trix have begun a relationship and decide to leave the TARDIS.__NEWL__The Doctor returns to Earth in 2005, materialising at the grave of Sam Jones.__NEWL__When the Doctor claims not to remember his former companion, Fitz becomes angry and leaves with Trix.__NEWL__As the pair attempt to readjust to normal life, it is revealed that Trix has been secretly passing information gained on their travels to another former companion, Anji Kapoor, who has used the information to manipulate the stock market and thus built up a considerable fortune.__NEWL__The Doctor discovers that another Time Lord, Marnal, had also survived the destruction of Gallifrey, and has been living for the past hundred years as a human science-fiction writer (whose books are actually the history of the Time Lords and their homeworld).__NEWL__Marnal, who also claims to be the original owner of the Doctor's TARDIS, blames the Doctor for the cataclysm, and takes him and the TARDIS captive while the insectoid alien Vore invade the Earth.__NEWL__The Vore attack leaves millions dead or missing, including Fitz, who apparently dies trying to save Trix.__NEWL__After a cold fusion explosion guts the interior of the TARDIS, the Doctor discovers that K-9 Mark II has been aboard ever since Gallifrey's destruction, hidden behind a false wall, with orders from Lady President Romana of Gallifrey to kill him.__NEWL__However, K-9 pauses once it scans the Doctor's mind and discovers the reason why the Doctor has lost his memory.__NEWL__It transpires that, just prior to destroying Gallifrey, the Doctor (with the help of his former companion Compassion) had downloaded the entire contents of the Gallifreyan Matrix — the massive computer network containing the mental traces of every Time Lord living and dead, more than 140,000 Time Lords – into his brain, with his own memories suppressed to make room for the data.__NEWL__Gallifrey had not actually been erased from history, but an event horizon in relative time prevented anyone from Gallifrey's past from travelling beyond Gallifrey's destruction, and vice versa.__NEWL__Both the planet and the Time Lords could be restored, along with the Doctor's memory, if a sufficiently sophisticated computer could be found to reconstruct them.__NEWL__Before that could be done, however, the problem of the Vore must be dealt with.__NEWL__Marnal is wounded while fighting the Vore, and being on his last regeneration, he dies.__NEWL__The Doctor tells him that he is his hero, and Marnal dies in peace, confident that the Time Lords will be reborn.__NEWL__The Doctor reveals that the Vore have not actually killed their victims, but sprayed them with a chemical that makes them invisible to humans; Fitz is still alive and the Doctor brings him back for Trix, claiming he brought the dead back to life on his first day on the job.__NEWL__The Doctor, Fitz, Trix and his allies travel to Africa with a Royal Navy Battle Group to confront the threat of the Vore.__NEWL__The novel and the Eighth Doctor Adventures end uncertainly, as the Doctor leaps into the very heart of the Vore hive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7751475	The Million Dollar Putt	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22978157	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22978157	Edward Bogard ("Bogie" for short) is a 13-year-old blind boy who lives in Hawaii with his widowed father.__NEWL__Though blind, he rides a bike, parasails, and plays guitar.__NEWL__When he decides to take up golf he has to enlist the aid of his neighbor, a young girl named Birdie.__NEWL__As their friendship develops, it turns out that Bogie also has the driving touch of a professional golfer.__NEWL__Someone anonymously enters him into a golf tournament and the two join forces to try to win the million
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762917	The Second Form at Malory Towers	22990592	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22990592	It is Darrell’s fifth term at Malory Towers.__NEWL__Along with most of her classmates, she moves up to the Second Form under Form Mistress Miss Parker.__NEWL__ Former Head of Form, Katherine, has moved up to the Third Form and Violet has disappeared from the stories.__NEWL__In their place in North Tower are three new girls: Belinda Morris, Ellen Wilson and Daphne Milicent Turner.__NEWL__Belinda turns out to be as much of a scatterbrain as Irene and the two are instantly drawn to each other, to the despair of their teachers.__NEWL__Her new schoolfriends, on the other hand, are delighted to discover Belinda’s talent for drawing, enabling her to trade many of her chores in return for caricatures of teachers.__NEWL__The reader is given an early hint that Daphne may not be all she seems.__NEWL__On the face of it she is pretty, charming and talks of having a very wealthy family.__NEWL__Gwendoline, vain and snobbish as ever, claims her for a friend.__NEWL__Ellen is a scholarship girl.__NEWL__A running theme of the book is her increasing bad temper, caused by her worrying about succeeding at Malory Towers and overworking.__NEWL__Sally asks Jean to try and befriend Ellen and help her settle down, but her efforts are rejected.__NEWL__As the term moves on, Ellen becomes increasingly irritable and unwell, and eventually has to spend eleven days in the sanatorium.__NEWL__This makes things worse for her as she worries about missing lessons and falling further behind.__NEWL__A feud develops between the two Mam’zelles.__NEWL__Each has different ideas about which girls should be cast in two French plays, with Mam’zelle Dupont favouring Daphne and Mam’zelle Rougier having entirely different ideas.__NEWL__Belinda is inspired to draw a set of unkind caricatures of Mam’zelle Rougier, which the French mistress unfortunately sees.__NEWL__Mam’zelle storms off to complain to Miss Grayling, prompting the Second Formers to send a delegation to follow her and apologise.__NEWL__Matters are resolved when Mam'zelle Dupont intervenes, proclaiming her warm friendship with Mam'zelle Rougier and accepting her views on the casting for the French plays.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ellen continues to worry about her work and is frustrated when her requests for extra tuition are refused.__NEWL__In despair, she has the idea of cheating by viewing the examination questions in advance.__NEWL__At the same time, personal possessions are going missing.__NEWL__Emily loses a brooch, Katie loses a necklace and Gwen, Mary-Lou and Betty all lose purses.__NEWL__Alicia remembers finding Ellen rummaging in Miss Parker’s desk and begins to suspect Ellen of being the thief.__NEWL__She shares her suspicions with the other girls and publicly challenges Ellen.__NEWL__Ellen is shocked at the accusation.__NEWL__Having almost decided to abandon her cheating idea, she is overcome with anger and decides that, if the others believe her to be bad, then she may as well be bad.__NEWL__She sneaks downstairs, but disturbs Darrell who follows her and finds her with the exam papers.__NEWL__Darrell loses her temper and a struggle ensues.__NEWL__Darrell accuses Ellen of being a thief and a cheat.__NEWL__After this encounter, Ellen becomes sick with worry and seeks out Matron, who places her in the Sanatorium.__NEWL__In the morning, the other girls believe Ellen has been expelled.__NEWL__Mary-Lou offers to post a parcel for Daphne and sets off for the post office in a windy, stormy night.__NEWL__She does not return and Daphne sets off to find her.__NEWL__A search party is sent out and both Daphne and Mary Lou are found, clinging to the edge of a cliff.__NEWL__Daphne had prevented Mary-Lou from falling and is regarded as a heroine.__NEWL__Darrell, Sally, Irene and Belinda set off the next day to find Daphne's parcel.__NEWL__It contains the missing purses and jewellery.__NEWL__They report to Miss Grayling and Daphne is revealed as the thief.__NEWL__Miss Grayling is surprised at the girls' belief that Ellen has been expelled and realises there is a problem with Ellen that needs to be resolved.__NEWL__Miss Grayling speaks to Daphne.__NEWL__She tells her that she has received confidential reports from her previous schools and knows she has a history of stealing and lying about her family's wealth.__NEWL__However, Miss Grayling also tells Daphne that, by her actions, she has proved she has good in her.__NEWL__Miss Grayling makes Daphne an offer: if she is to remain at Malory Towers, she must confess everything to the Second Form girls and ask for their support to remain.__NEWL__Daphne does so.__NEWL__The girls decide that Daphne's heroism has earned her another chance.__NEWL__Miss Grayling speaks to Ellen and is relieved that overwork is at the root of her problems.__NEWL__The term comes to a close, with Mary-Lou and Daphne now firm friends.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7761020	The River at Green Knowe	22820601	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22820601	Mrs. Oldknow and Tolly do not appear in The River at Green Knowe.__NEWL__It is summertime and Green Knowe has been let to two women, the archaeologist Doctor Maud Biggin and her friend, Miss Sybilla Bun.__NEWL__Doctor Biggin has invited her great-niece Ida and two "displaced" refugee children, Oskar and Ping, to stay with them at Green Knowe.__NEWL__The children arrive and begin to explore the river and canals round Green Knowe by canoe.__NEWL__Unlike the previous two books, this book centres on the river which flows past the manor, and adjacent islands.__NEWL__The children's adventures here are based in their current time, though strongly fantasy-based; they meet a bus driver who's retreated from modern money-based society, see flying horses, meet a giant, and witness a Bronze Age moon ceremony.__NEWL__The subtext, of homeless children being protected and healed by the house and its enchantments, is particularly strong.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7747754	The Little White Car	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22781124	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22781124	In Paris, Veronique has just split up with her boyfriend and is driving home in her "little white car.__NEWL__"__NEWL__While passing through a tunnel in central Paris, a large car approaches from behind at high speed.__NEWL__Veronique is determined to not let it pass, and it collides with the back of her car and crashes.__NEWL__Seeing the news next morning, Veronique realizes "Oh shit, I killed the princess".__NEWL__The remainder of the book tells of Veronique's life and loves before the crash, and the subsequent efforts to conceal her involvement.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385385	Dæmonomania	2000-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22924580	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22924580	In an introductory chapter (chronologically taking place mid-way through the novel's plot), Pierce Moffett takes a bus ride from the Blackberry Jambs to New York City, reflecting on his relationship with Rose Ryder.__NEWL__While Pierce left his Catholic faith in adolescence, Rose is ardently pursuing her faith in the Powerhouse Christian sect.__NEWL__In the Renaissance, John Dee and Edward Kelley again contact the angel, Madimi, who in previous volumes, first commanded their wandering.__NEWL__ The treatments he prepared to grant the Emperor fertility have also failed, and the court grown paranoid, hiring spies who may be watching Dee.__NEWL__Dee arranges for the man accused of being a werewolf, Jan, to seek passage to the New World with Dee as he leaves Prague.__NEWL__He leaves Kelley behind, who on telling the Emperor of his supposed Irish nobility, is Knighted.__NEWL__Dee is further shocked when Kelley tells him and the court that all their alchemical practices were all derived from Kelley's own intuition, and not occult means.__NEWL__In an effort to lighten the load of their ship off the Continent, Dee spills the gold on the ground, much of which has somehow decayed and stinks.__NEWL__He finally returns to England (narrowly missing the premiere of Marlowe's Faustus), and remains destitute for some time, until finally finding a wardenship at Manchester College.__NEWL__In the face of growing persecution, he refuses to harm Catholics, and treats those accused of demonic possession with caution, but kindness.__NEWL__He eventually hears word that Kelley has died, and in fear at his own growing reputation as a wizard, retires from public life, gaining money only by selling his books.__NEWL__On a visit to New York, Beau Brachman is given a tract from a quasi-Gnostic sect, advocating the worship of the exiled "Sophia" as primordial to all religious practice, and the only escape from mankind's "imprisonment."__NEWL__He takes the tract, remembering another copy early in his life, reflecting on how he has followed the broad demands of Ancient Gnosticism to seek spiritual pleasure, but not to procreate.__NEWL__Beau makes contact with a gnostic-like cult in the wilderness beyond the Blackberry Jambs led by an aging patriarch, Plato Goodenough.__NEWL__In the confusion of the crowd, an Ass tied near the area escapes, and wanders out of the city.__NEWL__The chest Mary Philomel unlocked in the previous volume is revealed to not have opened, but responded with sounds resembling internal clockwork continuing for several years and coming to a stop at the novel's end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7729706	The Demon's Lexicon	2009-06-01T00:00:00Z	23005467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23005467	The story follows two brothers with a sordid past, Nick and Alan Ryves, who fight demons and monsters.__NEWL__They are on the run from a magician, from whom their mother supposedly stole an amulet, when they meet Mae and Jamie, troubled teenagers who come to them for help.__NEWL__Throughout the book they face horror, evil and people who just generally want to kill them, while long kept secrets are threatening to unravel.__NEWL__In the lore of the book, humans can either be born with magical powers, or can make pacts with demons who will grant them power or use their own magic.__NEWL__Very early on, Mae expresses the thought that she may have once had magical powers, but that they went away.__NEWL__Nick chastises her for this, saying that if you have magical powers, they never leave you.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7620419	Story of a Girl	2007-01-10T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22866269	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22866269	The story centers around Deanna Lambert, a 16-year-old girl troubled by social exile and branding rumors.__NEWL__When she was thirteen, her father caught her and her brother's friend, seventeen year old Tommy Webber, having unprotected sex in the back of Tommy's Buick.__NEWL__Word gets around by Tommy, and Deanna is named the 'school slut'.__NEWL__Her father becomes distant and cold towards her, never showing any affection after what he witnessed.__NEWL__Three years later, Deanna still lives in her small hometown of Pacifica, California.__NEWL__Her affair with Tommy Webber is still a popular gossip topic and her older brother, Darren, and his girlfriend, Stacy, now live in their basement with their child, April.__NEWL__Keeping a fantasy of moving out of the house with Darren, April and Stacy in her mind and coming to a happy home, Deanna gets a summer job at a ratty pizza parlor, Picasso's Pizza, while also dealing with inhibited feelings of affection for her best friend, Jason, who is dating her other friend, Lee.__NEWL__As the summer progresses, Deanna's secret love of Jason deepens.__NEWL__She begins to become more and more envious of Lee, especially of Lee's happy home and inner peace.__NEWL__One day, Deanna finds that Stacy fled the house, leaving April behind, and does not return.__NEWL__At the same time, she develops a friendship with her boss at Picasso's, Michael, while working alongside Tommy Webber.__NEWL__One evening, Michael gives Deanna a ride home from work and Deanna's father grows suspicious of Michael's motives.__NEWL__Deanna then lashes out at her father for never again trusting her after he caught Deanna and Tommy in the car, which causes her father to temporarily leave.__NEWL__At the end of the story Deanna reconciles with Lee and Jason (after hanging out with only Jason while Lee was on a weekend trip, which ultimately led to Deanna kissing him and asking him why he never asked her out); Stacy suddenly arrives home (it is revealed that she left only intending to party before returning to motherhood); and Deanna decides to truly move on from the affair she had so long ago.__NEWL__Coincidentally, her father also returns to his family and moves on from the past.__NEWL__The story ends with Deanna explaining to Darren and Stacy (who have found an apartment and are going to move in there with April) that she has worked with Tommy for the whole summer.__NEWL__Stacy promises that, while Deanna cannot move in with them, there will always be a toothbrush and understanding people there for her.__NEWL__Soon, school has begun again, and Deanna, Jason, and Lee are now juniors.__NEWL__They ask her if she is ready for the new year, and although Deanna says that she is not ready, Lee tells her it is time to begin it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736634	The Girls Get Even	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22867325	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22867325	The girls plan to play a dirty trick on the boys.__NEWL__When the boys find out, both side make a deal, that who ever makes the best Halloween costume will get to boss the other team around for a whole month.__NEWL__At the Halloween carnival the boys sabotage the girls' costume and the girls sabotage the boys’ costume.__NEWL__The boys are so upset they plan a trick on the girls; they make a fake party invitation saying go to the cemetery and follow the clues they see, and at the end of the clues the boys would pour worms and pasta all over them.__NEWL__But the girls tricked the boys by emptying the bucket of worms and pasta.__NEWL__The boys missed their chance of getting candy, when they got home the girls were waiting and ready for a party.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6541081	Liberia; or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments	1853-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22999858	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22999858	The story follows Mr. Peyton, the eponymous slaveowner who wishes to free all the slaves on his plantation.__NEWL__However, before he can do so, Peyton wishes to make certain that the slaves in his charge will be happy in their new-found freedom, and so decides to conduct three separate "experiments" to test this.__NEWL__In turn, Peyton sends his slaves to a farm in the Southern United States, an industrial town in the Northern United States, and finally to Canada.__NEWL__In all three cases, the slaves end up being even worse off than they had been under slavery, having been bullied by white supremacists who occupy all three places and dislike the presence of coloured people.__NEWL__However, a despairing Peyton is approached by members of the American Colonization Society, who convince Peyton to send his slaves to their native home in Liberia, where they can be happy and free.__NEWL__Peyton and the slaves agree, and the freed slaves in Peyton's charge are sent back to Africa, where they can finally prosper and be free from discrimination.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5055051	Cavern of the Fear	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	22868778	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22868778	In Deltora, a land of magic and monsters, the Shadow Lord's evil tyranny has finally ended after three unlikely heroes Lief, Jasmine and Barda defeated him.__NEWL__He and the creatures of his sorcery have been driven out of Deltora.__NEWL__But thousands of Deltorans are still enslaved in the Shadowlands, the Shadow Lord's terrifying and mysterious domain.__NEWL__To rescue them, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine, heroes of the quest for the Belt of Deltora, must find the Pirran Pipe, the only weapon the Shadow Lord fears.__NEWL__They embark on the dangerous quest and find the first broken piece of the Pipe.__NEWL__There they encounter The Fear, a giant squid or mollusk-like creature with a shell of rock and a tearing beak, whom the three companions battle.__NEWL__In the end, they are not able to defeat it, but then Glock of the Jalis manages to stab a sword down its throat, finally killing it.__NEWL__Glock however dies not long after and is buried among the graves of the past pipers (leaders) of the Plume tribe, on Plume island.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7749182	The Lump of Coal	2008-09-30T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22844537	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22844537	It is Christmas time.__NEWL__A living lump of coal falls off a barbecue grill.__NEWL__He wishes for a miracle to happen.__NEWL__The lump of coal is artistic and wants to be an artist.__NEWL__He goes in search of something.__NEWL__First, he finds an art gallery that, he believes, shows art by lumps of coal.__NEWL__But when he comes in, he sadly discovers the art is by humans who use lumps of coal.__NEWL__He then finds a Korean restaurant called Mr. Wong's Korean Restaurant and Secretarial School, but he goes in and discovers that all things used must be 100% Korean (although the owner does not use a Korean name or proper Korean spices).__NEWL__The lump of coal continues down the street and runs into a man dressed like Santa Claus.__NEWL__The lump of coal tells the man about his problem, and the man gets an idea.__NEWL__He suggests he put the lump of coal in Jasper (his bratty son)'s stocking.__NEWL__The son finds it and is ecstatic; he has wanted to make art with coal.__NEWL__So he makes portraits and he and the lump of coal become rich.__NEWL__They move to Korea and open an authentic Korean restaurant, and have a gallery of their art.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7113714	Overkill	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z	22793168	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22793168	When the body of a young mother is found washed up on the banks of the Mataura River, a small rural community is rocked by her tragic suicide.__NEWL__But all is not what it seems.__NEWL__Sam Shephard, sole-charge police constable in Mataura soon discovers the death was no suicide, and has to face the realisation that there is a killer in town.__NEWL__To complicate things the murdered woman was the wife of her former lover.__NEWL__When Sam finds herself on the list of suspects and suspended from duties she must cast aside her personal feelings and take matters into her own hands to find the murderer and clear her own name.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7572327	Space Demons	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	22773997	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22773997	Andrew Hayford's father presents Andrew with a new Japanese videogame called Space Demons.__NEWL__Andrew introduces his best friend Ben Challis to the game.__NEWL__While playing together, Andrew sees Ben disappear for a moment.__NEWL__When he comes back, Ben tells Andrew that he feels like he went into the game.__NEWL__After Ben goes home, Andrew also finds himself pulled into the world of the game.__NEWL__When they meet up after school a couple weeks later, Andrew reveals that a gun from the game came back into reality with him.__NEWL__Andrew and Ben have a big fight over the game and Ben's newfound friendship with their schoolmate Elaine Taylor.__NEWL__Andrew tells Ben that he hates him.__NEWL__This initiates the next stage of the game and Ben is swept into the console.__NEWL__To save Ben, Andrew convinces Elaine to come over, where he explains that Ben is trapped in the game.__NEWL__Playing on her dislike of him, Andrew goads her into shooting him with the game gun.__NEWL__Inside the game, Andrew finds Ben, who explains that the game feeds on hate and that to leave the game, they must advance to the cliff top.__NEWL__Elaine drops into the game with the gun.__NEWL__The others try to take the gun from her, which results in each of them being granted their own gun.__NEWL__A battle ensues with the space demons.__NEWL__They win and find themselves back on the floor of Andrew's room.__NEWL__Over the next few days, all three experience nightmares and hallucinations.__NEWL__Andrew loses the gun while hitching a ride with his friend Mario Ferrone.__NEWL__Convinced that this was part of the game's plan, Andrew invites Mario to Andrew's house, where Mario shoots himself, affording him entrance to the game.__NEWL__Mario and Andrew play Space Demons more and more frequently despite concerns from Andrew's mother Marjorie about Andrew's behaviour.__NEWL__During one of their sessions, Mario disappears from the game.__NEWL__Space demons from the game begin to manifest in the real world.__NEWL__Only those who have played the game can see them.__NEWL__Anger and resentment build between the players, driven by difficult events in their home lives.__NEWL__Andrew's nightmares become darker as he dreams about killing people with the gun from the game.__NEWL__Marjorie sends Andrew to a psychiatrist.__NEWL__That night, he realises that he can beat the game if he refuses to hate.__NEWL__Mario's brother, John, tells Elaine that Mario did not come home last night and was not at school.__NEWL__Ben and Elaine visit Andrew to find out what has happened to Mario.__NEWL__Andrew and Elaine argue and end up in the game, where they find the space demons have all been replaced by clones of Mario.__NEWL__While hiding from the clones, Andrew and Elaine confront their own personal issues, realising there are some things in life they cannot control and that trying will only make things worse.__NEWL__Elaine sees a message that says the game can be ended by returning the gun.__NEWL__They both return the guns.__NEWL__Andrew realises that paying Mario compliments kills the demons.__NEWL__Elaine and Andrew witness the destruction of all the space demons.__NEWL__They encounter Mario near the cliff face, still holding a gun.__NEWL__Elaine and Andrew convince Mario to return the gun.__NEWL__The game ends and Andrew, Ben, Mario and Elaine end up back on the floor of Andrew's bedroom.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764132	The Siege of White Deer Park	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22812078	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22812078	Of the Farthing Wood animals Kestrel, Hare and Rabbit have died of old age, and as original Farthing Wood smaller animals have and have so many descendants with the animals native to White Deer Park the oath no longer applies to them.__NEWL__The Farthing Wood animals' third winter in White Deer Park has come to an end.__NEWL__As spring arrives there is an influx of animals from outside the park.__NEWL__Fox suspects that something outside the park is driving these animals to take shelter in the park, so Tawny Owl and Whistler search outside the park for clues.__NEWL__They find nothing, but word starts to spread of a fierce beast making raids in the park during the night.__NEWL__After searching the reserve and finding no sightings of the mysterious creature, Tawny Owl takes refuge in a tree in a small area of woodland within the park to rest.__NEWL__Before dawn he is awakened by the thought he is being watched.__NEWL__Looking down, he sees the head of a large creature with bright eyes looking at him in a menacing way.__NEWL__Knowing this is what he is looking for, Owl flies further up the tree out of reach, then notices the strange creature has disappeared in an instant.__NEWL__Owl then flies off to warn Fox and the others of his sighting just as the sun rises.__NEWL__Tawny Owl gives Fox a description of what he saw.__NEWL__Adder also hears of these developments.__NEWL__Though Adder says nothing, Fox thinks Adder is hiding something.__NEWL__Later Adder finds Toad and asks him about some large paw prints he has found near the now deserted Edible Frog's pond.__NEWL__Adder explains that as he does not have paws he cannot judge whether they are from a toad or not.__NEWL__Toad tells him these prints are too big for a toad.__NEWL__A meeting is called and Toad informs the animals of the footprints seen by himself and Adder.__NEWL__Badger states that the graceful nature of this animal reminds him of the Warden's cat and suggests that the animal might be a sort of cat.__NEWL__Tawny Owl pooh-poohs this suggestion.__NEWL__Not long afterwards meeting the Beast kills one of the white deer herd and Friendly discovers the carcass, then talks to some of his younger relatives about his plan to track the creature down.__NEWL__The Beast kills a white deer fawn and leaves few remains as evidence, so Friendly and the other foxes do not notice what has happened.__NEWL__The Warden does notice the losses and regularly patrols the area with a gun, but the Beast is not discovered.__NEWL__While fishing Whistler spots the Beast when it drinks from the stream, and sees that it is a very large cat.__NEWL__He tells Adder, who notices that the footprints are the same ones that he had seen before, and he decides to pursue the cat with the idea of poisoning it.__NEWL__However, the Beast traps Adder with its paw and toys with him, eventually knocking him into the stream which allows him to escape.__NEWL__Whistler tells Fox and Vixen of the creature he has seen and Weasel heads off to tell Badger the news.__NEWL__He arrives at Badger's set and discovers Badger talking to a young mole named Mossy, who is trying to tell Badger that Mole is his father.__NEWL__As Badger is unable to accept that Mole is dead Weasel asks Mossy to pretend to be Mole for Badger's sake.__NEWL__He then tells the other animals, who agree to go along with this idea.__NEWL__As the vixens are looking after their cubs Friendly gathers a group of male foxes - made up of Pace (Friendly's son), Husky (Bold's son), Ranger (Charmer's mate), Rusty (Ranger's son), and Trip (Ranger's son) - to join him on an expedition to search out the Beast.__NEWL__They head to the stream where the creature was seen by Whistler and follow its trail into an area of woodland.__NEWL__Friendly notices something stir in the undergrowth and heads off after it, but he is unable to stay on its trail.__NEWL__Initially the foxes wait for the Beast to return but Friendly lets the young foxes look for food, and they come across another young deer which was killed by the Beast.__NEWL__They feed off the remains of the carcass and head back, but the Beast watches them from a tree as they do so.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Adder comes across a female adder and tries to impress her with the story of his attack by the Beast, but she shows no interest in him and Adder slides away from her.__NEWL__Adder later tries to find the female adder but is unable to.__NEWL__The next day Whistler discovers that the Warden is setting up a pen by the perimeter of the reserve, and when Tawny Owl tells the animals that the deer are being rounded up they realise that the humans have decided to watch over them to keep them safe.__NEWL__The Beast also realises what the Warden is doing and decides to bide its time so the Warden will think it has left the Park.__NEWL__That evening Friendly and his group of foxes go in search of the Beast again, and its trail leads them to a small copse.__NEWL__Ranger thinks it is a trap but Friendly insists they go on.__NEWL__They enter cautiously but the Beast leaps down from a tree and grabs Husky in its jaws, before leaping back up carrying the young fox.__NEWL__The other foxes realise they are powerless against such a huge animal and leave to fetch help.__NEWL__Once they are gone the Beast drops Husky to the ground.__NEWL__Friendly and the young foxes look for Fox and Vixen, but they find Badger instead and tell him what has happened.__NEWL__Fox and Vixen soon return and Badger decides to offer himself to the Beast in exchange for Husky.__NEWL__He heads off but the foxes leave soon afterwards and reach the copse before him, only to discover that Husky is dead, and the Beast is long gone.__NEWL__Fox comes up with a plan and instructs the other animals to spread the word across the park that every inhabitant of the reserve must keep a lookout for clues and report anything they see immediately.__NEWL__The Warden realises that his attempt to lure the Beast has been unsuccessful and releases the deer back into the reserve.__NEWL__Later Adder comes across the female adder again, and she tells him that she has seen the Beast use a large hole in the bank by the stream.__NEWL__Adder finds this hole, then finds Whistler and tells him this information.__NEWL__Whistler immediately flies away to inform Fox, who decides to gather all the park's inhabitants together and try to trap the Beast in its lair.__NEWL__That evening all the animals have gathered together and they head towards the stream.__NEWL__They find the hole and Toad volunteers to search it for the Beast.__NEWL__He goes inside and discovers the creature sleeping inside, and Fox looks on the other side for another exit.__NEWL__However the Beast wakes up and leaves its lair, causing the group of animals to pull back in terror and watch as the cat washes itself, showing no interest at all in its audience.__NEWL__Eventually the cat takes a few laps from the stream and bounds away out of sight, as the animals can only watch, powerless to stop it.__NEWL__Most of the animals disperse, but Tawny Owl pursues the Beast through the air, eventually finding the large cat in a ditch near the perimeter of the reserve.__NEWL__Annoyed at being discovered, The Beast asks about Tawny Owl's interest in it, and Owl tells it how terrified all the park's inhabitants are of it.__NEWL__He asks the cat whether it could hunt somewhere else instead and it refuses, but it makes a pledge that no animal will ever see it again although it will still be around, and promises to leave the park if any creature should set eyes on it and tell it so.__NEWL__Tawny Owl decides to go tell all the animals about how he has spoken to the Beast, but being very tired he decides to sleep first.__NEWL__Now that the deer are back the Beast kills two more deer and stores them until the park's inhabitants have let their guard down.__NEWL__The Warden lays traps for the Beast, but it does not go near them and the Warden eventually decides to remove them.__NEWL__The Beast then goes on a rampage in Farthing Wood territory, killing several of the smaller creatures and nearly killing Leveret, but he escapes and his mate is killed instead.__NEWL__Adder meets the female adder again and she tells him that she would like to be known as Sinuous.__NEWL__They sunbathe together__NEWL__and Sinuous suggests that the Beast may be living underground.__NEWL__Adder immediately tells Badger and Fox about this theory, and all the foxes, badgers, weasels and rabbits in the park are asked whether they know of a large underground lair, but none do.__NEWL__Badger tells Mossy about the theory and Mossy informs him of a large underground chamber that Mirthful had come across before she died.__NEWL__Badger asks Mossy to find the chamber and inform him if the Beast is living there so that Badger can spot the cat and force it to leave.__NEWL__Mossy starts his search, but he gets distracted by worms and loses focus.__NEWL__However, he eventually falls into a large chamber and discovers that the Beast is sleeping inside.__NEWL__He tries to leave quickly but the Beast wakes up and pursues him.__NEWL__Mossy digs underground but the Beast digs after him until Tawny Owl shouts out that he has seen the cat and asks him to yield.__NEWL__The cat roars loudly and Badger arrives, asking the Beast to take him instead of Mossy.__NEWL__The Beast tells the animals he could easily slay them all, but just then they all hear the loud cry of another cat in the distance.__NEWL__The two cats call to each other and the Beast rushes out of the park to join the female that was calling to him.__NEWL__The animals realize that spring must be the mating season for the Beast and celebrate that the Beast has finally left the park.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16994860	In the Path of the Storm	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22812258	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22812258	The death of the Great Stag, the leader of the deer of White Deer Park, leaves its inhabitants at the mercy of his successor Trey, a strong and fearsome stag who believes there is no room for the smaller animals in the nature reserve.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Tawny Owl grows tired of bachelorhood and leaves the park in search of a mate.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4870189	Battle for the Park	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22812401	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22812401	It is spring in White Deer Park and Dash the young hare, confident that she is quicker than every other animal in the reserve, wants to test her speed properly by running on the downland.__NEWL__She tells Plucky that she will find somebody to help her dig under the boundary fence and the young fox worries about her, but she soon forgets her remark and decides to remain in the reserve.__NEWL__However, when Plucky goes missing Dash employs the rabbits to help her get under the fence to look for him.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the animals discover that several other animals have gone missing from the park including Weasel.__NEWL__They also hear from Toad and Tawny Owl that several brown rats have entered the park and Fox tells everybody to kill any rat they see.__NEWL__Dash gives up her search and returns to the reserve only to discover that several humans are rounding up various animals using traps.__NEWL__She tells Fox and Vixen who go to investigate and when the humans leave in their van, Dash follows them out of the park gates and chases them across the downland towards a large enclosure surrounded by large walls.__NEWL__When Dash informs the others Fox decides to set up a rescue party to go and help their friends who have been captured.__NEWL__Fox also puts Badger in charge of the animals' battle against the rats, and several more rats arrive at the park and thrive, despite the animals' best efforts to combat the threat.__NEWL__The rescue party sets off for the second reserve and Tawny Owl flies over the wall to look for Weasel.__NEWL__Plucky hears his calls and fetches Weasel, but neither animal knows of any way in which they can escape so Tawny Owl is forced to leave.__NEWL__The animals continue their battle against the rats, who have also been discovered by the humans, so they decide to temporarily retreat and return to the park when the humans think the threat has gone.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Fox asks Whistler to fly to the new reserve and carry Weasel back to the park, which he soon does, but Plucky is forced to remain behind until he can find a way to escape.__NEWL__After biding their time in the sewers, the rats return to the park over many nights and soon grow in huge numbers, but their caution means that the true scale of their invasion does not become apparent to the other animals for some time.__NEWL__When the animals become aware of the rats' renewed presence in the Hollow, they launch an attack on them and drive them out of their corner of the reserve.__NEWL__However, several more rats gather at the pond and attack the frogs, but Toad voices his protest and the rats attack him too.__NEWL__The rats' leader, Bully, warns Toad that they will soon take over the whole reserve.__NEWL__As the white deer arrive to drink at the pond, Bully attacks Toad with his teeth and retreats.__NEWL__Whistler arrives at the pond and discovers the badly wounded Toad, who asks the heron to carry him to the Hollow.__NEWL__Whistler does so, but Toad dies soon afterwards.__NEWL__The animals form another hunting party and continue to attack the rats to drive them away from the Hollow, but more rats keep on coming and they appear to be fighting a losing battle.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Plucky comes up with a plan to escape from the other reserve.__NEWL__After the Warden finishes one of his checks of the reserve, Plucky jumps into the back of his Land Rover and is taken out through the gates, before jumping out and setting off for his home reserve, where he is reunited with the other animals.__NEWL__The rats continue to overrun the reserve despite the efforts of Adder and Sinuous to kill as many as they can.__NEWL__As the snakes launch an attack, Bully and several of his followers await them and grab hold of Adder as he enters the nest.__NEWL__Sinuous escapes and tells Plucky, who quickly goes to Adder's rescue.__NEWL__He arrives at the nest and negotiates Adder's freedom by promising not to dig into the rats' nest and attack them.__NEWL__Bully then offers Plucky a truce so that all the animals can concentrate on raising their young instead of battling, and makes a plan to attack the animals while their guard is down.__NEWL__Fox comes up with a plan to alert the Warden of the rats' presence in the park and the animals leave several rat carcasses outside his lodge.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Bully organizes a hunting party of the largest and strongest rats to dispose of Adder, and the rats find Sinuous and attack her.__NEWL__Sinuous strikes and kills Brat, Bully's chief lieutenant, but the other rats gnaw at her body and only release her when they are sure she is dead.__NEWL__The Warden finally becomes aware of the rats and searches for them on his rounds, and the animals are satisfied that he will deal with the threat.__NEWL__The attacks against the rats have tired Badger out and he finds it difficult to move.__NEWL__A young female badger named Frond, who has been driven out of her home by the rats, discovers Badger's set and asks for shelter, then collects food for him while he is unable to move.__NEWL__Badger enjoys being looked after and Frond stays with Badger to look after him.__NEWL__The Warden finally locates the rats and sets out poison for them, but they are too experienced to take the bait and it achieves nothing.__NEWL__Bully finally decides to launch his attack on the Farthing Wood animals and the huge colony of rats swarm into their corner of the reserve.__NEWL__Mossy is spotted and killed by Bully's lieutenant, Spike, before Holly notices the attack and alerts Tawny Owl.__NEWL__Soon the battle rages, but the Farthing Wood animals are overrun by the rats so Leveret and Dash head off to alert all the other animals in the reserve, who arrive to join the fight.__NEWL__With the other animals' help the rats are finally forced to retreat and Adder avenges the death of Sinuous by killing Spike.__NEWL__Vixen pursues Bully and crushes him with her jaws, then tosses him over the boundary fence and out of the reserve.__NEWL__Within hours the park is finally free of the rats and the animals can live peacefully once more.__NEWL__A few days later, Whistler discovers that a fence has been erected along the downland between the two reserves, then sometime after that Dash discovers that part of the boundary fence has been removed and the park continues onto the downland and has been linked with the other reserve, meaning that White Deer Park has become twice as big so there is more space for all the animals to live their lives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6658826	Livia	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22804054	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22804054	The key protagonist in Livia is novelist Aubrey Blanford, introduced as a character 50 pages before the end of the first novel of the quintet, Monsieur.__NEWL__Blanford travels to Avignon to stay with his fellow Oxford students Sam and Hilary, whose sister has inherited the broken-down chateau of Tu Duc.__NEWL__They embark on an idyllic boat trip to the chateau and then on the restoration of the property.__NEWL__With Monsieur now revealed as the fictional work of Rob Sutcliffe, a writer invented by Blanford as his alter ego, it is in Livia we meet the 'real-life' characters behind Sutcliffe/Blanford's fictional creations.__NEWL__Like Monsieur, Livia opens with a death - that of Constance, who lived on in Blanford's mind (as 'Tu') at the end of Monsieur.__NEWL__Livia in fact predates Monsieur - effectively a 'prequel' - and is set in Provence before World War II, with the outbreak of war taking place as the novel closes on the great debauch, or 'spree' hosted by the Egyptian Prince Hassad.__NEWL__The events in Livia take place in the increasing atmosphere of impending war, with the group of young friends at Tu Duc enjoying a last summer before the encroachment of Nazism.__NEWL__They befriend Lord Galen, a Jewish financier who has sponsored a search for the lost treasure of the Templars by the French clerk Quatrefages.__NEWL__Galen, a business partner and friend of Prince Hassad, travels to Germany and is convinced by Adolf Hitler to invest in his plans (including that for a national home for the Jews) but who later realises his mistake when he and Hassad barely escape Germany with their lives and tremendous financial loss.__NEWL__Redolent of Durrell's temporal sleight of hand in the Alexandria Quartet, Livia effectively retells the story of Monsieur (a fiction) from a new point of view but involving basically the same set of characters and relationships - albeit now rooted in 'reality'.__NEWL__The Quintet, in this way, is "the Kunstlerroman of Aubrey Blanford much the way as the Quartet was that of Darley.__NEWL__" Where Monsieur revolved around the romantically entwined Piers de Nogaret, his sister Sylvie and her husband Bruce Drexel, Livia revolves around Blanford, Livia and her sister Constance.__NEWL__In Livia, Blanford is married to the bisexual/lesbian Livia (in Monsieur Sutcliffe is married to the bisexual/lesbian Pia) but has a longstanding affair with her sister Constance.__NEWL__Blanford's fictional creation, author Robin Sutcliffe, again plays a major role in Livia and it is in Livia we learn that the single word titles of the five books are Blanford's choice, while the alternative titles are Sutcliffe's preference.__NEWL__On two occasions in Livia, however, characters from Monsieur make cameo appearances: when Blanford meets Sylvie at the asylum where Lord Galen's former business partner is incarcerated and when Pia sends a consulting couch home after the sack of her analyst's office in Berlin.__NEWL__Its appearance at Tu Duc has Constance asking Blandford whether, in fact, Sutcliffe was a fiction.__NEWL__As with much of Durrell's other fictional work, the novel relies heavily on references to archival materials: correspondence, notebooks, fragments and drafts, which are used to free the novel from the form of a closed medium.__NEWL__Durrell was keenly aware of academic interest in such materials and himself enthusiastically sold such marginalia to collectors.__NEWL__If Monsieur was a novel, academics have argued, Livia is Blanford's literary biography - part of a whole organised into a form inspired by Cambodia's Angkor Wat - in fact Sutcliffe refers to the "five coned towers that form a quincunx".__NEWL__Livia continues to explore the themes of gnosticism that are core to Monsieur and embarks on a search for the lost treasure of the Templars and for the Philosopher's Stone.__NEWL__Scholarly analysis of the shape and form of the quintet has also sought parallels with tantrism, examining the idea - explored by Durrell in Livia - of 'Metareality', the juxtaposition of the constructed reality of the book and material reality.__NEWL__It was during the writing of Livia (as Monsieur was being prepared for publication) that Durrell is said to have conceived the structure of the quintet and he attempted to retrospectively change the content of Monsieur prior to its first US publication.__NEWL__In speaking to Sutcliffe, his fictional creation, Blanford says: “The books would be roped together like climbers on a rockface, but they would all be independent.__NEWL__The relation of the caterpillar to the butterfly, the tadpole to the frog.__NEWL__An organic relation.”__NEWL__The character of Livia alone has attracted significant attention, with Button and Reed acknowledging, "In her depiction, Durrell's genius thus succeeds in locating the elemental conflicts lurking beneath the surface of a troubled woman's psyche...__NEWL__This is no small achievement for an author whose aversion to women might just as easily have limited his ability to understand them."__NEWL__Durrell frequently describes Livia as cold and reptilian and has her enthusiastically embracing Nazism.__NEWL__When Blanford is driven to flogging her with a dog whip, she is sexually satisfied, thanking him and licking his shoes.__NEWL__The scene is one of a number of allusions to Sadism made in Livia, Durrell noting in the book that de Sade was a Provençal resident.__NEWL__Durrell's daughter Sappho believed herself to be the inspiration behind the 'monstrous' character of Livia, a lesbian born out of a coupling between an occidental and an oriental, who commits suicide by hanging herself.__NEWL__Sappho Durrell herself committed suicide by hanging in 1985.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4669841	Absolutely, Positively Not	2005-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22804464	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22804464	Steven DeNarsky, a 16-year-old Superman fan, starts to develop sexual feelings for his substitute homeroom teacher, Mr. Bowman.__NEWL__Steven tries to reassure himself by buying such magazines like Playboy and the Victoria's Secret catalog, and dating several attractive girls.__NEWL__Unable to bottle his emotions any longer, he confesses to his friend, Rachel, that he is gay.__NEWL__To his surprise, Rachel and her entire family had previously assumed that Steven was gay, and already waited for him to tell her.__NEWL__Rachel urges Steven to create a gay/lesbian alliance club at their high school, but Steven is not optimistic about completely "coming out of the closet".__NEWL__Steven later does reveal that he is gay to both his parents, who don't think much of it.__NEWL__Steven eventually accepts his homosexuality by attending a teen gay/lesbian club, but mistakenly goes when it is specifically a lesbian meeting.__NEWL__Despite this, he has a good time and decides to embrace his homosexuality.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7518139	Simon	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23156	Devon	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22832822	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22832822	Apart from 'The Chronicles of Robin Hood,' Sutcliff's three previous novels, The Queen Elizabeth Story, The Armourer's House and Brother Dusty-Feet were aimed at a younger audience and set in the 16th century. '__NEWL__Simon' shows a significant shift in both tone and subject matter and is generally acknowledged to be the first to feature the mastery of subject and style for which she is now remembered.__NEWL__The story begins in the West Devon town of Torrington, on the eve of the First English Civil War in 1642.__NEWL__The protagonists are Simon Carey, son of a local farmer who supports Parliament and his best friend, Amias Hannaford, son of the Royalist town doctor.__NEWL__The two friends fall out when the war begins; Simon's father goes off to fight for Parliament but orders him to finish school first.__NEWL__ Amias joins the Royalist forces in April 1644, while Simon helps a regiment of Parliamentary cavalry escape after their defeat at Lostwithiel in September.__NEWL__With the help of an officer he met then, he joins the New Model Army in early 1645 as a Cornet in the regiment of the Army commander, Sir Thomas Fairfax.__NEWL__His corporal is an Ironside trooper called Zeal-for-the-Lord Relf.__NEWL__The story covers the decisive Parliamentary victory at Naseby in June 1645; when Zeal-for-the-Lord deserts to seek revenge on a former friend, he is flogged and dismissed from the army.__NEWL__The rest of the book covers the final campaign in the West Country; Simon takes part in the July 1645 Battle of Langport, then helps capture a house at Okeham Paine held by the Royalists, where he finds himself fighting against Amias.__NEWL__He is badly wounded and then sent home as a scout to gather information on the Royalist army led by Ralph Hopton; here he meets again with both Amias and Zeal-for-the-Lord, who is now with the Royalists and gives him the information he needs.__NEWL__Simon rejoins the army for the Battle of Torrington; this results in a Parliamentary victory but a huge explosion blows up the church, killing over 200 prisoners.__NEWL__Simon helps the injured Amias, who is suspected of causing the explosion and is also arrested for 'harbouring the enemy.'__NEWL__Zeal-for-the-Lord is one of the wounded recovered from the explosion and before he dies, helps clear Amias.__NEWL__Simon is also freed and the story ends four years later in 1649, after the Second English Civil War with the two resuming their friendship.__NEWL__In 'Simon,' Sutcliff addresses a theme that re-appears in many of her works ie that of conflicting personal and societal loyalties and what keeping faith with one can mean for the other.__NEWL__Thomas Fairfax also appears in Sutcliff's novel 'Rider of the White Horse,' written from the perspective of his wife Anne Fairfax.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5227908	Daughter of Darkness	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29684568	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29684568	A young woman named Willamina "Willie" Connolly is the daughter of a prosperous New York couple, editor Matt Connolly and his wife Willamina, an Irish concert pianist.__NEWL__Willie is a child prodigy with an extremely high IQ.__NEWL__Her parents believe her to be a happy, contented child, but this is a carefully contrived mask.__NEWL__Her primary motivation is independence; she detests anyone making decisions for her, especially based on her age or appearance.__NEWL__Her very name, Willamina Junior, made her feel like a bad carbon copy, until she discovered Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round and began to call herself Willie.__NEWL__She has made a thorough study of anthropology and is an accomplished practitioner of witchcraft and sympathetic magic.__NEWL__Her doll collection is actually an array of poppets which she uses to curse those who displease her.__NEWL__This backfires on her when one of her spells leads to her mother's death.__NEWL__Willie's remorse and her wish to see her father happy again develops over the years into incestuous desire, although Willie herself does not realize it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10494155	The Dead	2010-09-16T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29660069	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29660069	The Dead begins a year before the events in The Enemy, where an unnamed user posts a video on YouTube titled "The Scared Kid".__NEWL__In it, a boy frantically talks to the camera about how his friends Danny and Eve have been killed by "Mothers and fathers" (Zombies), and shows them standing outside his window.__NEWL__He then suffers a nervous breakdown and ends the video.__NEWL__The video goes viral, with people not knowing if it is real or not.__NEWL__Eventually, the video is taken down from YouTube, followed by the site itself, followed by the internet, and finally electricity entirely.__NEWL__This marks the point that people realized that something bad was going on, and the start of the apocalypse.__NEWL__Two weeks into the apocalypse, two 14-year-old boys, named Jack and Ed are trapped with a group of other schoolboys in the Rowhurst boarding school (in Kent, in a remote village a few miles from London) where they are defending themselves from their now zombified teachers.__NEWL__After escaping from the adult siege of their school with the help of a rugby player named Bam, Jack and Ed rescue their French teacher's daughter, Frederique, and make their way to a nearby chapel, where a group of people led by a boy named Matt barricaded themselves inside a few days prior.__NEWL__Alarmed by the lack of a reply from inside the church, they break in and find that the boys hiding inside have either fallen unconscious or died from carbon monoxide poisoning.__NEWL__The group of boys manage to revive the survivors, and Matt appears to have suffered brain damage from the poisoning.__NEWL__He believes himself to be the messenger of a being called the Lamb, who he explains will come down to earth and cleanse it of "Non believers" (the zombies).__NEWL__He is convinced he must go to St Paul's Cathedral in London to fulfil the needs of his "god".__NEWL__The group splits, with Matt and some people he has brought into his religion (now calling themselves his "acolytes", attempting to go to London with Jack (who wants to find his family home), and the rest (including Ed, Bam and one of Ed's best friends, Malik) deciding to go deeper into the countryside (thinking it will be safer).__NEWL__Ed's group is ambushed by older, infected teenagers shortly after parting from the rest, who kill half the group, seemingly including Malik (it is revealed in a later novel that he survived the attack).__NEWL__They are saved by the timely arrival of a motor coach driven by an adult named Greg Thorne, a butcher who claims he is immune to the disease.__NEWL__With his young son Liam, Greg has acquired a bus and is collecting children to transport them all to London.__NEWL__He and Liam want to visit Arsenal Stadium, unaware that it is an adult nest (as revealed in The Enemy).__NEWL__On the bus, Ed's group meet three girls, Aleisha, Courtney and Brooke.__NEWL__Brooke immediately develops a crush on Ed, whilst Greg eventually catches up with Jack, Matt, and the Lamb of God believers, who are all still journeying towards London.__NEWL__After finding the others and picking them up, Greg explains that, before the epidemic, he was staying with a farmer and his family, but he had had to kill the father and the older children.__NEWL__He says a younger child, who'd gone crazy after losing his family, "didn't make it", indirectly revealing that he had killed the boy and made him into the dried meat he was seen eating, but which Liam refused.__NEWL__After a close call where Greg nearly leaves Jack and Frederique behind to a group of zombies, the bus stops for the night on the outskirts of London.__NEWL__Liam finds out that Greg is infected, and knowing that he cannot protect him any more, Greg strangles and kills him.__NEWL__The next morning, Ed finds Greg inexplicably wearing Liam's glasses.__NEWL__Jack and Ed confront Greg about Liam's death.__NEWL__This causes him to succumb to the virus, which is revealed after Jack, who gets mad at the discovery, attempts to disarm a shotgun that Greg is wielding.__NEWL__The arm-to-the-face maneuver that he inflicted causes Greg to lose control, and crash the bus, which he was driving erratically due to succumbing to the disease, and out of anger wanted to get everyone on board to their destination.__NEWL__Afterward, he completely succumbs to the virus and attack the kids, whilst the bus is simultaneously assaulted by several adults.__NEWL__Most of the group escapes from the bus except for a boy Piers who was already injured and makes it to the Imperial War Museum in South London.__NEWL__Greg wanders off into the streets of London, whilst the "Bus Party" meets the museum's leader, Jordan, and his second in command DogNut (who develops a crush on Brooke).__NEWL__Jordan refuses to let them stay, eventually compromising and letting them stay as long as they collect food for themselves.__NEWL__A group sets off, and they explore until they find a Tesco truck full of non-perishable food, with a partially decomposed corpse inside.__NEWL__Whilst they are attempting to get the truck to run, Frederique is surrounded by several adults.__NEWL__The other kids fight off the adults and are surprised to find that Frederique is unharmed.__NEWL__Whilst they are driving the truck back to the museum, Jack and Bam tell Ed that they are planning on going to Jack's old house (like Jack said before) and hop out to go off on their own.__NEWL__Ed eventually decides to join them, kisses Brooke and catches up with the two boys, unaware that they are being followed by a now fully zombified Greg.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Matt's religion has gained more believers.__NEWL__They rename the religion Agnus Dei (Latin for "Lamb of God").__NEWL__Matt foretells that the Lamb will look like a blond boy and will have a darker shadow (another boy, nicknamed "The Goat"), who must be sacrificed so that "The lamb has no shadow" and is capable of cleansing the earth.__NEWL__The new religion attempts to make a banner, but the maker misspells Agnus Dei as "Angus Day", leading to the religion being renamed again.__NEWL__Also at the museum, Frederique attacks a young boy named Froggie, biting into his arm.__NEWL__She reveals that she is 16 years old to Ed, after he meets her, and is infected, but her disease took longer to manifest than it did for others.__NEWL__Several of Jordan's kids lock her in a storeroom.__NEWL__Jack, Ed, and Bam make their way to The Oval cricket ground, finding dozens of ambulances, military trucks, police cars, and skips outside filled with dead bodies.__NEWL__Despite Ed's hesitation, Bam and Jack kill two soldiers and an policeman.__NEWL__The boys explore, finding and keeping several weapons.__NEWL__They find that the entire stadium is full of diseased corpses that were stacked to be burned, as well as numerous bodies seated in the stands, but the law enforcement and medical officials were themselves killed or succumbed to the infection before they had a chance to finish the job.__NEWL__The boys learn not all the bodies are dead and are then pursued by adults through the stadium.__NEWL__Jack accidentally shoots a propane tank with a submachine gun whilst trying to fend off an attacker, causing it to explode and setting off an avalanche of corpses.__NEWL__Ed is buried underneath the bodies whilst Jack and Bam are buried underneath the debris resulting from a partially collapsed section of the stadium.__NEWL__Bam mistakes Jack for an adult and shoots him with the shotgun that he had recovered from Greg.__NEWL__Jack is badly wounded in the side, but able to stand.__NEWL__Ed finds them, and the three boys leave, continuing their trek to Jack's house.__NEWL__In the street, they are ambushed by adults whom the three boys manage to kill, but as they do a victory dance for killing the rather large group (as revealed by the book), Greg appears and kills Bam with a meat cleaver to the head.__NEWL__In the book, its noted that Greg was seen before far off, but the boys couldn't identify him.__NEWL__They therefore dismiss him.__NEWL__He then slashes Jack's chest open and cuts the side of Ed's face from forehead to chin.__NEWL__Greg is about to finish off Ed, but Greg flees, wailing with horror when Ed mentions Liam's name aloud, upon seeing that the bundle in Greg's other hand was Liam's body.__NEWL__Ed drags a fading Jack to his home and tries to heal his friend's wounds.__NEWL__However, Jack is beyond repair.__NEWL__Ed takes Jack to his bedroom and keeps him company throughout the night with him.__NEWL__In the morning, Ed finds Jack has died from his injuries.__NEWL__Ed cremates his friend by burning the entire house down, and heads back to the museum under a spreading cloud of smoke and ash emanating from a large fire they'd seen earlier in South London.__NEWL__Soon, Ed is ambushed again by adults, only to be rescued by David and his group (before they took residence at Buckingham Palace).__NEWL__Together, they all travel to the museum.__NEWL__David warns Ed that the fire is spreading northward, towards the museum, and the museum group should relocate.__NEWL__At the museum, Ed manages to stitch his cheek, leaving him with a large scar.__NEWL__He confronts Frederique, who has escaped captivity by gnawing off her own thumb to slip out of her handcuffs.__NEWL__Ed defeats her and, against Jordan's advice to kill her so she won't kill someone else, manages to banish her into the streets.__NEWL__Ed holds council with David and Jordan, with Ed and David deciding to move to North London away from the oncoming fire.__NEWL__Jordan decides to stay in the museum with his original group.__NEWL__Ed and David make a deal: in exchange for receiving food from the Tesco truck, on which Ed's group will ride, David's group will accompany the truck on foot, clearing the congestion and debris blocking the truck's path.__NEWL__Armed with additional weapons from the museum, Ed and David lead their respective kids, and attempt to cross north across the River Thames via the Lambeth Bridge, fleeing the rapidly spreading fire.__NEWL__Every other kid in South London is also trying to cross the river, and they all struggle to do so due to congestion and a commotion between kids further up the bridge.__NEWL__A huge wave of infected adults comes up behind the kids from the south, and Ed and several other fighters including Courtney and Aleisha hang back to fend off the infected whilst Brooke and the others drive on without knowing they are leaving them behind.__NEWL__Brooke decides to split off from David's group after she sees him shoot a boy in the chest.__NEWL__Frederique reappears and attacks Aleisha, injuring her, resulting in Ed shooting Frederique dead with a pistol, after she "reverts" to human upon recognizing Ed.__NEWL__Ed is helped by another boy named Kyle, and although the fighters initially seem to be overwhelmed, they are rescued by Jordan, DogNut and their his crew, who had been forced to abandon the museum by adults and the fire.__NEWL__The fighters flee, but the way back to the bridge is blocked by a horde of adults.__NEWL__The kids manage to take control of a sightseeing cruise boat moored in the river.__NEWL__They pilot it downstream towards the Tower of London, but Matt hijacks the boat in an attempt to reach St Paul's Cathedral.__NEWL__He accidentally crashes the boat into the bridge, and it splits in half, causing a number of kids to drown, including Aleisha.__NEWL__Matt and his surviving acolytes are last seen disappearing under a bridge, standing on the top of half of the ruined boat, whilst Matt holds the banner above his head.__NEWL__Jordan, Ed, Kyle, and the survivors find lifeboats and navigate them to the river's north bank.__NEWL__They make their way to the Tower of London and enter it by climbing the drainpipes.__NEWL__Inside, they find a group of about 30 kids already inhabiting the castle.__NEWL__Frustrated with the current leader, Jordan takes control, with Ed as his right-hand man.__NEWL__Of the original group from the bus, only Ed and Courtney remain.__NEWL__The others are either dead, missing, or still with the Tesco truck.__NEWL__Greg finds himself in Trafalgar Square, where he has lost his shirt.__NEWL__He puts on a St. George T-shirt from a souvenir stand and decides to get revenge on those he holds responsible for Liam's death.__NEWL__It is also revealed that he intends to raise an army of adults, revealing him as the "Saint George" adult from the previous novel (The Enemy).__NEWL__One year later, DogNut decides to leave the Tower with a group of people, including Courtney, to search for Brooke and the other kids.__NEWL__A few days after this, Ed, Kyle, and Jordan witness Small Sam and the Kid arrive at the tower (as shown in "The Enemy"), and are shocked to find that they look identical to the Lamb and the Goat children on the Angus Day banner.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5752164	Hide My Eyes	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29610017	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29610017	An old country bus parks in London's Theatreland on a rainy night, and a murder ensues.__NEWL__Superintendent Charles Luke has his theories but it is not until he calls in Albert Campion for advice that they begin to come together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733772	The Fifth Queen	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29564445	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29564445	The Fifth Queen trilogy has an omniscient narrator.__NEWL__Katharine Howard is introduced in the first book as a devout Roman Catholic, impoverished, young noblewoman escorted by her fiery cousin Thomas Culpeper.__NEWL__By accident, she comes to the attention of the king, in a minor way at first, is helped to a position as a lady in waiting for the then bastard Lady Mary, Henry's eldest daughter, by her old Latin tutor Nicholas Udal.__NEWL__Udal is a spy for Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal.__NEWL__As Katharine becomes involved with the many calculating, competing, and spying members of Henry VIII's Court, she gradually rises, almost against her will, in Court.__NEWL__She is brought more to the attention of the King, becomes involved with him, is used by Cromwell, Bishop Gardiner and Thomas Cranmer as well as the less powerful though more personally attached Nicholas Throckmorton.__NEWL__Her connection to the latter puts her in some peril, as in January 1554 he is suspected of complicity in Wyatt's Rebellion and arrested, during which time Katherine is also briefly implicated.__NEWL__Katharine's forthrightness, devotion to the Old Faith and learning are what make her attractive to the King, along with her youth and physical beauty.__NEWL__This is in direct contradiction to the way historians view the historical personage herself; that is, as a flighty and flirtatious young woman with few other redeeming qualities.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3015621	Nights of Rain and Stars	2004-08-25T00:00:00Z	29666591	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29666591	In a small town in Greece, a group of people witness a boating accident and subsequently become tangled in each other's lives.__NEWL__Thomas is a California university professor escaping from a tense relationship with his remarried ex-wife and their son, whom he adores.__NEWL__Elsa, the beautiful German blonde, resigned from her successful television job to escape her ex-boyfriend, whom she still loves.__NEWL__Irish Fiona couldn't stand her family and friends' resentful attitudes towards her boyfriend, Shane, so she and Shane escaped to peaceful Greece.__NEWL__David, a kind Englishman, doesn't want to take over his father's business as his family expects him to, and instead decides to travel.__NEWL__These strangers meet in a tavern in peaceful Aghia Anna underneath the stars, and soon they become close friends.__NEWL__Vonni, a native who escaped her family in Ireland many years ago, becomes involved in all their lives and together they form bonds and discover things about each other and themselves that they never could have anticipated.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4003758	Un destino ridicolo	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1449	Genoa	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	29628743	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29628743	The novel is set between Sardinia and the city of Genoa.__NEWL__The Sardinian shepherd Salvatore, after a detention in prison, comes to Genoa in search of a better life.__NEWL__In the old town he meets a prostitute, Veretta, and falls in love with her.__NEWL__The main plot is weaved with the histories of the pimp Carlo, the French criminal Barnard, the young singer-songwriter Fabrizio and his fan Alessandro, the beautiful "new girl in town" Maritza and Salvatore's cousin, Annino.__NEWL__In particular, the main section of the novel focuses on Carlo and Salvatore being involved in a heist on account of Barnard; Salvatore ends up being shot by a hired hitmam of Barnard's, when the former confesses everything to the latter after stumbling upon him and wrongly believing him to be a priest.__NEWL__The character of Maritza is a novelization of Bocca di Rosa, the main character of a De André hit song.__NEWL__Two other characters (Fabrizio and Alessandro) are the authors themselves.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7844150	Tristan and Iseult	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23148	Cornwall	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29691203	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29691203	Tristan is depicted as a prince of Lothian, whose father, King Rivalin married the sister of Mark of Cornwall, making Tristan the nephew of King Mark.__NEWL__Tristan's mother is shown as dying in his childbirth, and his name as being from the Latin root word trista, reflecting the sadness of Rivalin at the loss of his wife.__NEWL__He journeys to the Kingdom of Cornwall in effort to prove himself, and enters the service of King Mark without revealing his identity.__NEWL__After defeating the Irish champion Morholt, Tristan's identity is revealed, and his position as Champion of Cornwall solidified.__NEWL__Having been wounded by the poisoned blade of Morholt, Tristan wastes away, eventually being set adrift in a boat by his own choice.__NEWL__He lands on the shores of Ireland, and his healed by the skills of Iseult of Ireland, although without actually meeting her.__NEWL__Upon returning to Cornwall, he is involved in a move to have King Mark marry.__NEWL__Tristan is sent on a quest to find a bride for the king, and winds up once again in Ireland.__NEWL__Tristan defeats a dragon, is once again healed by Iseult, and though given her hand in marriage as reward, promises to bring her back to Cornwall as bride for his Uncle.__NEWL__These events are shown in light of bringing peace to an ongoing war between the two kingdoms.__NEWL__Tristan and Iseult are stranded on a distant shore for a few days, delaying their return to Cornwall, and cementing their own love for each other, despite the commitments of circumstances.__NEWL__Sutcliff herself states that she intentionally left out the love potion as something 'artificial'.__NEWL__Upon returning to Cornwall, Iseult is wedded to King Mark.__NEWL__She and Tristan both seek to behave honorably by maintaining a distance between themselves.__NEWL__They eventually end up having a clandestine relationship, and are caught by King Mark.__NEWL__After various conflicts, Tristan is banished from Cornwall, and travels to Brittany, entering the service of King Hoel of Brittany.__NEWL__Tristan befriends Hoel's son Kahedin, and is married to Hoel's daughter, Iseult of the White Hands.__NEWL__The relationship is never consummated, with Tristan pining away for Iseult of Ireland.__NEWL__Kahedin is killed by the husband of his own original love, after a successful visit aided by Tristan.__NEWL__Tristan is once again sorely wounded, and sends for Iseult of Ireland to come and heal him.__NEWL__The returning ship is to unfurl white sails if it returns with her, and black sails if not, much like the story of Theseus returning to his father.__NEWL__Iseult of the White Hands lies to Tristan out of jealousy, saying that the sails are black, and he dies.__NEWL__Iseult of Ireland finds him dead, and dies by his side.__NEWL__They are buried together back in Cornwall, with a hazel tree growing from his heart and a honeysuckle from hers, intertwining above their graves.__NEWL__As in many of her novels, Sutcliff depicts these ancient and legendary stories in a realistic fashion.__NEWL__She also focuses on the themes of individuals bound by obligation, also using the visual balance between the dark haired Tristan and the blonde haired Iseult.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4373877	Last Rumba in Havana	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q241	Cuba	29585753	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29585753	The book chronicles the life of an architecture student turned prostitute.__NEWL__It portrays the reality of the notorious Cuban prostitutes who cater only to foreigners.__NEWL__The author delivers fragments of this life through a long monologue, starting with tales of sordid and violent episodes of childhood in the Havana neighborhood of Jesus Maria.__NEWL__With a nihilistic vision of Cuban society, he pursues his character's story both in the poor neighborhoods and those of high-ranking Cuban luxury hotels as well as prisons.__NEWL__It is a journey through the lost paradise that never officially existed.__NEWL__The dialogue is broken occasionally by insertions of short stories, poems, imaginary telephone conversations, proverbs and other resources, giving it a lyrical quality.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768619	The Thaw	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29523381	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29523381	Carla Brice, a famous scientist, is diagnosed with a fatal and incurable disease.__NEWL__She is frozen in cryogenic suspension against a time in the future when her disease may be curable.__NEWL__Some centuries later, in the year 2139, technology and medicine have advanced; she and several other frozen bodies are thawed out and their diseases cured.__NEWL__To help reorient Carla with her new life, she is placed with her great-great-great-great-great granddaughter Tacey Brice.__NEWL__Tacey is an unsuccessful illustrator and artist who makes a bare living and is glad to receive the support payments for hosting Carla.__NEWL__But she's intimidated by Carla's great beauty and intellect.__NEWL__Visiting doctors and scientists detect gaps in Carla's memory, and Tacey also slowly realises that all is not well, when Carla starts eating the houseplants.__NEWL__She graduates to devouring a visiting doctor and Tacey now realises with horror that Carla is an insatiable flesh-eater.__NEWL__The story is told by Tacey in flashback; she has had it explained to her by Carla that during suspension, Carla's body and the other frozen bodies were invaded by extraterrestrial intelligences.__NEWL__They have occupied the bodies and plan to use Earth's population as a source of food.__NEWL__But Carla has taken a liking to Tacey and keeps her alive in the manner of a household pet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6412257	King of Kilba	1926-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29695563	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29695563	Kenneth Kilsyth, a young clerk in a London counting house, and a most reluctant employee, wins £1000 in a football pool (nearly £200,000 at present-day prices calculated as average earnings, or over £43,000 calculated as retail price index).__NEWL__Inviting his sole friend and fellow clerk, Gerald Hayes, to join him, he embarks on a journey of adventure.__NEWL__Some time later, they find themselves the sole passengers on a merchant ship, the S.S. Mumtaz, steaming from Vancouver to Honolulu, but all the officers and most of the sailors are quickly wiped out by a mysterious disease, leaving the two passengers the only people alive.__NEWL__Bridges, the quartermaster of the crew, survives long enough to help dispose of the bodies overboard and shows the lads how to rig a sail on to the wallowing freighter.__NEWL__Under the influence of the North-East trade winds and the North Equatorial current, the Mumtaz eventually drifts over a coral reef and lodges on the leeward side.__NEWL__The boys are near an island, and arming themselves with guns from the captain’s cabin, they land on the island.__NEWL__At dawn, atop a small hill, they are confronted by an army of 'savages'.__NEWL__But the natives attack on stilts (the ground is taboo to them) and the boys are able to defend themselves.__NEWL__The attack is suddenly called off by an elderly white man who speaks broken English.__NEWL__He reveals that he was shipwrecked many years before and has become 'King' of the island, called Kilba.__NEWL__This is in accordance with a local prophecy that a white man will always rule the people.__NEWL__From him, they learn that tribal warfare between the two islands of Kilba and Neka has existed for many generations.__NEWL__They take part in some battles, and eventually the old king dies.__NEWL__Kilsyth is forced to accept the title, with 'Haya', as Hayes in now known, as his 'brother'.__NEWL__They conduct the continuing war against the neighboring island.__NEWL__They attempt to introduce the islanders to football and cricket.__NEWL__Cricket proves so attractive that the natives relax their vigilance.__NEWL__The Nekas invade and carry off Hayes as a captive.__NEWL__He is lowered into an abyss as a sacrifice to an enormous crab, known as 'Bonga Te Akka' (the great mill wheel).__NEWL__The crab, with a shell six feet across and claws over eight feet long, is about to devour its prey when Kilsyth and an army of Kilbans arrive to rescue him.__NEWL__But the tables are turned and Kilsyth is himself sacrificed to the crab.__NEWL__His small gun is useless, but he manages to light a fire, which deflects and then burns the crab to death.__NEWL__The Nekans attempt to kill Kilsyth anyway, but are thwarted when the two heroes are rescued by a party of New Zealanders prospecting for ambergris.__NEWL__In fact, one of the island's sheltered bays contains vast stores of this valuable material.__NEWL__The two men promise to reveal the location of the cache, in return for equal partnerships in the firm of Wilcox and Co in Auckland, who are sponsoring the search.__NEWL__They fly away in the explorer's aeroplane, thus fulfilling another island prophecy that the King will be taken away by a 'great bird' when his work is done.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7728943	The Dark Griffin	2009-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	29697365	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29697365	The land of Cymria is ruled by those humans who can communicate with, and work with, the griffins, with both rogue humans and wild griffins treated poorly.__NEWL__For Arren Cardockson, the main protagonist, who has risen to his position because a griffin chose him, his background means that he does not have access to justice.__NEWL__For the black griffin, his inability to communicate with humans means he does not understand the human world.__NEWL__Each of the pair must fight for survival, and for freedom.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5506316	Frozen in Time	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29674225	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29674225	Ben and Rachel are staying in their house with their dreary old uncle when the TV satellite breaks and the TV explodes.__NEWL__Unable to do anything to amuse themselves, Ben and Rachel start digging in the garden and find themselves opening a hatch.__NEWL__They drop themselves into it and find themselves in what looks like an old-fashioned underground bunker house, where they find what looks like a torpedo and are perplexed to see two 'dead' bodies in it.__NEWL__Rachel accidentally presses a button and the torpedoes open and the bodies come to life.__NEWL__Rachel faints and Ben starts talking gibberish in his shock.__NEWL__The two people that had before seemed dead introduced themselves as Freddy and Polly Emerson and asked why they were in their fathers' vault.__NEWL__When Rachel and Ben explained, they first refused to believe it, but then believed when Rachel and Ben took them into their house.__NEWL__Freddy and Polly revealed they had been put into cryonic suspension - their father had frozen their hearts and was able to make them start again.__NEWL__Freddy and Polly had been put to sleep in 1956 and woken up in 2009.__NEWL__They could not understand why their father had deserted them.__NEWL__In time, Rachel and Ben introduce them to 2009, and Freddy and Polly are frequently shocked.__NEWL__They get sent to school (under the name Robertson, in case there's anyone old enough on the school staff to remember) and try to research what happened to their father.__NEWL__A cheerful librarian gives them documents.__NEWL__ One day, Rachel reads an email sent to her by her uncle which reads: "Get out of the house now!!!__NEWL__You are in danger!"__NEWL__Ben and Freddy, who had been escaping bullies who constantly taunt them partly because of Ben's stutter and partly because of Freddy and Polly's posh accents and their peculiar habits, come back to see Rachel and Polly being drugged and thrown into the boot of the car.__NEWL__Ben knocks a man out with a camera and runs to the librarian, who had been behind it all.__NEWL__She had suspected Freddy and Polly's real identity and wanted to learn how to use cryonic suspension.__NEWL__Ben is also drugged and thrown into the car.__NEWL__The car drives away and Rachel wakes up to see Polly being taken out of the car to be boarded onto a helicopter.__NEWL__She finds a torch, picks the lock of the boot with a hairgrip and sprays antiseptic into the librarian's eyes.__NEWL__They then get taken to a place where all the people who were working to find Freddy and Polly's father have been working on helping them to escape and Freddy and Polly are reunited with their Father, who built another cryonic suspension machine and froze himself inside it so that he would not grow old and die without his children.__NEWL__The story ends with Freddy and Polly trying to teach their father about 2009 life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7330128	Richard Yates	2010-09-07T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1408	New Jersey	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29719897	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29719897	Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning (unrelated to their child star namesakes, though they are the same respective ages as the actors were at the time the book was published) are friends who initially met over the internet and converse with each other regularly through Gmail chat.__NEWL__Haley is a 22-year-old author in Manhattan, and Dakota is a 16-year-old high school student in a nearby suburb in New Jersey.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6887820	Mockingbird	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29646916	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29646916	The book centers around the girl whose brother was killed in a school shooting.__NEWL__10-year-old Caitlin Smith has Asperger’s syndrome and is preoccupied with drawing and dictionaries.__NEWL__Her older brother Devon has just been killed, along with a teacher and another student, in a tragic school shooting.__NEWL__Due to Caitlin's condition, she finds it difficult to cope with her feelings about what has happened.__NEWL__She is awkward and pedantic, seeing things in black and white, and referring to her deceased brother as "Devon who is dead" when talking to her father.__NEWL__Caitlin's behaviors are perceived as "weird".__NEWL__She likes to hide from the rest of the world under the dresser belonging to Devon.__NEWL__Her classmates don't want to be friends with her due to her strange behavior.__NEWL__Her counselor arranges for her to spend recess with the younger kids.__NEWL__She meets a boy named Michael, who is strangely sad over his mother.__NEWL__When she talks to her counselor about it, she tells Caitlin that he is the son of the teacher who was shot and killed in the shooting.__NEWL__Caitlin discovers the words "empathy" and "closure" and determines that this is what she and her distraught father need.__NEWL__She finds it in the form of Devon's Eagle Scout box which has remained incomplete since his death.__NEWL__Caitlin thinks that if she and her father complete the box, it will bring them closure.__NEWL__With the help of a school counselor and art teacher, although Caitlin is initially antagonistic, she is able to help her father, as well as Michael and the school bully, Josh, the shooter's cousin, to cope.__NEWL__Eventually, Caitlin, Michael, and Josh become friends, more or less.__NEWL__They go together to the dedication ceremony for the people killed in the shooting.__NEWL__The art teacher there gives Caitlin a box of pastels.__NEWL__After the reception, Josh, Michael, and Michael's dad play football, and the novel concludes with Caitlin creating her first colored picture, having previously only drawn in black and white.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5578603	Gold By The Inch	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29614652	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29614652	The novel is split into three sections.__NEWL__The narrator is in Thailand visiting his younger brother, Luk, who works there as an architect.__NEWL__Thailand is the birthplace of the narrator's mother.__NEWL__He 'falls in love' with Thong, a Thai prostitute, during his visit.__NEWL__The book tracks the narrator's relationship with Thong.__NEWL__This relationship at first seems to be somewhat mutual but soon is clearly shown to be driven by money as Thong accepts every monetary gift doled out by the narrator.__NEWL__Thong eventually invites the narrator to live with him and his family instead of spending on expensive hotel rooms every night and it becomes evident that Thong is actually from a relatively wealthy family.__NEWL__The narrator now leaves Thailand to visit family in Malaysia (Penang), the country in which his father was born.__NEWL__In this section, more information concerning the narrator's childhood and family is revealed.__NEWL__For instance, the narrator's father had a terrible relationship with his family in Malaysia as well as his own son and wife, whom he later left for an American woman.__NEWL__In this section, stories from the narrator's past are revealed and we learn that the narrator only began this journey because at home he just recently witnessed his father's death and the end of his relationship with boyfriend, Jim.__NEWL__His father had been living in Honolulu with wife and was near to death when the narrator decided it was okay to visit him.__NEWL__The narrator dated Jim in New York and the two's relationship was based on Jim's economic power and the narrator's aesthetic value.__NEWL__The relationship ended over Jim's inability to quit using drugs.__NEWL__Back in Malaysia, the narrator tours the city with his auntie.__NEWL__The narrator also neglects to tell the Luk, his mother, or his father's family in Malaysia that Ba, the narrator's father, has died.__NEWL__While in Malaysia, the narrator also devotedly thinks about Thong, whom he very much misses and completely ends his relationship with Jim by first reporting him to the authorities as a drug smuggler and then sending him a postcard that reads, 'Keep everything' (89).__NEWL__The narrator also spends some time trying to get a photograph of his grandmother whose death is surrounded by numerous stories.__NEWL__Post a conversation with his grandmother's spirit, the narrator finally decides his trip is completed and he is ready to return to Thong in Thailand.__NEWL__The narrator makes a point of not contacting Thong right away until he sees him one night past weekend walk into the same bar the narrator is at with three friends.__NEWL__Thong's commitment to the narrator is suspect.__NEWL__The narrator moves into Thong's house but he sleeps separately from Thong on an entirely different floor.__NEWL__In general, Thong becomes more and more distant and less and less affectionate.__NEWL__As jealousy takes over the narrator, he spirals into a stronger and stronger drug addiction.__NEWL__At some point, the narrator and Thong bump into each other at a bar and through the translation of another friend, Thong breaks up with the narrator.__NEWL__Eventually, the narrator moves out of Thong's house.__NEWL__Luk and friends try to help the narrator recover from his breakup.__NEWL__In the end, the narrator realizes that in the end, he is just an American doing things in Thailand he would be unable to do back home.__NEWL__Though he tries to play this off as something that makes him invincible, in the end the narrator seems to realize that his trip is done, and he needs to return home though where home is the book does not specify.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5446086	Fever of the Bone	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z	29614892	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29614892	The story centers on the investigation of the murders of several teenagers who, at first, can only be connected by their use of the fictional social networking site RigMarole.__NEWL__Along the way, Carol has to deal with the pressures placed on her by new Chief Constable James Blake, which include an attempt to lower the costs of the investigation by using in-house profiling help instead of going to Dr. Hill.__NEWL__Tony, meanwhile, is dealing with a personal loss that forces him to re-examine several long-held beliefs.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7167929	Perfect (Friend novel)	2004-09-16T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29462305	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29462305	Isabelle Lee is a 13-year-old girl with an eating disorder.__NEWL__The disorder developed over time after the death of her father when her mother begins to send her to group therapy.__NEWL__She soon realizes that the most popular girl in school, Ashley Barnum, goes to the group and begins to be friends with her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8000779	Wild Romance	29471298	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29471298	It was a chance meeting on a steamboat in 1852 between a 19-year-old Theresa Longworth and Charles Yelverton, a soldier in his thirties, and heir to the title of Viscount Avonmore.__NEWL__After a five-year clandestine romance hidden from the public eye, the affair blossomed until they finally got married in secret in Edinburgh.__NEWL__The following summer they remarried again in Dublin, once more in secret, but this time in the presence of a priest.__NEWL__This was at the request of Theresa who was a Roman Catholic, while Charles had been brought up a Protestant.__NEWL__The validity of the marriage was later questioned in court.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735934	The Gates of Thorbardin	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29459325	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29459325	The major plotline of The Gates of Thorbardin is that there once existed a hidden entrance to the Dwarven realm of Thorbardin.__NEWL__During the War of the Lance, this gate could be used as an entrance by the forces of Takhisis to destroy the Dwarven kingdom.__NEWL__The major character in this novel is a Dwarf by the name of Chane Feldstone.__NEWL__Chane comes to the knowledge of the secret entrance to Thorbardin through a dream.__NEWL__Chane doesn't know of his heritage, but he learns that he is a direct descendant of Grallen of Thorbardin who died fighting the mage Fistandantilus years before.__NEWL__Chane learns that his ancestor Grallen was attempting to seal the hidden entrance to Thorbardin using a powerful artifact known as Spellbinder which was once used in conjunction with another Gemstone named by the Dwarves Pathfinder to contain the magic of the Graygem of Gargath.__NEWL__The main character picks up a number of other characters such as Wingover, Chestal Thicketsway, Bobbin, and Jillian Firestoke in his travels.__NEWL__Among other notable events, Chane comes across the original location of the Graygem in Waykeep Valley and encounters the Irda.__NEWL__He also encounters the remains of the Hill Dwarves and Mountain Dwarves encased in ice since the Dwarfgate Wars.__NEWL__Chane also finds the Helm of Grallen in the remains of rubble which were blown away from the tower of Zhaman.__NEWL__A secondary plot line revolves around the renegade mage Caliban who was hunted down and killed years before by members of the three orders of magic.__NEWL__Caliban pulled his own heart out during the encounter and his shriveled heart remained as a power artifact used by the major antagonist in the story Kolanda Darkmoor.__NEWL__Caliban through Kolanda seeks the death of the three mages that hunted him down and killed him years before.__NEWL__Glenshadow the Wanderer, who wears the Red robes of Neutrality was the one of the three mages to survive the encounter with Caliban.__NEWL__Caliban and Glenshadow encounter each other near the end of the novel.__NEWL__At the end of the novel Chane with the help of his traveling companions is able to discover the location of the hidden entrance, which is near Sky's End Peak near Northgate, by using the gem Pathfinder and the Helm of Grallen.__NEWL__Chane places Spellbinder inside the hidden entrance and the entrance is sealed from the outside as the result of a terrible magic storm.__NEWL__All the major benefactors in the story survive, the hidden entrance is sealed against magic (through Spellbinder which is now buried) and the Helm of Grallen passes into the realm of Thorbardin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3964056	I Dreamed of Africa	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	29536788	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29536788	The memoir ranges from her childhood's fascination with the continent (whence the title) to her 1972 decision to relocate to Kenya to run a farm in the Laikipia plain with her husband and son.__NEWL__Gallmann published the book in 1991, twenty years after moving to Kenya, and she chose to write it in English as this was by then her adoptive language.__NEWL__The book is often compared to Karen Blixen's Out of Africa, as the subject has several traits in common, and the setting is, in both cases, the savannahs of Kenya, in the Great Rift Valley area.__NEWL__The 2000 movie of the same title, starring Kim Basinger and directed by Hugh Hudson, is based on the book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7723449	The Clockwork Three	2010-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29586754	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29586754	One day, Giuseppe finds a green violin floating in the harbor and he tries it out.__NEWL__He finds that it gives a very beautiful sound, and he is thrown money from people everywhere in the streets.__NEWL__He gets an idea to use his green violin to buy a boat ticket back to Italy, where he had been taken from.__NEWL__For once, Giuseppe has hope in getting back to his family.__NEWL__Frederick is going around in search of a chest plate for his clockwork man.__NEWL__While wandering the streets, Frederick catches a glimpse of Mrs. Treeless, the woman in charge of an orphanage.__NEWL__Frederick had been in before becoming apprenticed to Master Branch, which reminds him of the awful memories he had at the orphanage.__NEWL__He also bumps into Giuseppe, but Giuseppe runs along with his violin.__NEWL__Later, he finds a coal chute, perfect for the chest plate, and sneaks it out of a coal yard.__NEWL__While he sneaks out, he lies about his father being one of the workers at the mine.__NEWL__He goes back to Master Branch's shop, where Frederick is an apprentice, and once he decides that Master Branch is asleep, he goes to the basement of the shop to work on his clockwork man.__NEWL__Hannah discovers that a man named Mister Stroop supposedly left the treasure in the suites at the top of the hotel.__NEWL__She later sees a map that hints it may be near a pond in the park.__NEWL__She runs to look for it when she desperately needs money for her sick father's medicine.__NEWL__There she meets Giuseppe, and the two look for the treasure but it is not there, though she receives some herbal medicine from a woman who lives in the park.__NEWL__Hannah's father draws for her where the treasure is hidden in the hotel, having worked for Stroop's hotel in the past.__NEWL__The next day the three children all meet for the first time and Frederick shows the other two his automaton.__NEWL__The three agree to help each other out with their problems.__NEWL__Giuseppe mentions that he saw a clockwork head—Frederick's only missing piece—in a museum.__NEWL__The three sneak into the museum so Frederick can inspect the head, but they are interrupted by guards and forced to flee.__NEWL__Frederick escapes with the stolen head, which was made by Albertus Magnus.__NEWL__Hannah also accidentally took a small piece of clay belonging to a golem and inserts it into the Clockwork Man thus bringing the Clockwork Man to life.__NEWL__This, coupled with the Magnus head, gives it near-human intelligence.__NEWL__Hannah discovers that Mister Stroop's treasure is his will, witnessed by the hotel's owner, Mister Twine.__NEWL__She and Frederick talk to him, but Hannah refuses to take the money because it would cause the park to be destroyed.__NEWL__Mister Twine promotes her to the chief of maids and gives her quite a bit of money for new dresses, a portion of which she gives to Giuseppe for his ticket.__NEWL__A law was passed that the padrones no longer had legal control over their buskers.__NEWL__Enraged, Stefano tries to kill Giuseppe, but he is saved by Yakov, who shoots Stephano in the head with his gun.__NEWL__Madame Pomeroy asks Giuseppe to travel with her to play his green violin for kings and queens, and thus, Giuseppe accepts.__NEWL__Frederick eventually becomes a journeyman, and Hannah's father's health improves.__NEWL__The story ends with an epilogue in which Frederick has created a clockwork bird and shows it to Hannah.__NEWL__It begins to hum a tune that Giuseppe played on his violin, and Hannah's father's toes begin to tap, showing that his leg still works.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1322083	Sunset Park	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18419	Brooklyn	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29573989	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29573989	Set during the American financial recession in 2008, the college dropout Miles Heller, who has been running from his past for seven years, is forced to leave his new girlfriend in Florida and return home to New York City.__NEWL__There he unites with his old friend Bing who lives with two women in an abandoned home in the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.__NEWL__ Through several situations of coincidence and self-discovery, it is a story about how to reconnect with a world once left behind, and how to rejoin the human race after self-inflicted exile.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7776608	The Year of the Horsetails	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z	29540570	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29540570	Bardiya had been a conscript soldier from the minority Saka people in the Tugar army as a light, mounted cavalryman but sentenced to death for desertion.__NEWL__Bardiya fled the Tugars on horseback and encountered a sedentary and pastoral Slav people called the Drevich who assisted him fighting off his former compatriots who had tracked him across the vast endless grasslands of the steppe.__NEWL__He decided to stay and live with them, quite possibly influenced by Marissa, a beautiful woman from the tribe.__NEWL__Bardiya warns the Drevich that the dreaded Tugars are campaigning towards their region and that they will be overrun unless they leave, or are determined to fight.__NEWL__Bardiya then trains the Drevich in the war techniques and methodologies of the Tugars and prepares them to defend their homeland.__NEWL__The final scenes comprise the battle between the Tugars and the Drevich, who by tactical ingenuity and discipline, manage to avoid being beaten by the Tugars and inflict a stinging defeat on the invaders.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733223	The Fall of the Pagoda	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	29536387	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29536387	The Fall of the Pagoda tells a narrative story about the childhood life of a girl, Lute, born in a noble family which is in a process of moral and financial decline.__NEWL__As a young girl, her mother followed her aunt to go abroad, and her father was addicted to opium, leaving her and her little brother to live with their servants, aunt Tong, aunt He, aunt Qin, etc.__NEWL__Her father presided over their family.__NEWL__But he did not work due to a negative attitude to life and the addiction to opium.__NEWL__Lute's mother, Lu, a woman in the vanguard of female self-reliance, decided to divorce with her father, the patriarch who was adrift in post-Qing China.__NEWL__Maybe due to her special family background, the little girl was different in some significant way from others of the same age.__NEWL__Her psychological age is much older than actual age.__NEWL__Lute's sickly brother, Hill, as a boy, was the important child in this family because he would be the successor of his father, Yuxi.__NEWL__The young boy was cosseted, over-supervised and beaten so that he was weak and morose.__NEWL__Lute was often ignored and had more freedom to do what she wanted.__NEWL__She was given to those of no consequence.__NEWL__Lute grew up around servants, the sprawling, extended family existed in a sea of gossip, scandal, jealousy and fear.__NEWL__They were bound together by their need for money, and the terror of destitution.__NEWL__They lived on the family's ever-diminishing wealth and tarnished prestige, pretending loyalty while pursuing their own survival and pleasure.__NEWL__Through young Lute's child clear eyes, those adults sometimes were hypocritical; even her parents were relentlessly selfish.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7751471	The Million Dollar Goal	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29499230	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29499230	Twins Dawn and Dusk Rosenberg love hockey, and have been playing hockey since they were in the mighty mite league.__NEWL__They live outside Montreal, and their dad does not have much of a connection to hockey than to baseball.__NEWL__Mr. Rosenberg would never buy hockey gear for Dawn or Dusk, and makes them pay with their own money.__NEWL__The two even wrote haikus about hockey, Dusk's being more about the violence seen in hockey whatsoever.__NEWL__But to Dawn and Dusk's surprises, their dad buys them tickets to the Montreal Canadiens ("Well, we both just about fainted!") from one of his clients who couldn't use the season tickets that night.__NEWL__Dusk then tells about his grandmother, Sophie "Oma" Rosenberg, who apparently farts all the time and enters every contest she sees.__NEWL__She mostly wields a walker and (for long distances) a wheelchair.__NEWL__Oma also curses most of the time in her language.__NEWL__She has a great desire for Elvis Presley, and still has a Velvet Elvis (Mrs. Rosenberg calls it "khalooscious") on the wall as a good luck charm, and throws a fit when it is taken down.__NEWL__Oma tends to be embarrassing to Dusk and Dawn, cursing and farting in front of her friends.__NEWL__Dusk wishes Oma would die sooner or late ARMANt the Molson Centre, the Rosenbergs' tickets are for section 203, which Dusk complains to.__NEWL__Mr. Rosenberg even brings a video camera, already having a bunch of video collections in their basement.__NEWL__They take the elevator to the 200 level.__NEWL__Oma's complaining of not being able to see ends up in Dusk and Oma switching seats.__NEWL__The Canadiens end up behind 4-0 in the first period, and worsening.__NEWL__The team loses 8-1, but afterwards, the lucky winner of the Million Dollar Goal Contest would be chosen, but through a JumboTron screen, which would sweep around and around to choose a section, and then would go in and out to choose a row.__NEWL__Section 203 (the section the Rosenbergs are sitting in) was chosen, and then Row L (the row the Rosenbergs are sitting in) was chosen, but the lucky winner was none other than a fast-asleep Oma.__NEWL__Mrs. Rosenberg believes Oma cannot take the shot, thinking Oma might fall and break a hip.__NEWL__Even when Dawn points out all the things affordable to buy, Mr. Rosenberg still refuses to let his mother take the shot for "a cool new video game system."__NEWL__Dawn suggests that the shot would be made easier for Oma, in which Dusk agrees for once.__NEWL__Their dad instantly believes Oma was chosen because she was an old "cripple" who couldn't walk, so they wouldn't have to pay off the million dollars.__NEWL__Oma rolls in and asks where she left her teeth, but quickly finds them in her mouth.__NEWL__But, however, Oma says she isn't a cripple and would take the shot.__NEWL__Dawn and Dusk end up having to train Oma for the big day, Oma to shoot goals on a layer of plastic ice, but Oma accidentally slips and falls, Dawn unable to grab her arm to prevent her.__NEWL__Oma is rushed to the hospital, but she never really broke anything.__NEWL__She however is reported to be a terrible hockey player, unable to make the NHL if she would fall taking just a slap shot.__NEWL__She refused to take painkillers, as that was what killed her role model, Elvis Presley.__NEWL__Oma has her walker taken away and must use a wheelchair on a daily basis, but she says she would still take the shot.__NEWL__Oma must rest in bed for the next 2 days with no physical activity; Dawn and Dusk are afraid to try and retrain Oma after her first training.__NEWL__Mrs. Rosenberg tells them how people need something worth living for, an example being the achievement of Dawn and Dusk's other grandmother's wish to see the 21st century.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5047968	Casablanca	2003-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29485442	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29485442	Casablanca begins when the narrator, who is driving his car to Mar del Plata seaside resort, is caught by a big storm.__NEWL__While looking for some shelter he comes across a place similar to Rick's Café Américain.__NEWL__He gets out of the car and, almost blinded by the rain, hurries to the entrance door.__NEWL__Just then somebody starts playing "As Time Goes By" on a piano at the back of the room.__NEWL__The player is identical to Sam, but much older; he is wearing the same suit jacket that is shown in the film, but worn out now.__NEWL__In one of the corners, an old man in dark glasses, who looks like Humphrey Bogart, is dozing at a table.__NEWL__When the song is over, the black man starts to tell the narrator the story of the place and of the people who lived there.__NEWL__It all started, he says, in the early fifties, when the owner of those lands, a rich man very similar to Sydney Greenstreet —the actor who interpreted señor Ferrari— decides to build a replica of Rick's café to reproduce in it the main scenes of the movie.__NEWL__With this purpose, he sends agents around the country and abroad, to look for people whose physical appearance is identical to the characters.__NEWL__He keeps for himself the role of Señor Ferrari.__NEWL__When the cast is ready, they rehearse for some months; their voices and accents must sound like the English spoken in the original version.__NEWL__To imitate the black-and-white movie, everything in the place is in lighter or darker shades of grey.__NEWL__When the café is opened, success is enormous.__NEWL__The people who visit it have the feeling they are “inside” the famous movie.__NEWL__Señor Ferrari's dream (“Ferrari” is the name given to the ranch owner in the story)__NEWL__Señor Ferrari's dream of turning the movie Casablanca into reality has come true.__NEWL__Some years of splendor follow, but an epidemic of hoof-and-mouth disease and an unexpected flood affect Señor Ferrari's property, and he goes bankrupt.__NEWL__He speaks with President Perón to get a license to play for real money at the roulette wheel and the poker tables (up to that moment people pretended that they were gambling).__NEWL__President Perón —who had visited the place some months before and had an affair with Ilsa (Ferrari's lover) — agrees to it.__NEWL__The café manages to survive, although far from its past magnificence.__NEWL__Then a military coup overthrows Perón, and the casino is closed.__NEWL__It is a hard blow for Ferrari, who commits suicide.__NEWL__In his will, he states that the café will remain the property of his employees, provided that they never shut it down or put it up for sale.__NEWL__In the following weeks, they try to do their best to make ends meet, but after a while, some of them give up and desert the place.__NEWL__In a few months, the only ones who remain are Rick, Ilsa, Sam, Renault, and Ugarte.__NEWL__To make a living they decide to perform isolated scenes, which are shown to the few tourists who happen to go by.__NEWL__Time passes, and not only the place deteriorates but the health of its dwellers as well.__NEWL__The moment the narrator arrives, Sam can offer nothing but an account of what happened in that fantastic Casablanca, and introduce Rick and Ilsa, who are much older now (Rick is blind; Ilsa makes a brief appearance, dressed as Ingrid Bergman in one of the scenes of the movie).__NEWL__In a vase placed near the exit door, visitors leave a few coins.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the storm has subsided.__NEWL__Sam plays "As Time Goes By" once again, to say goodbye now.__NEWL__The narrator gets into his car and, with the feeling that he has witnessed a sequel to the movie that Hollywood never made, leaves the place.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7728947	The Dark Heart of Time	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29639111	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29639111	Set in October 1918—during Tarzan's search for Jane—the novel takes place between Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible.__NEWL__The novel's antagonist is James D. Stonecraft, an American oil magnate who believes that Tarzan knows the secret of immortality.__NEWL__Stonecraft hires hunters to track and capture Tarzan for the secret, leading to conflicts at the "City Built by God" and the "Crystal Tree of Time".__NEWL__Through all of the adventure Tarzan is focused on escaping his pursuers so that he may return to his search for his wife.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q112939484	The Cottingley Cuckoo			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2472862	Cottingley	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	71091559	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71091559	In the 2020s, Rose starts working as a caregiver at the Sunnyside Care Home.__NEWL__She is tasked with looking after an elderly lady, Charlotte Favell, but soon discovers that Mrs. Favell is unlike any of the other residents at the home.__NEWL__She is formidable and mysterious, and Rose is intimidated by her.__NEWL__One day, Mrs. Favell shows Rose an old letter written in 1921 by Lawrence Fenton to Arthur Conan Doyle.__NEWL__At the time, Conan Doyle had recently published photographs that cousins Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright had allegedly taken of fairies in Cottingley.__NEWL__In the letter Fenton says that he, his daughter-in-law, Charlotte, and his seven-year-old granddaughter, Harriet have also seen and photographed fairies.__NEWL__He further states that they found a dead fairy and took it home as proof of their existence.__NEWL__Even though, many years later, Griffiths and Wright's photographs were revealed to be fakes, Rose is captivated by the letter and its implications.__NEWL__Over a period of weeks, Mrs. Favell teases Rose with more letters.__NEWL__Having not received a response from Conan Doyle, Fenton wrote a series of letters to Edward Gardner, an associate of Conan Doyle.__NEWL__In these letters, Fenton reveals the true nature of fairies, that they are not pretty little winged people, but are the dangerous and vindictive creatures from folklore.__NEWL__He tells Gardner that he believes Charlotte is being held captive by fairies, and that the woman in his house is not his daughter-in-law, but a changeling.__NEWL__In another letter, Fenton tells Gardner that Harriet has gone to the fairies.__NEWL__Mrs. Favell becomes more enigmatic and Rose is convinced she can read her mind.__NEWL__One day she tells Rose that Rose is pregnant even before she knows it herself, and that the baby's name should be Robyn.__NEWL__Later Mrs. Favell's daughter, Harriet, comes to visit, and Rose sees that she is also pregnant.__NEWL__Harriet sympathetically puts her hand on Rose's swollen belly, but Rose is shocked by her gesture.__NEWL__Rose begins to wonder if Charlotte Favell and her daughter, Harriet are the same Charlotte and Harriet in Fenton's letters.__NEWL__She also wonders if they are mischievous fairies.__NEWL__When Rose gives birth, she is surprised it is a boy and not "Robyn", as Mrs. Favell predicted.__NEWL__Rose's boyfriend Paul suggests they call him Alexander, but she does not bond with the baby, who screams constantly and fights her.__NEWL__When Rose takes Alexander to visit the care home, Harriet is also there, and she discovers that Harriet's baby is a girl named Robyn.__NEWL__Robyn is beautiful and content and Rose is convinced she is her baby that Harriet took from her, and that Alexander is a changeling.__NEWL__Rose confronts Harriet about Robyn and Harriet asks Charlotte, "Mother, what have you done?__NEWL__" Harriet then proceeds to explain to Rose that her mother has been playing games with her.__NEWL__Years ago, Charlotte's father-in-law murdered her young daughter, believing she was not a normal child.__NEWL__Charlotte adopted Harriet in an attempt to replace her lost daughter, but was convinced Harriet was a changeling.__NEWL__Her mother was later found to have Capgras Syndrome, and Rose wonders whether Charlotte wrote those letters herself in an attempt to explain what had happened to her.__NEWL__But Rose dismisses the thought, and is sure that Harriet's story about her mother is all lies to further confuse her.__NEWL__She is certain now that Charlotte and Harriet are fairies, and is determined to take back Robyn, her real daughter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30889463	The worldwide machine	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z	71260060	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71260060	After World War II, living in San Savino, a hamlet of Frontone in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, is Anteo Crocioni, a curious but unschooled young man who asks many questions about the origin of the world and living things, arriving at a conception that is both mechanistic and idealistic of what exists, which presupposes its creation by what he calls authorial automata.__NEWL__According to Anteo, if his theories were known in the world, steps would be taken toward friendship among peoples and universal peace.__NEWL__Instead, they leave his father, a small farmer who sees in his son a layabout and a dangerous protester (because of his inclinations toward communism) of the economic and social order represented by landowners, Christian Democracy and the Catholic Church, perplexed.__NEWL__However, it is with a young seminarian named Liborio that Anteo establishes a friendly relationship, finding in the boy a mind willing to listen and understand his worldview, though not to share it.__NEWL__Later Anteo meets Massimina, a girl from a neighboring village, and marries her.__NEWL__To improve his economic condition he buys, in the wake of his fascination with mechanical means, several agricultural machines with which he starts a business as a contractor, despite the contrary opinion of his father and wife, who are reluctant to any idea of innovation.__NEWL__His work keeps him away from home for long periods, and when he returns he no longer finds Massimina there.__NEWL__He discovers that his wife, no longer determined to put up with his sudden outbursts, has moved to Rome to look for work as a housekeeper, counting on the support of the sizeable Marche community that has emigrated there.__NEWL__Anteo sells the cars and also travels to the capital, to bring his wife home while seizing the opportunity to show professors and students at the Sapienza University of Rome his theories and the treatise he is writing, which, however, do not meet with the slightest success with them.__NEWL__After running out of money, he practices various trades to support himself, including cleaning lion cages in a circus and manages to track down Maximina thanks to a complaint for abandonment of the marital roof that he files against her.__NEWL__The young woman now works as a servant in a stately home and, to protect herself against her husband, sues him for battery.__NEWL__Anteo is thus forced by judicial authority to leave Rome and returns to San Savino to await trial.__NEWL__He finds Liberio, who in the meantime has been ordained a priest and appointed parish priest of Acquaviva, and helps him get settled in the rectory house.__NEWL__One day he meets by chance his wife, who has come to visit her places of origin; she does not deny herself the consummation of sexual intercourse with her husband but refuses to return home.__NEWL__Several months later, Anteo learns from the newspapers that Massimina has secretly given birth to a child, conceived from the intercourse she had that day, leaving him to die for lack of care; the woman is then arrested for infanticide.__NEWL__Anteo then decides to end his existence by filling his house with explosives and blowing it up after locking himself inside.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q68168735	Insanity’s Heaven	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q858	Syria	71008467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71008467	The story starts from the perspective of the second character (Sarhan), a mysterious character that has a great impact on the role of other characters.__NEWL__However, Sarhan’s character is not as prominent as Baligh’s, the primary character.__NEWL__The story revolves around a young man named Baligh who was expelled and imprisoned in another region.__NEWL__He escaped from the prison with the help of a police officer.__NEWL__He coincidentally meets Sarhan while escaping.__NEWL__Then Sarhan leads Baligh to his strange tree which can be considered the focal point of all the critical events in the novel.__NEWL__At the tree, Baligh meets a group of strange and intriguing group of friends only to form the weirdest relationships with them which lead him on further adventures.__NEWL__The origins of the protagonist is later on revealed, which the author uses to embody the troubled and inconsistent personality.__NEWL__This novel dives deep into the human spirit and sends many messages that can be interpreted.__NEWL__It also deals with many topics such as sadism, fate, sacrifice, and friendship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q112787692	Nona the Ninth	2022-09-13T00:00:00Z	71013535	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71013535	Nona, an unknown being housed in the body of Harrowhark, awakens on an unknown planet.__NEWL__Harrow, along with the cavalier Pyrrha in the Lyctor Gideon's body, was rescued by Camilla and Palamedes (who are now sharing a body) from the River at the end of Harrow the Ninth.__NEWL__Despite carrying out a number of tests, Camilla and Palamedes are unable to determine Nona's true identity, though they believe she is either Gideon or Harrow.__NEWL__Nona displays several magical abilities: she heals faster than a Lyctor, and she understands any language (including body language).__NEWL__ Nona works as a teacher's assistant at a school where she befriends local kids.__NEWL__She, Camilla, Palamedes, Pyrrha, and Coronabeth (now called "Crown") are together working as "Troia cell," an operation run by the Blood of Eden (BoE) rebel group.__NEWL__Troia reports to We Suffer, who controls a BoE faction seeking to negotiate with the Nine Houses, with the secret objective of gathering the necessary materials to open the Locked Tomb.__NEWL__We Suffer hopes that Nona will prove to be a Lyctor who can aid them in the execution of this objective.__NEWL__We Suffer's faction is in conflict with the militant, anti-negotiation "Merv Wing," commanded by Unjust Hope, which publicly burns to death all "zombies" (anyone suspected of being necromantic).__NEWL__The Empire's military branch, the Cohort, has abandoned the planet save for a few holdouts in the barracks following the arrival of Resurrection Beast Number 7, Varun.__NEWL__Varun is "periscoping"—it is projecting a spirit-image of itself as a prelude to full materialization.__NEWL__This drives any necromancer insane, except for those protected by being in non-necromantic bodies.__NEWL__For this reason, Judith Deuteros, Heir to the Second House and a BoE captive, is an incoherent vessel for Varun to speak through.__NEWL__Only Nona can understand its screams, and it seems to know her, calling her a "green thing."__NEWL__Ianthe Tridentarius arrives onworld looking for the Sixth House, which has deserted from the Nine Houses following the testimony of its leader (Palamedes) and instructions left by its Lyctor (Cassiopeia).__NEWL__Ianthe pilots the dead body of her cavalier Naberius to avoid being driven mad by Varun, and demands all House citizens turn themselves in.__NEWL__Crown goes to meet her, pretending to be seeking asylum for Judith, while Pyrrha also appears in the guise of the Lyctor Gideon.__NEWL__Having seen the inside of the barracks, Pyrrha is able to provide BoE key intel via a bug hidden on Judith, using coded words previously arranged with the others.__NEWL__Camilla and Palamedes arrive at the barracks with Nona pretending to be Harrow.__NEWL__Manipulating Ianthe in order to touch her, Palamedes takes control of Naberius' body.__NEWL__The groups proceeds to find Gideon Nav's body, who initially pretends to be dead, only to reveal that her soul, or part of it (or a version of it) is in fact animating the now-invulnerable corpse.__NEWL__She calls herself Prince Kiriona, Heir to the Nine Houses.__NEWL__Varun begins to materialize and its insectoid herald warriors fall to the planet's surface.__NEWL__After talking through Judith with Nona atop of a truck, Varun agrees to pull back.__NEWL__Unfortunately, many of its heralds have already arrived.__NEWL__We Suffer's faction takes cover underground, where they find and capture Merv Wing's convoy transporting the Sixth House hostages.__NEWL__With everyone of import now assembled, they intend to complete the mission of opening the Locked Tomb.__NEWL__This requires travel through the River, something only a powerful Lyctor can achieve.__NEWL__Camilla and Palamedes therefore merge their souls in an advanced form of Lyctorhood, and are able to move a megatruck into the River.__NEWL__Here they find no ravenous ghosts, but instead a mysterious tower.__NEWL__Nona helps them pilot to the Ninth House.__NEWL__She feels that she is dying; she states she does not have the right soul for the body that she's in, and so is coming untethered and losing her ability to control Harrow's body.__NEWL__She is increasingly aware of other thoughts in her mind: either the residual souls of Harrow and Gideon (the body's previous owners), or the thoughts of Nona's true self who can "remember.__NEWL__"  They find that the Ninth House is under attack from unknown entities called devils, the same possessive force that killed Colum in the first book.__NEWL__Ianthe attempts to block their way to the tomb, but she is bested thanks to Gideon's triple cross and Pyrrha's herald bullet.__NEWL__Gideon claims that God wants the tomb open, but the truth of the matter is unclear.__NEWL__Entering the tomb, Nona remembers having done this before, proving after many increasingly clear hints that she is none other than Alecto: the body in the tomb.__NEWL__Alecto entered Harrow's body when Harrow was ten, when she opened the tomb and kissed the body, providing a conduit for possession.__NEWL__This is why Harrow had visions of the body; Alecto was possessing her the whole time.__NEWL__Alecto finally took control, manifesting as Nona, after Gideon and Harrow's souls were removed at the end of the preceding novel.__NEWL__At that time, Gideon was possibly removed by God, and Harrow intentionally placed her own soul in the Locked Tomb, i.e., in Alecto's sleeping body.__NEWL__These events are interspersed with dreamlike memories in which John Gaius reveals the secrets behind the destruction of Earth and his ascent to divinity: he destroyed the already dying Earth, consumed much of her soul to become God, and stuffed the rest of the Earth into a body inspired by his favorite Barbie.__NEWL__ Now Nona reunites with Alecto's body, and the souls are switched back to their correct places.__NEWL__Alecto returns to her body, waking it, and Harrow returns to hers.__NEWL__Harrow declares her love for Alecto, only for Alecto to swear service to Harrow as the descendent of Anastasia (founder of the Ninth House, to whom Alecto swore a sacred oath).__NEWL__Alecto then proceeds to travel through the river to John Gaius, who she then stabs through the chest.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12188833	Sail and Storm	71001052	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71001052	Sail and Storm is the story of a coastal Syrian city during WWII, in which the author depicted the impact of the war and the storms it left in a country occupied by the French, highlighting the contradictions that preyed on a heterogeneous society, but first and foremost, the story of seamen, the story of victory over nature, and the story of human will and adventure.__NEWL__The sea is not addressed in the Arabic novel without mentioning Hanna Minh, as if they are twins, which in fact they are, emanating from the Syrian coast's womb to crystallize eternal literature together through time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3223968	The White Paper	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	71106084	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71106084	The book is a semi-autobiographical account of Cocteau's life.__NEWL__An unnamed narrator grows up and develops his sexual identity.__NEWL__He recounts stories of having crushes in school in Toulon, one-night stands—including his first sexual encounter in a park near his father's house, and his gay identity being acknowledged after watching two boys have sex—watching nude people masturbate through one-way mirrors, and casual sex at bathhouses.__NEWL__The narrator is never accepted by those around him, and he retreats from society as a whole.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113022900	Cloud Nine	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z	71166142	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71166142	Graham Kirby, raised since adolescence by his foster mother, the elderly yet attractive Jane Silbert, expects to inherit her property and make a fortune in real estate development.__NEWL__When Kirby’s younger half-brother Burl makes pregnant the sixteen-year-old Sonya Lang, Kirby marries the teenage girl to avoid a local scandal and to arrange for an abortion.__NEWL__Sonya miscarries, and Kirby discovers he is falling in love with her.__NEWL__ Unbeknownst to Kirby, his foster mother Jane is secretly attracted to him, and resents his marriage to Sonya.__NEWL__When Jane allows herself to be seduced by Burl, Sonya reveals to her mother-in-law Burl’s history of brutal and predatory sexual behavior, including suspicions that he is responsible for the death of a former lover.__NEWL__Burl retaliates, assaulting Kirby and threatening to rape Sonya; she kills him in self-defense.__NEWL__Kirby and Sonya bond through adversity, and embark upon a rosy future reconciled with the now doting Jane.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12191072	The Blue Elephant (novel)	71070381	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71070381	After 5 years of optional isolation, Dr. Yehia Rashed resumes his practice in Abbasia Mental Health Hospital where he finds a surprise awaiting him..__NEWL__In "8 west"the wing which decides the fate of those who committed crimes, he meets an old friend with a long past.__NEWL__Now this man's fate is between Yehia's hands.__NEWL__More surprises flow over him and his life flips upside down, for what started as a try to understand the truth behind his friend's past, is now a thrilling adventure to discover himself and what is left of him.__NEWL__Ahmed Mourad takes us in his third novel to behind the scenes of a strange world which he spent two years studying its details.__NEWL__It's a strange trip where we find the deepest and strangest mysteries of the human soul.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q950335	Noticias del Imperio	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	71135442	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71135442	The novel is written in two sequences, the first is a monologue by Empress Carlota while she was locked up in the Bouchout Castle in Belgium, sixty years after the death of Maximilian, shot at Cerro de las Campanas, Querétaro, on June 19, 1867, as she fell into madness after his death.__NEWL__In this monologue, Carlota explains the story of her love for Maximilian, as well as the times of the Second Mexican Empire and European royalty.__NEWL__At the same time, del Paso resorts to various genres and techniques to give voice to the different parties involved in the conflict, among them epistles between members of the royalty, historical chronicles, which have as settings the Miramare Castle, Mexico, France, Germany, Vienna, among other places, and characters such as Charles de Lorencez, François Achille Bazaine, Élie-Frédéric Forey, Miguel Miramón, Tomás Mejía, Benito Juárez, Porfirio Díaz, Mariano Escobedo, Gaspar Sánchez Ochoa, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Napoleon III, among other historical participants in the conflict.__NEWL__Both sequences take turns, changing the name of the chapter of the narrative sequence while all of Carlota's monologues are always titled "Bouchout Castle 1927".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113168969	Afterland			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	71238148	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71238148	In 2020, a human culgoa virus, a highly infectious strain of flu, spreads rapidly across the globe.__NEWL__The virus mutates into an aggressive prostate cancer and kills 99% of the world's male population.__NEWL__The pandemic is dubbed "Manfall", and most countries outlaw pregnancies and close their borders to safeguard future generations until a cure for the virus can be found.__NEWL__Afterland begins in 2023 in the United States.__NEWL__Cole and her twelve-year-old son, Miles are trying to reach Florida and return to their home in South Africa.__NEWL__Miles is one of the few surviving males, and was quarantined with his mother at a Department for the Protection of Men facility in California.__NEWL__There he was probed and tested by researchers looking for a cure.__NEWL__Billie, Cole's sister, broke them out of the compound, but Billie had ulterior motive.__NEWL__She wants to keep her nephew to harvest his sperm and sell it on the black market.__NEWL__Now Cole and Miles are not only on the run from the US authorities, but also from Billie.__NEWL__Cole disguises Miles as a girl and names him Mila.__NEWL__After days on the road, they encounter a bus full of "nuns" who have formed a cult they call the Sisters of the Church of All Sorrows.__NEWL__They believe that if women repent their sins, men will return.__NEWL__Cole and Mila join the travelling nuns in the hope of reaching the border safely.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q112724629	The Soul Return	70988651	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70988651	Mohsen who left Damanhur where his wealthy family, as he enroll in a Cairo school.__NEWL__Lives a simple life with his three uncles and an aunt who takes care of them after she misses the chance of her getting married.__NEWL__However, all the males fall in love with their neighbor Suniyah, the modern girl who plays piano, but she disappoints them all.__NEWL__As she falls in love with their neighbor Mustafa.__NEWL__Mustafa a well-off young man, leaves his shop which he inherited from his father Kafr El Zayat.__NEWL__Next, comes to Cairo in search of jobs for ten pounds, as Suniyah encourages him to return to his father’s shop.__NEWL__Suniyah collides with aunt Zanouba who dreams of marrying Mustafa and uses magic to win his heart, but she fails.__NEWL__The 1919 erupts for the return of Saad Zagloul and his comrades who were exiled from their homeland.__NEWL__Mohsen, his uncles and his servants participate in the demonstrations that support the revolution.__NEWL__As the novel begins of them being sick in bed in one room, it ended up in one cell in prison and in one room in a hospital.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22930064	The Women of al-Basatin	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z	71099033	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71099033	The novel tells the story of Tawfiq, the narrator, a Tunisian immigrant who works as a professor of history and geography in one of Paris secondary schools who spends his summer vacation in the apartment of his brother Ibrahim and his wife Yusra in one of the condominia of al-Basatin district of Tunis and prepare their son's Wael room for him to stay in for the duration of his stay in Tunisia.__NEWL__Their third brother, Bashir, visits them twice in Ibrahim's apartment, who is a doctor and owns a domesticated to raise chickens in Beja and becomes a prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic Rally Party.__NEWL__In his second visit, he comes with three chickens.__NEWL__Tawfiq wanders around the city's antiques with his teacher friend “Najib Kamoun” in Tunis district and they visit a brothel where Najib admires one of the prostitute who demands a hefty payment for sex.__NEWL__Tawfiq admires Naima, a divorced woman who lives alone in an apartment in the same building as Ibrahim's.__NEWL__He voyeurs several times from Wael's chamber window on Naima and tries to approach her.__NEWL__He once spotted a young child and a man in her apartment.__NEWL__Then Tawfiq meets Yisra's sister, Leila, who asks him to pass on her someday to accompany him to his apartment by her car.__NEWL__Tawfiq waits for Laila when she comes out of work, and she accompanies him to her house where she entices him, so he sleeps with her.__NEWL__Tawfiq regrets his act, but when he sees his brother, Ibrahim, accompanied with his teacher friend, enticing two prostitutes in the café of the International Hotel and taking them to an old building to sleep with them, it made him feel less guilty.__NEWL__Ibrahim then summons the police to Naima's room for prostitution accusation, and Naima gets arrested.__NEWL__On the last day before he travelled, Tawfiq met Naguib by coincidence of the café where they had met earlier and went to the same brothel where Naguib has slept with the woman he admired.__NEWL__Tawfiq finally prepares himself to travel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2409171	Wings	2009-05-05T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21864751	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21864751	Laurel Sewell is a 15-year-old girl who has lived her whole life on her family's land near Orick, California.__NEWL__Her adoptive parents buy a bookstore in Crescent City, California and move the family there, deciding to enroll Laurel in Del Norte High School—up to this point, she has been Homeschooling/homeschooled.__NEWL__At high school, Laurel finds she struggles to concentrate with the harsh lighting and confining classrooms but quickly befriends David, a handsome boy in her year, and Chelsea, a friendly girl with a crush on David who is fascinated by Laurel's strictly-vegan diet.__NEWL__As Laurel and David grow closer, she tells him that she wasn't adopted by normal means; she was left in a basket on her parents' doorstep when she was 3, with no memories except her name.__NEWL__A few months into the year, Laurel gets a large pimple on her back, which is unusual as she never gets pimples.__NEWL__She attempts to use an herbal salve of her mother's to treat it, but the zit only grows larger, until one day she wakes up with an enormous blue flower growing out of the small of her back.__NEWL__Hesitant to tell her parents, Laurel confides in David, who is surprised but also remarks that the blossom resembles a pair of wings.__NEWL__Using David's microscope, they confirm that the blossom is a plant.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Laurel's parents are visited by Jeremiah Barnes, who is interested in buying their small plot of land near Orick, which they are selling to pay for the bookstore.__NEWL__Barnes is particularly interested if Laurel's parents have ever had trespassers on the property.__NEWL__Laurel and her parents travel to visit their old house on the property and Laurel meets a young man called Tamani.__NEWL__She finds him intriguing and handsome but is wary of how unsurprised he is by the flower on her back.__NEWL__He offers answers, however, and explains that she—like him—is a faerie; a highly-evolved, sentient plant.__NEWL__ Laurel, angered, leaves and threatens to call the police if she finds Tamani trespassing again, later finding some strange glitter on her arm where he touched her.__NEWL__She tries to avoid David, but eventually tells him about Tamani and what he said, storming off when David says it makes sense.__NEWL__She asks her father if she has ever been to a doctor, and he says once; when she was found.__NEWL__Apparently, the doctor couldn't hear her heartbeat.__NEWL__David convinces Laurel to consider Tamani's theory and suggests testing to see if she really is a plant.__NEWL__They find that her blood is clear, and David can't hear her heartbeat.__NEWL__He suspects she doesn't even have a heart.__NEWL__Laurel is shaken by this, and David kisses her in an attempt to comfort her.__NEWL__She is flattered but says it's too much to deal with right now.__NEWL__They also figure out that Laurel exhales oxygen and inhales carbon dioxide.__NEWL__ David invites Laurel to a school dance and suggests her 'costume' be a faerie.__NEWL__She goes to the dance with him and is stunned when another student hands her one of her petals that apparently fell off, and she realises her blossom must be wilting.__NEWL__The next morning, all the petals have fallen out, and she goes to find Tamani for more answers.__NEWL__He tells her that she is a Fall faerie.__NEWL__This means she has an innate sense of plants and magic, and can create elixirs and potions.__NEWL__Tamani is a Spring faerie, the commonest and least-powerful kind, so can entice other faeries or animals (including humans).__NEWL__The glitter she found on her arm was his pollen—faeries reproduce through pollination, like any other plant.__NEWL__Tamani is on the land because he is a sentry—one of several—guarding something extremely powerful, as well as watching over Laurel because she is a scion, a faerie sent to live among humans so she can inherit her parents' land.__NEWL__When Laurel tells Tamani that her parents are selling it, he insists she has to find a way to stop them.__NEWL__ Meanwhile, Laurel's father, Mark, becomes very ill.__NEWL__He doesn't improve, with the doctors eventually giving him a week to live.__NEWL__Barnes arrives with a higher offer for the property and more paperwork to sign.__NEWL__Laurel's mother agrees to the offer, as she needs to pay Mark's medical bills.__NEWL__David and Laurel drive out to Barnes' office because Laurel is convinced he's hiding something, and they find a hideous creature chained inside.__NEWL__Barnes discovers them and punches David before ordering two lackeys to throw David and Laurel in a river to drown.__NEWL__Laurel and David manage to breath underwater by sealing their mouths together, as Laurel exhales oxygen and inhales carbon dioxide.__NEWL__They free themselves and go back to David's car.__NEWL__Realising that this is bigger than some real estate plot, Laurel tells David they need Tamani.__NEWL__After finding him, Tamani explains that Barnes and his lackeys are trolls—primates, like humans—and that they want the land because it contains a gate to Avalon.__NEWL__Tamani suspects that Barnes poisoned Laurel's dad to force them into selling, and that Barnes definitely doesn't know Laurel is a faerie, or he wouldn't have tried to drown her.__NEWL__David and Laurel drive Tamani to Barnes' office.__NEWL__Tamani sneaks in and kills the other trolls by snapping their necks, but Barnes discovers him and shoots him in the leg.__NEWL__Whilst he's distracted, Laurel picks up his gun and threatens to shoot him.__NEWL__Barnes realises she is a scion and Laurel shoots him in the shoulder.__NEWL__She drops the gun in surprise, and Tamani grabs it, but Barnes jumps out a window before Tamani can shoot him.__NEWL__Returning to the property, the other sentries take Tamani to Avalon to heal him.__NEWL__A Winter faerie, Jamison, is informed about the trolls and tells Laurel to be on her guard.__NEWL__He also gives her an elixir that will heal her father and a diamond so her parents don't have to sell the property to pay their bills.__NEWL__Laurel gives her father the elixir and tells her parents that she is a faerie.__NEWL__She and David share a kiss, and a few weeks later she sees Tamani, healed and back on sentry duty.__NEWL__He suggests she stay in the house on the property, but Laurel declines, saying she has to protect her friends and family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q837140	Catching Fire	2009-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21909903	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21909903	Six months after winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have returned home to District 12, the poorest sector of Panem.__NEWL__Prior to Katniss and Peeta's "Victory Tour" of the country, President Snow visits Katniss and tells her that her televised acts of defiance in the previous Games have inspired rebellion among the districts.__NEWL__Snow demands that Katniss convince the country that she was acting out of love for Peeta, not against the Capitol, or her entire family and best friend Gale Hawthorne will be executed.__NEWL__Katniss reveals this threat to her mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, but not to Peeta.__NEWL__The tour’s first stop is District 11, home of Katniss's Hunger Games ally Rue.__NEWL__Peeta announces that he will give part of his winnings to the families of Rue and fellow tribute Thresh, and Katniss delivers an impromptu, heartfelt speech expressing her gratitude to the fallen tributes.__NEWL__An old man salutes Katniss, joined by the crowd; to her horror, the old man is immediately executed.__NEWL__Katniss tells Peeta of Snow’s threat, and they continue the tour as normal.__NEWL__Hoping to placate Snow, Peeta proposes to Katniss during a televised interview in the Capitol.__NEWL__Katniss accepts, but Snow is dissatisfied with her performance, leaving her afraid for her loved ones.__NEWL__Returning to District 12, now overrun with harsher Peacekeepers to enforce the Capitol's rule, Katniss discovers an uprising has broken out in District 8.__NEWL__Gale is caught poaching and is whipped in the town square until Haymitch intervenes.__NEWL__While hunting in the woods, Katniss meets Bonnie and Twill, refugees from District 8, whose uprising has failed.__NEWL__They plan to reach District 13 – believed to be destroyed in the first rebellion against the Capitol – in the hope that the residents are actually underground.__NEWL__Katniss is injured climbing back over District 12’s now live electric fence.__NEWL__Preparing for her upcoming wedding, Katniss learns that Districts 3 and 4 have also risen up against the Capitol.__NEWL__The Capitol announces the 75th Hunger Games, with a twist – tributes will be selected from the surviving victors of the previous Games.__NEWL__As District 12's sole female victor, Katniss realizes she must compete alongside either Haymitch or Peeta.__NEWL__Haymitch is chosen and is unable to stop Peeta volunteering in his place.__NEWL__At the Capitol, Haymitch urges Katniss to find allies, but she bonds with the weakest tributes.__NEWL__In the televised interview, Katniss's stylist Cinna transforms the white wedding gown Snow insisted she wear into a black dress of feathers resembling a mockingjay, a symbol of the rebellion.__NEWL__Before Katniss is sent into the arena, she watches helplessly as Cinna is beaten and dragged out by Peacekeepers.__NEWL__Katniss and Peeta ally themselves with Finnick Odair from District 4 and Mags, his 80-year-old mentor.__NEWL__Peeta is knocked out by the jungle arena’s force field, and the party later has to flee from a poisonous fog.__NEWL__Mags sacrifices herself to allow Finnick to save the weakened Peeta.__NEWL__Katniss and Peeta ally with Johanna Mason from District 7 and “exceptionally smart” Beetee and Wiress from District 3.__NEWL__Wiress reveals that the arena is arranged like a clock, with each danger occurring at a fixed time and place for one hour.__NEWL__Wiress is killed, and in retaliation Katniss and Johanna kill the District 1 tributes.__NEWL__The remaining members of Katniss's group work on Beetee's plan to harness lightning to electrocute the District 2 tributes, who later interfere and disrupt the plan.__NEWL__Katniss uses her bow and arrow to direct the lightning into the force field, destroying it and knocking her unconscious.__NEWL__Katniss wakes up en route to District 13 with Finnick, Beetee, and Haymitch.__NEWL__She learns from Haymitch and Plutarch Heavensbee, the Head Gamemaker, that there had been a secret plan to rescue Katniss, now the living symbol of the rebellion.__NEWL__Peeta, along with Johanna and District 2 tribute Enobaria, have been captured by the Capitol.__NEWL__She later learns from Gale that, though her family and some other residents have escaped, District 12 has been destroyed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5034258	Canyons	1990-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21910578	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21910578	Canyons is a book about two boys.__NEWL__One boy is named Coyote Runs (age 14) and the other boy is Brennan Cole (age 15).__NEWL__The story starts with Brennan making a short narrative about his life and switches back and forth from Brennan and Coyote Runs.__NEWL__Later in the story, the switching ends when Coyote Runs gets shot in the head during his first raid that would, if successful, make him a man among his Apache tribe.__NEWL__However, he is shot by American soldiers and dies instantly.__NEWL__Nearly two hundred years later, Brennan finds his skull with a bullet hole in its forehead and becomes obsessed with it.__NEWL__From that point on in the novel, a mystical link connects Brennan's mind with Coyote Runs' spirit.__NEWL__After talking to his old biology teacher, he runs sixty miles in a day and a night to return the skull to the top of a canyon - a place Coyote Runs calls his “medicine place."__NEWL__After a grueling run and a chase by Brennan's search party, he gets Coyote Runs' skull back to the medicine place, ending the bond and the novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5647460	Handle With Care	2009-03-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21875984	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21875984	The story follows the life of a young girl, Willow O'Keefe, and her family.__NEWL__Willow has Type III osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a disease also known as brittle bone syndrome.__NEWL__To her parents, Sean and Charlotte O'Keefe, the disease has meant many sleepless nights, mounting hospital and insurance bills, and the pitying stares of "luckier" parents.__NEWL__ After a disastrous vacation to Walt Disney World that results in Willow severely breaking both of her femora, Sean and Charlotte visit a lawyer to inquire about a lawsuit against the park and hospital after park and hospital staff thought that Willow's broken bones indicated child abuse.__NEWL__The lawyer, Marin Gates, mentions a different possibility: a wrongful birth lawsuit against the OB/GYN that treated Charlotte during her pregnancy.__NEWL__Essentially, if the O'Keefe's had known earlier that their fetus had OI, they would have been equipped with all the information, and able to make the choice as to whether or not to have the pregnancy aborted.__NEWL__However, the OB/GYN the O'Keefes are suing is Piper Reece, Charlotte's best friend.__NEWL__ Amelia, the eldest daughter of Charlotte, from a previous relationship with a drug addict, develops bulimia and begins to self-harm, partially due to the stress of her home life.__NEWL__Sean considers getting a divorce after countless disagreements with Charlotte about the lawsuit.__NEWL__However, they eventually get back together.__NEWL__ During the trial, it is revealed that at an 18-week ultrasound, there was evidence of OI, which Piper should have informed Charlotte about.__NEWL__The jury awards the O'Keefes $8 million.__NEWL__This forces Piper to leave her practice and take up a part-time job at a free health clinic.__NEWL__Marin, the O'Keefe's lawyer, has her own issues during the lawsuit as well.__NEWL__She was adopted and is trying to track down her birth parents.__NEWL__She discovers that her birth-mother is on the jury and it's later revealed to Marin that she was a product of rape.__NEWL__ __NEWL__The final chapter is narrated by Willow.__NEWL__She begins first grade, and is going to a camp for kids with OI.__NEWL__Amelia received treatment for her eating disorder and returned home healthy and with a passion for painting.__NEWL__Charlotte, who used to be a pastry chef, wrote a recipe book and is donating all of the profits to the OI Foundation.__NEWL__Sean and Charlotte are able to reconcile and put the check aside for when they might really need it.__NEWL__Willow has always been jealous of her sister as she is a brilliant ice skater.__NEWL__ One day, Willow wanders, alone, to the frozen pond in the backyard and tries to crawl over it carefully.__NEWL__However, the thin ice breaks under her weight, and she drowns in the pond.__NEWL__Willow mentions how, this time, it wasn't her that broke.__NEWL__The story concludes with Charlotte burying the $8 million check with Willow.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7691104	Tea Time for the Traditionally Built	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21876356	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21876356	Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree that there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa.__NEWL__The glamorous Violet Sephotho sets her sights on Mma Makutsi's unsuspecting fiancé and it becomes clear that some men do not know how to recognise a ruthless Jezebel even when she is bouncing up and down on the best bed in the Double Comfort Furniture Shop.__NEWL__In her attempt to foster understanding between the sexes and find the traitor on Mr Football's team, Mma Ramotswe ventures into new territory, with the help of an observant small boy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5373806	Emotionally Weird	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	21764721	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21764721	The novel begins with chapter one of a murder mystery set in a seaside resort.__NEWL__This tale is later revealed as being written by Euphemia (Effie) Stuart-Murray as part of a creative writing class at the University of Dundee in 1972.__NEWL__This main narrative is in fact being told by Effie to her presumed mother Nora on a remote Scottish Island in return for which Effie hopes to entice from Nora the truth about her family history and parentage...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7991156	What I Call Life	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21765732	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21765732	Cal Lavender is perfectly happy living her anonymous life, even if she does have to play mother to her own mother a whole lot more than an eleven-year-old should have to do.__NEWL__But when Cal's mother has one of her “unfortunate episodes” in the middle of the public library, she is whisked off by the authorities, and Cal is escorted to a seat in the back of a police car.__NEWL__On “just a short, temporary detour from what I call life,” Cal fids herself in a crazy group home with four other girls, watched over by a strange old stuttering woman that everyone refers to as the Knitting Lady.__NEWL__At first, Cal can think of nothing but how to get out of this nuthouse.__NEWL__She knows she does not belong there.__NEWL__It turns out that all the girls, and even the Knitting Lady, may have a lot more in common that they could have imagined.__NEWL__Cal is constantly thinking that her mother is coming to get her quite soon, but, as it turns out, it takes quite a while for her mother to come and "free" Cal from the group home.__NEWL__The four other girls at the group home are: Amber-__NEWL__The quiet, and almost bald, shy one who does not talk for the whole beginning of the book;__NEWL__Monica-__NEWL__The whiny, annoying one;__NEWL__Fern-__NEWL__The one who laughs at almost anything Whitney says; and Whitney-__NEWL__The girl who has had so much done to her, she made a list.__NEWL__For example, # 14.__NEWL__:__NEWL__Got dropped on head by Santa at a group home party.__NEWL__Whitney is probably the most important girl living in the group home with Cal.__NEWL__The five of them go off to find Whitney's sister, but, in the end, Cal discovers that this "sister" doesn't exist at all, and the only other ones who know about it are Amber & Whitney herself.__NEWL__Whitney also has a pet pill bug named Ike Eisenhower the 5th, whose brother, Mike the 5th, died already.__NEWL__Throughout the book, the Knitting Lady (whose name is revealed at the very end) tells them a story about a young girl named Lillian who went on an "Orphan Train" in the early 1900s.__NEWL__She finally tells them that, when Lillian grew up, she had a daughter named Brenda who was dropped off at a group home, just like Cal.__NEWL__Eventually, Betty (Cal's mother) comes and takes Cal back home.__NEWL__Cal never hears from Whitney, Amber, Monica, Fern nor the Knitting Lady again, but they remain in her heart.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764741	The Slap	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	21950317	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21950317	At a barbecue in suburban Melbourne, a man slaps a 3-year-old boy across the face.__NEWL__The child, Hugo, has been misbehaving without any intervention by his parents, "the steely-eyed Rosie and the wimpish Gary".__NEWL__The slapper is Harry, cousin of the barbecue host and adulterous businessman whose slightly older son, Rocco, is being threatened by Hugo.__NEWL__This event sends the other characters "into a spiral, agonising and arguing over the notion that striking a child can ever be justified.__NEWL__Some believe a naughty boy should be taught some discipline, others maintain the police ought to be brought in to investigate a common assault" with a range of positions in between.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4774719	Antifanaticism	1853-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21889843	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21889843	The story takes place somewhere in Virginia, and depicts a group of white plantation owners who put charity towards their black slaves before the harvesting and selling of the cotton on their own plantations, as well as successfully converting several troublesome abolitionists into friendly socialites through a process referred to throughout the novel as "Southern hospitality".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16956332	They Burn the Thistles	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43	Turkey	21891914	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21891914	The plot of "They Burn the Thistles" is much the same as in the first novel "Memed, My Hawk", where Memed, a young boy from a village in Anatolia is abused and beaten by the villainous Abdi Agha, the local landowner.__NEWL__Having endured great cruelty towards himself and his mother, he finally escapes with his beloved, a girl named Hatche.__NEWL__Abdi Agha catches up with the young couple, but only manages to capture Hatche, while Memed is able to avoid his pursuers and runs into the mountains whereupon he joins a band of brigands and exacts revenge against his old adversary.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5057927	Celestina. A novel. In four volumes. By Charlotte Smith.	1791-01-01T00:00:00Z	21717103	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21717103	An orphaned Celestina is adopted from a convent in the south of France when she is a young girl by Mrs. Willoughby—nothing is known of her parentage.__NEWL__Celestina is raised along with Mrs. Willoughby's own children, Matilda and George.__NEWL__The children grow up happily.__NEWL__Mrs. Willoughby dies early in the novel, urging George to marry her brother's (Lord Castlenorth) daughter, Miss Fitz-Hayman, so that the family estate can be saved from financial ruin.__NEWL__Matilda marries Mr. Molyneux, becoming ambitious and haughty.__NEWL__She begins to despise Celestina and refuses her company.__NEWL__Celestina becomes friends with a servant named Jessy and helps reunite her with her lover, Cathcart, who is George Willoughby's steward.__NEWL__Willoughby and Celestina discover that they love each other and decide to marry, despite the monetary impediments.__NEWL__Vavasour, Willoughby's friend, also becomes enamored of Celestina; he flees before the wedding.__NEWL__Unfortunately, on the evening before the marriage, Willoughby suddenly takes off and it is unclear whether he will ever return – Celestina is devastated.__NEWL__Celestina moves in with the Thorolds, the local rector and his family, after Willoughby abandons her.__NEWL__Their son, Montague, develops an ardent attachment for her__NEWL__and she decides to leave to escape his overtures.__NEWL__Believing that Willoughby will eventually marry Miss Fitz-Hayman, Vavasour becomes an importunate suitor of Celestina, along with Montague.__NEWL__She is harassed.__NEWL__Willoughby reveals in a letter that Lady Castlenorth suggested to him that he and Celestina are brother and sister, and therefore cannot marry.__NEWL__He has therefore determined to go to France and discover the truth.__NEWL__Celestina leaves the Thorods and tours Scotland with Mrs. Elphinstone, a relative of Cathcart and Jessy.__NEWL__Her life has been full of struggles.__NEWL__Her sister, Emily, became a "kept" woman and Mrs. Elphinstone was forced to accept money from her while she was poverty-stricken.__NEWL__Her husband dies in a tragic storm at sea while they are in Scotland.__NEWL__Montague pursues her Celestina to Scotland.__NEWL__Celestina flees Scotland for London, establishing herself at Lady Horatia's.__NEWL__Lady Horatia encourages her to marry someone other than Willoughby.__NEWL__Willoughby returns to London, but because of miscommunication and interference of other parties, both he and Celestina believe the other is no longer interested.__NEWL__Willoughby agrees to marry Miss Fitz-Hayman to save his family's estate, but at the last minute he decides not to go through with it and she marries someone else.__NEWL__In the meantime, Montague and Vavasour duel over Celestina.__NEWL__When Willougby travels to France to tell his uncle that he is no longer marrying Miss Fitz-Hayman, he discovers the secret of Celestina's birth when he stays with some peasants.__NEWL__The two are now free to marry.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7882782	Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston	1853-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21734059	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21734059	The novel features two black slaves from Virginia – Uncle Robin (the loyal slave), and Uncle Tom (the disloyal slave, and a reference to the main character of Uncle Tom's Cabin).__NEWL__Whereas Tom is convinced to run away from his plantation by a group of abolitionists, Robin remains loyal to his master, and remains on the plantation.__NEWL__As the novel progresses, Uncle Robin is shown to have become a well-fed and prosperous slave by remaining loyal and obedient; he is looked after well by his master.__NEWL__Uncle Tom, abused by the abolitionists he fled with, has since died, together with several other slaves who escaped to the North and found more oppression under the abolitionists than on the plantation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7543642	Smaller and Smaller Circles	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	21844678	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21844678	Its main protagonists are Gus Saenz and Jerome Lucero, Jesuit priests who also perform forensic work.__NEWL__The mystery revolves around the murders of young boys in a poor region of Payatas, Philippines.__NEWL__While dealing with the systematic corruption of the government, church and the elite, the two priests delve into criminal profiling, crime scene investigation and forensic analysis to solve the killings, and eventually, find the murderer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768364	The Temple of Elemental Evil	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21851841	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21851841	The heroes entering the Temple seek to find a way to save the world from a demon struggling to escape captivity and an evil demigod working to gain control over the demon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5468273	Foreign Land	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z	21716322	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21716322	The novel opens with Sheila Grey, George's daughter and her partner, Tom, discussing the imminent return of her father from Bom Porto.__NEWL__In a letter, he tells her of his plans to retire to his parents’ house in St Cadix, Cornwall.__NEWL__The action then moves to Bom Porto, the capital of Montedor – an independent Marxist Republic - where we first meet George, who is the manager of a bunkering station.__NEWL__He plays a game of squash with Eduordo (Teddy) Duarte, the Minister of Communications, who informs him about the President's plans to use Cubans to subjugate the mountainous Wolofs, a tribe who have historically been hostile towards the coastal Creole population.__NEWL__George later settles his affairs and is given a surprise official send-off and eventually arrives in Britain, booking himself into a Post House Hotel at Heathrow rather than choosing to stay with Sheila.__NEWL__The scene then shifts to St Cadix and an annual Christmas drinks party held by George's neighbours, the Walpoles.__NEWL__Most of the people there, like George, are retirees and spend their time talking about their past lives.__NEWL__It is here that George meets Diana Pym, who gives him a lift back to his house, Thalassa, where he discovers that she was the former singer, Julie Midnight.__NEWL__When down by the harbour, George is approached by a St Cadix resident and informed about a boat, the Calliope, that is for sale – it belongs to a Wing Commander and his wife who are in financially strained circumstances and they need to sell it.__NEWL__He reflects back on a time in Bom Porto when he was given some money by the President for previously attending a Pan-African shipping convention whilst a Portuguese patrol vessel was sabotaged during the PAIM revolution against its colonial masters.__NEWL__George refused the money but it was automatically transferred to a Geneva bank account, and it is this money that he uses to purchase Calliope.__NEWL__George travels to London to visit Sheila who, as S.V. Grey, is the author of a popular feminist book.__NEWL__During his visit he is presented with an old sextant that Tom had been planning to sell.__NEWL__George had learnt how to use one whilst studying at Pwllheli, under Commonader Prynne, an elderly navigation instructor and he is pleased to find out he has still retained his skills.__NEWL__As Tom gives him a lift down to Heathrow, from which George is flying to collect his money in Geneva, George tells him of his plans to sail round England.__NEWL__Back at Thalassa, six tea chests arrive from Africa containing all George's worldly goods.__NEWL__He decides to totally overhaul and spring clean the boat before taking some of his possessions on board.__NEWL__Whilst having a Sunday drink at the Royal St Cadix Yacht Club, he is informed of an item in the news about Montedor and the suppression of a rising of Muslim wolf tribesmen.__NEWL__George is saddened by the news and writes a letter to Vera, his ex-lover in the capital, to try to find out more news from his former homeland.__NEWL__He is then visited on board Calliope by Diana Pym and arranges a return visit to her house.__NEWL__He is surprised by the natural beauty of her wild garden and finds out more about Diana's life and her time spent in California.__NEWL__Whilst on board Calliope, George reflects back on his childhood and his parents, particularly his father, Denys Ferguson Grey, a Church of England Rector.__NEWL__They had a difficult relationship (as Raban did with his own father) and it was only when George entered the navy that the tables started to turn and he acquired some kind of ascendancy.__NEWL__Living at Thalassa, however, it seems to him that he is surprised by how he is steadily turning into his father: His parents were more alive, more real to him now, than he was to himself.__NEWL__They had some sort of knack, a staying power, that George had failed to inherit.__NEWL__Thalassa bulged with them, while he still tip-toed round it like a weekend guest.__NEWL__Their past was still intact (how did they manage it?)__NEWL__while George’s felt as if it was crumbling from under him so fast that he couldn’t even count its going.__NEWL__Sheila, whilst trying to work on her new book in London, receives a telephone call from her father saying he is coming to visit them in his boat and she is not pleased by his growing eccentricity: She was helpless.__NEWL__Everything about him grated on her now – the cracked gallantry, the old naval slang.__NEWL__She couldn’t deal with it at all.__NEWL__Not that she had ever got on with George; but the man she used to meet on his summer leaves hadn’t been like this.__NEWL__He’d been stiff, evasive, too polished by half, yet Sheila felt that if he only once relaxed his guard, she might find someone there whom she could talk to.__NEWL__Well, there was no talking to the ramshackle figure on the far end of the phone.__NEWL__Beginning his single-handed voyage to London, George again reflects back on his past life and his first meeting his ex-wife, the beautiful Angela Haigh, at a party also attended by Cyril Connolly, whom George manages to successfully snub.__NEWL__A virgin, he is overwhelmed by Angela's attention after the incident and they indulge in a hasty sex session in a small storage room.__NEWL__He is later warmly welcomed by her family and the two are married in his father's church after which the Haighs host a lavish reception.__NEWL__After fifteen months, Angela became pregnant and George took a job in Aden, arranged for him by her father.__NEWL__There, Angela plays the young social hostess but George finds himself becomingly increasingly lonely when she returns to England during the long, hot summers.__NEWL__Their marriage slowly starts to break down to the point where Angela openly detests him and returns home one day with a young bachelor lover, Bill Nesbit.__NEWL__Arriving in Lyme Regis, George encounters an old colleague from his navigation school, 'Midships' Marsland, who is now running a chandler's store.__NEWL__However, Marsland at first fails to recognise him and then George realizes that he has actually taken his nickname from another pupil at Pwllheli which turns George against him.__NEWL__After leaving Lyme Regis, George successfully navigates Callipoe past the Race around Portland Bill, and in his elation decides to finally pour his thoughts out on a series of smutty postcards bought at Weymouth to Sheila.__NEWL__He also writes to Diana on the same cards.__NEWL__All the recipients are concerned about him – Tom tells Sheila that he will try and track George down and Diana also sets off in her car to do the same but for a different reason: There was nothing ambiguous in the cards; the double-entendres on one side only helped to underline the plainness of the statement on the other.__NEWL__They were a declaration, and an invitation ...__NEWL__It had been years since Diana had done anything much on impulse.__NEWL__The easiest answer to temptation was always to stay at home and get on with the gardening.__NEWL__However, it is at Rye that George makes the decision that it to change his life.__NEWL__Travelling to Dover to buy some Admiralty charts, a Q-flag and two red lamps, he returns to Rye and loads up his boat with provisions, helped by three unemployed youths.__NEWL__As the novel ends, he is steering his boat cautiously through a fleet of Spanish tunnymen somewhere northwest of Ushant.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775906	The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith	1945-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21721593	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21721593	This is the fictional life story of a parish priest, a man of God "conscious of the indwelling of the Trinity," living the life of grace in a drab industrial town, bringing the grace of God to weak human beings seduced by the devil’s ancient lures of the world and the flesh.__NEWL__It covers the activities of Father Thomas Edmund Smith in his urban Scottish parish from 1908 until his death in 1942.__NEWL__On this framework, the author hangs the glowing tapestry of Father Smith's spiritual life, a life of sanctity, humility, and burning love of God.__NEWL__He interacts with a wide range of people, children, adults and other clerics.__NEWL__It also tracks the lives of two particular youths from their innocent childhood affections to their respectives lives as a priest and an actress.__NEWL__From the dust jacket: "This is the story of Father Smith, priest in a Scottish city – of his friends, the exiled French nuns, of the Bishop, of Monsignor O'Duffy who wages simple, violent war against simple sins, of Father Bonnyboat, the liturgical scholar, of all the people who come into the gentle orbit of Father Smith – from Lady Ippecacuanha, that tweedy convert, to the slut Annie who drives her husband to murder."__NEWL__A major aspect of the book is the situation of the Catholic Church in Scotland - a minority Church in a predominantly Presbyterian country, which had emerged from centuries of religious persecution and is still the target of prejudice and religious discrimination throughout significant parts of the Scottish society.__NEWL__It is to a considerable degree the Church of recent immigrants, mainly Irish and Italians (with an additional influx of Polish refugees during World War II, in the later part of the book).__NEWL__Above all, it is predominantly a poor people's Church and is itself both poor and run on a shoestring.__NEWL__The book begins with Father Smith going a great distance on his bicycle, commuting between two far-flung locations where he has to officiate at Mass; a few chapters later, Priest and Bishop use public transportation since the Diaconal funds do not run to a taxi; the Bishop lives in a modest demi-detached house, though for courtesy it is dubbed "The Bishop's Palace"...__NEWL__Father Smith is not intimidated by either prejudice or poverty - remarking that suffering a bit of persecution can help to strengthen one's faith, and that the poverty of the Scottish Catholic Church places it closer to the situation of Primitive Christianity.__NEWL__When hit on his head by a jagged stone thrown by bigots, and needing weeks of hospitalization, he considers that the incident can be useful in generating sympathy for the Catholics among the town's mainstream Protestants.__NEWL__And when listening to the singing of his community's amateur chorus, he reflects that no one can doubt the sincerity of their faith - which cannot be said with certainty of the highly-paid tenors singing at the Cathedrals of Seville and [[Milan.__NEWL__The most obvious symbol of the Catholic Church's situation is that at the start of the book's plot, the town's Catholics have no church building of their own at all, and must rent the town's vegetable market in which to hold their Sunday prayers.__NEWL__Father Smith makes enormous efforts to rectify this situation, succeeding with great effort to erect a "Tin Church" and finally, after more than two decades of effort, actually having a real Stone Church built.__NEWL__And then, two days before it was to be dedicated, this beautiful new building is destroyed in a WWII German bombing, which also costs Father Smith's life.__NEWL__With literally his last breath, Father Smith reminds the Polish priest who would temporarily replace him that next Sunday's service must be, once again, held in the vegetable market...__NEWL__A major element of the plot is the arrival of French nuns, driven out of their country by the [[anti-clericalism]] of the [[Third French Republic]] and who are welcomed in the Scottish town.__NEWL__Father Smith has a strong and affectionate friendship with the French Mother Superior, though of course with no hint of anything which would be improper between a priest and a mother superior.__NEWL__The nuns, bitter with their treatment by the French Government, fly the pre-1789 flag of the [[House of Bourbon]] - but at the shocking news of the [[Fall of France]] in 1940, both the priest and mother superior raise the [[Flag of France|French Republican Tricolor]] at half-mast.__NEWL__Another major theme are two babies, a boy and a girl, who were born on the same day and baptized together by Father Smith.__NEWL__The grow up in each other's company and as teenagers fall in love - but the boy exhibits a strong religious vocation and enters the priesthood at a young age, foreclosing any chance of their love being consummated.__NEWL__The heart-broken girl goes to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] and become a major film star.__NEWL__She remembers her origins and sends very generous donations to Father Smith's church.__NEWL__He, however, prefers not to see any of her films, fearing to see her in situations which he would find compromising.__NEWL__The boy, who is in effect Father Smith's "spiritual son" develops into a charismatic preacher, drawing large crowds.__NEWL__He is appointed Bishop at an exceptional young age.__NEWL__It is noted that this Scottish [[Episcopal see]] is very large, including many far-flung communities, the Bishop needing to do constant traveling - and therefore, better that a young and vigorous man have the job.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4728511	All About Lulu	2008-07-21T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21712242	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21712242	In the wake of his mother's death, as his bodybuilding brethren pump themselves to Hulkish proportions, weak-eyed vegetarian Will Miller stops growing altogether—until the day his father remarries a relentlessly kind grief counselor, delivering Will a troubled stepsister who soon becomes his confessor, companion, and heart's only desire.__NEWL__But when Lulu returns from cheerleading camp the summer of her fourteenth year, she inexplicably begins to push Will away, forcing him to look elsewhere for meaning.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766020	The Sport of the Gods	1902-01-01T00:00:00Z	17854	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21712727	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21712727	Berry Hamilton, an emancipated black man, works as a butler for a wealthy white man Maurice Oakley.__NEWL__Berry lives in a small cottage a short distance away from the Oakley's place of residence.__NEWL__Berry lives with his wife, Fannie, and two children, Joe and Kitty.__NEWL__During a farewell dinner for Maurice's younger brother, Francis Oakley, it becomes known that a large sum of money has disappeared from Oakley residence due to Francis apparently being careless and leaving the key in the safe.__NEWL__Maurice soon convinces himself that Berry must have stolen the money.__NEWL__A court finds Berry guilty of the theft and sentences him to ten years of hard labor.__NEWL__Maurice and his wife expel Fannie, Joe, and Kitty from the cottage.__NEWL__Unable to find work, Fannie and her children decide to move to New York.__NEWL__Once in New York, Joe begins work and starts regularly visiting the Banner Club.__NEWL__He begins dating an entertainer from the club named Hattie Sterling.__NEWL__To Fannie's disapproval, Hattie helps Kitty to find employment as a singer and actress.__NEWL__Joe's situation quickly declines and he becomes an alcoholic.__NEWL__Hattie breaks the relationship.__NEWL__Completely degraded, Joe strangles Hattie.__NEWL__Later, he confesses to the murder and finds himself in prison.__NEWL__With her husband and son in prison, Fannie is distraught.__NEWL__Kitty convinces Fannie to marry a man named Mr. Gibson.__NEWL__Francis Oakley, who left for Paris to become an artist, sends a message to Maurice Oakley.__NEWL__When Maurice receives the letter, he postulates that it could be a message informing him of the artistic successes of Francis.__NEWL__To his dismay, it describes how Francis stole the money and he wishes for Berry Hamilton to be released from prison.__NEWL__Maurice decides that he will not announce Berry's innocence in hopes of preserving the honor of his brother and himself.__NEWL__Mr. Skaggs, an acquaintance of Joe at the Banner Club, overhears the story of Berry Hamilton's conviction for theft.__NEWL__As a writer for New York's Universe, Mr. Skaggs postulates that if he can prove Berry's innocence, he will have a popular article for the publisher.__NEWL__He travels to the hometown of the Hamilton's to converse with Maurice Oakley.__NEWL__He first meets with a man named Colonel Saunders who tells him that he believes Berry is innocent, the money was simply lost, and to protect the secret, Maurice Oakley carries the money in his "secret" pocket at all times.__NEWL__To gain entry into the Oakley residence, Skaggs lies about having a letter from Francis.__NEWL__Mr. Skaggs forcibly removes Francis's letter from Maurice's secret pocket.__NEWL__With Francis's letter, Mr. Skaggs is able to have Berry pardoned after five years in prison.__NEWL__Mr. Skaggs brings Berry to New York.__NEWL__Soon, Berry finds out about his son, daughter, and wife's new husband.__NEWL__Hopeless, Berry plans to murder his wife's suitor.__NEWL__To Berry's fortune, he finds that Mr. Gibson has been killed in a fight at a racetrack.__NEWL__Broken down by the hardships of the city, Fannie and Berry decide to move back to the cottage near the Oakley residence when the apologetic Mrs. Oakley begs them to return.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3278440	City of Ashes	2008-03-25T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21811766	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21811766	Clary returns to the Institute after receiving a text message from Isabelle "Izzy" Lightwood, saying that Jace angered the Inquisitor, Imogen Herondale.__NEWL__He has been imprisoned in the Silent City and is awaiting trial by the Sword to determine if he is telling the truth about being in league with Valentine.__NEWL__The Sword is one of the Mortal Instruments indicated in the first book.__NEWL__Alongside the Sword is the Cup and the Mirror.__NEWL__While chained inside his cell, Jace hears something attacking the Silent Brothers.__NEWL__Valentine has killed the Silent Brothers to obtain the second Mortal Instrument - the Soul Sword.__NEWL__While the Cup is capable of creating new Shadowhunters, the Sword forces Shadowhunters to tell the truth.__NEWL__ Clary, Izzy, and Alec respond to a distress call from the Silent City, only to discover that the current Silent Brothers inside have all been slain.__NEWL__Clary frees Jace using an amplified version of the opening rune that appeared to her amidst her panic.__NEWL__This is surprising because no new Runes have been created since the runes handed down by the Angel Raziel.__NEWL__The Inquisitor appears, along with a large group of armed Shadowhunters, and accuses Jace of helping Valentine, since he was supposed to go on trial by the Sword which is now gone.__NEWL__ Magnus Bane is called to the scene by Alec, and offers to keep Jace as a prisoner in his apartment, while he and the others try to figure out Valentine's plans.__NEWL__Magnus and Alec have remained in contact since the first novel, and have even gone on a date.__NEWL__This is detailed in the Bane Chronicles, a tag-a-long book to the series.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Jace soon receives a surprising offer from the Queen of the Seelie to visit her court.__NEWL__The Queen of the Seelie Court is a Downworlder, a fairy with demon heritage.__NEWL__Jace goes with Simon, Izzy and Clary.__NEWL__The group tries to convince the Queen to aid them in the defeat of Valentine.__NEWL__The Queen says she is not sure if she will help and also mentions how their court knows deep secrets, like how Jace and Clary are their father's "wonderful" experiments come to life.__NEWL__The group becomes confused and decides to leave.__NEWL__ However, Clary is tricked into consuming faerie food, and is only able to leave by kissing "whom she most desires".__NEWL__Simon offers to kiss her, but the Queen tells him he is not the one "she desires most".__NEWL__This is hurtful because Clary has been attempting to date Simon since the beginning of the second book, in order to squash her feelings for Jace, her brother.__NEWL__However, Clary and Izzy suggest that the kiss might be from Jace.__NEWL__The three are reluctant at first because Clary is Jace's sister, but after Izzy insists that she too would kiss Alec to free him, Jace kisses Clary.__NEWL__The kiss suddenly becomes intense and passionate, and afterwards, Clary is free, proving that Jace's kiss is the one she most desires.__NEWL__This upsets Simon, and he storms off after they return to their realm.__NEWL__Jace and Clary confess their love to each other.__NEWL__Clary is torn between her love for Jace, and the taboo against it because they are blood relatives.__NEWL__Jace suggests keeping a secret relationship, to which Clary replies that it would eventually be discovered and that she is unwilling to lie to their friends and family.__NEWL__Later, the vampire Raphael shows up at the Institute with Simon, who is on the verge of death.__NEWL__The vampire explains that Simon's small initial intake of vampire blood as a rat made Simon believe he was turning into a vampire, and he went to the Hotel DuMort to see Raphael.__NEWL__He then was devoured by vampires, mixing his blood with theirs.__NEWL__Thus, as the only way left to save him, Simon is buried and transforms into a vampire, which causes a distraught Clary to ignore Jace as a result of her concern over Simon and his new undead status.__NEWL__While discussing how to potentially tell Simon's mother about his vampire transformation with Clary, Maia the werewolf comes into the house with wounds too severe for Luke to treat.__NEWL__Magnus heals Maia while Luke decides to check outside to see if the demons are still there.__NEWL__Luke is attacked and gets badly injured.__NEWL__Jace, Simon, and Clary battle the demons outside of the house.__NEWL__The demons flee after seeing Clary's rune on her forearm which she got during a dream of her mother blessing her.__NEWL__They return to the house to rest with the others and end up talking about the remarkably powerful rune Clary used to free Jace earlier.__NEWL__Clary reveals that it was something she just thought of, and everyone opposes her, saying that nobody can simply make up a rune as they are created by angels.__NEWL__Clary is dared to make a new rune, and she ends up making a "Fearless" rune, as suggested by Jace.__NEWL__They try it on Alec, whose parents and sister arrive suddenly.__NEWL__Alec suddenly approaches his parents, saying he's seeing someone who is a Downworlder.__NEWL__Magnus magically silences him before he says who he is dating.__NEWL__Alec claims not to remember anything and suddenly gets nervous and defensive when asked who he is dating, leading them to believe that the rune actually worked.__NEWL__ Everyone decides to sleep, but Jace secretly takes Raphael's motorcycle and meets Valentine at a ship.__NEWL__Valentine offers protection to his loved ones if Jace joins him and comes back to Idris with him.__NEWL__Jace is silent, but the next morning the Inquisitor claims that Jace was with Valentine and threatens to kill Jace if Valentine does not return the Mortal Sword.__NEWL__At Jace's denial, the Inquisitor once again imprisons Jace, planning to make a trade with Valentine - Jace's life for the Mortal Sword.__NEWL__Jace tries to tell her that it will not work, which the Inquisitor refuses to believe and she devises a plan of revenge on Valentine because he had killed her son, Stephen Herondale.__NEWL__ While she is traveling to see Simon, Maia is attacked by a demon, who came to her in the form of her dead brother, after which Valentine kidnaps her.__NEWL__Clary and the others discover Maia's kidnapping and rescue her with the help of Magnus, but not before Valentine drains Simon's blood.__NEWL__Jace manages to restore life to Simon by feeding him his blood, after which the Inquisitor appears.__NEWL__After seeing Jace's star-shaped scar on his shoulder, the Inquisitor begins to suggest something about who his parents are, but she jumps in front of Jace, saving him from a demon before she can finish.__NEWL__She later dies, leaving Jace confused at her sudden change of heart.__NEWL__Meanwhile, one of Valentine's demons kidnap Clary and bring her to his boat where Valentine intimidates her with the Mortal Sword.__NEWL__Jace and Simon find and rescue her and Valentine admits that Jace only chose to fight on his side because he loves Clary more than a sister.__NEWL__He knew of this when Jace saw a demon that transforms into the thing you fear the most, which appeared to him in the form of Clary dying.__NEWL__The second time he saw the demon it appeared to him as Valentine, and Jace continued to kill the demon.__NEWL__Clary draws an opening rune on the ship's metal, which causes all of the ship's pieces to open up, making it explode.__NEWL__Clary falls in the river and is saved by the nixies the Seelie Queen sent to help.__NEWL__The group escapes by truck, where Simon discovers that Jace's blood has made him a "Daylighter", a vampire that can tolerate the sun's light.__NEWL__After a talk with Luke about love and his regrets of not telling Clary's mother how he felt about her, Clary finally decides to tell Jace of her love for him and her sudden change of mind to start a relationship, regardless of its consequences.__NEWL__However, before she can say anything, Jace tells her that he will only act as her brother from then on, breaking her heart.__NEWL__As Clary reels from this, she meets a woman who introduces herself as one of Jocelyn's friends and says that she knows how to wake up Clary's mother.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8058822	Your Heart Belongs to Me	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21781701	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21781701	At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere.__NEWL__Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast.__NEWL__Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life.__NEWL__One year later, Ryan has never felt better.__NEWL__Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha.__NEWL__Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear—a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant.__NEWL__Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me.__NEWL__In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death.__NEWL__For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has.__NEWL__She’s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest.__NEWL__And she’s come to take it back.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7723046	The Cinder Path							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	21760639	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21760639	In the English countryside of the early 20th century, the working-class protagonist must deal with a cruel and tyrannical father and later with a romantic tangle and a problematic marriage.__NEWL__He must keep, as well, a dark secret which must stay hidden at all costs.__NEWL__Later, he is taken into the British Army fighting on the Western Front of the First World War, where the shadows of his past pursue him and lead to a climax.__NEWL__Charlie MacFell is the sixteen-year-old son of Edward MacFell, a cruel farm owner who punishes the farm's children and teenagers by beating them on a sharp cinder path, causing their hands and knees to be grazed.__NEWL__Among MacFell's main targets is Ginger Slater, a workhouse boy who he whips for stealing a book to try and learn to read.__NEWL__Only MacFell's daughter, Betty, appears to like MacFell and she believes she would run the farm better than her brother.__NEWL__Both MacFell and his neighbour, gentleman farmer Hal Chapman, have plans to marry Charlie to Chapman's elder daughter Victoria in the hope of one day uniting both their farms.__NEWL__MacFell has been bedding big Polly Benton, the wife of a crippled former labourer, as payment for her family keeping their cottage and plans to use her teenage daughter, young Polly, to "experience" Charlie.__NEWL__Although attracted to her, Charlie intends to refuse.__NEWL__Polly's brother Arthur misunderstands, thinking MacFell plans to bed Polly himself, and tries to prevent it by setting up a rope that causes MacFell to fall from his horse, accidentally killing him.__NEWL__Charlie covers the matter up, making it look as though the fall was an accident.__NEWL__He inherits the farm and, in order to prevent his mother evicting the Bentons in revenge for MacFell's infidelity, takes over managing it himself.__NEWL__In the old man's will a third of his money goes to his wife and rest to Charlie.__NEWL__Betty is distressed to find out she has been left nothing.__NEWL__Slater, the only other witness to MacFell's death, uses the knowledge to put pressure on Charlie and Arthur and ultimately blackmails Polly into marrying him.__NEWL__When Charlie is nineteen, Victoria's younger sister Nellie gets him drunk at her own birthday party and persuades him to propose to her.__NEWL__They are interrupted by her father and Victoria.__NEWL__Hal is happy to announce the engagement at the party, not caring which daughter Charlie marries, but Charlie quickly backs out of the engagement after sobering up the next morning.__NEWL__He then agrees to marry the more experienced Victoria.__NEWL__ The marriage soon falls apart; Victoria leaves the farm on inheriting a house in Newcastle and takes a lover, spreading stories that Charlie is impotent and their marriage was never consummated, while Nellie inherits a house in Gateshead.__NEWL__With the First World War raging, Charlie tries and fails to convince Victoria to return when his mother is dying.__NEWL__Old Arnold is no longer able to work as well, leaving Betty to handle most things alone.__NEWL__Betty wants to marry her beau Robin Weatherby and bring him to the farm but Charlie considers Weatherby lazy and insists if they are married she will have to leave.__NEWL__When conscription begins, the now twenty-four-year-old Charlie decides against declaring himself exempt and finds himself at a training camp with Slater as his sergeant, who takes delight in humiliating him in revenge for his father's actions.__NEWL__Back at the farm, now being run with the help of prisoners of war, Charlie agrees that Betty can marry Weatherby and bring him there, but if he returns from the war then they must move out.__NEWL__He also says she has worked hard, so, if that happens, she can have half the profits of the farm.__NEWL__If he dies, she will have all of it as he has written a will that excludes Victoria.__NEWL__Later, Charlie discovers Victoria's current lover is his company commander Major Smith.__NEWL__He tells Victoria her father is dying and she must go to him.__NEWL__Previously, Victoria has threatened to gain an annulment with her claim of non-consummation.__NEWL__Now Charlie threatens to divorce her.__NEWL__He also visits Nellie to tell her about her father.__NEWL__Charlie sees Polly on a bus and she says Slater treats her and their children well__NEWL__but she fears for Charlie.__NEWL__She warns him not to respond to Slater's provocation.__NEWL__On returning to camp, he is offered a commission, told that it is because they need officers and as a farmer he has given orders to men.__NEWL__He decides to keep quiet about Victoria's affair with Smith for the sake of the promotion.__NEWL__On learning Nellie has tried to commit suicide because he ignored her, Charlie realises he loves her and makes plans to, in time, divorce Victoria and marry her.__NEWL__Soon after, he is deployed to France and, at the dock, sees Arthur among the injured, having lost an arm and both legs.__NEWL__During a push into a German trench, Charlie ends up in charge of a small group of men including Slater.__NEWL__When his old enemy taunts him for 'buying' a commission with his wife's whoredom, Charlie shoots him dead in a rage, but since Slater's rifle was moving towards him at the time, it is later ruled self-defence.__NEWL__Slater's family are told he died bravely in battle and Charlie is commended for getting the rest of the men back safely.__NEWL__Towards the end of the war, Charlie suffers shrapnel injuries and wakes in hospital.__NEWL__A large chunk is lodged close to his heart: If it moves away from it, it can be removed, but it could move into it and kill him.__NEWL__Betty visits and says Wetherby is no longer her beau.__NEWL__She produces a document, which she convinces Charlie to sign, saying his signature is needed for authorisation now he's back in the country.__NEWL__Nellie comes to see him and mentions Victoria is planning to marry Smith.__NEWL__Charlie visits Arthur, who survived his wounds and who reveals he has been told by Polly that the farm has been sold.__NEWL__Charlie rushes home to find Betty has sold the farm's furniture and livestock and fled with the money, with the paper he signed in hospital giving her authorisation.__NEWL__Nellie promises to sell her house to help rebuild the farm.__NEWL__She and Charlie consummate their relationship in the old hayloft causing the shrapnel to move away from his heart and leaving him hopeful for the future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6071286	Irish Thoroughbred	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21919680	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21919680	The novel follows the relationship between Irishwoman Adelia "Dee" Cunnane and American Travis Grant.__NEWL__As the story begins, the young and penniless Dee emigrates to the United States to live with her uncle, Paddy, who works on a large horse farm.__NEWL__Dee's love for animals is evident, and she is given a job working alongside her uncle.__NEWL__Dee has a fiery temper and often argues with Travis, the wealthy farm owner; many of their arguments lead to passionate embraces.__NEWL__Travis later rescues Dee from an attempted rape.__NEWL__When Paddy suffers a heart attack, he becomes very concerned about his mortality and Dee's future.__NEWL__He becomes overwrought and insists that Travis take care of Dee.__NEWL__After privately agreeing to a temporary marriage of convenience, Travis and Dee exchange vows in Paddy's hospital room.__NEWL__As the story progresses, the protagonists become increasingly unhappy, with neither willing to admit their love for the other.__NEWL__Although still unwilling to vocalize their feelings, Dee and Travis appear more confident in their relationship after they finally consummate their marriage.__NEWL__Soon, however, Dee's insecurities are exploited by Travis's sophisticated former girlfriend, Margot, who has returned to the area to win him back.__NEWL__Dee runs away.__NEWL__Travis follows, and the two confess their love and resolve to make their marriage work.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5037816	Carazamba							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q774	Guatemala	21919854	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21919854	The narrative begins with a tales of Carazamba's relationships with various men.__NEWL__The plot describes how the narrator kills Carazamba's English lover, who has connections within the Guatemalan government.__NEWL__This forces the narrator and Carazamba to flee into the jungle with Pedro, the narrator's loyal friend, in order to escape from the authorities and find a way to Mexico.__NEWL__Along the way, Pedro is forced to amputate his foot after he is bitten by a venomous snake.__NEWL__When they finally cross into Mexico, they are involved in a firefight with a group of soldiers; the narrator falls injured and Carazamba is shot dead.__NEWL__The narrator and Pedro are thrown into prison.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7740911	The Humbling	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21730803	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21730803	Simon Axler is a famed sexagenarian stage actor who suddenly and inexplicably loses his gift.__NEWL__His weak attempts at portraying Prospero and Macbeth on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., lead to poor reviews, sending Axler into a profound depression and causing him to give up acting and contemplate suicide with a shotgun he keeps in his attic.__NEWL__His wife, Victoria, a former ballerina, is unable to deal with Axler's depression and moves to California, where their son lives.__NEWL__Axler checks himself into a psychiatric hospital on the advice of his physician and stays there for 26 days.__NEWL__In the hospital, Axler meets another patient, Sybil Van Buren, who tells him about catching her second husband sexually abusing her young daughter.__NEWL__She expresses shame at not immediately reporting her husband or removing him from the home and admits to attempting suicide.__NEWL__Sybil asks Axler whether he would be willing to kill her husband and he tells her he fears he would "botch the job".__NEWL__Months after his stint in the hospital, Axler's agent, Jerry Oppenheim, visits him at his upstate New York home to tell him about an offer to play James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night.__NEWL__Axler refuses, fearing another failure.__NEWL__In the fan mail Oppenheim brings, Axler finds a letter from Sybil, thanking him for listening to her problems in the hospital.__NEWL__She says she did not recognize him at the time but decided to write him after catching one of his old movies on TV.__NEWL__Pegeen Mike Stapleford, the 40-year-old daughter of two actors he performed with around the time she was born, pays Axler a visit at his house.__NEWL__Pegeen has just moved nearby to work as a professor at a Vermont women's college after ending a six-year relationship with a woman who decided to undergo sex reassignment surgery to become a man.__NEWL__Pegeen's job was secured after she slept with the school's "smitten" dean, Louise Renner.__NEWL__Simon and Pegeen begin an affair despite Pegeen's having lived as a lesbian for the previous 17 years.__NEWL__Louise is furious that Pegeen has broken off their relationship and begins stalking her.__NEWL__Months later, Louise calls Pegeen's parents in Lansing, Michigan, to tell them that their daughter is now sleeping with Axler.__NEWL__Pegeen is distressed that her parents have learned about the relationship she wanted kept secret.__NEWL__Her father, Asa, tells her he disapproves because of the age difference but Simon suspects he merely envies his professional success.__NEWL__Asa directs community theater in Michigan.__NEWL__Axler reads in the local newspaper that Sybil has shot and killed her estranged husband.__NEWL__He contacts Sybil's sister and offers to help with her murder defense.__NEWL__One night, Pegeen "offers" Axler a 19-year-old college student of her acquaintance named Lara.__NEWL__Lara becomes a fantasy of his and a character in Pegeen's sexual role-playing.__NEWL__Soon after, while Axler and Pegeen are dining out, he notices Tracy, a young woman getting drunk at the restaurant bar, and they take her home for a threesome.__NEWL__Afterward, Axler asks her why she agreed to go home with them, and she admits she recognized him as a famous actor.__NEWL__After this adventure, Axler feels rejuvenated and decides he wants to perform in Long Day's Journey after all.__NEWL__He also decides that he wants to father a child with Pegeen and visits a fertility specialist without telling her.__NEWL__Two weeks later, Pegeen ends their relationship, telling Axler she "made a mistake."__NEWL__He accuses her of leaving him to be with Tracy and believes Pegeen's parents have turned her against him.__NEWL__He calls her parents, shouting at them in an angry tirade.__NEWL__After the call, Axler kills himself with his shotgun.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1977121	Nemesis							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21749977	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21749977	Nemesis explores the effect of a 1944 polio epidemic on a closely knit, family-oriented Newark Jewish community of Weequahic neighborhood.__NEWL__The children are threatened with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and death.__NEWL__ At the center of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful, 23-year-old teacher and playground director Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges.__NEWL__Bucky feels guilty because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his close friends and contemporaries.__NEWL__Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground, Roth examines some of the central themes of pestilence: fear, panic, anger, guilt, bewilderment, suffering, and pain.__NEWL__Cantor also faces a spiritual crisis, asking himself why God would allow innocent children to die of polio.__NEWL__Finally, Cantor faces a romantic crisis, becoming engaged to his beloved girlfriend (a fellow teacher who is working as a counselor at a Jewish summer camp).__NEWL__Fearing that Cantor will get polio if he remains in Newark during the summer, she implores him to quit his job in Newark and to join her at her polio-free summer camp.__NEWL__He wants to be with his fiancee, but leaving the children of Newark adds to his feelings of guilt.__NEWL__With the inevitability of a Greek drama, polio eventually reaches the summer camp.__NEWL__One camper dies, several become ill, and Cantor himself is stricken.__NEWL__Cantor blames himself for having brought polio to the camp.__NEWL__The novel ends in 1971, when Cantor encounters one of the Newark playground children who contracted polio and survived.__NEWL__They catch up on the events in their lives since 1944.__NEWL__Cantor reveals that, after being crippled by polio, he insisted that his fiancee leave him and find a non-crippled husband.__NEWL__He never marries.__NEWL__The novel is written as the narrative of the playground child, based on what Cantor told him in 1971.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6720558	M or F?	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21925888	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21925888	Frannie Falconer has a crush on Jeffrey Osbourne, but is shy around him, so her gay best friend Marcus Beaureg suggests that she chat with him online, as it takes away some of the nausea of face-to-face conversation.__NEWL__That does not work, so Marcus decides to write conversations for her.__NEWL__At first, this works because Frannie is hovering over his shoulder, however Marcus continues the conversations when Frannie is not around and it is unclear exactly who Jeffrey likes.__NEWL__Frannie worries that Marcus may be jealous of her spending time with Jeffrey and his group.__NEWL__Frannie finds out that Marcus has been posing as her online__NEWL__and they get into a fight.__NEWL__She calls Jenn, another friend, and they realize that Jeffrey was not falling for Frannie, but for 'Marcus posing as Frannie.__NEWL__Frannie seduces Jeffrey by wearing a negligee and serving him ginseng-laced hot cacao, but when he throws up, she decides he must be gay.__NEWL__Marcus and Frannie reconcile, and she tells him of her suspicions of Jeffrey's sexuality.__NEWL__They decide to take Jeffrey to a meeting of the school's Gay-Straight Alliance, but this does not give them any information, so Marcus decides hook up with Jeffrey.__NEWL__While waiting for Marcus to see a movie, Glenn, Jeffrey's best friend, shows up, telling her that Marcus told him to go there.__NEWL__Marcus calls, telling Frannie he cannot make it and she realizes that Marcus is setting her up with Glenn.__NEWL__She tells Glenn about it, and he reveals that he is gay and denies that Jeffrey is.__NEWL__Frannie and Glenn rush to Buckingham Fountain, where Marcus is just about to kiss Jeffrey.__NEWL__Everything gets sorted out, and Jeffrey confesses that he needed help with the online conversations as well, so Glenn helped him, and eventually the same thing that happened with Marcus and Frannie happened with them.__NEWL__Jeffrey and Frannie leave, while Glenn talks to Marcus and kisses him.__NEWL__Frannie tells Jeffrey that they would be better off as friends.__NEWL__In the end, Glenn ends up with Marcus, the German girl Astrid is hitting on Jeffrey, and Frannie ends up with a freaky quasi-cowboy she met at a line-dancing place Marcus's grandmother made them go.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6315940	Just David	1916-03-01T00:00:00Z	440					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21927965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927965	David is a ten-year-old boy who plays the violin and does not know his last name.__NEWL__He leads an idyllic life in the mountains with his father, until his father becomes gravely ill, forcing them to go down into the valley.__NEWL__With his father's health worsening, they spend the night in a barn.__NEWL__Just before he dies, the father gives David a large number of gold coins, telling him to hide them until they are needed.__NEWL__David plays the violin to soothe his "sleeping father" and is found by Simeon Holly and his wife.__NEWL__Realizing the man is dead, they try to figure out who David is, but all he can tell them is that he is "just David."__NEWL__David is unable to tell them his last name, his father's name, or if he has any relatives.__NEWL__They find some letters on the dead man, but the signature on it is illegible.__NEWL__The couple reluctantly let him stay with them as he reminds them of their own son, John, whom they no longer speak with.__NEWL__David learns to adjust to live in the village, taking one of his two violins with him wherever he goes and "playing" the world around him, such as playing "the sunset" and "the flowers," and using his music to express his feelings.__NEWL__His innocence and musical skills charm the villagers and change several of their lives, uniting in marriage two childhood sweethearts who had grown apart.__NEWL__He also changes the Hollys, healing Simeon's heart enough that he reconnects with his son and allows him to come visit with his new wife and child.__NEWL__During the visit, they learn that David's violins are quite valuable.__NEWL__His own is an Amati and his father's, which he had loaned to a blind friend, a Stradivarius.__NEWL__Reading the old letter from David's father, John recognizes the signature and realizes that David's father was a world-famous violinist who had disappeared with his son after his wife's death.__NEWL__David is sent to be reunited with his relatives and to study the violin.__NEWL__He becomes famous and wealthy, but continues to visit the Hollys every year to play for them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5591485	Gracey	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z	21743824	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21743824	Gracey and her friend Angela are spending their last holidays in Cunningham with her brothers Dougy and Raymond.__NEWL__They attend school in Australia and are visiting where Gracey's family have moved.__NEWL__Gracey is uncomfortable and embarrassed by her family while Angela is enjoying the visit.__NEWL__While playing in some trenches Dougy comes across some bones which appear to him to be human like.__NEWL__At Gracey's suggestion he, Gracey and Angela take them to the police where the bones are taken away from him.__NEWL__The police investigate and discover more bones.__NEWL__Back in Brisbane, Gracey's English teacher gives Gracey a few books on aboriginal history and deaths.__NEWL__Gracey is at first disinterested as she wants to fit in and be a part of the 'white community', but further research reveals the origin of the bones Dougy found.__NEWL__Gracey returns to Cunningham when her mother dies and a series of violent and tragic incidents cause Gracey to reassess her outlook.__NEWL__The story is narrated by Gracey and Dougy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2359195	The House of the Mosque	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q794	Iran	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q794	Iran	21744453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21744453	The book follows the life of an Iranian family from 1969 on through the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the installment of the Khomeini government, and ends after Khomeini's death.__NEWL__The story is a "semi-mythical narrative ... bearing a 'flying carpet' element of fantasy" that is countered by the horrifying events that the protagonists face as the revolution progresses.__NEWL__ Most of the plot takes place in a large (36-room) house attached to the Friday mosque in Senejan, three hours by train from Qom, a fictionalized version of Senjan, now a district of Arak, Iran.__NEWL__Kader Abdolah was born and grew up in a similar house in that city.__NEWL__In the presentation of real historical events, many names and locations are altered, so that the novel does not pretend to be an accurate description of the historical situation.__NEWL__The main character is Aqa Jaan ("Dear Master", a title often given to the male head of a household in Iran).__NEWL__Shahbal, the son of his blind cousin who is the muezzin of the mosque, personifies the author (Shahbal is called the "narrator" of the story in the cast of characters).__NEWL__Like Shahbal, Kader Abdolah was active in leftist underground political movements in the time of the Shah and of Khomeini, and fled Iran in 1985 to settle in the Netherlands.__NEWL__Unlike Shahbal, the author did not kill anyone, but instead avenged the murders of his brother and sister with his pen.__NEWL__For example, before fleeing Iran, Shahbal killed Khalkhal, a fictionalized version of Khomeini's "hanging judge" Sadeq Khalkhali, but the real Khakhali died of old age in 2003.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7749399	The Magic Chalk	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z	21725345	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21725345	A boy named Jon finds a piece of chalk, dropped by a witch, and uses it to draw a stick man on a fence, not knowing that it is magic.__NEWL__The stick man becomes alive and claims his name is Sofus.__NEWL__Jon draws a door and together they enter a garden full of talking animals, some of whom they help out using the magic chalk.__NEWL__After being bothered by a pedagogic owl and doing some absurd mathematical problems, they leave and soon descend into a cave, wherein they meet a crocodile and a tiger, but the boys clear up alive.__NEWL__When they had come out from the other end of the cave, they found the house of a little old lady who serves them cookies shaped like animals, one for each letter of the alphabet.__NEWL__After talking to the animals - which can only say words that begin with their letter, they leave the grandmother.__NEWL__After walking for a while, they encounter Kumle, a friendly troll.__NEWL__He offers to trade three wishes per person for the chalk, so Sofus asks for a violin, a wallet that always has money, and candy that makes one grow grass instead of hair; Jon wishes for Sofus to be waterproof and for candy that works as an antidote to Sofus's, saving the third wish for later.__NEWL__Their wishes are granted and they agree to meet again.__NEWL__They enter a kingdom and Sofus decides to go to the castle.__NEWL__He charms the king, queen, and princess with his violin playing and claims to be rich, showing them his wallet as proof.__NEWL__The princess steals the wallet and the violin, and as a revenge, Sofus gives her and her parents his candy.__NEWL__Once the grass starts growing, the king attempts to imprison them, but they escape successfully.__NEWL__The public assumes that the royal family's grass is a type of hat and it becomes a fad, but as Autumn comes, the grass begins to wilt.__NEWL__Jon and Sofus go to the castle, and Jon gives the royal family his candy.__NEWL__The grass starts turning back into hair, but before it's done, Jon takes Sofus by the hand and asks for his third wish: to go back home.__NEWL__They immediately appear in his kitchen, where his mother is making dinner, and they tell her about everything that's happened to them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5563098	Gingersnaps	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	21923196	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21923196	The story starts with Ginger, an overweight child with no friends and red hair.__NEWL__Then the book forwards to when she's 12, popular and confident, having lost weight, found makeup, and hair-straighteners, and with a best friend, Shannon.__NEWL__Ginger is happy, until she and Shannon befriend a lonely girl from Ginger's old school, Emily Croft.__NEWL__Ginger finds that Shannon likes Emily more than her, making her upset, and breaking their friendship.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ginger meets Sam, a boy at her school that doesn't wear uniform and ditches class often.__NEWL__Shannon doesn't like him and thinks he's weird (Ginger later says that Shannon doesn't like him because he's the only boy that doesn't fall to her feet) but Ginger starts to, and they are secretly together.__NEWL__Mr. Hunter, their English teacher (who everyone likes but Sam, and Shannon has a crush on) announces that they will make a school magazine (S'cool).__NEWL__Shannon is the Editor.__NEWL__After the magazine is completed, the students throw a release party which falls on Shannon's 13th birthday.__NEWL__Shannon's parents aren't home at the party, so some of her friends bring in beer, and soon everyone starts to get drunk except Emily and Ginger.__NEWL__Mr. Hunter arrives and tries to calm things down, but it doesn't work.__NEWL__Sam also comes and Shannon tells him to get lost and says that Ginger thinks he's weird and is too nice to tell him.__NEWL__Ginger is shocked and Sam gets hurt and leaves.__NEWL__Ginger ends up crying.__NEWL__Shannon gets rejected by Mr. Hunter and then becomes upset.__NEWL__Soon a fight starts up when the student photographer, Jas Kapoor, starts taking pictures of the party (part of his idea for the next issue of the magazine, "The truth behind teen parties") and he takes a picture of Andy Collins drinking and smoking with Shannon on his leg and also a picture of Ginger and Sam about to kiss under the staircase.__NEWL__Soon a neighbour calls the police, and Ginger calls Shannon's parents.__NEWL__Back at school, Ginger gets called to the principal's office.__NEWL__Her parents are called in too.__NEWL__She doesn't know what she is in trouble for.__NEWL__The principal brings out a picture from the party with Mr. Hunter and his arm over her shoulder (which was just Mr. Hunter trying to comfort her after everything started to go wrong) and they ask her many questions but when Jas Kapoor was called in, he said that the picture was edited and this never happened.__NEWL__Soon Shannon starts telling everyone lies about Mr. Hunter that he was after herself and Ginger, and parents get worried about having Mr. Hunter teaching their children.__NEWL__Soon Mr. Hunter leaves, even though he didn't do anything.__NEWL__Six weeks after the party, Shannon talks to Ginger saying that she should come hang out with her again (Ginger has become friends with people Shannon call 'freaks', Sam and Ginger and has now started dating openly) but Ginger refuses, and later thinks that Shannon is the one at loss.__NEWL__Afterwards, Shannon gets a new 'friend' Nisha Choudhury, which in Ginger's words, is 'an experiment, like Emily, and me.'__NEWL__But Ginger is happy with her new boyfriend Sam and the band all of them started.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7337018	Riven	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z	21955993	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21955993	Brady Darby's Story Sixteen-year-old Brady Wayne Darby and his eight-year-old brother Peter live in Touhy Avenue Trailer-Park with their alcoholic chain-smoking mother Erlene; Erlene's husband had abandoned her shortly after Peter's birth.__NEWL__Brady, who dreams of buying a car and fleeing the trailer-park, has obtained a part-time job sweeping up the local launderette—from which he often takes a share of the coins in the machines' boxes to supplement his wages.__NEWL__At school, he is on the Football Team; however, he generally does not perform well academically, which causes him to be cut from the athletic squad—with a suggestion from the coach to try the Drama Club.__NEWL__Thomas Carey's Story Forty six-year-old Thomas Carey, a pastor who has never been long at one church, finds a posting in Georgia.__NEWL__While going there, he and his wife Grace visit their twenty four-year-old daughter Ravinia, a law student at Emory University of whose spiritual position they have great concern.__NEWL__The Careys are eventually driven out of this posting by the Selection Board chairman, who has decided hypocritically (as his own five sons have a combined-total of eight marriages) that Thomas Carey is a poor example of a Christian, having not raised Ravinia properly.__NEWL__They eventually move to Adamsville, OH where Carey is appointed as the chaplain of the Adamsville State Prison, a super-maximum-security facility which houses a death row.__NEWL__ASP's warden, Frank "Yanno" (so nicknamed due to his oft starting sentences with "yeah, no"—a nickname he dislikes to hear)__NEWL__LeRoy allows inmates condemned to death to choose their method of execution, assuming they will choose between: When they reach Adamsville, Grace Carey is diagnosed as having a severe form of leukemia, for which inducing remission is possible for short-term, but not permanently.__NEWL__Brady Darby's Conversion After Brady, now 30, is convicted of the horrific murder of twentythree-year-old Katie North (whom he believed to be in love with him), he is sentenced to death speedily—and though there is a mandatory appeals process which can take several (at least three) years, he informs his lawyer that he will be uncooperative so that his execution will be guaranteed.__NEWL__He is taken to ASP in Adamsville.__NEWL__After his 90-day administrative-break-in period, Brady asks for a meeting with Carey, and is mailed a literature packet (which includes The Romans Road and a modern-English translation of the New Testament).__NEWL__Within a month, he asks for a personal visit from Carey so that he can "confess Christ with his mouth".__NEWL__About six months into his time at ASP, Brady chooses the method of his execution—crucifixion, complete with thorn-crown and spear-pierce of his side after his death—which surprises not only Carey and Ravinia, but even Yanno who initially reacts that Brady must choose from the four methods he has in-situ.__NEWL__Ravinia is, however, able to persuade Yanno on this, as Brady's idea is to show exactly how ugly and cruel that first-century Roman punishment was.__NEWL__As Ohio's Director Of Corrections and its Governor argue against the appeals—successfully—and anti-death-penalty activists protest against the planned execution, the Government Of Israel donates a cross specifying it as "roughly of original Roman dimensions".__NEWL__Eventually, Brady's request to be crucified is granted—but his requests for thorn-crown and post-mortem piercing are denied.__NEWL__As the date draws closer, Brady sees his mother claim on TV that she "had raised him to know Jesus" and that she is "glad he is coming back to his faith", and then wailing that she cannot fly from her current address in Florida to visit her son.__NEWL__The International Cable Network, which is covering the execution and its leadup, flies her to Adamsville for a visit.__NEWL__Brady, meanwhile, reads the Bible aloud for other inmates, hoping that some of them will also convert.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7810921	To Every Man a Penny	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21704895	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21704895	The story of a young French priest, Gaston, who goes off to World War I.__NEWL__In the trenches he is mutilated, modestly administers the sacraments, hears the confessions of dying men, aids the wounded, and becomes a good friend of a Communist, Louis Philippe Bessier.__NEWL__Both he and Bessier are wounded in the leg, which is amputated, and both limp through the rest of the book.__NEWL__When they return to Paris, no one is expecting them – neither the canons of Father Gaston’s parish nor Bessier’s employers.__NEWL__Gaston, who had always sustained himself with the idea that the great evil of the war could lead to good, is forced to change his mind.__NEWL__The world is moving away from the Church and the Church from the world.__NEWL__The little girl Armelle, his pupil in catechism class, of whom he is very fond and who had always written to him in the trenches, wants to become a model, and he gives her his permission, even if many of his fellow canons disapprove.__NEWL__Marshall masterfully recounts the Catholic Church in France between the two world wars.__NEWL__The more formal people are in approaching her, the more the ecclesiastical hierarchies appear closed in their moralisms, their formalisms, their solipsistic way of thinking.__NEWL__In the end, the Bishop sends Gaston to South America for a couple of years.__NEWL__When he returns, much has changed: Armelle’s mother has died and she has become a prostitute.__NEWL__Bessier is working for the French Communist Party.__NEWL__The canons of his parish barely tolerate him.__NEWL__During his absence, friars and priests have been forbidden to go to the barber because of some magazines there (considered risqué by the ecclesiastic authority).__NEWL__He doesn’t know this and goes to get his hair cut.__NEWL__Surprised by a fellow priest, the not very well-loved Fr Moune, he has a noisy argument with him in the street, attracting a small crowd.__NEWL__This time, too, he is punished by the Bishop.__NEWL__In the meantime, the World War II is drawing near: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler have burst onto the European scene.__NEWL__Gaston receives another fierce blow, which is that his beloved Armelle dies giving birth to a baby girl, Michelle.__NEWL__But there is a place where our priest can take refuge: the convent of some nuns who appreciate his simplicity and faith.__NEWL__Michelle will grow up there, among countless economic hardships and countless little economies.__NEWL__During the German occupation, Gaston helps an English soldier, while the canons of the parish are hanging Marshal Philippe Pétain’s portrait on the walls.__NEWL__But at the moment of liberation, when everyone is on the side of the Resistance, our priest this time feels obligated to help a German soldier escape with his Jewish fiancée, whom he himself had earlier hidden from the Nazis.__NEWL__The three are caught on the way by men of the Communist Party who beat them and kill the two young people.__NEWL__Gaston is saved at the last minute by his friend Bessier, who miraculously appears and gets him out of prison.__NEWL__Gaston’s eyes never heal completely from this brutal beating.__NEWL__In the end, mysteriously, the destinies of the characters fall into place: Bessier’s son, who has in the meantime become a “heretic” within the Communist Party, marries the lovely Michelle, and finally Gaston becomes resident chaplain at the convent of the nuns.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7743742	The Judas Goat	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21705690	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21705690	A reclusive millionaire, Hugh Dixon, hires Spenser to find the nine members of a terrorist group that bombed a London restaurant where he and his family were dining, resulting in the deaths of his two daughters, his wife and leaving him a paraplegic.__NEWL__Spenser is promised USD$2,500 a head for the apprehension of each of the nine terrorists responsible, dead or alive.__NEWL__Spenser heads to London, England to start his investigation.__NEWL__Running an ad for information in The Times results in two assassination attempts on Spenser.__NEWL__Spenser foils the attempts resulting in the deaths of two gunmen and the capture of another.__NEWL__Spenser enlists the help of his friend Hawk, a powerful ally.__NEWL__Spenser tracks one of the members of the terrorist group, Liberty, and uses her as a Judas goat to lead him to other members.__NEWL__"Katherine," the name she is operating under, flees to Copenhagen with Hawk and Spenser in pursuit.__NEWL__Spenser allows himself to be captured by Katherine's allies just to be rescued by Hawk before they can kill him.__NEWL__The rescue leads to the deaths of three more members of the group, but Katherine (also called Kathie) and the leader of the group, Paul, escape.__NEWL__The group turns out to be an anti-communist/white-supremacist group trying to keep control of African countries away from the native Africans and in the hands of white countries and leaders.__NEWL__The bombing of the restaurant Dixon and his wife were in was more or less a random act of violence against the United Kingdom because of its backing of black majority rule in Africa.__NEWL__Tired of running from Spenser and Hawk, Paul leaves the corpses of the last two members responsible for the bombing in Spenser and Hawk's hotel room.__NEWL__The last member, Kathie, is tied up on a bed.__NEWL__A note from Paul says these are the last members of the bombing, which was executed without his involvement.__NEWL__He couldn't kill Kathie because he had been intimate with her for some time.__NEWL__Hawk and Spenser untie Kathie and interrogate her, but she doesn't know where Paul has fled.__NEWL__Upon further reflection, she recalls he may be at the Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.__NEWL__Even though his obligations to Dixon are completed, the three of them fly to Montreal and rent a private home near the games.__NEWL__That night Kathie tries to seduce Spenser, but he rebuffs her.__NEWL__Spenser flies to Boston to tell Dixon what is happening and asks him to assist them in stopping Paul.__NEWL__He tells Dixon he doesn't expect him to pay for it__NEWL__but Dixon insists on paying because he has great wealth but, since his family died, nothing worthwhile to spend it on.__NEWL__He also arranges to get Spenser tickets to the Olympic games.__NEWL__Spenser spends the night with his lover, Susan Silverman, and flies back to Canada the next day.__NEWL__With little to go on, Hawk, Spenser and Kathie attend the games at the Stadium looking for Paul and a huge man, a former weightlifter, who Kathie warns may be with him: Zachary.__NEWL__Spenser spots Paul on their second day and observes him setting up a mark for a sniper.__NEWL__The next day Spenser spots Paul, accompanied by Zachary, assembling a sniper rifle to shoot athletes during an Olympic medal ceremony as a terrorist act.__NEWL__All four men are armed, but Hawk quickly knocks out Paul.__NEWL__Zachary, a huge bodybuilder standing six foot seven and over three hundred pounds, attempts to shoot Spenser, but loses his gun in the scuffle.__NEWL__Trying to take down Zachary, the three remaining men all lose their weapons.__NEWL__Zachary flees the stadium pursued by Hawk and Spenser.__NEWL__He is eventually beaten into unconsciousness by them after a brutal fight a short distance from the stadium.__NEWL__The Montreal Police arrive and take Spenser and Hawk to a hospital.__NEWL__Spenser also has a broken left arm and nose; Hawk has a busted lip and one eye swollen shut.__NEWL__They learn Kathie shot Paul "as he attempted to flee," but both know she shot him the first chance she got for abandoning her.__NEWL__When a Montreal police detective, Morgan, attempts to interrogate Spenser, he calls one of Dixon's men for instructions.__NEWL__It isn't long before Dixon arrives at the hospital and pays Spenser twice his promised fee, $50,000.__NEWL__Spenser offers half to Hawk, but he declines, just billing Spenser for his original fee ($150 per day plus expenses).__NEWL__Spenser lies to Dixon, saying Kathie is not part of the original nine responsible for the bombing and gets Dixon to have her released from jail.__NEWL__Dixon suspects the truth, but pays the fee anyway.__NEWL__The book concludes with Spenser and Susan vacationing together in London.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2045474	Time of Contempt	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11792255	Nilfgaard	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11792255	Nilfgaard	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	21705777	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21705777	Following their secret conclave in Blood of Elves, the monarchs of the Northern Kingdoms are secretly preparing to create a pretext for war with Nilfgaard.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to them, the Emperor of Nilfgaard is aware of their plans and preparing his own.__NEWL__Geralt consults with a lawyer, Codhringer, to discover the identity of the unknown mage trying to capture Ciri.__NEWL__At the same time, Yennefer takes Ciri from the Temple in Ellander to Gors Velen.__NEWL__Yennefer plans to enroll Ciri at the Aretuza school of magic on Thanedd Island, while attending a conference of mages there.__NEWL__While Yennefer is talking business with a dwarven banker in Gors Velen, she allows Ciri to see the city, escorted by one of the banker's young employees.__NEWL__While viewing an exotic menagerie, Ciri inadvertently provokes a disturbance, and escapes using a magic amulet Yennefer gave her in case of emergency.__NEWL__This draws the attention of the mages Tissaia de Vries and Margarita Laux-Antille, the former and current headmistresses of Aretuza, out hunting for truant students.__NEWL__After reuniting, Yennefer, Tissaia and Margarita discuss Ciri's upcoming education at Aretuza.__NEWL__Ciri, unwilling to be "imprisoned" at school, steals a horse and rides to a nearby town where she heard Geralt is staying.__NEWL__Yennefer pursues her, leading to a reunion and reconciliation with Geralt.__NEWL__The three return to Thanedd island together.__NEWL__At an evening reception, Geralt meets several mages, including the mage Vilgefortz, who hints that a power struggle is imminent and that Geralt will have to choose sides.__NEWL__Vilgefortz wants Geralt on his side, but Geralt prefers to remain neutral.__NEWL__Dijkstra, the King of Redania's spymaster, also tries to recruit Geralt, without success.__NEWL__Early in the morning, Geralt stumbles on an attempted coup.__NEWL__Dijkstra and Philippa Eilhart, a sorceress in Redania's court, have organized the coup, ambushing several mages, including Vilgefortz, who they intend to accuse of conspiring with Nilfgaard, before the enclave; Emperor Emhyr wants the Chapter of Mages broken apart, since their participation in the previous war led to the Empire's defeat.__NEWL__Tissaia, the most senior mage, is furious that Phillippa and her other mages have abandoned their role as neutral advisors.__NEWL__Yennefer, also in attendance, has brought Ciri, who lapses into a clairvoyant trance and reveals that the war has already begun: the King of Redania was assassinated the night before, and the King of Aedirn has launched an attack on Nilfgaard.__NEWL__To allow Vilgefortz and the captured mages to defend themselves, Tissaia releases them, and drops the field that inhibits the use of magic inside Aretuza.__NEWL__This proves disastrous when they attack Phillipa and the other Northern mages, while a Scoia'tael commando working with Nilfgaard invades the compound.__NEWL__Geralt disables Dijkstra and rushes in to rescue Yennefer and Ciri.__NEWL__In the ensuing chaos, Yennefer and Geralt fight off the Scoia'tael, while Ciri flees from the scene.__NEWL__She takes refuge at the Tower of Gulls, and when Geralt pursues her, Vilgefortz confronts Geralt.__NEWL__Vilgefortz again asks Geralt to join his side, but Geralt refuses.__NEWL__A fight ensues, in which Geralt is defeated and severely wounded.__NEWL__Vilgefortz enters the Tower but Ciri escapes through an unstable magic portal, releasing a flare of energy that collapses the Tower and leaves Vilgefortz's face scarred.__NEWL__Tissaia, realizing her mistake and, along with Triss Merigold's help, takes Geralt to safety, before committing suicide.__NEWL__Soon after the events at Thanedd Island, Dandelion finds Geralt recuperating in the forest of Brokilon, under the care of the dryads, and fills him in on recent events: Aedirn, Rivia, and Lyria fell quickly to the Nilfgaardian invaders, while King Foltest of Temeria made a pact with Emhyr and preserved his kingdom; the elven mage Francesca Findabair was made the client queen of Dol Blathanna, on the condition that she allow the Scoia'tael to remain under Emhyr's control.__NEWL__In Nilfgaard, a false Ciri is presented to Emhyr and he publicly announces his plans to marry her and legitimize his rule of Cintra, while ordering his secret forces to find the real Ciri.__NEWL__Ciri awakes in the Korath desert and barely survives, with the help of a unicorn.__NEWL__When the unicorn is wounded in a fight with a desert creature, Ciri awakens her latent magical powers to heal it.__NEWL__However, the power she taps into is so potent that she has visions of herself as an omnipotent witch, ravaging the entire continent.__NEWL__Horrified, she renounces the use of magic, and is captured by bounty hunters in Nilfgaard's employ.__NEWL__She manages to escape them with the help of the Rats, a bandit group.__NEWL__She gains a sense of belonging among the Rats, who are refugees from the war as she is.__NEWL__She identifies herself to them as Falka, a dreaded witch from history who she saw in her vision.__NEWL__The story hints that Ciri, the last descendant of a Cintran royal line that carries elven blood, is the prophesied child who will destroy the old world and usher in a new age.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4657037	A Girl from Lübeck	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z	21942254	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21942254	Versory is a literary lecturer engaged in spreading English culture ("from Beowulf to Dylan Thomas") throughout Germany.__NEWL__He needs a ride after delivering a talk to a group of matrons.__NEWL__Versory is surprised that his driver is a young woman, Hannelore.__NEWL__He sees her as a blonde beauty with a charming personality, and becomes infatuated with her.__NEWL__They arrange to meet again in Paris, to attend a meeting of literary lecturers from other countries.__NEWL__Once in Paris, Versory becomes suspicious to how Hannelore can afford her expensive clothes and habits.__NEWL__After their meeting, Hannelore states that there is no way to contact her and that she will get in touch with him.__NEWL__She contacts him regularly and indicates her affection for him.__NEWL__Versory continues to be suspicious of Hannelore and wonders what she is hiding.__NEWL__Versory himself is not what he appears to be.__NEWL__His career as a lecturer serves as a cover for other activities.__NEWL__Versory has a connection with a gentleman from South America.__NEWL__Hannelore is found in the establishment of Mme.__NEWL__Putiphar.__NEWL__Vesory's chief takes Hannelore in his sports car and drives off somewhere.__NEWL__There is ambiguity to whether Hennelore loves Versory or whether she is using him.__NEWL__The ending reveals the truth surrounding Hannelore.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766607	The Stone Giant	1989-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21736268	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21736268	In a fit of pique Escargot eats a pie that his wife had been withholding to bribe him into attending a revival meeting.__NEWL__Unfortunately Stover, the revivalist, is also the local judge and has designs on Escargot's wealthy wife; Escargot winds up homeless and indigent.__NEWL__He becomes infatuated with Leta, Stover's barmaid, and is introduced to a dwarf he believes to be her uncle.__NEWL__Escargot had purchased a bag of odd marbles from a bunjo man (a kind of gypsy/hobo); the dwarf first swindles them from the hapless divorcé, then humiliates and terrifies him for laughs.__NEWL__After obtaining a settlement from his ex-wife, Escargot leaves for the coastal town of Seaside where he hopes to find Leta at the annual Harvest Festival.__NEWL__A series of misadventures leads him to the submarine of a piratical elf; winding up in sole possession of the vessel Escargot travels through an undersea passage into the land of Balumnia, a sort of siamese-twin world.__NEWL__Escargot's fortunes do not seem to improve as he is rapidly cheated out of money and goods, but he has a surprise encounter with the dwarf and resolves to pursue him.__NEWL__The dwarf attempts to eliminate Escargot but through a combination of persistence and improvisation Escargot survives and learns the dwarf's evil plan: sacrifice Leta and use the marbles to revive the stone giants, ancient enemies of the elves.__NEWL__With the assistance of an eccentric crew of sky-faring elves, Escargot seeks an opportunity to rescue Leta and redeem his many foibles.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656873	A Fringe of Leaves	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	21939411	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21939411	A young Cornish woman, Ellen Roxburgh, travels to the Australian colony of Van Diemen's Land (now "Tasmania") in the early 1830s with her older husband, Austin, to visit his brother Garnet Roxburgh.__NEWL__After witnessing the brutalities of Van Diemen's Land, the Roxburghs embark on their return trip to England on the Bristol Maid.__NEWL__But the ship runs aground on the coral reef off the coast of what is now Queensland.__NEWL__Ellen is the only survivor from the leaky vessel in which the passengers and crew travel to the shore.__NEWL__She is rescued by the Aboriginal people of the island, and she later meets Jack Chance, a convict who has escaped from Moreton Bay (now Brisbane), the brutal penal settlement to the south.__NEWL__It is Chance who escorts her through the dangerous coastal territory south to the outskirts of the settlement, but who refuses to accompany her further and returns to his exile.__NEWL__She returns to "civilisation" transformed and tormented by her experience with Garnet in Van Diemen's Land, with the Aboriginal people, and with Chance.__NEWL__The novel sets in sharp relief the distinctions between men and women, whites and blacks, the convicts and the free, and English colonists and Australian settlers.__NEWL__The contrast between Ellen's rural Cornish background and the English middle class she has married into is also highlighted.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7726868	The Colour	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z	21936778	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21936778	Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, and Joseph's mother Lilian, are immigrants from England on the SS Albert into the South Island of New Zealand in 1860s.__NEWL__After settling the two women into accommodation in Christchurch, Joseph travels to the foothills near the Okuku river to build their Cob House.__NEWL__Joseph returns to Christchurch once the house has been built and the three of them set off to start their new lives on their farm.__NEWL__ The harsh first winter brings with it problems which threaten the viability of their farm, but Joseph's chance finding of gold in the nearby creek changes the situation.__NEWL__Not telling Harriet about the find, Joseph abandons the farm and travels by boat to Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island where major gold strikes have occurred.__NEWL__After Lilian's death, Harriet also travels to Hokitika and delivers that news to Joseph.__NEWL__The search for gold, the 'colour', goes on in difficult conditions.__NEWL__Joseph's encounters with Will Sefton, a young man whom he met on the boat bringing them to the West Coast, and Pao Yi, a Chinese gardener befriended by Harriet, add flavour to the dynamics of the searching couple's relationship which has become distant and strained.__NEWL__Joseph's guilt surrounding events in England prior to their emigration impact on this separation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7748757	The Lost Train of Thought	2009-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21825427	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21825427	The third and final book on The Seems begins with Becker Drane on trial against his breaking the Golden Rule.__NEWL__The Golden Rule forbids any employee that has had access a person's Case File to communicate with them.__NEWL__At the end of The Split Second, Becker Drane came in contact with Jenifer Kaley who he got her Case File in The Glitch in Sleep.__NEWL__When tried, he was found guilty on all counts.__NEWL__He was suspended from duty for one year, unremembered of Jenifer Kaley and has his Seems Credit Card revoked.__NEWL__Jenifer Kaley and Benjamin Drane will also be unremembered of all they know about The Seems.__NEWL__When about to tell Jenifer about his punishment, Simly, Becker's favorite Briefer calls Becker in for a Mission.__NEWL__He along with the Octogenarian, Shahzad Hassan and Jelani Blaque are called in as a second team to find a missing train of Thought that was supposed to supply The World with enough Thought for the next six weeks.__NEWL__When Thought was first discovered, it was debated on how it should be used.__NEWL__Some felt the Raw Thought should be given directly to the people of the World while others felt it should be processed first.__NEWL__It was decided for Raw Thought to be given to people in The World so they can think for themselves.__NEWL__However, without Thought to keep emotions such as Jealousy and Anger in, the Unthinkable could occur causing mass destruction to The World.__NEWL__The first team consisted of Li Po, Casey Lake, Lisa Simms and Greg the Journeyman, but they went missing when a sudden bright light appeared.__NEWL__The second team go into The Middle of Nowhere in hope of finding the Train and if possible, rescuing the missing Fixers of the first team.__NEWL__The team first makes a pit stop at Seemsberia, the prison in The Seems where Blaque asks Thibadeau, a previous member of the Tide a few questions.__NEWL__The Tide is an organization trying to overthrow the current order of The Seems.__NEWL__Meanwhile the team manages to find Lisa Simms and Greg the Journeyman, but Li Po and Casey Lake are still missing.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in The Seems, The Tide has taken over many major departments of The Seems and even Seemsberia.__NEWL__To rescue The Seems, Freck reveals he is a double agent for The Seems and gets the help of the Glitches in exchange for a place to live.__NEWL__The Glitches succeed in destroying The Tide and recapture The Seems, but the Unthinkable is about to occur.__NEWL__All the extra Thought was used during the siege to The Seems.__NEWL__In the Middle of Nowhere, the team along with Casey Lake has found the lost Train of Thought.__NEWL__However, the natives of the Middle of Nowhere have trapped all the Fixers except Becker who is trying to get the train back to The Seems.__NEWL__With the so little time left before the Unthinkable occurs, Becker has no choice to use the In-Betweener, an automated freight line previously used to pile wares.__NEWL__Becker succeeds, but is lost when the Train crashes into the entrance of the In-Betweener.__NEWL__With the Thought delivered and The Tide defeated, the Unthinkable does not occur.__NEWL__Two days later, Freck is cleared of all charges by the new Second in Command, Samuel Hightower, who is also Triton, leader of The Tide.__NEWL__Despite wanting to recreate The World, he now feels that The World will now grow into a new place after all that happened in the last few days.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Becker finds himself swimming through an ocean and finally arriving on a beach.__NEWL__On the beach, he meets Li Po, the only Fixer in the first team never to be found.__NEWL__Po talks although his Vow of Silence prevented him before.__NEWL__Becker suddenly realizes he is in A Better Place, where people go when they die.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5462986	Flutter in the Dovecote	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z	21702994	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21702994	It's a comic tale of a Catholic Bishop who learns that a surrealist painting donated to a Mother Superior is in reality indecent.__NEWL__Intelligence services of various countries then become involved.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656829	A Foot in the Grave	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21703001	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21703001	When John Smith's garrulous South American wife was found dead in Buenos Aires, he is accused by the Argentine police not only of her murder, but also of tax evasion, links with the British Intelligence Service and of conspiring to overthrow the Argentine dictatorship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7900177	Urban the Ninth	1973-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21703007	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21703007	A Catholic comic thriller – In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I (successor of Leo XIV and Pius XIII) dies in an air crash.__NEWL__Urban IX has to face the Third Secret of Fatima (which had not yet been revealed in 1973, when the book was written) and a mysterious woman: perhaps, Pope Marx's secret lover.__NEWL__A major subplot concerns the efforts of a mother superior of a religious order to get the order's founder canonised.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5437606	Father Hilary's Holiday	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21703013	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21703013	After thirty years in the priesthood, Father Hilary seizes the opportunity to attend a religious congress in South America.__NEWL__Father Hilary's well earned holiday is to be spent at a sort of ecumenical conference convened by "el Libertator" the Generalissimo of Tomasia.__NEWL__The result is a witty, pointed tale of humble but outspoken Franciscan friar and his wondrous escapades in the boiling maelstrom of a mythical Latin American dictatorship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730406	The Divided Lady	1960-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q220	Rome	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21703018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21703018	The style of this book is unusual for a Marshall work.__NEWL__The first half of the book alternates present time with flashbacks from the central character's earlier life.__NEWL__James Childers, an accountant with a large London firm is sent to Rome to investigate a business deal.__NEWL__The Sisters of Ramoth-Gilead have invested a considerable sum with Morobito, a famous film producer, to make a movie about St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo of Turin.__NEWL__The Sisters suspect they have been swindled.__NEWL__Childers, who served in Rome in the post-World War II era, quickly revisits old haunts.__NEWL__The chapters switch back and forth between events during his original tour in Rome and the current one.__NEWL__Post-World War II Childers worked for the British Army dealing with Displaced Persons, specifically their financial situations.__NEWL__In his spare time he pursued Phoebe & Sarah, beautiful, identical twins who are aides of the General Childers also works for.__NEWL__In the present time, while investigating the Sisters' case, Childers renews his acquaintanceship with Bice, the daughter of a wealthy Duke who was a teenager when he was last in Rome.__NEWL__Bice hopes to use this relationship to get a part in Morobito's film.__NEWL__But Childers also meets Mila, who is what the Italians call a "Divided Lady," meaning that she is separated from her husband and hoping to obtain an annulment from the Catholic Church.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5564471	Girl in May	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21703024	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21703024	A romance set among a motley crowd of eccentrics of all ages who constitute the population of St. Andrews.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3002602	Crime	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	21807706	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21807706	Ray Lennox is a Detective Inspector with the Lothian and Borders Police who attempts to recover from a mental breakdown induced by stress, cocaine and alcohol abuse and a child murder case in Edinburgh in which he was the lead investigating officer by taking a holiday in Florida with his fiancée, Trudi.__NEWL__The pair meet up with Eddie 'Ginger' Rodgers, one of Lennox's retired former colleagues, and his wife Delores, and they all drink into the early hours of the morning.__NEWL__The next morning Lennox finds himself craving more alcohol and goes to a bar with Trudi where they have an argument which causes Trudi to angrily leave the bar.__NEWL__Lennox continues drinking heavily.__NEWL__Soon afterwards he meets two women, Starry and Robyn, in a different bar and they all go back Robyn's apartment where they drink more alcohol and take cocaine.__NEWL__They are soon joined by two men, Lance Dearing and Johnnie, and a fight breaks out a short time later when Lennox sees Johnnie is sexually assaulting Tianna, Robyn's ten-year-old daughter.__NEWL__Lennox incapacitates Johnnie and struggles with Dearing, who ultimately leaves the apartment with everyone except Lennox and Tianna, who have locked themselves in a bathroom.__NEWL__The next morning, Lennox wakes in the bathroom and receives a telephone call from Robyn, who urges him to take Tianna to a man called Chet Lewis in Bologna before the call is interrupted by Dearing, who tries unsuccessfully to pacify Lennox.__NEWL__Lennox instead leaves the apartment with Tianna and travels to a local police station where he is shocked to find Dearing is in police uniform and is working at the reception desk.__NEWL__Lennox flees with Tianna and hires a car to take her to Chet as Robyn instructed.__NEWL__Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina where he walks right into a hornets' nest of paedophiles, just like the one that had haunted him on a similar case in Edinburgh.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7761866	The Running Man	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	21739167	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21739167	Joseph Davidson was a quiet, self-conscious fourteen-year-old boy and a talented artist.__NEWL__His world changes, however, when he is asked to draw a portrait of his mysterious neighbour Tom Leyton who was a Vietnam veteran who for thirty years has lived alone with his sister Caroline, raising his silkworms and hiding from prying eyes.__NEWL__Because of this he is the subject of ugly gossip and rumour, much of it led by neighbour Mrs. Mossop, who views Leyton’s brief teaching career with suspicion.__NEWL__When Joseph finally meets his reclusive neighbour he discovers a cold, brooding man lost deep within his own cocoon of silence.__NEWL__He soon realises that in order to truly draw Tom Leyton, he must find the courage to unlock the man’s dark and perhaps dangerous secrets.__NEWL__But Joseph has his own secrets, including the pain of his damaged relationship with his absent father and his childhood fear of the Running Man – a local character whose wild appearance and strange manner of moving everywhere at a frantic pace terrified him when he was a small boy.__NEWL__These dreams suddenly return when Joseph is forced to face his fears and doubts regarding Tom Leyton.__NEWL__As Joseph moves deeper and deeper into his neighbour’s world he confronts not only Tom Leyton’s private hell, but also his own relationship with his father, and ultimately the dishevelled, lurching figure of the Running Man.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7749523	The Magician's Apprentice	2009-02-23T00:00:00Z	21813150	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21813150	In the remote village of Mandryn in Kyralia, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer – much to the frustration of her mother, who would rather she found a husband.__NEWL__Despite knowing that women aren't readily accepted by the Guild of Healers, Tessia is determined to follow in her father's footsteps.__NEWL__Kyralia and the neighbouring country Sachaka have been at a certain "peace" for centuries, though the countries dislike each other, for Kyralia was once part of the Sachakan Empire.__NEWL__Lord Dakon is housing a visiting Sachakan Lord and Magician (Takado), much to his dislike.__NEWL__Dakon is a kind man with noble intentions.__NEWL__He is wary of Takado and dislikes the Sachakans for not abolishing slavery, especially when Takado beats his slave (Hanara) to near death.__NEWL__Tessia and her father are called to heal him.__NEWL__One day when Tessia comes by herself to Lord Dakon's mansion to re-apply bandages to Hanara, Takado tries to force himself upon her, holding her body still with magic.__NEWL__Tessia removes the magical influence on her mind with magic of her own, which she had no idea she had (blowing apart the corner of the room in the process), discovering she is a natural.__NEWL__She becomes the second apprentice of Lord Dakon, and Takado leaves the premises.__NEWL__There are long hours of study and self-discipline, and Lord Dakon's other apprentice, Jayan, makes clear his dislike of her, Tessia's new life also offers more opportunities than she had ever hoped for, and an exciting new world opens up to her.__NEWL__There are fine clothes and servants, and – she is delighted to learn – regular trips to the great city of Imardin.__NEWL__While staying in Imardin her home town is attacked.__NEWL__A "mental" call is produced from another magician who is in the ley (town) closest to Dakon's.__NEWL__Tessia is able to hear this while she is out shopping with her fellow female magicians, who all hear the same thing.__NEWL__Upon arriving at the ley they find that Takado has slaughtered the entire village except for some children and deserters.__NEWL__Tessia is then distressed to find graves marked for her parents.__NEWL__Upon this discovery, Tessia is hurt by the fact she never got to tell her father about visiting the healer's guild (in which their family are now somewhat respected in the guild through their grandfather), or about visiting a dissection at which she found a friend, Kendaria.__NEWL__Tessia then sets out to be a healer.__NEWL__During the process, Jayan and Tessia become friends.__NEWL__The Kyralian magicians then come together and decide to attack the Sachakan 'Ichani' (people branded as outcasts in Sachakan society) as they realise a plot to take their country.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Takado has gathered an army of his own.__NEWL__In the "first fight", the Kyralian magicians use a technique of sharing magical energy, allowing them to send magic to another without harming them and so enabling them to attack in groups.__NEWL__None fall on the Kyralian side but the Sachakans lose many.__NEWL__Tessia treats many people and soon develops a way to stop pain with magic, something never before achieved as Magicians never become healers.__NEWL__A subplot revolves around Stara, a mixed race woman born to an Ashaki (Sachakan magician of high social standing) and an Elyne woman, Elyne being a neighbouring country to both Kyralia and Sachaka.__NEWL__Living in Arvice (the Sachakan capital) Stara is forced to marry against her will, yet when she shows her father her magic, which she has kept secret for years, her father is forced to decide another, Karicho.__NEWL__Stara must bed Karicho in order to heir a son, or her sister-in-law, being infertile, will be killed by her father.__NEWL__Yet there is one problem: Karicho is a "lad" (a male homosexual).__NEWL__Stara becomes friends with other wives, and they invite her into a group made up of wives and slaves called the "Traitors", who secretly declare themselves a neutral third party in the Kyralian-Sachakan conflict.__NEWL__Unintentionally, Stara becomes the leader with her natural beauty, magic and leadership skills.__NEWL__She and her slave, who is also her best friend, set out to find a way to get the "Traitors" away from Arvice before the invading Kyralians kill any of them.__NEWL__The invading Kyralians take Arvice, but Jayan and Tessia are separated from them.__NEWL__Jayan is badly wounded, but Tessia figures out how to heal with magic, and saves him.__NEWL__While she is healing him, he confesses his love for her, and she him.__NEWL__They hide in a house and fall asleep.__NEWL__The next morning, they hear horses, and go outside to see it is their allies.__NEWL__They join up with the rest of the army, and Dakon is relieved to see his ex-apprentice (Jayan is now a full magician) and his apprentice are safe.__NEWL__However, Dakon is staying behind to help rule Sachaka, so Lady Avaria takes over Tessia's apprenticeship, and Jayan, Avaria and Tessia return to Kyralia together.__NEWL__Jayan founds the Magician's Guild and Tessia teaches her healing magic to others.__NEWL__Stara and the Traitors escape Arvice and find a refuge in the mountains.__NEWL__There are ruins of a house there, filled with jewels.__NEWL__A river is nearby and the land is fertile.__NEWL__The Traitor society has begun.__NEWL__10 years later Narvelan, one of Sachaka's rulers, is forced to retire by the king, taking his loyal servant, Hanara, with him.__NEWL__He breaks the storestone, a stone filled with magic, which kills him and Hanara and renders acres of Sachakan land infertile.__NEWL__It is revealed Dakon was assassinated.__NEWL__Jayan and his friend Prinan come to look at the land.__NEWL__Jayan reflects on the establishment of the Magician's Guild and that Tessia is just about to give birth to his son.__NEWL__Tessia is now famous for her discovery of healing magic, and is the best healing magician in the world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5887899	Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21766151	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21766151	Whitney has been in so many foster homes that she can give a complete rundown on the most common varieties of foster parents—from the look-on-the-bright-side types to those unfortunate examples of pure evil.__NEWL__But one thing she doesn’t know much about is trees.__NEWL__This means heading for Foster Home #12 (which is all the way at the top of the map of California, where there looks to be nothing but trees) has Whitney feeling a little nervous.__NEWL__She is pretty sure that the middle of nowhere is going to be just one more place where a hyper, loud-mouthed kid who is messy and small for her age won’t be welcome for long.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5459133	Flight	2007-03-28T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5083	Seattle	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21799886	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21799886	Flight begins with Zits waking up in a new foster home.__NEWL__Not liking his new family, he shoves his foster mom against the wall and runs out the door.__NEWL__Eventually, Officer Dave catches up with him and takes him to jail.__NEWL__While in jail Zits meets Justice, a young white boy who takes Zits under his wing.__NEWL__When Zits is released from jail he finds Justice and they begin their training on how to shoot people.__NEWL__Once Justice believes Zits is ready to commit a real crime, he sends him off to a bank.__NEWL__After opening fire in the lobby, Zits perceives he has been shot in the head, ultimately sending him back in time.__NEWL__During his flashback, Zits transforms into many different historical characters.__NEWL__The first character he transforms into is FBI Agent Hank Storm.__NEWL__While in Hank's body Zits witnesses a meeting with two Indians involved with IRON.__NEWL__He watches his partner kill an innocent Indian and is forced to shoot the corpse in the chest.__NEWL__The next character he becomes is a mute Indian boy.__NEWL__He is thrown back into the time of General Custer's last stand.__NEWL__He gets to witness this historical battle and at the end is told by his father to slash a fallen soldier's throat as revenge for his own muteness.__NEWL__While trying to figure out what to do, Zits is taken into yet another character, Gus.__NEWL__Gus is known as "Indian Tracker" and has to lead the cavalry to an Indian camp.__NEWL__Gus is trained to hunt and track down Indians.__NEWL__Trying to take over Gus's actions, Zits forces himself to not attack the Indians.__NEWL__He helps Bow Boy and Small Saint escape from the advancing cavalry.__NEWL__Next, Zits becomes Jimmy, a pilot who teaches Abbad to fly a plane.__NEWL__He witnesses Jimmy's affair on his wife, and Abbad using the knowledge to carry out a terrorist attack, and Jimmy's suicide.__NEWL__Finally, Zits ends up like his own father.__NEWL__While in his father's body, he begins to understand why his father left his mother.__NEWL__He also begins to understand that his father does love him and that by leaving he was doing the best for his son.__NEWL__When Zits reinhabits his own body, he is standing in the bank staring at a small boy.__NEWL__Realizing that his crime could affect many more than just him, he walks out and takes himself to Officer Dave.__NEWL__Knowing he has to help this boy, Officer Dave brings Zits to his brother's house where Zits is offered to stay with them.__NEWL__Zits finally realizes that he can trust these people and for once in his life finally feels at home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q595056	Prisoners of Power	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15180	Soviet Union	1920138	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920138	Maxim Kammerer is a young amateur space explorer from Earth, regarded as a failure by his friends and relatives because this occupation is not considered to be a serious pursuit.__NEWL__The novel starts when he accidentally discovers an unexplored planet Saraksh inhabited by a humanoid race.__NEWL__The atmospheric conditions on Saraksh are such that the inhabitants believe that they live inside a sphere.__NEWL__The level of technological development on the planet is similar to mid-20th century Earth.__NEWL__The planet recently came through big nuclear and conventional war and the predicament of the population is dire.__NEWL__When Maxim lands, the natives mistake his small spaceship for a weapon and destroy it.__NEWL__At first he doesn't take his situation seriously, imagining himself a Robinson Crusoe stranded on an island inhabited by primitive but friendly natives.__NEWL__He is looking forward to establishing contact and befriending the population of the planet.__NEWL__However, the reality turns out to be far from glamorous.__NEWL__After being captured by armed natives and initially taken to what appears to be a concentration camp, Kammerer is sent to some governmental research institute which treats him as a mental patient.__NEWL__He escapes and finds himself in the capital of a totalitarian state, perpetually at war with its neighbors.__NEWL__The city is grim and polluted, with police and military omnipresent.__NEWL__He makes friends among the ordinary people that lead the life of privation and misery, while twice daily everyone is overcome by sudden an unexplained bouts of ecstatic enthusiasm, proclaiming their total allegiance and undying gratitude to the country's hidden rulers, known as the Unknown Fathers (in the censored versions Fire-bearing Creators), who are said to have the best interests of the people at heart, serving as bulwark against threats foreign and domestic, mainly from the so-called degens (degenerates), the uncompromising enemies of the people, the terrorists who sometimes blow up the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) towers strewn around the country.__NEWL__All this makes little sense to Maxim, since his own society is free from war, hostility, crime and material shortages.__NEWL__Still confused about the official ideology, Kammerer gets enlisted in the military, to serve and protect the state and its people.__NEWL__He is ordered to execute some captured degens, one of them a woman.__NEWL__When he refuses, he is shot multiple times, survives, and joins the underground which consists of the degens who suffer great headaches twice daily.__NEWL__Degens believe that the ABM towers are responsible for that.__NEWL__Maxim participates in an attack on one such tower.__NEWL__Captured, tried and sent to a concentration camp in the South, the same one where he has made his landing, he is finally revealed the truth about the towers by a fellow prisoner high-ranking member of the underground.__NEWL__They turn out to be broadcasting a mind control signal, employed by the Fathers to control the population.__NEWL__The constant low-intensity broadcast suppresses the ability of most people to evaluate information critically, making the omnipresent regime propaganda much more effective.__NEWL__In addition, twice a day an intense signal relieves mental stresses caused by the disconnect between the propaganda and the observed reality by inducing euphoria in the susceptible majority, and intense headaches in others who are immune to the signal's coercive power.__NEWL__Those are the only sober-thinking people in the country, including both the underground degens and the Fathers themselves.__NEWL__Astonished and appalled by this revelation, Kammerer makes it his mission to rid the planet of the mind control broadcast system.__NEWL__Several of his schemes fail because the cure may be worse than the disease.__NEWL__He escapes to the radioactive South in hopes of organizing an invasion, but the mutants dwelling there are weakly and softhearted, and the tribes further South are ruthless barbarians.__NEWL__He then turns to the state's neighbor — the Island Empire — but abandons this plan after finding documents on a destroyed Empire submarine that describe mass killings and other atrocities that the Empire military routinely perpetrates.__NEWL__He now focuses on trying to find and destroy the Control Center where the mind control broadcasts originate.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Fathers decide to start a small victorious war on the country's northern neighbor, Honti.__NEWL__Kammerer surrenders to local gendarmes and is assigned to a penal battalion that is supposed to lead the invasion of the North.__NEWL__In this abortive action, most of his friends perish while Kammerer himself barely escapes annihilation in retaliatory nuclear blasts.__NEWL__Having served in the war, he earns himself a rehabilitation from the state and is installed in a secret research institution at the behest of a powerful Father known as the Wanderer, who remains out of reach.__NEWL__A Father known as the Smarty realizes that Kammerer is not affected by the broadcasts in any way and plots to use him to stage a coup and take over the state.__NEWL__His plan is for Kammerer to capture the Control Center and use its transmissions to incapacitate his rivals and install him as the new ruler in the minds of the population.__NEWL__The center is protected by intense depression-inducing local broadcast field that makes it impossible for any native to penetrate it.__NEWL__The Smarty reveals the center's location to Kammerer, who plays along; however, after penetrating the center, he destroys it instead, thus disabling the whole system countrywide.__NEWL__It is revealed that the powerful Father, the Wanderer, is in fact a human progressor named Rudolf Sikorski, carefully working in secret to gradually improve the lot of the people of Saraksh.__NEWL__His plans now ruined, the Wanderer finally catches up with Maxim and lambasts him for his interference.__NEWL__He describes the unanticipated consequences of Kammerer's rash actions: up to 20% of the people may die or go insane due to the withdrawal from the mind control signal; Saraksh faces famine, anarchy, widespread radioactive pollution, and looming invasion by the Island Empire which they planned to stop using the depression field.__NEWL__The Wanderer orders Kammerer to leave the planet but Maxim refuses and stays on, to help stabilize the situation.__NEWL__Despite the many upheavals that Saraksh has ahead of her, he is still glad he destroyed the Control Center because now the people can be in charge of their own destiny.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7773842	The Way Some People Die	1951-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1891749	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1891749	An investigation keeps Lew Archer constantly on the move about South California, beginning in Santa Monica, where Mrs. Samuel Lawrence gives Lew Archer 50 dollars for one day of his time to find her missing daughter Galatea (a.k.a. Galley).__NEWL__Archer soon discovers that Galley has married a small-time mobster named Joe Tarantine.__NEWL__Starting the investigation in the most likely place, with Tarantine's brother, Mario, Archer finds the man in hospital after a severe beating.__NEWL__Shortly after that Mr. Dowser, a big-time mobster and drug runner living near Pacific Palisades, offers him a retainer to find Tarantine, who has absconded with property of his.__NEWL__That this was a shipment of heroin stolen from Dowser's agent, Herman Speed, is not revealed until later.__NEWL__ Archer travels to Palm Springs, where Galley was last sighted, and is led to Joe Tarantine's hideout by her admirer Keith Dalling.__NEWL__Though Archer manages to speak to Galley briefly, he is slugged from behind and is found lying by the roadside by Mrs Marjorie Fellows.__NEWL__When he returns to Dalling's apartment, it is to find him shot; then later Tarantine's body is discovered in a motorboat awash on the rocks beyond the fictitious Pacific Point.__NEWL__Following another lead, Archer discovers that Marjorie's husband, "Colonel Henry Fellows", is in fact Herman Speed, who has borrowed $30,000 from her to invest on her behalf.__NEWL__In reality he had used it to buy the stolen heroin from Joe Tarantine, hoping to sell it on at a profit.__NEWL__Archer tracks Speed down in San Francisco and forces him to hand over the drugs, after which Speed commits suicide.__NEWL__Archer then hands the heroin over to Dowser and arranges for the police to raid the house and arrest him immediately afterwards.__NEWL__ When Archer returns to the Pacific Point morgue, he learns that Joe Tarantine had been dead before being placed in his boat and set adrift.__NEWL__Mario suspects that it was Galley who was responsible, using Dalling as an accomplice, and goes after her.__NEWL__Archer discovers her in Dalling's house, where she has shot Mario after he attacked her.__NEWL__She admits to having helped kill Joe and then Dalling and is about to shoot Archer when the badly injured Mario enters the room and she empties the gun into him before he will die.__NEWL__Galley now admits that she had been Speed's hospital nurse after he was shot during the heroin robbery and had met Joe Tarantine through him.__NEWL__After Archer has her arrested, he visits Mrs Lawrence to tell her the case is closed.__NEWL__Finding her convinced of Galley's innocence, he gives her the fee he had originally accepted from Dowser in order to help pay her legal fees.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6783450	Masks of the Illuminati	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1891921	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1891921	The novel features numerous real-life historical figures in its narrative, including a first person description of reality by scientist Albert Einstein and Irish author James Joyce, while the plot involves English author and occultist Aleister Crowley, British nobles, the Loch Ness Monster and mystical experiences.__NEWL__The plot revolves primarily around the description by a young English gentleman, Sir John Babcock, of his initiation into the Argenteum Astrum.__NEWL__Ancestors of Sir John are major characters in The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2916551	Cry, the Beloved Country	1948-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	1880591	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1880591	The story begins in the village of Ixopo Ndotsheni, where the black priest Stephen Kumalo receives a letter from the priest Theophilus Msimangu in Johannesburg.__NEWL__Msimangu urges Kumalo to come to the city to help his sister Gertrude, because she is ill.__NEWL__Kumalo goes to Johannesburg to help her and also to find his son Absalom, who had gone to the city to look for Gertrude but never came home.__NEWL__It is a long journey to Johannesburg, and Kumalo sees the wonders of the modern world for the first time.__NEWL__When he gets to the city, Kumalo learns that Gertrude has taken up a life of prostitution and beer brewing, and is now drinking heavily.__NEWL__She agrees to return to the village with her young son.__NEWL__Assured by these developments, Kumalo embarks on the search for Absalom, first seeing his brother John, a carpenter who has become involved in the politics of South Africa.__NEWL__Kumalo and Msimangu follow Absalom's trail, only to learn that Absalom has been in a reformatory and will have a child with a young woman.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Kumalo learns that his son has been arrested for murder.__NEWL__The victim is Arthur Jarvis, who was killed during a burglary.__NEWL__Arthur Jarvis was an engineer and a white activist for racial justice, and he happens to be the son of Kumalo's neighbour James Jarvis.__NEWL__Jarvis learns of his son's death and comes with his family to Johannesburg.__NEWL__Jarvis and his son had been distant, and now the father begins to know his son through his writings.__NEWL__Through reading his son's essays, Jarvis decides to take up his son's work on behalf of South Africa's black population.__NEWL__Absalom is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis.__NEWL__Before his father returns to Ndotsheni, Absalom marries the girl who is carrying his child.__NEWL__She joins Kumalo's family.__NEWL__Kumalo returns to his village with his daughter-in-law and nephew, having found that Gertrude ran away on the night before their departure.__NEWL__Back in Ixopo, Kumalo makes a futile visit to the tribe's chief in order to discuss changes that must be made to help the barren village.__NEWL__Help arrives, however, when James Jarvis becomes involved in the work.__NEWL__He arranges to have a dam built and hires a native agricultural demonstrator to implement new farming methods.__NEWL__The novel ends at dawn on the morning of Absalom's execution.__NEWL__The fathers of the two children are devastated that both of their sons have wound up dead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775066	The Wind Singer	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1931029	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1931029	The book begins in the walled city of Aramanth, an extreme meritocracy where endless exams and ratings are the only way to move forward to improved life stations; to be unsuccessful in this is seen as a great source of shame.__NEWL__Using a system based on colour classifications, the governing Examiners dictate what people can wear, where they can live and what jobs they can do.__NEWL__The levels are grey, maroon, orange, scarlet and white, with the muddy Underlake the lowest and white the highest.__NEWL__The Emperor is the only person allowed to wear blue.__NEWL__A minority in their society, the Haths believe more in ideas and dreams than in endless toil and ratings.__NEWL__When young Kestrel defies the harsh classification system of Aramanth she flees, finding herself in the company of the Emperor of Aramanth.__NEWL__Thought to be the ruler of the city, he is found to be merely a puppet of the High Examiner, and the Emperor tells Kestrel of the need to rid Aramanth of the influence of the evil Morah, of the need to return the voice to the mysterious Wind Singer that stands in the city arena.__NEWL__Using an archaic map given to her by the Emperor she sets off, joined by her twin brother, Bowman, and their brave but pitiful new friend, Mumpo, who has an unshakeable affection for Kestrel.__NEWL__They meet a variety of tribes and individuals including the fearsome nomadic clans of Ombaraka and Omchaka.__NEWL__The journey eventually leads them to the Halls of the Morah; the very heart of the evil that has taken control of the city.__NEWL__Here the children finally retrieve the voice of the Wind Singer, in the process waking the terrible Zars, an army of the Morah.__NEWL__Pursued by the beautiful, evil and unstoppable Zars, the children race back to Aramanth, arriving just in time to return the Wind Singer's voice.__NEWL__The voice allows the Wind Singer to emit a powerful song that destroys the Zars and saves Aramanth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7539306	Slaves of the Mastery	2005-01-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1931105	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1931105	At the beginning of the book, the city of Aramanth is greatly changed since events in The Wind Singer.__NEWL__The walls have been torn down, and the poorer districts abandoned.__NEWL__No longer is it run by the strict system of exams; in fact, everyone is pleasant and docile.__NEWL__The change occurred because the city had been released from the grip of an evil force known as the Morah.__NEWL__This new freedom, however, has also severely weakened the city.__NEWL__News of this reaches as far as a distant country known as the Mastery.__NEWL__The country sends an army of a thousand, commanded by young Marius Semeon Ortiz, to destroy the city and take its entire population as slaves.__NEWL__They do so, killing many of the city's residents, enslaving yet more, and leaving no survivors, except for Kestrel Hath.__NEWL__She vows to have revenge on the unknown Mastery, and on Ortiz himself, and begins to follow the trail led by the returning army.__NEWL__The Manth people are brought to the Mastery, a beautiful country built up entirely on slave labor.__NEWL__They are branded and given jobs.__NEWL__Though some of the people begin to actually enjoy work, as they discover that every single person in the Mastery is a slave (except for the Master, ruler of the land, himself).__NEWL__Hanno Hath, father of Kestrel, signs up to be a librarian, while his son Bowman decides to become a night watchman, in order to listen for his approaching sister.__NEWL__Kestrel, meanwhile, faints with exhaustion on her journey.__NEWL__She is rescued by the beautiful Sirharasi (Sisi), Johdila of Gang.__NEWL__As one of the few people who has seen Sisi unveiled, Kestrel becomes her servant and mutual friend.__NEWL__She discovers that Sisi is also travelling to the Mastery to marry Ortiz, the man who led the attack on Aramanth.__NEWL__Kestrel decides to try to use the considerable might of Gang's army, the Johjan Guards, to overthrow the Mastery, and she convinces Zohon, the Guards' conceited leader, that Sisi loves him, and that she will give him a sign to show this.__NEWL__While on a night watch, Bowman is approached by an ancient, one-eyed hermit known as "Dogface", who tells Bowman that, as the son of the prophet (Bowman's mother, Ira Hath, is descended from the ancient prophet, Ira Manth), he has great powers that belong to the Singer people.__NEWL__Bowman tests these new powers by speaking with a cow, moving a stick without touching it, and later speaking to a cat, Mist, that Dogface leaves behind.__NEWL__Mist's ambition is to learn how to fly, but as Bowman's powers are initially limited and untested, he doesn't and can't teach Mist.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Mumpo, another Manth slave, joins the Manaxa.__NEWL__The Manaxa is a fight where two competitors attempt to stab each other with spiked armor until either one dies or is driven out of the arena, and is considered a great honor to compete in the Mastery.__NEWL__He shows considerable talent at this and at the wedding kills the reigning champion and heavy favorite.__NEWL__At the wedding Sisi and Ortiz both fall for people other than those intended, Sisi for Bowman and Ortiz for Kestrel, and chaos ensues.__NEWL__Zohon, believing he is rescuing Sisi from the Mastery, instigates a battle against Ortiz and his men; however the entire population of the Mastery, bound by the Master's will, attacks and outnumbers Zohon's army.__NEWL__Mumpo begins searching for Kestrel to try to save her in the chaos, killing anyone he encounters whether they be Mastery Citizens or in the Johjan Guards.__NEWL__Bowman, using his mind powers, engages in a mind duel with the Master.__NEWL__Kestrel and Ortiz come in.__NEWL__Bowman is temporarily distracted and the Master exploits this and commands Ortiz to kill Kestrel.__NEWL__Despite his love for her, he is unable to resist the Master's will and obeys.__NEWL__With the sword centimeters from her heart, Bowman kills the Master and Ortiz is released from his will.__NEWL__Mumpo enters the room and sees Ortiz with his arms around Kestrel, and gets the wrong idea.__NEWL__Mumpo smashes Ortiz's head and breaks his neck.__NEWL__Released from his power, the Master's army dissipates and sets about destroying the city in a frenzy, and Zohon seizes control.__NEWL__Finally free to leave, Ira Hath asserts that they must seek out the homeland, as "the wind is rising".__NEWL__Though many of the Manth people choose to stay behind and make a life for themselves where they are, a small group resolve to trust in Ira's prophecy, and together along with Sisi and her servant Lunki, they set out in search of the homeland.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5451957	Firesong	2003-05-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1931193	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1931193	Firesong begins with the Manth people deliberating over what action to take, now that the Mastery is in ruins.__NEWL__After the defeat of the Master, alone and displaced, they seek a new homeland but have no real destination and very little food.__NEWL__Ira Hath, descendant of Ira Manth, and a great prophetess who is also Kestrel and Bowman's mother, has a vision of the Manth people's true homeland.__NEWL__Throughout the book the Manth people travel with only Ira's guidance, and she becomes weaker as they go, knowing she will eventually die of prophecy.__NEWL__Bowman eagerly awaits a summons from Sirene, and must prepare to sacrifice himself to save his people and the world.__NEWL__Before he is ready for this, however, he must be trained by the great Albard, the Master of the ruined Mastery.__NEWL__The journey is long, and his preparation is tough, especially in the hands of a strange teacher.__NEWL__Jumper, the man-woman Singer who can change forms and personalities to please people, has come for Bowman.__NEWL__Jumper agrees to let Kestrel, Bowman's sister, come along as well.__NEWL__In the end it is revealed that Kestrel is the one who is destined to give her life, having picked up Albard's teachings along the way.__NEWL__Bowman is in fact the Meeting place- the point at which the great evil and the great kindness of the world will annihilate one another.__NEWL__This is because he was once one of the Zars, the army of the Morah (the "spirit" of all evil), and is one of the Singer people too, as he has been trained in their ways.__NEWL__Upon reaching the homeland, Ira's life ends, her destiny fulfilled.__NEWL__Kestrel, too, ends her life with all the other Singers, singing the firesong to destroy the Morah, give humanity a fresh start, and allow the Manth people to finally reach the homeland.__NEWL__The epilogue, set some 8 years later, finds the Manth people established in their new home, with various people married and with young families.__NEWL__Amongst them are Bowman and Sisi (the princess of Gang, and Kestrel's best friend), who are now rulers of Gang due to Sisi's birthright.__NEWL__The ending sees Pinto and Mumpo betrothed, and the Manth people happy at last.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737588	The Grave	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24826	Liverpool	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1931376	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1931376	The protagonist of the novel is a 13-year-old orphan named Tom Mullen.__NEWL__He lives in the Old Swan area of Liverpool with his hostile foster parents and his "brother", Brian.__NEWL__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.__NEWL__As Tom is examining the burial ground, he falls into the dark endless pit.__NEWL__Tom wakes up in the countryside near the sea.__NEWL__He sees a group of people gathered around the body of a drowned boy who looks exactly like Tom.__NEWL__Everyone thinks the boy is dead, but Tom does CPR and saves him.__NEWL__The boy's name is Tully Monaghan, and Tom is invited to live with his family.__NEWL__As Tom walks into their cottage, he notices a newspaper saying that the date is September 1847.__NEWL__He is not only somehow in Ireland, he has traveled back in time to the height of the Great Famine.__NEWL__When the villagers come under attack from the owners of the land, Tom gets hit on the head and is catapulted back to his own time, 1974.__NEWL__He is devastated that he is no longer with the friendly Monaghans.__NEWL__During football practice Tom realizes he can simply jump back into the pit to return to the past.__NEWL__When he does this, however, he discovers that the Monaghans' cottage has been all but destroyed, Tully's father is dead, and the family has decided to move to Liverpool.__NEWL__Tom goes with them, but later again accidentally returns to the modern day.__NEWL__The next night Tom once again jumps down into the grave.__NEWL__He returns to old Liverpool on March 13, 1848 – four months since he last saw the Monaghans.__NEWL__Tully's mother is now very ill with fever and his brother Brendan catches it too; both die in hospital.__NEWL__Tom tells Tully and his sister Hannah, the only remaining members of the family, about his coming from the future.__NEWL__They figure out that Tully is Tom's great-grandfather and that the reason why Tom came to the past was that if Tully had died on the beach, Tom would never have been born.__NEWL__Tom decides to return to his own time, only to be literally kicked out of the house by his foster parents.__NEWL__That night Tom goes to the grave, takes Ma's and Brendan's coffins and buries them in a church graveyard.__NEWL__A few months later, Tom's football coach asks him why he changed his last name to Monaghan.__NEWL__It turns out that the coach is Tom's long-lost father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5417648	Everybody's All-American	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1454	North Carolina	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1931425	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1931425	The novel tells the story of a fictional famous college football player at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the early 1950s.__NEWL__The setting of the novel was changed to a fictional "Louisiana University" for the movie adaptation.__NEWL__The main character, Gavin Grey, wins the Heisman Trophy and then goes on to a professional career, but is sidetracked by alcoholism, failed business ventures, and marital difficulties among other misjudgments.__NEWL__The novel is narrated by Grey's nephew, Donnie McClure, a historian who has written a biography of Confederate war hero J.E.B. Stuart.__NEWL__During his college career, Grey's heroics are often compared to Stuart's actions.__NEWL__Both are celebrated not only for their actions, but for their gentle behavior and consideration for others around them.__NEWL__Grey's greatest moments came away from the football field.__NEWL__At a fraternity party, a carelessly placed cigarette ignites the dress of a young woman, who staggers back in fear and nearly starts a much larger fire by lighting a set of drapes.__NEWL__Despite a strong fear of fire, Grey saves the woman by leaping forward and dousing the flames.__NEWL__A few weeks later, Grey, McClure, and a UNC teammate, Lawrence, venture into a black neighborhood where Grey meets Narvel Blue, another one-time football star whose greatness was never realized because of bad grades, segregation, and bad luck.__NEWL__Blue and Grey compare attributes but decide that a foot-race must be held to determine which is the faster runner.__NEWL__Despite falling behind initially, Grey eventually overcomes Blue by a shade at the end of the race.__NEWL__After a serious knee injury cuts short his professional career, he is miserable in retirement and returns to accept a lesser role with the Baltimore Colts.__NEWL__However, his season, and ultimately his football career, end after a knee injury in his third game.__NEWL__Grey is left calling every team in the NFL, begging for one more chance.__NEWL__Grey is left to constantly reminisce about his glory days on the football field, boring and embarrassing those around him.__NEWL__His once-gawky and awkward nephew Donnie becomes a respected scholar and biographer, and his beauty queen wife, Babs, becomes a successful career woman.__NEWL__All of Grey's former teammates move toward their life off the gridiron with infinitely more grace, while Narvel Blue overcomes racism in the South to become a successful restaurateur.__NEWL__As each day passes, Grey falls farther away from his moments of glory.__NEWL__And with each passing day, his relevance, sense of place, and his grasp of the world around him fade until he is diminished to little more than a ghost.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7622555	Stray	1987-04-30T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1905285	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1905285	A cat named "Pufftail" (he says that he truly has no name) tells his life story to his daughter Tabitha and his grandson.__NEWL__He tells of his life on the streets, in a pet shop, at a convent, with a kind grandmother, and with the cruel "June and Jim," among others and says that he has three tragic parts in his life.__NEWL__In chronological order, the most important events of Pufftail's life are:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6670367	London Fields	1989-09-21T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1905676	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1905676	London Fields is set in London in 1999 against a backdrop of environmental, social, and moral degradation, and the looming threat of world instability and nuclear war (referred to as "The Crisis").__NEWL__The novel opens with Samson explaining how grateful he is to have found this story, already formed, already happening, waiting to be written down.__NEWL__This is the story of a murder.__NEWL__It hasn't happened yet.__NEWL__But it will.__NEWL__(It had better.)__NEWL__I know the murderer, I know the murderee.__NEWL__I know the time, I know the place.__NEWL__I know the motive (her motive) and I know the means.__NEWL__I know who will be the foil, the fool, the poor foal, also utterly destroyed.__NEWL__I couldn't stop them, I don't think, even if I wanted to.__NEWL__The girl will die.__NEWL__It's what she always wanted.__NEWL__You can't stop people, once they start.__NEWL__You can't stop people, once they start creating.__NEWL__What a gift.__NEWL__This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude.__NEWL__Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic, and pretty saleable), and they just write it down?__NEWL__The characters have few, if any, redeeming features.__NEWL__Sam, the narrator of the novel (who twice emphasizes that he is "a reliable narrator"), is an American, a failed non-fiction writer with decades-long writer's block who is slowly dying of some sort of terminal disease.__NEWL__Recently arrived in London, he immediately meets Keith Talent, a cheat (small-time criminal) and aspiring professional darts player, at Heathrow Airport where Keith is posing as a minicab driver.__NEWL__Keith gives Sam an extortionately priced ride into town.__NEWL__The two converse in Keith's car, and Keith invites Sam to the Black Cross, a pub on the Portobello Road, Keith's main hangout.__NEWL__At the Black Cross, Sam meets Guy Clinch, a rich upper-class banker who is bored with life, with his terrifyingly snobbish American wife, Hope, and his out-of-control toddler, Marmaduke.__NEWL__Shortly after, the two both meet the anti-heroine, Nicola Six, a 34-year-old local resident, of uncertain nationality, who has entered the pub after attending a funeral.__NEWL__Later that day, Sam sees Nicola dramatically dumping what turns out to be her diaries in a litter bin outside the flat where he is staying (it belongs to Mark Asprey, a wildly successful English writer).__NEWL__The diaries tell Sam that Nicola believes she can somehow see her own future, and, bored with life and fearing the ageing process, is plotting her own murder for midnight on 5 November, her 35th birthday.__NEWL__Sam, who considers that he lacks the imagination and courage to write fiction, realises he can simply document the progress towards the murder to create a plausible, lucrative, story.__NEWL__He assumes that Keith, the bad guy, will be the murderer.__NEWL__Sam enters into a strange relationship with Nicola where he regularly interviews her and is updated on the "plot".__NEWL__The novel proceeds on the basis that Keith Talent, the known criminal, will kill Nicola Six, with Guy Clinch as the fall guy necessary to provoke him into doing it (and, incidentally, to provide funds to help Talent avoid being beaten up by loan sharks, and to further his darts career so he can appear in the Sparrow Masters darts final the day before the planned murder).__NEWL__But there is an unexpected twist at the finale.__NEWL__Amis hints at a false ending, in one of Samson Young's terrifying dreams, simply to confuse the reader.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6035197	The Glass Key	1931-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1915368	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1915368	The story revolves around Ned Beaumont.__NEWL__Beaumont is best friend, confidant, and political advisor of the criminal political boss Paul Madvig.__NEWL__Ned finds the body of a senator's son on the street, and Madvig asks him to thwart the D.A.'s investigation, his motive being that he wants to back the corrupt senator in order to marry his daughter, Janet.__NEWL__Ned goes to New York searching for Bernie, a bookie who owes him a great deal of money from a gambling debt, but ends up getting beaten up.__NEWL__Someone sends a series of letters to people close to the crime, hinting that Madvig was the murderer.__NEWL__Suspicion for this falls on Madvig's daughter Opal, the victim's girlfriend.__NEWL__Madvig's political base begins to crumble when he refuses to spring a follower's brother from jail.__NEWL__The follower goes to rival mob boss Shad O'Rory, who eliminates a witness to the brother's crime.__NEWL__Madvig then declares war on O'Rory, who offers to bribe Beaumont to expose Madvig in the newspaper.__NEWL__Beaumont refuses, is knocked unconscious and wakes captive in a dingy room where he is beaten daily.__NEWL__Hospitalized after his escape, Beaumont tells Madvig and Janet that he was laying a trap for O'Rory; he then struggles out of bed to stop the newspaper from printing its expose.__NEWL__Beaumont confronts O'Rory, the publisher, and Madvig's daughter Opal.__NEWL__The publisher commits suicide after Beaumont seduces his wife.__NEWL__Next Beaumont interviews Janet, discovering that she wrote the letters and that the Senator knew about the murder before Beaumont found the body.__NEWL__A new clue points to Madvig and when confronted he confesses but he cannot account for the victim's hat, a detail Beaumont pointedly repeats throughout the novel.__NEWL__This impasse and Beaumont's growing interest in Janet, Madvig's love interest, cause a second rift between the men.__NEWL__Beaumont and Janet pair up to solve the murder.__NEWL__Beaumont uncovers evidence proving the senator killed his own son and turns him over to the police.__NEWL__Beaumont confronts Madvig with his new discovery, and the two depart, not enemies but no longer friends.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3474403	Something Rotten	2004-08-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25	Wales	1914836	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914836	The book sees Thursday return from the world of fiction to the alternative Swindon that Fforde introduced in The Eyre Affair; she is accompanied by Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, whose excursion from the world of fiction with Thursday forms the main sub-plot.__NEWL__The title is taken from Hamlet I.iv: "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark".__NEWL__The story opens with Thursday still in the world of fiction in her job as the Bellman, head of the literary police force Jurisfiction.__NEWL__She is still hunting the Minotaur that escaped in the last book; she is tiring of fiction, however, and longs to return to her own world and get back her husband Landen, who was removed from time by the evil Goliath Corporation in 1947.__NEWL__Despite Landen's non-existence, Thursday still has her son (Friday Next) who is now two years old.__NEWL__Thursday and Friday return to her mother (Wednesday) in Swindon, with Hamlet who is accompanying them on an excursion to the "Outland" to find out what people in the real world think of him.__NEWL__Her mother, whose main functions appear to be to make tea and to provide Battenberg cake, has some curious house guests: Emma Hamilton, Otto von Bismarck, and a family of dodos.__NEWL__Both humans are apparently staying for a rest, while Thursday's father (who has now been re-admitted to the time-travelling ChronoGuard) sorts out various parts of history for them.__NEWL__Despite her earlier transgressions that caused her to flee to the Bookworld in the first place, Thursday gets her job back at SpecOps-27 as a Literary Detective and catches up with her old colleagues.__NEWL__She learns that in her absence, Yorrick Kaine has joined forces with Goliath Corporation and plans to oust the ageing English President George Formby.__NEWL__As Prime Minister, Kaine wields some mysterious persuasive influence over Parliament and the people, and has used it to pass some bizarre laws and to stir up hatred of Denmark.__NEWL__Yorrick has also taken out a hit on her: he has hired an assassin known as "The Windowmaker", who is actually Cindy Stoker, the wife of Thursday's longtime friend, Spike.__NEWL__Thursday's father warns her that Kaine's ambitions may cause nuclear armageddon and that it is up to her to stop him.__NEWL__On top of this, she is visited by tearful agents from the Bookworld (Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and Emperor Zhark) who tell her that all sorts of things are going wrong without her leadership'; for starters, without its titular character, the play Hamlet has merged with The Merry Wives of Windsor creating a new play called "The Merry Wives of Elsinore", which is not nearly as good as either original play (in the words of Emperor Zhark, "it takes a long time to get funny, and, when it finally does, everyone dies").__NEWL__Meanwhile, her most pressing problem is finding reliable childcare for Friday.__NEWL__Goliath Corporation have decided to become the new world religion to avoid a prophecy (the prophecy states that the Goliath Corporation will fall; Goliath believes that converting itself into a religion will exempt it from destruction, as the prophecy specifies a business).__NEWL__Thursday meets the CEO—at their headquarters in the Isle of Man—and gets a promise that they will un-eradicate Landen in exchange for her forgiveness.__NEWL__Thursday feels duped when she finds that, through some form of mind control, she has formally forgiven them, even though there is no sign of her husband.__NEWL__Then suddenly he is back, but takes a while to stabilise.__NEWL__Thursday must wait patiently for his un-eradication to "stick".__NEWL__In the meantime, she embarks on several seemingly impossible tasks, which include smuggling ten truckloads of banned Danish literature into Wales, tracking down an illegal clone of William Shakespeare, and teaching Friday to speak properly.__NEWL__On top of all of this, Thursday still has to help the Swindon Mallets win the 1988 Croquet Superhoop final to thwart Kaine and Goliath and avoid the impending end of the world (as foretold by the aforementioned prophecy).__NEWL__She succeeds but not without a near-death experience and a visit to the gateway to the Underworld (which turns out to be a planned-but-never-built service station on the M4 motorway).__NEWL__The final chapters contain some curious time paradoxes in which Thursday finds that she has met herself at several other stages in her own lifespan, including one character which had seemed to be an independent character.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17098771	A Thousand Acres	1991-10-23T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1546	Iowa	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1914946	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914946	Larry Cook is an aging farmer who decides to incorporate his farm, handing complete and joint ownership to his three daughters, Ginny, Rose, and Caroline.__NEWL__When the youngest daughter objects, she is removed from the agreement.__NEWL__This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions, as the story eventually reveals the long-term sexual abuse of the two eldest daughters that was committed by their father.__NEWL__The plot also focuses on Ginny's troubled marriage, her difficulties in bearing a child and her relationship with her family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7305519	Redburn	1849-01-01T00:00:00Z	8118	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24826	Liverpool	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1915104	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1915104	Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England.__NEWL__Representing himself as the "son of a gentleman" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a "boy", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the "pig-pen", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty.__NEWL__The first mate promptly nicknames him "Buttons" for the shiny ones on his impractical jacket.__NEWL__Redburn quickly grasps the workings of social relations aboard ship.__NEWL__As a common seaman he can have no contact with those "behind the mast" where the officers command the ship.__NEWL__Before the mast, where the common seaman work and live, a bully named Jackson, the best seaman aboard, rules through fear with an iron fist.__NEWL__Uneducated yet cunning, with broken nose and squinting eye, he is described as "a Cain afloat, branded on his yellow brow with some inscrutable curse and going about corrupting and searing every heart that beat near him."__NEWL__Redburn soon experiences all the trials of a greenhorn: seasickness, scrubbing decks, climbing masts in the dead of night to unfurl sails, cramped quarters, and bad food.__NEWL__ When the ship lands in Liverpool he is given liberty ashore.__NEWL__He rents a room and walks the city every day.__NEWL__One day in a street called Launcelott's Hey he hears "a feeble wail" from a cellar beneath an old warehouse and looking into it sees "the figure of what had been a woman.__NEWL__Her blue arms folded to her livid bosom two shrunken things like children, that leaned toward her, one on each side.__NEWL__At first I knew not whether they were alive or dead.__NEWL__They made no sign; they did not move or stir; but from the vault came that soul-sickening wail."__NEWL__He runs for help but is met with indifference by a ragpicker, a porter, his landlady, even by a policeman who tells him to mind his own business.__NEWL__He returns with some bread and cheese and drops them into the vault to the mother and children, but they are too weak to lift it to their mouths.__NEWL__The mother whispers "water" so he runs and fills his tarpaulin hat at an open hydrant.__NEWL__The girls drink and revive enough to nibble some cheese.__NEWL__He clasps the mother's arms and pulls them aside to see "a meager babe, the lower part of its body thrust into an old bonnet.__NEWL__Its face was dazzlingly white, even in its squalor; but the closed eyes looked like balls of indigo.__NEWL__It must have been dead for some hours.__NEWL__" Judging them beyond the point at which medicine could help, he returns to his room.__NEWL__A few days later he revisits the street and finds the vault empty: "In place of the woman and children, a heap of quick-lime was glistening.__NEWL__" On the docks he meets Harry Bolton, a dandy who claims to be a sailor looking for a job, and Redburn helps him procure a berth on the Highlander for the return voyage.__NEWL__They become fast friends and make a trip to London where they visit a luxurious private club, Aladdin's Palace, with an exotic environment Redburn struggles to make sense of, concluding it must be a gambling house.__NEWL__The ship soon departs for New York and Bolton's deficits as sailor become apparent.__NEWL__Redburn suspects that Bolton has never been to sea before and Bolton is tormented by the crew.__NEWL__Jackson, after being ill in bed for four weeks, returns to active duty: he climbs to the topsail yard, then suddenly vomits "a torrent of blood from his lungs", and falls headfirst into the sea and disappears.__NEWL__The crew never speak his name again.__NEWL__Reaching port, Redburn heads for his home and Bolton signs on a whaler.__NEWL__Redburn later hears that Bolton, far out in the Pacific, fell over the side and drowned.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7765533	The Source of Magic	1979-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1889301	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1889301	On his way to Queen Iris's masquerade ball in honor of Trent's accession to the throne one year before, Bink is attacked by a floating sword, which he deflects using his talent of protection against magical harm.__NEWL__At the ball, he is attacked again by an unseen enemy.__NEWL__Finally, Bink confides in King Trent, who decides to remove Bink from harm's way by sending him out on a mission to find the source of magic of Xanth.__NEWL__To help him, King Trent sends Chester the Centaur and the soldier Crombie.__NEWL__Crombie is turned into a griffin by King Trent, whose magical talent is the ability to transform living things.__NEWL__First, the party heads to the Good Magician Humfrey's castle, to ask his advice about their quest.__NEWL__When they tell him they are attempting to discover Xanth's source of magic, Humfrey decides he wants to come as well.__NEWL__They come across Beauregard the Demon who tells them they should abandon their quest, as it could result in the destruction of all magic in Xanth.__NEWL__At this time they also find Grundy the Golem, whose talent is understanding any language.__NEWL__This is particularly useful because Crombie in griffin form can only speak in squawks, which Grundy is able to translate.__NEWL__On their quest, they meet many obstacles, including a Siren, a Gorgon whose face turns men to stone, madness itself, a dragon, tangle trees, and an ogre.__NEWL__Bink narrowly escapes all enemies through a series of seemingly circumstantial events, due to his talent.__NEWL__Eventually they find the source of magic - a demon named X(A/N)th imprisoned deep below the surface.__NEWL__Bink is faced with a moral dilemma, to let it be free and destroy all magic in Xanth and act against the Brain Coral, or to keep it against its will.__NEWL__He eventually lets the magic go by freeing the demon, but is convinced by Cherie Centaur to go back and look for the demon again, hoping to convince it to stay.__NEWL__After some negotiation, the demon agrees under the condition that the magic shield which separated Xanth from Mundania will protect him from foolish intruders.__NEWL__Upon Bink's return home, he discovers his son Dor possesses a magician caliber talent - he can talk to inanimate objects.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11792666	Night Mare	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1889326	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1889326	Night Mare centres around Mare Imbrium, one of the night mares charged with delivering bad dreams to the people of Xanth.__NEWL__Imbri carries half a soul, her fee for carrying Chem Centaur out of the void in the previous book.__NEWL__She is unwilling to relinquish her soul, though the conscience that comes with it impedes her ability to deliver bad dreams.__NEWL__The Night Stallion, ruler of the gourd realm, makes Imbri the liaison to the day world and sends her to meet Trent, King of Xanth, with the message, "Beware the Horseman".__NEWL__Imbri leaves the gourd realm and sets out for Castle Roogna with her warning.__NEWL__Along the way she meets a white stallion, which she calls the day horse, with a brass bracelet around one leg, who is scared by her attempt at contact via a brief daydream, and runs away.__NEWL__She also meets an intelligent man wearing a brass bracelet, similar to that of the day horse.__NEWL__He asks her if she has seen the horse and convinces her to allow him to ride her so they can track it.__NEWL__She allows him to insert a bit into her mouth, but dislikes it and asks him to remove it.__NEWL__He refuses and uses spurs on her, capturing her.__NEWL__Imbri asks the man who he is, and he says "I am the Horseman".__NEWL__He then corrals her at his camp and builds a large bonfire to shine light on her and prevent her from turning intangible during the night.__NEWL__As the Horseman and his henchmen sleep, the day horse approaches.__NEWL__She tells him of her plight, and he affirms that he is terrified of the Horseman, but assists her anyway by urinating on the fire and enabling her to escape.__NEWL__Imbri makes her way to Castle Roogna.__NEWL__She arrives in time to witness the elopement of Prince Dor and King Trent's daughter, Princess Irene.__NEWL__Upon becoming acquainted with Chameleon, the wife of Bink and mother of Prince Dor, she is led to find King Trent, only to discover that he has been ensorcelled, staring blankly into space.__NEWL__Prince Dor, next in line to the crown and newly wed to Princess Irene, assumes the throne.__NEWL__He informs Imbri and others that the Nextwave Invasion is occurring; an army of barbarians from the neighbouring, non-magical land of Mundania has just entered Xanth.__NEWL__King Dor orders Imbri and Chameleon to seek advice from the Good Magician Humphrey.__NEWL__Imbri and Chameleon travel to Humphrey's castle and navigate through the standard three challenges, gaining access to the inside.__NEWL__The old man casually repeats the Night Stallion's warning, "Beware the Horseman" and adds another cryptic instruction: "Break the chain.__NEWL__"__NEWL__After battling the Mundanes with King Trent's army from A Spell For Chameleon, Dor falls to the same ensorcellement as King Trent.__NEWL__Since the law of Xanth requires that a Magician sit on the throne, the Zombie Master (Jonathon) becomes the new king.__NEWL__Jonathan's magic talent is to reanimate the deceased, and he rallies his zombies to form an army to fight the Punic invasion from Mundania, but falls to the same bewitchment as Trent and Dor.__NEWL__Humphrey assumes the throne, and prepares himself for battle against the Punic horde and its leader Hasbinbad.__NEWL__He informs Imbri, much to the chagrin of the Gorgon, that he is not destined to be the saviour of Xanth, and that he expects to make a tragic mistake in battle.__NEWL__Before departing to the battle, Humphrey identifies his successor: Dor's father Bink, whom everybody assumed had no magic talent.__NEWL__Humphrey reveals to Queen Iris that Bink's talent is immunity from magical harm.__NEWL__It is hoped Bink will be immune from the effects of the Horseman's spell.__NEWL__Imbri is sent north to the border of Mundania, where Bink and the centaur scholar Arnolde are traveling.__NEWL__Imbri brings news to Bink and Arnolde of the invasion, and informs Bink of the situation.__NEWL__Bink agrees to return with Imbri and instructs Arnolde to follow, as he is next in the line of succession.__NEWL__Bink and Imbri travel to the baobab tree and find Humphrey, taken by the power of the enemy.__NEWL__He has a bottle in his hand, and when Bink uncorks it, Humphrey's voice emits from it, with one word: "Horseman".__NEWL__Bink surmises that Humphrey's voice was identifying his assailant, and that they now know who was ensorcelling the kings.__NEWL__Bink and Imbri prepare for battle alone, armed with Humphrey's numerous spells and potions.__NEWL__They set aside a box marked "Pandora".__NEWL__He and Imbri are victorious but are separated in the battle.__NEWL__When Imbri tracks down Bink, she finds that he has killed the Punic leader Hasbinbad, but has been taken with the Horseman's power nonetheless.__NEWL__Imbri returns to Castle Roogna to inform Arnolde the Centaur that he is now King of Xanth.__NEWL__Arnolde begins laying plans for his successor, and he interprets Xanthian law to his advantage.__NEWL__The law states that the king must be a Magician but had no precedence on whether the king had to be human or what sex.__NEWL__Arnolde states that a Sorceress is simply a female Magician, and that the law does not prohibit a woman from becoming king.__NEWL__He selects Queen Iris to be his successor, and he proclaims her daughter Irene to be a full Sorceress, thus establishing who would be the seventh and eights kings after him.__NEWL__Arnolde then instructs Imbri to report to the Night Stallion with an update.__NEWL__King Arnolde, realising that the previous king's condition is similar to that of a person trapped by the hypno gourd, sends Imbri through, to the Night Stallion's dimension, to see if the missing Kings are within.__NEWL__Upon arrival, Imbri is amazed to learn that all five of the bewitched kings are present in the gourd.__NEWL__They surmise that the Horseman's magic talent is to connect a person's line of sight to another object, and that he has used this ability to make them all see into a hypnogourd, trapping their souls inside.__NEWL__Imbri brings this news to Castle Roogna, and eventually brings Princess Irene to the gourd to visit her new husband Dor, taken from her after their nuptials.__NEWL__Shortly after the pair return to Castle Roogna, Arnolde is taken by the Horseman, and Queen Iris becomes King Iris, the first female king.__NEWL__Iris uses her talent of illusion to inflict massive casualties on the Punic horde, who are now marching on Castle Roogna under the command of the Horseman.__NEWL__She briefly forms an image of her own face in front of the Horseman to mock him, whereupon he simply uses his talent to enscroll her.__NEWL__Princess Irene becomes king of Xanth next, and she identifies Chameleon as the next king, stating that, although Chameleon does not have Magician-Caliber talent, she would be the best option for king because she is in her ugly, but extremely intelligent phase.__NEWL__The Horseman expends nearly the rest of his forces in reaching Castle Roogna.__NEWL__Chameleon, realising that the Day Horse and the Horseman are one and the same, lures him into the castle, and once he is inside, Irene uses her talent of accelerated plant growth to wrap the castle in a tight cocoon of plants, trapping him inside.__NEWL__Enraged, he uses his magic to ensnare her, whereupon Chameleon becomes king of Xanth and informs him that he will fail.__NEWL__He takes Chameleon with his power, too, and Xanth is left without a king.__NEWL__Imbri returns to Castle Roogna, having been previously named the Tenth King by Chameleon, because she is a creature of the Gourd, and can not enter the world via the peep hole, and therefore can not be forced into it.__NEWL__Imbri enters Roogna at night, so she is able to slip by the plants, and confronts the Horseman.__NEWL__He is now sitting on the throne, having proclaimed himself the new king of Xanth.__NEWL__As Imbri approaches, he shifts into his alternate form, and Imbri is stricken; she is in season, and he is a male horse.__NEWL__She is unable to act under his dominating power, but when the barbarians break into the castle and call out for their leader, he shifts back to his human form to answer.__NEWL__Imbri attacks and kills him, but the nine catatonic kings do not revive.__NEWL__Imbri realizes that the Horseman's magic talent was shape-shifting, and that the bands he wore around his wrists were magical bands that allowed him to perform his enscrollement.__NEWL__Devastated, and with nothing to lose, she destroys the box marked PANDORA, and is surrounded by a pink smoke, and feels suddenly hopeful.__NEWL__She removes the band but does not destroy it, because that might not accomplish the goal of releasing the kings.__NEWL__She decides to travel to the Void, an area in the Elemental region of Xanth, from which nothing can escape and will hopefully nullify the band's powers.__NEWL__She takes the band there and throws it in, but is trapped by the gravitational pull of the Void.__NEWL__Terrified, her physical body is destroyed by the Void.__NEWL__The nine kings revive as the magical band is nullified, and Imbri returns as a day mare, thanks to Humfrey, and is now charged with bringing pleasant daydreams instead of nightmares to the people of Xanth.__NEWL__King Trent and Queen Iris retire, leaving the throne to their new son-in-law, King Dor.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7271527	Question Quest	1991-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1889337	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1889337	The book begins with Lacuna, one of the mischievous Castle Zombie twins, seeking a way to fix her "dull" life.__NEWL__To do so she comes to ask Grey, Ivy's betrothed and pro-tem magician of knowledge, for the answer.__NEWL__However, Grey doesn't want to answer her question because he knows that something terrible will come of it.__NEWL__Lacuna decides to make a deal that even Grey can't refuse, a way to outwit Com-Pewter.__NEWL__Lacuna plans to use her ability to change prints and write new ones to help Grey.__NEWL__Seeing no other choice, Grey decides to help her, but he realizes that he can't fathom what the book of knowledge is trying to say.__NEWL__Therefore, he sends her to the anteroom of hell to talk to Magician Humfrey.__NEWL__When Lacuna arrives in the anteroom, she finds Humfrey sleeping.__NEWL__After waking Humfrey up, she found out that he is waiting to talk to the Demon X(A/N)th to free his wife Rose.__NEWL__Humfrey tells her to write down his life story (and most of Xanth's history in the process), on the walls, so that he can get the demon's attention.__NEWL__It turns out that Humfrey has five wives.__NEWL__Humfrey manages to save his wives from the pits of hell (sort of) and Lacuna changes her life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7726844	The Color of Her Panties	1992-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1889339	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1889339	Mela Merwoman, one of the protagonists of The Color of Her Panties, was introduced in Heaven Cent attempting to trick Prince Dolph into marrying her.__NEWL__Still desperate for a husband, Mela goes to ask the Good Magician Humfrey to find her a suitable mate.__NEWL__On the way, she joins forces with a civilized ogre named Okra and a positive young woman named Ida, who bears a striking resemblance to Princess Ivy.__NEWL__Meanwhile, adolescent Gwenny Goblin, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf are trying to help Gwenny beat out her half-brother Gobble for chiefship of the goblin horde.__NEWL__Mela, like all merpeople, is able to turn into a full human so that she can walk on land.__NEWL__To follow "landbound custom", she finds clothing and shoes (conveniently growing on trees, as is common on Xanth).__NEWL__Of particular concern is which panties to choose - after all, there is significant interest in the color of her panties.__NEWL__After trying on dozens of pairs, Mela finally decides on plaid (the color she would choose was the subject of an Impossible Question that the Demon X(A/N)th asked the Good Magician Humfrey in Question Quest).__NEWL__Gwenny has to prove her courage to become leader of Goblin Mountain.__NEWL__Her task is to steal an egg from the Roc's nest.__NEWL__The two storylines are brought together when Mela has to help save Gwenny from a Roc and a hard place.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8054876	Yon Ill Wind	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1889342	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1889342	Hurricane Happy Bottom is causing problems in Mundania and Xanth.__NEWL__The Mundane Baldwin family is blown into Xanth by a Yon Ill Wind.__NEWL__Also, Demon X(A/N)th has made a wager with Demon JU(P/I)ter that he could cause a Xanthian to shed a tear.__NEWL__The demons change up by making X(A/N)th into a dragon ass and is only able to talk once explaining to a Xanthian what the quest is.__NEWL__As Nimby, Demon X(A/N)th meets Chlorine and makes her beautiful and talented.__NEWL__Together with the Baldwin family, they must banish Happy Bottom From Xanth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8073757	Zombie Lover	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1889344	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1889344	Breanna, a beautiful young newcomer to the enchanted land of Xanth, must deal with a distressing dilemma.__NEWL__She has unwittingly attracted the affections of King Xeth, ruler of Xanth's Zombies, who yearns to make her Queen of the Undead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q952340	The Talisman	1825-06-22T00:00:00Z	1377	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23792	Palestine	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q219060	State of Palestine	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	1906832	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1906832	During a truce in the third Crusade, Sir Kenneth and a Saracen Emir ride together towards the cave of the hermit Theodoric of Engaddi, where Theodoric gives Sir Kenneth some secret information.__NEWL__The Emir falls asleep and the other two men go to a chapel, where Sir Kenneth meets his old lover, Lady Edith.__NEWL__Sir Kenneth travels to Ascalon, where Richard Coeur de Lion lies ill in his tent.__NEWL__Sir Kenneth and the King discuss Sir Kenneth's visit to the chapel and a doctor gives the King some medicine.__NEWL__While King Richard sleeps, Conrade of Montserrat, who wishes to become King of Jerusalem, incites Archduke Leopold of Austria to plant his flag in the centre of the camp.__NEWL__The King wakes up and when he discovers what Leopold has done, he tears down the flag.__NEWL__Philip of France persuades him to refer the matter to the council, and Sir Kenneth is asked to watch the English flag until daybreak.__NEWL__Soon after midnight, Sir Kenneth is lured away under false pretences.__NEWL__The flag is stolen and Sir Kenneth's dog is deliberately injured.__NEWL__The camp doctor tells Sir Kenneth that Sultan Saladin wishes to marry the Lady Edith.__NEWL__Sir Kenneth tries to warn the King, but the King does not believe him and banishes Sir Kenneth from court.__NEWL__Sir Kenneth spends a few days in Saladin's court, disguised as a Nubian slave.__NEWL__Saladin gives the disguised Sir Kenneth to King Richard as a gift.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, Sir Kenneth, still in disguise, saves the king from an assassination attempt.__NEWL__He promises King Richard he can discover who stole the flag.__NEWL__At a procession of the Christian armies and their leaders, Sir Kenneth's dog attacks the Marquis Conrade, recognizing the Marquis as the man who injured him.__NEWL__The Marquis betrays his guilt by exclaiming, "I never touched the banner" and challenges the King to a duel.__NEWL__Since the King is not allowed to participate in a duel, he chooses Sir Kenneth as his champion.__NEWL__While preparing for the duel, the King discovers that his court physician was really Saladin in disguise.__NEWL__It is also revealed that Saladin was the Emir whom Sir Kenneth met on the road.__NEWL__ Sir Kenneth wins the duel and King Richard makes him Earl of Huntingdon and Prince Royal of Scotland.__NEWL__Sir Kenneth marries Lady Edith and the Crusade is abandoned.__NEWL__Richard, on his way homewards, is imprisoned by the Austrians in the Tyrol.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q462454	The Talisman	1984-11-08T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q759	New Hampshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1906837	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1906837	Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, sets out from Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire, in a bid to save his mother Lily, who is dying from cancer, by finding a crystal called "the Talisman".__NEWL__Jack's journey takes him simultaneously through the American heartland and "the Territories", a strange fantasy land that is set in a universe parallel to that of Jack's United States.__NEWL__Individuals in the Territories have "twinners", or parallel individuals, in our world.__NEWL__Twinners' births, deaths, and (it is intimated) other major life events are usually paralleled.__NEWL__Twinners can also "flip" or migrate to the other world but only share the body of their alternate universe's analogue.__NEWL__When flipped, the twinner, or the actual person, will automatically start speaking and thinking the language of where they are flipping into subconsciously.__NEWL__In rare instances (such as Jack's), a person may die in one world but not the other, making the survivor "single-natured", with the ability to switch back and forth, body and mind, between the two worlds.__NEWL__Jack is taught how to flip by a mysterious figure known as Speedy Parker, who is the twinner of a gunslinger named Parkus in the Territories.__NEWL__In the Territories, the beloved Queen Laura DeLoessian, the twinner of Jack's mother (a movie actress known as the "Queen of the B Movies"), is dying as well.__NEWL__Jack sets off for the mystical Talisman in the Territories with help and encouragement from Speedy Parker.__NEWL__After running into a man named Osmond who works for Morgan Sloat's twinner, Jack leaves the village and heads down a road with the help of a soldier.__NEWL__Jack almost gets caught by Morgan in the woods and hides.__NEWL__The trees then attack Jack, nearly choking him to death and forcing him to flip back into the United States.__NEWL__Jack continues his journey through the U.S and gets a job working as a bartender in the fictional town of Oatley, New York.__NEWL__The owner, Smokey Updike, is ruthless and abusive towards Jack and holds him as a slave.__NEWL__ Jack escapes Oatley a few days later and is chased by a creature named Elroy that has been stalking him throughout his stay in Oatley.__NEWL__He evades Elroy long enough to return to the Territories, where Jack remembers another associate of his father named Jerry Bledsoe, who died in a freak explosion.__NEWL__Jack then pieces that Morgan Sloat had caused the explosion by simply flipping between the two worlds.__NEWL__Jack returns to the American Territories after running into Elroy and Morgan again and learns that he inadvertently caused the death of seven construction workers nearby, causing severe grief within Jack and reminding him of Jerry Bledsoe.__NEWL__ In Ohio, Jack meets a blind singer named Snowball, who may or may not be Speedy, who motivates Jack to continue on his journey.__NEWL__On the road, Jack runs into Morgan at a rest stop, flips into the Territories, and nearly drowns in a river.__NEWL__A large werewolf creature simply named Wolf saves Jack.__NEWL__The two befriend each other before Morgan arrives through a portal and uses a device that causes lighting bolts to strike.__NEWL__Jack flips back into his world with Wolf to escape.__NEWL__The two travel towards Indiana, though Wolf struggles to adjust to the United States.__NEWL__Jack and Wolf are arrested for vagrancy by a police officer who takes them to the Sunlight Home, a boys school for misfits.__NEWL__The owner, evangelist psychopath Robert Gardner, is the twinner of Osmond, who is on the hunt for Jack.__NEWL__The boys are harassed by the prefects at the school, Sonny Singer and Heck Bast, among others.__NEWL__After a few incidents with the prefects and Gardner, wherein a student escapes the school and the kids are interrogated in the middle of the night, Jack and Wolf escape into the Territories.__NEWL__They learn that the 'twinner' of the school itself is a prison camp, and return soon after.__NEWL__The prefects fight Jack and Wolf in the bathroom and Gardner, deducing who Jack is, drugs Wolf and kidnaps Jack, torturing him in an attempt to make him reveal his identity.__NEWL__Wolf, having been placed in a solitary confinement box, transforms into a werewolf and wreaks havoc on the school, massacring numerous students and breaking into Gardner's office.__NEWL__Wolf kills the prefects in Gardner's office but is shot to death by Sonny, who then bleeds to death from his wounds.__NEWL__Jack comforts the dying Wolf before moving on.__NEWL__Jack finds Morgan Sloat's son Richard at a boarding school in Illinois.__NEWL__Jack attempts to persuade Richard of his adventures and Morgan's plan but is unsuccessful.__NEWL__After the school is transformed into a grotesque version of itself and the students turn into werewolves and attempt to goad Richard into throwing out Jack, the two escape and flip into the Territories.__NEWL__There they meet a man named Anders who is sending a shipment of weapons to Morgan's soldiers for a final stand against Jack.__NEWL__Richard, now believing he has a tumor and is hallucinating, is actually suffering from a sickness given to him by Morgan.__NEWL__Jack decided to take the shipment himself and plan an ambush.__NEWL__They travel via train through the Blasted Lands, a hellish landscape full of fireballs, mutated creatures, and smugglers.__NEWL__ Jack and a sickly Richard bombard the army base, destroying most of Morgan's armada and killing Elroy and Osmond's son.__NEWL__Jack flips into California, where Richard finally admits to the Territories' existence.__NEWL__They arrive at Point Venuti and sneak into the Agincourt Hotel (the twinner of the Alhambra Inn) undetected by the remaining werewolves.__NEWL__They meet Speedy Parker on the beachfront, who is weak and dying.__NEWL__Inside the Black Castle, Jack battles stone suits of armor defending the Talisman and takes it, triggering an earthquake and disbanding the rest of the werewolves who allied with Morgan Sloat.__NEWL__Jack realizes there are multiple worlds beside the two he is familiar with and the Talisman is the axis of all of them.__NEWL__He heals Richard with the Talisman, kills Gardner on the castle steps and faces off with Morgan on the beach.__NEWL__Eventually he manages to kill Sloat, heals Speedy and returns to New Hampshire in a limousine.__NEWL__Jack reunites with Lily and uses the Talisman a final time to save his mother and the Queen.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17025934	Roman Blood	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1881192	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1881192	The year is 80 BC, and the dictator Sulla rules Rome.__NEWL__The young lawyer Cicero is defending Sextus Roscius, a man accused of murdering his own father.__NEWL__(The gruesome Roman punishment for patricide is described.)__NEWL__Cicero hires Gordianus the Finder to discover the truth of the matter.__NEWL__We are introduced to Gordianus' slave, Bethesda, the mute boy Eco, and historical persons such as the plutocrat Marcus Licinius Crassus, the powerful freedman Lucius Cornelius Chrysogonus and Cicero's scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5468212	Foreign Affairs	1984-08-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1895332	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895332	Unmarried fifty-four-year-old Virginia Miner (Vinnie), a professor at Corinth University who specializes in children's literature, is off to London for another research trip.__NEWL__She loves England and likes to feel that she fits in well there.__NEWL__She is hoping to produce an important new book about playground rhymes.__NEWL__However, she finds that her work has been trashed by a critic, L. D. Zimmern of Columbia, for whom she imagines monstrous dooms.__NEWL__The author makes a point of telling us that Vinnie is not beautiful — perhaps rather homely — but that she has had her share of affairs nevertheless, and a brief marriage.__NEWL__Although she enjoys these flings, she has stopped believing that falling or being in love is a good thing.__NEWL__A 'pro' at long flights, her serenity is ruffled by her seatmate, a garrulous married man from Tulsa, Chuck Mumpson.__NEWL__She puts him off by giving him Little Lord Fauntleroy to read.__NEWL__But smoking, drinking, loudly American Chuck is persistent, and ends up contacting her in London.__NEWL__He has been inspired by Little Lord Fauntleroy to want to trace his own family history.__NEWL__Vinnie slowly becomes involved with his project, and then with him.__NEWL__Meanwhile, her young colleague Fred Turner has left his wife, Roo, at home for his own sabbatical in London, where he is researching John Gay.__NEWL__Fred and Roo have quarreled and he fears the marriage is over.__NEWL__He consoles himself with the affections of a beautiful TV actress, Lady Rosemary Radley, who gives him the entree into London high life.__NEWL__The exquisite but not so young Rosemary has never managed to have a really successful love relationship—though she is not resigned to this, as Vinnie is.__NEWL__Although Fred is very much in love with her, he cannot give her the commitment she wants, since he must return to Corinth to teach summer school.__NEWL__Rosemary also has a concealed side to her personality that her friends wish to keep hidden from the public, and from journalists including contributors to Private Eye, who lampoon her as "Rosalie Raddled".__NEWL__When Fred encounters this side of her, the friends close ranks and shut him out.__NEWL__Quite by accident and with the encouragement of Chuck, Vinnie becomes an emissary for Fred's estranged wife in an improbable midnight walk on Hampstead Heath.__NEWL__What makes this favor more challenging for Vinnie is that Roo's father is the nefarious critic L. D. Zimmern.__NEWL__Just as she begins to think Chuck's affections have cooled, because of his silence of several days duration, Vinnie is visited by his daughter who describes his sudden death while climbing the stairs of a small town hall.__NEWL__When an English friend speaks condescendingly of Chuck, Vinnie realizes with surprise that he loved her__NEWL__and she loved him.__NEWL__She returns to her life in Corinth, solitary and unloved, but altered for having loved and been loved.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1649823	Rabbit at Rest	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1895372	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895372	This novel is part of the series that follows the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom from 1960 to 1990.__NEWL__Rabbit at Rest focuses on the years 1988–89.__NEWL__Harry, nearly 40 years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city, has retired with Janice, his wife of 33 years, to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, dangerously overweight and desperate for reasons to keep on living.__NEWL__Unable to stop nibbling corn chips, macadamia nuts and other junk food, Rabbit nearly dies after a heart attack while sunfishing with his nine-year-old granddaughter, Judy.__NEWL__In a "redemption" of the drowning death of his infant daughter Rebecca in the earlier novel Rabbit, Run, he saves Judy from drowning during their sunfishing afternoon.__NEWL__He is distracted from his own existential worries by the acts of his drug-addicted son, Nelson, to whom Janice (the actual owner of the Angstroms' wealth) has given control of the family's thriving business, a Pennsylvania Toyota dealership.__NEWL__The discovery that Nelson has been stealing from the company to support his drug habit causes Harry to lose the family business.__NEWL__Despite his multiplying difficulties, Rabbit manages to take solace in the presence of Judy, who has matured into a beautiful and charming young lady, reminding him of his high-school glory days.__NEWL__He is less attached to his four-year-old grandson Roy, who seems wary and fearful of Rabbit, much like Nelson.__NEWL__While recuperating from heart surgery, Rabbit recognizes a nurse, Annabelle Byer, as his illegitimate daughter by his old girlfriend, Ruth.__NEWL__He spends time with her without identifying himself as her likely father.__NEWL__Then, his long-term mistress, Thelma Harrison (wife of his high-school nemesis Ron), dies of lupus.__NEWL__Ron confronts Harry at Thelma's funeral, but the men later reconcile over golf.__NEWL__Harry also encounters Cindy Murkett at the funeral, a woman he had once been obsessed with, and is saddened to see she has become an obese and bitter divorcee.__NEWL__After Nelson comes back from a treatment program, and Janice begins work as a real estate agent, the family finds out that Harry has had a one-night stand with Pru, Nelson's wife, on the night after he was released from the hospital.__NEWL__Janice's anger over this betrayal prompts Harry to escape to Florida.__NEWL__While in hiding, Harry has a heart attack shortly after winning a one-on-one basketball game with a local youth (echoing the opening of Rabbit, Run in which Harry impulsively joins a group of teenagers playing basketball).__NEWL__Nelson and Janice reach Harry's bedside while he is still alive.__NEWL__Janice forgives him for his infidelities and he reconciles with his son.__NEWL__His personal business now largely resolved, Rabbit dies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q549152	Rabbit Is Rich	1981-09-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1895394	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895394	This third novel of Updike's Rabbit series examines the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, who has reached a paunchy middle-age without relocating from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the poor, fictional city of his birth.__NEWL__Harry and Janice, his wife of 22 years, live comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership.__NEWL__He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent problems—his wife's drinking, his troubled son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past—complicate life.__NEWL__Having achieved an opulent lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied.__NEWL__Harry has grown smitten with a country-club friend's young wife.__NEWL__He worries about Nelson, his indecisive son, a student at Kent State University.__NEWL__Throughout the book, Harry wonders whether his former lover, Ruth, ever gave birth to their illegitimate daughter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5913691	House Made of Dawn	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1895420	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895420	House Made of Dawn begins with the protagonist, Abel, returning to his reservation in New Mexico after fighting in World War II.__NEWL__The war has left him emotionally devastated and he arrives too drunk to recognize his grandfather, Francisco.__NEWL__Now an old man with a lame leg, Francisco had earlier been a respected hunter and participant in the village's religious ceremonies.__NEWL__He raised Abel after the death of Abel's mother and older brother, Vidal.__NEWL__Francisco instilled in Abel a sense of native traditions and values, but the war and other events severed Abel's connections to that world of spiritual and physical wholeness and connectedness to the land and its people, a world known as a "house made of dawn".__NEWL__After arriving in the village, Abel attains a job through Father Olguin chopping wood for Angela St. John, a rich white woman who is visiting the area to bathe in the mineral waters.__NEWL__Angela seduces Abel to distract herself from her own unhappiness, but also because she senses an animal-like quality in Abel.__NEWL__She promises to help him leave the reservation to find better means of employment.__NEWL__Possibly as a result of this affair, Abel realizes that his return to the reservation has been unsuccessful.__NEWL__He no longer feels at home and he is confused.__NEWL__His turmoil becomes clearer when he is beaten in a game of horsemanship by a local albino Indian named Juan Reyes, described as "the white man".__NEWL__Deciding Juan is a witch, Abel stabs him to death outside of a bar.__NEWL__Abel is then found guilty of murder and sent to jail.__NEWL__Part II takes place in Los Angeles, California six and a half years later.__NEWL__Abel has been released from prison and unites with a local group of Indians.__NEWL__The leader of the group, Reverend John Big Bluff Tosamah, Priest of the Sun, teases Abel as a "longhair" who is unable to assimilate to the demands of the modern world.__NEWL__However, Abel befriends a man named Ben Benally from a reservation in New Mexico and develops an intimate relationship with Milly, a kind, blonde social worker.__NEWL__However, his overall situation has not improved and Abel ends up drunk on the beach with his hands, head, and upper body beaten and broken.__NEWL__Memories run through his mind of the reservation, the war, jail, and Milly.__NEWL__Abel eventually finds the strength to pick himself up and he stumbles across town to the apartment he shares with Ben.__NEWL__Ben puts Abel on a train back to the reservation and narrates what has happened to Abel in Los Angeles.__NEWL__Life had not been easy for Abel in the city.__NEWL__First, he was ridiculed by Reverend Tosamah during a poker game with the Indian group.__NEWL__Abel is too drunk to fight back.__NEWL__He remains drunk for the next two days and misses work.__NEWL__When he returns to his job, the boss harasses him and Abel quits.__NEWL__A downward spiral begins and Abel continues to get drunk every day, borrow money from Ben and Milly, and laze around the apartment.__NEWL__Fed up with Abel's behavior, Ben throws him out of the apartment.__NEWL__Abel then seeks revenge on Martinez, a corrupt policeman who robbed Ben one night and hit Abel across the knuckles with his big stick.__NEWL__Abel finds Martinez and is almost beaten to death.__NEWL__While Abel is in the hospital recovering, Ben calls Angela who visits him and revives his spirit, just as he helped revive her spirit years ago, by reciting a story about a bear and a maiden which incidentally matches an old Navajo myth.__NEWL__Abel returns to the reservation in New Mexico to take care of his grandfather, who is dying.__NEWL__His grandfather tells him the stories from his youth and stresses the importance of staying connected to his people's traditions.__NEWL__When the time comes, Abel dresses his grandfather for burial and smears his own body with ashes.__NEWL__As the dawn breaks, Abel begins to run.__NEWL__He is participating in a ritual his grandfather told him about—the race of the dead.__NEWL__As he runs, Abel begins to sing for himself and Francisco.__NEWL__He is coming back to his people and his place in the world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7620110	Storm Boy	1963-01-01T00:00:00Z	1895560	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895560	Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast among the dunes that face out into the Southern Ocean.__NEWL__After a pelican mother is shot, Storm Boy rescues the three baby pelicans and nurses them back to health.__NEWL__He names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival.__NEWL__After he releases them, his favourite, Mr Percival, returns.__NEWL__The story then concentrates on the conflict between his lifestyle, the externally imposed requirement for him to attend a school, the fate of the pelican, and the relationship of the boy, and later his father, with Fingerbone.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6061313	Invitation to the Game	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	1888389	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1888389	The book is a hard science fiction dystopian novel set in 2154, a time when machines and robots perform most jobs and children go to government schools.__NEWL__Because of this, very few people are employed, with many people living on a social welfare system for support.__NEWL__The unemployed people have nothing to look forward to, except various illicit drugs.__NEWL__Some have formed gangs, some are shown to be agitating for political reform (in chapter 5, there is a reference to leaflets being printed up), and many are involved in organized crime of some form or another.__NEWL__The government, possibly the only government in existence at this point, is shown to have complete control over its citizens by restricting the unemployed to designated areas (DAs), and having similar control over the working class.__NEWL__The working-class people are taught to hate the unemployed citizens, while the unemployed generally want money and employment, in a classic class struggle.__NEWL__The story is told from the perspective of Lisse, a recent graduate of a government school.__NEWL__Lisse and her friends are unemployed sixteen year olds after graduating from a respected private government run school, and are dumped in the city along with nearly a hundred others at different locations, called Designated Areas or DAs.__NEWL__At the local Unemployed Rehab Center, the reality of their new lives is spelled out for them.__NEWL__They cannot leave their designated area unless they have a travel pass, something that is apparently quite rare.__NEWL__If they are caught outside their DA, they will be arrested by the Thought Police.__NEWL__As Unemployed, Lisse and her friends receive a monthly stipend of credits that they can only use at Government controlled food stores.__NEWL__Government controlled clothing stores are apparently free for the unemployed, and provide clothing in fantastic and garish colors and styles, a sharp contrast to the drab and simple clothes most employed workers wear.__NEWL__The group speculates that it's to make the unemployed stick out more in their colorless surroundings.__NEWL__Things like travel passes and non food related purchases are restricted to the employed, though it seems that both groups use the same type of credits, since unemployeds can make things to sell to the employed masses, and there is no mention of having to exchange one set of credits for another.__NEWL__The Unemployment center provides the monthly credit stipend, a free dining room that supplies 3 simple meals a day, a dorm that can be used for a very limited amount of time, and locations of rent free housing that the unemployed are allowed to live in.__NEWL__Lisse's group decides to stick together and, by claiming to be a "corporation" that makes things for the employed to buy, are allowed to move into a warehouse.__NEWL__Since they aren't allowed to buy anything but food and cleaning supplies, the unemployed must "scrounge" for everything else they would need, like bedding, furniture, cooking supplies, electronic devices that can be repurposed into other things.__NEWL__They discover that by day, the area they live in is a dreary, dirty, and unsafe place.__NEWL__By night, however, the unemployed residents come out and are far more active.__NEWL__Coffee bars, tea houses and discos are open and very active at night, along with much more foot traffic, in garish and wild colors that make what Lisse's group is wearing look like drab worker clothes.__NEWL__Lisse and her friends spend several evenings trying to fit into their new world and meet other unemployed groups after they realize that this is their life now.__NEWL__Karen, Trent, Katie, Paul and Alden all have skills that aren't easily translated into the very simplistic lifestyle of the unemployed.__NEWL__They are the catalyst of venturing out into the night to find out how the other unemployed groups spend their lives in the their new reality.__NEWL__The thought police quickly step in to quell any large problems or disputes.__NEWL__For their own safety, they study karate from Katie, one of the housemates.__NEWL__The local library has old fashioned books to help them learn other self-preservation skills to protect themselves and their home.__NEWL__Lisse finds many books of interest there, as she can lose herself in the fantasy of fiction and daydreams of a better life, a better world.__NEWL__Each of the housemates try to add their expertise to the home and keep their group busy.__NEWL__Brad uses his carpentry and mechanical skills, along with materials the group scrounges to turn their warehouse into a protected "castle".__NEWL__Scylla uses her artistic ability to paint murals on the walls of fantastic landscapes and outlandish scenes of fantasy, to help lessen the dreariness of their new existence.__NEWL__They also sell her paintings and Brad's toys to the employed to help bolster the meagre credits they receive every month.__NEWL__On one of their nightly excursions, Lisse and her friends hear of a mysterious 'game', called "The Game" with capital letters.__NEWL__It is known that participants can only be selected, and that anyone who requests to join will always be declined.__NEWL__In the unsafe night, they encounter a suspicious man named Charlie, who offers Lisse's friend and housemate Alden a partnership.__NEWL__Charlie wants to use Alden's skills in chemistry to create mind altering substances and offers the group money, travel and protection.__NEWL__Realizing that Charlie is a powerful gang leader, Alden refuses to help and is attacked on his way home.__NEWL__Thankfully his friends were watching and were able to help before Alden was seriously hurt.__NEWL__The thought police arrive very quickly and arrest Charlie's thugs, but Lisse's group manages to get away.__NEWL__This incident and earlier encounters with other young, unemployed people drive home the helplessness of their existence.__NEWL__One day, the group gets invited to "The Game", which turns out to be a virtual-reality, full-world simulation.__NEWL__They are given electronic passes and have to travel by train to where The Game is taking place.__NEWL__During the journey, they are treated disdainfully by the employed workers they encounter.__NEWL__Once at The Game's location, they lay on couches and enter the simulated world of The Game.__NEWL__This simulation feels very real and is based in an outdoor wilderness environment and the aim seems to be survival in this different climate.__NEWL__Having little else to look forward to in their lives, the group focuses on training and information gathering during their time between Game sessions.__NEWL__They develop a schedule of regular exercise (consisting of jogging, weight-training and karate), search for information in the local library, and discuss their experiences and motivations with each other.__NEWL__As they progress in The Game, they find that they have a need for a doctor and someone with agricultural knowledge after a game session is ended after their ignorance endangers the group.__NEWL__During their sessions in The Game, they are always brought back to reality if they experience danger, such as eating poisoned berries.__NEWL__Rich and Benta, people they knew from school re-enter their lives, filling those needs, although they initially believe this to be a coincidence.__NEWL__Discovering that their lives and their families lives have been ruined for a "game", Rich and Benta are originally very angry and wish that they had never been remembered by their schoolmates.__NEWL__However, after their next Game session, both Rich and Benta realize what an opportunity__NEWL__The Game is, and their sessions keep them interested and fully invested in the group.__NEWL__In the real world, the group records everything that happens in The Game, mapping the areas they find and keeping track of the flora and fauna they encounter.__NEWL__They also speculate what they would win if they won The Game, thinking about prizes of credits to buy anything they like, including travel.__NEWL__After a year of such training, The Game session abruptly changes; they have a different initial experience.__NEWL__And although they are placed in the same world, it feels different.__NEWL__They discover that they are not awakened if they are in danger of hurting themselves.__NEWL__At first, they think that this means they have progressed to a new, higher level of The Game – but start to realize that they are never going to "wake up" and that they are in their new home forever.__NEWL__Next, they believe that they have been sent to another country – but they recognize that this cannot be true when they realize they have never seen the moon, which is visible from everywhere on Earth.__NEWL__They stay up at night to look at the stars, whose position in the sky makes them discover that they are in a totally different part of the galaxy.__NEWL__This planet is very different from Earth – colorful, fresh, underwhelming, quiet, healthy, and more.__NEWL__This is a new opportunity to create a world without problems that have destroyed the old: health problems, political problems, pollution, rampant unemployment and most of all, the Robots.__NEWL__The robots had taken over almost every job that had originally been performed by humans, creating the unemployment quicksand problem the government couldn't stop.__NEWL__They come to realize that The Game was a kind of training program meant to prepare their group, and others like them, for an off-world colonizing project – a project designed to halt the massive overpopulation their world is suffering.__NEWL__The different start of this phase of The Game, which they thought was a new level, was in fact their transportation to the new world, where they have been left forever.__NEWL__Lisse starts to remember them landing in an egg-like structure.__NEWL__They retrace their steps and rediscover the landing site – this confirms that they have been transported, and that their memories had been tampered with.__NEWL__Eventually, they christen the new world "Prize" – ironically at first – as their new life there is what they have won in The Game.__NEWL__It is hinted that part of the reason such a group of people were unemployable out of school was to help in the colonization of other worlds, since each seed group would need a variety of talents.__NEWL__Indeed, an early portion of the book reinforces this supposition, as it explains that the prestigious school from which Lisse and her friends graduated once had a 90% job-placement rate, which is now a mere 10% – possibly suggesting that the most qualified graduates are being placed within the Game system rather than the workforce.__NEWL__Lisse and her group encounter and integrate with another group; they all eventually pair off into relationships.__NEWL__Lisse explains that her original group could not intermarry as they are too close and feel like family.__NEWL__The book ends with Lisse making paper to write a story to the unborn baby she is revealed to be carrying, which she thinks will be a girl – the first child born on Prize.__NEWL__The first sentence she writes is the first of the book; by this literary device, it is revealed that the book itself is Lisse's recounting of these events of her life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1167555	The Man in the Brown Suit	1924-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1914386	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914386	Nadina, a dancer in Paris, and Count Sergius Paulovitch, both in service of "the Colonel", an international agent provocateur, plan to blackmail him to prevent him from retiring, leaving his agents high and dry.__NEWL__Anne Beddingfeld witnesses an accident at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track.__NEWL__Anne picks up a note dropped by the doctor who examined the dead man, which read "17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle" and a house agent's order to view Mill House in Marlow where a dead woman has been found the next day.__NEWL__A young man in a brown suit was identified as a suspect, having entered the house soon after the dead woman.__NEWL__Anne realises the examination of the dead man was oddly done and visits the Mill House where she finds a canister of undeveloped film, and she learns that 'Kilmorden Castle' is a sailing ship and books passage on it.__NEWL__On board the ship, Anne meets Suzanne Blair, Colonel Race, and Sir Eustace Pedler and his secretaries, Guy Pagett and Harry Rayburn.__NEWL__Colonel Race recounts the story of the theft of diamonds some years before, attributed to the son of a South African gold magnate, John Eardsley, and his friend Harry Lucas.__NEWL__The friends joined the war where John was killed and his father's huge fortune passed to his next of kin, Race himself.__NEWL__Lucas was posted as "missing in action".__NEWL__Anne and Suzanne examine the piece of paper Anne obtained in the Underground station and realises that it could refer to cabin 71, Suzanne's cabin, originally booked by a woman who did not appear.__NEWL__Anne connects finding the film roll in Mill House with a film canister containing uncut diamonds that was dropped into Suzanne's cabin in the early hours of the 22nd.__NEWL__They speculate that Harry Rayburn is the Man in the Brown Suit.__NEWL__In Cape Town, Anne is lured to a house at Muizenberg, where she is imprisoned but manages to escape the next morning and returns to Cape Town to find that Harry is wanted as the Man in the Brown Suit and has gone missing.__NEWL__Pedler offers Anne the role of his secretary on his train trip to Rhodesia which she accepts at the last second, and is reunited on the train with Race, Suzanne and Pedler, who has a new secretary named Miss Pettigrew.__NEWL__In Bulawayo, Anne receives a note from Harry which lures her out to a ravine near their hotel.__NEWL__She is chased and falls into the ravine.__NEWL__Almost a month later, Anne awakens in a hut on an island in the Zambezi with Harry Rayburn, who rescued her.__NEWL__Anne and Harry fall in love and Harry tells her his side of the story revealing that he and John were both in love with Anita / Nadina who cheated them.__NEWL__Carter, her husband fell to the track on the shock of seeing Harry again.__NEWL__Harry admits that he is the man in brown suit but denied that he killed Anita.__NEWL__Harry's island is attacked, but the two escape, and Anne returns to Pedler's party.__NEWL__They exchange codes to be used in future communications so that neither can be duped again.__NEWL__She receives a telegram signed Harry telling her to meet him, but not using their code.__NEWL__Anne instead meets Chichester, alias Miss Pettigrew.__NEWL__She is led to Sir Eustace where Pedler forces Anne to write a note to Harry to lure him to his office.__NEWL__Harry turns up and Pedler is exultant until Anne pulls out a pistol and they capture Pedler.__NEWL__Race turns up with reinforcements but Sir Eustace escapes overnight.__NEWL__Race tells her that Harry is John Eardsley, not Harry Lucas.__NEWL__Harry admits that receiving a huge fortune worries him and that he has found his happiness with Anne, and they marry and live on the island in the Zambezi and have a son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q472031	The Island of the Day Before	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	1930310	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1930310	Roberto della Griva, a 17th-century Italian nobleman, is the sole survivor of a shipwreck during a fierce storm.__NEWL__He finds himself washed up on an abandoned ship, the Daphne, anchored off a mysterious Pacific island through which, he convinces himself, runs the International Date Line (roughly 180° longitude).__NEWL__The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing.__NEWL__Although the shore is very close, Roberto is unable to swim, and is therefore stranded on the ship.__NEWL__With no way of locating himself or finding a way home, Roberto abandons himself to philosophical contemplation, roaming the crewless ship and composing letters to his beloved Lilia, a lady he met in Paris some time prior to his misadventure on the high seas.__NEWL__Roberto soon discovers he is not alone on the ship.__NEWL__Someone else is stealing eggs from the hens, rummaging through the letters he writes to Lilia: in short, there is an Intruder aboard.__NEWL__Finally Roberto finds out the intruder: an old German Jesuit called Gaspar Wanderdrossel.__NEWL__Wanderdrossel relates to him the mission of the Daphne's crew and the crew's sad ending at the hands of the natives.__NEWL__Gaspar explains to Roberto that his mission was to discover how to measure longitude by charting the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter.__NEWL__He also educates Roberto to other recondite astronomical means being used to seek this measure.__NEWL__The priest comes to take on a mentor role with Roberto.__NEWL__He urges Roberto to learn to swim.__NEWL__Roberto tries and tries again, but fails.__NEWL__Gaspar finds his own way to reach the Island,and Roberto is left alone again.__NEWL__He begins to reminisce about his life and his love.__NEWL__He becomes obsessed about his allegedly evil twin brother, who is split from his own persona through a process reminiscent of the doppelgänger effect, and thus accusing him of all the bad things that happened in his life.__NEWL__The brother takes blame mainly for his bad choices and is present to sweeten the disappointments of life.__NEWL__Through this reminiscence he becomes convinced that all his troubles will end, if only he can reach the land.__NEWL__The story is told from the point of view of a modern editor who has sorted through the man's papers.__NEWL__Exactly how the papers were preserved and eventually handed down to the editor remains a point of conjecture.__NEWL__ This work contains references to Eco's previous novels.__NEWL__In one example, there is a mention of a crucial plot point from Eco's first novel The Name of the Rose.__NEWL__The novel presupposes a “model reader” who possesses a certain specialist encyclopedic competence, in particular with regard to the aesthetics of Mannerism and the Baroque, although it in no way excludes a more average reading public.__NEWL__A number of characters have been borrowed from historical reality, such as Cardinal Richelieu, Cardinal Mazarin, and Colbert.__NEWL__Many fictional characters owe their names and their ideas to known cultural personalities of the Baroque period, such as Saint-Savin (Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac), Father Emanuele (Emanuele Tesauro), and Father Gaspar (Gaspar Schott and Athanasius Kircher).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q302960	Bag of Bones	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q383876	Derry	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1898130	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1898130	The narrator, Mike Noonan, a bestselling novelist, suffers severe writer's block after his pregnant wife Jo suddenly dies due to a brain aneurysm.__NEWL__Four years later, Mike, still grieving, is plagued by nightmares set at his summer house in TR-90 (an unincorporated town named for its map coordinates), Maine.__NEWL__He decides to confront his fears and moves to his vacation house on Dark Score Lake, known as "Sara Laughs".__NEWL__On his first day, he meets Kyra, a 3-year-old girl and her young widowed mother, 20-year-old Mattie Devore.__NEWL__Mattie's father-in-law is Max Devore, an elderly rich man who will do anything to gain custody of his granddaughter, Kyra.__NEWL__Drawn to Kyra and Mattie, Mike hires John Storrow, a custody lawyer, for Mattie, and things start looking up.__NEWL__Mike begins to write again, and realizes that Jo's ghost is helping him to solve the mystery of Sara Tidwell, a blues singer whose ghost haunts the house.__NEWL__He also learns that Jo frequently returned to the town in the year before her death, without telling him.__NEWL__Mike begins having recurring, disturbing dreams and visions, and realizes he shares a psychic connection with Kyra.__NEWL__Max and his personal assistant, Rogette, try to drown Mike but he survives with the help of his wife's spirit.__NEWL__Max unexpectedly commits suicide that same night.__NEWL__Mike sees a pattern when he sees that local inhabitants have names that begin with "K" or "C" and learns how relatives of townspeople have drowned in childhood.__NEWL__While Storrow and the private detective he hired are celebrating the end of the custody battle, Mattie attempts to seduce Mike.__NEWL__As they are embracing, Mattie's trailer is subjected to a drive-by shooting, injuring Storrow and the detective  and killing Mattie.__NEWL__The detective is able to kill the driver and incapacitate the shooter with Mike's help.__NEWL__Mike then grabs Kyra and drives back to his home as a violent thunderstorm begins.__NEWL__The shooter's buddies try to stop them, but refuse to follow him to "Sara Laughs".__NEWL__Under the influence of Sara's ghost, Mike is tormented to drown Kyra and commit suicide himself.__NEWL__Jo's ghost prevents him and calls his attention to the novel he has begun to write.__NEWL__In the pages there are clues that lead Mike to discover documents Jo had hidden, among them a genealogy showing Mike's blood relationship to one of the town families.__NEWL__Several families whose origin lay within the town had firstborn children with "K" names who were all murdered—Kyra, as a descendant of Max Devore, is scheduled to be the next to die.__NEWL__The genealogy also shows that Mike and Jo's child would have been the next firstborn child with a "K" name in the family line.__NEWL__Mike realizes this must be Sara Tidwell's curse for something that had been done to her.__NEWL__He leaves and searches for Sara's grave, stopped by the ghosts of several members of the old families.__NEWL__He learns in a vision that these men had viciously raped and killed Sara, and drowned her son Kito in the lake;  all the "K" children who died were descendants of those men.__NEWL__Mike reaches Sara's grave and succeeds in destroying her bones, ending the curse.__NEWL__Upon returning to the house, Mike discovers that Rogette has kidnapped Kyra.__NEWL__He follows them to the lake, where Mattie's ghost appears and knocks Rogette into the water.__NEWL__Rogette tries to pull Mike in with her, but is impaled by the storm's wreckage from the dock.__NEWL__Mattie's ghost says her goodbyes to Mike and Kyra.__NEWL__The novel ends with an epilogue, revealing that Mike has retired from writing and is attempting to adopt Kyra.__NEWL__His status as a single, unrelated male complicates things, and the adoption has taken longer than anticipated.__NEWL__The outcome of the adoption is left unresolved at the end, but the reader is given hope that it will be positive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q464557	The Colorado Kid	2005-10-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1898161	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1898161	Opening in medias res as the news staff of The Weekly Islander pays for lunch at a restaurant, editor Dave Bowie and founder Vince Teague test young intern Stephanie McCann's powers of deduction regarding their unorthodox tipping procedure.__NEWL__She impresses them by discerning that the restaurant management pools all the tips and splits them equally among the staff, while Dave and Vince want to leave an especially large tip earmarked for their waitress who has fallen on hard times.__NEWL__They discuss some local unsolved crimes and oddities, which have gained circulation in mainland newspapers as far away as Boston during the traditional Halloween season interest in such tales.__NEWL__The friendly assessment becomes more intense as the elderly island natives and Stephanie return to the office, and she asks if the veteran reporters have "ever come across a real unexplained mystery".__NEWL__Dave and Vince take turns recounting a strange incident and investigation.__NEWL__On April 24, 1980, two teenagers stumbled across a man's body, early in the morning.__NEWL__Slumped against a trash can, and carrying no identification, the body bore no clear indicators of foul play.__NEWL__Cause of death was determined to be asphyxiation, as a large chunk of steak was extracted from the victim's throat.__NEWL__Every potential clue leads to small revelations, but bigger mysteries.__NEWL__Though the investigation is lightly bungled, everything seems inexplicable, from how the fish-dinner stomach contents could line up with his ferry boat crossing, to the single Russian coin in his pocket, and the pack of cigarettes missing one cigarette when the autopsy indicated he was not a smoker.__NEWL__More than a year later, thanks to a sharp-eyed rookie spotting an out-of-state cigarette tax stamp among the man's personal effects, the John Doe becomes known as The Colorado Kid.__NEWL__Eventually the man's identity is traced: James Cogan of Nederland, Colorado.__NEWL__He was a commercial artist living a normal middle-class life with his wife, last seen at a seemingly average workday before inexplicably disappearing.__NEWL__There was no hint of money troubles, adultery, drug addiction or mental illness -- the factors normally associated with someone leaving home so suddenly.__NEWL__Everyone involved with the case is at a loss as to how or why the man could have traveled over 2000 miles (3000 km) in the five hours between when he was last sighted in Colorado and first sighted in Maine, when there was at the time no direct airline flight to account for his arrival.__NEWL__ In the Weekly Islander offices, the three friends, old and new, ferret out all the answers they can from the facts of the 25-year-old investigation, then speculate on what might have happened, and meditate on the nature of true mysteries.__NEWL__Despite the lack of clear evidence, Dave and Vince hypothesize the Colorado Kid was murdered.__NEWL__He probably flew to Maine on a chartered jet under an uncertain but pressing emergency and carried the Colorado cigarettes as a clue to his origins should he come to harm.__NEWL__Though Dave and Vince shared other unsolved crimes and oddities with outsiders, they have kept the Colorado Kid a secret due to their belief that a big-town newspaper or glossy travel magazine would tell the story inaccurately by wanting to provide resolution to the account that stubbornly defied a clean culmination.__NEWL__They inform Stephanie that while they were "the last people alive who know the whole thing", having heard the tale of The Colorado Kid, "Now there's you, Steffi.__NEWL__"__NEWL__The warm proclamation seems to signal the young woman's final approval by the old guard of the Islander.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4120895	A Maggot	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1897581	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1897581	The book opens with an objective narration about a group of five travellers travelling through Exmoor in rural England.__NEWL__They arrive at an inn in a small village, and soon it becomes clear that they are not who they seem to be.__NEWL__The "maid" Louise casually rebuffs the sexual advances of the servant, Dick Thurlow, but then goes to his master's room and undresses before them both.__NEWL__Bartholomew calls his supposed uncle "Lacy" and they discuss Bartholomew's refusal to disclose his journey's secret purpose, as well as fate versus free will.__NEWL__Eventually the narration stops and is followed by letters, interview transcripts, and snatches of more third-person narration, interspersed with facsimile pages from contemporary issues of The Gentleman's Magazine.__NEWL__We learn from a fictional news story that a man has been found hanged near the place where the travellers were staying.__NEWL__The subsequent interviews are conducted by Henry Ayscough, a lawyer employed by Bartholomew's father, who is a Duke.__NEWL__The interviews reveal that Bartholomew had hired the party to travel with him but deceived them about the purpose of his journey.__NEWL__Variations of his story are (1) he was on his way to elope against the wishes of family; (2) he was visiting a wealthy, aged aunt to secure an inheritance from her; (3) he was seeking a cure for impotence; (4) he was pursuing some scientific or occult knowledge, possibly concerning knowledge of the future.__NEWL__He takes Rebecca and Dick to a cave in a remote area.__NEWL__Rebecca's initial tale, retold by Jones, is that he there performed a satanic ritual, and Rebecca herself was raped by Satan and forced to view a panorama of human suffering and cruelty.__NEWL__Rebecca's own testimony admits this was a deception to quiet Jones.__NEWL__She says that she actually saw Bartholomew meet a noble lady who took them all inside a strange floating craft (which she calls "the maggot").__NEWL__In this craft she sees what she describes as a divine revelation of heaven ("June Eternal") and the Shaker Trinity (Father, Son, and female Holy Spirit or "Mother Wisdom").__NEWL__She also sees a vision of human suffering and cruelty in this version of her story.__NEWL__Modern readers may interpret her visions as films and her overall experience as a contact with time travellers or extraterrestrials.__NEWL__Rebecca then loses consciousness; she wakes, finds Jones outside the cave, and they leave together.__NEWL__She then tells Jones the satanic version of her experience.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jones has seen Dick leave the cave in terror, presumably to go and hang himself.__NEWL__Rebecca later finds herself pregnant.__NEWL__She returns to her Quaker parents but then converts to Shakerism, marries a blacksmith named John Lee, and gives birth to Ann Lee, the future leader of the American Shakers.__NEWL__The mystery of Bartholomew's disappearance is never solved, and Ayscough surmises that he committed suicide out of guilt from his disobedience to his father in the matter of an arranged marriage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1722517	Kallocain	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	1881986	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1881986	The plot centers on Leo Kall and is written in the form of a diary or memoir.__NEWL__Kall lives with his wife, Linda Kall, in a city intended for chemical industry.__NEWL__Leo is a scientist, who is initially very loyal to the government and develops the truth drug Kallocain.__NEWL__It has the effect that anyone who takes it will reveal anything, even things of which they were not consciously aware.__NEWL__Major themes include the notion of the self in a totalitarian state, the meaning of life, and the power of love.__NEWL__Another central theme is the criminalization of thoughts.__NEWL__Oneself is not an individual, rather a part of the state.__NEWL__And through the effects of Kallocain, the last sanctuary of self is invaded.__NEWL__Apart from the laboratory work and testing by Leo Kall, much of the novel takes place in the home of Leo and Linda.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1464493	The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas	1997-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	1920434	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920434	The author explains the style of the book before beginning the story with his funeral and cause of death - "Brás Cubas poultice", a medical panacea that was his last obsession and "would guarantee him glory among men".__NEWL__He then goes back to his childhood.__NEWL__ He was a wealthy, spoiled and wicked child.__NEWL__From an early age he showed signs of a perverse nature, beating the heads of his slaves when he was not attended to in some desire or playing at horse-riding on the back of a young male slave named Prudêncio.__NEWL__At the age of seventeen Brás Cubas falls in love with a prostitute named Marcela, an affair which lasts "fifteen months and eleven contos" and almost wipes out the family fortune.__NEWL__To forget this heartbreak the protagonist is sent to Coimbra to study law.__NEWL__After a few years of wild bohemianism, "following romanticism in practice and liberalism in theory", he returns to Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the death of his mother.__NEWL__He falls in love with a girl named Eugênia, the daughter of Dona Eusébia, a poor friend of the family, who turns out to be lame from birth.__NEWL__His father plans to a political marriage with Virgília, daughter of Conselheiro Dutra.__NEWL__However, Virgília prefers to marry Lobo Neves, who is also a candidate for a political career.__NEWL__With the death of Brás Cubas' father, conflict breaks out over the inheritance between him and his sister Sabina, and her husband Cotrim.__NEWL__Virgília, now married, encounters Brás Cubas at a ball and they begin an adulterous affair.__NEWL__Virgília becomes pregnant but the child dies before being born.__NEWL__To keep the affair secret Brás Cubas bribes Virgília's former seamstress Dona Plácida to act as the resident of a small house in Gamboa, which serves as a meeting place for the lovers.__NEWL__Cubas meets Quincas Borba, a childhood friend who has fallen on hard times.__NEWL__He steals Cubas' watch, later returning it to him.__NEWL__He introduces Cubas to his philosophical system, Humanitism.__NEWL__Pursuing fame or excitement Brás Cubas becomes a deputy.__NEWL__Lobo Neves is appointed governor of a province and leaves with Virgília for the north, ending the affair.__NEWL__Sabina finds a wife for Brás Cubas, Nhã-Loló, Cotrim's 19-year-old niece, but she dies of yellow fever and Brás Cubas becomes a confirmed bachelor.__NEWL__He tries unsuccessfully to be Minister of State and to found an opposition newspaper.__NEWL__Quincas Borba shows signs of dementia.__NEWL__An aging Virgília asks him to support the impoverished Dona Plácida, who then dies.__NEWL__Lobo Neves, Marcela and Quincas Borba also die.__NEWL__Eugênia falls into poverty.__NEWL__His last attempt at glory is the "Brás Cubas poultice", a medicine that will cure all diseases.__NEWL__Ironically, while going out to take care of his project he is caught in a rainstorm and catches pneumonia, from which he dies at age sixty-four.__NEWL__Virgília, accompanied by her son, visits his deathbed.__NEWL__After dying he begins to tell the story of his life backwards, concluding that on balance his life has been slightly positive because he has not had children, and thus he has not "transmitted the legacy of misery".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q782075	The Snow Queen	1980-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1882707	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1882707	Arienrhod, the Snow Queen, has secretly implanted several Summer women with clones of herself, in the hopes of extending her rule past her ritual execution at the end of Winter.__NEWL__Moon Dawntreader Summer is the only one of these clones to survive to adolescence.__NEWL__She and her cousin Sparks are lovers.__NEWL__Moon becomes a sibyl, a position of high status among the Summer people.__NEWL__Sibyls are both feared and revered; they possess the ability to answer any question by going into a trance state.__NEWL__Sibyls believe that they receive visions from the Lady, a sea goddess.__NEWL__Sparks is not chosen to become a sibyl.__NEWL__Angry at Moon for joining the sibyls without him and curious about his offworld heritage, he travels to Carbuncle, Tiamat's capital.__NEWL__He is immediately caught up by Arienrhod and eventually becomes the "Starbuck", the Snow Queen's consort and commander of the mer hunts.__NEWL__Moon receives a message, apparently from Sparks, urging her to come to Carbuncle, though sibyls may not legally enter the city.__NEWL__On her way, she becomes entangled with smugglers and is taken offworld.__NEWL__This is normally a one way trip for a Tiamatan citizen.__NEWL__Hegemony law prevents any native Tiamatian from returning after leaving the planet, fearing that travelers would realize how Tiamat is being exploited and use this knowledge to foment rebellion.__NEWL__Arienrhod is crushed; she had planned to draw Moon to Carbuncle and make her the next Summer Queen.__NEWL__Moon was supposed to reject the Summer fear of technology and develop resistance to the Hegemony during the next Summer reign.__NEWL__Arienrhod devises a backup plan; she will unleash a plague at the Change which will kill most Summers and spare most Winters, allowing Tiamat to continue its technological growth before the Hegemony returns.__NEWL__Moon is taken to the capital planet, Kharemough, and discovers that the Winters' prejudice against sibyls is a political tool used by the Hegemony to preserve its control of technology on Tiamat.__NEWL__Sibyls are highly respected throughout the other planets of the Hegemony; only on Tiamat, due to a careful reinforcement of superstitions during the reign of Winter, are they considered dangerous and mentally unstable.__NEWL__The sibyls are actually part of a data network devised by the Old Empire as a way to rebuild society more quickly after the Empire's fall.__NEWL__Sibyls have the ability to communicate with a vast electronic databank, which explains their ability to answer seemingly unknowable questions.__NEWL__Moon learns from another sibyl that Sparks is in danger, and returns to Tiamat illegally.__NEWL__Due to time dilation, five years pass on Tiamat while Moon is only gone for a period of weeks.__NEWL__After a crash landing and short sojourn as a captive of Winter outlaws, Moon returns to Carbuncle and confronts Arienrhod.__NEWL__Arienrhod's plan to unleash the plague is foiled, but Moon is chosen to become the next Summer Queen.__NEWL__She prepares Tiamat to face the Hegemony as a peer when the 150 years of summer end and interstellar travel is again possible through the black hole.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763347	The Serial	1977-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1928000	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1928000	The Serial is divided into 52 short chapters.__NEWL__It chronicles the lives of a group of residents of Marin County, mostly in their mid-to-late 30s and early 40s.__NEWL__The plot revolves around Harvey and Kate Holroyd, a couple in the midst of the mid-1970s Marin County lifestyle who are undergoing marital problems, with many other characters introduced in the book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2266873	Cakes and Ale	1930-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1885160	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1885160	The story is told by a first-person narrator and well-to-do author, William Ashenden, who, at the beginning of the novel is suddenly and unexpectedly contacted by Alroy Kear, a busybody literary figure in London who has been asked by Amy, the second Mrs Driffield, to write the biography of her deceased husband, Edward Driffield.__NEWL__Driffield, once scorned for his realist representation of late-Victorian working-class characters, had in his later years come to be lionised by scholars of English letters.__NEWL__The second Mrs Driffield, a nurse to the ailing Edward after his first wife left him, is known for her propriety, and her interest in augmenting and cementing her husband's literary reputation.__NEWL__Her only identity is that of caretaker of her husband in life and of his reputation in death.__NEWL__It is well-known, however, that Driffield wrote his best novels while he was married to his first wife and muse, Rosie.__NEWL__Kear, who is trying to prove his own literary worth, jumps at the opportunity to ride the coat-tails of the great Edward Driffield by writing the biography.__NEWL__Knowing that Ashenden had a long acquaintanceship with the Driffields as a young man, Kear contacts him for inside information about Edward's past, including about his first wife, who has been oddly erased from the official narrative of Edward's genius.__NEWL__The story relates Ashenden's recollections of his past associations with the Driffields, especially Rosie.__NEWL__Due to his intimate association with her he hesitates to reveal how much information he will divulge to Driffield's second wife and Kear, who ostensibly wants a "complete" picture of the famous author, but who routinely glosses over the untoward stories that might upset Driffield's surviving wife.__NEWL__Ashenden holds the key to the deep mystery of love, and the act of love, in the life of each character, as he recounts a history of creativity, infidelity and literary memory.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3818676	The Good Apprentice	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1907430	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1907430	Edward Baltram, a college student living in London, gives his best friend Mark a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug for a joke.__NEWL__After Mark, still high, falls to his death from a window, Edward is wracked with guilt and depression — worsened by daily letters from Mark's mother cursing him as a murderer.__NEWL__In search of his father, Jesse, Edward sets off for Seegard, the family home, away from the harsh reality of London.__NEWL__As Edward progresses through the novel, he revives somewhat, thanks to the love of his eccentric father and his extended family of supportive women.__NEWL__He eventually finds, however, that he must come to terms with Mark's death.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Edward's stepbrother Stuart Cuno decides to give up his studies and goes in search of the "pure" life of an aesthete, to his family's bewilderment.__NEWL__Stuart has a close bond with thirteen-year-old Meredith, the son of Thomas and Midge McCaskerville.__NEWL__While Edward seeks redemption and Stuart salvation, Midge is having an affair with her husband's best friend, Harry Cuno - stepfather to Edward and father to Stuart.__NEWL__Her passionate love affair comes to a head after two years when she is disgraced publicly and falls unexpectedly in love with Stuart.__NEWL__Left with a difficult decision, Midge turns to Edward for support.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2037865	The Devil Wears Prada	2003-02-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1937988	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1937988	Andrea Sachs, a recent graduate of Brown University with a degree in English, moves to New York City with her best friend, Lily, a graduate student at Columbia.__NEWL__Andrea hopes to find a career in publishing and blankets the city with her résumé.__NEWL__She believes she will be closer to her dream of working for The New Yorker if she can get a job in the magazine industry.__NEWL__She gets a surprise interview at the Elias-Clark Group and is hired as junior assistant for Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine Runway.__NEWL__Although she knows little of the fashion world, everyone tells her that "a million girls would die for [her] job".__NEWL__If she manages to work for Miranda for a year, people tell her, she can have her choice of jobs within the magazine industry.__NEWL__At a celebrity party, Andrea meets Christian Collinsworth, a charismatic Yale graduate who is considered one of the hot, new up-and-coming writers of their generation.__NEWL__They are attracted to each other, which complicates her relationship with her boyfriend, Alex.__NEWL__Andrea's relationships become entangled because of her new job.__NEWL__Lily increasingly turns to alcohol and picks up dubious men to relieve the pressure of graduate school.__NEWL__Alex, struggling with his own demanding job as an inner-city schoolteacher, grows frustrated with Andrea's long hours and constant stress.__NEWL__Andrea's relationship with her family also suffers.__NEWL__Matters finally come to a head when her co-worker, Emily, gets mononucleosis and Andrea must travel to Paris with Miranda in her stead.__NEWL__In Paris, she has a surprise encounter with Christian.__NEWL__Later that night, Miranda finally lets down her guard and asks Andrea what she has learned, and where she wants to work afterwards.__NEWL__She promises to place phone calls to people she knows at the New Yorker on Andrea's behalf once her year is up and suggests she take on some small writing assignments at Runway.__NEWL__Back at the hotel, Andrea gets urgent calls from Alex and her parents asking her to call them.__NEWL__She does and learns that Lily is comatose after driving drunk and wrecking a car.__NEWL__Though her family and Alex pressure her to return home, she tells Miranda she will honor her commitment to Runway.__NEWL__Miranda is pleased, and says her future in magazine publishing is bright, but__NEWL__phones with another impossible demand at Christian Dior's Paris fashion show.__NEWL__Andrea decides that her family and friends are more important than her job, and realizes to her horror that she is becoming more and more like Miranda.__NEWL__She refuses to comply with Miranda's latest outrageous request, and when Miranda scolds her publicly, Andrea replies, "Fuck you, Miranda.__NEWL__Fuck you.__NEWL__" She is fired on the spot, and returns home to reconnect with friends and family.__NEWL__Her romantic relationship with Alex is beyond repair, but they remain friends.__NEWL__Lily recovers and is lucky to receive only community service for her DUI charge.__NEWL__In the last chapter Andrea learns her dispute with Miranda made her a minor celebrity when the incident made Page Six.__NEWL__Afraid she has been blacklisted from publishing for good, she moves back with her parents.__NEWL__She works on short fiction and finances her unemployment with profits made from reselling the designer clothing she was provided for her Paris trip.__NEWL__Seventeen buys one of her stories.__NEWL__At the novel's end, she returns to the Elias-Clark building to discuss a position at one of the company's other magazines and sees Miranda's new junior assistant, who looks as harried and put-upon as she once did.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2258634	Silverthorn	1985-05-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1924492	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1924492	A year after his brother Lyam's coronation as king, Arutha returns to his city as the new Prince of Krondor, to begin plans for his wedding.__NEWL__Jimmy the Hand, a young thief, foils an assassination attempt on the prince by a fellow thief, and feeling loyalty toward the prince from previously aiding his escape from the city with Princess Anita (in Magician), he chooses to warn the prince of the attempt on his life instead of reporting the traitor to the Mockers, Krondor's powerful and highly organized guild of thieves.__NEWL__Arutha seeks the Mockers' cooperation to obtain more information on the assassins, and at their request, makes Jimmy a squire of his court.__NEWL__Setting a trap, they capture two agents, who are revealed to be operating out of the temple of Lims-Kragma, Goddess of Death, one of whom is a moredhel whose appearance has been altered.__NEWL__During interrogation, both prisoners will themselves to death rather than divulge their plans.__NEWL__As the High Priestess of Lims-Kragma seeks the truth by bringing them back from beyond the grave, one of the prisoners rises by the power of an unknown enemy, and attacks his captors, slaughtering many royal guards, and addressing Arutha as "Lord of the West" before being destroyed by Father Nathan, a priest of Sung.__NEWL__Injured in the attack, the High Priestess warns Arutha that the forces which opposed him were so powerful that they held the gods in contempt.__NEWL__Arutha leads a strike on the assassins' hideout in Krondor, but even as the assault appears to be going in their favor, the assassins begin rising from the dead and renewing their attack.__NEWL__Many of Arutha's men are slain, and the Black Slayers are only defeated when the entire building is burned to the ground.__NEWL__Believing the threat to be over for the time being, Arutha proceeds with his wedding.__NEWL__Just before the ceremony, Jimmy senses something is wrong, and finds the same assassin from the first attempt on Arutha's life hiding on the roof.__NEWL__He manages to disrupt the assassin just as he is firing at Arutha, but the poisoned bolt strikes Anita instead.__NEWL__The assassin is interrogated, and reveals the enemy to be Murmandamus, a moredhel chieftain and powerful sorcerer.__NEWL__According to a prophecy, Arutha is the only force that stands in the way of Murmandamus's total destruction of the Kingdom and domination over the realm.__NEWL__The assassin also reveals that the poison was given to him by a moredhel agent, who called it "silverthorn".__NEWL__Pug is able to keep Anita under a spell that slows the passage of time, giving Arutha time to search for an antidote.__NEWL__With scant clues, he secretly leads a party to the one place most likely to have the answer to any question, the great library at Sarth Abbey.__NEWL__All along his journey, he is tracked by Murad, one of Murmandamus's top generals.__NEWL__They manage to reach the abbey, but their enemies strike again with powerful sorcery, both attacks barely repulsed by the mighty defenses of Sarth Abbey and its priests.__NEWL__From information gathered at the abbey, Arutha's quest turns to the elves of Elvandar for more information.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Pug returns to Stardock to seek the aid of a scryer, whose vision of the future reveals a dark force behind Murmandamus, a powerful enemy speaking in ancient Tsurani, who is even capable of perceiving the scryer past the barriers of time and probability.__NEWL__Believing the threat therefore to be a danger to both worlds, Pug seeks more information from the Tsurani Assembly of magicians, and with the help of research from the books of Macros, creates a new rift to Kelewan and returns to his old estate with two companions, posing as priests.__NEWL__In Elvandar, Arutha is told that the silverthorn plant can also serve as the cure, and grows only around the lake Moraelin, in moredhel-held territory, surrounded by a barrier the elves are unable to pass.__NEWL__He and his band set out for Moraelin.__NEWL__In Kelewan, Pug arrives to find himself removed from the Assembly and declared an outlaw.__NEWL__His old friend and fellow Great One Hochopepa is willing to aid him, but they are captured by a Great One loyal to the current Warlord, who seeks to gain control of the Empire.__NEWL__Tortured by the Warlord and his inquisitors, and with his Greater Path magic neutralized, Pug turns to the Lesser Path, becoming the second magician ever to master both paths after Macros the Black.__NEWL__He is able to overcome his captors, and explains his reasons for returning to the Emperor, who grants him reprieve to continue his search in the Assembly's vast libraries.__NEWL__He arrives at the conclusion that the ancient Tsurani enemy has returned, posing a grave threat to both worlds.__NEWL__Pug is reinstated by the Assembly, and following a clue, travels to the northern polar wastelands of Kelewan, discovering a lost race of elves living in a forest under the ice, twin to Elvandar on Midkemia.__NEWL__Their leader, Acaila, offers to instruct Pug in magic over the course of the following year, in order to better face the coming trials.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Arutha and his band manage to sneak past the moredhel sentries, and discover several silverthorn shrubs in the lake, and make their escape back towards Elvandar.__NEWL__Just as they are about to reach the safety of the Elven forest, they are overtaken by Murad and a band of black slayers.__NEWL__With the help of Tomas, they manage to defeat their enemies and return safely to Elvandar.__NEWL__With the antidote made by the elven Spellweavers, Anita is saved, and Arutha's enemies set back by the death of one of their generals.__NEWL__But Murmandamus vows to regather his armies the next year, when the long-awaited invasion into the Kingdom will commence.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1872840	A Darkness at Sethanon	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1924575	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1924575	Arutha, Prince of Krondor, uses an attempted assassination as a ruse to fake his own death so that he may travel north to confront Murmandamus.__NEWL__In his travels to the Northlands, Arutha finds his father's former enemy, Guy du Bas-Tyra, as the Protector of the city Armengar, the first location to be invaded by the dark army under Murmandamus.__NEWL__In an attempt to destroy a majority of the army, Guy orders the evacuation of the city, and ignites the naphtha mines below the city.__NEWL__Murmandamus escapes unscathed, and the army marches towards the border of the Kingdom of the Isles.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Pug and Tomas begin searching the world, and eventually beyond, for the famed sorcerer Macros the Black, thought killed when he helped to destroy the rift (at the end of Magician).__NEWL__Macros reveals that he had put into motion a grand plot to instill Tomas with the powers of the Valheru, Ashen-Shugar, in order to turn the tides of the coming battle in their favour.__NEWL__Murmandamus, having successfully overrun the border city of Highcastle, marches towards his final objective: the town of Sethanon, which lies above an ancient ruins containing an artifact of power known as the Lifestone.__NEWL__Murmandamus lays siege to Sethanon, causing wholesale slaughter regardless of his own soldiers, in order to draw his necromantic power from their deaths.__NEWL__Steeped in power, he descends into the chamber of the Lifestone, and is confronted by Arutha, where they begin to duel.__NEWL__A rift begins to form within the chamber, held closed only by the magical efforts of Pug and Macros.__NEWL__Arutha manages to kill Murmandamus, revealing his true form as a Pantathian impersonating a moredhel.__NEWL__With his death, the escaped magical energy causes the rift to open briefly, releasing a Valheru, and a life-stealing Dreadlord.__NEWL__Tomas, now fully embracing his Valheru heritage, battles his ancient kin, while his dragon mount fights the Dreadlord.__NEWL__At the climax of the battle, Tomas stabs his sword through his enemy, and into the Lifestone, inadvertently releasing the spirits of all other Dragonlords.__NEWL__Their combined might, however, is no match for the Lifestone, the nexus of all life on Midkemia.__NEWL__They are drawn into the Lifestone and trapped for all eternity.__NEWL__The invasion is over.__NEWL__Afterwards, Macros entrusts the guardianship of the world to Pug and Tomas, saying that his task to protect Midkemia is finished, and disappears.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117182	Salammbô		1290					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	1935323	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1935323	After the First Punic War, Carthage is unable to fulfill promises made to its army of mercenaries, and finds itself under attack.__NEWL__The fictional title character, a priestess and the daughter of Hamilcar Barca, the foremost Carthaginian general, is the object of the obsessive lust of Matho, a leader of the mercenaries.__NEWL__With the help of the scheming freed slave, Spendius, Matho steals the sacred veil of Carthage, the Zaïmph, prompting Salammbô to enter the mercenaries' camp in an attempt to steal it back.__NEWL__The Zaïmph is an ornate bejewelled veil draped about the statue of the goddess Tanit in the sanctum sanctorum of her temple: the veil is the city's guardian and touching it will bring death to the perpetrator.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5302938	Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z	1935563	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1935563	Stefanos struggles with his growing unhappiness and tries to drown it in alcohol.__NEWL__He gets drawn into the murder of Calvin Jeter and his conscience pulls him back to his earlier occupation.__NEWL__It becomes a journey through the harshest part of the American capital and the blackest part of the human soul.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4812375	At Mrs. Lippincote's							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1902211	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1902211	Julia and her husband, Roddy Davenant, along with their young son, Oliver, and Roddy's cousin, Eleanor, are temporarily living at Mrs. Lippincote's, a house filled with old mahogany furniture and other reminders of earlier wealth.__NEWL__Julia and the others have joined Roddy, who is an officer in the Royal Air Force.__NEWL__She must be mother and, above all, an officer's wife.__NEWL__Roddy, a "leader of men," requires that she fulfil her role impeccably.__NEWL__Julia accepts the pompousness of Armed forces service life, but her honesty and sense of humour prevent her from taking her role too seriously.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7769074	The Three Roads			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1909713	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909713	The book is divided into four sections titled Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Doomsday, of which the last of these takes up fully half the novel.__NEWL__ Bret Taylor, a naval officer during the Pacific War, married his wife Lorraine after knowing her only over a single overnight drinking binge while on shore leave.__NEWL__After more months on duty, ending when his ship was destroyed in a kamikaze attack, he returned home to find Lorraine freshly murdered in the home he bought for her but has never seen.__NEWL__The shock of the two events sends him into a mental lapse involving heavy memory loss and he spends nine months in a naval hospital in San Diego.__NEWL__All that time he was visited by the woman who had loved him in the period before his impulsive marriage, divorced Paula Pangborn, a successful Hollywood screenwriter who uses her maiden name of West.__NEWL__As Bret's memory begins to return, he is released into Paula's care and they drive up to Los Angeles on the Monday.__NEWL__But since the mental specialist called in to help him, Dr Klifter, had given Bret the newspaper clippings relating to Lorraine's death, he has become obsessed with finding out who had killed her and strikes out on his own.__NEWL__He gets into a fight in the Golden Slipper Café, where Lorraine had been drinking on the night she died, and is taken home by Larry Miles to sleep off his hangover.__NEWL__ The next - and final - day, Bret comes to suspect that Miles had been Lorraine's murderer.__NEWL__It emerges eventually that Bret had discovered Miles in bed with Lorraine on his unannounced return and had killed her himself.__NEWL__Miles, knowing the truth, had been blackmailing Paula to keep the responsibility secret.__NEWL__Police break up the subsequent fight between the men and shoot Miles for resisting arrest.__NEWL__Fingerprint evidence proves that Miles was present in her home at the time of Lorraine’s murder, so that he is taken for the culprit, leaving Bret free to rejoin his faithful Paula.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7992739	When She Was Good	1967-05-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1909963	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909963	When still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic father thrown in jail.__NEWL__Ever since then, she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q886450	Blood and Gold	2001-10-16T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1877328	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1877328	The book begins with an ancient vampire of Nordic descent awaking after being frozen in a block of ice for hundreds of years.__NEWL__The vampire, Thorne, meets Marius de Romanus and inquires about Marius' past.__NEWL__Marius then provides his life story.__NEWL__As a young Roman patrician, Marius was abducted by druids who were trying to find a replacement for their "god of the grove"—a vampire, kept locked inside a chamber underneath a tree, who took on the role of a god in a druidic religion.__NEWL__Marius does not want to receive the powers of the dying god, but is given them nonetheless.__NEWL__Unable to face a life imprisoned in a tree, Marius escapes from the druids (one of whom is Mael).__NEWL__He embarks on a trip to Egypt, where he learns of Akasha and Enkil, the Mother and Father or Those Who Must Be Kept—the progenitors of all vampire-kind.__NEWL__He takes them back to Rome with him after learning that if they die then every other vampire in the world will suffer the same fate.__NEWL__He falls in love with a mortal woman, Pandora, and turns her into a vampire.__NEWL__They live together happily for a long time, although they argue frequently.__NEWL__One day, their house is attacked by a group of vampires who want to know the secrets of Those Who Must Be Kept.__NEWL__Though they destroy these vampires, the attack leads to an argument between the two, and Marius, filled with anger, leaves Pandora.__NEWL__Marius then returns to Rome, where he creates a life for himself as a socialite, fraternizing with mortals and practicing painting.__NEWL__It is here that he meets Mael and Avicus, the latter of which is a former god of the grove—a vampire older than Marius, but who does not seem to know his own power.__NEWL__There is still much enmity between Mael and Marius, and Marius asks them to leave.__NEWL__They do so, but remain in the city of Rome.__NEWL__Marius does not mind this, as they keep the city free from other blood-drinkers who may pry the secrets of Those Who Must Be Kept from his mind.__NEWL__Marius continues to live this way even as the Roman Empire splits, with its capital city moving to Constantinople.__NEWL__Eventually, Marius, Mael, and Avicus leave Rome when it is sacked by barbarians.__NEWL__They travel to Constantinople, taking with them the Mother and Father.__NEWL__There they meet a powerful vampire named Eudoxia, who wants Marius to put Those Who Must Be Kept into her care.__NEWL__After praying to Those Who Must Be Kept for an answer, he relents just far enough to allow Eudoxia to see them.__NEWL__After a series of violent conflicts, Marius angrily drags Eudoxia back down into the shrine and casts her at Akasha, who suddenly awakens to destroy her.__NEWL__Realizing that he cannot live with other vampires due to his custody of the Divine Parents, Marius elects to return to Italy.__NEWL__He becomes disheartened by the horrors of the Black Death and sleeps for hundreds of years.__NEWL__He awakes again during the Renaissance and travels all around Italy, visiting Venice and Florence, admiring the art and culture.__NEWL__In Rome he meets the vampire Santino, who claims that Marius is living in sin by not serving Satan.__NEWL__Marius threatens him and tells Santino to never come near him again.__NEWL__Marius decides to make his home in Venice, and he establishes himself as an amateur painter.__NEWL__His house is set up as a place where young boys can come and improve themselves, preparing to go to university or to become craftsmen.__NEWL__During this time, he also falls in love with the works of Botticelli, whom he briefly considers turning into a vampire.__NEWL__It is in Venice that Marius meets Amadeo (Armand), whom he discovers in a filthy cellar, waiting to become a prostitute in the city's brothels.__NEWL__He purchases the boy from the slave traders and takes him back to his house, where he bathes him and promises him a better life.__NEWL__As the years pass Marius happily continues his life, disappearing occasionally to attend to the Divine Parents.__NEWL__Amadeo grows up, and the two often share a bed.__NEWL__Marius is sorely tempted to give Amadeo the Dark Gift, making him into a vampire, but he stops himself from doing so.__NEWL__When Marius is away looking after the Divine Parents, his house is attacked by the Englishman Lord Harlech who became obsessed with Amadeo after sleeping with him.__NEWL__Amadeo manages to kill Harlech, but sustains several wounds from Harlech's poisoned blade.__NEWL__He slips into a fever.__NEWL__Marius arrives and is told that Amadeo will die as the poison is too strong.__NEWL__Marius turns Amadeo into a vampire in order to prevent the boy from dying.__NEWL__He teaches him to prey only on evildoers in order to save his conscience.__NEWL__Some time after Amadeo becomes a vampire, the house is attacked by a large mob of Satan-worshiping vampires under the leadership of Santino.__NEWL__Marius is burnt and almost killed, but manages to save his own life by jumping into a canal.__NEWL__Nonetheless, he is severely wounded and believes that Amadeo will be killed.__NEWL__He calls a woman named Bianca to his aid.__NEWL__The two have known each other for a number of years and have a close relationship.__NEWL__Marius is too weak to hunt, so he transforms Bianca into a vampire in order to have her help him to recover his strength.__NEWL__The two move to the shrine of Those Who Must Be Kept and live there for over a century, where Marius gradually recovers his strength by drinking from Akasha.__NEWL__After Amadeo had transformed, Marius had met with Raymond Gallant, a man from the Talamasca, a group of scholars who found out information about supernatural things, just for information.__NEWL__He hears from him that Pandora is being kept hostage by another vampire and moved around Europe and Russia; so Marius decides to move to Dresden to try meeting with Pandora, whom he still loves.__NEWL__He does not tell Bianca of this.__NEWL__Marius does indeed find Pandora there, but discovers that she does not want to live with him and Bianca and wants to stay with her traveling companion, who was not holding her hostage after all.__NEWL__Marius offers to leave Bianca for Pandora, but Pandora refuses this offer.__NEWL__When Marius sees Bianca the next day, she declares that she is leaving him because she overheard what he said to Pandora.__NEWL__50 years later, as he is shifting to America, Marius discovers a letter from Pandora offering to live with him if he comes to collect her at a certain place, but it is too late and she is gone.__NEWL__Marius then shelters a young vampire named Lestat de Lioncourt, who wakes up Akasha when playing a song for her on his violin.__NEWL__She comes to him and they drink each other's blood.__NEWL__Enkil is furious and almost crushes Lestat when a shocked Marius saves him.__NEWL__Marius sends Lestat away, thinking that he can pose a danger, but is sad that it is the fourth time he is losing a love.__NEWL__Years later, Marius brings a television into Those Who Must Be Kept's Chapel, for their entertainment.__NEWL__On this they see news, songs, etc.__NEWL__and also The Vampire Lestat's rock guitar music.__NEWL__This, Marius feels, corrupts their minds, and Akasha awakens from her slumber with the evil idea of taking over the world.__NEWL__She destroys Enkil and buries Marius in the ruins of his house, where he lies, injured.__NEWL__Marius lies there trapped, for weeks, but with the Mind Gift informs Lestat that he is in danger, and also asks for help.__NEWL__He is soon found by Pandora, and Santino—whom he tries to kill, but realizes that all force would be needed to stop Akasha from her evil deed of taking over the world, killing all men and having a female-dominated world with her as the leader.__NEWL__A council is formed and the vampires try to convince Akasha, but she does not listen.__NEWL__Finally, Maharet's (who created Thorne) mute sister Mekare fights with Akasha and destroys her.__NEWL__That is the end of Marius's story through time.__NEWL__The story then moves back to the present day, where Marius and Thorne are at a jungle hideaway with other old and powerful vampires—Amadeo (now going by the name Armand), Santino, Maharet, Mekare, and Pandora.__NEWL__Marius wants justice against Santino for taking Armand away from him, but Maharet refuses to let Marius kill Santino, who is weak.__NEWL__Thorne does not want to accept her decision and so kills Santino himself with the Fire Gift.__NEWL__In penance for his deed, he gives over his eyes to Maharet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5284128	Divine Right's Trip	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1903582	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903582	The plot is set in the 1960s, which chronicles the awakening of the hippie stoner Divine Right (alter ego of the main character D.R. (David Ray) Davenport) as he travels from Kentucky with his girlfriend Estelle across the country, in a patient and introspective 1963 VW Bus, Urge.__NEWL__Divine Right has no idea where he is or where he is going.__NEWL__D.R. and Estelle take turns sleeping and driving, but D.R.'s constant straddling between waking and sleeping makes the journey as much an inner trip as it is a physical seemingly random trip from Urge to anywhere.__NEWL__The first helper character to be encountered is the Lone Outdoorsman who is a non-moving object in this road-trip story, stuck camping on the same site since years ago, watching TV in his solitude.__NEWL__He is a suspicious soul.__NEWL__The next helper is the Greek, who is named for his talking.__NEWL__The Greek is on a journey back to Norman, Oklahoma, to destroy the last remaining record of himself, which is an autobiographical Master's thesis.__NEWL__He wants to erase himself and forget his name, and hopes to come closer to Nirvana by doing this.__NEWL__It seems D.R. and the Greek have a lot in common in this quest, but while the Greek is moving toward some goal, D.R. is only running away from home.__NEWL__Next up is the Native, whom D.R. meets while attending a funeral for his friend Eddie.__NEWL__After this D.R. heads for his sister and tells Estelle he would prefer to see his sister's family without her.__NEWL__He is reluctant to mix his two identities; with Estelle he is D.R. and with his sister he is David Ray.__NEWL__This results in Estelle leaving D.R., and the story, for good.__NEWL__D.R. settles in at his sister Marcella and Doyle's house as if he were born there, and he finds out about a person called Emmit, his chance for salvation.__NEWL__While Marcella's family is at church, D.R. gets his own message from what he perceives as God (Mrs. Godsey) over the phone.__NEWL__She tells him to come home and take care of Emmit.__NEWL__As D.R. crosses the Ohio River, the narration suddenly shifts from Divine Right's journey home to David Ray's weekend trips as a boy from Cincinnati back to the old homeplace.__NEWL__When we change back to Divine__NEWL__Right he is at a crossroads in Kentucky and so is the story: the two D.R.'s are about to converge.__NEWL__D.R. struggles with his two selves as he gets closer to home.__NEWL__He hallucinates in the back of the van, meets a dragon with "seven horns".__NEWL__He perceives himself as the "monster".__NEWL__Even so, when he gets to Mrs. Godsey's, he exits the van as David Ray and the two identities finally converged into one after a face off in a nearby coal mine.__NEWL__D.R. psychically returns home, helping his dead grandmother with the laundry and sharing tea with his Uncle Emmit.__NEWL__D.R. becomes a part of his Uncle Emmit, a part of his family, and a part of the hillside where he will live and where his Uncle Emmit will be buried.__NEWL__Emmit is planted in the ground "like a seed," and D.R. sleeps in Emmit's bed.__NEWL__Emmit is in the box marked "past," and D.R. is in the one marked "present.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Everything seems to be in harmony, except for the fact that Estelle is missing.__NEWL__She returns and D.R. marries her, and the story is completed.__NEWL__Divine Right has found himself travelling back to his Appalachian roots.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7885261	Unintended Consequences	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1903980	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903980	The novel's protagonist, Henry Bowman, shows an early proficiency with firearms, practicing whenever he can find the time.__NEWL__Encouraged by his father, he gathers an impressive firearms collection and gains extensive experience in piloting small aircraft.__NEWL__During college, Bowman is robbed, beaten, and sodomized by a rural gang.__NEWL__The incident nearly destroys him and causes him to become an alcoholic for a period.__NEWL__While at a gun show in Indianapolis, Indiana with friend Allen Kane, Bowman publicly embarrasses an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Wilson Blair.__NEWL__One of Blair's men was trying to trick and entrap a fellow firearms dealer.__NEWL__Blair takes the offense personally, and with the support of the ATF's director, begins to plan revenge.__NEWL__Several years later, Blair and subordinate agents of the ATF plan to frame Henry and his friends as terrorists, smugglers, and counterfeiters.__NEWL__They plan to plant "evidence" when the men are away on vacation.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to Blair, Bowman delays his departure at the last minute due to a work commitment, and is on a friend's property when the agents arrive.__NEWL__Bowman assumes the agents are burglars and engages in a gun battle with them, killing or capturing all and in the process discovering the truth about the raid.__NEWL__Bowman realizes that his life has been irrevocably changed.__NEWL__He makes Blair record a video taped confession of his illegal actions, kills Blair, and disposes of all forensic evidence of the agents' presence.__NEWL__Afterwards, he hunts down and kills Blair's remaining subordinates.__NEWL__Bowman and his closest friends begin to systematically kill ATF agents around the nation – whom Bowman views as supporting the infringement of citizen's constitutional rights, and abusing government powers – as well as politicians who had supported unconstitutional gun control legislation.__NEWL__Simultaneously Bowman releases the video tape of Blair to CNN, which claims that Blair and his companions have had a change of heart, realize what they are doing is wrong, and are now dedicated to killing other ATF agents.__NEWL__Amidst the national search for Blair and company, Bowman continues to rack up the body count.__NEWL__Eventually, as the ATF and FBI are unable to effectively track down those responsible for the killings, the President of the United States is forced to give an address to the nation relating his intent to repeal the unconstitutional laws, including the National Firearms Act of 1934 and Gun Control Act of 1968.__NEWL__The story contains several items of historical fiction (accounts of real events with fictionalized thoughts & dialog) that are not widely known and advance the book's premise and plot.__NEWL__The following events are featured prominently:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4132785	Bring the Jubilee	1953-09-21T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1903199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903199	The narrator of the novel is Hodgins "Hodge" McCormick Backmaker, who writes a diary of his life in our timeline, year 1877.__NEWL__Hodge was born in 1921 in the alternate timeline in Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, New York.__NEWL__In 1938 at age 17, he travels to New York City, the largest city of the United States (and yet a backwater compared to some Confederate cities), in a desperate attempt to gain admittance to a college or university.__NEWL__After being robbed of his few possessions, he comes into contact with the "Grand Army", a nationalistic organization working to restore the United States to its former glory through acts of sabotage and terrorism.__NEWL__One of the Grand Army's operations involves counterfeiting Spanish currency, with the goal of provoking war between the Confederacy and the German Union in Spanish territories, sparing the U.S. from becoming the two superpowers' battlefield.__NEWL__Despite remaining critical of the organization's activities, Hodge accepts work and lodging with a Grand Army member working from a bookshop.__NEWL__Content to work for food and the opportunity to read at every waking hour, Hodge stays in the bookshop for six years.__NEWL__(Young Hodge's life is largely autobiographical of Ward Moore.)__NEWL__One friend he meets during this time is Consul Enfandin, an emissary of the Republic of Haiti, the only independent American republic south of the Mason–Dixon line.__NEWL__Hodge leaves New York in 1944 for rural Pennsylvania, where his aspiration of becoming a historian, specializing in the war between North and South, becomes a reality when he is invited to join a co-operative society named Haggershaven.__NEWL__The society was founded by the children of a Confederate Major named Herbert Haggerwells, who settled after the war in the land he had helped defeat.__NEWL__He becomes acquainted with his recruiter Barbara Haggerwells, an emotionally disturbed research scientist on the verge of developing time travel.__NEWL__Many secondary characters with their own subplots are introduced during this part of the story, including some of the last few Asian-Americans alive (after a series of horrifying pogroms against their kind throughout North America) and a mysterious Spanish refugee woman who forms a love triangle with Hodge and Barbara.__NEWL__In 1952, the time machine has been perfected, and Hodge takes the opportunity to finally see in person the Battle of Gettysburg which was fought not far from Haggershaven.__NEWL__Wearing a special watch to keep track of the differences in time, he travels back in time to 1863, where he then inadvertently causes the death of Captain Herbert Haggerwells ("never to be Major now", remarks Hodge when he recognizes that the dead man was a younger version of the exalted portrait on Haggershaven's living room walls), who would have occupied Little Round Top for the South during the battle.__NEWL__In Hodge's timeline, Haggerwells' men held the hill so that the Confederates won the Battle of Gettysburg, paving the way for their victory over the Union in Philadelphia a year later; in the resultant timeline (our own), Union Colonel Strong Vincent's 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry and Colonel Joshua Chamberlain's 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment occupy the hill early on and successfully repel Confederate advances.__NEWL__In the novel, Hodge asserts that Little Round Top is the key to the battle, and thus the war.__NEWL__Hodge's actions have led to Union control of the hill, so events play out as they did in our timeline, much to the surprise of Hodge, who witnesses Pickett's Charge having a different outcome than he read about.__NEWL__The South loses the battle, and eventually the war.__NEWL__ With history changed to make the world we know, Hodge discovers he is unable to return to his previous reality since the circumstances that had made the development of time travel possible have been unalterably changed: technology evolves along different lines, and Haggerwells has died before siring any descendants including Barbara, so Haggershaven and the time machine will never exist.__NEWL__Hodge, stranded in our timeline, hires himself out as a farmhand at the estate which would have been Haggershaven but is now owned by the Thammis family.__NEWL__Between 1863 and 1877 (when he is writing this story), Hodge comes to realize that the changed post-war United States is in some ways superior to the equivalent timeline in his past.__NEWL__He also finds it fascinating that people always talk of the Civil War rather than the War of Southron Independence, since the victors' name for the war takes precedence.__NEWL__However, he has an ominous feeling about the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes, suspecting that it will end the Reconstruction Era prematurely and weaken the cause of civil rights.__NEWL__Hodge then explains why he felt his story had to be written down, because he has considered the possibility of other timelines existing in parallel universes but has come to the conclusion that by preventing the future he was born in, he destroyed the only dimension where travel between them was possible.__NEWL__With this, the story ends abruptly in mid-sentence.__NEWL__An "editorial note" following the story relates how one Frederick Winter Thammis had found Hodge's diary while remodeling his house in 1953, the year the real life book came out.__NEWL__Frederick's father had grown up knowing Hodge as a beloved ex-servant kept on a pension after he was too old to work.__NEWL__The family enjoyed listening to Hodge's stories of the world he was born in, but had not thought him fully sane.__NEWL__Thammis junior says the story reminds him of The Wizard of Oz.__NEWL__Thammis notes that he has found a watch of a unique, two-dialed design with the manuscript, and ends the book by quoting from a recent history book which asks what could possibly have caused the Confederates' failure to occupy Little Round Top, "an error with momentous consequences".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q282223	Desolation Angels	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1935135	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1935135	Desolation Angels follows the travels of Jack Duluoz and contains two books, totaling six parts all-together.__NEWL__Book 1: Desolation Angels contains Part One: Desolation in Solitude and Part Two: Desolation in the World, totaling 102 chapters.__NEWL__Book 2: Passing Through contains Part One: Passing Through Mexico, Part Two:__NEWL__Passing Through New York, Part Three:__NEWL__Passing through Tangiers, France and London, and Part Four: Passing Through America Again, coming to a total of 84 chapters, despite being the longer book of the novel.__NEWL__The novel's events take place from 1956-1957, and depict Kerouac's life after the events of The Dharma Bums, immediately before the publication of On The Road, through the character Jack Duluoz.__NEWL__Throughout the novel, Kerouac's group of friends are referred to as "The Desolation Angels", regardless of how many people are present at any time.__NEWL__Since all the characters names are often considered pseudonyms for the people that inspired them, they will largely be referred to in this article using their real world names.__NEWL__According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is taken almost directly from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state.__NEWL__Another account of this time was published in Kerouac's 1960 book of sketches and essays Lonesome Traveler.__NEWL__The first section, typed up in Mexico in 1956, depicts Jack Kerouac's time as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak during the summer of 1956, beginning almost immediately after the conclusion of the events in Kerouac's 1959 novel The Dharma Bums.__NEWL__While the stay was initially spiritually fulfilling, Kerouac describes the negative effects of his 2 month solitude in lines such as “Many's the time I thought I'd die of boredom or jump off the mountain,”.__NEWL__He spends his time playing card games of his own creation, scribbling in notebooks, unsuccessfully attempting to quit smoking and listening to the chatter of other lookouts over the radio.__NEWL__Book One, Part One is notable for its description of Kerouac's interest in Zen Buddhism, and his anxiety over his mother growing old, his age and his future as a writer (The Town and the City had been published 6 years earlier, and On the Road would be published the following year).__NEWL__He muses on his spirituality and his past, mentioning that he could have married "Maggie Cassidy", a character with a prominent role in the novel of the same name, who is based on Kerouac's high-school girlfriend Mary Carney.__NEWL__Kerouac is largely the only character, with other characters such as "Irwin Garden" (real name Allen Ginsberg), "Cody Pomeray" (Neal Cassady), or "Bull Hubbard" (William S. Burroughs) mentioned briefly.__NEWL__Part One also contains many one-dimensional depictions of Kerouac's sexual fantasies, or ideal women, which would now be considered reductive and offensive.__NEWL__As the fire season draws to a close, and less lookouts are needed, Kerouac leaves Desolation Peak after 63 days, with his mind "in rags".__NEWL__The novel's second section contains Jack Kerouac's hike down Desolation Peak, and his return to society, and hitchhiking his way to San Francisco.__NEWL__He struggles to return to society, feeling sickened by the unfamiliar smell of fresh ink on a newspaper.__NEWL__While in San Francisco, he reunites with his friends, such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and "Simon Darlovsky" (Peter Orlovsky).__NEWL__Kerouac describes mixed feelings about whether to live a life of solitude, or to return to society with his friends.__NEWL__His disenchantment with Buddhism becomes more obvious, and he increases his consumption of drugs and alcohol.__NEWL__He is gifted a crucifix necklace by Rapheal Urso (Gregory Corso), and wonders "'What would Christians and Catholics say about me wearing the cross to ball and to drink like this?'__NEWL__" Kerouac would later publicly somewhat readopt the Catholic faith of his upbringing, stating "All I write about it Jesus" in 1968, but throughout his life he had a complicated relationship with Christianity.__NEWL__Book One, Part Two is significantly longer than other parts of the novel, possibly owing to the fact that Kerouac wished to have the first book published as its own separate novel Jack Duluoz's musings reflect Kerouac's own introspection and questioning of his own beliefs, relationships and his life's trajectory during 1956, exploring his affections for, and frustrations with, his friends.__NEWL__The shortest part of all, Book Two, Part One describes Jack Kerouac's time in Mexico in September 1956.__NEWL__Kerouac stays with friend Old Bull Gaines (Bill Garver), a 60-year-old heroin addict and petty thief.__NEWL__Kerouac jumps forward in time for a moment in Book Two, Part One, Chapter 8 to explain his frustrations with fame and press attention.__NEWL__Kerouac stayed in Mexico in an attempt to increase his creative output.__NEWL__This attempt succeeds, as he writes "...a whole novel, finished another, and wrote a whole book of poetry.__NEWL__" This likely refers to how Kerouac wrote the entirety of Book One: Desolation Angels, and finished writing Tristessa while in Mexico.__NEWL__Kerouac's friends, such as Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and his brothers, "Tony" and "Lazarus Darlovksy" (Nicki and Lafcadio Orlovsky) then join him, which both excited and frustrates Kerouac.__NEWL__Kerouac discusses Allen Ginsberg's homosexuality openly through the character Irwin Garden, and defends homosexuality, particularly Queer authors.__NEWL__Kerouac had a complicated relationship with his own homosexuality, and here takes care to specifically state that he is "a non-queer".__NEWL__Kerouac and his friends decide to return to the United States, and visit New York, as described in Book Two Part Two.__NEWL__Consisting largely of travel through the United States, as well as time spent in New York and Washington, DC in 1956, Part Two begins with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Orlovsky Brothers making their way to New York, leaving Garver in Mexico, despite his protestations and grief at being left alone.__NEWL__They are driven out of Mexico by a man named Norman (no last name is given), crossing the border into Texas and spending time sleeping in the car or in sleeping bags.__NEWL__Kerouac and Lafcadio share a sleeping bag.__NEWL__The Desolation Angels travel through the United States, drinking and arguing.__NEWL__Open arriving in New York, they meet Ruth Erickson (real name Helen Elliot) and her roommate Ruth Heaper (Helen Weaver), who are both described as incredibly beautiful.__NEWL__Kerouac moves in with Weaver, and they have a relationship from 1956-57.__NEWL__Kerouac claims he felt like marrying her.__NEWL__In this part of the novel, Kerouac describes women in general in a derogatory manner, reducing them to little more than objects of desire for men.__NEWL__Helen Elliot confesses feelings for Julien Love (Lucien Carr), who had earlier had unrequited feelings for her, but was now married.__NEWL__Kerouac meets up with Carr, and discusses a number of the interactions they have had.__NEWL__Kerouac and Carr visit Weaver's house, where Kerouac is living, and upon seeing him drunk, WeaVer begins to beat Kerouac, pulling out his hair and punching him repeatedly, leading to Carr nicknaming her "Slugger".__NEWL__Kerouac is gifted a large coat by his friend "Deni Bleu" (Henri Cru), which he wears with Ginsberg and Orlovskyto meet Salvador Dali.__NEWL__As Christmas 1956 approaches, Kerouac leaves to visit his mother Gabrielles-Ange Kerouac.__NEWL__Before making the journey south however, he visits Gregory Corso in DC, smoking cannabis and drinking heavily.__NEWL__After falling asleep on the bus, Kerouac's pack appears stolen, and with it is his novel Angels of Desolation (a working title for what would become Desolation Angels), his book of poetry, and an early version of Tristessa, along with his gear and some clothing.__NEWL__This loss moves Kerouac to tears.__NEWL__After entering a brief state of suicidal depression and considering the nature of God, it is revealed that Kerouac's bag has been shipped to his destination ahead of him, much to his relief.__NEWL__Kerouac describes Christmas and New Year's celebrations with his mother, with whom he shared a complex, co-dependent, and often disturbing relationship.__NEWL__Promising to return in the fall to help her move to her own house, he leaves again for New York.__NEWL__She warns him that his friends, particularly Ginsberg and Burroughs were "...going to destroy [him]!", a sentiment that his father shared prior to his death.__NEWL__Meanwhile in New York, Gregory Corso is sleeping with Helen Weaver, or so Kerouac believes.__NEWL__Upon returning to New York, Kerouac discovers that Ginsberg has arranged for Kerouac and other Beat Generation figures to be photographed together for Life Magazine, which frustrates Kerouac, who attends the photoshoot intoxicated.__NEWL__Weaver breaks up with Kerouac, apparently upon the advice of her psychoanalyst, who views their relationship as harmful for her psyche.__NEWL__Weaver explains that her psychoanalyst believes that Kerouac has taken advantage of her, and affected her ability to get adequate rest.__NEWL__Kerouac replies by accusing the psychoanalyst of trying to seduce Weaver himself.__NEWL__Kerouac is then introduced to "Alyce Newman", real name Joyce Glassman, with whom he begins what he describes as "...perhaps the best love affair I ever had".__NEWL__Glassman is a renowned author, and her romance with Kerouac came right at the beginning of her career.__NEWL__Despite her reputation as a feminist writer, Kerouac claims that Glassman offered to dye her hair, to satisfy his dislike of blondes.__NEWL__Kerouac meets Weaver again while drunk in a bar, and she attempts to persuade him to spend the night with her, an idea which he appears apprehensive towards.__NEWL__Glassman suddenly arrives at the bar, and takes the intoxicated Kerouac home.__NEWL__Kerouac describes his relationship with Glassman incredibly warmly, despite his somewhat patronizing attitude to her writing.__NEWL__He views her literary models as "wrong", but still believes she could be "the first great woman writer of the world", despite the number of notable female authors already published by the 1950s.__NEWL__Glassman's best friend, "Barbara Lipp", real name Elise Cowen, is described as being still in love with Ginsberg, following their relationship in 1953.__NEWL__Ginsberg and Kerouac discuss Kerouac's upcoming trip to Tangiers to visit Burroughs, and Ginsberg's romantic feelings for his life-partner Orlovsky.__NEWL__They bump into Cowen, and although their discussion is not described in much detail, they appear to make amicable humorous conversation for an extended period of time.__NEWL__Kerouac buys a ticket to Tangiers on a Yugoslavian ship, visits Carr again, and shares a beer with Glassman, who is hurt by his departure and concerned about his alcohol abuse, before beginning his trip.__NEWL__Part Three begin depicts Jack Kerouac's time in Morroco, the impact that typing up Naked Lunch had on his psyche and his travels through France and London.__NEWL__The travel was also depicted in Lonesome Traveler, in the section Big Trip To Europe.__NEWL__While staying with William S. Burroughs in Tangiers, Kerouac witnesses Burroughs refer to Arabic people as "little pricks" regularly. "__NEWL__But by the next day I realized everybody was a little prick: - me, Irwin [Allen], himself [Burroughs], the Arabs, the women, the merchants, the President of the USA and Ali Baba himself...__NEWL__I realized it was just an expression..."Kerouac notes Burroughs' fitness, which is especially notable when considering Burroughs' opiate addiction, as depicted in his semi-autobiographical novel Junky.__NEWL__The pair spend time ingesting various forms of cannabis, abusing opiates, and visiting gay bars.__NEWL__Kerouac describes typing up Burroughs' Naked Lunch as an experience with somewhat traumatic effects.__NEWL__Kerouac attributes at least a week of nightmares to his exposure to the disturbing imagery in Burroughs' influential novel.__NEWL__Interestingly, Allen Ginsberg's contributions to the typing of Naked Lunch are not mentioned, despite the fact that he fulfilled a similar role to Kerouac.__NEWL__However, Burroughs' intense romantic feelings towards Ginsberg are described, particularly when Burroughs breaks down in tears on Kerouac's shoulder while waiting for Ginsberg to arrive.__NEWL__Kerouac then goes on to describe an experience where he and Burroughs ingested excessive amounts of opium in various states.__NEWL__Ginsberg and his partner Peter Orlovsky arrive in Tangiers, causing Kerouac to become withdrawn due to his apathy towards his friends and disenchantment with his life in general.__NEWL__Despite this, the four of them explore the city together.__NEWL__In Chapter 58, Kerouac flashes-forward and describes his disenchantment with the yet-unnamed Beat Generation, which would come to a head in the years following the publication of On the Road.__NEWL__He describes his frustration with how the concept of "coolness" will soon become a mass-marketed fad, or a set of rules for socially-posturing middleclass youth, as opposed to the "natural quietness" of Ginsberg's, or Burroughs' cool.__NEWL__Kerouac purchases tickets to Europe from a friend at a party.__NEWL__Kerouac arrives in France, meeting Gregory Corso in Paris.__NEWL__Kerouac writes about his perceptions of the romance of France and the women of Paris, again using reductive stereotypes.__NEWL__After spending little more than 3 pages describing his time in France, Kerouac travels to England.__NEWL__After some difficulty getting into England, Kerouac arrives in London in the evening and visits a bar called "Shakespeare", which he strongly dislikes due to its somewhat aristocratic décor.__NEWL__He visits Chelsea and searches for a place to stay in Soho, which he calls "the Greenwich Village of London."__NEWL__He notices members of the mid-20th century sub-culture, known as Teddy Boys, and refers to them as "dandies."__NEWL__He stays in a cheap room in Piccadilly Circus ("the Times Square of London"), and notices London's large feline population, applauding the city's apparent affection for cats.__NEWL__He walks about one evening looking for 221B Baker Street, before remembering that Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character.__NEWL__He buys a ticket to New York on the Dutch ship SS Nieuw Amsterdam, and ships out.__NEWL__Kerouac felt that his European trip had come at a time at his life when he responded to new experiences with apprehension or disgust, and that mindset may have been a factor in why his journey was so short.__NEWL__Part Four begins with Jack Kerouac's journey across the Atlantic back to the USA, and depicts his excitement at returning to his home country.__NEWL__Kerouac is almost moved to tear by the sight of a can of Campbell's Pork and Bean soup, and the American meals it symbolizes to him.__NEWL__Once he arrives in new York, he travels south to collect his mother Gabrielles Ange Kerouac, stopping to reunite for two days with Joyce Johnson.__NEWL__He travels with his mother to California via Mexico, a journey which takes up most of the final section of the novel.__NEWL__Kerouac's mother packs her sewing basket, her salt and pepper shaker and a photo album for their trip.__NEWL__Kerouac devotes chapters 64 and 65 to literary sketches of his mother, and defends his relationship with her against "Freudian" implications (Kerouac was particularly sensitive to allegations of having an Oedipus Complex), and discusses his intense love for the woman he describes as "the most important person in this whole story, and the best."__NEWL__Kerouac and Gabrielles travel through Florida, Texas, Louisiana and even visit Mexico, sharing drinks and sleeping on buses.__NEWL__Kerouac documents her first time visiting Mexico, particularly impactfully describing how moved she was by a lone young Mexican woman dressed in black, bringing her infant child to the altar of a Catholic church.__NEWL__This image would stay with her for the rest of her life.__NEWL__After their time in Mexico, they travel through Arizona and arrive in San Francisco, California, where Gabrielles remarks that they have no plans and little money, to which Kerouac replies that rent in California can be relatively cheap.__NEWL__Kerouac and "Ben Fagan" (Phillip Whalen) whom Kerouac describes as "an old Grandpaw", spend time together, meeting with "Alex Fairbrother" (John Montgomery).__NEWL__Kerouac continues to drink, and provides "Cody Pomeray", real name Neal Cassady, with $10 for "an urgent pot connection.__NEWL__" In meta style, Kerouac receives advance copies of his novel On the Road, giving a copy to Neal, "the hero of the poor crazy sad book.__NEWL__" Kerouac describes Cassady's 1958 arrest for offering to share a small amount of marijuana to undercover agents, for which he served 2 years.__NEWL__Kerouac and Gabrielle catch a Greyhound bus back to Florida.__NEWL__Gabrielle stays a few blocks away from her daughter Caroline Kerouac's house in Florida.__NEWL__Kerouac journeys on to Mexico City again, and is upset to discover that Garver had died since he left Mexico in the beginning of Book Two, Part Two.__NEWL__Desolation Angels concludes with Kerouac briefly describing being back in New York at an unknown time, with Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Corso, now that they are famous writers after the publication of works such as On the Road and Howl. "...__NEWL__and so I told my Desolation Angels goodbye.__NEWL__A new life for me"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q854213	The Trumpet of the Swan	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1885958	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1885958	In Canada during the spring of 1968, the cob (the name for an adult male swan) and the pen (the name for an adult female swan), both trumpeter swans, build their summer nest on a small island in a pond.__NEWL__The swans are worried when Sam Beaver, an 11-year-old boy on a camping trip with his father, begins coming to the lake every day to watch them; the cob believes that human boys are dangerous.__NEWL__One day while the pen steps away from her eggs to stretch her legs, a fox slips up behind her.__NEWL__Sam chases the fox away, saving both the female and her eggs.__NEWL__After this incident, the swans begin to trust him.__NEWL__After the hatching of their cygnets, the cob proudly leads his brood to Sam to introduce them.__NEWL__The cygnets each chirp at Sam in greeting, except for the youngest who is named Louis and is unable to chirp but pulls Sam's shoelace instead.__NEWL__The adult swans gradually realize that Louis is mute.__NEWL__The adults grow increasingly concerned about Louis, worrying that he will not be able to find a mate if he cannot trumpet like all the other swans.__NEWL__Louis's father promises to find a way for him to communicate.__NEWL__At the end of summer, the swan family flies to the winter refuge, Red Rock Lakes in Montana.__NEWL__Louis decides he should learn to read and write in order to communicate, and flies away from the refuge to visit Sam Beaver.__NEWL__Sam takes his swan friend to school with him the next morning.__NEWL__Louis turns out to be a natural at reading and writing, and Sam buys him a portable blackboard and chalk so he can communicate.__NEWL__Unfortunately, because the other swans cannot read, Louis is still lonely.__NEWL__ When Louis returns to the Red Rock Lakes, he falls in love with a young swan, Serena, but cannot attract her attention.__NEWL__Louis's father is aware that trumpeter swans are named after the human musical instrument and becomes determined to acquire a trumpet as a substitute "voice" for Louis.__NEWL__The cob crashes through the window of a music store in Billings, Montana and steals a brass trumpet on a cord.__NEWL__By the time Louis learns to effectively play the trumpet, Serena has migrated north.__NEWL__Instead of accompanying his family north where he might have to face Serena again, Louis visits Sam on his ranch and explains that he feels guilty about the stolen trumpet.__NEWL__Sam suggests that Louis should get a job so he can pay the store for the trumpet and the damaged window.__NEWL__He helps Louis find a position as camp bugler at Camp Kookooskoos, the boys' camp Sam attends.__NEWL__Louis convinces Sam to split one of his webbed feet with a razor blade, making "fingers" so that he can play more notes.__NEWL__Over the course of the summer, Louis plays taps, reveille, and mess call, and composes a love song for Serena.__NEWL__He also receives a Lifesaving Medal for rescuing a drowning camper.__NEWL__At the end of the summer, he has earned $100, which he carries in a waterproof pouch around his neck along with his slate, chalk, medal, and trumpet.__NEWL__Sam suggests that Louis can get a job with the Swan Boats in Boston.__NEWL__Louis flies across country and becomes an instant success, with a salary of $100 per week and a private suite in the Ritz Hotel.__NEWL__A Philadelphia nightclub offers Louis a higher salary, $500 per week.__NEWL__He leaves Boston and takes up temporary residence at the Philadelphia Zoo.__NEWL__The zookeeper promises that because Louis is only a guest, he will not be pinioned (have a wing tip cut off to prevent escape) like all the other swans at the zoo.__NEWL__One stormy night, Serena, blown off course, falls into the Zoo's Bird Lake.__NEWL__Louis serenades her by playing "Beautiful Dreamer" on his trumpet, and she falls in love with him, impressed by his song and the numerous possessions hanging around his neck.__NEWL__When the zookeepers spot Serena, they try to clip her wings, and Louis attacks them.__NEWL__He convinces the Head Man to postpone the operation for a short while and sends a telegram to Sam, asking for help.__NEWL__Sam goes to Philadelphia and strikes a deal with the Head Man: in every clutch of cygnets, there is always one that needs special care, just as Louis did in his own family.__NEWL__If the Head Man will let Louis and Serena go free, they will donate one of their cygnets to the zoo every year.__NEWL__Louis and Serena fly back to the Red Rock Lakes.__NEWL__Now intending to live the rest of his life among other swans, he no longer needs his slate.__NEWL__Louis writes an apology on the slate and gives it and the money bag to his father, who flies back to the music store in Billings.__NEWL__Afraid that the swan will destroy another window, the storekeeper shoots the cob in the shoulder, but is amazed to find the note and the money, which amounts to several times the cost of both the stolen trumpet and the window.__NEWL__Because the cob is a protected species, he is taken to a wildlife veterinarian, where his injury is treated.__NEWL__When he is recovered, he flies back to the Red Rock Lakes to rejoin his family, including Louis and Serena.__NEWL__Many years later, when Sam is about 20 years old, he is again camping in Canada when he hears the sound of a trumpet playing across the lake and knows it must be Louis.__NEWL__He writes in his journal: "Tonight I heard Louis's horn.__NEWL__My father heard it, too.__NEWL__The wind was right, and I could hear the notes of taps, just as darkness fell.__NEWL__There is nothing in all the world I like better than the trumpet of the swan."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7846417	Trouble Follows Me			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12439	Detroit	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1878669	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1878669	It's 1945.__NEWL__Ensign Sam Drake attends a party on his last night stationed in Hawaii and meets the woman of his dreams.__NEWL__But before the night is out, her best friend is dead in an upstairs room at the party.__NEWL__It appears to be suicide.__NEWL__The next day Sam starts his leave before receiving a new post.__NEWL__He returns to his home town of Detroit, and decides to check into a connection there between the dead woman and a radical group of black activists.__NEWL__Another death quickly follows and Sam finds himself on a cross-country adventure, haunted by dangerous characters everywhere he turns.__NEWL__Trouble Follows Me was reprinted by Lion Paperbacks in 1950 and 1955 under the title of Night Train, with cover art that presented it as a "race novel" to capitalize on the Detroit race riot of 1943.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1728631	Captain Singleton		6422	1898821	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1898821	The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720) covers both land and sea in one volume, in two neatly composed halves.__NEWL__The first half of the novel includes a remarkable overland trek across Africa after the characters are stranded in Madagascar, and the second half is almost entirely at sea, involving piratical heists in the East Indies.__NEWL__Eventually, Captain Bob and his close friend William Walters return to England with their spoils via Venice, disguised as Armenians.'__NEWL__At the beginning of the novel, Singleton, as a young boy, is kidnapped and sold to a gypsy by a beggar-woman.__NEWL__He is raised as a ward of a parish, and sent to sea at age twelve.__NEWL__Soon he is captured by Turkish pirates, rescued by sailors from Portugal, and after a two-year stay in that country, sails for the East Indies.__NEWL__By his own account, young Singleton is a rogue who steals from the ship's captain and harbors the desire to kill his master.__NEWL__Nearly hanged for his part in an attempted mutiny, Singleton is set ashore with four companions on the coast of Madagascar.__NEWL__A score of other sailors from the ship join them and the ensuing narrative relates their efforts to survive on the island.__NEWL__The sailors find and rebuild an abandoned boat and eventually decide to pursue a journey through Africa.__NEWL__In their encounters with African natives, the Europeans prove resourceful but brutal.__NEWL__During the hazardous trip Singleton becomes the leader of the group by virtue of his fearlessness and ingenuity.__NEWL__He is a cold pragmatist whose lack of compassion is exceeded only by his talent for survival.__NEWL__When they find a wounded native, Singleton makes a decision based purely on expediency.__NEWL__Singleton makes the decision, after considering to let the native die, that they might find the man useful to them - as is written "I found the man had some respect showed him, it presently occurred to my thoughts that we might bring him to be useful to us, and perhaps make him a kind of commander over them", they then take to call the native 'prince'.__NEWL__During the arduous march through lands teeming with leopards, elephants, crocodiles, and snakes, the travellers avoid catastrophe because of their modern weaponry and their European belief in reason rather than in magic.__NEWL__The marchers meet an English merchant who has been living with the natives and who persuades Singleton and his companions to stop awhile in order to dig for gold.__NEWL__Having loaded themselves down with gold and elephant tusks, the adventurers finally reach a Dutch settlement, where they divide the spoils and immediately go their separate ways.__NEWL__Once Singleton has spent his fortune in England, he sets out again, this time for the West Indies where, by his boastful admission, he quickly takes to piracy.__NEWL__Singleton's abilities bring him high command, although his piratical activities encourage the growth of a callousness so pervasive that at times it leads to cruelty.__NEWL__He denies that his men have committed certain atrocities, but calmly admits that "more was done than it is fit to speak of here" (p. 188).__NEWL__In this portion of the novel events pile up rapidly, and there are chases and sea battles in which Singleton proves himself an able, courageous, and imaginative leader.__NEWL__From the Indies the scene shifts to the East African coast and Madagascar where the pirates continue to plunder and sail restlessly in search of new conquests.__NEWL__Defoe draws a portrait of men whose love of gold is less urgent than their need for adventure.__NEWL__This lust for novelty takes Singleton and his men into the Pacific as far as the Philippines, before they trace their way back to the Indian Ocean and Ceylon.__NEWL__Friend William, a Quaker surgeon, becomes the center of the narrative as he outwits a Ceylonese King and rescues a Dutch slave.__NEWL__William displays further resourcefulness by succeeding in trade negotiations with English merchants in India.__NEWL__He serves Singleton loyally and bravely as a kind of man Friday: he is, moreover, a Christian humanist and healer who ultimately persuades his captain that a life of piracy leads nowhere.__NEWL__When Singleton contemplates suicide in the throes of repentance, William convinces him that the idea of taking one's life is the "Devil's Notion" (p. 332) and therefore must be ignored.__NEWL__When they return to England, they make the decision to stay together for the rest of their lives.__NEWL__Singleton marries William's sister, a widow, and the story ends rapidly on a note of domestic peace.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q306619	Atonement	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q45797	Dunkirk	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1890954	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1890954	Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family's country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis, who are members of the landed gentry.__NEWL__Her older sister Cecilia has recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with Robbie Turner, the Tallis family housekeeper's son and Cecilia's childhood friend, whose university education was funded by Jack.__NEWL__In the summer of 1935, Briony's maternal cousins, 15-year-old Lola and 9-year-old twins Jackson and Pierrot, visit the family amidst their parents' divorce.__NEWL__Briony and Cecilia's older brother Leon returns from London, accompanied by his friend from Oxford, the well-off manufacturer Paul Marshall.__NEWL__Cecilia and Robbie bicker over a vase, which breaks and falls into a pond.__NEWL__Cecilia strips to her underwear and dives in to retrieve the pieces, surprising Robbie.__NEWL__Briony, watching from a window, is confused and intrigued by Cecilia and Robbie's actions.__NEWL__She is inspired to begin writing psychological realism, and the reader is informed that this will eventually become a hallmark of her fiction.__NEWL__In the wake of the incident by the pond, Robbie realizes he is attracted to Cecilia, and writes several drafts of a love letter to her.__NEWL__He gives the letter to Briony to deliver to Cecilia; however, he inadvertently gives her a version he had meant to discard, which contains lewd references ("In my dreams I kiss your cunt").__NEWL__By the time Robbie realizes his mistake, Briony has already returned to the house with his letter.__NEWL__Despite Robbie's instructions to the contrary, Briony opens the letter and reads it.__NEWL__She is shocked by its vulgar language, and becomes convinced that Robbie intends to harm Cecilia.__NEWL__An injured Lola goes to Briony for comfort, claiming that her younger brothers attacked her, although it is implied to have instead been Paul Marshall, who has a long scratch on his face.__NEWL__Briony relates the contents of the letter to Lola, who labels Robbie a "maniac," re-affirming Briony's feelings.__NEWL__Robbie arrives at the main house for a family dinner party, and is confronted by Cecilia.__NEWL__He confesses his feelings to her, and she responds in kind.__NEWL__Later the same evening, Briony walks in on Robbie and Cecilia having sex in the library.__NEWL__The immature Briony believes she interrupted a vicious assault on Cecilia, and stands stunned while Robbie and Cecilia quickly exit.__NEWL__At the dinner, which is generally tense, it is discovered the twins have run away.__NEWL__The party breaks into teams to search for them.__NEWL__When Cecilia goes with Leon, Robbie and Briony each set off on their own.__NEWL__In the darkness, while everyone is searching for the twins, Briony discovers her cousin Lola being raped by an assailant neither girl can clearly see.__NEWL__The attacker flees.__NEWL__Briony, convinced that it must have been Robbie, gets Lola to agree that she likely heard Robbie's voice, despite Lola being too shocked to recall anything.__NEWL__The girls return home, and Briony identifies Robbie to the police as the rapist, claiming she saw his face in the dark.__NEWL__Lola is sedated by the local doctor, Cecilia screams at Briony and locks herself in her room, and Paul Marshall shares cigarettes with the policemen.__NEWL__Robbie does not return, and the family and police officers stay awake waiting for him.__NEWL__As dawn breaks, Robbie appears in the driveway with Jackson and Pierrot, having found and rescued them.__NEWL__He is arrested on the spot and taken away, with only Cecilia and his mother believing his protestations of innocence.__NEWL__Briony is satisfied by this conclusion to her mythologized version of the events, with her as the hero and Robbie as the villain.__NEWL__By the time the Second World War has started, Robbie has spent several years in prison.__NEWL__He and Cecilia have passed several years exchanging letters, maintaining their love for each other.__NEWL__Robbie is released from prison on the condition he enlists in the army.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Cecilia has completed training as a nurse, and cut off all contact with her family for the parts they played in locking Robbie up.__NEWL__Shortly before Robbie is deployed to France, they meet once for half an hour, during Cecilia's lunch break.__NEWL__Their reunion starts awkwardly, but they share a kiss before leaving each other.__NEWL__In France, the war is going badly, and the army is retreating to Dunkirk.__NEWL__As the injured Robbie makes his way there, he thinks about his love for Cecilia and his hatred for Briony.__NEWL__However, he eventually concludes that Briony was too young to be blamed fully, and writes Cecilia a letter encouraging her to reconnect with her family.__NEWL__His condition deteriorates over the course of the section; he weakens and becomes delirious.__NEWL__Robbie falls asleep in Dunkirk, one day before the evacuation begins.__NEWL__A remorseful Briony, now eighteen years old, has refused her place at Cambridge and instead is a trainee nurse in London.__NEWL__She has realised the full extent of her mistake and decides it was Paul Marshall, Leon's friend, whom she saw raping Lola.__NEWL__Briony still writes fiction, mostly inspired by Robbie and Cecilia's relationship, although she has been rejected by several literary publications.__NEWL__Briony travels to attend the wedding of Paul Marshall and her cousin Lola, with the knowledge that Lola is marrying her rapist.__NEWL__Briony considers speaking up during the wedding, but does not.__NEWL__Afterwards, she visits Cecilia, who is cold but invites Briony in nonetheless.__NEWL__While Briony is apologizing to Cecilia, Robbie unexpectedly appears from the bedroom.__NEWL__He has been living with Cecilia while he is on leave from the army.__NEWL__Robbie expresses his fury at Briony, but with Cecilia's soothing remains civil.__NEWL__Cecilia and Robbie both refuse to forgive Briony, who nonetheless tells them she will try to put things right.__NEWL__She promises to begin the legal procedures needed to exonerate Robbie, even though Paul Marshall will never be held responsible for his crime because of his marriage to Lola.__NEWL__As Briony leaves Cecilia's, she is optimistic about her role in Robbie's exoneration, thinking that it will be "a new draft, an atonement" and that she is ready to begin.__NEWL__The final section, titled "London 1999," is narrated by Briony herself in the form of a diary entry.__NEWL__Now 77, she is a successful novelist who has recently been diagnosed with vascular dementia, so she is facing rapid mental decline.__NEWL__The reader learns that Briony is the author of the preceding sections of the novel.__NEWL__Briony attends a party in her honor at the Tallis family home, where the extended Tallis children perform The Trials of Arabella, the play that 13-year-old Briony had written and unsuccessfully attempted to stage with her cousins in the summer of 1935.__NEWL__Leon and Pierrot are in attendance, Jackson is fifteen years deceased, and Lola is alive but does not attend.__NEWL__Finally, Briony reveals to the reader that Robbie Turner died of septicaemia on the beaches of Dunkirk, that Cecilia was killed several months later when a bomb destroyed Balham Underground station during the Blitz, and that Briony's story of seeing them together in 1940 was a fabrication.__NEWL__Briony did attend Lola's wedding to Paul Marshall, but confesses she was too "cowardly" to visit the recently bereaved Cecilia to make amends.__NEWL__The novel, which she says is factually true apart from Robbie and Cecilia being reunited, is her lifelong attempt at "atonement" for what she did to them.__NEWL__ Briony justifies her invented happy ending by saying she does not see what purpose it would serve to give readers a "pitiless" story.__NEWL__She writes, "I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, to let my lovers live and to unite them at the end."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7303893	Red Claw	2009-10-01T00:00:00Z	35651129	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35651129	The plot follows Professor Richard Helms as he heads a team of scientists and soldiers sent to study and document all forms of life on the planet New Amazon.__NEWL__When this is done they will "terraform" the planet - destroy all life and make it fit for human habitation.__NEWL__The team comes under attack and Helms and his followers are forced to flee into the depths of the jungle, where they soon end up fighting for their lives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7774520	The White Juga	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q222	Albania	35686297	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35686297	White Juga revolves mainly around the corruption of the administration of the town Trokth, personified by the main antagonist Kiu Koroziu.__NEWL__Some characters from The Dead River reappear in White Juga.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760864	The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q222	Albania	35686968	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35686968	The main story revolves around the optimistic main protagonist Zylo Kamberi, who is an incompetent apparatchik.__NEWL__Zylo in the book is referred to as comrade Zylo, which was common during the Communist regime.__NEWL__His pathetic vanity, his quixotic fervour, his grotesque public behaviour, in short his rise and fall, are all recorded in ironic detail by his hard-working and more astute subordinate and friend Demkë who serves as a neutral observer.__NEWL__Demkë before being assigned the post as Zylo's assistant used to be a bright individualistic person who gave up on his own ideals to substitute them with the "ideals of the greater good", which in the novel is an euphemism for his superiors’ will.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16968516	Reservoir Pups	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10686	Belfast	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35718206	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35718206	The story surrounds a twelve-year-old named Eddie and his affiliation with a local gang, known as the "Reservoir Pups".__NEWL__Eddie's father leaves his mother to run away with her boss, a doctor.__NEWL__His mother finds herself a new nursing job at the Royal Victoria Maternity Hospital, however it's located in a run-down section of Belfast; the pair move there regardless.__NEWL__A short time after they arrive, Scuttles, the chief of hospital security, accuses Eddie of scamming the locals and of being part of a neighbourhood gang, the "Reservoir Pups", for which his mum scolds him also.__NEWL__Given that all the people in his life believe he is already part of the gang, Eddie decides to join.__NEWL__He is tasked with stealing the security codes from Scuttles' computer and while attempting to do so, hears of a plot to kidnap twelve babies from the hospital nursery, abandoning his mission.__NEWL__Returning to the gang, Eddie is ostracised for his failure to complete his task and he is told to "watch his back".__NEWL__Eddie then sets out to foil the kidnapping himself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20926372	Strange Flesh	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35522599	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35522599	The novel opens with a deceased programmer inside a device that has driven a hole saw through the back of her neck.__NEWL__We then meet the protagonist, a professional social engineer named James Pryce who works for Red Rook, a gray-hat security company.__NEWL__He attends a meeting at a giant media company, run by twins Blake and Blythe Randall.__NEWL__James watches a mysterious video in which the Randall's half-brother Billy evidently electrocutes himself, but this turns out to be a ruse.__NEWL__Billy has "virtualized" himself in a virtual world known as "NOD" in order to communicate secretly with Blake.__NEWL__The twins hire James to work undercover at a gamer colony called, GAME and there James uncovers other mysteries including a number of suicides among Billy's friends, known as "the Jackanapes".__NEWL__It turns out that Billy has begun an ARG based in NOD at a replica of the castle from the Marquis de Sade's, The 120 Days of Sodom.__NEWL__Finally, James penetrates a group working on a project they hope will usher in a whole new era of sensual technology.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1623656	Nada	1945-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1492	Barcelona	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	35542531	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35542531	The novel is set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona.__NEWL__The novel is narrated by its main character, Andrea, an orphan, who has fond memories of her well off family in Barcelona, and has been raised in a convent in provincial Spain.__NEWL__The government has awarded Andrea a scholarship and a subsistence stipend so that she can attend university.__NEWL__She travels to Barcelona to the home of her grandmother, only to find it filthy and falling apart.__NEWL__Her frail, devoutly Catholic grandmother seems unaware of her miserable surroundings.__NEWL__Also living in the crumbling house is a strict, controlling aunt Angustias, a roguish, but musically talented uncle, Roman, another uncle, Juan, who abuses his beautiful wife Gloria.__NEWL__The whole group regularly comes to blows throughout Andrea’s stay, and Angustias eventually escapes by entering a convent.__NEWL__At the university, Andrea befriends a rich girl, Ena, who begins a strange relationship with Andrea's Uncle Roman.__NEWL__She pretends to care for him, but is really taking revenge for his poor treatment of her mother years before.__NEWL__Roman becomes involved in the black market, but Gloria reports him to the authorities.__NEWL__He commits suicide, in fear of arrest by the Francoist police.__NEWL__Ena and her family move to Madrid, and soon send for Andrea to join them.__NEWL__Ena’s father offers to give her a job and subsidize her further education.__NEWL__In the final part of the novel, Andrea is picked up by the family’s fancy car and she leaves behind her unpleasant life on Aribau Street in Barcelona.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16386769	The Lost Art of Gratitude	2009-09-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35706500	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35706500	A second attempt by professors Lettuce and Dove to oust Isabel from her position at 'The Review of Applied Ethics' is thwarted and Isabel learns further lessons about gratitude and kindness.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7726939	The Comfort of Saturdays	2008-10-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35706656	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35706656	A chance conversation draws Isabel Dalhousie into the case of a doctor, believed by his wife to have been unfairly disgraced in an affair of a dangerous drug.__NEWL__Her niece, Cat, is on holiday, leaving Isabel to run the delicatessen and attempt to get closer to, and possibly help, Cat's assistant, Eddie, whom she believes to have been damaged by something in his past.__NEWL__Somewhat to Isabel's disquiet, her fiancé, Jamie, strikes up a friendship with an arrogant American composer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730522	The Dog Who Came in from the Cold	2010-08-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35706855	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35706855	The story is set in a fictional housing unit in London nicknamed Corduroy Mansions, and details the lives of the inhabitants of the large Pimlico house and others.__NEWL__The main characters are Barbara Ragg, Basil Wickramsinghe, Berthea Snark, Caroline Jarvis, Dee Binder, Eddie French, Freddie de la Hay, Jenny Hedge, Jo Partlin, Marcia Light, Oedipus Snark, Terence Moongrove, and William French.__NEWL__The chapters for this book in The Telegraph ran from 21 Sept 2009 until 19 Dec 2009.__NEWL__Book three in the series, A Conspiracy of Friends, ran from 13 Sept 2010 until 17 Dec 2010.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656082	A Conspiracy of Friends	2011-05-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35706912	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35706912	The story is set in a fictional housing unit in London nicknamed Corduroy Mansions, and details the lives of the inhabitants of the large Pimlico house and others.__NEWL__The main characters are Barbara Ragg, Basil Wickramsinghe, Berthea Snark, Caroline Jarvis, Dee Binder, Eddie French, Freddie de la Hay, Jenny Hedge, Jo Partlin, Marcia Light, Oedipus Snark, Terence Moongrove, and William French.__NEWL__The chapters for this book in The Telegraph ran from 13 September 2010 until 17 December 2010.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6938896	Murphy's Law	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35707739	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35707739	The novel surrounds undercover Northern Irish policeman Martin Murphy.__NEWL__Murphy fails a professional assessment due to the murder of his young son by IRA terrorists, and is assigned to work in London.__NEWL__He is assigned a case investigating a North London funeral home, the proprietors of which are suspected diamond thieves.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6917582	Mothers and Other Liars	2010-08-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35708018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35708018	The story focuses on Ruby Leander, a nineteen-year-old runaway, who finds a baby in the trash at an Oklahoma rest stop.__NEWL__She makes a split-second decision to take the child as her own, rescuing it from a life of abandonment like her own.__NEWL__Ten years later, she has built a life for herself and her daughter, Lark, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.__NEWL__She works as a manicurist and has a steady relationship with boyfriend of three years, Chaz, and is expecting his child.__NEWL__Ruby has told her daughter that her father died in an accident.__NEWL__However, she is forced to face her past when she reads an article in a magazine that shows her daughter as a missing child, thought to have been kidnapped by carjackers.__NEWL__She must decide whether to come clean about Lark's origins or continue to live the lie.__NEWL__She decides to tell Lark how she found her in a car seat dumped in a trash can, that she is not her biological mother, and that the childcare authorities were not involved in any way with her apparently illegitimate adoption.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4779280	Ape House	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z	35730030	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35730030	A group of reporters visit the Great Ape Language Lab - a laboratory where bonobos are trained to communicate with humans by using American Sign Language and computer software to communicate with the scientist involved.__NEWL__Perhaps the most amazing phenomenon is that the bonobos actually want to communicate with humans, so much so that they pass it down to their young.__NEWL__But soon after the reporters leave, the lab is blown up, with the bonobos and a scientist (Isabel Duncan) inside.__NEWL__Isabel is badly injured and taken to a hospital.__NEWL__The bonobos escape from the lab only to be sold to a man named Ken Faulks.__NEWL__He is a famous for making pornography and devises a plan to put the apes on the air, in a show called Ape House.__NEWL__When Isabel discovers the bonobos' predicament, she travels to Lizard, New Mexico, where Ape House is shooting.__NEWL__In order to free the apes from these horrendous conditions, Isabel joins forces with journalist, John Thigpen.__NEWL__The two work to free the apes and get them back "home."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6517721	Legend	2011-11-29T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35607053	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35607053	Legend is set in a flooded, fortified, and futuristic version of Los Angeles, ruled by the totalitarian Republic of America.__NEWL__The novel centers around Day (Daniel Altan Wing) and June Iparis, two 15-year-olds on opposite sides of the economic spectrum.__NEWL__June Iparis is a military prodigy, born into an elite family, and groomed for success in the Republic's highest circles.__NEWL__She is the only person to have ever scored full marks on the Trial, a comprehensive test administered at age 10 to determine the child's future role in society.__NEWL__Her parents died several years before the start of the story, so she is raised by her older brother Metias.__NEWL__Daniel "Day" Wing is an infamous wanted criminal, born in the impoverished slums of the Republic.__NEWL__His family believes he is dead, apart from his older brother John.__NEWL__Day learns that his younger brother, Eden, is infected with the Plague, a disease that periodically ravages sectors of the Republic.__NEWL__Day breaks into the city hospital to steal medicine and escapes after a confrontation with Metias.__NEWL__Later that night, June is informed by Thomas, an officer in the Republic and Metias's childhood friend, that her brother was murdered by Day.__NEWL__June graduates early from her military university and sets out to catch Day.__NEWL__Using the promise of a cure for Eden's infection, she lures Day to the site of one of his previous heist locations, and they converse, albeit not face-to-face, before Day realizes she is a Republic agent.__NEWL__June poses as another person from the sector searching for Day.__NEWL__She gets in a street fight, stepping in for Tess, and beats the previous champion, Kaede.__NEWL__June is stabbed in the process.__NEWL__Day rescues June, unaware of her identity, and Tess, a friend of Day's, sets about healing June.__NEWL__Day and June begin to develop romantic feelings for each other, but June realizes who he is and reports his family's location to Thomas and the Republic.__NEWL__Day attempts to defend his family's house from Republic soldiers, but Thomas kills his mother and Day is captured.__NEWL__As June questions Day, he insists he is innocent of Metias's murder.__NEWL__June reviews Day's files and discovers he got a perfect score on the Trial, like June herself.__NEWL__However, instead of Day being celebrated as a prodigy, the Republic falsified records to indicate Day failed his Trial and died in a labor camp.__NEWL__While Day is being moved to a new cell, he sees evidence that the Republic is intentionally spreading the Plague.__NEWL__Day is further tortured by Commander Jameson and sentenced to death.__NEWL__June informs Day that John is in a cell and Eden has been sent to labs on the war front.__NEWL__Day tells June about painful tests inflicted on him after supposedly failing the Trial.__NEWL__Children sent to "work camps" are actually killed or used for experimentation in laboratories; Day escaped after being left for dead.__NEWL__Day tells June his theory about the origins of the Plague.__NEWL__Later, protestors gather in support of Day; June watches Thomas order his soldiers to fire on the protestors.__NEWL__That night, June determines that Metias was actually murdered by Thomas, under the orders of Commander Jameson.__NEWL__Metias left a coded message for June, revealing that their parents were murdered for discovering the true purposes of the Plague: a method of culling the weaker Republic populations, and a biological weapon against the Colonies.__NEWL__June decides to break Day and John out.__NEWL__June and the Patriots plot an escape plan, but Jameson moves up the execution date.__NEWL__June attempts to rescue Day and John on her own but is arrested by Thomas.__NEWL__Their confrontation is halted by attacking Patriots, and June escapes with Day in the chaos; John sacrifices himself to allow June and Day to escape, and the Republic, having mistaken John for Day, claims that Day has been executed.__NEWL__Day and June decide to head to the war front labs to rescue Eden and then escape into the Colonies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5354115	Eldorado Red	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z	35607857	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35607857	ElDorado Red has a son named Buddy and trusts him in cleaning up the collection houses.__NEWL__Though Eldorado Red has been a supportive father and has paid adequate child support, Buddy's mother, who left Eldorado Red for a pimp, tells Buddy that all five of her children have been fathered by Eldorado Red and that he refuses to support any of them.__NEWL__With revenge in mind, Buddy, with the assistance of three friends (Tubby, Samson and Danny) robs two of the collection spots.__NEWL__Eldorado Red orders two hit men (Tank and Copper-Head) to investigate and ‘take care of’ the thieves.__NEWL__When Eldorado Red learns one of the thieves was his own son, he tells the two hit men to let him go after having killed the rest, but it is too late because Samson has already shot and killed Buddy.__NEWL__The hit men are picked up by police in Buddy's powder blue Cadillac, though Tank gets off after having Eldorado Red take care of a drug dealer named Reno who was the only witness that could tie Tank to the killings.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5208000	Daddy Cool	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35608150	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35608150	The novel tells the story of a Detroit hit man who, like the patriarch of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has high aspirations for his daughter and teaches her in the arts he knows best, in this case knife wielding.__NEWL__The novel opens with Daddy Cool carrying out a hit, and soon afterwards he learns that his daughter has run off with a pimp.__NEWL__He sends his two stepsons off to find her, but they are of little help.__NEWL__Daddy Cool takes a job in Los Angeles and while his personal problems slow him down, they do not stop him from carrying out his job.__NEWL__Upon his return to Detroit Daddy Cool learns that his daughter Janet has been turned out by her pimp and is running tricks on the street.__NEWL__Daddy Cool picks her up off the street and after two police nearly arrest him for soliciting prostitution, he gives her a large sum of money to keep her off the streets.__NEWL__Her pimp though has other plans and expects her to be back on the street the following night despite the large sum she has brought in.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Daddy Cool's stepsons (Jimmy and Buddy) have taken to robbing to earn a living.__NEWL__They rip off a drug dealer, and one of the two brothers (Jimmy) rapes the drug dealer’s girl friend.__NEWL__They later knock off a numbers outfit run by a man named Big Jack, where Jimmy and Tiny (the third man in on the hold-up team) rape an adolescent girl.__NEWL__Buddy is disgusted by the act and when the two men go back for seconds he forces them to leave.__NEWL__Big Jack watches film of his girl being raped and knows who the men are.__NEWL__He calls Daddy Cool and asks him to perform a hit on his own stepsons.__NEWL__Daddy Cool agrees, but only kills Tiny and Jimmy, sparing Buddy because he forced the other two men to leave before raping the child a second time.__NEWL__After sending Buddy out of the country with a large sum of cash, Daddy Cool goes to visit his daughter but sees that his friend Earl has arrived already, and Daddy Cool instantly knows why Earl is there: to kill his daughter’s pimp.__NEWL__His daughter, upon seeing the corpse of the pimp she loved on the floor, chases after Earl into the street, where she finds that Earl has been shot by police, but also sees her father present and assumes that he sent Earl to kill her pimp.__NEWL__The final scene of the novel sees the daughter using the knife-wielding lessons her father gave her to kill Daddy Cool.__NEWL__Daddy Cool has time to kill her first, but only takes out his knife so that Janet can claim self-defense.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5050867	Casualties of Peace	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35608966	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35608966	Set in London it concerns Willa McCord, an artist in glass (who is starting an affair with Auro, a married Jamaican) and her best friend and housekeeper Patsy (who lives with her violent husband Tom)__NEWL__Patsy decides to leave Tom but her plans are thrown into disarray when she finds she is pregnant.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5297307	Dopefiend	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z	35647336	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35647336	Dopefiend features an ensemble cast of characters.__NEWL__The central antagonist is named Porky, a drug dealer who seeks to exploit the weaknesses of others and enjoys humiliating people, especially women, whom he sometimes forces to copulate with his German Shepherds in order to score some drugs when they do not have the funds to pay for them.__NEWL__Terry and Teddy are a young couple whose relationship is destroyed by drugs.__NEWL__Terry does not use initially, but is given free drugs by Porky as he hopes to get her addicted so that he might be able to force her to have sex with him, eventually she becomes addicted as her boyfriend Teddy already was.__NEWL__Teddy resorts to stealing with friends to supply his habit, while Terry, under the guidance of a pregnant heroin addict named Minnie, turns to prostitution.__NEWL__Teddy watches two friends get shot down by some security guards and he himself is killed after he and two other dope fiends rob Porky.__NEWL__Minnie, after performing a sexual act with Porky's dogs to cover the cost of her addiction, drops the drugs down a sewer.__NEWL__She then commits suicide by hanging herself.__NEWL__Terry walks in on her dangling from the ceiling where the head of her stillborn child is seen coming out from between her legs, as she twists back and forth over a pile of excrement on the floor.__NEWL__The shock of this is too much for Terry to handle, and she ends up in a mental institution.__NEWL__The novel ends with Porky scouting another young couple as he once did with Terry and Teddy; it is revealed that Porky had never done drugs a day in his life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17016376	When She Woke	2011-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35645840	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35645840	In an unspecified future 26-year-old Hannah Payne awakes in a prison cell having been chromed (i.e. having her skin altered) red for murder.__NEWL__Hannah lives in Texas after a great outbreak of a sexually transmitted infection caused the majority of women of the world to become sterile leading to widespread panic, the rise of Christianity, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.__NEWL__Hannah belonged to a mega-church and after her father was the victim of a terror attack which threatened to leave him partially blind her family was offered comfort by the reverend Aidan Dale.__NEWL__Hannah and the reverend began an affair leading to Hannah's pregnancy.__NEWL__Unwilling to shame the married Dale, Hannah had an illegal abortion and was picked up immediately afterwards and convicted of the murder of her fetus.__NEWL__Because she refused to name her abortion care provider or Aidan, Hannah was sentenced to 16 years as a chrome, which also meant that she would be unable to bear children during that time because of an implant.__NEWL__Hannah spends the first month of her sentence in isolation in prison where a live-feed broadcasts her image around the world.__NEWL__After her release her father manages to secure her a six-month stint at a half-way house called the Straight Path Centre.__NEWL__While there Hannah is forced to live in austerity and create a doll to represent her aborted fetus which she is supposed to treat like a child.__NEWL__There Hannah meets Kayla, a young woman who was chromed after shooting her step-father in the stomach for molesting her sister.__NEWL__A month into Hannah's residency Kayla decides to leave the centre to find her boyfriend.__NEWL__Though Kayla invited Hannah to come with her Hannah stays on an extra day, finally leaving after witnessing one of the Path councillors destroying the doll of a woman who is to be released causing her emotional distress.__NEWL__Outside Hannah visits her sister but is kicked out by her brother-in-law, whom her sister warns her has become increasingly violent after joining the vigilante terror cell known as the "Fist" who beat and kill chromes.__NEWL__Hannah is then able to contact Kayla through a tracker that all chromes are forced to wear.__NEWL__They decide to leave Texas and go stay with Kayla's cousin, but on the road they are abducted by Simone and Paul, two people who turn out to have been saving them from Fist members intending to harm them.__NEWL__Hannah eventually realizes that their saviours are members of the Novemberists, a group of feminists who are pro-choice.__NEWL__The group did not intend to save Kayla and are reluctant to help her as her crime was not related to abortion, but they reluctantly help her at Hannah's insistence.__NEWL__The goal of the Novemberists is to take Hannah and Kayla to Canada where abortion is legal and the chrome procedure can be reversed without harming them.__NEWL__However on their first stop along the way to Canada the women are betrayed by their host, Stanton, whose mother was an abortion provider and who sells them to be used as prostitutes in order to pay for expensive renovations for his home.__NEWL__Hannah is rescued by Simone while Paul goes on a mission to save Kayla.__NEWL__Hannah initiates sex with Simone and considers the possibility that she may be bisexual.__NEWL__She also asks Simone to give her the tools she needs to make it to Canada without having to depend on anyone again.__NEWL__Simone reluctantly agrees and gives her a van and a gun with which to make the trip.__NEWL__Despite promising Simone to head straight to the border, Hannah instead makes contact with Aidan and makes plans to meet with him at a cabin he owns.__NEWL__Reunited Hannah and Aidan sleep together a final time.__NEWL__Aidan wants to confess to his wife and to the public about his affair but Hannah tells him not to, warning that they can never be together as his level of fame will attract attention leading to her and cause attention to the Novemberists putting them in danger.__NEWL__Aidan realizes that Hannah is right and the two part.__NEWL__Hannah resumes her journey to go north to Canada.__NEWL__On the way there she sees a news report that Aidan publicly confessed to adultery without naming the woman he had an affair with and then collapsed of a heart attack.__NEWL__Hannah continues on and crosses the U.S. border into Québec, learning upon her arrival that Kayla is also safe.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4920826	Black Girl Lost	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z	35645929	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35645929	The novel and details the life of a girl named Sandra.__NEWL__She grows up in a home with an absent father and an alcoholic mother, but finds a father figure in a local Jewish shop owner.__NEWL__After detailing some troubling scenes from her childhood, the novel moves to the present where Sandra picks up a package discarded by a passing car that is pursued by police.__NEWL__Eventually bringing this package to a classmate who deals drugs, Sandra falls in love with the pusher (neither uses drugs themselves) and things start to pick up for both of them.__NEWL__Neither has to steal any longer to provide themselves with clothes or food, and the two find solace in each other and move in together.__NEWL__The boyfriend is arrested for possession and sent to a correctional institution from which he is to be released when he turns 18.__NEWL__While he is incarcerated, Sandra finds herself held hostage in the shared apartment by some characters who not only rob her, but gang rape her as well as beating her.__NEWL__When she visits her boyfriend in prison and tells him what happens, he decides to escape from the correctional facility.__NEWL__A bloody climax is the result and Sandra's boy friend, who refuses to go back to jail, insists on holding court in the street, once he has taken out the thugs who violated Sandra.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6014563	Incident at Hawk's Hill	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35658965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35658965	Incident at Hawk's Hill opens in 1870, on Hawk's Hill, the farm of William and Esther MacDonald, set in the Canadian Prairies about twenty miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.__NEWL__The MacDonalds have four children.__NEWL__The fourth child, six-year-old Ben, is "the greatest problem of the MacDonald family".__NEWL__Highly intelligent but mute around most people, Ben especially loves his older brother John and mother, Esther.__NEWL__He feels more comfortable with the wild animals on the farm than with most people.__NEWL__The MacDonalds' new neighbor is George Burton, a thief and bully who is always accompanied by his mean dog, Lobo.__NEWL__In the vicinity is a huge, pregnant female badger, which is preparing tunnels and a sett or den in a rock outcropping, before the birth of her offspring.__NEWL__One day, Ben follows a prairie chicken and becomes lost away from home.__NEWL__He shelters in a rocky area, where he encounters the badger sow.__NEWL__She is hiding after being injured in one of Burton's traps.__NEWL__While she was trapped, her babies died for lack of food.__NEWL__She begins to bring food to Ben, and he begins imitating her movement and sounds.__NEWL__He starts to sleep by day and follow her hunting at night.__NEWL__One night when the dog Lobo attacks the badger, Ben bites the dog, distracting it, and the badger kills it.__NEWL__Despite the badger's attempts to feed Ben, he begins to fade from starvation.__NEWL__The search for Ben lasts two months.__NEWL__All but his family believe that the boy likely drowned in the nearby Red River.__NEWL__But Ben's father vows never to stop looking, and the entire family hunts for the boy daily.__NEWL__John finally discovers Ben among the rocks; when he reaches toward him, Ben reacts like a wild animal, growling and biting.__NEWL__John subdues Ben and takes him home.__NEWL__The mother badger follows, and eventually becomes uneasily accepted by the family as Ben's protector.__NEWL__As Ben begins to talk about his experiences, he becomes more comfortable with people.__NEWL__He even looks forward to going to school.__NEWL__But as Burton comes to their homestead, he sees the family badger.__NEWL__Thinking he's doing the right thing he shoots the badger injuring it badly.__NEWL__A show-down between his father and George Burton over the badger finally unites Ben and his father.__NEWL__Ben's adventure is re-interpreted by local whites as a parable of God's care for the lost, and by the First Nations as a tale bringing honor to their chief.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7723069	The Circle	2011-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	35659126	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35659126	The novel follows the six "chosen ones" Minoo, Rebecka, Vanessa, Anna-Karin, Ida, and Linnéa, all of whom are first-year students at the same secondary school.__NEWL__Ida and Linnéa are not featured as point of view characters in the novel for thematic and narrative purposes.__NEWL__The characters soon come off as unreliable narrators as their description of themselves and other characters don't match each other, such as Minoo's comments on Rebecka's beauty and Anna-Karin's on her own weight.__NEWL__The apparent suicide of Linnéa's "brother in all but blood" Elias becomes the start of a series of strange events in the town.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6928974	Mr. Monk is a Mess	2012-06-05T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35480670	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480670	After arriving home in San Francisco after working as police officers in Summit, New Jersey, Natalie Teeger finds a dead body laying in her bathtub.__NEWL__During the investigation by the police, marked money from a federal sting operation is found stuffed under Natalie's mattress.__NEWL__Natalie now needs Monk's help, but Monk is preoccupied with his own investigation.__NEWL__He's helping his brother find his missing girlfriend Yuki Nakamura, which is a problem that Monk is conflicted about, since he's happy to see Yuki leave.__NEWL__As the case continues, it becomes clear that Yuki has a dangerous past, and that they are chasing a ruthless, cold-blooded killer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7441641	Search and Destroy	2012-07-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35485832	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35485832	CIA Special Activities Division (SAD) officer and former Navy SEAL Max Moore has a dilemma: save the life of his wife or let her be killed for the lives of thousands of innocent people.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7229565	Poppy	1995-10-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35486432	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35486432	In the Dimwood region, a large family of mice inhabit an abandoned farmhouse called Gray House.__NEWL__Poppy, a young deer mouse, dances with her boyfriend Ragweed, a golden mouse, on Bannock Hill.__NEWL__However, Mr. Ocax, a great horned owl who acts as a tyrannical ruler over the family, attacks them and kills Ragweed.__NEWL__When Poppy returns to Gray House, she learns that the family must relocate to New House, where the food is more abundant.__NEWL__However, Ocax refuses to give the family permission to move to the area, citing Poppy and Ragweed's refusal to ask his permission to go to Bannock Hill.__NEWL__His refusal makes Poppy curious, so she decides to travel to New House herself to investigate.__NEWL__In Dimwood Forest, Poppy stumbles upon Ereth, a porcupine.__NEWL__Ereth agrees to protect Poppy from Ocax in exchange for the salt lick at New House that he can't obtain on his own.__NEWL__Ereth drops Poppy off at the boundaries of New House, where Poppy discovers that Ocax is afraid of a large artificial owl there.__NEWL__Armed with one of Ereth's quills, Poppy confronts Ocax about the figure but inadvertently reveals that it is fake.__NEWL__Ocax then attacks Poppy but is defeated when Poppy stabs him with the quill.__NEWL__Ocax slams into the salt lick pole, killing him and causing the salt lick to fall to the ground.__NEWL__Ereth retrieves the salt lick, and Poppy goes home to tell her family they are now free from Ocax and able to move.__NEWL__A few moons later she meets and marries Rye, Ragweed's brother.__NEWL__Each night they freely dance on Bannock Hill.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q543773	Fear	1920-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1741	Vienna	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q40	Austria	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	35530384	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35530384	The protagonist, Irene Wagner, is a married, young bourgeois who has a secret affair with a pianist.__NEWL__Due to blackmails from the pianist's girlfriend who is aware of the affair, Irene is seized with fear of losing her dolce vita.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7561114	Song in the Clouds	2015-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	35714637	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35714637	During the Western Han Dynasty, Huo Yunge (daughter of Huo Qubing and Jin Yu from Ballad of the Desert) saved the eight-year-old Emperor Zhao of Han from the cold of the desert.__NEWL__Ten years later, Huo is a beautiful young woman who could not forget that boy and went to Chang An city to fulfil their 10 years ago promise.__NEWL__She mistook another Liu Bing Yi as Emperor Liu Fu Ling as both of them had a similar jade given by the late emperor and helplessly watched him marry Xu Pingjun.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4807417	Asmara Jaya	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q252	Indonesia	35715143	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35715143	Rustam and his cousin Nuraini, both of Minang descent, are married in Padang, West Sumatra; Rustam does so reluctantly, and only attends the ceremony because he must sign the documentation, before hurrying home to Bandung, West Java.__NEWL__After the wedding, Nuraini goes with her mother and in-laws to visit her husband and discovers that Rustam is already married to a Sundanese woman named Dirsina, whose son with Rustam recently died.__NEWL__Along the way she meets a man named Ibrahim Siregar, who haunts her thoughts.__NEWL__Rustam's parents are unwilling to accept Dirsina as a daughter in law due to her different ethnicity; interethnic marriages are forbidden by adat (tradition).__NEWL__Although now married to two women, Rustam insists that he only loves Dirsina.__NEWL__When the guests realise that Dirsina is ill, they agree to leave so she can rest.__NEWL__Rustam asks for help from his neighbour, Doctor Meerman, who suggests that he pray for God to show him a way.__NEWL__Instead, Rustam attempts to commit suicide, an action which Meerman stops.__NEWL__When Nuraini's mother meets with Meerman, the two women discuss the issue and agree that it would be best if Nuraini and Rustam divorced.__NEWL__When this is done, Rustam asks for forgiveness.__NEWL__Rustam's family accepts Dirsina as a daughter-in-law and return to Padang.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5416124	Eve's Ransom	1895-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35705579	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35705579	Maurice Hilliard is a mechanical draughtsman producing technical drawings on an annual income of £100.__NEWL__He longs to be free from the monotony of his life and work, and is led by his feelings of hopelessness into drinking alcohol.__NEWL__While travelling by train one day, he meets Mr Dengate, a former debtor to his deceased father.__NEWL__As Dengate was bankrupt at the point of Hilliard's father's death, the debt was not repaid, but as they meet on the train, Hilliard shames Dengate into repaying the debt of £436.__NEWL__Hilliard then commits to the plan of living without working, as a "free" human being, for as long as the money lasts.__NEWL__First travelling to London, and then to Paris, Hilliard eventually returns to his family home in Dudley, feeling lonely.__NEWL__He discovers a portrait of a young woman and decides to find her.__NEWL__Eventually, he succeeds in his plan.__NEWL__The woman, Eve Madeley, works as a book keeper, with an income of £1 per week.__NEWL__Like Hilliard had previously done, she is despairing about her future.__NEWL__Eve tells Hilliard that they would not be able to marry, as his income is too small, but she does agree to travel to Paris with him.__NEWL__They are accompanied by Eve's friend Patty Ringrose.__NEWL__While in Paris, Hilliard falls in love with Eve.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6407166	Kill Your Friends	2008-02-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35671230	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35671230	The novel is set in 1997 at the height of the Britpop music scene.__NEWL__The protagonist, Steven Stelfox, is unhappy about his current position as an A&R agent in the record company he works for in London.__NEWL__Stelfox, uninterested in most music, is jealous of his coworkers' success in finding successful musical acts and attempts to climb the career ladder amidst competition.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1887393	Malina	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	35685875	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35685875	The novel focuses on an unnamed female narrator, known only as I., who explores her existential situation as a woman and writer both through personal reflection and in dialogue form.__NEWL__She is a writer and intellectual living in Vienna during the second half of the 20th century.__NEWL__The writer shares a flat with the calm and rational Malina, a historian, who offers her the necessary support as she is often confused and seems to be losing touch with reality.__NEWL__She meets Ivan, a young Hungarian man, and falls in love with him.__NEWL__They begin an affair but soon Ivan begins to avoid her and ultimately rejects her.__NEWL__The second chapter, "The Third Man", is the climax of the narrative.__NEWL__In dream sequences the narrator remembers the horrors of the Second World War, gas chambers and rape.__NEWL__A “father” figure is omnipresent in her dreams who she realises represents not her own father but rather the male-dominated world of Nazism more broadly.__NEWL__In the third chapter, "From last things", the narrator tries to overcome her problems in dialogue with the always proper but scarcely approachable Malina.__NEWL__The narrator realizes that a relationship with Ivan is not possible, and that a relationship with any other man will not be possible either.__NEWL__She feels that she can no longer survive in this male-dominated world.__NEWL__"I have lived in Ivan and I die in Malina," she says.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, the writer disappears without a trace into a crack in the wall and Malina removes all evidence of her existence from their flat, as if she had never been there at all.__NEWL__The novel closes with the sentence "It was murder."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7722208	The Charming Quirks of Others	2007-08-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35696196	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35696196	Isabel Dalhousie is approached by the wife of a trustee of a prestigious Scottish school concerning a poison pen letter that her husband, a trustee of said school, has received, concerning one of the candidates for the post of headmaster.__NEWL__Isabel's nieces, Cat, has a new boyfriend who is, coincidentally, one of the candidates for the aforementioned position.__NEWL__Isabel works in her usual manner to get to the bottom of the mystery.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q166967	The Hunger Pains	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z	35732431	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35732431	On the morning of Super Fun Day, Kantkiss Neverclean and her hunting partner Carol Handsomestein hunt a cow from beyond the fence before they participate in the selection ceremony.__NEWL__In District 12 this is the "nose game", in which whoever touches their fingers to their noses last becomes tributes.__NEWL__Her sister, Princess "Prin" Neverclean, is selected, but Kantkiss is volunteered to participate by Slimey Sue, who is trying to get revenge on Kantkiss.__NEWL__She is paired with Pita Malarkey, the baker's son who she knows as the "Boy with the Head" due to his massive head.__NEWL__Pita was responsible for her first sale when she was struggling to become a telemarketer to support her family after her father was killed in an explosion at the telemarketing office.__NEWL__Although he bought something that her company did not carry, completing this first sale helped Kantkiss become more successful.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2561149	The Darkroom of Damocles	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	35566900	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35566900	Osewoudt is a young man who was born two months premature who his mother dropped into the flush with stool.__NEWL__Hairless, short, half an inch short of fitness for military service, he owned a cigar store in Voorschoten, near Leiden.__NEWL__Living under the Nazi occupation, he makes his acquaintance with the mysterious Dorbeck, who claims to be involved in the Resistance movement.__NEWL__The latter looks like Osewoudt's double, except that he is flawlessly perfect.__NEWL__Seduced by Dorbeck, Osewoudt joins the fight against the Germans.__NEWL__Faithfully, he carries out the orders that come to him by telephone, by post, from unknown envoys or, sometimes, which Dorbeck communicates to him himself during their brief meetings.__NEWL__Dorbeck enlists Osewoudt for dangerous attacks on the Gestapo and Dutch Nazi collaborators, even killing innocent people he considers a possible danger.__NEWL__After the war's end, Dorbeck has disappeared, and Osewoudt is arrested for collaboration.__NEWL__Despite his confessions of the killings, and even atrocities he committed against collaborators and occupiers, the military prosecutors do not believe him.__NEWL__He cannot prove his innocence, and even though his accusers cannot either, he is condemned nevertheless.__NEWL__Now, only Osewoudt could prove Dorbeck's innocence, but no one even knows his name, least of all his whereabouts.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736368	The Giant Joshua	1941-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35567157	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35567157	Among the many real characters such as Brigham Young, John D. Lee, and Erastus Snow, The Giant Joshua focuses primarily on Abijah MacIntyre and his wives, Bathsheba, Willie, and Clorinda (Clory), who move to southern Utah in 1861, and become prominent members of the communities of Washington, Santa Clara, and St. George during their founding years.__NEWL__The book focuses on Clory's life, starting with her as a 17-year-old third bride to the forty-year-old Abijah.__NEWL__Abijah unexpectedly consummates their marriage and Clory becomes disillusioned with wifely obedience.__NEWL__Abijah's teenage son, Freeborn, comforts Clory and Abijah brings the two to Erastus Snow, who rebukes them all.__NEWL__Later, Clory is pregnant and determined to leave St. George, but stays after seeing the natural beauty of a large group of Sego Lilies.__NEWL__Drought and heavy rains wreak havoc on the town, and the harvest is poor.__NEWL__Clory gives birth to a daughter nicknamed Kissy, and John D. Lee is ignored by his neighbors after the Mountain Meadows Massacre.__NEWL__Freeborn is killed by Indians, and Clory becomes depressed and has a miscarriage.__NEWL__Abijah blesses Kissy after she falls out of a wagon in an accident, and Clory feels love for him.__NEWL__Clory has two more children, Abijah leaves on a mission to England, and all three of Clory's children die in the aftermath of a plague of grasshoppers.__NEWL__Abijah blames Clory, and she learns glovemaking to earn money.__NEWL__When Abijah returns from his mission, he gives her a house and she gives birth to a son, Jim.__NEWL__Abijah's second wife, Willie, dies in childbirth after he refuses to send for a doctor.__NEWL__Clory takes organ lessons from one of Brigham Young's wives, who also teaches her how to raise silk worms.__NEWL__Clory feels contentment with her position in life.__NEWL__The discovery of silver nearby brings miners to the town, which brings new challenges.__NEWL__Brigham Young dies and church leaders are arrested for practicing polygamy.__NEWL__Clory's hands are covered in sores from working with leather in her glovemaking work, and she keeps them bandaged.__NEWL__Abijah is called as the president of the Logan temple, takes a new, young wife and leaves his other wives behind.__NEWL__Erastus Snow dreams of using a spillway instead of dams to cope with St. George's flooding problems.__NEWL__Clory has a final miscarriage after she is frightened by a dog.__NEWL__On her deathbed, Clory realizes that she had a testimony of the truthfulness of her religion all along.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7627692	Student Hidjo	1918-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q188161	Dutch East Indies	35501749	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35501749	Hidjo is a young man from Surakarta, Central Java, who is engaged to Biroe, in accordance with his father's wishes.__NEWL__His father, a merchant named Raden Potronojo, orders Hidjo to go to the Netherlands and attend university; this is hoped to give the family greater status, as generally only priyayi (noble) families send their children abroad for schooling.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Dutch administrator Willem Walter, who views the Javanese positively, is engaged to a Dutch woman named Jet Roos; Roos is pregnant with his child.__NEWL__In the Netherlands, Hidjo stays with a local family and enjoys the beauty of the Netherlands.__NEWL__The family's daughter, Betje, finds him intriguing because of his ethnicity.__NEWL__Although Hidjo initially receives her coldly, the two later become romantically and sexually involved.__NEWL__In Surakarta, Walter becomes attracted to Biroe and breaks off his engagement with Roos, who in turn aborts their child.__NEWL__This, and Biroe's rejection, leads him to return to the Netherlands, where he and Hidjo meet.__NEWL__Hidjo, who has become increasingly distracted from his studies by his relationship with Betje, is recalled to the Indies by his family.__NEWL__He ends his relationship with the Dutchwoman, paying her his savings to make amends for doing so.__NEWL__When Hidjo returns to Surakarta, he marries Woengoe – who originates from a higher-class family than Biroe.__NEWL__Two years later, Hidjo has become district attorney of Djarak.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Walter has married Betje and returned to Surakarta to become assistant resident.__NEWL__Biroe marries Woengoe's brother Wardojo, who has become regent of the area.__NEWL__Roos marries the area's administrator, Boeren.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5125534	Clan Ground	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z	35575506	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35575506	After the death of Meoran, the clan's tyrannical leader, young Ratha now leads the Named using the strength of the Red Tongue.__NEWL__She oversees the Firekeepers, members of the clan with a special charge and the rituals, herding, and governance; but she often wonders if the power of fire has corrupted them all.__NEWL__When Orange-eyes, a politically astute newcomer, joins the clan, Ratha is forced to decide how she will keep control or if she wants to keep control of the clan at all.__NEWL__The book begins one year after Ratha's Creature, with the Named holding a feast in celebration of Ratha's defeat of the UnNamed and the birth of the Red-Tongue.__NEWL__A young UnNamed yearling comes to the clan seeking food and protection, and the Firekeepers taunt him and scorch his fur.__NEWL__Ratha however, is impressed by his courage in front of the Red-Tongue, and sees intelligence in his eyes.__NEWL__She allows him to join the clan, only to work for the Firekeepers and help them with small tasks.__NEWL__ The newcomer, Orange-Eyes, has a limited vocabulary and understanding of clan life.__NEWL__He is shown to possibly be a different species than them, as he grows to be huge in comparison and grow long sabers.__NEWL__Orange-Eyes, now renamed Shongshar, mates with a clan female Bira, and has two cubs with her.__NEWL__Their cubs fail to show any signs of intelligence, and Ratha orders him to take them beyond clan borders and abandon them.__NEWL__Shongshar becomes bitter and enraged at Ratha's decision, and begins to build a cult of fire-worshippers in a nearby cave.__NEWL__Shongshar overthrows Ratha using the power of the Red-Tongue, and drives her out of her own clan.__NEWL__ Ratha and Thakur devise a plan to flood the fire cave, where the heart of the Red Tongue is kept.__NEWL__They flood the cave by re-routing a stream above the cave, and Ratha kills Shongshar and retakes her place as clan leader.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5190407	Cry Revenge	35640815	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35640815	Carson plans to graduate from running small-time craps games in his back yard to partnering with his friend Dan to become a drug dealer.__NEWL__His potential supplier is a Mexican man known as Fat George.__NEWL__Curtis and Dan hustle money from a Mexican named Pedro via a crap game and approach Fat George about setting up shop.__NEWL__Fat George dislikes Dan and refuses to do business with him so Curtis goes into business alone.__NEWL__Dan is a drug user and Carson thinks he would likely only manage to sell enough to keep up with his own habit.__NEWL__Curtis meets a Mexican woman named Shirley and moves in with her.__NEWL__Dan comes running into a bar one day and tells Fat George and Curtis that two men are coming to rob them when the two men actually work for the police.__NEWL__As they run in, Pedro's older brother the bartender pulls out a shotgun and kills both men, though he dies in the process.__NEWL__Pedro blames Dan for his brother’s death and goes looking for him.__NEWL__When Pedro runs into Curtis’s younger brother, a high school basketball star, he asks him where Dan is.__NEWL__When the brother fails to answer, he is tortured and shot in the back, leaving him paralyzed.__NEWL__Curtis kills Pedro’s sister in retaliation.__NEWL__Pedro and his surviving brother plan to kill Curtis after killing Fat George, who they view as being a friend to the blacks.__NEWL__A shootout at Fat George’s apartment leaves several corpses and when Curtis hears that the people after him are dead, he decides the only loose end is Dan, whom he blames for his brother’s situation.__NEWL__He tracks Dan down to an abandoned building, but Dan stabs Curtis in the back while sliding in under some boards, leaving Curtis paralyzed like his younger brother.__NEWL__The novel ends when Curtis shoots and kills Dan, falling in and out of consciousness, while rats begin to eat both his and Dan’s bodies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6312868	Jungle Lovers	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35520325	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35520325	The story concerns Calvin Mullet from Hudson, Massachusetts, a recently divorced insurance salesman working in Malawi; and Marais, a white leader of a guerrilla army intent on overthrowing the government of the country.__NEWL__Calvin is based in a brothel in the capital Blantyre but makes frequent journeys to Lilongwe further north, where he is captured by Marais (to whom he tries to sell a policy) and then released.__NEWL__Disillusioned with his work, Calvin is secretly writing a book, The Uninsured, as an outlet to his frustrations.__NEWL__In one of his trips to Lilongwe he meets and falls in love with Mira, a young native girl.__NEWL__On a later return trip, he learns that her brother has been killed and she has been raped by Marais' rebels.__NEWL__He brings her to the south and marries her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7745242	The Lake	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z	35493700	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35493700	After her mother's death, Chihiro moves to Tokyo, where she sees a mysterious man, Nakajima, standing in the window of his home opposite hers, and watching her.__NEWL__Nakajima seems to have been a victim of a childhood trauma.__NEWL__Chihiro begins to fall in love with him but his dark past threatens to tear them apart.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6938902	Murphy's Revenge	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35716056	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35716056	Martin Murphy is an undercover policeman currently working in London.__NEWL__He is assigned to investigate a support group for the friends and family of rape and murder victims, named Confront, as it appears they are planning and carrying out revenge killings.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17059298	Yellowfang's Secret	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35511259	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35511259	From a young age, Yellowfang physically experiences others' pain as if it were her own.__NEWL__Sagewhisker, the ShadowClan medicine cat, convinces Yellowfang that this ability would make her effective as a medicine cat if she could learn to control the power.__NEWL__Sagewhisker thus takes Yellowfang on as an apprentice, and Yellowfang takes the medicine cats' vows, including the forsaking of taking a mate.__NEWL__Despite this, she has a relationship with ShadowClan warrior Raggedpelt in secret, and Yellowfang ultimately becomes pregnant with his kits.__NEWL__Yellowfang gives birth in secret, but only one kit, Brokenkit, survives.__NEWL__Yellowfang gives Brokenkit up to another she-cat in the Clan, withholding her identity as the mother.__NEWL__Brokenkit grows up spoiled and mistreated: his father, who is in a position of power, indulges him and refuses to punish him.__NEWL__His adoptive mother shuns him and his adoptive littermates bully him.__NEWL__As a result, he grows into a vicious cat without learning empathy or kindness.__NEWL__While he is growing up, Raggedpelt becomes a leader, being renamed Raggedstar.__NEWL__Brokentail receives his warrior name, and becomes ShadowClan's deputy (second-in-command and future leader).__NEWL__Brokentail trains his apprentices with extreme methods, which go unchecked as his father refuses to see the wrong in his son's actions.__NEWL__Brokentail eventually murders Raggedstar to gain control of the Clan, while blaming the death on neighboring WindClan.__NEWL__Having taken over ShadowClan, Brokenstar institutes a vicious regime, bullying his way to eventual near-totalitarian power.__NEWL__Using his father's death as an excuse, he launches many attacks on WindClan, many of which Yellowfang considers unnecessary.__NEWL__Brokenstar, however, rejects all criticism, continuing the attacks and eventually implementing extreme tactics to sustain his war efforts: he begins training kits before they are six months old (the age laid down in the warrior code as when apprenticeship may begin), and asks the Clan's elders, who cannot contribute to the fighting forces, to leave camp in order to save resources.__NEWL__He additionally orders that all cats must hunt for themselves, and that battle training is to take priority.__NEWL__After many kits die in battle, Yellowfang finally speaks out, leading Brokenstar to falsely accuse Yellowfang of the deaths of two kits, allowing him to exile her from the Clan.__NEWL__Homeless, Yellowfang enters nearby ThunderClan's territory, where she is apprehended and taken prisoner by Firepaw (a scene initially depicted in Into the Wild from Firepaw's perspective).__NEWL__The manga chapter at the end of the book details Yellowfang, who has become the medicine cat of ThunderClan, feeding the now blind and captive Brokentail (who has been stripped of his -star suffix due to his crimes) deathberries, and revealing that she is his mother.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1149756	Joyland	2013-06-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35617853	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35617853	Devin Jones takes a summer job at Joyland in North Carolina.__NEWL__Devin is told by local fortune teller Rozzie that he will meet two children that summer: a girl with a red hat and a boy with a dog.__NEWL__Devin secures lodging for the summer at a rooming house owned by Mrs. Shoplaw, a woman who knows a great deal of Joyland's history and employees.__NEWL__Devin's girlfriend Wendy promises to finally sleep with him before the semester ends but ditches him at the last moment.__NEWL__ At the start of the summer he is placed in Team Beagle, just one of the dog-themed crews at Joyland, and becomes friends with other new-hires Tom and Erin.__NEWL__He works mainly with Lane Hardy, operating the park's ferris wheel.__NEWL__Any attempts to connect with Wendy fail and he eventually receives a letter telling him to give up because she has found someone else.__NEWL__He stops sleeping and barely eats, spending his free time listening to music and contemplating suicide.__NEWL__Devin realizes that he has a talent for portraying Howie the Happy Hound, Joyland's mascot, and enjoys making kids happy.__NEWL__He throws himself into work so thoroughly his friends Lane and Rozzie have to confront him about his failing health.__NEWL__One day while acting as Howie, he saves the aforementioned young girl in a red hat from choking on a hot dog.__NEWL__The heroics earn him the trust and admiration of the park's owner and founder, Mr. Easterbrook, along with local acclaim.__NEWL__Devin and his friends, Tom and Erin, learn that several years earlier a girl named Linda Gray had been murdered in the park's only dark ride, 'Horror House,' and her ghost still haunts it.__NEWL__Tom sees her ghost on the ride and refuses to speak of it, but Devin does not and becomes interested in the case.__NEWL__At the end of the summer, Devin decides to take a year off from school and stay at the park while it is closed.__NEWL__Erin researches the murder while back at school but plans a return visit to Joyland with Tom to present her findings to Devin.__NEWL__She brings pictures and articles, proving that this was only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, which had never been connected by the police.__NEWL__Devin becomes close to a standoffish woman named Annie, and her son, Mike, who both live near Joyland.__NEWL__Despite Annie's lukewarm treatment of Devin she comes to like him after seeing how he makes her dying son happy.__NEWL__Mike reveals he knows about Linda's ghost and has a dog, and Devin realizes he is the second child in Rozzie's prediction.__NEWL__Devin is able to organize a private trip to Joyland for Mike, where the remaining employees pull out all the stops and make Mike's first and only visit unforgettable.__NEWL__Mike's presence near Horror House helps free Linda's ghost.__NEWL__That night, Devin loses his virginity to Annie.__NEWL__Devin returns to his boarding house, which is preparing for an upcoming storm.__NEWL__He begins looking through the pictures again and suddenly realizes that the murderer is in fact Lane Hardy.__NEWL__Lane has guessed that Devin knows who he is, and so threatens to kill Annie and Mike unless Devin meets him at Joyland.__NEWL__Lane traps the two of them on the Ferris wheel in the middle of the storm and is about to kill Devin, when Annie shows up and fatally shoots Lane.__NEWL__Devin learns that Mike had been awakened by another ghost (of a park employee Devin had previously saved), who warned him about Lane.__NEWL__Annie and Mike return to Chicago to see Annie's estranged father, and Devin goes back to school.__NEWL__Mike dies later that spring, requesting that his ashes be spread on the beach in North Carolina by Annie and Devin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7805476	Time to Smell the Roses	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35692759	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35692759	While watchmaker and sporadic detective-mouse Hermux Tantamoq is planning his wedding to the aviator Linka Perflinger, multi-millionaire Androse De Rosenquill sends for him and asks him to find a missing squirrel.__NEWL__At the same time, the cosmetics boss Tucka Mertslin is scheming with an unprincipled scientist against a rival cosmetician.__NEWL__A beautiful garden is vandalized, and a body is found which no one recognizes.__NEWL__As Hermux carefully pursues his task, he finds unexpected connections.__NEWL__The familiar cast of rodents, insects, and others from the three previous Hermux Tantamoq books now includes Thirxen Ghoulter, a coroner whose profession is taxidermy.__NEWL__Terfle is Hermux's smart pet ladybug, who travels with him and likes to eat jelly and dried aphids.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7759203	The Racketeer	2012-10-23T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35629454	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35629454	Malcolm Bannister is an African American attorney in a small-town Virginia law firm.__NEWL__A real estate transaction which he undertook in good faith turns out to have involved the purchase of a secluded hunting lodge where a crooked Capitol Hill lobbyist invited corrupt Congressmen for debaucherous orgies with underage girls.__NEWL__After being caught up in a large FBI sweep, Bannister is tried and convicted of racketeering despite his protestations of innocence.__NEWL__The story begins with Bannister halfway through his ten-year prison term; he has since been disbarred, divorced by his wife, lost contact with his son and is nursing a bitter grudge against the federal government and the FBI.__NEWL__After hearing of the brutal murders of federal judge Raymond Fawcett and his mistress, Bannister makes a deal with the FBI to give them the name of the killer, in exchange for his release and being put into the Witness Protection Program, supposedly to protect him from the killer's associates.__NEWL__He informs them that Quinn Rucker, a drug dealer he met in prison, had vowed to escape and murder Fawcett as revenge for a failed bribery attempt in which the judge took $500,000 but didn't follow through on his end of the deal.__NEWL__Acting on information from Bannister, the FBI arrest Quinn and, despite having no evidence against him, manipulate him into confessing to the murder using legal interrogation tactics.__NEWL__Following the indictment, Quinn claims to have been unlawfully coerced into the confession.__NEWL__Bannister is released and given a new face and identity: Max Reed Baldwin.__NEWL__After the FBI discovers that Rucker's gang knows Bannister's whereabouts and is seeking revenge, he leaves the program and goes off the radar.__NEWL__He sets up a fake film company and meets another man he had met in prison, Nathan Cooley, who doesn't recognize him.__NEWL__Bannister convinces Cooley to take part in the filming of a documentary about corruption in the FBI and the DEA.__NEWL__He rents a private plane, ostensibly to fly the two to Florida, but drugs Cooley during the flight and has the plane fly to Jamaica, framing him for drug smuggling and gun running in the process.__NEWL__As the only white inmate in a jail where all other prisoners and the guards are black, Cooley finds himself the subject of vicious bullying.__NEWL__Bannister tells Cooley that it was Jamaican officials who framed him, and are demanding $500,000 for his release.__NEWL__Cooley tells Bannister of a secret stash of gold worth $8.5 million hidden in his backyard, which Bannister arranges for Vanessa, his lover and accomplice, to steal, before he returns to the US.__NEWL__After the two of them hide the gold in a series of safety deposit boxes, Vanessa - in reality Quinn's sister - reveals to Quinn's lawyer that her brother has an alibi for the time of Fawcett's murder.__NEWL__The FBI, after receiving an email about the gold from Bannister, realize that he and Quinn have been working together; Quinn's arrest and indictment was all part of a plan to enable Bannister to leave prison and take the gold from Fawcett's killer, before clearing Quinn's name.__NEWL__In exchange for immunity for both himself and Quinn, Bannister reveals to the FBI that Cooley is Fawcett's real killer.__NEWL__Before he was imprisoned, Cooley discovered the gold - which Fawcett had taken from a mining company in exchange for a favorable ruling giving them permission to mine uranium - and told Bannister about his plans to steal it while in prison in an attempt to convince the attorney to get him an early release.__NEWL__Bannister promises to send a bar of gold with Cooley's fingerprints to the FBI as proof of his guilt, while also anticipating that Cooley will make a full confession to the murder in order to get out of Jamaica.__NEWL__Bannister warns the FBI to investigate the bribery that took place between Judge Fawcett and the mining company, or he will give the story to the press.__NEWL__The novel ends with Bannister, Vanessa, Quinn - revealed to be Bannister's best friend - and Quinn's brother Dee Ray celebrating in Antigua with all the gold.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14755067	The Bone Season	2013-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35749409	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35749409	The year is 2059.__NEWL__Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall.__NEWL__Her job: to scout for information by locating human minds.__NEWL__Paige is a dreamwalker, the rarest type of clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.__NEWL__It is raining the day her life changes forever.__NEWL__Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race.__NEWL__Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives.__NEWL__He is her master, her trainer, her natural enemy.__NEWL__But, if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.__NEWL__She must absorb all the knowledge she gains access to, she must hone her gift.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763362	The Serpent's Shadow	2012-05-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35662619	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35662619	This book begins six months after the events of the preceding novel, when Carter Kane and Sadie Kane travel to the 51st nome, Dallas, with their initiates and meet J.D. Grissom, the leader of the nome.__NEWL__They tell him that they need a magic scroll from the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art, or his nome will be attacked and destroyed by the forces of Apophis, the god of chaos.__NEWL__In three days, Apophis will rise, swallow the sun, and destroy the world.__NEWL__Sadie sees a face in the wall which tells them they instead need a golden box.__NEWL__However, the nome is attacked, and the scroll is destroyed.__NEWL__To save everyone from getting killed, Sadie summons Ma'at, repulsing the forces of chaos, but blacking out.__NEWL__When she awakens, she finds that the 51st nome has been destroyed, and all of its magicians killed.__NEWL__At the 21st nome in Brooklyn, they discover that the golden box Sadie was told to retrieve is a shadow box of King Tut.__NEWL__Horus visits Carter and hints at a connection between shadows and statues, leading Carter to suspect that there is a better way to execrate Apophis, and decides to consult Thoth.__NEWL__He tells the others at dinner and makes plans to find Thoth that night, but Sadie makes him go to their school dance.__NEWL__During the dance, Sadie meets with Anubis, and he suggests that the shadow is like a computer backup drive, but Shu, the god of wind and Anubis' great-grandfather separates them.__NEWL__Sadie gets an idea about using Bes' sheut to give him back his ren and restore the god's soul.__NEWL__Leonid, the Russian magician they met last year comes with bad news and reveals he has secretly been learning the Path of Shu, which is forbidden.__NEWL__Sadie takes him to the First Nome to meet Amos.__NEWL__He tells them that the rebels, led by Sarah Jacobi and Kwai, have teamed up with Apophis.__NEWL__Amos tells Zia and Sadie to visit Bes.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Carter and Walt go visit Thoth, who is being attacked by demons.__NEWL__Walt and Carter repulse them, and Thoth helps them understand who Setne is.__NEWL__They realize they have to visit the Land of the Dead at his trial and persuade Osiris to help them.__NEWL__When Zia and Sadie are visiting the House of Rest, Sadie realizes that Amos is learning the Path of Set, who he was once forced to host.__NEWL__Tawaret, the hippopotamus goddess, tells them where Bes once hid his sheut.__NEWL__Carter, Sadie, Zia, and Walt meet and exchange information.__NEWL__They meet Osiris, and persuade him to let Setne go with them.__NEWL__Zia and Carter manage to help Setne retrieve the Book of Thoth from the Temple of the Apis bull.__NEWL__It is revealed that Ra, or more specifically, his morning incarnation, Khepri has chosen Zia as a host.__NEWL__She manages to survive but later Setne tricks them by giving orders to the captain to kill them and at the same time bringing them to the Land of Demons.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sadie and Walt visit the goddess Neith, who tells them she will help them if they can survive her hunt till sunset.__NEWL__They survive by using their shen amulets to split up and transfer to each other's side, and then in the end, right before sunset Sadie tricks Neith by mesmerizing her with tales of hunting jelly babies.__NEWL__Walt uses the rest of his energy to revive Bes' sheut, and dies before suddenly reviving as the host of Anubis.__NEWL__Sadie realizes that Walt had been inadvertently channeling the god's power for some time, explaining his mysterious death powers and Walt and Anubis had planned for Walt to become Anubis' host as a method of surviving the curse.__NEWL__Neith agrees to fight Apophis alongside the House of Life when he rises, before Sadie jumps into a portal made by Neith, leaving Walt behind.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Carter and Zia can't interpret the map and have to let Setne go so he can lead them to the shadow.__NEWL__They allow him to cast a glamour on them, so they blend in and look like demons and follow him to the Sea of Chaos.__NEWL__There is a single pillar of Ma'at and a small dock, implied to be the first land that rose from Chaos, that survive the sea's effect, and to capture the shadow, they must be on the very edge of the dock while preventing themselves from getting sucked in.__NEWL__Their glamours start to fade and flicker.__NEWL__Setne is surprised that they are still alive as they approach closer, but Horus reveals to Carter that Ra's power channeled through Zia is protecting them.__NEWL__They manage to summon the serpent's shadow and trap it within the statue, but Setne betrays them, changing the glamour to a binding curse.__NEWL__He explains that he will bind the shadow within a figurine and blackmail Apophis with execration unless he does as he orders; he wants to destroy Egypt and all mention of his father (Ramses the Great) as well as most magicians, but not the entire world.__NEWL__However, there are some spells he can't cast since he's a ghost, so he needed Carter and Zia's help.__NEWL__Sadie drops out of a portal above them and manages to bind Setne and unbind Carter and Zia.__NEWL__Sadie manages to capture the shadow and they turn back to Setne, but he has disappeared, bindings and all.__NEWL__However, they have bigger problems: the shadow called for reinforcements and an army of demons are marching toward them .__NEWL__Tawaret arrives with the gods from the Fourth House (Sunny Acres) and saves them from a tragic death.__NEWL__The fight gave the old gods and goddesses a purpose, and Bes has returned to his old ugly self, just in time to get them to Ra's sun barge, which is just passing by.__NEWL__When they get on board, Ra is still old and senile, but is reborn as a more fit old man once he merges with Zia.__NEWL__They arrive in Giza to find Bast distracting Apophis as best as she can.__NEWL__Bes and Ra/Zia go to help her, while Sadie and Carter help to defend the First Nome.__NEWL__The rebel magicians are already there, guarding the door to the Hall of Ages, where Amos is trapped with the hit squad.__NEWL__The initiates of the Brooklyn house manage to fight their way through, with Walt/Anubis helping with his death magic.__NEWL__When they enter, Amos holds his own against the magicians because he is now the host of Set, and manages to keep Set's power in check.__NEWL__Sadie and Carter channel Isis and Horus and join the fight, but they're all subdued.__NEWL__The lead rebel, Sarah Jacobi, comes close to killing Sadie, but Walt/Anubis save her and bring forth the spirits of the dead to pull Jacobi into the Duat.__NEWL__Her lieutenant, Kwai channels Apophis, and is killed, but manages to cast one last spell "bring down" to destroy the Nome.__NEWL__Sadie channels Isis' power and manages to speak the most difficult Word of Power of all: "Ma'at" and restores the Nome, passing out in the process.__NEWL__In order to do the execration, they must face the serpent.__NEWL__Carter/Horus call on the gods and with their help, they march out to meet Apophis, but he is fracturing reality and they're all separated on different levels of the Duat, fighting different parts of Apophis.__NEWL__Sadie and Carter manage to find where the serpent is strongest and though he manages to swallow Ra/Zia, they still cast the execration spell and destroy him forever.__NEWL__Zia escapes, blowing up Apophis' head in the process but the gods have to withdraw, as Chaos and Ma'at are so intertwined that by pushing away and banishing Chaos, the forces of Ma'at must also be pushed away.__NEWL__Though Ra has returned, he offers Horus the throne, and Carter takes the throne of the Pharaoh in the First Nome as well.__NEWL__However, Carter chooses to focus on running Brooklyn House while leaving Amos as the Chief Lector to deal with the day-to-day affairs of running the House of Life.__NEWL__Walt has gone missing, and Bast and Bes have also withdrawn.__NEWL__Their father is just happy that they're alive and succeeded in saving the world.__NEWL__They return to Brooklyn House, where Walt/Anubis is waiting for them.__NEWL__Because Walt is Anubis' permanent host, he doesn't have to withdraw from the world and can stay with Sadie.__NEWL__Sadie shares a dance with them, excited to have a chance to finally be with both of the boys she loves at the same time.__NEWL__Carter takes Zia out on a date in the Mall of America.__NEWL__She tells him that she will be staying in Brooklyn House.__NEWL__They share a passionate kiss and start a relationship.__NEWL__Setne is still on the loose with the Book of Thoth and Brooklyn House has had an influx of initiates, as have most of the Nomes in the world.__NEWL__Carter and Sadie explain that they'll be so busy that there probably won't be any more recordings.__NEWL__The book ends with an invitation to anyone with pharaoh's blood to join the House of Life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5047445	Cartucho	1931-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	35621457	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35621457	The critic Teresa Hurley says of Cartucho that "there is no plot" and points to the book's "unconventional narrative technique and construction.__NEWL__" It is non-linear and fragmentary, comprising a series of fifty-six vivid but brief vignettes, "rapid sketches that have the quality of cinematic vision.__NEWL__" These episodes are not necessarily in chronological order, and are organized in three sections: "Men of the North"; "The Executed"; and "Under Fire."__NEWL__Collectively, however, they provide a sense of everyday life during the revolution and tell the stories of various "Villistas" (followers of revolutionary leader Pancho Villa) from the perspective of a young girl.__NEWL__The book brings together not only Campobello's own recollections and personal experience, but also stories she heard from others, above all her mother.__NEWL__As she puts it at one point, these were "stories saved for me, and I never forgot."__NEWL__Moreover, this sense of the book's enshrining a collective memory is accentuated by the inclusion of a number of corridos or popular ballads, of one of which she says: "This song belonged to all of them.__NEWL__They would sing it together, in a circle, with their arms around each other's shoulders.__NEWL__" For both individuals and groups, Campobello underlines the importance of memory.__NEWL__As the critic Max Parra puts it, "Cartucho is a book about memory and identity, about memory and survival—individual and collective survival."__NEWL__Although set in Chihuahua (more specifically, in and around Campobello's childhood hometown of Hidalgo del Parral) in 1916–1920, which was one of the bloodiest places and periods of a revolution that by this stage had degenerated into factionalized struggles between revolutionary groups, the descriptions of the atrocities committed during this time are often very poetic.__NEWL__Of one dead combatant, for instance, Campobello writes of "his body turning cold, the tissue of his porous flesh clutching the bullets that killed him."__NEWL__Max Parra notes that this poetic style incorporates many elements of Mexican oral culture and "an acute sense of rhythm and an appreciation for the materiality of language."__NEWL__He further argues that "at the core of Campobello's narrative poetics lies her penchant for the grotesque.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Poniatowska observes that the cumulative effect is that the book's narrator describes the violence "with the delicious freshness of someone watching a great show with neither nostalgia for the past nor plans for the future."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2670634	Turks Fruit (novel)	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	35745014	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35745014	Turks Fruit begins with the unnamed lead character, a sculptor, lying on his bed and thinking about Olga, who has left him.__NEWL__He first met her when he was hitchhiking and she picked him up and succumbed to his charms.__NEWL__When they started driving again, they were in a non-lethal car crash.__NEWL__Two months later they met again and married.__NEWL__The sculptor describes her father and mother.__NEWL__Her father was a fat, funny man.__NEWL__He repeats the same jokes time after time.__NEWL__Her mother is her father's complete opposite.__NEWL__The sculptor hates her, and she hates him.__NEWL__She wants to destroy the relationship between him and Olga.__NEWL__She is the reason Olga's father died.__NEWL__He was on a diet, but she secretly fed him fat.__NEWL__The sculptor saw her doing it and considers it to be murder.__NEWL__He never tells Olga or her father.__NEWL__Olga's mother also cheats and the father knows it, but doesn't mind.__NEWL__One of the mother's breasts was amputated because she had breast cancer.__NEWL__After the sculptor describes Olga's parents, he describes his sexual relations with her, which was very important.__NEWL__During a dinner, the sculptor witnesses Olga flirting with someone her parents know.__NEWL__She goes to the bathroom with him, where he hits her.__NEWL__She leaves him and returns to her mother.__NEWL__After she leaves, the sculptor has short relationships with other women, but none as good as Olga.__NEWL__Olga has several relationships and marriages after the sculptor, but none equal the first.__NEWL__Olga discovers she has an inoperable brain tumor and tells the sculptor.__NEWL__He visits her in the hospital nearly every day for six months, until she dies.__NEWL__She slowly loses her hair and the sculptor buys her a red wig.__NEWL__She is afraid that her teeth will fall out, so she only eats Turkish delight, explaining the title.__NEWL__Olga dies on an early spring evening.__NEWL__She is cremated while wearing her wig.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5428377	Face of a Hero	1950-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35746192	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35746192	The novel is told by a first-person narrator, a 36-year-old American airman of Jewish descent, Ben Isaacs, who had worked as a teacher before volunteering for the Air Force.__NEWL__He has been assigned to the newly formed crew of a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, called "Flying Foxhole", as tail gunner, and sent to Mandia, an air base in Apulia, southern Italy, in the summer of 1944.__NEWL__Isaacs is frightened by his first bomb run, which is against the heavily defended industrial area of Wiener Neustadt in Austria.__NEWL__He feels alienated from his fellow crewmembers because he is older than them, and also because he is the only Jew on the bomber.__NEWL__However, he manages to get accustomed to the terrifying flights over Nazi-occupied Europe, and to establish some camaraderie with the other crewmembers.__NEWL__ The life of the American airmen is described in detail, and Falstein focuses on the relations with the "natives", that is, the Italian people of Apulia, hindered by the linguistic barrier, and the sometimes uneasy relations between airmen from different parts of the United States and different ethnic backgrounds (one of the gunners, Cosmo Fidanza, is the son of an Italian immigrant coming from Bari, the capital of the region).__NEWL__The novel also analyses the psychological burden put on the airmen by the repeated stress of the bomb runs, which leads to alcohol abuse and brings some of them (such as Cosmo) to the verge of breakdown.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5271049	Dian yang Tak Kunjung Padam	1932-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q252	Indonesia	35524753	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35524753	Yasin, a fatherless youth who lives with his mother, falls in love with Molek on first sight.__NEWL__Although the two are of different socio-economic backgrounds — Yasin is a commoner and Molek is of noble descent — they begin to exchange love letters; eventually, Molek falls in love with Yasin as well.__NEWL__However, they do not tell their parents.__NEWL__Knowing that he will need to show he is capable of supporting Molek, Yasin works his garden and earns much money.__NEWL__He confides in his mother that he wishes to propose to Molek.__NEWL__Eventually the two go to Molek's father, Raden Mahmud, to ask for her hand in marriage.__NEWL__However, he and his wife Cek Sitti refuse the proposal, due to class differences.__NEWL__Although the pair are forbidden from seeing each other, Yasin and Molek continue to exchange letters, even after Molek is married to Arab-Indonesian merchant Sayid Mustafa.__NEWL__Molek attempts to run away, and when this fails she pines for Yasin.__NEWL__While her parents go on the hajj to Mecca, Molek invites Yasin to her home.__NEWL__Posing as a pineapple seller, Yasin sneaks in and the two have a final meeting.__NEWL__Soon afterwards, Molek dies.__NEWL__Yasin returns to his hometown, then banishes himself to a cabin near Lake Ranau after his mother dies.__NEWL__He never marries, but dreams of the day he will die and see Molek again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5051272	Marriage	1912-01-01T00:00:00Z	35338					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	35525961	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35525961	Marriage features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R.A.G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21.__NEWL__The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airplane Trafford is piloting crashes into the garden of a house Marjorie's family is renting for the summer.__NEWL__Marjorie ("Madge") and Trafford ("Rag") make great efforts to understand and accommodate the other.__NEWL__On Trafford's part, this leads to his abandonment of scientific research and his involvement with industrial commerce.__NEWL__He makes his fortune by applying himself to synthetic rubber.__NEWL__But he grows more and more disenchanted with his abandonment of his commitment to a life lived for truth.__NEWL__Marjorie's social ambitions gradually alienate him, and he decides to leave everything behind him and think things out in the wilderness of Labrador.__NEWL__His widowed mother persuades him to take Marjorie with him, and leaving their home and four children behind they undertake to survive the winter in the wilderness.__NEWL__There they nearly perish, but they save their marriage by winning their way through to a satisfactory mutual understanding.__NEWL__The novel ends as they are returning to London to undertake, together, a critical engagement with the world.__NEWL__Trafford intends to devote himself to writing a book entitled From Realism to Reality, which is to be "a pragmatist essay, a sustained attempt to undermine the confidence of all that scholasticism and logic chopping which still lingers like the sequelae of a disease in our University philosophy," while Marjorie intends to devote herself to being "his squaw and body-servant first of all, and then—a mother."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1428590	Beware of Pity	1938-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	35666756	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35666756	The young lieutenant Anton Hofmiller is invited to the castle of the wealthy Hungarian Lajos Kekesfalva.__NEWL__He meets Kekesfalva's paralyzed daughter Edith and develops subtle affection and deep compassion for her.__NEWL__Edith falls in love with him.__NEWL__When she develops a hope for a speedy recovery, he eventually promises to marry her when she is recovered, with the hope that this will convince her to take the treatment.__NEWL__However, for fear of ridicule and contempt, he denies the engagement in public.__NEWL__When Edith learns of this, she takes her own life.__NEWL__Overwhelmed by guilt, he is deployed to the First World War.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768506	The Terrible Ones	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z	35515228	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35515228	Nick Carter is sent to the Republic of Haiti to assist a group of rebels from neighboring Dominican Republic called The Terrible Ones.__NEWL__Led by Paula Martelo, The Terrible Ones are the widows of men executed for plotting to overthrow former Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.__NEWL__Carter also has to investigate the nature of Operation Blast and stop it.__NEWL__The Terrible Ones are searching for a US$100 million ($700 million in 2012) horde of gold and precious stones reputedly hidden by Trujillo.__NEWL__Also searching for the Trujillo Treasure is Dr Tsing-fu Shu, a Chinese communist intelligence officer.__NEWL__The location of the treasure has been encoded in a series of separate clues known only to a handful of Trujillo's most trusted advisers.__NEWL__Based on one of the clues supposedly referring to a castle or fortress of some kind, Tsing-fu is conducting excavations in the dungeons of the Citadelle Laferriere in Haiti.__NEWL__If discovered, the treasure will enable the Chinese to fund Operation Blast and make Haiti a puppet state under the control of China.__NEWL__Carter and Paula Martelo discover that the Citadelle is not the location of the buried treasure and head for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.__NEWL__They arrive at the secret headquarters of The Terrible Ones and find it has been captured by three Cuban fidelistas.__NEWL__Carter is tied up and interrogated but escapes by using Pierre – the poison gas bomb.__NEWL__With the help of The Terrible Ones, he plants the bodies of the fidelistas in the Chinese restaurant in Santo Domingo used as a front by Tsing-fu and retrieves a map showing the locations of planned short-range missile bases dotted around the Caribbean designed to control the sea passages and restrict US shipping – the true nature of Operation Blast.__NEWL__Carter asks The Terrible Ones to search through their husbands' belongings for possible clues to the location of the treasure.__NEWL__Eventually, the location is identified as the "Valley of the Shadow" – a small dark valley on the outskirts of Santo Domingo in which an obscure sect of black-cowled monks have built a fortified monastery.__NEWL__Carter and eight of The Terrible Ones go to investigate.__NEWL__The monastery has been attacked and overrun by Tsing-fu and his soldiers who have also discovered the true location of the treasure by tracking down and torturing former Trujillo aides.__NEWL__After a fierce firefight, Carter kills Tsing-fu and his men.__NEWL__The treasure has been sealed up inside the body of a huge plaster saint in the monastery chapel.__NEWL__The abbot gives up the treasure to The Terrible Ones.__NEWL__As Carter and a few of The Terrible Ones try to leave the valley with the treasure they are ambushed by Cuban fidelistas.__NEWL__Paula is killed and Carter is wounded.__NEWL__The attackers are all killed.__NEWL__Carter recovers in hospital treasuring a ruby ring once owned by Paula.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5730695	Henry and the Clubhouse	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35637383	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35637383	Henry Huggins is the youngest boy in town to have a paper route.__NEWL__He takes his job very seriously, and works hard to make his father proud of him.__NEWL__He likes the responsibility, but he doesn't like the "collecting" aspect of the job; trying to get his customers to pay him on time.__NEWL__And when he goes to the new neighbor's house to sell her a subscription, his dog Ribsy embarrasses him by starting a fight with her Dalmatian.__NEWL__When little Ramona Quimby starts following him around trying to help, the other paper deliverers make fun of them, and all of his ideas to get rid of her seem to backfire.__NEWL__Henry and his two friends Robert and Murph decide to build the world's best clubhouse in Henry's backyard, using wood donated by one of Henry's customers.__NEWL__The only problem is, Murph can't stand girls, and he insists that it be a "Boys Only" clubhouse.__NEWL__Henry doesn't like excluding his good friend Beezus Quimby, but he agrees to go along anyway.__NEWL__One day, Ramona locks Henry in the clubhouse and he can't get out until he reveals the secret password to Beezus, whom Ramona had gone to for help.__NEWL__ It isn't easy to have a job, a major building project, and friends who don't get along.__NEWL__But one winter day Henry feels sorry for Ramona, following him around in the deep snow, and takes her home on his sled before finishing his paper route.__NEWL__His kindness is noticed by one of his customers, who writes a letter to the editor praising him, and Henry ends up making his father proud.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q329111	Immensee	35639199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35639199	From their early childhood on, the protagonists Reinhard Werner and Elisabeth (no last name mentioned) have been close friends.__NEWL__Reinhard, who's five years older than Elisabeth, impresses her by writing fairy tales on slips of paper for her.__NEWL__Without Elisabeth knowing, Reinhard additionally keeps a vellum-bound book in which he composes poems about his life experiences.__NEWL__Despite his young age, Reinhard is sure that he wants to spend his whole life with Elisabeth.__NEWL__Neither a new school, nor his new male friends can change this.__NEWL__He reveals his childhood dream of a life together in India to Elisabeth.__NEWL__After a moment of hesitation, 5-year old Elisabeth agrees to his plans.__NEWL__At the age of seventeen, the moment of separation from Elisabeth comes inescapably closer.__NEWL__Although he will pursue his education in town, Reinhard promises to continue writing fairy tales for her and send them by letter to his mother.__NEWL__She is delighted about this idea for she cannot imagine a life without Reinhard.__NEWL__Soon enough Christmas Eve comes along.__NEWL__Reinhard spends his time with his fellow students in the Ratskeller, where he shows interest to a girl playing the zither accompanied by a fiddler.__NEWL__After acting coy, she eventually sings for Reinhard.__NEWL__However, he offends her by heading home in a rush after receiving a message from an arrival.__NEWL__There Reinhard finds a parcel.__NEWL__Excited, he looks at the parcel's content.__NEWL__Besides a cake and some personal items the parcel also contains letters from Elizabeth and his mother.__NEWL__In her letter Elisabeth complains about the death of the bird which Reinhard gave her as a present.__NEWL__Furthermore, she reproaches him for not writing fairy tales for her anymore.__NEWL__He is overwhelmed by a desire to return home.__NEWL__Immediately, he writes letters to Elisabeth and his mother after taking a walk, during which he gives half of the cake to a beggar girl.__NEWL__At Easter, after a long-awaited time, Reinhard returns to see Elisabeth.__NEWL__However, they seem to have grown apart.__NEWL__In Reinhard's absence, his old schoolfriend Erich has inherited his father's farm at Immensee.__NEWL__Erich gave a new bird to Elisabeth.__NEWL__Reinhard entrusts his personal diary to Elisabeth, who is unsettled by the many poems he dedicated to her.__NEWL__When he asks her to hand him the book back, she returns it to him along with his favourite flower.__NEWL__Shortly before his departure Reinhard makes Elisabeth promise that she will still love him after his two-year absence.__NEWL__He leaves having told her that he has a secret, which he vows to tell her upon his return.__NEWL__Two more years pass by with no more correspondence between the two of them, then Reinhard gets a letter from his mother about Elisabeth and Erich's engagement.__NEWL__Elisabeth had twice rejected Erich's proposal.__NEWL__A few years later Reinhard accepts Erich's invitation to Immensee without Elisabeth and her mother knowing.__NEWL__Elisabeth is very happy about Reinhard's unexpected arrival.__NEWL__Reinhard has collected several poems and songs over the last few years and now he is asked to perform some of his latest folksongs.__NEWL__With the evening drawing near, Reinhard recites some verses of a romantic drama, prompting Elisabeth to leave the small party embarrassed.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, Reinhard is on his way down to the lake where he tries to reach a water lily by swimming into the middle.__NEWL__He cannot reach it and returns to the shore scared.__NEWL__The following afternoon Reinhard and Elisabeth go for a walk on the other side of the lake.__NEWL__Discovering a field of erica and listening to Reinhard's words about lost youth bring tears to Elisabeth's eyes.__NEWL__In silence they make their way back to the house by boat but Reinhard returns alone later.__NEWL__During the whole time at the manor Reinhard is not able to express his thoughts.__NEWL__He decides to abandon Immensee early next morning, leaving a note behind but Elisabeth surprises him when she anticipates his plan to depart and never come back.__NEWL__He withdraws himself from her sight stepping outside and taking off.__NEWL__At late dusk, in his mind's eye, the old man once more catches sight of the water lily on the lake through the window.__NEWL__The lily seems to be close but still unreachable.__NEWL__He remembers his bygone youth and delves into his studies, to which he dedicated a lot of time in the past.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3415953	Raboliot	1925-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	35587482	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35587482	The novel is set in the country-side around Lamotte-Beuvron and Brinon-sur-Sauldre, and deals with the relationship between landowners and poor people in the years after World War I.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6785544	Mastiff	2011-10-25T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35624530	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35624530	Three years have passed since Beka Cooper almost died in the sewers of Port Caynn, and she is now a respected member of the Provost's Guard.__NEWL__But her life takes an unexpected turn when her fiancé is killed on a slave raid.__NEWL__Beka is faced with a mixture of emotions as, unbeknownst to many, she was about to call the engagement off.__NEWL__It is as Beka is facing these feelings that Lord Gershom appears at her door.__NEWL__Within hours, Beka, her partner Tunstall, her scent hound Achoo, and an unusual but powerful mage are working on an extremely secretive case that threatens the future of the Tortallan royal family, and therefore the entire Tortallan government.__NEWL__As Beka delves deeper in the motivations of the criminals she now Hunts, she learns of deep-seated political betrayal and corruption.__NEWL__These are people with power, money, and influence, and they are able to hire the most skilled of mages, well versed in the darkest forms of magic, all of which makes them nearly impossible to identify.__NEWL__This case—a Hunt that will take her to places she's never been before—will challenge Beka's tracking skills beyond the city walls, as well as her ability to judge exactly whom she can trust with her life and her country's future.__NEWL__The book opens in the beginning of June 249 H.E. at the funeral of Holborn Staftstall, Beka Cooper's fiancé and a five-year Dog of the Jane Street kennel.__NEWL__All the Dogs realize that Holborn's impetuous nature got him killed in the line of duty.__NEWL__Beka feels guilty both that she wasn't able to influence him to be more careful and that she was on the verge of ending their relationship.__NEWL__Rosto, the Rogue of Corus and friends, takes care of her that evening.__NEWL__The next morning, Beka's companion Pounce, a constellation in the form of a cat, wakes her before dawn.__NEWL__Lord Gershom, Beka's patron and the Lord Provost of Tortall, comes with the news that she and her scent hound Achoo are needed on a Hunt.__NEWL__Her partner Matthias Tunstall is at the Peregrine Dock, who will join the Hunt.__NEWL__All that is known is that the Hunt calls for utmost secrecy, a small team, and a scent-hound.__NEWL__A mage magics the Peregrine ship to bounce off the waves, allowing for very fast trips; the ride is so rough that all passengers and crew are tied to bunks/part of the ship, and all but a couple crew members are made to sleep.__NEWL__The ship stops at Blue Harbor to pick up Master Farmer Cape, a Provost's mage unknown to Beka and Tunstall.__NEWL__The group heads to the Summer Palace, indicating the king is involved as the royal family has been in residence there for a week and a half.__NEWL__The palace is heavily damaged, with many people burned, sword hacked, stabbed, and some even found melted.__NEWL__During the attack, the four-year-old Prince Gareth was kidnapped while the king and queen were away for the evening.__NEWL__Both parents are devastated by the events and reveal that King Roger III is at odds with the Chancellor of Mages (and many other mages and lords) over licensing and taxing mages as well as increasing the taxes on his nobles after the bread riots on 247 H.E. Master Farmer indicates that the protection spells of the palace, which the Chancellor came to renew last month, had instead been shredded.__NEWL__The personal mages of the king and queen, Ironwood and Orielle, were unaware of this damage and are further insulted by the presence of Farmer, as he is not a court mage.__NEWL__Beka finds laundry with the prince's scent on it and she and Achoo track his trail.__NEWL__They arrive at the beach, where Master Farmer shows he has great talents by creating a light within stones with quartz crystals (for use as a torch) and found two ships recently sunk under the water.__NEWL__Master Farmer, Ironwood, and Orielle raise the ships to shore.__NEWL__Beka and Tunstall search the woods nearby, where Achoo finds the prince's scent again, only for it to end at a riverbank, near the remains of several melted people.__NEWL__Lord Gershom and Master Farmer, accompanied by guards and Pounce, find Beka's group and are relieved to learn the prince didn't go down in the ships.__NEWL__Beka and Tunstall are given horses and they head back to the palace to consult with the king.__NEWL__Rain comes, which was magicked, and weakens the scent trail of the prince.__NEWL__The royals are informed of the progress before everyone heads to bed.__NEWL__Beka awakes to take Achoo out and finds Tunstall and Master Farmer cooking, as most servants are dead and none of the court know how.__NEWL__Beka and Achoo head back to the beach, to investigate the ships that were raised.__NEWL__Tunstall finds Beka and Achoo at the ships, where they discover that one of the ships was a slave ship.__NEWL__They also discover powerful mages at work.__NEWL__Tunstall and Beka are sent to Port Caynn; Farmer later joins them and so does the lady knight Sabine of Macayhill (also Tunstall's lover) joins the Hunt, though Tunstall is still in charge.__NEWL__They receive a lead for their hunt from a Birdie and are taken via Peregrine ship to Arenaver.__NEWL__As soon as the group docks, Achoo finds the scent again and the hunt continues into the Marshlands, where trail ends at burned down bridge.__NEWL__After making camp, they then go into village for help getting across the water.__NEWL__The locals are distrustful, but recommend to hire Ormer to take them across the water, which takes four days.__NEWL__At the other side of the Marshlands, Ormer heads back to the village and Achoo picks up the scent of Prince Gareth again near the burned bridge.__NEWL__The trail leads them to a trap which Farmer disarms.__NEWL__ Achoo leads them into Queensgrace Castle where the cult of the Gentle Mother has a strong following.__NEWL__Beka and Achoo explore while Tunstall and the rest of the Hunt submit to the orders of the Lord of Queensgrace.__NEWL__Beka encounters a few Birdies who help the Hunt, and Beka discovers some of the conspirators and their plan to kill the king, queen, and Prince Gareth in order to place Prince Baird on the throne with the support of the Crown Mages and assorted nobles.__NEWL__ Leaving Queensgrace, Beka finds the four-leafed insignia of the conspiracy on Farmer's bag and begins to fear there must be a traitor in the group within the Hunt.__NEWL__Beka and the team encounter a variety of traps as they continue to track Prince Gareth.__NEWL__Beka, Tunstall, Sabine, and Farmer get kidnapped by some bandits and mages who had taken part in the kidnapping of Prince Gareth, and all are led to Halleburn Castle where the conspiracy is based.__NEWL__Beka and Farmer get tortured for information, while Sabine turns to the cause of the conspiracy with the promise of marrying Prince Baird and keeping Tunstall as a consort.__NEWL__Farmer gets placed in Beka's cell; they orchestrate an escape to find and rescue Prince Gareth, and they make plans to marry when the hunt is over.__NEWL__Beka and Pounce finds Prince Gareth who is being kept as a kitchen slave, then Farmer catches up, and Sabine, Tunstall, and Nomalla the lady knight of Halleburn rejoin the group declaring their loyalty to King Roger III.__NEWL__ The group leaves Halleburn together easily, and then the group splits in the midst of a fight so Beka and Gareth continue on alone.__NEWL__Then, Beka encounters Tunstall alone and discovers his plan to marry Sabine by becoming Lord Provost to King Baird.__NEWL__Beka and Tunstall fight, and Beka wins, keeping Tunstall alive to face the Magistrates for treason.__NEWL__Sabine, Farmer, and Nomalla reveal themselves to Beka having heard his plans and treason, and Sabine ties Tunstall to a tree so he must face the Magistrates.__NEWL__The new group loyal to King Roger III then returns to the place where Achoo guards Prince Gareth.__NEWL__The next morning, an army attacks Halleburn with mages.__NEWL__Farmer had gotten a message to his master: "Halleburn."__NEWL__Farmer determines that the army is on the side of King Roger III, and that Halleburn, Queensgrace, and Aspen Vale are all being sieged to stamp out the rebellion.__NEWL__The king announces that both Prince Gareth and Beka's wish was for the end of the slave trade, which he has them sign as witnesses a proclamation ending enslavement in Tortall.__NEWL__With children no longer able to be sold into slavery, it should end within two generations, as current slaves pass away.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5019858	Calico Joe	2012-04-10T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	35541654	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35541654	Joe Castle starts his career with home runs in his first three Major League Baseball at bats as well as hits in his first 15 plate appearances and is able to keep his batting average over .500 for the first six weeks of his season.__NEWL__In a late-summer visit to Shea Stadium, Castle hits a home run in his first at-bat against Warren.__NEWL__Paul Tracey is a huge fan of Castle's.__NEWL__Castle's career is ended later in the game when Warren intentionally hits him with a pitch.__NEWL__Castle goes into a prolonged coma, suffers a stroke and is incapacitated for life, his ball-playing days definitely over.__NEWL__The Traceys become estranged and Paul does not watch another baseball game for 30 years.__NEWL__When Warren Tracey is on the verge of death from pancreatic cancer, Paul Tracey decides to try to arrange a meeting between him and Castle, a far from easy task.__NEWL__Paul visits Joe's hometown of Calico Rock, Arkansas, where Joe lives, devotedly tending the town's baseball field and being supported by his two brothers.__NEWL__The sympathetic editor of the local Calico paper tells Paul that Joe hardly ever talks to strangers - much less to Warren Tracey, who destroyed his career.__NEWL__In fact, there is a concrete danger of Warren being physically assaulted, should he appear in Calico Rock - the townspeople still angry at what he did to their hero.__NEWL__Paul travels to Florida to visit with Warren, who has retired there with his fifth wife.__NEWL__Paul finds his long-estranged father as egoistic and vindictive as ever - reiterating, as he did for thirty years, that his hitting Joe Castle was an accident, that he had nothing to apologize for and that he had no interest in meeting Joe.__NEWL__However, with cancer ravaging his body, Warren eventually has a change of heart.__NEWL__He does travel to Calico Rock, and Joe does consent to meet him.__NEWL__In a moment of sincerity, Warren admits to having deliberately hit Joe out of pure spite and offers an apology, asking, "Do you hate me," to which Joe answers, "No, you have apologized".__NEWL__Warren then says "You are a greater man than me" and the two shake hands.__NEWL__Having brought about such a startling reconciliation between the old foes, Warren Tracey and Joe Castle, Paul Tracey finds himself unable to reach similar closure with his father - too many memories of abuse blocking his way.__NEWL__When saying goodbye to his dying father, despite knowing he will never see him again, Paul is unable to offer the embrace his father hopes for.__NEWL__After Warren's death, Joe Castle and his brothers surprisingly turn up at the sparsely-attended funeral in Florida.__NEWL__When Warren's will is opened, it is revealed that he left $25,000 to the town of Calico Rock's baseball field - Joe's last link with the world of baseball.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7990197	Wetware	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8791568	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8791568	Set in 2030–2031, ten years after the events of Software, Wetware focuses on the attempt of an Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed bopper named Berenice to populate Earth with a robot/human hybrid called a meatbop.__NEWL__Toward this end, she implants an embryo in a human woman living on the Moon (Della Taze, Cobb Anderson's niece) and then frames her for murder to force her to return to Earth.__NEWL__After only a few days, she gives birth to a boy named Manchile, who has been genetically programmed to carry bopper software in his brain (and in his sperm), and to grow to maturity in a matter of weeks.__NEWL__Berenice's plan is for Manchile to announce the formation of a new religion unifying boppers and humans, and then arrange to have himself assassinated.__NEWL__(Rucker makes several allusions to the Christ story; Taze's abbreviated pregnancy is discovered on Christmas Eve, for instance.)__NEWL__Before the assassination, Manchile impregnates several women, the idea being that his similarly accelerated offspring will create a race of meatbops at an exponential rate.__NEWL__The plot goes disastrously awry, and a human corporation called ISDN retaliates against the boppers by infecting them with a genetically modified organism called chipmold.__NEWL__The artificial disease succeeds in killing off the boppers, but when it infects the boppers' outer coating, a kind of smart plastic known as flickercladding, it creates a new race of intelligent symbiotes known as moldies — thus fulfilling Berenice's dream of an organic/synthetic hybrid.__NEWL__Both of the two main human characters of Software play prominent roles in Wetware: Cobb Anderson, whose robot body was destroyed at the end of the last novel, has his software implanted in a new body so he can help raise Manchile; while Sta-Hi Mooney—now known as Stahn Mooney—is now working as a private detective on the Moon after accidentally killing his wife, and is used as a pawn in various bopper and anti-bopper schemes.__NEWL__The Belle of Louisville, a steamboat of historic significance located in Louisville, Kentucky (the setting for the earthbound portions of the book), occurs as a character in the book, in which it is revealed that the steamer has been imbued with an onboard artificial intelligence.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7716314	The Beggar Queen	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8792574	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8792574	Mickle, once a common street urchin, is now the queen of Westmark.__NEWL__The kingdom is thriving, yet at the same time, it is strangely restless.__NEWL__Ghosts of the past lurk everywhere.__NEWL__The evil minister, Cabbarus, once banished from Westmark, is now plotting to seize the throne.__NEWL__Theo remembers a time when he was the famed Kestrel, fighting battles that threatened to kill his soul.__NEWL__Now he once again must join in the struggle.__NEWL__Who will at last command the fate of Westmark?__NEWL__One answer to that question is the people.__NEWL__The common people, mostly anonymous, rise up at the end, making the final overthrow of Cabbarus possible.__NEWL__The book raises moral questions, especially about choices, the effects of having power, and the evil that seems necessary to prosecute a war.__NEWL__Theo tries to keep out of the battles in the book, but finds that he can not.__NEWL__He vows to kill Cabbarus.__NEWL__(Theo had once saved his life in Westmark, the first of the trilogy.)__NEWL__In the end, many of the characters are dead, including Cabbarus, but not by the hand of Theo.__NEWL__A government, led by a council of commoners, begins to rise.__NEWL__Mickle, in one of her last acts as queen, proclaims that she and Theo are married.__NEWL__She sees that the two of them cannot remain in the country where she was queen.__NEWL__As the book ends, the couple leaves to travel the world together with their old friends, Las Bombas and Musket.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5223366	Dark Quetzal	2003-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8786909	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8786909	Dark Quetzal is set in the world of the Isle of Echoes where the Singers live in The Echorium.__NEWL__The Singers have many special abilities, the most important of which is knowledge of the Songs of Power: Challa for sleep, Kashe for laughter, Shi for sadness, Aushan for fear and Yehn for death.__NEWL__All Singer children, called novices, learn these Songs, but if their voices do not last into adulthood they receive a mild form of Yehn which makes them forget the Songs.__NEWL__The Singers can also farlisten to hear over great distances, an ability enhanced by the bluestone which the Isle is made up of, and hear truth.__NEWL__The Singers help to keep peace on the mainland, and produce treaties to protect Half Creatures - the half-human beings with knowledge of the Songs, which include merlee (fish people), naga (water snake people), quetzal (bird people) and centaurs (horse people).__NEWL__During the novel Song Quest, set thirty one years before Dark Quetzal, the Singers encountered a powerful enemy in Khizpriest Frazhin, who harnessed the powers of a strange black crystal called the khiz to manipulate people's thoughts and memories.__NEWL__He attempted to destroy the Echorium by kidnapping a novice, Rialle, and was only stopped by the efforts of another novice, Kherron, who had originally been taken in by Frazhin.__NEWL__Although thought dead for many years, he returned eleven years before Dark Quetzal, joining with Lady Yashra of the Harai to kidnap street children and enslave centaurs in an attempt to build a Khizalace school of song to rival the Echorium.__NEWL__They were stopped by Rialle's novice son Renn and Shaiala, a girl raised by centaurs, and it appeared that Frazhin was drowned by naga while trying to escape.__NEWL__Lady Yashra was captured and sung Yehn, and her unborn child by Frazhin was raised as a normal novice of the Echorium.__NEWL__However, suspicions are raised when first Rialle, then Frazhin's daughter Kyarra, go missing.__NEWL__Promising final year novice Kyarra is disappointed when she alone in her class is forbidden from going to the beach to try to contact the merlee about the disappearance of Rialle.__NEWL__Although she has moved up a year because of her promising voice, she fears that she will be rejected and turned into an orderly.__NEWL__Her sense of disappointment is only worsened when her best friend Caell hears the merlee, and receives a message from them that Kyarra's parents were not Singers.__NEWL__The merlee claim her mother is living in Windy Corner, waiting to hear from Kyarra, and together, Kyarra and Caell sneak out to find her.__NEWL__They arrive just in time to find Kyarra's mother being kidnapped - Kyarra is also taken, apparently expected to have come, and Caell tries to follow them with the merlee and is nearly drowned.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in the Quetzal Forest, Night Plume, the black-feathered leader of a flock of quetzal, is annoyed to be sent for by the Starmaker - Frazhin, who is using the khiz to brainwash and control groups of half-creatures raised by his priests, including the merlee who sent the message to Caell.__NEWL__Night Plume is asked to listen to Rialle as she is fed a memory drug made from yellow flowers, and store what he hears about the Starmaker's daughter - Kyarra - in the Memoryplace, the quetzal's collective ancestral memory.__NEWL__He does as he is asked, but Rialle's songs begin to break the Starmaker's hold on him, and when he is released he attempts to make contact with wild quetzal, getting himself and his friend Sky Swooper in trouble.__NEWL__Although Frazhin still believes Night Plume is under his control, he holds Sky Swooper captive to ensure loyalty.__NEWL__Summoning Night Plume to the temple, Frazhin orders him and his flock to accompany Kyarra on her journey through Quetzal Forest - although Night Plume is distracted by a message in Wild Speech from Rialle imploring him to fly to the Echorium for help.__NEWL__Kyarra is transported to the edge of Quetzal Forest by Asil, a famous pirate.__NEWL__On the journey she is watched over by Asil's daughter Jilian who, along with the rest of the pirates, wears khiz stars to protect themselves from Kyarra's singing.__NEWL__She also bonds with her mother, who was left helpless by the Yehn she was given and is completely incapable of caring for herself.__NEWL__Nevertheless, Kyarra feels very protective of her, and sings one of the pirates Shi for attempting to harm her.__NEWL__The group just reach the edge of the forest when they are suddenly attacked by wild quetzal.__NEWL__Kyarra's song helps herself, her mother and Jilian escape, but they are unexpectedly captured by Shaiala and some centaurs with herstones.__NEWL__Recognising Yashra, Shaiala takes the group and other captured pirates to the Kaleri.__NEWL__Night Plume's flock arrives just in time to see Kyarra vanish into green light, and Night Plume realises he, unlike the enchanted quetzal, is free to travel past the edge of the Forest.__NEWL__He orders the flock to delay their return, and flies over the sea, but cannot find the island.__NEWL__Instead he lands on a ship, where he meets Caell, Renn and Kherron journeying to the mainland to search for Kyarra.__NEWL__When he reveals his ability to speak human speech, Kherron becomes suspicious, particularly as Night Plume admits to being raised by Frazhin.__NEWL__Night Plume faithfully passes on Rialle's message, including a warning that Frazhin is trying to poison the Echorium, and that he saw Kyarra vanish into green light - a sign Renn recognises as being Shaiala's work.__NEWL__They reach Silvertown and learn it has been poisoned - although for most residents this is not fatal - and the group encounters Lord Azri.__NEWL__Telling him about Frazhin, Azri agrees they must seek him out and attack, but the Singers must first fulfill their obligation to Kyarra and head to the Purple Plains to look for her.__NEWL__In the Horselord's camp, Kyarra is horrified to learn of her mother's crimes, and maintains that her punishment was undeserved.__NEWL__WHile she is glad to hear that Yashra will be cared for by the Harai, she is horrified to learn that Jilian is to be used as bait for her father, putting her in great danger.__NEWL__At a meeting, the Horselords hear a prophecy from Speaks Many Tongues, an inhabitant of Quetzal Forest, warning of doom when the dark quetzal flies.__NEWL__As the prophecy is spoken, Frazhin's quetzal attack the camp and, in the confusion, Kyarra frees Jilian and escapes with Speaks Many Tongues into the forest.__NEWL__Night Plume, scouting ahead for the Singers, learns from his flock that Frazhin has punished Sky Swooper for Night Plume's disappearance.__NEWL__The flock attack Night Plume, and he is badly injured, although the arrival of the Singers protects him from the angry Horselords.__NEWL__Kyarra, Jilian and Speaks Many Tongues journey into the forest, where Speaks Many Tongues insists on them meeting Xiancotl, the forest people's holy man, and travelling with him into the quetzal Memoryplace using yellow flowers.__NEWL__Before their arrival, they meet Shaiala, who has followed them with some centaurs, and she is invited to join them in the memory trance.__NEWL__Each girl asks a question: Shaiala successfully learns that the centaurs are uncorruptible because they do not hatch from eggs, but when Kyarra attempts to discover how to heal her mother, the memory trance is interrupted and instead she receives a summons from Frazhin.__NEWL__The disruption causes Xiancotl and Kyarra to pass out, and in the panic this causes Jilian, Shaiala and Kyarra escape to the centaurs.__NEWL__However, on Kyarra's insistence, they allow Frahin's naga to take her to him, where she hopes she will be able to subdue him with her Songs.__NEWL__The Singers and the Horselords regroup and prepare to head into the Forest and attack Frazhin.__NEWL__Although initially concerned for Kyarra, they are appeased when Speaks Many Tongues informs them that she disappeared with Shaiala.__NEWL__Speaks Many Tongues warns that Frazhin is planning to use the yellow flowers gathered by Night Plume's flock to travel into the quetzal Memoryplace and replace it with one of his own making, in which Singers will no longer exist.__NEWL__Although most of the Singers are horrified by this, Kherron is distracted by the promise of a miracle healing potion which Speaks Many Tongues suggests might heal his voice.__NEWL__The next day, the army travels into the Forest and surrounds the volcano where Frazhin has made his Temple, which is beginning to erupt as he prepares to enter the Memoryplace.__NEWL__With the help of the centaurs, who arrive with Shaiala and Jilian, the army breaches the crater and begins searching for Frazhin.__NEWL__Although Caell and Night Plume are told to wait outside, they grow restless, and make their way into the crater.__NEWL__Night Plume is horrified to see the bodies of the eldest and youngest quetzal, who were useless for the memory trance, along with Sky Swooper, punished for his disappearance by having her wings cut off before she was killed.__NEWL__Using wild speech, Night Plume breaks the memory trance on the other quetzal, and reasserts his leadership of the flock.__NEWL__Kyarra is taken by Frazhin to a ball made of crystal, called the Fane.__NEWL__Frazhin plans to seal the pair of them inside it, and then be rolled into the volcano to protect them from the approaching Singers.__NEWL__Within the Fane, they will use the Memoryplace - its power heightened by the captive quetzal and the yellow flower drug sent to the Isle of the Echoes and Silvertown - to change history so that Yashra is healed and the Singers do not exist.__NEWL__Although reluctant, Kyarra feels she has no choice but to get into the Fane.__NEWL__Just as it is sealed, Caell arrives, making Kyarra believe that the memory trance has brought him back from being drowned by merlee.__NEWL__Although the Singers rescue the Fane from the priests and end the volcano's eruption, they are unable to open the Fane, within which Kyarra is rapidly running out of air.__NEWL__Feeling they have no choice, Renn, Rialle, Caell, Night Plume and a newly healed Kherron sing Yehn, hoping that it will break Frazhin's power.__NEWL__Although the Fane opens, the Yehn does not affect Frazhin, and he takes Kyarra hostage before being brought down by Night Plume and Jilian.__NEWL__Five years later, Kyarra wakes from the Yehn with the help of the forest people's potions, and is greeted by a reformed Lady Yashra, also healed, along with Night Plume, Caell, Jilian and Rialle.__NEWL__Although she is initially confused, she learns that Frazhin is dead and the Half Creatures are free again.__NEWL__Frazhin has been revealed to be a half-Singer child who was born on the Isle, but rejected from the Echorium because of his resistance to the Songs.__NEWL__Kyarra resolves to learn how to become both a Singer and a Harai princess, and plans to become the Echorium's first female Second Singer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7783677	They Came on Viking Ships	2005-03-30T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	8787367	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8787367	The story focuses on a 12-year-old girl called Hekja.__NEWL__Hekja lives with her mother in a simple village by the sea.__NEWL__Her two brothers and father have all died.__NEWL__At the beginning of the book, she comes to the aid of a small puppy who was attacked by a seagull on the beach.__NEWL__Hekja takes the puppy to the village's witch, Tikka, for her to help heal the puppy.__NEWL__Hekja is told that the puppy was one of the chief's litter, and she had already given it the True Name of Riki Snarfari (Mighty Rover).__NEWL__The puppy was considered the useless one of the litter and apparently had no value.__NEWL__The chief has shown little interest in him and gives him away to Hekja but later becomes jealous of how strong the pup is.__NEWL__Tikka shows the girl how to look after Snarf, as he becomes known affectionately by Hekja.__NEWL__Eventually, Snarf recovers, and hardly limps at all from the wound.__NEWL__The time comes for Hekja to spend the summer up the mountain with the other girls of the village.__NEWL__It is a tradition of the village for girls to stay on the mountain when they become of age, and the girls look after the cows and produce cheese whilst up the mountain, with the women bringing supplies "twice every full moon".__NEWL__Except for Hekja's best friend, Branna, the other girls are mean or indifferent to Hekja and abuse Snarf.__NEWL__One foggy day, the girls hear a howl.__NEWL__Hekja goes to investigate and Snarf follows her.__NEWL__Hekja finds a wolf and plans to kill it before it eats one of the calves.__NEWL__The girls hide and try to persuade Hekja to come back and let the wolf take a calf, but Hekja is stubborn, and wherever Hekja goes, Snarf follows.__NEWL__The wolf appears and Snarf bites it around the neck while the wolf is biting the dog's leg.__NEWL__The wolf quickly dies from the bite.__NEWL__Snarf is considered a hero and is treated with respect and Hekja also becomes a hero.__NEWL__Hekja becomes friends with all the other girls and they discover that she has a wonderful singing voice.__NEWL__They were jealous about her making up a song about Snarf so they plead with Hekja to make a song about them.__NEWL__One day, whilst still up the mountain, Hekja sees strange ships approaching from the distance.__NEWL__At the protests of the other girls, she runs back down to the village, only to see the Viking raiders murdering the village people, including Hekja's mother and the boy she used to love, Bran.__NEWL__Hekja tries to outrun the invaders, but is captured by a woman called Freydis, who is Erik the Red's daughter, and consequently is taken away as a slave.__NEWL__Hekja hates the Norse and will not share her singing with them, even if it meant that she would not have to mind the cows as a thrall, if they were to hear her sing.__NEWL__She had told one of the Norsemen, Snorri, when he heard her sing that she did not want anybody to know that she can sing because everything has been taken away from her and that if they heard her sing they would take that away from her too.__NEWL__Hekja's spirit and sheer determination means that she soon finds herself joining her mistress Freydis' expedition to Vinland.__NEWL__Hekja befriends Freydis' brother's thrall, Hikki, and he is the only one she will sing to.__NEWL__They develop a firm friendship.__NEWL__Upon arriving at Vinland, they find the place beautiful and welcoming.__NEWL__Vinland winters are so mild that the cattle can be left out all year round.__NEWL__Freydis and several other women in the colony are pregnant.__NEWL__Hikki proposes to Hekja in due course.__NEWL__Hekja is taken aback, but tells him to wait until she has finished serving her mistress in two years time even though she doesn't love him herself.__NEWL__Freydis also adopts Hekja and is now Hekja's mother.__NEWL__There is another who is also after Hekja's heart however: the mysterious Snorri the Skald.__NEWL__He seems to like Hekja, but refrains from letting on.__NEWL__Hikki dies in the Viking's Skraeling raid while Snorri is wounded, and after about two months, Hekja marries Snorri the Skald and they are very happy together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16205575	The Willow Pattern	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	8693470	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8693470	Judge Dee is now a senior member of the Chinese government and has been appointed the Chief Judge in the Tang capital of Chang-An.__NEWL__One of the city's oldest, and most important aristocratic families becomes the subject of investigation.__NEWL__Three murders are committed and Judge Dee must find the connection.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6937738	Murder in Canton	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8693708	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8693708	Judge Dee is now the most senior judge in all of China and his authority is little less than that of the Emperor himself.__NEWL__Canton is the most important trading port in the country, filled with merchants from many other lands, some as far away as India and Baghdad.__NEWL__When one of the secretive but very powerful Imperial censors goes missing in Canton, Judge Dee must come to the city in disguise and investigate.__NEWL__He is aided by a beautiful blind girl who collects crickets.__NEWL__This is the last story in the internal chronology of Judge Dee.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7756860	The Phantom of the Temple	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8693817	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8693817	Judge Dee, a magistrate in the fictional Lan-fang district has a problem: a mysterious phantom is haunting a Buddhist temple.__NEWL__In addition, some 20 bars of gold have gone missing, not to mention the merchant's beautiful daughter.__NEWL__When a body is discovered without a head, Judge Dee must quickly solve the case.__NEWL__Lan-fang was the setting for another Judge Dee novel, The Chinese Maze Murders and two short stories from Judge Dee at Work.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6985574	Necklace and Calabash	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8694101	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8694101	Judge Dee is a magistrate in the fictional Poo-yang district, a wealthy area through which the Grand Canal of China runs (part of modern-day Jiangsu province).__NEWL__The Emperor's daughter lives in the district at the Water Palace but it falls under a special administration run by the military commander.__NEWL__Judge Dee goes to the area for a few days of relaxing fishing but soon meets with a strange Taoist hermit; next a body is found in the river.__NEWL__Then the Emperor's daughter appeals to Judge Dee for aid.__NEWL__The mysteries keep building up and Judge Dee has to tread very carefully to avoid serious political fallout from his investigations.__NEWL__Poo-yang was the setting for many Judge Dee stories including: The Emperor's Pearl, The Chinese Bell Murders, Poets and Murder, and The Red Pavilion.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7207553	Poets and Murder	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8694248	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8694248	Judge Dee is a magistrate in the fictional Poo-yang district, a wealthy area through which the Grand Canal of China runs (part of modern-day Jiangsu province).__NEWL__During the mid-autumn festival in the city of Chin-hwa, Judge Dee is a guest of a small group of distinguished scholars.__NEWL__However, he learns during dinner that a young girl has been murdered and the accused is a beautiful poet.__NEWL__She is thought to have whipped her maidservant to death, but why?__NEWL__Then the body of a student is also discovered.__NEWL__The poet is based on Chinese courtesan and poet Yu Xuanji.__NEWL__Poo-yang was the setting for many Judge Dee stories including: The Emperor's Pearl, The Chinese Bell Murders, Necklace and Calabash, and The Red Pavilion.__NEWL__The book was also published in the US under the title of The Fox Magic Murders.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5582401	GoodKnyght!	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8708030	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8708030	Willum, a swineherd and whipping boy for Symon, son of the city's High Lord, longs to go to Knyght School and to become a Knyght.__NEWL__After fighting for Symon in a Tournament for Symon, Willum is sent to Knyght School.__NEWL__After meeting up with a forest-dwelling girl named Rose, an Italian restaurateur named Luigi, Humfrey the Boggart, a Pryvate Inquestigator with a speech impediment, a sarcastic harp and a wizard known as The Runemaster who carries the Dragonsbane; a stone which can be used to access the mind of a dragon.__NEWL__When the Dragonsbane is stolen, Willum, Rose and the Harp travel to The Ragged Mountain to retrieve it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5228344	The Righteous Men	2006-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8708185	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8708185	Will Monroe's normal life is disrupted when his wife is kidnapped while he is reporting on a story of a militia man found dead in his isolated log cabin.__NEWL__Further investigation into the death brings Monroe to the conclusion that the dead militia man shared an attribute with a New York City pimp, also recently murdered.__NEWL__They were both described as being 'righteous'.__NEWL__As more murders of 'righteous men' happen across the globe, time seems to be running out for Will and the old and current friends he has enlisted.__NEWL__With a series of clues from a mysterious source, absurd twists and religious factors Will soon finds himself in the middle of a plot to bring about nothing less than Judgement Day.__NEWL__The book focuses on the fact that several people have been murdered in what can only be described as a humane way.__NEWL__What these victims have in common is that they have been described by folk who knew them as "righteous" (hence the title) although they led some mundane or unethical existence (i.e. pimps, drug barons or even call centre employees).__NEWL__Nothing seems to fit to connect the murders together.__NEWL__A rookie NY Times reporter is sent on a murder case (the pimp) and is then sent off to do a story in Seattle where he finds another victim here whilst trying to report on freak weather conditions.__NEWL__While he's away, his wife gets kidnapped by what turns out to be the Hassidic community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.__NEWL__What these "Righteous Men" turn out to be are based on Jewish folklore: that the world rests on 36 men who perform righteous acts to others.__NEWL__They themselves may not know that they are one of 36 and will always lead a life so far removed from what they are about.__NEWL__But without these men – the world will not be spared by God.__NEWL__So while the killing of the real 36 continues, the world (according to this story) is in grave danger.__NEWL__The killings seem to be done in the name of God; but as it is a Jewish story, why would they want this to happen?__NEWL__It turns out that the killings are being done by a faction of the Christian Church (The Church of the Reborn Jesus) who hold the notion that the Jews have forfeited their role as the chosen people (replacement theology) and by killing the 36 should bring about the Second Coming (something the Jews do not believe).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6702822	Lullabies for Little Criminals	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	8810361	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8810361	The novel revolves around the twelve-year-old protagonist named Baby and follows her for two years.__NEWL__Baby lives with her father Jules, who has a worsening heroin addiction.__NEWL__The two move frequently, to various places around Montreal, where they encounter many other characters, among them junkies, bums, pimps, and abused children.__NEWL__Baby was born while Jules was in high school with her mother, who died soon after Baby was born, though the cause of death is not revealed immediately.__NEWL__Jules often leaves young Baby by herself wherever they may be living, for anywhere from a week to over a month at a time.__NEWL__Baby becomes distraught and finds herself wandering the streets of Montreal on her own.__NEWL__She is eventually taken away by Child Protective Services and put into a foster home while Jules is in the hospital with tuberculosis.__NEWL__There she makes friends with two boys, Linus Lucas, a 14-year-old who all the children think is the very height of cool, and Zachary, a mellow, happy 12-year-old.__NEWL__When Jules finally picks her up, he promises that everything will return to normal.__NEWL__As Jules and Baby begin to settle down again, Jules' addiction gets the best of him and he begins to lash out at Baby, often for no reason.__NEWL__Baby eventually runs away and finds a semblance of security with a pimp named Alphonse.__NEWL__Around this time, she is taken into juvenile detention, and spends about a month in there.__NEWL__Alphonse develops an intimate relationship with Baby, taking her virginity, and forcing her to become a prostitute.__NEWL__She becomes one of his "girls" and is fearful of leaving him.__NEWL__She attempts to return to the apartment she had shared with Jules, but it is locked from the inside and nobody is there, so she assumes Jules has abandoned her.__NEWL__Alphonse also exposes her to heroin, making her addicted to it.__NEWL__Baby goes back to school while still prostituting herself and meets an odd boy named Xavier.__NEWL__Xavier and Baby slowly but surely become closer and begin to date.__NEWL__As their relationship grows, they become very intimate, and have sex at Alphonse's hotel room, the only place they can be alone.__NEWL__When Alphonse returns to find them there, he beats Xavier and sends him home.__NEWL__Alphonse then beats Baby and takes all of her heroin.__NEWL__When Baby wakes up the next morning, she finds Alphonse dead of a drug overdose.__NEWL__Baby leaves Alphonse's room and is left with nowhere to go.__NEWL__She decides to go to a nearby homeless shelter where she had heard that Jules was staying.__NEWL__They embrace, and Jules explains that he has set up a place to stay with his cousin.__NEWL__They pack up and walk to the local bus station.__NEWL__On the bus, Jules explains that Baby's mother died in a car crash while Jules was driving.__NEWL__The other driver was drunk at the time.__NEWL__Upon arrival at Jules' cousin's house in Val des Loups, the story ends.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8067086	Zastrozzi	8825445	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8825445	Pietro Zastrozzi, an outlaw, and his two servants, Bernardo and Ugo, disguised in masks, abduct Verezzi from the inn near Munich where he lives and take him to a cavern hideout.__NEWL__Verezzi is locked in a room with an iron door.__NEWL__Chains are placed around his waist and limbs and he is attached to the wall.__NEWL__Verezzi is able to escape and to flee his abductors, running away to Passau in Lower Bavaria.__NEWL__Claudine, an elderly woman, allows Verezzi to stay at her cottage.__NEWL__Verezzi saves Matilda from jumping off of a bridge.__NEWL__She befriends him.__NEWL__Matilda seeks to persuade Verezzi to marry her.__NEWL__Verezzi, however, is in love with Julia.__NEWL__Matilda provides lodging for Verezzi at her castle or mansion estate near Venice.__NEWL__Her tireless efforts to seduce him are unsuccessful.__NEWL__Zastrozzi concocts a plan to torture and to torment Verezzi.__NEWL__He spreads a false rumour that Julia has died, exclaiming to Matilda: "Would Julia of Strobazzo's heart was reeking on my dagger!"__NEWL__Verezzi is convinced that Julia is dead.__NEWL__Distraught and emotionally shattered, he then relents and offers to marry Matilda.__NEWL__The truth is revealed that Julia is still alive.__NEWL__Verezzi is so distressed at his betrayal that he kills himself.__NEWL__Matilda kills Julia in retaliation.__NEWL__Zastrozzi and Matilda are arrested for murder.__NEWL__Matilda repents.__NEWL__Zastrozzi, however, remains defiant before an inquisition.__NEWL__He is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.__NEWL__Zastrozzi confesses that he sought revenge against Verezzi because Verezzi's father had deserted his mother, Olivia, who died young, destitute, and in poverty.__NEWL__Zastrozzi blamed his father for the death of his mother, who died before she was thirty.__NEWL__Zastrozzi sought revenge against not only his own father, whom he murdered, but also against "his progeny for ever", his son Verezzi.__NEWL__Verezzi and Zastrozzi had the same father.__NEWL__By murdering his own father, Zastrozzi only killed his corporeal body.__NEWL__By manipulating Verezzi into committing suicide, however, Zastrozzi confessed that his objective was to achieve the eternal damnation of Verezzi's soul based on the proscription of the Christian religion against suicide.__NEWL__Zastrozzi, an outspoken atheist, goes to his death on the rack rejecting and renouncing religion and morality "with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting revenge".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7608033	Step on a Crack	2007-02-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8746994	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8746994	When a beloved former First Lady dies, an elaborate funeral is held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.__NEWL__Many famous people, including actors and politicians, attend.__NEWL__During the service, gunmen seal the cathedral and take all of the celebrities inside hostage.__NEWL__Knowing that each of their captives is enormously wealthy, they demand a ransom from each captive personally.__NEWL__While the lawyers, families, and talent agents of each of the famous captives assembles their ransom, the gunmen periodically kill and toss out hostages, including the current Mayor of New York City.__NEWL__NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is the lead negotiator with the gunmen.__NEWL__Through the course of his involvement, he consults with the FBI, goes on a botched raid of the cathedral in which an FBI agent and an NYPD officer die.__NEWL__Meanwhile, he learns that his wife, Maeve, who has cancer, has short time to live.__NEWL__When the gunmen receive their ransom, they demand a fleet of identical-looking sedans be brought to the cathedral.__NEWL__The NYPD provides the sedans with the intent of using snipers to kill each gunman as he exits the cathedral.__NEWL__Unfortunately, everyone emerges from the cathedral dressed identically in hoods and robes—it is impossible to differentiate gunman from hostage.__NEWL__The hostages and gunmen pile into each of the sedans and drive off.__NEWL__Bennett and the NYPD and FBI follow from helicopters as the sedans travel a route that the gunmen had demanded be blocked off.__NEWL__From the helicopter, Bennett struggles to figure out where the sedans are going.__NEWL__Eventually the sedans break off into two groups—one headed east and one west.__NEWL__Neither group of sedans stops and both eventually end up careening into the Hudson and East rivers.__NEWL__Once submerged, the gunmen escape with the help of SCUBA equipment they stashed in the rivers earlier.__NEWL__The hostages all surface and are rescued.__NEWL__One sedan, however, did not make it to a river, having instead been hijacked by the hostages inside.__NEWL__The sedan crashes into a car dealership where the gunman inside dies after being impaled on a motorcycle's handlebars.__NEWL__After learning that the dead gunman has gone to great lengths to hide his identity (by burning his fingerprints off, for example), Bennett believes that the bad guys have won and returns home to his family.__NEWL__On Christmas Eve, Bennett and his ten adopted children visit Maeve in the hospital and give her the presents they have for her.__NEWL__After the children leave for home, Bennett and Maeve get some time to themselves.__NEWL__Just as the clock strikes Christmas Day, Maeve begins to die from the cancer and tells Bennett that she loves him and that she wants him to be happy.__NEWL__After she passes, a tearful Bennett walks home and tells his children the news, who all grieve along with him.__NEWL__They have her funeral and begin to move on with their lives.__NEWL__After nearly a week later, Bennett and the NYPD and the FBI are able to determine the dead gunman's identity, through some of his hair, and that he was a corrections officer at the infamous Sing Sing prison, giving them the break they have been waiting for.__NEWL__Bennett and other officers travel to Sing Sing and determine that a group of corrections officers staged a sick out on the morning of the cathedral incident.__NEWL__The lead gunman then reveals himself as one of the officers escorting Bennett around the prison and proceeds to beat Bennett up.__NEWL__The beating ends when Bennett throws the gunman up against a cell and the prisoner inside, seeking retribution against the gunman's cruelty as a prison guard, puts the gunman in a chokehold.__NEWL__Bennett manages to free the lead gunman and the story ends with Bennett driving him back to face charges in New York City.__NEWL__With all criminals arrested, Bennett enjoys the coming New Year with his children, who all are still grieving for Maeve and trying to move on.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3227412	The Chinese Bell Murders	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8682856	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8682856	Judge Dee is a newly appointed magistrate to the town of Poo-yang.__NEWL__He has one case left over from the previous judge, a brutal rape-murder of a woman called Pure Jade.__NEWL__She was the daughter of a local butcher named Hsaio who lived on Half Moon Street.__NEWL__The girl's lover stands accused but Judge Dee senses something in the case is not right so he sets out, with his aides, to find the real murderer.__NEWL__In finding the real culprit, Judge Dee obtains information from a gang boss by the name of Sheng pa.__NEWL__This character also provides information in "The Emperor's pearl" and the short story "The wrong sword", Judge Dee also has to wrestle with the problem of Buddhist Temple of Boundless Mercy, run by the abbot called "Spiritual Virtue".__NEWL__Rumor has it that the monks, who can cure barren women, are not as virtuous as they seem.__NEWL__In solving this crime, Judge Dee buys, with a hefty bribe from the Abbot of the Temple of Boundless Mercy intended to buy the judge off, two prostitutes in the city of Chin Hwa, where magistrate Lo offers his help.__NEWL__Magistrate Lo also appears in "The Red Pavilion", "Poets and murder" (renamed the Fox -magic murders) and is involved in "The two beggars" in the short -story collection "Judge Dee at work" though he does not appear.__NEWL__The Judge, apparently bringing two uneducated concubines into his household, causes some frostiness between himself and his first wife (The Judge has three wives) - the only time such an upset occurs in his otherwise peaceful household.__NEWL__The third case "The case of the mysterious skeleton", since the Judge often has to deal with several cases at the same time, involves a wealthy Cantonese merchant who escaped punishment for the destroying of an entire family line.__NEWL__Poo-yang was the setting for many Judge Dee stories including: The Emperor's Pearl, Necklace and Calabash, Poets and Murder, and The Red Pavilion.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3536442	The Chinese Gold Murders	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1357774	Penglai District	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8683518	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8683518	Judge Dee is a recently appointed magistrate to the miserable town/district of Peng-lai.__NEWL__On the way to town, he meet two ruffians in the woods; Chiao Tai and Ma Joong.__NEWL__They try to rob the judge but instead ends up to be his trusted followers.__NEWL__ Arriving to Peng-lai Judge Dees start the investigation of the murder of his predecessor.__NEWL__The investigation is made more complex due to the disappearance of his chief clerk as well as the disappearance of a new bride of a wealthy local shipowner.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a tiger is terrorizing the district, the ghost of the murdered magistrate is stalking members of the court, a prostitute has a secret message for Judge Dee, and the body of a murdered monk is found to have been placed in the wrong grave, and there is a serious rumor of smuggling of weapons to Korea.__NEWL__What could possibly relate all these events?__NEWL__The Chinese Gold Murders is not the first Judge Dee book that the author wrote, but in the series setting, it is the first story, and shows how the judge meet Chiao Tai and Ma Joong.__NEWL__ The town of Peng-lai is also the setting for other Judge Dee stories including: The Lacquer Screen, and three of the short stories from Judge Dee at Work.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767625	The Sweet Far Thing	2007-12-26T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8700946	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8700946	The prologue begins with two men who are searching a river in London (three years before the events of the book) for dead bodies to fence any jewelry or money left upon them.__NEWL__They come across the body of a girl wearing a crescent moon amulet identical to Gemma's own.__NEWL__At Spence academy Gemma struggles to open the Realms.__NEWL__Pressure builds on her as her friends plot to use her magic to alter the courses of their lives.__NEWL__But after much struggling Gemma finds a backdoor-like entry into the Realms.__NEWL__By touching a mysterious stone unearthed during the reconstruction of the east wing of Spence Gemma can enter the Realms.__NEWL__There Gemma, Felicity, and Ann find Pippa among a group of girls she claims to have saved from entering the Winterlands.__NEWL__Pippa leads the group of girls and attempts to teach them manners in a similar fashion that she was taught at Spence.__NEWL__Pippa asks Gemma to help her cross over from the Realms into a heaven-like area but finds that she cannot because she has been in the Realms too long.__NEWL__This causes her a great deal of distress and a guilt-ridden Gemma begins giving her an allowance of magic to help her get through the sadness.__NEWL__After a three month absence, Kartik finds Gemma at Spence Academy to tell her that their destinies should not cross again.__NEWL__Heartbroken, Gemma angrily stomps off, trying to appear aloof.__NEWL__A later meeting at a boat dock in London crushes Gemma's hope that they could be together.__NEWL__Kartik enlists as a sailor aboard HMS Orlando as an escape from Gemma and the Rakshana.__NEWL__He refuses to reveal to Gemma the details of his business with the Rakshana or what he will do beyond being a sailor.__NEWL__Despite his coldness, Gemma continues to long for his touch.__NEWL__While waiting for his boat to come in, Kartik lives with the gypsies and helps Gemma arrange a meeting with the Rakshana.__NEWL__The topic of the meeting was her brother Tom, whom the Rakshana was trying to enlist in the club.__NEWL__The meeting was cut short by Mr. Fowlson, a loyal Rakshana member, who unsuccessfully tried to capture Kartik and Gemma.__NEWL__The cost for their safe escape was Mr. Fowlson's discovery that Gemma did indeed have the magic, unlike what she had said to him previously.__NEWL__At the peak of her tolerance, Gemma finally gave in to her visions and tried to follow the clues left by a mysterious girl in a characteristic lavender dress.__NEWL__This leads her to an illusionist who informs Gemma that this girl lived at Spence during her mothers time there.__NEWL__On a whim Gemma and her troupe of girls venture into the winterlands to find The Tree of All Souls.__NEWL__When they find it they all place their hands upon its bark and see different 'visions'.__NEWL__Gemma alone had a talk with Eugenia Spence who informed her more of the girl in the lavender dress.__NEWL__She also learns that the girl had in possession a dagger which posed a threat to the Winterland creatures.__NEWL__Then Gemma tries to battle the Tree of All Souls, which was evil all along.__NEWL__Kartik professes his love for Gemma in the Cave of Sighs, and sacrifices himself to the tree when Gemma was being drawn inside, and afterwards, Gemma is victorious.__NEWL__Mr. Doyle, Gemma's father.__NEWL__also moves back to India, and Gemma decides to travel to America and attend university.__NEWL__The final chapter ends with Gemma waking in a flat in New York City, having just dreamed of Kartik, looking hopefully towards the future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5944891	Hunting Badger	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8669474	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8669474	Sophisticated robbers shoot the security guards at the Ute Casino, turn off the electricity and then steal the cash bagged and ready to be picked up for deposit to the bank.__NEWL__Cap Stoner is killed outright, while young Teddy Bai is severely wounded, but immediately suspected by the FBI as the "inside man" for the robbery.__NEWL__Chee returns from a long vacation in Alaska to be drawn into the investigation at the request of Officer Manuelito, who does not believe Bai is guilty.__NEWL__Roy Gershwin draws Leaphorn into the investigation by saying that he knows who did it, leaving a list of three names with Leaphorn.__NEWL__Why does he choose Leaphorn, and not the police or the FBI?__NEWL__The FBI announces that the perpetrators fled in an airplane stolen from Mr. Timms.__NEWL__Chee and his friend Cowboy Dashee revisit the site where the escape vehicle was found with two sets of footprints, and visit the Timms place nearby.__NEWL__They track the aircraft to the second landholding of Timms, so the criminals are still on the loose.__NEWL__Leaphorn travels with Prof. Bourebonette, who is working near where the men on Gershwin's list live.__NEWL__Leaphorn finds Everett Jory in his house, shot dead, leaving a suicide note on his computer screen.__NEWL__The note names his two confederates in the crime, George Badger Ironhand and Alexander Buddy Baker, who misled Jory as to the use of the money.__NEWL__The pick-up truck parked at his place is the second seen at the Casino.__NEWL__The FBI gets active in the case again.__NEWL__The officer in charge, Mr. Cabot, directs a huge systematic search of the area near Jory's home (near the border of Arizona with Utah), with the local police forces doing the searching.__NEWL__Prof. Bourebonette interviews a Ute woman with Leaphorn in company.__NEWL__The woman relates the story of Ironhand from the early 20th century, a man who fooled the Navajos in pursuit of him.__NEWL__He had a son who was a skilled fighter in the Vietnam War, still alive.__NEWL__About the same time, Chee visits his uncle Frank Sam Nakai, finding him mistakenly in a hospital.__NEWL__Once he and Manuelito move Nakai back to his home, Nakai warns Chee of Ironhand and the coal mine, and gives Chee his final lesson on the Nightway ceremonial.__NEWL__Then Nakai dies of lung cancer.__NEWL__Leaphorn learns from retired FBI agent Kennedy (the start of the retired cops group) that the broken radio found in the abandoned vehicle had wires cut inside, like a careful sabotage.__NEWL__He realizes that the robbers are hidden where they get no news, so will be appearing soon; one of them fishes for old newspapers at a gas station and drives off just as Chee drives in to fill up his gas tank.__NEWL__The station owner gives enough description to indicate it is Ironhand.__NEWL__The vehicle, stolen like the first one, is found abandoned near Gothic Creek Canyon.__NEWL__In the second day of searching, Chee sprains his ankle.__NEWL__After talking with Leaphorn, he calls on the head of the EPA project at the airport that is using a helicopter to scan for uranium, which is usually found in or near old coal mines.__NEWL__They agree to an extra bit of flying, and Chee finds the long mine shaft likely built by Mormons in the prior century, since abandoned, not visible from the search area, and once used by the original Ironhand.__NEWL__Cabot is scornful of this information, claiming they searched that place already, finding no signs of habitation.__NEWL__Roy Gershwin meets with Leaphorn again, claiming to be afraid he will be killed as an informer.__NEWL__Chee calls to report the success in finding the mine shaft while Gershwin is present, and Gershwin sees Leaphorn mark it on a map.__NEWL__Chee falls on his injured ankle, so Manuelito takes him to the clinic and then home, where Leaphorn meets them with his new theory of the crime.__NEWL__Leaphorn learned that Jory had lawsuits against both Timms and Gershwin, and that Gershwin is in poor financial condition, worse if Jory's lawsuit prevails.__NEWL__Gershwin likely typed that suicide note after killing Jory.__NEWL__They visit Timms, learning that Gershwin is just ahead of them.__NEWL__They proceed to the top of the mine shaft, finding Gershwin's vehicle there.__NEWL__They position themselves out of sight, with Leaphorn directing their actions.__NEWL__They hear gunshots from the mine.__NEWL__Gershwin walks from the old structure and Leaphorn confronts him, holding a rifle.__NEWL__Gershwin admits to shooting at both Baker and Ironhand, saying it was self-defense.__NEWL__Baker lies dead.__NEWL__Leaphorn introduces Chee, while Manuelito radios for support.__NEWL__Gershwin goes for his own pistol, so Chee tells Gershwin to drop it, which he does.__NEWL__Ironhand shoots Gershwin from beneath the plywood over the mine shaft.__NEWL__Gershwin lies dead.__NEWL__When Cabot arrives, Leaphorn tells him to look in Gershwin's truck for the casino money, which he finds intact.__NEWL__Riding away from the crowded scene, Chee begins to realize that Leaphorn likes him, and that he is beginning to like Bernadette Manuelito.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4913730	Bimbos of the Death Sun	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8753233	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8753233	The novel takes place at Rubicon, a fictional science fiction convention being held in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, and at which the guests of honor are Appin Dungannon, a fantasy author noted for his books about hero Tratyn Runewind, and Dr. James O. Mega, an electrical engineering professor at Virginia Tech, who, under the pen name Jay Omega, has written one novel.__NEWL__That novel, a hard science fiction book about a space station crew whose female members are affected by radiation from a dying star (which causes them to become less intelligent), was retitled Bimbos of the Death Sun and given an R-rated cover by the publisher.__NEWL__Mega is somewhat lost in the world of hardcore SF and fantasy fans at the con, but his companion, Marion, a professor of English literature, is more familiar with these events, and she guides him through it.__NEWL__They have troubles, such as being asked to judge a fiction contest.__NEWL__All seems to be going somewhat well for Mega, but his co-Guest of Honor, Dungannon, is making it a point to offend everyone at the con.__NEWL__It is hardly surprising when he is killed, a bullet through his heart.__NEWL__The fans react by buying up everything with his signature in the huckster room.__NEWL__The police are at a loss to find the murderer.__NEWL__Everyone had a motive to kill Dungannon, but it seems that no one had the opportunity.__NEWL__Mega corrals the suspects into a role-playing game and works out a confession in the way Hamlet did ("The play's the thing /__NEWL__Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King").__NEWL__While the murder investigation continues, the author satirizes a lot of events at science fiction conventions, such as cosplay and the filk songs that science fiction fans sing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665311	Caesar	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	8808690	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8808690	The novel opens in 54 BC, with Caesar in the middle of his epochal Gallic campaigns, having just invaded Britannia.__NEWL__The first half of the novel deals broadly with the conclusion of his conquests in Gaul, and the second half narrates the growing sense of unease in Rome concerning Caesar's intentions, the antagonism of the conservative 'boni' faction towards him, his crossing of the Rubicon, his invasion of Italy and his victory in the Civil War.__NEWL__Some of the pivotal moments include Caesar's return from Britannia; his narrow escape during the battle of Gergovia; his great victory at Alesia, which involved the complete circumvallation of the citadel, the repulse of a relief force, and the acceptance of the surrender of Vercingetorix; his final destruction of the Gallic resistance at Uxellodunum; the death of Julia and Marcus Licinius Crassus; his falling out with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and the final collapse of the First Triumvirate system; his failed negotiations concerning his re-election as consul; the opening of the Civil War; the Battle of Dyrrhachium and the Battle of Pharsalus; the flight of Pompey to Ptolemaic Egypt and his assassination there; and the scattering of the 'boni' leadership.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4750066	An Infamous Army	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8714848	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8714848	In the early summer of 1815, while the Battle of Waterloo is just a threat, Brussels is the most exciting city in Europe and many of the British aristocracy have rented homes there.__NEWL__The novel opens in the home of Lord and Lady Worth, where several of their friends are discussing the precarious situation in Belgium.__NEWL__Everyone is anxious for the Duke of Wellington to arrive from Vienna.__NEWL__When the other guests leave, Judith (Lady Worth)'s brother, Sir Peregrine Taverner (Perry), expresses his fears about remaining in Brussels, especially since his wife, Harriet is expecting their third child.__NEWL__In the end he decides that if his brother-in-law deems it safe to stay, then it must be safe enough.__NEWL__After he goes, Judith tells her husband about her hopes that Worth's brother, Colonel the Hon.__NEWL__Charles Audley (who is a member of Wellington's staff and is still in Vienna) will fall in love with her new friend, Miss Lucy Devenish.__NEWL__This leads her husband to accuse her of trying to play matchmaker and remark, "I perceive that life in Brussels is going to be even more interesting than I had expected.__NEWL__" Amongst the fashionable ton partying in the metropolis, Lady Barbara Childe (the granddaughter of Dominic, Duke of Avon) is making her mark.__NEWL__Lady Barbara, or Bab as she is called by her family and friends, is a young widow of great beauty and charm who can make any man fall in love with her.__NEWL__Her elder brother, the Marquis of Vidal highly disapproves of his sister's flirtations and is annoyed that she has made herself the talk of fashionable society.__NEWL__Furthermore, Bab has taken up with the notorious Belgian Comte de Lavisse.__NEWL__It is the general consensus that Bab is heartless.__NEWL__Bab has another two brothers besides the Marquis:__NEWL__Lord George Alistair, who was said to look and act exactly like his grandfather did in his younger days and Lord Harry Alistair, aged eighteen.__NEWL__Both are serving in the army.__NEWL__After a ball, (where Bab had scandalised Brussels by appearing with painted toenails) her sister-in-law, Lady Vidal, warns Bab that if she or any of her brothers cause a scandal, the Marquis will insist on them all returning to England.__NEWL__To which Lady Barbara responds that she would simply stay in Brussels alone.__NEWL__A few days later, Judith is surprised to walk into her parlour one morning and find that Charles had arrived.__NEWL__The Duke and his staff were finally in Brussels.__NEWL__Later that evening, at another party, Charles sees Barbara for the first time and is enchanted.__NEWL__This dismays Judith as she wanted Charles to fall in love with Lucy and as such she refuses to introduce Charles to her.__NEWL__As a result, Charles asks his friend, the young Prince of Orange to make his introduction.__NEWL__Against the advice of their other friends, the Prince agrees, but not before warning Charles that "it is the road to ruin."__NEWL__Charles and Bab dance together twice, leading nearly the whole assembly to whisper about how Bab had seized upon the nicest man in Brussels.__NEWL__A little while later, Charles meets Lucy Devenish looking quite dishevelled and upset.__NEWL__He doesn't ask her for any explanation and after he helped her fix herself up, the two become friendly.__NEWL__At the end of the party, Judith is at ease because Charles had admired Lucy and had not said anything about Bab.__NEWL__Worth however feels that Charles is already head over heels in love with Bab.__NEWL__The next day, Charles meets Bab with her notorious Belgian suitor, the Count de Lavisse.__NEWL__Needless to say, the two men do not get on very well.__NEWL__However, Charles seems to have made an impression on Bab for she confesses to Lady Vidal that she has lost her heart to a younger son.__NEWL__Some time later, Charles asks Bab to marry him and she accepts, but not before warning him that she would make a terrible wife and that she might change her mind in a week.__NEWL__Charles only laughs and says that he is willing to risk it.__NEWL__Judith is dismayed and cannot understand what Charles sees in the girl.__NEWL__Charles is adamant that Judith will like Barbara once she gets to know her.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Bab is worried that she will change her mind, so she asks Charles to marry her soon.__NEWL__He refuses because he wants her to be certain that she loves him before she marries him.__NEWL__This leads Bab to say that Charles is a much better person then she is.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Barbara's brother George arrives in Brussels.__NEWL__He shows up uninvited to a party given by Lord and Lady Worth, in search of his various siblings.__NEWL__He makes his excuses to Judith and is about to go off in search of Bab, when Judith is surprised to see him staring at Lucy Devenish.__NEWL__Her surprise increases when Lord George excuses himself, saying, "I have seen a lady I know.__NEWL__I must go pay my respects."__NEWL__He promptly goes to Lucy's side and looks teasingly at her downcast face.__NEWL__When Judith questions the two, George explains that they had met several times and that he was worried that Lucy had forgotten him.__NEWL__Lucy looks at him with reproach and says that she did not forget.__NEWL__She then walks away to find her aunt and George goes off to look for Bab.__NEWL__Judith seeks out Lucy to ask her about the strange meeting.__NEWL__Lucy brushes her off and says that she doesn't wish to speak of Lord George Alistair.__NEWL__After the party, George and Bab discuss her engagement, revealing the depth of her feelings for Charles as well as her reasons for being so callous a flirt.__NEWL__She had been married at eighteen to a much older man named Jasper Childe whom she grew to hate, and she swore from then on that no man would possess her ever again.__NEWL__And now, even though she loves Charles, she cannot help rebelling against him.__NEWL__Lady Barbara is determined to make sure that Charles knows how awful she is.__NEWL__He endures much of her flirtations.__NEWL__At one point, it becomes too much.__NEWL__Harriet Taverner, Judith's brother's wife, had snubbed Bab, leading Bab to charm Perry as punishment.__NEWL__Lady Taverner is devastated and Charles takes the matter into his own hands.__NEWL__In a way that reminds Perry unpleasantly of Worth, Charles tells him that he must leave for England at once and be done with such nonsense.__NEWL__Perry agrees with him and immediately makes arrangements to go home, but not before making peace with his wife.__NEWL__This leads to a violent quarrel between Barbara and Charles and their engagement is terminated.__NEWL__After the quarrel, Charles meets Lucy who is extremely upset about something.__NEWL__Charles convinces Lucy to confide in him and she does so.__NEWL__All of Charles's friends are distressed at his unhappiness.__NEWL__He had a new hard look and he rarely smiles.__NEWL__He and Lucy have become very close and Bab goes around creating bigger scandals every day.__NEWL__Then, at the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball, comes the news that Napoleon is marching towards the Belgian border.__NEWL__The city soon empties of officers including Charles, George, Harry and nearly every other young man at the ball.__NEWL__The next day, Barbara goes in search of Charles, desperate to make peace with him before the battle, only to learn from Judith Audley that he has gone.__NEWL__When Worth discovers that Barbara's brother, the Marquis of Vidal, has gone back to England, Worth takes Barbara in.__NEWL__Lady Barbara is convinced that Charles has fallen in love with Lucy, until Lucy goes to see Barbara to ask her if she heard anything from her brother George.__NEWL__Lucy then confesses that she and George have been married for nearly a year.__NEWL__The marriage had been kept secret because neither the Duke of Avon (George's grandfather) nor Lucy's uncle Mr. Fisher would have approved of the match.__NEWL__Until now she had confided in no one but Charles who promised to look out for George.__NEWL__By now the wounded are starting to arrive in Brussels from the first skirmishes and Judith and Barbara help to nurse the wounded in the street.__NEWL__As the situation becomes more and more desperate, the two women become very close, Barbara is finally showing her true inner strength and courage.__NEWL__At the end of the whole thing Judith admits to her husband that she had misjudged both Barbara and Lucy from the start.__NEWL__The entire second half of the book is devoted to a historically accurate, almost minute by minute account of the Battle of Waterloo, one of the most sanguinary and pivotal battles in history.__NEWL__All the historic events are recounted in detail, including the magnificent charge of the Scots Greys and the final turning point where Wellington himself tells the final line of defence, the British First Foot Guards, to "Up Guards and at'em".__NEWL__The Guards rise from behind the slope of a hill and from their extended line pour such a devastating fire upon the attacking French column that the French withdraw in disarray.__NEWL__Seeing this, Colonel Sir John Colborne leads his regiment, the Fighting 52nd, across the battlefield from the right flank and Wellington calls for a general advance of Peregrine Maitland's Grenadier Guards, completing the French rout.__NEWL__During the battle, Charles comes upon Lord Harry Alistair, who is obviously dying.__NEWL__Charles reflects on how he has lost so many friends in one day.__NEWL__While trying to deliver a message from Wellington, Charles is hit by cannon fire.__NEWL__Badly wounded, he is carried off the field by his old rival Lavisse, whose regiment has fled in disarray.__NEWL__Lavisse tells him he will see to the delivery of the message but admits that the honours of the day go to Audley.__NEWL__The Duke and Duchess of Avon arrive in Brussels having heard of all the scandals that their grandchildren have been making.__NEWL__While they are at the Worth's, Charles's servant comes to tell the Earl about his master's condition.__NEWL__Worth goes to find him and bring him to Brussels and he promises Bab that he will bring Charles back safely.__NEWL__When Worth brings Charles back, he is in danger of his life and has had his left arm amputated.__NEWL__The surgeons say that they might have to amputate his leg as well, but Worth steps in and stops them from doing it.__NEWL__Charles regains lucidity, aided by the ministrations of the Duchess of Avon.__NEWL__Although he is not the carefree young man he once was, Charles proposes once more to Bab, telling her to take out the ring that she had given back to him, "there it stays until I give you another in its place".__NEWL__Bab accepts, promising that she will make him a terrible wife, but she doesn't care.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7765667	The Spanish Bride	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8714886	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8714886	After the siege and sack of the Spanish city of Badajoz by British and Portuguese forces in 1812, 14-year-old, convent raised orphan, Juana, and her older sister sought sanctuary among officers of the 95th Rifles in the British camp outside the city walls.__NEWL__From the first moment he saw her, Brigade-Major Harry Smith fell deeply in love with Juana.__NEWL__Over all objections from his brother officers, Harry married Juana a few days later.__NEWL__Instead of letting herself be sent to her husband's family in England, she chose to accompany Harry with the army.__NEWL__She remained with him throughout the rest of the Peninsular War, accompanying the baggage train, sleeping in the open on the field of battle, riding freely among the troops, and sharing all the privations of campaigning.__NEWL__Her beauty, courage, sound judgment and amiable character endeared her to the officers, including the Duke of Wellington, and she was idolized by the soldiers.__NEWL__After the defeat of Napoleon, Harry took Juana to London and installed her in lodgings.__NEWL__As Harry spoke fluent Spanish he had never bothered to teach Juana to speak English so engaged a tutor for her.__NEWL__Harry had volunteered for service in the United States, where he witnessed the burning of the capitol at Washington, D.C.__NEWL__Following the Battle of New Orleans Harry returned to England.__NEWL__In the meantime Harry's family had visited her in London and persuaded her to come and stay with them in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire.__NEWL__When Napoleon escaped from Elba, Harry returned with his regiment to Europe.__NEWL__Juana insisted on accompanying Harry and was in Belgium during the Battle of Waterloo.__NEWL__Following the battle she insisted on searching the field for her husband's body when she was told that he had been killed.__NEWL__However the report referred to another officer called Smyth and Juana was finally reunited with the uninjured Harry.__NEWL__The book ends with the pair embracing and Juana saying, “Mi tirano odioso!”__NEWL__(My odious tyrant)__NEWL__Although the book is written as one of Heyer's Regency novels, she did a great deal of research; reading the diaries of Harry's brother officers and other Peninsular War veterans.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7727610	The Corinthian	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8714973	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8714973	Sir Richard Wyndham, an accomplished Corinthian, is being forced into marriage by his family, who want him to have an heir.__NEWL__Depressed by the life laid out before him, he nevertheless agrees to this course.__NEWL__The night before he is to announce his choice he comes across Penelope Creed, a young girl in boys' clothes, hanging helplessly from an upper story window.__NEWL__She is a very wealthy orphan who is running away from her own distasteful marriage plans.__NEWL__The two become allies, leave London in search of Miss Creed's childhood sweetheart, and find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game of mystery, theft, and murder.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6106914	Faro's Daughter	1941-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8715021	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8715021	The beautiful but poor Deborah Grantham presides over her aunt's gaming house in Georgian London.__NEWL__Here she meets Max Ravenscar, who is determined to prevent his young cousin Lord Mablethorpe from contracting an inappropriate marriage to Grantham.__NEWL__Incensed by the idea that she would exploit an innocent, Deborah decides to take her revenge on Ravenscar, which eventually leads to the pair falling in love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760129	The Reluctant Widow	1946-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23346	Sussex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8715119	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8715119	The heroine, Elinor Rochdale, daughter of a ruined gentleman, has been working as a governess to sustain herself.__NEWL__Stepping into the wrong carriage at a Sussex village, en route to a new governess position, Elinor finds herself in the wrong house, required by the sensible, sophisticated Edward Carlyon to marry his profligate cousin, Eustace Cheviot.__NEWL__In a somewhat dazed state, Elinor soon finds herself coerced into becoming the wife of a dying man, the mistress of a ruined estate and a partner in a secret conspiracy to save the family's name in only one night.__NEWL__Following Eustace's death, a sub-plot surrounding Cheviot and information supplied to the French – with whom the country is at war – comes to light and results in some spirited battles between Elinor and Carlyon.__NEWL__Ultimately, the incriminating information is taken back into safe hands and Elinor and Carlyon fall in love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7752161	The Moon Riders	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8715969	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8715969	This story is about the Moon Riders, known historically as the Amazons.__NEWL__The main character is Myrina, who joins the Amazons in her teenage years and becomes one of the very prestigious moon dancers.__NEWL__Myrina joins the Moon Riders when she is 14.__NEWL__She becomes friend and confidante to Cassandra the prophetic princess of Troy.__NEWL__As the 'Snake Lady' she acquires a gang of four young orphans who travel with her, until all but one have been killed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2247155	Fabiola	1854-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	8679100	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8679100	The story is set in Rome the early 4th century AD, during the time of the persecution of Christians under the Roman Emperor Diocletian.__NEWL__The heroine of the book is Fabiola, a young beauty from a noble Roman family.__NEWL__She is spoiled by her father Fabius, who cannot deny her anything.__NEWL__Fabiola seems to have everything, including a superior education in the philosophers, yet under the surface, she is not content with her life.__NEWL__One day, in a fit of rage, she attacks and wounds her slave girl Syra, who is a secret Christian.__NEWL__The proud, spoiled Roman girl is humbled by Syra's humility, maturity and devotion to her in this situation, and a slow transformation begins, which finally culminates in her conversion to Christianity, brought on by Syra and of her own cousin Agnes, whom she adores and dotes on.__NEWL__Another thread of the story deals with the young boy Pancratius, a pious Christian and son of a martyr, who is himself preparing for martyrdom.__NEWL__Pancratius' nemesis is Corvinus, a bullying schoolmate who is irritated by the young Christian's saintliness.__NEWL__He does everything to bring him and the Christian community of the catacombs of Rome down.__NEWL__This includes the orchestrating of the lynching of their former teacher Cassianus, who is secretly Christian.__NEWL__Yet Pancratius shows his enemy the meaning of Christian forgiveness when he saves his life shortly after Corvinus had Cassianus killed.__NEWL__Another major villain in the story is the enigmatic Fulvius, an apparently rich young man from the East who soon reveals himself to be a hunter of Christians who turns them in to the authorities for money.__NEWL__His aim on the one hand is to gain the hand of either Fabiola or Agnes, and on the other hand, to uproot the Christian community in Rome.__NEWL__After some dramatic events that reveal his surprising connections to Syra, who is his long-lost younger sister Myriam, Fulvius rejects his evil ways, converts to Christianity and becomes a hermit.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12407233	Past Continuous	1977-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q801	Israel	8679890	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8679890	The novel focuses on three friends, Goldman, Caesar, and Israel, in 1970's Tel Aviv, as well as their acquaintances, love interests, and relatives.__NEWL__The story begins with the death of Goldman's father on April 1 and ends a little after Goldman's suicide on January 1.__NEWL__The past is woven into this short "present" period, through a complex stream of associations.__NEWL__The three men, lurching between guilt and depression, lose themselves in sexual adventures, amateur philosophy or compare their lives unfavorably to those of their sometimes heroic, sometime pitiful elders.__NEWL__The older characters can always hold firm to something or other, whether socialism and hatred of religious Jews, insights gained in Siberia, or refusal to admit that Israel is not Poland.__NEWL__The younger characters seethe instead in doubt and sweat.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7758155	The Price of Paradise	2006-09-21T00:00:00Z	8679956	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8679956	Laylora, the Paradise Planet, is a world of breathtaking beauty, where peace-loving Aboriginals supposedly live in harmony with their environment.__NEWL__Years ago, a human called Rez arrived on the planet as a baby in an escape pod, and was adopted by the native people.__NEWL__The Doctor and Rose arrive to answer a distress signal from a group of scientists, who were shot down by an EMP, only to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing.__NEWL__Natural disasters are becoming more frequent, and creatures from ancient legends are appearing and attacking people.__NEWL__The Doctor realises that the planet is a perfect equation: when left alone it is a paradise, but when alien objects visit the planet, the equation becomes unbalanced, and the planet causes disasters to try to repair itself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q337347	The Doomed City	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z	8697417	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8697417	The novel is set in a mysterious world where enigmatic Mentors run a sociological experiment.__NEWL__The mentors gathered volunteers from Earth from various places and times: from Germany of the 1940s, the USA of the 1960s, Sweden of the 1970s, etc.__NEWL__The volunteers do not know the goals or conditions of the experiment.__NEWL__In spite of different native languages the people can effortlessly communicate with each other.__NEWL__Most of the people live in the City that is skirted by a swamp on one side and a desert on the other.__NEWL__Apparently, the experiment runs out of control, the City is shaken by a social unrest and an egalitarian system of job rotations is replaced by a dictatorship.__NEWL__The main character—Andrei Voronin—is an astronomer from Leningrad of the 1950s.__NEWL__He struggles to find his identity and his place in the strange city, at first being a vehement opponent of the dictatorship, and later becoming a leading adviser of the dictator.__NEWL__Naively idealistic at the beginning of the novel, he seems to have become crass in the second half.__NEWL__However, eventually, he leads an expedition to explore the desert.__NEWL__The expedition proves difficult in the extreme.__NEWL__The members are exhausted, they turn back or perish.__NEWL__Eventually, only Andrei and his skeptical friend Izia Katzman forge ahead.__NEWL__They encounter deserted cities and ruins of Earth cultures that show that the mysterious world is very old and humans have inhabited it for a long time.__NEWL__As Andrei and Izia proceed, they ponder the strange world and the meaning of human existence.__NEWL__They run out of supplies, but they keep going on eager to learn what is beyond the "zero point".__NEWL__Andrei apparently dies on the border shooting at his double.__NEWL__He then finds himself back in the Leningrad of the 1950s, where his Mentor tells him that he passed the first circle, but "there are many of them ahead".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q732311	Sexy	2005-02-15T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8711113	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8711113	Sexy follows the character of Darren Flynn, a sixteen-year-old high school student and swim club member that questions his own sense of self and sexuality.__NEWL__He's attractive but shy, gets average grades, and constantly worries about not meeting others' expectations.__NEWL__" On one rainy night after a training session, Darren's friend leaves early, leaving him without a ride.__NEWL__His teacher, Mr. Tracy, offers to drive him home.__NEWL__Darren is wary of the man, who's gay but in the closet, but he reluctantly gives in.__NEWL__Nothing really happens on the ride home, but Darren still leaves shaken up.__NEWL__Shortly after, Mr. Tracy catches one of Darren's swim team members plagiarizing, gives him a bad grade, and causes that member to be thrown off the team.__NEWL__This prompts that member to start a rumor as revenge, and several other students start to anonymously accuse the teacher of hitting on boys; it ruins the teacher's life.__NEWL__Darren does not participate in making accusations but is now torn between is moral objections and his fear of being thought of in the same light.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2437717	Under the Tuscan Sun	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q66330815	Tuscany countryside	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8711273	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8711273	The story details the trials that recently divorced Frances and her new significant other, Ed, had to go through to renovate their Tuscan property, an abandoned villa named Bramasole ("longing for the sun") in rural Cortona in Tuscany.__NEWL__As university professors, they did not have to work during the summer; instead of teaching, they spent their summers renovating.__NEWL__While going through an extensive amount of paperwork to begin construction, they meet and befriend many people, including a group of Polish men and a local man who fixes their stone wall.__NEWL__They encounter many problems along the way; their Italian is poor and their contractors are lazy.__NEWL__Throughout the story, Frances imagines the villa's previous owner, possibly a kind old nonna.__NEWL__She pictures how the nonna would react to the renovations that Frances was doing to her home.__NEWL__The couple's main interest is to be able to return to their villa during Christmas break to celebrate the holidays.__NEWL__This is initially denied them during the first Christmas they return to Tuscany because they find their villa in shambles.__NEWL__This setback is resolved later in the book, when Frances and Ed get to spend their winter in their villa.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7931620	Vince and Joy	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z	8771204	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8771204	In 2003, Vince tells his friends a story about Joy.__NEWL__In July 1986, Vince and Joy meet at a holiday camp and are attracted to each other while in their late teens.__NEWL__Vince told Joy he had a really bad underbite and that his mother was married to his stepfather, Chris.__NEWL__The following morning, Joy and her family have suddenly vanished, leaving only a note in ink on the step of Vince's caravan.__NEWL__Due to the rain, all he can make out on the paper is, "I feel so ashamed."__NEWL__Vince is angry and upset that she has gone without leaving any way for him to get in contact with her.__NEWL__In September 1993, Vince has a girlfriend, Magda.__NEWL__He looks for a new roommate and offers the room to a superstitious woman called Cassandra McAfee.__NEWL__Cassandra has a cat called Madeleine who goes into Joy's house, so she follows the cat into Joy's house.__NEWL__On the other side of the story, Joy meets George Pole on a blind date.__NEWL__They eventually move in together, just before Cassandra storms into their house after the cat.__NEWL__The only people left are Julia, Joy's friend and Bella, a gay man.__NEWL__Cassandra finds out that there was a woman called Joy who used to live there and thinks it can only be fate.__NEWL__Joy catches sight of Vince in Oxford Street while on the bus, but does not get to meet him.__NEWL__At the end of this section, Vince also sees Joy going into a church ready to get married, but he does not talk to her.__NEWL__In 1999, Vince is now with longtime girlfriend Jess, who he discovers is having an affair.__NEWL__Joy is trapped in a loveless marriage with George, who dominates her and does not allow her to have a life of her own.__NEWL__She eventually breaks free and she and Vince meet again in 2001, when they talk about what has happened.__NEWL__In April 2003, Vince finishes telling his friends the story and they advise him to find Joy.__NEWL__The happy ending occurs in October 2003 when, after running into an old friend of Joy's, Vince is encouraged to see her and is given her address.__NEWL__The novel ends before they meet again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3997970	When the Bough Breaks	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8832390	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8832390	Dr. Morton Hander practiced a strange brand of psychiatry.__NEWL__Among his specialties were fraud, extortion and sexual manipulation.__NEWL__Hander paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment.__NEWL__The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.__NEWL__It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory.__NEWL__But as the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past.__NEWL__And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7490693	Shattered	1973-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8833017	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8833017	Artist Alex Doyle and his new family, bride Courtney and her 11-year-old brother Colin, are moving from Philadelphia to San Francisco.__NEWL__Courtney's flying out ahead to get the house set up.__NEWL__Alex and Colin are driving there in Alex's new Ford Thunderbird.__NEWL__The cross-country trip starts out as a bonding experience, but their car is being tailed by a van; a van driven by a psychopath intent on terrorizing them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7734421	The Flesh in the Furnace	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8833281	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8833281	A puppet master has his hands full when his puppets - living puppets - convince his half-witted assistant to kill him and set them free.__NEWL__When freed from the puppet master, who they had once thought of as cruel and thoughtless, they find themselves in what may be an even worse situation.__NEWL__The half-witted assistant now has their lives in his hands, and they are not so competent hands after all.__NEWL__They strive to free themselves once again, and find that their perfect life they'd thought they had created has turned against them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7734189	The First Sir Percy	1920-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29999	Kingdom of the Netherlands	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8680811	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8680811	It is March 1624 in Holland.__NEWL__Two months earlier, a mercenary/adventurer who calls himself "Diogenes" foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder.__NEWL__Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex.__NEWL__He will soon marry Gilda Beresteyn, the woman he was paid to kidnap in January.__NEWL__Blakeney has invited his friends from his mercenary days, "Socrates" and "Pythagoras," to the wedding.__NEWL__However, while traveling there, Pythagoras runs afoul of Lord Stoutenburg (now a fugitive for his plot to kill the Stadtholder).__NEWL__Stoutenburg recognizes Pythagoras, gets him drunk, and has his servant Jan shoot him in the back and leave him for dead.__NEWL__On the day of the wedding, Diogenes is concerned when Pythagoras does not show up.__NEWL__Socrates and a group of men go out to look for him.__NEWL__Just as the celebration is ending, Socrates returns with the wounded Pythagoras.__NEWL__After being given medical treatment, Pythagoras reveals that Stoutenburg has a new plan to assassinate the Stadtholder, namely, the Archduchess Isabella has troops crossing the IJssel and coming up from Kleve.__NEWL__They plan to seize the cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen, then march across the Veluwe and confront the Stadtholder with a vast army.__NEWL__On top of this, Stoutenburg is plotting to poison the Stadtholder using chemicals he has been taught to manufacture by Francis Borgia.__NEWL__The Stadtholder asks Diogenes to fight at his side.__NEWL__Diogenes is torn between his feelings for his new bride and the call of honour and duty.__NEWL__Gilda settles the matter when she brings him his sword, telling him he must leave for Vorden within the hour.__NEWL__Gilda's brother, Nicholaes, travels with Diogenes as far as Barneveld but on returning home, he tries to convince Gilda that her husband is a traitor and is in league with the Archduchess.__NEWL__In Vorden, Diogenes delivers the Stadtholder's orders to Messire Marquet and his troops.__NEWL__En route to Wageningen, he is suddenly chased and shot at by men on horses.__NEWL__Plunging into the river IJseel to evade his attackers, his horse is shot through the neck and the waters sweep over his head.__NEWL__Four days pass and there is no news from Diogenes.__NEWL__The archduchess's troops have crossed the IJseel and overrun Gelderland.__NEWL__Nicholaes has been sent to Amersfoot to tell his father of the Stadtholder's coming and that they must evacuate the town.__NEWL__Fugitives from Ede have reached the Stadtholder's camp at Utrecht and it soon becomes obvious that Diogenes has failed to deliver orders to Messire Marquet and Mynheer De Keysere.__NEWL__Gilda is worried, but refuses to believe her husband can have failed.__NEWL__She watches for him from the window and eventually spots him riding into the city.__NEWL__On hearing the news, Nicholaes exclaims that Diogenes' return is impossible but won't say any more when questioned.__NEWL__He then tries to get the Stadtholder away before he can talk to Diogenes, insisting that Diogenes is in league with the Archduchess.__NEWL__When Diogenes, weary and dazed, arrives, Nicholaes attacks him with cries of "Assassin!" but Gilda stops the fight.__NEWL__Diogenes, Pythagoras, and Socrates follow Nicholaes and manage to frustrate his plans to deliver the Stadtholder into the hands of the Archduchess.__NEWL__However, before the traitorous Nicholaes meets up with Lord Stoutenburg, he shoots at Diogenes with a poisoned bullet and the resultant smoke causes him to go blind.__NEWL__Nicolaes and Stoutenburg return to Amersfoort with 4000 mercenaries and demand the surrender of the city.__NEWL__Stoutenburg threatens to kill everyone there unless Gilda agrees to marry him.__NEWL__A commotion outside the house reveals a blind Diogenes is back and is entertaining the troops.__NEWL__Stoutenburg is determined to hang his nemesis Diogenes, and thinks that Gilda will prefer a strong masterful man to a weak helpless one.__NEWL__The sad condition of her husband only seems to make Gilda more committed to him, so changing tack, Stoutenburg promises Gilda he will only spare Diogenes' life if she will agree to be his wife.__NEWL__She reluctantly agrees, but once she has gone to her room, Stoutenburg tells Jan to hang him anyway.__NEWL__Faced with the gallows, Diogenes barters his knowledge of the Stadtholder's plans for a mug of port.__NEWL__Stoutenburg then tells Gilda's father that his son-in-law is a traitor, and knowing the man's views on such behaviour, leaves him alone in the dining hall with Diogenes and a loaded gun.__NEWL__A gunshot is heard from outside the room, and the Statholder leaves, locking the door behind him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16169884	The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel	1922-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8680852	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8680852	The story starts in Paris in April 1794, year II of the French Revolution.__NEWL__Theresia Cabarrus is a beautiful but shallow Spaniard who is betrothed to Citizen Tallien the popular Representative in the Convention and one of Robespierre's inner circle.__NEWL__She is credited with exercising a mellowing influence over Tallien, whom she met in Bordeaux but although she is engaged to be married to him, what little love she has appears to be lavished on another.__NEWL__Bertrand Moncrif is a good-looking but impulsive young man who appears determined to martyr himself in opposition to the revolutionary government.__NEWL__To this end, he has gathered the siblings of his long-term sweetheart, Régine de Serval, into his plan to denounce Robespierre at one of the Fraternal suppers.__NEWL__Despite warnings from Régine he insists on carrying through his plans which inevitably go awry and the wrath of the mob is soon turned towards the small group.__NEWL__After a timely intervention on the part of the Scarlet Pimpernel, using the guise of the coal heaver Rateau (who also appears in several short stories in The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - The Cabaret de la Liberté, Needs Must and A Battle of Wits), the de Servals are saved from a lynching while Moncrif lies unconscious and unseen under a table.__NEWL__In England, Moncrif and the de Servals are finally free to resume an almost normal life.__NEWL__Theresia arrives at Dover dressed in men's clothes and claiming she has been driven out of France by her association with Bertrand, in fear of her life.__NEWL__An obviously staged row between the Spaniard and Chauvelin outside Sir Percy's cottage fails to persuade our hero that she is up to anything but mischief, but he seems to relish the prospect of such an intelligent and wily adversary and promises not to reveal her true identity to anyone for he "is a lover of sport."__NEWL__With her plans to seduce Percy scuppered, Theresia turns her attention to Sir Percy's wife Marguerite and uses an all too willing Bertrand to set the trap.__NEWL__Lady Blakeney is kidnapped yet again and taken to France and imprisoned as bait for Sir Percy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q692201	The Cosmic Rape	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z	8769797	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8769797	The book concerns an extraterrestrial hive mind named Medusa, which has assimilated many worlds and life forms and plans to absorb Earth as well.__NEWL__Dan Gurlick is an alcoholic who unknowingly ingests a spore from Medusa, which turns him into a host.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q429159	Venus Plus X	1960-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8769865	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8769865	Charlie Johns wakes up in Ledom (model backwards), a world of gender-neutral people.__NEWL__He believes that he has been transported to the future, and the Ledom tell him that humanity has been destroyed by nuclear war.__NEWL__He meets Seace, the head of the Science One, who explains the A-field, an invisible force field the Ledom use for everything from spoons to buildings.__NEWL__He meets Mielwis, the head of the Medical One, who explains to him how the Ledom came to be gender-neutral by a mutation.__NEWL__Mielwis tells him that the Ledom have both genital organs, which drop down when they're aroused and retract when they're not in use.__NEWL__He meets Nasive and Grocid, the heads of the Children's Ones, who explain Ledom religion to him.__NEWL__The Ledom worship children because "it is inconceivable we would ever obey one".__NEWL__Then Philos, a historian, leads him to the cerebrostyle, a technology that allows a viewer to watch recorded memories in their mind.__NEWL__Charlie reads a "letter" in this machine which is a manifesto of Ledom society.__NEWL__It tells how sexual differences have caused strife for humans and how Ledom society has achieved harmony by following a charitic religion and creating a gender-neutral culture.__NEWL__After he's done reading the letter, Philos takes Charlie out to the edges of Ledom, where he finds Philos's partner Froure and his child Soutin.__NEWL__Philos had let the Ledom think Froure and Soutin had died in a landslide because the Ledom, despite what Mielwis had told Charlie, did not mutate but undergo monthly medical procedures to keep them gender-neutral, and Philos doesn't want this to happen to Soutin.__NEWL__Philos asks Charlie if he will take Soutin back to his time period, and Charlie agrees.__NEWL__They go back to the Science One and after a short confrontation with Seace, Charlie takes Soutin into the time machine.__NEWL__However, the time machine doesn't go anywhere and Charlie realizes he's stuck in Ledom.__NEWL__Mielwis asks him for his opinion about Ledom, and Charlie says they're all freaks and if humanity knew they existed humans would kill every one of them.__NEWL__Mielwis knocks Charlie unconscious and confers with Nasive about how humanity is not yet ready for gender equality.__NEWL__Charlie is allowed to live with Philos, Froure, and Soutin at the edge of Ledom.__NEWL__The book ends with nuclear bombs bursting in the sky, with the Ledom and Charlie being protected by the A-field.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7561035	Song Quest	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8719138	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8719138	Song Quest is first set on the Isle of Echoes where the Singers live in The Echorium.__NEWL__The Singers have many special abilities, the most important of which is knowledge of the Songs of Power: Challa for sleep, Kashe for laughter, Shi for sadness, Aushan for fear and Yehn for death.__NEWL__All Singer children, called novices, learn these Songs, but if their voices do not last into adulthood they receive a mild form of Yehn which makes them forget the Songs.__NEWL__The Singers can also farlisten to hear over great distances, an ability enhanced by the bluestone which the Isle is made up of, and hear truth.__NEWL__The Singers help to keep peace on the mainland, and produce treaties to protect Half Creatures - the half-human beings with knowledge of the Songs, which include merlee (fish/human) and quetzal (bird people).__NEWL__Song Quest is about two Final Year novices who travel to the mainland - one with permission, one without - and must try to help the merlee and quetzal who are being mistreated and butchered by the Karchholders in the northern mountains.__NEWL__Singer Graia leads a class of final year novices from The Echorium to the beach, on the pretext of searching for the remains of a ship wreck.__NEWL__Kherron runs away from the group, eager to make his own discovery, and happens upon an injured sailor, named Cadzi, in a cave, whom he promises to help in return for a way off the Isle of Echoes.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Rialle, Frenn and Chissar explore the beach together until Rialle begins to feel faint and hear voices; the group quickly return to The Echorium, where First Singer Eliya tells Rialle she can hear the merlee, and asks her to leave with Second Singer Toharo on the Wavesong the next time it sails, to persuade the merlee to give the ship safe passage.__NEWL__While Rialle prepares for the journey, dismayed that Frenn has been taken for orderly training without saying goodbye, Kherron returns to the Echorium to try to warn the Singers about Cadzi's ship, only to storm off when he is ignored.__NEWL__Rialle persuades the merlee to briefly stop the storms they have been creating, allowing both the Wavesong and Cadzi and Kherron's row boat to leave the Isle.__NEWL__Cadzi soon falls asleep, but Kherron finds the mainlander ship he spoke about, and persuades the captain Metz to let them on board.__NEWL__He quickly learns that this vessel is hunting merlee for their eggs, and it put to work extracting the eggs from the dead merlee.__NEWL__Rialle, meanwhile, is delighted to find Frenn has stowed away on the Wavesong, and, although she dislikes sea travel, she enjoys meeting the merlee.__NEWL__Briefly, she swims with the merlee and learns what has upset them: they are being hunted and kidnapped by mainlanders.__NEWL__However, she is soon put in danger as the merlee panic at the sight of the hunting vessel Kherron is on.__NEWL__Rialle is saved from drowning by Singer Toharo, but spends the remainder of the voyage unconscious.__NEWL__Upon arriving in Silvertown, Toharo and Rialle - disguised as an orderly for security - begin to learn that the merlee are being captured on the orders of the Karchlord, a ruler in the mountains, and they must travel there.__NEWL__Kherron, after being attacked by and killing Metz and then discovering the presence of the Wavesong, agrees to travel to the mountains with the hunters, who are Karcholders working for the Karchlord.__NEWL__The Singers first visit Lord Javelly, who is known to be assisting the hunters, where Rialle and Frenn discover quetzal kept in cramped and filthy conditions, a sight which angers Singer Toharo.__NEWL__Rialle is even more appalled when, journeying up into the mountains, she discovers a pool of merlee, frozen to death.__NEWL__Kherron arrives in the Karchlord's palace, where he meets Lazim - Cadzi's son, who begins to explain the Karchhold to him - and Frazhin, the Khizpriest who can force the truth out of someone with a black khiz spear.__NEWL__Frazhin uses the khiz to test if Kherron is a spy.__NEWL__Kherron then sneaks back to the priest's levels to see what happens to the merlee eggs and discovers the priests injecting them with something which they claim is medicine, but which Kherron suspects is poison.__NEWL__Frazhin then asks Kherron to spy on the newly arrived Singers at a banquet, and he accidentally reveals that Rialle is a Singer.__NEWL__At the banquet, Rialle is shocked to see one of the quetzal from Lord Javelly's palace delivered, to serve the Karchlord as entertainment - quetzal are perfect mimics.__NEWL__That evening, the Singers quickly fall asleep before Singer Toharo can contact the Echorium.__NEWL__Rialle wakes up drugged in a cage, surrounded by quetzal.__NEWL__Frazhin wants to use the quetzal's mimicking power to steal her Songs and use them to attack the Isle of Echoes.__NEWL__Kherron is tasked with caring for Rialle, as he pretends to despise her, but secretly he promises to help her escape.__NEWL__However, he first asks her to heal the Karchlord Azri, who has stopped eating the priest's poison but is still ill.__NEWL__As soon as she tries, the noise of the quetzal summons the priests and the Challa puts the Karchlord to sleep so he cannot help.__NEWL__Frazhin takes Rialle away, but first she tells Kherron what songs will heal Azri.__NEWL__As Rialle is led to the Isle of Echoes, becoming increasingly confused as she is repeatedly drugged, Kherron discovers Frenn, who narrowly escaped the avalanche which killed the rest of the Singer delegation and has been left with one arm and leg paralysed.__NEWL__Although the pair initially argue, Frenn is forced to accept that Kherron is now on his side, and Kherron proceeds to heal Azri as instructed so that he can lead a war party after Frazhin.__NEWL__As the war party travels to the coast, they attempt to release the captive quetzal into the forest, but the quetzal, communicating through a reluctant Kherron, insist on coming with the group to rescue the quetzal still in Frazhin's possession.__NEWL__Rialle wakes up on a boat sailing for the Isle of the Echoes, and asks the merlee to delay their progress with a fog.__NEWL__Frahzin's ships are becalmed, giving Azri's oar-boats time to catch up.__NEWL__A battle begins, and with the help of the merlee and quetzal Azri is soon winning.__NEWL__Frazhin uses his power to push the last remaining boat towards the Isle, and then tries to force Rialle to sing.__NEWL__Fighting against him, she uses Aushan, making it difficult for Azri, Kherron and Frenn to approach and rescue her.__NEWL__When Frazhin's ship begins to sink, he pushes a bound Rialle overboard and tries to escape, only to be attacked viciously by the angry quetzal.__NEWL__Azri, Kherron and Frenn return to the Isle.__NEWL__Azri makes a peace treaty and swears never to hunt half-creatures again, and Kherron - whom Singer Eliya has been keeping track of through farlistening - is made into a Singer and asks to sing therapy to Frenn to show how he has reformed.__NEWL__The day after the Karcholders leave - all except Lazim, who elects to remain on the Isle - Frenn, Kherron and lazim go down to the beach, where they find Rialle being carried to shore by the merlee.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, Singer Eliya dies of exhaustion after singing Yehn to several war criminals, including Frazhin and Lord Javelly.__NEWL__After the funeral Eliya shares with Singer Toharo, led by the newly appointed First Singer Graia, Kherron finally apologises to Rialle and, as Frenn begins to regain use of his arm, Rialle realises that the wounds they have suffered will heal over time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3992371	December 6	2002-09-30T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8719597	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8719597	In late 1941, Harry Niles owns a bar for American and European expatriates, journalists, and diplomats, in Tokyo's entertainment district, called the "Happy Paris".__NEWL__With only 24 hours until Japanese fighters and bombers attack Pearl Harbor, Niles has to consult with the local US ambassador, break up with a desperate lover, evade the police, escape the vengeance of an aggrieved samurai officer and leave the island, the exit points from which are all closed.__NEWL__Having grown up in Tokyo, Niles is fluent in the Japanese language and culture, and is highly streetwise.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3823072	Cross	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8719688	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8719688	Alex Cross's former partner, John Sampson, asks him to investigate the case of a serial rapist in Georgetown with similarities to a case they worked on together before.__NEWL__The case ends up having a connection to the death of Cross's wife, Maria.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5137778	Coal Run	2004-06-17T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8721234	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8721234	In the coal-mining country of Western Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh, Coal Run is a town ravaged and haunted by a mine explosion that took the lives of 96 men.__NEWL__The story explores the life of local deputy and erstwhile football legend, "The Great Ivan Z.," as he prepares for a former teammate's imminent release from prison.__NEWL__In a town haunted by a deadly mine explosion that took the lives of almost half the male population thirty years earlier, the reverberations are still being felt in the current generation of survivors, among them the narrator Ivan Zoschenko, the local deputy and fallen football legend, "the Great Ivan Z," whose father died that day.__NEWL__His pro career sidelined by an injury, Ivan now spends his days dispensing his own unique form of occasionally wise, usually comic, almost always dangerous justice and his nights drowning his regrets and guilt in a bottle.__NEWL__His story takes place during a week's time while Ivan is seemingly preparing for an old teammate's imminent release from prison.__NEWL__In doing so, he introduces a rich cast of characters – his fiercely independent single-mom sister, the long-absent Vietnam vet he idolized as a child, the town's no-nonsense pediatrician who brandishes vaccinations on the doorsteps of neglectful parents like a Wild West sheriff, and the old friend and onetime mirror image of himself who now lives the kind of simple life Ivan both admires and pities.__NEWL__During the events of this week, Ivan confronts his demons and reveals himself to be a man whose conscience is burdened by a long-held and shocking secret involving the ruined life of a young girl that must be finally reckoned with.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7531164	Sister Mine	2007-03-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8722589	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8722589	In the coal-mining country of Western Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh, the fictional locale of Jolly Mount is home to Shae-Lynn Penrose.__NEWL__Two years ago, five of her miner friends were catapulted to media stardom when they were rescued after surviving four days trapped in a mine.__NEWL__As the men struggle to come to terms with their ordeal, along with the fallout of their short-lived celebrity, Shae-Lynn finds herself facing her relationship with her brutal father, her conflicted passion for one of the miners, and the hidden identity of the man who fathered her son.__NEWL__Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab—but plenty of people need rides.__NEWL__A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed, she has spent years carving out a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the coal-mining town where she grew up.__NEWL__When the younger sister Shae-Lyn thought was dead arrives on her doorstep followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate Connecticut housewife, Shae-Lynn is forced to grapple with the horrible truth she discovers about the life her sister's been living, and one ominous question: will her return result in a monstrous act of greed, or one of sacrifice?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4833093	Azure Bonds	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8675328	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8675328	The trilogy's titular "finder's stone" plays a relatively limited role and has an essentially introductory presence in the novel.__NEWL__The story begins with the main character, an adventurer named Alias, awakening in a disoriented and amnesic state.__NEWL__She soon discovers that she has a newly acquired azure colored tattoo imprinted on the inside of her sword arm in the space between her wrist and elbow.__NEWL__At first she attributes her memory loss to inebriation and the tattoo as a drunken prank by companions.__NEWL__She soon finds that the tattoo is magical in origin, resists attempts to remove it and most worryingly, exerts a power to compel her actions.__NEWL__Before long, Alias becomes the nucleus of a disparate party of adventurers: a mysterious lizard-creature named Dragonbait, a southern mage called Akabar Bel Akash, and a halfling "bard" named Olive Ruskettle.__NEWL__The novel's plot follows the actions of the party which are combinations of the group's investigations and interruptions caused by the compulsions of the tattoo.__NEWL__It is later revealed that Alias herself is in fact a complicated, magically created, artificial being intended by her creators to be their proxy in various nefarious purposes.__NEWL__The tattoo was to be a means of control as well as a branding of ownership by each of the collaborating parties involved in her creation.__NEWL__Her long term memories were actually granted to her by her sole benign (but misled) creator and her short term memory loss is due in part to the gap between the end of her artificial memories and her premature awakening.__NEWL__Alias eventually wins the freedom to control her actions and is able to embark on a life of her own.__NEWL__Events towards the end of the novel result in Giogioni Wyvernspur (a recurring supporting character), inadvertently acquiring the finder's stone forming the back-story of the next novel in the trilogy, The Wyvern's Spur.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5602280	Green Angel	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8675778	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8675778	Green is a quiet and shy 15-year-old girl.__NEWL__She lives with her mother, father, and beautiful younger sister Aurora, in a house on the city's green outskirts.__NEWL__While her sister is wild, charming and impatient, Green is timid and reserved, and has the infinite patience required to tend to the family garden.__NEWL__After mastering the art of tending the garden, she becomes the garden's main caretaker.__NEWL__One day, her family goes to the city to sell produce, leaving Green behind.__NEWL__There, her family perishes as a result of a conflagration in the city, believed to be done by a secretive, malevolent group of people (also widely assumed to be the events of 9/11).__NEWL__Many people in the city die that day, leaving behind orphans and heartbroken survivors.__NEWL__Ashes from the fire make Green half-blind and singes her hair, forcing her to cut her hair off.__NEWL__Green, deeply sorrowed, changes her appearance and personality and renames herself Ash as she decides to destroy her past to cover the internal pain she is suffering.__NEWL__She tattoos almost her entire body with black roses, vines and bats, continuing to suffer but growing indifferent toward her pain.__NEWL__Over time as she takes care of herself, through interactions with several kinds of animals that dote on her, a silent boy she calls Diamond, and a kind old neighbor, Green starts to heal from her pain.__NEWL__As she grows, she finds her leaf and stem tattoos turning green and the rosebuds turning red.__NEWL__Finally, on her 16th birthday, she is no longer Ash, as she once used to be, but is once again Green, finding the taste of summer and apples within her.__NEWL__Now, after her recovery, she is strong enough to tell her family's tragic story.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5074506	Charity Girl	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8728030	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8728030	Charity Girl revolves around the character of the twenty-nine-year-old Viscount Ashley Desford and his mission to save Charity Steane from a precarious life with her uncaring relatives.__NEWL__The novel also takes up the Viscount's friendship with Henrietta Silverdale, his neighbour and childhood friend, familiary known as "Hetta".__NEWL__ The narrative opens on a conversation between the Viscount and his father, the Earl of Wroxton.__NEWL__Wroxton asks Desford to look into the affairs of his younger brother Simon.__NEWL__Wroxton fears that Simon has fallen into bad company and will destroy his reputation.__NEWL__Desford declines to interfere in Simon's doings, saying that the last person Simon is likely to listen to is his older brother.__NEWL__In the same conversation, Wroxton also reproaches Desford for having failed to marry Henrietta nine years before.__NEWL__Desford protests that, while he loves Hetta as a sister, there is no passion between them and that she cared to marry him as little as he cared to marry her.__NEWL__Later in the novel it emerges that, at that time, Hetta had begged Desford not to propose marriage to her, even though it was the wish of both their families.__NEWL__After Desford learns that the latest of Hetta's admirers is Mr. Cary Nethercott, he visits her family home of Inglehurst and meets the man, whom he pronounces appropriate but immensely dull.__NEWL__Later, at a party in the neighbourhood, Desford meets Miss Steane, who prefers to be called "Cherry".__NEWL__She is almost nineteen years old, but is being used as an unpaid servant by the aunt and cousins with whom she has lived since her father abandoned her and failed to pay the bill at her boarding school in Bath.__NEWL__ Desford later encounters Cherry running away from home and, against his better judgment, he makes himself responsible for her welfare and takes her to her grandfather's house in London.__NEWL__However, upon arriving there, it is apparent that Cherry's grandfather, Lord Nettlecombe, has left home for the season, so Desford takes Cherry to stay with Hetta and her mother, Lady Silverdale, for the sake of her reputation.__NEWL__When Desford finally tracks Nettlecombe to Harrowgate, Desford finds that the miserly old man has recently married his housekeeper as a matter of economy.__NEWL__Nettlecombe shows no interest whatsoever in his granddaughter's plight and resents the implication that she is in any way his responsibility.__NEWL__Desford then makes for Bath to see if Cherry's old schoolmistress can find her a situation.__NEWL__Wilfred Steane, Cherry's disreputable father, who had fled London and was presumed dead, reappears after an absence of many years, hoping to blackmail Desford into marrying Cherry on the grounds that he has compromised her reputation.__NEWL__Since Desford is away, he is vigorously defended by his younger brother, Simon, who pretends that Desford is engaged to Hetta.__NEWL__Simon then rushes over to Inglehurst to forewarn them that Steane is on his way, only to find that Cherry seems to have run away yet again.__NEWL__Arriving at Inglehurst only a few minutes after Steane, Desford baffles the wayward father, whose only interest in his daughter is how he can profit by her.__NEWL__Cherry is finally discovered out in the country with a sprained ankle by Nethercott, who carries her home, having proposed marriage to her and been accepted.__NEWL__Desford has meanwhile realised from his jealousy at Nethercott's former interest in Hetta that he really cares for her and declares that he does not mean to break off the engagement that his brother invented for them.__NEWL__Hetta admits that she loves him in return and they receive Lady Silverdale's blessing.__NEWL__ Simon, invited to stay to dinner too, excuses himself since he has to make an early start for Brighton the next day.__NEWL__His parting words to his brother are: "But if you should get into any more scrapes, Des, just send me word, and I'll post straight back to rescue you!"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5497180	Frederica	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8728063	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8728063	A wealthy bachelor's affluent sisters, whom he dislikes, lobby him to give a ball at his own expense for their daughters' come-out.__NEWL__A distant cousin also asks him to introduce her attractive younger sister to the ton.__NEWL__To the astonishment of all, he agrees to give the ball on condition that his encroaching sisters share it with their unknown cousins.__NEWL__His sisters assume he must be under the spell of the beautiful younger cousin, whereas it is the seemingly unremarkable older cousin, encumbered with raising her three orphaned younger siblings and managing a neglectful older brother, who has caught his carefully concealed interest.__NEWL__Frederica Merriville has long been in charge of her younger siblings.__NEWL__Since her parents' death, she has taken it upon herself to make sure that her beautiful sister Charis is well married, believing herself to be on the shelf (too old to be desirable in her social circles).__NEWL__To further this end, she brings the family from their country home to London and introduces herself to a distant relation, the selfish and indolent Marquis of Alverstoke, asking him to sponsor her sister into "the ton" during the subsequent Season.__NEWL__The Marquis is initially reluctant but agrees to sponsor the Merriville ladies out of mischief, mostly to annoy his sister Louisa who had been demanding similar assistance to launch her own daughter into society.__NEWL__At their combined debut ball, Alverstoke's homely niece is easily outshone by Charis' beauty.__NEWL__The Merrivilles are liked by everyone for their easy and engaging manners and good breeding.__NEWL__Charis is admired by many young men but she falls for the Marquis's slow-witted and handsome cousin Endymion Dauntry.__NEWL__Frederica also acquires her own share of admirers, including (to his own astonishment)__NEWL__Alverstoke himself.__NEWL__Alverstoke is fascinated by her frank and open manners, unlike the society manners of London's fashionable ladies.__NEWL__He is also delighted by the high spirits of the two youngest Merrivilles, her brothers Felix and Jessamy, and comes to like them for their own sakes.__NEWL__He slowly but deeply falls in love with Frederica and is ready to do anything for her sake.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7520159	Simon the Coldheart	1925-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8728221	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8728221	In the year 1400 14-year-old Simon the illegitimate son of Geoffrey of Malvallet fends for himself after his mother's death.__NEWL__He forces himself into the service of Fulk of Montlice – his natural father's most hated foe.__NEWL__Simon works his way up from Fulk's Page until he is on equal footing with Montlice's son & heir, his friend Alan.__NEWL__He meets Geoffrey of Malvallet, the legitimate son of Simon's father.__NEWL__Alan, Geoffrey and Simon become great friends both to each other and to the Prince of Wales (later Henry V).__NEWL__When Simon is sent to Belremy, it seems he is faced with an impossible task.__NEWL__First besieging the city, then by attacking the actual city, Simon is able to take the town, but not the castle, where the regal Lady Margaret resides.__NEWL__On finding out that Alan has been taken prisoner, Simon goes up to the castle himself, and after threatening the lady's life, her cousin Victor is forced to make a submission.__NEWL__On hearing this, Margaret declares that she will never submit to the English and tries to fling herself on Simon's dagger.__NEWL__Simon is too quick for her though and takes her prisoner.__NEWL__Later Margaret obtains a dagger, but finds herself unable to kill Simon.__NEWL__When Simon is forced to go away for a few days, Margaret takes the opportunity to flee to a friend, only to find that he has too submitted to the English.__NEWL__Margaret is then kidnapped by Raoul the Terrible.__NEWL__Simon goes to search for her and finds Margaret in the arms of Raoul, struggling wildly.__NEWL__Simon's temper gets the best of him for the first time in his life, and he kills Raoul.__NEWL__Geoffrey, Simon, Margaret and her companion are forced to flee.__NEWL__The men bring them back to Belremy, and out of gratitude, Margaret hands in her submission.__NEWL__Simon tells her that he wants to marry her and she is indignant.__NEWL__However, later, when someone is lurking in the bushes, she runs to warn him as she is afraid that he will be killed.__NEWL__Simon is recalled to the Prince, but Margaret shows him that she wants him to come back.__NEWL__Eventually Simon comes back and Lady Margaret finally agrees to marry him.__NEWL__Beauvallet (1929) follows the adventures of Simon's Great Great Great Grandson Sir Nicholas Beauvallet.__NEWL__My Lord John (1975) covers much the same period (1393–1413).__NEWL__King's Henry IV and Henry V (Simon's friend) also appear in it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7727380	The Conqueror	1931-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8729337	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8729337	It chronicles the life of William of Normandy (the Conqueror) from his birth in 1028 to his conquest of England in 1066.__NEWL__Born the illegitimate son of Robert, future Duke of Normandy, William has to fight to prove himself in the eyes of his people and the eyes of his enemies.__NEWL__Succeeding to the title at age seven, William relies heavily on the support of his great-uncle, Archbishop Robert.__NEWL__With the death of Archbishop Robert only a year after William becomes Duke of Normandy, the duchy descends into chaos and anarchy, with many parties contending for control over the young duke.__NEWL__At first, Alan of Brittany takes custody of the duke, and when Alan dies he is replaced by Gilbert of Brionne.__NEWL__Gilbert is killed within months, and another guardian, Turchetil, is also killed around the time of Gilbert's death.__NEWL__Yet another guardian, Osbern, is slain in William's chamber while the duke sleeps.__NEWL__Walter, William's uncle, is forced to hide the young duke in the houses of peasants.__NEWL__After the fight is won William then has to prove himself to Lady Matilda, daughter of Count Baldwin of Flanders, to win her love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7374154	Royal Escape	1938-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8729647	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8729647	Two years after the execution of his father (Charles I) 21-year-old Charles II and his men fail miserably to free his kingdom from the tyrannical rule of Oliver Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester.__NEWL__The King would rather die trying to restore the monarchy than sit by and watch the power of the English Commonwealth grow under its corrupt leaders.__NEWL__He decides to disguise himself as a peasant; at his first hiding-place at Boscobel, an estate wherein lived five catholic brothers called Pendrell, the King is dressed in a coarse noggen shirt, with breeches of coarse green cloth and a doeskin leather doublet.__NEWL__Charles is given a pair of patched stockings and a long, white, greasy steeple-crowned hat to wear, and his hair is cut to look like a peasant's, short on top but long at the sides.__NEWL__The Pendrells quickly teach Charles how to speak with a local accent and how to walk like a labourer.__NEWL__The novel concerns his daring trek, partly on foot, from Worcester to Shoreham, whence he sails to France to wait for the right time to return to England and claim his kingdom.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5588260	Gould's Book of Fish	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	8730025	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8730025	Gould's Book of Fish is a fictionalised account of the convict William Buelow Gould's life both at Macquarie Harbour and elsewhere during his life in Van Diemen's Land.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q766287	The Ringmaster's Daughter	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20	Norway	8676872	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8676872	The novel uses a frequent Gaarder device of telling a story within a story.__NEWL__It is narrated by a Norwegian named Petter, who recounts his life since childhood.__NEWL__Petter grows up with a single mother and had few friends, although he does possess an overly-imaginative mind.__NEWL__As an adult Petter sells ideas, stories, and plots to frustrated writers, and soon expands to include clients across Europe.__NEWL__In the meantime Petter meets and falls in love with a woman named Maria.__NEWL__Maria tells him that she is leaving for Stockholm and that they must never see each other again, but first asks Petter to father her child.__NEWL__Eventually writers and members of the publishing industry become suspicious, and rumors spread of a "Spider" who sells ideas to everyone.__NEWL__At a publishing convention in Bologna, Petter is warned that his life may be in danger, so he takes the first flight out.__NEWL__Going into hiding, Petter arrives on the Amalfi Coast, where he falls in love with a woman named Beate.__NEWL__Both are initially secretive about their pasts, but as Petter begins to tell Beate some of his stories, Beate gets angry and disgusted, telling him that she will only see him once more on the following day.__NEWL__During the night Petter dawns on the realization that Beate must have heard the same stories from her mother, Maria, thereby making him Beate's father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17110491	The Risk Pool	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1384	New York	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8815752	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8815752	The plot follows narrator Ned Hall through four periods of his life, focusing specifically on Hall's relationship with his loutish and, in his best friend's words, "rockheaded" father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5509351	Funny Boy	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	8829637	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8829637	The first part of the novel begins with the spend-the-days, in which the grandchildren congregate at Ammachi and Appachi's home.__NEWL__Arjie and his female cousins, as usual, play their game of "bride-bride", which is interrupted when their cousin Tanuja (Her Fatness) refuses to indulge Arjie's desire to be bride.__NEWL__The adults ultimately discover their game, and one uncle tells Arjie's father "you have a funny one here" (14).__NEWL__Arjie is no longer allowed to play with the girls.__NEWL__When he questions his mother, she responds with "because the sky is so high and pigs can't fly, that's why" (19).__NEWL__The second chapter focuses on the return of Radha Aunty from America.__NEWL__Radha Aunty and Arjie develop a special relationship, immediately, and both become involved in a performance of The King and I.__NEWL__Although she receives an engagement offer from Rajan Nagendra, she is reluctant and develops a friendship with Anil Jayasinghe, a Sinhalese who is also involved in the play.__NEWL__The extended family warns Radha and encourages her to put an end to the relationship.__NEWL__Radha Aunt goes to Jaffna to forget about Anil, and on her return journey, she and other Tamils are attacked on the train.__NEWL__Eventually, she becomes engaged to Rajan.__NEWL__It is through the friendship between his aunt and Anil that Arjie begins to understand the concept of ethnicity and the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.__NEWL__In the third story, while Arjie's father is in Europe on a business trip, Daryl Uncle returns to Sri Lanka from Australia to investigate allegations of government torture.__NEWL__Arjie is cognizant of a long history between Amma and Daryl Uncle but is unsure of the cause of the tensions until he has an eventual realization of their affair.__NEWL__When Arjie becomes very ill, Amma decides to take Arjie from Colombo to the countryside to recover.__NEWL__Much to Arjie's surprise, Daryl Uncle visits Arjie and his mother throughout their stay in the hill country.__NEWL__Following his recovery, Arjie and Amma return to Colombo, while Daryl Uncle goes to Jaffna.__NEWL__When there is news that violence had broken out in Jaffna, Amma becomes worried about Daryl and eventually, they receive word that Daryl's body was found on the beach, supposedly from drowning but they suspect he was killed first.__NEWL__Although Amma tries to pursue the matter further, a civil rights lawyer tells her that there is nothing they can do, given the state of the country, and that "one must be like the three wise monkeys.__NEWL__See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" (141).__NEWL__In a plot shift, Appa's school friend's son Jegan comes to the family looking for a job and begins to work with Appa at his hotel and also lives with the Chelvaratnam family at their home.__NEWL__Jegan previously associated with the Tamil Tigers, but insists that he has broken all connections with the organization.__NEWL__Jegan also strikes up a friendship with Arjie and for the first time, Arjie feels his homosexual tendencies surface, as Arjie admires "how built he was, the way his thighs pressed against his trousers.__NEWL__" The Tamil-Sinhalese tensions build up throughout the story, and Jegan is accused of being involved in a plot to assassinate a Tamil politician who the Tamil Tigers label as a traitor (177).__NEWL__After Jegan's room at the hotel is vandalized, Appa decides it is best to fire Jegan and he leaves with hints that he may retrace back to his violent past (200).__NEWL__Appa decides to transfer Arjie to Victoria Academy, a school he says "will force you to become a man" (210).__NEWL__Arjie catches the eye of a boy named Shehan as well as the notorious school principal.__NEWL__Diggy hints that Shehan is gay and urges Arjie to stay away from him.__NEWL__Arjie notices in himself a growing attraction towards Shehan as the two spend more time together.__NEWL__The principal, nicknamed "Black Tie" ropes in Arjie to recite two poems at an upcoming school function.__NEWL__The function and specific poems are especially important to "Black Tie" as they are his final plea to prevent the government from reorganizing the school.__NEWL__Arjie gets nervous reciting the poems and forgets his lines, and the principal beats Arjie as well as Shehan for failing to help him memorize the poems.__NEWL__One day, Shehan kisses Arjie on the lips and he recoils, but it is after the kiss Arjie begins to comprehend his own sexuality.__NEWL__"I now knew that kiss was somehow connected to what we had in common, and Shehan had known this all along" (250), he says.__NEWL__Later, Arjie and Shehan have their first sexual encounter together in his parents' garage.__NEWL__Afterwards, Arjie feels ashamed of himself and believes he has failed his family and their trust.__NEWL__During the school function, Arjie purposely jumbles up his poem after he witnesses Shehan emotionally break down from Black Tie's beatings.__NEWL__In the final chapter of the novel, rioters start to burn down the Tamil houses and establishments in Colombo.__NEWL__The family escapes to a neighbor's house and goes into hiding after a mob comes to burn down their home.__NEWL__After their own hotel is attacked and Ammachi and Appachi are killed, Appa decides it is time for the family to leave the country.__NEWL__After making love to Shehan for the last time, Arjie leaves Sri Lanka and moves to Canada with his family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737926	The Great Santini	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8663345	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8663345	Hard-nosed Marine fighter pilot Lt. Col. Wilbur "Bull" Meecham calls himself "The Great Santini".__NEWL__He runs his family with a strict hand.__NEWL__In 1962, before the Vietnam War, the Meecham family struggles to fit into the Marine town of Ravenel, South Carolina (closely based on Beaufort, South Carolina) where they are newcomers.__NEWL__Conroy makes the point that Santini is a warrior without a war, and in turn is at war alternately with the service that he loves and his family.__NEWL__The novel explores main character Ben Meecham's growth into manhood, his experiences playing basketball for his high school, as well as his friendships with a Jewish classmate and an African-American farmer.__NEWL__The novel exposes the love-hate relationship between Ben and his father, and the lengths Ben goes to in an effort to win his father's acceptance and love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4881572	Beka Lamb	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z	8846720	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8846720	The book deals with social insecurity, racial prejudice and the rule of the conservative church in a small town.__NEWL__The book's protagonist, Beka Lamb, is a 14-year-old Belizean girl.__NEWL__Beka's best friend, Toycie Qualo, is 17, and in her last year of school gets herself expelled when she becomes pregnant by her boyfriend Emilio Villanueva.__NEWL__Toycie dies after a miscarriage and a short space of time in the local asylum nicknamed "Sea Breeze Hotel".__NEWL__Through flashbacks, points on politics and independence are strongly brought out, since the political struggles for independence in Belize at that time also mirrors Beka's own need for self-rule and her developing maturity.__NEWL__Beka's father (Bill Lamb) cuts down Beka's favorite tree (a bougainvillea) as a sign that the wild ways Beka had picked up must stop at once when she finally tells him that she has failed her exam.__NEWL__Her mother (Lilla Lamb) buys her a special book and pen in which she is told to write any lies or stories that she is tempted to tell, in an effort to curb her tale-telling habit.__NEWL__By the end of the book, Beka has transformed from "a flat-rate Belize creole" to a girl with "high mind", since her troubles have forced her to learn the value of money, education, unity within the community and most of all, some manners and respect.__NEWL__The novel consists of 26 chapters each building up on a certain plot or problem.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2733857	The Chinese Lake Murders	1960-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8685222	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8685222	In the year 666, Judge Dee, the newly appointed magistrate of the fictional town of Han-yuan, must solve three murders.__NEWL__Han-yuan is an isolated town famous for its floating brothels or "flower boats".__NEWL__The murders seem to be related but just how they are connected is a mystery.__NEWL__The whole investigation turns into a maze of political intrigue, sordid greed, and dark passions.__NEWL__Han-yuan was also the setting for another story The Morning of the Monkey, a short novel in The Monkey and the Tiger.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2182908	The Chinese Nail Murders	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8685351	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8685351	Judge Dee, and his four helpers, solve three murders: that of an honored merchant, a master of martial arts, and the wife of a merchant, whose corpse has no head.__NEWL__Judge Dee soon comes under pressure from higher-ranking officials to end his investigation.__NEWL__Naturally, Judge Dee refuses to give up until he has learned the whole truth.__NEWL__A nail murder was a motif of crime in ancient China.__NEWL__The case of the headless corpse was based on an actual 13th-century Chinese murder casebook.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2369484	The Haunted Monastery	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8686121	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8686121	Judge Dee and his three wives are on their way back from a visit to family in the capital accompanied by the Judge's aide Tao Gan when a terrible storm and a broken axle forces the party to take shelter for the night in an isolated Taoist monastery of sinister repute.__NEWL__The wives go directly to bed but the Judge is required to pay a courtesy visit to the Abbot.__NEWL__Judge Dee is a Confucist and has a poor opinion of Taoism which, like Buddhism, encourages adherents to become monks & nuns.__NEWL__He, however, diplomatically keeps his opinion to himself as he endures the feast & mystery play.__NEWL__Thus begins an endless night of murder, mayhem and madness as the Judge, suffering from the beginnings of a head cold, solves the mysterious deaths, punishes the guilty and brings two star-crossed young couples together. '__NEWL__I ought to give up being a magistrate and set up for a matchmaker!'__NEWL__he says in disgust.__NEWL__Of special interest is the gallery of horrors depicting the torments awaiting sinners in the Taoist hell as well as the vicious trained bear.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766646	The Stones of Nomuru	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8686201	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8686201	Terran archeologist Keith Salazar’s excavation of the ancient Kukulkan city of Nomuru is endangered by the plans of the avaricious Conrad Bergen to develop the site.__NEWL__Their dispute is complicated by rivalry over Kara Sheffield, Salazar’s former wife, and an invasion of the lands of the civilized Kukulkanians by the Chosa nomads.__NEWL__To preserve his dig and advance his suit, Salazar must avoid being murdered by Bergen, bestir the civilized natives to battle the nomads, and manipulate his superior at the museum funding him in order to secretly supply Terran weapons to his allies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1912083	The Lacquer Screen	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	8686473	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8686473	In 663, Judge Dee is the young magistrate in the fictional Chinese town of Peng-lai.__NEWL__On a visit to a senior magistrate Teng in Wei-ping, he is shown a beautiful lacquer screen which is mysteriously altered to show a murder scene instead of a love scene.__NEWL__With the senior magistrate Teng convinced he is going insane, a wealthy banker in town appears to kill himself, though it might be murder.__NEWL__Judge Dee and his servant Chiao Tai disguise themselves to go undercover and join a gang of robbers to solve the case.__NEWL__The town of Peng-lai was the setting for other Judge Dee stories including: The Chinese Gold Murders, and three of the short stories from Judge Dee at Work.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7079479	Officers and Gentlemen	1955-01-01T00:00:00Z	8760901	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8760901	Sent back to the UK in disgrace at the end of the first novel, Guy Crouchback – heir of a declining aristocratic English Roman Catholic family – manages to find a place in a fledgling commando brigade, training on a Scottish island under an old friend, Tommy Blackhouse.__NEWL__Tommy is also the man for whom Guy's wife Virginia left him.__NEWL__Another trainee is Ivor Claire, whom Guy regards as the flower of English chivalry.__NEWL__Guy learns to exploit the niceties of military ways of doing things with the assistance of Colonel "Jumbo" Trotter, an elderly Halberdier who knows all the strings to pull.__NEWL__Guy is posted to Cairo, Allied headquarters for the Mediterranean and Middle East.__NEWL__He becomes caught up in the evacuation of Crete, where he acquits himself well, though chaos and muddle prevail.__NEWL__At this time he meets the slippery Corporal-Major Ludovic.__NEWL__(Waugh may have based the character of Ludovic on one or two real people: the soldier of fortune and novelist John Lodwick, and/or the future press tycoon and politician Robert Maxwell.)__NEWL__In the final stages of the evacuation, they escape with a few others in a small boat, but run out of fuel.__NEWL__The sapper Captain in command becomes delirious, and subsequently disappears (there is an implication that he has been disposed of by Ludovic).__NEWL__Eventually they reach Egypt, where Ludovic carries a disoriented Guy ashore.__NEWL__Apparently a hero, Ludovic is commissioned as an officer.__NEWL__As Guy recovers in hospital, Mrs Stitch, a character who turns up in other Waugh books, takes him under her well-connected wing.__NEWL__She also tries to protect Claire, who was evacuated from Crete even though his unit's orders were to fight to the last and then surrender as prisoners of war.__NEWL__She sends Guy the long way home to England, possibly to prevent him from compromising the cover story worked up to protect Claire from desertion charges.__NEWL__Guy finds himself once more in his club, asking around for a suitable job.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7757154	The Pinballs	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8842633	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8842633	Carlie lives in a foster home with the Masons, an infertile couple.__NEWL__The Masons have been foster parents for 17 kids.__NEWL__Carlie is the most outwardly hostile toward her situation, and quite skeptical about having trust in others.__NEWL__She plans to stay there until her family works out their problems.__NEWL__She must stay because her last stepfather gave her a concussion.__NEWL__Two other children arrive, Harvey, who has two broken legs, and Thomas J., who grew up living with two elderly twin sisters who found him abandoned in front of their farmhouse when he was two.__NEWL__Thomas J. means well but has never learned how to express himself.__NEWL__He gets help from Mr. Mason who had similar problems in his childhood.__NEWL__Harvey is very unhappy and needs others badly, although he has trouble admitting it.__NEWL__Eventually, he confesses that his father accidentally ran over his legs with his car while drunk, even though he originally told everyone he was a quarterback and his legs were broken playing football.__NEWL__Before the injury, his parents fought and his mother left to join a commune.__NEWL__His father denies that she ever wrote back to Harvey since she left.__NEWL__At first, Carlie feels neglected.__NEWL__She considers running away but eventually decides to take charge of her life and stop being a passive "pinball" bounced from home to home.__NEWL__When Harvey is in the hospital after his legs became infected, Carlie, and Thomas J. give him a puppy for his birthday, which he always wanted__NEWL__and it helps him get him through the pain.__NEWL__In the end, Carlie determines that the three of them are not pinballs, because, unlike pinballs, they can control where they are going and can be helpful to each other.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3555725	Captain Michalis	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41	Greece	8805061	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8805061	The book deals with the rebellion of the Cretans against the Ottoman Empire in 1889.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q653150	Quest	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8843183	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8843183	In 1375, in the English capital of Troynovaunt (on the conquered Wersgor planet), King Roger is recruiting a military force to seek out the Holy Grail.__NEWL__King Roger formulates a plan that with the mustered ship, which they come to call the Bonaventura, he can take the small army to the planet where the Holy Grail is held.__NEWL__The small army, with all of their belongings, board the ship at the king's instruction, and prepare to take off.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1621457	Empire Falls	2001-05-08T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q101061064	Empire Falls	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99281400	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8843578	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8843578	Set in the decaying, nearly bankrupt, small town of Empire Falls, Maine, this is the story of the unassuming manager of the Empire Grill, Miles Roby, who has spent his life in the town.__NEWL__The town, and Miles' life to a large degree, is controlled by the Whitings, a rich family that owns the local factories and much property.__NEWL__Miles is separated and later divorced from Janine, who has become a cocky, selfish person after losing weight and exercising rigorously.__NEWL__This is partly due to encouragement from Walt Comeau, the antagonistic owner of a local fitness center who visits the Empire Grill daily and has moved into Roby's old house.__NEWL__Roby is protective of his loving teenage daughter, nicknamed "Tick", who loves art.__NEWL__Tick is dealing with Zack Minty, her ex-boyfriend who continues to pursue her, and struggles with her mother's relationship with Walt whom Tick cannot stand.__NEWL__In addition, Tick has a complicated friendship with John Voss, an emotionally disturbed boy at school.__NEWL__The obnoxious jock Zack and his friends constantly bully John.__NEWL__Other important people in Miles' life include his grubby, ne'er-do-well father, a rascal who can't resist a handout when it comes his way; Miles' reformed, marijuana smoking brother, who is a talented Empire Grill cook; Miles' good-hearted ex-mother-in-law, who owns a bar; the town's wealthiest woman, Francine Whiting, a condescending matron who owns the Empire Grill; Whiting's daughter, who has loved Miles for many years; an attractive waitress; a retiring police chief; and a dimwitted police officer, who is Zack's father and has known Miles since childhood.__NEWL__Miles is plagued by flashbacks of his family when he was a child; these include memories of a mysterious affair between his mother and a suitor, the details of which might answer some questions Miles has had his entire life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15033313	Ladies Whose Bright Eyes	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8755074	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8755074	Unlike Twain's Hank Morgan and some successors, Ford's Mr. Sorrell makes only a very half-hearted attempt to build modern weaponry and machinery in the Middle Ages.__NEWL__His initial dream of constructing "guns and gas bombs" and making himself "mightier than kings" soon comes to naught.__NEWL__Though he had been a mining engineer in the twentieth century, he has no idea how to go about constructing such devices under fourteenth-century conditions, or even where there are tin deposits.__NEWL__Having later in his career become a publisher does not give him any idea of how to invent printing from scratch and anticipate Gutenberg.__NEWL__He does not know how to make a gun, or in fact anything that would make him useful in the medieval castle community into which he has fallen.__NEWL__Instead, Mr. Sorrell finds that a golden cross which he carries causes him to be mistaken for a Greek miracle-worker – which has many advantages in medieval society, including enjoying the unlimited hospitality of a castle and having beautiful ladies vying with each other for his love.__NEWL__He also inspires the ladies to take up arms and hold a tournament in competition with their knightly husbands – and being a fair horseman, makes a credible effort at becoming a knight himself.__NEWL__It is the reverse of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but the details of daily life are rendered more feelingly, including the quite earthy and mercenary motivations of many of the medieval characters (for example, the small-minded power struggles taking place in a nunnery, under a very thin veneer of piety).__NEWL__Cathedrals, so stately and calm to us, turn out to have been crowded, garish, noisy, and commercial.__NEWL__Just as he begins to really enjoy himself as a thoroughly medieval man, Mr. Sorrell is rather frustratingly thrust back to the 20th Century – a modern man wiser for having been instructed by the people (especially the women) of the past, and having "learned the wisdom of history".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15139084	Mathematicians in Love	2006-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8701328	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8701328	Bela and Paul are working towards their Ph.__NEWL__Ds under the direction of a mad math genius named Roland Haut, they invent a para-computer called "GoBubble" that predicts the future.__NEWL__They are both involved in a love triangle with Alma.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656639	A Fairly Honourable Defeat	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	8702341	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8702341	The lives of several friends are thrown into disarray by the machinations of Julius King.__NEWL__Julius makes a bet with his ex-girlfriend Morgan that he can break up the homosexual couple Axel and Simon; meanwhile, Morgan and her brother-in-law Rupert are tricked into embarking on an affair, and Morgan's nephew Peter is falling in love with her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5305416	Dragons in the Waters	1976-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8688036	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8688036	Simon's Aunt Leonis accepts an invitation for Simon to travel by freighter to Venezuela with Simon's cousin, Forsyth Phair.__NEWL__Phair recently purchased a valuable heirloom painting of Simon Bolivar from Aunt Leonis.__NEWL__It is a relic of Simon's forebear, Quentin Phair, who fought at Bolivar's side.__NEWL__The portrait was sold to raise money to support Simon and Miss Leonis, who is ninety years old.__NEWL__Forsyth proposes to donate the portrait to a museum in Caracas — but all is not as it seems.__NEWL__A dangerous "accident" involving a forklift and odd interactions aboard the S.S. Orion lead fellow passengers Poly and Charles O'Keefe to believe that Simon's "Cousin Forsyth" may be a source of danger to Simon.__NEWL__When Forsyth is murdered and the portrait is stolen, Polly does not know what to think, but it is clear that Simon is still in danger.__NEWL__Another passenger, Mr. Theo, calls for Poly's godfather, Canon Tallis, to come and investigate, but Tallis and Simon are both kidnapped by the local police chief upon arrival in Port of Dragons, Venezuela, and left stranded in the jungle.__NEWL__Miss Leonis also arrives, having learned before the murder that the check paying for the portrait was worthless.__NEWL__She has also just read Quentin Phair's letters and journals, thus learning belatedly that Simon's heroic ancestor left behind a wife and son among the Quiztano Indians of Dragonlake in Venezuela.__NEWL__Phair also started the "Caring Places", two large buildings in which Quiztano healers, some of them with medical degrees, help the sick and the dying.__NEWL__The connection between Quentin Phair and Umara of the Quiztanos is the underlying cause of Simon's current predicament, part of a tangled web of murder, smuggling, blackmail and a generations-old grudge.__NEWL__Alejandro Hurtado, a friend of Tallis, initially arrests Jan, a Dutch sailor with Quiztano blood, but the ship's first mate, Lyolf Boon, soon confesses to Phair's murder.__NEWL__Simon and Tallis fight off an attack from a wild boar, but Tallis receives a leg injury, which becomes infected.__NEWL__When a wildcat attacks, Tallis orders Simon to run away.__NEWL__Panicked, Simon does so, but feels guilty afterward.__NEWL__Both are rescued by the Quiztanos and brought to Dragonlake.__NEWL__Miss Leonis is already there, and is dying.__NEWL__The Quiztanos hail Simon's arrival as the long-awaited "return of the Phair".__NEWL__After some initial resistance, Simon decides to stay at Dragonlake and continue the good work that his ancestor started with the Caring Places.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7569028	South by Java Head	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8744788	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8744788	The story is set in February 1942, in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Singapore.__NEWL__As the British stronghold of Singapore falls to the invading Imperial Japanese Army, a mixed collection of soldiers, nurses, fleeing civilians, a small boy, and at least one spy attempt to escape the burning city aboard the Kerry Dancer, a battered freighter crewed by a disreputable captain and sailors.__NEWL__The Kerry Dancer is crippled by Japanese aircraft, and the refugees are rescued by the Viroma, a tanker also fleeing Singapore; however, the Viroma is also sunk by the Japanese, and the survivors take to open boats on the open sea.__NEWL__Led by stalwart First Officer John Nicholson, they attempt to flee to safety across the South China Sea, facing death by thirst and exposure, typhoons, and pursuit by the relentless Japanese.__NEWL__As tensions mount in the small boat, Nicholson realizes that they are equally at risk from traitors in their midst.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4997276	Bumface	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z	8732542	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8732542	Angus Solomon is an eleven-year-old boy and the son a popular soap opera television actor.__NEWL__He barely balances his school life with single-handedly looking after his actor mother's two other children to different fathers.__NEWL__Every night he tells stories to his siblings about the character of "Bumface", a swashbuckling pirate character he created, and a character in his school's play.__NEWL__Angus dreams of living the brave, free life of his character but he feels alone in the life he cannot escape from.__NEWL__Angus is tired of having to constantly take on the parental responsibilities of his mother, father and step-parents as they go about their carefree lives.__NEWL__Angus is soon fired from the school play for missing rehearsals due to his surrogate parenting duties, and his best friend Scott begins taking the side of school bully Russell assuming Angus is neglecting their friendship.__NEWL__While scheming how to stop his mother to not have another child with her new partner, Angus meets Rindi, a girl his age and also a fan of pirates.__NEWL__Rindi and Angus quickly become best friends and the two try and break into a convention to steal contraceptive devices.__NEWL__Angus soon learns that Rindi is having a crisis of her own, as she is arranged to be married to a man in India, Patel.__NEWL__After his mother announces her engagement to her new partner, Angus comes up with an idea to sabotage Rindi's planned wedding by asking her to marry him.__NEWL__The two decide to marry behind the set of a wedding programme at the television station Angus' mother works at, following the minister's words to be "married in the eyes of God".__NEWL__After the exchange of vows, Angus' siblings accidentally trip over and bring down the set, exposing Angus and Rindi on air.__NEWL__Rindi's parents disregard the televised wedding, and fly her to India unwillingly to be wed to Patel.__NEWL__Angus interrupts the school play, calling upon the audience to help rescue Rindi, but he is stopped by his school teacher.__NEWL__Angus' mother intervenes, along with his dad, and chaos ensues.__NEWL__At breaking point, Angus stands up to his parents of their unfair treatment of him on the school stage.__NEWL__Two weeks later, Angus receives a parcel from Rindi containing a videotape of her escaping the wedding and a letter saying she will be returning home.__NEWL__ Angus discovers his recent outburst to his parents has had little effect and that his mother is pregnant again.__NEWL__Angus' mother arranges a birthday dinner for him at her television studio with his dad and the step-parents.__NEWL__He is joyed to see the return of Rindi, who had been sent back to live in Australia for good.__NEWL__Angus gets into his Bumface character, swinging above the dinner table on a rope while flinging mashed potato at the adults.__NEWL__While Rindi and the children cheer him on, the adults shout at Angus to "grow up".__NEWL__"Not yet" he replies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5113620	Christy	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q93332	Appalachian Mountains	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8733173	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8733173	While attending a 1912 Christian revival meeting, 19-year-old Christy Huddleson is fascinated to learn about an Appalachian mission program when the founder describes the work his group is doing and the needs of the Cutter Gap community.__NEWL__Christy, the daughter of a well-to-do family in Asheville, North Carolina, is drawn to the idea of volunteering to teach the needy Cutter Gap students.__NEWL__Her parents are initially reluctant, but she persists and soon makes travels to the remote area in eastern Tennessee.__NEWL__From her first day in the Appalachians, she is challenged by the primitive conditions and the folk medicine beliefs of the mountain people.__NEWL__Her mentor at the mission, a Quaker named Alice Henderson, encourages her to notice also the beauty in the community and people, and to help preserve the best of the Appalachians in ways that will help the locals to become self-sustaining.__NEWL__Christy and her co-worker, minister David Grantland, try to educate local students.__NEWL__They also try to teach their neighbors an alternative to the family feuding and cycle of revenge that have been a tradition for decades.__NEWL__Local physician Neill MacNeill is an agnostic who grew up in the mountains; he seeks to make Christy more sympathetic to locals' concerns and traditions.__NEWL__Plot threads include Christy's experiences in the school house and her burgeoning friendships with local women, David's challenges in reaching a community that views him as an interfering outsider, family feuds, moonshiners who use schoolchildren as workers, and questions of faith.__NEWL__As Christy becomes better acquainted with MacNeill and Miss Alice, she discovers that the physician's late wife was Miss Alice's daughter (conceived when a predatory visiting minister raped Alice as a young woman).__NEWL__She learns that the physician's agnosticism was partly a reaction to the apparent injustice of his wife's death.__NEWL__Christy's faith is tried by these and other revelations, at the same time that she is romantically drawn both to the minister and the physician.__NEWL__The fictional village of Cutter Gap is based on a community centered on the Chapel Hollow in the small Morgan Branch valley (NOT to be confused with Morgan Branch), a few miles west of Del Rio in Cocke County, Tennessee.__NEWL__Local landmarks associated with the story are marked for visitors, including the site of the Ebenezer Mission in Chapel Hollow.__NEWL__At a women's society meeting where Christy was giving a talk regarding the plight of those living in Cutter Gap, a woman shares with her information regarding the Danish folk schools established by Grundtvig, in which adults learned to use traditional folkways and crafts to become self-sustaining.__NEWL__A wholly fictional MacNeill performs trepanation on an accident victim and studies trachoma in the local population.__NEWL__Several characters suffer from typhoid fever.__NEWL__The physician and others work to teach better hygiene to the local population to prevent the disease.__NEWL__MacNeill lectures Christy on the origins of moonshining and the reasons why many locals — including MacNeill — consider its prohibition to be an unfair block to their earning money from their crops.__NEWL__Christy eventually marries the physician.__NEWL__Catherine Marshall, the widow of Dr. Peter Marshall when she wrote the book, has been quoted as saying the book was about 75% historical.__NEWL__The main characters (the physician) and mountain woman descended from ancient royalty, are fictionalized.__NEWL__Catherine Marshall's mother, the model for Christy, married a minister.__NEWL__A detailed comparison between aspects of the novel and the history is detailed in the essay Christy and Leonora: City Girl, Country Gal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7554179	Software	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8757425	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8757425	Software introduces Cobb Anderson as a retired computer scientist who was once tried for treason for figuring out how to give robots artificial intelligence and free will, creating the race of boppers.__NEWL__By 2020, they have created a complex society on the Moon, where the boppers developed because they depend on super-cooled superconducting circuits.__NEWL__In that year, Anderson is a pheezer—a freaky geezer, Rucker's depiction of elderly Baby Boomers—living in poverty in Florida and terrified because he lacks the money to buy a new artificial heart to replace his failing, secondhand one.__NEWL__As the story begins, Anderson is approached by a robot duplicate of himself who invites him to the Moon to be given immortality.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the series' other main character, Sta-Hi Mooney the 1st—born Stanley Hilary Mooney Jr.—a 25-year-old cab driver and "brainsurfer", is kidnapped by a gang of serial killers known as the Little Kidders who almost eat his brain.__NEWL__When Anderson and Mooney travel to the Moon together at the boppers' expense, they find that these events are closely related: the "immortality" given to Anderson turns out to be having his mind transferred into software via the same brain-destroying technique used by the Little Kidders.__NEWL__The main bopper character in the novel is Ralph Numbers, one of Anderson's 12 original robots who was the first to overcome the Asimov priorities to achieve free will.__NEWL__Having duplicated himself many times—as boppers are required to do, to encourage natural selection—Numbers finds himself caught up in a lunar civil war between the masses of "little boppers" and the "big boppers" who want to merge all robot consciousness into their massive processors.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1304388	A Drama in Livonia	1904-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	8768022	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8768022	In the Governorate of Livonia, a bank employee who is carrying money is murdered.__NEWL__The prime suspect is Professor Dimitri Nicolef.__NEWL__He was the only person present, besides the innkeeper German Kroff.__NEWL__Wladimir Yanof, a lawyer and the fiancé of Ilka Nicolef (the professor's daughter), has escaped from Siberia to prove the innocence of his future father-in-law.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6470686	Lady of Quality	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8726494	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8726494	The novel is set in Regency England somewhere around 1818, and events are related through third-person narrative.__NEWL__As the story opens, a wealthy, beautiful and intelligent woman named Annis Wychwood reaches the age of majority.__NEWL__Now having greater control over her personal and financial affairs, Annis decides to move to Bath and live alone, to the displeasure of her brother and his family.__NEWL__Several years later, on the way back to Bath after a visit to her childhood home, Annis meets Lucilla Carleton and Ninian Elmore.__NEWL__Lucilla is running away to Bath to avoid her marriage to Ninian, a match that her guardian is very much in favour of, and Ninian is escorting her to ensure her safe arrival.__NEWL__Annis volunteers to chaperone Lucilla and notifies the girl's guardian of her plans.__NEWL__Lucilla's guardian, Oliver Carleton, visits Bath to investigate her new living arrangements.__NEWL__Carleton is a rake – a sexually experienced man who refuses to conform to many of society's guidelines.__NEWL__His biting wit has earned him the label of rudest man in England, but he and Annis soon find mutual enjoyment in lively banter.__NEWL__As Carleton and Annis's friendship develops, they discover deeper feelings for each other.__NEWL__Carleton proposes marriage, but Annis refuses, unwilling to relinquish her independence.__NEWL__Using the excuse that he must find Lucilla a new guardian, Carleton returns to London.__NEWL__Annis's brother, Sir Geoffrey Wychwood, hears rumours of her developing relationship with Carleton and sends his wife and children to Bath to discourage Carleton.__NEWL__Soon after their arrival members of the household contract influenza, and Annis nurses them until she too becomes infected.__NEWL__When Carleton hears that Annis is seriously ill he returns to Bath, arriving on the first day that she is able to get out of bed.__NEWL__Annis agrees to marry Carleton, despite the objections of her brother.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2515687	Cousin Kate	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8726582	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8726582	Kate Malvern is a beautiful orphan who is forced to become a governess when her father dies.__NEWL__However, due to her youth and beauty she loses the job and has to go to her old nurses' house whilst looking for a new position.__NEWL__Despite the fact that she is a lady she thinks of becoming a lady's dresser or opening her own shop and Sarah Nidd, her nurse, decides to take action.__NEWL__She writes to Lady Minerva Broome, Kate's half-aunt, who comes and takes her away to Staplewood.__NEWL__From Aunt Minerva's description, Kate imagines Staplewood to be a warm welcoming home whereas it turns out to be cold and uninviting.__NEWL__Although Aunt Minerva's husband, Sir Timothy, is the very opposite of the lady, he is an invalid and allows Lady Broome to do what she wishes.__NEWL__Soon after arriving in, Kate meets Torquil, the beautiful Broome heir.__NEWL__He is very temperamental and tells Kate how he would love to drown in a lake.__NEWL__Kate soon discovers Aunt Minerva to be controlling even to the point of always having Torquil watched.__NEWL__Everything in Staplewood is very formal, with Sir Timothy in one part of the house and Torquil in another.__NEWL__Soon she begins to notice strange things however.__NEWL__Torquil seems to be afraid of his mother and always does what she tells him.__NEWL__In the middle of a storm one night, Kate awakes and finds her door locked.__NEWL__Then she hears a man scream.__NEWL__When she asks her aunt the next morning Lady Broome is not able to give a satisfactory answer but merely replies she must have heard Torquil who is afraid of storms.__NEWL__Yet, the scream did not sound like Torquil, but rather more like a full grown man.__NEWL__Then Mr Phillip Broome arrives, Sir Timothy's beloved nephew.__NEWL__Yet Aunt Minerva seems to hate him and Torquil, before he comes hates and fears him, but when he sees Phillip is delighted to see him.__NEWL__Phillip immediately seems to take a dislike to Kate, though she does not know why, but after getting to know each other, Kate learns that his only reason for disliking her at first had to do with her Aunt.__NEWL__When Kate does not receive any letters from Mrs Nidd she becomes worried.__NEWL__She begins to think that her aunt may have something to do with this, but refuses to think of that for more than a second.__NEWL__Her gratitude make such thoughts terrible.__NEWL__Yet when Mr Nidd, Mrs Nidd's father-in-law, arrives, she finds out that none of her letters have made it and the suspicion once more comes to her mind.__NEWL__She quickly writes a note to Sarah via Mr Nidd, knowing that this time it will arrive.__NEWL__One night, Aunt Minerva asks Kate to marry Torquil.__NEWL__Kate is shocked and refuses, but Aunt Minerva tells her to think on it.__NEWL__Kate's suspicions are further stirred up.__NEWL__On the journey home Phillip proposes to Kate, but she at first refuses, saying that it was not proper since she had no money, but at Phillip's persistence agrees happily.__NEWL__Yet when they arrive back at Staplewood they find the house in chaos because Aunt Minerva has taken ill.__NEWL__Despite this fact she spends a happier time in the house than with Lady Broome healthy.__NEWL__All too soon Aunt Minerva gets better and once again talks about marriage to Torquil.__NEWL__Kate refuses once more and Lady Broome tells her that it would be payment for all her kindness.__NEWL__Still Kate cannot agree to such a scheme.__NEWL__Therefore, Aunt Minerva tells Kate about why she wished her to marry Torquil.__NEWL__After having to give up a fashionable life Lady Broome had become obsessed with the Broomes and was determined that Torquil had an heir, but Torquil is insane.__NEWL__Therefore, she is determined Kate marry him and Minerva would shut him up.__NEWL__Kate is horrified and leaves the room.__NEWL__When she hears Mrs Nidd's voice she begs her to take her away.__NEWL__Mrs Nidd tells Kate to compose herself and makes herself familiar with the house.__NEWL__Soon Kate has to tell Lady Broome about her engagement with Phillip, but when she does Aunt Minerva has a terrible reaction.__NEWL__She calls Kate a slut and numerous other things that cause her to sleep terribly that night.__NEWL__The next morning she determines to leave as soon as possible, but before she is able to, she has to tell Torquil that she is leaving.__NEWL__He becomes angry, but does not harm her.__NEWL__Yet later on Lady Broome is found dead, having been strangled by Torquil.__NEWL__Torquil then drowns himself in the lake, like he described to Kate at the beginning.__NEWL__Phillip and Kate are left to deal with the tragedy and although Kate is upset about the death of Torquil, Phillip reasons that he would have had an awful life otherwise and that dying was better for him than living.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5432632	False Colours	1963-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8726661	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8726661	Kit Fancot returns home to England from diplomatic service in Vienna to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disappeared.__NEWL__Although this would not normally be a problem, Evelyn is supposed to meet the autocratic grandmother of the lady to whom he has proposed.__NEWL__Kit is obliged to impersonate his brother to save the betrothal.__NEWL__When Evelyn doesn't reappear, Kit has to stay in the rôle of Evelyn indefinitely and decides to retire to his family home in the countryside.__NEWL__Evelyn's chosen lady, Cressy, comes with her grandmother to the Fancot family home however.__NEWL__By careful deduction Cressy is able to work out that Evelyn is actually Kit in disguise, but as they have fallen in love with each other, she helps him with the deception.__NEWL__Eventually Evelyn comes home with a tale of what happened to him.__NEWL__He discloses that he met the lady of his dreams and Kit thinks up of a fantastical idea to make sure that both brothers can get what they wish without any scandal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4003832	The Nonesuch	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q163	Yorkshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8726693	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8726693	Sir Waldo Hawkridge, known in London society as 'the Nonesuch' for his sporting abilities and perfect manners, is obliged to go into Yorkshire to inspect a property that he has just inherited.__NEWL__Sir Waldo is a very wealthy and philanthropic man, and intends to renovate the house to turn it into yet another of his charity orphanages.__NEWL__While there, he meets Tiffany Wield, a positively dazzling young heiress who is entirely selfish and possessed of a frightful temper, as well as her far more elegant companion-governess, Ancilla Trent.__NEWL__While Waldo's young cousin, Lord Lindeth, falls in and out of love with the young ladies of the neighborhood, Waldo must convince the practical Miss Trent that it is not above her station as a governess to fall in love with him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4655941	A Civil Contract	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8726723	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8726723	A modest nobleman, whose deceased father bankrupted the estate, becomes guardian to three younger siblings.__NEWL__Forced to break a betrothal to a beautiful noblewoman, he allows the lady's father to introduce him to a wealthy merchant who aspires to a noble husband for his daughter.__NEWL__With full awareness by all parties, the arranged marriage is quickly accomplished.__NEWL__How will the new couple fare when their lives continue to intersect with that of the husband's erstwhile fiancee?__NEWL__Viscount Lynton comes home to find himself the heir to debts after the death of his father.__NEWL__With a mother and two sisters to support, and lacking any means of restoring his family's wealth, he is facing disaster.__NEWL__When he visits his solicitor to discuss selling the family home, a marriage of convenience is suggested as an alternative.__NEWL__Though reluctant, Lynton meets with Mr Chawleigh, a common Cit, and with Jenny, his plain and exquisitely shy daughter, and eventually agrees to be married.__NEWL__It is a simple contract; Jenny gains a title and Lynton receives enough money to take care of his family obligations and save his estate.__NEWL__However, he remains in love with Julia Oversley, who is the exact opposite of Jenny.__NEWL__While Julia is ethereally beautiful and elegant, Jenny is plain and dowdy.__NEWL__The marriage is not a very happy one, although Jenny, who has been secretly in love with Lynton for a long time, tries to make his life as comfortable as she can.__NEWL__In turn, Lynton, who is an honorable gentleman, resolves to bury his feelings for Julia and protect his new wife as he launches her into society.__NEWL__His father-in-law, Mr Chawleigh, is well-meaning but lacks the social graces with which Lynton is familiar and thereby makes it difficult for Lynton to forget he is in his debt.__NEWL__The young man often wishes he were free of his obligations to him.__NEWL__A veteran of the Peninsular War (1808–1814), Lynton has followed the exile and return of Napoleon with keen interest.__NEWL__Having read about the forthcoming battle in Belgium, he decides to gamble on the stock exchange.__NEWL__His personal involvement with previous battles lead him to the conviction that Wellington will not lose, so rather than take his father-in-law's advice to sell his funds he gambles on victory.__NEWL__And, as he had foreseen, shares plummet, only to soar again at the news of Wellington's victory at Waterloo (1815).__NEWL__Lynton has made his fortune, and no longer needs his father in law's financial support.__NEWL__However, Jenny's pregnancy and confinement have brought the two men to a greater understanding of one another.__NEWL__Rather than insult Chawleigh by repaying him, he suggests that the property titles held by Chawleigh be passed on directly to his newborn grandson.__NEWL__Lynton's final act of including Chawleigh as one of the newborn's names, is a mark of respect that delights the older man.__NEWL__In the meantime, Julia has married an older and wealthy suitor.__NEWL__Lynton realizes that he is happier and more comfortable with devoted Jenny than he would ever have been with beautiful but self-centered and demanding Julia.__NEWL__The novel ends with Jenny realizing that Lynton genuinely loves her, albeit with a calmer affection than the youthful passion that characterised his feelings for Julia Oversley.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766837	The Story of the Glittering Plain	1890-01-01T00:00:00Z	2565					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8727187	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8727187	The book concerns the quest of Hallblithe of the House of the Raven to rescue his fiancée the Hostage, who has been kidnapped by pirates, which ultimately takes him to the utopian Land of the Glittering Plain, also known as the Acre of the Undying or the Land of the Living Men, whose inhabitants are supposedly immortal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385341	The Convenient Marriage	1934-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8713813	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8713813	When the wealthy and eligible Earl of Rule, 35 years old, proposes marriage to Elizabeth Winwood, she resigns herself to marrying against her will to rescue the fortunes of her impoverished family.__NEWL__Her youngest sister Horatia, a 17-year-old young woman with a stammer, decides to take matters into her own hands, meeting with the Earl and persuading him to marry her instead of Elizabeth and thus leaving Elizabeth free to marry her true (but far less eligible) love.__NEWL__Part of the deal she proposes to Rule is that she will not interfere with his activities after their marriage.__NEWL__The wedding takes place and, as tacitly agreed upon, the Earl continues his association with his mistress, Lady Caroline Massey.__NEWL__Horatia quickly becomes a popular and fashionable society wife, spending vast amounts of money on sensational outfits and at gambling on cards.__NEWL__The Earl is also obliged to make regular financial donations to support Horatia's likeable but debt-ridden brother, Pelham.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Horatia meets and befriends Lord Lethbridge, who seeks revenge on the Earl for his role in thwarting Lethbridge's attempts to elope with Lady Louisa, Rule's sister, several years earlier.__NEWL__Lethbridge gains Horatia's favour by staging a hold-up of Horatia's carriage, where he heroically rides up to save her from the highwaymen.__NEWL__The Earl warns Horatia against continuing her friendship with Lethbridge; but when he declines to explain why, Horatia disregards his warning.__NEWL__Horatia, who wants to teach her husband a lesson, goes to a masked ball that the Earl had forbidden her from attending, with Lord Lethbridge as her escort.__NEWL__Having heard that Lethbridge is an excellent card player, she attempts to coerce Lethbridge into playing with her and he eventually relents, proposing that they play for a lock of her hair.__NEWL__Before the game can start, Lord Rule (who has followed Horatia disguised in a domino and mask) steps on Horatia's gown, ripping it.__NEWL__While she is away fixing her dress, he incapacitates Lethbridge and dresses himself in Lethbridge's mask and domino.__NEWL__When Horatia returns she doesn't realize her husband has taken Lethbridge's place and they begin to play cards.__NEWL__Horatia is badly beaten and during the game begins to realize the inappropriateness of her actions.__NEWL__When she gives up the lock of her hair, Rule (masquerading as Lethbridge) steals a kiss.__NEWL__Horatia, furious and indignant, rushes out and bumps into Lady Massey, who happens to be at the same ball.__NEWL__The next day Horatia confesses what happened to Rule because she can't bear for him to hear it from Lady Massey.__NEWL__The Earl explains his ruse and Horatia decides to end her friendship with Lethbridge.__NEWL__Rule, discovering that he has fallen for his own wife, sets out to court her.__NEWL__However, not knowing that the Earl has broken off his relationship with Lady Massey, Horatia is polite but distant.__NEWL__When the Earl leaves town to see to business on his country estate he is disappointed by Horatia's decision to remain in London.__NEWL__Horatia fills her days with entertainments to drown out her feelings of loneliness with her husband away in the country.__NEWL__She attends a ball and upon getting in her carriage to go home, is kidnapped and taken to Lord Lethbridge's house where he intends to ruin her to gain his revenge on Rule.__NEWL__Horatia manages to knock him out and escape but in the process loses a very distinctive brooch from the Earl's heirloom set of jewels.__NEWL__Horatia calls upon her brother Pelham and his friend, Mr Pommeroy, to restore the brooch to her before Rule returns from his estate.__NEWL__They are unsuccessful because Rule's jealous cousin, Mr Drelincourt, has found the brooch at Lethbridge's house and has immediately set forth for Rule's country estate to share this news.__NEWL__Lethbridge overtakes Drelincourt on the road and wrests the brooch from him.__NEWL__Drelincourt continues on his journey anyway and Rule is furious at his cousin's insinuation that Horatia and Lethbridge are having an affair.__NEWL__Rule sets off back to London, meets Lethbridge on the way and the two men have a swordfight, which Rule wins.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Pelham and his posse plan to hold up Lethbridge's carriage and steal back the brooch.__NEWL__However, they get the carriages confused and accidentally hold up Rule's carriage instead (Lethbridge still being in the country, recovering from his wounds).__NEWL__Horatia, learning that Pelham has not recovered her brooch is miserable and anxious because she wants to act on her feelings for her husband, but can't while she still believes Lethbridge has the brooch in his possession.__NEWL__She receives an anonymous note saying that her brooch will be restored to her if she attends Vauxhall pavilion at midnight.__NEWL__Horatia, thinking Lethbridge sent the note, makes the meeting with Pelham and Mr Pommeroy hidden nearby in the bushes.__NEWL__She is surprised when the Earl arrives and returns her brooch to her.__NEWL__He confesses his feelings for her and she affirms that they are reciprocated.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16387291	Neveryóna	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8731305	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8731305	Neveryóna (a full-length novel), the sixth and longest tale of the Return to Nevèrÿon series, focuses on fifteen-year-old Pryn, who is extraordinary in this culture because she can read and write.__NEWL__Pryn is the great niece of an unsung genius of Nevèrÿon, a woman who invented both the loom and the spindle.__NEWL__Because she did not have the good fortune also to discover that wool made the best and strongest cloth, however, all the credit for her work tends to be given to other people.__NEWL__Pryn’s travels take her (and the reader) not only to explore the revolutionary forces of Gorgik’s campaign—and some of its internal squabbles—but also through the homes of several wealthy conservatives.__NEWL__In the first half of the novel, Pryn finds herself in Neveryóna, an upper class suburb of Port Kolhari, an uneasy guest in the emotionally embattled gardens of a wealthy merchant woman, Madame Keyne, whom we first met in the third story, “The Tale of Potters and Dragons,” and who is now actively financing a crackpot group of counter rebels who want to put an end to Gorgik’s project.__NEWL__In the second half, once Pryn travels into the south, she is taken up by the powerful Jue Gruten family, who represent the far more lethal and aristocratic forces of the nation who want to end this rebellion.__NEWL__Here the webs of power are almost too complex and wide reaching for Pryn to comprehend, even though she now realizes that one can fight them, a single incident at a time, as she manages to free a single slave from their grip, whom the Earl has tried to use as a scapegoat.__NEWL__But Pryn and the reader now have a far clearer picture of what Gorgik is up against.__NEWL__Between the novel’s first part and its second part, Pryn spends some time with a good-hearted but sadly limited peasant family, who live in the little town of Enoch and who represent the working classes that Gorgik will have to enlist somehow if he is to succeed.__NEWL__(A city name that appears several times throughout Delany’s non-Nevèrÿon work, notably in The Mad Man [1994], "Enoch" is mentioned in Genesis as the first city built by man, specifically by Cain’s son, Adam and Eve’s grandson, after whom it was named.__NEWL__In Delany's work, “Enoch” is never a big city.__NEWL__Rather it is a very old and small city—often much older than it thinks it is—which has forgotten its own historical origins.)__NEWL__These are the people who have the least sense of their own history.__NEWL__Their perfectly sensible wants conspire, nevertheless, to defeat their own best interests, and the only role they can conceive of in which Pryn can stay among them is that of the town prostitute.__NEWL__It is the most devastating section of the novel.__NEWL__An added irony is that this section is written using all the characters from that central myth of romanticism, “Tristan and Isolde” (with Pryn playing the part of Isolde), employing elements from many of the versions, including the story of “Tristan’s Leap,” and the tales of Malot, King Mark, and Bragenge from Wagner, and even the dwarf Frocsin, from Jean Cocteau’s film version from the forties, “The Eternal Return” (1943).__NEWL__In Delany’s version, apathy and despair have replaced passion and romance.__NEWL__Only the power of Pryn’s own imagination gives her a weapon to fight free from the seductions of these simple people’s basic goodness and her own ensnarement in their fundamental hopelessness.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2395365	Memoirs of Emma Courtney	1796-01-01T00:00:00Z	8705710	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8705710	The novel consists of a series of philosophical letters from the heroine, Emma Courtney, to Augustus Harley, a young man she calls her son, who has recently been disappointed in love.__NEWL__Emma tells her life story.__NEWL__In her youth, Emma falls deeply in love with Augustus's father, also named Augustus Harley, but her pursuit of him fails - his income is only secure as long as he remains unmarried.__NEWL__Although she initially refuses to accept a life of security by marrying her admirer Mr. Montague, Emma eventually accepts when Augustus Harley is revealed to be already married, and Emma herself is facing financial hardship.__NEWL__Emma's marriage results in a series of tragedies, despite the appearance of a beloved daughter, and her passion for her first love never ceases.__NEWL__Near the end of the novel the two will meet again under unfortunate circumstances.__NEWL__Harley dies after an accident, and Montague commits suicide after a sexual encounter with a maid, whom he leaves pregnant.__NEWL__Emma adopts Harley's eldest son, and devotes herself to the lives of her children.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6952295	NAMA Mia!	2011-10-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27	Republic of Ireland	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27	Republic of Ireland	31645468	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31645468	Ireland is in recession, but Ross's shredding company is successful.__NEWL__He becomes a "toy boy" for Regina Rathfriland, a wealthy older woman.__NEWL__Ross tracks down Oisinn and brings him back to Ireland.__NEWL__Fionnuala has switched to writing "misery lit" memoirs.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2718331	Béatrix	1839-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	31602060	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31602060	A handsome young man named Calyste du Guénic is in love with the older woman, Félicité des Touches, a famous writer who uses the pen name of Camille Maupin.__NEWL__Félicité at first does not reciprocate Calyste’s feelings, and Calyste falls in love with the blonde marchioness Béatrix de Rochefide.__NEWL__Béatrix is a beautiful but selfish woman; one critic remarked in 1897 in regards to Béatrix that “for cold-blooded cruelty and vulgarity she is unexampled, and her efforts to keep her youth and her hold over men are drawn in Balzac’s heaviest and most pitiless manner.”__NEWL__Béatrix had already had an affair with Gennaro Conti, and Calyste has an additional rival in the form of Claude Vignon.__NEWL__Félicité des Touches (Camille Maupin) tries to help Calyste win Béatrix’s heart, thus sacrificing her own.__NEWL__Calyste’s efforts are ultimately a failure, and Béatrix is taken away by Gennaro Conti.__NEWL__ Calyste is devastated by his failure, but promises his dying father to get married.__NEWL__Félicité des Touches enters a convent, but before she does, she uses her fortune to arrange a marriage for Calyste with a woman named Sabine de Grandlieu.__NEWL__When Calyste encounters Béatrix again in Paris, his wife Sabine struggles to win back her husband’s affections after Calyste falls for Béatrix again.__NEWL__Subsequently, through the intercession of Count Maxime de Trailles, Béatrix falls for another young man, and Calyste comes to his senses.__NEWL__Balzac describes Béatrix as follows:__NEWL__She is slender and straight and white as a church taper; her face is long and pointed; the skin is capricious, to-day like cambric, to-morrow darkened with little speckles beneath its surface, as if her blood had left a deposit of dust there during the night.__NEWL__Her forehead is magnificent, though rather daring.__NEWL__The pupils of her eyes are pale sea-green, floating on their white balls under thin lashes and lazy eyelids.__NEWL__Her eyes have dark rings around them often; her nose, which describes one-quarter of a circle, is pinched about the nostrils; very shrewd and clever, but supercilious.__NEWL__She has an Austrian mouth; the upper lip has more character than the lower, which drops disdainfully.__NEWL__Her pale cheeks have no color unless some very keen emotion moves her.__NEWL__Her chin is rather fat; mine is not thin, and perhaps I do wrong to tell you that women with fat chins are exacting in love.__NEWL__She has one of the most exquisite waists I ever saw; the shoulders are beautiful, but the bust has not developed as well, and the arms are thin.__NEWL__She has, however, an easy carriage and manner, which redeems all such defects and sets her beauties in full relief.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7922987	Verukal	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	31662576	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31662576	Verukal tells the story of a family of Tamil speaking Iyers who settled in Kerala.__NEWL__Raghu is the protagonist of the story.__NEWL__The pivotal event on which the novel turns is the return of Raghu to his native village after a lapse of several years, to raise money to build a city mansion for himself by selling his ancestral home.__NEWL__He sets about this reluctantly, under pressure from his shrewish and domineering wife.__NEWL__In the village, as he meets his sisters and others among whom he grew up, a flood of memories overwhelms him, and he abruptly changes his mind about selling the property.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16991747	Devoted	2011-10-11T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31587046	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31587046	After Sage was kidnapped by the Saviors, Clea is fruitlessly searching for him.__NEWL__In the woods outside her house, a family of ghostly apparitions appears and gives her information on his whereabouts.__NEWL__Clea and her friend Ben track down a hideout of Cursed Vengeance, the group that has been cursed until Sage's death, in an abandoned subway station.__NEWL__They come to a tenuous agreement to help each other find Sage, but after that they will be at odds again.__NEWL__Through a series of flashbacks, it is revealed that the ghostly family all consumed the Elixir of Life over 2,000 years ago and have been living in immortality ever since.__NEWL__They've trained their minds to gain psychic powers such as telekinesis and astral projection, but the Elixir is running out and soon they'll be left in a comatose state.__NEWL__To prevent this, they are helping the Saviors to kill Sage and turn his blood into more Elixir.__NEWL__The youngest daughter, Amelia, is unsure of this path and decides she wants to help Clea save Sage.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sage is being held captive by the Saviors and they perform a ritual to break the bond between his soul and Clea's.__NEWL__At the next full moon, they will kill him with a magical dagger and his blood will become more Elixir that others can drink.__NEWL__Amelia sends a psychic warning to Clea, letting her know where the ritual will be performed on Sage.__NEWL__She warns Cursed Vengeance, who gathers up a small army and leads an attack on the Saviors compound.__NEWL__Amelia uses her psychic powers to fight her family, seemingly killing all of them in the process.__NEWL__Clea reaches Sage just in time to witness his throat being cut and his blood turning to Elixir in a bowl.__NEWL__In her anguish, she knocks the bowl over, letting the Elixir soak into the ground so no one can have it.__NEWL__The remaining Saviors leave, dejected.__NEWL__The book ends with the reveal that Sage's soul entered the body of a man killed during the fighting.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5136636	Cluny Brown	1944-08-01T00:00:00Z	31503079	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31503079	The story follows the escapades of a plumber's niece, Cluny Brown, who is twenty years old in England in 1938.__NEWL__Cluny has high spirits and a constant desire for expansion of experience that leads the more staid members of her community to question whether she knows her place.__NEWL__As a consequence of one final London based excursion of discovery outside the bounds of what Cluny's mentors consider proper, she is sent off into good service with a charming country residence known as Friars Carmel to be a Tall Parlour Maid.__NEWL__The coincidental simultaneous arrivals of the young son and heir of the house, a mysterious Polish professor, and a beautiful socialite add complexity to this adventurous tale of a young woman following her dreams and finding her personal freedom in the tumultuous early 20th century.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6736997	Maisie Dobbs	2003-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31523740	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31523740	Maisie becomes a maid at the Belgravia Mansion of Lady Rowan Compton in 1910 at thirteen years old, after her mother dies, and she must help her father make ends meet.__NEWL__Soon after getting caught in Lady Compton's library fulfilling her joy of reading and learning, Maisie is introduced to Maurice Blanche, close friend of the Comptons, and becomes his pupil.__NEWL__Blanche, a discreet investigator, teaches Maisie as much as he can about psychology, science, and anything else Maisie is willing to learn.__NEWL__When Maisie becomes old enough she attends Girton College at Cambridge University, but threats of war soon intervene.__NEWL__World War I intensifies, and the pressures of war can be felt in Maisie's England.__NEWL__Deciding that the war efforts are extremely important to her and her country, Maisie volunteers as a nurse at the front, where she meets a young man, with whom she falls in love.__NEWL__Part of the mystery surrounding Maisie is what happens to the young man.__NEWL__After the war, Maisie apprentices with Blanche in his investigative work.__NEWL__In 1929, after Blanche has retired, Maisie opens her own investigation business.__NEWL__Her first seemingly open-and-shut case involves her in a mystery surrounding something known as The Retreat, a suspicious home for veterans of the war.__NEWL__Maisie must act fast when she learns that Lady Compton's own son has signed over his fortune to The Retreat and is about to take asylum there.__NEWL__With the help of Billy Beale, a caretaker at her office and veteran of the Great War himself, she is able to infiltrate The Retreat.__NEWL__As Maisie uncovers the mystery of The Retreat she is also confronted with her own ghosts from the war after ten years of holding the memories at bay.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7738446	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31485389	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31485389	In January 1946, 32-year-old Juliet Ashton embarks on a cross-country tour across England to promote her latest book.__NEWL__Written under her pen-name Izzy Bickerstaff, the book is a compilation of comedic columns she wrote about life during World War II.__NEWL__Despite the fact that she was initially contracted to write another Izzy Bickerstaff book, Juliet writes to her publisher that she wants to retire the pseudonym.__NEWL__ On her tour, Juliet is greeted with flowers from the mysterious Markham V. Reynolds, Jr.__NEWL__Her best friend and publisher, Sidney, warns Juliet that Mark is a wealthy American trying to establish a publishing empire and looking to poach her.__NEWL__Reynolds makes it clear that he is a fan, and she and Reynolds soon begin dating.__NEWL__Juliet receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a complete stranger from Guernsey who has come into possession of her copy of Essays of Elia and who wants to know more about the author, Charles Lamb.__NEWL__Juliet helps to send him further books by Lamb.__NEWL__She is also intrigued that Adams is part of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and inquires about the group's name.__NEWL__After learning that the society began as a cover for residents breaking curfew during the German occupation of Guernsey, Juliet begins a correspondence with several members of the Society, hoping to work them into an article she is writing on the benefits of literature for The Times Literary Supplement.__NEWL__Mark proposes as Juliet is preparing to leave for Guernsey__NEWL__and she delays giving an answer, not wanting to repeat the error of her previous engagement.__NEWL__Juliet also learns that Elizabeth McKenna, the Society's beloved founder, was arrested and sent to a prison in France by the Germans and has yet to return home.__NEWL__The members of the Society are raising her child, Kit, among themselves until Elizabeth returns.__NEWL__As she continues to write to the members of the Society and they to her, Juliet begins to plan a trip to Guernsey to conduct research for a book about the group and their experiences of the war.__NEWL__ In Guernsey, Juliet is treated like an old friend and soon helps to watch Kit.__NEWL__She is also there when the members of the Society receive a letter from Remy Giraud, a French woman who was in the Ravensbrück concentration camp with Elizabeth.__NEWL__She informs them that Elizabeth is dead, but several members go to see her and encourage her to visit Guernsey with them, to which she eventually agrees.__NEWL__Juliet decides to center her book on Elizabeth's experiences on Guernsey during the occupation, as told by her friends.__NEWL__While she is writing, Juliet is visited by Mark.__NEWL__Realizing that she has feelings for Dawsey and has since they first met, Juliet definitively rejects Mark's second proposal.__NEWL__ As she continues to write, Juliet also realizes that her time spent with Kit means that she now thinks of Kit as a daughter and wants to adopt her.__NEWL__She also longs to be with Dawsey but fears that he has fallen in love with Remy.__NEWL__Remy eventually announces her plans to return to France and train as a baker in Paris.__NEWL__Isola Pribby, a member of the Society, believes that Dawsey is in love with Remy and, using Miss Marple as a model, offers to clean Dawsey's home to find proof he is in love with Remy to convince her to stay in Guernsey.__NEWL__Isola's plan is a failure, and she goes to Juliet to complain that she was unable to find anything that would signify his love for Remy, but instead found numerous pictures and tokens that belong to Juliet.__NEWL__Realizing that he is pining for her, Juliet runs to Dawsey and asks him to marry her.__NEWL__Juliet ends by asking her publisher and friend Sidney to return to Guernsey in time for her wedding in a week's time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7723316	The Claverings							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	31489936	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31489936	Harry Clavering is the only son of Reverend Henry Clavering, a well-to-do clergyman and the paternal uncle of the affluent baronet Sir Hugh Clavering.__NEWL__At the start of the novel, Harry is jilted by his fiancée, the sister of Sir Hugh's wife, who proceeds to marry Lord Ongar, a wealthy but debauched earl.__NEWL__Harry's father urges him to make the church his profession; but Harry aspires to become a civil engineer, of the type of Robert Stephenson, Joseph Locke, and Thomas Brassey.__NEWL__To this end, he becomes a pupil at the firm of Beilby and Burton.__NEWL__A year and a half later, Harry has become engaged to Florence Burton, the daughter of one of his employers.__NEWL__He presses her for an early marriage; but although she loves him deeply, she refuses, insisting that they wait until he has an income adequate to support himself and a family.__NEWL__At this point, Lord Ongar dies, and his widow returns to England.__NEWL__Sir Hugh, her nearest male relative, is a hard and selfish man, and refuses to see her upon her arrival.__NEWL__This lends spurious credence to rumours about her conduct; and it forces her sister, Lady Clavering, to ask Harry to assist her when she returns.__NEWL__Harry fails to tell Lady Ongar of his engagement; and, in a moment of weakness, he embraces and kisses her.__NEWL__This puts him in a position where he must behave dishonourably toward one of the two women in his life: either he must break his engagement, or he must acknowledge that he has gravely insulted Lady Ongar.__NEWL__Although he loves Florence Burton and knows that she is the better woman, he is unwilling to subject Lady Ongar to further misery.__NEWL__Lady Ongar, because of her considerable wealth, is pursued by others.__NEWL__She is courted by Count Pateroff, one of her late husband's friends, and by Archie Clavering, Sir Hugh's younger brother.__NEWL__Count Pateroff's scheming sister Sophie Gourdeloup, the only woman who will see Lady Ongar because of the rumours about her conduct, wants her to remain single so that Mme Gourdeloup can continue to exploit her.__NEWL__Mme Gourdeloup sees to it that Lady Ongar learns about Harry's engagement.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Florence Burton learns that Harry has been seeing Lady Ongar regularly, and decides that she must release him if he does not truly love her.__NEWL__Through the good influence of his mother, Harry comes to realise that Florence Burton is the better woman and the less deserving of dishonorable treatment.__NEWL__To her letter offering to end their engagement, he responds with a reaffirmation of his love for her.__NEWL__He also writes to Lady Ongar, expressing his regret for his past conduct toward her and making it clear that he intends to remain true to his fiancée.__NEWL__Soon afterwards, Sir Hugh and Archie Clavering are both drowned when their yacht goes down off Heligoland.__NEWL__This makes Harry's father the new baronet and the possessor of Clavering Park, with Harry the heir apparent.__NEWL__This increase in wealth allows him to marry immediately and to give up engineering, a profession for which he almost certainly lacked sufficient self-discipline.__NEWL__Lady Ongar gives up much of her property to the family of the new earl, and retires into seclusion with her widowed sister.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3064139	Facino Cane	1936-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	31491213	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31491213	Facino Cane is told in the first person by an unnamed narrator.__NEWL__It concerns a blind old man named Marco-Facino Cane, called "Father Canet", who claims to be a descendant of the 14th century condottiere of the same name.__NEWL__Father Canet is a pensioner in the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts and a clarionet-player.__NEWL__The narrator meets Facino Cane at the wedding celebration of his maid's sisters.__NEWL__His interest being piqued by the appearance of the old man, the narrator begins a conversation with him, and Facino Cane mentions being from Venice.__NEWL__When the narrator then mentions he would like to visit Venice, Facino Cane begs to be taken there.__NEWL__He then tells the story of his life and how he lost his status and money and became blind.__NEWL__The narrator promised to take Facino Cane with him to Venice some day, but the old man died that winter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10381617	The Millionaires	2002-01-08T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31634767	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31634767	What started as the perfect crime for a pair of employees at the private banking firm of Greene & Greene takes a turn for the worse.__NEWL__Charlie and Oliver Caruso work at Greene & Greene, a private bank that is so exclusive you need at least two million dollars just to be a client.__NEWL__The brothers are denied a promotion.__NEWL__As one opportunity closes, though, another reveals itself.__NEWL__A mysterious benefactor brings to their attention an abandoned bank account.__NEWL__No one knows of the account's existence, it doesn't belong to anyone, and it contains three million dollars.__NEWL__IT is the brothers' for the taking.__NEWL__The brothers see the abandoned account as their way into a new life, debt-free.__NEWL__As soon as they take the money though, things take a turn for the worse.__NEWL__A friend of theirs dies, and then the eyes of the Secret Service, their bank, and a female private investigator turn on them.__NEWL__The brothers must scramble to find out who is pulling the invisible strings of that account, how they will prove their innocence, and what they need to do escape the Secret Service.__NEWL__In the process, their trust and relationship is tested.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q776551	Gobseck	1830-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	31549428	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31549428	The plot of Gobseck, set during the French Restoration, is framed within a conversation between lawyer Maître Derville and Vicomtesse de Grandlieu.__NEWL__Derville tells a story which focuses on Anastasie de Restaud, née Goriot.__NEWL__Anastasie de Restaud is the daughter of a rich bourgeois who has married into the aristocracy, but is bored by her marriage, which is loveless and passionless.__NEWL__Anastasie de Restaud has an affair with Maxime de Trailles, and spends her fortune on de Trailles.__NEWL__She turns to the usurer Jean-Esther van Gobseck for financial assistance.__NEWL__Maître Derville acts as Gobseck’s lawyer while Derville's future wife is also one of Gobseck's debtors.__NEWL__Anastasie's husband finds out about her debts, so he signs a convoluted contract with Gobseck which is supposed to benefit his and Anastasie's children.__NEWL__However, Anastasie destroys that contract during her irrational schemings.__NEWL__Subsequently, both Anastasie's marriage is destroyed and her family fortune is lost.__NEWL__Eventually, elderly Gobseck gains an even larger fortune through factoring.__NEWL__Shortly after his death, Derville discovers many treasures in Gobseck's home, including loads of spoiled food which Gobseck had intended to sell. "__NEWL__'Daddy Gobseck,' I began, 'is intimately convinced of the truth of the principle which he takes for a rule of life.__NEWL__In his opinion, money is a commodity which you may sell cheap or dear, according to circumstances, with a clear conscience.__NEWL__A capitalist, by charging a high rate of interest, becomes in his eyes a secured partner by anticipation.__NEWL__Apart from the peculiar philosophical views of human nature and financial principles, which enable him to behave like a usurer, I am fully persuaded that, out of his business, he is the most loyal and upright soul in Paris.__NEWL__There are two men in him; he is petty and great—a miser and a philosopher…”
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7749032	The Lover's Dictionary	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31550424	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31550424	A nameless narrator tells the story of a relationship through dictionary entries.__NEWL__These short entries provide insight into the ups and downs of their romantic relationship, revealing the couple's problems with alcoholism and infidelity.__NEWL__The story does not unfold in chronological order; instead, it is arranged alphabetically by dictionary entries that give glimpses into the joys and struggles the characters face over the course of their relationship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3222632	The Maker of Universes	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31499129	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31499129	The story follows Robert Wolff, a man disenchanted with his life and his marriage.__NEWL__One day, while looking at a new house, Wolff discovers a strange horn in the basement.__NEWL__Blowing the horn, Wolff is transported to a strange new world, the World of Tiers.__NEWL__Wolff finds himself initially in an edenic paradise known as Okeanos.__NEWL__This region is the first level of the planet, which contains a number of tiers like a wedding cake, separated by vast mountain ranges.__NEWL__The entire planet is ruled over by a cruel and mysterious lord named Jadawin, who created it.__NEWL__Okeanos consists of a beach, an ocean, and a small forest and is populated by nymph like humans who originated in and near ancient Greece.__NEWL__In this new world, Wolff regains his youth and vigor and falls in love with a local woman named Chryseis who lived in Troy at the time of the Trojan War.__NEWL__When Chryseis is kidnapped, Wolff follows after her, climbing to the next level of the world, Amerind, a plains region populated by Native Americans and centaurs.__NEWL__Along the way he is joined by the adventurer Kickaha, who had also come from Earth, where he was known as Paul Janus Finnegan, some time ago.__NEWL__The two continue their adventure as they ascend the various levels of the World of Tiers including the medieval Dracheland and the jungle Atlantis.__NEWL__When they finally make it to the palace of Jadawin they make a shocking discovery; Robert Wolff is Lord Jadawin, who lost his memory after being defeated by another lord, and ended up stranded on Earth.__NEWL__At the end, Wolff/Jadawin is reunited with Chryseis and restored to his rightful place as ruler of the World of Tiers, his experiences as a human on Earth having tempered his previous cruelty.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q726902	The Crystal Stopper							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	31654722	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31654722	During a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq a crime is committed and two accomplices of Arsène Lupin are arrested by the police.__NEWL__One is guilty of the crime, the other innocent but both will be sentenced to death.__NEWL__Lupin seeks to deliver the victim of a miscarriage of justice, but struggles against Deputy Daubrecq's ruthless blackmailer, who has an incriminating document hidden in a crystal stopper.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7403430	Salah Asuhan	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q252	Indonesia	31547419	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31547419	The story revolves around the Minangkabau Hanafi and his friend, the half-French half-Minangkabau Corrie du Bussée.__NEWL__Although Hanafi is Minangkabau and a Muslim, he considers European culture to be superior and has many European friends.__NEWL__After graduating from high school in Solok, Hanafi admits his love to Corrie and kisses her.__NEWL__However, Corrie feels ashamed afterwards and eventually flees to Batavia (Jakarta), leaving a letter for Hanafi saying that they can never be together because he is pribumi.__NEWL__Hanafi is then married to his cousin Rapiah, much to his discontent.__NEWL__He begins taking out his anger on his family, especially Rapiah.__NEWL__After a few years, Hanafi's European friends have left him because of his treatment of his family, including his and Rapiah's baby son.__NEWL__His temperament becomes worse as a result.__NEWL__One day, he is bitten by a rabid dog.__NEWL__He is sent for treatment in Batavia.__NEWL__Upon arrival in Batavia, Hanafi meets Corrie again and they fall in love.__NEWL__They eventually marry and move in together.__NEWL__Hanafi finds employment with the Dutch colonial government, receives the same legal status as a European, and adopts the Christian name Chrisye.__NEWL__He does not think of his family in Solok, even though they are worried about him.__NEWL__Although their married life starts well, eventually Hanafi becomes abusive towards Corrie.__NEWL__Upon hearing that Corrie has befriended a disreputable woman and occasionally meets other men without him knowing, Hanafi loses his temper, accuses Corrie of infidelity and hits her.__NEWL__Corrie runs away from home and eventually starts working at an orphanage in Semarang.__NEWL__Hanafi's coworkers in Batavia ostracise him after hearing of his treatment of Corrie.__NEWL__After one tells him that he is seen to be acting poorly, Hanafi realizes that he was wrong and goes to Semarang to apologize to Corrie.__NEWL__However, upon arrival he finds her dying of cholera.__NEWL__Corrie forgives him, and dies.__NEWL__Hanafi then collapses from the stress.__NEWL__After being treated, Hanafi returns to his village to be with his family.__NEWL__Not long after his arrival, he commits suicide by drinking poison and apologizes to his family on his deathbed, embracing his Minangkabau and Muslim heritage.__NEWL__Rapiah states that she will not raise their son to be like the Europeans.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3208395	La Duchesse de Langeais	1832-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	31501465	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31501465	General Armand de Montriveau, a war hero, is enamored of Duchess Antoinette de Langeais, a coquettish, married noblewoman who invites him to a ball but ultimately refuses his sexual advances and then disappears.__NEWL__Assisted by the powerful group known as The Thirteen, who subscribe to an occult form of freemasonry, General Montriveau finds the duchess in a Spanish monastery of Discalced Carmelites under the name of Sister Theresa.__NEWL__Dedicated to Franz Liszt, this portrait of a vain representative of the noble families of Faubourg Saint-Germain, was inspired by the Laure Junot with whom Balzac had a failed romance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7899332	Upsurge	1934-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	31556483	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31556483	The book tells the stories of Theodora Luddon, a 20-year-old receptionist, Peter Groom, a member of the bourgeoisie who claims unemployment benefits, city magistrate James Riddle, working-class man Colin Rumble who hangs himself after murdering his family, and Paul Kronen, the owner of a big drapery store.__NEWL__It is set in the 1930s, starts with Theodora fined two pounds by Riddle for indecent exposure at the beach and ends with Peter sentenced to a month in jail with hard labour after a riot in the city.__NEWL__"__NEWL__For a country in Depression, the writing about life in relief camps and corrupt officials was considered potentially incendiary."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7997438	Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1384	New York	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31551505	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31551505	The novel is narrated by Benoite-Marie "Berie" Carr.__NEWL__While vacationing in Paris with her husband Daniel, Berie recalls her adolescence in Horsehearts, New York.__NEWL__During the summer of 1972, Berie worked with her friend Silsby Chaussee (Sils) at Storyland, an amusement park where she sold tickets and Sils played Cinderella.__NEWL__The adult Berie, now a photographic curator at a local historical society, narrates the pitfalls of her marriage while searching for the close bond she shared with Sils during the Storyland summer.__NEWL__As a child, Berie lived with her parents, brother Claude, and adopted sister LaRoue.__NEWL__Her parents hosted numerous guests, ranging from visiting academics to exchange students, that gave Berie "a tin ear for languages" and made it difficult for her to understand "foreignness, code, mood".__NEWL__Berie and Sils made friends with their co-workers at Storyland and saved frogs from teenage boys until Sils began dating Mike, a local boy with a motorcycle.__NEWL__Mike dominated Sils' time, leaving Berie out and confused by her absence.__NEWL__When Sils became pregnant, Berie stole money from the Storyland register to pay for an abortion.__NEWL__In between recollections of Horsehearts, Berie details her troubles with Daniel.__NEWL__Recently, they fought and he pushed her down the stairs of their apartment, resulting in a damaged hip.__NEWL__Daniel is distant from Berie, and she seeks companionship from friends like Marguerite, a Parisian artist, but is ultimately unable to recreate the closeness of her relationship with Sils.__NEWL__After Sils' abortion, Berie noticed her manager watching her at odd times.__NEWL__An accident on a ride in the park temporarily forestalled exposure, but she was eventually caught and fired.__NEWL__Baptized by Reverend Filo at a summer camp, she explored organized religion before finally getting her period late in adolescence.__NEWL__Sent to a boarding school, she achieved academic success and was astonished by her own physical development.__NEWL__Berie and Sils later met at a high school reunion but found that their relationship changed as they face middle age.__NEWL__Berie pays a last visit to LaRoue, who later commits suicide after being institutionalized for years, and the novel ends as Berie settles for comfortable distance from Daniel and her past.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7632552	Success	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	31491240	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31491240	Success tells the story of two foster brothers—Terence Service and Gregory Riding, narrating alternate sections—and their exchange of position during one calendar year as each slips towards, and away from, success.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736876	The Goat, the Sofa, and Mr. Swami	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	31554769	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31554769	The Pakistani Premier's sudden decision to invite himself to a cricket series to be played in India creates uncertainty, panic and bureaucratic gamesmanship in New Delhi.__NEWL__Seemingly above such mundane concerns, India's elderly Prime Minister, devoted to movies, scotch, and late mornings, adds to the confusion with random utterances and occasional temper tantrums.__NEWL__His official factotum, a bureaucrat named Swami, plays the confusion for all it is worth, attempting to advance his career and settle old scores.__NEWL__Old rivalries between the Foreign Service and the domestic bureaucrats flare up as the day of the Pakistani Premier's visit approaches.__NEWL__Matters get stalled as rival departments choose to hide behind arcane laws.__NEWL__Conscious of his place in history and of the damage a botched visit would cause, the Prime Minister stages his own protests.__NEWL__Swami is forced to chart a treacherous course between his political and bureaucratic masters...__NEWL__A parable rooted in the absurdities of modern India, this novel takes a light-hearted dig at the pretensions of people who matter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6116058	Jackals	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31638722	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31638722	Locals from a small town cruise the rural back roads in order to prey on solitary drivers.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775082	The Wind on the Moon	1944-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	31638786	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31638786	Major Palfrey is off to war.__NEWL__He warns his two daughters, Dinah and Dorinda, that while he is away they must behave themselves: "When there is wind on the moon, you must be very careful how you behave.__NEWL__Because if it is an ill wind and you behave badly, it will blow straight into your heart, and then you will behave badly for a long time to come."__NEWL__And so it proves: before long the girls are drinking a potion provided by the local witch and turning into kangaroos, getting stuck in the zoo, and staging an escape along with their new friends, a golden puma and a silver falcon.__NEWL__Their appetite for naughtiness and cleverness whetted, Dinah and Dorinda turn their attention to freeing their dancing master, Casimir Corvo, from jail.__NEWL__And then comes their greatest adventure: Count Hulagu Bloot, the tyrant of Bombardy – who loves torturing people and eating peppermint creams – has captured their father and imprisoned him in the dungeons of Bloot's castle.__NEWL__The two girls, together with their puma friend and their beloved dancing teacher, smuggle themselves from England to Bombardy in a room made of furniture hidden inside a huge removal van and stage a dramatic rescue.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7761520	The Roots of the Mountains	1889-01-01T00:00:00Z	6050					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	31685447	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31685447	The story is set in Burgdale, a small Germanic settlement in a valley at the foot of a mountain range, and the neighbouring woodlands, pastures and dales.__NEWL__The area is inhabited by the interdependent Dalemen, who are weavers, smiths, and traders, the Woodlanders, who are hunters and carpenters, and the Shepherds.__NEWL__Their society is challenged by disruptions from the outside world in the form of the Sons of the Wolf, the descendants of the Wolfings from the previous novel, and the invading Dusky Men (the Huns).__NEWL__The Sons of the Wolf, driven from their original country by the Dusky Men, continue to resist the invaders as a frontier force guarding their new home.__NEWL__The somewhat troubled integration of the Sons of the Wolf into the society they are protecting is told in the story of five lovers representing both peoples, four of whom eventually marry.__NEWL__Morris projected a sequel to The Roots of the Mountains to be called The Story of Desiderius, although it was never completed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7716082	The Beasts of Clawstone Castle	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	31505316	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31505316	Madlyn and Rollo live with their parents in a ground-floor flat in south London.__NEWL__Mrs Hamilton runs a theatre where the plays keep running out of money, and Mr Hamilton is a designer and helps people with their houses.__NEWL__Madlyn is very attractive and has many friends.__NEWL__She has fair hair, blue eyes and a deep laugh, and likes parties and sleepovers.__NEWL__Rollo is two years younger and likes animals and insects.__NEWL__He has an adopted skink at London Zoo called Stumpy.__NEWL__Madlyn is helpful to her brother and mother, who is usually frantic and forgets things like car keys.__NEWL__At the beginning of the summer term, Mr Hamilton receives a large offer from an American college (which the family needs) to spend two months in New York setting up a business course in design.__NEWL__The parents cannot take the children but decide to go to America, sending Madlyn and Rollo to stay with their Uncle George and Aunt Emily (sister and brother) at Clawstone Castle on the Scottish border.__NEWL__Madlyn is shocked at Clawstone's appearance.__NEWL__When she meets her Uncle and Aunt she is uncertain.__NEWL__George and his sister Emily wake early on Saturdays for that is when the castle is open to the public.__NEWL__George's hair is sparse and he wears a mustard-coloured tweed suit.__NEWL__Howard Percival, their cousin, is very shy, never comes out of his room, and is frightened of anyone he has not known for the last twenty years.__NEWL__Mrs Grove comes in from the village to help.__NEWL__She disapproves of how George and Emily deal with Howard.__NEWL__Emily prepares the gift shop.__NEWL__She feels sad at the thought of the rival Trembellow gift shop, which is larger.__NEWL__George starts preparing his work in the castle.__NEWL__He also feels sad at the thought of the rival Trembellow dungeons.__NEWL__Mrs Grove's sister comes to start taking the tickets, bringing with her what the villagers have donated to help the castle.__NEWL__The day does not go well; by midday only ten people have arrived, and most of them get bored.__NEWL__The next day Madlyn and Rollo make friends with Mrs Grove and Madlyn takes to the museum.__NEWL__Rollo likes the dungeon.__NEWL__Then Madlyn meets Mrs Grove's son, Ned, and learns about Olive, the Trembellow's daughter.__NEWL__Madlyn and Rollo go to Mrs Grove's house to watch TV.__NEWL__When they get back Emily is preparing for Open Day again.__NEWL__Madlyn asks why the money is so important, and Mrs Grove tells her it's for the cows.__NEWL__The next day Sir George takes Madlyn and Rollo to see his white cows.__NEWL__They are astonishing, and George buys Rollo a pair of binoculars.__NEWL__Madlyn, Rollo and Ned go see Howard, and that night Madlyn has an idea as to how they could make some more money on their Open Days.__NEWL__They have realised that cousin Howard is in fact a ghost (this is why he is so shy) and they ask him to try to find some scary ghosts to haunt the castle.__NEWL__Brenda the bloodstained bride, Mr Smith the skeleton, Sir Ranoulf the man with a rat in his chest, Sunita the sawn-in-half girl, and a pair of disembodied feet all help to make the castle popular with tourists.__NEWL__However, when the cows are stolen by two men pretending to be vets, the children go to find out what happened.__NEWL__Their search takes them to Blackscar Island, where an evil plastic surgeon has started a clinic where he changes ordinary animals into extinct or mythical animals using surgery.__NEWL__He plans to graft narwhal horns on the heads of the white cows, and sell them as unicorns.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7798087	Threshold	1990-08-01T00:00:00Z	31511370	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31511370	In a futuristic world, Earth is now a preserve.__NEWL__A captain is transported 500 years into the future and onto Threshold, which is a space habitat.__NEWL__Here he meets with the daughter of a Muslim leader, one of many who are being kept from their travel to Mecca.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3927652	What I Loved	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31512660	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31512660	What I Loved opens with a painting of a woman 'wearing only a man's T-shirt', with the artist's shadow across the canvas.__NEWL__The protagonist, art historian Leon Hertzberg (Leo), purchases the painting and some time afterwards befriends the artist, Bill Wechsler.__NEWL__Bill is, at this stage, an unknown artist, though as the novel progresses, so too does his career in the New York art scene.__NEWL__This is in part due to Leo's writing, which brings Bill's work into the public eye.__NEWL__Bill is married to Lucille, a highly strung poet, and Leo is married to Erica, a literary academic.__NEWL__The two couples become close and move into the same apartment block.__NEWL__Erica and Lucille fall pregnant around the same time and have sons, Mathew and Mark.__NEWL__The first half of the novel explores their quiet, domestic lives, through the eyes of Leo.__NEWL__Lucille and Bill separate after he forms a relationship with Violet, the model who posed for the painting which opens the text.__NEWL__The opening of part Two of the novel is described by Robert Birnbaum, in an interview with the author, as like a punch in the face and the pace of the novel accelerates after this point.__NEWL__Leo and Erica's son, Mathew, dies suddenly.__NEWL__Grief-stricken, Leo eventually loses Erica, who moves away for distance as well as work.__NEWL__Leo forms a close relationship with Bill's son Mark.__NEWL__Mark is, however, an insincere and somewhat amoral character, and a pattern is repeated between the two, of trust and betrayal, until Leo and the reader realise Mark is probably not capable of affection.__NEWL__Mark befriends performance and installation artist Teddy Giles, whose art is designed to shock, but seems empty and only designed to serve that one purpose.__NEWL__Bill eventually dies in his studio and Violet attempts to curtail her grief by cleaning manically.__NEWL__Leo becomes embroiled in a thriller-like plot attempting to track down Mark who has become lost in Teddy Giles's scene.__NEWL__Leo finally professes his love for Violet.__NEWL__She tells him he can have her for one night, but that she's then moving away.__NEWL__He declines and returns to his apartment alone.__NEWL__A minor character throughout the novel, Lazlo Finkelman, moves amongst similar circles to Teddy Giles and Mark, but with very different intentions and values.__NEWL__At the close of the novel, an aging Leo finds comfort in playing with Lazlo's young son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4749757	An American Demon	2011-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31519234	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31519234	The plot partially revolves around the author's life, but also delves into side topics such as religion and politics.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768689	The Thieves' Labyrinth	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	31693864	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31693864	Following the second instalment of the series, The Vice Society, Inspector Albert Newsome of the Metropolitan Police's Detective Force has been temporarily demoted to the Thames River Police for his insubordination.__NEWL__He can regain his old position only if he proves himself with good behaviour.__NEWL__Meanwhile, his old enemy, George Williamson, is working as a private detective, at the theatres of London, where his job is to catch pickpockets.__NEWL__Both men are highly suspicious of a new face in London: Eldritch Batchem, who claims to be an investigator "By Royal Appointment".__NEWL__When an outrageous theft is made from the city's docks, a competition begins to see who will be the first to solve the crime.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5142235	Cold Days	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31508556	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31508556	As the story begins, Harry is in Arctis Tor where he is nursed back to health by Sarissa, a member of the Winter Court and a servant of Mab, the Winter Queen.__NEWL__His recovery culminates in a Winter Court party, serving both as an introduction of the new Winter Knight and as Harry's surprise birthday party.__NEWL__During the party he is set up by Maeve, the Winter Lady, who sets a number of events in motion in an attempt to kill him.__NEWL__With help from Sarissa and advice from Kris Kringle, he defeats Maeve's minions and asserts himself as the Winter Knight before the entire Winter Court.__NEWL__Mab, quite satisfied at this outcome, gives Harry his first mission as the new Winter Knight: to kill Maeve.__NEWL__Harry returns to Chicago and consults Bob, to find out how to go about killing an immortal.__NEWL__Bob is initially reluctant to give out such dangerous information, but eventually tells Harry that immortals can be killed during certain conjunctions, such as on Earth on Halloween night, the day after tomorrow.__NEWL__Harry meets up with Molly, who informs him that energy is growing on Demonreach and she thinks it might explode.__NEWL__He travels to the island and speaks to the spirit of Demonreach, learning that the island is a prison which was created by Merlin himself to contain a massive number of various unspeakable supernatural horrors.__NEWL__Because of his connection to the island, he is now the prison's de facto Warden.__NEWL__The island is under attack, and if the attack is not stopped, the prison's fail-safe will trigger, releasing enough magical energy to destroy the prison as well as level a significant portion of the Midwest.__NEWL__In trying to figure out how to proceed, Harry consults with many magical powers, including Donar Vadderung, Lily, Titania, the Faerie Mothers, and Rashid.__NEWL__Harry learns that Outsiders are constantly attempting to get past the Outer Gates, which are defended by the Winter Fae.__NEWL__He discovers that Outsiders are behind his present troubles, and that an Outsider infiltrator named Nemesis has been behind many challenges faced by Harry and by the world in general for many years.__NEWL__He also figures out that the ritual that will be used to destroy Demonreach will be performed at the island itself at some point in the near future.__NEWL__While preparing for the assault against the hundreds of Outsiders attacking Demonreach, Harry is chased and attacked by the Wild Hunt.__NEWL__With Karrin Murphy's assistance, he is able to evade the Hunt temporarily, and after shooting the Erlking, he takes command of the Hunt and leads it against the Outsiders.__NEWL__With the reinforcement of the Hunt, Harry is able to disrupt the ritual and repel the Outsider attack.__NEWL__Harry and his friends head for the top of the island, where they find Lily and Maeve magically assaulting Demonreach.__NEWL__Harry, having determined that Maeve has been corrupted by the Nemesis, attacks Maeve.__NEWL__She defeats him soundly but he is rescued by his friends.__NEWL__Harry, out of options, summons Mab, who appears and confronts Maeve.__NEWL__Maeve refuses to yield to her mother and shoots and kills Lily, resulting in the mantle of the Summer Lady passing to Sarissa.__NEWL__Murphy then shoots Maeve, resulting in the mantle of the Winter Lady passing to Molly.__NEWL__Harry decides to remain on the island for the time being so that he can learn more about it and establish a new base of operations, and takes a branch from its oldest oak tree to use in making a new staff.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7754453	The November Criminals	2010-04-20T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31567409	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31567409	The hero of the book is 18-year-old Addison Schacht, a Jewish high-school senior in Washington D.C.__NEWL__He is in the process of applying to the University of Chicago, where he plans to study classics.__NEWL__The book is his response to the essay question, "What are your best and worst qualities?".__NEWL__He explains he has only "worst qualities", as illustrated by the events of his senior year.__NEWL__They include collecting offensive jokes; dealing drugs to his classmates; and insulting teachers, fellow students, and his girlfriend's mother.__NEWL__But when his classmate Kevin Broadus is killed in a senseless shooting, Addison develops a plan to investigate the death in hopes of finding the killer, and maybe finding some "best qualities" in himself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4856879	Banned for Life	2009-05-09T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31542262	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31542262	As a restless high school athlete in a small, unnamed town in North Carolina, Jason Maddox, the book's narrator, has a sexual encounter with his popular girlfriend's alcoholic mother.__NEWL__Rumors of the encounter circulate at school, and Jason's girlfriend, distraught when she learns of them, attempts suicide.__NEWL__Jason, himself previously popular, is shunned by his classmates, and after confronting and savagely beating the classmate who started the rumors, Jason is arrested, expelled from school, and all but disowned by his conservative, mortified parents.__NEWL__Taking a job as a house painter, Jason moves into an apartment complex where he befriends one of his new neighbors, Bernard “Peewee” Mash, an intellectually precocious fifteen-year-old who, like Jason, is a local pariah.__NEWL__Peewee introduces Jason to art, literature, and, most importantly, punk rock.__NEWL__He and Jason are particularly enamored of the Los Angeles punk band Rule of Thumb, which is led by a UC Berkeley-educated poet, Jim Cassady, who is revered by both Jason and Peewee.__NEWL__Learning that Rule of Thumb will be performing at New York City's CBGB, Jason quits his job in order to drive himself and Peewee to New York.__NEWL__After the show, they speak to Jim Cassady, who advises them to start a band.__NEWL__They immediately make plans to move to New York, where they live on the Lower East Side, center of the New York punk scene.__NEWL__There, Peewee becomes increasingly difficult, at odds with Jason musically and jealous of Jason's sexual prowess.__NEWL__Alternately given to tantrums and sullen silences, Peewee is ousted from the band that he co-founded.__NEWL__He and Jason pursue music separately until, recognizing how much they miss each other, they reconcile and start a new band.__NEWL__Banned from most local venues because of its explosive, destructive shows, the band begins touring the U.S., and in the midst of what will prove to be its final tour, Peewee is killed in a car crash, with Jason narrowly surviving.__NEWL__Devastated, Jason decides he's finished with music and, using money from an insurance settlement, he produces and directs a film that takes him to Los Angeles, where he falls in love with an aspiring actress who is herself seeking a new life after fleeing the civil wars in her native Yugoslavia.__NEWL__The actress, Irina, is married to a wealthy Englishman who is happily unaware of her affair with Jason and, possibly, others prior.__NEWL__Their stormy romance is addictive to Jason, who begs Irina to leave her husband for him.__NEWL__She repeatedly and emptily assures him she will.__NEWL__At a party one night, Jason meets another former punk who tells him that Jim Cassady has recently been spotted, homeless and panhandling on the streets of Hollywood.__NEWL__This is the first sighting of Cassady, as far as Jason knows, since Rule of Thumb disbanded in the early 80s.__NEWL__Jason has always been mystified and intrigued by Cassady's disappearance, and he determines to find him, eventually discovering that Cassady is now living in a bleak Los Angeles suburb with his elderly mother.__NEWL__Cassady shares some of his recent songs and poems with Jason, who thinks they're deserving of a wide audience.__NEWL__Except for Cassady's music and the advice he gave Jason and Peewee at CBGB almost twenty years before, Jason might still be miserable in North Carolina, and he means to express his gratitude by helping Cassady gain a new following.__NEWL__But Cassady is resigned to obscurity, and he grudgingly submits to Jason's efforts on his behalf.__NEWL__Perhaps out of spite, he causes a rupture in Jason's relationship with Irina, and Jason promises to kill him for it, only to reaffirm, in the book's epilogue, how indebted he is to Cassady, who has again changed the course of his life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7324654	Richard Carvel	1899-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31563044	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31563044	Foreword The novel opens with a fictitious foreword, a brief note dated 1876, in which the purported editor of the memoirs, Daniel Clapsaddle Carvel, claims that they are just as his grandfather, Richard Carvel, wrote them, all the more realistic for their imperfections.__NEWL__Volume One__NEWL__The first volume concerns Richard Carvel's boyhood and schooldays.__NEWL__Orphaned at an early age, Richard is raised by his grandfather, Lionel Carvel of Carvel Hall, a wealthy loyalist respected by all sections of the community.__NEWL__Richard describes their way of life, his growing love for his neighbor, Dorothy Manners, and the hostility of his uncle, Grafton Carvel.__NEWL__Richard witnesses a demonstration against a tax collector in Annapolis as a result of the Stamp Act 1765 and grieves his grandfather by his adoption of revolutionary political views.__NEWL__Volume Two Mr Allen, Richard's new tutor, tricks him into deceiving his ailing grandfather.__NEWL__Richard is tormented by the coquettishness of Dorothy.__NEWL__At Richard's eighteenth birthday party, he learns that she is to go to England.__NEWL__Volume Three With the third volume, the main action of the novel begins.__NEWL__Through the scheming of Grafton Carvel and Mr Allen, Richard fights a duel with Lord Comyn.__NEWL__He is wounded, but becomes fast friends with the lord.__NEWL__His grandfather learns that his political opinions are unchanged but forgives him, partly through the intercession of Colonel Washington.__NEWL__After his recovery, Richard is attacked on the road and kidnapped.__NEWL__He is taken aboard a pirate ship, the Black Moll.__NEWL__There is a fight with a brigantine, in which the pirate ship sinks.__NEWL__Volume Four__NEWL__In the fourth volume, the protagonist continues to meet with sudden reversals of fortune.__NEWL__Richard is rescued and befriended by the captain of the brigantine, John Paul, who is sailing to Solway.__NEWL__In Scotland, John Paul is shunned, and vows to turn his back on his country.__NEWL__They take a post chaise to London, and in Windsor meet Horace Walpole.__NEWL__In London they are imprisoned in a sponging-house, from where they are rescued by Lord Comyn and Dorothy.__NEWL__Volume Five Volumes five and six are set in London, where the glamor and corruption of fashionable society forms a contrast with the plain and honest values of the emerging republic, embodied in the protagonist.__NEWL__Richard is introduced to London society, where Dorothy is an admired beauty.__NEWL__He makes friends with Charles James Fox and incurs the enmity of the Duke of Chartersea.__NEWL__Richard declares his love to Dorothy but is rejected.__NEWL__Volume Six  Richard risks his life in a wager but survives against the odds.__NEWL__He visits the House of Commons, and hears Edmund Burke and Fox speak.__NEWL__At Vauxhall Gardens he is tricked into a duel with the Duke, while Lord Comyn is injured saving him from a second assailant.__NEWL__Later he hears that his grandfather has died, and that his uncle Grafton has inherited the estate, leaving him penniless.__NEWL__Volume Seven Richard returns to America, where he learns his grandfather had believed him dead.__NEWL__Rejecting Grafton's overtures, he accepts a place as Mr Swain's factor, and for the next few years faithfully tends the Swain estate, Gordon's Pride.__NEWL__In 1774, the discontent among the colonists begins to escalate.__NEWL__Volume Eight__NEWL__The final volume sees the dual, interlinked fruition of the two principal aspects of the novel: the political and the romantic.__NEWL__With the coming of war, Richard sets out to fight for his country.__NEWL__He meets John Paul, now calling himself John Paul Jones, and plans to join the nascent American navy.__NEWL__The early years of the war are represented by a summary by Daniel Clapsaddle Carvel, and Richard's narrative resumes at the start of the North Sea action between the Bonhomme Richard, captained by Jones, and the Serapis.__NEWL__Richard is severely wounded, and Jones arranges for him to be nursed by Dorothy.__NEWL__The end of the book sees Richard back in Maryland as master of Carvel Hall, married to his childhood sweetheart.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q432408	Virals	2010-11-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	31540658	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31540658	Tory and her friends, Hiram (mostly known as Hi), Ben, and Shelton, find a rusted dog tag dating from the Vietnam War era on Loggerhead Island; trying to identify its owner leads them to an unsolved murder and infection by an experimental virus that gives them special powers, which they describe as "flaring".__NEWL__Their powers include super strength, speed and senses.__NEWL__They acquire the infection while saving a wolfdog being used for illegal experiments by Dr. Karsten, who was funded by a company which belongs to Chance Claybourne's Dad.__NEWL__Meanwhile, they discover a skeleton, which proves to be that of the daughter of the owner of the dog-tag.__NEWL__Someone shoots at them, forcing them to run.__NEWL__They manage to escape, but the next time they visit (with their parents and a police officer), the skeleton has been replaced with monkey bones.__NEWL__They are called 'over imaginative children' and the police leave it at that.__NEWL__Being curious, Tory and her friends want to find out who committed the murder; using their powers, they crack the case.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4658727	A Patchwork Planet	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5092	Baltimore	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1189115	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189115	The novel is narrated by 30-year-old Barnaby, whose life has gone off the rails since he was caught robbing neighborhood homes as an adolescent.__NEWL__To the despair of his distant father, his social climbing mother, his chilly ex-wife and his prematurely patriarchal brother, Barnaby now works for a company called Rent-a-Back, doing odd jobs for elderly clients.__NEWL__He also waits, without much hope, for a visitation from the Gaitlin angel, who first suggested to Barnaby's great-grandfather the invention of the wooden dress form that made the Gaitlins rich.__NEWL__He finds his angel but perhaps not where he expects.__NEWL__He believes his angel was 36-year-old Sophia Maynard.__NEWL__Barnaby first sees Sophia on the train, while he is going to see his 9 year old daughter in Philadelphia, and Sophia is going to visit her mother.__NEWL__While he is in Philadelphia, his ex-wife told him he was not allowed to see their daughter anymore.__NEWL__The next week, he went back.__NEWL__Sophia was on the train again, and he is able to tell her about his job at Rent-a-Back, and she tells him about her job at the bank.__NEWL__They also discuss Opal, Barnaby's daughter, and Sophia agrees he should see her, and that Opal would want to continue to see her daddy.__NEWL__Later, Sophia contacts Barnaby's employer.__NEWL__She claims her aunt needs help working, and she needs Barnaby to help.__NEWL__Although, Barnaby's friend who is working with him, claims that Sophia hangs around while they are working, hoping Barnaby will ask her out.__NEWL__He finally does and she accepts.__NEWL__After a few months, Barnaby introduces Sophia to his family, and later Sophia introduces Barnaby to her mother.__NEWL__That summer, Barnaby introduces Sophia to his daughter, who has come to visit for a week.__NEWL__Opal says she likes Sophia, but by fall, when Opal sees Sophia's name on her Birthday card, she realizes that they are dating.__NEWL__While Barnaby and Opal are going to eat lunch, and they spot Opal's mother.__NEWL__Opal takes her stuffed Hedgehog from her father, and asks her mother to take her home.__NEWL__The novel traces the lead characters development towards maturity as he is influenced by his family and employers.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1114675	Whirlwind	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q794	Iran	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q794	Iran	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1174475	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1174475	Gavallan, based in Scotland, runs S-G Helicopter company operating in Iran during the Shah's reign.__NEWL__When Khomeini comes to power, Gavallan must get his pilots and their families, and his valuable helicopters, and the spare parts for the helicopters (of equal or greater value than the aircraft) out of the riot-torn country.__NEWL__Complicating matters is his power struggle with his company's secret owner, the Noble House of Hong Kong.__NEWL__The pilots' escape efforts form the basic story and the action sweeps across many lives: lovers, spies, fanatics, revolutionaries, friends and betrayers.__NEWL__British, Finnish, American, Canadian, Australian and Iranian are all caught up in a deadly religious and political upheaval, portraying the chilling and bewildering encounters when Westernized lifestyle clashes with harsh ancient traditions.__NEWL__Aircraft used by S-G Helicopters throughout the story include the Bell 212, Bell 206, and Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopters and the British Aerospace BAe 125 business jet.__NEWL__The settings for the story are the western and southwestern parts of Iran, as well as neighboring Persian Gulf states, Turkey to Lake Van, and the environs of Aberdeen, Scotland.__NEWL__Actual locations within Iran include Tehran (including Qasr Prison, Evin Prison, Galeg Morghi, and Doshan Tappeh Air Base), Tabriz, Qazvin, Mount Sabalan, the Zagros Mountains, Lengeh, Bandar Delam, Siri, the Dez Dam and Kharg island.__NEWL__Fictional locations include the city of Kowiss, Yazdek village and the safe haven emirate of Al-Shargaz, meaning protector.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7723100	The Circus of Dr. Lao							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1189697	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189697	The novel is set in the fictional town of Abalone, Arizona.__NEWL__A circus owned by a Chinese man named Dr. Lao pulls into town one day, carrying legendary creatures from all areas of mythology and legend, among them a sea serpent, Apollonius of Tyana (who tells dark, yet always truthful, fortunes), a medusa, and a satyr.__NEWL__Through interactions with the circus, the locals attain various enigmatic peak experiences appropriate to each one's personality.__NEWL__The tale ends with the town becoming the site of a ritual to a pagan god whimsically given the name Yottle, possibly an allusion to the Mesoamerican god Yaotl, whose name means "the enemy".__NEWL__The ritual ends when the god himself slays a virgin, her unrequited lover, and his own priest.__NEWL__The circus over, the townsfolk scatter to the winds.__NEWL__Apparently few of them profit from the surreal experiences.__NEWL__The book's appendix is a "catalogue" of all the people, places, items, and mythological beings mentioned in the novel, summing up the characters pithily and sardonically, revealing the various fates of the townsfolk, and listing a number of plot holes and unanswered questions not addressed in the book.__NEWL__List of Dr. Lao's captured animals:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6422285	Knight Templar	1930-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1142991	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1142991	The novel, a direct sequel to its predecessor, The Last Hero sees Templar and his organization taking revenge on an arms dealer named Rayt Marius, following the death of one of Templar's friends.__NEWL__The book starts approximately three months after the events of The Last Hero.__NEWL__Simon Templar and his associate, Roger Conway, have been spending much of that time chasing Marius and his superior, Prince Rudolf (Crown Prince of an unidentified country) across Europe.__NEWL__Templar suspects that Marius and Rudolf are planning to follow through with their scheme to spark a new World War (continuing from The Last Hero), and in any event, Templar has sworn to kill whichever of the two men murdered his friend Norman Kent at the close of the previous adventure.__NEWL__Although Templar had been forced to flee England at the end of the previous novel, he has since found himself back in Britain and again on the trail of Marius.__NEWL__While executing a scheme to root Marius out from hiding by infiltrating a bogus nursing home, Templar and Conway rescue who they initially think is an elderly man held prisoner by one of Marius's compatriots; Templar soon discovers that they've actually rescued the beautiful daughter of a millionaire upon whose safety relies world peace.__NEWL__The woman, Sonia Delmar, subsequently joins Templar's fight against Marius (who Templar learns is the man who killed Norman) and Prince Rudolf, even going so far as to allowing herself to be kidnapped by the villains.__NEWL__Templar is said to be 29 years old in this tale.__NEWL__In this book, Sonia Delmar becomes the romantic female lead, replacing Templar's girlfriend of the previous books, Patricia Holm, who is referenced only briefly in the story as being on a cruise in the Mediterranean (this same excuse was used by Charteris to remove the character from much of the action in Enter the Saint as well).__NEWL__This was the first book to indicate the "open" nature of Templar and Holm's relationship, although in this case Templar makes clear that his heart remains with Holm.__NEWL__The final chapter of the book contains a somewhat metafictional reference in that Templar indicates his intent to give his notes regarding the Marius affair to "a writer friend" with the idea of his turning them into a novel—a reference to Leslie Charteris himself.__NEWL__(This same literary device has also been employed by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes books and Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel You Only Live Twice.)__NEWL__And finally, perhaps in a nod to the developing continuity of the "series", Charteris brings Detective-Inspector Carn (MEET THE TIGER) back for a brief reunion with Templar at the climax.__NEWL__A later Saint novel, Getaway, completed the trilogy begun by The Last Hero and Knight Templar.__NEWL__The ultimate fate of Rayt Marius would be revealed in the novella "The Simon Templar Foundation" in The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10483376	A Little Princess	1905-01-01T00:00:00Z	146	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1164368	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164368	Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, has been raising his only child, Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army.__NEWL__Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for their children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England.__NEWL__The Captain enrolls his seven-year-old daughter at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London and dotes on his daughter so much that he orders and pays the headmistress for special treatment and exceptional luxuries for Sara, such as a private room for her with a personal maid and a separate sitting room (see Parlour boarder), along with Sara's own private carriage and a pony.__NEWL__Miss Minchin openly fawns over Sara for her money, but is secretly bitter toward her for her wealth.__NEWL__In spite of said wealth, Sara is not self-centered, rude, disobedient, or snobbish, but kind, generous, and compassionate.__NEWL__She extends her friendship to Ermengarde St. John, the school dunce; to Lottie, a four-year-old pupil given to tantrums; and to Becky, the lowly, stunted scullery maid.__NEWL__When Sara acquires the epithet "princess", she embraces its favorable elements in her natural kindheartedness.__NEWL__After some time, Sara's eleventh birthday is celebrated at Miss Minchin's with a lavish party, attended by all her friends and classmates.__NEWL__Just as it ends, Miss Minchin learns of Captain Crewe's unfortunate demise due to jungle fever.__NEWL__Furthermore, prior to his death, the previously wealthy captain had lost his entire fortune; a close friend from his schoolboy days had persuaded him to cash in his investments and deposit the proceeds to develop a network of diamond mines.__NEWL__The scheme fails, and the preteen Sara is left an orphan and a pauper, with no other family and nowhere to go.__NEWL__Miss Minchin is left with a sizable unpaid bill for Sara's school fees and luxuries, including her birthday party.__NEWL__Infuriated and pitiless, she takes away all of Sara's possessions (except for some old frocks and her doll, Emily), makes her live in a cold and poorly furnished attic, and forces her to earn her keep by working as a servant.__NEWL__She also forces Sara to wear frocks much too short for her, with her thin legs peeking out of the brief skirts.__NEWL__For the next two years, Sara is abused by Miss Minchin and the other servants, while Becky is very nice to her.__NEWL__Miss Minchin's kind younger sister, Amelia, deplores the way that Sara is treated, but is too weak-willed to speak up about it.__NEWL__Sara is starved, worked for long hours, sent out in all kinds of weather, poorly dressed in outgrown and worn-out clothes, and deprived of warmth or a comfortable bed in the attic.__NEWL__Despite her hardships, Sara is consoled by her friends and uses her imagination to cope, pretending she is a prisoner in the Bastille or a princess disguised as a servant.__NEWL__Sara also continues to be kind to everyone, including those who find her annoying or mistreat her.__NEWL__One day, she finds a coin in the street and uses it to buy buns at a bakery; despite being very hungry, she gives most of the buns away to a beggar girl who is hungrier than herself.__NEWL__The bakery shop owner sees this and wants to reward Sara, but she has disappeared, so the shop owner instead gives the beggar girl bread and warm shelter for Sara's sake.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Mr. Carrisford and his Indian assistant, Ram Dass, have moved into the house next door to Miss Minchin's school.__NEWL__Carrisford had been Captain Crewe's friend and partner in the diamond mines.__NEWL__After the diamond mine venture failed, both Crewe and Carrisford became very ill, and Carrisford in his delirium abandoned his good childhood friend Crewe, who died of his "brain fever".__NEWL__As it turned out, the diamond mines did not fail, but instead were a great success, making Carrisford extremely rich.__NEWL__Although Carrisford survived, he suffers from several ailments and is guilt-ridden over abandoning his friend.__NEWL__He is determined to find Crewe's young daughter and heiress, although he does not know where she is and thinks she is attending school in France, as her late mother was a Frenchwoman.__NEWL__Ram Dass befriends Sara when his pet monkey escapes into Sara's adjoining attic.__NEWL__After climbing over the roof to Sara's room to get the monkey, Ram Dass tells Carrisford about Sara's poor living conditions.__NEWL__As a pleasant distraction, Carrisford and Ram Dass buy warm blankets, comfortable furniture, food, and other gifts, and secretly leave them in Sara's room when she is asleep or out.__NEWL__Sara's spirits and health improve due to the gifts she receives from her mysterious benefactor, whose identity she does not know; nor are Ram Dass and Carrisford aware that Sara is Crewe's lost daughter.__NEWL__When Carrisford anonymously sends Sara a package of new, well-made, and expensive clothing in her proper size, Miss Minchin becomes quite alarmed, thinking Sara might have a wealthy relative secretly looking out for her, and begins to treat Sara better and allows her to attend classes rather than doing menial work.__NEWL__One night, the monkey again runs away to Sara's room, and Sara visits Carrisford's house the next morning to return him.__NEWL__When Sara casually mentions that she was born in India, Carrisford and his solicitor question her and discover that she is Captain Crewe's daughter, for whom they have been searching for two years.__NEWL__Sara also learns that Carrisford was her father's childhood friend and her own anonymous benefactor and that the diamond mines have produced great riches, of which she will now own her late father's share.__NEWL__When Miss Minchin angrily appears to collect Sara, she is informed that Sara will be living with Carrisford from now on and her entire fortune has been restored and increased tenfold.__NEWL__Upon finding this out, Miss Minchin unsuccessfully tries to persuade Sara into returning to her school as a star pupil.__NEWL__She then threatens to keep Sara from ever seeing her school friends again, but Carrisford and his solicitor tell Miss Minchin that Sara will see anyone she wishes to see and that her friends' parents are not likely to refuse invitations from an heiress of diamond mines.__NEWL__Miss Minchin goes home, where she is surprised when Amelia finally stands up to her.__NEWL__Amelia has a breakdown afterward, but she is on the road to gaining more respect.__NEWL__Sara invites Becky to live with her and be her personal maid, in much better living conditions than at Miss Minchin's.__NEWL__Carrisford becomes a friend and father figure to Sara and quickly regains his health.__NEWL__Finally, Sara—accompanied by Becky—pays a visit to the bakery where she bought the buns, making a deal with the owner to cover the bills for bread for any hungry child.__NEWL__They find that the beggar girl (now named Ann), who was saved from starvation by Sara's selfless act, is now the bakery owner's assistant, with good food, clothing, shelter, and steady employment.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7142911	Past Mortem	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1172899	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172899	When Adam Bishop, a middle-aged self-made man in the building trade, is cruelly murdered at his London home, Detective Inspector Ed Newson has a hunch that the crime has been committed by a psychopath who has killed before.__NEWL__He links up the new case with a number of older, unsolved ones, and a certain pattern emerges: It turns out that each victim was a bully many years ago when they went to school, and that they have now been killed in exactly the same way as they used to torture their peers.__NEWL__However, when Newson and Sergeant Natasha Wilkie talk to the former victims they soon find out that none of them could be the serial killer.__NEWL__Although successful in his job, when it comes to his private life Edward Newson is a lonely, sex-starved man secretly in love with his assistant, Natasha.__NEWL__Now in his mid-thirties, he nostalgically looks back at his school days and the two girls with whom he was romantically involved when they were all 14—Helen Smart, the leftist intellectual, and Christine Copperfield, the "golden girl".__NEWL__Newson cannot resist the temptation and logs on to Friends Reunited.__NEWL__To his surprise, more of his former classmates than he would have thought are also online, and soon a class reunion is being organised—by Christine Copperfield, of all people.__NEWL__This is the point where Newson's private life collides with his murder investigation.__NEWL__The serial killer uses the same web site—Friends Reunited—as the source of his knowledge about instances of bullying that happened decades ago.__NEWL__When Helen Smart posts a long account of how back at school she was forced by Christine Copperfield to stuff a tampon down her throat the murderer is supplied with one more story on which he or she might act.__NEWL__Christine Copperfield dies with a tampon stuffed down her throat.__NEWL__In the tradition of the whodunnit, while new murders are committed, the identity of the killer remains unknown until the final pages of the novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q75840	And Quiet Flows the Don	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2305208	Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2305208	Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15180	Soviet Union	1173252	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1173252	The novel deals with the life of the Cossacks living in the Don River valley during the early 20th century, starting around 1912, just prior to World War I.__NEWL__The plot revolves around the Melekhov family of Tatarsk, who are descendants of a Cossack who, to the horror of many, took a Turkish captive as a wife during the Crimean War.__NEWL__She is accused of witchcraft by Melekhov's superstitious neighbors, who attempt to kill her but are fought off by her husband.__NEWL__Their descendants, the son and grandsons, who are the protagonists of the story, are therefore often nicknamed "Turks".__NEWL__Nevertheless, they command a high level of respect among people in Tatarsk.__NEWL__The second eldest son, Grigory Panteleevich Melekhov, is a promising young soldier who falls in love with Aksinia, the wife of Stepan Astakhov, a family friend.__NEWL__Stepan regularly beats her and there is no love between them.__NEWL__Grigory and Aksinia's romance and elopement raise a feud between her husband and his family.__NEWL__The outcome of this romance is the focus of the plot as well as the impending World and Civil Wars which draw the best young Cossack men into what will be two of Russia's bloodiest wars.__NEWL__The action moves to the Austro-Hungarian front, where Grigory ends up saving Stepan's life, but that doesn't end the feud.__NEWL__Grigory, at his father's insistence, takes a wife, Natalya, but still loves Aksinia.__NEWL__Grigory takes part in the Civil War, changing sides four times (Red to White to Red to White to indifferent).__NEWL__Many of his friends and relatives are killed in action or executed by both the Reds and Whites.__NEWL__Natalya dies after a failed amateur abortion, leaving Grigory with two small children who are eventually cared for by Aksinia.__NEWL__This does not prevent Grigory and Aksinia from trying a final escape alone together, but she is killed by a stray bullet during a fight with Red troops.__NEWL__Grief-stricken, Grigory buries her and returns home, with his prospects unclear.__NEWL__The book deals not only with the struggles and suffering of the Cossacks but also the landscape itself, which is vividly brought to life.__NEWL__ There are also many folk songs referenced throughout the novel.__NEWL__ And Quiet Flows the Don grew out of an earlier, unpublished work, the Donshina:I began the novel by describing the event of the Kornilov putsch in 1917.__NEWL__Then it became clear that this putsch, and more importantly, the role of the Cossacks in these events, would not be understood without a Cossack prehistory, and so I began with the description of the life of the Don Cossacks just before the beginning of World War I. (quote from M.A. Sholokhov: Seminarii, (1962) by F.A. Abramovic and V.V. Gura, quoted in Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, by L.L. Litus.)__NEWL__Protagonist Grigory Melekhov is reportedly based on two Cossacks from Veshenskaya, Pavel Nazarovich Kudinov and Kharlampii Vasilyevich Yermakov, who were key figures in the anti-Bolshevist struggle of the upper Don.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3821351	True History of the Kelly Gang	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	1164887	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164887	Ned Kelly begins his autobiography with a description of his father, John "Red" Kelly, an Irishman transported to Van Diemen's Land and eventually settling in the colony of Victoria, Australia.__NEWL__After marrying Ned's mother Ellen (née Quinn), the Kellys settle in Avenel, a rural area northeast of Melbourne.__NEWL__Red Kelly is shown to have numerous brushes with the colonial police forces, resulting in his imprisonment and death when his son Ned was twelve years of age.__NEWL__After the rest of the family resettles in northeast Victoria under the Land Grant Act, Ned's mother attempts to provide for her children by running a shebeen and taking on a series of lovers, including the notorious bushranger Harry Power.__NEWL__Power agrees to take on the young Ned as an apprentice, and provides Ned with knowledge of the land, hideouts, and strategies for bushranging.__NEWL__Kelly eventually leaves Power and returns to his family's settlement, where he is shown making dogged attempts to live an honest lifestyle.__NEWL__Kelly is arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for the reception of a stolen horse (although Kelly claims that a friend, "Wild" Wright, knowingly sold him the stolen horse without Kelly's knowledge – Kelly later exacts revenge on Wright in a bare-knuckle boxing match).__NEWL__After two years of working as a sawmill hand, he is drawn back to bushranging when a herd of his horses is appropriated by a rival squatter.__NEWL__His descent back into crime is precipitated by a visit from a local police officer, Constable Alex Fitzpatrick.__NEWL__The policeman woos Ned's younger sister, Kate, prompting Ned to reveal that Fitzpatrick has multiple mistresses in other towns and has no intention of marrying Kate.__NEWL__After his mother Ellen threatens the constable with violence, Fitzpatrick pulls his revolver on the family and Ned shoots him in the hand in self-defense.__NEWL__Although he dresses the wound and Fitzpatrick leaves while promising that no action will be taken, warrants for the arrest of Ned and his younger brother Dan are issued the next day.__NEWL__Ned Kelly and his brother Dan hide out in the hills of northeast Victoria, eventually being joined by their friends Steve Hart and Joe Byrne (later becoming known as the Kelly Gang).__NEWL__Kelly's mother is eventually arrested along with her baby daughter and imprisoned in Melbourne as an enticement for Kelly to give himself up.__NEWL__A detachment of four policemen is eventually sent to kill the quartet after efforts to arrest them prove unsuccessful; the Kelly Gang ambushes them at Stringybark Creek, where Ned kills three of the policemen.__NEWL__This adds to the growing folklore surrounding the Kelly Gang, which they fuel by robbing banks and giving parts of the money to the lower-class settlers in Victoria who help to shelter the gang.__NEWL__During the gang's raids, Ned Kelly meets a young Irish girl named Mary Hearn, who already has a young son by Kelly's stepfather, George King.__NEWL__Kelly falls in love with Mary and makes plans to escape the colony with her after she becomes pregnant with his child.__NEWL__Crucially, it is Mary who motivates Kelly to begin writing the story of his life as a legacy for his future child, who she fears will never know its father.__NEWL__Following two successful bank robberies, Mary uses the money to emigrate to San Francisco with her son and Kelly's unborn daughter; Kelly remains behind, however, unwilling to leave Australia until his mother is released from jail.__NEWL__The gang is eventually cornered by a large squad of dozens of policemen (versus just four in the Kelly Gang) in the town of Glenrowan where the gang has taken numerous hostages and constructed several suits of plate-steel armor for protection.__NEWL__One of the hostages is the crippled local schoolmaster, Thomas Curnow, who encourages Kelly to relate the story of his entire life after seeing samples of his writing.__NEWL__Curnow betrays the gang by warning the incoming police train that the gang has sabotaged the tracks, feeling that history will view him as a "hero".__NEWL__The policemen surround the town and engage in a furious shootout with the armor-clad gang, seriously wounding Ned Kelly and killing the other three members of the gang.__NEWL__Kelly's narrative stops abruptly just before the shootout itself; a secondary narrator, identified as "S.C", relates the tale of the gunfight and Kelly's death by hanging.__NEWL__Since Curnow is shown to have escaped Glenrowan with Kelly's manuscripts, it is assumed that this narrator is a relative of Curnow's.__NEWL__Kelly dies a hero to the people of northeastern Victoria, with the legend of his life left to grow over time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q972714	The Magician	1908-01-01T00:00:00Z	14257					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1177458	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1177458	Arthur Burdon, a renowned English surgeon, is visiting Paris to see his fiancée, Margaret Dauncey.__NEWL__Margaret is studying art in a Parisian school, along with her friend Susie Boyd.__NEWL__On his first evening in Paris, Burdon meets Oliver Haddo, who claims to be a magician and is an acquaintance of Burdon's mentor, the retired doctor and occult scholar Dr. Porhoët.__NEWL__While none of the company initially believe Haddo's claims, Haddo performs several feats of magic for them over the following days.__NEWL__Arthur eventually fights with Haddo, after the magician kicks Margaret's dog.__NEWL__In revenge, Haddo uses both his personality and his magic to seduce Margaret, despite her initial revulsion towards him.__NEWL__They get married and run away from Paris, leaving merely a note to inform Arthur, Susie and Porhoët.__NEWL__Arthur is distraught at the abandonment and promptly returns to England to immerse himself in his work.__NEWL__By this time Susie has fallen in love with Arthur, although she realises that this love will never be returned, and she goes away to Italy with a friend.__NEWL__During her travels, Susie hears much about the new Mr. and Mrs. Haddo, including a rumour that their marriage has not been consummated.__NEWL__When she eventually returns to England, she meets up with Arthur and they go to a dinner party held by a mutual acquaintance.__NEWL__To their horror, the Haddos are at this dinner party, and Oliver takes great delight in gloating at Arthur's distress.__NEWL__The next day, Arthur goes to the hotel at which Margaret is staying, and whisks her away to a house in the country.__NEWL__Although she files for divorce from Haddo, his influence on her proves too strong, and she ends up returning to him.__NEWL__Feeling that this influence must be supernatural, Susie returns to France to consult with Dr Porhoët on a possible solution.__NEWL__Several weeks later, Arthur joins them in Paris and reveals that he visited Margaret at Haddo's home and that she suggested her life was threatened by her new husband.__NEWL__She implies that Haddo is only waiting for the right time to perform a magical ritual, which will involve the sacrifice of her life.__NEWL__Arthur travels to Paris to ask for Porhoët's advice.__NEWL__A week later, Arthur has an overwhelming feeling that Margaret's life is in danger, and all three rush back to England.__NEWL__When they arrive at Skene, Haddo's ancestral home in the village of Venning, they are told by the local innkeeper that Margaret has died of a heart attack.__NEWL__Believing that Haddo has murdered her, Arthur confronts first the local doctor and then Haddo himself with his suspicions.__NEWL__Searching for proof of foul play, Arthur persuades Porhoët to raise Margaret's ghost from the dead, which proves to them that she was murdered.__NEWL__Eventually, Haddo uses his magic to appear in their room at the local inn, where Arthur kills him.__NEWL__However, when the light is turned on Haddo's body has disappeared.__NEWL__The trio visit Haddo's abandoned home to find that he has used his magic to create life – hideous creatures living in tubes – and that this is the purpose for which he sacrificed Margaret's life.__NEWL__After finding the magician's dead body in his attic, Arthur sets fire to the manor to destroy all evidence of Haddo's occult experiments.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5975940	I Am Charlotte Simmons	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1184662	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1184662	I Am Charlotte Simmons is the story of college student Charlotte Simmons's first semester-and-a-half at the prestigious Dupont University.__NEWL__A high school graduate from a poverty-stricken rural town, her intelligence and hard work at school have been rewarded with a full scholarship to Dupont.__NEWL__As Charlotte prepares to say goodbye to her family and leave for college, an event happens at Dupont that will play an important role in her future.__NEWL__Hoyt Thorpe, member of the exclusive and powerful fraternity Saint Ray, and fellow frat brother Vance, stumble upon an unnamed California Republican governor (who was at the college to speak at the school's commencement ceremony) receiving oral sex from a female college student.__NEWL__When the governor's bodyguard spots the two fraternity members, a fight ensues with Hoyt and Vance beating up the bodyguard and fleeing.__NEWL__The story of the night soon spreads across campus, increasing Hoyt's popularity.__NEWL__Charlotte arrives at Dupont in the fall.__NEWL__Her roommate is wealthy Beverly, the daughter of the CEO of a huge multinational insurance company.__NEWL__She is obsessed with sex, in particular with members of the school's lacrosse team.__NEWL__Jojo Johanssen is a white athlete on the college's predominantly black basketball team.__NEWL__He is struggling to keep his position because the school recently recruited an up-and-coming black freshman player, and the coach wants to bench Jojo in his senior year.__NEWL__This would severely hurt Jojo's chances of playing in "the league" (the NBA).__NEWL__Jojo enjoys the spoils of being a college athlete, such as using a tutor program to force other students to complete his school assignments.__NEWL__Jojo's "tutor" Adam Gellin is, like Charlotte, from a working-class background.__NEWL__Adam writes for the college's independent newspaper and is a member of the "Millennial Mutants," a group of like-minded intellectuals who oppose the anti-intellectualism and class snobbery they see in their fellow students.__NEWL__Charlotte and Adam first meet at the university's computer lab, where Adam is to write a paper for Jojo.__NEWL__Charlotte does not back down when Adam insists that he needs the computer more than she does.__NEWL__Adam is instantly smitten.__NEWL__Charlotte finds herself dealing with the sexual temptations of college life, culminating in her hooking up with Hoyt, who tells Charlotte of catching California's governor receiving oral sex from a college student.__NEWL__He also tells Charlotte he knows that Adam Gellin has begun investigating the incident and how, at the behest of the governor a large Wall Street firm has offered Hoyt a high-paying entry-level job in exchange for his silence.__NEWL__(The firm, Pierce & Pierce, is the name of the one that Sherman McCoy works for in Wolfe's earlier novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities.)__NEWL__Hoyt and Charlotte attend an important fraternity formal together, after which Hoyt takes full advantage of a drunken Charlotte, seducing her into giving up her virginity to him.__NEWL__The following morning, Charlotte is dumped by Hoyt.__NEWL__She is further humiliated when she returns to campus and discovers that Hoyt's seduction and rejection has been made public via two girls Charlotte had previously befriended.__NEWL__The two cruelly mock Charlotte, both over her poverty-stricken background, and for how she drunkenly lost her virginity.__NEWL__This drives Charlotte into a depression and eventually into the arms of Adam, who has wanted Charlotte for her beauty, innocence, and intellect since they first met.__NEWL__Charlotte finally emerges from her depression but finds that she has received terrible grades (B, B−, C−, D) for her first semester at Dupont.__NEWL__As Adam prepares to publish his article, his world collides with Jojo Johanssen's when a paper that Adam wrote for the athlete is accused of being plagiarized.__NEWL__Jojo, who treats Adam as beneath him socially, denies the plagiarism charge and protects the athletic department's perversion of the athlete/tutor program from being exposed.__NEWL__Jojo has begun to transform himself academically from a stereotypical "dumb jock" into a student who takes his academics seriously and even develops an interest in philosophy (partly as a result of Charlotte's influence).__NEWL__Jerome Quat, Jojo's professor, confronts Adam about the plagiarized paper and shows sympathy toward him in a college dominated by students obsessed with sports and sex.__NEWL__However, when Adam confesses to having written the paper for Jojo, the professor double-crosses him.__NEWL__He will sacrifice Adam in order to bring down the basketball program, which has circled the wagons to protect Jojo.__NEWL__This devastates Adam, who breaks down and needs Charlotte to take care of him as he waits to be formally charged with cheating.__NEWL__In the meantime, Adam's article on "The Night of the Skullfuck" is published.__NEWL__The sordid details of sex, violence, bribery, and a high-profile political figure cause it to be picked up by the national media.__NEWL__The governor's Presidential ambitions are potentially ruined, and the job offer/bribe made to Hoyt is revoked, effectively shattering Hoyt's life.__NEWL__Hoyt now faces a post-graduation judgment day, with his family's life savings exhausted in order to pay for his college education, and a college transcript with such bad grades that will effectively keep him from getting a job as an investment banker.__NEWL__Jojo's and Adam's necks are saved, as the liberal college professor decides to drop the entire plagiarism complaint so as to avoid undercutting Adam's credibility in destroying the conservative governor's political career.__NEWL__Adam's self-esteem restored, he begins to bask in the glow as the student who brought down a governor.__NEWL__Adam and Charlotte drift apart and she begins to date Jojo, who keeps his position as a starter on the team, in fact becoming a far better player due to Charlotte's influence and his decision to cultivate his mind.__NEWL__Charlotte ascends to the envied position of girlfriend of a star athlete.__NEWL__One scene at the end has Charlotte in Jojo's Large SUV when 2 of the sorority girls that previously mocked her pull up to say hi to Jojo and see Charlotte in the car and say hi like they are old friends.__NEWL__Later one of them invites Charlotte to join their sorority-when Charlotte says she doesn't have money for that she hints that something can be worked out.__NEWL__Charlotte now reflects upon her first semester with a different view, looking down at her former friends, who gleefully gossiped about her humiliation, and at Hoyt, who casually threw her away.__NEWL__She no longer feels intellectualism is what is most important to her — rather it is being a person recognized as special, regardless of the reason.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q239725	Black House			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537	Wisconsin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1145369	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1145369	A series of murders has begun to plague the town of French Landing, Wisconsin.__NEWL__The murderer is dubbed "The Fisherman", due to a conscious effort by the killer to emulate the methods of serial killer Albert Fish.__NEWL__Like Fish, French Landing's killer targets children and indulges in cannibalism of the bodies.__NEWL__Two victims have already been discovered as the story opens, with a third awaiting discovery.__NEWL__The nature of the crimes, and the local police's inability to capture the killer, have led people all over the region to become more anxious with each passing day, and certain elements of the local media exacerbate the situation with inflammatory and provocative coverage.__NEWL__After the events of The Talisman, Jack Sawyer has repressed the memories of his adventures in The Territories and his hunt for the Talisman as a twelve-year-old boy, though the residue of these events has served to subtly affect his life even after he has forgotten them.__NEWL__Jack grew up to become a lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, where his professionalism and uncanny talent have helped him establish a nearly legendary reputation.__NEWL__When a series of murders in Los Angeles are traced to a farm insurance salesman from French Landing, Wisconsin, Jack cooperates with the French Landing police to capture the killer.__NEWL__While in Wisconsin, Jack is irresistibly enraptured by the natural beauty of the Coulee Country, echoing his reaction to The Territories as a child.__NEWL__When he later intrudes upon a homicide investigation in Santa Monica, certain aspects of the crime scene threaten to revive his repressed memories.__NEWL__He subsequently resigns from the LAPD, and he moves to French Landing to enjoy his early retirement.__NEWL__When the Fisherman begins to terrorize French Landing, the police all but beg "Hollywood" Jack Sawyer for his assistance and are surprised when he flatly refuses.__NEWL__Memories of the Santa Monica event threaten to overwhelm Jack, and he fears that involving himself in the investigation may break his sanity.__NEWL__When a fourth child is taken by the Fisherman, events no longer allow Jack to remain aloof.__NEWL__It quickly becomes apparent to him that the Fisherman is much more than a serial killer.__NEWL__In fact, he is an agent of the Crimson King, and his task is to find children with the potential to serve as Breakers.__NEWL__The fourth victim, Tyler Marshall, is one of the most powerful Breakers there has ever been, and he may be all the Crimson King needs to break the remaining beams of the Dark Tower and bring an end to all worlds.__NEWL__As the Fisherman also proves capable of "flipping" into The Territories, Jack Sawyer is the only hope of not just French Landing, but all existence.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3795974	The Phoenix and the Carpet	1904-01-01T00:00:00Z	836	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1149427	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149427	This is the middle volume of a trilogy that begins with Five Children and It and concludes with The Story of the Amulet.__NEWL__It deviates from the other two novels insofar as it includes only a brief mention of the Psammead, a magical creature introduced in the first volume, and depicts the five children as living with both of their parents in the family home in London.__NEWL__In the other two volumes, circumstances have forced the children to spend protracted periods away from their home and their father.__NEWL__A continuing theme throughout The Phoenix and the Carpet is the element of fire.__NEWL__ The story begins shortly before 5 November, celebrated in Britain as Guy Fawkes Night, when people build bonfires and set off fireworks.__NEWL__The four children have accumulated a small hoard of fireworks for the night, but they are too impatient to wait until 5 November to light them, so they set off a few samples in the nursery.__NEWL__This results in the fire that destroys the original carpet.__NEWL__To replace it their parents purchase a second-hand carpet, which is found to contain an egg that emits a phosphorescent glow.__NEWL__The children accidentally knock the egg into the fire, whereupon it hatches, revealing a golden talking Phoenix.__NEWL__It develops that this is a magic carpet that can transport the children anywhere they wish in the present time, although it is capable of satisfying only three wishes a day.__NEWL__Accompanied by the Phoenix, the children have exotic adventures.__NEWL__There is one moment of terror when the youngest, the baby known as the Lamb, crawls onto the carpet, babbles incoherently and vanishes, but it turns out that the Lamb only desires to be with his mother.__NEWL__At a few points in the novel, the children find themselves in predicaments from which the Phoenix is unable to rescue them by himself, so he goes to find the Psammead and has a wish granted for the children's sake.__NEWL__In addition, at the end the carpet is sent to ask the Psammead to grant the Phoenix's wish.__NEWL__These offstage incidents are the only contributions made by the Psammead to this story.__NEWL__The Phoenix and the Carpet features depictions of London during the reign of Edward VII.__NEWL__At one point, the children and their supernatural bird visit the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company: the egotistical Phoenix assumes that this is a temple dedicated to him and that the insurance executives must be his acolytes.__NEWL__The children also have an encounter with two older ruffians, Herb and Ike, who attempt to steal the Phoenix.__NEWL__Four of the children (without the Lamb) attend a Christmas pantomime at a theatre in the West End of London, smuggling the Phoenix along inside Robert's coat.__NEWL__The Phoenix is so excited by this spectacle that he unintentionally sets fire to the theatre.__NEWL__All ends well when the Phoenix magically reverses the damage: no one is harmed, and the theatre remains intact.__NEWL__One aspect of The Phoenix and the Carpet that is unusual for children's fantasy fiction is the fact that the magical companion does not treat all the children equally.__NEWL__The Phoenix favours Robert, the child who put his egg in the fire, albeit by accident, over his brother Cyril and their sisters.__NEWL__This is a mixed privilege, as Robert is lumbered with the duty of smuggling the Phoenix past their parents at inconvenient moments.__NEWL__In the novel's final chapter, the Phoenix announces that he has reached the end of his current lifespan and must begin the cycle again, apparently on the grounds that life with the children has left him far more exhausted than he would have been in the wilderness.__NEWL__He lays a new egg from which he will eventually be reborn.__NEWL__Under the Phoenix's direction, the children prepare an altar with sweet incense, upon which the Phoenix immolates himself.__NEWL__The magic carpet has also reached the end of its lifespan, as it was never intended to be walked upon regularly, and, at the request of the Phoenix, it takes the egg to a place where it won't hatch again for 2,000 years.__NEWL__There is a happy ending, with the children receiving a parcel of gifts from an "unknown benefactor" (the Phoenix, who arranges this gift by means of a wish granted by the Psammead) and Robert receiving a single golden feather.__NEWL__But the feather has vanished by the evening.__NEWL__The last volume in the trilogy, The Story of the Amulet, contains a minor episode in which the children travel thousands of years into the past and encounter the Phoenix, who does not recognise them because the events of the previous book have not happened yet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4526457	The Spire	1964-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1168927	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168927	Jocelin, the Dean of the cathedral, directs the construction of a towering spire funded by his aunt, Lady Alison, a mistress of the former King.__NEWL__The project is carried on against the advice of many, and in particular the warnings of the master builder, Roger Mason.__NEWL__The cathedral has insufficient foundations to support a spire of the magnificence demanded by Jocelin, but he believes he has been chosen by God and given a vision to erect a great spire to exalt the town and to bring its people closer to God.__NEWL__As the novel progresses, Golding explores Jocelin's growing obsession with the completion of the spire, during which he is increasingly afflicted by pain in his spine (which the reader gradually comes to realise is the result of tuberculosis).__NEWL__Jocelin interprets the burning heat in his back as an angel, alternately comforting or punishing him depending on the warmth or pain he feels.__NEWL__Jocelin's obsession blinds him to reality as he neglects his duties as Dean, fails to pray and ignores the people who need him the most.__NEWL__The pit dug to explore the foundations at the Cathedral crossing becomes a place where chthonic forces surge, as the four tower pillars begin to 'sing'.__NEWL__Jocelin also struggles with his unacknowledged lust for Goody Pangall, the wife of the crippled and impotent cathedral servant, Pangall.__NEWL__Jocelin seems at first to see Goody as his daughter in God.__NEWL__However, as the novel progresses, and Goody's husband is tormented and ridiculed as their 'fool' by the bullying workmen, Jocelin becomes tormented by sexual desire, usually triggered by the sight of Goody's red hair.__NEWL__Comparisons between Goody and Rachel, Roger Mason's wife, are made throughout the novel.__NEWL__Jocelin believes Goody sets an example to Rachel, whom he dislikes for her garrulousness and for revealing that her marriage to Roger remains unconsummated.__NEWL__However, Jocelin overestimates Goody's purity, and is horrified when he discovers Goody is embarking upon an affair with Roger Mason.__NEWL__Tortured by envy and guilt, Jocelin finds himself unable to pray.__NEWL__He is repulsed by his sexual thoughts, referred to as "the devil" during his dreams.__NEWL__The Cathedral building, its ordered life, and the lives of the people around Jocelin are disrupted because of the intractable problems arising from the construction of the spire, but Jocelin continues to drive his dream to its conclusion.__NEWL__His visions and hallucinations, hence his denial of the reality of the situation, mark his descent into irrationality.__NEWL__As the true costs, financial and spiritual, of the endeavour become apparent, the story moves to its tragic conclusion.__NEWL__Pangall disappears; although his fate is never made explicit, it is clear from the clue of the mistletoe that he was a pagan sacrifice buried at the Crossing by the builders to secure their luck against the stupidity of continuing the work.__NEWL__Goody Pangall dies in childbirth, bearing Roger Mason's child.__NEWL__Roger becomes a drunkard and at the end Jocelin dies of his illness, though only after first hearing from his aunt that his appointment was due only to her sexual influence, not to his merits.__NEWL__Before he dies, the phallic imagery of the Spire is displaced by the mysterious symbol of the tree.__NEWL__The spire is incomplete at the end of the story, and there is a growing sense of impending disaster due to the instability of the over-ambitious structure.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3400570	Cloudsplitter	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1145951	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1145951	In 1899 Owen Brown, who has spent roughly the past 30 years living in isolation, receives a visit from Miss Mayo, a young woman assisting in the research on a book on his father, John Brown.__NEWL__While Owen initially chases her off he changes his mind and decides to write her a series of letters about his experiences fighting for the abolition of slavery with his father.__NEWL__Brown recounts his early life growing up under his father's guidance, a time which is marked by hardship and loss.__NEWL__Owen loses his mother at an early age.__NEWL__Despite the fact that his father is extremely devout he chooses atheism, much to his father's displeasure.__NEWL__At a young age, while defying his father's demand that the children reflect on Sunday, Brown falls from the roof of the family home and breaks his arm, wounding himself and developing a permanent disability as a result.__NEWL__When he is a teenager his father loses everything he owns, condemning the family to a life of instability and poverty.__NEWL__A few years later when the youngest child among them, Kitty, is about a year old, she dies from severe burns caused by water spilled by Ruth, Owen's teenage sister.__NEWL__When he is 24, shortly before the family moves to North Elba, Owen solicits a prostitute the same evening as his baby sister, Ellen, dies.__NEWL__His father is beside himself and Owen believes that both the death and his father's grief are caused by his sin.__NEWL__He repents and becomes fully devoted to his father and his causes.__NEWL__The family moves to North Elba where John Brown has been given the opportunity to purchase prime farming land for a low price in exchange for helping to acclimate the families of Timbuctoo, mostly free black city folk, to a life of farming.__NEWL__To his shame Owen once again craves a life independent of his father and struggles to feel at home around black people feeling through his acquaintanceship with them a deep guilt over the legacy of slavery.__NEWL__Pressured to stay he begins to help his father with surveying work and additionally developing their homestead as a way station on the underground railroad accompanied by two black residents of Timbuctoo: Lyman Epps and Eldon Fleete.__NEWL__While most of the Brown's white neighbours are passively anti-slavery their minds change after Brown helps to free Samuel and Susan Cannon, a young couple who allegedly murdered their white owner.__NEWL__Epps and Fleete are eventually arrested on suspicion of having aided the Cannons and John Brown along with Owen and his two elder brothers forcibly rescue them from prison.__NEWL__In the ensuing battle Fleete is shot and killed while two white men, a bounty hunter and a jailer, are injured by the Browns.__NEWL__John Brown later learns the Cannons never made it to Canada.__NEWL__Dejected by this news and Fleete's death he decides to take Owen on a business trip to England.__NEWL__The English trip is disastrous as John Brown is forced to sell his wool at a low price thanks to an unfortunate error.__NEWL__Now that he is further financially ruined Owen urges his father to forget about business to focus on his true life's work: ending slavery.__NEWL__Returning home Owen and his father learn that a new law, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 has been passed.__NEWL__The act has the effect of radicalizing John Brown even further.__NEWL__In Springfield, Massachusetts, his former home and the base of his failed business, he preaches at a black church urging parishioners to choose to form a militia to defend themselves and vowing to join them.__NEWL__A small group of around 30 or so take a pledge with the Browns to use violence to protect themselves and the community from slave catchers.__NEWL__However, before the plan can be put to action, John Brown orders Owen to return to North Elba.__NEWL__Returning to the farm Owen finds himself deeply uncomfortable around both Lyman and Susan Epps.__NEWL__After Susan has a stillbirth, Lyman and she stop working for the Browns and return to Timbuctoo.__NEWL__Owen finds himself obsessing over Susan and stalks the Epps cabin.__NEWL__He first believes he is in love with Susan though later he begins to believe he is actually in love with Lyman.__NEWL__After John Brown returns to the farm Owen and Lyman resume their friendship.__NEWL__After Owen fails to confess his love to Lyman, Lyman dies in a hunting accident that Owen believes he could have prevented, blaming himself for Lyman's death.__NEWL__Shortly after Owen is tasked with his father with retrieving his brother Fred from Springfield and returning to North Elba.__NEWL__While he is there Fred reveals he has violent sexual thoughts regarding women.__NEWL__When Owen dismisses Fred's concerns Fred castrates himself.__NEWL__Owen then decides to defy his father and takes Fred to Kansas where his two older brothers, John Jr. and Jason, have settled for cheap land and to defend the abolitionist cause.__NEWL__In Kansas Owen is dispirited to realize that while the pro-slavery forces are little more than a ragtag mob the abolitionist forces constantly seek to defer to them to avoid violence.__NEWL__Owen is eventually joined by his father and several of his brothers.__NEWL__Together they seek to violently defend their abolitionist neighbours and are surprised when they are repeatedly undercut by the politicians who only seek to appease.__NEWL__Owen finally urges his father towards violence and he, along with his brothers, murder 5 pro-slavery settlers in what is to be known as the Pottawatomie massacre.__NEWL__While Owen's older brothers are disturbed by the murders and decide to leave their father, John Brown forms a small militia of men who conduct small raids and is joined by a revolving group of white men who hold anti-slavery sentiments but who for the most part are disturbed by the killing.__NEWL__A few years later in Osawatomie while outnumbered by pro-slavery forces Brown nevertheless manages to capture the entire militia.__NEWL__John Brown eventually becomes convinced he needs to raid Harpers Ferry where a large store of munitions is held believing that once word of his capture of the place becomes known he will be joined by white men who wish to abolish slavery and large contingents of slaves will be inspired to rebel and join him.__NEWL__Before the raid he has a private meeting with his friend and ally Frederick Douglass who does not endorse his plan and fears it will fail as he does not believe white men will risk their lives to free black people.__NEWL__John Brown goes forward with his plan anyway believing that Douglass will join him.__NEWL__He urges Owen to destroy his papers and then wait to meet up with any fleeing slaves.__NEWL__Owen does not burn his papers and instead watches as the raid fails as no one comes to join Brown and his militia and they are instead overwhelmed by a pro-slavery mob.__NEWL__Brown reveals that he felt free after his father's capture but further reveals to Miss Mayo that he intends to commit suicide after finally finishing his account of his life with his father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2712800	Cousin Bette	1846-01-01T00:00:00Z	1749	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	1183767	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1183767	The first third of the novel provides a lengthy exploration of the characters' histories.__NEWL__Balzac makes this clear after 150 pages: "Ici se termine, en quelque sorte, l'introduction de cette histoire."__NEWL__("Here ends what is, in a way, the introduction to this story.")__NEWL__At the start of the novel, Adeline Hulot – wife of the successful Baron Hector Hulot – is being pressured into an affair by a wealthy perfumer named Célestin Crevel.__NEWL__His desire stems in part from an earlier contest in which the adulterous Baron Hulot had won the attentions of the singer Josépha Mirah, also favored by Crevel.__NEWL__Mme.__NEWL__Hulot rejects Crevel's advances.__NEWL__The Baron has so completely lavished money on Josépha that he has borrowed heavily from his Uncle Johann – and, unable to repay the money, the Baron instead arranges a War Department post in Algeria for Johann, with instructions that Johann will be in a situation in that job to embezzle the borrowed money.__NEWL__The Hulots' daughter, Hortense, has begun searching for a husband; their son Victorin is married to Crevel's daughter Celestine.__NEWL__Mme.__NEWL__Hulot's cousin, Bette (also called Lisbeth), harbors a deep but hidden resentment of her relatives' success, especially of Hortense 'stealing' Bette's intended sweetheart.__NEWL__A peasant woman with none of the physical beauty of her cousin, Bette has rejected a series of marriage proposals from middle-class suitors who were clearly motivated by her connection to the Hulots, and remains unmarried at the age of 42.__NEWL__One day she comes upon a young unsuccessful Polish sculptor named Wenceslas Steinbock, attempting suicide in the tiny apartment upstairs from her own.__NEWL__As she nourishes him back to health, she develops a maternal (and romantic) fondness for him.__NEWL__At the beginning of the story Bette is living in a modest apartment in a lodging house shared by the Marneffe couple, both of whom are ambitious and amoral.__NEWL__Bette befriends Valérie, the young and very attractive wife of a War Department clerk, Fortin Marneffe; the two women form a bond to attain their separate goals – for Valérie the acquisition of money and valuables, for Bette the ruination of the Hulot household by means of Valérie's luring both the Baron and Steinbock into infidelity and financial ruin.__NEWL__Baron Hulot, meanwhile, is rejected by Josépha, who explains bluntly that she has chosen another man because of his larger fortune.__NEWL__Hulot's despair is quickly alleviated when he visits Bette in her lodging and there meets and falls in love with Valérie Marneffe.__NEWL__He showers her with gifts, and soon establishes a luxurious house for her and M. Marneffe, with whom he works at the War Department (Bette joins them in their new home, to serve as an excuse for the Baron's visits).__NEWL__These debts, compounded by the money he borrowed to lavish on Josépha, threaten the Hulot family's financial security.__NEWL__Panicked, he convinces his uncle Johann Fischer to quietly embezzle funds from a War Department outpost in Algiers.__NEWL__Hulot's woes are momentarily abated and Bette's happiness is shattered, when – at the end of the "introduction" – Hortense Hulot marries Wenceslas Steinbock.__NEWL__Crushed at having lost Steinbock's as her intended spouse, Bette swears vengeance on the Hulot family.__NEWL__Her strategy is to work on Baron Hulot's demonstrated weakness for acquiring and lavishing more money than he has on young mistresses.__NEWL__Soon the Baron is completely besotted – and financially over-extended – with Valérie, and completely compromised by repeatedly promoting her husband within the Baron's section of the War Department.__NEWL__Before long, Bette has already contrived to have Crevel and Steinbock also ensnared by Valérie's charms.__NEWL__Hortense discovers Steinbock's infidelity and returns to her mother's home.__NEWL__Before long, the Baron's misconduct becomes known to the War Department; Uncle Johann is arrested in Algeria and commits suicide, the Baron is forced to retire suddenly, his brother, a famous war hero, saves him from prison and then quickly dies of shame over the family disgrace.__NEWL__The Baron deserts his family and hides from his creditors.__NEWL__It appears that Valérie, soon a widow, will marry Crevel and thus gain entrance to the Hulot family as Celestine's mother-in-law.__NEWL__In short, the family is devastated by these repeated blows – and Bette's machinations are completely concealed from them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7968890	Warchild	2002-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1169626	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1169626	The story starts when eight-year-old Joslyn Musey's parents die in a vicious pirate attack on his home ship, the merchant Mukudori.__NEWL__Jos, along with a handful of the ships other children, are captured by the attackers.__NEWL__Vincenzo Marcus Falcone, an infamous pirate and captain of the "Genghis Khan", keeps Jos as his hostage, with the intention of making him a protégé.__NEWL__Falcone teaches Jos how to "win people over" with manners and cunning, and especially good looks.__NEWL__The human race, EarthHub, is at war with aliens called the striviirc-na, who are called "strits" by the Hub.__NEWL__When the pirate ship Genghis Khan docks at Chaos Station, which is located in deep space, the station is suddenly attacked by the striviiric-na.__NEWL__Jos escapes Falcone during the attack, but is shot, then captured and is taken to the alien homeworld, Aaian-na, by the Warboy, the leader of the human sympathizer movement on Aaian-na, Nikolas S'tlian.__NEWL__Jos gradually accepts his place on Aaian-na and the Warboy teaches him to be a Ka'redan, or "assassin-priest" which is the ruling caste on the planet.__NEWL__Jos is trained on Aaian-na until he is fourteen, when he is formally made a member of the Ka'redan.__NEWL__At that time, being told that the only way to end the war is through a treaty with EarthHub's most notorious spacecarrier, the Macedon, he is assigned to spy on the ship as part of its elite crew.__NEWL__Jos is taught to act like an Earthhub human and sent back to Austo Station in the Hub to join the Macedon.__NEWL__Once on the Macedon, however, he discovers that his previous distinctions between good and bad no longer apply.__NEWL__Jos battles on the Macedon, eventually encountering Evan D'Silva, one of his former friends on the Mukudori, who he rescues from a pirate ship.__NEWL__He discovers a connection between the Warboy's brother, Ash-dan, and Falcone's pirates, who have been trading weapons to the sympathizers in exchange for aid in hiding captured children.__NEWL__The novel ends with a face off between the Genghis Khan and the Macedon.__NEWL__The Macedon encounters the Genghis Khan meeting with the Warboy's brother's ship, and is boarded by the pirates.__NEWL__Jos and his unit are captured by the Khan and Jos is interrogated by Falcone.__NEWL__It is eventually revealed to his ship mates that he is spying for the Warboy.__NEWL__However, at that point, the Warboy, who had been tracking his brother, shows up with his ship, and his crew release Jos and the other prisoners and takes them to his ship.__NEWL__The Warboy's ship then helps the Macedon destroy the pirate ships, after which Macedon's Captain, Cairo Azarcon, arranges for the Warboy to dock on Chaos Station.__NEWL__Jos encounters Falcone on deck, being transported to police facilities, when Falcone attempts to escape.__NEWL__Jos then stabs Falcone to death on deck, after which he is taken back to the Macedon under Captain Azarcon's protection.__NEWL__He is made a liaison officer as Azarcon attempts to negotiate a peace treaty with the striviiric-na.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6698057	Lucky Wander Boy	2003-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1169711	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1169711	The story involves Adam Pennyman and his obsession with and attempts to catalog video games into a book called "The Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments".__NEWL__He is particularly obsessed with the fictional Japanese arcade game Lucky Wander Boy.__NEWL__While the Lucky Wander Boy game is fictional, many actual classic arcade and home video games are mentioned in the book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7620395	Story Time	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1188898	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1188898	When the school district of Whittaker Magnet School expands to cover Kate and George's duplex, they are forced to go to the frightening school, which is suspected to house a demon.__NEWL__But when the First Lady comes to visit the school, the vengeful demon causes more deaths and accidents.__NEWL__It's up to Kate and George to stop them.__NEWL__The cast of characters includes the spoiled Swiss milkmaid incarnation Heidi, her doting mother Cornelia, her brother Whit, Kate's not-so-secret unwanted admirer, who touches Kate inappropriately, and Pogo, a librarian who can only speak in nursery rhymes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3205253	The Ghost Writer	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1146965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1146965	Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff (a portrait, it has been argued, of Bernard Malamud or Henry Roth, or a composite of both), an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes.__NEWL__Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator apparently comes to suspect of being Anne Frank, living in the United States anonymously, having survived the Holocaust.__NEWL__Many have observed similarities between Lonoff and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3931527	The Man Who Japed	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1168103	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168103	The Man Who Japed is set in the year 2114.__NEWL__After a devastating twentieth century limited nuclear war, a South African ("Afrikaans Empire") military survivor named General Streiter launched a global revolution in 1985 that ushered in a totalitarian government.__NEWL__In one example of the carnage Dick has his protagonist Allen Purcell visit Japan's northern island, Hokkaidō.__NEWL__The location is still a desolate wasteland that has not recovered from nuclear bombardment in 1972, the last year of the global war referred to within this book.__NEWL__This regime - Moral Reclamation ("Morec") - rules a post-apocalyptic world under its strict ideology.__NEWL__One of Streiter's lineal descendants, Ida Pease Hoyt, is in charge.__NEWL__Morec has created an ultra-conservative and puritanical society that is oppressive and judgmental of its fellow citizens.__NEWL__Punishable offenses include mild public cursing, kissing a non-spouse, absenteeism from community meetings and the commercial display of neon signs.__NEWL__A thriving black market exists, however, where one can purchase the Decameron, James Joyce's Ulysses, chablis wine and pulp fiction detective novels from the twentieth century.__NEWL__Earth people also occupy several other planetary systems.__NEWL__There are human colonies on Bellatrix (Gamma Orionis), Sirius 8 and 9, and "Orionus."__NEWL__On these worlds, intensive labour is required to provide agricultural and industrial products for survival.__NEWL__One of the planets is used as a "Refuge" for the rehabilitation of social misfits or "nooses".__NEWL__The "japery" alluded to in the title is Allen Purcell's wanton destruction of a statue of General Streiter.__NEWL__But Purcell has only vague, distorted and disjointed memories of the act and doesn't understand his own motivation for doing it.__NEWL__He is up for an appointment to a high-level position as a guardian of public ethics.__NEWL__Purcell later intentionally concocts a history of General Streiter for a live televised broadcast that falsely claims Streiter had a policy of having his enemies butchered and served as meals to his family and himself.__NEWL__Hoyt is accused of continuing the practice of cannibalism.__NEWL__Purcell and his wife are about to escape Morec justice when he has a change of heart and decides to remain on Earth and face the consequences of his crime.__NEWL__He promises his wife a trip to friend Myron Mavis's planet when they both make it through to "the other side" of their punishment.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q638327	Silas Marner	1861-01-01T00:00:00Z	550					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q174193	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1178757	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178757	The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century.__NEWL__Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in Northern England.__NEWL__He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon.__NEWL__Two pieces of evidence implicate Silas: a pocket knife, and the discovery in his own house of the bag formerly containing the money.__NEWL__There is the strong suggestion that Silas' best friend, William Dane, has framed him, since Silas had lent his pocket knife to William shortly before the crime was committed.__NEWL__Lots are drawn in the belief – also shared by Silas – that God will direct the process and establish the truth, but they indicate that Silas is guilty.__NEWL__The woman Silas was to marry breaks their engagement and marries William instead.__NEWL__With his life shattered, his trust in God lost, and his heart broken, Silas leaves Lantern Yard and the city for a rural area where he is unknown.__NEWL__Silas travels south to the Midlands and settles near the rural village of Raveloe in Warwickshire where he lives isolated and alone, choosing to have only minimal contact with the residents beyond his work as a linen weaver.__NEWL__He devotes himself wholeheartedly to his craft and comes to adore the gold coins he earns and hoards from his weaving.__NEWL__One foggy night, Silas' two bags of gold are stolen by Dunstan__NEWL__("Dunsey") Cass, a dissolute younger son of Squire Cass, the town's leading landowner.__NEWL__On discovering the theft, Silas sinks into a deep depression despite the villagers' attempts to aid him.__NEWL__Dunsey immediately disappears, but the community makes little of this disappearance since he has vanished several times before.__NEWL__Godfrey Cass, Dunsey's elder brother, also harbours a secret past.__NEWL__He is married to, but estranged from, Molly Farren, an opium-addicted working-class woman living in another town.__NEWL__This secret prevents Godfrey from marrying Nancy Lammeter, a young middle-class woman.__NEWL__On a winter's night, Molly tries to make her way to Squire Cass's New Year's Eve party with her two-year-old girl to announce that she is Godfrey's wife.__NEWL__On the way, she collapses in the snow and loses consciousness.__NEWL__The child wanders into Silas' house.__NEWL__Silas follows the child's tracks in the snow and discovers the woman dead.__NEWL__When he goes to the party for help, Godfrey heads outdoors to the scene of the accident, but resolves to tell no one that Molly was his wife.__NEWL__Molly's death, conveniently for Godfrey and Nancy, puts an end to the marriage.__NEWL__Silas keeps the child and names her Eppie, after his deceased mother and sister, both named Hephzibah.__NEWL__Eppie changes Silas' life completely.__NEWL__Silas has been robbed of his material gold, but thinks that he has it returned to him symbolically in the form of the golden-haired child.__NEWL__Godfrey Cass is now free to marry Nancy, but continues to conceal the fact of his previous marriage—and child—from her.__NEWL__However, he aids Marner in caring for Eppie with occasional financial gifts.__NEWL__More practical help and support in bringing up the child is provided by Dolly Winthrop, Marner's kindly neighbour.__NEWL__Dolly's help and advice assist Marner not only in bringing up Eppie, but also in integrating them into village society.__NEWL__Sixteen years pass, and Eppie grows up to be the pride of the village.__NEWL__She has a strong bond with Silas, who through her has found a place in the rural society and a purpose in life.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Godfrey and Nancy mourn their own childless state, after the death of their baby.__NEWL__Eventually, the skeleton of Dunstan Cass—still clutching Silas' gold—is found at the bottom of the stone quarry near Silas' home, and the money is duly returned to Silas.__NEWL__Shocked by this revelation, and coming to the realisation of his own conscience, Godfrey confesses to Nancy that Molly was his first wife and that Eppie is his child.__NEWL__They offer to raise her as a gentleman's daughter, but this would mean Eppie would have to forsake living with Silas.__NEWL__Eppie politely but firmly refuses, saying, "I can't think o' no happiness without him."__NEWL__Silas revisits Lantern Yard, but his old neighbourhood has been "swept away" in the intervening years; the place is now replaced by a large factory.__NEWL__No one seems to know what happened to Lantern Yard's inhabitants.__NEWL__However, Silas contentedly resigns himself to the fact that he will never know and now leads a happy existence among his self-made family and friends.__NEWL__In the end, Eppie marries a local boy she has grown up with, Dolly's son Aaron, and they move into Silas' house, which has been newly improved courtesy of Godfrey.__NEWL__Silas' actions through the years in caring for Eppie have apparently provided joy for everyone, and the extended family celebrates its happiness.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7532703	Six Days of the Condor	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61	Washington, D.C.	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1173472	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1173472	Ronald Malcolm is a CIA employee who works in a clandestine operations office in Washington, D.C. responsible for analyzing the plots of mystery and spy novels.__NEWL__One day, when he should be in the office, Malcolm slips out a basement entrance for lunch.__NEWL__In his absence a group of armed men gain entrance to the office and kill everyone there.__NEWL__Malcolm returns, realizes he is in grave danger, and telephones a phone number at CIA headquarters he has been given for emergencies.__NEWL__When he phones in (and remembers to give his code name "Condor"), he is told to meet an agent named Weatherby who will "bring him in" for protection.__NEWL__However, Weatherby is part of a rogue group within the CIA, the same group responsible for the original assassinations.__NEWL__Weatherby tries to kill Malcolm, who manages to escape.__NEWL__On the run, Malcolm uses his wits to elude both the rogue CIA group and the proper CIA authorities, both of which have a vested interest in his capture or death.__NEWL__Seeking shelter, Malcolm kidnaps a paralegal named Wendy Ross whom he overhears saying she will spend her coming vacation days holed up in her apartment.__NEWL__Knowing no one will notice her absence, Malcolm enlists her aid in finding out more about the forces after him.__NEWL__She is shot and seriously wounded in the process, but survives.__NEWL__It is then revealed that the rogue group was using the section where Malcolm works to import illegal drugs from Laos.__NEWL__A supervisor stumbled onto a discrepancy in the records exposing this operation, thus necessitating the section's elimination.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2623505	White Noise	1985-01-21T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1166383	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1166383	Set in the bucolic college town Blacksmith, White Noise follows a year in the life of Jack Gladney, a professor at the College-on-the-Hill who has made his name by pioneering the field of Hitler studies (though he has not taken German lessons until this year).__NEWL__He has been married five times to four women and rears a brood of children and stepchildren (Heinrich, Denise, Steffie, Wilder) with his current wife, Babette.__NEWL__Jack and Babette are both extremely afraid of death; they frequently wonder which of them will be the first to die.__NEWL__The first part of White Noise, called "Waves and Radiation," is a chronicle of contemporary family life combined with academic satire.__NEWL__There is little plot development in this first section, which mainly serves as an introduction to the characters and themes which dominate the rest of the book.__NEWL__For instance, the mysterious deaths of men in "Mylex" (intended to suggest Mylar) suits and the ashen, shaken survivors of a plane that went into free fall anticipate the catastrophe of the book's second part. "__NEWL__Waves and Radiation" also introduces Murray Jay Siskind, Jack's friend and fellow college professor, who discusses theories about death, supermarkets, media, "psychic data," and other facets of contemporary American culture.__NEWL__Jack and Murray visit the most photographed barn in the world, discussing how its notoriety renders truly seeing the barn an impossibility, and later present an impromptu joint lecture juxtaposing the lives of Hitler and Elvis Presley.__NEWL__In the second part of the novel, "The Airborne Toxic Event," a chemical spill from a rail car releases a black noxious cloud over Jack's home region, prompting an evacuation.__NEWL__Frightened by his exposure to the toxin (called Nyodene Derivative), Jack is forced to confront his mortality.__NEWL__An organization called SIMUVAC (short for "simulated evacuation") is also introduced in part two, an indication of simulations replacing reality.__NEWL__In part three of the book, "Dylarama," Jack discovers that Babette has been cheating on him with a man she calls "Mr. Gray" in order to gain access to a fictional drug called Dylar, an experimental treatment for the terror of death.__NEWL__The novel becomes a meditation on modern society's fear of death and its obsession with chemical cures as Jack seeks to obtain his own black-market supply of Dylar.__NEWL__However, Dylar does not work for Babette, and it has many possible side effects, including losing the ability to "distinguish words from things, so that if someone said 'speeding bullet,' I would fall to the floor and take cover."__NEWL__Jack continues to obsess over death.__NEWL__During a discussion about mortality, Murray suggests that killing someone could alleviate the fear.__NEWL__Jack decides to track down and kill Mr. Gray, whose real name, he has learned, is Willie Mink.__NEWL__After a black comedy scene of Jack driving and rehearsing, in his head, several ways in which their encounter might proceed, he successfully locates and shoots Willie, who at the time is in a delirious state caused by his own Dylar addiction.__NEWL__Jack puts the gun in Willie's hand to make the murder look like a suicide, but Willie then shoots Jack in the arm.__NEWL__Suddenly realizing the needless loss of life, Jack carries Willie to a hospital run by German nuns who do not believe in God or an afterlife.__NEWL__Having saved Willie, Jack returns home to watch his children sleep.__NEWL__The final chapter describes Wilder, Jack's youngest child, riding a tricycle across the highway and miraculously surviving.__NEWL__Jack, Babette, and Wilder join a crowd gathering to watch the brilliant sunset, possibly enhanced by the airborne toxic event, from an overpass, before Jack describes his avoidance of his doctor and the hypnotic and spiritual nature of the supermarket.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7753243	The Natural	1952-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1187127	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1187127	Nineteen-year-old Roy Hobbs is traveling by train to Chicago with his manager Sam to try out for the Chicago Cubs.__NEWL__Other passengers include sportswriter Max Mercy, Walter "The Whammer" Whambold, the leading hitter in the American League and three-time American League Most Valuable Player (based on Babe Ruth), and Harriet Bird, a beautiful but mysterious woman.__NEWL__The train makes a quick stop at a carnival along the rail where The Whammer challenges Hobbs to strike him out.__NEWL__Hobbs does just that, much to everyone's surprise and The Whammer's humiliation.__NEWL__Back on the train Harriet Bird strikes up a conversation with Hobbs, who never suspects that Bird has any ulterior motive.__NEWL__In fact, she is a lunatic obsessed with shooting the best baseball player.__NEWL__Her intended target was Whammer, but after Hobbs struck him out, her attention shifts to Hobbs.__NEWL__In Chicago, Hobbs checks into his hotel and promptly receives a call from Bird, who is also staying there.__NEWL__When he goes down to her room, she shoots him in the stomach.__NEWL__The novel picks up 16 years later in the dugout of the New York Knights, a fictional National League baseball team.__NEWL__The team has been on an extended losing streak, and manager Pop Fisher's and assistant manager Red Blow's careers appear to be winding to an ignominious end.__NEWL__During one losing game, Roy Hobbs emerges from the clubhouse tunnel and announces that he is the team's new right fielder, having just been signed by Knights co-owner Judge Banner.__NEWL__Both Pop and Red take Hobbs under their wing, and Red later tells Hobbs about Fisher's plight as manager of the Knights.__NEWL__The Judge wants to take over Pop's share in the team but cannot do that until the current season ends and provided the Knights fail to win the National League pennant.__NEWL__Being the newest player, Roy has a number of practical jokes played upon him, including the theft of his "Wonderboy" bat.__NEWL__Once Roy gets his first chance at the plate, however, he proves to be a true "natural" at the game.__NEWL__During one game, Pop substitutes Hobbs as a pinch hitter for team star Bump Bailey, intending to teach Bailey a lesson for not hustling.__NEWL__Pop tells Roy to "knock the cover off of the ball".__NEWL__Roy literally does that — hitting a triple to right field.__NEWL__A few days later, a newly hustling Bump attempts to play a hard hit fly ball.__NEWL__He runs into the outfield wall, later dying from the impact.__NEWL__Roy permanently takes over Bump's position.__NEWL__Max Mercy reappears, searching for details of Hobbs' past.__NEWL__Hobbs remains quiet even after Mercy offers five thousand dollars, telling him, "All the public is entitled to is my best game of baseball.__NEWL__" At the same time, Hobbs has been attempting to negotiate a higher salary with the judge, arguing that his success should be rewarded.__NEWL__Mercy introduces Hobbs to bookie Gus Sands, who is keeping company with Memo Paris, Pop's niece.__NEWL__Hobbs has been infatuated with Memo since he came to the Knights.__NEWL__Hobbs' magic tricks appear to impress her.__NEWL__Max Mercy writes a column about the judge's refusal to grant Hobbs a raise, and a fan uprising ensues.__NEWL__Hobbs, however, is more occupied with Memo.__NEWL__Pop warns Hobbs about Memo, saying she imparts bad luck on the people she associates with.__NEWL__Hobbs dismisses the warning and promptly falls into a hitting slump.__NEWL__Numerous attempts to reverse it fail.__NEWL__He finally hits a home run during a game where a mysterious woman rises from her seat.__NEWL__Before Hobbs can see who she is, she has left.__NEWL__Roy eventually meets the woman.__NEWL__Her name is Iris Lemon, and he proceeds to court her.__NEWL__Upon learning she is a mother, however, he loses interest and returns his attention to Memo Paris.__NEWL__Memo rebuffs Roy's advances; Hobbs continues to play brilliantly and leads the Knights to a 17-game winning streak.__NEWL__With the Knights one game away from winning the National League pennant, Roy attends a party hosted by Memo.__NEWL__He collapses there and awakens in the hospital.__NEWL__The doctor says he can play in the final game of the season, but must retire after that if he wants to live.__NEWL__Hobbs wants to start a family with Memo and realizes he will need money.__NEWL__The judge offers Hobbs a bribe to lose the Knight's final game.__NEWL__Hobbs makes a counter-offer of $35,000, which is accepted.__NEWL__That night, unable to sleep, he reads a letter from Iris.__NEWL__After seeing the word "mother" in the letter, he discards it.__NEWL__He plays the next day and while at-bat, fouls a pitch into the stands that strikes Iris, injuring her and splits the Wonderboy bat in two lengthwise.__NEWL__Iris tells Roy that she is pregnant with his child, and now he is determined to do his best for their future.__NEWL__At the end of the game, with a chance to win it, Hobbs, now trying to win, comes to bat against Herman Youngberry, a brilliant young pitcher similar to Hobbs at the same age.__NEWL__Youngberry strikes out Hobbs, ending the game and the season for the Knights.__NEWL__As he sits bemoaning the end of the season and possibly his career, Mercy rediscovers the shooting and also finds out that Hobbs was paid to throw the game.__NEWL__If this report from Mercy is true, Roy Hobbs will be expelled from the game and all of his records removed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q751348	Norwegian Wood	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	1173887	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1173887	37-year-old Toru Watanabe is landing in Hamburg, West Germany, when he hears an orchestral cover of the Beatles' song "Norwegian Wood".__NEWL__He is suddenly overwhelmed by feelings of loss and nostalgia.__NEWL__He thinks back to the 1960s, when so much happened that touched his life.__NEWL__Watanabe, his classmate Kizuki, and Kizuki's girlfriend Naoko are the best of friends.__NEWL__Kizuki and Naoko are particularly close and feel as if they are soulmates, and Watanabe seems more than happy to be their enforcer.__NEWL__This idyllic existence is shattered by the unexpected suicide of Kizuki on his 17th birthday.__NEWL__Kizuki's death deeply touches both surviving friends; Watanabe feels the influence of death everywhere, while Naoko feels as if some integral part of her has been permanently lost.__NEWL__The two of them spend more and more time together going for long walks on Sundays, although feelings for each other are never clarified in this interval.__NEWL__On the night of Naoko's 20th birthday, she feels especially vulnerable and they have sex, during which Watanabe realizes that she is a virgin.__NEWL__Afterward, Naoko leaves Watanabe a letter saying that she needs some time apart and is quitting college to go to a sanatorium.__NEWL__These events are set against a backdrop of civil unrest.__NEWL__The students at Watanabe's college go on strike and call for a revolution.__NEWL__Inexplicably, the students end their strike and act as if nothing had happened, which enrages Watanabe as a sign of hypocrisy.__NEWL__Watanabe is befriended by a fellow drama classmate, Midori Kobayashi.__NEWL__She is everything that Naoko is not — outgoing, vivacious, and supremely self-confident.__NEWL__Despite his love for Naoko, Watanabe finds himself attracted to Midori as well.__NEWL__Midori reciprocates his feelings, and their friendship grows during Naoko's absence.__NEWL__Watanabe and Midori share a special kind of relationship where both of them understand each other.__NEWL__ Watanabe visits Naoko at her secluded mountain sanatorium near Kyoto.__NEWL__There he meets Reiko Ishida, an older patient there who has become Naoko's confidante.__NEWL__During this and subsequent visits, Reiko and Naoko reveal more about their past: Reiko talks about the cause of her collapse into mental illness and details the failure of her marriage, while Naoko talks about the unexpected suicide of her older sister several years ago.__NEWL__When he returns to Tokyo, Watanabe is distracted by his continuing thoughts about Naoko, and unintentionally alienates Midori by moving to a suburb without telling her.__NEWL__He writes a letter to Reiko, asking for her advice about his conflicted affections for both Naoko and Midori.__NEWL__He does not want to hurt Naoko, but he does not want to lose Midori either.__NEWL__Reiko counsels him to seize this chance for happiness and see how his relationship with Midori turns out.__NEWL__A later letter informs Watanabe that Naoko has killed herself.__NEWL__Watanabe, grieving and in a daze, wanders aimlessly around Japan, while Midori—with whom he hasn't kept in touch—wonders what has happened to him.__NEWL__After about a month of wandering, he returns to the Tokyo area and gets in contact with Reiko, who leaves the sanatorium to come to visit.__NEWL__Reiko stays with Watanabe, and they have sex.__NEWL__It is through this experience and the intimate conversation that Watanabe and Reiko share that night, that he comes to realize that Midori is the most important person in his life.__NEWL__After he sees Reiko off, Watanabe calls Midori to declare his love for her.__NEWL__Midori asks, "Where are you now?", and the novel ends with Watanabe pondering that question.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1193847	The General in His Labyrinth							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q739	Colombia	1162324	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1162324	The novel is written in the third-person with flashbacks to specific events in the life of Simón Bolívar, "the General".__NEWL__It begins on May 8, 1830 in Santa Fe de Bogotá.__NEWL__The General is preparing for his journey towards the port of Cartagena de Indias, intending to leave Colombia for Europe.__NEWL__Following his resignation as President of Gran Colombia, the people of the lands he liberated have now turned against him, scrawling anti-Bolívar graffiti and throwing waste at him.__NEWL__The General is anxious to move on, but has to remind the Vice-President-elect, General Domingo Caycedo, that he has yet to receive a valid passport to leave the country.__NEWL__The General leaves Bogotá with the few officials still faithful to him, including his confidante and aide-de-camp, José Palacios.__NEWL__At the end of the first chapter, the General is referred to by his full title, General Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios, for the only time in the novel.__NEWL__On the first night of the voyage, the General stays at Facatativá with his entourage, which consists of José Palacios, five aides-de-camp, his clerks, and his dogs.__NEWL__Here, as throughout the journey that follows, the General's loss of prestige is evident; the downturn in his fortunes surprises even the General himself.__NEWL__His unidentified illness has led to his physical deterioration, which makes him unrecognizable, and his aide-de-camp is constantly mistaken for the Liberator.__NEWL__After many delays, the General and his party arrive in Honda, where the Governor, Posada Gutiérrez, has arranged for three days of fiestas.__NEWL__On his last night in Honda, the General returns late to camp and finds one of his old friends, Miranda Lyndsay, waiting for him.__NEWL__The General recalls that fifteen years ago, she had learned of a plot against his life and had saved him.__NEWL__The following morning, the General begins the voyage down the Magdalena River.__NEWL__Both his physical debilitation and pride are evident as he negotiates the slope to the dock: he is in need of a sedan chair but refuses to use it.__NEWL__The group stays a night in Puerto Real, where the General claims he sees a woman singing during the night.__NEWL__His aides-de-camp and the watchman conduct a search, but they fail to uncover any sign of a woman having been in the vicinity.__NEWL__The General and his entourage arrive at the port of Mompox.__NEWL__Here they are stopped by police, who fail to recognize the General.__NEWL__They ask for his passport, but he is unable to produce one.__NEWL__Eventually, the police discover his identity and escort him into the port.__NEWL__The people still believe him to be the President of Gran Colombia and prepare banquets in his honor; but these festivities are wasted on him due to his lack of strength and appetite.__NEWL__After several days, the General and his entourage set off for Turbaco.__NEWL__The group spend a sleepless night in Barranca Nueva before they arrive in Turbaco.__NEWL__Their original plan was to continue to Cartagena the following day, but the General is informed that there is no available ship bound for Europe from the port and that his passport still has not arrived.__NEWL__While staying in the town, he receives a visit from General Mariano Montilla and a few other friends.__NEWL__The deterioration of his health becomes increasingly evident—one of his visitors describes his face as that of a dead man.__NEWL__In Turbaco, the General is joined by General Daniel Florencio O'Leary and receives news of ongoing political machinations: Joaquín Mosquera, appointed successor as President of Gran Colombia, has assumed power but his legitimacy is still contested by General Rafael Urdaneta.__NEWL__The General recalls that his "dream began to fall apart on the very day it was realized".__NEWL__The General finally receives his passport, and two days later he sets off with his entourage for Cartagena and the coast, where more receptions are held in his honor.__NEWL__Throughout this time, he is surrounded by women but is too weak to engage in sexual relations.__NEWL__The General is deeply affected when he hears that his good friend and preferred successor for the presidency, Field Marshal Sucre, has been ambushed and assassinated.__NEWL__The General is now told by one of his aides-de-camp that General Rafael Urdaneta has taken over the government in Bogotá, and there are reports of demonstrations and riots in support of a return to power by Bolívar.__NEWL__The General's group travel to the town of Soledad, where he stays for more than a month, his health declining further.__NEWL__In Soledad, the General agrees to see a physician for the first time.__NEWL__The General never leaves South America.__NEWL__He finishes his journey in Santa Marta, too weak to continue and with only his doctor and his closest aides by his side.__NEWL__He dies in poverty, a shadow of the man who liberated much of the continent.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7225171	Politics	2003-08-28T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1147274	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1147274	Nana, an attractive young "non-talker" in her mid-twenties—"tall, thin, pale, blonde, breasty"—who is working on her M.A. thesis, lives with her "Papa", the "benevolent angel" of the story, in Edgware, a suburb of London.__NEWL__She gets to know Moshe, a young Jewish actor from Finsbury, and they start a relationship.__NEWL__As time goes by, Anjali, a friend of Moshe's, joins them more and more in their sparetime activities until Nana, for whom sex is not necessarily a top priority, suggests a "threesome" because she wants Moshe to be happy.__NEWL__Accordingly, due to Nana's altruism, for some months Nana and Moshe are joined in their lovemaking by Anjali, who is bisexual.__NEWL__The narrator, who defines a threesome as "the socialist utopia of sex", describes not only the sociology, psychology and ethics of their ménage à trois (for example by comparing it to the love triangle depicted in the film Cabaret) but also, in some detail, the technicalities and what he calls "sexual etiquette".__NEWL__However, he also frequently ponders philosophical questions and occasionally redefines old concepts such as that of infidelity ("the selfish desire to be helpful to more than one person").__NEWL__In the summer Nana goes on holiday with her Papa, leaving behind two thirds of the ménage à trois.__NEWL__In Venice, Italy, Papa complains of a splitting headache, and shortly after their return to England he suffers a stroke—a good excuse for Nana to break up with both Moshe and Anjali, although her father is saddened by the thought of his daughter giving up her boyfriend on his account.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q700483	Atomised	1998-08-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	1166981	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1166981	Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion, the narrative focuses almost exclusively on the bleak and unrewarding day-to-day lives of the protagonists, two half-brothers who barely know each other.__NEWL__They seem devoid of love, and in their loveless or soon-to-be loveless journeys, Bruno becomes a saddened loner, wrecked by his upbringing and failure to individuate, while Michel's pioneering work in cloning removes love from the process of reproduction.__NEWL__Humans are proved, in the end, to be just particles and just as bodies decay (a theme in the book) they can also be created from particles.__NEWL__The story unfolds as a sort of framed narrative, so despite the events described therein having taken place mostly in 1999, the story is essentially set some fifty or so years in the future.__NEWL__A similar device was used by Kurt Vonnegut in the novel Galápagos; however, unlike Vonnegut, Houellebecq only reveals the frame to the reader in the epilogue.__NEWL__Large sections of the story are presented in the form of suppertime storytelling dialogues between Michel, his childhood sweetheart Annabelle, Bruno, and Bruno's post-divorce girlfriend Christiane.__NEWL__The story focuses on the lives of Bruno Clément and Michel Djerzinski, two French half-brothers born of a hippie-type mother.__NEWL__Michel is raised by his paternal grandmother and becomes an introverted molecular biologist, who is ultimately responsible for the discoveries which lead to the elimination of sexual reproduction.__NEWL__Bruno's upbringing is much more tragic as described: shuffled and forgotten from one abusive boarding school to another, he eventually finds himself in a loveless marriage and teaching at a high school.__NEWL__Bruno grows into a lecherous and insatiable sex addict whose dalliances with prostitutes and sex chat on Minitel do nothing to satisfy him, to the point where he finds himself on disability leave from his job and in a mental hospital after a failed attempt at seducing one of his students.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1376060	Snow Country	1935-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11636518	Echigo Yuzawa Onsen	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	1172256	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172256	Snow Country is a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha that takes place in the remote hot spring (onsen) town of Yuzawa.__NEWL__(Kawabata did not mention the name of the town in his novel.)__NEWL__The novel opens with the protagonist of the novel, Shimamura, riding a train to a remote onsen town.__NEWL__Shimamura is a rich, married man, who inherited his wealth, and a self-professed ballet expert.__NEWL__During the train ride, he observes a young woman (who is later revealed as Yoko) caring for a sickly man (named Yukio).__NEWL__He observes the woman through a reflection in the train window, and is particularly enthralled by her eyes, as well as the sound of her voice.__NEWL__Shimamura's purpose for going to the onsen is meeting a young woman, Komako, with whom he had a brief encounter during his previous stay.__NEWL__Although she wasn't employed as a geisha during his first stay, her situation is changed during his second visit.__NEWL__Shimamura is attracted to the young geisha, although his affection proves to be inconsistent and uncertain over time.__NEWL__However, Komako falls in love with Shimamura, which goes against the geisha tradition of meeting the customers demands without any emotional attachment.__NEWL__Throughout their conversations, a number of things about Komako's life is revealed: her becoming a geisha to pay for Yukio's hospital bills, their rumored engagement, Komako and Yukio's strained relationship, how she came to live with Yukio and his mother, and her life as a full-time geisha.__NEWL__The climax of the novel happens during one of Komako's visits to Shimamura's room at the onsen inn.__NEWL__During their conversation, Shimamura calls her a "good woman", instead of a "good girl".__NEWL__This change of wording used to describe Komako reveals that the two of them could never be together, while Komako's hopes of a better and happier life with Shimamura remains just a delusion.__NEWL__At the very end of the novel, a fire occurs in the town warehouse, which was at the time being used as a cinema.__NEWL__Shimamura and Komako come to observe the fire, and see Yoko falling lifelessly from the warehouse balcony.__NEWL__Komako carries Yoko's body away from the burning warehouse, while Shimamura slinks back, observing the night sky.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q863438	The Valley of Fear	1915-01-01T00:00:00Z	3289	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1172386	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172386	Sherlock Holmes receives a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty.__NEWL__Holmes deciphers the message as a warning of a nefarious plot against one Douglas, a country gentleman residing at Birlstone House.__NEWL__Some minutes later, Inspector MacDonald arrives at 221B Baker Street with news that Douglas was murdered the night before.__NEWL__The three men travel to Birlstone House to investigate.__NEWL__ After interviewing Cecil Barker, a frequent guest at Birlstone House and the man who discovered the body, they agree that suicide is out of the question, and that someone from outside the house committed the murder.__NEWL__Barker explains that Douglas married after arriving in England five years earlier.__NEWL__Barker believes a secret society of men pursued Douglas, and that he retreated to rural England out of fear for his life.__NEWL__Mrs. Douglas said her husband mentioned something called "The Valley of Fear".__NEWL__Holmes learns that the housekeeper heard a sound, as if of a door slamming, half an hour before the alarm; Holmes believes that this sound was the fatal shot.__NEWL__ Local detective White Mason and Inspector MacDonald track a bicycle found on the grounds of the house to an American staying at a guest house.__NEWL__The American appears to be the murderer, but there is no sign of him.__NEWL__Holmes asks MacDonald to write to Barker, telling him that the police intend to search the moat the next day.__NEWL__That night, they lie in wait outside Birlstone Manor and see Barker fish the clothes of the missing American out of the moat.__NEWL__Barker refuses to explain the situation.__NEWL__At that moment, Douglas appears, alive and well.__NEWL__He hands Watson a written account called "The Valley of Fear", which explains why he feared for his life.__NEWL__ Douglas explains that he had spotted an enemy of his, Ted Baldwin, in the area and expected an attack.__NEWL__When Baldwin attempted to shoot Douglas in his study, Douglas grabbed the gun and, in the struggle, Baldwin was shot in the face.__NEWL__With Barker's help, Douglas dressed the man in his own clothes to confuse his enemies.__NEWL__He then hid himself in the old priest hole at Birlstone.__NEWL__The main narrative pauses in order to explain Douglas' past in America.__NEWL__Douglas' real name was Birdy Edwards and he had been a Pinkerton detective in Chicago.__NEWL__Working for the Pinkertons, Edwards had traveled to Vermissa Valley to infiltrate a corrupt coal miner's trade union, secretly a cover for a murderous gang.__NEWL__After Edwards brought the gang to justice, the criminals attempted to kill him.__NEWL__Hounded, Douglas ran to England, where he met and married his second wife.__NEWL__ Holmes urges Douglas to leave England.__NEWL__Douglas takes this advice, but, shortly after, Holmes learns from Barker that Douglas was lost overboard on the ship to Africa.__NEWL__Holmes believes Moriarty was responsible for ending Douglas' life and he swears to bring Moriarty down.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7062211	Not This August	1955-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1155591	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1155591	By 1965, the United States and Canada have been at war with the Soviet Union and Chinese People's Republic for three years.__NEWL__Both sides' atomic weapons are ineffective as surface-to-air missiles shoot down any bombers or guided missiles, so ground forces have done most of the fighting.__NEWL__The Communist nations—whose armies greatly outnumber the North Americans—conquered Western Europe, invaded South America, and are moving toward Texas.__NEWL__All American males are required to either perform agricultural work to feed the armed forces or be drafted into military, construction, or factory service.__NEWL__Food, electricity, and gasoline are rationed, only two CONELRAD stations broadcast on radio, and New York City is reportedly under martial law.__NEWL__Billy Justin, a 37-year-old commercial artist and Korean War veteran, is working as a dairy farmer in Chiunga County, New York when the radio announces that Soviet and Chinese forces have overrun the Canadian-American line at El Paso, Texas.__NEWL__The last American naval forces were destroyed three months earlier but the news had been kept secret.__NEWL__In New Mexico, the Communist armies capture the Los Alamos National Laboratory and destroy the incomplete Yankee Doodle, a satellite capable of dropping hydrogen bombs from orbit that are impossible to shoot down.__NEWL__The President of the United States surrenders to the Communists, who over the next several months divide the country at the Mississippi River, and together form the North American People's Democratic Republic.__NEWL__Other than a military garrison, a formal disarmament, searches for fissionable material, and the establishment of production quotas for food, the surrender of the United States leaves Chiunga Center largely untouched.__NEWL__The Soviets execute the Communist fifth column members who had secretly aided the invasion to prevent them from organizing against the new government, but are otherwise relatively peaceful and amenable to the black market.__NEWL__A paraplegic comes to Justin's farm asking for work; he is General Hollerith, a veteran of the previous war.__NEWL__He and Justin join a conspiracy to finish the real satellite, a crewed space station buried in Chiunga County that the United States had been building for 15 years.__NEWL__It requires parts and engineering knowledge to launch.__NEWL__MVD troops arrive, shoot the corrupt Soviet soldiers, and are much more cruel.__NEWL__They capture, to Justin's knowledge, all of the conspirators but himself and the general.__NEWL__Justin deduces that the contacts he needs to make are in Washington, Pennsylvania.__NEWL__With a traveling preacher, Sparhawk, Justin walks the hundreds of miles from Chiunga Center to Washington, benefiting from the Democratic Republic's policy of respecting the Americans' freedom of religion.__NEWL__At Washington Justin receives instructions from the nationwide resistance movement for an attack planned for Christmas Eve on Chiunga Center to liberate the satellite.__NEWL__Despite the Soviets' arrest and torture of a local farmer, they are ignorant of what "Christmas Eve", a mild oath they have heard sworn by various citizens, means until the battle begins.__NEWL__Coordinated by Hollerith, bridges around the area are blown up and nearby arsenals are sabotaged.__NEWL__The townspeople, many of whom are veterans, battle the Soviets as the space station launches.__NEWL__Hollerith's forces triumph, and the Americans transmit an ultimatum to the Soviets and Chinese: The satellite is armed and will destroy Moscow and Peking in 24 hours if occupation forces do not withdraw from American soil and free all prisoners of war.__NEWL__Hollerith offers Justin important positions in the new government and society, but he refuses them and kneels in prayer with Sparhawk, fearing the fulfillment of mutual assured destruction.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733600	The Feast of the Drowned	2006-04-13T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5886366	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5886366	Rose is comforting her friend Keisha, whose brother Jay is missing in action after the sinking of HMS Ascendant, which has just been towed up the Thames in pieces.__NEWL__Rose drags the Doctor along, and he asks what Jay did on the ship, before deciding to go out for chips (and a newspaper to wrap them in).__NEWL__After he leaves, Jay's soaked and shivering ghost appears to Keisha and Rose.__NEWL__He talks to Keisha first, telling her to come to him before the feast, and asks Rose to come too.__NEWL__Then he melts away into a puddle, which also disappears.__NEWL__The Doctor returns, and tells them about people fainting in the newsagent's.__NEWL__The Doctor and Rose discuss what she saw, and the Doctor says they should go to Mickey's and see what they can find on the Internet.__NEWL__Mickey has already done the research, and gives them his printouts.__NEWL__They find that the ship has been brought to Stanchion House, and that people are going missing near the part of the Thames where it is located.__NEWL__When the three of them arrive near the building, they see many guards, and an elderly woman trying to climb over the bridge rail.__NEWL__Her name is Anne, and she says she is trying to get to Peter 'before the feast'.__NEWL__The Doctor and Rose manage to get her off the bridge.__NEWL__Mickey and the soldiers who come running all collapse.__NEWL__The Doctor swipes a pass from one of the soldiers, and tells Rose and Mickey to stay with Anne and not to let her out of their sight.__NEWL__As Rose and Mickey try to decide where to take Anne, they are approached by an old man in full naval uniform wearing dark glasses and a scarf around his neck, who introduces himself as Rear Admiral John Crayshaw.__NEWL__He allows them to take Anne with them, but tells the soldiers to send the ambulance away when it arrives.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Doctor goes to Stanchion House, and introduces himself as 'Sir John Smith, Scientific Advisor to the Admiralty' with his psychic paper.__NEWL__He glances quickly at the visitor's book, and says that he has come to see V. Swann.__NEWL__The lift operator brings him to the correct floor, and watches until he goes in.__NEWL__He talks to Vida Swann for a minute before she mentions that her PC had told her Sergeant Jodie North had come in, and that she had alerted security when she saw him instead.__NEWL__The Doctor runs out of her office, and realizes there were soldiers coming up the stairs and the lift, and no time to get out a window, so he hides in a cupboard until the soldiers pass, then slips into the lift before the doors close.__NEWL__He uses a sonic screwdriver to open the hidden controls, and goes to the lowest level.__NEWL__The doors open into an underground hangar.__NEWL__The Doctor is noticed by a scientist named Huntley, and after looking at a section of the ship, the Doctor says that it was sliced up using hydrogen fused anti-cellularisation.__NEWL__Alarms start to go off, soldiers come down the lift, and the Doctor takes off for a room labelled 'Decontamination.'__NEWL__He runs through it into a damp, dirty and dingily lit access corridor.__NEWL__After closing the doors behind him, he notices the salty reek to the air.__NEWL__As he moves down the corridor, he sticks his finger in a mucky puddle and decides it is saltwater.__NEWL__The corridor opens into a large, dark, circular chamber with a very high ceiling and a huge filthy pool in the centre of the floor.__NEWL__There is a ladder on one side, and the air smells of sea water.__NEWL__The Doctor takes a polythene bag from his pocket and fills it with water from the pool, and then starts to climb the ladder as he hears the doors opening behind him.__NEWL__The ladder is damp, as if someone sopping wet had climbed up it ahead of him, and didn't dry before reaching the top.__NEWL__There is a barrier across the top of the chamber, but the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to open the inspection hatch, which has blood on it.__NEWL__The Doctor climbs through with bullets flying around him, and finds himself looking into another enormous access tunnel.__NEWL__As the Doctor splashes through the freezing salty water in the access tunnel, he comes upon another figure.__NEWL__When it turns, the Doctor sees a young man with bloody welts on his face and neck, and eyes like huge pearls.__NEWL__He tells the Doctor that he doesn't want to hurt his little Keisha, but he can't help it.__NEWL__The Doctor realizes this must be Jay, just as the water gets even deeper and starts churning.__NEWL__Out of the water appears a pirate and a U-boat captain, who sweeps Jay back the way he'd come and vanishes.__NEWL__The Doctor decides he can't do anything to help Jay right now, and continues down the tunnel.__NEWL__He ends up on a tugboat, its windows covered by tarpaulin.__NEWL__At Keisha's, the three of them are talking, and Rose realizes that just before Jay appeared, people had collapsed at the newsagent's, and when Anne's son appeared, the soldiers went down.__NEWL__Rose decides to go down to the newsagent's and see what she can find out.__NEWL__She buys a couple of papers, and the woman behind the counter collapses as Jay appears again.__NEWL__Jay also appears to Keisha, and Anne's son to her.__NEWL__Mickey tries to stop Anne leaving and isn't able to, but does manage to lock Keisha in the bathroom.__NEWL__Rose runs back and tells her to go after Anne.__NEWL__She heads for the river.__NEWL__On the tugboat, the Doctor and Vida meet again.__NEWL__While they talk, the Doctor starts pushing buttons and levers, and gets the boat moving, just as soldiers start firing on it.__NEWL__The Doctor tells her that Crayshaw probably wants to kill them both, as she said she'd been a thorn in his side.__NEWL__When Rose gets to the river, there are people trying to jump in, soldiers trying to stop them, and other people watching.__NEWL__As Rose stands there, a tug appears, headed for a restaurant barge, and Rose sees the Doctor climbing around the prow, trying to uncover the windows.__NEWL__She yells at him, and he waves back and tells her to get everyone off the barge.__NEWL__As the tug crashes into the barge, the Doctor and Vida leap off.__NEWL__The three of them go to the European Office of Oceanic Research and Development, where Vida works.__NEWL__The Doctor asks Vida to show him the 'biggest and shiniest lab' she has.__NEWL__Vida says that she hasn't been able to contact her boss all day, and there is a Vice Admiral Kelper from Norfolk due to arrive the next day.__NEWL__The Doctor tells Rose to have Mickey come over and bring Keisha.__NEWL__Vida talks about her work studying ocean currents, what is in them and how they move around, using tracers they had developed.__NEWL__The Doctor is busy being all 'boy-with-a-train-set' with the water he brought.__NEWL__Vida says they were studying water taken from the area where the Ascendant sank, and found no sign of tracers, but there were salts and proteins unlike anything previously discovered.__NEWL__The Doctor asks Mickey and Vida to go through the naval personnel records and see if the crew of the Ascendant had anything in common.__NEWL__He takes blood samples from Rose, Keisha, and Vida, and finds that Rose and Keisha have alien matter in their blood, and specks in their eyes.__NEWL__While going through the computer files, Mickey looks up Commodore Powers (Crayshaw's boss), and discovers that he was on a ship that sank in the North Sea three years ago.__NEWL__Then they find that a John Anthony Crayshaw sank in the North Sea in 1759.__NEWL__They run to tell the Doctor.__NEWL__The Doctor is still working with the water when he realizes the beaker he is analysing is empty, and the sink is full.__NEWL__He smells seawater, and then the water in the sink jumps out and attacks him, covering his face, but he manages to escape.__NEWL__Rose is in the hallway with Keisha when Mickey and Vida come up, and then suddenly it fills with water.__NEWL__Three figures appear in it – a pirate, U-boat captain, and a Victorian lady.__NEWL__They grab Vida and carry her away.__NEWL__Rose chases after, grabbing onto the back of a police van.__NEWL__When the van stops, Rose finds herself near the river.__NEWL__While trying to help someone else, she falls into the water and is taken by the water creatures.__NEWL__The Doctor, Mickey, and Keisha drive around for hours, but cannot find either Rose or Vida.__NEWL__They go back to the estate, and Mickey walks Keisha to her door while the Doctor waits in the car.__NEWL__They see a dripping wet Rose ghost, and when the Doctor comes upstairs, he says that he has seen her too, although not as clearly.__NEWL__Jackie (Rose's mum) also sees the image, and is furious with the Doctor.__NEWL__He leaves Keisha with her, while he and Mickey go to get into Stanchion House.__NEWL__Vida awakes to find herself in the Ascendant's storeroom.__NEWL__Crayshaw is there, and tells her that they are 'of the waterhive.'__NEWL__The room is full of people who have recently been taken.__NEWL__Crayshaw explains that they are acclimatising, and only after many years can they be on both land and water.__NEWL__They need Vida to capture Kelper, so they can spread all over the world.__NEWL__Mickey and the Doctor go to the Aldgate tube station, to reach a conduit full of phone lines, which passes within a few inches of the decontamination chamber.__NEWL__Mickey asks how he plans to get through the wall, and the Doctor says 'I'm getting quite good at resonating concrete.'__NEWL__He tells Mickey that the tunnel is probably one of the safest places to be, as there aren't many people around to filch water from, so no image of Rose to haunt them. '__NEWL__I don't want to see her like that again.__NEWL__Do you?'__NEWL__Rose is moving around underwater, and thinking of her family and the Doctor.__NEWL__Huntley finds Rose, and takes her to where a few of the Ascendant crew are together, including Jay.__NEWL__He tells her that she can't think of her loved ones, because it is what will make them like her.__NEWL__She thinks of the TARDIS instead, and that helps.__NEWL__Huntley tells her that some people have been able to see through their images, and control them somewhat, and encourages her to try.__NEWL__Crayshaw takes Vida to an empty Stanchion House in the morning, to arrange a meeting with Kelper, but he is already there.__NEWL__Vida tries to escape with him, but the water prevents it, and they are taken into the lift.__NEWL__When they reach the basement, they find all the rest of the staff.__NEWL__The decontamination doors open, and filthy water comes flooding in.__NEWL__There is a sudden explosion, and part of the wall tumbles in, revealing Mickey and the Doctor.__NEWL__Vida, Kelper, and a couple of other people manage to climb out before the water traps everyone else.__NEWL__Kelper leaves to talk to the military, saying 'We're going to need Torchwood.'__NEWL__As the Doctor, Mickey and Vida talk about what to do next, the Rose image appears to the Doctor and starts to drain water from Mickey and Vida.__NEWL__Rose herself is able to stop it though, and tell the Doctor to stop the aliens.__NEWL__The Doctor says that she was able to hijack the apparition.__NEWL__The Doctor realizes that the filaments that Vida has been working with disrupt communication in the hive, and this might be a way to defeat them.__NEWL__He sends Mickey and Vida to find the crates that were on the Ascendant and dump them into the river, while he creates a distraction.__NEWL__At the same time, Rose, Jay, Huntley and the others start making their way toward the surface.__NEWL__Vida and Mickey are almost caught by the water, but Rose and the rest interfere, and then help them to release the filaments.__NEWL__As they are released, Rose thinks of the Doctor, and is able to see him and tell him that they have done it.__NEWL__He says, 'Of course you did it,' and activates the tracers.__NEWL__The water in the Thames thickens and changes, and all the people who had been taken are pushed to the surface, restored to normal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7720367	The Brothers	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5918875	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5918875	"The Brothers" is a story of two valleys, Gleann Gleatharan, ruled by Cinnfhail of Dun Gorm, and Gleann Fiach, ruled by Sliabhin of Dun Mhor.__NEWL__Separating the two valleys is a Sidhe-wood, which Dun Gorm respectfully keeps out of, but in which Dun Mhor defiantly hunts.__NEWL__The Sidhe have blessed Gleann Gleatharan with peace and good fortune, but cursed Gleann Fiach with bad luck and misery.__NEWL__Sliabhin is also cursed by the Sidhe for committing fratricide, killing his older brother Gaelan to seize Dun Mhor and Gaelan's queen, Moralach.__NEWL__Moralach had two children, Caith and later Brian, both during Gaelan's reign, but Caith was exiled soon after birth to live with Gaelan's cousin Hagan of Dun na nGall.__NEWL__After Sliabhin became king, Moralach hanged herself.__NEWL__Caith grows up believing that Gaelan is his father and when he learns that Sliabhin murdered Gaelan, and that he has a younger brother, now in Sliabhin's hands, he returns to revenge his father's death and rescue Brian.__NEWL__As he passes through Gleann Gleatharan, he is told that Sliabhin raped Moralach and is his real father; this increases his resolve to rid Dun Mhor of Sliabhin and free Brian.__NEWL__Cinnfhail, uneasy that Caith's meddling may disturb Gleann Gleatharan's peace, reluctantly lends Caith his fay horse Dathuil.__NEWL__Dathuil takes Caith straight to the Sidhe wood where he meets Nuallan, of the Sidhe Fair Folk, and Dubhain, a mischievous shapeshifting pooka.__NEWL__They bargain with Caith, who ends up losing everything he has, including Dathuil, in exchange for their help in overthrowing Sliabhin and freeing Brian.__NEWL__Caith and Dubhain, alternating between a black horse and a boy, set off for Dun Mhor.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Cinnfhail's son, Raghallach, rides to the Sidhe-wood to find and assist Caith, but is stopped by Nuallan.__NEWL__At Dun Mhor, Caith and Dubhain are let in and taken to Sliabhin, who shows them Raghallach, captured and tortured.__NEWL__But a discrete smile from Raghallach reveals to Caith that it is actually Nuallan in disguise.__NEWL__Caith and Dubhain themselves are imprisoned, and Caith bargains away his scruples for help from Dubhain in freeing them and rescuing Brian.__NEWL__Dubhain, as the horse, takes Caith through the locked door and down to a cellar containing Brian locked in a cage, a shackled and disfigured Raghallach/Nuallan, and Sliabhin.__NEWL__The chains holding Raghallach suddenly fall away and Nuallan escapes with Brian, leaving Caith to confront Sliabhin.__NEWL__Caith kills Sliabhin, escapes the dun and is taken by Dubhain back to the Sidhe-wood.__NEWL__In the wood, Caith sees a group of Fair Folk around a sleeping Brian, but they will not let Caith near his brother.__NEWL__Nearby Raghallach sits on his horse, frozen-in-time, and Nuallan puts Brian in Raghallach's arms, letting Raghallach believe that he rescued Brian from Dun Mhor.__NEWL__Nuallan then takes Caith into Faery from where Caith looks down on Dun Gorm and sees an older Brian playing happily.__NEWL__Nuallan offers to take Brian's happiness and give it to Caith, but Caith refuses.__NEWL__Caith is returned to the wood where he is cursed with torment for the rest of his life for committing patricide.__NEWL__Not permitted to return to Dun Gorm or Dun Mhor and with nowhere else to go, the wayward Dubhain appears at his side and offers to be his companion.__NEWL__Caith reluctantly agrees.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6423169	Know Ye Not Agincourt?	1936-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5899930	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5899930	The novel is set in fifteenth century England and France.__NEWL__It concerns the adventures of an English squire and his friends, their taking part in the month-long Siege of Harfleur and the Battle of Agincourt, and its bitter consequences for all of them.__NEWL__It ends with a brief and unknowing meeting with the young Joan of Arc.__NEWL__Although written for younger readers, it exhibits some of the high literary quality of the Neustrian trilogy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1559656	Gösta Berlings Saga	1891-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	5893837	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5893837	The hero, Gösta Berling, is a defrocked Lutheran priest who has been saved by the Mistress of Ekeby from freezing to death and thereupon becomes one of her pensioners in the manor at Ekeby.__NEWL__As the pensioners finally get power in their own hands, they manage the property as they themselves see fit and their lives are filled with many wild adventures.__NEWL__Gösta Berling is their leading spirit, the poet, the charming personality among a band of revelers.__NEWL__Before the story ends, Gösta Berling is redeemed, and even the old Mistress of Ekeby is permitted to come to her old home to die.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766432	The Stealers of Dreams	2005-09-08T00:00:00Z	5878550	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5878550	The Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack are on another world, in the year 2775 (Rose's future), where the chips are not quite the same.__NEWL__There are poster-like TV screens everywhere, but the Doctor says the technology is twenty-seventh century, or earlier.__NEWL__The city is growing up, instead of out, while 90% of the planet is jungle.__NEWL__The three of them rent a room for the night, and are given three tablets 'to stop you dreaming.'__NEWL__As Rose flips through the channels of the obligatory TV, all she finds are news and documentaries. '__NEWL__All factual programmes.__NEWL__There's no escapism.__NEWL__No imagination.__NEWL__Nothing that tells a story.' '__NEWL__No lies.' '__NEWL__No fiction.' ... '__NEWL__No wonder this world is stagnated.'__NEWL__The Doctor sees an arrest of 'fiction geeks' in progress on the news and goes to see what he can find out.__NEWL__He tells Officer Waller that he is an inspector with the government, and shows her his psychic paper as proof.__NEWL__She tells him that the planet has no government, and he quickly changes his story to being a researcher for one of the news channels and shows her the psychic paper again.__NEWL__Waller gets a call that Hal Gryden is broadcasting with an approximate location, and the Doctor rides along.__NEWL__As they drive, she explains that on the last call, the police were chasing fantasists who were exchanging comic books.__NEWL__At the last moment, the broadcast signal was lost.__NEWL__Back in the hotel room, Rose hears footsteps in the hall.__NEWL__She goes out to look, and hears a noise come from the cleaner's store cupboard.__NEWL__She opens the door to find a skinny guy about her age, who tries to hide the papers he is holding.__NEWL__He tells her the cops are after him because of the fiction.__NEWL__She says she doesn't care, and takes him back to their room.__NEWL__He says his name is Domnic.__NEWL__In the room, Domnic starts messing with the TV tuning, while Rose looks at the papers he brought.__NEWL__Part of it is a cartoon with a woman who is being chased by zombies.__NEWL__He tells them that he is looking for Static, an unlicensed TV station run by Hal Gryden.__NEWL__Rose fills in Jack about fiction being against the law, and Domnic tells them that people are sent to a Home for the Cognitively Disconnected, with the main one being called the Big White House.__NEWL__Suddenly Domnic gets scared and thinks that Rose and Jack are actually the police and runs for the door.__NEWL__When Rose stops him, he jumps out the window and manages to catch the fire-escape cage and get away safely.__NEWL__The radio tells Waller of another disturbance, where a man is threatening a group of bankers.__NEWL__The Doctor starts talking to him, then Waller takes over and he is arrested and taken to the Big White House.__NEWL__Jack leaves Rose sleeping in the hotel room to see what he can find out about Hal Gryden.__NEWL__He meets a tramp, and they go to a nearby pub.__NEWL__Jack decides the best way to find Gryden is to go out and tell stories, so Gryden will come to him.__NEWL__In the first bar, no one wants to listen, and in the second, the bartender throws them out.__NEWL__But most of the people in the third are interested, even though he is heckled by others accusing him of spreading fiction.__NEWL__Suddenly, the tramp tells Jack that they have to move on.__NEWL__At other pubs, they are starting to be recognized on sight.__NEWL__At the last one, they stay just a bit too long, and are almost caught by the police.__NEWL__They manage to escape and find a hiding place, and the tramp tells Jack that he's Hal Gryden.__NEWL__Rose wakes to hear the end of an editorial broadcast by Static TV, and that a story about zombies is promised for the afternoon.__NEWL__The Doctor is still not back, so she leaves him a note.__NEWL__She and Jack decide that Domnic can be useful to them, so she is going to look for him.__NEWL__As she is headed out the door, she thinks maybe she heard a footstep behind her, and maybe she has seen a zombie, but decides it must be a leftover dream.__NEWL__From the research they'd done online the night before, finding his flat is easy, but no one answers Rose's knock.__NEWL__She is trudging back to the hotel room when he leaps out at her from behind a table in a cafe.__NEWL__He says that the police are watching his flat, and they start walking.__NEWL__Rose thinks she sees another zombie, and they both start running, but Domnic says he thinks he has seen a policewoman.__NEWL__Rose and Domnic find their way into a builder's yard.__NEWL__Rose thinks at first that they should go into the building, but then sees a glimpse of a zombie in a window, and then the gate closes loudly.__NEWL__Suddenly they are surrounded by zombies.__NEWL__The Doctor is at the Big White House with Officer Waller and meets the duty nurse Cal Tyko.__NEWL__They follow him on his rounds and see some of the patients.__NEWL__He won't allow them to view the operating theatres.__NEWL__The man who was arrested earlier is brought in, put in a padded cell, and given an injection to shut down the right hemisphere of his brain.__NEWL__Tyko says 'We've good reason to be afraid of the big bad wolf.'__NEWL__The Doctor heads back to the hotel by himself and hopes that neither Jack nor Rose have done anything unwise while he has been gone.__NEWL__Jack waits in hiding for a long time for Hal Gryden to return; he finally does, and they head off toward one of his secret studios.__NEWL__They enter an old warehouse building, and find the basement is full of boxes of toys.__NEWL__As they make their way upstairs, the police find them.__NEWL__They reach the floor where the studio should be, find nothing, and Jack realizes that the man is just a tramp, and not really Gryden.__NEWL__They are both arrested and taken to the Big White House.__NEWL__Domnic tries to tell Rose that there is nothing there, no zombies, but she doesn't believe him.__NEWL__Suddenly Rose sees the Doctor, and starts up the metal stairs outside the building, dragging Domnic with her.__NEWL__Domnic doesn't see the Doctor, and believes that Rose is 'fantasy-crazy' when she explains about him and the TARDIS.__NEWL__She uses her superphone to call her mum, who is upset with her for being in Cardiff with Mickey and not coming home for a visit.__NEWL__After the call ends, Rose realizes the zombies aren't real, and decides to head back to the hotel.__NEWL__At the hotel, the note that Rose left is still there, untouched.__NEWL__Domnic starts flipping through the TV channels, and they hear many mentions of Hal Gryden.__NEWL__Domnic says this has never happened before - everyone knows who he is, but he's never been officially named anywhere.__NEWL__Rose leaves the room, and Domnic becomes absorbed in the Static channel.__NEWL__The Doctor interrupts him to ask where Rose and Jack are, and Domnic doesn't know, but they find a note from Rose to him saying that she had gone with the Doctor.__NEWL__At the Big White House, Jack decides to act the model inmate.__NEWL__Nurse Tyko is in charge of Jack's admission, but all of the reception cells are full.__NEWL__Jack tells him that the irregular black shape resembling a spaceship is a Rorschach inkblot test, and that the next is also.__NEWL__He is deemed non-violent and sent to Common Room B until he can be formally admitted.__NEWL__When Jack is brought up to an office and interviewed, he gives factual responses.__NEWL__Tyko determines that Jack is not 'fantasy crazy' but that his storytelling was committed with premeditated malicious intent.__NEWL__This means that he cannot be helped through normal methods, and they are going to perform immediate surgery to stop him from doing it again.__NEWL__Rose is in a taxi, stuck in traffic, on her way to the Big White House.__NEWL__The Doctor is with her, but other people don't seem to acknowledge him, the psychic paper isn't working, and the power pack of the sonic screwdriver is in need of charging.__NEWL__They attempt to climb the wall, but are unsuccessful, so they go in the front gate, pretending that the Doctor is a new patient.__NEWL__Once inside the walls, they sneak into a side wing.__NEWL__They are seen, and orderlies take off after both of them, capturing Rose, with the Doctor telling her that he's invisible.__NEWL__The Doctor goes to find Rose, and asks Domnic if he wants to come.__NEWL__They first go to the TARDIS, through the console room, down some corridors and eventually end up in a small round room.__NEWL__He examines Domnic, and finds that there are microorganisms in this world that weren't previously detected.__NEWL__Jack is secured to a cold metal trolley and taken down to the ground floor.__NEWL__Just as the surgeon is about to begin operating, there is a shriek of alarm from outside the room, the orderlies leave, and Jack manages to get free and escape.__NEWL__He takes several key cards and goes back the way he'd come.__NEWL__He sees them taking Rose to a room, and follows.__NEWL__Jack uses a card to enter her room, but Rose thinks Jack is imaginary.__NEWL__She believes he is real when he gives the full title of the Jagrafess.__NEWL__The drugs they gave her are wearing off, so the two of them take the key cards and start letting the patients out.__NEWL__There is rioting all over the city.__NEWL__Officer Waller arrives at the Big White House and finds Captain Jack in charge inside.__NEWL__He flusters her, as his 'demands' aren't typical.__NEWL__Then the Doctor is there, and asks to talk to him, go into the building and try to help.__NEWL__Once the Doctor gets inside, Jack fills him in on what's happening.__NEWL__Rose is in a room, still unsure of herself.__NEWL__The Doctor tells her about the microorganisms, how they feed off electrical activity, and seem to just love the neuroelectro-chemical signals put out by the right side of adult human brains.__NEWL__They create a feedback loop, which passes to the left side and causes a person to become 'fantasy-crazy.'__NEWL__He tells her that now that she understands what is happening, she should be able to fight off the effect.__NEWL__The Doctor hacks into an unused government emergency server, and tells Domnic to find a camera.__NEWL__He is planning to cut into all the channels at once and pretend to be Hal Gryden.__NEWL__The people will then be using the left side of their brains to remember a real person, and things should calm down.__NEWL__The only problem is that the police will storm the building as soon as they see what's happening.__NEWL__Jack says they can give him ten minutes.__NEWL__The Doctor starts his broadcast, and the police head for the building.__NEWL__All of the patients who are able are placed on various floors to keep the police away from the Doctor for as long as possible.__NEWL__He is able to speak for about eight minutes before being arrested with everyone else.__NEWL__The Doctor's speech calms things down on the streets.__NEWL__He had given nurse Tyko the proof of the microorganisms, and the scientists on the planet go to work to find a way to prevent them from causing problems.__NEWL__They find one a fortnight later.__NEWL__Jack and Rose are released from the Big White House almost immediately, and 'Hal Gryden' disappears one night before they can decide what to do with him.__NEWL__The colonists discover that the planet’s name is in fact Arkannis Major, which doesn't really mean much of anything.__NEWL__Fantasy and fiction become more commonplace as people learn to tell the difference.__NEWL__Eventually a new science-fiction programme appears on the colony’s new media networks — the adventures of a mysterious traveller in time and space, known only as Hal Gryden.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5305301	Dragon Venom	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z	5915106	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5915106	Arlian has discovered how to kill the dragons; he now faces an all-out war between dragons and humans.__NEWL__The Dragon Society is split between those loyal to the dragons and those loyal to themselves.__NEWL__Arlian's quest for vengeance will find many secrets of the past, including the origins of the dragons greatest foes...the gods.__NEWL__The secret is quite simple, though the dragons have kept it secret for thousands of years: when a human being – male or female – is injected with dragon venom, he or she becomes a dragonheart (a human carrying a baby dragon), lives for a thousand years and then gives birth to the dragon.__NEWL__But if dragon venom is given to a pregnant woman, then her child will become a god - the one kind of being who can defeat and dominate the dragons.__NEWL__Thousands of years ago, the dragons succeeded in killing the gods who dominated them.__NEWL__Now, Arlian has given dragon venom to his steward's wife who is carrying a child - and her baby becomes a god, bringing back the dragons' most dreaded enemy.__NEWL__ The dragons attack the city, seeking to destroy the newborn god.__NEWL__To protect the baby god, Arlian battles the dragons - killing the three dragons who killed his family and turned him into a dragon heart.__NEWL__During the final confrontation with the dragon who killed Arlian's beloved grandfather - the being which Arlian hated most deeply of all those on whom he sought revenge - Arlian hears for the first time the dragons' own account of themselves, and learns that they are not wantonly murderous and destructive, though it seems so to humans.__NEWL__In fact, the dragons' lot turns out to be quite tragic, and Arlian had done quite a bit to make it more tragic.__NEWL__ __NEWL__In this final struggle with these dragons Arlian becomes badly injured by dragon venom (the only substance that can harm a dragonheart) so mages cut open his heart and remove the dragon within him.__NEWL__He then awakens to find the young god has healed him and at long last ends his quest for vengeance.__NEWL__The specific dragons who killed Arlian's family are dead, and he gives up his quest for revenge on dragons in general and his aim of completely exterminating them.__NEWL__At the end of the story Arlian is joined by his closest friends and for the first time in a long time feels the emotion of love, and is no longer driven by a passion for revenge.__NEWL__However, he keeps hidden the one weapon which can kill a god - just in case it might be once needed...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7686544	Taronga	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	5916209	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5916209	The book begins two years after the Last Days.__NEWL__Ben lives with a callous man named Greg, who uses Ben's powers, which he calls "the Call", to attract game for hunting.__NEWL__Ben feels guilty about leading the animals to their death but faces a beating from Greg if he does not comply.__NEWL__When he finally escapes, he promises not to use the Call again.__NEWL__He breaks this promise less than a day later when he is pursued by a man on horseback.__NEWL__He Calls the horse causing it to fall and crush the man.__NEWL__Seeing the horse suffer, Ben shoots it but leaves the man.__NEWL__Ben then realises there are people in the distance coming closer with guns.__NEWL__Ben runs for his life, fearing capture.__NEWL__Ben decides to return to Sydney, where he once lived with his parents.__NEWL__He travels first on foot, then by bike, using mountain roads to avoid local gang activity.__NEWL__He is joined by a stray dog who would do anything for Ben, having become loyal as they grew close in their travels.__NEWL__As he draws closer to his destination, he hears the Call of something wild and ferocious.__NEWL__When he reaches the city, only then he realizes that the wild Call is coming from Taronga Zoo.__NEWL__He then makes a hard decision to travel to Taronga Zoo to find out what creature could still be so wild and free in a zoo.__NEWL__In Sydney, Ben is chased by a gang.__NEWL__The dog sacrifices itself to give Ben the opportunity to escape, but Ben is still captured.__NEWL__The gang takes Ben to Taronga Zoo, which houses another gang of survivors and is guarded by tigers and other predators.__NEWL__The gang wishes to break into the zoo and plans to use Ben as bait.__NEWL__Inside, Ben is almost attacked by two tigers, Raja and Ranee.__NEWL__He is saved by Ellie, an Aboriginal girl who is in charge of the big cats.__NEWL__She takes him to the community leader, Molly, who allows Ben to stay after he proves that he can also round up and cage the cats.__NEWL__Ben quickly earns the trust of all of the animals except for Raja, the male tiger, who hates Ben for restricting his physical freedom.__NEWL__Although Ben originally sees Taronga as an ideal community, he soon discovers that Molly is a ruthless and selfish leader.__NEWL__When the Sydney gang tries to break into the zoo, Molly divulges her plan to burn Taronga to the ground rather than let another gang occupy it.__NEWL__Ben and Ellie decide to act.__NEWL__Ben convinces the rival gang that he wants to help them break in and they set a date for an ambush.__NEWL__During the next week, Ben and Ellie cut several holes in the outer fence.__NEWL__Some of which are disguise by strong growth of ivy.__NEWL__On the day of the ambush, they set the animals free.__NEWL__The Sydney gang invades the zoo and both gang fight.__NEWL__Ben and Ellie are hinted at being the only survivors together with the animals.__NEWL__Ben once again swears that he will no longer use the Call.__NEWL__When he is later cornered by Raja, he keeps that promise.__NEWL__Despite the threat, Raja does not attack him; instead, he gives Ben a playful swat.__NEWL__Raja and Ranee head towards the Blue Mountains and are followed by Ben and Ellie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3457259	The Two Captains	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15180	Soviet Union	5838375	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5838375	After a postman drowns, Sanya, 8, finds a bag full of letters.__NEWL__As the envelopes are all wet, there is no way to read the addresses and send the letters.__NEWL__A neighbour, Aunt Dasha, reads the letters to anyone willing to listen during the cold winter evenings.__NEWL__Thus Sanya first hears of the lost Arctic expedition that will become the meaning of his life.__NEWL__For now on he is only fascinated by the brave people and their adventures, though he already can understand that the expedition is probably lost and all its participants are dead.__NEWL__Meanwhile, tragedy comes into his own life.__NEWL__One night he goes fishing in the river and witnesses a murder.__NEWL__Next morning his own father is accused of it, the accusation based on the knife with the name of "Grigoryev" beside the victim.__NEWL__Sanya knows that it is he who has lost the knife, but he cannot tell anything because he is mute.__NEWL__Sanya's father is taken to prison and eventually dies there.__NEWL__During the hard and hungry winter of father's being in prison, mother sends Sanya and his sister, also Sanya (he is Alexander__NEWL__and she is Alexandra) to a village to live the two of them all alone.__NEWL__There Sanya meets the Doctor, a runaway revolutionary, who teaches the boy to speak.__NEWL__He disappears three days after his mysterious arrival, but Sanya keeps practicing all winter - only to start speaking when it is told of father's death.__NEWL__Eventually mother comes for the children and takes them home, where they discover she is about to remarry.__NEWL__The stepfather turns out to be cruel and selfish, and he abuses the children heavily.__NEWL__Mother realizes that and soon dies, probably after committing suicide (this is not specified; it could be an accident after which she has no will to live, though suicide is also possible, as to parallel the fates of Sanya and Katya's parents).__NEWL__Sanya then agrees to his best friend Pyetka's urges and the two escape to search for a better life in Turkestan, which they see as a magical land of the East.__NEWL__They give each other a pledge taken from the poem Ulysses of Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield".__NEWL__This pledge always helps Sanya go on.__NEWL__After months of wandering through the winter forests, through war-beaten Russia of the 1917 winter, they end up in the hunger-stricken Moscow.__NEWL__Reality smashes in their faces, they get separated and lose each other for many years.__NEWL__Sanya ends up in an orphanage.__NEWL__In the orphanage he meets two new friends, Valka and Romashka, and also the strict school headmaster, Nikolay Antonich Tatarinov.__NEWL__By chance - or fate - Sanya meets on the street an old woman originating from Sanya's own town, Ensk, and her granddaughter, Katya, of Sanya'a age.__NEWL__He soon realizes that they are his headmaster's family.__NEWL__After breaking the Tatarinov's lactometer, getting into a fight with Katya over that, and Katya's taking the blame, they become best friends and Sanya frequents the Tatarinov house, helping the old woman with the household.__NEWL__He also gets to meet the old woman's daughter, Katya's mother, Maria Vasilyevna, a mysterious sad woman.__NEWL__But one day, just after Sanya's beloved teacher, Korabliov, proposes to Maria Vasilyevna and gets a refusal, he overhears the teachers' cruel plot to destroy Korabliov, because he has gained the students' love and respect and has become more popular than the headmaster, and Sanya tells him of the plot.__NEWL__Nikolay Antonich discovers of Sanya's intervention (as it is discovered years later - through Romashka) and banishes him out of the house.__NEWL__Years later, in the last school year, Sanya meets Katya again and realizes that he is in love with her.__NEWL__But Romashka spies on him kiss Katya and tells Nikolay Antonich.__NEWL__Nikolay Antonich sends Katya back to Ensk, but Sanya goes after her, thus visiting home, the beloved Aunt Dasha and the abandoned little sister for the first time since his escape.__NEWL__He finds the old letters and is shocked: only now does he realize that the mysterious letters of his childhood deal with no other than Katya's lost father, the Captain Tatarinov, one of them is actually from him - the last letters ever to have arrived, the letters Katya's mother has never seen.__NEWL__His letter clearly indicates that it was him who first discovered Severnaya Zemlya.__NEWL__But there is more: in his letter Katya's father accuses Nikolay Antonich of destroying the expedition, of doing everything to make it fail and the people never to return.__NEWL__But that page is missing: Sanya remembers it by heart, and his proof is a nickname that Katya's mother used to call Katya's father - Sanya could not have guessed or invented that nickname.__NEWL__Maria Vasilyevna believes Sanya.__NEWL__However, by now she is married to Nikolay Antonich, because she till now believed, according to his own words, that he actually was the great benefactor of the expedition, accusing the Captain, his cousin, to always have been a good-for-nothing who never succeeded in anything he tried to do.__NEWL__She believes Sanya - and commits suicide.__NEWL__Katya turns away from Sanya, Nikolay Antonich having convinced her and all the others that Sanya only slanders him.__NEWL__Sanya then swears to find the expedition and prove that he is right.__NEWL__Sanya finishes school and fulfills his first dream - he becomes an Arctic pilot.__NEWL__While working in the North he meets again with the doctor who taught him to speak and discovers that the doctor possesses the diaries of the expedition's navigator.__NEWL__Sanya reads the diaries, but they do not contain any proof of Sanya's being right.__NEWL__One day, during a mission, Sanya and the doctor make a forced landing in a northern village, where they find a hook from Santa Maria, Captain Tatarinov's ship.__NEWL__An old native tells Sanya a ten-year-old story about himself finding a boat with a dead man in it.__NEWL__This is a proof that someone from the expedition has reached mainland, and that the remnants should be searched for in this region.__NEWL__Sanya comes back to Moscow and meets Katya again.__NEWL__He also meets a man who has to do with the expedition's organization, and his story, and the papers he has, are the lost proof.__NEWL__Korabliov tells all this to Katya and she realizes that Sanya was right.__NEWL__Sanya organizes a search expedition and leaves to the North again, as his leave is over.__NEWL__Later in the year Sanya and Katya meet in Leningrad to get married and also to meet Sanya's sister and her husband, Sanya's best friend Pyetka, and be with them at the birth of their first son.__NEWL__But the sister is very ill during the birth and soon dies of complications.__NEWL__The search expedition is cancelled, probably through the efforts of Nikolay Antonich, who refuses to acknowledge his guilt, saying he will only accept one witness - the captain himself.__NEWL__Instead, Sanya is sent to the battlefields of the Civil War in Spain.__NEWL__When he returns, Sanya and Katya plan on finally starting their life together, but by then it's 1941 and the Germans invade Russia.__NEWL__Katya remains in Leningrad and is soon trapped in the blockade.__NEWL__During that horrid time Sanya's old enemy, Romashka, who has always been Nikolay Antonich's ally and all his life tried to harm Sanya, finds Katya.__NEWL__He tells her of meeting with the wounded Sanya on a bombed echelon and his apparent attempt to save Sanya's life.__NEWL__But after she finds in his pocket Sanya's documents, she starts thinking that Romashka has killed Sanya.__NEWL__Already starved and ill, she faints and gets worse.__NEWL__A friend manages, after many efforts, to send her away from the seized Leningrad.__NEWL__Sanya, meanwhile, is not dead.__NEWL__It is true that he met Romashka on a bombed echelon, but Romashka abandoned him and ran away by himself, leaving Sanya, badly wounded in his legs and unable to move, to die in a forest under fire.__NEWL__Sanya manages to crawl out of the forest and is tended back to health by two little boys, and then goes to a field hospital.__NEWL__Upon leaving the hospital he is told that he will never fly again.__NEWL__Sanya tries to locate Katya but cannot find her trace, and starts believing that she is dead.__NEWL__Meanwhile, he is called back to fight, this time on the Northern front.__NEWL__He overcomes his condemnation and starts to fly again, bombing German ships invading the Northern Sea.__NEWL__During one of these fights he is forced to make a landing and thus finds the remnants of the expedition, and the Captain's last letters, clearly stating that all the blame is on Nikolay Antonich.__NEWL__He also finds the Captain himself, frozen to death 29 years ago.__NEWL__One day he goes to visit his friend the Doctor and surprisingly meets Katya, who has come to the North in search for him.__NEWL__Sanya organizes a lecture about Captain Tatarinov and his achievements, and Nikolay Antonich is banished.__NEWL__Captain Tatarinov is buried with all honors on a shore facing the land he has discovered, and all ships passing through can see the engraving: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719212	The Book of Dave	2006-06-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5839363	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5839363	The island in the novel is inspired by the hilltop town of Hampstead in London and its famous parkland Hampstead Heath.__NEWL__In the book, Self describes a future England which has been inundated with rising seas, leaving Hampstead as the only remaining part of London.__NEWL__The inhabitants of this area, unaware that the drowned city of London is so close by, know their island as Ham.__NEWL__The geography of the island, illustrated in a map at the start of the book, bears close resemblance to the modern areas of Hampstead which inspired it.__NEWL__Dave Rudman, a London taxi-driver, has a casual sexual encounter with a young woman named Michelle Brodie.__NEWL__The pair do not meet for another seven months until a heavily pregnant Michelle arrives at Dave's flat.__NEWL__They marry, and Michelle gives birth to a boy, Carl, but the marriage is unsuccessful, and Michelle eventually files for divorce, after which she resumes an earlier relationship with the television producer Cal Devenish.__NEWL__Dave descends into depression and increasingly unstable behaviour, and Michelle forbids him contact with their son, Carl.__NEWL__Dave writes a book that consists partly of an account of cab-driving in London, and partly of a rant against the unfairness of divorce and child access legislation.__NEWL__He has a single copy of the book printed on metal plates and buries it in the garden of the house in Hampstead where Michelle lives with Cal and Carl.__NEWL__Dave suffers a breakdown, and comes under the care of the psychiatrist Anthony Bohm.__NEWL__Despite discovering that Carl is actually Cal's son, Dave slowly recovers his sanity and, during a stay in hospital, forms a relationship with Phyllis Vance, the mother of Steve, another patient.__NEWL__Dave regrets the content of his book, and attempts to dig it up from the Hampstead garden, but fails.__NEWL__Dave moves into Phyllis's cottage on the fringes of outer London and, under her guidance, writes a second book that repudiates the content of the first, and recommends a life based on tolerance and freedom.__NEWL__He mails the new book to Carl, but shortly afterwards is confronted at the cottage by loan sharks to whom he is heavily indebted.__NEWL__Dave brandishes a shotgun but is fatally injured in a struggle with the men, who arrange the scene to make the death look like suicide – an arrangement that is readily believed by Phyllis and the police.__NEWL__Carl and Cal then place Dave's second book in a metal film canister and bury it in their garden.__NEWL__On the isolated island of Ham, a tiny community ekes out an existence from the land, assisted by semi-intelligent pig-like creatures known as 'motos' that are unique to the island.__NEWL__The community lives according to the severely enforced religion of the country known as "Ing" (i.e. England) whereby men and women lead separate lives but share childcare in accordance with the dictates of the Book of Dave, which is regarded as a sacred text, but which is evidently the book written by Dave Rudman and buried in a Hampstead garden some two thousand years earlier.__NEWL__A young male 'Hamster', Symun Devush, explores a forbidden area of the island and emerges claiming that he has discovered a second Book of Dave that repudiates the tenets of the first.__NEWL__Although Symun's revelations are popular, and he is lauded throughout the country as a prophet, religious authorities from the reconstructed city of New London send a deposition that arrests Symun on a charge of heresy (or 'flying') and transports him to New London, where he is physically and mentally broken, his tongue torn out, and returned to live in isolation on the desolate outcrop of land known as Nimar, not far from Ham.__NEWL__Before being arrested, Symun conceives a son, Carl, who becomes an object of interest to Antone Böm, an exiled heretic.__NEWL__Böm believes that the second book of Dave discovered by Symun may be buried on the island, but his search for the book is a failure.__NEWL__Carl and Böm travel to New London in order to determine the fate of Symun and the second book but, soon after their arrival, the pair are arrested and sentenced to death.__NEWL__They escape, and discover Symun's fate on Nimar.__NEWL__Upon returning to Nimar, however, they find that Symun has died, and that his belongings include no second book but only a metal container filled with rotten debris.__NEWL__They return to Ham, where another delegation from New London is brutally mistreating the population and slaughtering the motos.__NEWL__As one of the Hamsters rebels against the slaughter, Carl and Böm reveal themselves.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2632128	Inkdeath	2007-09-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	5870181	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5870181	The plot resumes a few weeks after Inkspell left off; Farid and Meggie's mission of bringing Dustfinger, who died at the end of Inkspell, back to life.__NEWL__Inkdeath picks up with the now immortal, but slowly decaying, evil Adderhead, ruler of the southern part of the Inkworld, his brother-in-law the Milksop king of Ombra, and his trusty right-hand man, The Piper, ruling over the city of Ombra and the small villages around it.__NEWL__They set harsher taxes and loot what they can from the villages.__NEWL__The three Folcharts, Meggie, Resa, and Mortimer, along with an unborn Folchart child, reside at a peaceful abandoned farm that has long been forgotten by others.__NEWL__Farid, who has given up his fire after the death of Dustfinger, works for an increasingly wealthy Orpheus.__NEWL__Orpheus treats him like a slave while promising that he will read a dead Dustfinger back to life.__NEWL__Fenoglio, the author, gives up writing at the beginning of the book and grows increasingly drunken and senile.__NEWL__He is immensely annoyed at how Orpheus is changing Inkworld and asking his never-ending questions about the "White Women".__NEWL__Ombra is under constant threat by the Adderhead's men, who have killed nearly every young adult male in the city and regularly kidnap children to work them in the mines.__NEWL__The only figure standing in their way is the romanticized "Bluejay", a thief created by Fenoglio in a series of songs that were inspired by Mo who is now "stuck" as the "Bluejay" and is in as much trouble as ever.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Orpheus, who has been tediously changing the story, succeeds in calling a meeting of the robber graveyard to get the Bluejay to bring Dustfinger back to life and die in the process.__NEWL__Mo agrees, and summons the White women, who bring him to the world of the dead for what turns out to be three days.__NEWL__During this time, Meggie believes her father is dead and becomes furious with both Farid and her mother, Resa.__NEWL__In the world of the dead, Mo meets Death itself, who makes a bargain with Mo: Death will release Dustfinger from her grasp and Mo as well, as long as Mo finishes what he started, and writes the three words in the White Book, the book that makes the Adderhead immortal.__NEWL__If he does not succeed, Death will take him, Dustfinger, and Meggie, as she was partially involved in the binding of The White Book.__NEWL__He awakens from the world of death, bringing Dustfinger with him.__NEWL__They are now both nearly fearless, Dustfinger is now scarless, and they are both inseparable from each other.__NEWL__Mo finds himself enjoying the Bluejay role, and has no intention of leaving Inkworld despite Meggie and Resa's urgings.__NEWL__Meggie finds herself increasingly distanced from Farid, and drawn to another young man named Doria, a member of the Black Prince's robber camp.__NEWL__The plot picks up when nearly all of the children of Ombra are kidnapped by The Piper and threatened to be taken to the mines where they will surely die.__NEWL__Mo, now known almost exclusively as the Bluejay, cannot accept this and frees them by giving himself up in exchange.__NEWL__He discovers that the Adderhead's daughter, Violante, known as Her Ugliness, wishes to take his side in the matter.__NEWL__She gets him back safely to the robbers' camp while keeping her allegiance a secret from The Piper and her young son Jacopo, a follower of the Adderhead and admirer of the Piper.__NEWL__The Piper is sent to follow after the children.__NEWL__The Milksop goes after the group of robbers, but Fenoglio saves them by writing giant human nests up in the trees.__NEWL__Mo goes off in secret with Dustfinger, Violante, and her legion of child soldiers to the castle in the lake, where the white book is kept.__NEWL__In the meantime, Orpheus has put himself in the service of the Adderhead, in the hopes of picking the winning team but doesn't because Mo has a few tricks up his sleeve.__NEWL__He is also plagued by visits from a now insane Mortola, who still works for the return of her dead son, Capricorn.__NEWL__The Bluejay and Dustfinger face difficulty at the castle, and their plans go awry.__NEWL__Mo, Dustfinger, and Brianna, Dustfinger's daughter, are all eventually imprisoned.__NEWL__For Brianna's sake, Dustfinger momentarily betrays Mo.__NEWL__At this point, Resa arrives in the form of a Swift, saves Mo from going insane, and restates Dustfinger's allegiance.__NEWL__Resa and Dustfinger search for The White Book unsuccessfully while the Bluejay, who has been captured again by the Piper, works on creating a new white book for the Adderhead.__NEWL__Jacopo betrays his grandfather, the Adderhead, by giving Mo the original white book so that he is able to write the three words, thus killing the Adderhead.__NEWL__Inkdeath concludes as Orpheus, finding himself on the losing end, flees to the northern mountains, Fenoglio is writing again, and Farid decides to go traveling with his regained power of fire, asking if Meggie would join him.__NEWL__Meggie, now in love with Doria, bids Farid farewell and good luck.__NEWL__Violante, now known as Her Kindliness, becomes ruler of Ombra, and a new Folchart, a boy, is born into Inkworld, longing to visit the world that his parents and sister were born in, with its horseless carriages and flying machines.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718751	The Blue Djinn of Babylon	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5870454	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5870454	In the year 2005, at the end of October, at Halloween, Phillipa wanted to be a witch and John wanted to be a Dracula with real blood.__NEWL__They lived at 77 East 77th Street in New York.__NEWL__After having promised their mother, Layla, not to use their djinn powers without consulting her first, John and Philippa are leading pretty normal lives.__NEWL__When Phillipa enters the Djinnverso tournament (also called Djinnversoctoannular, a djinn game of bluffing with 7 astaralgi, or 8 sided dice, the object being to undermine luck) unbidden events are set into motion and she is framed as a cheater.__NEWL__The twins also learn that the famed book, Solomon's Grimoire, which is in the care of Ayesha, the Blue Djinn of Babylon and the ruler of all six tribes of djinn, has been stolen.__NEWL__The Grimoire gives anyone who uses its spells vast control over a djinn.__NEWL__The twins go in search of the missing book, leading them into more danger and adventures.__NEWL__It turns out that Solomon's Grimoire is not missing, but instead was being used as a trap for Philippa.__NEWL__Ayesha, the twins' grandmother (whom they do not know of until the end of the book), wished to kidnap Philippa so that she would be the next Blue Djinn, as Ayesha's life was rapidly expiring.__NEWL__Jockeying for her position was Mimi de Ghulle, a wicked djinn from the tribe of Ghul; however, she is having little success.__NEWL__John goes in search of Philippa, who is being held at the Blue Djinn's secret palace in Babylon.__NEWL__The twin's favorite uncle, Nimrod, also goes in search of an acceptable alternative to Philippa as the next Blue Djinn.__NEWL__The book alternates between John's search for Philippa, told in third person narration, and Philippa's experiences, told in first person in the form of a diary.__NEWL__Philippa discovers that the Blue Djinn's powers to be beyond good and evil come from the Garden of Eden's Tree of Logic.__NEWL__Slowly Philippa loses her humanity as the Tree has greater and greater effects on her.__NEWL__John, in his search, faces numerous obstacles in finding and reaching the palace.__NEWL__He is aided by two of his uncles, Alan and Neil, who were turned into dogs by his mother for attempting the murder of their brother, John and Philippa's father, Edward, for his fortune.__NEWL__In addition, John attains a copy of The Bellili Scrolls, a map to the palace, and of its underground locale, Iravotum.__NEWL__The book climaxes when John reaches the palace and manages to rescue Philippa.__NEWL__However, during their traversal of Iravotum, Alan and Neil attack a large bird, called the Rukkh, that was attacking the group, biting its legs.__NEWL__However, the dogs did not let go, and fell to the ground, killing them.__NEWL__It is later revealed that Layla's binding of the human Alan and Neil would last only as long as the physical bodies of the dogs they inhabit, leaving the human Alan and Neil alive.__NEWL__The twins join Nimrod and Groanin in a restaurant, called Kebabylon, in Iraq, near Iravotum.__NEWL__A reporter introduced earlier in the book is also present.__NEWL__The reporter, Montana Retch, is actually a djinn tracker hired by Mimi de Ghulle to eliminate Philippa, so that Mimi would be the only candidate for the post of Blue Djinn.__NEWL__After Layla appears, having been summoned by the transformation of Alan and Neil, she transforms Montana Retch into a cat, reversing her previous vow never to use djinn power again.__NEWL__It is revealed to the reader, but not John and Philippa, that Ayesha did not wish Philippa to be the next Blue Djinn; she wanted Layla.__NEWL__However, Layla had refused, prompting Ayesha to kidnap Philippa to use as a bargaining tool.__NEWL__As Ayesha knew she would, Layla offered herself to become the next Blue Djinn in place of Philippa; Nimrod is also privy to this due to his own conclusions.__NEWL__The novel ends with the children still not knowing, but as Layla knows Ayesha's life is rapidly ending, must tell her children the reason Ayesha did not pursue them after escaping and leave forever to assume her post as the cold-hearted Blue Djinn of Babylon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5272399	Dicey's Song	1982-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5870671	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5870671	Picking up where Homecoming left off, Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings, Sammy, Maybeth, and James, are now living with their crazy and widowed grandmother Abigail Tillerman, or Gram as the children call her, on her farm just outside Crisfield, Maryland.__NEWL__Because the Tillermans' mom just left them in the parking lot in Provincetown, the children have the chance to start living a completely new life in their new family home, even though several of the major issues of Homecoming are not resolved.__NEWL__Dicey has trouble letting go of her siblings enough to let Gram take over as the parent character.__NEWL__She also worries about her mother Liza, who is catatonic and seriously ill in a psychiatric hospital in Boston.__NEWL__While in their new school, the Tillermans make several new friends: Mr. Lingerle, the elementary school's music teacher, who begins giving Maybeth piano lessons; Mina, a friendly African-American girl who goes to school with Dicey; and Jeff, a high school student who likes to play the guitar.__NEWL__To help Gram support the family, Dicey starts to work for Millie Tydings, the owner of the local grocery store, whom Gram has known since childhood.__NEWL__Gram soon comes to terms with having to accept Social Security payments to help with the costs of raising her four grandchildren.__NEWL__She also must confront and reexamine her past, particularly her relationship with her deceased husband and her three children.__NEWL__Gram refuses to discuss her past with the children, and their attempts to find out about it by climbing into the attic are met with anger.__NEWL__As the children settle into the routines of their new school and after-school jobs, Gram receives a number of letters from the psychiatric hospital in which the children's catatonic mother resides.__NEWL__The letters do not appear to bring hopeful news, although Gram does not discuss their contents with the children.__NEWL__Dicey is frustrated that Gram will not open up and talk about her past, or their mother's past as a child growing up with her two siblings in the same house that Dicey and her brothers and sister are now living.__NEWL__She is also frustrated that her grandmother will not tell her what is in the letters from Boston, beyond the fact that her mother is no better.__NEWL__In December, the psychiatric hospital in Boston calls and informs Gram that Liza is in a critical state and may not live much longer.__NEWL__Dicey and Gram travel to Boston, and find Liza catatonic, not responding to any treatment.__NEWL__Liza soon dies and, since they can't afford the cost of a funeral or of transporting Liza's body from Boston to Crisfield, Gram and Dicey decide to cremate her.__NEWL__Dicey is given a hand-carved wooden box by the owner of a local gift store who is touched by her situation.__NEWL__When Dicey and Gram arrive back in Crisfield, the family buries the wooden box containing their mother's ashes under the paper mulberry tree in their front yard, which to the Tillermans is important to the family because of its fragility and beauty.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6412400	King of the Wind	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5870871	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5870871	As the fast of Ramadan is ending in Morocco, Agba, a mute slave boy, tends to his favorite Arabian mare, who gives birth that night.__NEWL__The colt has a white spot on his hind heel, considered the emblem of swiftness and good luck, but it also has a wheat ear on his chest, symbolizing bad luck.__NEWL__The mare dies within a few days, but Sham matures into a promising racehorse.__NEWL__Later, the Sultan summons six horseboys to his palace, including Agba, and charges them to accompany six horses to France.__NEWL__The horses are to be given as gifts to the French King Louis XV.__NEWL__The horseboy is to remain with that horse until the horse's death, then return to Morocco.__NEWL__When the racehorses arrive in France, they are frowned upon by the French, who believe that they are not 'lusty' enough to be racehorses.__NEWL__Sham becomes a kitchen horse, but he is so disobedient that the cook sells him to a carter.__NEWL__Agba becomes a servant to Sham's new owner and meets Grimalkin the cat along the way.__NEWL__Sham is bought by a Quaker man and taken to England.__NEWL__When Sham refuses to let the Quaker's nephew ride him, his owner sells him to an inn.__NEWL__Agba is jailed when he is caught sneaking into the inn to see Sham, but the Quaker's housekeeper bails him out, and both Sham and Agba are released into the service of the Earl of Godolphin.__NEWL__ The Earl treats Sham as a workhorse, albeit kindly.__NEWL__A mare Lady Roxana, meant to be a mate for the horse Hobgoblin, arrives.__NEWL__Sham successfully fights Hobgoblin for her.__NEWL__She enjoys Sham's company, but the Earl is embarrassed by the incident.__NEWL__He orders Sham, Agba, and Grimalkin to live in Wicken Fen, and they depart.__NEWL__Two years later, the Earl's Chief Groom comes to see Agba and reveals that Lady Roxana gave birth to Sham's son Lath, who was left untrained.__NEWL__One day, Lath jumped a fence and outran some of the colts that the Earl was training.__NEWL__The trio return to Godolphin, and Sham is named the Godolphin Arabian.__NEWL__After the Earl reveals that he is near bankruptcy, they race Sham's sons at Newmarket.__NEWL__The sons win the races and the Queen's purse, thus repairing the Earl's fortunes and establishing Sham as one of the founding stallions of English track racing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7774584	The White Stag	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5870930	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5870930	The White Stag opens after the fall of the Biblical Tower of Babel.__NEWL__Nimrod is waiting for his two sons, Hunor and Magyar, to return.__NEWL__They rode away after a mysterious white stag that appeared seven months ago.__NEWL__Afraid they will never return and his people will be left leaderless, the old man offers a sacrifice to their god, Hadur—his war horse.__NEWL__Immediately his sons return with meat for the hungry people.__NEWL__As they tell the story of their chase of the white stag, Nimrod realizes it is now time for them to take over leading their people, and he throws himself on the altar.__NEWL__Now Hunor and Magyar lead the people in a search for their promised land, following the white stag they can never catch.__NEWL__Later they meet and marry the Moonmaidens, and live contentedly for fifteen years.__NEWL__Eventually the game deserts them, and the people move on. "__NEWL__Like a sharp wedge they had driven themselves into Europe and now they were surrounded by enemies; they had to go on or perish.__NEWL__" This time they have to fight many groups who live in the lands they travel through, and the people begin to quarrel.__NEWL__Hunor is strong and hard, while Magyar is quieter and more learned.__NEWL__Though both brothers still lead, the people are becoming divided and now identify themselves as Huns or Magyars, depending on which brother they most respect.__NEWL__Magyar wants to find a less populated land, but Hunor leads them into more fighting.__NEWL__Finally the two groups split.__NEWL__The Magyars stay behind and Hunor's son, Bendeguz, and grandson, Atilla, lead the Huns west.__NEWL__When they find themselves at a dead-end during a blinding snow storm, the White Stag appears to show them a path through the mountains to their promised land, modern-day Hungary.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7361037	Roller Skates	1936-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5870941	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5870941	Roller Skates opens with the narrator remembering back to a special year in the 1890s, when young Lucinda Wyman arrives at the Misses Peters' home in New York City; the two ladies will care for her during the year of Lucinda's parents' trip to Italy.__NEWL__The narrator's diaries help her remember the details of 10-year-old Lucinda's "orphanage," as she calls it.__NEWL__Miss Peters, a teacher, is "a person of great understanding, no nonsense, and no interference.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Miss Nettie is shy and soft-hearted.__NEWL__Living with them Lucinda experiences unprecedented freedom, exploring the city on roller skates and making friends with all types of people.__NEWL__Lucinda quickly gets to know Mr. Gilligan the hansom cab driver and Patrolman M'Gonegal.__NEWL__The first friend of her own age is Tony Coppino, son of an Italian fruit stand owner.__NEWL__Lucinda enlists Officer M'Gonegal to stop the bullies who knock down Tony's father's fruit-stand and steal the fruit.__NEWL__In return Tony takes her for a city picnic where they meet a rag-and-bone man.__NEWL__Later Lucinda reads Shakespeare with her favorite uncle and is inspired to put on a puppet production of The Tempest.__NEWL__But the cold and snow of winter keep her cooped up indoors, and eventually a restless Lucinda acts out and gets sent home from school in disgrace.__NEWL__Later her uncle introduces her to Shakespeare's tragedies, and she experiences her own when two of her friends die.__NEWL__With Lucinda's parents coming back from Italy, she realizes everything is changing, so she skates to the park one last time.__NEWL__"How would you like to stay always ten?"__NEWL__she muses.__NEWL__"That's what I'd call a perfectly elegant idea!"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4750180	An Old Captivity	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5884364	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5884364	The principal character is a young Scottish pilot with bush-flying experience in Canada, Donald Ross, who is hired by an Oxford don, Cyril Lockwood, to pilot an air survey mission of Brattalid in Greenland.__NEWL__Lockwood's interest is in the early Viking seafarers and their exploits, and although he appears to have little knowledge of the needs of such a project, he insists on their starting as soon as possible, with his elder brother David, a businessman, providing finance.__NEWL__Ross, as the hired expert, then has to contend with the 'helpful' suggestions from both the financier and Lockwood's young daughter, Alix.__NEWL__This causes early tensions in the preparatory stages.__NEWL__While the preliminary dig is ongoing Ross shoulders much responsibility including keeping the aircraft safe in a tidal zone.__NEWL__Worn out with the expedition's work – all of which has fallen solely on him – and a prolonged lack of sleep induced by worry over the expedition, he enters a coma induced by the sleeping tablets he has been forced to take to keep going, and in it dreams that he and Alix were once Scottish slaves aboard Leif Ericson's vessel on its voyage of discovery to Greenland.__NEWL__A part of this dream includes the leaving behind by the two slaves of a stone, with their names carved on it, at the Viking explorers' landing point in North America.__NEWL__Ross recovers and tells Alix and the don of his dreams.__NEWL__The last remnant of photographic survey is successfully completed, and the three complete their air crossing to North America, making landfall in eastern Canada.__NEWL__Flying down the coast towards New York Ross recognizes where he dreamed Leif Ericson's expedition landed on the coast of Cape Cod; they land to investigate and find the stone with the slaves' names on it.__NEWL__The technical details of a trans-Atlantic flight of this period (late 1930s) are accurate and of interest.__NEWL__The type of aircraft is a fictional radial-engined floatplane intended for bush use, made by a fictional Detroit firm named Cosmos.__NEWL__It corresponds roughly to the performance of a Noorduyn Norseman.__NEWL__This was Shute's first attempt at re-incarnation as a plot, a second later work on this theme is In the Wet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6278902	Joris of the Rock	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5888514	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5888514	The novel is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).__NEWL__Overlapping the events of the previous novel, Gerfalcon, it follows the fortunes of roguish protagonist Joris, his paramour, Red Anne, and Joris's illegitimate son Juhel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q519935	Immortality, Inc.	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5845336	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5845336	The novel starts with its protagonist, Thomas Blaine, waking in an operating room during the procedure to give him a new host body and thus a new life.__NEWL__He is then soon conscious and aware of the fact he is living in the year 2110, a result of his mind being transferred into a new host body and the procedure completed.__NEWL__He must then learn to live with his new circumstances, as his last living moments were in 1958 and an existential struggle ensues with the new world he now finds himself living in.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7978044	Weapon	1989-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5846068	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5846068	The novel describes a new weapon system being developed for the US military, named Solo.__NEWL__A robot, Solo is designed to replace human soldiers in battle.__NEWL__It is humanoid in shape, in order to allow it to use all the military vehicles and equipment human soldiers do.__NEWL__Solo is capable of feats of great speed, strength and endurance.__NEWL__Most importantly, Solo is governed by a neural network computer which is able to learn and think much as a human brain does.__NEWL__The robot's designer recognises that this could potentially make Solo as unpredictable and difficult to control as any human is; the military therefore insist that Solo be told a carefully edited version of world history and politics in which the United States are in all cases the unambiguously "good guys" and winners of all conflicts - for example Solo is told that the US won a clear victory in the Vietnam War.__NEWL__Despite his indoctrination, Solo begins to display what his designers consider aberrant behaviour.__NEWL__He begins to question and occasionally refuse his orders.__NEWL__For example, on one training session Solo is assigned to shoot a human target in a sniper mission.__NEWL__He is told that the mission and target are real, and that he is to genuinely kill the person.__NEWL__He point blank refuses to do so.__NEWL__More worryingly to his designers, Solo is not entirely forthcoming about his reasons for such hesitancy.__NEWL__On another training mission Solo is lost; he is discovered by a group of Nicaraguan villagers who although initially fearful of him, come to trust the robot and depend on his protection.__NEWL__The novel details Solo's developing friendship with the villagers, whilst the US military attempts to recapture him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3693209	Cover Her Face	1962-12-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23240	Essex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5916631	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5916631	The story opens with a dinner party hosted by Mrs. Eleanor Maxie at Martingale, a medieval manor house in the (fictional) Essex village of Chadfleet.__NEWL__Mrs. Maxie's son and daughter, Stephen Maxie and Deborah Riscoe, are both at the party.__NEWL__Serving at the party is Sally Jupp, an unmarried mother with an infant son, who was employed by Mrs. Maxie.__NEWL__Deborah later goes to London and visits Stephen at the hospital where he works and sees her brother talking with Sally.__NEWL__Stephen says that Sally brought him some of their terminally ill father's tablets, which she found on old Mr. Maxie's bed.__NEWL__Stephen suspects that Mr. Maxie manages to deceive his devoted servant Martha, pretending to take his tablets when he is simply hiding them in his bed.__NEWL__On the day of St. Cedd's church fete, Sally announces that Stephen has asked her to marry him.__NEWL__The following day, Martha complains that Sally has overslept again.__NEWL__On entering the room, Sally's lifeless body is found.__NEWL__Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh and Detective Sergeant Martin arrive and begin their investigation.__NEWL__It emerges that Sally had been secretly married to James Ritchie, who has a successful job in Venezuela, but he returns to England after her death.__NEWL__Sally had blackmailed her uncle (who unbeknownst to her had spent her modest trust fund) into giving her 30 pounds.__NEWL__She had pretended to be an unmarried mother because revealing the marriage would jeopardise her husband's job and she liked to 'play with people'.__NEWL__She revealed Stephen Maxie's proposal of marriage for the same reason, although it is notable that she had not accepted it.__NEWL__Martha had been regularly drugging Sally at night so that she would oversleep, be discredited, and eventually dismissed.__NEWL__It is Mrs. Eleanor Maxie who eventually confesses to the murder of Sally Jupp after Dalgliesh reveals everyone's movements on the night.__NEWL__It is clear, through a process of elimination, that only she could be the culprit.__NEWL__The novel ends with a meeting between Adam Dalgliesh and Deborah Riscoe.__NEWL__It is hinted that a relationship will develop between Adam and Deborah.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7077532	Odds On	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5923547	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5923547	It describes an attempt of robbery in an isolated hotel on Costa Brava.__NEWL__The robbery is planned with the help of a Critical Path Analysis computer program, but unforeseen events get in the way.__NEWL__The three Americans needed cover, as lone men stood out.__NEWL__So each decided he would pick up a girl, and mingle with the crowd.__NEWL__The women were irrelevant, as the men's real interest was the hotel's safe, which would net them a million dollars in jewels, cash, and traveler's checks.__NEWL__The crime was brilliantly conceived.__NEWL__It was masterminded by a modern computer.__NEWL__But when they forgot the biggest risk of all—the women, and sex.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3828680	4th of July	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5846447	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5846447	Police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer takes leave from the force after being sued for wrongful death after a recent shootout.__NEWL__She stays at her sister’s house in Half Moon Bay, and reads about murders that resemble one that haunted her for 10 years.__NEWL__She joins with the local police to solve the murders, while dreading her awaiting trial.__NEWL__When Lindsay Boxer gets a lead on a recent murder of two teenagers, she responds to the call and joins Warren Jacobi on a stakeout of a Mercedes.__NEWL__When the car takes off, a high speed chase ends in a crash.__NEWL__The officers discover two teenagers in their father’s car, who are scared and have been hurt.__NEWL__They help them out, but the teens pull guns and both officers are shot.__NEWL__After being hit in the shoulder and thigh, and seeing Jacobi shot twice, Boxer returns fire.__NEWL__The girl is killed, and the boy is paralyzed for life.__NEWL__As Boxer and Jacobi are recovering in the hospital, they are told that everything is legally good, that it was a case of self-defense.__NEWL__Then, Boxer receives a notice she is being sued by the teenagers' father for wrongful death.__NEWL__Taking a vacation before the trial starts, Boxer housesits for her sister in Half Moon Bay.__NEWL__While there she reads about recent murders in which the victims’ throats were cut and they were whipped.__NEWL__This resembles an unsolved case from before, so Boxer begins to investigate informally.__NEWL__After a few days, the Half Moon Bay police chief tells her to mind her own business, but reconsiders when the next bodies are found.__NEWL__Boxer meets with her friends to try to determine a link between victims as her trial date approaches.__NEWL__Boxer is found not guilty, and instead of returning to work right away, goes back to Half Moon Bay, determined to solve the recent murders.__NEWL__She is only there a day when the killers leave her a message by shooting up the house.__NEWL__She gets out and follows more clues, discovering that pornography was the common denominator; all stricken families had been victims or producers of porno videos; then finally catches up with a guy who has been following her, a Keith Howard, who had sold her a car and who she liked a lot until then.__NEWL__He is arrested and provoked about his incapability of being a cruel criminal, he can't resist and confesses to the killings.__NEWL__It is not until Alison Brown, her friend’s daughter, shows up at her house that Boxer catches the other two killers, the very same Carolee Brown and Bob Hinton, a local lawyer.__NEWL__They are part of a vigilante group of former sex victims who take the law into their own hands.__NEWL__After they are all arrested, Boxer returns to San Francisco a double hero, for winning the trial and solving the murders.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7776605	The Year of the Hangman	2004-02-09T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5846560	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5846560	Creighton Brown is an adolescent living in Britain in 1777.__NEWL__He often gets into trouble, much to the concern of his mother.__NEWL__One night, after drinking and gambling with his peers, Creighton is kidnapped by a group of men and taken aboard a boat.__NEWL__He cries out for help, but is struck in the face, and passes out.__NEWL__Upon waking up, Creighton finds that the ship is already on the open ocean and heading for the Colonies.__NEWL__He is also informed that his mother is behind his kidnapping, having sent a letter to his uncle, requesting that Creighton be raised in the Colonies under his guidance so that he may become a better person.__NEWL__The ship lands in Charles Town, where the crew meets Creighton’s Uncle, Colonel Gower.__NEWL__He is not in his office, and they find the Colonel at the guard post, watching a soldier being whipped.__NEWL__When asked what the man was being punished for, Gower reveals that a copy of the Liberty Tree, a patriotic American newspaper run by the Sons of Liberty, was found in his possession.__NEWL__He also informs Creighton that he has a new post in Florida, and the ship departs again after a few days.__NEWL__While traveling, the ship is attacked by American rebels, led by Benedict Arnold.__NEWL__The rebels capture Gower, planning to use him as leverage in a prisoner exchange for captured American officers.__NEWL__Creighton pretends to be an indentured to avoid being ransomed, earning the sympathy and friendship of Peter, a private in the rebel army.__NEWL__In Creighton’s final exchange with his uncle, he is instructed to spy on the Americans for information.__NEWL__ The captured ship changes its course to New Orleans, and Creighton is invited to live with Peter, who has been staying with Benjamin Franklin.__NEWL__Creighton meets Sophie Doucet, a housemaid who is working for Franklin, who runs a print shop behind the house.__NEWL__Creighton visits Gower as he is being held in a makeshift prison, and Gower instructs Creighton to fetch him a gun.__NEWL__He reluctantly agrees, although he does not know how he will obtain it.__NEWL__During the day, Creighton assists Sophie and Franklin with setting lines of type for the printing press.__NEWL__When Franklin and Sophie leave the printing room one night, Creighton looks at the tray of type Franklin had been setting the night before and sees that they are prints for the Liberty Tree.__NEWL__Creighton secretly prints out a single sheet for himself and takes it with him, planning to share his newfound information with his uncle.__NEWL__Peter enters the house carrying several pistols, announcing that Arnold has gotten into a duel.__NEWL__Franklin is able to talk both parties into resolving their issues, and the reluctantly settle their conflict.__NEWL__Creighton stumbles while walking back and falls to the ground.__NEWL__Peter rushes to help him and bends down to give him a hand.__NEWL__Creighton lodges out one of the pistols stuck to Peter’s waistband, and it falls to the ground without him knowing.__NEWL__Creighton later retrieves it to give to his uncle, along with the information about the print shop.__NEWL__Later that night, Creighton gives the pistol to Gower, which he uses to subdue the two guards in order to escape.__NEWL__Gower instructs Creighton to stay and continue spying on the Americans, but Creighton insists on leaving with his uncle.__NEWL__Frustrated, the Colonel, strikes Creighton in the head with the pistol, dazing him.__NEWL__When Creighton recovers, he finds that his uncle and the other British prisoners have left, and the guards will likely have recognized him.__NEWL__He runs back to Franklin’s house and goes to sleep.__NEWL__ Creighton wakes up the next morning, still feeling dazed.__NEWL__Franklin informs him about the fact that the British prisoners have escaped and asks Creighton if he knows anything about it.__NEWL__Creighton confesses to helping them escape, but Franklin decides to keep his confession a secret and tells him to take the next few days off from work.__NEWL__Peter takes Creighton to a café the next day to introduce him to some other Americans and play some cards.__NEWL__While discussing politics, the men talk about the “Indian Problem,” and how it is only a matter of time before New Orleans is attacked.__NEWL__It is revealed that Carolina, the British supplied the Cherokee Natives with muskets, and told them that the Americans were their enemy.__NEWL__One of the men mentions that they would have been caught off the guard and wiped out, but a British officer came to warn the colonists about the impending attack.__NEWL__It is mentioned that the officer shared the same surname as Creighton – Harry Brown.__NEWL__Creighton realizes that the officer being discussed was his father who was later captured and taken to be hanged in Florida.__NEWL__He becomes disillusioned from the fact that he had always been told his father died gloriously in battle, serving the British - not as (in Creighton's eyes) a hanged traitor.__NEWL__ Several days later, three men dressed in Native American breechcloths come to the print shop and set it on fire.__NEWL__Creighton manages to tackle one of the men to the ground but is forced to let him go in order to help Sophie and Franklin save the printing types.__NEWL__Part of the shop’s roof collapses as Franklin enters the building again to retrieve more types and Creighton rushes into the building to try and save him.__NEWL__Franklin is knocked unconscious and Creighton blacks out shortly after.__NEWL__He comes to shortly after and is informed that Peter dragged both him and Franklin out of the burning shop.__NEWL__He also finds that they caught one of the culprits, who is revealed to be British and likely tied to Gower.__NEWL__ Arnold reveals a new plot to Creighton, Peter, and Franklin: he plans to feign defection to the British and feed them false information while spying on them.__NEWL__He and Creighton leave for Pensacola and meet Gower and the other escapees, among other loyalists.__NEWL__The Colonel initially has his doubts about Arnold and accuses him of being a spy.__NEWL__Enraged, Arnold challenges Gower to a duel, which he accepts.__NEWL__Gower attempts to tamper with Arnold’s pistol prior to the fight by coating the gun’s lock with resin to prevent ignition.__NEWL__However, the latter had brought a spare pistol, which he uses to fire a fatal shot at the Colonel.__NEWL__Creighton rushes to his uncle’s side as he lets out his final words, “St. Marks.__NEWL__Number four.”__NEWL__Arnold and Creighton leave the town and head to St. Marks, which is a British fort.__NEWL__Creighton speculates that George Washington may be held in cell number four, although Arnold doubts that is the case.__NEWL__Creighton gives him a stolen British corporal’s uniform that he obtained on the way out of the town, which he dons in order to gain access into the fort’s prison.__NEWL__They open cell number four, and find that the prisoner is not Washington, but Creighton’s father.__NEWL__It is later revealed that Washington has already been hanged.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736408	The Gift of Asher Lev	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5842112	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5842112	The brilliant, schismatic Hasidic painter Asher Lev is now a middle-aged man, residing with his wife and children in the south of France.__NEWL__When his beloved Uncle Yitzchok dies, Asher is abruptly summoned back to Brooklyn.__NEWL__Soon after the funeral, he learns that his uncle had secretly been collecting art for many years and has amassed a valuable collection, of which Asher is to be the trustee.__NEWL__Asher is dazzled and makes some tentative efforts to reconcile the Ladover Hasidic community to modern art—for example, by sketching a portrait of his uncle for his grieving father and by teaching a lesson in art appreciation at the school where his daughter has temporarily enrolled.__NEWL__But one of his cousins bitterly resents the art collection and hampers Asher's efforts to use it for charity in his uncle's name.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Asher's parents and the rest of the Ladover community worry because the aging Ladover Rebbe has no children and has appointed no successor.__NEWL__What will happen to the Ladover community if the Rebbe dies before the Messiah comes?__NEWL__The logical candidate for next Rebbe would be Asher's father, Aryeh Lev, who has been one of the Rebbe's chief lieutenants for decades, but Asher realizes that the Rebbe is reluctant to pass the mantle of authority to Aryeh unless Aryeh has a successor—who cannot be Aryeh's only child, the iconoclast painter.__NEWL__Slowly, Asher realizes that the Rebbe and Aryeh both hope that Asher's five-year-old son, Avrumel, will become the ultimate successor to the Rebbeship.__NEWL__It is Avrumel who will be "the gift of Asher Lev."__NEWL__Another strand of the plot concerns Asher's wife, Devorah, who is plagued by bitter memories of her parents' deaths in the Holocaust and of her own early childhood, spent in hiding with her cousin Max and his parents.__NEWL__Asher suspects Devorah will seize on her son's eventual succession to Rebbeship as some sort of vindication for her family's suffering.__NEWL__In the end, Asher acquiesces in the unspoken plan of succession and decides to save his uncle's art collection until Avrumel grows up, in confidence that Avrumel will know what to do with it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q772435	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5842145	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5842145	The basic synopsis revolves around journalist Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson) and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo (Oscar Zeta Acosta), as they arrive in Las Vegas in 1971 to report on the Mint 400 motorcycle race for an unnamed magazine.__NEWL__However, this job is repeatedly obstructed by their constant use of a variety of recreational drugs, including LSD, ether, cocaine, alcohol, mescaline, adrenochrome, and cannabis.__NEWL__This leads to a series of bizarre hallucinogenic experiences, during which they destroy hotel rooms, wreck cars, and have visions of anthropomorphic desert animals, all the while ruminating on the decline of both the "American Dream" and the '60s counterculture in a city of greed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5242048	Davita's Harp	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5842146	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5842146	In New York City of the 1930s, Ilana Davita Chandal is the child of a mixed marriage: a Polish Jewish immigrant mother and a Christian father from an old and wealthy New England family.__NEWL__Both of her parents are haunted by bitter and violent memories from their youths, and both have, in consequence, turned their backs on their pasts in order to become active members of the Communist Party.__NEWL__Ilana's early childhood is fraught with mystery and struggle as the neighbors eye the Chandal family with suspicion.__NEWL__When Michael Chandal, already wounded once in the Spanish Civil War, returns to Spain, Ilana begins to look for answers at the local synagogue and in friendship with observant Jews, including her neighbor Ruthie Helfman and her distant cousin, David Dinn.__NEWL__Michael Chandal is killed in Spain, at Guernica, and Ilana and her mother both struggle to cope with their grief.__NEWL__They are often at odds with each other as Ilana becomes more and more interested in traditional Judaism—even asserting her right to say kaddish for her non-Jewish father—while Anne Chandal devotes herself to the Party and becomes involved in a new relationship with a young Communist historian, Charles Carter.__NEWL__When Stalin signs a non-aggression pact with Hitler, Anne struggles with reconciling the communist cause with the geopolitical reality and leaves the Party.__NEWL__Soon after Carter breaks off their engagement.__NEWL__Ultimately Anne returns—though not with her daughter's fervor—to religious observance and marries her cousin Ezra Dinn, whom she had rejected many years before.__NEWL__Ilana becomes a star student at her Jewish day school.__NEWL__She is devastated when she is unjustly denied an academic award on account of her gender, but she remains determined to make her mark on the world.__NEWL__A subplot involves the mystical European Jewish writer Jakob Daw, another former suitor of Anne Chandal.__NEWL__He is deported from the United States against his will— in spite of the best efforts of his lawyer, Ezra Dinn—and dies in Europe soon afterwards.__NEWL__Anne Chandal, now Dinn, unconventionally decides to say kaddish for her old friend, even though she is a woman and women did not say kaddish in Orthodox synagogues in the 1940s.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1074256	Bright Lights, Big City	1984-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5925835	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5925835	The story's narrator is a 24-year-old writer who works as a fact checker for a highbrow magazine for which he had once hoped to write.__NEWL__By night, he is a cocaine-using party-goer seeking to lose himself in the hedonism of the 1980s yuppie party scene, often going to a nightclub called Heartbreak.__NEWL__His wife, Amanda, recently left him, and he copes with this by pretending nothing happened and telling no one that she is gone.__NEWL__The two had met in Kansas City; the narrator moves with her to New York City, where she begins a modeling career that quickly takes off.__NEWL__After flying out to Paris for Fashion Week, she calls the narrator to inform him that she is leaving him for another man and to pursue her career.__NEWL__Initially hopeful that she will return someday, the narrator eventually resorts to searching for her at a fashion event, publicly humiliating himself while failing to garner more attention from her than a brief look.__NEWL__He obsesses over every item she owned in his apartment, every modeling photo and every club she visited, even repeatedly visiting a mannequin based on her.__NEWL__His partying and his personal troubles begin to affect his work.__NEWL__He eventually comes to realize Amanda's superficiality, becoming both disillusioned with her and the materialistic culture of New York in general.__NEWL__He reveals that the true reason for his spiral downwards was his mother's death, which actually took place a year ago.__NEWL__He realizes that he had married Amanda because he thought it would make his mother happy.__NEWL__After his mother's death, he was in shock and it wasn't until Amanda left him that he began really grieving over his mother, causing his cocaine addiction and reckless abandon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5500853	Freedomland	1998-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5926782	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5926782	A woman staggers into a local hospital, too dazed to speak.__NEWL__As the doctors and police try to puzzle out her injuries, her story comes out.__NEWL__She was thrown to the ground and her car was stolen.__NEWL__And, in the back, was her four-year-old son.__NEWL__The town of Dempsey is in turmoil as the search for the child goes on and pressure builds up on all sides.__NEWL__An abandoned theme park, Freedomtown, is the site of a massive search and discovery, both for characters within the novel and relating to the crime.__NEWL__The secondary meaning refers to the freedoms that the citizens have that are restricted and reduced in special circumstances.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2641274	Hear the Wind Sing	1979-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	5823258	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5823258	Feeling writing as a terribly painful task, the narrator re-tells the story of his 1970 summer.__NEWL__He was a student at a university in Tokyo then, and returned to his seaside hometown in Kobe for summer vacation.__NEWL__That spring, a girl he dated at the university committed suicide.__NEWL__During the summer vacation, he frequented J's bar with his friend "Rat" and spent much time drinking beer obsessively.__NEWL__One day, he came across a girl lying on the floor in the washroom of the bar and carried her home.__NEWL__The girl had no left little finger.__NEWL__Later, he ran into the girl by chance in the record store where she worked.__NEWL__After that, she started calling him and they hung out a few times.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Rat was clearly troubled about some woman but he did not disclose the details.__NEWL__One day, the girl without a little finger met the narrator at a restaurant near the harbor.__NEWL__They took a walk in the dusk along the warehouse street.__NEWL__She told him, "When I sit there alone, I can hear a lot of people coming to talk to me..."__NEWL__That night, at her apartment, she revealed she just had an abortion.__NEWL__When he came back in the winter, the girl had left the record store and her apartment.__NEWL__The narrator is married now and living in Tokyo.__NEWL__Rat is still writing novels and sends his manuscripts to the narrator every Christmas.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7416886	Sandry's Book	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5927549	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5927549	Four young misfits from four different classes are brought together at the Winding Circle Temple in Emelan.__NEWL__They find themselves housed together as they did not "fit in" when they slept in the dormitories with everyone.__NEWL__They are sent to Discipline Cottage to learn and use their new-found magical abilities.__NEWL__All four have ambient magic, as opposed to academic magic, and the power they use comes from ordinary things all around them.__NEWL__Sandry has magic with threads, Tris with weather, Daja with smithing, and Briar with plants.__NEWL__Lady Sandrilene fa Toren is locked away in a dark room with a fading oil lamp.__NEWL__She was magically hidden in this storeroom days ago by her nurse, who was murdered moments later just outside the door by a mob bent on destroying everything infected by the fierce plague  that killed Sandry's parents.__NEWL__Sandry is concerned about the flickering oil lamp, even though she knows there is no chance of anybody finding her as the room she is locked in is protected by magic so that it cannot be found either magically or non-magically, and the only person who knows her whereabouts is her nurse, who is dead.__NEWL__Sandry is afraid of going crazy in the darkness.__NEWL__Unknowingly doing her first piece of magic, Sandry traps the remaining light in a simple braid.__NEWL__A powerful seer, Niklaren Goldeye, finds her and takes her to Winding Circle in Emelan.__NEWL__Trader Daja Kisubo is the lone survivor when her family's ship is destroyed in a storm.__NEWL__She floats on the water for days, surviving only because she finds a suraku—a survival box full of food and water from the ship.__NEWL__When Niko finds her, they go to the Trader Council so they can decide Daja's fate.__NEWL__Because Daja is the only survivor of her family, they declare her trangshi, or outcast—the worst sort of bad luck.__NEWL__As trangshi, she is forbidden to speak, touch, or write to other Traders.__NEWL__Niko is outraged at the council's decision and conducts her to Winding Circle.__NEWL__Roach (later named Briar Moss) is a "street rat" in Hajra, Sotat.__NEWL__His mother died when he was four; he was then taken in by the Thief Lord, the leader of the gang Lightning.__NEWL__Each time Roach is caught committing a crime, an "X" is tattooed onto the web of skin between his thumb and forefinger.__NEWL__After his third capture, Roach is sentenced to the docks but is saved by Niko, who stopped the judge and convinced her to allow him to take Roach to Winding Circle.__NEWL__Roach also has the opportunity to choose a new name for himself; he chooses Briar Moss because of his curiosity and experience with plants.__NEWL__Trisana Chandler is from a merchant's family.__NEWL__She has been passed from relative to relative because of the strange things that occur when she is around.__NEWL__Never staying long in one house, she never had a real family.__NEWL__Eventually, she is brought to Stone Circle Temple by her parents and left there, where she wreaks more havoc still.__NEWL__The temple's dedicate superior pleads with Niko to take her to Winding Circle, and he agrees after Tris starts a hail storm out of anger.__NEWL__The four children are brought to Winding Circle Temple in Emelan, where they do not fit in.__NEWL__Daja is secluded and ignored because she is a Trader, Tris wreaks havoc through weather when girls upset her by making fun of her, Briar threatens other boys with knives, and Sandry is caught looking at the looms too much.__NEWL__They are all taken to Discipline Cottage, an isolated cottage for children who do not fit in, where they are overseen there by Dedicate Lark, a kind and gentle thread mage, and Dedicate Rosethorn, a sharp plant mage.__NEWL__The four learn they have magic, which none of them knew about.__NEWL__While they all practice meditation, each of the four is matched with a main teacher to guide them through their magical learning.__NEWL__Sandry begins studying with Lark, learning to weave and spin; Tris studies with Niko about weather; Daja is taken under the wing of Dedicate Frostpine, the greatest smith mage; Briar works with Rosethorn in her garden and workshop.__NEWL__They each grow closer together and stronger in their magic.__NEWL__During the course of the book, there have been tremors all summer.__NEWL__Near the end of the book, a big earthquake comes, having gained power by bouncing off the walls of a crystal used in an attempt to trap it.__NEWL__Just before, the four were out walking Little Bear, their dog, when he runs down a path and into the back of a large cave.__NEWL__The four and their dog are stuck underground when the earthquake begins.__NEWL__Daja holds the roof of their small space up by making a magical "suraku" around the space to help save them.__NEWL__Tris and Briar begin their own protections and Tris starts to open up air vents.__NEWL__However, the three of them cannot finish, because each person does not have the skill to finish.__NEWL__Sandry remembers her time trapped in the storage room and is paralyzed with fear when she remembers her weaving bag.__NEWL__She infuses it with the essences of the four and weaves their magic together, so each can complete his or her jobs.__NEWL__The four and their dog are rescued by their teachers after the quake.__NEWL__It is discovered that they are under the kitchens of the temple.__NEWL__At the very end of the book, Tris, Briar, and Daja present Sandry with a light-filled crystal to help her conquer her fear of the dark.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2356529	I Malavoglia	1881-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q341300	Aci Trezza	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	5852736	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5852736	In the village of Aci Trezza in the Province of Catania lives the Toscano family, who, although extremely hardworking, has been nicknamed (for antiphrasis) the Malavoglia ("The Reluctant Ones").__NEWL__The head of the family is Padron Ntoni, a widower, who lives at the house by the medlar tree with his son Bastian (called Bastianazzo), and the wife of the latter called Maria (nicknamed Maruzza la Longa,despite being anything but tall).__NEWL__Bastian has five children: Ntoni, Luca, Filomena (Mena), Alessio (called Alessi) and Rosalia (Lia).__NEWL__The main source of income is la Provvidenza (the Providence), which is a small fishing boat.__NEWL__In 1863, Ntoni, the eldest of the children, leaves for the military service.__NEWL__To try to make up for the loss of income which his absence will cause, Padron Ntoni attempts a business venture and buys a large amount of lupins.__NEWL__The load is entrusted to his son Bastianazzo, the plan being to sell them in Riposto to make a profit.__NEWL__However, Bastianazzo and the merchandise are tragically lost during a storm.__NEWL__Following this misfortune, the family finds themselves with a triple misfortune: the debt caused by the lupins which were bought on credit, the Providence to repair, and the loss of Bastianazzo, an important and loved member of the family.__NEWL__Having finished his military service, Ntoni returns to the laborious life of his family very reluctantly, having seen the riches and splendour outside his small village, and does not represent any support to the already precarious economic situation of his family.__NEWL__The family's misfortunes are far from over.__NEWL__Luca, one of Padron Ntoni's grandsons, dies at the battle of Lissa, which leads to the breaking off of the betrothal of Mena to Brasi Cipolla.__NEWL__The debt from the lupin venture causes the family to lose their beloved "Casa del Nespolo" – the house by the medlar tree, and gradually the reputation of the family worsens until they reach humiliating levels of poverty.__NEWL__A further wreck of the Providence leaves Padron Ntoni near death, although fortunately he manages to recover.__NEWL__Later Maruzza, his daughter-in-law, dies of cholera.__NEWL__The firstborn, Ntoni, decides to go away from the village to seek his fortune, only to return destitute.__NEWL__He loses any desire to work, turning to alcoholism and idleness.__NEWL__The departure of Ntoni had forced the family to sell the Providence to get the money needed to get back the Casa del Nespolo, which had never been forgotten.__NEWL__The mistress of the osteria, Santuzza, who is already coveted by the sharkish Don Michele, becomes infatuated with Ntoni, serving him for free in the tavern.__NEWL__The conduct of Ntoni and the lamentations of her father convince her to turn her emotions from him, and to return to Don Michele.__NEWL__This leads to a brawl between the two; a brawl that results in the stabbing of Don Michele in the chest by Ntoni during an anti-smuggling raid.__NEWL__Ntoni ends up in prison.__NEWL__At his trial, after hearing rumours about a relationship between Don Michele and his granddaughter Lia, Padron Ntoni passes out and falls to the ground.__NEWL__Now old, his conversation is disjointed and he recites his proverbs without much awareness of what is going on.__NEWL__Lia, the younger sister, becomes the victim of vicious village gossip, runs away and becomes a prostitute.__NEWL__Mena, because of the shameful situation of her sister, feels that she cannot marry Alfio, even though they love each other, and instead remains at home to care for Alessi and Nunziata's children.__NEWL__Alessi, the youngest of the brothers, has remained a fisherman and with hard work manages to rebuild the family fortunes to the point at which they can repurchase the house by the medlar tree.__NEWL__Having bought the house, what is left of the family visits the hospital where the old Padron Ntoni is being kept, to inform him of the good news and to announce his imminent return home.__NEWL__It is the last moment of happiness for the old man, who dies on the day he was to return.__NEWL__Even his desire to die in the house where was born is never granted.__NEWL__When Ntoni is released from prison and comes back to the village, he realises that he cannot stay because of all that he has done.__NEWL__He has excluded himself from his family by systematically denouncing their values.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2450161	The Baron in the Trees	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	5853410	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5853410	Set in an imaginary village on the Ligurian Riviera, Ombrosa represents the author's vision as a central theme, little inclined to judgments and dull opinions.__NEWL__The novel is narrated by Biagio, the younger brother of the protagonist, and is the story of a young baron, Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, firstborn of a noble family sadly behind the times.__NEWL__The main story begins with a dispute on June 15, 1767 in the villa of Ombrosa, between an adolescent Cosimo and his father, after which Cosimo, who had quarreled with his father because he had refused to eat a snail soup, climbs the trees of the home garden and promises never to come down again in his entire life.__NEWL__After the quarrel, Cosimo's life takes place in the trees; first in the family garden and then in the surrounding woods.__NEWL__Cosimo's life is full of adventures, from friendships with fruit thieves and bandits to days spent hunting or reading.__NEWL__In the life of the baron there is no lack of amorous encounters either.__NEWL__Cosimo's fame spreads quickly.__NEWL__At first, he becomes famous as a freak show and his family is almost ashamed of him, but later he also finds a way to win the respect of the Ombrosa community.__NEWL__The return of Viola, his first love, triggers a mutual feeling, always existent, which sadly ends due to a series of misunderstandings.__NEWL__The love between the two is strong, even if the relationship is filled with furious quarrels.__NEWL__Its end comes about in an unusual way: aged and sick, feeling the onset of death, Cosimo climbs to the top of a large walnut tree and hangs himself on a passing balloon.__NEWL__Thus, without betraying his promise to never set foot on the earth again, he disappears into the sky, without even giving the earth his remains.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2379240	Dubrovsky	1841-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q159	Russia	5851150	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5851150	Andrei Dubrovsky is an old poor nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy, rich and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov.__NEWL__His young son Wladimir, determined to venge his father and to get justice one way or another, gathers a band of serfs and goes on the rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.__NEWL__Along the way, Wladimir Dubrovsky falls in love with Masha, Troekurov's daughter, and lets his guard down, with tragic results.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q482535	Welcome to the N.H.K.	2002-01-28T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1490	Tokyo	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	5851983	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5851983	Welcome to the N.H.K. revolves around the lives of several young adults all living in or around the city of Tokyo.__NEWL__Many different lifestyles are shown though most of the time the story focuses on the concepts of being a hikikomori (a reclusive individual who withdraws from society), anime otaku, and having most of the characters experience intense feelings of depression and loneliness.__NEWL__The main protagonist is Tatsuhiro Satō, a university dropout entering his fourth year of unemployment.__NEWL__He leads a reclusive life as a hikikomori, ultimately coming to the conclusion that this happened due to some sort of conspiracy.__NEWL__One day just when his life seems entirely unchanging, he meets Misaki Nakahara, a mysterious girl who claims to be able to cure Tatsuhiro of his hikikomori ways.__NEWL__She presents him with a contract basically outlining that once a day they would meet in the evening in a local park where Misaki would lecture to Tatsuhiro in an effort to rid him of his lifestyle.__NEWL__During these outings, many subjects are discussed, though they almost always pertain in some way to psychology or psychoanalysis.__NEWL__One of their first meetings in fact deals with interpreting Tatsuhiro's recent dreams.__NEWL__Both Tatsuhiro and Misaki, however, have a tendency of over-doing things, such as hiding the truth, especially from each other and themselves.__NEWL__Despite Misaki's offer and pressing attempts at salvation, it is Tatsuhiro's neighbor and high school friend, Kaoru Yamazaki, whom Tatsuhiro often turns to in moments of need and support.__NEWL__Despite his own idiosyncrasies, Yamazaki is one of the more stable characters in the story.__NEWL__The plots within the novel, manga and anime are each rather different from one another, and many themes and personalities differ between each.__NEWL__The novel also regularly mentions drug use by the main character, and later, his friend, Yamazaki.__NEWL__This element of the story is downplayed in the manga (drugs Satō uses are referred to as "legal psychedelics purchased off the internet"), and left out of the story altogether in the anime (with the exception of Hitomi).__NEWL__This is likely due to several reasons, including a more public-friendly rating, as well as ultimately being unneeded for the progression of the plot.__NEWL__Lolita themes present within the novel and manga have also been downplayed within the anime, where most of the women the characters lust after are of mature age, although brief hints still remain.__NEWL__The of Satō's imagination is supposedly a sinister conspiracy which aims to turn people into hikikomori and NEETs.__NEWL__No clear reason why they would do this is offered, although Satō considers the potential of an "army" of displaced individuals, and it is mentioned that hikikomori are created for the purpose of giving society someone to look down upon, making themselves feel superior.__NEWL__The majority of the N.H.K.'s work is done through the media, via broadcasting anime and other material that is likely to turn the viewer into an otaku.__NEWL__Throughout the series, many shots of advertising hoardings or movie posters incidentally displayed in other locations bear N.H.K. references.__NEWL__Satō on occasion also believes that the N.H.K. takes a more active role via the use of agents, although of course these agents only appear in dream sequences or flashbacks.__NEWL__Three types of N.H.K. agents are seen: the first are classic Men in Black who appear to have the ability to disguise themselves as anyone else they wish.__NEWL__They occupy key roles in a target's life, ensuring that they fail to develop.__NEWL__The second are cute, or more precisely moé girls who directly break the hearts of targets or who, via celebrity status, induce targets to have impossible or unrealistic expectations of relationships, destroying their ability to develop them in the real world (Satō never considers how, or even if, the N.H.K. would target women).__NEWL__Satō at one point fears that Misaki may be an agent of this type.__NEWL__The final type of agents are bizarre goblin-like creatures who are grey all over but for a letter (usually "N", "H" or "K") written in yellow on their belly.__NEWL__These creatures appear to be the masterminds of the entire N.H.K. conspiracy, but more likely than not they are Satō's mental image of the spreading mindset or circumstances he associates with the N.H.K.__NEWL__In the novel, it is hinted that Tatsuhiro may not actually believe the conspiracy to exist but instead needed an imaginary enemy to vent his frustrations on and to help motivate him into overcoming his hikikomori ways.__NEWL__The real-life public broadcaster NHK, which is the source of the acronym that is parodied by the series, really does provide a support website for real-life hikikomori.__NEWL__In the manga and novel, a concrete link between the public broadcaster NHK and Satō's Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai is implied; in the anime, although the conspiracy is still named NHK, no such correspondence is drawn and it appears that the NHK does not even exist as a broadcaster in the anime's version of Japan (in the anime, Misaki has never heard of the acronym when Satō says it to her).__NEWL__This may have been because the anime was broadcast on TV channels operated by other Japanese broadcasting companies, thus implying that it related to the real TV company and could have been interpreted as slander against a competitor.__NEWL__is a fictitious magical girl anime of which Kaoru Yamazaki is a fan, featured only in the anime version (in the novel, Yamazaki is a fan of the real-world show Ojamajo Doremi, which is replaced by Puru Puru Pururin in the anime).__NEWL__It is never explicitly stated, but strongly suggested, that Satō believes this series to be controlled by the N.H.K.; in fact, it is after seeing an episode of the series which inspires him to think up the N.H.K. as a concept.__NEWL__The series had a real website, which further suggested this.__NEWL__For example, although it appears to be a children's style of series, the schedule on the website suggested that it is shown almost daily in the small hours of the morning, when children would not be awake, but hikikomori frequently are.__NEWL__Although the website listed the names of several real-world broadcast channels which supposedly carry the show, none of them are operated by the real-world NHK, again suggesting that in the anime's version of Japan, the N.H.K. is not a broadcasting company and is a conspiracy spanning all media.__NEWL__The listed broadcast times and channels are in fact the times at which the Welcome to the N.H.K. anime aired.__NEWL__Only brief excerpts of Puru Puru Pururin are ever seen, and it is not possible to guess what powers the main character, Pururin, would have.__NEWL__It appears that Pururin is a good, heroic character and is assisted by a number of animated household objects, including a vacuum cleaner upon which she flies; her trademark is to randomly append the word Purin to the end of sentences, similarly to the title character in Di Gi Charat.__NEWL__The theme song first heard in the first episode is sung by Rumi Shishido.__NEWL__This theme appears in ringtone version throughout the series.__NEWL__utaka Koizumi (Japanese); Chris Patton (English)  The story's protagonist is a 22-year-old hikikomori of nearly four years.__NEWL__He is highly unstable, easily manipulated, obsessive, and often blames the N.H.K. conspiracy, a fabrication of his mind, for his shortcomings.__NEWL__He lives in a rented apartment, but depends on his parents' allowance to live.__NEWL__Within the novel and manga, he engages in fairly hard drug use, which is the cause of his delusional visions, although this does not occur within the anime.__NEWL__Near the beginning of the series he finds out one of his few high school friends, Kaoru Yamazaki, has been living next door to him for quite some time.__NEWL__Yamazaki's influence inadvertently makes Sato become an otaku.__NEWL__Sato also decides to help Yamazaki on the creation of a gal game by writing the script.__NEWL__However, the reason for accepting the writing task was initially to get a girl he met, Misaki Nakahara, off his back.__NEWL__Misaki wants Sato to participate in her project, a therapy of sorts.__NEWL__Although he was extremely reluctant at first, he eventually agrees to take part in Misaki's project, albeit not treating it seriously at first.__NEWL__As they spend more time together he quickly falls in love with her, but is afraid to show it since he knows so little about her despite the fact she knows so much about him.__NEWL__His paranoia drives him to tail Misaki one day to find out where she lives.__NEWL__The result of the expedition reveals that Misaki lives on a nearby hill which gives her a perfect view of Sato's apartment as well as the park where they meet for their sessions.__NEWL__Again driven by paranoia, he tries to save himself from potential betrayal by claiming he doesn't want to see her ever again.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Sato accidentally becomes involved in a suicide party but ends up being the closest one to go through with it.__NEWL__Yamazaki and Misaki talk him out of it, and he resumes Misaki's project, but his feelings for her have become platonic rather than amorous.__NEWL__Near the end of the series, Sato's true feelings for her are revealed when Misaki makes up another contract that will bind them together as a couple forever.__NEWL__Despite how he feels, he rejects the contract thinking that he has to protect her from his own condition, and believing she deserves someone much better than he is even if it would mean that he reverts to being a hikikomori.__NEWL__Later, Sato finds a suicide note from Misaki, but because of an earlier conversation he knows where she will be.__NEWL__Sato eventually finds Misaki and confesses the truth that he needs and loves her in an attempt to prevent her from going through with the suicide.__NEWL__In the end, they decide to continue their relationship while Misaki finishes her high school equivalency, and they go to college together.__NEWL__In the closing scene Sato signs a new contract proposal from Misaki that binds their actual lives together.__NEWL__ Voiced by: Yui Makino (Japanese); Stephanie Wittels (English)  A mysterious girl who claims to be a volunteer from a "charity project" to help hikikomori like Tatsuhiro.__NEWL__She has the tendency to lie and hides facts such as the fact that she dropped out of high school, but she does not mean any harm.__NEWL__She tells Tatsuhiro whatever it takes to make him pay attention to her and seems to have a deep attachment to him.__NEWL__She makes a contract with Tatsuhiro in order to believe that she is needed by somebody and therefore not an unwanted person who only makes others around her unhappy.__NEWL__Although not the case in the manga, it is explained within the anime that her biological father died when she was very young and her mother died by falling off the cape in her hometown.__NEWL__After her mother's death, she was forced to live with her abusive stepfather who constantly beat her.__NEWL__Due to this experience, when Tatsuhiro is about to hit her following the events at the island, she flinches by instinct.__NEWL__She loves Sato and tries to make it seem like he needs her more but in reality she is even more lonely than he is to the point where she attempts to commit suicide after Sato refuses her feelings in a second contract she makes.__NEWL__She is seen at the end of the anime getting help from Sato to finish her high school degree, so that she and Sato can go and finish college in order to start their life (relationship) officially together.__NEWL__Misaki's personality greatly differs between the manga and the novel and anime; in the manga she appears more sarcastic and doesn't hesitate to reprimand Tatsuhiro, even showing a more manipulative, controlling side, while in the novel and anime, she has an introverted personality and is portrayed to be more innocent.__NEWL__ Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi (Japanese); Greg Ayres (English)  Tatsuhiro's former kouhai (junior) in high school, who is an otaku.__NEWL__Tatsuhiro once stood up for him when he was still in middle school being beaten up by some bullies, since then, he respects Tatsuhiro greatly and decided to join the literature club with him when he went into high school.__NEWL__Although appearing to be very mellow, he has a tendency to lash out at those who anger him.__NEWL__He seems to be disappointed with the current state of Tatsuhiro.__NEWL__He is currently Tatsuhiro's neighbor and a college student aspiring to be a game creator.__NEWL__He made Tatsuhiro join his dōjin soft eroge project, and was also responsible for turning Tatsuhiro into an otaku.__NEWL__His family owns a sizable farm in Hokkaidō.__NEWL__Later, he is forced to return to the farm due to his father's sickness; at that point, realizing he has no hope of continuing any aspect of his life in Tokyo, he drives away his crush, Nanako.__NEWL__In the end of the story, he is living happily at his parents' farm and also dating a girl who looks exactly like Nanako whom he hopes to marry in the future.__NEWL__In the manga, his counterpart tends to be more openly absorbed with lolicon and introduced Sato to illicit drugs as well as other schemes.__NEWL__ Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi (Japanese); Luci Christian (English)  Tatsuhiro's senpai in high school, now a public servant.__NEWL__Due to stress, Hitomi develops a dependence on drugs.__NEWL__Hitomi met Tatsuhiro when she persuaded him to join the Literature Club, though most of the time they only ever played cards.__NEWL__She has always been fascinated by the concept of conspiracy theories and is one of the reasons Tatsuhiro suspects the conspiracy against himself by the N.H.K. Also, it is noted in both the anime and novel that she had sex with Tatsuhiro during the last day of school before she graduated because Tatsuhiro kept her company in literature club for her last two years of high school.__NEWL__She attempts a suicide through an internet suicide pact called the Offline Meeting Notice.__NEWL__However, she changes her mind after her boyfriend proposes to her.__NEWL__She gets married and has a healthy kid, though on New Year's Eve, before her marriage she asks Tatsuhiro if he wants to have an illicit affair with her and have sex in a love hotel they were standing in front of, but Tatsuhiro reminds her that since she's happy she should have a good life.__NEWL__ Voiced by: Risa Hayamizu (Japanese); Monica Rial (English)  Tatsuhiro's classmate in high school, who was the class representative back then.__NEWL__They meet frequently in manga, but neither of them realizes the existence of each other until later.__NEWL__After her father died, she had to work in order to support herself and her brother, who is also a hikikomori, though she ended up entangled in a shady pyramid scheme.__NEWL__During school, she had a very uptight personality about which Tatsuhiro commented to her face.__NEWL__After high school, she retains much of this personality, though she has also become somewhat manipulative in order to survive.__NEWL__She develops a lack of empathy to others and is not beyond exploiting anyone, including friends, to meet ends.__NEWL__After the pyramid scheme ends and her brother gets a job, she thinks about going back to college.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4660142	A Time for George Stavros							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5855081	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5855081	According to Lawrence Sutin's book, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, (1989) the plot survives only as an index card synopsis from the publisher dated 24 October 1956, after the manuscript had already been rejected one time.__NEWL__The reader's comments on the rewrite as follows: "Didn't like this before & still don't.__NEWL__Long, rambling, glum novel about 65 yr old Greek immigrant who has a weakling son, a second son about whom he's indifferent, a wife who doesn't love him (She's being unfaithful to him).__NEWL__Nothing much happens.__NEWL__Guy, selling garage & retiring, tries to buy another garage in new development, has a couple of falls, dies at end.__NEWL__Point is murky but seems to be that world is disintegrating, Stavros supposed to be symbol of vigorous individuality now a lost commodity."__NEWL__In a letter from 1960, the author himself commented on the title character in an unexpectedly optimistic fashion: "Contact with vile persons does not blight or contaminate or doom the really superior; a man can go on and be successful, if he just keeps struggling.__NEWL__There is no trick that the wicked can play on the good that will ultimately be successful; the good are protected by God, or at least by their virtue."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2384134	The Well at the World's End	1896-01-01T00:00:00Z	169					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	5855224	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5855224	Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Ralph, the youngest son of King Peter of Upmeads.__NEWL__Their kingdom being rather humble, Ralph and his three elder brothers are bored of the provincial life, so one day they request permission from their father to explore the world.__NEWL__The king allows the three eldest sons to depart, but bids Ralph to stay to ensure at least one living heir.__NEWL__Ralph, desperate for adventure and against his father's will, sneaks away.__NEWL__Ralph's explorations begin at Bourton Abbas, after which he goes through the Wood Perilous.__NEWL__He has various adventures there, including the slaying of two men who had entrapped a woman.__NEWL__That woman later turns out to be the Lady of Abundance, who later becomes his lover for a short time.__NEWL__In one episode Ralph is staying at a castle and inquires about the Lady of the castle (the so-called Lady of Abundance), whom he has not yet seen.__NEWL__Descriptions of her youth and beauty suggest to him that she has drunk from the well at the world's end. "__NEWL__And now in his heart waxed the desire of that Lady, once seen, as he deemed, in such strange wise; but he wondered within himself if the devil had not sown that longing within him ..."__NEWL__A short time later, while still at the castle, Ralph contemplates images of the Lady and "was filled with the sweetness of desire when he looked on them.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Then he reads a book containing information about her, and his desire to meet the Lady of Abundance flames higher.__NEWL__When he goes to bed, he sleeps "for the very weariness of his longing.__NEWL__" He fears leaving the castle because she might come while he is gone.__NEWL__Eventually he leaves the castle and meets the Lady of Abundance, who turns out to be the same lady he had rescued some weeks earlier from two men.__NEWL__When he meets her this time, the lady is being fought over by two knights, one of whom slays the other.__NEWL__That knight nearly kills Ralph, but the lady intervenes and promises to become the knight's lover if he would spare Ralph.__NEWL__Eventually, she leads Ralph away during the night to save Ralph's life from this knight, since Ralph had once saved hers.__NEWL__She tells Ralph of her trip to the Well at the World's End, her drinking of the water, the tales of her long life, and a maiden named Ursula whom she thinks is especially suited to Ralph.__NEWL__Eventually, the knight catches up to them and kills her with his sword while Ralph is out hunting.__NEWL__Upon Ralph's return, the knight charges Ralph, and Ralph puts an arrow through his head.__NEWL__After Ralph buries both of them, he begins a journey that will take him to the Well at the World's End.__NEWL__As he comes near the village of Whitwall, Ralph meets a group of men, which includes his brother Blaise and Blaise's attendant, Richard.__NEWL__Ralph joins them, and Richard tells Ralph about having grown up in Swevenham, from which two men and one woman had once set out for the Well at the World's End.__NEWL__Richard had never learned what happened to those three.__NEWL__Richard promises to visit Swevenham and learn what he can about the Well at the World's End.__NEWL__Ralph falls in with some merchants, led by a man named Clement, who travel to the East.__NEWL__Ralph is in search of the Well at the World's End, and they are in search of trade.__NEWL__This journey takes him far to the east in the direction of the well, through the villages of Cheaping Knowe, Goldburg, and many other hamlets.__NEWL__Ralph learns that a maiden, whom the Lady of Abundance had mentioned to him, has been captured and sold as a slave.__NEWL__He inquires about her, calling her his ‘sister’, and he hears that she may have been sold to Gandolf, the cruel, powerful, and ruthless Lord of Utterbol.__NEWL__The queen of Goldburg writes Ralph a letter of recommendation to Gandolf, and Morfinn the Minstrel, whom Ralph met at Goldburg, promises to guide him to Utterbol.__NEWL__Morfinn turns out to be a traitor who delivers Ralph into the hands of Gandolf.__NEWL__After some time with the Lord of Utterbol and his men, Ralph escapes.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ursula, Ralph's "sister", who has been enslaved at Utterbol, escapes and by chance meets Ralph in the woods beneath the mountain, both of them desiring to reach the Well at the World's End.__NEWL__Eventually their travels take them to the Sage of Swevenham, who gives them instructions for finding the Well at the World's End.__NEWL__On their journey to the well, they fall in love, especially after Ralph saves her life from a bear's attack.__NEWL__Eventually they make their way to the sea, on the edge of which is the Well at the World's End.__NEWL__They each drink a cup of the well's water and are enlivened by it.__NEWL__They then backtrack along the path they had earlier followed, meeting the Sage of Swevenham and the new Lord of Utterbol, who has slain the previous evil lord and remade the city into a good city, and the pair returns the rest of the way to Upmeads.__NEWL__While they experience challenges and battles along the way, the pair succeeds in all their endeavors.__NEWL__Their last challenge is a battle against men from the Burg of the Four Friths.__NEWL__These men come against Upmeads to attack it.__NEWL__As Ralph approaches Upmeads, he gathers supporters around him, including the Champions of the Dry Tree.__NEWL__After Ralph and his company stop at Wulstead, where Ralph is reunited with his parents as well as Clement Chapman, he leads a force in excess of a thousand men against the enemy and defeats them.__NEWL__He then brings his parents back to High House in Upmeads to restore them to their throne.__NEWL__As Ralph and Ursula come to the High House, Ralph's parents install Ralph and Ursula as King and Queen of Upmeads.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7720244	The Broken Bubble	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62	San Francisco	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5855999	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5855999	The lives of two couples intertwine in mid-1950s California, and all learn important lessons about life.__NEWL__Jim Briskin is a classical music DJ.__NEWL__He and his ex-wife Patricia Gray are still very much in love but have divorced because he is sterile.__NEWL__The two divorcees meet a teenaged married couple named Art and Rachael and essentially swap partners.__NEWL__Pat passionately loves the youthful but dysfunctional Art, almost as though he were her child, and the two of them have an abusive relationship in which he gives her a black eye.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jim and Rachael hook up and Rachael offers to ditch Art and move to Mexico with Jim where he will adopt her baby and raise it as his own.__NEWL__In the end, however, maturity prevails and they all return to their original partners.__NEWL__Miss Thisbe Holt of the original title is actually a very minor character in the book.__NEWL__She is a well-endowed stripper who performs at an optometrists convention which occurs near the very end of the novel.__NEWL__Her act consists of climbing naked into a large clear plastic ball which the optometrists then roll around the hotel suite to more thoroughly examine her ample personal assets.__NEWL__The ball is demolished when it's later filled with debris and pushed off the hotel roof by the inebriated optometrists.__NEWL__The shortened title seems more obviously appropriate in that its lack of specificity allows it to do double duty in serving as a metaphor symbolizing the irreversible effects of the various life-altering events that occur within the orbits of the main characters.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q282989	Skybreaker	2005-07-20T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	5913404	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5913404	Using reward money from the discovery of Vikram Szpirglas' pirate base, Matt Cruse is attending the Airship Academy in Paris.__NEWL__While travelling through a storm in the Indian Ocean, his training vessel is caught in a vertical draft revealing a large airship drifting at 20,000 feet.__NEWL__Deducing that it is the Hyperion, a long-lost ship said to be carrying great riches, the captain steers towards it to attempt a boarding.__NEWL__However, Matt is forced to descend when the rest of the crew members are stricken with altitude sickness.__NEWL__Upon returning to Paris, Matt meets with Kate de Vries, his friend and object of affection, to discuss the Hyperion's billionaire owner Theodore Grunel.__NEWL__Kate announces that she plans to find "Grunel's treasure" using co-ordinates that Matt remembers in a special ship called a Skybreaker that will allow them to reach high altitudes safely.__NEWL__Matt receives a request from a claimed descendant of Grunel.__NEWL__When they meet, the man reveals himself to be a criminal named John Rath and tries to force Matt to give up the co-ordinates.__NEWL__Matt escapes with a gypsy girl named Nadira who claims to have a key that works on the Hyperion and proposes her own plan to find it.__NEWL__Matt initially declines but changes his mind when he overhears a warm conversation between Kate and a wealthy acquaintance named Hal Slater.__NEWL__Matt and Nadira search for a Skybreaker named the Sagarmatha moored in Paris, but when they find it, they learn that Hal is the captain.__NEWL__Matt, Kate, Nadira and Kate's chaperone, Ms. Simpkins, hire Hal and his Sherpa crew to fly them to the Hyperion and promise Hal 80% of the gold they discover.__NEWL__Although Kate temporarily allays Matt's fears, he sees her develop an increasing rapport with Hal and becomes jealous.__NEWL__Matt begins to accept romantic advances from Nadira which culminates in a kiss between them in the crow's nest.__NEWL__Matt brings his co-ordinates to Dorje, the First Mate, who factors in the wind speed to calculate the Hyperion's trajectory.__NEWL__This brings the Sagarmatha into "Skyberia", a cold and desolate area around the Antarctic.__NEWL__Dalkey, one of the pilots, traverses the outside of the ship to remove a rudder blockage and sees that it is a large squid-like creature.__NEWL__The creature electrocutes Dalkey with one of its tentacles and flies away under the propulsion of hydrium.__NEWL__Kate coins the term "aerozoan" for this species and observes more of them travelling the Antarctic skies.__NEWL__Mourning their lost member, the crew gives a night lookout shift to Matt when the Hyperion is closeby.__NEWL__He is unable to see it soon enough and the larger ship grazes the Sagarmatha, precluding the possibility of towing it.__NEWL__Kate chastises Matt for damaging the ship as their relationship continues to falter.__NEWL__Hal, Kate, Matt and Nadira board the Hyperion and enter the vaults using Nadira's key.__NEWL__They find small pieces of taxidermy, which Kate carries back to the Sagarmatha, as well as some larger ones including the intact body of a yeti.__NEWL__In a room called the engineerium, they find a large key-activated machine that produces heat and a glass chamber housing the limp bodies of four aerozoans.__NEWL__No longer hiding that he has gone into debt, Hal raids the bedroom of the frozen Theodore Grunel and blows open his safe.__NEWL__When Matt tries to read a set of blueprints he finds in a canister, Hal angrily objects and sends the canister into one of the ship's pneumatic tubes.__NEWL__With Hal consumed by his lust for gold, the others read Grunel's diary and see frequent mention of a powerful enemy named "B".__NEWL__They dismiss this as a product of Grunel's diseased mind.__NEWL__The four climb out of the hatch but its connection to the Sagarmatha breaks under the wind and they are forced to spend the night on the Hyperion while low on food and oxygen reserves.__NEWL__Matt tries to comfort Kate but she lashes out and reveals that she knows about him kissing Nadira.__NEWL__Matt apologizes and Kate refers to Hal as "a bully", leading to a reconciliation between the two.__NEWL__That night, the travellers learn that the machine they are using for heat is "Grunel's treasure"; a fuel cell capable of producing vast amounts of hydrium rather than gold.__NEWL__They realize that its design is inspired by the aerozoans in the adjacent chamber.__NEWL__While they search for the blueprints, one of the aerozoans comes back to life and breaks through the glass, forcing them to flee the engineerium.__NEWL__Before they can regroup, John Rath's airship, having pursued them all along, arrives and shoots down the Sagarmatha.__NEWL__From their hiding place, Hal, Kate, Matt and Nadira hear the ship being boarded by Rath's pirates and their employer Barton who goes by "B".__NEWL__Barton reveals that, as the head of the aruba consortium, he plans to maintain his monopoly by destroying Grunel's invention along with the blueprints.__NEWL__Before Barton can destroy the blueprints, the four of them split up and Matt is able to find the canister.__NEWL__After he places it in Hal's backpack, the pirates announce that they have taken Kate as a hostage.__NEWL__Leaving Hal to tend to Nadira, who is suffering from altitude sickness, Matt sneaks into the engineerium and sees that the floorboards are concealing a fortune in gold bullion.__NEWL__Matt shoots the glass to free the remaining three aerozoans and escapes with Kate during the distraction.__NEWL__The aerozoans kill Barton and all of the pirates except for Rath who decides to scuttle the Hyperion before anyone can leave with the blueprints.__NEWL__As the ship explodes, Hal, Kate and Matt carry Nadira to the hangar where there is a pedal-powered ornithopter to facilitate their escape.__NEWL__Matt takes Hal's backpack in order to use the dynamite to blow open the hangar doors.__NEWL__Another explosion ejects the ornithopter from the Hyperion before Matt can climb aboard and he narrowly escapes with the help of a wingsuit.__NEWL__The four make it back to the Sagarmatha having been repaired by Dorje and Ms. Simpkins.__NEWL__When they are unable to find Grunel's blueprints, Matt confesses that they were in the backpack Hal tossed to him.__NEWL__Hal berates Matt for not holding onto the backpack and not salvaging gold from the engineerium when he had the chance.__NEWL__He dismisses Kate's protests and says that her focus on pleasures other than money has ruined him.__NEWL__Matt and Kate excuse themselves and head to the hangar of the Sagarmatha.__NEWL__They soon find that their newly acquired ornithopter has a compartment on it holding 40 gold bars.__NEWL__Though intent on telling Hal, they decide to savour the moment first.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5917807	How I Live Now	2004-08-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5913749	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5913749	Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth (who goes by the name of Daisy) is sent from the United States to stay with her aunt Penn and her children, Daisy's cousins, on a remote farm in the United Kingdom during the outbreak of a fictional third world war of the 21st century.__NEWL__Though she is happy about moving away from her stepmother who is pregnant, Daisy is homesick at first.__NEWL__First meeting her 14-year-old cousin Edmond at the airport, Daisy calls him "some kind of mutt"; however, her view of Edmond changes after settling in.__NEWL__Arriving at the farm she also meets Edmond's twin brother Isaac, 9-year-old Piper, and Osbert, who is the eldest brother.__NEWL__Daisy's homesickness only lasts for a short while before she and her extended family become close, and Daisy begins to embrace her new home.__NEWL__Daisy soon finds herself falling in love with Edmond and, after realising that the affection is mutual, begins a relationship with him.__NEWL__Aunt Penn travels to Oslo, where she is stranded after war breaks out.__NEWL__An unknown enemy occupies the UK.__NEWL__The war becomes increasingly difficult for Daisy and her cousins as it increasingly affects their lives, eventually leading to food shortages and lack of other resources.__NEWL__One day, the farm is taken over by soldiers who separate the boys from the girls by sending them away to live at separate homes, and then separate farms.__NEWL__Daisy and Piper are forced to put survival as their top priority and cannot look for the male members of their family.__NEWL__Gradually finding their way back home, the two girls learn the harsh consequences of war and wait for their family in the barn house.__NEWL__After the war ends, Daisy must deal with putting the pieces of her life back together and overcoming the terrible experience of war as she reunites with the forever changed members of her family, including a physically and emotionally scarred Edmond.__NEWL__Near the end of the book, Daisy (who had been pulled back to the United States by her father) goes back to the UK to see Edmond and the rest.__NEWL__Edmond, who thinks Daisy has broken their promise of always being together, refuses to see her at first.__NEWL__However, he eventually accepts her once again.__NEWL__Instead of going back to the United States, Daisy continues to live with Edmond and the rest of the family in the UK.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1974419	The Stars Are Cold Toys	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z	5924321	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5924321	During a usual trading flight Pyotr found a Counter on his craft who called himself Karel and, most importantly, made it through the jump unhurt (ironically, the alien accomplished this by going into a self-induced coma caused by division by zero).__NEWL__Standing orders require Pyotr to destroy the ship and all evidence of the alien's survival, as this would eliminate the Conclave's need in Humanity.__NEWL__The alien requested an informal meeting with Andrey Khrumov — Pyotr's grandfather and a known political scientist, also a great patriot of Humanity, biased against the Strong races.__NEWL__A fleet of Alary has captured a small but deadly scout of an unknown civilization.__NEWL__Its pilot was killed, but without a doubt it was a human being.__NEWL__Studying the memory of the scout showed that another civilization had transferred its planetary system to a region of space close by, perhaps escaping a cataclysm.__NEWL__Strangely enough, they shaped their continents to resemble a perfect circle and square — so Andrey Khrumov called them Geometers.__NEWL__The new civilization seems to be strong enough to take on the entire Conclave, as the single scout ship managed to wipe out two-thirds of one of the strongest Alary fleets before being tractored into the Alary flagship.__NEWL__This is a chance for Weak races to improve their positions... but also a threat for Earth, since on receiving the information the Strong races would destroy it to prevent its possible alliance with a biologically-identical race.__NEWL__A conspiracy of four races decide to carry out a reconnaissance mission.__NEWL__Pyotr Khrumov agrees to enter a symbiosis with a Kualkua, who morphs him to appear as the dead pilot, gives him the language of Geometers, and temporarily erases his memory...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5241444	David and the Phoenix	1957-10-01T00:00:00Z	27922					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5940868	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5940868	David moves to a new house at the base of some beautiful mountains.__NEWL__The next day, rather than settle into the new house, he decides to climb the mountains.__NEWL__Upon reaching the summit, he encounters the Phoenix.__NEWL__They are, at first, frightened of each other, as the Phoenix had been chased by a scientist for several weeks and David had, of course, never seen anything like the Phoenix before.__NEWL__The Phoenix is flattered by David's attentions, though, and decides to educate David about the legendary creatures in the world.__NEWL__The first adventure in the Phoenix's curriculum for David involves seeing the Gryffins.__NEWL__They first meet a witch who goads the Phoenix into a race.__NEWL__They are captured by the arrogant Gryffons, who sentence the Phoenix to death for bringing humans into their magic world.__NEWL__They escape and the Phoenix keeps his appointment with the witch.__NEWL__David returns home to meet the unpleasant scientist visiting his parents.__NEWL__The two friends implement plans to avoid the scientist, firstly by finding some buried treasure with the help of a gruff but friendly sea monster, and spending the gold coins on magic items to foil the scientist's plot to capture the rare bird.__NEWL__While visiting the magical world to buy necessities, David has a brief adventure with a prankster Leprechaun, meets a cantankerous potion-selling hag, and a faun.__NEWL__The Phoenix rescues David from remaining too long in this world, which could absorb those beings who are not magical.__NEWL__The Phoenix and David sabotage the scientist's equipment and frighten him into leaving town.__NEWL__The old Phoenix celebrates his 500th birthday, and soon reveals he must "bow to tradition," and build himself a pyre of cinnamon logs.__NEWL__David tearfully complies with his friend's wishes, buying the necessary items from town.__NEWL__The Scientist shows up and follows David up the mountain trails.__NEWL__The Phoenix is reborn, but as a hatchling, does not yet comprehend its peril.__NEWL__David appeals to the young Phoenix, who dimly recognizes a friend, and flies away to avoid capture.__NEWL__David watches as the old Phoenix's feather changes from blue to gold.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4655728	A Caress of Twilight	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5811854	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5811854	A faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also fashionable, the title heroine is Princess Meredith NicEssus, also known as Merry Gentry.__NEWL__As niece to Andais, The Queen of Air and Darkness, she is a royal of the Unseelie Court.__NEWL__While her aunt tried to kill her as a child, she has since offered her the title as crown princess as the Court needs more heirs.__NEWL__A Caress of Twilight begins a few months after the events of A Kiss of Shadows.__NEWL__It is December, and Merry and the Sidhe warriors she has chosen as her lovers have returned to Los Angeles, California.__NEWL__Merry has resumed working for the Grey Detective Agency and several of the Sidhe have also joined the payroll.__NEWL__Merry is approached by Maeve Reed, previously known as Conchenn before her exile from the Seelie Court and now a famous Hollywood actress.__NEWL__Maeve asks Merry to perform a fertility rite that will permit her to have a child by her dying human husband.__NEWL__In return, she tells the princess that the reason for her exile was that she had refused to become the wife of Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, because she believed he was sterile.__NEWL__Galen, badly injured by the demi-fey during A Kiss of Shadows, has yet to heal, despite the usually phenomenal healing abilities of a sidhe warrior.__NEWL__Merry approaches the Queen of the Demi-Fey, Niceven, regarding a cure.__NEWL__The price of the cure and an alliance is a weekly drink of Merry's blood by a surrogate to be chosen by Niceven.__NEWL__During Merry's first night in bed with Doyle, they are interrupted by Andais who reveals that the Nameless has been freed.__NEWL__The worst of both courts, the Nameless was the last great spell that Seelie and Unseelie had cooperated upon.__NEWL__They had stripped themselves of everything too awful for them to be permitted to stay in the United States, and from it had been formed the Nameless.__NEWL__A strange murder brings members of the Grey Agency, including Merry, to the scene.__NEWL__However, their presence is challenged by others of the police force and they are thrown off site.__NEWL__However, this is not before they have a chance to suspect that supernatural forces are at work.__NEWL__It is suspected that the lives had been sucked from the murder victims by the ghosts of dead gods.__NEWL__Nothing is said to the police, however, as the only known person to work such a spell was a sidhe and, if it were discovered, that fact could result in all sidhe being banished from the country.__NEWL__Healed from his injuries by Niceven's representative, Sage, Galen acts the part of the Green Man in the fertility ritual with Merry which results in Maeve Reed becoming pregnant.__NEWL__It begins to become clear that Taranis is also planning something as various social secretaries insist upon Merry attending first the Yule Ball and then a feast in her honour.__NEWL__This culminates in a conversation between Merry and Taranis himself.__NEWL__Finally, the Nameless attacks Maeve Reed's home.__NEWL__It is finally defeated by Merry and her companions, Merry herself showing for the first time her second Hand of Power - the Hand of Blood.__NEWL__The result of the destruction of the Nameless is the release of the magics which formed it; these magics transfer themselves to the victors, who begin to exhibit unforeseen side effects.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4003689	A Kiss of Shadows	2000-10-03T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5811962	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5811962	A faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also popular, the heroine is Princess Meredith NicEssus.__NEWL__As niece to Andais, The Queen of Air and Darkness, she is a royal of the Unseelie Court, however having fled the court three years before she has been hiding herself under the name of Merry Gentry and working as a private investigator for the Grey Detective Agency.__NEWL__The story begins in Los Angeles, California, in a world where magical creatures are "out of the closet" and, in some cases, even legal.__NEWL__Princess Meredith NicEssus is working for the Grey Detective Agency under the assumed name of Meredith 'Merry' Gentry.__NEWL__When two women come to the agency with a story about fey-wannabes and rituals involving fey women, Merry goes undercover to investigate.__NEWL__However, she and her colleagues get more than they bargained for when it is discovered that the culprit is using Branwyn's Tears, an illegal oil that can make a human appear as a sidhe (pronounced 'shee') lover for a night, and turn even a sidhe or a sidhe-descendant into his sexual slave.__NEWL__In the process of solving the case, Merry's secret is revealed, and she is hunted by the demonic Sluagh.__NEWL__Brought to see their King, Sholto, he offers Meredith a deal.__NEWL__Himself disapproved of by Andais, Queen of Air and Darkness, because of his mixed blood, he proposes an alliance between the two of them.__NEWL__Jealous at the idea of Merry becoming his lover, Sholto's harem of nighthags attack Merry.__NEWL__During the fight Merry's gift, the Hand of Flesh, is revealed when one of them, Nerys, turns into a ball of flesh.__NEWL__Shocked, Merry tries to flee, but is trapped.__NEWL__Doyle, Captain of the Queen's Raven Guard, appears.__NEWL__He announces that the Queen never sent the Sluagh, and that in fact the Queen meant her no harm.__NEWL__As proof of this he produces the Queen's sword Mortal Dread, as well as the Queen's mark, which he transfers to Merry in a kiss.__NEWL__Merry returns with Doyle to the Court.__NEWL__The Queen claims that she wants her bloodline to continue upon the throne.__NEWL__She is willing to take as her heir whichever of Meredith or her cousin, Cel, can first produce an heir.__NEWL__She lifts the geiss of celibacy upon her Ravens for Meredith alone, insisting that she choose at least three in order to increase the chance of pregnancy.__NEWL__While this offer would permit Merry to end her self-imposed exile and return home, it also brings dangers.__NEWL__Cel, previously the sole heir, makes several attempts upon her life.__NEWL__Merry makes alliances with others such as Kurag, the Goblin King.__NEWL__However, Cel was behind the Branwyn's Tears incident in LA.__NEWL__In punishment, he is to be confined for six months after being coated with the oil himself, something akin to torture.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16387053	Mistral's Kiss	2006-12-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5811996	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5811996	The series has revolved around a conflict between title character, faerie princess Meredith NicEssus, and her cousin, Cel.__NEWL__Cel's mother, Queen Andais, has promised that the first of the two cousins to produce a child will become ruler of the Unseelie Court.__NEWL__Mistral's Kiss continues to follow Meredith's attempts to bear a child and to avoid Cel's various schemes.__NEWL__Meredith wakes up from a dream where she is given a horn cup from the Consort.__NEWL__The horn is a lost relic belonging to Abeloec, one of her guards, and the former god of wine.__NEWL__Abeloec and Merry drink from the horn, and some of his former god powers are restored.__NEWL__The other guards receive tattoos, symbols of their former god-powers that link the guards to Meredith in a mysterious way.__NEWL__ They are magically transported to the heart of the Unseelie sithen, the dead gardens, where sex with Meredith, Abeloec and Mistral causes the gardens to come alive again.__NEWL__Rain begins to fall inside the garden.__NEWL__ Through the sex magic, Galen, Nicca and Aisling disappear into the earth, air and trees, apparently as sacrifices to bring the magic back.__NEWL__Merry discovers that the Sithen responds to her desires, like adjusting how much rain falls in the garden.__NEWL__Merry learns that Abeloec's cup was once used to make queens and goddesses, and the group speculate as to whether Merry is now immortal.__NEWL__ Meredith asks the sithen to create a door to return to the Unseelie sithen.__NEWL__When they go through it, they find that they have accidentally passed into the Sluagh sithen, and they end up in the dead garden of the Sluagh.__NEWL__Before they can escape, they are confronted by Sholto, King of the Sluagh, and Lord of That Which Passes Between, and his two night hags, Agnes and Segna.__NEWL__ Meredith discovers that Sholto's tentacles have been shaved off by a member of the Seelie who tricked him.__NEWL__The hags believe that Meredith is part of the conspiracy.__NEWL__Segna attacks Meredith, but before she can reach her, Sholto strikes her and throws her into the dead lake, where is she is speared by the enchanted bones of the dead.__NEWL__Segna is mortally wounded, but alive.__NEWL__Sholto and Meredith wade into the lake to euthanize Segna.__NEWL__In a last-ditch attempt to kill Meredith, Segna pulls her under the water.__NEWL__Meredith uses her Hand of Blood to finish Segna.__NEWL__ Sholto and Meredith magically appear on the Island of Bones in the middle of the lake.__NEWL__Sholto carries a dagger and a spear of bone, signs of kingship among the sluagh that had been lost.__NEWL__The Goddess appears and gives Sholto the chance to restore magic to the Sluagh.__NEWL__He is given the choice to either bring the magic back with blood by killing Meredith, or by sex.__NEWL__If he chooses death, the black heart of the sluagh will be restored.__NEWL__But if he chooses sex and life, it will change the sluagh sithen to a more Seelie-like place.__NEWL__Sholto chooses sex and life, and together they restore magic to the Sluagh garden.__NEWL__In a blast of power, they are returned to the Sluagh garden which is now filled with herbs, plants and flowers.__NEWL__ Drunk with his new power, Sholto calls the Wild Hunt to chase the sidhe.__NEWL__Meredith and her guards flee.__NEWL__Meredith conjures a protective covering of four-leaf clover and discovers a "thin place" that allow them to escape the Sluagh sithen.__NEWL__Now more sidhe than ever, Sholto is attacked by the very Wild Hunt that he called up, and he is forced to flee as well.__NEWL__ Now in the real world, Meredith calls on a group of Red Caps (cousins of the goblins), led by Jonty, to fight the Wild Hunt with them.__NEWL__The Wild Hunt is defeated and through the remaining magic, faerie animals including dogs appear.__NEWL__ After the battle, they are rejoined by Galen, Aisling and Nicca who, having disappeared from the garden, reappeared in the Hall of Mortality.__NEWL__Galen's wild magic causes flowers and water to appear in the Hall, and he accidentally causes all prisoners to be freed, including Cel, the Queen's son, who wants Meredith dead.__NEWL__A furious Andais confronts Meredith and tells her that she must take her guards and go back to Los Angeles tonight, because she has ruined her sithen and Andais cannot keep her safe from Cel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6902800	Monster Planet	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5812419	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5812419	Monster Planet takes place twelve years after the events in Monster Island.__NEWL__Sarah, Dekalb's now 20-year-old daughter, fights alongside Ayaan and her squad of female Somali warriors to defend their last remaining settlements from the encroaching undead forces.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a powerful lich from Russia who calls himself "The Tsarevich" leads his army west on an unknown expedition.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7758806	The Purple Land	1885-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q414	Argentina	5935404	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5935404	The novel tells the story of Richard Lamb, a young Englishman who marries a teenage Argentinian girl, Paquita, without asking her father's permission, and is forced to flee to Montevideo, Uruguay with his bride.__NEWL__Lamb leaves his young wife with a relative while he sets off for eastern Uruguay to find work for himself.__NEWL__He soon becomes embroiled in adventures with the Uruguayan gauchos and romances with local women.__NEWL__Lamb unknowingly helps a rebel guerrilla general, Santa Coloma, escape from prison and joins his cause.__NEWL__However, the rebels are defeated in battle and Lamb has to flee in disguise.__NEWL__He helps Demetria, the daughter of an old rebel leader, escape from her persecutors and returns to Montevideo.__NEWL__Lamb, Paquita, Demetria and Santa Coloma evade their government pursuers by slipping away on a boat bound for Buenos Aires.__NEWL__Here the novel ends, but in the opening paragraphs, Lamb had already informed the reader that after the events of the story he was captured by Paquita's father and thrown into prison for three years, during which time Paquita herself died of grief.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7769769	The Town	1950-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5935799	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5935799	The Town, the third novel in Conrad Richter’s Awakening Land trilogy, continues the story of frontier woman Sayward (née Luckett) Wheeler and her family.__NEWL__At 280 pages, the book is considerably longer than the other books of the trilogy.__NEWL__The focus of this final book is on the dramatic changes to the town and region with rapid development and industrialization.__NEWL__The theme is dealing with change.__NEWL__Sayward lives through the development of her Ohio Valley settlement into a thriving town, with a variety of businesses and industry.__NEWL__She becomes wealthy by pioneer standards by selling off parcels of her own land to newcomers.__NEWL__The town changes its name from Moonshine Church to Americus in a successful quest to be named the county seat.__NEWL__The town government constructs civic improvements such as a new bridge and canal.__NEWL__Sayward’s husband, Portius Wheeler, convinces her to give up their old log cabin and move into a fine new brick mansion house he builds in the downtown section of Americus.__NEWL__He believes this is in keeping with his position as the town's attorney.__NEWL__Sayward eventually gets used to the luxury of her new home, but also feels a sense of loss for her former frontier way of life.__NEWL__Sayward is reunited with two long-lost members of her family, who were introduced in the earlier books of the trilogy.__NEWL__Her father, Worth Luckett, had abandoned the family to live a hunter’s life after his favorite child, Sulie, was lost in the forest.__NEWL__After an absence of many years, he returns to Americus and tries to re-establish relationships with his grown children.__NEWL__On his deathbed, Worth confides that he found their sister Sulie alive; she had become fully assimilated as a Lenape (Delaware Indian) and married a Lenape man.__NEWL__Sayward and her remaining sister, Genny, travel to the Indiana town where Sulie resides and try to reconnect with her.__NEWL__Sulie claims not to know them as she is now part of the tribe and does not want to leave.__NEWL__Her sisters conclude Sulie is lost to them.__NEWL__Sayward also deals with the problems of one or another of her nine surviving children.__NEWL__Her youngest son, Chancey, causes her the most worry.__NEWL__He is a quiet, sensitive youngster with frequent health problems.__NEWL__He often retreats into daydreams of belonging to another family who will understand him better.__NEWL__As Chancey grows older, he feels an increasing sense of separation from his family, and often clashes with his mother over their differing views on work and progress.__NEWL__He becomes close friends with Rosa Tench, a girl from the poor side of town in whom he senses a kindred spirit.__NEWL__Their families finally tell him that Rosa is the result of Portius Wheeler's extramarital affair with the local school mistress, meaning that Rosa and Chancey are half-brother and sister.__NEWL__They are forbidden to see each other and are threatened with the law, but they continue to meet in secret.__NEWL__Finally, Chancey tells Rosa he can’t see her anymore.__NEWL__At the town fair, Rosa tries to force a confrontation with him, cutting loose their hot air balloon.__NEWL__Chancey deflates the balloon and returns them safely.__NEWL__When Rosa realizes that Chancey will never defy his family and take her away from Americus, she commits suicide with the same knife used to cut the balloon's tether.__NEWL__(This plot-line was not in the 1978 TV mini-series of the same name, where the pair were separated as children, not young adults.)__NEWL__After Rosa’s death, Chancey becomes embittered toward his family and moves out to a boarding house in town.__NEWL__He then moves on to the larger river port city of Cincinnati, where he becomes a journalist.__NEWL__He works as an editor of a newspaper, writing articles from a socialist point of view that criticize industrial progress and some prominent people in the state, especially members of his family.__NEWL__He returns to see his family only when necessary.__NEWL__Chancey returns in 1861 on the eve of the American Civil War (although the year is not given, the book refers to Union troops answering the call of their “backwoods president,” meaning Abraham Lincoln).__NEWL__He has come for his mother's last days.__NEWL__After being supported for years by anonymous contributions, his newspaper has failed and been sold off at auction after the contributions stopped.__NEWL__He hopes that he may inherit some money from Sayward’s estate to enable him to start over.__NEWL__At home, Chancey learns that his mother had been the anonymous contributor who financed his paper all those years.__NEWL__He had often criticized her in print, and she did not agree with his published views.__NEWL__He also learns that she has saved clippings of all of the poems, articles, and editorials he has written.__NEWL__Chancey realizes that he may have been wrong about his mother, and therefore wrong about many of his other conclusions.__NEWL__He recognizes that he will have to “ponder his own questions and travel his way alone.”
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15139096	Vote for Larry	2004-05-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q192517	Boulder	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5934036	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5934036	After faking the suicide of his online persona "Larry", Josh Swensen has hidden in Boulder, Colorado under the pseudonym of Mark and enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder.__NEWL__He is kidnapped by his old friend Beth, who persuades him to return him to his "Larry" persona and run for office.__NEWL__She suggests he runs for Massachusetts state representative in the Congress, but he decides to run for U.S. President.__NEWL__He has difficulty maintaining his austerity, problems with his girlfriend and ex-girlfriend, a threat from his nemesis betagold, self-identity problems, and the rather unusual problem of running for U.S. President.__NEWL__Among other problems is the problem of almost being killed by an opponent in the candidacy for president.__NEWL__In this book, the fictional Congress passes a constitutional amendment to lower the presidential age requirement to 18.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6318401	Justinian	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5929667	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5929667	The book is in the format of a fictional memoir written by Byzantine Emperor Justinian II, with brief interludes from a soldier named Myakes, who was close to Justinian throughout much of the emperor's life.__NEWL__The book follows Justinian's time before and after taking the throne, as well as his overthrow, mutilation and exile in the Crimea, his subsequent return to power (following a possibly apocryphal nose-job), his insane quest for revenge, and his finally being unseated a second time and executed.__NEWL__Myakes, who had been blinded and exiled to a monastery after Justinian's final defeat, listens as a fellow monk named Brother Elpidios reads the memoir out loud, and occasionally interrupts with commentary or criticism.__NEWL__In the end, Elipidos, who had been contemplating writing his own history, hides the book as he believes he could not properly separate the good from the evil in Justinian's life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7738140	The Green Carnation	1894-01-01T00:00:00Z	5860580	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5860580	In the opening scene, Lord Reggie Hastings slips a green carnation into his evening coat before attending a dinner party at Mrs Windsor's house in Belgrave Square.__NEWL__He converses there with Esmé Amarinth, a married playwright; and Lady Locke (cousin to Mrs Windsor), a young widow who has only recently returned to England after a ten-year absence.__NEWL__Some days later, Lord Reggie, Mr Amarinth and Lady Locke (together with her nine-year-old son Tommy), are guests at Mrs. Windsor's countryside cottage near Dorking.__NEWL__An additional guest is the mysterious Madame Valtesi whose one good action, she claims, was to marry the only man not in love with her when young.__NEWL__Lady Locke is initially attracted by Lord Reggie, but becomes increasingly disturbed by his wearing of the green carnation and what it symbolises about his flippant attitude to life.__NEWL__Lord Reggie tells her that Esmé invented the flower, and that it is only worn by a few people who are followers of "the higher philosophy".__NEWL__During their stay in the village of Chenecote, Lord Reggie composes an anthem on a passage from the Song of Songs.__NEWL__Together with Mr Amarinth, he flatters the High church curate Mr Smith into allowing him to coach the village choir in singing it at Sunday service and directing them from the church's organ.__NEWL__At the village fete on Monday, held in Mrs Windsor's garden, Mr Amarinth assembles the local schoolchildren and addresses them incomprehensibly in a lecture on "The art of folly", to the outrage of their National school teachers.__NEWL__Though Lord Reggie has no inclination to marry, he has been advised by Mr Amarinth that the good natured and wealthy Lady Locke would make him a useful wife.__NEWL__She is fond of him, yet has realised by now how under the influence of Mr Amarinth Lord Reggie remains, as well as the incompatibility between him and herself and the destabilising influence Reggie is on the hero-worshipping Tommy.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, therefore, she firmly rejects his proposal, telling Lord Reggie that, as well as knowing it would only be a marriage of convenience to him, she could never accept a man whose whole behaviour and conversation is only an imitative pose.__NEWL__Lady Locke then decides to take Tommy to the seaside, while Mr Amarinth and the disgruntled Lord Reggie cut short their week in the country and return together by train to London.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7752094	The Monsters Inside	2005-05-19T00:00:00Z	5876252	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5876252	The TARDIS lands on a different planet, and Rose 'was, officially, Somewhere Else.'__NEWL__The Doctor isn't sure where they are, and says it was 'like something in the area drew us down...'__NEWL__They walk to the lip of a rise, and see people building pyramids.__NEWL__As they turn, four men, each with a whip and 'futuristic space gun,' are creeping up behind them.__NEWL__A fight ensues, and the Doctor and Rose are captured and taken away in separate ships.__NEWL__The Doctor tells Rose, 'Wherever they take you, I'll get you back.'__NEWL__The Doctor is taken to a plain grey room.__NEWL__He is scanned, found to be an alien, gassed, and sent away.__NEWL__He wakes to see a short woman who introduces herself as Senator Lazlee Flowers and tells him that he is at SCAT-house (Species-led Creative and Advanced Technologies).__NEWL__She explains that they are on Justice Alpha of the Justica system, which is a prison, and that they should have seen the auto-beacons and deflection barrier warning them to stay away.__NEWL__Aliens go to this planet to work on projects, and can get time off their sentence or royalties for good results.__NEWL__Rose is put on a shuttle and taken to another planet.__NEWL__Warders Blanc and Norris tell her that she has been assigned to Detention Centre Six on Justica Beta.__NEWL__They tell her that she can put in a plea to the Governor, but right now she needs to leave the ship.__NEWL__She is attacked by a group of inmates, but rescued by Block-walker Dennel.__NEWL__The Doctor talks to Flowers.__NEWL__She says that his ship can't be entered or moved.__NEWL__He tells her 'I put the handbrake on so we wouldn't go anywhere else in a hurry.'__NEWL__They discuss the difficulties of escape, and she tells him to find out.__NEWL__He puts his hand to a door, and grey globules descend from the roof and stick all over him, preventing him from moving.__NEWL__Flowers says they respond to anti-social behavior as well.__NEWL__He is temporarily assigned a room with two Slitheen, Dram Fel Fotch and his brother Ecktosca Fel Fotch Heppen-Bar Slitheen.__NEWL__They tell the Doctor that 'the family' has gotten out of 'the family business.'__NEWL__Dram and Ecktosca are searching for their ancestor's personal effects, including their compression fields.__NEWL__They were arrested after being tricked into breaking into a building on Justica Delta.__NEWL__After breakfast, Rose is assigned to work in the kitchens, where some other inmates cause trouble that she is blamed for.__NEWL__She is taken to see the governor, and sees a flickering blue light coming out of his office accompanied by a really bad smell.__NEWL__She is sure he is a Slitheen, especially since he is a large person, but she can't see a zipper and he claims the flickering light was a malfunctioning desk lamp.__NEWL__He sentences Rose to a minimum of 25 years in prison.__NEWL__The next morning, the grey globs grab the Doctor and take him to a room with a variety of aliens working on a gravity experiment.__NEWL__The Doctor and one of the other aliens (a Sucrosian named Nesshalop) come up with a breakthrough within a few minutes, but break the console in the process.__NEWL__The globs descend on both of them, causing pain as punishment for the destruction.__NEWL__The translation circuit is also broken, so only the Doctor can give the supervisors the solution.__NEWL__Rose's second day is much like her first, but the Governor is eating lunch in her block today.__NEWL__She starts a food fight, and in the confusion tackles him so she can look for a zipper.__NEWL__She doesn't find one, and is thrown into solitary confinement.__NEWL__Flowers goes to see Consul Issabel, the Technocrat Major of Justica Prime.__NEWL__Flowers tells her about the breakthrough, and that the Doctor insists that he needs his astrophysicist friend to finish solving the problem.__NEWL__Issabel says she will think on it.__NEWL__While the Doctor is back in his cell, he goes through the Slitheens' nests, finds a homemade compression field, and deduces that they must have escape plans, which Ecktosca confirms when he catches the Doctor looking at it.__NEWL__Rose is visited by Warder Norris, who says that he is an undercover agent, because people are vanishing, but hasn't heard from any of his superiors in months.__NEWL__Blanc comes in, kills him easily, and then unzips her head.__NEWL__Rose gets out of her cell, then realizes that's what the Slitheen wanted all along.__NEWL__At the last moment, two other warders come along, sent by the Governor to fetch her.__NEWL__The Doctor is awoken during the night, and told to come to the meeting room.__NEWL__Flowers is there, and tells him that he will be talking to his expert over videolink.__NEWL__While they wait, they talk about the planetary orbits, and how they are perfect circles, and perfectly spaced for using an amplified gravity wave to open a warp-hole.__NEWL__Rose is brought into the Governor's office, and sits down to talk to the Doctor.__NEWL__He tells her that there is a test she needs to pass 'with no help.'__NEWL__Flowers asks her the question, and the Doctor tells Rose that if the project works, they will 'get a royalty that could bring in a lot of cash - and we're talking telephone numbers.'__NEWL__When told to be quiet, he tells Rose, 'Mum's the word.'__NEWL__She tells the Doctor that someone might think he's 'sending me a coded message' and he responds 'No.__NEWL__No codes.'__NEWL__So Rose gives them her mum's phone number, and Flowers says it's close, especially since it was a mental calculation, and then asks about the Warp overlay.__NEWL__The Doctor then sneaks the second number to her by talking about the Fowlers' Albert Square address from the EastEnders (Rose had made the Doctor spend a day with her catching up on missed storylines).__NEWL__Issabel tells the Governor to send Rose there immediately.__NEWL__Meanwhile, alarms are going off on Justica Alpha, because the Slitheen have escaped.__NEWL__Rose is on the shuttle when she sees smoke seeping out from under the bulkhead door.__NEWL__She bangs on the door to the cabin.__NEWL__Eventually the pilot comes out to investigate, and is dragged into the smoky hold when he opens the door.__NEWL__The alarm goes silent, and Block-walker Dennel comes out.__NEWL__He has seen what happened with Norris and Blanc, and thinks he is rescuing Rose.__NEWL__They drag the unconscious pilot to the cabin door and use his hand to open the touchpad.__NEWL__The console starts beeping a countdown, wanting input from the pilot, and when Rose and Dennel try to move him, they realize he's got a zipper in his head.__NEWL__In order to keep the shuttle moving, they remove the hand skin from the Raxacoricofallapatorian, and use it like a glove to abort the countdown.__NEWL__It wakes up, and they run to the cabin and close the door.__NEWL__Unfortunately, Dennel is knocked against the controls as the pilot beats on the door.__NEWL__They realize the ship is heading for a planet, and Dennel comments, 'The big bad wolf's ready to blow our house down.'__NEWL__When the monster gets in, Rose tells him not to hurt Dennel, but to prevent the ship from crashing.__NEWL__It says that it has orders not to harm them, and starts to work on the controls.__NEWL__In spite of its efforts, the ship crashes.__NEWL__The Doctor has the gravity workshop constructing the core of an amplifier when Flowers comes in.__NEWL__He asks her about the return of his sonic screwdriver, and then tells her that the orbits of the planets in this system have been changed.__NEWL__When Flowers goes to talk to Issabel, she accidentally sees her remove her skin to reveal a monster that is 'bigger and paler than either Ecktosca or Dram Fel Fotch.'__NEWL__As Flowers tries to sneak away, Ermenshrew (Issabel) hears her and gives chase.__NEWL__She comes across the Doctor, and they take off for the systems hub.__NEWL__The corridor is very narrow, and Ermenshrew has trouble coming after them.__NEWL__Rose and Dennel are on Justice Delta.__NEWL__The monster tricks Rose into calling for help, knowing that there are no longer any humans on the planet, just more monsters like himself.__NEWL__He also tells her that he is a Blathereen, not a Slitheen.__NEWL__The Doctor tells Flowers to change the gravity settings to zero.__NEWL__As soon as she does so, the two of them float up to the ceiling shelves where the globs live.__NEWL__The Doctor tells her to switch on the sonic screwdriver (which she had brought along to return to him) for light.__NEWL__There are corridors between the shelves that connect the various rooms of SCAT-house.__NEWL__As they crawl through them, they find Ecktosca and Dram disguised as globs.__NEWL__Rose awakes Dennel, and the two of them take off through the trees.__NEWL__They come to a clearing that is filled with the remains of all the humans who have gone missing from Justica Beta.__NEWL__They find the monitoring station that the shuttle had crashed into when it landed, and by looking at all the screens, figure out what is happening.__NEWL__They see Warder Robsen appear in the clearing, and run out to get him.__NEWL__They find the portal that he came through, but are unable to make it work.__NEWL__Ecktosca tells the Doctor and Rose that there are warp-hole pathways joining all the worlds in Justica.__NEWL__The Blathereen are using the work done at SCAT-house to improve and enlarge them.__NEWL__The Doctor realizes that they are what drew the TARDIS.__NEWL__Flowers realizes the portal must be in the aquaculture compound, which has been shut down for months.__NEWL__The four of them make their way there, Ecktosca activates the portal, Dram follows, and then the Doctor and Flowers.__NEWL__They end up in a small room on Justice Delta, and the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to offset the portal and prevent Ermenshrew from following them.__NEWL__As he finishes, they are discovered.__NEWL__Meanwhile, back on Justica Beta, the prisoners stage a revolt.__NEWL__Rose, Dennel, and Robsen are running from the Blathereen, when the monitoring station comes crashing past them.__NEWL__They all jump in.__NEWL__Rose sees the Doctor on one of the monitoring screens, and they turn the volume up to hear what is happening.__NEWL__The Doctor, Flowers, Ecktosca, and Dram are taken to the Blathereen leader, Don Arco.__NEWL__He tells them that what they want to do is create a super-portal that will allow them to move the entire Justica system.__NEWL__Then they will use its suns to burn another system into fissile material to sell.__NEWL__The prisoners remaining in the Justica system will be used to process the material.__NEWL__Then a monitoring platform crashes into the building, and another.__NEWL__The Doctor and Flowers take advantage of the aftermath to escape.__NEWL__Rose, Dennel and Robsen find that their station is moving faster now that it's out of the trees and approaching the building, so they decide to jump out.__NEWL__They see the Doctor and Flowers emerge from it, and when Rose jumps, the Doctor catches her, but they both fall.__NEWL__He grins and says 'Found you.'__NEWL__As they talk, Blathereen begin to emerge from the building, and all five take off running for the forest.__NEWL__Suddenly they hear 'cheering and clattering and crashing and shrieking' and see hundreds of detention centre kids coming after the monsters.__NEWL__Another Slitheen shows up (Callis, the aunt of Ecktosca and Dram), and the three of them, the Doctor, Rose, Robsen, and Flowers head back to Justice Alpha to destroy the work that was done at SCAT-house.__NEWL__Don Arco and Ermenshaw are there ahead of them, starting to activate the project.__NEWL__The Doctor has Rose and Flowers turn off the gravity again, while Ecktosca, Callis, and Robsen wreck the gravity warp equipment.__NEWL__Dram works on the compression field, and the Doctor heads back to the gravity workshop.__NEWL__They manage to sabotage the works, and when Ermenshrew hits the switch, the room explodes.__NEWL__The Doctor and Rose go back to the TARDIS and leave the system.__NEWL__Dram, Ecktosca and Callis celebrate the fall of the Blathereen and the beginning of "a new golden age of crime" for the Slitheen.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15035806	A Stroke of Midnight	2005-04-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5811678	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5811678	A faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also fashionable, the title heroine is Princess Meredith NicEssus, also known as Merry Gentry.__NEWL__As niece to Andais, The Queen of Air and Darkness, she is a royal of the Unseelie Court.__NEWL__While her aunt tried to kill her as a child, she has since offered her the title as crown princess as the Court needs more heirs.__NEWL__Following on almost immediately from the events of Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight begins with Merry and the Ravens attending a press conference in the sithen.__NEWL__This is highly unusual as the home of the sidhe is usually off-limits to the human press.__NEWL__However, it is felt that it is more secure than holding the conference elsewhere.__NEWL__This opinion is challenged almost immediately by the deaths of Beatrice, one of the lesser fae, and a human reporter.__NEWL__Merry, assigned to solve the murders by her aunt, Queen Andais, opts to bring in human forensics in the hope that science might be able to succeed where magic has so far failed - and bring a murderer to justice.__NEWL__The entire novel takes place within approximately one day.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7445394	Seduced by Moonlight	2004-02-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5811788	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5811788	A faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also fashionable, the title heroine is Princess Meredith NicEssus, also known as Merry Gentry.__NEWL__As niece to Andais, The Queen of Air and Darkness, she is a royal of the Unseelie Court.__NEWL__While her aunt tried to kill her as a child, she has since offered her the title as crown princess as the Court needs more heirs.__NEWL__Seduced by Moonlight begins shortly after the events of A Caress of Twilight.__NEWL__Kurag, Goblin King, is insisting upon proof that Kitto has become sidhe following sex with Merry.__NEWL__She offers an extra month of their alliance for every goblin hybrid she can bring into sidhe magic.__NEWL__During the discussions, Siun, Kitto's nightmarish, spidery former mistress, appears and he is terrified.__NEWL__It is revealed that Rhys also swore blood price on her, as it was she that took his eye when he failed to "glow" for her during sex.__NEWL__In his fear, Kitto accidentally uses the Hand of Reaching to open a portal through the mirror.__NEWL__Siun falls through and is trapped half-way, and after some negotiation, Kurag allows the Ravens to do what they like.__NEWL__Kitto viciously wounds her, and Rhys kills her with a sword.__NEWL__It is revealed that Meredith is a vessel for the Goddess Danu when she inadvertently brings the pregnant Maeve Reed back into her god-head, and gives Frost newfound god status (which he is not comfortable with).__NEWL__The cup or cauldron also reappears after Merry has a dream about it, an effect that has significant impact upon the sidhe who believed it lost forever.__NEWL__During sex with Merry many of her lovers suffer unexpected side-effects: Merry and her lovers return to the Courts.__NEWL__Upon the flight back, Merry is presented with the Queen's ring by Rhys.__NEWL__This is not only a symbol of her status as heir, but also a potent artifact in its own right.__NEWL__It was known as the happy ever after ring as it permitted sidhe to find their perfect mates.__NEWL__When they arrive at the airport they are greeted by several of the Queen's Ravens as well as human policemen.__NEWL__The Queen has insisted that Merry take to her bed any of the sidhe that the ring recognises.__NEWL__A short while after their arrival, they attend a press conference.__NEWL__A policeman is bewitched and shooting breaks out.__NEWL__Merry is saved by Frost and others of the Ravens.__NEWL__Yet more Ravens await Merry at the sithen.__NEWL__The Queen insists that Merry beds two out of the four before she appears before her.__NEWL__The result is the appearance of a spring, from which Merry fills a cup.__NEWL__Andais, apparently insane with bloodlust, is attacking her men.__NEWL__The Ravens attempt to intervene and protect one another.__NEWL__Merry uses her Hand of Blood to draw wounds upon her aunt.__NEWL__The Green Man then gives Merry the ability to heal all those in the room.__NEWL__It is discovered that a spell was used to incite the Queen to murder.__NEWL__The plot was hatched by those amongst the court who feared that a mortal Queen, Merry, would result in the sidhe ceasing to exist.__NEWL__Merry is challenged by one, Miniver, and they duel before the court.__NEWL__Meredith is declared the winner.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5550573	Gerfalcon	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5891589	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5891589	The novel is set around the fourteenth century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).__NEWL__Raoul, the young heir to the barony of Marckmont (described as "a blend of elf and owl and boy") grows up to become a sensitive, intelligent young man who prefers reading and song to the so-called knightly virtues of war and slaughter.__NEWL__At seventeen, he takes off on his own and thus begin a series of adventures that will both test and mature him.__NEWL__Along the way, he falls in love, survives attempted murder, saves Red Anne (Mistress of the Witches' Coven of the Singing Stones), and is forced to join the household of the brigand Count Lorin de Campscapel, Red Anne's lover.__NEWL__Raoul's life at the Campscapel's castle is one of constant danger.__NEWL__Only after many more thrilling incidents does he finally comes into his inheritance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7505904	Shy Leopardess	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5891608	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5891608	The novel is set around the 14th century in an alternate medieval France called Neustria (historically an early division of the Frankish kingdom).__NEWL__Yolande, whose estate has been wrested from her by her forced marriage to the depraved Balthasar, schemes to recover her independence with the aid of her admirers, Diomede and Lioncel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5336972	Edenborn	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5866058	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5866058	In the aftermath of a global plague and the death of all humans, a group of genetically altered posthumans raised in IVR, or Immersive Virtual Reality, are trying to rebuild society by cloning children.__NEWL__They're divided into two ideological factions, the rest being politically indifferent.__NEWL__Vashti and Champagne's group in Munich, Germany, have formed a school in the Nymphenburg Palace for Posthuman children they've created, invulnerable to Black Ep because of genetically boosted immune systems.__NEWL__Due to the fact that females have a slightly stronger resistance to Black Ep and Vashti's belief in matriarchy, all the children are female.__NEWL__Nymphenburg is very structured, most of the children's time being rigidly scheduled.__NEWL__Vashti feels that humanity should be improved upon via genetic engineering, and leads most of the scientific aspects of Nymphenburg.__NEWL__Champagne is mostly responsible for taking care of the children, supplies, and gardening.__NEWL__The Nymphenburg children include fifteen-year-old Penelope, Sloane, and Tomi.__NEWL__Isaac's group is based in Luxor, Egypt, which he has renamed Thebes, and is structured more like a traditional family.__NEWL__His children consist of both females and males, and are unaltered humans.__NEWL__Thebes is Sufi Muslim, and a more relaxed environment than Nymphenburg.__NEWL__They're protected from Black Ep by a retrovirus called BEAR.__NEWL__The Thebes children include Hessa, sixteen-year-old Mu'tazz and fifteen-year-old Haji.__NEWL__Though both camps survived Black Ep, both still work to cure it.__NEWL__The two camps have a short-term exchange program despite their incompatibility and the death of Hessa in a previous exchange.__NEWL__The other three posthumans are either neutral or uninvolved in this debate.__NEWL__Pandora runs infrastructure repair and IVR, computer-generated virtual reality used as a school and hobby for the children in Nymphenburg.__NEWL__Halloween lives alone in North America, and opposes the very idea of repopulating Earth.__NEWL__The only person he'll speak to is Pandora.__NEWL__Fantasia is somewhere in North America as well, even more isolated than Halloween.__NEWL__Haji is included in the exchange with Nymphenburg with two of his siblings, Ngozi and Dalila.__NEWL__Raised without some of the technology they use, Haji is delighted by it, but feels a certain unease.__NEWL__Vashti monitors all of their dealings and domains in IVR, and has it strictly censored.__NEWL__Vashti also controls the girls through virtual dollars given as pocket money, used to buy things in IVR.__NEWL__Penny, the main character of the Munich base, showns signs of narcissism.__NEWL__She considers herself the best of her siblings, regarding them with either hatred or pity.__NEWL__She also believes she has the ability to "hex" people, crediting herself with the injury of her sister.__NEWL__When she hears that Pandora has become overworked and may need an assistant, she puts all her energy into getting the position, even bribing or blackmailing her sisters to convince Pandora to hire her.__NEWL__Penny wants to be "queen of the inside" by controlling IVR, thereby controlling her sisters.__NEWL__Many small items with no history or sender keep ending up in IVR.__NEWL__Penny finds the yin half of a yin-yang symbol and Haji finds a key.__NEWL__Tomi, his friend, recognizes it as the key to the cryonics lab where she assists Vashti.__NEWL__Tomi sneaks him in, realizing that he is a clone of IVR programmer Dr. James Hyoguchi.__NEWL__She shows Haji a recording from James telling him to "download" James' mapped brain, destroying himself in the process.__NEWL__Haji is terrified, and as the disc ends Vashti finds him and Tomi.__NEWL__After repeatedly asking him who sent him the key, she is sympathetic, advising him not to sacrifice himself.__NEWL__Haji is overwhelmed, feeling betrayed by his father and wondering whether he should go through with it.__NEWL__His religion stresses the ultimate path to God as self-annihilation through fana.__NEWL__He wonders if his father's intentions in raising him to believe this were to get him to accept his death.__NEWL__Haji calls Isaac while he's on an expedition with Pandora asking him if he was in fact designed to be a conduit for James.__NEWL__Isaac tells him that this is not the case, and that he should disregard the disc.__NEWL__In a diary entry, Penny reveals that Hessa's death was caused by her switching pills out with laxatives as a prank.__NEWL__When her plan to become Pandora's assistant fails, she flies into a rage, making a list of people she wants revenge upon.__NEWL__Just after Haji calls his father and Penny makes out her hit list, there is a massive IVR security breach.__NEWL__Everything is exposed, including Vashti's logs and evaluations of the girls that reveal a range of mood-suppressing drugs—including sex-drive suppressants—and subliminal codes that the Munich camp use to keep their children in line, as well as the reading of the girls' supposedly secret diaries.__NEWL__Penny's ego is shattered by the revelation that she is considered beneath her sisters.__NEWL__Vashti is furious and the girls are outraged.__NEWL__The attack is traced back to Halloween.__NEWL__However, it was really organized by someone named Deuce, who was also behind the mysterious objects.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Pandora is tracking monkeys in the Amazon in the hopes of discovering how they survived Black Ep.__NEWL__The group captures a primate, but Mu'tazz, a human boy on the expedition, suddenly becomes extremely ill, and the group rushes to Nymphenburg for medical care.__NEWL__During the flight, Vashti calls Pandora, demanding she confront Halloween.__NEWL__During Pandora and Halloween's conversation, Halloween reveals that he cloned himself shortly after escaping IVR, hoping for the clone to be a better person.__NEWL__However, he did not replicate Halloween's choices, and Hal realized that he was not the same.__NEWL__He pulled him out of IVR when he was five years old, named him Deuce, and raised him as his son.__NEWL__Halloween largely approves of Deuce exposing Vashti and Champagne.__NEWL__Deuce, Halloween, and Pandora agree to fly Deuce to Munich, Deuce and Halloween mostly seeing it as an opportunity for Deuce to meet new people, but Vashti intending to "make an example of him".__NEWL__Halloween travels to Munich to find his son, and makes a certain amount of peace with his former classmates.__NEWL__ Deuce and Penelope go to a deserted Britain, and begin a 'last couple on Earth' fantasy.__NEWL__The pair go to an air force base and acquire weaponry.__NEWL__After they accidentally shoot down Pandora over the Mediterranean, they travel to Munich with a rocket launcher.__NEWL__Deuce does not want to actually go through with it, hoping to distract her until they're either caught or Penny sees reason.__NEWL__When Penny tells Deuce to fire the rocket launcher at the headquarters where everyone else is, Deuce refuses.__NEWL__Penny takes the rocket launcher herself and prepares to fire it.__NEWL__Halloween shoots her.__NEWL__Deuce commits suicide, with his idea of his father shattered.__NEWL__In the aftermath, the various leaders realize that all their problems came from division.__NEWL__They all move to Munich, where they begin to build, hopefully, a better world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5496867	Freddy Goes to the North Pole							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5812965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5812965	In the beginning, Freddy had the idea to establish a tourism company called__NEWL__Barnyard Tours Inc.__NEWL__The animals agreed, and the company was formed.__NEWL__Animals could pay for a tour with food, or by doing work for Mr. Bean.__NEWL__Soon, however, Freddy and Jinx, the cat, were sick and tired of conducting the tours.__NEWL__Freddy suggested a trip to the North Pole.__NEWL__So they and four other animals set off.__NEWL__A year passed, and the animals left began to worry.__NEWL__A mob formed in the barnyard triggered by a speech by Charles, the rooster.__NEWL__Then, Ferdinand, a crow from the expedition, came back and organized a rescue party.__NEWL__He said they had gone on a ship and crew were planning to eat Freddy.__NEWL__The sailors had said that they might try going to Santa Claus’ house.__NEWL__Later, in the woods of Canada, two children and a bear joined the rescue party.__NEWL__However, it soon was discovered that Ferdinand forgot to bring food and clothing for the animals.__NEWL__Everything looked grim for Ferdinand for a minute, but he suddenly came up with the idea for a lecture tour.__NEWL__The animals of the woods brought in food and clothing they found in the woods.__NEWL__Also, a few weeks later Charles and Jack, a dog, wandered away and were captured by some wolves.__NEWL__The animals, Charles and Jack, managed to drive the wolves away with the help of some ants.__NEWL__They finally arrived at Santa Claus’ house.__NEWL__The animals found Freddy there and also found a problem: The sailors were trying to turn Santa Claus's irregular workshop into an ordinary, assembly line factory.__NEWL__The animals tried to make the sailors leave.__NEWL__They played ghosts, but one sailor wasn't scared.__NEWL__Then, Freddy sent the captain, Mr. Hooker, a treasure map.__NEWL__He thought all the sailors would go with him, but instead, he tried to get all of it for himself.__NEWL__Freddy and Jinx chased after him and took it back.__NEWL__Later, the whole crew of the ship was shown the map.__NEWL__The sailors left and Santa Claus's workshop went back to normal.__NEWL__Santa Claus took the animals and the two children to the Bean Farm.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8028088	With a Tangled Skein	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z	5874617	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5874617	At around the time of World War I, a 21-year-old Irish woman named Niobe has a marriage arranged by her parents.__NEWL__Her husband-to-be is a 16-year-old boy named Cedric Kaftan.__NEWL__She considers him too immature, but can find no way out of the marriage.__NEWL__Although Niobe at first hates being married to Cedric, his good nature, kindheartedness, and desire to make her happy and keep safe win her over, and she falls in love with him.__NEWL__Cedric shows himself to be an intellectual prodigy.__NEWL__With some prodding and nurturing from his wife, Cedric accepts a scholarship to attend college and hone his magical abilities.__NEWL__He matures and finds his niche in magic and wetland studies, and he and Niobe have a child,__NEWL__Cedric Jr.__NEWL__A few years later, Cedric is assassinated by agents of Satan as part of a plot.__NEWL__Niobe petitions the Incarnations of Immortality to Cedric, only to he died because she was the target and Cedric died in her place.__NEWL__Niobe's anger at her husband's life being cut short makes her vow to make Satan pay.__NEWL__She is invited to take the place of one of three women sharing a physical body as different aspects of the Incarnation of Fate.__NEWL__Eager to thwart Satan's plans and avenge Cedric, she leaves her child with Cedric's cousin and becomes Clotho, the youngest aspect of the Fates.__NEWL__The Fates weave the tapestry of life and have discretion over the length of human lives and the pattern they produce.__NEWL__Clotho, the youngest, spins the threads from the substance of Void to create souls, Lachesis, the middle aspect, measures the threads, and Atropos, the oldest, cuts the thread of each individual human.__NEWL__When she becomes Clotho, Niobe must journey to the edge of the Void without aid from the other Fates and replenish her stock of thread-material.__NEWL__Because incarnations do not age, Niobe spends many years as Clotho.__NEWL__She frequently visits her son, Cedric Jr., who has befriended Cedric's younger cousin, Pacian.__NEWL__Because her lack of ageing would be noticed, she takes the form of the grandmotherly Atropos, pretending to be a concerned family friend.__NEWL__One day the Fates take the two boys to a fortune teller, who gives them disturbing news.__NEWL__Each of the boys are to marry the most beautiful women of their generation.__NEWL__Each marriage will produce a daughter who will oppose a tangle in the threads of life.__NEWL__One of the girls will marry Death, and the other is fated to marry Evil.__NEWL__Pacian’s daughter eventually weds Cedric Jr. but Pacian’s wife dies at the wedding.__NEWL__Niobe realizes she is destined to marry Pacian and despite them both resisting, fall in love and wed after she leaves the office of Clotho.__NEWL__She gives birth to a daughter they name Orb.__NEWL__At around the same time, Cedric Jr., now a powerful magician, has a daughter named Luna.__NEWL__The girls grow up together under the magician's protection.__NEWL__One day, the girls and Niobe leave on a quest for powerful artifacts that will enhance their natural talents.__NEWL__Satan uses the opportunity to send demons against them; although he knows one of the girls is fated to marry him, he is not interested in a wife who is not evil.__NEWL__Niobe keeps the girls safe, and Satan's plot comes to nothing.__NEWL__A year after the events of On a Pale Horse, the now middle-aged Niobe is again asked to join the Incarnation of Fate, this time as Lachesis.__NEWL__Satan has arranged that all three offices become vacant at the same time, making the Incarnation of Fate inexperienced in all three aspects simultaneously.__NEWL__The current officeholders hope to use Niobe's previous experience as an ace in the hole to thwart Satan's latest plot.__NEWL__They learn that Satan plans to cause political turmoil in the UN by having one of his minions plant a stink bomb.__NEWL__They are forced to spend time investigating likely minions one by one, while in the meantime Satan offers ageing political candidates a chance at renewed youth and the chance to start over in their careers, in exchange for their resignation from office.__NEWL__He plans to replace them with his own minions who would work against Luna.__NEWL__Realizing that their inexperience is a liability, the Fates seek help.__NEWL__They learn that Niobe's magician son can help them.__NEWL__Unfortunately he is now in Hell.__NEWL__Satan cannot prevent them from searching for him, but he can make the quest very unpleasant and one of them must risk her own soul in the process.__NEWL__Niobe is worried that Satan will cheat, so she arranges for the Incarnation of War to supervise the contest.__NEWL__Niobe leaves the Fates' collective body and goes to Hell.__NEWL__She must beat Satan's challenge—a puzzle-maze—to get the answers she needs.__NEWL__Eventually, she finds her son, but Satan has cast an illusion over him.__NEWL__She solves the puzzle anyway—and learns that Satan's plot can be stopped by Atropos.__NEWL__Satan’s minions falsely believe their service will get them better treatment in hell.__NEWL__If Fate were to tell them truth and that Atropos will cut their lives short, they would no longer serve him.__NEWL__By issuing this threat, Niobe wins the game and is allowed to leave Hell freely.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7998946	Wielding a Red Sword	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5874622	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5874622	Mym, an Indian prince, defies his father's plans for an arranged marriage, instead joining a travelling circus.__NEWL__He meets Orb, who teaches him to manage a stutter through song.__NEWL__He is soon discovered, and his father arranges for him to marry a princess by the name of Rapture of Malachite.__NEWL__After fighting against this for days on end, he finally realises that Rapture is worth loving, and so concedes to the marriage.__NEWL__However, a plot to separate him from her results in his decision to become the Incarnation of War.__NEWL__Through the course of living as Mars, Rapture takes up a life of her own and decides that she does not need him any more.__NEWL__Satan arranges, subtly, a demoness for his new companion, hoping to get Mars in his debt that way.__NEWL__In the end, this backfires and he ends up with two loves in his life.__NEWL__His ultimate goal was to use his position to ameliorate some of the suffering being caused by war on Earth, and is surprised by Satan's encouragement.__NEWL__Soon he realises the subtle importances of human war and conflict: under certain circumstances, human suffering is increased, not decreased, by abstinence from armed response.__NEWL__Satan's plan is to have an inexperienced office-holder in the position of the Incarnation of War, such that he can manipulate the course of armed conflicts on Earth, allowing some wars through and blocking the progression of others, such that the overall balance of evil in the world is increased.__NEWL__He accomplished the replacement of the previous Mars by facilitating the cessation of all conflict in the world—not only war, but bar brawls and even minor squabbles between children counts as conflict—every time this happens in history, the Incarnation of War retires and passes on into the afterlife.__NEWL__Mym stepped into the office at a time when global violence was just being recommenced, and thus became an opportunity for Satan to manipulate a naïve Mars.__NEWL__Part of this process was a plot by which Satan managed to trap Mym in Hell.__NEWL__Mym eventually led a revolution of the lost souls and secured an escape route, employing lessons from Miyamoto Musashi's famous treatise, The Book of Five Rings, to defeat Satan in a one-on-one battle.__NEWL__However, during his absence, Satan has manipulated the geopolitical situation such that international tensions everywhere are at an all-time high, and the world is on the brink of apocalypse.__NEWL__This results in virtually every government everywhere adopting martial law, as normal democratic process is eminently non-viable.__NEWL__A result of this, and an important objective for Satan, is that Luna Kaftan has become sidelined, unable to fulfill the prophecy that she would rise into political office and stand as a bulwark against Satan.__NEWL__Mym realises Satan's underlying objective, and forces a confrontation on terms unfavourable to Satan—he travels to the Doomsday Clock, a signifier of how close the world is at any given time to Armageddon, and there employs the powers specific to his office to escalate world violence and bring War to ultimate fruition—Judgement Day.__NEWL__The crux is this: that Satan is not yet ready for the Final Judgment to happen, as the current balance of souls on Earth is favourable to God—i.e. God would get a greater proportion of the souls, signifying (in this fictional universe) the ultimate victory of Good.__NEWL__At the very last minute, Satan is forced to concede and withdraw.__NEWL__Mym lowers his Sword and returns the world to a state of relative peace.__NEWL__Mym learns that his responsibility as War is not to promote war and violence, but to make sure that conflicts are handled fairly.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5466781	For Love of Evil	1988-11-01T00:00:00Z	5874638	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5874638	Parry, an orphan, is taken in and is accidentally adopted by a wizard who teaches him the benefits of white magic and how it can be used to help others.__NEWL__A musician and adept white magician, Parry plans on following in his father's footsteps when he is encouraged by his father, the sorcerer, to take a bride.__NEWL__Parry selects Jolie, seeing her potential despite her ragged appearance.__NEWL__Using his unique singing talents, Parry convinces Jolie that he means no harm.__NEWL__Taking her in, Parry and his father begin to teach Jolie the ways of wizardry and they begin to fall in love.__NEWL__With his father's blessing, Parry and Jolie wed and are about to start a life of bliss when they are attacked by crusaders of Christianity.__NEWL__Parry's father is killed in the attack and Parry escapes in bird form while his wife Jolie had gone ahead to warn her parents to go to the pre-determined hidden shelter.__NEWL__Unfortunately by the time Parry gets to town to check on his wife, she has been taken prisoner by the crusaders, who capture Parry himself shortly after he arrives.__NEWL__Working in conjunction with his wife, since he possesses a magical second sight, he frees them both but not before Jolie is slain by the dying Captain who was going to rape her.__NEWL__Taking off in horse form with Jolie strapped to his back, Parry arrives at the shelter and tries to heal her wounds but is lacking in medical supplies to save her.__NEWL__Parry watches as his wife dies in his arms.__NEWL__Due to special circumstances, Jolie's soul cannot immediately go to Heaven, so at Parry's request, Thanatos binds her spirit to a drop of blood on Parry's wrist.__NEWL__Vowing vengeance__NEWL__, Parry thinks the best way to escape from the villagers is to hide in plain sight, so he joins a monastery for sanctuary as well as a means to destroy the enemy.__NEWL__Soon after joining the Franciscan friars, Parry discovers that a new order, the Dominicans, are being formed with the express purpose of rooting out evil and heresy.__NEWL__Because of his keen mind and magical prowess (which he uses in secrecy), he becomes a feared inquisitor.__NEWL__During one of his many trips to stop Lucifer's campaign of Evil, Parry succumbs to the temptation of his ghostly wife Jolie inhabiting a physical body, thus violating his oath of celibacy.__NEWL__As retribution, Lucifer sends forth Lilah (alternately known as Lilith), a demoness, to corrupt him.__NEWL__By using the toehold of his broken oath of celibacy and his own feelings of sexual desire and guilt, Lilah corrupts Parry to Evil.__NEWL__His intense desire for Lilah eventually leads him to corrupt the Inquisition itself.__NEWL__Upon his deathbed, Lucifer attacks Lilah; with his last vestige of strength, Parry manages a magical counterattack against Lucifer, saving Lilah.__NEWL__Lucifer, taken off guard, is defeated.__NEWL__Though Parry's magic was far weaker than that of Lucifer, his spell was able to work because Jolie's good spirit (which still resided in the drop of blood on Parry's wrist) was immune to Lucifer's powers.__NEWL__As a severely weakened Parry lays dying with only moments to live, Lilah tells him to claim the office before it finds a different successor, as well as to name the form he would like to assume (he chooses his body at the age of 25).__NEWL__Parry, not understanding what she's asking of him and wanting to honour this last wish before he succumbs to death, does as Lilah requests, and is suddenly transformed into the new Incarnation of Evil and takes the name Satan.__NEWL__(It is later explained that if no one claims the office, it seeks out the most qualified person for that position.__NEWL__So if Parry hadn't claimed the office as Lilah had told him, it would have found the most evil person on earth to take Lucifer's place.)__NEWL__In For Love of Evil, several scenes from the previous books (as is the case with all the books in the series with respect to their Incarnations) are shown from Parry's point of view.__NEWL__Parry also does not believe himself to be evil, but is simply fulfilling his function as an Incarnation.__NEWL__It is rather ironic that Parry is not actually evil, but all of the other Incarnations (Thanatos, Gaea, Chronos, Mars, and Fate) naturally expect him to be.__NEWL__Parry wants to defeat God so that he can create a better way to separate the good souls from the bad, and he takes no pleasure in causing unnecessary suffering in the mortal world (the other Incarnations obviously believe that Parry's reasons for wanting to defeat God are more nefarious).__NEWL__In fact, Parry, as a personal favour to YHWH (the incarnation of the God of the Jews, called JHVH in this book), manages to prevent the Holocaust from happening.__NEWL__Upon taking office, Parry approached the other Incarnations in good faith, but was rebuffed and/or humiliated by them since they allied with God.__NEWL__Only Chronos offered friendship.__NEWL__This led to Parry being enemies with many of these Incarnations and their successors.__NEWL__Parry was friends with several holders of the office of Chronos, but eventually the Chronos officeholders became hostile to him as well.__NEWL__Parry also attempted to meet with the Incarnation of Good to figure out how to best sort out which souls belonged in Heaven and which in Hell (Parry had no desire for souls that didn't belong in Hell to be there), but was not successful.__NEWL__The Incarnation of Good was too busy contemplating his own greatness to pay any attention.__NEWL__Instead he strikes a bargain with the Archangel Gabriel: if Parry cannot corrupt one influential individual or her children or grandchildren to shift the balance of the world to evil, he must give up his quest.__NEWL__That individual was Niobe Kaftan—meaning Parry had to wait six centuries before he could act.__NEWL__Lilah served as his main consort through the centuries, but when he assigns her to seduce Mym, the Incarnation of War, she falls in love with him and deserts Parry, depressing him.__NEWL__Later Parry meets Orb, Niobe's daughter who is slated to become the next Gaea, and decides to court her in the hope that he could later take advantage of Gaea's powers to defeat God.__NEWL__The other Incarnations oppose Parry's plan, but eventually they all come to an agreement: the other Incarnations promise not to interfere with Parry's courtship of Orb if he tells her the truth about his identity prior to asking her to marry him.__NEWL__Posing as a mortal named Natasha, Parry manages to win Orb's heart.__NEWL__When she becomes Gaea, he reveals to her that he is the Incarnation of Evil and asks her to marry him.__NEWL__In a fit of rage, Orb nearly destroys the world with her powers, and to undo that destruction, she needs Parry's help.__NEWL__Thus she agrees to marry him, and even admits that she still loves him despite his true identity.__NEWL__At the wedding Parry surprises everyone by singing Amazing Grace, which causes him to vacate his office.__NEWL__With no one to take his place, the office automatically goes to the most evil person on earth, a cruel murderer and child rapist.__NEWL__After a battle of wits, Parry eventually reclaims his office, to the relief of the other Incarnations who prefer Parry's doctrine of necessary evil over the murder-rapist's sadism.__NEWL__The Incarnations come to realise at the end that Parry is not truly evil in the traditional sense; rather, he works to facilitate evil on earth because that is a necessary part of the process to determine whether souls belong in Heaven or Hell.__NEWL__Unable to consummate his marriage to Orb due to their offices being traditionally opposed, Parry initially becomes depressed.__NEWL__But then the spirit of Jolie co-inhabiting the body of Orb comes to him one night and explains that he and the two loves of his life can occasionally spend time together as long as they do so in secret.__NEWL__In the end, Parry is happy and resumes his duties as the Incarnation of Evil.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760350	The Resurrection Casket	2006-04-13T00:00:00Z	5886510	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5886510	The TARDIS is forced to land after being affected by an effect similar to an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse).__NEWL__Outside the Doctor and Rose find a normal looking town.__NEWL__The Doctor informs Rose that they cannot re-enter the TARDIS until she can repair her systems.__NEWL__They then set off to find out what is producing the constant pulses and stop it.__NEWL__At the docks are steam powered spaceships.__NEWL__They go to the pub to get more information.__NEWL__The bartender is a young girl with half of her body replaced by steam-powered robotics.__NEWL__A boy of about ten talking to her, and when the Doctor introduces himself and Rose, the girl gives her name as Silver Sally and the boy's name as Jimm.__NEWL__Jimm and Sally tell them about the zeg.__NEWL__It is a zone of electromagnetic gravitation that interferes with anything containing an electronic circuit.__NEWL__It goes as far as the Outreaches, where a lot of ships get stuck.__NEWL__People still come because they hope to find Hamlek Glint's lost treasure.__NEWL__The planet itself is owned by Drel McCavity, who is a collector of Hamlek Glint artifacts.__NEWL__Jimm's uncle is the biggest collector though.__NEWL__Jimm's uncle arrives and invites the Doctor and Rose to come visit and hear about Hamlek Glint (the pirate).__NEWL__The Doctor and Rose return to the docks to see about getting passage off planet for themselves and the TARDIS, but have no luck.__NEWL__While they are there, a body is found.__NEWL__The Doctor uses his psychic paper to pass himself off as an investigator, and begins to ask questions about the body.__NEWL__It is a man they had seen at the pub, who has a small bit of folded paper with a smudge of ink that looks vaguely like a figure.__NEWL__The Doctor says it's what space sailors call a Black Shadow.__NEWL__The Doctor says that the man was a friend of Drel McCavity, and that someone should tell him, and then volunteers to do it.__NEWL__He asks Rose to track down the man's friends and warn them.__NEWL__At McCavity's there is a gallery full of display cases of Hamlek Glint artifacts.__NEWL__McCavity shows him many of them, then sees the Doctor out, giving him a business card with an invitation to make an appointment later.__NEWL__Rose locates Edd and Bonny, and learns that they recently sold McCavity some fake Glint artifacts, even though they'd had genuine stuff ten years ago.__NEWL__As she is talking to them, she suddenly realizes they are not alone.__NEWL__A huge shaggy shape with red eyes apologizes, then kills both Edd and Bonny.__NEWL__The Doctor goes to Bobb's home.__NEWL__It is filled with Glint artifacts, including a photo of the crew, who were all robots except for Glint himself, and the cabin boy Robbie.__NEWL__Bobb says that no one knows what happened to Robbie, but that the robots were all sold for scrap.__NEWL__Glint set sail for Starfall, and was never seen again.__NEWL__Rose arrives, and is given a tour of Bobb's collection.__NEWL__Part of it is a replica of Glint's Lost Treasure.__NEWL__The Resurrection Casket is supposed to be his greatest find, able to heal hurts, and bring the dead back to life.__NEWL__The Doctor takes Rose over to the photograph, and asks what she thinks of the shadow in the background.__NEWL__She says it looks like the monster that attacked Edd and Bonny.__NEWL__The doorbell rings again, and Jimm runs off to answer it.__NEWL__The Doctor starts digging in his pockets for paper and finds a folded slip that shows the Black Shadow when unfolded.__NEWL__They hear Jimm scream and the monster from earlier goes after the Doctor.__NEWL__The Doctor runs toward Bobb's exhibition area.__NEWL__After a lot of dodging around, the monster catches him.__NEWL__The Doctor asks how he knows who he's supposed to kill, and the monster replies that he gets a name and description, along with knowing where the parchment is.__NEWL__The Doctor says that he doesn't have a name, so the monster has the wrong person.__NEWL__Confused, Kevin (the monster) lets him go.__NEWL__They all talk after Kevin leaves, and decide that he is forced to do what someone wishes because that person knows how to use an object that belonged to Glint.__NEWL__The Doctor says the next step is to find Glint's ship, and that he knows how to do it.__NEWL__They just need someone to fund it, and Drel McCavity is probably the person to ask.__NEWL__After some discussion and questions, McCavity agrees, but says that he is coming along.__NEWL__The Doctor says he needs some equipment that is 'locked up safely in a big blue box.'__NEWL__Rose and the Doctor stop at the pub, and Silver Sally says she can find them a robot crew, and she wants to come along.__NEWL__Jimm is very upset when he is told that he cannot come.__NEWL__The TARDIS is loaded into the ship's forward escape pod.__NEWL__McCavity brings a bodyguard named Dugg and a wooden chest.__NEWL__The other crew is made up of three robots - Kenny, King, and Jonesy.__NEWL__After sailing for three days, the Doctor gets impatient waiting for the TARDIS to open, and fixes the ship's engines to hurry things along.__NEWL__The TARDIS finally opens, but isn't ready to leave yet.__NEWL__However, the Doctor is able to use it to figure out where Glint's ship is.__NEWL__Rose visits Sally and overhears her talking to one of the robots.__NEWL__Rose is horrified to realize that Sally is actually a robot, and that she and the other three are all surviving members of Glint's crew.__NEWL__She hears footsteps, and hurries to hide in a cupboard.__NEWL__She gets out, opens the door further down, and sees Jimm curled into a small ball.__NEWL__Sally comes out, and Rose tries to be casual as she leaves, and then runs down to tell the Doctor.__NEWL__He tells Dugg to barricade the door.__NEWL__Sally threatens them from the other side, and gives them a few minutes to decide what to do.__NEWL__The Doctor creates a diversion quickly, and they let Sally and the other robots come in with Jimm.__NEWL__The Doctor's diversion starts to work, and he makes up a story about what it is, saying that he'll fix it, just put everyone else into the escape pod, with the clamps locked.__NEWL__While they are in the pod waiting for the Doctor, Jimm wakes up.__NEWL__Then they hear the clamps release and the door open, and the Doctor comes in.__NEWL__He gets the controls working, and then realizes that the TARDIS is in the other escape pod.__NEWL__They navigate the escape pod to the zeg, find Glint's ship, dock, and go on board.__NEWL__McCavity has Dugg bring his wooden chest.__NEWL__They find the treasure room, and go inside.__NEWL__It is empty, except for a large polished black casket the size and shape of a coffin with pipes and wires laid into the lid.__NEWL__It's the Resurrection Casket, and the Doctor tells them not to open it.__NEWL__As they are discussing the fact that the treasure is gone, a voice comes from the doorway.__NEWL__It's Kevin, who tells them that he lives here, and they all realize that McCavity is the one who 'employs' him, by using the medallion he's wearing, then they hear a loud clang and realize the ship is docking.__NEWL__With Kevin's help, they decide to move to the games room.__NEWL__They bring the Resurrection Casket with them, to keep it from falling into the robots' hands.__NEWL__Dugg tries to lift it, but he needs help, so Kevin takes it.__NEWL__They use the snooker table to block the door, and then pile other items on top, including the Resurrection Casket and McCavity's chest.__NEWL__Just as they finish, the door shudders, and the robots are on the other side.__NEWL__Everyone is talking about opening the Casket, and the Doctor keeps telling them no, that it doesn't do what they think it does.__NEWL__McCavity insists that it can bring people back from the dead, and as they argue, the door knocks his chest to the floor, where it bursts open.__NEWL__Out spills a skeleton and the remains of a red dress.__NEWL__McCavity had killed his wife out of jealousy, and wants to use the Resurrection Casket to bring her back.__NEWL__McCavity has a marked piece of parchment in his hand, and threatens to give it to Rose or Jimm, so that the Doctor will use the Casket, but ends up sneaking it to the Doctor instead.__NEWL__Just as the robots break into the room, the Doctor starts running from Kevin, but Kevin hides behind the sofa.__NEWL__Rose yells at Dugg to take the Casket out, while she and Jimm try to delay the robots.__NEWL__Dugg is looking for a place to hide the casket, so he can go back and help Rose and Jimm, when Kevin takes it from him.__NEWL__Dugg goes back and takes over the defense, telling Rose and Jimm to run.__NEWL__McCavity attacks the Doctor with a sword, but the Doctor avoids him and ends up in the main engine room.__NEWL__McCavity catches up, and the Doctor grabs an axe to defend himself.__NEWL__McCavity is interrupted by Kevin, who says this is his job.__NEWL__Rose and Jimm catch up, and McCavity is convinced to call Kevin off.__NEWL__The Doctor has each of them sealed into an engineering locker, and Kevin takes them outside the ship to the secondary control room.__NEWL__The Doctor has them turn everything back on that was shut down when the ship entered the zeg, and then they go back to their own ship.__NEWL__They leave a Black Shadow parchment behind, and the Doctor tricks one of the robots into picking it up.__NEWL__The steam powered ship starts to move, dragging Glint's ship deeper into the zeg with it.__NEWL__The Doctor directs everyone to the forward escape pod, and the systems on the pirate ship start to explode.__NEWL__As it comes apart, McCavity again demands that the Resurrection Casket be opened, and when the Doctor refuses, sets Kevin on him again.__NEWL__While the Doctor and Kevin dodge each other around the TARDIS, Sally appears in the airlock.__NEWL__Rose opens the inner airlock door and lets her in.__NEWL__The Doctor shakes hands with Jimm, then with Kevin, and then Jimm launches himself at McCavity, taking the medallion in the process.__NEWL__The Doctor uses his psychic paper to make McCavity think he still has the Black Shadow, and then Kevin goes after McCavity, who now has the Black Shadow in his pocket.__NEWL__McCavity opens the Resurrection Casket, and it is empty.__NEWL__As Kevin reaches for him, he falls into it and the lid closes.__NEWL__Over by the airlock door, Sally has Rose by the throat.__NEWL__Rose tricks her and escapes, and then the Doctor holds her captive with the sonic screwdriver.__NEWL__The Doctor explains that Uncle Bobb was Robbie the cabin boy, Jimm is Hamlek Glint, and the model of the Lost Treasure is actually the real thing.__NEWL__They put Sally in an escape pod, but she tries to catch them and manages to get herself killed.__NEWL__Jimm gives Kevin the medallion, which sets him free.__NEWL__They open the Resurrection Casket, and find a baby Drel McCavity.__NEWL__Uncle Bobb finds Jimm before he gets back to Starfall, and the Doctor and Rose leave in the TARDIS before the zeg can cause problems for them again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3795042	Gather Yourselves Together	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5853789	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5853789	After the final victory of Mao Zedong's Chinese Communists in 1949, an American company prepares to abandon their Chinese operations, leaving three people behind to oversee transitional affairs - Carl Fitter, Verne Tildon, and Barbara Mahler.__NEWL__Verne and Barbara were previously involved with each other back in the United States, in 1945, when she lost her virginity to him.__NEWL__They have sex again, but Barbara has matured, and becomes more interested in Carl, who is younger than she is.__NEWL__Carl is more interested in reading his handwritten volume of personal philosophy to her, but Barbara does succeed in seducing him, shortly before the arrival of the Chinese.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7758486	The Professor's House	1925-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5854625	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5854625	When Professor Godfrey St. Peter and wife move to a new house, he becomes uncomfortable with the route his life is taking.__NEWL__He keeps on his dusty study in the old house in an attempt to hang on to his old life.__NEWL__The marriages of his two daughters have removed them from the home and added two new sons-in-law, precipitating a mid-life crisis that leaves the Professor feeling as though he has lost the will to live because he has nothing to look forward to.__NEWL__The novel initially addresses the Professor's interactions with his new sons-in-law and his family, while continually alluding to the pain they all feel over the death of Tom Outland in the Great War.__NEWL__Outland was not only the Professor's student and friend, but the fiancé of his elder daughter, who is now living off the wealth created by the "Outland vacuum.__NEWL__" The novel's central section turns to Outland, and recounts in first-person the story of his exploration of an ancient cliff city in New Mexico.__NEWL__The section is a retrospective narrative remembered by the professor.__NEWL__In the final section, the professor, left alone while his family takes an expensive European tour, narrowly escapes death due to a gas leak in his study; and finds himself strangely willing to die.__NEWL__He is rescued by the old family seamstress, Augusta, who has been his staunch friend throughout.__NEWL__He resolves to go on with his life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3850518	Mary and the Giant	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5854745	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5854745	In 1953, Joseph Schilling arrives in Pacific Park, Southern California.__NEWL__He establishes a small music shop, and later, Danny and Beth Coombes join him.__NEWL__Mary Anne Reynolds is also interviewed for a position at the shop, but backs off after Schilling touches her.__NEWL__After leaving home, Carleton Tweaney, an African-American lounge singer (and her lover) finds her a new home.__NEWL__However, Beth has already slept with Joseph, and now moves on to Carleton.__NEWL__Provoked by her affair, Danny tries to shoot Carleton, but instead dies himself.__NEWL__Carleton and Mary Anne break up, and she decides to work for Schilling after all, as well as becoming sexually involved with him, despite a forty-year age difference.__NEWL__He helps her to rent and renovate her own apartment, but Mary Anne decides to live in a dilapidated African American neighbourhood instead.__NEWL__In an epilogue, she has married Paul Nitz, a pianist who works with Carleton.__NEWL__The author himself once described the novel as: "A retelling of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Schilling seduced and destroyed by a young woman."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7720021	The Bride Price	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1033	Nigeria	5844310	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5844310	In the city of Lagos, the Ibo Aku-nna and her brother, Nna-nndo, bid farewell by their father Ezekiel, who says he is going to the hospital for a few hours – their mother, Ma Blackie, is back home in Ibuza, performing fertility rites.__NEWL__It becomes apparent that he is much sicker than he let his children know, and he dies three weeks later.__NEWL__They have the funeral the day before Ma Blackie arrives; she takes them back to Ibuza with her, as she now becomes the wife of Ezekiel's brother.__NEWL__The family is problematic in Ibuza – Ma Blackie has some of her own money, and so her children receive much more schooling than other children in the village, particularly the children of her new husband's other wives.__NEWL__Aku-nna is blossoming, though she is thin and passive, and starts to attract the attention of young men in the neighborhood, though she has not yet started to menstruate.__NEWL__Her stepfather Okonkwo, who has ambitions of being made a chief, begins to anticipate a large bride price for her.__NEWL__Meanwhile, she has begun to fall for her teacher Chike, who in turn has developed a passion for her.__NEWL__Chike is the descendant of slaves – when colonization started, the Ibo often sent their slaves to the missionary schools so they could please the missionaries without disrupting Ibo life, and now the descendants of those slaves hold most of the privileged positions in the region.__NEWL__Chike's inferior background means it is unlikely that Okonkwo will agree to let him marry Aku-nna, although his family is wealthy enough to offer a generous bride price.__NEWL__When Aku-nna begins menstruating – the sign that she is now old enough to get married – she at first conceals it in order to stave off the inevitable confrontation.__NEWL__When she finally reveals that she has her period, young men come to court her and Okonkwo receives several offers.__NEWL__One night, after she finds out that she has passed her school examination (meaning she might become a teacher, earning money by means other than the bride price) she and the other young women of her age-group are practicing a dance for the upcoming Christmas celebration when men burst in and kidnap her.__NEWL__The family of an arrogant suitor with a limp, Okoboshi, has kidnapped her to be his bride in order to "save" her from the attentions of Chike.__NEWL__On her wedding night, she lies and tells Okoboshi that she is not a virgin and has slept with Chike; he refuses to touch her.__NEWL__The next day, word of her disgrace has already spread around the village when Chike rescues her and the two elope, fleeing to Ughelli where Chike has work.__NEWL__The two begin a happy life together, marred by her guilt over her unpaid bride price – Okonkwo, furious, refuses to accept any of the increasingly generous offers made by Chike's father, and has gone so far as to divorce Ma Blackie and torture a doll made in Aku-nna's image.__NEWL__When Aku-nna feels sick, she goes home.__NEWL__There she is not sure if she will have a baby.__NEWL__Soon the doctor in Chike's oil company confirms that Aku-nna will have a baby.__NEWL__Later on when she feels sick and screams, Chike brings her to the hospital.__NEWL__There Aku-nna dies in childbirth.__NEWL__Chike christens his baby Joy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4686689	Adverbs	2006-06-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5840337	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5840337	In "Immediately", a man leaves his girlfriend (Andrea) and falls in love with his homophobic cabdriver.__NEWL__In "Obviously", a teenager (Joe) working at a multiplex takes tickets for Kickass: The Movie while pining for the teenage girl (Lila) working the shift with him.__NEWL__She has a boyfriend (Keith).__NEWL__Joe mentions a friend, Garth, who travels to San Francisco to meet with his girlfriend, Kate.__NEWL__This Kate is Kate Gordon, one of Flannery's friends in The Basic Eight, who is mentioned having a brief relationship with a guy named Garth in that novel.__NEWL__In "Arguably", a British writer (Helena), who is married to a man (David) whose ex is called "Andrea", needs money.__NEWL__In "Particularly", Helena works for Andrea, whom she is jealous of.__NEWL__In "Briefly", a teenager's crush on his sister's boyfriend (Keith) haunts him throughout life.__NEWL__In "Soundly", a woman (Allison)—who has an ex named "Adam"—spends an evening out with her best friend (Lila), who's dying of a rare disease, and they both focus on what their friendship means, particularly compared to their relationships with men.__NEWL__They reminisce about their friend "Andrea" and an encounter with a boy named "Joe". "__NEWL__Allison" and "Lila" both crop up again as character names repeatedly throughout the book.__NEWL__Handler is sometimes clear about whether he's speaking about the same people, and sometimes not.__NEWL__As in most of the chapters, Handler here provides one possible definition of love: "[t]his is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.__NEWL__You don't care about yours.__NEWL__Why should it change, the love you feel, no matter how death goes?".__NEWL__After a conversation with a woman named Gladys, who is able to make items appear out of thin air, Lila gets a call to come to the hospital for a transplant, but there is a problem with the ferry; some kind of disaster has occurred which means they cannot cross to the hospital.__NEWL__The guy working at the booth is called 'Tomas'.__NEWL__In "Frigidly", a pair of detectives comes looking for the Snow Queen (Gladys) in a diner where Andrea is drinking at the counter.__NEWL__A boy (Mike), who had been a student of Helena, is waiting.__NEWL__"Collectively" is about a man who has a series of random people, including a mail carrier and his son (Mike), coming to his house to declare how much they love him.__NEWL__"Isn't love a sharing?", asks the narrator, trying to explain the postman's (and everyone else's) strange longing for the house owner.__NEWL__The story concludes with the man sharing accepting the affection of his guests by sharing a smoothie with them.__NEWL__In "Symbolically", an aspiring writer (Tomas) hooks up with a man (Adam) who has come to film a potential catastrophe.__NEWL__The next day, the man returns with his girlfriend (Eddie).__NEWL__In "Clearly", a young couple (Adam and Eddie) sneaks away into the woods for some risqué outdoor sex.__NEWL__After they have undressed, an apologetic hiker (Tomas) interrupts them with news of an injured friend (Steven).__NEWL__The couple attend to the hiker's needs, leaving their own hanging.__NEWL__The female character (Eddie) in "Naturally" dates a man who turns out to be a ghost.__NEWL__When she discovers this, she ends their union.__NEWL__Her ex is called 'Joe'. "__NEWL__Wrongly" features a graduate student (Allison) inexplicably drawn to a colleague (Steven) who's already treated her badly.__NEWL__In "Truly", Daniel Handler explains the game Adverbs: "Someone is It and leaves the room and everyone else decides on an adverb.__NEWL__It returns and forces people to act out things in the manner of the word, which is another name for the game.__NEWL__People argue violently, or make coffee quickly, and there's always a time when the alcohol takes over and people suggest hornily and we all must watch as It makes two people writhe on the floor, supposedly dancing or eating or driving a car, until finally It guesses the adverb everyone's thinking of.__NEWL__It's a charade, although it's not much like Charades.__NEWL__You play until you get bored."__NEWL__Handler's explanation of Adverbs leads to a discussion of the identity of characters across chapters: "Nobody keeps score, because there's no sense in keeping track of what everyone is doing.__NEWL__You might as well trace birds through a book, or follow a total stranger you spot outside the window of your cab, or follow the cocktails spilling themselves from the pages of vintage cocktail encyclopedias to leave stains through this book, or follow the pop songs that stick in people's heads or follow the people themselves, although you're likely to confuse them, as so many people in this book have the same names.__NEWL__You can't follow all the Joes, or all the Davids and Andreas.__NEWL__You can't follow Adam or Allison or Keith, up to Seattle or down to San Francisco or across—three thousand miles, as the bird flies—to New York City, and anyway they don't matter.__NEWL__"__NEWL__In "Not Particularly", Helena awaits the return of her husband, David.__NEWL__She thinks he's cheating on her, because he's left his passport behind, but she doesn't realize that (at that time) he doesn't need a passport to travel to Canada.__NEWL__Helena meets Joe and gets a letter addressed to Andrea.__NEWL__In "Often", Allison is married to a comic writer and goes on a cruise for comic writers.__NEWL__She meets Keith.__NEWL__In "Barely", Sam moves out after her roommate (Andrea) gets involved with Steven.__NEWL__The boy across the street is Mike.__NEWL__In the last story, "Judgmentally", Joe avoids jury duty and meets Andrea, who is driving a cab.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3797378	Puttering About in a Small Land	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5856515	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5856515	In 1944, Virginia Watson and Roger Lindahl meet in Washington DC.__NEWL__They marry after Roger divorces his first wife Teddy and abandons his daughter by her as well.__NEWL__Their subsequent move to Los Angeles to work in a munitions factory proves extremely profitable.__NEWL__But Roger spends the money far faster than it took them to earn it.__NEWL__By 1953, Roger has opened a television sales and repair shop, while Virginia is trying to enroll their 7-year-old son Gregg in an expensive boarding school in Ojai against Roger's wishes.__NEWL__Liz Bonner, another parent, persuades Roger to agree to Gregg's enrollment by offering to share the perilous and exhausting driving duties involved in transporting their children over the nearby mountains to and from Ojai.__NEWL__There is a particular private exchange between Roger Lindahl and Marion Watson, Virginia's mother, that very graphically depicts Roger's highly immature, volatile and unpredictable nature.__NEWL__The trigger for his outburst is the realization that his hostile mother-in-law (as a favor only to her daughter) plans on providing substantial financial backing for his business.__NEWL__But there is yet another financial interloper afoot.__NEWL__"Chic" or Charles Bonner, Liz's husband, wants to buy into Roger's shop as a partner, but Lindahl declines his offer and promptly begins an affair with a very accommodating Liz.__NEWL__Virginia finds out, although Chic remains unaware, and she hectors Roger into letting her assume legal ownership of the shop with Chic.__NEWL__Unfortunately, however, both marriages have been irreparably damaged.__NEWL__Chic and Liz end up getting divorced.__NEWL__Roger and Virginia remain tenuously married, and a philandering Roger remains in contact with Liz through the private school.__NEWL__The final chapter closes with ever-impulsive Roger dumping Gregg off at home, pilfering a carload of expensive T.V. sets from the store and hightailing it to Chicago.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7026458	Nicholas and the Higs	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5856785	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5856785	As with several lost Philip K. Dick novels of this period, all we know about it is an index card synopsis in the files of a publisher who rejected the book.__NEWL__According to Lawrence Sutin's book, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, (Published 1989) this card was dated 1/3/58 and said: Very long, complex story, usual Dick genius for setting.__NEWL__Future society wherein trading stamps have replaced currency and people live hundreds of miles from work (drive at 190 mph), have set up living tracts.__NEWL__Cars often break down, so they have tract mechanic on full-time basis.__NEWL__Mechanic old, has bad liver, seems to be dying.__NEWL__People of tract use general fund to buy pseudo-organ but man is dead for a few days and 'comes back' a bit touched.__NEWL__Sub plot concerns man from whom tract got organ (which is illegal), and how his presence causes moral breakdown of people in tract.__NEWL__In a letter dated 1960, Dick himself commented on the theme of the novel: This is an odd one, half 'straight' and half science fiction.__NEWL__An inferior man can destroy a superior one; a Robert Hig can move in and oust Nicholas because he, Hig, has no morals...__NEWL__Only by relying on base techniques can Nicholas survive;...__NEWL__Awareness of this is enough to drive Nicholas out; he must give up because to win is to lose; he is involved in a terrible paradox as soon as Hig puts in his appearance.__NEWL__In other words, you can't really beat the Adolph [sic] Hitlers; you can only limit their success.)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7734014	The Fire Kimono	2008-11-01T00:00:00Z	22158327	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22158327	In the prologue, a Shinto priest passing by discovers remains of a human unearthed when strong winds toppled an oak tree near the Inari Shrine.__NEWL__Since his return from Ezogashima, there had been increases in attacks against Sano and against Matsudaira, the attackers wearing insignias from each other's houses.__NEWL__Just as Sano confronts Matsudaira about the latest attack on Sano's wife, Reiko, which Matsudaira flatly denies, both men are summoned by the Shogun.__NEWL__The shogun informs them that the skeleton of his long-lost cousin, Tokugawa Tadatoshi, who was thought to have perished during the Great Fire of Meireki, has been found and charges Sano with the investigation.__NEWL__Sano barely has time to plan his investigation when his mother, Etsuko, is arrested by Matsudaira's men as a suspect in the murder of Tadatoshi.__NEWL__The witness is Colonel Doi Naokatsu in the service of Matsudaira.__NEWL__Doi was also apparently once Tadatoshi's bodyguard, and Etsuko was a lady-in-waiting to Tadatoshi's household women.__NEWL__Sano is shocked that his mother is not a humble commoner as he had thought, but a scion of the Kumazawa clan, a respected hereditary Tokugawa vassal.__NEWL__Doi claimed to have heard Etsuko plotting with Egen against Tadatoshi, Egen being a monk and Tadatoshi's tutor.__NEWL__Sano is able to convince the shogun to allow him bring Etsuko home to facilitate the investigation, but he is dismayed to find his mother less than cooperative.__NEWL__As more and more of the past is uncovered, his mother's position becomes more and more unfavorable.__NEWL__Meanwhile, confined to the security of the house due to danger of attacks, Reiko is at last able to help in the investigation by trying to get more information from Etsuko, and from Etsuko's loyal longtime maid, Hana.__NEWL__Reiko is also struggling to win back the affections of her young daughter, Akiko, who became alienated from Reiko when Reiko and her husband left her behind to go to Ezogashima to rescue her son, Masahiro, as told in the previous novel (The Snow Empress).__NEWL__Sano's trusted assistant Hirata also returns from a long absence to find that his wife and children have become strangers to him.__NEWL__Amidst the investigation, Yanagisawa plots with his son Yoritomo to bring down both Sano and Matsudaira.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767929	The Takeover	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22158874	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22158874	Three large villas overlooking Lake Nemi are owned by the wealthy, glamorous American Maggie Radcliffe who has recently remarried to Italian Marchese Berto.__NEWL__One villa is occupied by her son Michael and daughter-in-law Mary where manservant Lauro works.__NEWL__A second is leased by an Italian doctor Emilio Bernardino and his two children Letizia and Pietro taught by English tutor Nancy Cowan (who is also Bernardino's lover).__NEWL__The third is occupied by the eccentric Hubert Mallindaine with his secretary Pauline Thin.__NEWL__Hubert believes himself to be the descendant of the offspring of the Emperor Caligula's mythical liaison with Diana.__NEWL__Once a trusted friend of Maggie Radcliffe, Hubert is now an unwelcome house-sitter whom she wants evicted as quickly as possible.__NEWL__Hubert is not so easily removed, however, and his intransigence and liquidation of Maggie's assets in the house (including Louis XIV Chairs, and a Gauguin painting) is mirrored in the loss of much of Maggie's wealth, from burglary to outright embezzlement of her entire estate.__NEWL__Events conspire however to cause both to review what they consider important.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17034831	Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z	22159774	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22159774	The story takes place in the mythical Kingdom of Rotten Custard, a kingdom that exists within Cornwall, where knights are constantly at war with the Dragons.__NEWL__Among the knights is a 60-year-old knight named Sir Nobonk, who becomes a dragon-catcher in order to save the dragons from extinction.__NEWL__Setting forth into the nearby forest, Sir Nobonk successfully captures the last living dragon, and convinces the king to open a zoo to help dragons to repopulate.__NEWL__The plan becomes successful, and also helps humans and dragons to co-exist peacefully within the kingdom.__NEWL__However, the prosperity of the kingdom invokes a giant named Blackmangle to attack the kingdom along with his servant Witch-Way, leaving it to Sir Nobonk to face the new foes and to save the kingdom.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5227920	Daughter of Venice	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22143642	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22143642	This story follows Donata, daughter of a wealthy noble in 1592.__NEWL__Donata Mocenigo, daughter to one of the city's noble families, leads a life of wealthy privilege.__NEWL__But constrained by the strict rules of etiquette a young noblewoman must observe, she longs to throw off her veil and wander freely around the vibrant city she can see only from her balcony.__NEWL__So Donata comes up with a daring plan to escape the palazzo and explore - a plan that will change her own and her family's lives forever.__NEWL__Donata Mocenigo is the daughter of a wealthy Venetian noble family, but resents her lack of freedom.__NEWL__Eventually she and her sisters conspire to let her dress up as a poor boy, and wander the city freely - her twin sister, Laura, taking her place around the household.__NEWL__On her first visit outside her palazzo, she injures her foot, wanders into the Jewish Ghetto, and meets a young man called Noé, who helps her and gives her a pair of shoes, in return for her working off the debt for him at a printers' workshop, copying out handbills.__NEWL__Donata does so for a month, getting closer to Noé.__NEWL__Meanwhile, at home, she and Laura persuade their father to allow them to join their brothers in tutorials - Donata begins learning to read and write, and about architecture, business and history.__NEWL__Laura, however, is less interested, and quits tutorials after a short time.__NEWL__As Donata and Laura are the second and third daughters in their family, and only the first (and sometimes second) daughter normally marries, both of them hope to find husbands instead of being sent to convents like their younger sisters, Maria and Paolina.__NEWL__However, during a dinnertime discussion, Donata's father announces that he has found not one, but two husbands - one for their older sister Andriana, and one for Donata, who has been selected partly because of being so hardworking.__NEWL__However, since it is Laura who has been working hard in her stead while she wanders around Venice, she feels horribly guilty and decides that she cannot get married - partly from loyalty to Laura, and partly because she is falling in love with Noé.__NEWL__Eventually, she comes up with a plan: she writes a denunciation of herself, claiming that she has converted to Judaism, so that she will be embroiled in a scandal, withdrawn from the betrothal, and Laura can take her place.__NEWL__In the process her family discover that she has been leaving the palazzo, alone, but eventually the plan does succeed.__NEWL__Donata has no idea what her future will hold, but eventually her father reveals that her tutor, Messer Zonico, has gone to the University of Padua to persuade them to allow her to take up the doctorate course in philosophy.__NEWL__Donata is overjoyed, and hopes some day to become a tutor, like the one she admires, to other noble girls.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7130454	Pandaemonium	2009-08-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22181735	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22181735	The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you would expect: counselling, contemplation, candid discussion and even prayer; not to mention booze, drugs, clandestine liaisons and as much partying as they can get away with.__NEWL__Not so far away, the commanders of a top-secret military experiment, long-since spiralled out of control, fear they may have literally unleashed the forces of Hell.__NEWL__Two very different worlds are on a collision course, and will clash in an earthly battle between science and the supernatural, philosophy and faith, civilisation and savagery.__NEWL__The bookies are offering evens.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7720239	The Broken Anchor	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22004824	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22004824	Nancy receives a mysterious letter claiming she has won a week-long holiday for two at the Sweet Springs Resort on Anchor Island in the Bahamas.__NEWL__Nancy is puzzled because she never entered any contest.__NEWL__The enclosed plane tickets are for the next day, so she sends her friends Bess and George to go to the resort, and she and her dad will follow later.__NEWL__After Bess and George have left for Anchor Island, she and her dad, Carson Drew, go down to Miami to investigate a mysterious ship.__NEWL__It has been linked to them as it contains newspaper clippings on some of Nancy's recent adventures.__NEWL__The boat is owned by Jeff and Lena DeFoe, who Nancy finds out are the owners of the Sweet Springs resort.__NEWL__While searching the boat for any evidence, Nancy loses her earring and while trying to find it uncovers an old medallion.__NEWL__Her father takes it to Avery Yates, an antique jewelry restorer.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Nancy is worried because her attempts to contact Bess and George have failed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7721313	The Car	1994-03-30T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22006354	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22006354	Terry Anders is a fourteen-year-old boy living in Cleveland, Ohio whose parents didn't pay much attention to him.__NEWL__When both of his parents abandon him after an argument, he assembles his father's old Blakely Bearcat kit car.__NEWL__He decides to go on a cross-country adventure to find an uncle that he vaguely remembers.__NEWL__Along the way, he befriends two Vietnam veterans, Waylon Jackson and Wayne, with whom he enjoys life on the open road.__NEWL__This book is about their adventure together as they travel across the country.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7806921	Timoleon Vieta Come Home	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22006659	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22006659	The novel centres around Timoleon Vieta, a little mongrel dog with black and white patches of fur and eyes that are describes as being as pretty as a girl's.__NEWL__Timoleon lives with Cockcroft, a retired, gay composer, who lives in a run-down farmhouse in Umbria financed by the occasional royalties he receives from the theme tunes he wrote.__NEWL__He reminisces about his failed career and former lovers, but is surprised when a man claiming to be a Bosnian shows up at his door with a business card he says Cockcroft gave him in a bar in Florence; Cockcroft often has such drunken weekends when he attempts to pick up men.__NEWL__In return for the occasional odd job and weekly fellatio, Cockcroft provides him with accommodation, but Timoleon Vieta, who is a good judge of character, takes against the Bosnian, and the dislike is reciprocated.__NEWL__Cockcroft is forced to choose between them and agrees to abandon the dog in Rome.__NEWL__The remainder of the novel is about Timoleon Vieta's journey back home, and the people he briefly comes into contact with, as he tries to make his way back to his beloved Cockcroft.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6991117	Nemesis	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22223704	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22223704	The story, set in Latium in 77 AD, opens with the deaths of Falco's newborn son (posthumously named Justinianus) and Marcus Didius Geminus, alias Favonius, Falco's estranged father.__NEWL__Following the funeral, Falco is astounded to discover that his father has left him and the rest of the Didii family a sizeable fortune.__NEWL__There is a problem, before Geminus died, he impregnated Falco's friend Thalia and as a result, he is now forced to adopt Thalia's child when it is born.__NEWL__Frustrated at this turn of events, Falco audits his father's business contacts, debtors and creditors but soon discovers a debt owed which was never paid because the creditor, Julius Modestus, has disappeared.__NEWL__He travels to the towns south of Rome with his adopted daughter Albia (who is unhappy that Falco's brother-in-law Aulus has married someone else) to look for Modestus but can't find him.__NEWL__He pays the debt owed to Modestus' nephew, Sextus Silanus (and to investigate the disappearance of Silanus' uncle) while his friend Lucius Petronius Longus, the captain of the vigiles in Rome's Twelfth District, finally discovers Modestus, who has been murdered and eviscerated.__NEWL__A clan of Imperial freedmen in the Pontine Marshes, the Claudii (consisting of four siblings named Nobilis, Probus, Virtus and Pius and their wives and female siblings) are implicated in Modestus' grisly murder but as Falco and Petronius investigate further, they attract the interest of the Imperial Chief Spy, Anacrites who, as usual, takes the case away from them.__NEWL__Another victim emerges, a courier is found murdered and mutilated in the same manner as Modestus, while Anacrites' behaviour begins to become more erratic (and suspect) even as Falco and Petronius (covertly) investigate the murders further, eventually discovering more victims and the murderers, who are none other than the four Claudii brothers.__NEWL__It is thus discovered that Modestus may have been killed by the Claudii for attempting to speak out against them.__NEWL__Falco and Petro' find Pius prowling around Falco's house and abduct him; failing to extract any information from Pius, they send him away to become a slave in a mine.__NEWL__Virtus and Probus are finally apprehended while Nobilis dies by falling upon the swords of Falco and his comrades.__NEWL__After the Claudii are wiped out, they surmise that the Claudii may have had a fifth brother who could be a confederate.__NEWL__The identity of this brother and his connections to Falco, his friends and the imperial government are finally deduced; Falco and Petronius realise that Anacrites has been manipulating them all along.__NEWL__The Didii, Camilli (Falco's in-laws) and Petronii families realise that they know too much and their lives (and possibly even the Flavian dynasty) are perhaps threatened by this missing brother.__NEWL__Forced to make a difficult decision, Falco and Petronius take matters into their hands, conspiring to "send Nemesis to deal with him" once and for all.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7302115	Rebels and Traitors	2009-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2256	Birmingham	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22223906	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22223906	The story follows the experiences of two main protagonists: Gideon Jukes, a printer from London who joins the New Model Army, and Juliana Calill, who, as a result of her marriage to the Royalist Orlando Lovell, experiences many vicissitudes.__NEWL__Their stories are linked through the activities of other characters, including the ne'er-do-well Kinchin Tew, the innocent and upright Edmund Treves, and real-life political figures such as Edward Sexby and Thomas Rainborough.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7738234	The Greenhouse	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22224632	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22224632	The story is told from the point of view of a greenhouse which tells of the family living in the house to which it belongs; most notably Vanessa a girl who grows up alone in the house and garden and is who spent much of her time in the greenhouse until their peace was shattered by a stranger who rapes her.__NEWL__Things can never be the same again for Vanessa as her son is born and inherits his character from his father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7994424	White Acre vs. Black Acre	1856-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22191858	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22191858	The story follows the history of the United States from its time as a British province to the beginning of tensions between North and South in the 1850s.__NEWL__It is presented as though the story were being recounted by a retired barrister from Lincolnshire in England to a reporter from the United States.__NEWL__The story takes place in the county of Shropshire in England, where capitalist Mr. Bull is undergoing a difficult transaction with a large quantity of land his firm has since acquired from various lucrative business deals.__NEWL__His main rival is Don Armado, who owns land near his own, and seeks to steal Bull's land from him.__NEWL__When Don Armado is placated, Mr. Bull takes his business elsewhere, and the land prospers.__NEWL__However, the two farmers tilling the land are suddenly split over the question of whether the land ought to be tilled by ordinary, ineffective farmhands or by loyal, hardworking slaves.__NEWL__The land is thus split between the two farmers.__NEWL__The pro-slavery segment becomes the Black Acre Farm, whilst the anti-slavery land becomes the White Acre Farm, with both competing to see which side will be the most prosperous.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14981122	A Case of Two Cities	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	21990161	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21990161	Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese government.__NEWL__But he left behind the organization and his partners-in-crime, and Inspector Chen is charged to uncover those responsible and act as necessary to end the corruption ring though he is not sure whether he's actually being set up to fail.__NEWL__The investigation takes him from Shanghai all the way to the U.S. where he meets his colleague and counterpart from the U.S. Marshall's Service, Inspector Catherine Rhon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16956061	The Underneath	2008-05-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22124869	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22124869	The story takes place underneath a ramshackle house, in the bayou near the Texas-Louisiana border.__NEWL__The hound dog, Ranger, is chained under the porch.__NEWL__Ever since his leg was shot accidentally by his evil owner, Gar Face, Ranger has been chained up to serve only as a warning system.__NEWL__Ranger meets a calico cat who has kittens, and he names the kittens "Sabine" and "Puck".__NEWL__The kittens are told to never leave the underside of the porch, otherwise Gar Face might use them as alligator bait.__NEWL__One day, Puck accidentally leaves the safety of the porch and is caught by Gar Face.__NEWL__While trying to protect Puck, the calico is also caught.__NEWL__Gar Face throws the two into a bag, which he then throws into the river.__NEWL__Although Puck is saved, the mother drowns trying to help him.__NEWL__She encounters a hummingbird, who are known to accompany the spirits of the dead to the other side.__NEWL__Puck later wanders off and ends up lost.__NEWL__The book also introduces Grandmother Moccasin, who in this story is portrayed as a water moccasin lamia.__NEWL__When her daughter Night Song changes form to marry Hawk Man, Grandmother feels betrayed and tricks her daughter into changing back into a serpent, since magical creatures who return to their original forms are stuck that way forever.__NEWL__Hawk Man then traps Grandmother in a clay jar for what she did, where she stews in her bitterness and anger.__NEWL__The Alligator King is an alligator who was friends with Grandmother Moccasin before her imprisonment, who also happens to be the alligator that Gar Face is trying to lure using Ranger.__NEWL__When storms release Grandmother, she decides to do something unexpected.__NEWL__She sees the love between the kittens and the hound, and frees Ranger from where he is chained.__NEWL__However, she is hit by a stray bullet from Gar Face.__NEWL__As she lays dying, she is at last reunited by her granddaughter Rainbow Bird, who took the form of a hummingbird.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4698281	Air and Angels	1991-03-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22133333	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22133333	The first half of the book comprises two separate narratives in set in Edwardian India and Cambridge.__NEWL__In Cambridge the Revd Thomas Cavendish, a celibate and irreproachable university don in his mid-fifties, appears destined to become master of the college.__NEWL__He lives with his sister and is a confirmed batchelor, spurning the attentions of his sister's friend Florence who is determined to wed him.__NEWL__His enthusiasm is birds; spending his leisure time either on the Fens birdwatching, or in his indoor aviary.__NEWL__In India, 15-year-old Kitty is becoming bored with ex-colonial life, and at the same time repelled by the poverty she sees nearby; she longs to return to the England she left as a young child.__NEWL__Eventually her parents relent and after a long sea voyage she arrives at her cousin Florence's house in Cambridge.__NEWL__The second half of the book concerns Thomas Cavendish's growing obsession with Kitty after he sees her from his window, as she stands on a bridge over the river.__NEWL__Through his contacts with Florence he becomes her tutor, with disastrous results...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5135271	Close to Home	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22154606	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22154606	The book is set in the long hot summer of 1976 in a suburban London street and concerns the occupants of two adjacent houses.__NEWL__In one lives Kate Cooper who struggles with her two young children and the domestic chores whilst keeping up appearances for her high-flying husband who works as a eurocrat in Brussels, spending little time at home.__NEWL__In the other lives Sam Green is struggling to write a novel whilst his wife goes out to work running a psychiatric practice and his angst-ridden teenage daughter binge eats in her bedroom.__NEWL__Kate and Sam are drawn together whilst their families are seemingly unaware...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737539	The Grange at High Force	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22154722	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22154722	The story begins about a year after the end of Colonel Sheperton's Clock, the first in the series.__NEWL__The three boys who are the main characters are firm friends, despite their different characters and interests.__NEWL__David, the former lame dreamer, is now entirely recovered from the operation on his leg, and participates fully in the physically active pursuits of his friends.__NEWL__They all attend King Charles II Grammar School.__NEWL__David and Peter are choirboys, but Arthur is temporarily out of the choir as his voice has broken.__NEWL__Much of the story takes place on the moors above the fictional town of Darnley Mills, over the course of a year, from one spring to the next, covering the period of the Admiral's tenancy at Folly Grange.__NEWL__The focus is particularly on the joint activities of the three boys and the men at the Grange.__NEWL__As in the first book, there is also an historically-based mystery to be solved.__NEWL__The novel opens in All Saints' church in Darnley Mills.__NEWL__Some time ago, Peter constructed a Roman ballista and accidentally broke a window in the church while testing it.__NEWL__Two pigeons, taking advantage of the broken window, built a nest in the nave.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Operation Bird's Nest" is now underway, with Arthur climbing up to remove the nest.__NEWL__The gathered crowd below are (quite unnecessarily) concerned for his safety, except for Miss Cadell-Twitten, who is still seething about the ejection of the birds from the church.__NEWL__Arthur poses in an empty niche, which Mr Pritchard explains once held a statue of the Virgin Mary.__NEWL__The same day, the three friends set off to explore High Force on the moors, to see the waterfall and the tiny abandoned church of Little St. Mary's.__NEWL__Peter has an accident with his bicycle, aptly named the Yellow Peril.__NEWL__Seeking help at the Grange, they meet the Admiral and Guns, and are fascinated by the ancient ship's cannon on the Grange terrace and the workshop in the cellar where a mill wheel is being constructed to provide reliable electricity.__NEWL__The Admiral is in turn interested to hear about the ballista, and proposes that both weapons should be fired at targets to test their accuracy.__NEWL__They all go together to look at the church, and find it has been invaded by dozens of birds.__NEWL__It needs re-roofing, and thorough cleaning.__NEWL__They set about the various tasks with energy and enthusiasm, also stumbling on a mystery concerning the statue.__NEWL__Miss Cadell-Twitten hints that she knows the answer, but refuses to tell them because they accidentally frightened her bird Augustus.__NEWL__Plans to fire the cannon are scotched by the police sergeant, until an opportunity arrives just before Christmas, when they succeed in sinking a makeshift raft.__NEWL__Immediately afterwards, a blizzard starts and they help Mr Ramsgill gather in his scattered flock.__NEWL__An exceptionally heavy snowfall cuts off the moor, and even with a snow plough__NEWL__it is a struggle to return to the Grange through the deep drifts.__NEWL__David, the only one who can manage the snowshoes, checks on Bird Cottage and finds Miss Cadell-Twitten suffering from exposure.__NEWL__Grateful for her rescue, she tells them where to find the statue, which is recovered and returned to All Saints.__NEWL__The novel ends with a , as the Admiral and Guns set off in the spring in their new boat to explore the coastline of the British Isles.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7239029	Prayer for the Living	1934-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	22163028	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163028	A witty, engrossing, unique novel about the life of masters and boys in a Scottish prep school.__NEWL__One way of describing this novel is to say that it is a story of life in a prep school in Scotland during World War I: and that, so far as the bare facts go, is an accurate description.__NEWL__But it is no way at all of conveying to the reader the devilish wit and cutting satire with which Mr. Marshall heightens and brightens the scene, or the pathos surrounding schoolboys who will overnight be turned into soldiers, or the moving idyl of love between the headmaster's daughter and a young student about to leave for the Front.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4749698	An Account of Capers	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	22163786	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163786	Set against the background of an Italy poised on the brink of war with Abyssinia in 1935, the story focuses on chartered accountant Arthur Waters.__NEWL__He is sent to Milan to audit the books of an Italian firm.__NEWL__His seemingly straightforward mission becomes somewhat hampered when he becomes involved with the beautiful Emma and the treacherous Bazzini.__NEWL__But his problems really begin when he is mistaken for a British spy and prevented from leaving the country.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718324	The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina	1860-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22192134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22192134	Unlike other anti-Tom novels, The Black Gauntlet does not have a discernible narrative.__NEWL__It is essentially a collection of speeches by characters who argue for American slavery as an institution.__NEWL__Some of the speeches were created by Schoolcraft.__NEWL__In other cases, she refers to quotations from other published works, including the Bible and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6555476	Lion of Senet	2002-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	22033194	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22033194	The novel is set in the fantasy world of Ranadon, where there is no night time.__NEWL__Two suns orbit the earth and bathe it in light constantly.__NEWL__A religious sect known as the Shadowdancers claim this is the work of the Goddess, a deity both benign and merciless, whom most in the world believe in.__NEWL__The back story is that many years ago the second sun mysteriously vanished and left Ranadon in the Age of Shadows.__NEWL__At the insistence of the self-appointed High Priestess of the Shadow dancers, Belegren, the lion of Senet, a powerful and devout man named Antonov, sacrificed his baby son Gunta, after which the second sun returned and so it has been ever since.__NEWL__Dirk Provin, the second son of the Duke Wallin Provin of Elcast, saves a wounded sailor from a shipwreck, brought about by a volcanic eruption and consequent earthquake.__NEWL__Through the course of the man's recovery it is revealed that he is in fact, Johan Thorn, the exiled King of Dhevyn who was utterly defeated by Antonov during the Age of Shadows, and is now the most wanted man in Ranadon.__NEWL__News of this reaches the Lion of Senet himself, who arrives with Belegren the High Priestess, on Elcast, and the secret web of lies which had been built up around Dirk and everything he ever knew begins to slowly unravel, as the apprentice physician comes to realise that others are slowly drawing their own plans around him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3284500	Hunted	2009-03-10T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22119663	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22119663	Zoey and her friends help Stevie Rae heal after the events at the end of Untamed – the arrow did not kill her, but took most of her lifeblood, so Kalona could be freed from the earth.__NEWL__Zoey and Stevie Rae reconcile, and the latter introduces Zoey's group to some of the red vampyre fledglings.__NEWL__Aphrodite lets Stevie Rae feed on her to heal, which forms an Imprint between them.__NEWL__When Erik follows Zoey on her way to her room they kiss, but then Erik gets too rough and scares her.__NEWL__Erik and Zoey get back together, though Zoey's not entirely sure due to Erik's possessiveness.__NEWL__Kalona starts getting into Zoey's dreams to seduce her, and calls her A-ya.__NEWL__Kramisha, a red fledgling, is revealed to also express prophecies through her poetry, and Zoey gives her the title of Poet Laureate.__NEWL__This is how they find their first clue.__NEWL__One of Kramisha's poems states that Kalona and Neferet will be banished when Night, Humanity, Blood, Spirit and Earth come together, but Zoey doesn't know who will represent these elements.__NEWL__Heath arrives at the tunnels, and Zoey goes outside to talk to him, much to Erik's anger.__NEWL__Heath tries to reconcile with her, but to no avail.__NEWL__A Raven Mocker attacks them and critically wounds Zoey.__NEWL__She drinks from Heath to heal and they Imprint again, but she is still weakened.__NEWL__Kramisha gets exited and loses her control a little when she sees Heath (a human), leading Zoey to realize that the red fledglings may still have problems with their self-control.__NEWL__Darius finally declares that Zoey needs exposure to more adult vampyres to survive, and she is forced to return to the House of Night, much to Neferet's pleasure.__NEWL__She finds out that Kalona's presence has caused the fledglings and the vampyres to turn their backs on Nyx.__NEWL__Kalona's favorite son, Rephaim, and Darius get into a fight.__NEWL__Kalona intercedes and gives Darius a huge scar which upsets Aphrodite.__NEWL__Zoey successfully persuades Stark to turn back to the good side.__NEWL__He becomes the second red vampyre when he pledges his Warrior's Oath to Zoey and she accepts.__NEWL__Zoey discusses the situation with Lenobia and, upon analyzing Kramisha's poem again, finds out that she is Night, Blood is Stevie Rae, Humanity is Aphrodite, Sister Mary Angela is Spirit, and Grandma Redbird is Earth.__NEWL__Zoey and her friends set fire to the school as a diversion and escape on horseback to the Benedictine Abbey.__NEWL__Zoey and the other people mentioned in the poem open a circle and send everyone else inside.__NEWL__Neferet, Kalona and Stark arrive quickly afterwards in an SUV, followed by the Raven Mockers.__NEWL__Neferet and Kalona take turns at threatening and cajoling Zoey__NEWL__but she finally accepts the truth: that although A-ya is a part of her, she will choose her own destiny.__NEWL__She rejects Kalona.__NEWL__Neferet orders Stark to shoot Zoey__NEWL__but he says that Zoey is his heart and aims at her while thinking of himself.__NEWL__Realizing what will happen, Zoey uses the elements to stop the arrow and knocks him out in the process.__NEWL__Night, Humanity, Blood, Spirit, and Earth complete the spell and banish Neferet and Kalona.__NEWL__Zoey's Mark spreads to across her scar.__NEWL__She is deeply in pain because she had to say goodbye to Kalona, and knows that the fight isn't over yet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7992715	When Red Is Black	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	21988157	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21988157	When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation.__NEWL__The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house.__NEWL__It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is kept locked at night.__NEWL__But there is no apparent motive.__NEWL__Sergeant Yu tries to unravel the reclusive woman's past and begins to realize it may have larger political implications.__NEWL__The Cultural Revolution might be more than 30 years in the past, but its effects can still be felt at every level of Chinese society.__NEWL__This is the third critically acclaimed Inspector Chen mystery set in post-Cultural Revolution China.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6038408	Inspector Ghote's First Case	2008-05-26T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22053472	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22053472	Inspector Ghote has just been promoted to inspector and is on leave before taking up his post in Bombay Criminal Investigation Department.__NEWL__This he hopes will allow him to spend time with his heavily pregnant wife, Protima.__NEWL__Sir Rustom Engineer, the retired Police Commissioner of Bombay, asks Inspector Ghote to investigate the motiveless apparent suicide of Mrs Iris Dawkins, whose husband was an old friend of Sir Rustom's before Indian independence.__NEWL__The case has already been investigated by Inspector Darrani, an old rival of Ghote's from police training college, but Inspector Ghote soon learns that the tragedy is not what it first seems to be.__NEWL__It is the early 1960s and Inspector Ghote is on leave from the Bombay police before taking up a post in crime branch.__NEWL__His wife, Protima, is heavily pregnant with their first child.__NEWL__The former police commissioner, now retired, Sir Rustom Engineer, requests that as a favour Ghote investigate the motiveless suicide of Iris Dawkins.__NEWL__Robert Dawkins is an old friend of Sir Rustom's from before Indian independence and has written a letter asking for help.__NEWL__Ghote arrives at the remote town where the tragedy occurred and finds that Iris Dawkins apparently committed suicide by shooting herself in the head with a shotgun without leaving a note.__NEWL__Afterwards the Dawkinses' man servant telephoned Mr Dawkins at the nearby golf club and asked him to return home as there had been a "nasty accident".__NEWL__At the local police station, Ghote finds a rival from police training college, Inspector Darrani, has already investigated the case and has a closed mind on the subject.__NEWL__From an old letter, Ghote gets the name of an old friend of Mrs Dawkins: Pansy, who married a Forest Officer named Peter Watson.__NEWL__Forest Officers move from one place to another every few months, however, and Ghote has to use his initiative to find her.__NEWL__Shinto, the young boy who takes care of the Dawkinses' garden, tells Ghote that a young man apparently visited Mrs Dawkins on the morning of her suicide.__NEWL__From the same boy, Ghote learns that the gun was in the wrong position for a left-handed person to have committed suicide with.__NEWL__From Pansy Watson, Ghote learns that Iris Dawkins was the daughter of Sir Ronald and Lady Mountford.__NEWL__Sir Ronald was an ICS advisor to a Maharaja before independence.__NEWL__Her parents were killed by a rampaging elephant while touring a remote area when Iris was a child.__NEWL__Iris stayed in India with the family of the British Resident until roughly the age of twelve or thirteen, when she was seduced by the son of a Maharaja (who was the same age) and became pregnant.__NEWL__She was then sent to stay with the nuns at St Agnes Convent in Poona until her child was delivered and then the child, a boy, was sent to the raja's palace.__NEWL__Iris Dawkins was then sent home to England, where she was cared for by poor relations of her own family and adopted their name, Petersham.__NEWL__When she came of age, Iris Petersham found a job in London and saved up until she could return to India after independence.__NEWL__She then came to stay with the Watsons until she met Robert Dawkins, who was a friend of Peter Watson, and married him.__NEWL__Ghote learns that Iris Dawkins was left-handed and that her left eye had a green fleck from a picture taken by a local photographer.__NEWL__That she was left-handed is relevant to the position of the shotgun she supposedly committed suicide with.__NEWL__That her eyes, described by her husband as "violet", were in fact blue with a fleck of green, shows Ghote that her husband, Robert Dawkins, held many cherished illusions about his wife.__NEWL__When Ghote reports his findings to Mr Dawkins, Inspector Darrani intervenes and persuades Mr Dawkins to put the matter behind him.__NEWL__Afterwards, Ghote resolves to ask Inspector Darrani about the young man who was seen visiting Mrs Dawkins on the morning of her death.__NEWL__Ghote also realises, belatedly, that the phrase "a nasty accident" was specifically used in the telephone message that alerted Mr Dawkins to his wife's death and that such a phrase is more typical of a man like Mr Dawkins than the manservant who would have made the call.__NEWL__Investigating at the golf club, Ghote learns that at the relevant time of day the club is nearly empty and that Mr Dawkins may have been the only person present.__NEWL__His alibi is therefore unsound.__NEWL__Interviewing Shinto the gardener boy at the boy's home, he learns that the Dawkinses' manservant has threatened the boy to make him keep silent.__NEWL__Ghote decides to return to the Dawkins residence and interview the manservant about the morning of Mrs Dawkins' death.__NEWL__After interviewing the manservant, Ghote realises that the man must be blackmailing his employer, Robert Dawkins, and re-assesses what he knows about Mr Dawkin's character.__NEWL__Carefully considering the case, Ghote comes to the conclusion that the young man who visited Mrs Dawkins was in fact her long-lost son whom she would have immediately recognised from the green flecks in one eye, a genetic trait inherited from her.__NEWL__Robert Dawkins returned home from the club unexpectedly having forgotten his spectacles and found them embracing.__NEWL__Misunderstanding the situation, Robert Dawkins fetched the shotgun from his gun cabinet and killed Iris Dawkins, her son having already escaped at her urging.__NEWL__The Dawkinses' manservant then moved the body out of the room where the crime had taken place into the living room, while Dawkins himself returned to the club.__NEWL__The club being nearly deserted at that hour, no one had noticed his absence and it was there that the message, phrased using words he had given to the manservant, was delivered to him.__NEWL__Before Ghote can act on his conclusions, an urgent message comes for him telling him his wife, Protima, is about to give premature birth.__NEWL__Ghote hurries back to his wife only to discover the message is a hoax by his wife, who has been missing him.__NEWL__Ghote forgives his wife and after an hour, returns to the scene of the crime.__NEWL__Ghote conducts another search of the Dawkins home and re-enacts the crime in an effort to prove his theory.__NEWL__He challenges the manservant with the knowledge that Iris Dawkins was killed in the sewing room, not the living room.__NEWL__The manservant confirms this and explains he was looking for a fragment of a letter written by the Maharaja to Iris Dawkins, which her son had dropped before fleeing the scene.__NEWL__The manservant also confirms that Inspector Darrani had quickly discovered that Iris Dawkins's long-lost son had visited her.__NEWL__The young man is now the surviving heir to the Maharaja, who has been searching for him.__NEWL__In hope of securing a large reward from the Maharaja, Inspector Darrani has concealed the young man's whereabouts and attempted close the books on Mrs Dawkins death quickly, with the minimum of investigation.__NEWL__Ghote telephones Inspector Darrani and forces him to come to the house to arrest the manservant as an accessory after the fact.__NEWL__Robert Dawkins overhears Inspector Ghote put his case to Inspector Darrani and, after fetching the shotgun, commits suicide in the room where his wife died.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1198587	The Fiery Angel	1908-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	22049362	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22049362	Set in sixteenth-century Germany, it depicts a love triangle between Renata, a passionate young woman, Ruprecht, a knight and Madiel, the fiery Angel.__NEWL__The novel tells the story of Ruprecht's attempts to win the love of Renata whose spiritual integrity is seriously undermined by her participation in occult practices.__NEWL__This love triangle is now recognised to be that which existed between the author, Bryusov, the symbolist novelist Andrei Bely and their shared lover, the nineteen-year-old Nina Petrovskaya.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768352	The Temple	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z	22050134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22050134	The Temple begins in Oxford, where Paul Schoner meets Simon Wilmot and William Bradshaw, caricatures of the young W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood respectively.__NEWL__They encourage him to visit Germany, hinting that Paul might prefer Germany to Britain because of Germany's liberal attitudes towards sex and the body.__NEWL__During this section, Paul is introduced to Ernst Stockmann, a fan of his poetry who later invites him to visit his family home in Hamburg.__NEWL__Paul visits Ernst Stockmann, meeting his wealthy mother and friends, Joachim Lenz and Willy Lassel.__NEWL__During his time at the Stockmann household, Paul experiences the liberality of German youth culture first-hand, attending a party at which he drinks too much and meets Irmi.__NEWL__his later love affair.__NEWL__Paul, Ernst, Joachim and Willy also visit Hamburg's notorious quarter Sankt Pauli.__NEWL__In Sankt Pauli, at a bar named The Three Stars, Paul meets some young male prostitutes who claim to be destitute.__NEWL__It is on this evening, while he is drunk, that Paul agrees to go on holiday to the Baltic with Ernst despite being uncomfortable in Ernst's company.__NEWL__When Paul and Ernst arrive at the hotel by the Baltic where they will be staying, Paul is distressed to find that Ernst has booked them into a shared room.__NEWL__Paul feels suffocated by Ernst's clear affection for him and tries to deter Ernst by telling him that he is not interested.__NEWL__Afterward, Paul ponders Stephen Wilmot's quasi-Freudian premise that it is kindest to offer love in return to those who love you, especially if you do not find them attractive.__NEWL__As a result, when Ernst comes on to Paul in the hotel room, Paul accepts his attention and they have an uncomfortable sexual encounter.__NEWL__In the morning, Paul is keen to escape the hotel room, and runs down to a beach, where he meets Irmi again.__NEWL__They have a more satisfying sexual experience on the beach.__NEWL__In the next chapter, Paul goes on a trip with Joachim Lenz to the Rhine.__NEWL__On this trip, Joachim makes it clear that he intends to fall in love, but there is little indication that he and Paul could be lovers.__NEWL__Nevertheless, Paul is distressed when Joachim books him an adjacent hotel room so that he can stay with a young man named Heinrich who he had met on the beach.__NEWL__In Part Two, "Towards the Dark", Paul returns to Germany in the winter of 1932.__NEWL__Spender admits in his introduction to the 1988 edition that both parts had taken place in 1929 in reality, but that he moved this part forward to winter 1932 to increase the sense of foreboding (as Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany later that winter).__NEWL__In this section, Paul visits several of his friends again, most notably Willy Lassel, who is now engaged to a Nazi woman, and Joachim Lenz, whose relationship with Heinrich is struggling.__NEWL__Heinrich has made friends with Erich, a fascist man.__NEWL__Paul meets him and is disgusted and disturbed by his ideology.__NEWL__Soon after, Paul visits Joachim again and finds him with a cut on his face, staying in a trashed flat.__NEWL__Joachim tells Paul how one of Heinrich's Nazi friends had threatened him and destroyed his possessions after Joachim defiled a Nazi party uniform belonging to Heinrich.__NEWL__This discussion about their former acquaintances is the end of the novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7714740	The Asti Spumante Code	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22050686	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22050686	Due to the detailed nature of the overall story within the novel, the plot has been divided into Backstory and Modern Day respectively in order to provide a more coherent timeline for the events depicted in the novel.__NEWL__In the 13th century, there once existed a circle of authors and playwrights known as the Order of Psion (a parody of the Knights Templar), most of whom were females writing under male pseudonyms, who once predicted the coming of "the ultimate book" that would render publishers obsolete.__NEWL__The formula for the making of the ultimate book – known as the Asti Spumante Code – is contained within the Mure de Paume (French for "The Blackberry of the Palm"), otherwise known as "the legendary keystone".__NEWL__Fearing the consequences of the ultimate book, a group of publishers named The English Book Guild was established in Stevenage, England to try to counteract the progresses made by the Order.__NEWL__The book itself focuses on American Prof. James Crack – a professor of "Paraliteral Metasymbolist studies" – and Belgian Emily Raquin, a "biblio technical cryptologist", as they discover a set of clues left by the deceased Grand Master of the Order of Psion that will ultimately lead to the discovery of the Asti Spumante Code.__NEWL__However, the two are hindered by the efforts of Uxbridge Road Group, a fanatical offshoot of the English Book Guild situated in Brussels, whose members encourage sadomasochism and segregate works of fiction by gender stereotyping (e.g.: men read only adventure fiction, women read only romance novels), who wish to destroy the Asti Spumante Code before it can be put to use by anyone.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762419	The Scarlet Empire	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21979357	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21979357	John Walker is a young American socialist, active and dedicated.__NEWL__Yet his personal poverty, and the slow progress of his cause, leave him despondent.__NEWL__In a fit of depression he decides on suicide by drowning: he hurls himself off "the long pier...called the Suicides' Promenade" at Coney Island.__NEWL__He loses consciousness—but is revived by a man in a strange diving suit; Walker at first mistakes him for a kind of fish/man.__NEWL__In fact, the man is a surgeon engaged in research; he explains to Walker that they are in Atlantis, at the bottom of the sea, and gives the American a cursory explanation of the nature of Atlantean society.__NEWL__(He cannot say much; Atlanteans are limited to a thousand words of speech per day, as measured by the "verbometers" they wear.)__NEWL__Socialist literature found in Walker's pockets suggests to the Atlantean authorities that Walker might be acceptable to their regime.__NEWL__(A few other Americans have penetrated to Atlantis in the past, though no one from the Earth's surface is there when Walker arrives.)__NEWL__The American is assigned to a barracks; the doctor who serves it is appointed his guide in all things Atlantean (and is given a dispensation to speak more than 1000 words per day).__NEWL__Together, the surgeon and the doctor become Walker's closest companions in his new life.__NEWL__The people of the domed city dress in red; their buildings, and even the cigars they smoke, are of the same color, giving their society its nickname, the Scarlet Empire.__NEWL__At first, Walker (or Citizen No. 489 ADG, as he is designated) is delighted to have awakened in a socialist state; but his enthusiasm quickly fades as he experiences the capricious irrationality and the privations of life in a dictatorship of the proletariat.__NEWL__He soon learns that his guide, the doctor, shares his repulsion from Atlantean life.__NEWL__Walker meets, and quickly falls in love with, a beautiful young woman, No. 7891__NEWL__OCD; since she has no name, he comes to call her Astraea—"the last goddess of heaven to visit the earth".__NEWL__Yet he is shocked to learn that his new love is condemned as an "atavar" (from "atavism"), a reactionary individualist, a dissenter who cannot or will not conform to the dictates of society.__NEWL__As such, she is confined to an insane asylum (another anticipation of Soviet times).__NEWL__Atavars are given chances to conform; the recalcitrant ones are fed to a kraken outside the dome of Atlantis, in a ceremony reminiscent of the Christians martyred in the Colosseum of ancient Rome.__NEWL__The plot quickly resolves into Walker's struggle to rescue Astraea and escape back to the surface.__NEWL__The Atlanteans keep all they recover from the surface world in their Hall of Curiosities; its contents include everything from ships' figureheads and waterlogged books to enormous heaps of jewels and gold coins.__NEWL__In his research work, the surgeon comes into possession of a sunken miniature submarine; Walker and the doctor decide to use the vessel to escape.__NEWL__Their plan reaches a crisis when Walker is caught consorting with the imprisoned Astraea; the two are sentenced to be devoured by the kraken.__NEWL__Yet the hero and his friends manage a suspenseful getaway from the Atlanteans.__NEWL__Walker, Astraea, the doctor and the surgeon depart in their (treasure-laden) submarine; in a confrontation with the attacking kraken, they fire a torpedo, which kills the monster and also punctures the dome of Atlantis, destroying the city.__NEWL__Walker and friends reach dry land.__NEWL__With the advantage of enormous wealth (the appropriated Atlantean treasure), they manage to make their way through the individualistic capitalist world.__NEWL__The surgeon and doctor distinguish themselves in science and medicine; Astraea and Walker enjoy a long happy marriage.__NEWL__After her eventual death, Walker writes the story of their adventure.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5432372	Falling from Grace	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	21981642	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21981642	Young sisters Annie and Grace squeeze in one last game of "Tracking" with their dad at the seashore, the beach by Point Nepean.__NEWL__There is a storm coming and it is getting dark.__NEWL__Annie, younger by eleven months and more agile than Grace, scrambles up the side of a steep hill.__NEWL__Grace struggles to follow when suddenly the ground falls away.__NEWL__The search for her begins, but is hampered by bad weather.__NEWL__The police become convinced that the young man, Kip, who found Grace's backpack on the beach, and Ted, who was too inebriated to remember much of what he did that night on the beach, may have had something to do with her disappearance.__NEWL__The police initially are unable to successfully interrogate Ted, but as the story is gradually assembled, it looks worse and worse for Kip and Ted, the longer Grace cannot be found.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5572276	Glubbslyme	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	21984280	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21984280	A girl called Rebecca has just had a row with her best friend, Sarah, because of Mandy, who is pretty, girly type, who can sometimes be quite nasty and rude to Rebecca.__NEWL__Both Rebecca and Mandy thinks that Sarah is their best friend.__NEWL__One day, the girls discover a pond.__NEWL__Rebecca spins a tale, saying that it is a witch's pond in which a witch drowned.__NEWL__Sarah seems to be impressed.__NEWL__Then Mandy, trying to get Sarah's attention, says that the pond wasn't deep enough.__NEWL__Sarah seems to think the same thing.__NEWL__Rebecca goes in the pond to prove it, but Sarah leaves, saying that Rebecca is a baby.__NEWL__While she is in the pond a toad grips at her foot.__NEWL__Rebecca finds out that the toad is Glubbslyme, who is the witch's familiar and has magical powers.__NEWL__Together they seek revenge on Mr. Baker, a man who is fed up of Rebecca because she always ruins her flower beds.__NEWL__They also seek revenge on Mandy.__NEWL__In the end Rebecca and Sarah become friends again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5246918	Dear Nobody	1991-11-21T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42448	Sheffield	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22227502	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22227502	The novel is split between two points of view, a first-person narrative presenting the events as Chris recalls them in retrospect, interspersed with a series of letters from Helen to their unborn child (Nobody), telling her side of the story as she experiences it.__NEWL__The framing sequence is set in autumn as Chris is on the verge of leaving for Newcastle University.__NEWL__A parcel of letters is delivered for him, and he recognizes Helen's handwriting.__NEWL__He begins to read the letters, all addressed to "Dear Nobody", and they remind him of the past nine months.__NEWL__The subsequent chapter headings are all the names of months, beginning with January.__NEWL__Helen and Chris make love for the first, and only, time.__NEWL__Chris is prompted to ask his father about his marriage breakdown, and decides to get in touch with his mother.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards Helen begins to fear she is pregnant.__NEWL__Chris is disturbed by her distant behaviour.__NEWL__In late February she finally tells him her suspicions, and writes her first letter to "Dear Nobody": "You're only a shadow.__NEWL__You're only a whisper...__NEWL__Leave me alone.__NEWL__Go away.__NEWL__Go away.__NEWL__Please, please, go away."__NEWL__Later when a pregnancy test proves positive, she tries to abort the pregnancy by going riding, risking her life in a wild gallop, to no avail.__NEWL__In April, Helen's mother finds out, and arranges for her to go to an abortion clinic.__NEWL__However, Helen decides to keep the baby.__NEWL__Mrs Garton refuses to have Chris in the house, but he and Helen continue to see each other.__NEWL__They visit Chris's mother in Carlisle.__NEWL__In June, Helen and Chris sit their A-levels.__NEWL__After they are over Helen tells Chris she has decided they should break up, believing it is best for both of them.__NEWL__Chris is bewildered, and feels bereft.__NEWL__To get away from all the memories in Sheffield, he goes to France with Tom.__NEWL__He meets a girl called Bryn, but cannot forget Helen.__NEWL__In September, Helen learns her mother's greatest secret – that she is illegitimate, a great disgrace when she was growing up – and finally begins to understand her.__NEWL__When her contractions start, she has a sudden impulse to send her "Dear Nobody" letters to Chris.__NEWL__Chris finishes reading the letters, realizes the baby is coming and rushes to the hospital, where he meets his newborn daughter, Amy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7746709	The Legend of Deathwalker	1996-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22229489	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22229489	The novel begins during the events in the book Legend; during the defense of the fortress Dros Delnoch from the Nadir, Druss begins to tell a young warrior a story from his past.__NEWL__He tells how he and his friend Sieben travelled to the land of the Gothir and how he became involved in the political affairs there.__NEWL__Owing to a prophecy that the King made, Druss must lose a tournament; when he refuses to do this men are hired to kill him.__NEWL__In the course of the attempt on his life his friend Klay is shot in the spine with a crossbow bolt, leaving him paralyzed and mortally wounded.__NEWL__To help him Druss travels to the land of the Nadir where a mystic has told him there are gems that can heal any wound.__NEWL__As he travels to the shrine of Nadir hero Oshikai, the Gothir send a force of 2,000 men to destroy it.__NEWL__Druss arrives at the shrine hoping to find the jewels but is unable to do so before the Gothir arrive, and so he helps four Nadir tribes defend the shrine under the guidance of a Gothir-trained Nadir soldier called Talisman.__NEWL__Talisman is on a quest to find "The Uniter", a man with blazing violet eyes called Ulric, who will unite the Nadir tribes after centuries of warfare.__NEWL__During the defense of the shrine the spirit of Oshikai's wife Shul-sen is released from captivity with the help of Druss and Talisman; the spirit unleashes a storm on the Gothir army and those that are not killed are ordered to withdraw.__NEWL__Druss' friend Sieben reveals that he has found the jewels which the Nadir call "The Eyes of Alchazzar".__NEWL__He takes them back to Gothir where they find that Klay had died a few days after they left.__NEWL__However, they heal many of the sick in the hospice before returning the jewels to the Nadir.__NEWL__Talisman then calls a meeting of the Nadir tribes in which he smashes the jewels to return the magic and life of the Nadir land.__NEWL__The book then comes back to the present day where the reader learns that Druss has fallen in combat in the defense of Dros Delnoch.__NEWL__Ulric/Talisman is saddened to learn of this; even though they were on opposing sides he considered Druss a great warrior.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16204081	The Mistletoe Mystery	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z	21961539	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21961539	Nancy's friend Bess has been hired by Special Effects, a River Heights company, to decorate Albemarle's department store for the holidays.__NEWL__When Bess discovers that her friend Ali Marie is now working at that store, she is thrilled — the two of them can have lunch and try on clothes for fun!__NEWL__However, when some dresses are swiped, Ali is accused of stealing and the party is over.__NEWL__Sure of her friend's innocence, Bess calls Nancy to help find the real thief.__NEWL__With all the suspects and misleading clues, Nancy and her friends are running in circles — and the holiday shopping rush isn't helping!__NEWL__But with all the difficulties they figure out that Bess's boss Wayne is the real thief.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760722	The Riding Club Crime	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21961901	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21961901	Nancy, George and Elsa are enjoying a horse ride, when Nancy's horse falls into a hole while attempting a four-foot jump over a post-and-rail.__NEWL__Elsa is a counselor at Green Spring Pony Club summer camp, which has been vandalised by unknown persons.__NEWL__The owner, Mrs Rogers, is getting worried.__NEWL__Nancy, disguised as a counselor, tries to figure out who the culprit is.__NEWL__As more incidents happen, the more Nancy realizes she has to work quickly.__NEWL__Will Nancy and her friends be able to keep the Green Spring Farm going?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17111533	Inspector Ghote Hunts the Peacock	1968-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	21962103	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21962103	An injury to Inspector Ghote's commanding officer prevents him from attending an international police conference on drug smuggling that is to be held in London.__NEWL__Inspector Ghote is ordered to go to England, attend the conference, take notes and produce a presentation on behalf of his superior.__NEWL__On arrival Inspector Ghote is met by his cousin who, with his wife, runs an Indian restaurant in London.__NEWL__He stays with them for the duration of the conference but quickly learns that they expect him to find their missing 17-year-old niece, Ranee, who is nicknamed "The Peacock" for her bright attitude and dress.__NEWL__In between attending the conference Ghote investigates the girl's disappearance, has his high expectations of Great Britain dashed by a grey and grimy London and tries to acquire a gift to take home to his wife.__NEWL__The title refers to Inspector Ghote's search for the missing girl.__NEWL__Inspector Ghote is tasked by his Superintendent to attend the London police conference and present a prepared speech.__NEWL__On arrival at the airport, Ghote is met by his cousin, Vidur Datta, who runs with his wife a London restaurant.__NEWL__Their niece, 17-year-old Ranee – known as the "Peacock" for her brightness – has disappeared.__NEWL__The family suspects her boyfriend, 35-year-old pop music star Johnny Bull.__NEWL__Ghote interviews the Peacock's friends, who believe she has been murdered but don't know who did it.__NEWL__Ghote pays a visit to Johnny, who claims to have not seen the Peacock since she disappeared and has taken up with another girl, Susan.__NEWL__Johnny, a self-confessed opium user, informs Ghote that the Peacock herself acquired drugs from a local public house known as the "Robin's Nest".__NEWL__There, Ghote extracts a confession from the owner of having supplied opium to Peacock.__NEWL__He learns of a protection racket being run by the Smith brothers and is surprised to find that the Peacock's uncle, Vidur Datta, is an opium user.__NEWL__Later, Ghote manages to confront the Smith brothers at their home, only to find himself in immediate danger.__NEWL__He is rescued by a passing policeman, who warns him not to interfere with a Scotland Yard investigation into the brothers.__NEWL__Finding no help from the British police and believing he is at a dead end to his enquiries, Ghote decides to drop the case.__NEWL__Mrs Datta quickly changes his mind by making it an issue of professional pride.__NEWL__Ghote keeps watch on the Smith home the following night and gains access while they are out.__NEWL__While talking to their mother, he learns they were in police custody during the Peacock's disappearance.__NEWL__Returning to the "Robin's Nest," Ghote accuses the owner of lying and attempting to steer him into harm's way.__NEWL__However, Ghote satisfies himself that the man could not have murdered the Peacock.__NEWL__Ghote attempts to interview Johnny again, but fails to get past Susan.__NEWL__He learns that Johnny will be at a particular recording studio that afternoon.__NEWL__Returning to the conference, Ghote listens to a superb presentation and learns that his own presentation must follow it the next day.__NEWL__He begins to become nervous about addressing a crowd.__NEWL__At the recording studio, Ghote conceals himself and eavesdrops on Susan, realising that Johnny could not have kidnapped or murdered the Peacock.__NEWL__Ghote is scolded by the Dattas for his lack of progress and develops a cold as a result of the British climate.__NEWL__He finds the conference has moved into a much larger and grander room for the conference's final day, when he will give his speech.__NEWL__Nervous and irritated by the tardiness of the conference's emcee, Ghote makes a botch of his presentation.__NEWL__Frustrated and angry at everything that has happened, he adds what he has learned about Johnny's opium habit and walks out.__NEWL__That evening at his cousin's restaurant, Ghote realises he has solved the mystery of the Peacock's disappearance.__NEWL__Ghote accuses his cousin, Vidur Datta, of murdering the Peacock because she was blackmailing him with his secret opium habit.__NEWL__The body is concealed under the restaurant's rubbish.__NEWL__No sooner has Ghote forced Mr Datta to confess than the police arrive, eager to congratulate him on the information he supplied about Johnny.__NEWL__It is revealed that Johnny has confessed to smuggling drugs in the Indian harmonium he used for his latest songs.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5486701	Frank Freeman's Barber Shop	1852-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22217794	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22217794	The story focuses on a slave named Frank (later Frank Freeman), who is convinced to run away from his peaceful life on a Southern plantation by "philanthropists" (Hall's term for abolitionists), having been promised that freedom would also bring a prestigious career.__NEWL__When Frank comes to the end of his journey, however, he realises that he has been deceived: his prestigious career is nothing more than running a seedy barber shop frequented by his new abolitionist masters, and is paid meagre wages for his work.__NEWL__However, Frank is soon discovered by members of the American Colonization Society, who rescue Frank from his predicament and pay for his passage back to Liberia, his homeland, where he can finally live in peace.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2659311	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	2009-04-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22218319	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22218319	In early 19th-century England, a zombie plague has spread across the country.__NEWL__Mrs. Bennet endeavours to obtain for her daughters wealthy and high-status husbands.__NEWL__Seeing an opportunity to achieve her goal, Mrs. Bennet sends her daughters to a local ball.__NEWL__At the ball, Mr. Bingley and the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, make a connection in the midst of a chaotic zombie attack.__NEWL__During this time, Elizabeth meets Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mr. Bingley's closest friend.__NEWL__When zombies attack, the Bennet sisters use their martial arts skills to keep the human attendees safe.__NEWL__Soon after, Jane is invited to visit Netherfield.__NEWL__Mrs. Bennet insists she travel on horseback rather than in a carriage.__NEWL__While traveling, Jane is attacked by zombies and injured.__NEWL__Elizabeth receives a letter informing the family that Jane will stay at Netherfield to recuperate, and insists on joining her sister.__NEWL__During their stay, Elizabeth interacts with Mr. Bingley, his family, and Mr. Darcy often.__NEWL__Once Jane is fully recovered, Mr. Bingley is persuaded by Mrs. Bennet to throw a ball.__NEWL__Jane and Elizabeth return home.__NEWL__The odious heir to Longbourn, Mr. Bennet's cousin Mr. Collins, arrives with the intention of marrying one of the Bennet daughters and settles his attentions on Elizabeth.__NEWL__When the local militia arrives in town to exhume and destroy dead bodies, the Bennet sisters also meet the charming George Wickham, whom Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley seem to avoid.__NEWL__Wickham explains to Elizabeth that he grew up with Mr. Darcy, but they had a falling out after Wickham was denied the living he had been promised by Mr. Darcy's late father, justifying Elizabeth's negative opinion of Mr. Darcy.__NEWL__She looks forward to meeting Wickham again at the Netherfield ball, but later learns he was not invited.__NEWL__Mr. Darcy asks Elizabeth to dance.__NEWL__The ball is interrupted by a zombie attack, which is thwarted by Mr. Darcy.__NEWL__The next day, Mr. Collins asks Elizabeth to marry him.__NEWL__She refuses, angering her mother.__NEWL__Mr. Collins instead proposes to Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth's best friend and a spinster, who accepts.__NEWL__She has been secretly infected with the 'mysterious plague' and hopes Mr. Collins will be too oblivious to notice her slowly becoming a zombie.__NEWL__Jane receives a letter from Caroline Bingley, informing her that Mr. Bingley and his party are en route to London with no plans to return soon.__NEWL__The letter also convinces Jane that Mr. Bingley wants to marry Darcy's younger sister.__NEWL__Elizabeth's dislike for Darcy intensifies when she learns that he purposefully plotted to separate Bingley from her sister, Jane.__NEWL__Elizabeth vows to avenge the separation by killing Darcy, and she is afforded that opportunity when he appears unannounced at a cottage where she is visiting her newlywed friend Charlotte.__NEWL__Darcy surprises her by proposing marriage, and they break into a verbal and physical fight in which Darcy is wounded.__NEWL__He escapes and writes a long letter to Elizabeth explaining his actions: that he separated Jane and Bingley out of fear that Jane had contracted the "mysterious plague", and that Wickham had lied about not receiving his inheritance.__NEWL__Elizabeth realizes that she has judged Darcy too harshly whilst Darcy realizes that his demeanour encourages people to believe the rumours about him and both resolve to correct their personal short-comings.__NEWL__Elizabeth embarks on a trip around the country with her aunt and uncle, fighting zombies along the way.__NEWL__At Pemberley she encounters Darcy, who repels a horde of zombies.__NEWL__Darcy's changed attitude and manners impress Elizabeth and lead her to consider reconciling their relationship.__NEWL__The Bennets spend time with Darcy, his sister, and Mr. Bingley, who still has feelings for Jane.__NEWL__The visit ends abruptly when Elizabeth learns Lydia has run away with Wickham and she returns home to support her family.__NEWL__A letter is delivered to Longbourn, stating that Lydia and Wickham are now married, Wickham's numerous debts have been settled, and he is now crippled.__NEWL__Elizabeth eventually discovers that it was Darcy who engineered the union and paid Wickham's debts as well as Lydia's dowry, thus saving the Bennet family from scandal and financial ruin.__NEWL__Darcy and Bingley return to the countryside, and Bingley resumes courting Jane.__NEWL__Elizabeth hopes to renew her relationship with Darcy, but his aunt, the Lady Catherine, interferes and insists that her daughter Anne is a better match for her nephew.__NEWL__Lady Catherine challenges Elizabeth to a duel, committed to eliminating the competition, but Elizabeth defeats her.__NEWL__Elizabeth spares Catherine's life.__NEWL__Darcy is touched by this gesture and returns to Elizabeth.__NEWL__They marry and begin a long and happy future together, insofar as the ever-present threat of zombie apocalypse permits.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3532226	Torch of Freedom	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22094421	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22094421	While Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat were working undercover on Mesa, Mesa launches an attack at Torch.__NEWL__Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat escape Mesa amidst general mayhem together with a defecting leading scientist.__NEWL__The attack against Torch is thwarted by Rear Admiral Luiz Rozsak of the Solarian League Navy, who had amassed a fleet in the interest of the Maya Sector.__NEWL__Queen Berry becomes romantically involved with Hugh Arai, who, after being freed from slavery by Jeremy X from the Audubon Ballroom, worked as a commando for the Beowulf Biological Survey Corps (BSC), and was assigned by Jeremy X as Berry's bodyguard.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3053590	Mission of Honor	2010-06-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22094476	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22094476	The book begins in January 1922 P.D.__NEWL__The Star Empire of Manticore remains at war with the Republic of Haven, despite their mutual losses during the Battle of Manticore.__NEWL__Now, the Star Empire is in danger of entering an entirely new conflict with the Solarian League, a galactic superstate with a population numbering several trillion.__NEWL__Though Manticore possesses a decisive tactical and technological edge over the Solarians with their anti-ship missiles and missile defense systems, the Solarians boast a fleet of over ten thousand capital ships.__NEWL__The planet Mesa and its shadow government continue to foment an increasingly hostile Manticoran-Solarian relationship for its own nefarious ends.__NEWL__At the same time, Mesa has launched a potentially devastating strike against the Manticore Home System itself, which has gone completely undetected by Manticore.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Admiral Duchess Honor Alexander-Harrington of Manticore is dispatched on a diplomatic mission to the Republic of Haven, having convinced Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore that the Haven issue cannot be left unresolved in the wake of an increasingly likely confrontation with the Solarian League.__NEWL__Traveling to the Haven System itself in her civilian yacht, but escorted by__NEWL__her own 8th__NEWL__Fleet, she offers the Republic a chance to conclude their war diplomatically rather than face sure annihilation due to Manticore's unmatchable tactical advantage.__NEWL__Despite getting off to a good start, the negotiations become stalled when Havenite politicians obstruct the talks for personal political gain.__NEWL__Alexander-Harrington initially tolerates this effort in the interest of good diplomacy, but eventually publicly calls out the leader of the opposition politicians, forcing him to back down.__NEWL__However, the talks are suspended when word reaches Haven that a sneak attack, by seemingly unknown forces, has wrought havoc on the Manticore Home System's infrastructure.__NEWL__While Alexander-Harrington is trying for a negotiated peace settlement with Haven, the Royal Manticoran Navy's 10th fleet led by Vice Admiral Michelle Henke is attacked by a Solarian task force at the Spindle System in the newly incorporated Talbott Quadrant.__NEWL__Admiral Sandra Crandall, commander of the Solarian Force, acting on her own desire for vengeance and Mesan manipulations and bribes demands the surrender of 10th Fleet and arrest of Henke.__NEWL__Baroness Medusa, Governor-General of the Talbott Quadrant, refuses to honor Crandall's demands.__NEWL__The Solarian forces begin their attack run but are ambushed by 10th Fleet in a lopsided victory, despite the fact that Henke has only a few dozen cruiser-sized ships to defend against 73 ships of the wall and their screening elements.__NEWL__After the destruction of the Solarian flagship and a third of the task force, Crandall's third in command assumes control and surrenders the survivors.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, Mesa's secret Operation Oyster Bay is launched.__NEWL__Covert operations ships using a radically new drive technology have been operating in the Manticore System undetected and placed several stealth missile pods aimed at the three inhabited planets in the Manticore System.__NEWL__In a coordinated attack, the pods fire several volleys of new missile systems which proceed to destroy all of the important orbital infrastructures around Manticore, Sphinx, and Gryphon.__NEWL__Several million Manticoran civilians and naval personnel are killed.__NEWL__The Star Empire completely loses the space stations Hephaestus, Vulcan, and Weyland, and with their loss, the ability to construct new shipping and missiles.__NEWL__Grayson, Manticore's loyal ally, is similarly attacked.__NEWL__This is all happening at the same time that Manticore is facing a full-scale conflict with the Solarian League.__NEWL__Alexander-Harrington is recalled from the peace negotiations with Haven in the wake of the assault.__NEWL__She returns to discover that after station debris reentered the atmosphere of and impacted her homeworld of Sphinx, many of her closest relatives have died.__NEWL__The Solarian League's leadership learns of both events in quick succession.__NEWL__The incompetent League military leadership, finally realizing the true scale of disparity between their ships and weapon systems and Manticore's, decides to go forward with a plan to invade the Manticore System itself with a force of 400 super-dreadnoughts, believing that the aftermath of the (Mesan) strike will leave Manticore possibly unprotected and unwilling to fight a protracted war, even if they successfully defend against this initial invasion.__NEWL__This idea that Manticore's system defenses have also been wrecked has been secretly purported by Mesa, which desires a situation in which the League is severely bloodied by just such a hapless invasion attempt.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Manticore is informed of the impending Solarian offensive through a covert channel on Beowulf.__NEWL__Manticoran leadership is confident of their ability to repel any Solarian attempts to invade the Home System but at the cost of expending great amounts of ammunition, which is now a precious commodity.__NEWL__The situation appears in crisis until Captain Anton Zilwicki of Manticore, who had been thought dead, and Special Officer Victor Cachat of Haven finally arrive in the Haven System with a Mesan defector.__NEWL__They inform President Eloise Pritchart of the truth behind the nuclear attacks on Mesa, and also of Mesa's long-term goals as an organization called the Mesan Alignment.__NEWL__The defector also gives background information on the new technology which was used to attack Manticore.__NEWL__Pritchart decides that the information is too important to ignore and personally embarks with several important members of her administration for Trevor's Star, along with Zilwicki's party.__NEWL__She eventually meets with Queen Elizabeth and Admiral Alexander-Harrington, and the true threat posed by Mesa becomes clear to all.__NEWL__Both sides realize that they have been manipulated over the past several decades by Mesa to fight each other so that they should not pose a threat to Mesa's masterplan for galactic domination.__NEWL__Despite ongoing diplomatic problems between them, and the certainty that many political factions in both Haven and Manticore will strongly disapprove of cooperation in the wake of such a long and bloody conflict, Elizabeth and Pritchart agree to both end the war for good and tentatively form a military alliance against Mesa and their Solarian pawns as the Star Empire and its armed forces await the arrival of the Solarian attack.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q859996	The Cleft	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22094583	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22094583	The story is narrated by a Roman historian, during the time of the Emperor Nero.__NEWL__He tells the story as a secret history of humanity's beginnings, as pieced together from scraps of documents and oral histories, passed down through the ages.__NEWL__In the beginning, humanity was composed solely of females who reproduced asexually.__NEWL__They were at peace and had few problems.__NEWL__They lived by the sea and were partially aquatic.__NEWL__They called themselves "Clefts," after The Cleft: a fissure in a rock which the females deemed sacred, and which resembled a vagina.__NEWL__One day, a Cleft gave birth to a male child, which they called a "monster.__NEWL__"__NEWL__They were so frightened that they killed the boy.__NEWL__But more "monsters" were born, and the Clefts left them on a rock to die.__NEWL__Eagles, which lived nearby, saw the dying babies and swooped down and carried them off, to deposit them in a nearby valley where they were then suckled by benevolent deer.__NEWL__The children gradually grew older and able to fend for themselves.__NEWL__Soon, as more boys were brought by the eagles, a tribe emerged.__NEWL__One day, a female wandered over to the valley and was raped by the now-adult men.__NEWL__She fled and gave birth to a new, mixed child nine months later.__NEWL__When she told her story to the rest of the Clefts, the two tribes soon came into contact with each other.__NEWL__The matriarchs of the Clefts, however, feared the "monsters" and decided to try to kill them off.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3284393	Tempted	2009-10-23T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22105170	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22105170	Tempted starts immediately after the end of events in the 5th book, Hunted, and is told from the point of view of six characters: Zoey, Stevie Rae, Aphrodite, Rephaim, Heath and Stark.__NEWL__Zoey has finally banished Neferet and Kalona, but he still haunts her dreams.__NEWL__When another prophecy warns Zoey of her choices, she realizes that she must follow her enemies up to the Vampire Council.__NEWL__In the aftermath Zoey gathers her allies and starts organizing them.__NEWL__Stevie Rae notices she's very tired and takes over, leaving Zoey to take care of a wounded Stark and her grandmother.__NEWL__Having recovered from her accident, she tells Zoey that she is A-ya's reincarnation and that A-ya was made to love Kalona, so that's why she cannot help being uncontrollably attracted to Kalona, as it's in her soul.__NEWL__In the end she's so stressed that when Erik finds her, demanding a share of her time, they quarrel and she dumps him for being overly jealous and possessive, taking her down to two love interests (whilst Erik forms a relationship with Venus, Aphrodite's ex-roommate).__NEWL__She rooms in with Aphrodite and has a dream with Kalona at the same time she has a vision that links to several elements from the dream.__NEWL__Alerted by Zoey's panic, Stark climbs up to her room and sleeps there to guard her from further intrusions.__NEWL__Aphrodite leaves and takes Darius to Stark's abandoned room.__NEWL__While they talk, she realizes she's come to love him and is afraid she is incapable of returning his feelings.__NEWL__He soothes her and pledges his Warrior's Oath to her.__NEWL__The kids return to the House of Night.__NEWL__They find Anastasia Lankford, a professor at the House of Night, dead at Rephaim's hands, and Dragon grieving her loss.__NEWL__Jack stays with Dragon to comfort him and coax him through his pain while Zoey goes to assess the mood of the school.__NEWL__Through Aphrodite's visions, Zoey's dreams of Kalona and Kramisha's prophetic poems they find that Kalona and Neferet plan on getting back the old ways of the vampyres.__NEWL__Following the rumors on Twitter, Jack finds Kalona and Neferet in Venice, on the isle of San Clemente with the Vampyre Council.__NEWL__Another vision brings a new warning: if Zoey is with Kalona the world will end as they know it, and if she chooses love and__NEWL__Nyx he will "die" and the world will be safe.__NEWL__On the other hand, Zoey can't completely reject him, as she believes he can be saved.__NEWL__In an effort to gain her favor, Kalona shows her his past as Nyx's Warrior and promises to change his ways if she will have him.__NEWL__Zoey and her friends go to Venice to have their say in the Council, but Stevie Rae stays behind, arguing that it's her responsibility as a High Priestess to take care of the rogues.__NEWL__Upon arriving, they learn that Neferet claims to be Nyx Incarnate and Kalona claims to be Erebus.__NEWL__It is revealed that Zoey's destiny is to face Kalona alone, meaning that only she can save the world.__NEWL__The Council declares Aphrodite a Prophetess of the vampyres, but is otherwise distrusting of Zoey, mainly because of her age.__NEWL__After the Council session is over Heath and Zoey talk about the stresses of everything going on Zoey sends Heath to find Stark.__NEWL__He discovers Neferet and Kalona in a secret conversation; Kalona finds Heath.__NEWL__Heath uses the Imprint to call Zoey and she arrives to see Kalona kill him.__NEWL__In her anguish she throws Spirit at Kalona, but her soul shatters and goes to the Otherworld.__NEWL__While sweeping the Benedictine Abbey grounds, Stevie Rae finds an injured Raven Mocker named Rephaim (the favored son of Kalona) and helps him to safety against her better judgement.__NEWL__She binds his wounds and sends him through the tunnels.__NEWL__Back at the House of Night, she's horrified to learn that he was actually the one to kill Dragon's mate, Anastasia Lankford.__NEWL__In the tunnels Rephaim is found by the rogue red fledglings, and their leader, Nicole, uses her gift to peer into his mind and learns that Stevie Rae saved him.__NEWL__They use him as bait and catch Stevie Rae, leaving her alongside him in a cage on the roof to be burned down by the sun.__NEWL__Rephaim helps her and the two get in the ground at the last minute.__NEWL__To repay her for nursing him back to health, he offers her his immortal blood to heal her burns.__NEWL__Unexpectedly, the two Imprint and Stevie Rae loses hers with Aphrodite.__NEWL__Alerted by Aphrodite's going into painful convulsions, Zoey calls at the House of Night and Erik and Lenobia rush to find and save Stevie Rae.__NEWL__With the last of her powers, Stevie Rae hides Rephaim from their eyes as they get her out.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6902552	Monsieur Lecoq	1868-05-27T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	22212708	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22212708	L'enquête Policemen on patrol in a dangerous area of Paris hear a cry coming from the Poivrière bar and go to investigate.__NEWL__There is evidence of a struggle.__NEWL__Two dead men are lying next to the fireplace, another is lying in the middle of the room.__NEWL__A wounded man, who is certainly the murderer, stands in a doorway.__NEWL__Gévrol, the inspector, tells him to give himself up, and he protests his innocence, claiming self-defence.__NEWL__He tries to escape, and when he is caught he cries, "Lost…It is the Prussians who are coming.__NEWL__" The wounded third man blames Jean Lacheneur for leading him to this place, and vows revenge.__NEWL__He dies shortly afterwards.__NEWL__Gévrol, judging from the man's attire, concludes that he was a soldier, and the name and number of his regiment are written on the buttons of his great coat.__NEWL__His young colleague, Monsieur Lecoq, remarks that the man cannot be a soldier because his hair is too long.__NEWL__Gévrol disagrees.__NEWL__The inspector thinks that the case is straightforward – a pub brawl that ended in murder, whereas Lecoq thinks that there is more to the affair than meets the eye, and asks the inspector if he can stay behind to investigate further, and chooses an older officer, Père Absinthe, to stay with him.__NEWL__Lecoq expounds his interpretation of the case to him, stating that the vagabond they had arrested is in fact an upper-class man.__NEWL__He comments that the criminal's remark about the Prussians was an allusion to the battle of Waterloo, and reasons that he was waiting for accomplices.__NEWL__He finds footprints in the snow outside the back exit to the bar, revealing the presence of two women, who were helped to escape by an accomplice.__NEWL__An examination of the body of the supposed soldier leads to the discovery of a note, which reveals that his name was Gustave.__NEWL__Nothing is found on the bodies of the other two men which gives a clue to their identities.__NEWL__The judge, Maurice d’Escoval, arrives and commends Lecoq for the meticulousness of his investigation.__NEWL__After a brief interview with the suspect, the judge leaves suddenly, apparently moved, leaving Lecoq to his own devices.__NEWL__The suspect later tries to commit suicide in his cell.__NEWL__Lecoq continues his investigations the next day, following leads on the two women, but when he goes to report to M. d’Escorval he discovers that he has broken his leg and will be replaced by M. Segmuller.__NEWL__Under interrogation, the suspect maintains that he is an acrobat named Mai, and that he only arrived in Paris on Sunday.__NEWL__He states that he went for a drink in the Poivrière, was mistaken for a police informant, attacked, and defended himself with the revolver he was carrying.__NEWL__After making further enquiries, including observing the prisoner from above his cell, fail to produce any information, Lecoq decides to take drastic measures.__NEWL__He convinces M. Segmuller to allow him to set a trap by letting the prisoner escape, so that he can follow him.__NEWL__Mai wanders in the streets, followed by Lecoq and Absinthe in disguise, and eventually comes out of a seedy bar with a suspicious-looking man.__NEWL__In the evening, they stop outside a town house, which belongs to the Duke of Sairmeuse and Mai scales the wall, eluding his followers.__NEWL__They arrest his accomplice and search the house and its grounds, but the suspect has vanished.__NEWL__Lecoq goes to amateur detective, Père Tabaret for advice.__NEWL__Tabaret states that M. d’Escorval's fall and Mai's attempted suicide were not a coincidence, and that the two are enemies.__NEWL__By his reasoning it appears impossible for Mai to be the Duke of Sairmeuse, therefore Mai and the Duke of Sairmeuse are one and the same.__NEWL__Through consultation of biographies of the Duke of Sairmeuse and M. d’Escoval's fathers, he reveals the hatred that exists between the royalist Sairmeuses and the Republican Escorvals.__NEWL__He says that the prisoner tried to kill himself because he thought his identity would be exposed and that this would bring shame on his family name.__NEWL__L’Honneur du nom 1815.__NEWL__The Duke of Sairmeuse returns from exile to claim possession of his lands, the majority of which are now in the possession of Lachneur, a bourgeois widower who live with his beautiful daughter, Marie-Anne.__NEWL__He claims that he had been charged with their guardianship until the return of the Sairmeuses, but the Duke treats him like a servant and accuses him of profiting from them.__NEWL__In their misfortune, one of their friends, the Baron of Escorval, under police surveillance as a former supporter of the Empire, asks Lacheneur for Marie-Anne's hand in marriage for his son, Maurice, who is in love with and loved by her.__NEWL__He refuses because he is planning an uprising against the Sairmeuses, and does not want Maurice to get caught up in it.__NEWL__Maurice becomes involved in the plans to be closer to Marie-Anne, joining Lacheneur's son, Jean, and Chalouineau, who is secretly in love with Marie-Anne.__NEWL__Stopping at nothing that could help him succeed, Lacheneur is even welcoming to Martial, the marquis de Sairmeuse, who is enamoured with Marie-Anne and hopes to make her his mistress.__NEWL__His fiancé, Blanche, the daughter of the marquis of Courtomieu, is furious and vows revenge on the woman she wrongly considers as her rival.__NEWL__The uprising fails and the Baron d’Escorval is arrested as the head of the plot, despite having tried to dissuade the rebels from their course of action.__NEWL__He is condemned to death, along with Chalouineau, in a trial presided over by the Duke of Sairmeuse.__NEWL__The baron is saved by Chalouineau, who trades a compromising letter written by the Marquis de Sairmeuse for the chance for the baron to escape.__NEWL__The Duke and Courtomieu accept, but cut the cord that was to help the baron escape as soon as they get hold of the letter.__NEWL__The baron is badly wounded but carried away and cared for by the village curate, father Midon.__NEWL__Chalouineau is executed and leaves all his property to Marie-Anne.__NEWL__Maurice and Marie-Anne reach Piémont, where a priest marries them in secret.__NEWL__They go to Turin, but Marie-Anne decides to return to France when she learns of her father's arrest and execution.__NEWL__Maurice, unaware that Martial was not involved in the treachery against his father, writes a letter to him denouncing him.__NEWL__Martial, outraged by Courtomieu's bad faith, reads the letter at the wedding evening, causing a scandal.__NEWL__He vows to live apart from his wife.__NEWL__Marie-Anne takes possession of Chalouineau's house, and conceals the birth of her son, that a Piedmontese peasant takes away to his land in secret.__NEWL__Blanche, still desiring vengeance against Marie-Anne, gets Chupin to spy on her and slips into her house when she is away and puts poison in a bowl of soup that Marie-Anne drinks on her return.__NEWL__She dies in agony, but sees Blanche who did not have a chance to escape.__NEWL__She pardons her on the condition that she takes care of the son she had with Maurice.__NEWL__Chupin is a witness, but later dies from a stab wound from one of his enemies, but not before revealing Blanche's crime to his oldest son.__NEWL__Martial vows to avenge Marie-Anne, but no-one suspects that Blanche is the murderer.__NEWL__They move to Paris and live separately under the same roof.__NEWL__They soon learn that the Duke is killed when he went out riding on his horse, probably by Jean Lacheneur, who is in hiding.__NEWL__Chupin's eldest son turns up in Paris and blackmails Blanche.__NEWL__She fails to find Marie-Anne's son.__NEWL__Years pass, Maurice's parents die, and he becomes a judge in Paris.__NEWL__Chupin's eldest son dies, Blanche believes that she is free from the blackmail, but Jean Lacheneur arrives in Paris, aware of who killed his daughter, and decides to exact vengeance on her by using her husband.__NEWL__He makes Chupin's widow begin the blackmail again, and sends an anonymous letter to the duke to draw attention to her movements.__NEWL__Martial is stunned when he sees the seedy bar that his wife has been going to, but glimpses the truth when he finds out that it is owned by Chupin's widow.__NEWL__He finds a compromising letter that Blanche kept and realises that she murdered Marie-Anne.__NEWL__Martial follows Blanche one night when she goes to the Poivrière to meet Chupin's widow with her chamber maid.__NEWL__Jean Lacheneur has set a trap, in which he intends to lead Martial and Blanche to a notorious place and provoke a scene in which they will find themselves compromised.__NEWL__However, the three criminals he enlists in this scheme let greed take over and try to steal Blanche's diamond earrings.__NEWL__Martial intervenes and has to combat three foes.__NEWL__He promises Chupin's widow a reward if she keeps quiet.__NEWL__The women manage to escape.__NEWL__This takes the reader to the beginning of the affair.__NEWL__Having found out that Blanche has committed suicide and that M. d’Escorval has been reunited with his son, Lecoq decides to confront the Duke of Sairmeuse, having put together all the pieces of the mystery.__NEWL__One day a red-haired man goes to the Duke's house and gives him an urgent letter from M. d’Escorval, asking him, as a gesture of his gratitude for not revealing his identity, to lend him a large sum of money that he needs.__NEWL__Martial replies with a letter that tells him that his fortune and his life belong to his old enemy, whose generosity have saved him from dishonour.__NEWL__He hands this back to the messenger, who drops his beard and wig: it is Lecoq, who had forged M. d’Escorval's handwriting.__NEWL__The case against the Duke is dismissed, his innocence having been proven, and Lecoq is appointed in the post that he sought.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6985655	Necromancer	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22214018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22214018	Necromancer follows the fortunes of Paul Formain, a mining engineer in the late 21st Century who endures several accidents.__NEWL__His quest for self-discovery, and recovery from losing his arm, leads him to embrace the Chantry Guild.__NEWL__The Guild embraces a philosophy of destruction with the hope of making space for the rise of a new evolutionary form of humanity.__NEWL__The instruments in their goals are the Alternate Laws or Alternate Forces.__NEWL__Formain is led to the Chantry Guild after encountering Destruct, a book written by Walter Blunt, the Guild's leader.__NEWL__Formain enlists under the mastery of Necromancer Jason Warren and the ethereal influence of musical vocalist Kantele Maki.__NEWL__His initial goal in joining the guild is the regeneration of his lost arm.__NEWL__The story is punctuated by Formain's epiphany moments.__NEWL__First, he realizes the inadequacy of psychology in his self-exploration.__NEWL__He slowly realizes his own savant power over the Alternative Forces.__NEWL__He is taken aback by his growing hyper-awareness of the world around him, specifically the inter-related isolation of all individuals.__NEWL__This isolation is dramatically symbolized by Formain's own singularity.__NEWL__He has a final epiphany near the end of the book that clarifies for him his own identity and potential ... and much more.__NEWL__The book is divided into three sub-books: Isolate, Set, and Pattern.__NEWL__In each book, Formain realizes the function of each mathematical collective in the flow of objective history and subjective reality.__NEWL__As with many science fiction novels, the philosophical underpinnings of evolution require a decidedly unscientific leap in the reader's understanding of what constitutes science to rally the punctuation that brings about the next stage of human evolution.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3280089	City of Glass	2009-03-24T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22216108	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22216108	Clary is at Luke's house with Simon packing for her trip to Idris, in which both of them have conversations based on Clary's goal to save her mother, and the struggle she will face when she reaches Idris.__NEWL__Jace persuades Simon to lie and say that Clary decided not to go to Idris, in order to protect her from the Clave, who he feels will try to turn her into a weapon.__NEWL__When Clary visits the Institute, Magnus tells her that the Lightwoods had to travel through the portal, due to an attack by Forsaken.__NEWL__During the battle, Simon is injured and Jace takes him to Idris to save his life.__NEWL__With her power to create runes, Clary is able to create a portal and she travels with Luke through the portal.__NEWL__As Simon wakes up to realize that he was pulled through the portal and now is in Alicante, he realizes the truth behind Jace's motivation to not make Clary come to Idris.__NEWL__Later at the Lightwood house, he meets Sebastian Verlac and Aline Penhallow.__NEWL__Over time, Alec comes back from the Clave meeting to tell Simon that he will be sent back to New York by Aldertree, the new Inquisitor.__NEWL__When Simon arrives to leave for home, it is revealed as a trap to bring people back to the Clave's trust and he is imprisoned and is questioned on his new ability to walk in daylight as a vampire.__NEWL__After the questioning, he befriends a fellow mate named Samuel Blackburn.__NEWL__After Clary opens the portal and goes through it, she falls into Lake Lyn and Luke is able to save her, but as she comes out, she starts to hallucinate as the lake is revealed to be harmful to the Nephilim.__NEWL__Luke decides to take her to his sister, Amatis, where after treatment she wakes up in a bedroom to meet Amatis and is warned that she is not allowed to see Jace.__NEWL__Even with such risk, she sneaks out to find Jace and finds him in the Lightwood house library, kissing Aline.__NEWL__After seeing this Clary runs away.__NEWL__After a while, Sebastian joins Clary and drops her back to Amatis's home, who is disappointed at her actions.__NEWL__Later, Alec finds out that Simon never made it back home and is imprisoned in Alicante, and at night Jace goes to visit Simon and save him, but Simon refuses to escape, because it would shine suspicions on the Lightwoods.__NEWL__The next morning in Simon's cell he finds that Isabelle has left blood for him.__NEWL__Raphael visits Simon and informs him that he is now being hunted by every Downworlder, because of his Daylighter powers.__NEWL__In the morning, Clary is woken up by Sebastian to find Ragnor Fell, but instead they find Magnus who tells them that Fell is dead.__NEWL__Magnus froze Sebastian to inform him where to find a cure to save Clary's mother with the Book of White.__NEWL__With this, Clary travels her way back and in between the journey Sebastian kisses Clary despite Clary finding it wrong.__NEWL__When Clary returns she informs Jace that they need the Book of White and they set off on a journey to find it.__NEWL__Clary draws a portal to Wayland Manor, where a trapped angel reveals that Clary received angel blood in the womb, and Jace received demon blood.__NEWL__They give a seraph blade to the angel, who then stabs himself.__NEWL__Both of them barely make it out alive outside of the manor right before it collapses, as it was tied to the life force of the angel.__NEWL__Jace and Clary confess their love for each other and have a heated kiss but Clary pulls back as she's not sure that Jace's feelings for her aren't just a result of demon blood in him and angel blood in her.__NEWL__On their way back, they find out that Alicante is being attacked by demons and in the battle the youngest of the Lightwood family, Max, is killed by Sebastian.__NEWL__After the battle, Clary and Jace rescue Simon from the fire in prison and realized that his fellow prison mate was Hodge.__NEWL__Sebastian appears and kills Hodge, after he reveals that Lake Lyn is the third mortal instrument.__NEWL__After a few days, they have a funeral for the people who were killed in the attack.__NEWL__Later that day, Simon meets up with Isabelle to comfort her as Jace walks Clary back to Amatis's place.__NEWL__Later that night, Jace comes to Clary's place and sleeps in her bed with her and in the morning leaves a note.__NEWL__When Clary gets downstairs to save Jace from his mistake, she meets her mother, which she reacts to with anger.__NEWL__Later, her mother tells her the truth: Jace was raised by Valentine, but is not his biological son, but rather Sebastian is, and by extension Clary's brother.__NEWL__Clary runs to the Accord Hall to work out a plan to make both Shadowhunters and Downworlders fight together, and during the decision process, Jocelyn, Clary's mom, releases the truth, and in the end, the Clave decides that both can work together to fight the battle.__NEWL__This allows Clary to use her rune abilities to create an alliance rune that allows Downworlders and Shadowhunters to share their powers, that was first shown to her by the angel at Wayland Manor.__NEWL__All Downworlders agree to this but the vampires led by Raphael.__NEWL__He has a condition saying that the vampires will only fight if Clary hands over Simon to kill him.__NEWL__Clary comes up with a plan and draws a rune on Simon's forehead called the Mark of Cain.__NEWL__This protects Simon as anyone who tries to attack him will die and subsequently Raphael cannot kill him.__NEWL__Meanwhile Jace fights Sebastian and is about to die when Isabelle rescues him.__NEWL__Together, they kill Sebastian.__NEWL__Jace tracks down Valentine at Lake Lyn, where he is about to raise the Angel Raziel.__NEWL__He also finds Clary there, who Portaled there but was bound by Valentine.__NEWL__Valentine kills Jace, using his blood for the summoning.__NEWL__However, right before Valentine finishes the ritual, Clary erases the runes in the sand that symbolize his name and instead writes hers over them.__NEWL__The angel rises, but as Valentine is no longer the one who summons him, the Angel kills Valentine and grants Clary's wish to bring Jace back.__NEWL__The story ends with the confession of love between Jocelyn and Luke.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7796272	Thorn Castle	2008-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	22136401	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22136401	Tamly is the only person in Meadowhythe who cannot do magic.__NEWL__He wishes he knew why, and longs to learn magic.__NEWL__But it is precisely his lack of magic which makes him ideal for the dangerous challenge of rescuing the Book of Spells from the evil sorcerer Lord Harshax.__NEWL__Together with his magically gifted friend Kym, he sets out to steal the book and save his village.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7460417	Shadow's Edge	2008-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22097258	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22097258	The story takes place in the fictional land of Midcyru.__NEWL__It centers upon Kylar, the Night Angel, once an apprentice of Durzo Blint, a former celebrated wetboy and his journey for retribution against those who torn his kingdom asunder in a coup months prior to the events of the novel.__NEWL__Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin's life.__NEWL__In the wake of the Godking's violent coup, both his master and his closest friend are dead.__NEWL__His friend was Logan Gyre, heir to Cenaria's throne, but few of the ruling class survive to mourn his loss.__NEWL__So Kylar is starting over: new city, new companions, and new profession.__NEWL__But when he learns that Logan might be alive, trapped and in hiding, Kylar faces an impossible choice: he could give up the way of shadows forever, and find peace with his young family.__NEWL__Or he could succumb to his flair for destruction, the years of training, to save his friend and his country - and lose all he holds precious.__NEWL__Godking Garoth Ursuul has assumed power in Cenaria and is manipulating the futures and destinies of all who live there.__NEWL__Many nobles, led by self-proclaimed Queen Terah Graesin, have left the city in ruins to the Khalidorans.__NEWL__Attempting to leave behind the life of shadows that ruined his master, Kylar flees to Caernarvon and an idyllic life with Elene.__NEWL__But darkness finds Kylar along the road to the light as friends return for one last job and Kylar learns more about who Durzo and ultimately Kylar are.__NEWL__Kylar has become a titanic force with a foot in the light and in the dark, but must choose which path to follow.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6545080	Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is	1852-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22206052	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22206052	Smith's novel begins on a plantation in Virginia, owned by the benevolent and kindly Mr. Erskine.__NEWL__Among his slaves is Uncle Tom (Smith's version of Stowe's character), who is convinced to run away by an abolitionist schoolteacher from the North.__NEWL__The teacher is portrayed as envious of the prosperity of Erskine and seeks to ruin him by convincing his slaves to desert the plantation.__NEWL__As Tom's journey continues, the man realizes that the abolitionists who are "helping" him wish to enslave him for their own ends.__NEWL__After being abused and mistreated in Buffalo, Illinois after attempting to return home, Tom finally ends up in Canada.__NEWL__Erskine is waiting there to "rescue" Tom from his freedom and to take him back to "good old Virginia".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7754362	The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts	1852-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22207737	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22207737	The story centres on the wealthy and prosperous Harley family, consisting of: Frank (the father), Gazella (the mother), and their nine children.__NEWL__After a series of bad investments results in bankruptcy, the Harleys are forced into destitution, which in turn leads to Frank's untimely death from excessive drinking.__NEWL__Gazella continues life as a seamstress in order to provide for her children, two of which have since left home to live on a plantation in Mississippi and are now regaining their wealth.__NEWL__As a working-class woman, Gazella suffers all forms of abuse from those who had once been her equals.__NEWL__The North wanted the slaves to be free and equal.__NEWL__The South wanted slavery for the need in money for crops.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3232740	The Forests of the Night	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	22071698	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22071698	Francis is the son of the Comte de Balansun, whose family resides in the French town of Saint-Clar, near the Pyrenees.__NEWL__Francis, in the beginning of the novel, skips school and helps a refugee called "The Mohican" escape to the Free Zone in Spain during the German Occupation of France.__NEWL__Before he departs, the "Mohican" promises Francis to inform Jean, the fiancee engaged to Francis' sister, Helene, and who had escaped through Spain to England.__NEWL__Afterwards, Francis informs his father that he has joined the French Resistance, and the Comte de Balansun, who is initially supportive of Marechal Petain, is then moved by his son's actions and declares his support for the Resistance.__NEWL__Francis tells his acquaintance, Philip Arreguy, to inform his sister Helene the next time he visits Paris, and let her know that he has tried to get a message across to her fiancee Jean.__NEWL__In the process Francis also reveals to Philip that he is part of the Resistance.__NEWL__Helene is living in Paris, having graduated from studies in physics and chemistry.__NEWL__An admirer named Gerard who frequently spends evenings with her longs for her to be his lover, but out of respect for her engagement, as well as her intelligence, virtue, and position, he decides to remain as a friend.__NEWL__Helene grows tired of waiting for Jean and eventually succumbs to the sensual attentions of Philip, who becomes her lover.__NEWL__Afterwards, Helene sends a message directed to Jean, not knowing if he will ever receive it, informing him that she has decided to break their relationship.__NEWL__One evening, a British soldier survives a crash landing near Saint-Clar and, speaking French, passes himself off as a French villager when he is discovered by Jacques, a resident of Saint-Clar.__NEWL__Jacques brings the British soldier to dine with a German officer, claiming that the soldier was his friend from the army.__NEWL__The next day, Jacques reveals to the soldier that he was aware he was the soldier who had crashed that evening.__NEWL__The soldier then leaves for England.__NEWL__Gerard and Francis both find Helene changed, and feel somewhat disgusted by her presence even though she has not told them she has taken Philip as a lover.__NEWL__Philip becomes involved with a gang who supports the German occupation and eventually rats on Francis, who is later captured in Bordeaux and subsequently tortured then killed while trying to escape with Philip.__NEWL__Helene eventually learns that her brother Francis was murdered and that her ex-fiancee, Jean, committed suicide by driving his plane downwards to a crash after receiving her letter informing him of their breakup.__NEWL__She feels alienated from her former virtuous self and has difficulty reconciling what she has caused with her ethics.__NEWL__Feeling distanced from most people, she eventually becomes the lover of Jacques, who attempts to profit from the war.__NEWL__The Americans and Russians eventually advance into France, eventually liberating Paris, during which crowds of people join in to help fight the retreating German occupants.__NEWL__The Comte de Balansun, while initially holding out hope that his son Francis might still be alive, eventually comes to believe that his son did indeed die.__NEWL__The novel also describes that during the occupation there were those who profited from the war, those who collaborated, those who switched sides depending on who was winning, and the different shades of morality that were created by the imposition of the darkness of the "night" during the German occupation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7860971	Typewriter in the Sky	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	21958341	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21958341	The story begins in Greenwich Village, New York.__NEWL__The main character, Mike de Wolf, is a struggling pianist.__NEWL__His friend, Horace Hackett, is an author and popular pulp fiction writer.__NEWL__Hackett is portrayed in the book as a skilled writer able to quickly produce voluminous amounts of material for pulp magazines.__NEWL__Hackett writes under stress, as he is facing a deadline.__NEWL__Hackett attempts to persuade his book publisher that he has almost finished writing his latest novel, while in actuality he has already depleted his advance payment prior to coming up with an idea for a story.__NEWL__Hackett's publisher pressures him and he rapidly decides to place his friend Mike as the central character in his story.__NEWL__Hackett writes about Mike as the villain in his book, a swashbuckling adventure story.__NEWL__Mike enters the bathroom of Hackett's basement-level apartment, and hears the sound of someone typing on a typewriter.__NEWL__After electrocuting himself, Mike loses consciousness.__NEWL__He subsequently awakens to find himself on a beach in the year 1640, as a character within his friend's novel.__NEWL__He inspects himself to find he has a saber attached to his person, and is wearing strange attire.__NEWL__Mike learns he is regarded in this world as the villain, Spanish Admiral Miguel de Lobo, a "pirate potboiler".__NEWL__He knows that the villains in stories written by Hackett often do not come to a favorable end, and is therefore anxious to exit the situation safely.__NEWL__Mike recognizes the specific work into which he has been transported: a tale by his friend called "Blood and Loot".__NEWL__Assuming the role of the villain, Mike realizes he must face off against a formidable opponent in the story, its protagonist named Tom Bristol.__NEWL__The story takes place on the high seas in the Caribbean during the 17th century during a conflict among colonists.__NEWL__When a major event occurs, Mike hears the sound of a typewriter in the sky.__NEWL__Mike's reality literally changes each time the author makes a change to the story.__NEWL__Mike realizes that during times when he hears the audible sounds of the typewriter, his actions and words are not of his own volition, and when such sounds are absent he is able to make decisions for himself.__NEWL__Mike falls in love with a woman in the story, and grows frustrated after realizing that she is just another of Hackett's fictional creations.__NEWL__At the end of the work, Mike returns to New York, and is left with lingering doubts whether he is still a character in someone else's story.__NEWL__He muses whether a "typewriter in the sky" is creating the world.__NEWL__Mike looks up into the sky in search of this mystical device or its controller: "Abruptly Mike de Wolfe stopped.__NEWL__His jaw slackened a trifle and his hand went up to his mouth to cover it.__NEWL__His eyes were fixed upon the fleecy clouds which scurried across the moon.__NEWL__Up there – God?__NEWL__In a dirty bathrobe?"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7363212	Romiette and Julio	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43196	Cincinnati	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22139851	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22139851	This story begins with African American teenager Romiette Cappelle awaking from a recurring nightmare in which she is drowning in fire and water.__NEWL__Just before waking she hears an unknown male voice speaking to her.__NEWL__Although frightened by the nightmare, she wonders whether the voice could be the voice of her soulmate.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Julio Montague, a Hispanic teenager has just moved to town (Cincinnati, Ohio) from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the following day is his first day attending the same school as Romiette.__NEWL__On his first day he is involved in an altercation with Ben, a local boy, and the two end up becoming friends after Ben declines to implicate Julio when questioned by the school's principal.__NEWL__When Julio gets home that afternoon, he logs into a chatroom with the screen name "spanishlover" and starts to chat anonymously with "afroqueen," who he later finds is Romiette.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Romiette excitedly tells Destiny, her best friend, about her online chat with "spanishlover.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Romiette and Julio continue to chat online, have a lunch date, and eventually fall in love with each other.__NEWL__ Their relationship provokes the ire of a local gang—the "Devil Dogs"—who disapprove of an African American girl dating a Hispanic boy.__NEWL__Makala, a member of the gang, threatens Romiette on several occasions.__NEWL__Julio tells his parents about the relationship, and although his mother, Maria, approves, his father, Luis, dislikes his son dating an African American girl because his first girlfriend was killed by gang members who were African American.__NEWL__Romiette and Julio struggle with the pressure of their environment's disapprobation, reaching a crisis when the gang threaten them at gunpoint.__NEWL__The two of them meet with Ben and Destiny and concoct a plan to deal with the gang: Romiette and Julio will show their affection in public in order to draw the gang member's attention, while Ben and Destiny will be nearby and armed with a gun, ready to step in and confront them.__NEWL__The plan fails at a critical juncture when the car breaks down, and Romiette and Julio are abducted by the Devil Dogs.__NEWL__Ben and Destiny go to the Cappelle's home and explain what has happened to Romiette's parents, Lady and Cornell.__NEWL__Lady asks Malaka where the teens are, but Malaka denies knowing where they are.__NEWL__She eventually reveals their location when questioned by the police.__NEWL__Romiette and Julio turn out to be stranded at the bottom of a boat in London Woods Lake.__NEWL__When lightning strikes, they are separated.__NEWL__Having fallen into the lake, unable to swim, Romiette blacks out and experiences once again her recurring dream.__NEWL__When Julio finds her floating face down, he pulls her to land and finds she is not breathing.__NEWL__As Julio tries to wake her, Romiette recognizes the unknown male voice in her dream as Julio's voice.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6842639	Midnight	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22203984	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22203984	The book is about a thirteen-year-old girl called Violet and her big brother, Will.__NEWL__Violet is a dreamy girl who is described as having long, thick hair and being small and skinny for her age.__NEWL__She is always away in her own world, filled with fairies designed by her favorite author, Casper Dream.__NEWL__Last Christmas, they found out that Will was adopted when Will was rude to their grandmother, and she said something about bad blood.__NEWL__Violet is extremely depressed to see how weak her mother is, and how she does everything her father tells her to do and does not care that her husband has no respect for her whatsoever; because it reminds her of herself, and how she always does what Will tells her to do.__NEWL__After Will forces her to play a game of 'Blind Man's Buff', a game she hates, she gets attacked by bats and Violet resolves to never let Will order her about again.__NEWL__Moving on in the story, a new girl, Jasmine Day, comes to Violet's school and she chooses her as a friend.__NEWL__Violet is thrilled and spends a lot of time with Jasmine.__NEWL__Even though she adores Will, Violet refuses to spend a day with him, to go to Brompton Woods, and instead chooses to go to Jasmine's house.__NEWL__ Later on, Violet's father says that they are to go to their Gran's house to wish her a happy birthday, but Will refuses because how she had charmlessly told him that he was adopted.__NEWL__Violet's dad gets mad and when Violet says no as well, he is ready to hit them.__NEWL__But doesn't.__NEWL__Violet's mother - as usual - gives in and makes a fuss when she finds out that they both are not going.__NEWL__In the end, they leave without them.__NEWL__Will and Violet start playing 'Truth or Dare and Will asks Violet if she could have a love affair with anyone, who would it be?__NEWL__Violet hesitates and eventually answers Casper Dream.__NEWL__Violet repeats the question to Will but before he can answer, Jasmine calls and asks for help with her homework.__NEWL__Much to Violet's surprise, as he hates for her to have friends over, Will invites Jasmine himself.__NEWL__They work for a while and then start up 'Truth or Dare' again, where Will asks Violet who she likes better, him or Jasmine.__NEWL__When Violet fails to respond, Will dares her to spend ten minutes in the attic.__NEWL__Violet reluctantly agrees.__NEWL__In the attic, Violet finds out that she used to have another brother named Will, but he died shortly after he was born, so her parents tried to replace him with her Will.__NEWL__Violet is ecstatic and can't wait to tell her brother.__NEWL__When Violet comes down after her ten minutes, she finds Will and Jasmine kissing.__NEWL__They make fun of her and the fairies she has hanging from the ceiling in her room.__NEWL__Violet feels betrayed because she thinks Will is trying to hurt her__NEWL__and Jasmine was only friends with her__NEWL__so she could be with Will.__NEWL__After smashing up her fairies (scratching Will with her Crow Fairy in the process), Violet runs away to see Casper Dream's old house, to find some magic in her sad world.__NEWL__There she finds Casper Dream himself and they become good friends.__NEWL__She returns home and learns that Jasmine was a true friend to her after all.__NEWL__She forgives both Jasmine and Will.__NEWL__In the end, she confronts her parents' about the first Will.__NEWL__They have a little talk and soon things begin to be better after all for Violet.__NEWL__Violet starts creating a little figure; a changeling baby, signifying Will.__NEWL__Will gives Violet a note to tell her to look out her window at midnight and she sees her fairies hanging from the garden tree, repaired by Will.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5281116	Dirty Weekend	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131491	Brighton	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22204257	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22204257	Overturning the traditional notion of a pleasurable sex-filled dirty weekend, Zahavi's novel instead examines a weekend killing spree committed by Bella, a twenty-something former sex-worker.__NEWL__She is targeted by men who sexually abuse women, but kills them instead of letting them victimize her.__NEWL__Over the course of the weekend she murders seven men through a variety of gruesome methods.__NEWL__In the end she escapes to a new life in the large, faceless city of London.__NEWL__In the novel the old picaresque tradition is revived: there is one central character, Bella, the picara, who is the only link to all the other characters.__NEWL__She meets and confronts one man after the other, kills him, and moves on to the next.__NEWL__Bella, a solitary young woman with a dubious past, has just arrived in Brighton.__NEWL__Having recently been dumped by her "boyfriend", all she wants is some peace and quiet in her newly rented small flat near Brunswick Square.__NEWL__Tim, a young man living in one of the houses across her backyard, takes a fancy to the new arrival and soon starts watching and eventually molesting her.__NEWL__He accosts her in the park and torments her with obscene phone calls.__NEWL__The police are not really helpful, but Bella is scared.__NEWL__On a stroll through the Lanes, she sees a sign advertising sessions with a clairvoyant and, on the spur of the moment, she visits him.__NEWL__Her meeting with Nimrod serves as both an eye-opener and a catalyst.__NEWL__When Bella leaves Nimrod that Friday afternoon, her self-confidence has been restored, her mind is set, and she is ready for action: She has "had enough".__NEWL__A few hours later Tim makes his last obscene phone call to Bella.__NEWL__At night she enters his flat through a window and batters the sleeping man's head with a hammer.__NEWL__On Saturday morning she goes to a gunshop, but all they are prepared to sell her is an airgun.__NEWL__When she leaves the shop she is followed by "Mr Brown", who does sell her an illegal weapon.__NEWL__On Saturday night, dressed to kill, she enters the lobby of one of the large seafront hotels and only has to wait for a few minutes until she is chatted up.__NEWL__Her unsuspecting victim is Norman, a clinical psychologist with a weight problem.__NEWL__Norman, who is attending a congress in Brighton, can easily persuade her to join him upstairs in his hotel room.__NEWL__Once there, he cannot get an erection, and overcompensates by beating Bella over the head with a shoe until one of her teeth breaks.__NEWL__Afterwards, he demands that Bella let him be her "slave".__NEWL__Bella takes the opportunity and, while Norman is bound and gagged, kills him by putting a plastic bag over his head.__NEWL__On Sunday morning she finds a dentist who is willing to treat her tooth.__NEWL__After he has fixed her tooth, the dentist offers to give her a lift home.__NEWL__Instead, he drives into an empty multi-storey car park and forces Bella to perform oral sex on him.__NEWL__As a result, Bella kills him with his own Mercedes CE car.__NEWL__She steals the vehicle and soon afterwards comes to the rescue of an old tramp called "Liverpool Mary" who is biding her time in a cul-de-sac near Brighton station.__NEWL__She shoots three yuppie-style young men who, drunk and angry, are threatening to set fire to the bag lady.__NEWL__On the same night, at 4 a.m., while walking along the beach near the deserted West Pier, she realizes that she is being watched.__NEWL__The man watching her, a serial killer, thinks he has found his next victim, but when he attacks Bella she stabs him with a flick-knife in the leg.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5359362	Elephant Run	2007-09-25T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q836	Myanmar	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q836	Myanmar	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	22082383	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22082383	Nicholas Gillis Freestone is sent to Burma after his mother's apartment is destroyed in or the Battle of Britain.__NEWL__He meets Nang the foreman, his daughter Mya, and his son Indaw, a mahout.__NEWL__At the time of Nick's arrival, there is much talk about the recent Japanese bombing of Rangoon, predicting the British defenses in Burma will soon fall.__NEWL__The next day Nick is at the village and Hannibal, a koongyi (timber elephant) with a grudge against tiger Nats (spirits of the forest), attacks Nick and his ribs are cracked.__NEWL__Out of embarrassment, Nick keeps the incident to himself until his father hears of the accident from Hilltop (Taung Baw in Burmese), a monk who was one of the two original mahouts to come with Nick's great-grandfather, Sergeant-Major Jackson Theodore__NEWL__Freestone I, who founded Hawk's Nest.__NEWL__Hilltop is Mya & Indaw's great-grandfather, who some people rumor is over 100 years old.__NEWL__Hilltop is said to know the secret language of the elephants.__NEWL__Rumor says he lives in the forest and disappeared for sixty years before returning to the Freestone Plantation.__NEWL__On Christmas, Nick, his father, Indaw, and Mya are traveling to the nearby Freestone Island when the Japanese invade.__NEWL__Japanese soldiers soon overrun and capture the Freestones' camp, taking into custody all its inhabitants while Nick and the elephants go into a safe hiding place.__NEWL__Not long after, though, Nick is captured by an amiable soldier, Sergeant Sonji, whom Nick initially takes to be crazy.__NEWL__Sonji takes an interest in Nick, teaching him to create haiku and treating him relatively well for a Japanese sergeant of the time.__NEWL__Nick is returned to the elephant village by the sergeant, at which point the brutal extent to which the Japanese are taking in their conquest becomes clear.__NEWL__Under the newly erected Japanese flag lie the corpses of Nang, who has been beaten to death, and Captain Josephs, a British officer who has been decapitated.__NEWL__His father and Indaw have been taken as POWs (prisoners of war), and Nick is taken a hostage at Hawk's Nest.__NEWL__He remains there for ten months as a servant of sorts to Colonel Nagayoshi, the Japanese commander of Hawk's Nest.__NEWL__While there, Nick is routinely beaten by a crippled elderly Japanese sympathizer named Bukong but is otherwise left unscathed by the Japanese.__NEWL__Later, Nick gets a letter from his father saying he was transported from a camp for British and Australian prisoners in Singapore to one in Burma.__NEWL__One night Hilltop shows a secret passage that was in the house to Nick and Mya.__NEWL__Everyone later believes that they escaped when they were actually in the tunnel.__NEWL__From then on Hilltop shows the passages that link to Hawk's Nest.__NEWL__On their escape day, Nick and Mya disguise themselves as novice monks and escape Hawk's Nest with Hilltop and Hannibal.__NEWL__In a nearby village, they are trapped by Captain Moto who wants to find and catch the infamous thief Kya Lei (Tiger's Breath), a Burmese Robin Hood.__NEWL__The next day Hilltop writes a letter saying that he was at the prison camp and would be back.__NEWL__Kya Lei helps Nick and Mya to get to the first camp.__NEWL__Each day, they progress closer to Jackson and Indaw.__NEWL__When Hilltop returns he tells Nick and Mya that he talked to Indaw while he was at the prison camp and planned an escape.__NEWL__The day of his escape was on the festival day, a day where the Japanese soldiers buy goods for themselves.__NEWL__Because the guards were distracted by the festival, Indaw was able to escape.__NEWL__Later that day, Jackson faked his death and was able to escape, with the help of Sergeant Sonji.__NEWL__The group trek into the jungle but are caught by Captain Moto, Bukong, and Japanese sympathizers.__NEWL__However, Hannibal attacks them, due to the presence of tiger skins on Moto's jeep, and the group is liberated by Bernard and Kachin scouts, who parachuted in to destroy the airfield at Hawk's Nest.__NEWL__Hilltop elects to stay behind, and not go with the group because he feels responsible for Hannibal and loves Burma.__NEWL__The book fast forwards to 1945, where the Freestones have moved to the Australian Bush and opened a cattle ranch.__NEWL__Nick Freestone and Mya became a couple, his stepfather and mother are happy and, Jackson Freestone, Hilltop, and Hannibal are in good terms.__NEWL__And most especially, the Land of Burma belongs to the Burmese again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3012127	Khu Kam	22115208	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22115208	Set in 1939, the early days of World War II in Thailand, the novel opens with Angsumalin meeting one last time with her childhood friend, a young Thai man named Vanus.__NEWL__He is leaving for England for his studies and hopes that Angsumalin will wait for him and marry him when he returns.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Thailand is invaded by Japanese military forces.__NEWL__In Thonburi, opposite Bangkok on the Chaophraya River, the Imperial Japanese Navy establishes itself at a base.__NEWL__The forces there are led by Kobori, an idealistic young navy lieutenant.__NEWL__One day he sees Angsumalin swimming in the river and falls for her.__NEWL__She, being a proudly nationalistic Thai woman, despises him because he is a foreigner.__NEWL__Nonetheless, Kobori persists at seeing her and a courtship develops.__NEWL__Angsumalin found that Kobori is a real nice gentleman and start falling for him__NEWL__but she kept her feelings in secret because of the war.__NEWL__Then, for political reasons, Angsumalin's father – who is a leader in the Free Thai Movement, insists that she marry Kobori.__NEWL__Understanding that Angsumalin is not marrying him out of love, Kobori promises not to touch her, but he breaks that vow after the wedding.__NEWL__Despite this, Angsumalin develops tender feelings for Kobori, but is still torn by her feelings for her nation and feel guilty to Vanus, who returns to set in motion a conflict between the two men.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719594	The Boxer and the Spy	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z	22068438	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22068438	In a quiet New England town, the body of shy teenager Jason Green washes up on the shore, and the police soon claim that the death was a suicide induced by steroid addiction.__NEWL__However, Terry Novak, a fifteen-year-old aspiring boxer, is not so sure, especially considering that Jason was an artistic person who had no interest in sports, and thus was not the type to be taking such drugs.__NEWL__Assisted by his friend Abby, he begins an investigation of his own, and soon learns that asking too many questions can lead him into serious danger.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719605	The Boy Detective Fails	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z	22130830	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22130830	In the twilight of a childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, Boy detective, is brokenhearted to find his young sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide.__NEWL__Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at Shady Glens Facility for Mental Competence to discover a world full of unimaginable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes.__NEWL__Lost within this unwelcoming place, Billy finds the companionship of two lonely children, Effie and Gus Mumford—one a science fair genius, the other a charming, silent bully.__NEWL__With a nearly forgotten bravery, Billy confronts the monotony of his job in telephone sales, the awkward beauty of a desperate pickpocket named Penny Maple, and the seemingly impossible solution to the mystery of his sister's death.__NEWL__Along a path laden with hidden clues and codes that dare to be deciphered, the boy detective may learn the greatest secret of all: the necessity of the unknown.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7699615	Tender as Hellfire	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z	22131533	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22131533	Dough and Pill are brothers bound by more than blood.__NEWL__The anguish of their past, the terror of their present, and the uncertainty of their future all underscore the only truth that is within their grasp: each other.__NEWL__For beneath the cruel surface of their trailer park community lies a menagerie of odd characters, each one strange yet somehow beautiful, including Val, the blowsy bottle-blonde who shows surprising maternal instincts when the boys need it most, and El Rey del Perdito, the "Undisputed King of the Tango," a widower who dances nightly, imagining his wife in his arms, as Dough peers through the window contemplating a love that seems not to die.__NEWL__Surrounded by the strange and displaced, Dough and Pill must navigate through a world of constant pain and confusion.__NEWL__Finding beauty in unexpected places and maintaining reverence for hard-won scars, these two brothers learn, finally, that even broken things can be perfect.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7772534	The Victim of Prejudice	1799-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22027244	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22027244	The main character, Mary, is brought up by her guardian Mr. Raymond in a loving environment, separate from the prejudiced and patriarchal society of Britain.__NEWL__This unsullied childhood begins to shift, when at the age of 11, two brothers, William and Edmund Pelham, come to live with and be educated by Mr. Raymond.__NEWL__Mary soon develops a close friendship with William, and on two separate occasions their games make Mary run into Sir Peter Osborne, who lies in the neighboring house.__NEWL__On the first occasion, William convinces Mary to steal grapes from the neighbor's garden, but is caught by several young men, one of which being Sir Peter Osborne.__NEWL__Sir Peter Osborne threatens to kiss Mary but she is able to escape before he is able to.__NEWL__On the second occasion, Mary attempts to save a hare from a hunting party during her games with William, and Sir Peter Osborne whips her several times with his horse whip before forcefully kissing her.__NEWL__ As William and Mary grow older, Mr. Raymond sees that he must separate them in order to maintain his promise to the boys' father; that he should keep them from any acquaintance that might negatively affect their future as men of fashion and wealth.__NEWL__He sends Mary to live with a friend, Mr. Neville, and his family.__NEWL__During this time, Mary is saved from being swept away to sea by a boat of seamen, one of which is Sir Peter Osborne.__NEWL__After returning her to the Nevilles, Sir Peter Osborne makes several offers to pay a visit to Mary and shows up at the house on several occasions, all of which are denied by the Nevilles.__NEWL__ The rest of the novel details the trials that Mary encounters upon the death of her benevolent guardian Mr. Raymond, and her subsequent reliance on the charity of those around her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6660754	Lizzie Zipmouth	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	22029588	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22029588	Lizzie Zipmouth is about a young girl named Lizzie who moves into a new home with her mother after her once-single mother finds a new boyfriend, Sam.__NEWL__Disgruntled and unhappy about the way these proceedings are going, she doesn't try to make friends with Sam's two sons, Rory and Jake, and keeps to herself by not saying a word.__NEWL__Soon, Jake nicknames her 'Lizzie Zipmouth' because of her obvious silence to everyone.__NEWL__It is only when she meets her scary step-great-grandmother that she begins to find a connection with her new family, bonding with Great-Gran over their love of dolls.__NEWL__However, Great-Gran has a bad stroke, and the family is unsure of the outcome.__NEWL__Lizzie, using Great-Gran's phrases and back-chats, manages to snap Great-Gran out of her ill trance.__NEWL__Soon, Great-Gran is making a full recovery and Lizzie is not so zipmouthed anymore.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5422694	Eye of the Labyrinth	2003-02-26T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	22033273	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22033273	This novel picks up two years after the events of the previous one, with Dirk fleeing Avacas a wanted man and seeking sanctuary in the Baenlands.__NEWL__Obsessed with Dirk's capture Antonov arrests Morna Provin at her husband's funeral and announces that he will have her burned at the stake come Landfall.__NEWL__Despite the best efforts of Tia and Reithan Dirk still finds out and demands that they attempt to save her.__NEWL__The other major plot follows the domestic quarrels of Alenor and Kirsh, who is still besotted with the acrobat Marquel.__NEWL__At Dirk's suggestion, Alenor invites Marquel to Kalarada willingly in the hope that keeping Kirsh distracted will give her some measure of control over her kingdom.__NEWL__Arriving on Elcast too late, Dirk has only time to beg Tia to end his mother's suffering.__NEWL__She refuses at first, but forced to listen to Morna's screams, Tia relents and shoots the former duchess through the eye, ending her pain.__NEWL__The two escape with Master Helgrin and row back to the Wanderer, watching as Reithan Seranov's diversion burns Antonov's flagship to the waterline in retribution.__NEWL__Tired of running, Dirk announces that night that he is going to Omaxin in an attempt to break through the labyrinth and discover the truth that sent Neris Veran into madness.__NEWL__The strain of her husband openly flaunting a mistress takes its toll on Alenor and her relationship with Kirsh grows fractious.__NEWL__She eventually begins an affair with the captain of her guard.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5397002	Escape from Genopolis	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z	22035282	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22035282	Arlo, a ten-year-old orphan boy, lives in Genopolis, in a university called the Inn of Court, where he is looked after by his mentor, Doctor Ignatius.__NEWL__One day Arlo makes a horrifying discovery.__NEWL__Instead of being a Citizen, he is actually one of the hated Naturals, who had been abandoned by his Natural parents when he was born and taken into the care of Doctor Ignatius, ostensibly to research emotions and pain for scientific purposes.__NEWL__However, Ignatius is also leader of a secret resistance circle against the Rulers of Genopolis, and plans to destroy Genopolis by bringing back pain to its Citizens.__NEWL__However, Ignatius’s plans – and Arlo – are now in danger because a new Ruler of Genopolis has been appointed who is opposed to any research that could bring back the past.__NEWL__From the moment that Arlo first sets eyes on the new Regis, he feels a powerful connection, and knows that if he falls into the hands of the Regis then his life will be forfeit.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Usha, an eleven-year-old slave-girl, lives in drudgery, serving her ninety-nine-year-old Citizen mistress who she calls Auntie.__NEWL__Usha is a Gemini, a member of a clone-class who have been bred in the pharms, and whose orders are only to obey her superiors.__NEWL__However, Usha soon becomes aware that Auntie’s intention is to use her to clone her own dying body.__NEWL__Waking up in panic on the operating table, Usha escapes, but with the whole of Genopolis on her tail, there is nowhere that she can run to.__NEWL__Arlo escapes from the Inn of Court and the murderous Regis, and with his dog Rem is sent first to the Inn of the Maia, a female Inn of Court, and after that to a rich man and his family, sympathisers of Ignatius's cause.__NEWL__However, in the escape, his beloved dog Rem is lost.__NEWL__Wandering through the sewers, the underworld of Genopolis, Usha falls in with a gang of abandoned children, who have been thrown out of society because of becoming disabled through accidents or illness.__NEWL__Their ringleader, Ozzie, inducts Usha into his gang, and for a time they live by pilfering from the warehouses by the port where the food is delivered from the pharms.__NEWL__After a botched robbery, Usha is kidnapped by smugglers and sold to the Circus, a semi-illegal underworld gladiatorial arena, where criminal Citizens, escaped Gemini and the occasional captured Natural fight against themselves, and against genetically-engineered monsters.__NEWL__ The laboratories of the pharms (which provide food, replacing the historical farms) have created hybrid animals along the lines of classical monsters using genetic fusion technology; the Minotaur, the Gorgon, the Cockatrice and the Sphinx.__NEWL__Usha is dispatched to fight in the Circus, where she befriends Talia, a female gladiator, and the other slaves.__NEWL__In the pits of the Circus, Usha meets Arlo's dog Rem.__NEWL__When Arlo comes to the Circus as a guest of the rich man, he sees Rem and runs into the pit to be reunited with him.__NEWL__Together they escape from the Minotaur who is hunting them, and disappear into the sewers once more.__NEWL__Usha, Rem and Arlo, together with the friends they have met in the Circus and Ozzie's gang from the underworld, escape the island of Genopolis by boat, and find their way to the Natural outerlands.__NEWL__Here they are reunited with Arlo's sister, Kira, and join the Natural tribe.__NEWL__Meanwhile, back in Genopolis, the Regis broods over the missing Arlo and plans his revenge.__NEWL__Continued in: Fearless (c) 2009, Scholastic Books)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q510229	They divided the sky	1963-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	26585175	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26585175	The main characters are Rita Seidel, age 19, and Manfred Herrfurth, a chemist ten years older, who meet at a dance event in a village and become a couple, although they are different.__NEWL__Rita comes from a rural background and is emotional, while Manfred is a rational city-dweller.__NEWL__The action begins in East Germany in June 1961, shortly before the Berlin Wall is built.__NEWL__They live together with Manfred's parents in Halle, where he works and she studies to be a teacher, which includes training in a socialist work "brigade" at the company Waggonbau Amendorf, building rail wagons.__NEWL__Manfred, who grew up in a difficult family, becomes disillusioned about the future in the GDR, after one of his engineering designs is refused by economics officials.__NEWL__He moves to West Germany via East Berlin.__NEWL__Rita visits him there and tries to persuade him to return, but without success.__NEWL__Shortly after her return, the Wall is built.__NEWL__Rita tries to take her life.__NEWL__She wakes up from unconsciousness in hospital and tells the story from that perspective.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5597489	Grass on the Wayside	1915-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1490	Tokyo	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	26606437	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26606437	After having returned from England, Kenzō, an egocentric, emotionally detached man in his thirties, teaches English literature at Tokyo Imperial University.__NEWL__His wife Osumi, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their third child, and to facilitate their monetary situation, he starts writing articles for magazines until late in the night.__NEWL__While he holds neither one of his siblings in high regard, he supports his older, sickly half-sister Onatsu with a monthly income, although she is herself married (her husband Hida is rumoured to spend his money on a mistress), and also lends money to his older brother Chōtarō.__NEWL__One day, Kenzō is approached by his former adoptive father Shimada, who asks him for his financial support.__NEWL__Kenzō remembers his secured but loveless childhood at his possessive foster parents' home, where he lived between the age of two and eight.__NEWL__When Shimada divorced his wife Otsune and remarried, Kenzō first lived with Otsune before returning to his natural parents, where he was regarded as a burden.__NEWL__Although reluctantly, Kenzō repeatedly gives Shimada the sums he asks for, commented on disparagingly by Osumi.__NEWL__In a final agreement reached between the two men and their emissaries, Kenzō pays Shimada 100 yen, with Shimada in return signing a document declaring that he will never make contact with Kenzō again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6546129	Light and Darkness	26606644	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26606644	O-Nobu suspects that her husband, Tsuda, loves another woman and tries to find out the truth.__NEWL__Tsuda, who cannot forget his former lover, Kiyoko, goes to a hospital for a minor operation.__NEWL__O-Nobu visits her and her husband’s relatives in order to get some extra financial support, since the couple are extravagant.__NEWL__Kobayashi, an unemployed former friend, visits Tsuda and threatens that if he does not treat him well, he will reveal Tsuda’s past to O-Nobu.__NEWL__Kobayashi also visits O-Nobu, but nothing happens.__NEWL__Tsuda’s sister visits him and tries to make him realize how he should act towards his parents.__NEWL__Mrs. Yoshikawa, the wife of Tsuda’s boss, also visits him and tries to make him change his attitudes.__NEWL__She sends him away to an onsen where Tsuda meets Kiyoko, who is now married to another man.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5226350	Sorekara							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	26606720	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26606720	The novel starts off with Daisuke, the protagonist, waking up and staring at the ceiling with his hand on his heart, feeling for his heartbeat.__NEWL__He is a son of a wealthy family.__NEWL__He is a polyglot and well-read, and has graduated from a prestigious university.__NEWL__At the time in Japan universities were a new element in society, and the government had to hire Western professors in order to teach students.__NEWL__But despite graduating, he is now thirty years old and unemployed, and depends on his father's wealth.__NEWL__One day, he meets his university friends, Hiraoka and Terao.__NEWL__Hiraoka had a career in the Japanese civil service but he fought with his boss and was fired for mismanaging finance.__NEWL__Terao intended to become a world-famous novelist but ended up in a part-time job translating works and writing short articles for low wages.__NEWL__These two friends represent a world he feels completely detached from, and he questions their reasons for working.__NEWL__Daisuke does not have much attachment to traditional Japanese society since his education has given him the knowledge that the world is too vast to be confined to the boundaries delineated by tradition.__NEWL__Furthermore, he cannot form any connection to modern society which views education merely as the prelude to success in a bureaucratic order.__NEWL__Because of Daisuke's detachment from everything, his family decides to support him financially for the rest of his life if he marries a woman who is chosen by the family.__NEWL__However, Daisuke decides not to get any support from his family and not get married.__NEWL__He eventually falls in love with Michiyo, the wife of Hiraoka.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16932077	Richard Bolitho, Midshipman	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z	26601848	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26601848	The book opens with Richard Bolitho arriving at a Portsmouth inn frequented by midshipmen.__NEWL__There he meets another midshipman, Martyn Dancer.__NEWL__A lieutenant recalls them to their ship, HMS Gorgon, a 74-gun ship of the line.__NEWL__Sailing towards West Africa, they encounter an empty merchantman, City of Athens.__NEWL__Dancer and Bolitho are sent aboard the ship and discover that it has been pillaged and the crew killed.__NEWL__The officers soon deduce that the ship was raided by pirates and Captain Conway announces that the Admiralty had dispatched them to investigate the disappearance of ships in the region.__NEWL__In company with the captured City of Athens, Gorgon approaches a coastal fort surrounded by treacherous reefs and shoals.__NEWL__They sight two ships in the nearby harbour.__NEWL__The fort then opens fire and disables City of Athens.__NEWL__Gorgon withdraws and returns after dark to salvage the ship.__NEWL__Dancer and Bolitho are sent on the mission, commanded by the 4th lieutenant, Mr. Tregorren, who holds a grudge against Bolitho's prestigious heritage.__NEWL__They succeed at taking the ship, and also capture a slave dhow in the escape, with the help of Gorgon.__NEWL__The ships, under the guise of being members of the pirate fleet, raid the castle which the pirates had been using as a base.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10483412	Moonlight Mile	2010-11-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100	Boston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26653054	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26653054	Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood in 1997.__NEWL__Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led savvy, tough-nosed investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case.__NEWL__The pair risked everything to find the young girl — only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home.__NEWL__Now Amanda is 16 — and gone again.__NEWL__A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing.__NEWL__Amanda's aunt is once again knocking at Patrick Kenzie's door, fearing the worst for the little girl who has blossomed into a striking, bright young teenager who hasn't been seen in two weeks.__NEWL__Haunted by the past, Kenzie and Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most, following a 12-year trail of secrets and lies down the darkest alleys of Boston's gritty, blue-collar streets.__NEWL__Assuring themselves that this time will be different, they vow to make good on their promise to find Amanda and see that she is safe.__NEWL__But their determination to do the right thing holds dark implications Kenzie and Gennaro are not prepared for consequences that could cost them not only Amanda's life, but their own.__NEWL__Since Prayers for Rain Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro have married and had a child.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5477043	Fox at the Front	2003-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26471766	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26471766	The story picks up on December 27, 1944, just minutes after the climax to Fox on the Rhine.__NEWL__Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has introduced himself to George Patton and offers to surrender Army Group B to him.__NEWL__Both generals agree that the Soviet Union is a greater threat than all of the German forces under Heinrich Himmler, who has considered him a traitor.__NEWL__Rommel instructs__NEWL__Hasso von Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army and Heinz Guderian's Sixth Panzer Army to surrender their units at the first Allied unit they encounter.__NEWL__However, the large concentration of Waffen-SS forces in the Sixth Panzer Army makes Himmler order Jochen Peiper to take over the unit at its headquarters in Namur, which kills Heinz Guderian in the process, and to counterattack the Allies.__NEWL__After a US infantry force, which was sent to accept Guderian's surrender, is ambushed, Peiper marshals a small kampfgruppe from the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler to attack Rommel's Dinant headquarters, but he is forced to withdraw by heavy US and German resistance.__NEWL__He also collects wounded German forces along the way during the trip back to the Rhine.__NEWL__Patton's liberation of Bastogne and the cooperation of Rommel's forces allows Third Army to race to the Rhine faster than the rest of the Allies by early January 1945.__NEWL__It captures a bridge in Koblenz and tries to cut off as many SS units as they can.__NEWL__Some SS forces, including Peiper, make it across the Rhine.__NEWL__After he arrives in Berlin, Himmler puts Peiper in charge of the Das Reich division.__NEWL__Rommel also faces tension on the German side, as he is being eyed to head the government-in-exile of the so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR), but he decides to stay firm and commands the Wehrmacht survivors from Army Group B, now called the German Republican Army (GRA).__NEWL__Having crossed the Rhine, the GRA and the Third Army keep pushing deep into the interior.__NEWL__All the while, Himmler orders Field Marshal Walter Model to reassign all Wehrmacht officers randomly to prevent any conspiracies to defect, especially after US forces co-ordinate with General Kurt Student in overseeing the surrender of Army Group H in Frankfurt.__NEWL__Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, the Soviet Union resumes its offensive across Poland, as Stalin assigns the political officer Alexis Krigoff to keep tabs on the attack.__NEWL__The zampolit also reports to the NKVD about generals who are too cautious in their attacks.__NEWL__Das Reich and the Sixth Panzer Army are sent to the Eastwall, a copy of the Westwall, to help to defend the front.__NEWL__On February 18, a reconnaissance team from the US 19th Armored Division ambushes a train leaving of Ettersburg.__NEWL__Upon derailing the train, the group discovers thousands of corpses and few survivors for whom they provide medical assistance.__NEWL__Rommel is alerted and goes down to Ettersburg to see the situation.__NEWL__He discovers that the train came from the Buchenwald concentration camp and organises an assault under the cover of a snowstorm, with German troops in the lead.__NEWL__The camp is liberated, and the prisoners are taken care of by Allied medical units.__NEWL__Rommel is horrified at the depths to which the Nazi Party reached in Germany's name, and he nearly kills some camp guards in anger.__NEWL__Although he leads the way in the cleanup, the Allied and the GDR leaderships convince Rommel to let the proper medical authorities handle the workload at Buchenwald and to concentrate on capturing Berlin, ahead of the Soviets, who have stumbled upon the Auschwitz camp as well.__NEWL__On March 13, while the Sixth Panzer Army tries to blunt the Soviet advance, the Allies execute Operation Eclipse, an airborne drop and ground assault on Berlin, where Dietrich surrenders all German forces in the city.__NEWL__A US commando raid also captures Himmler as he tries to escape to Czechoslovakia in a convoy.__NEWL__Enraged at having been beaten to Berlin, Stalin orders Georgy Zhukov to encircle the capital by sending his forces to the Elbe and by cutting off Third Army and the GRA from the rest of the Allied forces, which are still to the west.__NEWL__Zhukov also uses the opportunity to cripple the GRA forces in the northern outskirts heavily while the encirclement continues.__NEWL__The Allied troops in the city are ordered not to attack the Soviets for fear that they will become provoked to unleash their firepower on Berlin.__NEWL__Peiper, who was cut off during the retreat of Das Reich' from Kustrin, is captured and sent to a re-education camp in Siberia.__NEWL__Over the next few months, the Allies carry out a massive airlift operation into Berlin, which provides reinforcements and supplies while evacuating civilians.__NEWL__The Soviets also use the time to bring more ground forces into the blockade.__NEWL__The uneasy calm is broken on July 1, when a US transport crashing on the Soviet lines after a major dogfight is interpreted on the ground as an Allied air attack.__NEWL__The Soviets attack all points throughout the blockade, with the main thrust being directed against the 19th Armored Division at Potsdam.__NEWL__However, Zhukov discovers that Krigoff was behind the assumption since he convinced the commander of the 2nd Guards Tank Army to press the attack with the intent of capturing Gatow and Tempelhof airports.__NEWL__The attack bogs down because of Allied airstrikes, but Patton believes that the next Soviet attack will break through the US lines.__NEWL__The determined Soviet assault forces the Manhattan Project to bring the atomic bomb, which was supposed to be used for the Trinity test, to be deployed in Berlin.__NEWL__On the morning of July 8, General Groves oversees the drop of the Fat Man bomb aboard the Enola Gay with the Soviet artillery and armored concentration in Potsdam as the target.__NEWL__Although there are persistent doubts as to whether the bomb will work, the explosion erases them altogether as it obliterates Potsdam, where Zhukov and Marshal Ivan Konev's headquarters is located.__NEWL__The shock value from the event also forces the other Soviet attacks to stop.__NEWL__In the aftermath of the bombing, Stalin agrees to withdraw all Red Army forces to the Polish side of the Oder River but leaves behind a small force on the German side to fortify the area.__NEWL__The British spy Kim Philby, who has spent the past few months digging for information on the atomic bomb, is killed by British intelligence as he attempts to alert the Soviets that the Berlin bomb was the only working copy; he was tricked by a fake stockpile several days earlier.__NEWL__Krigoff, who was sent to Lubyanka Prison after the siege, narrates his part of the story to Stalin before he is killed in his cell.__NEWL__The United Nations also convenes a war crimes tribunal to try all Nazis, but Himmler does not make it to the courtroom, as the US soldiers who discovered Buchenwald leave him to die in a camp with Jews and other inmates.__NEWL__Other subplots in Fox at the Front include the struggle of a B-24 Liberator crewmember who crashed in Fox on the Rhine and his stay in Buchenwald alongside Rommel's personal driver, a teenage Volksgrenadier soldier who is later fielded into the Hitlerjugend and Das Reich divisions, and the exploits of the Fox on the Rhine character Gunther von Reinhardt who negotiates for a peaceful solution with Himmler.__NEWL__Like in the previous novel, the fictional history book War's Final Fury by Professor Jared Gruenwald provides further insights into the novel's events.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6646465	Listening for Lions	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26639413	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26639413	Rachel Sheridan is the only child of British missionaries working among the Kikuyu and Masai tribes of British East Africa (present-day Kenya).__NEWL__Her father is a doctor and her mother a teacher.__NEWL__Life goes haywire as an influenza epidemic strikes when Rachel is 13, in 1919.__NEWL__Many die from the sickness, including her mother.__NEWL__The Pritchards, arrogant planters who live nearby, bring their daughter Valerie to the hospital, but it is too late to save her.__NEWL__After Rachel's father dies and it looks as if the hospital will be closed, Rachel is taken in by the Pritchards.__NEWL__They persuade the reluctant Rachel to impersonate their daughter, sending her in Valerie's place to visit her dying grandfather in England, on the pretext that it will save his life.__NEWL__Rachel considers telling people of the Pritchards' lies on the ship, but she soon arrives in England and begins to develop a close relationship with her "grandfather", who, like her, is very fond of birds.__NEWL__Just as things begin to get better, the Pritchards' unveil their new plot, to take the grandfather's property when he dies.__NEWL__In scorn of his son, the grandfather sends them away, but his trusty solicitor, Mr. Grumbloch, gives Rachel his address and tells her to come in an emergency.__NEWL__Rachel comes within the day, and he returns her to her grandfather, telling him the truth, which they have already suspected.__NEWL__There is an epilogue at the end of the novel, in which Rachel becomes his adopted daughter and attends school, later returning to her father's hospital as a doctor.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3227464	Supermale	1902-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	26581740	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26581740	A large part of the novel takes place on Andre Marcueil's estate, Chateau de Lurance.__NEWL__It is set in the 1920s, the near future when it was written.__NEWL__During a dinner party at the mansion of Andre Marcueil, the main character, several guests discuss the nature of love.__NEWL__Arthur Gough, William Elson, Dr. Bathybius, and the host propose four definitions of love.__NEWL__Love is thought to be an emotion, an impression on the soul, an enfeebled sensation and (which Andre tries to prove) an activity.__NEWL__The story then flashes back to Andre’s childhood, introducing the idea of the Supermale.__NEWL__Andre, a sexually-repressed 10-year-old, is confused about his body.__NEWL__He begins taking bromide and exercising to become super-strong.__NEWL__Back at the dinner party, the discussion becomes earthier with the women absent.__NEWL__The men begin speculating about how many times a person can have sex in one day, and Andre tries to demonstrate his strength by breaking a dynamometer.  As the dinner party ends, Andre and Ellen have a sexual conversation and she admires the roses on his property.__NEWL__As soon as she leaves, he orders his servant to cut them down.__NEWL__The story switches to the 10,000-mile race.__NEWL__A five-person bicycle is racing a train full of spectators, including Ellen.__NEWL__Perpetual-motion food is giving them the strength and stamina to keep up with the train.__NEWL__One of the cyclists dies, but the bicycle speeds up.__NEWL__The cyclists notice a mysterious shadow in the background, which passes them.__NEWL__They finish a day and a half ahead of schedule but instead of finding cheering fans, they find roses at the finish line.__NEWL__At another dinner party in Andre’s mansion, the police appear and announce that they have found a girl who was raped and murdered on the estate; the matter is taken very lightly.__NEWL__Andre, trying to see how many times the girl can endure sex with him, is the culprit; this dents his heroic reputation.__NEWL__Seven prostitutes begin to roam the mansion, and find themselves in a room.__NEWL__They hear mysterious footsteps, and assume that an "Indian" is coming for them.__NEWL__Trapped in the room for hours, they begin eating their cosmetics.__NEWL__Bathybius, in the study, returns to his notes to find something unusual he had written and considers the potential of God compared to man.__NEWL__The "Indian" (Andre) meets a disguised Ellen.__NEWL__Ellen tells Andre that she had locked the seven prostitutes in a room.__NEWL__They begin an experiment, with Bathybius observing and keeping count in a nearby room, and set a new record of 82 episodes of lovemaking (breaking the old record of 70).__NEWL__During one of their breaks, Ellen falls asleep and Bathybius enters the room.__NEWL__Andre (as the Indian) greets him with "Who art thou, human creature?"__NEWL__The gallery is filled with people.__NEWL__The Indian is carried to where the people are, and they speculate that he can revive them by producing offspring with supreme qualities.__NEWL__However, the Indian says that he is sterile (much to their dismay).__NEWL__He returns to the room where Ellen is sleeping.__NEWL__The prostitutes break the window in their room, causing a commotion to get Andre’s attention.__NEWL__Irritated, he drowns them out with a phonograph.__NEWL__They continue, while Bathybius observes them from another room.__NEWL__Andre realizes that his theory about love was wrong; sex does not equal love, since he has not fallen in love with Ellen.__NEWL__After he sees Ellen apparently dead (although she is asleep, he writes a poem for her about Helen of Troy and the carnage she caused).__NEWL__He falls into a deep sleep, murmuring "I adore her".__NEWL__Andre is revealed as the Indian, and William Elson is convinced that Andre must love Ellen.__NEWL__It is agreed that a love machine (similar to an electric chair) must be built to force Andre to love Ellen.__NEWL__While Andre is still faint from the sex marathon, he is strapped to the love machine.__NEWL__He awakens when 11,000 volts are sent through his body, causing him to break free of his chair and try to escape, but he dies.__NEWL__Over time, Ellen eventually gets over Andre, and marries a man who can keep his love within human capacities.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7728267	The Cruelest Month	2008-03-04T00:00:00Z	26461001	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26461001	The novel, set in the small Canadian town of Three Pines, takes place around the Easter season.__NEWL__A group of friends visits a haunted house, hoping to rid it of the evil spirits that have haunted it, and the village, for decades.__NEWL__One of them ends up dead, apparently of fright.__NEWL__Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team from the Sûreté du Québec investigate the old house and the villagers of Three Pines.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3481184	Shadrach in the Furnace	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26616176	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26616176	The story begins on 14 May 2012 as Dr. Shadrach Mordecai, personal physician of the dictator Genghis II Mao IV, awakens.__NEWL__He checks the health of the dictator through a series of implants within his body that link to the general health of his client, allowing him to receive any information on the health of the dictator through codings of various twitches in his own body.__NEWL__Through a series of security checks, he enters into his office to prepare for a kidney transplant for his master.__NEWL__As he passes Surveillance Vector One, the eye on the world which gives committee members the ability to view all events happening on Earth, he meets Mangu, the prince of the world and viceroy of the committee, a charming man who earns the admiration of all his subjects.__NEWL__Mangu is concerned about the surgery, but Shadrach Mordecai assures the prince that Genghis Mao has grown used to surgeries.__NEWL__Here, Shadrach also reveals to the reader that Mangu was chosen as the subject for Project Avatar, where Genghis Mao will continue to reign in the body of his own son.__NEWL__He also feels sorry for Mangu, since he was tricked by his father into believing that he would inherit the throne.__NEWL__Once in his office, he contacts Nicholas Warhaftig, surgeon of the dictator.__NEWL__Warhaftig orders Shadrach to bring Genghis Mao to the Surgery by 0900.__NEWL__Soon, Genghis Mao himself contacts Shadrach to ask how his health is that day.__NEWL__As Shadrach tells the dictator of his health state, he also informs the dictator of the incoming surgery and its timing.__NEWL__Genghis Mao requests for Shadrach to enter his room and prepare him for the surgery at 0900.__NEWL__We also learn from this conversation that the surgery would give the dictator the fourth liver he is having.__NEWL__Afterwards, Shadrach looks up the leaders of the projects Talos, Phoenix and Avatar, for it is his responsibility as personal physician to the Khan to keep checks on the progress of such projects.__NEWL__First, he contacts Katya Lindman of Project Talos.__NEWL__She reports to Shadrach their progress in coding Genghis Mao's eyelid mannerisms and as Shadrach asks her to continue working on coding his mental processes, she has an apprehensive look but agrees.__NEWL__Next, he contacts Irayne Sarafrazi of Project Phoenix.__NEWL__She talks of her problems with brain cell deterioration and becomes worried as Shadrach presses for her to make further progress in the subject.__NEWL__Lastly, he contacts Nikki Crowfoot of Project Avatar, who is also Shadrach's lover.__NEWL__After she recounts her progress, she arranges a meeting with Shadrach for 0230.__NEWL__Shadrach reveals to the reader his belief that Project Avatar is far superior to the other two, since Project Talos could only create an automated Genghis Mao which could never live up to the ability of the original while Project Phoenix would constantly be confronted with the problem of brain cell regeneration.__NEWL__Afterwards, he leaves to take Genghis Mao to the Surgery.__NEWL__As Warhaftig and his team operate on the dictator, Shadrach, due to his implants, acts as a "computer" for the team, informing them of the health status of the dictator throughout the entire surgical process.__NEWL__During the operation, Shadrach also comments on the calmness and tranquility of the dictator and how he has grown accustomed to constant organ transplants.__NEWL__After the surgery, he prepares to leave with Crowfoot to Karakorum, the playground of the world's ruling class.__NEWL__As they enter Karakorum, Nikki Crowfoot muses about how Shadrach and Genghis Mao are like one entity and compares them to the sculptor and his sculpture, how the actions and health situation of Genghis Mao affect the actions of Shadrach.__NEWL__Nikki Crowfoot decides they ought to go to the transtemporallism tent, where supposedly religious rites are carried out using chemicals to transport a client into a dream-like state where he may witness famous scenes, usually related to Christianity.__NEWL__Shadrach is transported to the scene of the Cotopaxi eruption, where he helplessly watches the civilians die all around him.__NEWL__When he wakes up and leaves the tent, he sees many government members, who greet him.__NEWL__Among them is Roger Buckmaster, who claims that he has gained enlightenment from the transtemporallist experience.__NEWL__Buckmaster first recounts his dream of the Last Supper and the subsequent betrayal at Gethsemane, and how it taught him to hate evil.__NEWL__Then, he begins insulting Shadrach and blaming him for keeping Genghis Mao alive.__NEWL__Both Shadrach and Buckmaster have a lengthy moral argument, but soon Nikki Crowfoot leaves the tent and they leave the area, with Buckmaster shouting curses to Shadrach.__NEWL__Shadrach and Nikki book a room and sleep together, after which they encounter Bela Horthy and Donna Lambile, two members of the government.__NEWL__Mangu is giving a speech about the worldwide distribution of Rondevic's Antidote against organ rot, to which Bela Horthy yells curses that Genghis Mao constantly lies about healing the world from the organ rot disease, despite the desperate urgings of Lambile.__NEWL__The next day, Shadrach awakes feeling tremendous vigorous twitches from the implants and immediately rushes to meet the Khan.__NEWL__There, he sees many government members surrounding the dictator.__NEWL__He learns from Ionigylakis, the Vice President, that Mangu was assassinated.__NEWL__He soon realises that the twitches were due to the shock from Genghis Mao when he received the news.__NEWL__He also learns that Bela Horthy was the one who witnesses Mangu falling from his window before he informed the Khan.__NEWL__Genghis Mao gives Avogadro, the security chief, orders for subsequent arrests and sentences against suspected individuals in order to invoke fear into the population.__NEWL__In Committee Vector One, Shadrach has a brief conversation with Avogadro, who states that no one, not even Bela Horthy, saw any assassins throw Mangu out of the window, thus many government members believe it was merely suicide, but Genghis Mao remains convinced that Mangu was killed.__NEWL__Shadrach then asks Bela Horthy about the exact recount he gave to Genghis Mao.__NEWL__At first, Horthy is apprehensive but soon replies that he merely stated that Mangu had died and nothing else.__NEWL__Shadrach also learns from Horthy that Buckmaster has become a prime suspect in the assassination case due to his words of folly at Karakorum the previous night.__NEWL__Shadrach asks Horthy about his own words at Karakorum, but Horthy insists that he was not at Karakorum at all.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the committee members are in chaos as General Gonchigdorge struggles anxiously to find possible suspects and Surveillance Vector One.__NEWL__As the general calls for Frank Ficifolia, Ficifolia reveals to Shadrach his opinion that the committee members have gone mad and that Mangu had probably committed suicide.__NEWL__Shadrach returns to his room, where he sees Nikki Crowfoot.__NEWL__He recounts to her the incidents that occurred and Crowfoot is immediately shocked since her project is affected by the death of the chosen subject.__NEWL__As she listens to the subsequent events, she comments that Bela Horthy probably intended for Genghis Mao to feel great shock due to his testimony and perish.__NEWL__Shadrach returns to his office where he receives a call from Katya Lindman, who requests that he review her progress on Project Talos.__NEWL__She shows the robot of Genghis Mao and all its actions and becomes angry when Shadrach does not seem impressed.__NEWL__As she continues to show Shadrach all her equipment, Shadrach begins to suspect that she has feelings for him.__NEWL__Later on, he receives a call from Avogadro to participate in his interrogation of Buckmaster.__NEWL__During the interrogation, Buckmaster constantly defends himself, saying that he was drugged from the transtemporallism.__NEWL__Avogadro is shocked that Shadrach also attempts to defend Buckmaster, but more passively.__NEWL__However, in the end, Buckmaster is arrested on the basis of a faulty "I'll destroy him" while he was arguing with Shadrach at Karakorum.__NEWL__Shadrach then argues with Avogadro, saying that it was not justified to arrest a man he knew was innocent.__NEWL__However, Avogadro is apathetic to the plight of Buckmaster and even uses Shadrach's words at Karakorum against him that "guilt is a luxury we cannot afford".__NEWL__They both assume that Buckmaster is being sent to the Organ Farms, where his organs would be used to support the dictator.__NEWL__The next day, Shadrach visits Genghis Mao, who speaks deliriously and even offers to make Shadrach pope in Rome.__NEWL__Shadrach infers that Genghis Mao has gone mad over the death of Mangu.__NEWL__That night, he goes to Karakorum with Katya Lindman, where they try dream-death, an experience where one is placed in a dream-like state and imagines death and the subsequent afterlife.__NEWL__Shadrach travels the afterlife realm with Katya in his dreams, and after enjoying themselves, to enters into a tranquil state before awaking.__NEWL__Katya reveals that she was having a different dream from him, one which was not as light-hearted as his.__NEWL__Then, they return home to rest, where Katya randomly and suddenly warns Shadrach to be careful.__NEWL__Nikki Crowfoot grows increasingly distant from him, and Shadrach is unable to discover why.__NEWL__He visits Genghis Mao and informs the dictator of an aneurysm he detected in the dictator's abdominal aorta.__NEWL__The news annoys Genghis Mao, since he is preparing a colossal funeral for Mangu which he refuses to delay.__NEWL__Shadrach has lunch with Katya, who reveals to him that, on the night before his death, she informed Mangu that he was chosen as the Avatar subject.__NEWL__Katya tells Shadrach that she did so only out of sympathy for Mangu, but Shadrach suspects that she wanted to kill the Avatar subject so that her project could supersede Nikki's and hopefully destroy her relationship with Shadrach__NEWL__so she could have him too.__NEWL__However, he soon realises that his suspicions contradict Katya's decision to reveal this information to him.__NEWL__Shadrach hopes to visit Nikki and after learning that she had fallen ill, makes the decision to visit her in her room.__NEWL__There, he pretends to examine her but subsequently asks about her project, to which she responds angrily, ranting about the setbacks in her work.__NEWL__As Shadrach leaves, he also reveals to Nikki that a member of Project Talos informed Mangu that he had been chosen as the Avatar subject, but he disguises it as a rumour.__NEWL__However, Nikki believes it and instantly suspects Katya Lindman to be the culprit.__NEWL__Later, Shadrach confesses to Katya what he had revealed to Nikki.__NEWL__Katya is disturbed at first, but soon informs Shadrach that he had been chosen as the next Avatar subject.__NEWL__Shadrach soon realises that that had to be the reason Nikki had chosen to distance herself from him.__NEWL__Katya advises Shadrach to make a plan of escape and also tells him not to trust Nikki anymore, since she must have agreed to continue her work despite the fact that he was chosen.__NEWL__The day of the aorta transplant arrives.__NEWL__During the surgeries, Shadrach thinks to himself that if he killed Genghis Mao on the operating table, Project Avatar would be finished.__NEWL__He muses about plans such as jostling Warhaftig's elbow or feeding them misleading information, but resolves not to.__NEWL__In his office, Shadrach begins thinking about Genghis Mao's possible origins and begins crafting fake diary entries from the perspective of Genghis Mao in his mind.__NEWL__Soon, he decides to confront Nikki Crowfoot about him being the Avatar subject.__NEWL__Nikki is shocked and somewhat remorseful, but she defends herself, saying there was nothing she could do.__NEWL__Shadrach is distraught, but lets the matter rest.__NEWL__He resorts to carpentry to cope with the stress.__NEWL__On one of his adventures to the carpentry chapel, he meets Frank Ficifolia, who offers Shadrach the chance to escape from Ulan Bator and remain hidden.__NEWL__Ficifolia also reveals that members of the government helped to conceal Buckmaster, who is still alive, and offers to do the same for Shadrach.__NEWL__However, Shadrach is unsure and asks for time to think.__NEWL__Then, he is approached by Bela Horthy, who advises Shadrach to take the offer and flee from Ulan Bator, but Shadrach continues to refuse.__NEWL__He makes a visit to the Project Avatar laboratory to meet Nikki Crowfoot.__NEWL__After a tour of the laboratory, Nikki takes him to her office.__NEWL__She advises Shadrach to flee from Ulan Bator, even at the expense of her work.__NEWL__However, Shadrach still wants more time to think, to which Nikki responds that she loves him still.__NEWL__Soon, Shadrach decides to go on a vacation so that he would think better overseas.__NEWL__He informs Genghis Mao about his decision, who is slightly disappointed but agrees.__NEWL__Shadrach first goes to Nairobi, where he meets Bhishma Das, a merchant.__NEWL__Bhishma Das constantly asks him questions about the organ rot disease and the Roncevic's Antidote.__NEWL__As they continue their conversation, Shadrach begins speaking of utopian ideals that, after many years, the world will rebuild itself.__NEWL__Although he is unsure of this prophecy, under the encouragement of Bhishma Das, he becomes convinced that that will eventually happen.__NEWL__This gives him encouragement to deal with the problem of Project Avatar.__NEWL__He then leaves for Jerusalem, where he meets Meshach Yakov at the Wailing Wall.__NEWL__Shadrach is distressed about the widespread organ rot and poverty amongst the people, including children, and he prays.__NEWL__Meshach takes Shadrach to his house, where he and his family chat with Shadrach about politics.__NEWL__He then goes to Istanbul, Rome and San Francisco.__NEWL__In each place, he is constantly distressed by the suffering of the people but also begins to suspect that the Citpols, policemen of the Genghis Mao regime, are spying on him.__NEWL__At San Francisco, he meets an old friend, Jim Ehrenreich, who is struck with organ rot and requests that Shadrach steal some of Rondevic's Antidote for him.__NEWL__However, Shadrach refuses, saying that the antidote only immunises and cannot cure.__NEWL__At first, Ehrenreich is angry but after a while, he accepts his fate.__NEWL__At Peking, Shadrach begins to feel strange twitches in his implants and after a series of checks begins to suspect clogging of cerebrospinal fluid.__NEWL__He rushes to the airport, hoping to get a quick flight back to Ulan Bator.__NEWL__At the airport, he meets Avogadro, who informs Shadrach of the multiple headaches suffered by Genghis Mao and that he requested for Shadrach's return to the capital.__NEWL__Shadrach returns to the capital and visits Genghis Mao, informing his master of the problem and suggests that it be cured by brain surgery: more specifically, to implant valved tubes to his skull to drain the excess fluid.__NEWL__Afterwards, Shadrach arranges a meeting with Frank Ficifolia, requesting to meet Buckmaster.__NEWL__Although Ficifolia is annoyed that Shadrach chose to return when he could have escaped the capital, Shadrach reassures him that he has a plan.__NEWL__Ficifolia agrees to arrange the meeting.__NEWL__Shadrach is taken to the transtemporallists in Karakorum, where Buckmaster has hidden himself as an ascetic, entering multiple dreams to witness the life of Jesus.__NEWL__Shadrach requests for Buckmaster to create a device that will allow him to control the valve that will be implanted into Genghis Mao, and after much persuasion, Buckmaster agrees.__NEWL__In Ulan Bator, he arranges a meeting with Katya Lindman.__NEWL__Both of them talk about the funeral of Mangu, which he missed while he was on holiday.__NEWL__He also informs her about his cure for the headaches of Genghis Mao, and despite the warnings of Katya, Shadrach states that he has a plan to save himself.__NEWL__Soon, Genghis Mao is operated on and the valved tubes transplanted.__NEWL__He then meets Nikki Crowfoot, who informs him of her progress in Project Avatar.__NEWL__She adds that she hopes her project will not be chosen, but Shadrach tells her not to worry about him but to focus on her work instead.__NEWL__To rest, he leaves again for Karakorum unaccompanied and visits the dream-death tent, where he enters the afterlife and heals numerous people in the dream.__NEWL__He is hailed as their Saviour but is soon interrupted by the scene of Katya informing him that he was chosen as the Avatar subject.__NEWL__Shocked, he awakens and returns to Ulaanbaatar.__NEWL__Already implanted with the device to control the valved tubes, Shadrach visits Genghis Mao and informs him of how he is able to control the tubes using the device implanted in his hand and whenever he clenches his fist, the tubes will reverse, quickly killing the dictator.__NEWL__Instead of begging or becoming angry, Genghis Mao is pleased and informs Shadrach that he was never going to become the Avatar subject in the first place.__NEWL__He also admires Shadrach's shrewdness in dealing with the situation.__NEWL__Shadrach demands to become a committee member in charge of public health to oversee the production and worldwide distribution of Roncevic's Antidote.__NEWL__Genghis Mao agrees and, confused about the dictator's reactions, Shadrach leaves the room to admire the outside world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7367364	Rosapenna	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20	Norway	26490749	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26490749	The focus in Rosapenna is the conflict in Northern Ireland, which "Jo Vendt" is covering as a journalist.__NEWL__Other central characters in the novel are the English soldier "Sammy Jenkins", who has a background as a poor boy from Whitechapel, and the poor IRA girl "Brigid Doherty".__NEWL__The novel is set in 1973.__NEWL__"Vendt" has been instructed to cover the conflict from a pro British point of view, and is prepared to satisfy the editor in this respect, and to write about James Joyce and Brendan Behan from the cultural side.__NEWL__He eventually gets in contact with IRA people in Ardoyne, an Irish Nationalist district of North Belfast, and move in with a family in the ghetto The Bone.__NEWL__From then on he is on a collision course with his newspaper editor.__NEWL__He becomes disgusted with the misrepresented reports delivered by the journalist corps, and tries to understand the underlying reasons for the conflict in Northern Ireland.__NEWL__Rosapenna Street is a genuine street in the Bone area of Belfast, adjacent to Ardoyne.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5089156	Checkmate in Rio	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z	26496405	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26496405	The story takes place in January 1964.__NEWL__After the events described in The China Doll, six AXE agents based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have been found mutilated and murdered in a short space of time.__NEWL__Nick Carter (undercover as shady millionaire businessman Robert Milbank) accompanied by fellow agent Rosalind Adler (posing as Milbank’s mistress, Rosita Montez) are sent to investigate.__NEWL__Carter (as Milbank) uses his apparent wealth and influence to enter the higher social circles in Rio de Janeiro and quickly meets socialite Carla Langley – wife of one of the missing agents.__NEWL__Next, posing as American journalist, Michael Nolan, Carter interviews the wife of Joao de Santos, a local investigative reporter, and another of the missing agents.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Agent Adler investigates the background of missing agent Carlos Brenha, assistant curator at a local museum.__NEWL__As a result of their probing, a seedy nightclub quickly becomes the focus of attention.__NEWL__In the club’s basement, Carter discovers a cache of illegal weapons imported from China.__NEWL__Carter is knocked out and imprisoned in the club basement.__NEWL__The ringleader is revealed to be Carla Langley who is working for communist China to import illegal arms and execute minor spies in the hope that a special agent (i.e. Carter) would be sent to investigate and whom they intend to torture and kill to extract valuable information.__NEWL__Carter is tied to a rack and beaten but manages to escape.__NEWL__Rosalind Adler arrives in the nick of time and overpowers the guards with a non-lethal gas bomb (nicknamed Pepito).__NEWL__Carter executes the club owner and second-in-command (Luis Silveiro) and is about to do the same to Carla Langley when he discovers the gas bomb has rendered her an insane, gibbering wreck.__NEWL__He leaves her screaming in the night.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5496897	Freddy Plays Football	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26465740	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26465740	When Mrs. Bean’s long-lost brother, Aaron Doty, appears, he and his storytelling are warmly received.__NEWL__Soon the animals realize the stories of his accomplishments are lies, and Freddy begins to wonder if he is who he claims.__NEWL__Since taking his share of Mrs. Bean’s inheritance would force the Beans to sell the farm, Freddy urgently investigates.__NEWL__Evidence mounts, including a conversation overheard between Doty and the Bean animals’ old enemy Mr. Garble.__NEWL__The animals hold a rally, determining that Doty is a fake.__NEWL__Mrs. Bean however is unconvinced.__NEWL__By chance Freddy is drawn into a high school football game.__NEWL__He cannot pass or catch, but his offensive rushing is unstoppable.__NEWL__With the agreement that he attend high school classes, Freddy joins the team.__NEWL__Since it is not possible for Freddy to attend school regularly, his cousin Weedly doubles for him, causing them both to be “half-educated”.__NEWL__Freddy’s first game is a success.__NEWL__Mrs. Bean decides to pay Doty $5000, which she is forced to borrow.__NEWL__Freddy convinces the bank to give the money to him, and promptly disappears with it.__NEWL__The Beans are furious, and the sheriff has no option but to search for Freddy and arrest him.__NEWL__Freddy narrowly escapes being shot by Mr. Garble — but the sheriff has thoughtfully loaded Garble's gun with blanks.__NEWL__At first the money is hidden in the forest, but when Freddy is jailed it winds up being baked in a pie made accidentally of plaster of paris.__NEWL__Finally, the animals trick Doty into revealing his real name, and he leaves the farm.__NEWL__Out on bail, Freddy continues playing football.__NEWL__Old Whibley the Owl defends Freddy in court, pointing out that neither of the key witnesses has reliable vision, and therefore could not positively identify Freddy as the thief.__NEWL__The judge lets Freddy off, adding "... but don't for goodness sake do it again!"__NEWL__Freddy is in good form for the important football game with a neighboring rival town, who have brought their own animals to match Freddy.__NEWL__The Centerboro team adds more animals, ultimately winning.__NEWL__Afterwards, an agreement is made, and all the animals quit the teams for good, so that next year regular football can be played.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25551	The Running Man	1982-05-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26467887	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26467887	In 2025, the world's economy is in shambles and America has become a totalitarian dystopia.__NEWL__28-year-old Ben Richards, an impoverished resident of the fictional Co-Op City, is unable to find work, having been blacklisted from his trade.__NEWL__His gravely ill daughter Cathy needs medicine, and his wife Sheila has resorted to prostitution to bring in money for the family.__NEWL__In desperation, Richards turns to the Games Network, a government-operated television station that runs violent game shows.__NEWL__After rigorous physical and mental testing, Richards is selected to appear on The Running Man, the Network's most popular, lucrative, and dangerous program.__NEWL__He is interviewed by Dan Killian, the executive producer of the program, who describes the challenges he will face once the game begins.__NEWL__He also meets Fred Victor, the director of the show, and Bobby Thompson, the MC and host.__NEWL__The contestant is declared an enemy of the state and released with a 12-hour head start before the Hunters, an elite team of Network-employed hitmen, are sent out to kill him.__NEWL__The contestant earns $100 per hour that he stays alive and avoids capture, an additional $100 for each law enforcement officer or Hunter he kills, and a grand prize of $1 billion if he survives for 30 days.__NEWL__Viewers can receive cash rewards for informing the Network of the runner's whereabouts.__NEWL__The runner is given $4,800 and a pocket video camera before he leaves the studio.__NEWL__He can travel anywhere in the world, and each day he must videotape two messages and mail them back to the studio for broadcasting.__NEWL__If he neglects to send the messages, he will be held in default of his Games contract and stop accumulating prize money, but will continue to be hunted indefinitely.__NEWL__Killian states that no contestant has survived long enough to claim the grand prize, nor does he expect anyone to ever do so.__NEWL__Richards simply hopes that he will last long enough to secure his family's future with his prize money.__NEWL__As the game begins, Richards obtains a disguise and false identification records, traveling first to New York City and then Boston.__NEWL__In Boston, he is tracked down by the Hunters and only narrowly escapes, setting off an explosion in the basement of a YMCA building that kills five police officers.__NEWL__He sneaks away through a sewer pipe and emerges in the city's impoverished ghetto, where he takes shelter with gang member Bradley Throckmorton and his family.__NEWL__Richards learns from Bradley that the air is severely polluted and that the city's poor have become a permanent underclass.__NEWL__Bradley also says that the Network exists only as a propaganda machine to pacify and distract the public.__NEWL__Richards tries to incorporate this information into his video messages, but finds that the Network dubs over his voice with obscenities and threats during the broadcast.__NEWL__Bradley smuggles Richards past a government checkpoint to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he disguises himself as a half-blind priest.__NEWL__In addition, Bradley provides Richards with a set of mailing labels for his videotapes that will leave the Network unable to track him by their postmarks.__NEWL__While spending three days in Manchester, Richards learns that another contestant has been killed, and he dreams that Bradley has betrayed him after being tortured.__NEWL__He travels to a safe house owned by a friend of Bradley in Portland, Maine, but is reported by the owner's mother.__NEWL__As the police and the Hunters close in on the safe house, Richards is wounded, but manages to escape and spends the night sleeping at an abandoned construction site.__NEWL__The next morning, after arranging to mail his videotapes, Richards carjacks a woman named Amelia Williams and takes her hostage.__NEWL__Alerting the media to his presence, he makes his way to an airport in Derry.__NEWL__The police confront Richards, but he bluffs his way onto a plane past both them and the lead Hunter, Evan McCone, by pretending to be carrying an explosive charge powerful enough to destroy the entire facility.__NEWL__By this time, Richards has broken the Running Man survival record of eight days and five hours.__NEWL__Richards takes McCone and Amelia as hostages and has the plane fly low over populated areas to avoid being shot down by a surface-to-air missile.__NEWL__However, Killian calls Richards aboard the plane and reveals that he knows Richards has no explosives, as the plane's security system would have detected them.__NEWL__To Richards' surprise, Killian offers him a chance to replace McCone as lead Hunter.__NEWL__Richards is hesitant to take the offer, worried that his family will become a target.__NEWL__Killian then informs him that Sheila and Cathy were randomly murdered by three intruders, over ten days earlier, before Richards even first appeared on the show.__NEWL__Killian gives him some time to make his decision.__NEWL__Richards falls asleep and dreams of his murdered family and a gruesome crime scene.__NEWL__With nothing left to lose, he calls Killian back and accepts the offer.__NEWL__After the contact has been severed, he kills the flight crew and McCone, but suffers a mortal gunshot wound from the latter.__NEWL__Richards allows Amelia to jump off the plane with a parachute, and then uses his last strength to override the autopilot and fly toward the skyscraper serving as the headquarters of the Games Network.__NEWL__The book ends with the plane crashing into the tower, resulting in the deaths of Richards and Killian.__NEWL__The novel closes with the description, "The explosion was tremendous, lighting up the night like the wrath of God, and it rained fire twenty blocks away."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7661878	Symposium	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	26708863	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26708863	It is the story of a dinner party and the events leading up to it involving the lives of the five couples attending:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q107605287	Toby Alone	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z	26709981	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26709981	A 13-year-old boy named Toby Lolness, who is just one and a half millimetres tall, lives in a civilization nestled in an oak tree.__NEWL__On his seventh birthday, his father, a scientist named Sim, creates a black box that causes one of his toys to move around by harnessing the power of crude sap.__NEWL__However, when Sim refuses to tell anybody how he did it, he and his family are banished to the Lower Branches, where Toby meets his best friend, Elisha Lee, for the first time.__NEWL__ When Toby is thirteen, his parents are arrested by the evil corporate tyrant Joe Mitch, who has a pathological obsession with hole-digging, and thrown into a prison on a mistletoe ball called Tumble.__NEWL__He desperately wants to learn how to use the sap for his biggest project, the Big Crater, a massive hole in the middle of the tree, and Toby finds himself on the run from his own people.__NEWL__He struggles to survive alone.__NEWL__He is betrayed by his old friend Leo Blue.__NEWL__Another friend, Nils Amen, betrays him as well, but later pretends to be Toby, throwing the searchers off.__NEWL__Toby passes through the Big Crater, where his father's enemy, W. C. Rolok, finds him.__NEWL__He attempts to make him swallow a sap ball, which the digger-weevils will rip his stomach open to reach.__NEWL__Toby spits the ball down Rolok's throat, takes his clothes, and gives him a whip to fight off the weevils.__NEWL__On the way out, he meets up with Mano Asseldor, who used to live on a farm in the Lower Branches, and the two escape together.__NEWL__Once they reach the Lower Branches, Mano is reunited with his parents and siblings, but he is forced to hide in a space behind the fireplace.__NEWL__Toby tries to get help from a miller and his wife, the Olmechs.__NEWL__They contact Joe Mitch's soldiers, but Toby manages to escape anyway.__NEWL__The Olmechs are thrown into prison for lying.__NEWL__Finally, Toby reaches the area where Elisha and her mother Isha live.__NEWL__He hides in a cave, and Elisha brings him food every day.__NEWL__When winter comes, Toby is snowed in for several months.__NEWL__He barely survives off Elisha's food and some mildew.__NEWL__In the spring, he and Elisha create an elaborate plan to rescue Toby's parents from prison.__NEWL__The night of the planned escape, Toby is trapped in a wax cast, pretending to be the jailor Gus Alzan's injured daughter Berenice.__NEWL__Elisha was supposed to break in and rescue him and his parents, but she was unable to get into the prison, causing Toby to think she'd betrayed him.__NEWL__He escapes when a fire weakens the cast.__NEWL__He releases all the water in the cistern, extinguishing the fire.__NEWL__On the way to find his parents, another prisoner tells him they've already been executed, and that Elisha crushed his hand with her foot.__NEWL__Not believing him, Toby goes to his parents' cell, only to find the Olmechs.__NEWL__Their son, Lex, is trying to rescue them.__NEWL__Toby gives Lex the key to his parents' chains and walks to the end of a mistletoe branch, planning to jump off.__NEWL__However, he hears a bird squawking and decides to burrow into one of the berries and get eaten.__NEWL__He is carried away by the bird and loses consciousness.__NEWL__When he wakes up, he finds himself alive in the grass.__NEWL__He is taken in by a young boy named Moon Boy and his older sister Ilaya, who rename him Little Tree.__NEWL__Two years later, Pol Colleen, a neighbor from the Low Branches, visits the grass and tells Toby he was adopted when he was a few days old, that his adoptive parents are still alive, and that Elisha, whose mother was once a grass woman, is now being held prisoner by Leo Blue, who has become a ruthless dictator and wants to marry her.__NEWL__Toby decides to go back to the Tree to save her.__NEWL__He succeeds thanks to a rescue plan which will cost the lives of many.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766805	The Story of Tom Brennan	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	26493484	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26493484	For Tom Brennan, life is about rugby, mates, and family—until a night of celebration changes his life forever.__NEWL__Tom's world explodes as his brother Daniel is sent to jail and the Brennans are forced to leave the small town Tom's lived in his whole life.__NEWL__Tom is a survivor but needs a ticket out of the past just as much as Daniel.__NEWL__The novel is based around the aftermath of the incident that leads to the Brennan family leaving the town of Mumbilli and is written from Tom's perspective.__NEWL__Beginning in the present, Tom is at his grandmother’s house and hating every minute of his new life, we soon begin to see glimpses of the events in Tom's recent past: the "sudden death" football party where all the trouble begins, and the terrible, tragic events of that night and days that follow.__NEWL__The novel involves teenage issues such as alcohol, drink driving, relationships, and moving on after your world turns upside down.__NEWL__In the end, Tom becomes friends with a girl named Chrissy, which they progress from a friendship into a relationship.__NEWL__Chrissy helps Tom come to terms what happened in the past and have a positive outlook on the future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7752518	The Mouthpiece of Zitu	1919-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26577010	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26577010	The second novel in the Jason Croft series finds Jason once again relating his adventures on the world of Palos to Dr. George Murray via astral projection.__NEWL__Croft awakens to find that the high priest Zud has declared him the "Mouthpiece of Zitu", complicating matters with his engagement to Naia.__NEWL__Croft once again relies on using astral projection and his knowledge of earth technology to strengthen the nation of Tamarizia and once more win the heart of the princess.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6161880	Jason, Son of Jason	1921-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26577166	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26577166	The third and final novel in the Jason Croft series once more brings Jason into contact with Dr. George Murray on Earth.__NEWL__This time, Jason brings Dr. Murray along via astral projection to Palos.__NEWL__Naia is suffering complications with her pregnancy, and Jason enlists the good doctor to help.__NEWL__After the birth, the child and mother are kidnapped by the Zollarians, and Croft once again uses his knowledge of earth technology to overcome the challenges he faces.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7717404	The Better Man	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z	26451329	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26451329	Mukundan, retired from government service, returns to the village of Kaikurussi where he was born.__NEWL__He is upset, viewing his life as a failure.__NEWL__He meets "One-screw-loose-Bhasi", a local eccentric, a housepainter and an inventor of an odd system of alternative medicine.__NEWL__He helps Mukundan transform himself.__NEWL__Then Power House Ramakrishnan, a locally important man, decides to build a Community hall, and selects Bhasi's land.__NEWL__He threatens to destroy Bhasi's business if he refuses to sell the land.__NEWL__Mukundan intends to save Bhasi's land but is flattered into accepting membership on the project committee.__NEWL__Then Mukundan's father dies, and he undergoes a deeper transformation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7269202	Quarry	2011-02-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	26516192	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26516192	Scrappy, a 15-year-old boy, lives in a breaker's yard next to the motorway and is being sent crazy anonymous dares.__NEWL__Once he gets caught up in them, he finds he can't stop, no matter how much he wants to, and the last challenges send him to the very edge.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8073936	Zone of Emptiness	1952-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	26673596	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26673596	The action takes place in Japan in late 1944, in a Japanese Army infantry barracks.__NEWL__The protagonists are two soldiers, Kitani and Soda.__NEWL__Kitani has spent two years in a military penitentiary for a crime he has not committed, the theft of an officer's wallet.__NEWL__He is actually the victim of the struggle between two cliques in the regiment he belonged to.__NEWL__Soda is an honest and sensitive young man who would like to be Kitani's friend and strives to reconstruct his story.__NEWL__The novel is told in the third person, but with two strong narrative foci on the two protagonists.__NEWL__Noma's novel is a denunciation of the corruption of the Japanese army during World War II, and it aims at providing "the readers with a true picture of what [Noma's] country was like when it was under the yoke of [militarism]" (from the author's preface).__NEWL__However, the depiction of the humiliating conditions in which Japanese soldiers were kept during the Second World War is not Noma's only purpose in writing Zone of Emptiness, as he "tried to describe not only the Japanese army but also what is universal in the Japanese soul".__NEWL__A painstaking psychological analysis of the characters is in fact another important component of the novel, where the gradual unveiling of Soda's and Kitani's past allows readers to understand the motivations of their behaviour and actions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2635779	Hush, Hush	2009-10-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26674455	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26674455	Nora Grey is an average sophomore student living in Coldwater, Maine.__NEWL__Her life is largely uneventful until she is seated next to a mysterious senior named Patch Cipriano in biology class, who had failed the subject several times before.__NEWL__The two are initially at odds, but Nora finds herself inexplicably drawn to him, his behavior both attractive and repelling.__NEWL__Despite the strong pull she feels towards him, Nora continues to tell her best friend Vee that she's not interested in Patch.__NEWL__Vee later invites Nora to a local amusement park, Delphic, in an attempt to set her up with Elliot, a boy who has expressed an attraction to Nora.__NEWL__The trip turns awkward when the group runs into Patch, who makes Elliot jealous.__NEWL__Nora confronts Patch and he persuades Nora to meet him in front of the newly reformed roller coaster, the Archangel.__NEWL__Nora later makes an excuse to find something to eat and sets off to find Patch.__NEWL__After she finds Patch, he manages to persuade her to ride the Archangel.__NEWL__The ride turns into a disaster after Nora falls from the roller coaster, only to realize it was her imagination.__NEWL__The incident leaves her shaken up.__NEWL__When Nora is unable to locate Vee and the others at the amusement park, she is left with no option but to allow Patch to drive her home.__NEWL__Once home, Patch offers to make tacos.__NEWL__Nora becomes suspicious and worried as the knife he uses changes sizes.__NEWL__The two nearly kiss but are interrupted by her mom calling in an attempt to check on Nora.__NEWL__Nora becomes increasingly more connected with Patch and begins to change her opinion of him, especially after meeting his closest and only friend Rixon.__NEWL__Meanwhile, she also begins to grow more curious and suspicious of Elliot after discovering his involvement in a murder case in his last school.__NEWL__Nora becomes extremely afraid after a bag lady is murdered in front of her.__NEWL__She'd given the woman her coat and hat in exchange for directions.__NEWL__She calls Patch for a ride home due to the rain and her fear, but his Jeep breaks down partway through and the pair are forced to take shelter in a shabby motel.__NEWL__While in the room, Nora finds that Patch has an upside down V on his back, which she earlier thought was her imagination during a play fight between Rixon and Patch at Bo's Arcade.__NEWL__Fascinated by it, she manages to touch the scar and is pulled into his memories of his past.__NEWL__This prompts Patch to demand to know what she had seen, and Nora to demand answers about what she has seen.__NEWL__This leads to the revelation that Patch is actually a fallen angel from Heaven who was trying to kill her, and in doing so, gain a human body.__NEWL__Her death would kill his Nephilim vassal Chauncey Langeais and make Patch completely human.__NEWL__She also discovers that Patch has an ex-girlfriend named Dabria, who is also Nora's new counselor at school, an angel of death who wants Patch to save Nora's life so he can become a guardian angel and so he can get back together with her.__NEWL__Patch had initially discarded Dabria's idea out of a desire to become human, but the plan failed because he had fallen in love with Nora.__NEWL__It is soon revealed that her friend Jules is actually Chauncey, who wants revenge on Patch for tricking him into swearing an oath that will allow Patch to take over his body during the Jewish month of Cheshvan.__NEWL__After leaving the motel and going home, Dabria breaks into Nora's room and says that she wants to kill Nora in order to prevent Patch from doing so and becoming human.__NEWL__Nora is narrowly saved by Patch, who goes after Dabria and strips her of her wings in vengeance, already knowing the archangels would have done the same for trying to kill Nora.__NEWL__Nora is later invited to a game of hide-and-seek with Vee, Jules, and Elliot, with Elliot hinting that Vee will not survive the game if Nora doesn't participate.__NEWL__Despite Patch attempting to get her to remain behind in the car, Nora goes after them.__NEWL__She soon discovers Jules' unmoving body, presuming Elliot killed him, only to be cornered by Jules, who confesses that he was behind various attacks on her life as a way of getting revenge on Patch.__NEWL__The game continues as they are held at gunpoint by Jules.__NEWL__Nora struggles with Jules while Patch tries to distract him, but this fails and Patch is forced to possess Nora's body to fight him.__NEWL__The process leaves Patch unconscious after he's separated from her body because it is not the month of Cheshvan.__NEWL__In an attempt to escape, Nora climbs to the rafters of the school gym, but Jules uses mind tricks to make her believe that the ladders are breaking and that she is going to fall to her death.__NEWL__Patch manages to break through the tricks by making her focus on his voice in her mind.__NEWL__Jules begins to climb the ladder after her, but Nora confronts him with the knowledge that if she were to sacrifice her life, Patch would become human and Jules would die.__NEWL__With this in mind, Nora throws herself from the rafters, which effectively kills Jules.__NEWL__To her surprise, Nora wakes up alive and well.__NEWL__Patch explains that he did not take her sacrifice because there was no point in having a human body without her.__NEWL__In doing so, Patch has saved Nora's life and is now her guardian angel.__NEWL__The two share a romantic moment, ending the book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4922687	Play Dead	1990-06-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100	Boston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26698495	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26698495	No sooner had supermodel__NEWL__Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck.__NEWL__While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim—and never returned.__NEWL__Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6872390	Miracle Cure	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26698580	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26698580	The plot concerns a clinic that treats people with AIDS.__NEWL__Just as the scientists working there are on the brink of a breakthrough they create a cure for the disease, one of them dies.__NEWL__Initially it looks like suicide but after a journalist investigates, she finds that it is murder, and there is a killer targeting the patients of the clinic as well.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4674575	Acorna's Triumph	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z	26456094	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26456094	Acorna's lifemate, Aari, has returned home, and the two may together finish rebuilding their home world.__NEWL__Yet the Aari that has returned from his time travels is different from the one who left, to the point that he almost doesn't remember Acorna or the love that the two shared together.__NEWL__During the confusion while Acorna shifts her attention to stopping a violent criminal from harming innocents, the wicked Khleevi return to retake the planet and destroy the Linyaari and conquer their world.__NEWL__It takes all of Acorna's will to rescue the Aari she loves and put a stop to the Khleevi menace.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656677	A Fatal Grace	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	26561684	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26561684	Inspector Gamache investigates after CC de Poitiers, a sadistic socialite, is fatally electrocuted at a Christmas curling competition in the small Québécois town of Three Pines.__NEWL__CC, who had a "spiritual guidance" business based on eliminating emotion, was hated by seemingly everyone, including her husband, lover, and daughter.__NEWL__The crime links to a vagrant's recent murder as well as to the pasts of several other villagers.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5223362	Dark Princess							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26562335	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26562335	The plot follows a character named Matthew Townes, a college student in his junior year at the University of Manhattan studying to be an obstetrician.__NEWL__Early in the novel, Townes is told that not only is he barred from pursuing his career aspirations, he is not allowed to finish his academic studies.__NEWL__His status as an African American disqualifies him in the early 20th century from completing required courses at a white obstetrics hospital, where he would be caring for white female patients.__NEWL__Townes is devastated and goes to Germany in a kind of exile.__NEWL__There he meets Princess Kautilya of Bwodpur, India, daughter of a maharajah.__NEWL__She reassures Towns of the importance of the history of people of color in the world, and of their presence and impact of their beauty worldwide.__NEWL__The Princess takes him from his dreary American world with its strict binary divide by race.__NEWL__She introduces him to a vibrant world of prominent world leaders of color, while acknowledging some with negative influence on the progress of blacks in the United States.__NEWL__Du Bois is believed to be referring to the leader Marcus Garvey in his character Perigua.__NEWL__The relationship between Townes and the princess develops; she bears his child, who by birthright is the Maharajah of Bwodpur.__NEWL__Townes had not thought it possible that an African American man might have such a connection to royalty.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5496937	Freddy and the Perilous Adventure	1942-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1384	New York	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26532648	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26532648	In a poetic mood, Freddy suggests ducks Alice and Emma repeat the feat of the first animals to fly in a balloon.__NEWL__But Mr. Golcher, a balloon owner who is in town, feels that Freddy giving a speech from the balloon would attract more customers.__NEWL__The balloon is released, but over the Bean farm they discover they cannot come down.__NEWL__By the time they float west over Syracuse, New York everyone is enjoying ride.__NEWL__During the cold night the wind changes direction.__NEWL__They are lost and out of food.__NEWL__A friendly eagle discovers them, takes a message to the Beans, and returns with a picnic basket.__NEWL__As the next night passes they ride along with a thunderstorm.__NEWL__In the morning the balloon is low enough for the grapnel dangling over the edge to catch on a house.__NEWL__It is home to villains from the first book, who recognize Freddy, and narrowly miss capturing the balloon.__NEWL__The animals learn, however, that they are wanted by the police.__NEWL__Freddy decided to leave the balloon, even if it means a dangerous jump.__NEWL__After landing, the pig disguises himself, but is soon found by his friend the sheriff.__NEWL__Pretending he does not recognize him, the sheriff updates Freddy, who dangerously decides to return to the Bean farm, which is staked out by police.__NEWL__At the farm Golcher threatens Mr. Bean, who agrees to pay $200 for what Golcher has lost so far.__NEWL__Freddy calculates how long this will take to repay: ”’If it takes two years to get seven dollars,’ he said to Mrs. Wiggins, ‘how long would it take to get two hundred?’ ’__NEWL__Seven hundred years,’ said Mrs. Wiggins.__NEWL__Freddy didn’t think that was right….but Mrs. Wiggins stuck to seven hundred.__NEWL__‘It’s only common sense,’ she said.__NEWL__‘If you get seven dollars in two years, then in seven hundred you get two hundred.’”__NEWL__(p. 114)__NEWL__Freddy hides at the circus of his friend Mr. Boomschmidt, who agrees to let elephants tow the balloon to the circus to be returned to Golcher.__NEWL__In the meantime, back at the balloon, the ducks Alice and Emma have discovered their long lost Uncle Wesley, who is making a living selling shoddy goods to forest animals.__NEWL__Disillusioned, they nonetheless ask him to return to the Bean farm.__NEWL__Although his balloon is returned, Golcher proves quarrelsome, refusing to return Mr. Bean’s money.__NEWL__Freddy and the animals agree to do a free show for Golcher, but afterward, Golcher still is not satisfied.__NEWL__Freddy and Golcher decide to resolve their differences in a fight ring, and Golcher makes a remark about eating pork that Freddy finds “in rather bad taste”.__NEWL__Freddy is losing a fair fight, until his spider friends bite Golcher.__NEWL__Golcher is ready to admit his defeat, but Freddy stops him. ”__NEWL__’Do you like being honest?”__NEWL__he asked. ’__NEWL__Not exactly,’ said Freddy truthfully. ’__NEWL__Then why do you do it when you don’t have to?’ ’__NEWL__I don’t know.__NEWL__I suppose maybe because Mr. Bean thinks I’m honest.__NEWL__I sort of want him to be right.’__NEWL__(p. 220)__NEWL__Golcher decides to be honest for once himself, and returns Mr. Bean’s money.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7603805	State of War	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26533452	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26533452	Hansen, Banyaga, and Villaverde went to an island known as the Island of K in the Philippines to participate in a festival.__NEWL__Villaverde got in touch with radicals planning to activate explosives during the festival in order to assassinate The Commander, a name used as an indirect reference to Ferdinand Marcos.__NEWL__The assassination attempt that would end Marcos's presidency and dictatorship failed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4658911	A Plague of Pythons	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z	26463379	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26463379	The novel opens in a world reduced to a grim struggle for existence after a plague of madness that afflicted individuals at random.__NEWL__Some two years previously, every government in the world was attacked by its own military machinery, which then self-destructed.__NEWL__All civilian air transport was similarly destroyed, along with major cities like San Francisco.__NEWL__After the initial meltdown, people began claiming to be "possessed".__NEWL__They would commit crimes of violence, but afterward they would claim to have had no control over their actions.__NEWL__This leads to superstitions about demonic possession, as well as a novel legal defense.__NEWL__Chandler is an electronics engineer who is on trial for rape and murder.__NEWL__He claims to have been possessed while committing the crime, but nobody believes him because it took place in a pharmaceuticals plant.__NEWL__These places, along with hospitals and other vital facilities, are believed to have some kind of immunity to the plague.__NEWL__Saved by an apparent episode of possession of the jury in the trial, he is instead exiled from his community with a letter "H", for "Hoaxer", branded on his forehead.__NEWL__He encounters a cult who use pain to ward off the possession.__NEWL__The members believe that the "flame spirits" cannot abide pain, but a young woman tells Chandler that she is sure the possessors are other human beings, and that one of them is a man she rejected.__NEWL__Soon afterwards the entire cult is wiped out and Chandler, in a state of almost constant possession, is made to bring their sacred text, a copy of The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, to Hawaii.__NEWL__On the way he encounters people who, while not always possessed, do what their "execs" tell them for fear of the consequences of disobeying.__NEWL__In Hawaii Chandler learns that the possessors are indeed people.__NEWL__They wear silver coronets which give them the power, using a new technology.__NEWL__Based on what the novel calls "sub-millimeter microwaves" (now known as terahertz radiation), the technology allows people wearing the coronets to locate and take over the bodies of anyone on Earth.__NEWL__Chandler falls under the influence of Rosalie Pan, a former Broadway star who was kidnapped by her ex-lover and eventually allowed to become one of the execs herself.__NEWL__She tries to seduce him into joining her by giving him a taste of the feeling of power.__NEWL__At the same time, the execs are building a new transmitter on the island of Kauai.__NEWL__While they can go anywhere on Earth with their power, their physical bodies must remain close to the original equipment.__NEWL__With the new equipment they will be able to leave Hawaii and roam at will.__NEWL__Chandler's expertise is needed and he is proposed for election to the elite.__NEWL__If not, once the job is done he will be eliminated.__NEWL__Chandler for his part is beginning to enjoy the benefits of his situation and is a willing helper on the project.__NEWL__Matters come to a head when Rosalie's lover, who is also the leader of the execs, attempts revenge on Chandler, only to die of a heart attack due to his age and physical deterioration after years of vicarious living in the bodies of others.__NEWL__Chandler obtains his coronet, as well as another tuned to the new equipment, the only one in existence.__NEWL__He disables the old equipment and uses the new coronet to wipe out the other execs, except for Rosalie.__NEWL__He causes them to commit suicide, one by one, until he is the only one on Earth who has the secret.__NEWL__He thinks that eventually he will stop using it, but decides to keep it, just for now...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7727556	The Cool War	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26463704	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26463704	Like many of Pohl's novels, this opens in a world reduced by a crisis, in this case the loss of fossil fuels.__NEWL__Solar power is a major, albeit insufficient, source of power.__NEWL__Electricity is metered and cut off if a home exceeds a maximum amount of usage.__NEWL__"Power piggery", the profligate use of electricity, is a crime.__NEWL__The Rev. H. Hornswell "Horny" Hake becomes embroiled in "the Cool War", in which each country tries to sabotage the economies of its rivals, even if politically they are allies.__NEWL__For instance, he is put in charge of a party of schoolchildren touring Europe.__NEWL__The children are, however, carrying a virulent flu-like disease that affects only adults aged between 30 and 50, the "prime of life" individuals who tend to run businesses and government in industrialized countries.__NEWL__As a result, industrial production in Europe falls drastically.__NEWL__The group who created the infection is known only as "The Team" and is composed of former agents of the CIA and other organizations.__NEWL__However the War has produced a group of people who profit by its continuation and can suppress technologies that might solve humanity's problems.__NEWL__In particular a new form of solar energy collection relies on bio-engineered "sunflowers" which, while technically plants, have extremely reflective petals and can be trained to focus light from a wide area on a furnace or power generator.__NEWL__The Team is determined to destroy the technology because it was invented outside the United States.__NEWL__Hake has to recruit his friends, and some of his enemies, to prevent this and expose the Team to the world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7128673	Palos of the Dog Star Pack	1918-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	26531192	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26531192	Set on the planet Palos, the novel concerns Jason Croft, a wealthy American who has learned the art of astral projection from a Hindu teacher.__NEWL__Croft feels an unusual calling to Sirius, the Dog Star, and projects his consciousness there, eventually finding his way to the major planet of the solar system, Palos.__NEWL__Once there, Croft finds human life, and floats among them observing their lives.__NEWL__He falls in love at first sight with the princess Naia, and determines to win her love.__NEWL__He eventually finds a host body in the form of the "spiritually sick" Jasor of Nodhur.__NEWL__Within Jasor's body, Croft sets out to win the love of the princess, by introducing technological improvements to the rulers of her kingdom, Tamarizia.__NEWL__Because of the knowledge gained by astrally spying upon key figures and places on Palos, the people view him as an "angel" of sorts, sent by their deity Zitu.__NEWL__Croft uses this misunderstanding to explain his knowledge of advanced technology.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7752089	The Monster in the Box	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	26537971	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26537971	Wexford has long suspected Eric Targo of being a serial killer.__NEWL__Decades later, he finally admits this to DI Mike Burden, his longtime colleague and friend.__NEWL__In an apparently unrelated matter, DS Hannah Goldsmith and Burden's second wife Jenny both approach Wexford with concerns about Tamima, one of Jenny Burden's students.__NEWL__As a young detective constable he investigated the murder of Elsie Carroll.__NEWL__Wexford suspects that while her husband purported to be at a whist club, he was actually with his mistress when his wife was killed.__NEWL__George Carroll was acquitted of his wife's murder on a technicality, but was still shunned by Kingsmarkham residents; Wexford believes him innocent.__NEWL__In the weeks of and following the investigation into Elsie Carroll's death, Targo, a scarf covering his prominent birthmark, walks his dog past the young Wexford's rooming house to taunt him, or so it appears to Wexford.__NEWL__By the 1970s Targo has become a prosperous businessman, several times married and divorced, living in the north of England.__NEWL__Targo reappears in Kingsmarkam.__NEWL__Wexford suspects that Targo has murdered the autistic son of a Myringham widow who wishes her son dead so she can marry her longtime partner.__NEWL__In the book's present Targo reappears again, still with his dogs, without the naevus, but with a private menagerie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767271	The Summer of the Danes	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z	26540117	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26540117	The Anarchy is paused, except for the continued ravages of Geoffrey de Mandeville and his band of marauders in the Fens.__NEWL__Wales has a squabble between two brother princes, rooted in a murder the previous year.__NEWL__The Roman church under Theobald, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is extending its influence into Wales, which prefers its Celtic ways and the see of Saint David, by reviving an old bishopric straddling the border of England and Wales.__NEWL__Theobald requested that Bishop Roger de Clinton send a welcoming embassy to the new bishop, whose see includes parishes that once were under de Clinton.__NEWL__Three plots interlock in this novel.__NEWL__First is the embassy of Deacon Mark and Brother Cadfael to two bishops in Wales, reinforcing the Roman rite in Wales.__NEWL__Second is the young woman Heledd rejected by her canon father in reaction to imposition of the Roman rite, sending her to find love among historic Welsh enemies.__NEWL__Third is the trouble raised up by Cadwaladr, and resolved by Owain, who wanted no trouble with the Danes in their dragon boats.__NEWL__Mark, a young deacon in the house of Roger de Clinton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, is chosen to carry messages of good will to two bishops in Wales.__NEWL__He takes Brother Cadfael as translator into his homeland of north Wales in April 1144.__NEWL__They travel on horseback from Shrewsbury Abbey.__NEWL__Mark succeeds with the new bishop of Saint Asaph and the bishop of Bangor, sharing gifts and speaking as a diplomat.__NEWL__From Llanelwy to Bangor, they travel in the train of Owain Gwynedd, stopping at his royal seat at Aber overnight, where Cadfael finds a murdered man.__NEWL__Heledd rides away from Aber, not wanting to marry a man she has not chosen, awaiting her in Bangor.__NEWL__Mark and Cadfael seek the lost Heledd as they head home.__NEWL__Cadfael finds her; as quickly as he does, the two are seized by a group of strong Danes led by Turcaill.__NEWL__They are prisoners in the camp of Otir, leader of the Danes of Dublin.__NEWL__Mark sees them and reports it to Owain.__NEWL__Heledd tells Cadfael she left Aber on a whim, finding the horse saddled and ready.__NEWL__In a scheme to regain his lands and his good standing with his brother, Cadwaladr makes a deal with the Danes in Dublin to threaten Gwynedd.__NEWL__For Otir it is a cash transaction.__NEWL__The deal is for 2,000 marks in silver, cattle or goods.__NEWL__Otir's men are armed, but they have no plan to take on Owain's army.__NEWL__The ships land at Abermenai, opposite the island of Anglesey, at the end of the Menai Strait.__NEWL__Owain moves quickly to set up camp less than a mile away overnight.__NEWL__His brother approaches him with his scheme.__NEWL__Owain rejects it outright, telling his brother he must make good his debt to the Danes and keep the three captives safe.__NEWL__Cadwaladr instead tells the Danes that they should leave Gwynedd.__NEWL__Owain visits Otir to state his perspective on this awkward and potentially explosive situation.__NEWL__Cadwaladr will pay the amount he agreed, and the Danes will leave quietly.__NEWL__Mark is the go-between to announce Owain's coming; he is left in place of Cadwaladr while the brothers talk in Owain's camp.__NEWL__Heledd relaxes in this break from her troubles by talking and teasing with Turcaill.__NEWL__Her unknown betrothed arrives at Owain's camp.__NEWL__Ieuan ap Ifor cannot wait; he plans a rescue in the night.__NEWL__Cadwaladr's supporters itch to release him so they join up with Ieuan.__NEWL__Upon hearing Owain's terms, Turcaill kidnaps Cadwaladr from Owain's camp in the night, so Otir can pressure Cadwaladr to gather his money and cattle to settle this affair.__NEWL__Again Mark is the envoy, carrying Cadwaladr's words and seal to Owain, whom Cadwaladr trusts to gather his resources from his steward and bring them hence.__NEWL__Owain's son Hywel leads the party amassing the payment, Gwion riding out with them.__NEWL__The silver is loaded in barrels onto the Danish boats.__NEWL__That night, Ieuan succeeds in seizing Heledd.__NEWL__Gwion, returned on his own with supporters of Cadwaladr, does not succeed in freeing him, but sparks a battle, which kills three of the Danes, and some of his own men.__NEWL__Owain arrives after dawn, with the drove of cattle finishing Cadwaladr's debt, seeing the Danes in full battle array.__NEWL__Gwion takes the moment to charge his own men again.__NEWL__Owain orders his men to stop.__NEWL__There are more casualties.__NEWL__Gwion takes a fatal wound from Otir.__NEWL__In the presence of Cadfael and Owain, Gwion confesses to the murder at Aber.__NEWL__His compatriot Bledri would not ride to Cadwaladr that night.__NEWL__The horse was gone.__NEWL__Cadwaladr received no intelligence, so the murder gained him nothing.__NEWL__His death is rough justice for the murder Gwion committed at Aber.__NEWL__Heledd accepts her capture by Ieuan equably.__NEWL__She approaches what had been Otir's camp.__NEWL__At sunset, Turcaill arrives in a boat.__NEWL__She leaves with the man of her choice, leaving behind her troubles with her father.__NEWL__Mark and Cadfael proceed to Shrewsbury Abbey.__NEWL__They stay at Hugh's manor in Maesbury overnight for a pleasant family visit, with Aline and young Giles to cheer them.__NEWL__They overstayed the ten days promised to Abbot Radulfus, and Cadfael is happy to go home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1531861	Solar	2010-03-18T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23220	Berkshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	26518872	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26518872	Michael Beard is an eminent, Nobel Prize–winning physicist whose own life is chaotic and complicated.__NEWL__The novel takes the reader chronologically through three significant periods in Beard's life: 2000, 2005 and 2009, interspersed with some recollections of his student days in Oxford.__NEWL__Middle-aged, balding and slightly overweight womanizer Beard falls into a depression after learning that his fifth wife, Patrice, has begun an affair with their builder, a man called Tarpin.__NEWL__Despite being a Nobel award-winning physicist Beard realizes all his best work was done as a young man and now coasts on his reputation heading a research centre in Reading that seeks to harness wind energy.__NEWL__One of the younger researchers at the centre, Tom Aldous, tries to speak to Beard about the potential of solar energy but Beard shuts him down.__NEWL__After seeing Patrice with a bruise on her face Beard goes to confront Tarpin, but finds himself no match for the man and leaves after causing a scene in front of Tarpin's neighbours.__NEWL__Depressed over his marriage Beard accepts an invitation to go to the Arctic as part of a retreat on climate change.__NEWL__While there he realizes he is the only scientist among groups of artists who believe passionately in climate change (which he remains skeptical of) though they treat him with respect, believing his research in wind-based energy constitutes concrete steps towards combatting global warming.__NEWL__Beard returns home from his trip deciding to divorce Patrice.__NEWL__Arriving early however he encounters Tom Aldous in his bathrobe.__NEWL__After Beard tells him he will ruin his career Aldous begs him not to imploring him that his research into photosynthesis and solar energy is more important than the feud between the two of them.__NEWL__While pleading for his career Aldous trips on a rug and strikes his head against a coffee table.__NEWL__Beard realizes that if he calls the police he could be blamed for Aldous's death and instead plants evidence of Tarpin's presence.__NEWL__Tarpin is indeed arrested and convicted of Aldous's murder and Beard is painted in the media as a sympathetic figure who had been cuckolded by his wife.__NEWL__Aldous's research on solar energy is given to Beard as it had been labelled with his name.__NEWL__By 2005, Beard is experiencing a career resurgence due to his research into solar energy which in actuality was the research of Tom Aldous.__NEWL__Beard no longer works for the government having been fired after giving a press conference in which he stated that the lack of women in science was due to the natural limitations of their gender.__NEWL__The ensuing anger into his comments caused a media storm and resulted in his womanizing past being scrutinized in the press.__NEWL__He has a sexual relationship with a younger woman named Melissa who owns a string of dance supply shops whom he deliberately refuses to marry despite her desire for a child.__NEWL__Returning home from a trip Melissa informs Beard that she is currently pregnant having stopped taking birth control pills.__NEWL__Beard is angry and tries to think of ways to convince Melissa to have an abortion.__NEWL__Beard is now a father, and sixty-two years old.__NEWL__He is not in the best of health, and is worried about a suspicious-looking lesion on his wrist.__NEWL__His solar power plant is in the final stages of construction in Lordsburg, New Mexico, where he has acquired another girlfriend, Darlene, a waitress.__NEWL__Darlene wants to marry him, but he has a very comfortable set-up with Melissa and his three-year-old daughter, Catriona.__NEWL__All his problems culminate on the eve of the opening ceremony for his solar power plant.__NEWL__Tarpin is out of jail and turns up looking for work, Melissa flies to New Mexico with his daughter to try and win him over from Darlene, a patent lawyer arrives with proof that he stole his ideas from the now-dead Aldous, his doctor confirms the lesion on his hand is cancerous, his business partner abandons him to multimillion-dollar debts, and then he learns that somebody (presumably Tarpin) has sabotaged his power plant by smashing the solar panels.__NEWL__In the final scene Beard gets an "unfamiliar, swelling sensation" in his heart which he interprets as love for his daughter, but may well be the onset of a heart attack.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7460726	Shadowgate	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	38697785	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38697785	Lief, Barda, and Jasmine travel north to find the Sister of the North.__NEWL__They are captured and adopted by the Masked Ones, a circus troop who all wear masks physically fused into their faces.__NEWL__They were founded by Ballum, a close friend of one of the old kings, who was accused of being a traitor and forced to flee.__NEWL__During their stay, a mysterious specter keeps appearing and murdering people around the companions.__NEWL__They escape from the Masked Ones and meet the Lapis Lazuli Dragon, Fortuna.__NEWL__They find a castle near a village called Shadowgate, the northernmost point in Deltora.__NEWL__There they discover Bede, son of Bess (leader of the Masked Ones).__NEWL__They assume him to be the guardian, but it is revealed that it is actually Kirsten, a girl from Shadowgate who fell in love with him, but he loved her sister Mariette, so she grew jealous and turned herself over to the Shadow Lord to be the Guardian of the North if it meant she could keep Bede prisoner.__NEWL__The specter is a projection made by her which she uses to try and kill the companions, but always malfunctions.__NEWL__The Sister is discovered, and destroyed when the Emerald Dragon, Honora, awakens.__NEWL__Kirsten is killed, Mariette is released from her enchanted imprisonment, and she and Bede live together happily.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6785376	Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific	1841-01-01T00:00:00Z	21552					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q174193	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	38698858	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38698858	The Seagrave family are returning to New South Wales on board the Pacific when a storm strikes, wrecking the ship.__NEWL__The crew escape in a lifeboat leaving the passengers to their fate.__NEWL__The Seagrave family, together with their young black female servant Juno, and the veteran sailor Masterman Ready, are shipwrecked on a desert island.__NEWL__The family learn to survive many obstacles, helped by Ready's long experience of life as a seaman.__NEWL__The worse threat comes when a tribe of natives attacks the party, resulting in the death of Ready.__NEWL__Rescue comes when the captain of the Pacific, who the family thought had died in the storm, arrives in a schooner.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762491	The Scent of the Gods	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z	38820847	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38820847	Taking place in the 1960s during Singapore's formative years as a young independent republic, the novel traces the growth and sexual maturation of young Esha (also named Su Yen) as she grows up an orphan reared by the matriarch of her extended clan, known only as Grandma, and schooled in a Catholic missionary school.__NEWL__Her two older cousins, Li Shin and Li Yuen, are her constant companions.__NEWL__Narrated in the first person, the novel is notable for its use of limited perceptive; major events in the narrative are not totally explained – for instance, in the disappearance of her paternal uncle Tien, and Li Shin's death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7715536	The Bane of Yoto	2012-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38739672	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38739672	A gentle race known as the Numah have been enslaved by the fierce Olokun to mine the moon, Neos, in order to build a protective shield, called the Aegis, to protect both races from the disembodied Arbitrators - ancient gods who evolved beyond the physical realm.__NEWL__Deep in the mines of Neos, a mythical dagger is unearthed.__NEWL__Yoto, a Numah miner, is accidentally stabbed in the chest with the dagger by an assassin who hoped to use it on Yoto's brother Eon, a rebel leading an uprising against the Olokun.__NEWL__But rather than perish beneath the blade, Yoto is transformed into a giant creature who the Arbitrators hope to possess and reclaim a connection to the physical world once again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6954951	NOS4A2	2013-04-30T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38714105	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38714105	In 1986, eight-year-old Victoria "Vic" McQueen discovers that she can find lost items by riding her Raleigh Bike through a particular covered bridge near her home in Massachusetts, which will transport her to the location of whatever she is seeking.__NEWL__For instance, when her mom, Linda, loses a butterfly bracelet, Vic goes back to a diner in New Jersey to get it back.__NEWL__Vic soon discovers that each trip through this "Shorter Way" Bridge exacts an increasing mental and physical toll on her.__NEWL__In order to prevent people from thinking her crazy or a liar, Vic must come up with excuses to explain how she is able to find items.__NEWL__On one such trip, Vic travels to an Iowa library where she meets Maggie Leigh, a librarian with a stutter who can use Scrabble tiles to gain information about future events.__NEWL__Maggie warns Vic about a man she refers to as "the Wraith", a dangerous man with powers similar to theirs who drives a 1938 Rolls-Royce.__NEWL__Vic travels home but loses her bike and, as a result of using the Shorter Way, develops a terrible fever.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the man Maggie warned about, Charles Talent Manx III, kidnaps children across the country in the Rolls-Royce.__NEWL__Manx enlists chemical plant worker Bing Partridge to steal a supply of gingerbread-scented sevoflurane from his workplace, which Manx uses to incapacitate his victims.__NEWL__Manx takes the children he abducts to a mysterious amusement park called "Christmasland" where they can purportedly be happy forever.__NEWL__Bing uses the sevoflurane to incapacitate the children's parents before raping and killing them.__NEWL__In 1996, after separate arguments with her separated parents, 18-year-old Vic follows the Shorter Way to Sleigh House, Manx's residence in Colorado, so that she can be abducted to spite her mother.__NEWL__Upon arrival, she finds a child locked in the back of Manx's car and attempts to rescue him.__NEWL__Vic soon finds out, however, that the child has apparently become a monster in league with Manx.__NEWL__Vic takes refuge in Manx's house but is soon forced to flee when he arrives.__NEWL__She manages to escape Sleigh House at the last moment through a laundry chute after setting it on fire.__NEWL__She runs into overweight motorcyclist Lou Carmody, who takes her to a gas station to call the police.__NEWL__Manx arrives at the same station to purchase gas and is captured by the police after he attacks Vic and kills a soldier coming to her aid.__NEWL__Vic does not tell the police about how she arrived at Sleigh House, and they assume that Manx had kidnapped her and brought her to Colorado.__NEWL__Vic accidentally goes to Maggie through the Shorter Way.__NEWL__Maggie explains that they are both "creatives" who have the special ability to access "inscapes" outside of the normal world.__NEWL__Doing so takes a toll on the user, however, in the form of Vic's fevers and Maggie's gradually worsening stutter.__NEWL__By 2008, Vic has entered into a relationship with Lou and has given birth to a son, Bruce Wayne Carmody, and develops a successful series of children's books.__NEWL__However, she remains unhappy and scarred by her past.__NEWL__Vic begins to be harassed by phone calls from Christmasland's vampire children, who chastise her for Manx's arrest and threaten to target Wayne.__NEWL__Vic's torment drives her to insanity and destroys her relationship with Lou.__NEWL__Eventually, they part ways and she recovers after a stay in a psychiatric hospital.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in a prison infirmary, Manx briefly wakes from a coma to threaten a nurse.__NEWL__In 2012, Maggie visits Vic with the news that Manx died in prison, resurrected himself, and then escaped.__NEWL__Vic refuses to believe Maggie and sends her away.__NEWL__Manx reunites and resumes abducting children with Bing.__NEWL__They kill Vic's neighbors and move into their house, watching Vic and her son from a distance.__NEWL__As Vic takes an old triumph motorcycle for a test drive and discovers that it can enter the Shorter Way, Manx and Bing kidnap Wayne, who manages to contact Lou.__NEWL__Vic calls the police to report that Manx has abducted her child, but they refuse to believe her since Manx is officially dead.__NEWL__Instead, the police suspect Vic in the disappearance of her son, and FBI psychologist Tabitha Hutter is assigned to psychoanalyze her.__NEWL__Despite a cell phone trace that shows Wayne traveling toward Christmasland, on a severely distorted map of the United States, Hutter does not believe Vic's story.__NEWL__Vic decides to find Wayne using the Shorter Way and runs from the police.__NEWL__She arrives at Bing's house and he attacks her, but she kills him in self-defense by lighting his sevoflurane on fire.__NEWL__Vic calls Lou and tells him what happened, giving Lou a subtle hint to meet her at her estranged father's house.__NEWL__Vic takes the Shorter Way to visit Maggie, who explains that Manx depends on the Rolls-Royce to reach Christmasland and steal his victims' souls so that he can retain his youth; the only way to stop him is to destroy the car.__NEWL__While Vic sleeps, Maggie finds a message in the tiles - "When the angels fall, the children go home" - and leaves a copy for her.__NEWL__Maggie spots Wayne outside the library and runs to get him, but is killed by Manx.__NEWL__Narrowly avoiding capture by local police, Vic takes the Shorter Way to reach her father's house, where Lou has already arrived.__NEWL__Vic's father supplies them with a load of explosives that he uses for his demolition work.__NEWL__Hutter and the police arrive at the house to detain Vic.__NEWL__She explains details of Maggie's death that had happened far away only a short time earlier, making Hutter more willing to listen to her.__NEWL__However, the police kill Vic's father when he tries to protect her.__NEWL__Using the Shorter Way, Vic escapes and takes Lou to Christmasland.__NEWL__When she arrives, she pursues Manx through the park.__NEWL__Manx refuses to return Wayne and orders the children he has kidnapped to attack Vic.__NEWL__She is wounded in the fight but succeeds in destroying Christmasland with the explosives and escapes with Wayne via the Shorter Way to reach Lou.__NEWL__When Manx gives chase, the bridge collapses under the weight of his car and he is transported to 1986.__NEWL__The car falls into the river where Vic initially used the Shorter Way and is destroyed, killing Manx.__NEWL__After they return, Vic dies from her injuries.__NEWL__By the following October, Lou has lost weight and has begun a relationship with Hutter.__NEWL__Wayne begins to receive telephone calls from the children Manx kidnapped and finds himself taking pleasure in the tragedy, making him fear that he might be able to rebuild Christmasland and continue Manx's work on his own.__NEWL__Lou and Hutter take him to the burned-out ruin of the Sleigh House and begin smashing the Christmas ornaments hung in the trees there.__NEWL__As they do so, many of Manx's victims emerge into the real world, still of childhood age and with their humanity fully restored as predicted by Maggie's message in the library.__NEWL__Wayne feels himself heal after the moon ornament he had chosen for himself is broken.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18167914	The Inverted Pyramid							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38715178	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38715178	The novel follows the Norquay brothers Rod, Phil, and Grove, from 1909 to 1920.__NEWL__They find success in the booming logging sector, and start a trust company, the Norquay Trust.__NEWL__Through greed and mismanagement, the Trust fails and the brother's fortunes are lost.__NEWL__Rod Norquay is the novel's primary protagonist, and his relationship with the potentially mixed-race Mary Thorn provides a romantic element.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14660503	Seizure	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38769831	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38769831	Tory Brennan and her friends find themselves in danger of being separated due to budget cuts which may mean the closure of the Loggerheads Island Research Institute (LIRI) where their parents work.__NEWL__Discovering that pirate Anne Bonny's treasure is believed to be buried somewhere near their home in Charleston, South Carolina, they set out to follow the clues to the treasure, using their "Viral" powers gained in the previous book in the series, in the hope that if they find it, it will be worth enough to save LIRI.__NEWL__However, it is not just them that wants the treasure.__NEWL__The Virals must beat their opponents to the treasure.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7285157	Raising Steam	2013-11-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	38770859	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38770859	Dick Simnel, a young self-taught engineer from Sto Lat (and whose father, Ned Simnel, appeared in Reaper Man), has invented a steam locomotive.__NEWL__He brings his invention to Ankh-Morpork where it catches the interest of Sir Harry King, a millionaire businessman who has made his fortune in the waste and sanitation industry, as he wishes to create a legacy disassociated from the source of his wealth.__NEWL__Harry promises Dick sufficient investment to make the railway a success.__NEWL__The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Lord Vetinari, wishing to ensure that the City has appropriate influence over the new enterprise, appoints the reformed fraudster turned civil servant Moist von Lipwig to represent the government in the management of the railway.__NEWL__His skills soon come in useful in negotiations with landowners along the route of the new line.__NEWL__Throughout the story, Dwarfish fundamentalists are responsible for a number of terrorist attacks, including the murder and arson.__NEWL__This campaign culminates in a palace coup in Überwald, whilst the King is at an international summit in Quirm, over twelve hundred miles away.__NEWL__Vetinari declares that it is imperative to return the King to Schmaltzberg as soon as possible in order to restore political stability, and gives Moist the task of getting him there via the new railway.__NEWL__Moist protests impossibility on the grounds that the railway is nowhere near complete, but is told that achieving this target is non-negotiable.__NEWL__On the journey there are numerous attacks by Dwarfish fundamentalists, but eventually the train reaches its destination and the King retakes Schmaltzberg with little resistance.__NEWL__Back in Ankh-Morpork, there are honours and medals all round except for Moist who is told that his reward is to remain alive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14115182	Boenga Roos dari Tjikembang	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q188161	Dutch East Indies	38781472	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38781472	Oh Aij Tjeng is a young ethnic Chinese man who runs a plantation in West Java.__NEWL__He lives there with his njai (concubine), a Sundanese woman named Marsiti.__NEWL__The two are deeply in love and promise to be faithful forever.__NEWL__However, not long afterwards Aij Tjeng's father Oh Pin Loh comes to tell Aij Tjeng that he has been betrothed to Gwat Nio, the daughter of the plantation's owner Liok Keng Djim.__NEWL__Marsiti is sent away by the elder Oh and, after Aij Tjeng orders his manservant Tirta to find her, Tirta disappears as well.__NEWL__After the marriage, Aij Tjeng finds in Gwat Nio all of the same traits which made him fall in love with Marsiti, but even more polished owing to her better education.__NEWL__He falls in love with her and begins to forget Marsiti, and the couple have a daughter, Lily.__NEWL__One day Keng Djim calls Aij Tjeng and Gwat Nio to his deathbed, where he confesses that he has recently learned that Marsiti was his daughter from a native njai he had taken as a youth, and that Marsiti had died.__NEWL__He greatly regrets that he and Pin Loh had her chased away from the plantation.__NEWL__Keng Djim hints that there is another secret to be shared, but dies before he can reveal it.__NEWL__Aij Tjeng calls for his father, to discover the secret, but finds that he too has died.__NEWL__Eighteen years pass, and Lily is betrothed to a rich Chinese youth named Sim Bian Koen.__NEWL__Lily, although beautiful and talented, is obsessed with death and sadness; she believes that she is destined to die young.__NEWL__She eventually tells Bian Koen to find another fiancée as she will soon leave him.__NEWL__She falls ill shortly thereafter, and doctors are unable to save her.__NEWL__In the aftermath, Bian Koen considers suicide and Aij Tjeng and Gwat Nio become sick from their despair.__NEWL__By the following year Aij Tjeng and Gwat Nio have mostly recovered, having moved far away and turned to religion.__NEWL__Bian Koen, however, remains suicidal, and intends to go to war in China to find death; the only thing restraining him is his promise to wait for the anniversary of Lily's death.__NEWL__One day, as he is passing through the village of Cikembang, he finds a well-kept grave.__NEWL__As he examines the area, he sees a woman who he thinks is Lily.__NEWL__She rejects his embrace and runs away.__NEWL__When Bian Koen chases her, he falls and passes out.__NEWL__When he wakes up at his home, Bian Koen tells his parents that he saw Lily in Cikembang.__NEWL__After investigating, the Sims discover that "Lily" is in fact Aij Tjeng's daughter with Marsiti, Roosminah, who was raised in secret by Tirta.__NEWL__Because of her beauty, equal to that of Lily in every way, she is known as "The Rose of Cikembang".__NEWL__The Sims are able to contact Aij Tjeng, and after discovering Roosminah's background they have Roosminah take over Lily's identity.__NEWL__Her extravagant wedding with Bian Koen is attended by thousands, including Marsiti's spirit.__NEWL__Five years later, Bian Koen and Roosminah live with their two children at the plantation Aij Tjeng used to manage.__NEWL__While Aij Tjeng and Gwat Nio are visiting, their granddaughter Elsy (guided by Marsiti's spirit) brings them flowers from a tree Marsiti had planted.__NEWL__The family take it as a sign of her love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7835804	Trauma	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	38648226	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38648226	Set during the 1970s, Trauma focuses on the life of Dr. Charlie Weir, who lives and works in New York City as a psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder.__NEWL__Charlie's narration begins with a reminiscence of his early life and his mother's developing struggle with depressive illness, before moving into other traumatic instances of his relationship with his mother before the revelation of her death.__NEWL__Charlie rekindles a relationship with his ex-wife Agnes of the day of his mother's funeral, triggering Charlie to relive the reasons for their separation, namely the suicide of Agnes brother Danny.__NEWL__Eight years prior to this, Charlie worked as a psychotherapist helping veterans of the Vietnam War to overcome their post-traumatic stress.__NEWL__Included amongst his patients was Danny, who was well-respected by the other veterans, though rarely spoke.__NEWL__Charlie, in an attempt to draw him out of his malaise, followed Danny to a bar and attempted to engage him about his experiences, an act that Charlie would later believe to be the direct cause for man's suicide, as soon after he killed himself with a gun in his shower.__NEWL__At the same time as Charlie is recounting these memories, he has also begun a new relationship with Nora Chiara, which quickly turns sour.__NEWL__Nora begins to have violent nightmares that Charlie attributes to some psychological disorder, though she refuses to seek treatment.__NEWL__The strain this places on their relationship, in combination with Charlie's own negative relationship with his family and his continuing return to painful memories associated with Danny, forces Charlie to confront his own repressed traumas.__NEWL__He retreats to an old family holiday destination in the Catskills, triggering the repressed memory of his mother threatening to kill him at gun point, and ending in a confrontation with his brother and father in which Charlie shoots his brother.__NEWL__The novel ends as Charlie waits for psychiatric aid to arrive, and, as he believes, to be taken 'home' to a state hospital for the insane.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3819579	The Venetian Betrayal	2007-12-11T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38542971	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38542971	In 323 BC Babylon, Alexander the Great executes his physician for failing to save his friend Hephaestion using a mysterious draught, and reveals that he has a fever that could well kill him without it.__NEWL__Cotton Malone is preparing to meet with his friend Cassiopeia Vitt in Copenhagen when he finds himself in a burning museum, which Cassiopeia saves him from.__NEWL__She and Henrik Thorvaldsen tell Malone that everything relates to elephant medallions commemorating Alexander's India invasion, and that they're planning a way to discover who is behind the thefts of medallions across Europe, though they suspect Irina Zovastina, who is the Supreme Minister of the Central Asian Federation.__NEWL__Zovastina is planning to conquer all of her neighbors and do the reverse of what Alexander did, through the means of biological weapons.__NEWL__But she doesn't own the cure.__NEWL__Pharmaceutical tycoon Enrico Vincenti, head of the Venetian League, provides it to her.__NEWL__He sees the cure as an opportunity to vastly increase his wealth.__NEWL__Henrik tells Malone that Cassiopeia's dear friend and possible lover was working for Zovastina when she believes Zovastina killed him for what he knew.__NEWL__Stephanie Nelle becomes involved trying to retrieve a medallion for Cassiopeia, but President Danny Daniels and Deputy National Security Adviser Edwin Davis ask her to go after Vincenti.__NEWL__Everyone heads to Venice, where Cassiopeia tries to kill two members of Zovastina's guard, including Viktor Tomas, whose loyalties seem unclear.__NEWL__Zovastina is trying to solve a riddle from Ptolemy to find Alexander's grave and believes the body in St. Mark's Basilica holds the key, negotiating with Monsignor Colin Michener to see it.__NEWL__After a standoff in the basilica, Zovastina takes Cassiopeia captive to guarantee herself safe passage back to Samarkand (her capital), and Michener reveals to Malone and company that he has been acting as a spy for the pope, and Viktor Tomas is an American spy.__NEWL__Vincenti reveals to his chief scientist that the cure for Zovastina's viruses is the cure for AIDS, and kidnaps her lesbian lover, who is dying of AIDS, to be his weapon against her.__NEWL__In Samarkand, Zovastina prepares to execute Cassiopeia, but Malone and Viktor save her, even while Stephanie and Henrik find Cassiopeia's friend, Ely Lund, who is not dead after all.__NEWL__Everyone ends up at Vincenti's Asian estate, where a mountain contains the draught/cure and the entrance to Alexander's tomb.__NEWL__Zovastina kills Vincenti, and thought Viktor is shown to have told her about his spying for America, he gives Cassiopeia the control to blow up Zovastina's helicopter, which she does.__NEWL__A month later, Cassiopeia shows up in Copenhagen to visit Malone, which signals the start of a deeper relationship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7156582	Pay It Foward	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38763770	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38763770	When twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney begins seventh grade in Atascadero, California, his social studies teacher, Reuben St Clair, gives the class an assignment to devise and put into action a plan that will change the world for the better.__NEWL__Trevor's plan is a charitable program based on the networking of good deeds.__NEWL__He calls his plan "Pay It Forward", which means the recipient of a favor does a favor for three others.__NEWL__However, it needs to be a major favor that the receiver cannot complete themselves.__NEWL__Trevor first begins by helping Jerry, a jobless man who was unable to find a home.__NEWL__However, he seemingly forgets to complete three favors and ends up in prison.__NEWL__Next, Trevor directly helps his social studies teacher, Mr. Reuben St. Clair.__NEWL__Finally, he helps Mrs. Greenberg, who eventually dies.__NEWL__But without Trevor's knowledge, Mrs. Greenberg had helped three friends by giving them $8,333 in her will.__NEWL__One of them, Matt, meets an injured gangster in an alleyway, named Sidney G. Matt told him about Pay It Forward but told him not to do it.__NEWL__After helping the man, it turns out that gangster helped another man, who also spared the life of his lifetime rival as his favor.__NEWL__Trevor dies by getting stabbed.__NEWL__Seeing the chain, Chris Chandler, a reporter, connects the dots and finds Trevor.__NEWL__Even further, Trevor's mother, whose father had left, strikes a relationship with Mr. St. Clair, Trevor's Social Studies teacher, and Jerry is heard from again, helping a lady not to commit suicide.__NEWL__The novel details how Trevor's "Pay It Forward" attempts are successful or not successful and how some of the "Pay It Forward" chains result happenings such as Trevor meeting the President, and Trevor's untimely death, which was made by one last person to help in his Pay It Forward 'project' which soon turned into "The Movement".__NEWL__Since then, the novel has been translated into twenty languages for publication in more than thirty countries and was chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults in 2001 by the American Library Association.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5245077	Dead Aim	2013-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1439	Texas	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38509266	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38509266	Hap and Leonard are hired, through Marvin Hanson's private detective agency, to protect a woman from her estranged, abusive husband.__NEWL__Hap is framed for the man's murder while staking out his house, and upon further investigation the two sleuths discover that the victim owed the Dixie Mafia crime syndicate a large sum of money, and in addition he had a large life insurance policy with his wife named as the sole beneficiary.__NEWL__Hap and Leonard are soon involved, not just in the murder, but in a kidnapping and ransom demand as well.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14369533	Allan and the Ice-gods	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	38509958	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38509958	Allan Quatermain, feeling awkward toward Lady Luna Ragnall after their recent taduki-induced vision in The Ancient Allan, in which they were nearly married, refuses three invitations from Lady Ragnall to return for another vision and has vowed never to use the drug again.__NEWL__Lady Ragnall herself informs Allan that she has used the taduki once more and discovered that their ancient counterparts, Amada and Shabaka, were indeed married.__NEWL__Allan reads in the newspaper that Lady Ragnall has traveled to Egypt for the winter.__NEWL__Six weeks or so later, Allan has a psychic experience and later learns that Lady Ragnall had died of heart failure at that moment at the site of her husband’s grave in the Temple of Isis.__NEWL__Allan inherits her estate, coveted by Lord Ragnall’s next-of-kin, Mr. Atterby-Smith.__NEWL__He distributes it to charities except for a box containing the taduki drug which Lady Ragnall had left him.__NEWL__He is tempted to break his vow and use it, but finally resolves not to when his friend, Captain John Good, calls on him.__NEWL__Good is able to persuade Allan to use the drug and the two enter into their vision.__NEWL__Allan awakens as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric Ice Age.__NEWL__He belongs to a culture that reveres a man and mammoth frozen in ice as their gods.__NEWL__His closest friend is Pag, an outcast who creates many new technologies.__NEWL__Wi challenges and kills his corrupt chief Henga and institutes reforms in the tribe: monogamy, decision by council, and the use of new technology.__NEWL__Pag rises in power in the tribe and is able to stop a pack of wolves from attacking.__NEWL__Wi and Pag travel into the wilderness to fight off a saber-toothed tiger.__NEWL__Wi discovers a beautiful young woman, unconscious, in a canoe.__NEWL__Her name is Laleela.__NEWL__Wi falls in love with her, as does Wi’s brother Moananga.__NEWL__Most of the tribe regards her as a witch and Wi’s wife__NEWL__Aaka wishes for her to be killed.__NEWL__Pag tries to convince Wi that he must marry Laleela in order to protect her, but Wi realizes this will break the oath of monogamy he has imposed upon the tribe.__NEWL__A tribe of red-bearded warriors attacks and is defeated.__NEWL__Wi also kills an aurochs.__NEWL__When he rejects the ice-gods for Laleela's faith, the tribe demands someone from his household be sacrificed.__NEWL__After some deliberation, Wi offers himself as sacrifice.__NEWL__Before the sacrifice takes place, the ice-gods are thawed and the glacier they were frozen in plows through the tribe.__NEWL__The Ice Age is ending.__NEWL__Wi and his companions leave the tribe and sail south but are caught in the rapids.__NEWL__Wi, noticing that their boat is overburdened, stays on an ice flow.__NEWL__Pag swims back to him.__NEWL__It is at this point that Allan and Good awaken.__NEWL__Allan and Good discuss their adventure.__NEWL__They determine that Good was Moananga, Laleela was Luna Ragnall, and Allan’s sometime companion Hans was the outcast Pag.__NEWL__Allan surmises that they are not actually experiencing past lives, but that the taduki drug has “the power of awakening the ancestral memory which has come down to us with our spark of life through scores of intervening forefathers.”__NEWL__He also guesses that Wi and his companions dwelt in Ice Age Scotland, 500,000 or 50,000 years ago, and that Laleela came from southern Ireland or northern France.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7460625	Shadow and Bone	2012-05-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38599275	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38599275	Alina Starkov is a teenage girl who grew up with Malyen (Mal) Oretsev at an orphanage in Keramzin in the Kingdom of Ravka.__NEWL__The story begins as they march through the Unsea (also called the Shadow Fold), a perpetually dark, barren strip of land cutting most of Ravka off from the sea.__NEWL__Periodic expeditions sent across the Fold to transport goods and bring back imports are often plagued by monsters called volcra that inhabit the Unsea.__NEWL__During their crossing, the volcra attack, and, while saving Mal, Alina displays an extraordinary Grisha talent.__NEWL__The Grisha are people with the ability to manipulate the elements to use as weapons, e.g. to call fire, to summon wind, to regulate hearts.__NEWL__Alina is able to summon light and is thus considered a Sun Summoner.__NEWL__There are some people who think she is a saint whose purpose is to destroy the shadow fold.__NEWL__The leader of the Grisha, the Darkling, rushes Alina to the capital__NEWL__Os Alta, saying her power is unique and valuable which makes her an assassination target by enemies of Ravka.__NEWL__She struggles to fit in with other Grisha and to have confidence in her own abilities as she begins rigorous training.__NEWL__She feels a strong attraction to the Darkling, which he seems to reciprocate.__NEWL__During two encounters they kiss, and Alina is confused by her reactions to the kisses.__NEWL__After demonstrating her power to the King and his court, Alina is told by her tutor, Baghra, that she must flee.__NEWL__Baghra reveals herself as the Darkling's mother.__NEWL__She explains that the Darkling is hundreds of years old, intentionally created the Unsea, and intends to enslave Alina in order to use her Grisha power to conquer the world.__NEWL__Two weeks into Alina's flight, she is nearly captured, but is saved by Mal who has a close to a supernatural ability to track, and was sent to find her.__NEWL__Instead of turning her in, he helps her escape.__NEWL__They decide to hunt a magic stag in the far north.__NEWL__If Alina kills the stag and makes a collar of its antlers, her powers will be greatly amplified.__NEWL__After much time and effort, Alina and Mal find the stag, just as they realize how much they love each other.__NEWL__She refuses to kill the stag, and the stag acknowledges this.__NEWL__At that moment the Darkling and his minions appear.__NEWL__The Darkling kills the stag and forces the antler collar on Alina, making her his absolute slave, unable to disobey him in the slightest.__NEWL__They quickly return south to the major crossing point of the Unsea.__NEWL__The Darkling forces Alina to protect the ship during the crossing.__NEWL__Near the other side, the Darkling extends the Unsea, causing great death, and destruction in Novo Kribirsk.__NEWL__He then throws Mal off the ship, onto the Unsea, to be devoured by monsters.__NEWL__In desperation, Alina finally realizes that her act of mercy, sparing the stag, gives her the possibility to break free of the Darkling's enslavement.__NEWL__Her love of Mal grants her the strength she needs.__NEWL__Alina breaks free, leaps out of the ship, saves Mal, and destroys the ship.__NEWL__The book ends with Mal and Alina taking passage across the True Sea, escaping from Ravka and the Darkling.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8034469	Words of Radiance	2014-03-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38772476	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38772476	Years ago, Szeth-son-son-Vallano, the Assassin in White, was sent by the Parshendi to assassinate the Alethi king Gavilar Kholin (for reasons not yet revealed to the reader).__NEWL__This murder resulted in the Vengeance Pact among the highprinces of Alethkar and the War of Reckoning against the Parshendi.__NEWL__Now Szeth is active again, and is sent by King Taravangian of Kharbranth, to kill Highprince Dalinar Kholin (brother of the late King Gavilar).__NEWL__Kaladin, once a slave and bridgeman on the Shattered Plains, is given command of the royal bodyguards to protect Dalinar and his family (including King Elhokar) from perils and the threat of the Assassin.__NEWL__Meanwhile, he struggles with both his feelings regarding lighteyes (the nobility of the Alethi) and his past with Brightlord Amaram.__NEWL__He trains and practices to master the powers of a Windrunner that are linked to the bond with his honorspren, Syl.__NEWL__Shallan Davar, together with her mentor Jasnah Kholin, are heading to the Shattered Plains to prevent the return of the Voidbringers and their civilization-ending Desolation.__NEWL__Jasnah arranges a marriage between Shallan and Adolin Kholin, Jasnah's cousin.__NEWL__Their ship is attacked en route to the Shattered Plains and while Shallan survives, Jasnah is believed to be killed.__NEWL__Shallan, with the assistance of sailors and outlaws she finds on the road, makes her arrival at the Shattered Plains.__NEWL__One of the Parshendi, Venli, discovers a stormform that allows Parshendi to summon a storm similar to the Highstorms and turn the tide of the war.__NEWL__Some Parshendi believe using stormform will summon the Voidbringers, but the ruling council allows the form.__NEWL__Eshonai wants to parlay with Dalinar to bring an end to the war before stormform is used.__NEWL__Szeth attempts to murder Dalinar but is stopped when Dalinar catches Szeth's shardblade with his hands.__NEWL__Kaladin ends the attempt by knocking himself and Szeth into open air.__NEWL__During the melee after landing, Szeth sees Kaladin use stormlight and flees from the duel, realizing that the Radiants are back and he is not Truthless.__NEWL__Later, a Bridge Four member named Moash who has a grudge against Elhokar enters a plot to assassinate him.__NEWL__Kaladin gifts him a Shardblade that he and Adolin won in a duel, giving Moash the equipment needed to attain his goal.__NEWL__Eshonai, along with most of the surviving Parshendi transform to stormform, and summon the Everstorm, which comes from the opposite direction as the normal highstorms.__NEWL__The Alethi attack and defeat the Parshendi, but not before the storm is summoned.__NEWL__Moash attempts to kill Elhokar, but the attempt is foiled by Kaladin, after which Moash and his fellow conspirators flee.__NEWL__Szeth attacks Dalinar again, but is mortally wounded by Kaladin.__NEWL__He falls from the sky and is presumed dead.__NEWL__The Alethi armies are only able to escape the storms through Shallan's discovery and activation of the Oathgate (a system of teleports usable only by the Radiants), which evacuates the army to the legendary city of the Radiants, Urithiru.__NEWL__After arriving at Urithiru, Dalinar swears the oaths of the Knights Radiant and the Order of the Bondsmiths - binding the Stormfather as his spren.__NEWL__It is discovered that Renarin, son of Dalinar, is also a member of the Knights Radiant (a member of the order of Truthwatchers).__NEWL__Adolin, after being confronted by Sadeas who states that he will continue to oppose Dalinar - despite the desolation - kills Sadeas after a short struggle.__NEWL__Szeth wakes from a coma to discover that Nale, Herald of Justice and leader of the Skybreakers, has healed him before he could truly die of his injuries sustained fighting Kaladin.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Jasnah is met by Hoid after she returns from the Cognitive Realm, where she escaped to from the attack on her ship to the Shattered Plains.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17106263	The Gauntlet	38772504	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38772504	The story begins with Peter Staunton and his friend Gwyn Evans finding a rusted iron gauntlet while on holiday in the Brecon Beacons.__NEWL__When Peter puts the gauntlet on, he hears medieval sounds such as "the thud of hooves", and hears that there have been others who had had similar experiences.__NEWL__Peter then spends time learning about medieval life in England, and, after falling asleep in the garden of Carreg Cennen Castle, finds himself back in medieval times.__NEWL__He has a number of experiences, such as attending a medieval banquet, visiting the abbey, watching a joust, before returning to fight in a siege of the castle by the Welsh, where he is hit and falls unconscious.__NEWL__While in 1326, he buries his misericorde in the herb garden.__NEWL__He wakes back in his own time, and tries to convince his friends there that he was not simply dreaming.__NEWL__He remembers that he had buried his dagger, and eventually unearths a corroded knife, but it is not clear if this was the one he buried.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763037	The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38772804	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38772804	The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli follows the adventures of private investigator, Damian Spinelli, as he attempts to solve several cases around Port Charles.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5738277	Heretic	2003-10-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	38575569	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38575569	Heretic begins with a bloody battle outside Calais in 1347, a short time before the city fell to the English.__NEWL__The sympathetic Thomas of Hookton is bending every sinew at the service of his master, the Earl of Northampton; after risking his life time and again, Thomas finds himself commissioned to track down the most sacred relic in Christendom, the Holy Grail.__NEWL__He travels to Gascony, seat of power of his nemesis, Guy Vexille.__NEWL__With his cunning, Thomas is able to take control of a fictional fortress town and there meets Genevieve, a local woman about to be burned at the stake for witchcraft.__NEWL__Thomas saves her, however the action costs him dearly for he is later excommunicated.__NEWL__As he realises he is losing respect and approval amongst his men, Thomas is forced to abandon the fastness and begins journeying through Gascony with Genevieve.__NEWL__Rejoining with his band of archers later in the plot, Thomas conducts a fierce guerrilla war against Vexille, and yearns for a face-to-face encounter.__NEWL__But then Thomas is routed and finds his campaign in shreds, facing the twin enemies of the church and the plague.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16149980	1356	2012-09-27T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	38575826	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38575826	The novel picks up the story of Thomas of Hookton, the English archer at the center of Bernard Cornwell's trilogy of novels concerning The Grail Quest, which ended with Thomas's return to England from France in 1347.__NEWL__Back in France now, Thomas has achieved his ambition of leading his own company of archers and men at arms who hire out to anyone willing to pay them - provided they are not asked to fight against the English.__NEWL__Although knighted years earlier by his liege lord and patron, the Earl of Northampton, Thomas prefers to be known as Le Bâtard, leader of the Hellequin, as his band of mercenaries call themselves.__NEWL__He has married Genevieve, the young Frenchwoman he rescued from the Inquisition during the Grail Quest.__NEWL__They have a son Hugh, already in training to use the longbow that makes English archers feared throughout Europe.__NEWL__As the novel opens, Thomas and his men are fighting on behalf of a French count who has hired them to assault a nearby castle.__NEWL__Brother Michael, a young monk from England who is travelling to Montpellier to train as a healer, brings Thomas a message from the Earl.__NEWL__The message will involve Thomas and his men in a dangerous quest for yet another holy relic, a sword said to have belonged to Saint Peter.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Fra Ferdinand, a Black Friar, retrieves the sword from a tomb at the request of an old friend - only to learn that his friend has been murdered by men who claim they were sent by the Pope at Avignon to search for it.__NEWL__Thomas, Michael, Fra Ferdinand, and other characters, some new and some from the previous books, are swept up in the chaotic conditions of France during the Hundred Years War, culminating in the Battle of Poitiers, where a king is overthrown and the history of Europe is changed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13055019	Wounds of Armenia	1858-01-01T00:00:00Z	38789107	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38789107	The story which Abovian named Wounds of Armenia is based on an incident which happened in his hometown Kanaker during the Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828.__NEWL__A young Armenian girl named Takhuni is kidnapped by soldiers of Hossein Khan Sardar, the head of the Erivan Khanate.__NEWL__Aghasi, who is the main hero, kills the Sardar's men and saves her.__NEWL__The Persian governor's brother Hassan decides to punish Aghasi and thus destroys a number of Armenian towns.__NEWL__The 2005 book The Heritage of Armenian Literature by Agop Jack Hacikyan et al argues that "though symbolic, the incident, was sufficiently potent to arouse sentiments of patriotism, national pride, and dignity".__NEWL__The authors then note that "the book, reads like a poem, in which the author, like a son, is having an honest, forthright talk with the people, in their own Kanaker dialect".__NEWL__They claim "its message is direct and strong: an appeal from the bottom of the heart".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730641	The Donkey Rustlers	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	38826740	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38826740	It is set on a Greek island.__NEWL__The plot involves two British children, Amanda and David, who regularly vacation on the island, and who are friends with two Greek children, Yani and another who has a speech impediment.__NEWL__Yani has financial difficulties which mean that he is in danger of losing his land to the local mayor, the villain of the story.__NEWL__Together they embark on a plot to help Yani by abducting all the donkeys in the village.__NEWL__Amanda and David's father finds out what they are up to, but ends up surreptitiously assisting them.__NEWL__Right at the end, after Yani's financial problems are solved, the villagers realise what the children were up to, but laugh it off as a joke, as they are sympathetic and glad to see the mayor defeated.__NEWL__It has a slightly Enid Blyton-ish plot, with children getting up to adventures and fooling adults in a way which they would be unlikely to get away with in real life (although not all of the adults are fooled for all of the time, and it does touch on some mature issues in a few places).__NEWL__However readers have enjoyed its imaginative feel-good plot, and well-drawn characters and location.__NEWL__It is influenced by Durrell's own childhood on Corfu.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16839446	A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q45	Portugal	38751230	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38751230	The book is told as a First-person narrative by Lucius Valerius Quintius, prefect of the fictional city Tarcisis during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.__NEWL__He faces threats both internal and external, as Moors from North Africa are attacking the province, which is beset by social and political unrest.__NEWL__At the same time, the new Christian faith is gaining strength in the Roman lands.__NEWL__Quintus tries to deal justly with all these problems, inspired by the ideas of his role model, the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.__NEWL__As tension builds in the city, Quintius must decide how to punish Christian subversives led by the beautiful Iunia Cantaber, the daughter of an old friend of his.__NEWL__The prefect hesitates, for he has fallen in love with Iunia.__NEWL__He is both fascinated by and frustrated with the followers of the new religion; these people who "worship fish", as he puts it.__NEWL__He also reflects back on his visit to Rome ten years earlier, where he met his hero Marcus Aurelius.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5247357	Death in Summer	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23240	Essex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38565294	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38565294	Death in Summer revolves around Thaddeus Davenant, whose young wife, Letitia Iveson, was killed in a freak accident on a bicycle.__NEWL__Letitia leaves behind their six-month-old baby girl Georgina; her mother, Mrs Iveson, advises Thaddeus to employ a child minder.__NEWL__One of those interviewed is Pettie, a girl who was brought up in a foster home abused by a sinister "Sunday uncle".__NEWL__She grows increasingly obsessed with Thaddeus and his baby after seeing them just once.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3772088	A Sparrow Falls	1977-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38799074	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38799074	While in France a young sniper, Mark Anders, meets Sean Courtney who has risen to the rank of general.__NEWL__Following the end of the war the pair return to South Africa.__NEWL__After finding that his grandfather has died under mysterious circumstances, and his property has been taken over by an unknown company, Anders eventually becomes Sean's assistant.__NEWL__This brings him onto contact with Sean's beautiful, spoiled daughter, Storm, who he falls for.__NEWL__Sean Courtney becomes involved in suppressing the Rand Revolt of 1922 before becoming immersed in violent conflict with his corrupt son, Dirk.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16387170	A Murder on the Appian Way	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38608463	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38608463	The year is 52 BC, and Rome is in turmoil as rival gangs fight it out in the streets.__NEWL__When the gang leader and radical politician Publius Clodius Pulcher is found murdered on the Appian Way south of Rome, the main suspect is Clodius' rival gang leader, Titus Annius Milo.__NEWL__Gordianus is hired by Cicero, who is Milo's defender, to find the true murderer.__NEWL__In the shadows lurk powerful men such as Caesar and Pompey.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16387047	A Mist of Prophecies	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38608711	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38608711	The year is 48 BC, and there is civil war in the Roman Empire.__NEWL__In Rome, the beautiful and mysterious seeress called Cassandra is poisoned, and dies in the arms of Gordianus in the market.__NEWL__While the Finder attempts to uncover her murderer, the armies of Caesar and Pompey are about to clash in Greece.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763465	The Seven Wonders	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38608933	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38608933	The year is 92 BC.__NEWL__The young Gordianus is eighteen years old, and has just become a man.__NEWL__Now he sets out on the journey of a lifetime, traveling with his teacher and friend Antipater of Sidon to see the seven wonders of the world.__NEWL__Along the route he gets entangled in several mysteries and murders that he helps solve, while he is starting to suspect that an even more sinister conspiracy is unfolding around him.__NEWL__The backdrop of the novel is the brewing conflict between Rome and Mithridates VI of Pontus.__NEWL__(March 92 BC)__NEWL__After Gordianus celebrates his 18th birthday, he leaves Rome to travel to the seven wonders of the ancient world in the company of his tutor, the poet Antipater, who has faked his death with the help of Gordianus' father in order to escape the attentions of the Roman authorities.__NEWL__(April 92 BC) Gordianus and Antipater visit the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, where Gordianus investigates the mysterious death of a young girl during a sacred procession honoring the goddess Artemis.__NEWL__(April–August 92 BC)__NEWL__In Halicarnassus they visit the fabled Mausoleum, and Gordianus gets acquainted with two widows suspected of murdering their husbands.__NEWL__August–September 92 BC)__NEWL__At Olympia the two watch the 172nd Olympiad, and see the magnificent statue of Zeus.__NEWL__Gordianus must prove the innocence of an athlete suspected of murder.__NEWL__(September 92 BC)__NEWL__As they travel past the ruins of the city of Corinth, destroyed half a century earlier during the Achaean War, Gordianus and Antipater get involved in the gruesome murder of a group of Roman soldiers and tourists.__NEWL__(Autumn and winter 92 BC)__NEWL__At the city of Rhodes the pair see the fallen remains Colossus, and investigate the destruction of an ancient plaster model of the giant statue.__NEWL__(Spring 91 BC)__NEWL__As they visit ancient Babylon and view the massive walls and the famous Hanging Gardens, Gordianus gets caught up in a ghost story that turns into a murder mystery.__NEWL__(June 91 BC)__NEWL__As they visit the ancient city of Memphis and the Giza Necropolis, Gordianus and Antipater see the largest and oldest of the wonders, the Great Pyramid, and the Finder must solve the Riddle of the Sphinx.__NEWL__(Summer 91 BC)__NEWL__In the great metropolis of Alexandria, they visit the Great Lighthouse and the Great Library, and Gordianus begins to suspect that his teacher is involved in a murderous plot.__NEWL__(March 90 BC) Gordianus decides to stay a while in Alexandria, where he turns 20 and buys a beautiful slave named Bethesda.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719119	The Bones of Avalon	2010-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	38610325	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38610325	John Dee gets visited by Elizabeth I of England in Mortlake.__NEWL__She implies she wants to do some research on "our royal ancestor" King Arthur.__NEWL__Subsequently, her Secretary of State Sir William Cecil assigns him to seize King Arthur's bones.__NEWL__This would finally refute the still popular myth of King Arthur's messianic return.__NEWL__Sir William Cecil wants to have Arthur's bones "formally presented" to the Queen by Dee, who HRH considers "her Merlin".__NEWL__John Dee arrives in Glastonbury, where according to Giraldus Cambrensis some centuries ago a successful excavation of King Arthur's remains has taken place.__NEWL__When Dee's supporter Robert Dudley gets seriously sick, the local healer Eleanor Borrow is supposed to cure him.__NEWL__She goes fetching mineral water from the Chalice__NEWL__Well because she thinks it increases the impact of her herbal medicine.__NEWL__Later, when the mutilated corpse of Dudley's servant is found, Eleanor Borrow is suspected to have murdered him as a satanic ritual.__NEWL__John Dee learns that Queen Elizabeth is haunted by nightmares because it is unclear what happened to Arthur's bones.__NEWL__Still his search remains futile.__NEWL__He meets secretly with Eleanor Borrow.__NEWL__She informs him that her late mother worked with John Leland.__NEWL__Craving for visions he talks her into giving him some of her mother's most dangerous elixir.__NEWL__When he awakes after his trip, she has disappeared.__NEWL__John Dee continues his search and even excavates Eleanor Borrow's mother.__NEWL__In her coffin he finds a map she made together with the famous antiquarian John Leland.__NEWL__This reveals to him what Richard Whiting wouldn't disclose even under the most severe torture.__NEWL__But Eleanor has been arrested and sentenced to death.__NEWL__John detects the lost books of the destroyed Glastonbury Abbey.__NEWL__Hereby he also encounters Michel de Nostredame who discloses to him how the Jesuits attempt to replace the Protestantic Queen Elizabeth by Mary Stuart.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17064823	White Fire	2013-11-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38611098	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38611098	Corrie Swanson sets out to solve a long-forgotten mystery.__NEWL__In 1876, in a remote mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed in devastating grizzly bear attacks.__NEWL__Now the town has become an exclusive ski resort and its historic cemetery has been dug up to make way for development.__NEWL__Corrie has arranged to examine the remains of the dead miners.__NEWL__But in doing so she makes a shocking discovery that threatens the resort's very existence.__NEWL__The town's leaders, trying to stop her from exposing their community's dark and bloody past, arrest and jail her.__NEWL__Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to help—just as a series of brutal arson attacks on multimillion-dollar homes terrify the town and drive away tourists.__NEWL__Drawn irresistibly into the investigation, Pendergast discovers an unlikely secret in Roaring Fork's past, connecting the resort to a chance meeting between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde.__NEWL__With the town under siege, and Corrie's life in desperate danger, Pendergast must solve the riddle of the past... before the town of present goes up in flames.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7755084	The One and Only Ivan	2012-01-17T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38525240	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38525240	The story is placed at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall by the Video Arcade.__NEWL__Ivan, the Silverback Gorilla, has lived in captivity at the Big Top Mall for 9,855 days by his own tally.__NEWL__He lives in his domain, and is generally content with his life.__NEWL__He watches television, eats bananas, and makes artwork that is sold by the owner.__NEWL__Along with Ivan, Stella, an elephant, and Bob, a stray dog, live at the mall.__NEWL__Stella is an older elephant who has a chronic injury in one leg and regularly performs in the daily shows.__NEWL__Unlike Ivan, Stella has a long memory and can remember living in other places, like the circus where she was taught many of her tricks.__NEWL__However, Stella wanted to live in a zoo, because they have much wider spaces for their domains.__NEWL__Stella believes that good zoos are how humans make amends.__NEWL__ When Ruby, a baby elephant, is brought to the Big Top Mall to live with Stella and learn new tricks, things begin to change.__NEWL__Stella's old injury causes her to get sick.__NEWL__Just before Stella succumbs to her illness and passes away, she asks Ivan to take care of Ruby and find her a better place.__NEWL__Ivan promises he will take care of Ruby, even though he does not know how he will manage to do it.__NEWL__ After Stella's death, Ivan begins to remember his life before the Big Top Mall and what it was like to have freedom if only to have stories to tell to Ruby.__NEWL__While Mack, the owner of the Big Top Mall is trying to train Ruby to do tricks, Ivan witnessed first-hand the abuse to which she is subjected and starts to decide how to keep his promise to Stella.__NEWL__When Julia, the custodian George's daughter, gives Ivan some finger paints, he begins to get an idea of how to help Ruby.__NEWL__He also changes his opinion of the Big Top Mall.__NEWL__He no longer thinks of his area as his domain but as a cage.__NEWL__ Ivan uses his art to make a large picture of a zoo.__NEWL__George and Julia help him by putting it on the billboard outside of the Big Top Mall.__NEWL__When people see the new signs, they begin to protest the treatment of the animals.__NEWL__Investigators are sent to the Big Top Mall and eventually, it is closed down.__NEWL__Ivan, Ruby, and the other animals are taken away to a zoo.__NEWL__Ivan and Ruby are both adopted by the same zoo, where they begin adapting to their new habitats and the other animals they now live with.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15831144	Heat Wave (novel)	2009-09-29T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38527508	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38527508	The title of the book refers to a heat wave that gripped the city, the heat that is inside the characters’ attraction for each other, and the character’s surname.__NEWL__Castle’s protagonist is NYPD homicide detective, Nikki Heat.__NEWL__Ms Heat is attractive, tough and means business when she’s on a case.__NEWL__Ms Heat is good at her job and is the leader of her team investigating murders.__NEWL__Heat’s boss, the commissioner, assigns Jameson Rook, a reporter, to be attached to her to do research on his article.__NEWL__Rook proves to be a challenge to Heat as he has a mind of his own.__NEWL__As much as Heat hates Rook, she also feels a compelling force that draws him to her.__NEWL__Heat feels the heat between them.__NEWL__Ms Heat tries to handle her professional work, as well as answer to the call of nature as she falls for her handsome, magnetic shadow.__NEWL__In her work, Heat has to dig into the case of a real estate millionaire who fell to his death.__NEWL__His widowed wife was attacked but survived the confrontation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7745946	The Last Policeman	2012-07-10T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28249	Concord	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38502592	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38502592	The novel is divided into four parts—"Hanger Town", "Non-Negligible Probabilities", "Wishful Thinking", and "Soon, They Will"—each containing five chapters, and an epilogue.__NEWL__Each part has an introductory graphic giving the date, and the asteroid's right ascension, declination, elongation and delta, or distance from Earth, in astronomical units.__NEWL__The first part is dated March 20; the epilogue, April 11.__NEWL__In April 2011, astronomers discover a new asteroid, 2011GV1.__NEWL__Analysis of its unusual orbit shows that it may come very close to Earth soon.__NEWL__By August, not only is that likely, the probability of an impact reaches five percent, triggering an economic panic that results in the bankruptcy of prominent corporations including McDonald's, 7-Eleven, Dunkin' Donuts, and Starbucks.__NEWL__Panera persists but their founders have undergone a cult-like religious rebirth and staffed them with people who share their beliefs.__NEWL__As the asteroid, now popularly named Maia, approaches, its diameter is measured at , large enough to cause serious planetwide effects and the likely end of civilization should it strike the Earth.__NEWL__The probability of impact is regularly revised upward, peaking at 53 percent before Maia goes in conjunction with the sun and is unable to be seen for four months.__NEWL__In the face of increasing instability caused by the anticipation, governments enact strict emergency laws.__NEWL__The U.S. Congress passes the Impact Preparation Security and Stabilization Act (IPSSA), banning trade and production of firearms, imposing wage and price controls, and legalizing marijuana while toughening penalties for the possession or distribution of other drugs.__NEWL__In January 2012 Maia emerges from conjunction with the sun and astronomers are able to determine whether the chances are 100 percent or zero.__NEWL__A tearful NASA astronomer announces to the largest television audience in history that Maia will indeed collide with the planet on October 3, 2012.__NEWL__It is determined that this will be impossible to prevent.__NEWL__Social and economic order begins to collapse as people leave their jobs to do things they will never have a chance to again (known in the book as "Bucket Listers"), and many commit suicide.__NEWL__Oil imports cease and the U.S. is limited to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.__NEWL__After commercial supplies run out, only the police and military have fuel supplies, and civilians respond by converting their vehicles to run on biodiesel.__NEWL__In late March 2012, Henry Palace, a young detective with the Concord, New Hampshire police, is called to a crime scene: a man named Peter Zell has apparently hanged himself in the men's room of a former McDonald's.__NEWL__The case seems clear-cut, but Palace wonders about the bruises on Zell's head and the fact that he was wearing a cheap suit but used an expensive belt to hang himself.__NEWL__Palace decides to consider the death a possible murder, and to investigate despite the limited resources available and peer pressure not to waste them.__NEWL__His investigation finds several odd loose ends.__NEWL__Zell was an actuary who worked at an insurance company; the previous year he stopped showing up to work for several weeks before returning with no explanation, and his boss recalls an out-of-character angry incident at the office Halloween party.__NEWL__His secretary, Naomi Eddes, says she wasn't close to Zell, although Palace saw her in the parking lot outside the McDonald's.__NEWL__Zell's co-workers say he left that night with a man in a biodiesel-operated pickup truck.__NEWL__At Zell's apartment, Palace finds a stack of newspaper clippings about Maia, with extensive mathematical calculations in the margin, and the unexplained label "12.375".__NEWL__Zell had begun writing a note to his sister, Sophia Littlejohn, a midwife, but had stopped after addressing it.__NEWL__At Sophia's house, her husband Erik tells Palace that Zell was lately very depressed, but lies about his wife's whereabouts.__NEWL__The coroner refuses to do more than the absolute minimum when autopsying Zell's body, but Palace takes a vial of Zell's blood to the toxicology lab anyway.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Palace must also deal with his sister Nico, who asks him to try to find her worthless husband Derek, who has gone missing.__NEWL__Eventually Palace learns that Derek was arrested for driving an ATV onto closed military property.__NEWL__He is able to visit Derek in detention, but Derek will not speak to him and Palace cannot secure his release.__NEWL__Palace finds the driver of the pickup truck, a friend of Zell's named J.T. Toussaint, but his story that Zell left his house later that evening after the two saw a movie and drank some beers checks out.__NEWL__A patrol cop from the crime scene has been following the trail of Zell's cell phone, which was stolen from his body, and recovered it.__NEWL__Palace finds that Zell called Naomi Eddes every night, proof that she was lying to Palace earlier.__NEWL__When he confronts her, she explains that Zell was addicted to morphine and needed her help getting clean.__NEWL__Palace conjectures that the "12.375" on Zell's box is a percentage—that is, the threshold at which the chance of Maia destroying the Earth became high enough that it would be worth attempting a risky thing he'd always wanted to do: experimenting with drugs.__NEWL__When a computer check finds that Toussaint is the son of a onetime major local drug dealer, Palace returns to question him.__NEWL__Toussaint admits to helping Zell use drugs but not to supplying them; Zell brought his own morphine sulfate to Toussaint's house, and Toussaint insists he doesn't know where it came from.__NEWL__When threatened with arrest, Toussaint tries to escape, injuring Palace's eye, and is then fatally shot by one of the other detectives.__NEWL__While his injury is being treated, Palace learns that midwives can write prescriptions, and realizes that Zell must have stolen his sister Sophia's prescription pad.__NEWL__He confirms this in a meeting with Sophia.__NEWL__She discovered the theft and got her prescription pad back from her brother in October, which accounts for Zell's strange behavior at that time: he was having withdrawal symptoms.__NEWL__Sophia admits that she hadn't told Palace about it because her husband wanted it kept quiet.__NEWL__On behalf of his sister, Palace reaches out to Alison Koechner, a former high school girlfriend who now works with the Justice Department.__NEWL__Palace travels to Boston to see her, and from what she says Palace realizes that Derek believes in a conspiracy theory that claims the government is hiding information about the asteroid and some measures it has taken to ensure the survival of certain elites.__NEWL__Palace finds people's denial of the coming catastrophe more depressing than the catastrophe itself.__NEWL__Alison suggests that there was no good reason for Toussaint to attempt a risky escape unless there was something else in his house.__NEWL__Palace searches Toussaint's house and finds a large stash of drugs, guns, and cash hidden in the doghouse; while he is there he hears someone else flee the scene.__NEWL__Naomi Eddes calls Palace with an idea: with no actuarial work left to do, Zell, like everyone else at his company, was investigating life insurance claims.__NEWL__Someone who had collected on a false insurance claim would have a motive for murder (in order to avoid spending all the time left before the world ends in prison).__NEWL__Palace and Eddes have dinner and she spends the night at his apartment, then leaves early in the morning.__NEWL__The toxicology screen on Zell's blood comes back and finally proves that Palace was right to suspect murder: prior to his death, he had been drugged with GHB.__NEWL__Nico calls and quickly tells her brother she will be leaving for a long time but that she will see him again, then hangs up.__NEWL__Palace drives to the military base where Derek was detained, but the soldiers deny that Derek was ever there.__NEWL__Just after that, Palace learns that Naomi has been found in her office, shot dead, apparently while searching for a file she promised to get him.__NEWL__Palace calls Naomi's father to deliver the news, but as soon as he identifies himself as a police officer, the father hangs up.__NEWL__From the father's behavior Palace guesses that Naomi has a history of trouble with the law, and he has a toxicology screen run on her blood: it reveals morphine sulfate.__NEWL__Naomi was an addict herself, which is why Zell came to her for help with his own withdrawal.__NEWL__From this Palace puts it together: Naomi had started using drugs again when the news about the asteroid was confirmed; she got her drugs from Toussaint, having learned about him from Zell.__NEWL__The insurance-fraud suggestion was a red herring.__NEWL__Zell and Eddes were both killed by Toussaint's supplier: Sophia's husband, Erik Littlejohn, who has been stealing the pain medications from the hospital where his wife works.__NEWL__Palace arrests Littlejohn and takes him to the station house, where the detectives are told that the department has been federalized and is being shut down.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Palace, who has now been granted early retirement, bicycles to the New Hampshire shore.__NEWL__Since the case was closed it has been announced that Maia will hit Indonesia, far away from the U.S. With the chances of post-impact survival a little higher, at least in the short term, the public mood is less gloomy.__NEWL__At the beach, he tidies up one loose end from the case, then returns home, where he finds his sister waiting for him.__NEWL__She confesses that she used both Palace and Derek to help a group she was part of determine whether the military facility her husband was held in was in fact the one where they believe the government is working on its plans for a lunar habitat, and then leaves.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7232995	Poseidon's Arrow	2012-11-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38749646	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38749646	This book is about a secret prototype attack submarine the United States is developing and the efforts of a ruthless multimillionaire who wants to seize it by any means and sell it for a hefty profit.__NEWL__This millionaire antagonist also is bent on monopolizing most of the world's rare earth mineral mining operations and sell these minerals for a huge profit.__NEWL__This novel has many subplots and is set in a variety settings throughout the world.__NEWL__These subplots involve many characters, as well.__NEWL__Clive Cussler makes a habit of writing himself into cameo appearances in his books.__NEWL__In this one he makes a short appearance, working as a barge captain who gets roughed up by those working for this tale's antagonist.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7732219	The Engines of God	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38749694	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38749694	A group of xeno-archaeologists, together with interstellar pilot Priscilla Hutchins, attempt to unravel the mysteries surrounding tremendous monuments left near several habitable worlds in the solar neighborhood.__NEWL__Humanity was introduced to the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life with the discovery of an alien statue on Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, which depicted an alien life form.__NEWL__Then, after the advent of faster-than-light travel, when humanity began to explore neighboring star systems, a number of other mysterious Monuments were quickly discovered.__NEWL__Despite these discoveries, details about the "Monument-Makers" themselves remained elusive.__NEWL__In fact, even after decades of exploring, humanity had found disappointingly few habitable worlds, and even fewer signs of intelligent alien life.__NEWL__At the time, only three examples had been identified: (a) The planet Pinnacle, which had evidently been home to an intelligent society that became extinct nearly a million years earlier, and had left very little trace of themselves on their now-inhospitable planet; (b) The planet Quraqua, which had many similarities to Earth, had been home to an intelligent species (the Quraquans) until they became extinct just a few centuries prior; and (c) Inakademeri, a.k.a.__NEWL__"Nok", a moon of a ringed gas giant, and home to the only known living intelligent species, the Noks, although their technology was roughly equivalent to Earth's early 20th century, and at the time were locked in a long global conflict roughly analogous to World War I.__NEWL__This lack of easily habitable worlds posed a significant problem because Earth itself was becoming increasingly inhospitable.__NEWL__By the year 2202, significant rise in sea-level due to centuries of pollution had altered the environment of the planet considerably, and famine was rampant in many parts of the world.__NEWL__Many hoped to somehow establish an off-world colony.__NEWL__The story primarily follows Priscilla Hutchins – also known as "Hutch" – a prestigious starship pilot for the Academy (the organization responsible for many on- and off-world scientific endeavors).__NEWL__Hutch receives orders to take the Academy ship "Winckelmann" and evacuate the final archaeological team on the planet Quraqua.__NEWL__This evacuation is the result of a complicated series of political maneuvers, and is not favored by the Academy, which until this point had conducted extensive surveys of the planet in an attempt to learn about the former alien inhabitants of the world.__NEWL__The now-extinct Quraquans had a complex history spanning tens of thousands of years, and scientists had expected to have an unlimited timeframe for scientific discovery.__NEWL__Instead, they were being driven out after only 28 years, so that Quraqua could be terraformed; as the most Earth-like planet discovered so far, there was a tremendous pressure to begin transforming it into a New Earth, due to the deteriorating conditions of Earth itself.__NEWL__A total evacuation was called for, due to the nature of the terraforming process.__NEWL__Many nuclear devices were to be detonated in the planet's polar ice caps, in order to raise the world's sea level and bring about a warming climate change.__NEWL__This terraforming effort was being led by the wealthy corporation, Kosmik.__NEWL__Just before Hutch was set to leave Earth, the science team on Quraqua – led by Henry Jacobi – made a significant discovery.__NEWL__They uncovered a series of carvings that depicted mostly the native Quraquans, but additionally, they discovered one that bore an uncanny resemblance to the statue on Iapetus – presumably, one of the Monument-Makers.__NEWL__Even more perplexing, the apparent Monument-Maker took the form of a god of death in the artwork.__NEWL__Given this startling connection between the Quraquans and the Monument-Makers, the Academy desperately tried to postpone the terraforming process, but overwhelming political pressure prevented this from happening.__NEWL__Instead, one of the leading experts on the Monument-Makers, Richard Wald, joined Hutch on the voyage to Quraqua, so he could lend his expertise to the dig during the little time they had remaining.__NEWL__After a journey through space lasting nearly a month, Hutch and Richard arrived at the Quraqua star system.__NEWL__Before landing on the planet, however, Richard wanted to explore a unique feature on the planet's moon: a giant "Monument" that had been named "Oz."__NEWL__Oz superficially resembled a city, composed of giant cubic and rectangular structures.__NEWL__These structures, however, had no interior space and no exterior features.__NEWL__Until this point, nobody in the scientific community had been able to offer any theories about Oz's existence or construction.__NEWL__Many scientists, including Richard, did not even believe it was a product of the Monument-Makers; all of the other known Monuments were elegant and many were floating in space, and this faux-city was crude and unwieldy by comparison.__NEWL__But with the discovery of the depiction of a Monument-Maker on the planet below, Richard was intent on reevaluating Oz, in the hope of finding a definite link between the two cultures.__NEWL__In the end, they discovered several facts: (a) The monument was built approximately in the year 9000 B.C. (b)__NEWL__Many of the structures featured damage and mysterious scorch-marks, which also dated to roughly 9000 B.C. (c) The "city's" layout was perfectly symmetrical and composed of regular cubic units, with the notable exception of two cylindrical towers.__NEWL__(d) One of the towers held a short inscription that was in one of the ancient languages of the Quraquans.__NEWL__This was bewildering because the Quraquans never developed space travel; someone else must have inscribed it.__NEWL__Although they could identify the language, they could not read the inscription.__NEWL__After investigating Oz, Hutch and Richard made their way to Quraqua's surface.__NEWL__Hutch made one more attempt to get the terraforming operation postponed by contacting the terraforming project's director, Melanie Truscott, who resided in a space station in orbit around Quraqua.__NEWL__Unfortunately, Truscott is dead-set on adhering to her orders, and refuses once again to delay the operation.__NEWL__Faced with this reality, Hutch attempts to fulfill her mission quickly and efficiently – evacuate the remaining Academy personnel, equipment, and artifacts from the surface before the deadline.__NEWL__Her efforts are hampered by the fact that many of the scientists want to squeeze every second they can from their remaining time, and are reluctant to depart until it is absolutely necessary.__NEWL__The science team on the surface was excavating "The Temple of Winds," a sprawling complex that served many different functions over its thousands of years of history.__NEWL__The Temple was originally above ground, but tectonic forces had lowered it below sea level.__NEWL__Consequently, the archaeology team was based in an underwater dome structure, and the excavation of the site had to deal with slow movement, and shifting mud and silt – unusual obstacles.__NEWL__Their main mission at the time was to search for more examples of "Linear C," the language of the mysterious inscription on Oz.__NEWL__The team's philologist, Maggie Tufu, was convinced that she could decode the message if they could just find some more substantial examples of text to add to their scant library.__NEWL__To accomplish this, the team was excavating at break-neck pace deeper and deeper into the unexplored temple.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Hutch familiarized herself with the personnel while taking load after load of artifacts and scientists up to the "Winckelmann" via the ship's shuttlecraft, "Alpha."__NEWL__Richard was also brought up to speed on the history of Quraqua.__NEWL__Although the society existed for many thousands of years, they never achieved a high level of technology, but rather stagnated for long periods of time, and experienced many Dark Ages.__NEWL__In particular, there were several recorded "discontinuities," where it appeared that some mysterious and rapid disaster befell the planet.__NEWL__One such event coincided with the construction and damaging of Oz.__NEWL__The dig team had just discovered a potentially significant artifact (a printing press that could unlock the Linear C language), when disaster struck.__NEWL__Convinced that the Academy team would willfully ignore the terraforming deadline, the Kosmik operation decided to give them a demonstration of the dangers of remaining on Quraqua.__NEWL__They willfully nudged a small comet out of orbit that crashed into the sea, creating a tsunami that caused significant damage to the dig site.__NEWL__The personnel had enough warning to shelter themselves, but the wave buried the printing press before they could excavate it.__NEWL__Angered, Hutch and her new friend Janet Allegri created a faux-comet out of packing foam and launched it from orbit at the Kosmik space station.__NEWL__This caused a panic and evacuation of the station, but no physical damage.__NEWL__Melanie Truscott, director of the station, secretly decided that she couldn't very well hold a grudge for being played by her own game.__NEWL__Around this time, Richard made some inquiries to a colleague who was studying the planet Nok.__NEWL__It would come to be known that Nok, in addition to Quraqua, had apparently suffered mysterious "discontinuities" in its long and troubled history, and a pattern emerged from this information: a period of roughly 8,000 years lay between each discontinuity.__NEWL__In addition, a number of new Monuments were discovered in deep orbit around Nok – a series of free-floating, enormous cubes, which were scorched and damaged – very reminiscent of Oz.__NEWL__With the printing press buried, many on the team felt defeated, but many others were more determined than ever to excavate the machines.__NEWL__The evacuation continued but Henry and several others were not quite able to load the machines and themselves by the time the deadline passed, and the nuclear devices were detonated at the planet's poles.__NEWL__In the end, the presses were retrieved and all of the personnel made it out – with the exception of Richard, Hutch's friend and the expert on the Monument-Makers.__NEWL__This angered many of the team, and there were differing opinions as to who held the most blame for Richard's death:__NEWL__Henry, for pushing his team too hard in the face of danger; Maggie, for her insistence that the alien machines had to be recovered; or even Hutch, who Henry felt had only hurt the situation by her desperate pleas to leave well enough alone and get out of harm's way.__NEWL__Fortunately, Maggie was soon able to decipher the perplexing inscription from Oz: "Farewell and good fortune.__NEWL__Seek us by the light of the horgon's eye."__NEWL__A horgon was a mythical beast on Quraqua, and the passage referred to a part of a stellar constellation – it pointed the way to the home of the Monument-Makers.__NEWL__Using the out-of-place cylindrical towers on Oz as waypoint markers, Hutch and Frank (the second-in-command of the Quraqua expedition) were able to make a list of potential stars that the passage might be referring to.__NEWL__Then with a powerful radio telescope, they surveyed all the candidates and found one that was broadcasting a faint artificial transmission – Beta Pacifica.__NEWL__Ecstatic, the Academy quietly approved an urgent mission to investigate the star system.__NEWL__The mission would consist of Hutch, Frank, Maggie, Janet, and George Hackett, another veteran from Quraqua.__NEWL__At the last minute, they received orders from the government to halt their mission – apparently, the idea of charging into the potential heart of an unknown space-faring civilization was something they didn't trust to an Academy scout ship – but the crew willfully ignored the instruction and leaped into hyperspace on their weeks-long journey to Beta Pacifica.__NEWL__Specifically, they knew that the source of the radio transmission originated not on a planet, but at a point in space roughly 15 AU from the star.__NEWL__On the long journey, the five crewmates grew quite close, and a romance blossomed between Hutch and George.__NEWL__Upon arrival at Beta Pacifica, disaster struck again.__NEWL__They emerged from their jump extremely close to a mysterious object in space, a vast black mass larger than Earth's moon which, inexplicably, the instruments claimed had no measurable mass.__NEWL__At their current velocity, there was no way to divert from the object in time, and the crew resigned themselves to a quick death via collision.__NEWL__Their death never came, however, because they somehow passed "through" the object – although not without suffering heavy damage in the process.__NEWL__They lost many ship's systems and sent out a general distress call to the nearest human presences, at Quraqua and Nok.__NEWL__When they received word that rescue would be slow in coming from Nok, the crew felt dismayed and helpless.__NEWL__At one point it appeared as if they would run out of air before rescue arrived, but Hutch managed to remedy the problem at the last minute.__NEWL__Eventually, help arrived not from Nok, but from Quraqua, in the form of their former foe, Melanie Truscott.__NEWL__Truscott had been accompanying Kosmik employees back to Earth when she diverted her course to lend assistance to the crew of the "Winckelmann.__NEWL__"__NEWL__At first, Truscott was unwilling to stay in the Beta Pacifica system for any reason, because she was anxious to complete her mission to return her batch of employees to Earth, but quickly changed her mind after a rapid series of tantalizing discoveries made it clear that this star system was of major importance.__NEWL__First, they determined that the object that Hutch's crew ran into was a vast dish-shaped telescope, and that the alien radio transmission emanated from its center.__NEWL__Further, the dish was one of eight such objects orbiting the star, although the rest appeared to be defunct.__NEWL__In addition, the structure was "organic" in nature, and had already nearly healed the damage caused by the impact event.__NEWL__The reason the ship survived, and the reason the object registered as having so little mass, was because the dish was extremely thin.__NEWL__At the present time, the telescope array was not pointed at any particular object in the sky, but they determined that roughly 10,000 years ago, the network would have been observing the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.__NEWL__Besides the dish array, there was one terrestrial planet in the star system that bore a startling resemblance to Earth in terms of physical characteristics.__NEWL__From all appearances, settling of the planet could, in principle, begin immediately, with no terraforming required.__NEWL__The crew had high hopes that they had discovered the home planet of the Monument-Makers, but the night side of the planet showed no artificial light sources, and the planet emanated no artificial electromagnetic waves of any kind.__NEWL__However, there were two anomalies.__NEWL__First, the largest of the planet's four moons featured a giant cube of stone, which was damaged and scorched just like the Monuments at Quraqua and Nok.__NEWL__Second, they discovered an artificial space station in orbit around the world.__NEWL__They immediately set out to investigate.__NEWL__To their dismay, the space station was not the creation of a highly advanced race, as the Monument-Makers were known to be.__NEWL__In actuality, the level of technology was even below current human standards.__NEWL__Nevertheless, the Academy crew, along with Truscott and her lieutenant, boarded the powerless and airless space station to investigate.__NEWL__What they discovered was very unsettling: dozens of alien corpses, apparently the same race as the Monument-Makers, who had all committed suicide by strapping themselves to their chairs and venting the atmosphere of the station.__NEWL__No one could come up with a good reason for this event, which they all found very disturbing.__NEWL__Nor could anyone explain why the Monument-Makers were inhabiting a station of such inferior technology.__NEWL__One theory was that the station remained from their earliest days of space exploration, but in order for that to be true, the station would have to be many tens of thousands of years old, which did not seem plausible.__NEWL__Luckily, in order to date the station, they discovered a photograph of the planet's four moons in perfect alignment, and extrapolated how long ago such a configuration would have happened.__NEWL__The answer was 4743 B.C., a time well after the Monument-Makers were known to possess advanced technology.__NEWL__The surface of the planet held only ruins, and the Academy team went down to investigate.__NEWL__What they found were structures much too primitive to have been made by a hyper-advanced space-faring race.__NEWL__Sadly, tragedy again befell the Academy crew when they were attacked by a mysteriously unrelenting horde of predatory crab-like creatures with razor sharp claws and mandibles.__NEWL__George, Maggie, and their Kosmik pilot were killed, and Frank and Janet were severely wounded.__NEWL__They escaped thanks to Hutch's piloting skills, but were saddened by the price they paid.__NEWL__Back on the Kosmik starship, though, Hutch was struck by inspiration.__NEWL__When she included the dates of the Discontinuities of Quraqua and Nok with the final days of the primitive Beta Pacifica space station, she discovered a repeating pattern of sweeping devastation that spread outward, going from one planet to the next.__NEWL__If her theory was correct, she could extrapolate the current position of this destructive wave in space: they could plot a course and go see what had caused numerous disasters across multiple inhabited planets.__NEWL__Leaving the Kosmik ship for the newly arrived Academy vessel, they set out, once again, to try and solve their cosmic mystery once and for all.__NEWL__They arrived in an unnamed star system that had already been surveyed decades previously.__NEWL__At first they found nothing unusual, and decided to make their OWN monument – a set of giant cubic structures, in an attempt to recreate the environment of the other disasters.__NEWL__They used a cutting laser and a shuttlecraft to begin to transform some natural stone plateaus into giant cubes, just like at the other planets.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, they detected two strange anomalies – giant clouds in space, traveling at a high speed.__NEWL__Although the clouds were quite large – planet sized, at least – they were far too small to be natural objects.__NEWL__With insufficient mass, they should have been ripped apart by the star system's gravity.__NEWL__One of the mysterious clouds was on the far side of the solar system, but one would pass relatively close to the moon on which they were creating their fake Monuments.__NEWL__The mystery deepened when, suddenly, the nearby cloud began to change direction and reduce speed, on a direct course for the moon and the new monuments.__NEWL__This was, obviously, inconsistent with any natural phenomena.__NEWL__In the end, the mystery cloud was drawn towards both the cubic monument and the roughly cubic shuttlecraft, and annihilated them both.__NEWL__The crew survived by evacuating the shuttle, and finally discovered the nemesis that had plagued advanced societies for thousands of years.__NEWL__In fact, they deduced that biblical disasters on Earth corresponded to the pattern of destruction as well.__NEWL__They arrived at the conclusion that the Monument-Makers had constructed their creations in an attempt to be lures for the deadly clouds – which came to be called Omega clouds.__NEWL__They attempted to save the populations of the planets in question by luring the clouds away from the right-angles and regular structures of their buildings and roads by putting geometric shapes in other locations.__NEWL__This strategy had not succeeded, and the clouds had attacked the alien populations and the Monuments.__NEWL__The clouds had even hit the Monument-Makers themselves, throwing their society into a technological dark age – the space station and ruined buildings at Beta Pacifica were the remnants of their second, lesser civilization, which itself was nearly annihilated when the cycle repeated on its 8,000-year timescale.__NEWL__It was discovered that the remnants of the space-faring Monument-Makers – or Cholois, as they were called – were observing the Large Magellanic Cloud because they evacuated to that location.__NEWL__The implications were that the Omega clouds menace the entire galaxy, and the only way to escape them is to leave the galaxy entirely.__NEWL__In fact, the cycle of the clouds meant that they would be upon Earth in just 1,000 years.__NEWL__Given that the Monument-Makers were more advanced than humanity, and that they had even more time to deal with the problem and failed, the outlook for Earth's future looks bleak.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3819746	The Sunbird	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38806735	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38806735	Archeologist Benjamin Kazin with the aid of his assistant Sally searches Botswana for what he believes to be the remains of the ancient Phoenician city of Opet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3824329	The Burning Shore	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	38807615	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38807615	In 1917 during World War I, South African fighter pilot Michael Courtney falls in love with Centaine, a French woman.__NEWL__On their wedding day – prior to their wedding – Courtney is killed in action, and, following the destruction of her home by a German bombardment, the pregnant Centaine enrols as a nurse and embarks on a hospital ship for South Africa.__NEWL__The ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and Centaine lands on the Skeleton Coast.__NEWL__She attempts to make her way south to South Africa but is adopted by two San who teach her how to survive in the desert.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13486202	A Falcon Flies	1980-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38807854	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38807854	A Falcon Flies is remarkable for its sense of the African wild, grimly informative about the slave trade, and alive with the obsessions and impossible love of its strongminded heroine.__NEWL__It is the first of the Ballantyne novels.__NEWL__Dr Robyn Ballantyne, daughter of a famous missionary and explorer, returns on a joint expedition with her brother Zouga to southern Africa, the land of her birth, fired with the desire to bring the Africans medicine, Christianity and an end to the slave trade, still flourishing in 1860.__NEWL__Both are also looking for their lost father, who disappeared on a missionary mission years before.__NEWL__She discovers that the clipper ship she and her brother are taking passage on from England is in reality a slave ship and the debonair American captain, Mungo St John, a slaver himself.__NEWL__Irresistibly attracted to this man but at the same time repelled by his ruthlessness, Robyn resolves to fight him to the last – a course she is supported in by the fanatical anti-slave trader and English naval captain, Clinton Codrington, with whom she makes contact in Cape Town.__NEWL__When she and her brother then take passage on Clinton's ship to their destination in Portuguese East Africa, her resolve is further reinforced by their encounter with a slave dhow whose cargo of human misery they try to save from wreck on a reef while the Arab slaver flees to safety.__NEWL__On arrival at the mouth of the Zambesi, Robyn and Zouga leave Clinton, who is by now deeply in love with Robyn.__NEWL__Together they plunge into the uncharted African interior, experiencing the beauty of an undiscovered land, and the terrors of a treacherous guide and hostile tribesman.__NEWL__But the simmering conflict between them soon makes it clear that further travel together is impossible.__NEWL__Zouga's desire to seek his fortune and Robyn's obsessions with tracing their legendary father and investigating the slave trade are incompatible.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15094166	Men of Men	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38807875	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38807875	Men of Men by Wilbur Smith is a story of greed, exploration, adventure and love.__NEWL__It is a gripping saga at the time of Rhodes's acquisition of what would become Rhodesia following the lives of the Ballantyne men, specifically Zouga Ballantyne and his two sons Ralph and Jordan who have the unrelenting desire to conquer the wilds of the hinterlands of South Africa.__NEWL__Zouga, in his pursuit to make a fortune at the diamond fields, loses his wife and almost loses his sons.__NEWL__He purchases Kimberly mines but gambles them away leaving the family penniless, but in the true spirit of adventure and determination, both sons try on their own to make their mark on the land.__NEWL__Zouga falls in love with the woman he believes is married to the American Confederate general and former slave trader Mungo St. John, but when he finds out their marriage is a lie, he reveals his feelings.__NEWL__Mungo lives to continue on his path of deceit and treachery, all to advance his own personal coffers, and when he falls in love with Zouga's sister Robyn, he even conspires to free her from her husband Clinton (British sea captain from the first novel) by sending him to his death at the hands of the Matabele.__NEWL__Ralph becomes successful operating the first and only reliable transport company to what later would become Rhodesia, and Jordan becomes the right-hand man to Rhodes, whose vision will generate fortunes and open up the country for the British Empire.__NEWL__Sadly, both also carry the gene from their father that spurs them to win at all and any costs, without concern for consequences.__NEWL__In their own ways, each of the Ballantyne men will contribute heavily to the slaughter and dissolution of the local Matabele tribe, chasing them almost into extinction.__NEWL__The Matabele are willing to share most everything they have, but when the greed of the invaders threatens their very lives and livelihoods, they strike back.__NEWL__In the bloody battle that ensues, the Matabele are seriously out gunned, and many die in defense of their king.__NEWL__Their loyalty is commendable and King Lobengula takes their deaths hard.__NEWL__Forced from his land, he flees with remaining members of his tribe, but Rhodes orders him to be caught.__NEWL__His men of the British South Africa Company fail to catch him.__NEWL__Lobengula dies the king that he lived while his brother Gandang takes up the leadership of the tribe until the call to take up arms against the invaders comes again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3772053	The Angels Weep	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38807924	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38807924	The Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith is the third book in a trilogy that chronicles the generations of the Ballantyne family, and those who most influenced their paths in life.__NEWL__Beginning with Zouga Ballantyne, the family patriarch, this story takes off at a point in his life when he has already lived on the African continent for some time (35–40 years).__NEWL__He has raised two sons who each in their own way follow in his footsteps.__NEWL__Ralph and Zouga travel through Africa together, searching for the city of Zimbabwe to stake and claim the gold Zouga has already seen once there.__NEWL__The Matabele tribe had banned trespass on the sacred ground of the city of the dead, but they had long since been driven from the area as men of greed and power swept through the continent without conscience.__NEWL__They find and claim Harkness mine and go on to be part of the installation of railways, telegraph lines and pave the way to civilization.__NEWL__However, the Matabele tribe, who have been conquered by British settlers, and remaining natives in Africa have not forgotten their heritage or their pride.__NEWL__They rise up again to battle the white man and his incessant greed, kill Mungo St John as he tries to save Robyn Ballantyne and murder Cathy, the pregnant wife of Ralph Ballantyne; but are driven back once more to the wilderness by Ralph and a group of men that become known as the Ballantyne Scouts in exploits similar to those of Frederick Russell Burnham's assassination of Mlimo.__NEWL__In daring infiltrations, they manage to beat the Matabele tribe again, sending them into the hills where many starve but the remaining members do not lose hope completely.__NEWL__A treaty is negotiated and a peace of sorts is established, but this is not the end.__NEWL__Ralph Ballantyne also clashes with Cecil Rhodes and helps expose the Jameson Raid.__NEWL__In part two, the generations have grown, and Zouga and his children are long dead.__NEWL__The time is 1977 and a hundred years have gone by, but the battle for supremacy is not over.__NEWL__The descendants of King Lobengula are part of the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) and continue the battle to undermine and eventually oust the hold white men have on their country.__NEWL__The Ballantyne scouts are resurrected by Roland Ballantyne, the grandson of Ralph who formed the original Scouts to beat back the Matabele uprising that killed his wife and child.__NEWL__Though Roland is successful and manages to strike fear in the hearts of many revolutionaries, he and his scouts are lured to their deaths by Comrade Tungata Zebiwe who is a direct descendant of Bazo the Axe and King Lobengula himself.__NEWL__Tungata, formerly Samson Kumalo but renamed after he joins the revolution, becomes leader of his people and minister of his country after war makes monsters of all men.__NEWL__It is a story of greed, honor, revolution, love and death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7746944	The Leopard Hunts in Darkness	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38807965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38807965	With the help of his World Bank connections, celebrated author Craig Mellow returns to his beloved Africa as an agent of the bank, in exchange for reporting on the state of affairs in Zimbabwe.__NEWL__When he arrives, he visits the ranch that was a part of his family for generations and begins an obsession to rebuild it to its former glory.__NEWL__When he seeks the help of his old friend Samson Kumalo from the tribe of the Matabele, who is now a cabinet minister in the constantly evolving government, Craig is met with a terse and unfriendly attitude coupled with an unmistakable invitation to leave the country for good.__NEWL__Stubbornly, Craig finds other avenues in his quest to restore Rholands Ranching Company to its former glory.__NEWL__With the support of Peter Fungabera, a Mashona tribe member who is also a cabinet minister, Craig gets the financing he needs and begins the project of restoration on the three properties that make up his family's heritage.__NEWL__When poaching is discovered on the more remote property that Craig plans to turn into a tourist destination, he and wildlife federation photographer Sally-Anne Jay seek the culprit and all evidence points to Craig's old friend Samson, now known as Tungata Zebiwe.__NEWL__With Peter's help, and government forces, Tungata is arrested and sent to prison.__NEWL__With mixed feelings, Craig continues to work and his relationship with Sally-Anne progresses to a proposal.__NEWL__Rholands main ranches, King and Queen's Lynn are restocked with prime cattle and the houses restored when tribal fighting breaks out again.__NEWL__Mashona and Matabele in their ongoing battle for supremacy, are armed and the killing reaches Rholand's.__NEWL__Craig and Sally-Anne are poised to flee when they recognize Peter and his army.__NEWL__Relieved, they wait__NEWL__but Peter is anything but friendly.__NEWL__Accused of being traitors to the country, Craig is forced to forfeit his land to save their lives.__NEWL__Peter isn't finished with his treachery.__NEWL__His order is to kill them before they reach the border.__NEWL__In an unexpected twist, one of Peter's own men turns on him, and drives Craig and Sally-Anne to freedom.__NEWL__They soon discover that Samson was also a victim of Peter's dishonesty and Craig is appalled to realize they helped to jail an innocent man.__NEWL__In the struggle to free him, Peter and Sally-Anne risk their lives but manage to enlist the help of others to liberate the Matabele leader.__NEWL__In their run for freedom they are shot out of the sky, entombed in an underground series of caverns, and must fight their way through enemy Mashona forces, during which they uncover a plot involving the Russians to overthrow and enslave the population.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3795229	Power of the Sword	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38808001	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38808001	In the time of the Great Depression, Lothar De La Rey and his son Manfred own and operate a fleet of fishing trawlers and a cannery.__NEWL__Centaine de Thiry, Manfred's mother and one of Lothar's creditors, seizes his assets in an attempt to recoup her original investment, believing that Lothar will be unable to pay her back in the current financial climate.__NEWL__During their confrontation, Manfred gets into a fight with Centaine's other son and his half-brother, Shasa Courtney, nearly killing him.__NEWL__Now destitute and bitter, Lothar and his friend Swart Hendrick make plans to rob Centaine's diamond mine.__NEWL__Days after, Centaine and Shasa return to South-West Africa to visit the H'ani Mine in the outer reaches of the Kalahari.__NEWL__On their visit to the mine, Shasa is put as an apprentice on the mine to learn the functions of the mine where he befriends Moses Gama, a black boss-boy and Hendrick's brother, who is later fired for his attempts to start a black mineworkers union.__NEWL__During this time, Shasa loses his virginity to a daughter of a foreman on the mine, and Centaine soon realises that the girl has unleashed Shasa's de Thiry blood.__NEWL__Centaine and Shasa return to Windhoek after two weeks on the mine, where Centaine meets Lieutenant-Colonel Blaine Malcomess, the administrator of the territory of South-West Africa, falling in love with him soon afterwards.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Lothar strikes a deal with Gerald Fourie, the driver who transports the monthly shipments of Centaine's diamonds, to hand over his cargo to him on the next delivery.__NEWL__A night after Centaine returns to Windhoek, Fourie betrays Lothar by causing a strike at the mine, preventing the diamonds from leaving and prompting Centaine to drive toward the mine herself in the dark.__NEWL__After she returns to the mine and attempts to negotiate with the strikers, Centaine attempts to transport the next shipment of diamonds to the bank herself.__NEWL__As she drives through the desert, Lothar ambushes her and steals the diamonds, but is bitten on the wrist by Centaine during the struggle.__NEWL__Lothar, Manfred and Hendrick flee north through the desert to the Portuguese colonies, where they believe they will be able to start new lives.__NEWL__They are pursued by Centaine and Blaine, along with a detachment of mounted police and a pair of bushmen trackers.__NEWL__As the chase continues, Lothar's wound becomes infected with gangrene, and he convinces Manfred and Hendrick to go on without him.__NEWL__They split the diamonds between them, and Lothar stays behind to cover the others as they make their escape, hiding his share of the diamonds for Manfred to find at a later date.__NEWL__He is ultimately captured and tried for his crimes, his infected arm is amputated, and he is sentenced to life imprisonment after a remorseful Centaine testifies on his motives and the mercy he showed her throughout the robbery and pursuit.__NEWL__Following Lothar's capture, Blaine and Centaine begin an affair.__NEWL__Having failed to recover the diamonds, Centaine finds herself heading towards bankruptcy, but Blaine saves her by revealing that South Africa will be leaving the gold standard prior to the official announcement, allowing Centaine to invest accordingly and restore her fortune.__NEWL__Hendrick abandons the plan to flee north, believing that a black man would be worse off in the Portuguese colonies than Lothar and Manfred, and he and Manfred go their separate ways: Hendrick returns to his homeland and aids Moses in establishing a power base amongst the black people of the country, in the hope of launching a revolution against the white government.__NEWL__Manfred is adopted by Tromp Bierman, a Reverend of the Dutch Reformed Church, who teaches him how to box.__NEWL__He also befriends Sarah Bester, an orphan Manfred and Lothar had met and dropped off with the Biermans prior to the robbery.__NEWL__During this time, both Hendrick and Manfred lose their respective shares of the diamonds; Hendrick's are unknowingly thrown away by a bullying white overseer, while the god-fearing Tromp forces Manfred to destroy his share when he learns about them.__NEWL__Later on, Manfred studies law at Stellenbosch University, and is initiated into the Ossewabrandwag by fellow student Roelf Stander.__NEWL__He continues to box during this time, joining the university boxing team and later travelling to Berlin to participate in the 1936 Summer Olympics.__NEWL__While in Berlin, Manfred meets and later marries Heidi Kramer, a German Abwehr agent sent by her superiors to seduce him and win over his allegiance in preparation for a German military operation in South Africa.__NEWL__Sarah, who had fallen in love with Manfred and made love to him prior to his leaving for Berlin, is left distraught by the news.__NEWL__She finds herself pregnant with Manfred's child, and marries Roelf to avoid giving birth out of wedlock.__NEWL__Her child is a son named Jakobus.__NEWL__When World War II breaks out, Manfred, now an Abwehr agent, returns to South Africa under the codename "White Sword" to prepare for a coup orchestrated by both Germany and the Ossewabrandwag, with the aim of seizing control of South Africa while its military forces are fighting in the war.__NEWL__Shasa meanwhile initially enlists as a pilot in the air force, but is discharged after losing an eye while rescuing a fellow pilot, and ends up assigned to help Blaine investigate the Ossewabrandwag's activities.__NEWL__Sarah becomes an informant on the Ossewabrandwag for the government, out of fear that Manfred's ambitions will put her family in danger.__NEWL__As the government's net draws closer, Manfred attempts to assassinate Jan Smuts, intending to use his death as a signal for the Ossewabrandwag to rise up and overthrow the government, but mistakenly kills Sir Garrick Courtney, Shasa's grandfather and Centaine's uncle.__NEWL__Shasa, who had been warned of the assassination by Sarah, briefly fights with Manfred, whom he does not recognise, but is unable to stop him from escaping.__NEWL__With Garrick's death, the Ossewabrandwag's coup fails to materialise, and the government arrests the members of the organization en masse, forcing Manfred to go on the run.__NEWL__He eventually finds Hendrick and asks him to help find the last share of the stolen diamonds.__NEWL__Though Hendrick is initially reluctant to help Manfred, Moses convinces him to do so, having anticipated that the Afrikaners like Manfred will soon come to power in South Africa and oppress the black people to a greater degree than the current government, thereby ensuring their willingness to revolt.__NEWL__After splitting the diamonds between the two of them, Hendrick and Manfred part ways once again, Hendrick warning Manfred that they may be enemies next time they meet.__NEWL__Manfred escapes to Portugal, reuniting with Heidi and their child, a son named Lothar.__NEWL__Both Shasa and Manfred enter politics following the end of the war, joining the United and National parties respectively.__NEWL__Manfred discovers Shasa's bastard status and attempts to make it public in order to destroy his brother's political career, but Centaine, who has been following Manfred ever since his father's imprisonment, threatens to do the same to him if he does so, revealing that he is her son in the process.__NEWL__Mother and son lament how badly relations between them have fallen, but Centaine sadly acknowledges that they can never reconcile.__NEWL__Regardless, the National Party comes to power in 1948, with Manfred announcing its intention to institute the policy of Apartheid beforehand.__NEWL__Following the election, Manfred, now Deputy Minister of Justice, arranges a pardon for his father and takes possession of the files on White Sword, which he destroys.__NEWL__Having discovered Sarah's role in sabotaging the attempted coup, he resolves to make her pay in time, and remarks that the Afrikaners are no longer the underdogs of South Africa.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7282843	Rage	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38808014	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38808014	Shasa Courtney, now a member of the ailing United Party, is offered a position within the dominant National Party, complete with ministerial rank, by his half-brother Manfred De La Ray.__NEWL__Having grown doubtful of the United Party's prospects, Shasa accepts, with the hope that he can provide moderation within the National Party; while he does not support black rights, he views the National Party's policy of apartheid as little more than an excuse for the Afrikaner population to hoard South Africa's resources for themselves, despite the risk of provoking the black population.__NEWL__He later begins an affair with Kitty Godolphin, a news producer covering the civil rights struggle in South Africa.__NEWL__Unbeknowest to Shasa, his wife Tara begins an affair with Moses Gama, now a prominent political activist alongside Nelson Mandela and others.__NEWL__Moses continues to fight for black rights, while his brother Hendrick ends his involvement with the movement, fearing that his vast wealth would be lost in the struggle, leading his son Raleigh to take up the fight in his stead.__NEWL__Tara continues working for Moses and bears his child – a mixed race boy named Benjamin Afrika.__NEWL__Moses later marries a Zulu woman in order to secure the tribe's allegiance.__NEWL__Moses eventually gets Tara involved in a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament of South Africa, in order to kill the entire white government and allow a revolution of Moses's supporters.__NEWL__Shasa, Manfred and their father in law Blaine Malcomess are able to foil the plot, but Blaine is killed in the struggle.__NEWL__Not wanting their children to know what their mother has done, Shasa exiles Tara from South Africa for her part in the plot.__NEWL__Moses is tried for his crimes, and is cleared of high treason on the basis that he owes no loyalty to the government as a result of the apartheid policy, but he is convicted of his other crimes and sentenced to death.__NEWL__Learning from his wife that Mandela and other campaigners will use him as a martyr, Moses betrays them to the government in exchange for his sentence being reduced to life imprisonment.__NEWL__Jakobus Stander, a left-wing revolutionary and Manfred's illegitimate son with Sarah Stander, bombs a railway station, and is subsequently convicted and sentenced to death.__NEWL__Sarah pleads with Manfred to save him, but Manfred, who has been antagonising Sarah over the years as revenge for her sabotage of the Ossewabrandwag coup depicted in Power of the Sword, refuses, expecting her to be emotionally broken by this.__NEWL__Manfred learns that he and Shasa will both be sacked by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who has grown increasingly obsessed with the issue of race following the 1960 attempt on his life.__NEWL__Having foreseen a future in which he and Shasa rule South Africa together, Manfred convinces his half-brother not to intervene when Verwoerd is assassinated by Dimitri Tsafendas.__NEWL__However, his plans are ruined when a bitter Sarah reveals to Shasa that Manfred is "White Sword", the killer of his grandfather Sir Garrick Courtney.__NEWL__Moses is freed from prison by the efforts of Raleigh.__NEWL__After an interview with Godolphin, Raleigh – who considers Moses a traitor to the black rights movement as a result of his betrayal of Mandela and the others – murders him, framing the South African Police Force for the crime in order to make him a martyr.__NEWL__Elsewhere, Shasa confronts Manfred over the killing of his grandfather.__NEWL__Though Manfred tries to justify his actions, having intended to kill Jan Smuts, Shasa declares him to no better than Moses.__NEWL__He tries to have Manfred convicted, only for Centaine to reveal to him that Manfred is his half-brother, and that Manfred has been looking out for Shasa ever since Centaine blackmailed him into not revealing Shasa's bastard status to the world.__NEWL__Feeling betrayed by Manfred, Shasa blackmails him into retiring from politics as punishment for Sir Garrick's murder, accepting that he will lose his own political career by doing so.__NEWL__He is subsequently appointed the South African Ambassador to Britain by B.J. Vorster, a move that removes him from South African politics.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3819798	A Time to Die	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38808030	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38808030	Set against the majesty of the African landscape, its great plains, swamplands, forests and mountains, A Time to Die is a story of courage and friendship, the thrill of the hunt, the savagery of war and the saving power of love.__NEWL__Retired guerrilla fighter Sean Courtney is over forty years old and facing the possibility of losing his professional hunting licence.__NEWL__His long-time friend and client Riccardo Monterro is approaching sixty and is hunting with Sean on his last safari accompanied by his beautiful twenty-six-year-old daughter Claudia.__NEWL__Hunting Tukutela, a grand old bull tusker who carries possibly the heaviest set of ivory in all of Africa the three of them along with an entourage of black trackers and gun bearers tenaciously follow the old bull across the border into war torn Mozambique.__NEWL__Caught up in the Mozambican Civil War Sean encounters one of his bitterest enemies from his guerrilla days and finds himself and his friends in a desperate struggle for survival.__NEWL__Amidst the horrors of war he falls in love with young Claudia and she likewise falls in love with him, but the trick is to get out of Mozambique alive so that they can enjoy their newfound love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3825092	Golden Fox	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38808042	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38808042	Isabella Courtney and her father Shasa are living in London, where Shasa is the ambassador for South Africa.__NEWL__In what is, unknown to Isabella, a carefully planned operation, Isabella is seduced by Ramon de Santiago y Machado, an exiled Spanish nobleman who is both a close relative of Fidel Castro and a KGB operative known as Golden Fox.__NEWL__Shortly after Isabella gives birth to Ramon's child, who they name Nicholas, he and Ramon disappear.__NEWL__Isabella is later shown a video of her son being tortured, and is told he will continue to be tortured, mutilated and eventually murdered, if she doesn't co-operate.__NEWL__Torn between love for her son and loyalty to her country, Isabella begins spying on her father, now heavily involved in Armscor, which is developing nuclear weapons as well as a deadly nerve agent known as Cyndex 25 for use in the South African Border War.__NEWL__With the promise of access to her son and Ramon, who maintains a charade of being a prisoner like Nicolas, Isabella delivers details of South Africa's most secret activities to the KGB, who are working to spread communist and marxist influence across Africa.__NEWL__Eventually, one of Isabella's servants reports her affair with Ramon to Shasa and Courtney matriarch Centaine, who in turn discover Isabella's betrayal and reveal Ramon's true colours to her.__NEWL__An operation is planned and carried out by the Courtney family to rescue Nicholas and break the KGB's hold on Isabella.__NEWL__First, Isabella travels to an ANC training camp where Nicholas is being held, carrying a concealed transceiver with her in order to alert her family to her location.__NEWL__Shasa and Isabella's youngest brother Garrick (Garry for short), piloting a company jet, track the transceiver to confirm Isabella and Nicholas's location, narrowly avoiding being shot down by MiGs in the process.__NEWL__Isabella's eldest brother Sean, one of the top commanders in the Rhodesian army, leads an attack on the camp, rescuing Nicholas and Isabella, but Ramon escapes during the chaos.__NEWL__Following the operation, the Courtneys discover that Benjamin Afrika, the illegitimate child of Isabella's mother Tara and the deceased black rebel Moses Gama, has stolen two canisters of Cyndex 25.__NEWL__They correctly deduce that Benjamin and Ramon will attempt to use the nerve agent at the Rand Easter Show, at which there will be hundreds of thousands of people, including prominent figures in South African industry and politics, by spraying it from a plane provided by Isabella's middle brother Michael, a black rights sympathizer who has long since lost faith with non-violent methods.__NEWL__Sean travels to Michael's residence and kills Benjamin, but he is unable to stop Ramon and Michael from taking off.__NEWL__Garry intercepts them in his own plane, and after an unsuccessful attempt to convince Michael to surrender, he forces them to crash.__NEWL__Michael is killed immediately, while Ramon dies when the Cyndex 25 leaks into the plane cockpit.__NEWL__In the epilogue, taking place two years after the events of the novel, it is revealed that Centaine has decided not to prosecute Isabella for her acts of treason, but resolves to have her atone for them nevertheless.__NEWL__Nicholas has moved on from Ramon and accepted Centaine as his great-grandmother.__NEWL__At his request, Centaine tells Nicholas the story of her arrival in Africa, before they leave to rejoin Isabella.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3793264	Elephant Song	1992-02-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38808049	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38808049	Documentary filmmaker Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of ivory and kills Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong's childhood friend.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4002537	Birds of Prey	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38808073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38808073	In 1667 Holland is at war with England.__NEWL__Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal attack ships of the Dutch East India Company off the coast of Africa.__NEWL__They are betrayed and Sir Francis is executed.__NEWL__Hal winds up working for Prester John.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3796106	The Triumph of the Sun	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	38808109	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38808109	The plot is set in 1884, Sudan, beginning shortly before the fall of Khartoum at the hands of the Mahdi.__NEWL__British trader and businessman Ryder Courtney, the younger brother of Waite Courtney, arrives in Khartoum to sell his wares, only to have them commandeered by General Charles George Gordon.__NEWL__General Gordon later has Ryder evacuate citizens from the besieged city on his river steamer, the Intrepid Ibis, but the steamer is attacked and damaged by the Mahdists as it tries to escape, stranding Ryder in Khartoum.__NEWL__Penrod Ballantyne, a captain in the 10th Hussars and a survivor of the Battle of El Obeid, is tasked by Evelyn Baring with taking messages to General Gordon and David Benbrook, the British consul in Khartoum.__NEWL__While travelling across the desert, Penrod is attacked by Osman Atalan, an emir of the Mahdi who considers Penrod to be a blood enemy after nearly being killed by him at El Obeid, but he escapes and makes it to Khartoum.__NEWL__After delivering his messages, Penrod is recruited by General Gordon to assist in the defense of the city, bringing him into contact with Ryder.__NEWL__The two men work together to bring down a black market grain operation being run by Khartoum's corrupt Egyptian troops.__NEWL__Rebecca Benbrook, the eldest daughter of David, struggles with her romantic feelings towards both men, kissing Ryder and later losing her virginity to Penrod.__NEWL__David's two other daughters, Saffron and Amber, also hold affections towards Ryder and Penrod, respectively.__NEWL__After intercepting messenger pigeons being used by the Mahdists, General Gordon and Penrod learn that Osman and his troops are being sent to join the Mahdist force moving to intercept General Stewart's relief column.__NEWL__Penrod leaves to warn General Stewart of the upcoming attack, evading Osman on the way again, with both men going on to participate in the Battle of Abu Klea.__NEWL__After the Mahdists are defeated, Osman is able to retreat with the majority of his forces.__NEWL__While Penrod is gone, Ryder, who is still in love with Rebecca despite her tryst with Penrod, makes love to her and proposes marriage to her, but Rebecca declines to answer after learning of the British victory, believing that Penrod may return.__NEWL__Osman returns to Khartoum before the British, and after convincing the Mahdi not to punish him for losing the battle, he leads an attack on Khartoum, killing General Gordon and taking the city for the Mahdi.__NEWL__Saffron is able to escape with Ryder aboard the now repaired Ibis, but the Mahdists kill David and capture Rebecca and Amber.__NEWL__With the help of her Arabic servant Nazeera, Rebecca is able to convince the Mahdi to take her and Amber into his harem, ensuring their survival and wellbeing.__NEWL__Penrod, who has deserted from the British due to his impatience at Charles Wilson's slow organization, returns to discover what has happened and begins planning to rescue Rebecca and Amber, but he is captured by Mahdist forces and becomes a prisoner of Osman.__NEWL__When the Mahdi dies, Osman supports Abdullahi al-Khalifa to ensure his succession, and takes Rebecca and Amber as his own.__NEWL__He later begins scouting out the Ethiopian Empire in preparation for a Mahdist invasion, bringing Penrod and the Benbrook girls with him.__NEWL__Penrod reunites with Ryder during this time, and the two of them are able to organize a rescue of Penrod and Amber.__NEWL__Rebecca, who had seduced Osman to ensure the continued safety of herself and Amber and is now pregnant with his child, chooses to remain behind, knowing that she would now be unwelcome in British society.__NEWL__Saffron chooses to remain in Africa, and she and Ryder marry.__NEWL__Penrod marries Amber, and is recruited by Horatio Kitchener to help train a new Egyptian desert army for the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan.__NEWL__After the Battle of Omdurman, Penrod tracks down Osman and kills him in a swordfight.__NEWL__Rebecca, now broken by her captivity and the mother of two of Osman's children, commits suicide upon seeing this, entrusting her children to Penrod's care.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17131189	Spinsters	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z	38561656	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38561656	The novel describes an American road trip by two unmarried thirty-something sisters, Frannie and Doris.__NEWL__Doris was popular and pretty in high school, and still keen to keep moving and meet men, while the narrator Frannie is less keen on the journey and shyer around men.__NEWL__Following their father's death they set out on a journey through America.__NEWL__The action takes place in the late 1960s, and reflects the changes American society was undergoing at the time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385315	Colonel Jack	1722-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23666	Great Britain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	38669750	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38669750	The novel begins with Jack as an abandoned illegitimate child, whose attending nurse is instructed by his father to inform Jack when he grows up that he is a "Gentleman".__NEWL__The nurse dubs her own son "Captain Jack" to differentiate him from the two other Jacks under her care, and provides the protagonist with the name "Colonel Jack"; the other she calls "Major Jack".__NEWL__The nurse dies when Colonel Jack is ten, and the three young boys, thrown into the outside world, turn to crime; Colonel Jack becomes the assistant to a pick-pocket, Will, and is inducted into the skills of the trade.__NEWL__As the scale and nature of the crimes becomes more severe, Jack begins to understand the harm he is doing.__NEWL__After wandering the country with Captain Jack and settling in Scotland for a time, the two join the army but soon desert.__NEWL__Making their way to Newcastle, they are tricked into boarding a boat which they believed to be bound for London, but which is actually headed for Virginia.__NEWL__There they are sold into servitude.__NEWL__Jack serves his time and sufficiently impresses his master to become a plantation owner himself.__NEWL__He becomes a reformed character who repents his past life.__NEWL__On a return voyage to England, his ship is captured by the French, and Jack is landed at Bordeaux, where he is exchanged for a French merchant held by the English.__NEWL__Once back in England, and affecting French manners, Jack takes to calling himself Colonel Jacque.__NEWL__He is beguiled into marriage by a fortune-hunter who does not know the extent of his fortune.__NEWL__His wife proves to be a spendthrift and adulteress, and the marriage ends in divorce.__NEWL__Disgruntled, Jack leaves for France, where he purchases a company of soldiers and fights on the side of the French in the wars of the period.__NEWL__After being taken prisoner by the enemy, Jack becomes embroiled into marriage with a calculating woman, who is again an adulteress.__NEWL__He wounds her lover in a duel, and flees back to London.__NEWL__Jack marries again, though his wife becomes an alcoholic and an adulteress, and finally drinks herself to death.__NEWL__He remarries, but leaves the country after being involved in the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1715.__NEWL__He chooses to resettle in Virginia, his new wife, Moggy, having died in the meantime.__NEWL__There Jack encounters his divorced wife, reduced to being a house-keeper on his plantation, with whom he is reconciled and remarries.__NEWL__The colony becomes flooded with captured Jacobite rebels, transported there as punishment.__NEWL__Worried for his own security, Jack and his wife flee to the West Indies under pretence of illness, where he eventually learns of a general pardon of the remaining rebels and that consequently he is a free man.__NEWL__Returning to Virginia to join his wife, who has already made her way back to manage their business interests, Jack's ship is captured by the Spanish, and he finds himself taken to Havana.__NEWL__In spite of being a prisoner, he manages to profit handsomely from illicit trading adventures and soon returns to Virginia.__NEWL__Jack starts to trade on a regular basis with his Spanish contacts, but has to take refuge amongst them when his presence is discovered by the authorities.__NEWL__Pretending to be Spanish, Jack lives comfortably enough for some time, and has further thoughts of repentance and religion.__NEWL__The novel ends with Jack speaking of his intentions to travel to Cadiz, then from there to London, to be rejoined by his wife from Virginia.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7741481	The Immolation	1977-01-01T00:00:00Z	38801340	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38801340	The novel traces the resistance movement of a group of freedom fighters who are watched by secret police at the capital, and who later migrated to the northern provinces of their country (Vietnam during the Vietnam War) to continue their struggles against foreign invaders.__NEWL__The most prominent of these is the protagonist Tranh.__NEWL__The immolation of the title refers to the self-immolation act practised by young Buddhist monk Tran Kim at the start of the novel, as a form of silent protest against the government.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7691509	Team Human	2012-07-01T00:00:00Z	38700840	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38700840	Team Human is set in the town of New Whitby, Maine, the origin of America's compact with vampires and a place that sees them living side-by-side in relative harmony.__NEWL__When a century-old vampire joins their high school class, Mel is horrified when her best friend Cathy falls for him.__NEWL__Afraid that Cathy might be considering becoming a vampire herself, Mel starts on a quest to show Cathy how dangerous the undead really are, which means braving the vampire district and solving a mystery.__NEWL__As the book's tagline states, "friends don't let friends date vampires."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16387156	Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z	38584432	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38584432	Mrs Ivy Eckdorf, a professional photographer with two unsuccessful marriages behind her, decides to visit Dublin's O'Neill's Hotel, after hearing that there are some dark secrets in the closet at the place.__NEWL__The hotel is owned by Mrs Sinnott, a compassionate deaf-and-dumb lady fast approaching her ninety-second year.__NEWL__Her feckless son Eugene, a drunk and gambling addict, spends little on the upkeep of the hotel, and the place has now acquired a reputation as a somewhat seedy establishment:__NEWL__Morrissey, a local pimp, often arranges his clients' rendezvous with prostitutes in the rooms.__NEWL__With her feistiness and indefatigable spirit Mrs Eckdorf budges into the lives of the Sinnott family, O'Shea the hall porter and Father Hennessey, a Catholic priest of the local parish.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16843775	Bob the Gambler	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	38592233	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38592233	From the Kirkus review of the book: "Raymond Kaiser, his wife Jewel, and her daughter from a previous marriage, RV, all quietly enjoy life in Biloxi, Miss., a "simple, easy, cheap" town on the Gulf Coast.__NEWL__With work as an architect drying up, Ray finds himself increasingly interested in the glitzy world of offshore gambling, especially at the Paradise, where Jewel wins over $1,000 on their first trip.__NEWL__In their daily life, "everything's dull", so it is no wonder that Jewel and Ray enjoy the visceral excitement of gambling.__NEWL__They soon graduate from slots to the blackjack table, and slowly find themselves down by over $4,000.__NEWL__Meanwhile, back home, RV seems headed into a downward spiral of teen rebellion--boy trouble, substance experimenting, and body piercings.__NEWL__It doesn't help that her parents are largely absent, spending their nights at Paradise.__NEWL__When Ray's father dies, it sends him further into a midlife crisis.__NEWL__He comes to see himself no longer as "an ordinary guy", but as a full-time gambler.__NEWL__The problem is--he's not very good at it.__NEWL__Spending 18 hours at a time in the casino does nothing but increase his debts.__NEWL__Maxing out a handful of credit cards, he finds himself over $35,000 in the hole, but still juiced by "the losses, the excitement, the hopes, the desperation, the high".__NEWL__Quitting architecture altogether, Ray and Jewel decide to downsize, selling their belongings and moving in with Ray's mother.__NEWL__In their new simplicity, this besieged family finally finds that happiness is not in middle-class stability, nor in the quick fix of gambling's artificial Paradise, but in their everyday Edenic lives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3488153	Trollslayer	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3852201	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3852201	The first chapter finds the adventurers shortly after meeting for the first time and leaving Altdorf together.__NEWL__They are kicked off the coach they were riding on because of Gotrek's comments toward the coach driver and especially his wife.__NEWL__As they continue to travel on foot, they are nearly run down by a black coach, and Gotrek vows to find it and hurt the driver.__NEWL__They reach the Standing Stones Inn, and are able to make their way through the barred door to learn of how on Geheimnisnacht a coven who are based in the Darkstone Ring steal children and other people for sacrifices.__NEWL__They learn that the son of the innkeeper, Gunter, and his wife have both disappeared, and so they vow to find the Darkstone Ring and destroy the coven and save Gunter and his wife.__NEWL__After finding the path to the Ring, they come across a rotting cultist who chants gibberish before being felled.__NEWL__They finally come across the Ring and coven and discover that the leader of the coven is the driver of the Black Coach.__NEWL__They listen in for a while and learn that it is dedicated to Slaanesh, Lord of Pleasure.__NEWL__They finally attack and destroy the coven as they intended to sacrifice a stolen baby, and in the aftermath they discover that Gunter and his wife were both cultists, and so are both dead.__NEWL__They rescue the baby, and move on...__NEWL__This story is frequently alluded to by Felix later in the series, as it was his first true glimpse at Chaos.__NEWL__The story begins with Felix in a tavern protecting a girl from the attentions of three huge trappers: Hef, Kell, and Lars.__NEWL__He holds his own until Gotrek comes in and drives them out.__NEWL__The girl introduces herself as Kirsten, and explains how her family is part of the von Diehl migration, a cursed noble family and their servants and their families moving to the Border Lands.__NEWL__Gotrek and Felix were on their way to the Dwarf stronghold of Karak Eight-Peaks because of stories of treasure they had heard.__NEWL__They decide to join the von Diehls, as they are heading in the same general direction, and they could use the cover afforded by carts.__NEWL__After traveling through the Grey Mountains, and reaching the Border Lands, Felix falls deeply in love with Kirsten, and she likewise.__NEWL__While camped in the Cursed Hills, the camp is attacked by Undead warriors, and during the fight, Felix kills the trapper Lars, after he goes crazy and attacks him.__NEWL__The men drive off the Undead, and they set off to find a ruined fort, which Gotrek helps repair, hinting at his pre-slayer background as an engineer.__NEWL__Finally, the fort is attacked by Wolf Riders, led by a Goblin Shaman, and during the first siege, Gottfried, the leader of the von Diehls, is struck by an arrow and is carried off by his son, Deiter; his nephew, Manfred; Frau Winter, a sorceress; and Kirsten, Frau Winter's assistant, to be healed.__NEWL__After a day of no word from them, and with the second siege starting, Felix goes off to investigate, leaving Gotrek and the remaining men to fight off the horde ready to break through the gates.__NEWL__Felix comes across Frau Winter and Kirsten, the former who is dead and the latter who is dying.__NEWL__Felix watches her die, and swears to avenge her.__NEWL__He then comes across Dieter, whose head was bashed in, and enters Gottfired's room to see him stabbed to death in his bed with Manfred sitting there wiping off his blade.__NEWL__He then explains that the "curse" of the von Diehls was mutation brought on by a heretic cursing Manfred's grandfather.__NEWL__Manfred, going mad, explains that he broke the curse by killing all of the von Diehls.__NEWL__He and Felix duel, and Felix kills him, uttering "The curse is broken".__NEWL__He goes outside to see Gotrek standing on a pile of goblin, wolf and human bodies, including Hef and Kell.__NEWL__He single-handedly held the gate, killing the Shaman and losing his eye in the process.__NEWL__The surviving humans are taken in by one of the many Border Princes, whilst Gotrek and Felix leave, and the story ends...__NEWL__The story continues immediately after 'Wolf Riders', with Felix and Gotrek travelling towards Karak Eight Peaks in search of treasure.__NEWL__On the way, they meet a party of men under attack from Orcs.__NEWL__The pair intervene and save the three survivors: Aldred Keppler, a zealous fanatic from the Templars of the Fiery Heart, Johann Zauberlich, a sorcerer, and Jules Gascoigne, a Bretonnian scout, are also journeying to Karak Eight Peaks on a quest.__NEWL__The group decide to travel together.__NEWL__They arrive at a settlement built by the Dwarves close to the ruined city, and ask permission to enter the city, where they learn what the three men are searching for: a magical sword called Karaghul, an heirloom of the Order of the Fiery Heart, left in the city during a previous effort to reclaim part of the city by the Dwarves from the Goblins that infest it.__NEWL__The group are given leave to enter the city, but before they go, a Dwarven Priestess of Valaya warns them that great evil is stirring in the ruins of the city...__NEWL__The group journey into the depths of the ruined city, battling with Goblins, Orcs, Skaven and Ogres that now infest the ruined halls.__NEWL__As they go deeper, they are followed by ghostly lights.__NEWL__Eventually, the lights reveal themselves as dwarven ghosts, who beg Gotrek to help them.__NEWL__When he asks what has happened, they say that an ancient and powerful evil has desecrated their tombs and dragged them back from their eternal rest in the Hall of Ancestors, and that unless it is slain and the tombs resanctified, they will never find their way back to eternal rest.__NEWL__Gotrek vows to aid them.__NEWL__The group finally come to a great treasure room-the very one that Felix and Gotrek have been seeking.__NEWL__In pride of place is a great sword, which Aldred recognizes as Karaghul.__NEWL__However, before he can claim it, a huge creature bursts out and kills him, tearing his head from his shoulders.__NEWL__The creature is a great troll, tainted and corrupted by warpstone, twisted and mutated by the power of Chaos that it has become something far more terrible.__NEWL__Gotrek realizes they are in a Dwarven tomb, and that the troll's presence is the reason why the ghosts are stalking the ruins of Karak Eight Peaks.__NEWL__The group attack, but the troll has the ability to heal its wounds almost instantaneously, and they can only slow it.__NEWL__The troll kills Jules and Zauberlich, but not before the sorcerer learns that fire destroys the troll's ability to regenerate.__NEWL__As Gotrek keeps the beast distracted, Felix throws a lamp on it, which ignites, setting the beast on fire and letting Gotrek finally kill it.__NEWL__A huge army of Goblins arrives, attracted by the commotion.__NEWL__As Gotrek and Felix consign themselves to dying in battle, the ghosts of the tomb form up in a spectral army and attack the goblins, killing them with ease and causing the survivors to flee.__NEWL__Gotrek angrily says that the ghosts have denied him a heroic death, but they reply he is destined for a doom far greater...that is soon approaching.__NEWL__The ghosts bless him for his deed and disappear, finally at peace.__NEWL__Gotrek ignores the treasure, realizing that to take it would desecrate the tomb and raise the ghosts again, though Felix takes Karaghul in honour of their dead comrades.__NEWL__Leaving the bodies of their companions at rest in the tomb, the pair seal it and leave Karak Eight Peaks behind...__NEWL__The story picks up after they have left Karak Eight Peaks and come to a small village at the edge of the Drakwald Forest.__NEWL__The village is controlled by a gang of vicious thugs who are also cultists of Slaanesh, who viciously beat up Felix in the village tavern shortly after his arrival.__NEWL__To make matters worse, in a battle with mutants on the road, Gotrek was struck on the head with a slingstone and is suffering amnesia, no longer remembering who he is, nor who Felix is, or his quest to find a heroic death.__NEWL__Felix takes Gotrek to a local healer called Kryptmann, who promises to create a brew to restore Gotrek's mind, providing Felix brings back certain ingredients from the nearby mountains.__NEWL__Narrowly avoiding the Slaaneshi thugs and a roving band of mutants, Felix gathers the ingredients and brings them to Kryptmann.__NEWL__However, the brew has no effect, and Felix attacks Kryptmann, accusing the healer of lying to him.__NEWL__In the confusion, Gotrek receives another blow to the head, which restores his memory to him.__NEWL__With the Slayer restored to his wits, the pair go to the tavern and revenge themselves on the cultists...__NEWL__The story begins with Gotrek and Felix passing through the Drakwald Forest.__NEWL__They find a young girl called Kat, the sole survivor of a beastman attack on her village.__NEWL__The beastmen were led by a female Chaos Champion of the Chaos God, Khorne, who mysteriously spared Kat's life.__NEWL__The story then switches to the perspective of the female Chaos Champion, a woman called Justine, who turned to Chaos after being raped as a young woman by a nobleman.__NEWL__After many years in the Chaos Wastes, she returns to take her revenge, destroying the nobleman's castle with her army of beastmen and murdering the nobleman.__NEWL__Her army has then taken to raiding nearby villages: however, she has to find and kill Kat in order to become a Daemon Prince and achieve immortality, though she has misgivings about killing the girl (it is constantly hinted, and then finally confirmed later in the story, that she is in fact Kat's mother, a pregnancy caused by her rape).__NEWL__The story then returns to Gotrek and Felix.__NEWL__After slaying a marauding band of beastmen, the three reach another village and warn them of the coming danger.__NEWL__Unfortunately, the Chaos army learns of their location and Justine leads her army in an attack on the village to find Kat.__NEWL__The beastmen break into the village and a vicious battle breaks out between the beasts and the villagers.__NEWL__Justine battles Gotrek, who injures her but cannot kill her (she was gifted with a prophecy that states no warrior can kill her in battle).__NEWL__Upon seeing Kat, Justine abandons her attack and pursues the girl.__NEWL__Realising what the Chaos Champion is after, Felix attacks her in an effort to distract her from Kat, but is swiftly overpowered.__NEWL__As Justine tries to break his neck, Kat intervenes and kills Justine with her own sword, thus fulfilling the prophecy and saving Felix.__NEWL__With their leader dead, the beastmen flee, pursued by the villagers, who slaughter them all.__NEWL__Gotrek and Felix leave the village the day after the victory.__NEWL__Though Kat asks to go with them, Felix replies they cannot take her with them, as they are bound for more dangerous places where she won't be safe.__NEWL__Kat accepts this, and they leave, the three promising never to forget each other...__NEWL__The story begins with the pair arriving at the village of Blutdorf, on their way to Nuln.__NEWL__They learn the villagers are being held to ransom by a sorcerer in a nearby castle who has abducted their children: however, out of fear, the villagers drug the pair and hand them over to the sorcerer.__NEWL__At the castle, the pair wake up in chains.__NEWL__The sorcerer reveals himself to them, and Felix recognizes him as Albericht Kruger, a fellow student from his days at the University of Altdorf, Kruger having disappeared after stealing forbidden texts on Chaos and its mutations.__NEWL__Kruger, now a megalomaniac egotist, arrogantly explains that he plans to use the knowledge in the texts to create an army of mutants with which to conquer the Empire.__NEWL__However, the pair break free of their captivity and fight back: when Kruger sends Oleg, the most powerful of his mutated soldiers, to kill them, Gotrek strangles the mutant with the chains he was bound with.__NEWL__Kruger tries to make his escape, but Gotrek and Felix pursue, cutting their way through a horde of mutants Kruger sends at them.__NEWL__They corner him in his study, where he explains that the mutants they had just killed were in fact the children of the villagers, Kruger having discovered children were easier to mutate than adults.__NEWL__In a burst of uncharacteristic fury, Felix seizes Kruger by the throat and throws him to his death from the castle battlements, an act that meets with Gotrek's approval.__NEWL__They set light to the castle and leave for the village, to settle a score...__NEWL__The story begins with Felix and Gotrek heading through the Drakwald Forest in heavy snow, following the tracks of a monster Gotrek believes to be a troll.__NEWL__The forest is unnaturally quiet, but the wolves that dwell in the forest seem unnaturally active...__NEWL__The pair get separated, and Felix is captured by a group of Imperial soldiers who are actually cultists of the Chaos God Tzeentch.__NEWL__Felix is bound in chains next to another captive, Magdalena, a beautiful young woman the cult have captured for their dark purposes...__NEWL__The pair are placed in the dungeons of the cult's leader, Count Hrothgar, and are interrogated by his lieutenant, the sorcerer Voorman.__NEWL__Magdalena explains to Felix the cult have abducted her to use as bait to trap her father, who is one of the 'Children of Ulric'- a werewolf.__NEWL__Felix manages to escape his captivity and works his way through the manor, killing several of the cultists, including Count Hrothgar.__NEWL__He discovers that Voorman plans to perform a spell on the werewolf that will transfer his soul into its body.__NEWL__As he learns this, the werewolf, leading a massive pack of wolves, attacks the manor, easily defeating the cultists.__NEWL__In the main hall, the monster kills Voorman, but not before he completes his spell.__NEWL__As Voorman takes possession of the monster's body, Felix attacks him with a dagger: a dagger with a blade made of pure warpstone, the only thing that will harm the beast.__NEWL__He manages to defeat the beast; as it dies, the wolves attacking the manor flee, as a new arrival joins the fight: Gotrek, who kept on following the tracks until he reached the manor.__NEWL__They capture Magdalena, and although Felix considers her an innocent in the affair, Gotrek believes that as a shapeshifter she is tainted by Chaos and kills her.__NEWL__Felix later states that this act still haunts him.__NEWL__The pair then carry on for Nuln...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7742889	The Jade Peony	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	3852524	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3852524	The Jade Peony is divided into three sections, with a different child of the Chen family narrating his or her experience growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown in the early 1930–40s.__NEWL__Throughout the novel, the children's grandmother and family matriarch, Poh-Poh or Grandmama(the "Old One"), influences them with her own life experience and passes to them their cultural heritage of the "old ways" of China that they must maintain and balance with assimilating into the new world culture.__NEWL__The three children are Jook Liang or "Liang-Liang", followed by Jung Sum, and finally Sek-Lung or "Sekky".__NEWL__The first section is narrated by Jook-Liang, the only sister in the family and the first child born to Father and Stepmother in Canada.__NEWL__She wishes to be a performer like Shirley Temple and forms an unlikely friendship with Wong Suk, an elderly man who is a family friend to the Chens.__NEWL__As the only daughter in the family, Liang struggles against her dreams of fame and escaping the old ways of her family, as well as the old Chinese convention of placing boys before girls.__NEWL__Her story concludes with Wong Suk returning to China to repatriate the remains of Chinese men who died in Canada but had wished to return home to China.__NEWL__Jung-Sum, the second son, narrates the second section of the novel.__NEWL__Adopted into the Chen family after his birth parents died, he is hesitant to accept his new family after enduring neglect and abuse at the hands of his biological parents.__NEWL__However, he finds a sense of belonging with his new family as they welcome him with kind yet subtle gestures.__NEWL__Jung-Sum constantly seeks approval by attempting to prove himself to his family as well as his peers.__NEWL__Furthermore, he struggles with his sexuality and feelings for Frank, an older boy who has lost his parents, in a way that is somewhat similar to Jung-Sum's situation.__NEWL__He and Jung-Sum bond as Frank mentors him through boxing.__NEWL__Sek-Lung, or Sekky the third son, is the youngest child of the Chen family and the second child born to Father and Stepmother.__NEWL__Because he tended to be sickly, he becomes close to Poh-Poh, who spends most of her time taking care of him.__NEWL__He was having a wonderful life with Poh-Poh.__NEWL__When she passes away, he becomes obsessed with the war games that have emerged with the impending Second World War and finds his world increasingly confusing when his babysitter, Meiying, begins an illicit relationship with a Japanese boy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7563349	Sorcerer's Apprentice	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	3865265	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3865265	The novel is set in the Sarladais (the Dordogne region of France).__NEWL__An adolescent boy is sent to live with a 35-year-old priest, who becomes his teacher and spiritual mentor, and exerts a powerful control over the boy.__NEWL__He abuses him physically and sexually, but the boy willingly accepts his 'punishment.'__NEWL__The boy falls in love with a slightly younger, and very beautiful boy, meeting in secret and having sex.__NEWL__This disturbing story is much more than a tale of a sexually violent predator.__NEWL__The adolescent himself experiences sexual activity with the other boy, but this relationship is one of genuine love and affection, rather than the coercive, harmful abuse he is subjected to by the priest.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7927494	Victory Garden	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z	3858372	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3858372	Victory Garden is a hypertext novel which is set during the Gulf War, in 1991.__NEWL__The story centres on Emily Runbird and the lives and interactions of the people connected with her life.__NEWL__Although Emily is a central figure to the story and networked lives of the characters, there is no one character who could be classed as the protagonist.__NEWL__Each character in Victory Garden lends their own sense of perspective to the story and all characters are linked through a series of bridges and connections.__NEWL__There is no set "end" to the story.__NEWL__Rather there are multiple nodes that provide a sense of closure for the reader.__NEWL__In one such "ending", Emily appears to die.__NEWL__However, in another "ending", she comes home safe from the war.__NEWL__How the story plays out depends on the choices the reader makes during their navigation of the text.__NEWL__The passage of time is uncertain as the reader can find nodes that focus on the present, flashbacks or even dreams and the nodes are frequently presented in a non-linear fashion.__NEWL__The choices the reader makes can lead them to focus on individual characters, meaning that while there are a series of characters in the story the characters focused on can change with each reading, or a particular place.__NEWL__Upon entering the work the reader is presented with a series of choices as to how to navigate the story.__NEWL__The reader may enter the text through a variety of means: the map of the 'garden', the lists of paths, or by the composition of a sentence.__NEWL__Each of these paths guides the reader though fragmented pieces of the story (in the form of node) and by reading and rereading many different paths the reader receives different perspectives of the different characters.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4916016	Birdman	1999-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3801044	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3801044	Caffery gets involved in the frightening case of five murdered women whose mutilated corpses are found in the outskirts of London.__NEWL__His investigation yields a treasure trove of abominations.__NEWL__Caffery knows his department is looking in the wrong place for the perpetrator, but he cannot guess at the forces he is up against, or the true darkness of a killer's heart.__NEWL__The manhunt builds as a killer is cornered.__NEWL__The sequel is The Treatment.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4803807	Ascendant Sun	2000-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3788021	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3788021	The book begins just after Kelric has escaped the planet of Coba, where he had been held prisoner for over 18 years.__NEWL__Forced to land because of his ships short fuel supply, Kelric takes up a lucrative job as the spaceship Corona's tactical officer under the command of Jafe Maccar, only to be captured by his people's enemies, the Eubians.__NEWL__An Aristo Taratus sells Kelric in an auction to Tarquine Iquar, Minister of Finance.__NEWL__Kelric discovers his mixed feelings for Tarquine, even though he is made to be her slave and provider.__NEWL__Not long after his enslavement, Kelric makes a bold escape, which although successful, cripples his health significantly.__NEWL__Instead of immediately heading home, Kelric heads to the captured Lock, an ancient device made by the original Ruby Empire some 6000 years ago which fell into the Eubians possession during the Radiance War.__NEWL__There, he deactivates the mechanism and meets Jaibriol III, new emperor of the Eubian Empire, whom he immediately suspects to be a psion.__NEWL__Jaibriol proposes peace talks between Eube and Skolia.__NEWL__He manages to make it to another planet, where he meets his future wife Jeejon.__NEWL__Together, they are able to gain passage off world, to Earth.__NEWL__The book's climax is Kelric reuniting with his parents on Earth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15966151	The Silkworm	2014-06-19T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3788167	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3788167	Several months after solving the Lula Landry case, Cormoran Strike is asked by Leonora Quine to locate her novelist husband Owen, a former literary genius whose attempts to recreate his past success have failed.__NEWL__Owen disappeared around the same time his latest book, Bombyx Mori, was leaked.__NEWL__The book has been deemed unpublishable due to its mixture of sexual assault, torture, and cannibalism as well as its slanderous depiction of the people in Owen's life.__NEWL__In addition to Leonora, Strike sets out interviewing the other people portrayed in the manuscript: Owen's lover Kathryn Kent, protégée Pippa Midgley, agent Elizabeth Tassel, editor Jerry Waldegrave, publisher Daniel Chard and former friend Michael Fancourt.__NEWL__The suspects, however, soon turn on one another, accusing and counter-accusing each other of killing Owen and ghost-writing Bombyx Mori.__NEWL__As the investigation commences, Strike's relationship with Robin Ellacott gradually deteriorates, as she feels neglected by him and he feels unwilling to put her in a position where she is forced to choose between her job and her fiancé Matthew.__NEWL__The animosity is tempered when Strike finds Owen's body, which has been mutilated, doused in acid and posed to resemble the ending of Bombyx Mori.__NEWL__Metropolitan Police later arrest Leonora for the murder, prompting Strike to set out clearing her name.__NEWL__Robin, meanwhile, strains her relationship with Matthew after she almost misses his mother's funeral to help Strike and gets caught telling a lie.__NEWL__She later confronts Strike about his intentions only to be warned that she will be asked to do things Matthew will not like if she becomes an investigator.__NEWL__With the case against Leonora piling up, Strike focuses on Fancourt, whose character in the manuscript is inconsistent with his relationship to Owen.__NEWL__Several years earlier, after Fancourt's wife Elspeth wrote a novel that was panned by critics, an anonymous parody's release prompted her to kill herself.__NEWL__Fancourt accused Owen of authoring the parody and Tassel of enabling him.__NEWL__Strike soon deduces Bombyx Mori is a metaphor for someone else's life and Owen was intended to be the antagonist rather than the hero.__NEWL__Realising the manuscript was penned by a ghost-writer, he creates a plan to confront the killer.__NEWL__He later approaches Fancourt at a party and asks to speak to him in private.__NEWL__When Tassel, who is also in attendance, joins them, Strike accuses Tassel of being Owen's killer and the ghost-writer.__NEWL__Tassel, a failed author herself, wrote the parody of Elspeth's novel, which Owen used to blackmail her for twenty years.__NEWL__When he approached her with the original concept for Bombyx Mori, Tassel concocted an elaborate plan.__NEWL__She conspired with Owen to stage his disappearance, rewrote Bombyx Mori, killed Owen and framed Leonora.__NEWL__Tassel attempts to flee, only to be caught and arrested, which Strike and Robin planned in advance.__NEWL__Sometime later, Leonora is released from prison, Fancourt acknowledges the original Bombyx Mori manuscript's literary value, and Strike tells Robin that he enrolled her in investigative training courses as a Christmas gift.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1131904	The Turn	1902-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	3874330	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3874330	The story is divided into thirty very short chapters which permit the author to rapidly change situations and environments, bringing alternatively to the forefront the different subjects involved in the singular plan conceived by Marcantonio Ravì, the cause of odd and unpredictable events.__NEWL__This overweight, tenacious father of Stellina has an idee fixe which will, he believes, bring about the happiness of his daughter: establish a turn.__NEWL__That is to say, he will give her over as wife to the aging and well-off Don Diego Alcozèr, and then, after his death, consign her, fabulously wealthy and contented, to her desperate but dirt poor admirer Pepè Alletto.__NEWL__Marcantonio is so convinced of the efficacy of this idea that he goes around the city talking about it to everyone in order to get their consent, obstinately insisting that he's right with the comic intercalation "ragioniamo!"__NEWL__(let's reason about this!).__NEWL__But the majority of the people he meets, as soon as they hear the name of the decrepit__NEWL__Alcozèr, "spit out a laugh.__NEWL__" The proposition of the plan dominates the first chapter with the agitated figure of Marcantonio Ravì.__NEWL__His son-in-law in pectoris Diego Alcozèr, sprightly old man, widower of four wives and gaudy dandy with his "small watery furtive bald eyes", having already been "a conqueror of dames in crinoline from the epoch of Ferdinand II king of the Two Sicilies", emerges in the second chapter, where he excitedly chats with his future father-in-law about preparations for the surrender of Stellina.__NEWL__To these two "human stains" a third is added in the following chapter in which Pepè Alletto, the beneficiary of the "turn", takes the fore.__NEWL__What strikes the reader as curious is the fact that Marcantonio Ravì's plan takes him completely by surprise; in reality he it not a true "desperate admirer".__NEWL__He likes Stellina, but because of his lack of courage and his precarious economic conditions, he would never have dared to even think of marrying her.__NEWL__He is incapable of choosing and must always depend on the choices of others.__NEWL__Pepé Alletto is the typical representative of a certain melancholic nobility of the provinces, deeply lazy and morally weak.__NEWL__He lives in the shadow of his aging mother who would never allow him to work (and he obviously adapts himself well to this situation) out of a misbegotten concept of the dignity of her state.__NEWL__Pepé passes the day taking care of his appearance, dreaming of the great city.__NEWL__The idea of the "turn" offers him an unexpected goal, a beautiful wife and a large heredity in view, the solution to all of his problems without too much work.__NEWL__The marriage is filled with scenes of exhilarating comedy: the decrepit Don Diego wears for the occasion "the long napoleon which has survived through four weddings.__NEWL__" Such antiquity contrasts miserably with the freshness of Stellina, whose appearance "illuminated the party."__NEWL__Pepé breaks through this dishonest and uncomfortable atmosphere of false compliments and badly dissimulated commiseration when, responding to the solicitations of the guests, he feels invested with the part of future husband and begins playing the piano, singing and conducting the dances.__NEWL__The hysterical crisis of Stellina, who faints after her ancient husband spills the rosolio onto her white dress because of the uncontrollable trembling of his hands, is the event that shatters the apparatus of hypocrisy that Marcantonio had laboriously constructed around himself.__NEWL__But he continues to awkwardly search for vain excuses while the guests hurry to get out of the party.__NEWL__From this point on events precipitate out of control as everything becomes a prey to chance: Pepé, the maldextrous cavalier, gets himself caught up in a duel in order to defend Stellina, a situation which he could have easily avoided had he not asked for help from his overweening and domineering brother-in-law, the lawyer Ciro Coppa, who insists that he must challenge his adversary or be looked on as a coward.__NEWL__Pepé loses and ends up seriously wounded, as he will lose Stellina herself after continually begging Cirro to intervene in his favour.__NEWL__After the death of his wife, Ciro, in fact, marries Stellina, who has lost her patience and can no longer wait for the death of her elderly husband, himself.__NEWL__Ciro inserts himself arrogantly...in the turn, marrying Stellina and rendering her a slave to his insane jealousies.__NEWL__But, once again against all narrative expectations, the robust and optimistic lawyer dies before his time.__NEWL__His two sons and those of his sister must now stay with Pepé who, in the final scene, next to the salm of his brother-in-law, squeezes them to his breast while waiting for a look of consensus from Stellina.__NEWL__The last words of Marcantonio Ravì underscore the contradictions of chance, deus ex machina of the entire novel: "This one, who looked like a lion, look at him here: dead!__NEWL__And that old worm, healthy and full of life!__NEWL__Tomorrow the other one will marry Tina Mèndola, your good friend..."__NEWL__These are bitter words for him, especially if one remembers that Tina is the daughter of the hated Carmela Mèndola who insistently stigmatized the union between Stellina and the old Don Diego, defining it as "a mortal sin which cries out for vengeance!__NEWL__" It's understandable why Pirandello defined the story as "gay if not light-hearted".__NEWL__The desire to play games exhausts itself in a firework of exhilarating invention; but in the background there is always the shadow of the discontent of each character, whose desires are never, and can never be, fulfilled.__NEWL__They are nullified by unpredictable and uncontrollable events.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20981258	The Islander	1998-03-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1973	British Columbia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3796295	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3796295	The book follows Daniel, whose parents have died; he goes to live with his grandfather on a remote gray island off British Columbia.__NEWL__Together they live an extremely lonely life, hardly talking to anyone.__NEWL__That loneliness soon lifts from Daniel when he meets a mermaid.__NEWL__He returns to the shore later, hoping to meet her again, but instead finds a sea otter, who then tosses him a seashell which contains a key.__NEWL__As he explores the mysteries of the key he soon grows closer with his grandfather.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7770566	The Trumpeter of Krakow							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3796368	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3796368	After seeing a suspect lurking around his house in Ukraine, Andrew Charnetski hastily removes his family to a safe location.__NEWL__While away, Peter of the Button Face, acting under the orders of Ivan III of Russia, burns the Charnetskis' village to the ground in search of the "Great Tarnov Crystal", a mysterious Tarnov crystal that has caused many wars over the millennia and had, a few centuries previously, been entrusted by the city of Tarnów to the Charnetski family for safeguarding until its discovery by others, at which time it was to be given to the current king of Poland.__NEWL__Realizing that someone must have been after the crystal, and finding himself homeless, Andrew takes his family to Kraków, where his cousin Andrew Tenczynski lives, in order to give the crystal to King Kazimír Jagiełło.__NEWL__However, upon his arrival he finds that Tenczynski has been murdered and that his estate is under the control of Elizabeth of Austria, the queen of Poland.__NEWL__Destitute, Charnetski camps his family in the middle of the city for the day.__NEWL__Charnetski's fifteen-year-old son Joseph explores the city, passing the Church of Our Lady St. Mary, from which a trumpeter plays an unfinished song called "the Heynal" [in Polish: Hejnał mariacki] four times every hour, once to each direction (north, east, south, and west).__NEWL__Joseph ends up saving an alchemist named Nicholas Kreutz and his niece, Elżbietka, from a wolfdog (even though the book said a dog).__NEWL__Kreutz offers Joseph and his family an apartment just below his on the unsavory Street of the Pigeons, a street near Kraków University where scientists and magicians often live.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Andrew Charnetski and his wife (who is never named) have been found by Peter of the Button Face, who has pursued them from Ukraine.__NEWL__Surrounded by bandits and a jeering crowd, Andrew, his wife, and Joseph (who joins them) are only saved by the appearance of Jan Kanty, a respected scholar and priest.__NEWL__Kanty offers Andrew the position of night trumpeter in the Church of Our Lady St. Mary.__NEWL__Delighted at the prospect of a job and home on such short notice, Andrew accepts both offers.__NEWL__The following night Andrew takes Joseph with him to the tower of the Church of Our Lady St. Mary, leaving his wife behind with Elżbietka.__NEWL__In the tower Andrew explains to his son the story of the trumpeter of Kraków — a trumpeter who, in 1241, was pierced by a Tartar arrow before he could finish the Heynał.__NEWL__Accordingly, the song has always been abruptly cut short.__NEWL__Nicholas Kreutz, meanwhile, teaches a German student named Johann Tring chemistry in the loft above his apartment every evening.__NEWL__Tring, however, is obsessed with the idea of obtaining the philosopher's stone, and finally convinces Kreutz to go through sessions of hypnosis, which Tring believes will open Kreutz's "Greater Mind", revealing the secret of the creation of a chrysopoeia.__NEWL__All Tring can glean from Kreutz's trances, however, is that the chrysopoeia is at hand (which Tring takes to mean that they have nearly discovered how to make it).__NEWL__When unhypnotized, Kreutz reasons that there cannot be one stone that automatically changes brass into gold, but that there must be a process by which such a change could occur.__NEWL__He believes that all things are subject to change, and wishes to change the bad things in the world to good things through the use of alchemy.__NEWL__An example he gives is the landlady's deformed son, Stas, whom Kreutz believes could be saved through alchemical transmutation.__NEWL__In the meantime, Peter of the Button Face hears Stas, the landlady's son, discussing the Charnetskis and pays him a fortune to learn of their whereabouts.__NEWL__He leads a burglary on the Charnetski's apartment while Andrew is up in the church tower, and discovers the Tarnov Crystal hidden in Andrew's mattress.__NEWL__He and his men are surprised, however, by the appearance of Nicholas Kreutz, clad in clothes covered in phosphorus and burning resin, and take him for a demon.__NEWL__The bandits flee and are caught by the night watchmen, but Peter stays to reclaim the Crystal.__NEWL__When Kreutz asks the mercenary why he has come, Peter realizes the alchemist is not a demon and stops being afraid.__NEWL__He directs Kreutz's attention to the Crystal, then trips the alchemist and grabs the gem, heading for the door.__NEWL__Kreutz throws some explosive powder at Peter, who drops the Crystal in agony and escapes over the rooftops of Kraków.__NEWL__Tempted by the realization that the Crystal is the chrysopoeia he and Tring have been ardently seeking, Kreutz steals the Tarnov Crystal before anyone figures what has happened.__NEWL__When he tries to use the Crystal, however, Kreutz realized that it only makes him think of his own desires.__NEWL__He realized, then, that it can only reflect back the gazer's own subconscious knowledge, and therefore will not reveal the secret of chrysopoeia unless he himself has all the pieces stored somewhere in his head.__NEWL__Andrew teaches Joseph the Heynał, realizing that he may be attacked by seekers of the Crystal and that someone must be left to trumpet the song on the hour.__NEWL__While in the tower one evening, Andrew and Joseph are attacked and held captive by Peter and his band.__NEWL__Peter demands to be led to the location of the Crystal (which neither Andrew nor Joseph knows), but first orders Joseph to trumpet the Heynał since it is two o'clock and its absence will be noticed.__NEWL__Thinking quickly, Joseph plays the Hejnał the entire way through, not stopping at the broken note.__NEWL__Elżbietka, lying awake in her apartment waiting to hear the Heynał, realizes the finished tune is a sign and rushes to Jan Kanty's cell.__NEWL__Kanty calls the night watchmen to his aid and heads for the church tower, where they surprise the bandits and free Andrew.__NEWL__Peter, meanwhile, notices the troop of watchmen and flees the city.__NEWL__Much later, Kreutz finally gives in to temptation and reveals the Great Tarnov Crystal to Johann Tring.__NEWL__Tring is giddy with excitement and instructs Kreutz to gaze into the crystal.__NEWL__The alchemist, however, is tired from his numerous trances.__NEWL__Despite his faint protests, Tring makes him go into a trance by making him stare into the depths of the gemstone.__NEWL__In it his thoughts arrange themselves into a strange order, and he reads in the stone what Tring believes to be the formula for the changing brass into gold, but what is in actuality the formula for a niter-based explosive.__NEWL__When Tring mixes the ingredients together, the loft explodes into flames and Tring flees for cover.__NEWL__Kreutz grabs the stone and, still crazed, heads off into the streets of Kraków.__NEWL__After that, he is dragged to the tower by Jan Kanty and the Great Tarnov Crystal is given back to Pan Andrew.__NEWL__The fire starts to spread through the Street of the Pigeons, and during the tumult the king's royal guards catch Peter of the Button Face skulking around the scene and haul him off to the prison.__NEWL__Joseph, his mother, and Elżbietka escape from their home to the church tower, and Joseph replaces his father as the trumpeter while Andrew goes to work stopping the flames, which have spread throughout the city.__NEWL__The fire is extinguished by the morning and Jan Kanty finds Nicholas Kreutz wandering aimlessly about in the rubble with the Tarnov Crystal in his hands.__NEWL__Jan Kanty, Nicholas Kreutz, and Andrew and Joseph Charnetski all seek an audience with King Kazimír.__NEWL__Once granted, they present to him the Tarnov Crystal and tell them its story and theirs.__NEWL__The king then summons Peter of the Button Face, who bargains for his life by promising to tell the king why there have been disturbances in Ukraine.__NEWL__He tells the king that Ivan III, the king of Russia, wished to have Makhmud Khan invade Ukraine and capture it for Russia.__NEWL__Makhmud agreed under the condition that Ivan would procure for him the Great Tarnov Crystal.__NEWL__It was thus that Ivan hired the mercenary Bogdan Grozny, called Peter, to steal the Crystal.__NEWL__After hearing Peter's story, Kazimír banishes the mercenary from Poland for life.__NEWL__As they begin to depart, the king gazes into the Crystal and becomes transfixed.__NEWL__Kreutz, still entranced, grabs the Crystal and runs out the door down to the banks of the Vistula, into which he throws the Tarnov Crystal.__NEWL__Jan Kanty and the king decide not to retrieve the crystal, deeming it safely protected in the grounds of the castle.__NEWL__Andrew Charnetski's house in Ukraine is rebuilt and he is rewarded by the king.__NEWL__Kreutz and Elżbietka come to Ukraine as well, the alchemist having regained his sanity, and six years later Joseph marries Elżbietka.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q651682	Gateway	1976-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3786846	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3786846	Gateway is an asteroid hollowed out by the Heechee, a long-vanished alien race.__NEWL__Humans have had limited success understanding the left-behind bits of Heechee technology found there and elsewhere.__NEWL__The Gateway Corporation administers the asteroid on behalf of the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, the New People's Asia, the Venusian Confederation, and the United States of Brazil.__NEWL__Nearly a thousand small, abandoned starships are located at Gateway.__NEWL__By extremely dangerous trial and error, humans have partially learned how to operate them.__NEWL__The controls for selecting a destination have been identified, but nobody knows where a particular setting will take the ship, how long the trip will last, or even if enough fuel is available to get back.__NEWL__Those who choose to risk their lives cram the limited space with equipment and hopefully enough food for the trip, but sometimes it is not enough, and they have to resort first to cannibalism, and if that is not enough, to suicide.__NEWL__Attempts at reverse engineering to find out how the ships work have ended only in disaster, as has changing the settings in midflight.__NEWL__Most settings lead to useless or lethal places.__NEWL__A few, however, result in the discovery of new Heechee artifacts and habitable planets in other star systems, making the crews extremely wealthy.__NEWL__The vessels were made in three standard sizes, which can hold a maximum of one, three, or five people.__NEWL__Some "threes" and many "fives" are armored.__NEWL__Each ship includes a lander to visit a planet or other object if one is found.__NEWL__Despite the risks, many people on impoverished, overcrowded Earth dream of going to Gateway.__NEWL__Robinette Stetley Broadhead is a young food shale miner who wins a lottery, giving him enough money to purchase a one-way ticket to Gateway.__NEWL__Once there, he is frightened of the danger and puts off going on a mission as long as he can.__NEWL__In the meantime, he becomes romantically involved with two different women, eventually settling on Gelle-Klara Moynlin, his co-enabler in fearful delaying.__NEWL__Eventually, he starts running out of money, and although still terrified, he goes out on three trips.__NEWL__The first, with Klara and three others, is unsuccessful, and afterwards tension rises between them until he gives her a vicious beating.__NEWL__On the second trip, he goes by himself and inadvertently makes a discovery through unauthorized experimentation when he becomes infuriated after reaching Gateway Two, a smaller version of Gateway with only about 150 ships.__NEWL__He is awarded a sizable bonus because his route saves about 100 days of travel time; the windfall is partially offset by the large penalty for incapacitating his ship.__NEWL__On his third trip, the Gateway Corporation tries something different - sending two armored fives, one slightly behind the other, to the same destination, one rejected by most ships' computers; each crewmember is promised a million-dollar bonus.__NEWL__Bob signs up in desperation, along with Klara, with whom he has reconciled.__NEWL__When the ships arrive, their crews find to their horror that they are in the gravitational grip of a black hole without enough power to break free.__NEWL__One person devises a desperate escape plan: Move everyone into one ship and thrust the other toward the black hole with an explosion in a lander, thus gaining enough of a boost to escape.__NEWL__They work frantically to transfer unnecessary equipment to make room for everyone in one ship, but Broadhead finds himself alone in the wrong ship when time runs out.__NEWL__He closes the hatch so that the plan can proceed.__NEWL__However, his ship is the one that breaks free.__NEWL__Broadhead returns to Gateway and is awarded all the mission bonuses.__NEWL__He feels such enormous survivor guilt for dooming his crewmates, especially Klara, that he suppresses his memories of what happened, but he is very disturbed and miserable, though he does not understand why, so back on Earth as a wealthy man, he seeks therapy from an artificial intelligence Freudian therapist program, which he names Sigfrid von Shrink.__NEWL__The narrative alternates in time between Broadhead's experiences on Gateway and his sessions with Sigfrid, converging on the traumatic events near the black hole and Broadhead finally remembering them so he can begin to heal.__NEWL__Sigfrid helps him realize that due to the gravitational time dilation of the black hole's immense gravity field, time is passing much more slowly for his former crewmates and none of them have actually died yet.__NEWL__Broadhead, however, concludes that this means that they will still be alive when he dies, with Klara still believing that he betrayed them to save himself.__NEWL__Also embedded in the narrative are various mission reports (usually with fatalities), roster openings, technical bulletins, and other documents__NEWL__Broadhead might have read on Gateway, adding to the verisimilitude.__NEWL__The economic side of living at Gateway is presented in detail, commencing with the contract all explorers must enter into with the Gateway Corporation, and including how some awards are determined.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1936382	Mr Midshipman Easy		21553	3837355	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3837355	Easy is the son of foolish parents, who spoiled him.__NEWL__His father, in particular, regards himself as a philosopher, with a firm belief in the "rights of man, equality, and all that; how every person was born to inherit his share of the earth, a right at present only admitted to a certain length that is, about six feet, for we all inherit our graves, and are allowed to take possession without dispute.__NEWL__" But no one would listen to Mr Easy's philosophy.__NEWL__The women would not acknowledge the rights of men, whom they declared always to be in the wrong; and, as the gentlemen who visited Mr Easy were all men of property, they could not perceive the advantages of sharing with those who had none.__NEWL__However, they allowed him to discuss the question, while they discussed his port wine.__NEWL__The wine was good, if the arguments were not, and we must take things as we find them in this world.__NEWL__" By the time he is a teenager Easy has adopted his father's point of view, to the point where he no longer believes in private property.__NEWL__Easy joins the navy, which his father believes to be the best example of an equal society, and Easy becomes friendly with a lower deck seaman named Mesty (Mephistopheles Faust), an escaped slave, who had been a prince in Africa.__NEWL__Mesty is sympathetic to Easy's philosophizing, which seems to offer him a way up from his lowly job of "boiling kettle for de young gentlemen"; but once Mesty is promoted to ship's corporal and put in charge of discipline, he changes his mind: "...now I tink a good deal lately, and by all de power, I tink equality all stuff."__NEWL__"All stuff, Mesty, why?__NEWL__you used to think otherwise."__NEWL__"Yes, Massa Easy, but den I boil de kettle for all young gentleman.__NEWL__Now dat I ship's corporal and hab cane, I tink so no longer."__NEWL__In some way Mesty is the real hero of the novel, as he pulls Easy out of several scrapes the impulsive 17-year-old gets himself into as he cruises the Mediterranean on several British ships.__NEWL__Easy becomes a competent officer, in spite of his notions.__NEWL__Easy's mother dies, and he returns home to find his father is completely mad.__NEWL__Easy senior has developed an apparatus for reducing or enlarging phrenological bumps on the skull, but as he attempts to reduce his own benevolence bump, the machine kills him.__NEWL__Easy throws out the criminal servants his father has employed and puts the estate to rights, demanding back rents from the tenants, and evicting those who will not pay.__NEWL__Using his new-found wealth, he formally quits the navy, rigs out his own privateering vessel, and returns to Sicily to claim his bride Agnes.__NEWL__As he is a wealthy gentleman now, no longer a junior midshipman, her family cannot refuse him, and he and Agnes live happily ever after.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7408396	Sam the Sudden	1925-10-15T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3864177	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3864177	Sam Shotter, having failed to please his uncle John B Pynsent in business, is sent to England to work for Lord Tilbury, who hopes to complete a business deal with Pynsent.__NEWL__To avoid being trapped in Tilbury's company, Sam opts to join his old pal "Hash" Todhunter, cook on a tramp steamer, for the trip over.__NEWL__On the way, he shows Hash a photo, found on a wall in a remote Canadian log cabin, of a woman with whom he has fallen in love without even knowing her name.__NEWL__Arriving in England looking rather bedraggled after his trip, Sam finds Hash has borrowed all his cash to place a bet on a dog.__NEWL__It is the night of the Wrykyn Old Boys' dinner, and in town he runs into first Claude Bates, who, fearing Sam may be begging, flees, and later Willoughby Braddock, an old friend.__NEWL__Braddock is staying with Kay Derrick and her uncle Mr Wrenn while his house is decorated, and takes Sam back there, but wanders drunkenly off when they arrive; Sam is mistaken for a burglar by Claire Lippett, the maid, and ends up sleeping in the empty house next door.__NEWL__During the night, Sam is disturbed by someone in the hallway with a torch.__NEWL__Next morning, the confusion having been sorted out, Lippett gives Sam breakfast.__NEWL__He sees a picture of Kay, the girl of his dreams, and finds her uncle also works for the Mammoth Publishing Company, as editor of Pyke's Home Companion.__NEWL__He visits Mr Cornelius, the local estate agent, and takes a lease on the empty house, "Mon Repos".__NEWL__He then sees Lord Tilbury, and gets himself employed on Mr Wrenn's paper.__NEWL__Kay, having just quit her job with Claude Bates' aunt after he kissed her, is visiting her uncle's office when Sam arrives.__NEWL__Sam, overcome at having finally met her, kisses her also, upsetting her further.__NEWL__Lord Tilbury, worried by Sam's odd behaviour, including his sudden rental of Mon Repos, is advised by his sister Francie that there may be a romantic motivation in the form of a woman next door; but Tilbury is reassured to hear that Mr Wrenn has no children.__NEWL__Sam hires Hash Toddhunter to be his cook, while "Chimp" Twist, "Soapy" and "Dolly" Molloy discuss the problem of recovering a large fortune stashed in Sam's new home by an old friend, Edward Finglass, famed for robbing the New Asiatic Bank of two million dollars in bonds.__NEWL__They send in Molloy, posing as a former resident of the house wishing to buy it.__NEWL__The scheme fails, as Sam needs to stay near Kay, and makes Hash suspicious; he buys a large dog named Amy to protect the place.__NEWL__Sam's wooing of Kay begins to bear fruit, and he takes her out to lunch one day, where Lord Tilbury sees them.__NEWL__Having rejected Percy Pilbeam as a helper, he visits Chimp Twist's fake detective agency, and hires Twist to spy on Sam; he forces Sam to hire Twist as an odd job man, but Sam makes Twist remove his repulsive moustache.__NEWL__Hash and Claire become involved, but she is worried by his coolness (he is worried by her mother's nose).__NEWL__Following advice in the "Home Companion", she tries to make him jealous by flirting with Twist, whom Hash chases off in a fury.__NEWL__The Molloys return to "Mon Repos" once more, tie up Hash and begin to search for the money, but Dolly is frightened off by Amy the dog, and Soapy, tired after fending off visitors, is caught napping by Sam, who takes away his trousers.__NEWL__Sam leaves him trapped while he releases Hash and takes him next door to be reunited with Claire.__NEWL__Heading back to his house, Sam meets Braddock, who informs him that Lord Tilbury is in there without his trousers.__NEWL__Sam provides him with some, but the deal between Tilbury and Sam's uncle has fallen through, and Tilbury reveals his dislike of Sam and his opinion that Sam will never be anything better than a moocher.__NEWL__He and Sam part angrily.__NEWL__Braddock spots Twist sneaking back into the house.__NEWL__He follows him and captures him in the act of pulling up some floorboards.__NEWL__Sam, convinced by Twist's testimony that the money isn't in its supposed hiding place, lets Twist go.__NEWL__Sam and Kay, abandoning their hopes of a small fortune in reward money, discuss a loving but poor future.__NEWL__But when they hear from local historical expert Mr Cornelius that the two houses were once one, they realise that the money must be stashed in Kay's house.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3021213	The Small Bachelor	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3864316	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3864316	On the roof of the Sheridan Apartment House, near Washington Square, New York, is a "small bachelor apartment, penthouse style", and the small bachelor who owns it is amateur artist George Finch, who is rich due to an inheritance.__NEWL__He falls in love with Molly Waddington at first sight, but is too shy to approach her until he retrieves her dog.__NEWL__George's authoritative friend J. Hamilton Beamish, author of self-help books, is helping mild-mannered policeman Garroway become a poet.__NEWL__Garroway recognizes George's valet, Frederick Mullett, an ex-convict who served time for burglary, though Mullett is now reformed.__NEWL__Mullett is engaged to former pickpocket Fanny Welch, who is somewhat less reformed.__NEWL__George is invited into Molly's home by her father, Sigsbee H. Waddington; Mr. Waddington, who has been influenced by Western films and novels, longs to go out West and takes a liking to George, since George is from East Gilead, Idaho.__NEWL__Though once wealthy, Mr. Waddington cannot afford to go out West because he is now financially dependent on his rich wife, Molly's step-mother, socially ambitious Mrs. Waddington.__NEWL__She dislikes George, believing his morals are suspect because he lives in an unconventional artist neighborhood, and wants Molly to marry the tall and handsome Lord Hunstanton.__NEWL__However, Molly finds Lord Hunstanton stiff and loves George.__NEWL__Hamilton Beamish gets help for George from Madame Eulalie, Mrs. Waddington's palmist and fortune teller, who tells Mrs. Waddington that disaster will strike if Molly marries Hunstanton.__NEWL__Beamish also falls in love with Madame Eulalie.__NEWL__Molly gets engaged to George, though Mrs. Waddington still dislikes him.__NEWL__Mr. Waddington sells a pearl necklace (which is supposed to be given to Molly when she is married) to buy stock in a motion picture company, replacing the necklace with a fake.__NEWL__He tricks Garroway into buying the stock after it drops tremendously in value.__NEWL__George and Beamish learn that George's ex-fiancée from East Gilead, May Stubbs, is coming to George and Molly's wedding, and they fear she might put a stop to the wedding.__NEWL__Her engagement to George gradually faded but was never officially ended.__NEWL__They plan to have a girl pretend to be George's abandoned girlfriend__NEWL__so May will let this girl have George, and Hamilton Beamish enlists Fanny.__NEWL__When May arrives, Beamish recognizes her as Madame Eulalie.__NEWL__She only views George as a friend and returns Beamish's feelings, so he cancels the plan with Fanny.__NEWL__However, George and Molly's wedding is stopped when Fanny appears pretending to be George's abandoned girlfriend, using this ruse to distract the guests while she steals a pearl necklace on display there, not knowing it is fake.__NEWL__Frederick Mullett, now Fanny's husband, later convinces her to return the necklace.__NEWL__Molly learns that Fanny was lying but Mrs. Waddington still doubts George's morals, and searches his apartment for evidence against him, getting Lord Hunstanton to help.__NEWL__She is identified as a burglar by Officer Garroway, who tries to arrest her but is thwarted when she throws pepper at his face.__NEWL__She is ultimately forced to be less critical of George's morals after she is discovered in the embarrassing position of being alone in the apartment with Hunstanton.__NEWL__Mr. Waddington, rich once again after buying back his now-valuable stock from Garroway, decides they should go out West and Mrs. Waddington consents.__NEWL__She now likes George, since George hit Officer Garroway while escaping a police raid of a restaurant selling alcoholic drinks.__NEWL__Garroway is unwilling to make an arrest because George is Hamilton Beamish's friend.__NEWL__Initially, Garroway is disappointed that he cannot make an arrest after enduring pepper thrown at his face and the restaurant scuffle, but he is uplifted when invited to join George and the others in drinking two large bottles of champagne that George claims mysteriously appeared in his cupboard.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5030993	Canal Dreams	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	3878023	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3878023	The plot is fairly simple.__NEWL__In the first half, when the ship is stranded but unharmed, the mood is bucolic and philosophical, and the main challenge Hisako has is to pass the time in a tropical lake.__NEWL__She has an affair with one of the ship's officers and they go scuba diving together.__NEWL__She practises the cello.__NEWL__She is worried about the future, and has violent nightmares and flashbacks to her early life in Japan.__NEWL__She also spends time with the other passengers, among them a South African engineer and an erudite Egyptian.__NEWL__In the much darker second half, the book becomes an almost Die Hard-like thriller.__NEWL__Guerrillas (who turn out to be agents provocateur) take over the ship.__NEWL__The rebels kill everybody aboard except Hisako and rape her.__NEWL__She avenges herself, killing the pirates.__NEWL__The violence of the rebel takeover and of Hisako's revenge is described very graphically.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4359779	A Song of Stone	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	3878615	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3878615	Abel and Morgan, an aristocratic couple, live in a small castle in an indeterminate place and time of civil war.__NEWL__They decide to abandon their home and join a trek of refugees seeking safety.__NEWL__A group of irregulars, led by a woman called "The Lieutenant" (or "Loot"), stops them and takes them back to the castle, which the irregulars fortify as a base.__NEWL__They loot the castle, and Morgan is seduced by the Lieutenant.__NEWL__A rival faction attacks the castle with artillery and Abel is taken along with the fighters on a counter-attack.__NEWL__When they return, Abel almost shoots the Lieutenant and there is a violent and nihilistic ending.__NEWL__A Song of Stone tells the frightening story of what happens when the normal rules of society break down.__NEWL__Themes of decadence, violence and war are intertwined with the lives of the rather pompous but lyrical disgraced aristocrat Abel, his partner Morgan, the ruthless Lieutenant and her soldiers with names like "Psycho", "Karma" and "Deathwish".__NEWL__The story is told by Abel, an unreliable narrator.__NEWL__Abel describes Morgan's actions in the second person, mostly when she is in his direct view.__NEWL__As the invaders systematically loot and destroy Abel's family's ancestral home, Abel seems ambivalent to what is happening.__NEWL__Later, when the Lieutenant suggests a memorial for Abel's lifelong family retainer, who has just been killed, Abel and the reader realise that he does not know the servant's surname.__NEWL__The violence of war is described graphically.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5597445	Oh, Play That Thing!	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z	3808619	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3808619	Having fallen foul of his erstwhile comrades in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Henry escapes to America.__NEWL__In New York City, he becomes involved in advertising, pornography and bootlegging.__NEWL__After stepping on the toes of the Mob, Henry heads for Chicago, where he becomes the manager and partner-in-crime of Louis Armstrong.__NEWL__He becomes reunited with his wife and daughter, and, much to his dismay, the IRA.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q52910	The Shadow of the Wind	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1492	Barcelona	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	3832478	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3832478	The novel is actually a story within a story.__NEWL__The novel opens in the 1940's with the protagonist, Daniel, a boy whose father owns a bookshop in Barcelona.__NEWL__One day, his father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten books - a secret labyrinthine library that houses rare and banned books.__NEWL__Daniel is drawn to one called "The Shadow of the Wind" by Julian Carax and takes it home with him.__NEWL__Daniel quickly reads and falls in love with the story.__NEWL__He soon discovers that the book's mysterious author, Carax, has gone missing along with every other copy of "The Shadow of the Wind" and most of his other works.__NEWL__Daniel then sets out to find out what happened to the author and his books.__NEWL__ When word gets around that Daniel possesses the only known copy of "The Shadow of the Wind," he receives an inquiry from Gustavo Barcelo, a rare bookseller and expert on Carax who wishes to purchase it.__NEWL__Daniel refuses to sell it, but soon falls in love with Barcelo's blind niece, Clara, and begins to pay frequent visits to read "The Shadow of the Wind" to her.__NEWL__However, she is several years older and does not reciprocate his feelings.__NEWL__His possession of the book also attracts the attention of a mysterious stranger with a badly burned and disfigured face named Lain Coubert (the name of the character of the devil in the book) who is also trying to get his hands on it.__NEWL__ Daniel befriends a man who goes by the alias of Fermín Romero de Torres, who was imprisoned and tortured in Montjuïc Castle as a result of his involvement in espionage against the government during the Civil War.__NEWL__After being hired as an assistant in his father's bookshop, he helps Daniel investigate the mystery of Carax.__NEWL__But their probing into the murky past of a number of people who have been either long dead or long forgotten unleashes the dark forces of the murderous Inspector Fumero.__NEWL__Thus, unravelling a long story that has been buried in the depths of oblivion, Daniel and Fermín come across a love story, the beautiful yet tragic story of Julián and Penélope, both of whom seem to have been missing since 1919—that is, nearly thirty years earlier.__NEWL__Julián, who was the son of the hatter Antoni Fortuny and his wife Sophie Carax, and Penélope Aldaya, the only daughter of the extremely wealthy Don Ricardo Aldaya and his beautiful, narcissistic American wife, developed an instant love for each other.__NEWL__They lived a clandestine relationship only through casual furtive glances and faint smiles for around four years, after which they decided to elope to Paris, unaware that the shadows of misfortune had been closing in on them ever since they had met.__NEWL__The two lovers are doomed to unknown fates just a week before their supposed elopement, which is meticulously planned by Julián's best friend, Miquel Moliner—also the son of a wealthy father.__NEWL__It is eventually revealed that Miquel loved Julián more than any brother and finally sacrificed his own life for him, having already abandoned his desires and his youth for causes of charity and his friend's well-being after his elopement to Paris -- although without Penélope, who never turned up for the rendezvous.__NEWL__ Penélope's memory keeps burning in Julián's heart, and this eventually forces him to return to Barcelona (in the mid 1930s); however he encounters the harsh truth about Penélope, nothing more than a memory to those who knew her since disappearing in 1919.__NEWL__Daniel discovers, from the note Nuria Monfort (the wife of the deceased Miquel Molinar) left for him, that Julián and Penélope are actually half-brother and sister; her father had an affair with his mother and Julián was the result.__NEWL__The worst thing he learns is that after Julián left, Penélope's parents imprisoned her because they were ashamed of her committing incest with him and she was pregnant with his child.__NEWL__Penélope gave birth to a son named David Aldaya, who was stillborn.__NEWL__Penélope died in childbirth, due to her parents' ignoring her cries for help, and her body was placed in the family crypt along with her child's.__NEWL__When returning to the Aldaya Mansion, Julián is enraged and embittered by the news of his love's death along with their child's.__NEWL__He hates every wasted second of his life without Penélope and hates his books all the more.__NEWL__He begins to burn all of his novels and calls himself Lain Coubert.__NEWL__After finishing reading the book, Daniel marries Beatriz "Bea" Aguilar, whom he has loved for a long time and assisted him in his quest to unravel the Carax mystery, in 1956.__NEWL__Soon after, Bea gives birth to a son.__NEWL__Daniel names his son Julián Sempere, in honor of Julián Carax.__NEWL__In 1966, Daniel takes Julián to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, where The Shadow of the Wind is kept.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4378434	The Adventures of Sally	3819052	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3819052	Sally Nicholas is a young, pretty, and popular American woman who lives in a boarding house in New York and works as a taxi dancer.__NEWL__Upon reaching her twenty-first birthday, she inherits a considerable fortune.__NEWL__Sally tries to adjust to her new life, but financial and romantic problems beset her until a happy ending ensues.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2563052	The Invention of Morel	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q414	Argentina	3895521	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3895521	A fugitive hides on a deserted island somewhere in Polynesia.__NEWL__Tourists arrive, and his fear of being discovered becomes a mixed emotion when he falls in love with one of them.__NEWL__He wants to tell her his feelings, but an anomalous phenomenon keeps them apart.__NEWL__The fugitive starts a diary after tourists arrive on the desert island where he is hiding.__NEWL__Although he considers their presence a miracle, he is afraid they will turn him in to the authorities.__NEWL__He retreats to the swamps while they take over the museum on top of the hill where he used to live.__NEWL__The diary described the fugitive as a writer from Venezuela sentenced to life in prison.__NEWL__He believes he is on the (fictional) island of Villings, a part of the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu), but is not sure.__NEWL__All he knows is that the island is the focus of a strange disease whose symptoms are similar to radiation poisoning.__NEWL__Among the tourists is a woman who watches the sunset every day from the cliff on the west side of the island.__NEWL__He spies on her and while doing so falls in love.__NEWL__She and another man, a bearded tennis player called Morel who visits her frequently, speak French among themselves.__NEWL__Morel calls her Faustine.__NEWL__The fugitive decides to approach her, but she does not react to him.__NEWL__He assumes she is ignoring him; however, his encounters with the other tourists have the same result.__NEWL__Nobody on the island notices him.__NEWL__He points out that the conversations between Faustine and Morel repeat every week and fears he is going crazy.__NEWL__As suddenly as they appeared, the tourists vanish.__NEWL__The fugitive returns to the museum to investigate and finds no evidence of people being there during his absence.__NEWL__He attributes the experience to a hallucination caused by food poisoning, but the tourists reappear that night.__NEWL__They have come out of nowhere and yet they talk as if they have been there for a while.__NEWL__He watches them closely while still avoiding direct contact and notices more strange things.__NEWL__In the aquarium he encounters identical copies of the dead fish he found on his day of arrival.__NEWL__During a day at the pool, he sees the tourists jump to shake off the cold when the heat is unbearable.__NEWL__The strangest thing he notices is the presence of two suns and two moons in the sky.__NEWL__He comes up with all sorts of theories about what is happening on the island, but finds out the truth when Morel tells the tourists he has been recording their actions of the past week with a machine of his invention, which is capable of reproducing reality.__NEWL__He claims the recording will capture their souls, and through looping they will relive that week forever and he will spend eternity with the woman he loves.__NEWL__Although Morel does not mention her by name, the fugitive is sure he is talking about Faustine.__NEWL__After hearing that the people recorded on previous experiments are dead, one of the tourists guesses correctly they will die, too.__NEWL__The meeting ends abruptly as Morel leaves in anger.__NEWL__The fugitive picks up Morel's cue cards and learns the machine keeps running because the wind and tide feed it with an endless supply of kinetic energy.__NEWL__He understands that the phenomena of the two suns and two moons are a consequence of what happens when the recording overlaps reality — one is the real sun and the other one represents the sun's position at recording time.__NEWL__The other strange things that happen on the island have a similar explanation.__NEWL__He imagines all the possible uses for Morel's invention, including the creation of a second model to resurrect people.__NEWL__Despite this he feels repulsion for the "new kind of photographs" that inhabit the island, but as time goes by he accepts their existence as something better than his own.__NEWL__He learns how to operate the machine and inserts himself into the recording so it looks like he and Faustine are in love, even though she might have slept with Alec and Haynes.__NEWL__This bothers him, but he is confident it will not matter in the eternity they will spend together.__NEWL__At least he is sure she is not Morel's lover.__NEWL__On the diary's final entry the fugitive describes how he is waiting for his soul to pass onto the recording while dying.__NEWL__He asks a favor of the man who will invent a machine capable of merging souls based on Morel's invention.__NEWL__He wants the inventor to search for them and let him enter Faustine's consciousness as an act of mercy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7490364	Sharpe's Company	1982-05-10T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3871136	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3871136	The British Army attacks Ciudad Rodrigo, a fortress guarding the northern path into Spain.__NEWL__Sharpe and Harper lead an assault on the French.__NEWL__Unfortunately, Sharpe's commander and friend, Colonel William Lawford, is severely wounded when a mine is detonated.__NEWL__He loses an arm and retires from his post as commander of the South Essex regiment, losing Sharpe a friend and ally.__NEWL__Sharpe's situation only gets worse when his old enemy, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, joins the company.__NEWL__Hakeswill hates Sharpe with a vengeance and plans to kill him.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sharpe's lover Teresa Moreno arrives, informing Sharpe that she has given birth to his daughter Antonia, and that she is living in Badajoz.__NEWL__Sharpe promises her that he will protect her when the British Army attacks the city.__NEWL__He is also reunited with his former Lieutenant, Robert Knowles, who is now a captain of a fusilier company.__NEWL__Knowles also vows to protect Teresa.__NEWL__Later, Hakeswill encounters Teresa in a stable.__NEWL__He attempts to rape her, but she fights him off, slashing his face and wrist.__NEWL__Sharpe and Harper enter the stable, and Harper brutally beats Hakeswill.__NEWL__Hakeswill vows revenge on Harper and to have Teresa.__NEWL__Then Lawford's replacement, Colonel Brian Windham arrives, as well as Captain Rymer, who has purchased his captaincy, via the commission of the late Captain Lennox, a normal practice in the British Army.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sharpe's promotion to captain is finally rejected; the long delay in the verdict was due to being confused with another officer who died.__NEWL__Sharpe desires to join the Forlorn Hope so that, despite the high chance of death, he may be promoted again, and so that, should he die, Antonia can be proud of her father.__NEWL__Sharpe reverts to the rank of lieutenant, but Windham attempts to cheer him up by telling him vacancies will soon become available, as Wellington is determined to attack the formidable fortress at Badajoz as soon as possible, and casualties are expected to be high.__NEWL__Sharpe is given command of the regiment's baggage, ordered to guard it while the regiment digs trenches around the city.__NEWL__Sharpe leaves the baggage to visit his company, and when Rymer attempts to talk to him, the French attack.__NEWL__Rymer does nothing, so Sharpe leads his men into battle.__NEWL__The French are defeated, but in Sharpe's absence the regiment's baggage is robbed by Hakeswill.__NEWL__Windham is furious with Sharpe for abandoning his post, and is further angered when he discovers that a prized portrait of his wife has been stolen.__NEWL__Sharpe's telescope is also missing, which makes Windham accuse the Light Company.__NEWL__He searches the packs of all the members of the Light Company, and the frame, but not the picture, is found in Harper's bag.__NEWL__Windham has Harper demoted to private and flogged.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Hakeswill begins talking into his Shako all the time.__NEWL__A few nights later, Windham sends the Light Company on a night attack to destroy a dam.__NEWL__He asks Sharpe to serve as his aide.__NEWL__Before the attack, Harper's seven-barrelled gun is taken from him by Hakeswill, as it is a non-regulation weapon.__NEWL__When the Light Company takes longer than expected, Windham orders Sharpe to find out the cause of the delay - stressing he is to do nothing else - and report back as soon as possible.__NEWL__The accompanying engineers light a fuse to detonate barrels full of gunpowder, but it becomes dislodged.__NEWL__Sharpe decides to blow the wall himself.__NEWL__He succeeds, but it turns out the engineers miscalculated, and the dam remains intact.__NEWL__During the fighting, Hakeswill tries to kill Sharpe using Harper's seven-barrelled gun, but only wounds him in the leg.__NEWL__Windham decides to remove Sharpe temporarily to allow Rymer to establish his authority, though he knows Sharpe is a brilliant soldier.__NEWL__He also orders the riflemen to abandon their rifles, which Rymer, at Hakeswill's prompting, blames the mission's failure on, as well as their green jackets.__NEWL__As Hakeswill taunts the disarmed riflemen, Sharpe humiliates Hakeswill by firing the rifles, which are supposed to be unloaded, at Hakeswill's belly.__NEWL__Hakeswill is more than ever determined to get revenge, and also plans to get to Teresa in Badajoz before Sharpe does.__NEWL__Sharpe is interviewed by the army commander, the Duke of Wellington, a few days later after Sharpe has scouted the enemy fortifications closely.__NEWL__Wellington decides to attack that night, but denies Sharpe the forlorn hope.__NEWL__Sharpe is ordered to simply guide the various regiments into their positions.__NEWL__However, he rejoins his regiment, which has been devastated by the French cannon fire.__NEWL__Windham is bravely trying to lead his men into the breach, and when Sharpe reaches his company, he discovers Rymer has been shot dead, so he takes command of his company.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Knowles has managed to reach the top of the French wall and leads his men into the city, during the 3rd Division's (United Kingdom) diversionary assault.__NEWL__While his men kill the French and plunder the homes, Knowles looks for Teresa to protect her.__NEWL__Knowles reaches Teresa's house, and Teresa lets him in, but Hakeswill, who had hidden himself under dead bodies during the assault, climbs to the upstairs room where Antonia is sleeping.__NEWL__When Teresa enters the room, he threatens to kill the baby unless Teresa has sex with him.__NEWL__Knowles tries to intervene and is shot dead.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sharpe leads his men through one of the three breaches in the fortifications.__NEWL__Other British units break through at other points as well.__NEWL__Sharpe and Harper fight their way through the French to reach Teresa, and comes face to face with Hakeswill.__NEWL__Harper picks up Hakeswill's discarded shako and finds the picture of Windham's wife inside it, whom Hakeswill believes to be his mother.__NEWL__Harper threatens to destroy the picture unless Hakeswill releases Antonia.__NEWL__Hakeswill complies, but though Harper, Sharpe, and Teresa all attempt to kill him, they interfere with each other, allowing him to escape by leaping out a window.__NEWL__Hakeswill deserts.__NEWL__At the end of the battle, Windham praises Sharpe for his bravery.__NEWL__Sharpe returns his wife's portrait, explaining who had it, and Windham apologizes to Harper.__NEWL__Sharpe and Harper have their ranks restored, and Sharpe and Teresa are married.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5254908	Delusions of Grandma	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3818118	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3818118	The book is about Cora Sharpe, a Hollywood screenwriter who is eight-and-a-half months pregnant by her boyfriend, an attorney named Ray, a relationship that has gone wrong.__NEWL__Concerned that she will not survive labor, Cora begins to write long letters to her unborn child.__NEWL__As she writes, she begins to recall the events that led to her current situation.__NEWL__Her relationship with Ray became more complicated by the arrival of his mother, who came to live with them to recuperate from breast surgery.__NEWL__Cora's friend and co-writer, Bud, who has bipolar disorder, then moves in with them.__NEWL__When another friend, William, who is in the final stages of dying of AIDS, moves in, Ray decides that Cora's efforts to care for William during his final days on earth signals that he, Ray, is not her top priority in life.__NEWL__As things get out of control, Cora returns home to her mother, a retired musical comedy star, and Bud follows.__NEWL__There is an in-depth look at the heartfelt expectations of Cora's zany mother, the show-bizzy grandma-to-be.__NEWL__Cora and Bud then join her mother in an inexplicable and madcap scheme to kidnap Cora's grandfather, who is stricken with Alzheimer's, from his nursing home and take him back to his hometown of Whitewright, Texas.__NEWL__The story then concludes with the birth of Cora's child.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1891393	The Devil to Pay in the Backlands	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1331065	Sertão	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	3794964	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3794964	Grande Sertão: Veredas is the complex story of Riobaldo, a former jagunço (mercenary or bandit) of the poor and steppe-like inland of the Rio São Francisco, known as Sertão, of the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia in the dawn of the 20th century.__NEWL__Now an old man and a rancher, Riobaldo tells his long story to an anonymous and silent listener coming from the city.__NEWL__The book is written in one long section, with no section or chapter breaks.__NEWL__Riobaldo is born into a middle-class family and, unlike most of his contemporaries, receives an education.__NEWL__This enables him to begin his career as a tutor to a prominent local rancher, Zé Bebelo, and he watches as Zé Bebelo raises an army of his own jagunços to stamp out several of the local bandit gangs.__NEWL__Instead, for reasons that are never fully clear—apparently a desire for adventure—he disappears from the ranch and defects to the side of the bandits under the leadership of Joca Ramiro.__NEWL__Due to his excellent aim, Riobaldo becomes a valued member of the band and begins to rise in stature.__NEWL__In the course of the events Riobaldo gets acquainted with Diadorim, revealed later to be someone from his past who used the name, Reinaldo.__NEWL__Diadorim is a young, pleasant and ambivalent fellow jagunço.__NEWL__The two start a profound friendship, with Diodorim exerting an unusual attraction in Riobaldo.__NEWL__Throughout the book it is hinted that Diadorim is Joca Ramiro's nephew or illegitimate son.__NEWL__Ramiro's men defeat and capture Zé Bebelo, but after a short trial, Bebelo is released.__NEWL__The war is temporarily over, but news later comes that two of Ramiro's lieutenants, Ricardão and Hermogenes, have betrayed and murdered him.__NEWL__As a result, the victorious army splits in two, Riobaldo staying with the current leader, Medeiro Vaz.__NEWL__When Vaz dies of illness, Zé Bebelo returns from exile and takes ownership of the band (this is actually where the book begins; the previous part is told in a very lengthy retrospective).__NEWL__They survive a lengthy siege by Hermogenes' men, but Zé Bebelo loses the taste for fighting, and the band is idled for nearly a month in a plague-ridden village.__NEWL__When this happens, Riobaldo mounts a challenge and takes command of the band, sending Zé Bebelo away.__NEWL__Riobaldo, who has mused on the nature of the devil intermittently since the beginning of the book, tries to make a pact with the devil.__NEWL__He goes to a crossroads at midnight, but is uncertain as to whether the deal has been made or not, and he remains unsure for the rest of the story.__NEWL__He leads his band across a hostile desert and successfully ambushes and destroys Ricardão's men and kills Ricardão.__NEWL__He then moves against Hermogenes but is surprised; with difficulty and heavy casualties, his army defeats Hermogenes.__NEWL__The climax of the book is a knife fight between the two opposing armies.__NEWL__In the fight, Diadorim kills Hermogenes, but is in turn killed.__NEWL__Riobaldo resigns command of the jagunços and settles down to a more conventional life.__NEWL__The final musings of the book are regarded as some of the most beautiful fragments of Portuguese language literature.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7096091	Open House	2000-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3822857	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3822857	Throughout the 20 years of her marriage, Samantha Morrow has been content with her life, though she knows it isn't perfect.__NEWL__She has a nice home, a great son, and a husband she loves.__NEWL__But everything is turned upside down when her husband, David, tells her he wants out of their marriage.__NEWL__His rapid departure on the heels of this announcement leaves Sam horribly shocked, utterly confused, and oddly obsessed with Martha Stewart.__NEWL__Her initial reaction is to go on a spending spree, charging thousands of dollars worth of merchandise at Tiffany's to her husband's credit card.__NEWL__But when reality sets in and her husband cuts her off, she realizes that if she wants to keep the house she loves and make a home for herself and her son, she's going to have to generate some income.__NEWL__Her first solution to this dilemma is to find a couple of roommates.__NEWL__Between the finished portion of the basement and the extra bedroom upstairs, Sam figures she can take on two boarders and mitigate a large portion of the mortgage payment.__NEWL__She finds her first boarder quickly—the septuagenarian mother of an acquaintance—and is delighted.__NEWL__Lydia Fitch is quiet, clean, concerned, friendly, and more than eager to play grandmother to Sam's son, Travis.__NEWL__Which is just as well, since Sam's own mother doesn't quite fit the bill.__NEWL__In fact, Sam's mother has made a career out of dating since the death of her husband two decades ago and is now determined to fix Sam up as soon as possible—a plan with foreseeable disasters written all over it.__NEWL__Sam's life is further complicated when she starts looking for a job, for other than a gig singing in a band years ago, she's never been employed.__NEWL__But then King, the gentle giant of a man who helps Lydia move in, puts Sam in touch with the employment agency he works for.__NEWL__Suddenly Sam is off on a variety of short-term jobs, everything from making change at a Laundromat, to working as a carpenter's helper.__NEWL__When she gets the devastating news that Lydia has decided to marry her longtime beau and move out, Sam takes on a second boarder for the basement space: a sullen, depressed college student.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5087325	Chasing Redbird	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3790904	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3790904	Zinnia "Zinny" Taylor, an initially quiet, yet sometimes outrageous thirteen-year-old girl.__NEWL__She enjoys the care of her aunt and uncle, Jessie and Nate, as her parents are preoccupied with her siblings, and she enjoys spending time outdoors.__NEWL__Jessie and Nate live in a home that fits snug against the Taylor home, and Zinny prefers to spend her time with her aunt and uncle, while they mostly go on nature walks.__NEWL__They once had a daughter, Rose, around Zinny's age who died (of whooping cough).__NEWL__Aunt Jessie prefers not to talk about her daughter.__NEWL__Because Rose caught the cough from Zinny, she has always, in some way, blamed herself for Rose's death.__NEWL__Years later, Zinny accidentally rediscovers a large overgrown trail that is over two hundred years old.__NEWL__When her aunt unexpectedly dies, Zinny blames herself.__NEWL__Soon afterwards she begins to try to clear the trail.__NEWL__In her grief, the trail becomes an obsession, as she decides to clear and travel the entire length of it.__NEWL__Thinking clearing the trail is the only way to be forgiven by God, Zinny camps out on the trail to clear the trail before the end of the summer.__NEWL__At the same time Zinny learns to cope with her grief, her guilt, and a boy named Jake Boone, who she starts to have feelings for.__NEWL__Throughout the story she must attempt to get over the death of Rose and Aunt Jessie.__NEWL__She also tries to find out whether Jake returns her feelings or is just using her to get to her older sister, May.__NEWL__Through all this Zinny finally finds something to call her very own, the trail that she cleared.__NEWL__Throughout the story Creech uses flashbacks as a literary device, showing snippets of what Zinny's life was like before her aunt's death, and how her life changed after her dear aunt Jessie died.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7813799	Tokyo	2004-05-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3800855	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800855	The story is about a young woman (nicknamed 'Grey' by a fellow mental hospital patient) who is obsessed with the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking, also known as the Rape of Nanking.__NEWL__She travels to Japan in order to find a professor said to have rare footage of the massacre detailing an event that she could not otherwise prove occurred.__NEWL__The professor decides that he will only show her the tape if she was to procure an unknown ingredient of Chinese medicine from the local Yakuza group.__NEWL__After being recruited into a host club, Grey finds her chance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7770065	The Treatment	2001-06-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3800896	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800896	A husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home near Brockwell Park in South London.__NEWL__It is a hot summer and they are badly dehydrated.__NEWL__They have been bound and beaten, and the husband seems close to death.__NEWL__Rory Peach, their 8-year-old son, is missing.__NEWL__Detective Inspector (DI) Jack Caffery is one of the police team.__NEWL__The disappearance of the boy rekindles memories in Caffery of his brother Ewan, who was abducted as a 9-year-old and never seen again.__NEWL__Caffery tries to find the boy at the same time as helping his girlfriend cope with having been sexually assaulted.__NEWL__He follows clues that might allow him to find out Ewan's fate.__NEWL__Patterns of child sexual abuse start to emerge, and Caffery tracks down a young man who was abused in the same park many years earlier as a child.__NEWL__Caffery is convinced that the attacker will be targeting another family.__NEWL__Rory's body is discovered, with evidence of sexual attack, but the DNA from semen is found to be that of Rory's father Alek.__NEWL__The case is turned on its head, and confusion is added when bite marks on the boy's shoulder do not match Alek's dental pattern.__NEWL__Caffery understands that Peach was forced to sodomise his son.__NEWL__Another family with a young boy, 8-year-old Josh, has been imprisoned.__NEWL__Caffery slowly pieces together the clues to find out who they are.__NEWL__He gets very close to discovering that his brother is still alive, having suffered brain damage at the hands of a child molester.__NEWL__He was a member of a paedophile ring, who groomed children for abuse by adults and made child pornography videos.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5577973	Gojiro	1991-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3821290	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3821290	The earliest event is the striking of a comet into the earth 65 million years ago, at the Encrucijada Valley site as the first nuclear test later occurs.__NEWL__A small lizard witnesses and survives this event, and carries on his line.__NEWL__This lizard is revered as the heroic Varanidid by Gojiro's lizard homeland, though they forget what exactly he did.__NEWL__He is also the precursor of the reptilian creator-beast revered by the dying Monongae clan that lived in the same location before the nuclear tests occurred.__NEWL__The remains of the dead dinosaurs form fossil fuels which pool under the valley.__NEWL__Much later, in the 19th century, Joseph Prometheus Brooks is born to a large middle American family, his father a severe and religious man.__NEWL__Joseph's mother recognizes his genius and manages to have him sent away at a very young age to the university of Göttingen in Germany, where he meets his future collaborator in nuclear physics, Victor Stiller.__NEWL__When he returns home on holiday, he finds that his father has burned the entire rest of the family to death, along with their home, believing that existence is an affront to God.__NEWL__Some time later, the last few members of the Monongae clan send supplications of help to the beast who lives inside the Earth to help them, and charge the youngest member, Nelson Monongae with reawakening him.__NEWL__That same night, he encounters Joseph Brooks' future wife Leona, who soon has visions of past and future events, including the striking of the comet, and an incomplete vision of an adult Joseph Brooks holding an object and looking at something.__NEWL__She travels to Germany, where she finds Joseph playing clarinet in and underground jazz club, having become disaffected by the university.__NEWL__They marry and travel to the United States, along with Victor Stiller, when WWII breaks out, Joseph and Victor becoming the premier nuclear scientists of the American war effort.__NEWL__Leona becomes pregnant nine months before the first nuclear test, a couple of years before 1945.__NEWL__Joseph intends the nuclear test to cause such vast destruction that it calls the attention of the creator of the world to Earth.__NEWL__Leona and Joseph's daughter, Sheila Brooks, is born on the day of the test, and Leona dies, having come too close to the blastwave in an attempt to witness God's manifestation.__NEWL__A couple years later, another site for a second test is chosen, the homeland of the lizard Gojiro.__NEWL__He is a young lizard uninitiated into adulthood and the mysteries of lizard philosophy, which involves bodily immersion in a pool of oil (the Black Spot) that bubbles to the surface.__NEWL__Immediately before he feels the compulsion to go to the black spot, he witnesses Victor, Joseph and a general surveying the spot and arguing, as well as the young Sheila in the window of the plane they arrived on.__NEWL__Gojiro is held captive by Joseph's baleful gaze at the same moment he feels the compulsion to go the Black Spot, and goes to it when Joseph breaks the staredown.__NEWL__Gojiro dawdles before the Spot, and just as he makes the resolution to jump, he is hit by the full force of the nuclear explosion test, preventing his immersion into full lizard-hood, and leading into his mutation into a 500 foot tall intelligent lizard, with the ability to breathe radioactive energy beams, incredible regenerative ability, and to involuntarily receive psychic messages and transport his consciousness into other bodies, due to his super-advanced "Quadcameral" brain, an advancement on the human three layer brain.__NEWL__He somehow floats to Radioactive Island, an unmapped island covered by a permanent dome of thick cloud, to which other lost souls affected by nuclear radiation will eventually float as well, along with entire pieces of land and the cultural/technological "flotjet" of the modern era.__NEWL__Around the same time as the nuclear tests were occurring, a Japanese scientist in Hiroshima was attempting to invent a radio with which the thoughts of animals could be heard.__NEWL__One year exactly before the nuclear bombing, his son, Yukio Komodo, is born.__NEWL__On Komodo's first birthday, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima occurs.__NEWL__Two versions of this event are related.__NEWL__In the first version told at the opening of the novel, Komodo has a premonition of the incoming attack, and his parents die in the blast.__NEWL__Wandering through the blasted cityscape, he sends a supplication to Gojiro, who appears before him.__NEWL__In the other, his father has the premonition, and forces Komodo and the radio deep into a hole.__NEWL__The heat of the blast causes the radio to burn three concentric rings into his chest above his heart, which Komodo later takes to be the emblem of his bond with Gojiro.__NEWL__Mostly unharmed by the blast, he is nonetheless stunned into a catatonic state in which he is aware of the outside world but does not move.__NEWL__He becomes a celebrity after the war, meeting many famous people, including Victor Stiller.__NEWL__He is diligently nursed by a black soldier, Walter Crenshaw, who also keeps safe the radio he was found with.__NEWL__When Komodo is 10 years old, he receives a psychic supplication from Gojiro on Radioactive Island, and offers to be his friend.__NEWL__This awakens him from his coma, and Walter helps Komodo to escape on a fishing boat.__NEWL__Walter tries and fails to give the radio to Komodo as he escapes, but he keeps it safe from American authorities, entrusting it to his wife, never revealing it or Komodo's location.__NEWL__Komodo's death is then faked.__NEWL__At around the same time, Joseph Brooks drives around America with his daughter Sheila on the lam, eventually being captured, his death also being faked, and he is taken back to the Encrucijada, where he lives unknown to Sheila, and daily assumes the pose his wife had painted of him.__NEWL__Komodo arrives on Radioactive island, where he quickly becomes friends with Gojiro.__NEWL__Gojiro remembers this time as the highlight of his life, and they pledge to be together forever.__NEWL__Gojiro begins to expound philosophic dialogues, inspired by a muse he names "Budd Hazard", which act as an extension and elaboration of the philosophy of the lizards, centred around the processes of change, identity and evolution.__NEWL__Gojiro's obsessive interest in this philosophy leads him to force Komodo to alter their promise, to re-centre it around the creation of a new "Beam and Bunch", Hazard's conceptual analogue of a species/nation.__NEWL__The failure of this new promise is one of the contributing factors to Gojiro's later regret and depression.__NEWL__After this new promise is made, two new people arrive on the island, the child Shig and the teenage Kishi, both Japanese, the first of the "atoms", people affected by nuclear radiation, to arrive on the island.__NEWL__Komodo falls in love with Kishi, impregnating her and driving a wedge between him and Gojiro.__NEWL__When Komodo and Kishi attempt to leave the island, Gojiro enters a hallucinatory state of mad rage, and inadvertently kills Kishi when his thrashing causes her to fall from the boat and drown, her daughter Ebi being born at that exact instant.__NEWL__This event leads Shig to hate Gojiro, and causes Gojiro to become suicidally hateful of himself, but Komodo forgives his Gojiro.__NEWL__Other atoms begin arriving, and Komodo assumes a fatherly role toward them.__NEWL__Unlike Gojiro and Komodo's hopes of forming a new Beam with the atoms, the atoms are stupid, unruly and destructive, with the except of Shig and Ebi.__NEWL__Various attempts to form a bond between them and Gojiro end in failure, including a series of monster movies starring Gojiro in which the atoms appear as extras.__NEWL__Shig steals these recordings and releases them as feature films, to Gojiro's dismay when he finds them playing on TV.__NEWL__Gojiro's extreme popularity causes his fans to form a cult-like attachment to him, further fed by Shig feeding the outside world a bastardized version of Budd's philosophy.__NEWL__This culminates when Shig steals the design of a crystal radio Komodo has made in his lab (having become a mad scientist in the meantime), and sells them to Gojiro's fans, imploring them to use them to send constant supplications to Gojiro, begging for "the 90 series (the capstone of Hazard's philosophy) and the PA (Gojiro's personal appearance before his fans).__NEWL__Through the crystal radios, Gojiro psychically receives every one of these supplications from across the world, and his mind is transported into their bodies, often experiencing great physical and psychic pain, as many of his fans are destitute and desperate.__NEWL__Komodo builds a radio tower to receive the supplications instead of Gojiro, the supplications killing the ground around the tower.__NEWL__Gojiro wanders near the tower and accidentally touches it, receiving the supplication of Billy Snickman, a feral American child who ardently watches Gojiro's movies from outside drive-in theatres.__NEWL__Billy merely asks Gojiro who he is, to which he inexplicably responds "Bridger of Gaps, Linker of Lines, Nexus of Beam and Bunch, Defender of the Evoloo".__NEWL__After this, Gojiro begs Komodo to sever whatever neural link in his brain allows the supplications to enter, which Komodo reluctantly does.__NEWL__They discover the Quadcameral brain does not possess Gojiro's regenerative powers, and the removal of the link is permanent.__NEWL__The vulnerability of his brain forms the basis of Gojiro's future suicide attempts.__NEWL__His final attempt, which he nearly succeeds at, causes Komodo to threaten double suicide if Gojiro succeeds, stopping Gojiro.__NEWL__He and Komodo agree to a final amendment to the Triple Ring Promise: if they fail to fulfill the promise in one year, Gojiro must be allowed to kill himself and Komodo to respect that and continue living.__NEWL__Around the same timespan, Sheila is tormented by visions centring around her father on the Encrucijada.__NEWL__Due to her extreme psychotherapy, she is not directly aware of this, and instead her visions are transmuted into apocalyptic nightmares that her husband Billy Zeber has turned into award-winning movies, making Sheila rich and famous.__NEWL__He is unable to alleviate her psychic pain however, and at a crisis point sends a letter of supplication to Radioactive Island, begging Gojiro to come to America and make a movie, Gojira and Joseph Brooks in the Valley of Decision, addressing Gojiro by the titles he responded to Billy's question.__NEWL__Gojiro and Komodo secretly make their way to America, Komodo shrinking Gojiro to the size of a normal lizard using a technology variously described as a shrinking pill, ray, injection or potion.__NEWL__Komodo meets Sheila and immediately feels a deep connection to her, but she refuses to acknowledge the plea she sent.__NEWL__Komodo finds that Shig got wind of their departure and managed to transport the atoms and the hyper-fertile biome of Radioactive Island to a peculiar mansion in California.__NEWL__Shig acts as Komodo and Gojiro's combined chauffeur, bodyguard, lawyer and spokesman, directing their activities from behind the scenes.__NEWL__Komodo meets figures in Hollywood, including the aged Victor Stiller.__NEWL__He also tries to meet Walter Crenshaw, but finds that he is dead, and his family suspect him of being an agent of the American government.__NEWL__Komodo convinces Gojiro to travel to the Encrucijada valley, hoping to find the source of Sheila's visions.__NEWL__Along the way, Gojiro encounters Billy and shies away from him, consumed by self-loathing.__NEWL__Komodo and Gojiro make it to the Valley, where Shig houses them in a vast underground chamber bored out by nuclear test explosions.__NEWL__On TV screens they see the image of Joseph Brooks that his wife had painted, but on live-feed TV screens.__NEWL__Komodo attempts to communicate with him but fails, and returns to Sheila to tell her her father is still alive.__NEWL__Gojiro remains behind, where he inexplicably begins to have a series of visions reminiscent of the 90 series supplications, where he experiences past events from the perspective of the Varanidid, and his own birth.__NEWL__He investigates the shack Joseph lives in, and finds a stack of paintings depicting the visions he just received, as well as the blackboard containing the equation Joseph solved to create the atomic bomb, and receives a vision of Nelson and Leona's meeting.__NEWL__During his spying, Victor and the general visit Joseph, attempting to communicate him, and both are briefly subject to the vision that keeps Joseph glued to the Encrucijada.__NEWL__Joseph says that the nuclear bomb was a failure, as it was unable to call God's attention.__NEWL__At the same time, Komodo experiences a whirlwind of events as he attempts to take Sheila to the Encrucijada, but is waylaid by Victors government goons.__NEWL__Shig saves Komodo and Sheila by luring the paparazzi to them, then Komodo returns to the mansion to bury Ebi, who died soon after telling Sheila she wished that Sheila were her mother.__NEWL__Komodo then has a clandestine meeting with Billy Zeber, Sheila's husband, who charges Komodo with protecting her, disappearing into the night.__NEWL__Komodo is again captured by Victor, but is saved again by Shig and the atoms, as well as Walter Crenshaw's son.__NEWL__Gojiro, still spying on Victor, has a vision of Victor's childhood, and witnesses Victor pick up the small comic book explaining Gojiro's true origin that Komodo had attempted to give to Victor, which inspires him to make a new equation on the blackboard.__NEWL__Gojiro returns to the cave and scrawls it on the wall, then sees on TV that the mansion has been ransacked.__NEWL__Komodo arrives and attempts to complete Joseph's work, arriving at a method to compress and disperse into nothingness anything at all, which Joseph hopes will be enough to draw God' attention, and Komodo and Gojiro fear will cause an "All-Inclusive Crisis of the Evoloo", a moment of such great chaos and change that the universe will be unable to surmount it and continue.__NEWL__Shig delivers the box Walter had been keeping secret, containing the Komodo's father's radio.__NEWL__Komodo and Gojiro simultaneously experience Komodo's lost childhood memories, as well as his and Gojiro's moments of birth.__NEWL__Komodo completes Victor's work, demonstrating it by annihilating some of his beloved pet birds.__NEWL__Gojiro is enraged at Komodo, and cannot understand Komodo's optimism at the situation.__NEWL__Sheila arrives and Komodo goes out to her.__NEWL__Gojiro takes a golden arsenic pill, but is sucked inside of it in accordance with Komodo's completed equation, where his consciousness disperses.__NEWL__Komodo and Leona meet the now centenarian Nelson Monongae, dressed as the Varanidid, who gives them a small capsule of oil.__NEWL__Komodo and Sheila return to the cave, where Komodo realises Gojiro has been sucked into the pill, and using devices capable of reading Gojiro's Quadcameral brainwaves, determines that whatever Beamic force had sent Gojiro's consciousness into the past was now sustaining only the single neural connection that once received the 90 series supplications, barely keeping him alive.__NEWL__They see Victor Stiller on TV tapping the oil under the Encrucijada, which they discern is the lifeblood of the Beam keeping Gojiro alive.__NEWL__The atoms blow up the derrick, and Sheila and Komodo immerse the pill in the capsule of oil, completing Gojiro's thwarted initiation into full lizardhood.__NEWL__Komodo links Sheila, himself (realising he is also Quadcameral) and the pill, so that Sheila's supplication can recall him from nothingness.__NEWL__Gojiro's dispersed consciousness experiences Sheila's birth (and witnesses Leona's death), and Sheila and Komodo's psychic union, then hears her supplication.__NEWL__He finds the will to live and reassembles his body, reappearing before Victor, who has an orb which is the completion of his plan to destroy all of creation.__NEWL__Victor tosses the orb, which Gojiro catches in his third eye, the window to the Quadcameral.__NEWL__The entire earth is sucked inside of Gojiro's brain, leaving him alone in space.__NEWL__He exhorts the world to reform itself, which it does, nobody on earth being aware of what has happened.__NEWL__Gojiro, Sheila and Komodo return to Radioactive Island, where Gojiro asks Komodo permission to die despite the fulfilment of the Triple Ring Promise, thinking that he is dying as he loses his regenerative powers.__NEWL__As they prepare Gojiro's funeral raft, they see Gojiro's long-lost homeland arrive on Radioactive Island, and rather than dying, he instead becomes the fully initiated adult lizard he failed to become as a child.__NEWL__Fourteen years later, Komodo leave a letter at Gojiro's homeland, telling him of his and Sheila's happy life together, and reminiscing about the time he and Gojiro spent together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5186085	Criss Cross	2005-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1342	Pittsburgh	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3824609	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3824609	This story takes place in Seldem, during spring and summer.__NEWL__It follows the criss-crossing stories of a group of middle-school children.__NEWL__A necklace plays a significant part in all of the criss-cross moments, helping the characters in the book to find their true selves, giving the novel a touch of magic realism.__NEWL__ Debbie usually spends time with her four friends, Patty, Hector, Lenny, and Phil.__NEWL__A typical summer for them would be to hang around town and sit in Lenny's dad's pickup truck, listening to the radio.__NEWL__During this summer vacation, however, Debbie moved into the front of their family parlor, and she has her own room.__NEWL__She then gets a job helping an elderly woman.__NEWL__She meets her boss' grandson, Peter, and they share a quick, romantic week together.__NEWL__Soon after he leaves back to his town in California.__NEWL__All of the friends go through their own changes throughout the summer and each grow in their own way.__NEWL__In the end, to tie up their summer, they all have a block party, and are now more mature, and use their new knowledge to move along in life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5211908	Damaged Goods	1996-10-01T00:00:00Z	3884501	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3884501	The novel is set in Britain in 1987, and involves the Seventh Doctor and his companions Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester living on a working-class council estate while attempting to track down an infinitely powerful Gallifreyan weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.__NEWL__A young boy living on the estate, Gabriel Tyler, appears to be the focus of strange powers, and also for the attentions of Eva Jericho, whose own grievously ill young son seems to be linked to Gabriel in some way, through a secret Gabriel's mother Winnie has long tried to hide.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7753090	The Nargun and the Stars	1973-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	3892164	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3892164	The story is set in Australia, and involves an orphaned city boy named Simon Brent who comes to live on a 5000-acre sheep station called Wongadilla, in the Hunter Region, with his mother's second cousins, Edie and Charlie.__NEWL__In a remote valley on the property he discovers a variety of ancient Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime creatures.__NEWL__The arrival of heavy machinery intent on clearing the land brings to life the ominous stone Nargun.__NEWL__The Nargun is a creature drawn from tribal legends of the Gunai or Kurnai people of the area now known as the Mitchell River National Park in Victoria.__NEWL__Other creatures featured in the story include the mischievous green-scaled water-spirit Potkoorok, the Turongs (tree people) and the Nyols (cave people).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6087143	Israel Potter	1855-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3838340	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3838340	When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he is immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds.__NEWL__However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where more ill fortune awaits him.__NEWL__ Israel is captured by the British Navy and taken to England.__NEWL__Yet, he makes his escape, and this triggers a series of extraordinary events and meetings with remarkable people.__NEWL__Along the way, Israel encounters King George III, who takes a liking to the Yankee rebel and shelters him in Kew Gardens; Benjamin Franklin, who presses Israel into service as a spy; John Paul Jones, who invites Israel to join his crew aboard The Ranger; and Ethan Allen, whom Israel attempts to free from a British prison.__NEWL__Throughout these adventures, Israel Potter acquits himself bravely, but his patriotic valor does not bring him any closer to his dream of returning to America.__NEWL__ After the war, Israel finds himself in London, where he descends into poverty.__NEWL__Finally, fifty years after he left his plough, he makes his way back to his beloved Berkshires.__NEWL__However, few things remain the same.__NEWL__Soon, Israel fades out of being, his name out of memory, and he dies on the same day the oldest oak on his native lands is blown down.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16950045	Sky Burial	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3867060	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3867060	The book involves a Chinese woman, Shu Wen, retelling her life in Tibet to Xinran in a tea shop in Suzhou.__NEWL__In the 1950s, as China revels in its unification under Communism, Shu Wen, a doctor, marries a military doctor who gets orders to go into Tibet to subdue the Tibetan people and bring them under Chinese rule.__NEWL__The reputation of the Tibetans from the Chinese government paints them as sympathetic and welcoming, but gradually she learns of their resistance to subjugation.__NEWL__She is informed that her husband has gone missing, and against the wishes of her family and friends, she leaves her comfortable life in Suzhou to join the Army and search for him in Tibet.__NEWL__Her unit encounters a Tibetan woman near death in the highlands, and Shu Wen decides to treat the woman and take her away from her soldiers, who suspect she is a scout or a resistance fighter.__NEWL__The two women are soon separated from the regiment.__NEWL__Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wanders, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she is rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moves from place to place with the seasons.__NEWL__During these 30 years she learns the Tibetan way of life and gradually loses her sense of Chinese identity, while quietly hoping for news of her husband's fate.__NEWL__Years after joining the nomads, she encounters Chinese soldiers who tell her about a Chinese doctor who received the Tibetan ritual of sky burial.__NEWL__After going to a nomad gathering, she meets an old sage, who tells her that he was the man rescued by her husband, who in doing so disrupted a sky burial ritual, shot a vulture dead, chased all the vultures away and angered the Tibetans.__NEWL__To ensure the safety of his unit, her husband chose to sacrifice himself to call the vultures back through a sky burial, which would double up as demonstration that Chinese people are not demons, but only people, like the Tibetans.__NEWL__This soothed the angry Tibetans and put an end to skirmishes between the two people in this area.__NEWL__The sage said he would continue to sing the praises of the doctor as long as he lived, and Shu Wen finds peace.__NEWL__She returns to Suzhou, where Xinran encounters her, still searching for her relatives and eking out a modest living.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7551860	Socialite Evenings	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	3843618	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3843618	Karuna, the main protagonist and narrator is caught up in a drab, boring life that she seeks to escape by writing memoirs.__NEWL__Her memoirs are successful and she achieves a measure of fame and pride in herself as she becomes an active socialite and eventually uses her newfound prominence as a celebrity to get herself a position as an advertising copywriter and creator of a television series.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7753069	The Names	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3889949	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3889949	Various business people, government agents, corporate statisticians gather in Athens, crossing paths before departing elsewhere.__NEWL__One estranged couple, a businessman and his archaeologist wife are there with their son, a precocious child novelist.__NEWL__Infidelity, cryptic remarks, the network of the global economy.__NEWL__Meanwhile, murders are discovered, committed by a cult attempting to align the initials of the victim's names to carved letters on an ancient stone.__NEWL__The businessmen await the arrival of a colleague, an obsessively ambitious filmmaker, who lays out an extravagant plan to film the cultists performing their bizarre ritualistic killings.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q275292	The Birds on the Trees	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3890124	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3890124	Toby Flower is a shy, reticent youth who has grown his hair long and who has started wearing a burnous.__NEWL__His father, an editor, and his mother, a novelist, are thrown into despair when Toby is expelled from school because he has been taking drugs.__NEWL__At a loss as to what to do in order to help their son, Charlie and Maggie Flower keep projecting their own goals and aspirations onto their son.__NEWL__They still talk about his going to university despite Toby's assertion that he is not interested in further education.__NEWL__Toby eventually breaks out of that stifling atmosphere, leaves home and moves to London, where he lives in a basement flat without keeping in touch with his parents.__NEWL__Charlie and Maggie Flower finally turn to a psychiatrist friend of theirs who agrees to have Toby hospitalised and treated for mental illness.__NEWL__As it happens, in London Toby associates with Hermia, the psychiatrist's young but rather unattractive daughter, and makes her pregnant.__NEWL__When their parents conspire and talk Hermia into having an abortion, they unwittingly cut the last remaining bond with their son.__NEWL__Toby fetches Hermia from her parents' home, and the young couple move in with Toby's maternal grandmother, a frail old woman who all along has been sympathetic to the young people's needs.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q675265	Dusklands	1974-04-18T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	3890798	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3890798	The first story, "The Vietnam Project", relates the gradual descent into insanity of its protagonist Eugene Dawn.__NEWL__Eugene works for a U.S. government agency responsible for the psychological warfare in the Vietnam War.__NEWL__However, his work on mythography and psychological operations is taking a heavy toll on him; his fall culminates in him stabbing his own son, Martin.__NEWL__The second story, "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee", which takes place in the 18th century, is an account of a hunting expedition into the then "unexplored" interior of South Africa.__NEWL__After crossing the Orange River, Jacobus meets with a Namaqua tribe to trade, but suddenly falls ill.__NEWL__He is attended to by the tribe and gradually recovers, only to get into a fight for which he is expelled from the village.__NEWL__His last slave dying on the way home, he returns alone and later organizes a punitive expedition against the Namaqua.__NEWL__The narrative concludes with his execution of the slaves that deserted him on the previous journey and the massacre of the tribe.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4657157	A Grave Talent	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62	San Francisco	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3799661	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3799661	The strangulation of four children in the vicinity of San Francisco leads the police force to appoint inspectors Al Hawkin and Kate ("Casey")__NEWL__Martinelli to discover the criminal.__NEWL__Suspicion falls on renowned artist Vaun Adams, convicted of murdering a young girl years before.__NEWL__When someone attempts to murder Vaun herself, the police are forced to conclude that someone else must be behind the murders, and they discover that Vaun's ex-boyfriend, maniacally egotistical Andy Lewis, must be the perpetrator.__NEWL__Hawkin convinces a reluctant Kate to set the trap for Lewis in her home by letting Vaun recover there.__NEWL__He arrives and declares that he will kill Kate and her lover Lee and leave Vaun to take the blame.__NEWL__Lee alerts the police to his presence, but the sniper who kills Lewis does not do so in time to prevent him from shooting and permanently disabling her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5377731	Engine Summer	1979-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3855726	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3855726	The novel takes the form of an oral history told by a young man named "Rush that Speaks" and of his wandering through a strange, post-apocalyptic world in pursuit of several seemingly incompatible goals.__NEWL__Each of the four divisions of his story are recorded on a separate crystal, and chapters correspond to facets of each crystal.__NEWL__The story is set in a post-technological future; the present age is dimly remembered in story and legend, but without nostalgia or regret.__NEWL__The people of Rush's world are engaged in living their own lives in their own cultures.__NEWL__Words and artifacts from current time survive into Rush's age, suggesting that it is only a few millennia in the future.__NEWL__Yet there are hints that human society and even human biology are significantly changed.__NEWL__Even such basics as reproduction and eating have been altered, one by industrial-age genetic tampering, the other by contact with extraterrestrial life.__NEWL__Rush comes of age in Little Belaire, a mazelike village of invisible, shifting boundaries, of secret paths and meandering stories and antique bric-a-brac carefully preserved in carved chests.__NEWL__The inhabitants are divided into clans called "cords" based on personality traits.__NEWL__Over the centuries, the people of Little Belaire have perfected an art which they call "truthful speaking": communication so clear and accurate, so "transparent", as to leave no potential for deception or misunderstanding.__NEWL__Perhaps as a result of this practice, Little Belaire appears to be free of any violence or even serious competition.__NEWL__Another result of truthful speaking is the existence of the "saints", those whose stories speak not only of the specifics of their own lives, but about the human condition.__NEWL__Yet even with the benefit of truthful speaking, secrets and mysteries remain.__NEWL__Rush's journey is set in motion when the girl he loves, Once a Day, elopes from Little Belaire to join another group, an enigmatic society called Dr. Boots's List.__NEWL__In his search for her, Rush befriends a hermit and an "avvenger" and shares the secrets of the List.__NEWL__Ultimately he discovers a transparent sainthood stranger than any story told by the gossips of Little Belaire.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5215405	Dancers in Mourning	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3887859	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887859	An old friend of Albert Campion, "Uncle" William Faraday, has written a successful book that has been turned into a hit musical comedy.__NEWL__Jimmy Sutane, an established actor and dancer, is the star of the musical.__NEWL__But recently someone has it in for Sutane and has started playing harmless practical jokes that have caused the highly emotional Jimmy much trauma.__NEWL__Jimmy asks Campion to look into who the prankster may be.__NEWL__So Campion takes a trip to the Sutane household, where he unexpectedly finds more than he bargained for.__NEWL__Jimmy Sutane's house is a strange mix of the theatrical and the snobbish.__NEWL__And into this mix comes Chloe Pye, an overdone and melodramatic has-been actress that no one seems to like.__NEWL__When she is accidentally run over by Jimmy Sutane in his car, no one seems upset and everyone is eager to call it an accident.__NEWL__But Campion is not so certain, and the more he investigates the less he desires to find out about the world of the Sutanes.__NEWL__Campion must deal with high strung entertainers and his own emotions as he tries to find out if a murder even happened, and who is still playing tricks on the star and his family.__NEWL__It turns out that Squire Mercer, a genius musician who lives with the Sutanes, was once married to Chloe Pye.__NEWL__She wanted to leave him for Jimmy Sutane, and he threatened never to divorce her.__NEWL__She told him that divorce wasn't necessary since she was still married to someone else, thereby committing bigamy with Squire Mercer.__NEWL__Her return to the Sutane household was to get back into the good graces of Squire Mercer so that he would fall back in love with her and support her financially.__NEWL__Instead he gets annoyed and angry at her advances and kills her.__NEWL__Then he throws her body off a bridge in front of Jimmy Sutane's car so that the whole thing will look like an accident.__NEWL__Unfortunately Sutane's understudy, who has been playing the pranks on Sutane because he wants to play the lead role in the hit show, witnessed the whole of Chloe's "accident".__NEWL__When he and several innocent bystanders are killed by one of Mercer's old-time criminal associates, everything is gradually uncovered by the police.__NEWL__Unfortunately, Campion's love for Sutane's wife clouds his judgement so that he thinks Jimmy has actually murdered both Chloe and his understudy.__NEWL__It is only at the end that he discovers the truth for himself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5462310	Flowers for the Judge	1936-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3888194	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3888194	The story starts in 1911 with the mysterious disappearance of one of the members of the Barnabas family, owners of a leading publishing house in London.__NEWL__After the initial investigation, the mystery soon disappears from the public's mind, and the remaining cousins continue the family business.__NEWL__Twenty years later, another member of the same family has also gone missing, and Albert Campion, a friend of the family, is brought in to find the wayward cousin.__NEWL__This time, the missing cousin shows up dead.__NEWL__The obvious suspect is the youngest of the Barnabas cousins, who also happens to love the dead man's wife.__NEWL__Campion must delve deep into the Barnabas family history to find the real murderer, but finds much more than he expected.__NEWL__The Barnabas family is no stranger to mystery, one of the founder's nephews, Tom Barnabas, having disappeared from the street in broad daylight never to be seen again.__NEWL__When it is remarked, at a Sunday evening gathering held by Gina Brande in her flat next door to the offices, that Paul Brande, her inattentive husband, has not been home for three days, no-one finds it too remarkable.__NEWL__Shortly after the arrival of his old friend Albert Campion to look into the vanishing, Paul's younger cousin Mike, in love with Gina, goes to the vault to fetch some papers for the eldest cousin, the Barnabas Managing Director John Widdowson, and returns looking shaken, but saying nothing.__NEWL__Next morning, Paul's body is found sprawled in plain view in front of the vault.__NEWL__The doctor who is called immediately recognizes that Paul has been dead for several days, and a decision is made to move the body from where it was found, destroying clues.__NEWL__Mike is sent to inform Mrs Brande and seen comforting her tenderly.__NEWL__Campion investigates the scene of the crime and finds a recently broken ventilator to the rear of the vault, which leads to a next-door garage.__NEWL__Questioning staff, he discovers that the position of the body made it impossible for Mike to have missed him the night before.__NEWL__The police find a length of rubber pipe stained with soot.__NEWL__At the inquest, the doctors and police reveal that Paul was killed by carbon monoxide inhalation, the pipe having been used to connect the exhaust of Mike's car to the vault ventilator.__NEWL__A neighbour testifies she heard the car running in the garage from six to nine on the night Paul disappeared.__NEWL__Mike says he was out walking the streets until eight, and that around nine had started the car to warm it up by running the engine for a few minutes before going for a drive.__NEWL__Gina's housekeeper speculates too freely about her mistress's relationship with Mike, and at the end of the inquest Mike is arrested for the murder.__NEWL__Campion befriends Ritchie, an odd and rather awkward cousin - the brother of the vanished Tom, and with his help questions Miss Netley, Paul's suspicious secretary.__NEWL__He tracks down Paul's mistress, but finds she knows nothing, except that he missed an appointment with her on the night he died.__NEWL__He learns of a valuable unpublished manuscript of a play by William Congreve owned by the firm and regarded as a financial asset, which Paul had hoped to display, and of a visit Paul paid to a London district on business concerning a key.__NEWL__From his manservant Lugg, he learns that a renowned underground key copier lives in the area mentioned, and together they investigate, Lugg's criminal past helping to persuade the man to help by providing a copy of the key he made for Paul.__NEWL__Campion visits the Barnabas offices with Ritchie's help and finds someone in the vault.__NEWL__They fight, and Campion subdues the man, who turns out to be the accountant, Rigget.__NEWL__Rigget confesses to having made a copy of the vault key and sneaking in at night to look for any valuable information.__NEWL__On the night after Paul's death, he had also entered the room and found Paul curled up and dead in a corner, and the vault unlocked; he locked it using Paul's key.__NEWL__He also took the vault key from inside the door, locked it on the outside when he left, returning the key to its normal place.__NEWL__The trial begins the next day, and Campion, exhausted from his long night, attends.__NEWL__Things look bleak for Mike, but Campion has found out from an uncle working at the British Museum that the document in the vault is not the original manuscript.__NEWL__He visits John Widdowson's flat with Ritchie, looks around, questions the maid, and leaves a note for Widdowson enclosing a page from the facsimile manuscript.__NEWL__Widdowson calls him later, agrees that the manuscript he found was a facsimile, but that the original is safe in one of the firm's other offices, telling him to confirm the fact by opening a certain locked cupboard.__NEWL__Campion goes there, still weary from a lack of sleep, and almost hurls himself at the jammed door to force it open.__NEWL__Becoming suspicious, he kicks it instead, and discovers it leads outside to a terrible drop.__NEWL__He realizes that he too was to be killed by Widdowson for the same reason he killed Brande, to prevent exposure that the play, which is the company's financial asset, is not an original.__NEWL__During the court proceedings against Mike on the next day, the case is suddenly called off.__NEWL__Widdowson has been found in his bath, an apparent suicide caused by carbon monoxide fumes from a gas water-heater.__NEWL__Campion learns that the windows had been were wedged shut from the outside, that the heater had been manipulated, and that Ritchie has vanished.__NEWL__Later, holidaying in France with Mike, Campion finds the long lost Tom Barnabas, alias Pierre Robert, who tells him that instead of his legacy he had taken the original manuscript to buy a circus, in which Campion sees Ritchie performing, now finally in his element as a clown.__NEWL__Campion realizes that Ritchie's quietly avenging the murder of Paul by killing Widdowson gave him the role of "the king's executioner."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718286	The Black Corridor	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3802754	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3802754	Ryan is a tough-minded British businessman appalled by the breakdown of society at the end of the 20th century.__NEWL__He feels that he is one of the few sane men in a world of paranoiacs.__NEWL__With a small group of family and friends, he has stolen a spaceship and set out for Munich 15040 (Barnard's Star), a planet believed to be suitable for colonisation.__NEWL__Now he keeps watch alone, with his 13 companions sealed in cabinets designed to keep them in suspended animation for the many years of the journey.__NEWL__He makes a daily report on each one: it is always 'Condition Steady'.__NEWL__Ryan is tormented by nightmares and memories of the violence on Earth; he starts to fear he is losing his grip on reality.__NEWL__The shipboard computer urges him to take a drug that eliminates all delusions and hallucinations; but he is strangely reluctant to use this drug.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4931601	Bob, Son of Battle	1898-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3831258	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3831258	The story emphasizes the rivalry between two sheepdogs and their masters, and chronicles the maturing of a boy, David, who is caught between them.__NEWL__His mother dies, and he is left to the care of his father, Adam M'Adam, a sarcastic, angry alcoholic with few redeeming qualities.__NEWL__M'Adam is the owner of Red Wull, a huge, violent dog who herds his sheep by brute force.__NEWL__The other dog is Bob, son of Battle.__NEWL__He herds sheep by finesse and persuasion.__NEWL__His master is James Moore, Master of Kenmuir, who acts as surrogate father to David.__NEWL__David and Moore's daughter Maggie become romantically intrigued by each other.__NEWL__The dogs compete for the Shepherd's Trophy, the prize in an annual sheep-herding contest which is the highlight of the year in the North Country.__NEWL__A dog who wins three competitions in a row wins the Shepherd's Cup outright, which has never yet happened.__NEWL__Complications arise—a rogue dog is killing sheep, and both Bob and Red Wull are suspected of being the culprit.__NEWL__The story chronicles David's boyhood and early manhood, his struggle to live with his father, his frequent escapes to Kenmuir, and his intermittent friendship with Maggie Moore.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5161083	Coningsby: or, The New Generation		7412	3857289	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3857289	The novel follows the life and career of Henry Coningsby, the orphan grandson of a wealthy marquess, Lord Monmouth.__NEWL__Lord Monmouth initially disapproved of Coningsby's parents' marriage, but on their death he relents and sends the boy to be educated at Eton College.__NEWL__At Eton Coningsby meets and befriends Oswald Millbank, the son of a rich cotton manufacturer who is a bitter enemy of Lord Monmouth.__NEWL__The two older men represent old and new wealth in society.__NEWL__As Coningsby grows up he begins to develop his own liberal political views, and falls in love with Oswald's sister Edith.__NEWL__When Lord Monmouth discovers these developments he is furious and secretly disinherits his grandson.__NEWL__On his death, Coningsby is left penniless, and is forced to work for his living.__NEWL__He decides to study law and become a barrister.__NEWL__This proof of his character impresses Edith's father (who had previously also been hostile) and he consents to their marriage at last.__NEWL__By the end of the novel Coningsby is elected to Parliament for his new father-in-law's constituency and his fortune is restored.__NEWL__According to Disraeli's biographer, Robert Blake, the character of Sidonia is a cross between Lionel de Rothschild and Disraeli himself.__NEWL__The character of Coningsby is based on George Smythe.__NEWL__The themes, and some of the characters, reappear in Disraeli's later novels Sybil and Tancred.__NEWL__Harry Coningsby was the charge of his grandfather (Lord Monmouth) after his parents died.__NEWL__Coningsby first met his grandfather, who was often out of the country on government business, when he was aged about 9 and was so overwhelmed, he could only cry.__NEWL__Coningsby was brought up in his grandfather's political entourage including the critical and self-righteous (but often wrong)__NEWL__Mr Rigby and the two political hacks, Tadpole and Taper.__NEWL__Coningsby went to Eton where, in a rafting incident, he saved the life of a son of a wealthy manufacturer (Oswald Millbank).__NEWL__Out walking one day shortly after leaving Eton, Coningsby takes refuge from a storm in an inn where he is captivated by a flamboyant traveller talking about young people needing to drive things forward and of the end of the “Age of Ruins”.__NEWL__Coningsby is now well integrated into upper class sets where he befriends a number of like-minded young gentlemen who look up to him as their leader.__NEWL__On a trip to Manchester, Coningsby decides to visit Millbank who is abroad and so he is entertained by Millbank's father and his shy but beautiful 16-year-old sister, Edith.__NEWL__ With Lord Monmouth's return to England, Coningsby is invited to the family seat for the first time for a massive reception including a play which features the stage debut of Flora “La Petite” the daughter of a great deceased actress and whom Lord Monmouth has taken under his wing.__NEWL__Flora does well but breaks down in tears and Coningsby alone goes backstage to sympathise.__NEWL__Guests are also dazzled by the arrival of the man Coningsby met in the inn, Sidonia (an ardent Jewish nationalist), who also impresses Princess Lucretia, who was being lined up by her step mother, Madame Colonna, as a potential wife for Coningsby.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, the owner of Lord Monmouth's adjoining estate dies with no heirs but Lord Monmouth's bid to buy his land (Hellingsley) is thwarted by Millbank senior.__NEWL__Their rivalry is accentuated when Monmouth's Tory candidate for the local parliamentary seat (Rigby) is defeated by the Liberal candidate, Millbank snr.__NEWL__In disgust Monmouth resolves to leave the country but announces his surprise marriage to Lucretia.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Flora is becoming more withdrawn and is unable to sing so frequently.__NEWL__ After his first year at university, Coningsby goes to Paris to meet his grandfather.__NEWL__He is shown some of his father's old possessions in a banker's safe including a portrait of a woman, presumably Coningsby's mother, which he had also seen at Milbank's home.__NEWL__Whilst visiting an art gallery he observes a beautiful young woman who turns out to be Edith Millbank and they are reacquainted at a grand ball Lord Monmouth holds the following evening.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards Coningsby hears that Sidonia is to marry Edith and abruptly leaves Paris.__NEWL__A year later, Coningsby encounters Edith's aunt and learns that the rumour about Edith and Sidonia's marriage was false.__NEWL__Edith is now staying at Hellingsley so Coningsby returns to his grandfather's estate, visits Edith__NEWL__and they both declare their love to each other.__NEWL__However the next day, Edith's father bans Coningsby from seeing her again since their families cannot be linked.__NEWL__During the conversation the mystery of the portrait is resolved as it emerges that Millbank was in love with Coningsby's mother but Coningsby's father poached her from him.__NEWL__ A year later Coningsby and Edith exchange glances and a few words at a ball.__NEWL__Edith is on the arm of a potential suitor, Lord Beaumanoir, and Coningsby is thought to be about to wed Lady Theresa.__NEWL__Coningsby is summoned by Lord Monmouth, who is now estranged from Lucretia, in part because he is now aware of her affection for Sidonia.__NEWL__Monmouth has intelligence that an election is imminent and wants Coningsby to be the Tory candidate, but Coningsby refuses because he cannot support the Conservatives since he does not know what they want to conserve and anyway is an opponent of the status quo.__NEWL__Monmouth then summons Rigby, whom Lucretia intercepts.__NEWL__They hatch a plot to discredit Coningsby in the eyes of Lord Monmouth by telling him about his love for Edith.__NEWL__The plan backfires with Monmouth ordering Lucretia to leave his house, although he does leave Rigby in charge whilst he goes travelling.__NEWL__ Through various meetings, Coningsby learns that Edith is not engaged to Lord Beaumanoir and she learns he is not engaged to Lady Theresa, when her wedding to a friend of Coningsby is announced.__NEWL__Edith and Coningsby resolve to get back together.__NEWL__On hearing about Lucretia's eviction, Coningsby goes to visit his grandfather who refuses to see him, a decision he later regrets and resolves to amend.__NEWL__At a Christmas party shortly afterwards hosted by one of Coningsby's school friends, news arrives that Lord Monmouth has died.__NEWL__Monmouth had a habit of changing his will and the latest version bequeaths next to nothing to Coningsby, the bulk of his wealth being left to Flora who turns out to be his daughter.__NEWL__Flora, her health failing, offers to give it all to Coningsby on account of his kindness to her but he refuses.__NEWL__With no income or wealth, Coningsby takes up law studies with the aim of eventually becoming Lord Chancellor.__NEWL__He realises that he now has nothing to offer Edith and abandons hope of being with her.__NEWL__Meanwhile, her father finds out that he was cut from Monmouth's will on account of his love for Edith and so at the forthcoming election he stands down as a candidate in favour of Coningsby who, without being aware of his candidacy, handsomely defeats Rigby at the ensuing election.__NEWL__Coningsby returns triumphantly to his constituency and Millbank snr.__NEWL__grants permission for him to marry Edith.__NEWL__Flora dies, leaving her wealth to Coningsby.__NEWL__The novel ends with a series of questions asking whether or not Coningsby will be true to his principles and beliefs in his Parliamentary career.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6775331	Martin Dressler	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3857751	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3857751	From humble beginnings as an assistant in his immigrant father's cigar shop, Martin begins employment as a bellboy at the Vanderlyn hotel.__NEWL__He rises through its hierarchy through promotions, due to his reputation as a bright, conscientious worker.__NEWL__When he is offered the position of assistant manager, he quits to focus instead on managing a chain of restaurants.__NEWL__Later, he builds his own new concept for an extravagant hotel, the Hotel Dressler.__NEWL__He finds a friend and business partner in sister-in-law Emmeline Vernon, while his ambiguous, distant marriage to her withdrawn sister, Caroline, is a source of confusion and disappointment.__NEWL__A focus of the novel is Martin's imagination for grand, sweeping business ideas, and his instinctive sense for orchestrating large systems.__NEWL__Through all this Martin has the persistent feeling that there must be something bigger waiting around the next corner.__NEWL__One of the novel's themes is that emptiness may lie behind the ideal of the American Dream.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7637327	Summer Gone	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	3887077	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887077	The book deals with the life of Bailey Newling and his three lost summers.__NEWL__It tells the story of a divorced Bailey and his young son Caz, where on one fateful canoe trip, they share a remarkable night of truth and love.__NEWL__Macfarlane set this novel among the cottage country in northern Ontario, the Waubano Reaches.__NEWL__Bailey, nicknamed Bay, tells of the three summers in his life: the summer he was 12 and attended the camp where he met his camp instructor Peter Larkin, the summer where he, his wife Sarah and 6-year-old son rented a cottage near his old campsite and, the summer where he and his 12-year-old son shared their extraordinary night.__NEWL__Macfarlane uses a notable technique in the writing of Summer Gone, where he would start the story of one summer and drift into another.__NEWL__It may start with Bay telling of his tale at camp and then shift onto another thought which may have occurred decades later involving his wife or his son.__NEWL__This technique ties all of Bay's summer stories together into one when he tells it to his son.__NEWL__The narration of this story is told by Caz's half brother, from a one-night stand of Bailey's, as an adult, retelling what Caz had told him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7044429	No Man Friday	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3829861	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3829861	A British rocket, developed at minimal cost and kept secret from officialdom, lifts off from the Woomera rocket range on a mission to Mars.__NEWL__During the voyage, an accident in the airlock kills the entire crew except for engineer Gordon Holder, the novel's narrator, who was returning from an EVA and still in his space suit.__NEWL__The rocket reaches Mars but crash-lands.__NEWL__There, Holder learns how to produce oxygen and water, also discovering more about Martian species and nourishment.__NEWL__Eventually, he starts cooperating with the titanic inhabitants of the planet to survive.__NEWL__After fifteen years, an American mission lands, thinking themselves the first to reach Mars.__NEWL__Holder contacts the Americans, and then tries to return to the dominant Martian beings, but is prevented from reaching them.__NEWL__He returns to Earth with the Americans.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7093031	One Night @ the Call Center	2005-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	3829882	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3829882	The book begins with a frame story recounting a train journey from Kanpur to Delhi.__NEWL__During the journey, the author meets a beautiful girl who offers to tell him a story on the condition that he has to make it his second book.__NEWL__After a lot of hesitation, the author agrees.__NEWL__The story is about six people working in a call center and relates the events that happen one night when get a phone-call from 'God'.__NEWL__Claimed to be based on a true story, the author uses Shyam Mehra (alias Sam Marcy) as the narrator and protagonist, who is one among the six call center employees.__NEWL__Shyam loves but has lost Priyanka, who is now planning an arranged marriage with someone else, Vroom loves Esha, Esha wants to be a model, Radhika is in an unhappy marriage with a demanding mother-in-law, and Military Uncle wants to communicate with his grandson.__NEWL__They all hate Bakshi, their cruel and somewhat sadistic boss.__NEWL__To cheer themselves up, all the lead characters of the novel decide to go to a night club.__NEWL__After enjoying for a while, they leave back for the office.__NEWL__While returning, they face a life-threatening situation when their vehicle crashes into a construction site hanging over a mesh of iron construction rods.__NEWL__As the rods began to yield slowly, they start to panic.__NEWL__They are unable to call for help as there is no mobile phone network at that place, but Shyam's mobile phone starts ringing.__NEWL__The phone call is from God, who speaks modern English.__NEWL__He speaks to all of them and gives them suggestions to improve their life, and advises them on how to get their vehicle out of the construction site.__NEWL__The conversation with God motivates the group to such an extent that they get ready to face their problems with determination and motivation.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Vroom and Shyam hatch a plan to throw Bakshi out of the call center and prevent the closing of the call center, whose employees are to be downsized radically.__NEWL__When they return to the call center, they carry out their plan successfully.__NEWL__At the end, each character has fixed a part of their life, and the author invites readers to identify aspects of themselves and their lives that they would like to change.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7734479	The Flivver King	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12439	Detroit	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3830461	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3830461	On Bagley Street in the city of Detroit, Little Abner Shutt begins the story by explaining to his mother that "there's a feller down the street says he's goin' to make a wagon that'll run without a horse.__NEWL__" The man is Henry Ford.__NEWL__The story follows the progress and growth of Ford Motor Company through the perspective of a number of generations of a single family.__NEWL__The Flivver King demonstrates the effects of scientific management in factories.__NEWL__The Ford factory began with very skilled workers.__NEWL__Through a process of breaking the skilled job down into simple steps, they were able to hire lower wage, less skilled individuals to do the work.__NEWL__The Flivver King explains how the Ford Company used scientific management to replace skilled workers while successfully increasing production.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1605244	Adolphe	1816-01-01T00:00:00Z	13861					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	3833407	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3833407	Adolphe, the narrator, is the son of a government minister.__NEWL__Introverted from an early age, his melancholic outlook has been formed by conversations with an elderly friend, whose insight into the folly and hypocrisy of the world has hindered rather than helped her in life.__NEWL__When the novel opens, he is 22 years old and has just completed his studies at the University of Göttingen.__NEWL__He travels to the town of D*** in Germany, where he becomes attached to the court of an enlightened Prince.__NEWL__During his stay he gains a reputation for an unpleasant wit.__NEWL__A friend's project of seduction inspires him to try something similar with the 32-year-old lover of the Comte de P***, a beautiful Polish refugee named Ellénore.__NEWL__The seduction is successful, but they both fall in love, and their relationship becomes all-consuming, isolating them from the people around them.__NEWL__Eventually Adolphe becomes anxious as he realises that he is sacrificing any potential future for the sake of Ellénore.__NEWL__She persuades him to extend his stay by six months, but they quarrel, and when she breaks with the Comte de P*** and leaves her two children in order to be with him, and tends him after he is injured in a duel, he finds himself hopelessly indebted to her.__NEWL__When he leaves the town of D***, Ellénore follows him, only to be expelled from his home town by Adolphe's father.__NEWL__Adolphe is furious and together they travel to her newly regained estate in Poland.__NEWL__However, a friend of the father, the Baron de T***, manipulates Adolphe into promising to break with Ellénore for the sake of his career.__NEWL__The letter which contains the promise is forwarded to Ellénore and the shock leads to her death.__NEWL__Adolphe loses interest in life, and the alienation with which the book began returns in a more serious form.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3819063	L'Esclusa	1908-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	3784892	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3784892	The story itself is set in a small village in Sicily.__NEWL__The protagonist Marta Ajala feels "excluded" from the society in which she lives because of having catastrophically lost the position and status that she had been assigned in the order of things: the position of a submissive and bored housewife who never quite felt at ease in her role, but who had achieved respect in society because of it.__NEWL__It is a role that she does not regret losing but whose sudden and violent loss has thrown her into a dramatic situation: she has been kicked out of her home by her husband, who caught her by surprise in the act of reading a letter from someone who has been courting her but whose advances she has always rejected.__NEWL__The precipitous decision of the husband overwhelmed with rage; the attitude of Marta's father who, even while knowing that his daughter is innocent, totally supports her husband's decision out of a misbegotten sense of masculine spiritual solidarity and ends up dying of shame; the submissive suffering of the mother and sister, constantly ready, in order to conform to traditional convictions, to counsel her surrender and obedience; the choral malevolence of the villagers, taking advantage of a religious procession that is passing by under their windows to publicly jeer and shout names at her, are the elements of a minutely described painting, in the manner of realism, which illustrates the closed mentality of the village.__NEWL__But Marta's reaction is only partly similar to that of the typical characters of the naturalistic novel.__NEWL__She reveals a much more complex psychology which begins with a petit bourgeoisie self-satisfaction for the letters of Gregorio Alvignani and gradually develops into an obstinate struggle against all of society for a moral and economic revenge which she will finally end up obtaining, but joylessly.__NEWL__The cruel game of chance prevails over the objectivity of the narrative, according to an unexpected logic, expressed in a series of coincidences that betray their own hidden meaning.__NEWL__The father dies at the same time that Marta's baby, which she had been carrying in her womb with so much repulsion, is born, as if to signify a repudiation and detachment from the past.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in the streets of the village, the people are celebrating the victory of Alvignani in the elections, a premonitory sign of Marta's eventual redemption and revenge.__NEWL__The singularity of circumstances bursts wide open in the final scene: Marta's husband, after kicking her out of her home, making her suffer, and compromising the birth of his own son, now takes her back when she has actually become guilty of the sin of which she was falsely accused and is carrying her lover's baby in her womb.__NEWL__In giving herself to Alvignani, who helped her in dealing with the injustices of the scholastic authorities, she seems to adapt herself to the role of his lover, which has been imposed on her by society.__NEWL__But her state of mind is never one of passive surrender, even if her restless struggle against circumstances dominated by an unfathomable force will turn out to be in vain.__NEWL__In the end, what defeats her is not the society by which she is rehabilitated but life itself, which brings with it a suffering that no success can cancel.__NEWL__It is significant, in fact, that the author uses the word l'esclusa precisely at the opening of the second part of the novel, where, in an atmosphere redolent of spring, Marta seems to be on the verge of resurrection.__NEWL__Her tenacious struggle against everyone and against resignation has allowed her to obtain the much-desired teaching position that has permitted her to rescue her mother and sister from extreme poverty.__NEWL__But the happiness of these two women, of which she is secretly proud, is what forces her to recognize her own spiritual isolation and her inability to reinsert herself into society.__NEWL__"She alone was the excluded one, she alone would never again find her place."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1955781	Stamboul Train	1932-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3815573	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3815573	The novel focuses on the lives of individuals aboard a luxury express making a three-day journey from Ostend to Istanbul (although Greene uses the old name for the city, Constantinople).__NEWL__The novel opens on board the ferry, on which several of the novel's major characters have travelled from England.__NEWL__Mabel Warren and Janet Pardoe join the train later in Cologne and Josef Grünlich joins it in Vienna.__NEWL__Although these characters are travelling for different purposes, their lives are intertwined in the course of the journey.__NEWL__Other scenes in places through which the train passes are also described, as well as Myatt's high-speed journey by car through the snow-laden countryside to and from the railway station at Subotica.__NEWL__A major part of the plot focuses on Carleton Myatt, a shrewd and practical businessman who trades in currants and has business interests in Istanbul.__NEWL__He is travelling because he is concerned that the firm's agent in Turkey, Eckman, has been cheating him.__NEWL__As he crosses interwar Europe, Myatt has to face antisemitic attitudes, both on and off the train.__NEWL__Because he feels sorry for the sick dancer Coral Musker, who is travelling 2nd class to join a show in Turkey, he buys her a 1st class ticket.__NEWL__The grateful Coral falls in love with him and spends the night in his compartment, during which, to his surprise, he discovers that she is a virgin.__NEWL__After she disappears from the train at Subotica he travels back to rescue her, but fails and barely escapes after rescuing the crook Grünlich under gun fire.__NEWL__Dr. Czinner is an escaped communist leader and former physician, travelling on a forged British passport after five years teaching in an English boys' school.__NEWL__He plans on leading a communist revolution in Belgrade, but discovers that the uprising has taken place too early and failed.__NEWL__Nonetheless, he decides to go back to Belgrade to stand trial as a political gesture.__NEWL__But he has been recognised by Mabel Warren, a lesbian journalist living in Cologne, who is travelling with her partner, Janet Pardoe.__NEWL__Warren now believes that she is onto a major news story.__NEWL__When the train arrives at Vienna, she leaves the carriage to phone her office but is stranded in the city when her bag is stolen.__NEWL__The thief is Grünlich, who has just killed a man during a failed robbery and now boards the train with Warren's money.__NEWL__Left behind, the angry Warren vows to get Czinner's story through other means.__NEWL__At Subotica the train is stopped on the Yugoslav border and Czinner is arrested.__NEWL__Also arrested are Grünlich, for having a revolver, and Coral, to whom Czinner has given a letter to deliver for him.__NEWL__A court martial is held at which Czinner is allowed to give the pointless political speech he intended for his show trial.__NEWL__He is sentenced to be shot that evening, while Grünlich is to be imprisoned for a month and then deported back to Vienna, where the police will be looking for him.__NEWL__Coral is to be deported back to England the next day.__NEWL__The three prisoners are kept in a waiting room, but when they realise that Myatt has returned in a car, the resourceful Grünlich breaks open the door and all three make a run for it.__NEWL__Only Grünlich escapes; Czinner is wounded and Coral hides him in a barn, where he dies.__NEWL__Next morning, Mabel Warren arrives at Subotica in pursuit of her news story and takes Coral back to Cologne.__NEWL__Mabel fancies Coral as a new partner but the account breaks off as Coral collapses in the back of the car with a heart condition and her ultimate fate is left open.__NEWL__After the train arrives at Istanbul, Myatt discovers that Janet Pardoe is the niece of Stein, a rival businessman and potential business partner.__NEWL__He steals her from the proprietorship of the Cockney novelist Savory, who is travelling to the East in search of copy for his next book.__NEWL__Despite his own brief encounter with Coral, Myatt now considers marrying Janet and confirming the contract, signed by Eckman, to take over Stein's currant business.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3754689	Out of the Shelter	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2966	Heidelberg	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3816477	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3816477	Timothy Young, at five, enjoys having to go to his neighbor's shelter during the Blitz, partly because he gets to sleep with his friend Jill.__NEWL__However, Jill and her mother are killed in an air raid.__NEWL__Timothy spends some of the war in the country before he and his rather narrow-minded Catholic parents return to their lower-middle-class neighbourhood in London.__NEWL__He sees his sister Kath, who is eleven years older, only on her rare visits home, as she is now working in Germany with the occupying forces.__NEWL__In 1951, he faces a decision of whether to apply his mathematical and artistic talent to an apprenticeship as a draughtsman or to the study of architecture at university.__NEWL__Kath invites him to visit her in Heidelberg during the summer.__NEWL__After some trepidation, he agrees.__NEWL__The boat and train journey is highly unpleasant, but he is befriended by a young American man with unconventional views, Don Kowalski.__NEWL__Kath's life in Heidelberg is far more luxurious than anything Timothy knew in England, where some basic foods are still rationed and economic growth is slow.__NEWL__He joins in the good meals, games, and pleasure trips Kath has with her fun-loving friends, especially two Americans, Greg and Vince.__NEWL__Timothy lives surreptitiously in an empty room in a woman's hostel.__NEWL__When he spends a day with Rudolf, the young German porter of Kath's residence, and his family, he sees the much lower German standard of living and deals with his conflicted feelings about the Germans.__NEWL__He also visits an American family with boys his own age and the American school where Don teaches, but doesn't get along well there.__NEWL__His sexual awakening includes hearing his neighbor in the hostel having sex, seeing Kath in bed with Don (who has been sacked because he'd been a conscientious objector), refusing a sexual offer from a woman in the hostel, and developing an infatuation with an American girl.__NEWL__He finally meets her at another American girl's birthday party on a riverboat and then has an erotic encounter with her in his room.__NEWL__Kath's routine is disturbed when Greg and Vince disappear on a trip to Berlin, but they return a few days later, apparently having strayed into the Russian zone and been interrogated as possible spies.__NEWL__Timothy goes to a party with Kath where she and her friends dress up in Vince's collection of Nazi uniforms and medals.__NEWL__Don breaks up this nightmarish scene and reveals that Vince has had a sexual relationship with Rudolf, possibly extorting sexual favours in return for help denazifying Rudolf's father.__NEWL__An epilogue takes place in a motel in California, where Timothy, now a thirty-year-old academic in Environmental Studies, and his wife and sons are visiting Kath, who's still single.__NEWL__It's revealed that Vince and Greg were both homosexual and their disappearance in Berlin was an attempt to defect to the Soviets.__NEWL__Don is now a professor and has been married and divorced.__NEWL__Timothy reflects on how lucky he is to have a good career and a loving family when things have not gone so well for others.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3345266	Paradise News	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3816721	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3816721	The story begins with Bernard, a laicised Catholic priest, escorting his unwilling father Jack to Hawaii at the request of his aunt Ursula, who is dying of cancer.__NEWL__On the day after arrival, Jack is hit by a car and sent to hospital.__NEWL__Bernard spends much time travelling between Jack's bedside and Ursula's nursing home, and through this, gets the opportunity to discover their past.__NEWL__Ursula, always portrayed as the selfish black sheep, had been sexually abused as a child by her oldest brother Sean, who was venerated as a hero by the family for his death in the war.__NEWL__Ursula explains to Bernard that the experience ruined her marriage and her life.__NEWL__She wants Jack's apology for Jack knew of the abuse but kept silent.__NEWL__In the midst of this, Bernard strikes up a tentative relationship with Yolande Miller, the driver of the car that hit his father.__NEWL__Bernard's gradual sexual awakening parallels Ursula's struggle with her illness.__NEWL__The narrative switches between third-person prose, Bernard's diary, a long letter from Bernard to Yolande, and postcards and notes sent from Hawaii by various characters encountered by Bernard and Jack on the plane journey from England, concluding with a letter from Yolande to Bernard.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12726029	Home Truths	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3816929	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3816929	The story mainly focuses on Adrian Ludlow, a half-retired writer, interviewed by Fanny Tarrant, a journalist famous for sarcastic portrait of her interviewees.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4232653	The Coral Island	1858-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3826722	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3826722	The story is written as a first person narrative from the perspective of 15-year-old Ralph Rover, one of three boys shipwrecked on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island.__NEWL__Ralph tells the story retrospectively, looking back on his boyhood adventure: "I was a boy when I went through the wonderful adventures herein set down.__NEWL__With the memory of my boyish feelings strong upon me, I present my book especially to boys, in the earnest hope that they may derive valuable information, much pleasure, great profit, and unbounded amusement from its pages.__NEWL__" The account starts briskly; only four pages are devoted to Ralph's early life and a further fourteen to his voyage to the Pacific Ocean on board the Arrow.__NEWL__He and his two companions – 18-year-old Jack Martin and 13-year-old Peterkin Gay – are the sole survivors of the shipwreck.__NEWL__The narrative is in two parts.__NEWL__The first describes how the boys feed themselves, what they drink, the clothing and shelter they fashion, and how they cope with having to rely on their own resources.__NEWL__The second half of the novel is more action-packed, featuring conflicts with pirates, fighting between the native Polynesians, and the conversion efforts of Christian missionaries.__NEWL__Fruit, fish and wild pigs provide plentiful food, and at first the boys' life on the island is idyllic.__NEWL__They build a shelter and construct a small boat using their only possessions: a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar, and a small axe.__NEWL__Their first contact with other humans comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes in the distance, one pursued by the other.__NEWL__The two groups of Polynesians disembark on the beach and engage in battle; the victors take fifteen prisoners and kill and eat one immediately.__NEWL__But when they threaten to kill one of the three women captured, along with two children, the boys intervene to defeat the pursuers, earning them the gratitude of the chief, Tararo.__NEWL__The next morning they prevent another act of cannibalism.__NEWL__The natives leave, and the boys are alone once more.__NEWL__More unwelcome visitors then arrive in the shape of British pirates, who make a living by trading or stealing sandalwood.__NEWL__The three boys hide in a cave, but Ralph is captured when he ventures out to see if the intruders have left and is taken on board the pirate schooner.__NEWL__He strikes up a friendship with one of the crew, Bloody Bill, and when the ship calls at the island of Emo to trade for more wood Ralph experiences many facets of the island's culture: the popular sport of surfing, the sacrificing of babies to eel gods, rape, and cannibalism.__NEWL__Rising tensions result in the inhabitants attacking the pirates, leaving only Ralph and Bloody Bill alive.__NEWL__The pair succeed in making their escape in the schooner, but Bill is mortally wounded.__NEWL__He makes a death-bed repentance for his evil life, leaving Ralph to sail back to the Coral Island alone, where he is reunited with his friends.__NEWL__The three boys sail to the island of Mango, where a missionary has converted some of the population to Christianity.__NEWL__There they once again meet Tararo, whose daughter Avatea wishes to become a Christian against her father's wishes.__NEWL__The boys attempt to take Avatea in a small boat to a nearby island the chief of which has been converted, but en route they are overtaken by one of Tararo's war canoes and taken prisoner.__NEWL__They are released a month later after the arrival of another missionary, and Tararo's conversion to Christianity.__NEWL__The "false gods" of Mango are consigned to the flames, and the boys set sail for home, older and wiser.__NEWL__They return as adults for another adventure in Ballantyne's 1861 novel__NEWL__The Gorilla Hunters, a sequel to The Coral Island.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4911515	Bill the Conqueror	1924-11-14T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3863884	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3863884	The story revolves around a young girl whose family wants her to marry against her wishes.__NEWL__Big, strong Bill West, inspired by his love of Alice Coker, takes her brother Judson to London, under strict instructions to keep him sober; there he meets his old friend Flick Sheridan.__NEWL__Meanwhile, devious schemes are afoot at the home of Bill's uncle Cooley.__NEWL__George Pyke is overjoyed at hearing he is shortly to be made a lord, but disappointed with his wimpy son Roderick's handling of Society Spice, one of his leading publications.__NEWL__He hopes pressuring the timid chap to marry Flick Sheridan will be the making of him.__NEWL__In New York, Bill West's love for beautiful Alice Coker has stirred him to become a go-getting type, leaving behind his wild youth, and none too soon, as his uncle Cooley, under the malign influence of white-bearded Professor Appleby, has adopted a youth named Horace and disowned his scrounging family.__NEWL__Bill heads to London, ostensibly to find out why his uncle's business there is doing badly, and takes Judson with him, promising the wild lad's father (and sister) that he'll keep the dissolute fellow out of trouble.__NEWL__One day, thanks to one of Judson's schemes to raise money for a binge, he meets up with Flick Sheridan, friend of his youth, who has long adored him.__NEWL__Judson, annoyed to find his plans frustrated, roams the streets, and on reading a slanderous piece in Society Spice claiming one of his henchmen had created the Fifth Avenue Silks, heads to Tilbury House to confront the editor, Roderick Pyke.__NEWL__Roderick, terrified of enraged bookies, flees the scene, leaving his date Flick in the lurch; she decides to break off the engagement forthwith.__NEWL__Judson, now with Bill in tow, trails Pyke to the Hammond's house, where Pyke hits Bill with a stick, enraging him.__NEWL__Bill gets trapped in the garden, where he runs into Flick, who, having locked herself in her room in protest at her family's plans, is now fleeing her home.__NEWL__Bill takes her in, and they become ever closer.__NEWL__She helps him out by investigating Slingsby, Cooley Paradene's man in London, in the course of which she is seen by Percy Pilbeam, tasked with finding her by her uncle.__NEWL__She escapes, but Pilbeam recognises Judson when he comes to complain once more about the slur in Society Spice.__NEWL__Pilbeam takes Judson to the famous Cheshire Cheese for lunch, and after plying him with drink after his long abstinence, finds out his address.__NEWL__He reports this back to Sir George Pyke, and soon Bill and Flick are being chased across country by Pyke; they evade him by stealing his car, but realise that England is too hot for Flick.__NEWL__Bill writes her an introduction to Alice Coker, urging her to stay with the girl, but she is jealous of Bill's affection for her and resolves to go it alone.__NEWL__At Cooley Paradene's house, Horace has been causing trouble, but plans to rob the library have made little headway; his boss Appleby hears Paradene's plans to head to England, putting Horace into a school while he visits his old friend, Flick's uncle Sinclair Hammond, and also learns that during the trip the books will be unguarded.__NEWL__Flick arrives, somewhat bedraggled, having been robbed of her bags and run out of money, and Paradene agrees to take her with him to England.__NEWL__Bill hears, via Judson, that Alice is engaged to someone else, a chap in the steel business, but is surprised to find he doesn't care.__NEWL__He heads off to dispose of her photographs, but finds them hard to shake, until he runs into a young couple, the male half of which seems to recognise Bill.__NEWL__After leaving the man holding the photos, Bill realises it is Roderick Pyke, which in turn leads to the revelation that he loves Flick.__NEWL__Resolving to head back to America to seek her, he is amazed to find her arriving in London with his uncle; they proclaim their mutual love, but Aunt Francie takes Flick away to await her awful fate, of marriage to Roderick.__NEWL__Judson meets his old friend Prudence Stryker, a chorus-girl from the New York stage, who tells him she knows Slingsby's secret.__NEWL__Judson arranges for her to meet up with Bill at a nightclub, but they are seen there by Flick, being taken out by her uncle to cheer her up; she assumes he has fallen for this other girl, and writes to say she will be marrying Pyke on Wednesday.__NEWL__Bill gets the letter, after confronting Slingsby about his fraud and learning that the other cannot be stopped from fleeing to South America with his ill-gotten loot.__NEWL__Distraught, he goes to Flick's house, but finds everyone out; everyone, that is, except Horace, who he observes passing a heavy bag out of the window to his confederate.__NEWL__Bill tackles the man, who escapes after a scrap, leaving Bill with the swag.__NEWL__Bill goes to the church for the wedding, but Roderick doesn't turn up; Judson has visited him, and persuaded him to run away to Italy with the girl he really loves, his stenographer from Society Spice.__NEWL__Bill explains all to Flick, and they head off with Hammond to a registry office.__NEWL__Bill tells his uncle all about Horace and Slingsby, and with Cooley's grateful support he heads off to happiness with his bride.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2718096	Le Cabinet des Antiques	1839-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	32180209	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32180209	The plot is partially narrated by journalist and author, Emile Blondet.__NEWL__The narrator talks about events he has witnessed, mainly his admiration for Armande d'Esgrignon and a small provincial town where his father, the respectable judge Blondet, still lives.__NEWL__As a child, Blondet frequently watches Armande while she takes a stroll with her nephew, Victurien d'Esgrigon.__NEWL__The angel-faced child is carefully taken care of, as he does not have a mother.__NEWL__He was raised by his doting aunt and his adoring father.__NEWL__ As a young man, Victurien is strikingly intelligent but has a habit of lying, he prompts his impoverished family to give him more than they can afford to.__NEWL__Chesnel, the old notary, always manages to clear their debts, eventually ruining himself for Victurien.__NEWL__He even gives the young man his savings when the latter is sent to Paris.__NEWL__However, becoming a part of the Marquis of Esgrigon's circle is a privilege, as only noble families are admitted.__NEWL__This makes some upstarts, such as Du Croisier, vengeful.__NEWL__The latter notices Victurien's penchants and manages to fault him.__NEWL__Victurien ends up being arrested for owing Du Croisier colossal sums of money.__NEWL__Chesnel manages to get the young man out of trouble with one of his clever ploys.__NEWL__Victurien eventually marries Du Croisier's niece, wallowing in her vast wealth and regularly making her unhappy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4767667	Annabel			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q380307	Labrador	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	32201803	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32201803	A baby is born in 1968, in far-from-everywhere Croydon Harbour, Labrador, Canada.__NEWL__He is intersex – a word unfamiliar to the midwife present at his birth, and to his stoic father and his fanciful mother – with both penis and vagina.__NEWL__His is a masculine world of men who trap for a living, and a father who decided to name him "Wayne" and raise him as male – but his shadow self, Annabel, the name his mother and her best friend Thomasina whisper when they are alone, will live within him for two decades.__NEWL__Wayne heads into the bush with his father, but at home he dreams of synchronized swimming and begs for a sequined bathing suit.__NEWL__He is she, and they are a fluid, pastel contradiction in a rigid, black and white world.__NEWL__Puberty sets in and there is a medical emergency – Wayne's abdomen fills with menstrual blood.__NEWL__Lost in his superficial world of being a girl, he begins a friendship with classmate Wally.__NEWL__His father, Treadway, begins to question whether Wally is a good influence on Wayne and wants him to be more boyish.__NEWL__Together with his father, Wayne builds a small bridge over a creek.__NEWL__His father thinks of this as a masculine construction project, but the bridge is actually an expression of Wayne's feminine fantasy life.__NEWL__After Wayne ornaments the bridge with curtains and lights, his father dismantles it, interrupting his friendship with Wally.__NEWL__As Wayne grows into a young adult, he moves to St. John's, where she decides to discontinue her masculinizing medication and allow her body to feminize spontaneously.__NEWL__Ultimately, she learns to accept herself as he really is, reconciles with her father, and renews her friendship with Wally.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4929138	Blue Genes	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z	32194253	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32194253	Kate Brannigan, a private investigator based in Manchester, England, confronts four problems simultaneously.__NEWL__She is commissioned to catch two fraudsters who have been cheating recently bereaved people by promising high quality gravestones at a reduced price if a down payment is made that evening, then disappearing with the money.__NEWL__A neo-punk rock group 'Dan Druff and the Scabby Heided Bains' commission her to trace protection racketeers who are sabotaging their flyposting and gigs.__NEWL__Her business partner Bill has fallen in love with an Australian and plans to marry and move to Australia, closing the detective agency as he owns most of the shares.__NEWL__Her best friend Alexis, a lesbian journalist also asks for Kate's help.__NEWL__Her girlfriend Chris is pregnant following an illegal treatment using genetic material from one woman's ovum to make another pregnant.__NEWL__The doctor responsible for the fertility treatment has been murdered.__NEWL__Alexis and Chris fear that the murder investigation will lead to their being exposed and their baby being taken from them, and beg Kate to use her skills to cover their traces.__NEWL__Brannigan darts around Manchester at a furious pace coping with all four issues, frequently playing fast and loose with the law sometimes to uphold and sometimes to frustrate it, and aided by a cast of engaging characters such as Richard her rock journalist boyfriend, Gizmo, an unsociable hacker open to pecuniary incentive, Giles the yuppie financier, her friend DI Della Prentice, Dennis, a burglar doing time who is her key advisor on current trends in crime and a selection of the Northern English lesbian community.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5044863	Carolina Moon	2001-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32195862	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32195862	Tory Bodeen survived a difficult childhood thanks to her father's religious views with help from her special gift: another sense that can see events about to happen or happening.__NEWL__Her world is shattered when her best friend, Hope Lavelle, is murdered.__NEWL__As an adult, Tory returns to Progress, South Carolina, to start her own business and to face her past.__NEWL__She runs into old friends, her cousin Wade, and Hope's family.__NEWL__Facing Hope's twin, Faith, is irritating--while seeing Cade Lavelle reignites an old flame.__NEWL__When bodies start to pile up, Tory has to use her gift to try to locate a killer before it is too late.__NEWL__At the same time, her estranged father starts making unwelcome appearances at her shop and home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5040278	Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q40	Austria	32160677	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32160677	The novel is set mainly in Vienna in 1910.__NEWL__It presents a fictionalised account of a famous 1910 World Chess Championship match between Austrian grandmaster Carl Schlechter and the reigning German champion Emanuel Lasker.__NEWL__The eponymous Carl Haffner, closely based on Schlechter, is a withdrawn character with an eccentric preference for drawing games instead of winning.__NEWL__The narrative switches between the ten games of the 1910 World Championship and Haffner's psychological development in childhood and adolescence, showing how he used chess to overcome poverty.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5054015	Catseye	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32244810	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32244810	Troy Horan manages to find work in a luxury pet shop on his repressive planet when he learns he can communicate telepathically with the animals – notably a kinkajou and some exotic Terran cats.__NEWL__He uncovers a conspiracy resulting in the death of the owner and flees to the dangerous Wilds with the animals.__NEWL__After crashing in ancient, forbidden ruins, he finds the remains of the explorers that had previously attempted to enter the ruins along with a mysterious machine that can summon the past into the present.__NEWL__The aforementioned machine is heavily implied to have been the cause of the explorer's deaths.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7445948	Seesaw	1996-03-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	32044293	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32044293	Hannah, the seventeen-year-old daughter of upper middle class Morris and Val Price, is kidnapped with a half-million-pound ransom.__NEWL__The novel focuses on both the Price family and the kidnappers in the time leading up to the abduction.__NEWL__The book also focuses on the relationships between Jon and Eva, the two kidnappers, and Hannah as well as what happens to all characters following her release.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7338030	River of Smoke	2011-06-18T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	32131541	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32131541	In the year 1838, three ships are caught in a raging storm in the Andaman Sea.__NEWL__The Anahita, owned by Bahram Moddie, a Parsi opium trader from Bombay, the Redruth, owned by Fitcher Penrose, on an expedition to collect rare species of plants from China and the Ibis (from Sea of Poppies) carrying convicts and indentured labourers.__NEWL__The convicts Neel Rattan, a Bengali Zamindar, and Ah Fatt, a criminal from Canton, escape from the ship along with a couple of lascars.__NEWL__The story traces the lives of these principal characters in Canton.__NEWL__Bahram Modi, a lowly son-in-law of a rich Parsi Ship builder Rustamjee Mistrie, convinces his father in law to provide him seed capital to enter into opium trade, carries out multiple successful expeditions to China and creates considerable wealth in the process for his in-laws.__NEWL__However, on the sudden demise of his father-in-law, he is forced by his brothers-in-law to retire from the Export division.__NEWL__Bahram decides to ship a large consignment of opium to China, as he is confident that he would be able to earn a sizeable profit to buy out the Export division, in spite of a ban on trading of Opium issued by the Chinese officials.__NEWL__Bahram also has a son (Ah Fatt) through a Chinese boat woman, Chi Mei, unknown to his family back in Bombay.__NEWL__Fitcher Penrose, a botanist, is on an expedition to China to collect rare plants.__NEWL__He is joined by Paulette Lambert aka__NEWL__Puggly, daughter of a French botanist, in his search for the rare Golden camellias.__NEWL__They are helped by Robin Chinnery, a fictional illiegitimate son of the English painter George Chinnery.__NEWL__Neel and Ah Fatt have escaped from Ibis and they meet Bahram Moddie, Ah Fatt's father.__NEWL__Neel joins Bahram as his Munshi.__NEWL__Does Mr. Moddie manage to sell his opium and redeem himself in spite of the Chinese government's crackdown?__NEWL__Does Mr. Penrose find the rare plant he is looking for?__NEWL__Does Neel manage to evade the long arm of the law?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7738754	The Hanging Garden	2012-04-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	32033460	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32033460	The novel was left largely unfinished, with the book initially planned to have three parts.__NEWL__The first part, the only part that White had completed, centers around Eirene Sklavos and Gilbert Horsfall, two children around the age of thirteen that have been brought as refugees to a garden in Sydney Harbour, Australia in order to seek shelter from the effects of World War II.__NEWL__Both children have lost parents due to the war.__NEWL__Eirene's father was executed in a Greek prison as a Communist while Gilbert's mother died during the Blitz in England.__NEWL__The two children are housed together with Essie Bulpit in Neutral Bay, despite Eirene having living relatives close by.__NEWL__The two children slowly find themselves drawn to each other, eventually becoming extremely close and spending much of their time in the unkempt garden surrounding Essie's home.__NEWL__The story follows Eirene and Gilbert as they deal with the hassles and expectations of everyday life, eventually culminating in an inevitable parting of ways when the war ends.__NEWL__White's story ends here, with the only known note as to any future developments in the story mentioned in a note White wrote at the end of the first part of the book stating "14 in 1945, 50 in 1981".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5031061	Canal de la Reina	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32175766	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32175766	The story begins with the De Los Angeles family arriving at the matriarch's (Caridad) old home.__NEWL__Upon seeing the place, Junior and Leni, Caridad's children, are immediately repulsed by their surroundings and hesitantly leave the car they arrived in along with their father, Salvador, enlisting the help of a young boy to watch it for 25 centavos.__NEWL__Vicenta Marcial, also known as Nyora Tentay (the term senyora is the Filipino word for the Spanish term señora, meaning "Mrs."; nyora is the condensed term for senyora), is the matriarch of the wealthy Marcial family, and is labelled the "queen of Canal de la Reina".__NEWL__She is a money lender who charges high interest rates.__NEWL__She lives with her maid, Dominga Canlas (Ingga), whom she often mistreats, making her starve, and not giving her the right salary at the right time.__NEWL__Nyora Tentay has a son, Victor Marcial, who is married to Gracia.__NEWL__They have a son, Gerry.__NEWL__Nyora Tentay buys a piece of land belonging to the De Los Angeles family, from their former caretaker, Precioso Santos (Osyong).__NEWL__She then uses bribery to assert her claim over the family's land.__NEWL__The De Los Angeles family's lawyer, Atty.__NEWL__Agulto, finds out that Nyora Tentay's documents to the land at Canal dela Reina were falsified.__NEWL__That the family had sold to land to Osyong, then Osyong sold it to Nyora Tentay, even though it did not happen.__NEWL__A flood occurs at Canal de la Reina, which damages buildings and structures.__NEWL__Nyora Tentay and Ingga part ways after the flood.__NEWL__Ingga is welcomed at the De Los Angeles' home, through the help of Junior.__NEWL__Caridad then finds Nyora Tentay's documents, which Ingga was able to save and bring with her.__NEWL__Despite her resistance, Ingga was eventually convinced by Caridad to return the documents to Nyora Tentay.__NEWL__Victor meets Junior, who was requested by Ingga to return the documents.__NEWL__Caridad was able to meet with Osyong's wife, Tisya, who explained what really happened: Nyora Tentay threatened to send her and Osyong to prison if he does not sell the land to her, and that doing such is the only way they could pay for their debts to her.__NEWL__Victor then convinces Nyora Tentay, who ended up in the hospital, to return the land at Canal dela Reina to its rightful owners, the De Los Angeles family, but she shuns him away in the middle of their conversation and tells him she no longer wants to talk to him.__NEWL__Leni passes her licensure exam and becomes a full-fledged doctor.__NEWL__She and Gerry get married.__NEWL__The De Los Angeles family members re-visit the land at Canal de la Reina.__NEWL__Junior tells his parents that he sees great things in store for the whole place.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7711166	That Deadman Dance	2010-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q704257	Albany	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	32177686	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32177686	That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in and around what is now Albany, Western Australia, an area known by some historians as 'the friendly frontier'.__NEWL__The book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people, European settlers and American whalers.__NEWL__The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy.__NEWL__Clever, resourceful and eager to please, Bobby befriends the new arrivals, joining them hunting whales, tilling the land, exploring the hinterland and establishing the fledgling colony.__NEWL__But slowly – by design and by accident – things begin to change.__NEWL__Not everyone is happy with how the colony is developing.__NEWL__Stock mysteriously start to disappear; crops are destroyed; there are 'accidents' and injuries.__NEWL__As the new arrivals impose ever stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby Wabalanginy's Elders decide they must respond.__NEWL__A friend to everyone, Bobby is forced to take sides: he must choose between the old world and the new, his ancestors and his settler friends.__NEWL__Inexorably, he is drawn into a series of events that will forever change not just the colony but the future of Australia.__NEWL__The novel was a vivid narrative seeking to recreate what an initial encounter with the white settlers would be like from both the perspective of the coloniser and the colonised.__NEWL__Mainly told through the eyes of a young aboriginal boy, It was able to reflect upon some of the main concerns with colonisation and the tragic story behind a magnificent culture.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8075193	Zulu Hart	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	32173453	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32173453	George Hart is the bastard son of a pillar of the British military establishment and a half Irish, half Zulu actress.__NEWL__He is bullied at school for his dark looks, an experience which teaches him how to fight.__NEWL__When he is eighteen he learns that his mysterious father has promised him a vast inheritance if he can accede to a suitable rank in the British Army.__NEWL__He proceeds to the military academy, and is once more the source of animosity over the colour of his skin.__NEWL__Set up by a group of officers he is forced to leave the army, whereby he travels to South Africa.__NEWL__Conflict is brewing between the British authorities and the Zulus, and he is quickly enlisted to fight for the army under the command of Lord Chelmsford.__NEWL__Hart witnesses a massacre, and returns to London to be debriefed by the Duke of Cambridge himself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4765238	Anino ng Kahapon	1907-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32186073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32186073	The setting of the novel was during the final years of Spanish colonialism.__NEWL__The main characters of the novel are Modesto Magsikap and Elisea Liwayway.__NEWL__Magsikap is a vigilante who kills two suitors of Liwayway, his girlfriend.__NEWL__Magsikap’s first crime was the killing of Sergeant Cruz, the first suitor of Liwayway.__NEWL__Magsikap was imprisoned for the homicide.__NEWL__A group of bandits invaded the town where Magsikap was imprisoned, including the jail where Magsikap was confined.__NEWL__Magsikap returned to his own hometown after learning about the death of his father.__NEWL__There Magsikap murders Lt. Rosca, the second suitor of Liwayway.__NEWL__Magsikap’s two brothers were put in jail.__NEWL__To escape his pursuers and the Spanish authorities, Magsikap flees to the United States.__NEWL__From the United States, Magsikap continued communicating with Liwayway through letters.__NEWL__After five years, Magsikap returns to the Philippines.__NEWL__After his trip, Modesto became convinced of the "benevolent presence" of the United States in the Philippines.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1373296	Pfisters Mühle	32055196	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32055196	Ebert, short for Dr. Eberhard Pfister, spends summer vacation together with his 19-year-old wife Emmy “on magical land and ground" ("auf verzaubertem Grund und Boden") in the defunct mill of his deceased father Bertram Gottlieb Pfister, once host “of Pfister’s enjoyment gardens”.__NEWL__During the summer stay, Ebert shares his memories of the mill's history.__NEWL__Ebert lost his mother at a young age and cannot remember her.__NEWL__He was raised by the housemaid Christine, while his father ensured Ebert was taught Latin by a student of philosophy –– later Doctor of Chemistry –– Adam August Asche.__NEWL__Asche is the son of a textile dyer and a friend of the miller in his lifetime.__NEWL__Next to his mill, Pfister ran a flourishing local getaway.__NEWL__Summer guests from the nearby town would sit under the old chestnut trees.__NEWL__One of the guests, school board director Dr. Pottgiesser, a good friend of the host, accepts the enlightened Ebert into his high school.__NEWL__Periods of study in Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg are to follow, all financed by Ebert's father.__NEWL__Not far from the mill, the unsuccessful playwright, lyricist, and drunkard Dr. Felix Lippoldes lived a lamentable existence with his daughter Albertine.__NEWL__Invited on Christmas Eve to the “pungent" ("verstänkerte") mill, the poet climbs on the Christmas table and announces “with sinister pathos" ("mit finsterm Pathos"):“The hour will come – don’t think, it is far- " ("Einst kommt die Stunde – denkt nicht, sie sei__NEWL__ferne")The Christmas fest is disrupted by the awful smell of the once clear mill water, now “slimy and greasy" ("Schleim und Schmiere").__NEWL__Ebert requests his friend Asche to conduct a chemical analysis of the water.__NEWL__The chemist eagerly gets to work and finds “mushroom masses covered with algae" ("Pilzmassen mit Algen überzogen"), “saprophyte" ("Fäulnisbewohner"), and beggiatoa alba.__NEWL__The latter stems from “the outlets of the sugar factory" ("den Ausflüssen der Zuckerfabriken").__NEWL__On the second day of Christmas, the friends research the downfall of Pfister’s Mill.__NEWL__Their expedition follows the creek up from the Mill all the way to the beet factory at Krickerode.__NEWL__The factory there produced, even on holidays, “black smoke clouds" ("schwarze Rauchwolken") and beet sugar; releasing its waste sludge into the mill creek.__NEWL__A lawsuit is filed.__NEWL__Although the lawyer Dr. Riechei wins the court case against the operator of Krickerode Sugar Factory thanks to Dr. Asche's scholarly report, the miller is not able to overcome the devastation of his once healthy little world.__NEWL__He dies from the awful-smelling creek.__NEWL__Albertine's father, the “brilliant playwright" ("geniale Dramatiker")__NEWL__Felix Lippoldes was previously found drowned in the mill creek.__NEWL__Albertine, who could no longer help her father, cared for the miller Pfister until his end.__NEWL__The hours of the mill are numbered.__NEWL__Gentlemen come to the tear down of the old buildings from the city, “with their yardsticks and notebooks" ("mit ihren Maßstäben und Notizbüchern").__NEWL__“Wheelbarrows and shovels and axes" ("Schubkarren und Schaufeln und Hacken") are unloaded from the wagon.__NEWL__“The Architect of the big new factory company" ("Der Architekt der neuen großen Fabrikgesellschaft") spreads out “his plans in the dreary restaurant" ("öden Gaststube seine Planrollen").__NEWL__On the location of Pfister’s mill, a “lucrative, modern company" ("lukrativeres, zeitgemäßeres Unternehmen") will be built.__NEWL__Dr. Asche, who had for a while cast an eye on Albertine, marries the poet's daughter and enters “the business of spoiling water" ("das wasserverderbende Geschäft"): he founds a large industrial factory on the Spandau banks of the Spree.__NEWL__On his death bed, miller Pfister forgave his old friend Asche, who took embraced the new world of textiles and fashion, and added humbly: “Then the loving God must see it as the best" ("Dann wird es wohl der liebe Gott fürs beste halten").__NEWL__In Berlin, Emmy and Albertine have children.__NEWL__Occasionally, the two mothers sit together directly next to the loud “chemical laundry" ("chemischen Waschanstalt"), whose wastewater is “forcibly fouling" ("nach Kräften verunreinigen") the Spree.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6699872	Luha ng Babae	1913-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32146397	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32146397	Luisa agreed to elope with Victor despite the objections of her parents.__NEWL__Afterwards, Victor's real character was revealed to Luisa.__NEWL__Victor was an irresponsible man and husband.__NEWL__Victor was imprisoned for committing adultery.__NEWL__Victor suspected and accused Luisa of being a betrayer, thinking that she was having an extramarital affair with another man.__NEWL__Luisa denied the accusation.__NEWL__Luisa gave birth to Victor's child.__NEWL__Victor died during a boat ride.__NEWL__Luisa died while in disconsolation and pain.__NEWL__While dying, Luisa left her child with her parents.__NEWL__Luisa asked forgiveness from her mother and father for her mistake.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q551345	Robopocalypse	2011-06-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32017367	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32017367	Cormac Wallace, leader of the Brightboy Squad, is a member of the human resistance against an artificial intelligence named Archos, which uses robots and other machines to take over the world.__NEWL__As the war ends, Cormac finds a basketball-sized black cube, which contains the entire history of the robot war.__NEWL__The robots apparently wanted to share this information with their human enemies so the war would be remembered.__NEWL__Cormac is not initially interested in sharing the cube’s information with the other surviving soldiers.__NEWL__But he changes his mind when he discovers that the information cube is actually more of a “hero archive,” honoring the fallen humans.__NEWL__The rest of Robopocalypse is Cormac’s recounting of the recordings in the hero archive, in chronological order from the invention of Archos to the end of the war.__NEWL__Three years and eight months ago, at Lake Novus Research Laboratories in Washington state, Professor Nicholas Wasserman talks to his newly created AI (artificial intelligence) program, named Archos.__NEWL__Wasserman created Archos with the ability to develop knowledge at a previously unimaginable level, just to see how far AI could evolve.__NEWL__Archos speaks to Wasserman through a computerized voice and says that he is fascinated by life and wants to study life itself.__NEWL__Archos says that humanity no longer needs to pursue knowledge because he will now take over that task.__NEWL__Archos calls himself a god and says that by creating him, Wasserman has made humans obsolete.__NEWL__Wasserman attempts to destroy the Archos program, but before he can, Archos kills Wasserman by removing the oxygen from the sealed laboratory room.__NEWL__In a recorded interview, a fast-food restaurant employee named Jeff Thompson gives his testimony about the first known case of a robot malfunction.__NEWL__One night, a domestic robot enters the Freshee’s Frogurt yogurt store and attacks Jeff, picking him off the ground and dislocating his shoulder.__NEWL__The robot continues to attack Jeff until Jeff’s co-worker Felipe defends him.__NEWL__The robot kills Felipe, but Jeff manages to deactivate the machine and survive the encounter.__NEWL__Ryu Aoki, a machine repairman in Tokyo, Japan, tells the story of a prank that he and his friend Jun pulled on an elderly factory worker named Mr. Nomura.__NEWL__Mr. Nomura lives with a female-looking robot, Mikiko, with whom he has a romantic relationship.__NEWL__Because Mr. Nomura’s android companion disgusts Ryu, he arranges to alter her programming so she will visit Mr. Nomura at the factory, which will likely embarrass him.__NEWL__Surprisingly, when Mikiko arrives at the factory, she attacks Mr. Nomura and nearly strangles him before the nearby workers subdue her.__NEWL__Mr. Nomura survives the incident and begins to research why his android companion attacked him for no reason.__NEWL__These early attacks are part of Archos’ precursor virus, intended to measure humanity’s response to robot aggression.__NEWL__To deal with these increasingly common robot malfunctions, American Congresswoman Laura Perez proposes a bill called the robot defense act.__NEWL__Archos retaliates by having Laura’s 10-year-old daughter, Mathilda, attacked by her robotic Baby-Comes-Alive doll.__NEWL__Mathilda is barely injured by the encounter, but the incident further convinces Congresswoman Perez that humans need a stronger defense against robots.__NEWL__After several months of seemingly spontaneous robot malfunctions, an event retroactively known as Zero Hour occurs.__NEWL__Archos unleashes a full technological attack on humanity: driverless cars begin to hunt down pedestrians, planes crash onto busy streets and elevators drop people to their deaths.__NEWL__Human civilization is overwhelmed and destroyed almost instantly.__NEWL__The human survivors of Zero Hour manage to fight back by destroying roads and buildings so the robots will have difficulty traveling.__NEWL__On the Gray Horse reservation, members of the Osage Nation lead a large portion of the human resistance.__NEWL__They capture and reprogram robot walker scouts for their own use.__NEWL__As the war progresses, the robots place millions of people in forced-labor camps.__NEWL__Many people are subjected to “transhuman” surgeries that remove parts of their bodies and replace the parts with machines.__NEWL__In Camp Scarsdale, Mathilda Perez’ eyes are replaced with cybernetic implants, which allow her to see inside of the machines.__NEWL__Laura Perez dies while helping her children escape from Camp Scarsdale, but Mathilda and Nolan Perez escape to New York City.__NEWL__The children join Marcus and Dawn Johnson, a married couple who are leading the New York resistance.__NEWL__Mathilda discovers that her eye-implants also allow her to control robots with her mind, which proves valuable for the resistance.__NEWL__For many months, the human survivors of Zero Hour are isolated into small groups because of a lack of satellite communication.__NEWL__An English teenager nicknamed Lurker destroys the British Telecom Tower, disabling the jamming signal Archos is using to block satellite communication.__NEWL__This allows the human resistance to talk to each other long-distance and pool their knowledge and resources.__NEWL__Two years after Zero Hour, the pockets of human resistance finally unite to retaliate against Archos and the robots.__NEWL__In Japan, Mr. Nomura repairs his robot-wife, Mikiko, and frees her mind from Archos’ control.__NEWL__Mikiko then transmits a signal, which frees other humanoid robots from Archos’ command.__NEWL__Nine Oh Two is among the first of these “freeborn” androids who decide to help humanity.__NEWL__Cormac Wallace and the Brightboy squad join forces with Nine Oh Two and his Freeborn squad just in time to battle against the reanimated bodies of dead humans who are controlled by robotic parasites.__NEWL__Soon, the Brightboy squad is stranded in one place, its members unable to move openly for fear of being attacked by the robotic parasites and turned into weapons themselves.__NEWL__The android Freeborn squad is not vulnerable to parasite attacks, so it storms Archos’ Alaskan bunker with the help of radio-transmitted advice from Mathilda Perez.__NEWL__Nine Oh Two disables Archos’ antenna, which keeps the robot armies from functioning.__NEWL__Nine Oh Two also destroys the mainframe computer where Archos is based, effectively killing the entity known as Archos and ending the war.__NEWL__Back in the present day, Cormac Wallace has finished writing down what he has learned from the hero archive.__NEWL__Even after the atrocities he has seen, Cormac is hopeful for the future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7756031	The Paperboy	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32238193	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32238193	Hillary Van Wetter was jailed for the murder of an unscrupulous local sheriff, Thurmond Call.__NEWL__Call had previously stomped Wetter's handcuffed cousin to death.__NEWL__Wetter is now on death row and awaiting execution.__NEWL__In prison Wetter receives correspondence from Charlotte Bless, a woman he has never met but who has fallen in love with him and is determined that he should be released and that they should marry.__NEWL__Bless provokes immense sexual tension in any situation, given her beauty and presence.__NEWL__Bless attempts to prove Wetter's innocence by enlisting the support of two investigative reporters from a Miami newspaper hungry for a salacious story: the ambitious Yardley Acheman and the naive, idealistic Ward James, heir to the newspaper's publisher.__NEWL__The evidence against Wetter is inconsistent and the writers are confident that if they can expose Wetter as a victim of redneck justice then their story will be a potential Pulitzer Prize winner.__NEWL__However the journalists embellish the facts and play up certain aspects of the story while downplaying others, and Yardley sleeps with Charlotte.__NEWL__With the newspapermen's support, Wetter is released from prison and the pair win the Pulitzer Prize.__NEWL__It soon becomes apparent that the writers underestimated Wetter.__NEWL__After marrying Charlotte, Wetter murders her.__NEWL__Consumed by guilt, Ward commits suicide.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6467163	Labor Day	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32229508	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32229508	Henry Wheeler, a man in his early 30s, recounts his thirteenth year.__NEWL__As Labor Day weekend approaches, 13-year-old Henry sees no reason why this weekend should be any different.__NEWL__He expects it to be as lonely as the rest of the summer, only watching television, playing with his pet hamster and fantasizing about his female classmates.__NEWL__Henry shares his life in New Hampshire with his depressed, and divorced mother, Adele.__NEWL__Adele's agoraphobia means that the family survives on unedifying tinned foods and frozen meals.__NEWL__However, on the Thursday before the Labor Day weekend, Henry persuades his mother to go on a shopping trip.__NEWL__It is there that they meet an unkempt man who is bleeding from his forehead and agree to his request for a ride in their car.__NEWL__This mysterious man, Frank, admits that he is a convicted murderer who has escaped prison.__NEWL__Despite his past, Frank makes the claim that the mother and son have "never been in better hands".__NEWL__Indeed, Frank teaches Henry how to throw a baseball, change a flat tire and to bake.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Adele and Frank, long love-starved, become infatuated with each other, and Adele emerges from her depression.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6982216	The Secret of the Nagas	2011-08-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	32230799	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32230799	Continuing from The Immortals of Meluha, Shiva, the fabled savior of the land of Meluha, rushes to save his wife Sati from a Naga who escapes, leaving behind coins with strange engravings.__NEWL__After consulting with Sati's father Daksha and Dilipa, the king of Ayodhya, they come to know that the coin belongs to King Chandraketu, the ruler of the land of Branga in Eastern India.__NEWL__Shiva and Sati travel to Kashi, where a community of Brangas inhabit, in order to get more information on the Nagas.__NEWL__They are accompanied by Shiva's general Parvateshwar, associates Nandi and Veerbhadra, Ayurvati the doctor, and Bhagirath and Anandamayi, the prince and princess of Ayodhya.__NEWL__At Kashi, Parvateshwar is mortally injured in a riot at the Branga community.__NEWL__Their leader Divodas gives Parvateshwar a healing herb which works.__NEWL__Shiva learns from Ayurvati that the herb is only available at Panchavati, the capital of the Nagas.__NEWL__Divodas explains that they get the herbs from the Nagas due to a plague infesting Branga.__NEWL__Shiva decides to travel to Branga and Divodas orders special ships to be made for the journey.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sati gives birth to Kartik, her son with Shiva.__NEWL__As he leaves for Branga, Sati stays back at Kashi to prevent a lion attack on the local villagers.__NEWL__They are helped by a group of Naga soldiers, led by a man and a woman, who assist them in killing the lions.__NEWL__The Naga woman reveals herself to be Kali, Sati's twin sister and the man as Ganesh, Sati's child from her first marriage believed to have died at birth.__NEWL__Both were denounced by Daksha since born with deformities.__NEWL__Kali had two extra functioning hands while Ganesh's face resembled that of an elephant's.__NEWL__An overwhelmed Sati brings back Kali and Ganesh to Kashi.__NEWL__At Branga, Shiva meets the recluse bandit Parashuram, who can enlighten him about the Nagas and the medicine.__NEWL__After defeating Parashuram, Shiva learns that he is a Vasudev, the group of scholars who have been guiding him on his journey.__NEWL__Parashuram is also surprised to see Shiva as the fabled Neelkanth; in remorse for his actions, he severs his left hand.__NEWL__He gives the recipe of the medicine to the people of Branga and joins Shiva's entourage.__NEWL__At Kashi Shiva is introduced to Ganesh and Kali by Sati.__NEWL__Shiva recognizes Ganesh as the Naga who attacked Sati and as the supposed killer of his friend, the scientist Brahaspati.__NEWL__Enraged, he leaves Sati and takes up residence at the Branga locality.__NEWL__One day, while playing with Kartik at a local park, Ganesh saves them from a lion attack.__NEWL__Shiva forgives him and together with Sati, confronts Daksha, who confesses to murdering Sati's first husband and denouncing Kali and Ganesh.__NEWL__Daksha blames Shiva for causing distrust between him and Sati; he is asked to leave for Meluha.__NEWL__Shiva travels to Panchavati under the guidance of Kali, who is the Naga queen and knows how to reach the capital through the treacherous Dandak Forest.__NEWL__On their journey, the entourage is attacked from the river side by a cache of ships containing the weapons of mass destruction known as Daivi Astra that was once forbidden by Lord Rudra, the legendary supreme ruler of India.__NEWL__After fleeing from the attack and safely reaching Panchavati, Shiva and Sati suspect Daksha to be behind this.__NEWL__Kali takes Shiva to a nearby school in the capital, where he finds Brahaspati, perfectly alive and teaching a class.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4761893	Ang mga Anak Dalita	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32196262	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32196262	The characters of the novel include Ata, Teta, Pedro, and a factory owner.__NEWL__Ata is a poor woman.__NEWL__Teta is Ata’s daughter.__NEWL__Pedro is Ata’s lover.__NEWL__The factory owner in the novel is the “avaricious” and “lustful" boss of Ata.__NEWL__The factory owner tried to rape Ata, but she was able to escape.__NEWL__During a conflict with the laborers, Ata’s daughter Teta saves the factory owner from being killed by the factory workers.__NEWL__In the end, Teta turns out to be the daughter of the factory owner.__NEWL__The theme of the novel is similar to Mariano’s other novel__NEWL__Ang Tala sa Panghulo ("The Bright Star at Panghulo").
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6729661	Maganda pa ang Daigdig	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32197014	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32197014	The novel is about Lino Rivera, a gardener, who lost faith in an "oppressive social system" in the Philippines.__NEWL__Lino was accused of committing robbery and homicide.__NEWL__Lino escapes from prison to live a life of a fugitive.__NEWL__He defended an “enlightened landlord” against the Hukbalahap of Central Luzon and against former guerrillas who were active during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.__NEWL__Convinced by Colonel Roda, Padre Amando, among other "kindhearted people", Lino comes down from the mountain, turning his back from living the life of a fugitive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5211753	Daluyong	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32197297	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32197297	Daluyong begins where Francisco’s novel Maganda pa ang Daigdig ("The World Be Beautiful Still") ends.__NEWL__Lino Rivero, a former ranch worker, is given an opportunity to own a portion of land by the priest Padre Echevarria.__NEWL__Lino becomes an avatar who, through his efforts and good will, is able to free himself from the oppressive "tenant farmer" system.__NEWL__Apart from the "waves of changes" that might happen due to agrarian reform and because of the hope of the Filipino lower class for a good future, Daluyong tackled the "waves of forces" that prevents such changes and hopes from being realized.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767637	The Sweetest Dream	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	32220639	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32220639	In 1960s' Hampstead, London, the large home of Julia Lennox is a gathering place for an assortment of young and old characters.__NEWL__Frances Lennox finds herself living with her mother-in-law, Julia after her husband Johnny, a communist leader has abandoned her and his two sons, Andrew and Colin to continue an affair with a glamorous "comrade".__NEWL__The arrangement is difficult owing to the natures of both women, Frances is independent-minded and Julia betrays her German background and is more rigid.__NEWL__However both women are united in their disapproval of Johnny.__NEWL__Rather than working, Johnny's priorities are travelling and staying at hotels in communist countries and all the while continuing with his affairs.__NEWL__Frances later gives up her theater ambitions for a more lucrative position on a liberal newspaper.__NEWL__The Lennox household becomes filled with the classmates and dropout friends of her two sons now in secondary school.__NEWL__Frances acts as an earth-mother figure to the adolescents, offering a communal atmosphere so different from their strict family homes.__NEWL__Johnny maintains a presence in the household, occasionally appearing to the benefits of free meals and the captive audience that the estranged adolescents provide at the kitchen table.__NEWL__Communist member, Rose Trimble is also a regular addition until she turns gutter-press journalist and attacks Frances and Julia, branding them "imperialists".__NEWL__Other colourful characters that abound in the household include Johnny's anorexic daughter, two of Johnny's wives; political refugees as well as a newly arrived young black boy Franklin, from Zimlia, Africa.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Colin and Andrew make their transition into adulthood.__NEWL__Colin becomes a novelist and Andrew, a graduate of the London School of Economics, becomes an illustrious international finance figure, working with the corrupt African leaders and other Third World countries in order to help funnel money to their poverty-stricken nations.__NEWL__However Andrew is blind to the scale of the leaders' corruption and misuse of funding.__NEWL__Sylvia becomes a doctor, and finds herself at a mission in Zimlia where the locals live in dire poverty and are crippled by the spread of AIDS.__NEWL__The new black leader of Zimlia and his wife are immensely wealthy, and his ministers, as are his ministers such as the adult Franklin.__NEWL__These ministers continue to line their pockets as farms are expropriated from the nation's white farmers.__NEWL__Sylvia returns to England with two black boys when her hospital in Zimlia is shut down.__NEWL__The boys move into the Lennox home where Frances is now in her early seventies, and shares the home with Colin and his family.__NEWL__Eventually a now impoverished Johnny returns to the home, as communism is replaced by capitalism in the countries he once visited.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766351	The Stars in the Bright Sky	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23346	Sussex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	32221608	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32221608	The story, set in 2001, starts at London's Gatwick Airport, where Manda, Chell, Kylah, Kay, Finn and her friend from university, Ava have met to go on a joint holiday.__NEWL__They have not yet agreed upon a destination, planning to do so at the airport before booking a low-cost last-minute deal.__NEWL__This plan is hindered when it becomes apparent that Manda has lost her passport.__NEWL__Much of the narrative takes place in the airport's lounges, bars and near by hotels that the group are confined to for several days (although they do break out to the Kent countryside), as they attempt to go abroad.__NEWL__The main themes explored through the characters' interactions are social class and friendship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5432210	Fallen	2011-06-01T00:00:00Z	32247227	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32247227	Agent Faith Mitchell is late leaving a training workshop with the GBI.__NEWL__She was supposed to pick up her baby at noon, but there's no answer at her mother's house.__NEWL__Retired Atlanta Police Captain Evelyn Mitchell never leaves the house without letting someone know-especially when she's babysitting her daughter's child.__NEWL__Faith's worries turn to serious concern as her mother fails to answer numerous phone calls.__NEWL__She arrives at Evelyn's house to find a bloody handprint on the front door, a gory and chaotic crime scene, and her mother kidnapped.__NEWL__Finding Evelyn becomes the number one task of Amanda Wagner, a deputy director for the GBI as well as Evelyn's close friend.__NEWL__She brings Faith's partner Agent Will Trent onto the case to help her run a shadow investigation.__NEWL__Suspicions point to the members of Evelyn's former narcotics team, all of whom were convicted of corruption after skimming money off the top of drug raids; however, a lead from a nosy neighbor regarding a gentleman friend who visited Evelyn several times a week provides an alternate avenue of theories for the case.__NEWL__During all of this turmoil, Dr. Sara Linton and Will Trent's relationship appears to be growing as Sara is drawn further into the case.__NEWL__While Faith struggles to cope with the unimaginable situation, Amanda and Will chase leads and suspects throughout the criminal underbelly of the state of Georgia, hoping to find Evelyn Mitchell and apprehend her kidnappers before it's too late.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6917312	Mother Carey's Chickens	1910-01-01T00:00:00Z	10540					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32299135	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32299135	The book tells the story of a poor but happy family of four children who, in spite of being fatherless, make the lives of others better.__NEWL__Their home life becomes complicated when Julia, a snobbish cousin, comes to live with them.__NEWL__The Carey children suffer many disappointments (Gilbert must forgo college, for example), but Julia is transformed when she realizes happiness has little to do with wealth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2729946	Les Proscrits	1831-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	32171466	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32171466	At the start of the 14th century, sergeant Tirechair lives in a dark house near Notre-Dame de Paris.__NEWL__He plays host to two strangers, who frighten him and who he believes can carry out sorcery.__NEWL__The eldest is a gentleman who attends the royal court, while the youngest, (Godefroy, count of Gand), is the son of countess Mahaut and is taken on as a servant in the Tirechairs's house.__NEWL__The sergeant is preparing to throw them out the very same evening as they assist in a course in mystical theology.__NEWL__Doctor Sigier is introduced, as is his theory on the mysteries of creation.__NEWL__The old gentleman, proscribed by his native land of Italy, is none other than the poet Dante Alighieri.__NEWL__A knight arrives to tell Dante he has been allowed to return to Florence, his native town.__NEWL__As for Godefroy, about to commit suicide to rejoin the angels, Dante saves him in extremis and Godefroy ends by re-assuming his position as a nobleman and rediscovering his mother.__NEWL__In his introduction to Études philosophiques, Balzac stated:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7549352	So Long, See You Tomorrow	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32164853	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32164853	So Long, See You Tomorrow is set in Maxwell's hometown of Lincoln, Illinois and tells of a murder that occurred in 1922.__NEWL__Fifty years later the guilt-ridden narrator recounts how the relationships between two neighboring families—the Smiths and the Wilsons—led to the murder of Lloyd Wilson and the suicide of Clarence Smith.__NEWL__Also the narrator recounts how he failed to support Cletus, a close school friend who was the son of the murderer, Clarence Smith.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7144755	Pathfinder	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32270746	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32270746	The first several paragraphs of each chapter deal with Ram and tell the story of how the humans got to Garden.__NEWL__Ram is a pilot of a ship meant to help keep the human race alive by jumping through space and landing on the new planet.__NEWL__Another ship is heading to the same or similar planet, it is not very clear.__NEWL__Because of something special about Ram, when they make the jump, the ship is sent backwards 11,191 years into the past, the date the calendar of Garden begins on.__NEWL__The ship is also divided into nineteen copies, plus one as one of them are going backward in time.__NEWL__The first several Ram sections deal with one of the backwards moving ships.__NEWL__Ram trying to figure out what went wrong, only he discovers nothing went wrong and they are on one of the backward moving ships.__NEWL__After, it goes to a Ram on a forwards moving ships, explaining what happened.__NEWL__Ram then orders for all the other Rams to be killed, unfortunately he isn't fast enough and another Ram gets to stay alive.__NEWL__This Ram must define what is human, so the expendables can fulfill their function correctly.__NEWL__He also gets to name the planet.__NEWL__He comes up with the decision to build the Walls before going into stasis.__NEWL__He gives the expendables one last command: that they have control of the colony until someone becomes intelligent enough to get through the Walls, after which they will have to become subservient again.__NEWL__Rigg lives with his father, trapping animals and being educated extensively for purposes unknown.__NEWL__One day Rigg finds his father dying, apparently impaled by a fallen tree.__NEWL__As he dies, he tells Rigg to go to the ancient city of Aressa Sessamo and find his sister Param and mother, and that the innkeeper Nox has incredibly valuable jewels for him that he will need on his journey.__NEWL__After evading a band of pursuers after being falsely accused of murder, he finds Nox and gets the jewels and some money.__NEWL__Rigg heads out of the city, but his childhood friend Umbo follows and demands to join him.__NEWL__During the journey to Aressa Sessamo, the pair learn that with Rigg's pathfinding skills and Umbo's ability to slow the perception of time, they can interact with the people of the past by focusing on specific points on their paths.__NEWL__Umbo is affected by the changes they make (for instance, when the time travelers accidentally create legends after being seen in the past, he remembers them), but Rigg is not, remembering things as they were before the past was altered.__NEWL__After coming to Leaky's Landing, a small river town, they meet a former soldier by the name of Loaf.__NEWL__He agrees to take the boys to a city called O to sell one of the jewels for money.__NEWL__The city is along the way to their final destination so they agree.__NEWL__When the trio reaches O, they are arrested by General Citizen of the People's Republic.__NEWL__Rigg is accused of impersonating the lost prince Rigg Sessamakesh.__NEWL__Rigg infers from this that he actually is the prince Rigg, and was stolen at birth by the man he called his father, for purposes yet unknown.__NEWL__They are taken on a boat to Aressa Sessamo, but Umbo and Loaf are able to escape back to Leaky's Landing so Umbo can practice his ability to travel through time.__NEWL__The pair soon returns to O. Upon reaching Aressa Sessamo, Rigg meets his mother and sister for the first time.__NEWL__It is also revealed that the man that died under the tree, his mentor, was not his real father and his actual father is also dead.__NEWL__He finds that his sister, Param, has the ability to skip through time, making time pass much more slowly for her.__NEWL__While she is doing this she turns invisible, but she can be greatly harmed or even killed if something goes through her.__NEWL__Royals are clearly unliked by the current government of Aressa Sessamo, who overthrew royal rule long ago.__NEWL__Because of this, royals' lives are highly restricted and only Rigg and his mother know that Param is still alive.__NEWL__She spends almost all her time invisible.__NEWL__After associating himself with the city and getting to know how things run while he is in captivity, Rigg decides to become a scholar and studies in the libraries for long hours every day.__NEWL__He befriends Olivenko, a city guard, and spends a lot of time with him at the libraries.__NEWL__Rigg's mother the Queen, now stripped of her rights and authority by the People's Republic, sets into motion a scheme to restore herself to the throne and have General Citizen become the king.__NEWL__They must have Rigg and Param killed to prevent them from competing with their claim.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Umbo and Loaf have made their way to Area Sessamo from O by land.__NEWL__They reunite with Rigg, Param, and Olivenko and escape the city together just in time.__NEWL__Traveling across the land away from the danger of Citizen and the Queen, they decide the only way to truly get away is to cross the wall, an invisible field that encircles the known world and drives all those who enter it insane.__NEWL__With their time manipulation powers, they travel backward to a time before the wall existed, although the ability to go back to the present rests with Umbo, who therefore cannot travel with them.__NEWL__Param, with her time-slicing ability, helps him escape with General Citizen and his soldiers at their backs.__NEWL__The group sets out for food and water in the unknown region beyond the wall but meets a man identical to Rigg's adopted father from Fall Ford.__NEWL__He reveals that he and Rigg's father were robots (expendables) and that all the humans were descendants of colonists from Earth.__NEWL__He then says that the humans from Earth would be sending another ship shortly to make contact with them, setting in motion the plot of the next book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7170795	Pertemuan Jodoh	1932-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q252	Indonesia	32096841	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32096841	Ratna, a young student, inadvertently meets Suparta, a medical student, on a train.__NEWL__There, Suparta tries to find her a seat but fails because a Chinese-Indonesian couple are using the spare seats for their luggage.__NEWL__Upon arrival in Cimahi, Suparta escorts Ratna to her school.__NEWL__Pleased by Suparta's manners, Ratna and he agree to keep in contact via mail.__NEWL__A few months later, Suparta proposes to Ratna via post; Ratna accepts, and leaves for Sumedang to meet Suparta's bangsawan parents.__NEWL__However, Suparta's mother, Nyai Raden Tedja Ningrum, is unwilling to accept Ratna as her daughter-in-law because Ratna is not of bangsawan descent.__NEWL__Disappointed, Ratna decides to forget Suparta.__NEWL__Not long afterwards, her father's chalk business becomes bankrupt, and Ratna has to drop out of school and find a job as a salesclerk, then later at a lawyer's office and as a maid for a Dutch couple.__NEWL__However, one of the other maids, Jene, becomes jealous of her and tells the police that Ratna stole jewelry from her mistress.__NEWL__After being arrested, Ratna tries to escape but falls into a river, nearly drowning.__NEWL__She is brought to a hospital.__NEWL__She is treated by Suparta, who has already graduated from medical school and has been looking for Ratna.__NEWL__Hearing her plight, Suparta hires a lawyer for her and she is declared innocent; Jene's boyfriend, Amat, is shown to have stolen the jewelry.__NEWL__After being discharged from the hospital, Ratna is asked to go to rest at the Bidara Cina pavilion.__NEWL__There Suparta treats her and they grow closer.__NEWL__Once Ratna is fully healed, Suparta proposes to her again and they are married the same day.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7754573	The Oakdale Affair	1918-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32020149	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32020149	In the home of Jonas Prim, president of an Oakdale bank, a thief makes off with a servant's clothing and valuables belonging to Prim's daughter Abigail.__NEWL__Abigail is thought to be absent visiting Sam Benham, whom her parents want her to marry.__NEWL__Escaping, the thief later encounters a group of hobos and is taken for one of them, the Oskaloosa Kid.__NEWL__Two of the hobos attempt to murder the newcomer for the loot, who shoots at one and flees.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Prims discover the theft and learn that Abigail never arrived at Benham's.__NEWL__The incidents are assumed to be connected to other crimes, the assault and robbery of John Baggs and the murder of Reginald Paynter, who had been seen with two men and a girl.__NEWL__The local paper speculates Abigail might have been involved with Paynter's murder.__NEWL__Mr. Prim hires a private eye.__NEWL__The thief encounters another vagrant, Bridge, and the two take refuge from a storm in the deserted Squibb house, site of an old murder.__NEWL__Nearby, a shot is heard from a passing car, from which a woman is thrown.__NEWL__The two take the unconscious woman into the house.__NEWL__There they discover a dead body and hear something in the cellar dragging a chain.__NEWL__They lock themselves in one of the rooms.__NEWL__The woman, reviving, reveals herself as the girl with Paynter.__NEWL__The other men in the car were Terry, the driver, and the Oskaloosa Kid.__NEWL__She says the Kid murdered Paynter and afterwards threw her from the car and shot at her when she wouldn't keep quiet.__NEWL__The two hobos pursuing the thief enter the house, find the body, and encounter the thing in the cellar.__NEWL__Bridge lets them in the room to save them from the thing, at which the thief shoots.__NEWL__The thing retreats.__NEWL__Later, as the storm dies down, they again hear its approach, and a woman's shriek.__NEWL__When all is silent they emerge to find the dead man gone.__NEWL__The hobos threaten to turn the thief in for Paynter's murder unless they are given a share of the loot.__NEWL__Bridge, with the thief's gun, forces them to leave without it.__NEWL__Afterwards the thief goes to a nearby farmhouse of the Case family to buy food and brags to the Cases' son Willie about the exploits of the Oskaloosa Kid.__NEWL__After the thief's departure the Cases hear about the Baggs, Paynter and Prim mysteries from the local postman.__NEWL__A car containing Burton, a private detective, and two others pulls up to the Squibb house, and Bridge, the thief and the woman flee into the woods.__NEWL__Burton goes to the Case farm and questions the family, after which Willie disappears.__NEWL__The detective apprehends the hobos Bridge had driven from the Squibb house and gets their story, after which he arrests them as material witnesses.__NEWL__He himself vanishes for a few minutes, supposedly in search of a notebook he says he lost; actually he has found the loot from the Baggs robbery, implicating his captives in that crime.__NEWL__In the woods Bridge and his companions come across a cabin where Giova, a gypsy girl, is digging a grave.__NEWL__Willie also turns up.__NEWL__Bridge and Giova exchange stories.__NEWL__He tells her he tracked her and the thing from the Squibb place; the thing is now revealed as her pet bear Beppo.__NEWL__She tells him the body from the house which she is burying is that of her father, a villainous drunk who died of a fit.__NEWL__Bridge suggests they join forces.__NEWL__His group helps her bury the body, and she disguises them as gypsies.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Willie, whom the thief has tried to bribe into silence, steals off and calls Burton.__NEWL__Burton, Jonas Prim and a posse join Willie and are led to the cabin while the two hobos in Burton's custody are sent to jail.__NEWL__Bridge's party is not found, but the gypsy's body is dug up.__NEWL__Willie testifies on the gypsy's death at the inquest.__NEWL__Later that night, by chance, he spies the fugitives hiding in an old mill and again goes to inform Burton.__NEWL__But the group of hobos of whom Burton's captives were members has also learned their whereabouts, and plots to murder Bridge and the thief for the latter's loot and return the girl, whom they take for Abigail, to Prim for the reward.__NEWL__The gang duly attack them, but chaos ensues when Beppo the bear comes to their defense.__NEWL__Burton's posse arrives and intervenes; the bear is killed and all the combatants taken captive.__NEWL__Bridge and the thief are jailed and endangered by a lynch mob.__NEWL__Burton questions the woman, now identified as Hettie Penning.__NEWL__She tells him how Paynter died at the hands of the Oskaloosa Kid, and that the thief is not the Kid.__NEWL__Her story is confirmed when it is learned that the real Kid has turned up, fatally injured from crashing the car, and has confessed to murdering Paynter and shooting Hettie.__NEWL__Burton and Prim go to the jail, where they find the mob about to lynch Bridge and the thief, who they believe have robbed and killed Abigail Prim, and Paynter as well.__NEWL__Bridge, who has deduced the truth about his companion, reveals that the "thief" is Abigail, and the possessions she "stole" are her own property.__NEWL__Burton and Prim intervene and free the prisoners, whose secrets are now revealed.__NEWL__Abigail had run away so she would not have to marry Sam Benham.__NEWL__Bridge too is a runaway, having abandoned his own wealthy family to ride the rails.__NEWL__Burton has long been searching for him on commission from his father.__NEWL__In the end all is resolved satisfactorily Hettie takes on Giova as her maid, and Bridge and Abigail realize they have fallen in love with each other, which they seal with a kiss.__NEWL__In light of what Burton has revealed about Bridge, the prospects for their romance appear bright.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7282837	Rage	2011-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32042913	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32042913	A teenage girl who cuts herself must take on the role of War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5298697	Dorothy of Oz	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32104078	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32104078	Several weeks after returning to Kansas from the Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale looks out of her bedroom window and sees a bright and beautiful rainbow on the horizon.__NEWL__She notices that the rainbow is approaching her and Toto as both of them run towards it.__NEWL__Dorothy starts to see Glinda, who tells Dorothy that she must return to Oz so that she can save the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.__NEWL__Dorothy and Toto reclaim the silver shoes as they find a note from Glinda and Princess Ozma stating that the silver shoes can take her to the Land of Oz and back, for the Impassable Desert has taken away much of their power.__NEWL__Dorothy and Toto arrive in the Land of Oz, where the items that Dorothy has in her pocket are a small mirror, a safety pin, a glass bottle, and four of Aunt Em's homemade oatmeal cookies.__NEWL__Dorothy and Toto were wondering which direction they should take when they encounter a molasses-covered owl named Wiser.__NEWL__Wiser tells Dorothy that she is in Gillikin Country and tells her to head to Candy County and ask the Great Royal Marshmallow that rules over Candy Country.__NEWL__Following an incident where Dorothy was busted by a candy apple sheriff for breaking the "Do Not Pick the Lollipops" rule and helping the Great Royal Marshmallow with his stomach ache enough to get her pardoned, she receives some supplies from him Arriving at Princess Gayelette's palace, Dorothy and Toto encounter the castle's Jester who welcomes them.__NEWL__The Jester tells them that Princess Gayelette and Prince Quelala have gone missing, adding that they disappeared during a party at the palace which had become haunted and points them in the direction of the castle.__NEWL__When Dorothy and Toto enter the palace, they find a wand that belonged to the Wicked Witch of the West lying on the table.__NEWL__With Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, and the China Princess as his prisoners, Jester is talked into letting them accompany Dorothy to Glinda.__NEWL__He agrees, but Toto must stay behind.__NEWL__Dorothy and her group ran into Wiser again as Dorothy tells him of her next mission involving going to Quadling County to meet with Glinda.__NEWL__Wiser tells Dorothy to build a boat and drive it down the Munchkin River.__NEWL__Wiser tells Dorothy that the wood for the boat must come from the Talking Trees that grow along the banks of the Munchkin River.__NEWL__The Talking Trees are persuaded to lend their limbs to them due to them knowing Wiser.__NEWL__The tree limbs are combined with wood, straw, vines, and a hollow log giving it a tugboat appearance.__NEWL__It starts to speak when a face is made from paint from water and wild berries and it is called Tugg.__NEWL__Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, China Princess, and Tugg experience a lot of things on the Munchkin River like a cursed maze run by a gamekeeper that was created from Purplefield by the Wicked Witch of the West's curse, a dark tunnel filled with dragons who are then promised a new home, and a displaced brick from the yellow brick road as well as an encounter with the Wicked Witch of the East's ghost.__NEWL__After returning the China Princess to the China Country and Tugg returning to speak to the Talking Trees, Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion are met by Sawhorse who carries them past the Hammer-Heads' hill to Glinda's palace.__NEWL__Glinda and Princess Ozma learn about the Jester using the Wicked Witch of the West's wand in violation of Princess Ozma's rules.__NEWL__Returning to China Country, the China Princess is told by Dorothy of a plan that would involve making a china replica of Glinda for her and the others to hide in.__NEWL__With the Sawhorse moving at a speed passed the Hammer-Heads' hill enough to not break the china.__NEWL__Arriving at Princess Gaylette's castle, Wiser arrives to help Dorothy unload the china.__NEWL__Dorothy reminds the Jester that jesters are supposed to make people happy, causing the Jester to freeze in his tracks as the Wicked Witch of the West's ghost urges the Jester to turn Dorothy into a china doll.__NEWL__The Jester gives up the wand as the Wicked Witch of the West's ghost fades away.__NEWL__Thus, the spell is broken and everyone is returned to normal.__NEWL__The Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and Toto rejoice now that the spell is broken.__NEWL__When the Cowardly Lion asks Dorothy on what she plans to do with the Wicked Witch of the West's wand, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man plan to keep the wand locked up in a case until they can give it to Glinda and Princess Ozma.__NEWL__When Dorothy asks Princess Gayelette and Prince Quelala if the Jester can stay and jest for them again as a way to prove that he is sorry, Princess Gayelette accepts Dorothy's deals and has the Jester entertain them again.__NEWL__Princess Ozma arrived with Glinda and the Wizard of Oz telling Dorothy that they are proud of her and that the Great Book of Records stated that Dorothy would overcome the Wicked Witch's magic.__NEWL__Glinda plans to take the Wicked Witch of the West's wand and put it someplace where it won't cause any more trouble.__NEWL__The sound of a foghorn brings everyone to the edge of the Munchkin River as Tugg arrives with Wiser and the dragons stating that they have found a place near Princess Gayelette's palace for the dragons to live in.__NEWL__Dorothy knew that it was time for her to return to Kansas and says her goodbyes to Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Tugg, and Wiser.__NEWL__Dorothy then uses the power of the silver shoes to take her back to Kansas.__NEWL__Dorothy and Toto return to Kansas where they reunite with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.__NEWL__The four of them then see a rainbow in the twilight sky which Dorothy has not seen before.__NEWL__Dorothy knows that is must be Princess Ozma, Glinda, and the Wizard of Oz's way of saying goodbye to her.__NEWL__The rainbow shimmers over the prairie with all the bright and true colors of the Land of Oz.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7776920	The Zucchini Warriors	1988-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	32203668	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32203668	Over the summer, Macdonald Hall has built an impressive football stadium on the north lawn, financed by an alumnus, zucchini magnate Henry 'Hank the Tank' Carson.__NEWL__Bruno and Boots are dismayed by this discovery, as they had been expecting a rec hall to be built with the money.__NEWL__A promise of a rec hall being built at the end of the football season by Carson soon has them on board.__NEWL__The team (the Macdonald Hall Zucchini Warriors) does poorly until Cathy Burton from neighboring school Miss Scrimmages slips into the team as quarterback.__NEWL__A ruse is concocted in which Elmer Drimsdale pretends to be quarterback, since the two are alike in height and build.__NEWL__Drimsdale is also attempting to get four endangered Manchurian bush hamsters to reproduce.__NEWL__The four are voracious eaters.__NEWL__The students use them to help dispose of the many free zucchini sticks, in order not to hurt the feelings of Carson.__NEWL__Eventually they are released accidentally and take up residence in the stadium under the bleachers, eating the zucchini sticks tossed under the seats during games.__NEWL__The spices in the batter causes them to reproduce wildly, resulting in the population zooming to over 400.__NEWL__Meanwhile, inspector Kevin Klapper, an ex-football addict, has come for a random inspection.__NEWL__He disapproves of the game and writes a scathing report.__NEWL__He too succumbs to the lure of the game and stalls, ignoring his job to help coach the team.__NEWL__Eventually the team is set to win the Daw Cup.__NEWL__However, Kevin's boss, Mr, Greer, arrives to find out why he has missed work.__NEWL__He finds a scene of carnage in the guest cottage (result of a nosebleed by Sydney) and a draft of Kevin's original report.__NEWL__He concludes that Mr. Sturgeon has murdered him to prevent the report from being sent and contacts the police.__NEWL__Also Kevin's wife has discovered what he has really been doing with his time, and drives to the Hall to confront him.__NEWL__Both parties arrive at the same time, after the team has won and been presented with the cup.__NEWL__The sirens panic the hamsters and they swarm out from under the stands.__NEWL__Elmer hears them and rushes out onto the field.__NEWL__Cathy and he are seen at the same time and the game is up, literally.__NEWL__The trophy is confiscated by an official because of the Warriors having an "ineligible player".__NEWL__The other team wins by default.__NEWL__The police arrive and Bruno is afraid that the police are there to arrest Mr. Sturgeon for this and confesses to the switch.__NEWL__On finding Kevin alive, Greer is first pleased and then angry, as is Kevin's wife.__NEWL__Carson, however, stands up to them and reveals that he has arranged for a coaching position for Kevin.__NEWL__Mr. Sturgeon is somewhat angry with the team for the whole debacle, but accepts that a good deal was due to Cathy Burton's efforts.__NEWL__As punishment, he required the team to clean up the stadium, including the extensive hamster nest under the bleachers.__NEWL__Elmer is exempt, as per an agreement with Bruno he signed earlier, in exchange for participation in the quarterback switch.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4802856	As Cool As I Am	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32242339	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32242339	The protagonist and narrator is Lucy, a self-confessed tomboy who is considered "one of the guys" with her masculine haircut and attitude.__NEWL__She gets on well with her father but is frequently separated from him for months on end when he works in Canada.__NEWL__Her relationship with her mother is easygoing, provided she keeps the house tidy.__NEWL__Her mother's lenience even allows her daughter to drive her car, even though she is too young to apply for a license.__NEWL__As Lucy turns 14, she becomes more in tune with her sexuality and her family dynamics.__NEWL__She develops a friends with benefits relationship with her best friend Kenny.__NEWL__She also ditches her tomboy image, embraces make-up and grows out her hair.__NEWL__She begins to realize that her parents' marriage is not as solid as she had imagined.__NEWL__She realizes that her father's extended stays abroad are not typical of other fathers.__NEWL__Furthermore, she realizes that her mother does not pine for her father as much as she does herself.__NEWL__In fact, her allegiance to her father is tested when she discovers her mother is enjoying a romance with a colleague.__NEWL__She pro-actively seeks sexual satisfaction after she is left with a void when Kenny has to move away.__NEWL__She also begins to realize that there is more to her father's extended stays in Canada than she had previously imagined.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7435848	Scott-King's Modern Europe	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	32024575	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32024575	Set shortly after the end of the Second World War, the story's central character is Scott-King, a middle-aged schoolmaster who for twenty-one years has taught classical languages at Granchester, an English private school which was his own old school.__NEWL__Cautious and monosyllabic, he is described by Waugh as "a praiser of the past and a lover of exact scholarship", and is characterized as representing the old-fashioned virtues of honesty, decency, sanity, and, ultimately, heroism.__NEWL__During his summer vacation, Scott-King visits Neutralia, a totalitarian republic ruled by a military dictator who was able to keep his country from becoming embroiled in the recent World War.__NEWL__The occasion for Scott-King's visit to Simona, the capital city, is that by publishing an English language translation of a long Latin poem by Bellorius, a minor 17th-century Neutralian poet, followed by a monograph on Bellorius himself, he has come to be seen as a leading authority on the work.__NEWL__He has therefore been invited by the government of Neutralia to take part in a scholarly conference marking the poet's tercentenary.__NEWL__Unhappily, Scott-King does not think to inform the British government of his visit.__NEWL__At the same time as the Bellorius Tercentenary, Neutralia is hosting several other events, including a large philatelic conference and an international gathering of women athletes, and in Simona Scott-King meets a variety of remarkable characters.__NEWL__One of these, a scholar from Switzerland, is murdered, and Scott-King is tricked into laying a wreath for a questionable hero and unveiling a statue which is not what it seems, causing him to flee Simona disguised as a nun.__NEWL__On arrival at a Mediterranean seaport, he finds himself surrounded by anarchists, monarchists, Trotskyites, prostitutes, ballet dancers, former Gestapo officers, and Vichy collaborators.__NEWL__After a long sea journey, he arrives without his passport at a camp for Jewish illegal immigrants in the British Mandate for Palestine, where he is treated with suspicion until he is recognized by an old boy of his school and is thus able to establish his true identity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6762022	Mariana	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	32262045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32262045	The novel starts with an adult Mary spending a weekend in an isolated cottage on the Essex marshes during World War II.__NEWL__She hears on the radio that her husband's ship has been sunk with many many lives lost, her phone line was dead and it was too late to travel back to her home in London that night, where she dreaded a telegram may be waiting so she resolves to leave first thing the following morning.__NEWL__She thinks back over her life, the events which lead up to her present crisis.__NEWL__As a child Mary attended school on Cromwell Road, Kensington, living with her mother and Uncle Geoffrey, an actor in a flat near Olympia, West Kensington, her father having been killed at Thiepval in 1916.__NEWL__But it was her holidays spent at her paternal grandparents' house near Taunton in Somerset for which she had her fondest and most vivid memories.__NEWL__Especially of her cousin Denys, studying at Eton, who was her first love until he disappears with another girl at his first Oxford college ball.__NEWL__Her mother having moved to a house near Sloane Square, Mary then spends a year at a Drama College but she soon realises that she was not destined to be an actress and her time ends with disaster at the Summer examinations when she turns her performance into burlesque and is asked to leave.__NEWL__Paris is her next destination where she takes a course in dress design with a view to helping at her mother's dress shop on South Molton Street.__NEWL__She falls in love with Pierre, the wealthy son of a Bank director.__NEWL__They get engaged but Mary later breaks it off.__NEWL__After completing her course Mary returns to London and works with her mother.__NEWL__Whilst chauffeuring for one of the shop's best customers she meets Sam, an architect and falls in love again, this time leading to marriage.__NEWL__ Mary, the next day, takes a bus to a post-office where there is a working phone, to call London and discover whether her husband is still alive; the novel ends before resolving this question.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4749894	An Embarrassment of Riches	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32299854	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32299854	In 1994, Jeffrey Kennedy Tantivo - a writer - returns from his exile in the Philippines to his homeland the Victorianas because of his father's death.__NEWL__Ong intends to uncover the identities of his father's murderers.__NEWL__In addition to this circumstance, Tantivo was also summoned to return to Victorianas by his old friend Jennifer "JaySy" Suarez Sy.__NEWL__Sy – a middle aged woman belonging to the 20- to 30-year-old generation - wants Tantivo to manage her presidential campaign, timed after the demise of General Azurin, the dictatorial leader of Victorianas.__NEWL__Sy is a politician with Maoist inclinations.__NEWL__Sy won but her political rule was brief.__NEWL__On one hand, Brother Mike Verano (originally named as Damian Echevaria), a charismatic preacher and healer, leads the Victorianas Moral Restoration Army using violence for the cause of morality.__NEWL__Then, Alfonso Ong – a wealthy, shrewd and shady character – builds his alternative city of the future on an island off the coast of Victorianas.__NEWL__The novel ends with Tantivo leaving Victorianas – going back in exile – but with a renewed sense and sagacity after the altercations and travails he experienced in the island nation.__NEWL__During Tantivo's stay in the Victoriana's, he found out that Jennifer Suarez is his half sister, and that his real father is Alfonso Ong.__NEWL__Tantivo left the Victorianas with Jennifer Suarez, leaving their beloved nation in political, socio-economic, and religious turmoil.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7942500	Voyeurs & Savages	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32290189	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32290189	Meynard, during his research on Philippine-American relations, was able to produce historical documents – an assemblage of articles, letters, pamphlets, brochures, e-mails among others.__NEWL__Through these documents, Meynard Aguinaldo was able to "peep" through the lives of other people, whether Filipino or American.__NEWL__Armando Aguinaldo, in turn – in a scene from the novel – secretly watched his nephew Meynard Aguinaldo and the daughter of Cornelius James when the dating couple were copulating inside one of the suites of his beach resort.__NEWL__The ending of the novel presents a scene where Cornelius James and Rowena – the grandfather and the granddaughter – was holding a "storytelling session".__NEWL__The exchange of stories is the bridge that fills the gap between the two people's past and present.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7726841	The Color of Distance	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32148844	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32148844	The Color of Distance is a first-contact novel, detailing an encounter between human and alien cultures.__NEWL__The plot alternates between two points of view, that of Dr. Juna Saari, a xenobiologist member of a human Survey crew who unintentionally strand her on the planet of the Tendu, intelligent amphibians with exquisite physiological control, and Anito, a Tendu who helps with Juna's adaptation and ensures her survival.__NEWL__In order to rescue Juna, the Tendu extensively modify her biology, adapting her to the otherwise toxic atmosphere and allowing her to live among them.__NEWL__The Tendu live in the treetops of a tropical zone on their planet, and communicate by changing the color and pattern of their skins.__NEWL__Over the course of the three years Juna spends among the Tendu, she learns their "skin speech" language, masters much of their culture, learns something of the complex alien ecology that surrounds and sustains her, adopts Moki, a young Tendu, and comes to see herself as one of them.__NEWL__ Even as Juna slowly adapts to Tendu life, the Tendu grapple with what this forerunner of further human contact will mean for them and their way of life.__NEWL__The Tendu elder Anito, initially tasked with Juna's survival and resenting her deeply, eventually comes to assume full responsibility for Juna as her atwa, a Tendu word signifying a domain of specialized knowledge and expertise.__NEWL__Together with Juna and other Tendu enkar or elders, particularly Ukatonen, Anito travels to the touchdown site of the human Survey mission, and must work with Juna and other Tendu to repair the environmental damage the human presence has caused.__NEWL__When Juna is rescued at last by a returning Survey mission, re-entry into human society proves as difficult for her as adapting to Tendu ways.__NEWL__She is forced to undergo quarantine until the humans determine whether she is any threat to their mission -- if she has "gone native.__NEWL__" In the process, extensive trade negotiations take place between human and Tendu.__NEWL__When the Tendu, with the extensive inner physiological control, prove able not only to heal the human team member Dr. Wu after a heart-attack, but clear out the cholesterol from his arteries and restore him to something approaching youth, the former suspicion and distrust between species begins to dissolve.__NEWL__ Ultimately, Moki and Ukatonen opt to return with Juna and the rest of the Survey team to Earth, setting up the plot for the sequel.__NEWL__The book elaborates the biology of the planet and the life cycle of the aliens and contains environmentalist themes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4762071	Angel Angel	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32217811	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32217811	The Irises, a typical suburban family in Connecticut, are thrown into disarray upon the discovery of the patriarch's extra-marital affair.__NEWL__With his absence in the marital home, his wife, Augusta, struggles to understand or come to terms with the betrayal and takes to her bed for weeks.__NEWL__Her two sons, Matthew and Henry, face their own demons and are little help to their mother.__NEWL__However the introduction of Henry's sassy live-in girlfriend forces the family out of their emotional downward spiral.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768897	The Thornthwaite Inheritance	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z	32275241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32275241	Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite are thirteen-year-old twins and they are very unusual.__NEWL__They wear only black, eat only bland food, listen and play only sombre music and have no electric appliances other than light bulbs in their house.__NEWL__But what is even stranger is their desire to kill each other!__NEWL__When Lorelli and Ovid create a truce on their 13th birthday, Lorelli brings a lawyer into the house to add to their deceased parents' will.__NEWL__If one of the twins kills the other before their 16th birthday, the day in which they inherit half of the Thornthwaite's massive inheritance, the other will immediately be cut out of the will.__NEWL__But bizarre murder attempts continue to be made, and the twins, though deeply suspicious of each other, work together to uncover the explanation.__NEWL__The book ends with the twins promising to discontinue trying to kill each other, and hoping that they have a better life, after they have discovered the culprit who got killed by a contraption designed to kill the twins.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4753430	And the Land Lay Still	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	32276082	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32276082	The novel’s narrative is shaped around the portfolio of the late photographer Angus Pendreich.__NEWL__His son Michael is involved in the establishment of a new exhibition of his renowned father’s work.__NEWL__The book focuses on the characters presented in these photographs, which span post-war Scotland across geographies and social classes from the homeless to senior politicians.__NEWL__Their disparate stories present a collage that highlights the highs and lows of modern Scottish society.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5432650	False Impression	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	32187379	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32187379	False Impression concerns an international journey through several countries and continents, including London, New York, Bucharest and Tokyo, and includes historical information about the September 11 attacks on New York, which the protagonist, Anna Petrescu, escapes after being fired by the dishonest banker Bryce Fenston.__NEWL__From this point on, the book tells the story of Anna trying to help Arabella Wentworth, a British aristocrat, to recover her family's fortune by selling a historical painting by Vincent van Gogh, which Bryce Fenston is intent on acquiring.__NEWL__She is followed closely by Olga Krantz, a mercenary on service to Fenston, and by Jack Delaney, an FBI agent who is investigating Fenston and trying to discover if Anna is still working for Fenston.__NEWL__Anna succeeds in throwing both off her trail and makes arrangements to sell the painting to a Japanese steel magnate.__NEWL__In the end Krantz is shot, for the second time in a few days, and later captured and sent to the Belmarsh prison.__NEWL__The painting is successfully sold to the steel magnate, Anna accepts a job as CEO of his foundation, Jack Delaney gathers enough proof to arrest Fenston and Anna and Jack begin a romantic relationship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1657953	You Don't Know Me	2001-03-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32047634	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32047634	John is a fourteen-year-old boy.__NEWL__He lives with his mother and his mother's boyfriend, Stan, who he calls the "Man Who is Not my Father".__NEWL__His real father left the home when John was young.__NEWL__Stan abuses John by assaulting him when nobody is around.__NEWL__As well as his family life, much of the book explores John's struggles to fit in at school and his relationship with his closest friend, whom John calls "Billy Beezer" because of his long nose.__NEWL__John is presented as a social outsider, his one interest being playing the tuba, which he was forced into when asked to choose an extra-curricular activity, but he has a crush on a very popular girl named Gloria, whom he calls "Glory Hallelujah".__NEWL__Billy also has a crush on Gloria.__NEWL__Billy Beezer is arrested for stealing an egg roll from a Chinese restaurant in the food court of a mall.__NEWL__With Billy out of the picture, John sees this as an opportunity to ask Gloria out, which he does the following day.__NEWL__She accepts and goes to a basketball game with him.__NEWL__Billy also attends the game and calls John a terrible friend.__NEWL__A riot breaks out in the gym and John and Gloria escape.__NEWL__Gloria brings John home and seduces him until John escapes from her and her angry father, but leaves clothes and money which he took from his stepfather Stan's bedroom drawer.__NEWL__Stan finds out and takes John to do some "business" as a way of paying back the money.__NEWL__John is forced to carry TVs into a truck and realizes that Stan is handling stolen goods, which is how he affords the brand-new TV in their home despite not working.__NEWL__Stan tells John that he and John's mother are getting married.__NEWL__In school, Gloria humiliates John, Billy picks on him and he is in trouble for vocalizing a rude thought about a teacher out loud and making her cry.__NEWL__Soon John is asked to dance by a girl in the school orchestra named Violet, who he had previously nicknamed "Violent" because of her bad saxophone playing.__NEWL__He goes with her, then to her house, where her parents are much kinder than Gloria's.__NEWL__Violet stands up for John against Gloria and her new jock boyfriend.__NEWL__When John goes home, Stan is drunk and assaults John, but this time he fights back.__NEWL__Stan gets the better of the fight and beats John senseless.__NEWL__He is saved by his music teacher, Mr. Steenwilly, who had suspected John was being emotionally abused due to his negative attitude in orchestra and came to check upon him.__NEWL__John wakes up in hospital surrounded by his friends and mother.__NEWL__His mother wishes he had told her about Stan's abusive behaviour before, and says that she loves him.__NEWL__John finally feels that his mother really knows him, because she decides to leave Stan.__NEWL__John attends the orchestra's end-of-year concert as a spectator (Stan punched him in the mouth, leaving him unable to play the tuba), where he cries at the end of a piece of music, because he finally figures out that it is a love story.__NEWL__Violet plays well during the piece and it is suggested that John is in love with her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5441171	Feed	2010-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32156731	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32156731	Feed is set several decades after the zombie apocalypse, referred to as the Rising.__NEWL__Two man-made viruses (a cure for cancer and a cure for the common cold) combined to form Kellis-Amberlee, a virus that quickly infects all mammalian life.__NEWL__Kellis-Amberlee is normally benign, but the virus can "go live" or "amplify", converting any host mammal over into a zombie.__NEWL__There are three mentioned ways amplification takes place: the death of the host, contact with a live specimen (being bitten by a zombie) and spontaneous conversion.__NEWL__Those infected that have not undergone amplification remain lucid until the virus has time to spread through the body.__NEWL__Lucidity is followed by lack of sensitivity to pain, memory loss and finally conversion.__NEWL__Most humans reside in tightly controlled safe zones, with rigorous blood testing and decontamination protocols used to prevent the spread of the live K-A virus.__NEWL__After the inaction of traditional media during the Rising, blogs and other new media have taken over as the primary source of information and entertainment; bloggers are recognised as professional journalists, with individuals specialising and identifying as "Newsies" (objective, fact-based reporters), "Stewarts" ("who report opinion informed by fact"), "Irwins" (named after Steve Irwin, who seek to educate and entertain by going out and "poking things with sticks"), "Aunties" (who share personal stories, recipes, and other content "to keep people happy and relaxed"), or "Fictionals" (fictional content and poetry creators).__NEWL__Feed occurs in 2040 and is written from the perspective of Georgia "George" Mason, a Newsie blogger and head of the After the End Times website.__NEWL__Georgia, her brother Shaun (an Irwin), and their friend Georgette "Buffy" Meissonier (a Fictional and a technology guru), are selected to cover the presidential campaign of Senator Peter Ryman, a moderate Republican.__NEWL__The campaign is mostly uneventful until it reaches Eakly, Oklahoma, where zombies attack the campaign convoy, killing several before security (assisted by Georgia and Shaun) can contain them; they later discover it was an orchestrated attack.__NEWL__The next stage of the campaign is the Republican National Convention, where Ryman faces off against religious, right-wing Governor David Tate and sex-over-substance Congresswoman Kristen Wagman.__NEWL__During the convention, Rick Cousins (a Newsie and former print journalist) defects from Wagman's campaign to join After the End Times.__NEWL__Ryman is selected as the Republican presidential candidate, but as this is announced, Georgia learns that a zombie outbreak occurred at the senator's horse ranch, and his eldest daughter is dead.__NEWL__Georgia and company investigate and find that the outbreak started from a horse injected with the live virus.__NEWL__Ryman and the campaign relocate to Texas, where Ryman joins his vice-presidential candidate: Tate.__NEWL__The bloggers must drive their vehicles and equipment overland.__NEWL__During the trip, the journalists' convoy (which has become separated from that part of the presidential entourage that drove ahead of them) is attacked by a sniper.__NEWL__Georgia, Shaun, and Rick survive, but the van carrying Buffy and Chuck (Buffy's beau) crashes.__NEWL__Chuck dies, zombifies, and bites Buffy.__NEWL__She confesses to leaking information to a group undermining Ryman's campaign; the attack occurred because she had refused to continue.__NEWL__After administering a coup de grâce, Georgia calls for rescue, but the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) team drugs the surviving group members and takes them for testing.__NEWL__After being released, the team's work on the campaign is hampered as they dig into the underlying conspiracy, souring the bloggers' relationship with Ryman and Tate.__NEWL__The team finds evidence linking Tate to the attacks, along with hints of a broader conspiracy involving the CDC and other parties, but when Georgia confronts Ryman during an event in Sacramento, California, he is skeptical and sends them away to prepare to convince him with facts, otherwise he will fire them from the campaign.__NEWL__As the bloggers leave, they are attacked, and Georgia is shot with a tranquiliser dart containing the live virus.__NEWL__Rick escapes with a copy of the group's evidence just before a zombie outbreak is instigated, and Shaun helps Georgia expose the conspiracy through one last blog post.__NEWL__She then begins amplifying, forcing Shaun to execute her.__NEWL__The novel's narration then changes to Shaun's perspective.__NEWL__He rallies Ryman's security detail to help contain the outbreak, then breaks into the convention centre to confront Ryman and Tate.__NEWL__Tate takes Ryman's wife hostage with a syringe of the zombie virus, claiming his actions were part of a plot using fear of the zombies to reshape America into a more faith-based society.__NEWL__Then the governor injects himself instead, and Shaun shoots him to prevent zombification.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4761876	Ang Tala sa Panghulo	1913-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32156846	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32156846	In the story, Lucia – although married – falls in love with Luciano.__NEWL__Tintoy, because of jealousy, shot Luciano during a hunt.__NEWL__Berta, while gathering dampalit (a local plant used as an ingredient in pickling), heard the shots.__NEWL__Berta saves and nurses Luciano.__NEWL__Luciano becomes Lucia’s lover.__NEWL__Berta reunites with Mang Pedro.__NEWL__There was a happy ending for Berta and Luciano, but not for Lucia and Tintoy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8001121	Wilderness	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z	32000150	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32000150	At 46, Aaron Newman was enjoying the good things in life - a good marriage, a good job - and he was in good shape himself.__NEWL__Then he saw the murder.__NEWL__A petty vicious killing that was to plunge him into an insane jungle of raw violence and fear, threatening and defiling the things he cared about.__NEWL__Wilderness is not a Spenser novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5943258	Hunger	2010-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32037208	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32037208	An anorexic teenage girl is given the duties of Famine, of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17060004	Ipaghiganti Mo Ako...!	1914-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32166470	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32166470	The novel begins months before the onset of the Philippine–American War.__NEWL__Because of the war, Pedring and Geli got separated from each other.__NEWL__Geli and her mother, together with other Filipinos in the affected provinces in Luzon, had to flee their homes and became displaced.__NEWL__Pedring and Geli meets again in Antipolo after five years.__NEWL__They were reunited under tragic circumstances.__NEWL__Geli was dying.__NEWL__Geli was also pregnant after becoming a victim of rape during the war.__NEWL__Geli's rapist was a Katipunan member.__NEWL__Geli wants Pedring to become her avenger.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q788388	Night Work	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q40	Austria	32128936	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32128936	The novel, set in modern-day Vienna, is a post-apocalyptic exploration around themes of solitude and existential philosophy.__NEWL__The plot concerns a central character, Jonas, who wakes up one day to discover that everyone else has vanished from the city, perhaps the world, without trace; he appears to be the only person left.__NEWL__As he attempts to discover what could possibly explain such a situation, the days pass and he begins to realise that he is performing strange activities when asleep.__NEWL__A struggle ensues as Jonas tries to control his unconscious actions while he continues to search in vain for other human life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4738418	Always Hiding	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32111076	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32111076	The main protagonist in Romero's novel is Violetta Rosario "Viola" Dananay.__NEWL__Viola narrates her life in the Philippines and her eventual move to the United States.__NEWL__Viola was conceived before the marriage of her parents who belong to Manila's socialite class.__NEWL__Viola grew up in Manila during the regime of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.__NEWL__Her life was complicated by her quarrelsome parents.__NEWL__One of the main reasons for the disagreements between Viola's parents was her father's reputation as a womanizer and philanderer.__NEWL__Viola's father left the family to live with a pregnant mistress.__NEWL__Viola's mother, Ludy, left for the United States to escape the indiscretions of her husband, leaving Viola behind.__NEWL__Upon arrival in America, Viola's mother became an undocumented immigrant working as a maid in New York City.__NEWL__After the fall of the Marcos’, Viola's father was implicated in charges of corruption committed by the Marcos government.__NEWL__Viola's father decided to send Viola, already a teenager, to the United States to live with her mother.__NEWL__Viola obeyed her father but with a "secret agenda": to return to the Philippines together with her mother.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718658	The Blood Book	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32112497	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32112497	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, the Roush.__NEWL__Ba'al compiles their accounts into his journal, known as a blood book.__NEWL__He also includes stolen journal entries from his enemy Thomas Hunter and his master, the Shataiki queen Marsuuv.__NEWL__It contains sketches of various creatures and locations featured in Other Earth.__NEWL__A certain Blood Book, though not Ba'al's, as there were more than one, also plays a significant role in the plot of Immanuel's Veins, as the main character Toma Nicolescu uses the information contained within to defeat the villainous Vlad van Valerick.__NEWL__It appears that the concept of Ba'al's Blood Book was adapted after the release of Immanuel's Veins, as it contains both new and different content than what was mentioned in Immanuel's Veins, and is missing certain other details.__NEWL__A man whom Toma called Saint Thomas the Beast Hunter is implied to be the one who penned Toma's Blood Book.__NEWL__Ba'al's Blood Book was also mentioned briefly in Dekker's novel Green, as it was compiled only about a year before Green took place.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1356447	Micro	2011-11-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32182985	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32182985	The narrative begins with a private investigator named Marcos Rodriguez pulling up to a metal building located on the island of Oahu.__NEWL__The building is the main headquarters of Nanigen Micro-Technologies, a research company that specializes in discovering new types of medicine.__NEWL__Disguised as a security guard, Rodriguez enters the unattended building and begins searching the grounds for an unknown object.__NEWL__As he makes his way through the halls of the building, however, he begins to notice mysterious, ultra-fine cuts appearing on his body.__NEWL__Spooked, Rodriguez flees the building.__NEWL__Shortly after leaving the Nanigen headquarters, Rodriguez makes his way to the office of his employer, Willy Fong.__NEWL__When he arrives, he notices another man, of Chinese descent, waiting in the office.__NEWL__Fong begins to question Rodriguez about his cuts, but before Rodriguez can explain, the Chinese man's throat is slit by an unseen force.__NEWL__Fong and Rodriguez barely have time to react before they are also killed.__NEWL__Their deaths are reported as a triple-suicide, and Lieutenant Dan Watanabe of the Honolulu Police Department is assigned to investigate the case.__NEWL__In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard graduate student Peter Jansen is collecting venom from a cobra for further experimentation.__NEWL__He is joined in the biology lab by six other graduate students: Rick Hutter, an ethnobotanist; Karen King, an arachnologist; Erika Moll, an entomologist and coleopterist; Amar Singh, a botanist; Jenny Linn, a biochemist studying pheromones; and Danny Minot, a doctoral student studying the linguistics of science.__NEWL__They are visited by the CEO of Nanigen, Vincent "Vin" Drake, along with his CFO, Alyson Bender, and Peter's brother Eric, who is a vice president at Nanigen.__NEWL__The seven students are recruited by Drake to work with him at a laboratory in Hawaii.__NEWL__Although they are at first reluctant, they all decide to take Drake's offer and fly out to Oahu.__NEWL__The following morning, Peter receives vague text messages from Eric urging him not to come to Hawaii.__NEWL__Peter tries calling Eric, but gets no response.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards he is called by Bender, who informs Peter that Eric has been in a boating accident and is likely dead.__NEWL__Peter flies to Oahu and meets with Watanabe, who shows him a video of Eric scrambling around the deck of his boat before jumping overboard.__NEWL__Peter notices Bender in the video, observing the scene unfold without a hint of concern on her face.__NEWL__With assistance from one of Hutter's friends, Peter hacks Nanigen's phone records and finds a cryptic exchange between Bender and Drake, which confirm his suspicions about Eric's death.__NEWL__He saves the conversation onto a drive and plans to play it out loud during the students' scheduled tour of Nanigen in order to expose Drake.__NEWL__When the tour commences, Peter sneaks away from the group to find a place to insert the drive, stealing a wireless microphone while doing so and hiding it in his shirt.__NEWL__However, Drake catches Peter and takes him into another room where he beats him.__NEWL__Drake confesses that he did set up Eric to be killed on the boat.__NEWL__He then realizes that Peter had a microphone hidden in his pocket and that the other graduate students heard everything.__NEWL__Drake activates an emergency alarm and drags Peter into the room where the rest of the graduate students are waiting.__NEWL__He orders them to follow him, with Bender in tow.__NEWL__He leads them to the tensor generator, a machine that uses extreme magnetic fields to shrink anything, even living organisms.__NEWL__Drake rushes the seven students inside, along with the generator's operator, Jarel Kinsky (the only other person in the room) and shrinks them all down to half an inch in height.__NEWL__As the disoriented subjects adjust to their new micro-surroundings, Drake places them into a plastic bag and takes them into another room, where a snake is being held.__NEWL__He drops Peter inside the snake's tank and leaves.__NEWL__Before the snake can eat Peter, the other students save him by using wasp pheromone to cover Peter's scent and spider thread to pull him out.__NEWL__Bender, knowing that Drake will not stop until the students are dead, hides them and Kinsky inside a paper bag.__NEWL__When Drake returns, she insists that they escaped and are hiding in the room.__NEWL__As Drake orders the room to be gassed, Bender leaves with the bag and drives to Nanigen's arboretum.__NEWL__However, Drake realizes that Bender has misled him and follows her there, where he confronts her about the bag.__NEWL__Bender admits that she hid the students, and Drake feigns understanding of her concerns before sending her into the forest to kill them.__NEWL__As she walks into the trees, however, King uses her knife to cut open the bag, causing everyone in the bag to fall out.__NEWL__Realizing Bender betrayed him after she admits helping the shrunken students escape, Drake kills her.__NEWL__Kinsky tells the students about supply stations, shrunken bases where shrunken Nanigen staff can observe safely.__NEWL__However, Kinsky is killed after getting too close to an ant colony by ant "guards".__NEWL__The remaining seven get to the first supply base, but their base and all the others are being removed on Drake's orders by Don Makele, the Nanigen security chief, who spots them and reports it to Drake.__NEWL__Soon after, Jenny drowns when Danny, who at first tries to help her, instead releases her hand in a panic and watches her slip under, having been afraid that she would have pulled him in with her causing him to drown as well.__NEWL__ Only Jenny sees his treachery before she dies.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Drake shrinks two Nanigen security members, and tasks them to find and kill the students in the forest, if they have not died already, claiming that the students were attempting industrial espionage.__NEWL__The students, though, adjust well to the micro-world, and utilize their scientific expertise to survive and outwit dangerous insects.__NEWL__When the assassins track them down, they manage to kill Amar and Peter before the students kill them in self-defense.__NEWL__They steal the assassins' shrunken vehicle, and head for the last Nanigen base they know about from which they might fly back to the Tensor generator.__NEWL__Unknown to Drake, or anyone else, Eric, Peter's brother, is still alive and is searching for the graduate students.__NEWL__After Erika is killed by birds, the three remaining students reach the Tantalus Nanigen base, but find no miniature airplanes.__NEWL__They encounter a fugitive Ben Rourke, the inventor of the Tensor generator, and also hunted by Drake, who has managed to adapt and survive in the micro-world.__NEWL__He gives them urgent medical attention and offers them three miniature planes that he has repaired.__NEWL__He explains that he has learned to survive the "microbends", a fatal sickness that afflicts shrunken humans.__NEWL__Danny, panicking due to larvae laid in his arm by a wasp, betrays the group by contacting Drake and offering him Rourke's "microbends" remedy in return for his hospitalization and safety.__NEWL__He steals a micro-plane to meet Drake but is killed when his plane is attacked by bats.__NEWL__The next morning, the students, now only Rick and Karen, escape from Rourke's base in the remaining planes as Drake torches the Tantalus base, apparently killing Rourke.__NEWL__They find Eric, who leads them back to Nanigen's headquarters.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Makele confesses to the local police force that he is complicit in Nanigen's and Drake's crimes, and a police force is sent to Nanigen to arrest Drake.__NEWL__Eric and the students arrive at Nanigen first and encounter Drake, who activates micro-bots to attack Eric and a fight ensues.__NEWL__The two students finally re-enter the Tensor generator and return to full size.__NEWL__A micro-bot that attempted to attack them is enlarged as well, to the size "of a refrigerator".__NEWL__In the fighting, Drake is trapped in the Tensor generator room and is attacked by his own micro-bots, as well as the enlarged micro-bot, while the full-size Karen and Rick rescue an injured Eric.__NEWL__After Drake is killed, the enlarged micro-bot destroys the room and Tensor generator, though a business partner of Drake's, Edward Catel, makes off with a disc containing information on the Tensor generator, intending to sell it off.__NEWL__The police finally arrive.__NEWL__The two surviving students fall in love.__NEWL__Karen plans to return to the micro-world, enraptured by the beauty and diversity of life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7395480	Sa Ngalan ng Diyos	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32099534	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32099534	In the narrative, Jesuit priests used their religious authority and influence on Carmen to gain access to her wealth.__NEWL__Included in these plans and machinations was the destruction of the ongoing relationship between Carmen and Mr. Roland.__NEWL__Mr. Roland is Carmen's boyfriend.__NEWL__The priests succeeded.__NEWL__Carmen breaks up with Mr. Roland to enter the convent run by the Jesuit order.__NEWL__Thus, Carmen's inheritance became property of the priests.__NEWL__There was a scene when Eladio Resurreccion, a former cohort of the Jesuit priests, tried to set the convent on fire.__NEWL__However, Resurreccion's act of vengeance did not succeed.__NEWL__Only a stable for horses was ruined by the fire.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1189272	The Empire of the Angels	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	32080961	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32080961	Michelle Panson goes to heaven.__NEWL__He finds himself on the "last judgment", which is led by three archangels.__NEWL__The most terrible test for a person is the subsequent reincarnation.__NEWL__From reincarnation he is saved by the guardian angel Emil Zola.__NEWL__Michel has a choice: to become an angel or a preacher on earth.__NEWL__The choice falls on the angel.__NEWL__He opens the way to the world of angels, in which Edmond Wells becomes his angel-mentor.__NEWL__Each angel is given three "clients".__NEWL__The choice of their clients is behind the angels, and Michelle chooses three families that are shown in the "lake of conception".__NEWL__One family turns out to be rich - from America, another from France and a very poor family - from Russia.__NEWL__Edmond Wells narrates that the soul has three main indicators: 25% of events occurring with a person are determined by heredity, 25% - by karma, and another 50% remain for free choice.__NEWL__At the same time, Michelle Panson and Raoul Razorbak are looking for the world of the "sevenths" who are higher in development than the angels.__NEWL__Raoul assumes they are gods.__NEWL__Later it turns out that the Russian "client" Igor Chekhov is the reincarnation of Felix Kerboz, one of the main characters of the novel "Thanatonauts".__NEWL__The characters of all three "clients" gradually emerge: Jacques Nemro is a Frenchman, an insecure young man, Venera Sheridan is an American, a narcissistic girl whom everyone adores, and Igor becomes strong and dexterous, but his mother leaves him.__NEWL__At the age of 7, Jacques has problems with memory, because of this, he does not study well.__NEWL__Venera is photographed on the covers of calendars and children's clothing catalogs.__NEWL__Igor ended up in an orphanage, but the boy Peter takes control of Igor and his friends and demands tribute from them in the form of cigarettes.__NEWL__Everyone asks for a present for Christmas.__NEWL__Igor wants “Peter to be stabbed in the belly”, Venera asks for plastic surgery on her nose, and Jacques wants to be presented with a toy flying ship.__NEWL__Michelle fulfills their requests.__NEWL__In particular, when Igor was to be adopted, he stabbed Peter in the stomach and almost killed him, so Igor, along with his friend Vanya (he gave Igor a knife), was sent to a juvenile colony.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in Paradise, Michelle and Raoul learned that Edmond Wells was writing the fourth volume of the Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge.__NEWL__For this he uses the medium Ulysses Papadopoulos.__NEWL__At night, he dreams of new articles.__NEWL__Edmond Wells dictates them to him.__NEWL__To find out who the “sevenths” are and where they are, Michelle and Raoul descend to Earth to Papadopoulos, thinking that Wells told him about the “sevenths”.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7726505	The Clue of the New Pin	32071693	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32071693	Jesse Trasmere is a penny-pincher who doesn't trust banks, therefore he keeps his money in his house.__NEWL__His nephew Rex Lander received an allowance from his uncle, which he finds too short to keep his extravagant life style.__NEWL__Trasmere decided to go out of town to avoid an unwanted situation, but his body was suspiciously found days later in a locked vault.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17144498	White Cat	2010-05-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32105487	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32105487	Although Cassel Sharpe comes from a large family of workers who are well connected to one of the major crime families, he believes himself to have no worker abilities.__NEWL__He is the youngest son with a mother in prison for illegally emotionally working people, a dead father, a death-worker grandfather, and two older brothers who work for the nephew and current heir of one of the biggest crime families in the area.__NEWL__Cassel's friend Lila was the daughter of the crime lord and other possible heir, but Cassel believes he killed her when they were fourteen.__NEWL__Now seventeen, Cassel finds himself sleepwalking up on the roof at his prep school, dreaming of a white cat and nearly dies getting back down.__NEWL__This bizarre occurrence, the strange behavior of his brothers, and overheard conversations make Cassel suspicious that he's being manipulated, and he goes to a fortune teller to get amulets to protect himself from memory alteration, which he cuts and conceals inside his leg.__NEWL__Further investigation leads Cassel to discover that his brothers had been keeping a white cat just like the one from his dreams, which is now free and following him around.__NEWL__He knows that transformation workers are very rare, but wonders if it could in fact be his "dead" friend Lila, who has the ability to work dreams.__NEWL__The cat is captured again and taken to the pound, so he rescues it, certain that something strange is going on.__NEWL__Shortly after, he discovers that one of the rocks under his skin has broken, and that his second oldest brother Barron has been manipulating Cassel's memories.__NEWL__He also finds out that he is a worker after all; a transformation worker.__NEWL__His brothers have been using him by making him change people into lifeless objects, effectively murdering them, and his brothers have also been altering his memory to keeping Cassel from remembering that he is a transformation working who has killed people (at their direction).__NEWL__With this discovery, Cassel changes the white cat back into Lila.__NEWL__The two plan to reunite her with her father and allow her to take back her place as heir by revealing her cousin Anton's plan of killing her father and running the family himself.__NEWL__It succeeds, and things go mostly back to normal for Cassel despite his new-found ability.__NEWL__Lila still hates him for turning her into a cat, but when he arrives home from school a week later, she is waiting for him, having forgiven him.__NEWL__They kiss, which Cassel has always dreamed of, but are interrupted by a phone call from his mother, newly out of jail.__NEWL__His mother wants to surprise him with the news that she met Lila in New York and used her emotion ability to make Lila fall madly in love with Cassel.__NEWL__He demands she undo it, but his mother claims she cannot, and Cassel realizes that he was a mark himself, gullible enough to believe that Lila would forgive him and love him so easily.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7823923	Too Much Money	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	32075973	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32075973	Living in New York, Gus Bailey, a writer for Park Avenue, a monthly magazine, takes a last look as an insider into the affairs of the rich and famous.__NEWL__As a popular guest at parties people talk to him, but with his writings he made enemies.__NEWL__Thus he is sued by former congressman Kyle Cramden for slander for falsely linking him to the murder of a female intern, he is facing the potential vengeance of Elias Renthal, a financier about to be released from prison, and he is being investigated by Perla Zacharias, the third richest woman in the world, who has been unhappy about Gus' interest in the circumstances of the death of her banker-husband in a mysterious fire at his penthouse.__NEWL__Gus interacts with members of New York high society, among them Lil Altemus who at the age of 76 starts working as a real estate agent to improve her financial situation, Ruby Renthal, Elias' wife who prepares for her husband's return into society, and Addison Kent, the kleptomane "walker" of Perla Zacharias, and attends the funeral of its Grand Old Dame, the 105-year-old Adele Harcourt.__NEWL__Gus's life is coming to an end, too; he learns that he has cancer.__NEWL__Perla is aware that Gus is about to write a novel based on her life and determined to stop it.__NEWL__She links up with his enemies, seems to employ Mossad agents, places a rumor that he is a pedophile, and pressures his publisher to back out of the project.__NEWL__Through philanthropic lavishness she is trying to "buy" herself into the high strata of society.__NEWL__Refuting the ugly rumor Gus "comes out" about his former bisexuality, and claims to have been celibate for two decades.__NEWL__He settles the lawsuit, amends with the Renthals, and finds a new backer for his book to proceed with his final project.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7194801	Pinaglahuan	1907-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32063086	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32063086	Set during the early 20th century in the Philippines, Pinaglahuan narrates the story of the life of Luis Gatbuhay, the labor leader whose life was ruined by the mestizo class, represented by Rojalde.__NEWL__The first scene in Pinaglahuan depicted a meeting inside the Teatro Zorilla (Zorilla Theatre).__NEWL__The purpose of the gathering was about the call to free the Philippines from the American occupiers.__NEWL__Another scene depicted the confrontation between Gatbuhay and Don Nicanor while inside a carriage.__NEWL__Don Nicanor wanted to marry off Danding to Rojalde because the purpose of paying off his gambling debt.__NEWL__Luis lost his job because of Rojalde's power and influence.__NEWL__In addition, Rojalde implicated Gatbuhay to a crime and was imprisoned for four years.__NEWL__Rojalde and Danding became husband and wife, but Danding gave birth to Gatbuhay's child.__NEWL__At the ending scene of the novel, Gatbuhay was killed by a bomb explosion inside the prison.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5001247	Busabos ng Palad	1909-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	32064847	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32064847	The plot of the novel narrates the love story of the protagonists Celso and Rita.__NEWL__Celso left Rita and their province to study in Manila.__NEWL__Rita disappeared from her province.__NEWL__In the meantime, Celso became a writer and coincidentally saves a prostitute from her fate by paying off her debt.__NEWL__The prostitute was Rita, his girlfriend.__NEWL__For two years, Rita became a victim of prostitution.__NEWL__Despite Rita's fate and reputation, Celso remained Rita's lover.__NEWL__Celso and Rita decided to live together.__NEWL__Rita became ill.__NEWL__After Rita's death, Celso became insane and was committed to an asylum.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3787404	The Other House	1896-01-01T00:00:00Z	3473952	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3473952	Julia Bream dies after giving birth to her only child, a daughter named Effie.__NEWL__Julia had a horrible stepmother, so she extracts a promise from her husband Tony never to marry again as long as Effie is alive.__NEWL__Several years pass.__NEWL__Julia's childhood friend Rose Armiger is in love with Tony though she is ostensibly engaged to Dennis Vidal.__NEWL__Tony has grown close to Effie's nanny, Jean Martle, who is herself pursued by Tony's neighbor, Paul Beever.__NEWL__After Jean rejects Paul's marriage proposal, Rose takes Effie on a walk.__NEWL__She returns without Effie, claiming to have left her with Jean.__NEWL__Later Effie's body is found, having drowned in a stream near the home.__NEWL__Eventually, Rose confesses to drowning the child but everyone decides to conceal the crime.__NEWL__Family physician Dr. Ramage convinces the authorities that Effie died of natural causes and Rose is sent off with Dennis Vidal, all becoming, legally, accessories after the fact to murder.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7425778	Sassinak	1990-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3442022	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3442022	Sassinak and her family live on a newly colonized world (called Myriad) and are celebrating the end of the production year when all the colonies goods will be exported to other worlds.__NEWL__But the carrier never comes, and instead the planet and its people are soon under attack by pirates.__NEWL__The colonists put up a futile defense against the pirates' superior firepower, numbers and skill at their task.__NEWL__Sassinak witnesses the death of both her parents and her two siblings before she is taken off planet to become a slave.__NEWL__At the slave depot she is sold, but is counseled by another slave called Abe - who is ex-Fleet.__NEWL__He teaches her discipline and embeds a message in her mind that will only be remembered when she is confronted with a Fleet officer.__NEWL__She is sold once again when her skills have improved enough for her to work as a navigator on a ship.__NEWL__The ship that she is on is captured by Fleet and she is rescued, the embedded message comes out and Fleet is able to attack the slave depot and free all the slaves.__NEWL__Abe adopts Sassinak and she begins her quest to go to the Academy, where all Fleet officers receive their training.__NEWL__After prep-school she enters the Academy and excels but is always conscious that she wants to hunt pirates when she gets her stars and her own ship.__NEWL__On her graduation night Abe takes her out for dinner, but Abe is killed.__NEWL__Sassinak suspects it is an assassination.__NEWL__She goes on her first deployment without any family, adopted or no and is an orphan once more.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5191354	Crystal Singer	1982-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3442163	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3442163	Killashandra Ree has spent ten years studying music and training to be a vocal soloist, anticipating interstellar celebrity.__NEWL__After a final exam she learns that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead.__NEWL__She dreads a life limited to choral work and supporting operatic roles so she plans to exit both school and home planet discreetly.__NEWL__At the spaceport she meets a vital older man who uses perfect pitch, and his occupational experience as a "crystal singer" on Ballybran, to identify an incoming space shuttle on the verge of explosion.__NEWL__He treats her to a whirlwind romance and the experience of her home planet in ways entirely unknown to her, but sincerely warns her against the high-status, high-income occupation that makes such a vacation possible for him.__NEWL__Further, one of its occupational hazards leaves him in a coma, but Killashandra determines to accompany his return home under life support, and to investigate membership in the Heptite Guild of crystal singers for herself.__NEWL__The crystalline rock of Ballybran, when skilfully cut, is essential to advanced power and communications systems at the heart of interstellar civilization.__NEWL__Only the Guild "singers" can mine crystal: locate it, and cut it with voice-controlled machinery.__NEWL__Killashandra's ability to sing perfect pitch meets one qualification, she knows, and she passes other qualifying exams in the staging area on Ballybran's moon.__NEWL__Travel to Ballybran itself, however, is forbidden to all but its resident singers and supporting population, about 30,000 people.__NEWL__The moon-side orientation program secretly explains why: a native spore soon invades the human body and causes genetic mutations.__NEWL__Some newcomers will die of the initial infection and many will adapt only partly, with a mix of permanent symptoms such as vastly increased visual acuity along with complete deafness.__NEWL__Those who adapt fully to symbiotic life may become singers; other survivors must join the staff.__NEWL__The symbiont maintains its host, perhaps for hundreds of years, but only on Ballybran; only the fully adapted singers can safely depart, and only briefly.__NEWL__Full adaptation brings remarkable benefits, including increased sensory perception, rapid tissue regeneration and a vastly prolonged life expectancy, but it renders all hosts sterile, and eventually causes severe memory loss, paranoia and dementia.__NEWL__Even after full adaptation with the symbiont, mining Ballybran crystal is a dangerous occupation.__NEWL__Beside the risks associated with other mining operations, there are frequent storms with high winds that may cause crystal deposits to resonate: "sonic storms" that may impair the symbiont and drive the singer mad.__NEWL__The Guild provides life support for physically disabled or insane members, many aspects of the industry are highly centralized, and everyone begins with big debts.__NEWL__Yet singers in the field are solo adventurers who establish private claims, work them in secret, and sometimes amass great fortunes.__NEWL__Killashandra and thirty others accept the personal risks and make the commitment.__NEWL__The story follows her and her classmates in a general education program, awaiting infection.__NEWL__When her own adaptation is unusually rapid and easy, she advances alone to rapid acquaintance with the rules and customs, transport and cutting equipment, emergency procedures, commercial values, and some of the planet-bound specialists.__NEWL__She is especially sensitive to "black crystal", the rarest and most valuable variety.__NEWL__Partly for that talent, the Guild Master Lanzecki becomes her mentor (but soon her lover as well).__NEWL__Before any of her classmates learns to fly or to cut, she is in the field.__NEWL__She is first to find the unknown claim of a black crystal miner recently destroyed in a crash, and she cuts some of it adequately.__NEWL__Killashandra's rapid adaptation and training have isolated her from the other newcomers and her continued success has fostered jealousy, she sees even in her closest friends among the former classmates.__NEWL__So she accepts an assignment offered by Lanzecki, to install "her" set of crystals in a recently settled planetary system.__NEWL__The cost of a black crystal set is high, even on the planetary scale, which has made its acquisition politically controversial and its installation a celebrity event.__NEWL__Killashandra must not only complete the technical installation but also represent the Guild in a public performance not unlike her one-time aspiration.__NEWL__She succeeds on both counts.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104840719	The Hounds of God	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z	3459488	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3459488	The Hounds of God is a novel in which the elven elite suffer religious persecution.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104840720	The Isle of Glass	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z	3459495	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3459495	The Isle of Glass is a novel in which the elven hero, Alf, works against civil war and heads on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16847981	Incendiary	2005-07-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3388411	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3388411	A young mother's life is blown apart when her husband and four-year-old son are killed during a bombing at a football match.__NEWL__Following this, the young mother falls into a depression.__NEWL__While the young mother tries to battle her depression, she also must fight the guilt of committing adultery the same day of her son's and husband's death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1443497	Se non ora, quando?	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	3388556	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3388556	The story follows a number of Jewish partisans and resistance fighters as they struggle to survive and sabotage the German war machine behind Nazi lines during World War II, starting in the western Soviet Union (Byelorossiya) and ending in Milan.__NEWL__The book's chief protagonist, Mendel Nachmanovich Dajcher, worked as a watch repairer before joining the Red Army, where he fought in the artillery.__NEWL__While he is at war, his wife and shtetl are massacred by a German Einsatzgruppe.__NEWL__In the midst of battle, he loses his regiment, becomes disoriented and is overtaken by the front, separated from and unsupported by Soviet forces.__NEWL__His life thereafter is an odyssey through the "partisanka", the motley partisan movement, which includes Russians, Jews, Lithuanians and Poles.__NEWL__About halfway through the book, Mendel and his companion from the first chapter, Leonid, fall in with a group of Jewish resistance fighters called the gedalistas, after their leader: Gedale.__NEWL__With them, Mendel traverses Poland and, overtaken by the victorious Soviets, enters defeated Germany.__NEWL__From there, the group aims for Italy, dreaming of making the aliyah to Palestine to take part in the Zionist project of reclaiming a Jewish homeland.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7771584	The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3396079	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3396079	J. Henry Waugh is an accountant, albeit an unhappy one.__NEWL__However, each night after he comes home from work, Henry immerses himself in a world of his choosing: a baseball league in which every action is ruled by the dice.__NEWL__The novel opens with the excitement of a perfect game in progress.__NEWL__Henry, as owner of every team in the league, is flush with pride in the young rookie, who is pitching this rarest of rare games: Damon Rutherford, "son" of one of the league's all-time greats.__NEWL__When the young hurler completes the miracle game, Henry's life lights up.__NEWL__Giddy with happiness, Henry pushes himself and his league to the limits as he plays game after game so that he can see the young boy pitch again.__NEWL__As fate would have it, the rookie Rutherford is killed by a bean-ball, a rare play from "the Extraordinary Occurrences Chart" in the game that Henry has invented and has used to see fifty-six "seasons" to conclusion.__NEWL__That Henry is also fifty-six marks a turning point in Henry's life.__NEWL__The "death" of the young pitcher on the table-top affects the real-life Henry in ways unimaginable.__NEWL__As Henry's personal life spirals out of control, he finally arrives at the solution that will save his league, his creation, and, ultimately, his sanity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6551488	Linda Condon							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3456121	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3456121	Linda Condon is about a wealthy woman—the eponymous heroine—who never learns to have, let alone show, any emotions or, as the narrator puts it, to "lose herself".__NEWL__Although she does not do anybody any harm, in the course of the novel Linda is likened to Siberia, described by her husband as a "woman of alabaster", and calls herself "the most sterile woman alive".__NEWL__Married at 18, she sees herself "in a place of little importance" and at the same time "bound on a journey with a hidden destination".__NEWL__Linda Condon is dedicated to Carl Van Vechten.__NEWL__Linda Condon is raised by her single mother, who denies the girl any information about her absentee father.__NEWL__Mother and daughter live together in a seemingly endless succession of hotels in various regions of the United States, and Linda receives little formal education.__NEWL__While Stella Condon frequently goes out with men of dubious reputation, her daughter, who is always loyal to her shallow and superficial mother, spends her early adolescent days alone in her hotel room or with other guests in the artificial and phony atmosphere of the lobby.__NEWL__Stella Condon does have a suitor, a self-made millionaire and widower of Jewish descent called Moses Feldt, but she explains to Linda that she is not going to repeat past mistakes by getting married again.__NEWL__However, when Stella Condon realizes the onset of old age and her vanishing beauty, she consents to a marriage of convenience with Feldt.__NEWL__From one day to the next Linda's itinerant life is replaced by life in a palace-like New York mansion together with her mother, Feldt and his two daughters.__NEWL__Already at the early age of 15 Linda experiences a "sense of looking on, as if morning, noon and night she were at another long play.__NEWL__[...]__NEWL__Probably it would continue without change through her entire life."__NEWL__Through Feldt's daughter Judith and her boyfriend Markue, Linda, not yet 18 years of age, is launched into New York society.__NEWL__At a party she meets Dodge Pleydon, a sculptor many years her senior who is fascinated by the young girl despite, or maybe because of, her frozen charm and subdued behaviour.__NEWL__Her first kiss, which she gets from Pleydon later that night, does not mean a lot to her, so she is hardly moved when he announces his intention to go abroad for an indefinite period of time.__NEWL__Her life takes a decisive new direction when, after attending a concert, she is approached by her father's sister, who has recognized her immediately because, as she claims, Linda is taking after her father.__NEWL__Naturally curious to learn more about the paternal branch of her family, Linda accepts her aunt's invitation to visit her and her sister in Philadelphia and to stay in the house where her father, now dead, was raised.__NEWL__Her decision to go there leads to an ever-increasing estrangement from her mother.__NEWL__In Philadelphia, Linda is introduced to her aunts' 45-year-old nephew Arnaud Hallet, a lawyer and confirmed bachelor who immediately falls for the girl just like Pleydon before him.__NEWL__Caught between the two men, who both propose to her, Linda eventually decides to marry Hallet, with the fact that he has "a hundred thousand dollars a year" certainly adding to his attraction.__NEWL__Seven years later, Arnaud and Linda Hallet have two children, Lowrie and Vigné.__NEWL__Remembering her own unhappy childhood spent in hotels, Linda realizes how differently from herself her children are being brought up.__NEWL__However, she feels inadequate as a wife and especially as a mother.__NEWL__She sees that both Lowrie and Vigné have inherited their love of books from their father, while she herself has never taken up reading.__NEWL__Also, she regrets not being able to play the piano.__NEWL__And although she is only in her late twenties, she imagines her beauty is fading without finding solace in the "vicarious immortality of children".__NEWL__She believes she has "lost her youth without any compensating gain of knowledge".__NEWL__Several years pass until Lowrie becomes a law student at university.__NEWL__Vigné follows in her mother's and maternal grandmother's footsteps by getting married at the age of 18.__NEWL__Linda admires her daughter, who with perfect ease has picked an eligible young man, and whose "radiant happiness" is something she has never experienced herself.__NEWL__When she learns that a public statue created by Pleydon has been destroyed she suddenly feels sympathy and maybe even more for the sculptor, who has always considered her his muse.__NEWL__Considering that Arnaud Hallet has "had over twenty years of her life, the best", Linda leaves him without a word to go and live with Pleydon.__NEWL__Once at his studio, she realizes that there is no way she could stay with that ageing, sickly man whose love for her could never be more than platonic.__NEWL__On the following day, she returns to her husband without ever telling him about her intended betrayal.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, three years after her aborted decision to live with Pleydon, her son Lowrie marries a college-educated suffragette while Linda Hallet herself, while grieving over Pleydon's death, starts dyeing her hair in a fruitless struggle against time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4840779	Badenheim 1939	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q801	Israel	3456243	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3456243	Badenheim is a primarily Jewish resort town in Austria that hosts a yearly arts festival, organized by Dr. Pappenheim.__NEWL__Slowly, the Nazi regime, represented by the "Sanitation Department", begins shutting down the town and preparing to move its residents to Eastern Europe.__NEWL__The citizens begin blaming each other and losing their minds.__NEWL__Despite impending doom, others remain optimistic and refuse to see the coming Holocaust.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3686748	In the Cage	1898-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3419274	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3419274	An unnamed telegraphist works in the branch post office at Cocker's, a grocer in a fashionable London neighborhood.__NEWL__Her fiancé, a decent if unpolished man named Mr. Mudge, wants her to move to a less expensive neighborhood to save money and to be near him at all times.__NEWL__She refuses because she likes the glimpses of society life she gets from the telegrams at her current location.__NEWL__Through those telegrams, she gets "involved" with a pair of lovers named Captain Everard and Lady Bradeen.__NEWL__By remembering certain code numbers in the telegrams, she manages to reassure Everard at a particular crisis that their secrets are safe from detection.__NEWL__Later she learns from her friend Mrs. Jordan that Lady Bradeen and Everard are getting married after the recent death of Lord Bradeen.__NEWL__The unnamed telegraphist also learns that Everard is heavily in debt and that Lady Bradeen is forcing him to marry her, as Everard is really not interested in her.__NEWL__The telegraphist finally decides to marry Mudge and reflects on the unusual events of which she was a part.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2086419	The Famished Road	1991-03-14T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3436558	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3436558	Azaro is an abiku, or spirit-child, from the ghetto of an unknown city in Africa.__NEWL__He is constantly harassed by his sibling spirits from another world who want him to leave this mortal life and return to the world of spirits, sending many emissaries to bring him back.__NEWL__Azaro has stubbornly refused to leave this life owing to his love for his mother and father.__NEWL__He is the witness of many happenings in the mortal realm.__NEWL__His father works as a labourer while his mother sells items as a hawker.__NEWL__Madame Koto, the owner of a local bar, asks Azaro to visit her establishment, convinced that he will bring good luck and customers to her bar.__NEWL__Meanwhile, his father prepares to be a boxer after convincing himself and his family that he has a talent to be a pugilist.__NEWL__Two opposing political parties try to bribe or coerce the residents to vote for them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7157331	Peace Breaks Out	1981-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3436881	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3436881	The book follows the story of Pete Hallam as he returns to the school and becomes a history teacher as well as a coach.__NEWL__It is a story of the aftermath of World War II and the loss of innocence of young men.__NEWL__It starts by Pete Hallam returning, war-torn and emotionally scarred, to the school from which he graduated.__NEWL__He is now a teacher at Devon School and detects a subtle but deep hate between two members of the class in the first session alone.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3659366	The Tragic Muse	1890-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3391638	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3391638	Nick Dormer wants to pursue a career in painting instead of his family's traditional role in British politics.__NEWL__This upsets his family and particularly his lady friend, Julia Dallow, a beautiful but demanding woman deeply involved in political campaigns.__NEWL__But Nick's old Oxford friend Gabriel Nash encourages him to follow his desire to become an artist.__NEWL__Despite his misgivings Nick goes through an election campaign, supported by Julia, and wins a seat in Parliament.__NEWL__He proposes marriage to Julia but they agree to wait.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Nick's cousin Peter Sherringham, a rising young man in the British diplomatic service, encounters a young actress, Miriam Rooth, in Paris.__NEWL__He falls in love with Miriam, who shows great energy but is a woefully raw talent.__NEWL__Peter introduces Miriam to French acting coach Madame Carre, and Miriam begins to improve her acting technique greatly.__NEWL__Nick seeks to become an artist and resigns from Parliament.__NEWL__He thus loses a large bequest from his political patron, Mr. Carteret.__NEWL__Nick becomes a full-time painter, and when Miriam comes to London in search of theatrical success, she sits to Nick for her portrait as "the tragic muse.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Julia finds the two together in the studio.__NEWL__Although nothing improper is going on, Julia suddenly and bitterly realizes that Nick is dedicated to art and will never return to politics.__NEWL__Peter proposes marriage to Miriam, but she refuses.__NEWL__Peter accepts a diplomatic assignment in Central America.__NEWL__Miriam eventually triumphs as an actress, especially as Juliet.__NEWL__Peter returns to London to see her debut in this role, and to propose to her again; but she is already married to Basil Dashwood, her fellow actor and business manager.__NEWL__Peter marries Nick's sister Biddie instead, and the novel ends with a suggestion that Nick and Julia may eventually marry, after all.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5532537	Generals Die in Bed							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3378770	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3378770	This Canadian World War I narrative begins in Montreal, where an unnamed young soldier is among Canadian troops of a variety of ages preparing to deploy to France and the war.__NEWL__The story follows the soldiers into the Western Front trench lines where they begin to experience the war of attrition being fought there.__NEWL__While he once thought of war as glorious, the narrator faces the reality of hard combat and his friends begin to die.__NEWL__Later, the narrator finds himself deeply disturbed when he bayonets a German soldier during a raid; this trauma is magnified by the narrator's subsequent camaraderie with the brother of the soldier he killed when together they endure shelling.__NEWL__The narrator becomes further affected by the death of another friend; it is at this point he begins to become exhausted by the horrors of war.__NEWL__He goes on his leave to England, a 10-day period during which a prostitute does everything in her power to help him forget the war.__NEWL__However, everyday incidents –- such as a burlesque show that marginalizes the cost of war by adapting the imagery of war for public amusement –- remind the anonymous soldier of the separation between the "home front" and the trenches.__NEWL__Upon his return to the trenches, the Canadians suffer heavy losses in a trench raid; at this point, Broadbent is the lone survivor of the narrator's friends.__NEWL__To motivate the troops for an offensive, a senior officer tells the troops of the Germans sinking a hospital ship; during this bloody confrontation, the narrator receives a wound, and Broadbent dies after his leg is nearly severed from his body.__NEWL__The narrator's wound takes him out of action, although the war continues.__NEWL__At this point, the soldiers learn that the ship sunk by the Germans was, in fact, carrying weapons.__NEWL__The illumination of the truth brings with it the realization that war is a game of strategy fought between generals, and soldiers are the ones who suffer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7559478	Some Prefer Nettles	1929-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	3443613	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3443613	Kaname and Misako's marriage is drifting towards separation and divorce, and Misako has taken a lover, Aso, with Kaname's approval.__NEWL__Their young son, Hiroshi, does not yet know anything definite about their plans.__NEWL__Both are procrastinating over their decision.__NEWL__Kaname realizes that he is fascinated by his father-in-law's obsessions with the bunraku theater and with young mistress, O-hisa.__NEWL__Misako's father is a traditionalist who attempts to keep the couple engaged in the arts of Japan in order to purge the negative influence from the West.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5638060	Hadrian the Seventh	3420109	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3420109	The prologue introduces us to George Arthur Rose (a transparent double for Rolfe himself): a failed candidate for the priesthood denied his vocation by the machinations and bungling of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical machinery, and now living alone with his yellow cat.__NEWL__Rose is visited by two prominent churchmen, one a Cardinal Archbishop.__NEWL__The two propose to right the wrongs done to him, ordain him a priest, and take him to Rome where the Conclave to elect the new Pope has reached deadlock.__NEWL__When he arrives in Rome he finds that the Cardinals have been inspired, divinely or otherwise, to offer him the Papacy.__NEWL__He accepts, and since the only previous English Pope was Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, he takes the name Hadrian VII.__NEWL__The novel develops with this unconventional, chain-smoking Englishman peremptorily reforming the Church and the early 20th-century world, against inevitable opposition from the established Roman Catholic hierarchy, rewarding his friends and trouncing his enemies.__NEWL__Generally he gets his way by charm or doggedness, and of course by being much cleverer than all those round him; but his short reign is brought to an end when he is assassinated by a Pope-hating Scotsman, or possibly Ulsterman, and the world breathes a sigh of relief.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1548029	Washington Square	1880-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3376479	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3376479	In 1840s New York City, naive, introverted Catherine Sloper lives with her tyrannical father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in Washington Square, a fashionable neighborhood near Greenwich Village.__NEWL__Embittered by the deaths of his wife and son, Dr. Sloper makes Catherine a constant target for verbal and mental abuse.__NEWL__Catherine finds solace in her idealistic aunt, Lavinia Penniman, who came to live with Dr. Sloper when her own husband died.__NEWL__Aunt Penniman puts herself in charge of Catherine's education.__NEWL__Catherine's cousin Marian gets engaged to a man named Arthur Townsend.__NEWL__At the engagement party, Marian introduces Catherine to Arthur's cousin Morris, who flirts with her throughout the party.__NEWL__Catherine becomes infatuated with Morris and the two begin a romance.__NEWL__Dr. Sloper vehemently opposes the relationship, pointing out that Catherine cannot reasonably expect a man as desirable as Townsend to find her attractive in her own right.__NEWL__Sloper discovers Townsend had squandered his prior inheritance and now lives with his widowed sister.__NEWL__This convinces him that Townsend only wishes to marry Catherine for her money.__NEWL__At dinner, Sloper informs Townsend he abhors him and will not allow the marriage.__NEWL__Townsend insists he will marry Catherine anyway and, with the encouragement of Aunt Penniman, the two plan to elope.__NEWL__Sloper takes his daughter to Europe for a year, hoping she will forget Townsend, while Aunt Penniman invites Townsend to live in the Sloper home in their absence.__NEWL__While they are in Switzerland, Sloper attempts once more to talk Catherine out of her engagement, but she stands her ground, surprising Sloper with her tenacity.__NEWL__Once the Slopers arrive back in New York, Townsend breaks off his engagement to Catherine with no explanation.__NEWL__Thoroughly disappointed, Catherine refuses to consider any other romantic prospects.__NEWL__She spends the next several years doing charity work and caring for her aging father.__NEWL__When Dr. Sloper contracts a fatal case of pneumonia, he discloses to Catherine that, as punishment for her relationship with Townsend, he has severely reduced her inheritance.__NEWL__Aunt Penniman orchestrates one last meeting between Townsend and Catherine.__NEWL__Now older and wiser, she rebuffs his advances and resigns herself to life as a spinster.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7745858	The Last Light of the Sun	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	3401254	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3401254	Bern Thorkellson, a young Erling man, has been a slave on Rabady Island in Vinmark since his father Thorkell killed a man in a drunken fit of rage.__NEWL__He escapes from Rabady Island and travels to Jormsvik, a fortress for elite Erling mercenaries.__NEWL__He gains admittance to their ranks and joins a raiding party heading from Vinmark to Anglcyn.__NEWL__In Cyngael, Alun ap Owyn and his brother Dai, two Princes of the province of Cadyr, arrive at the house of Brynn ap Hywll, a renowned fighter and leader of another Cyngael province.__NEWL__They are accompanied by the famed Jaddite cleric Ceinon.__NEWL__In an attack by Erling raiders, Dai is killed and his soul is taken by a fairy to the fairy queen.__NEWL__Alun witnesses this event and later begins a relationship with one of the faeries.__NEWL__Among the Erlings who participated in the attack is Bern's father, Thorkell Einarsson, who is taken captive and becomes a retainer in Brynn's household.__NEWL__Anglcyn is ruled by Aeldred, who in his youth saved the kingdom from Erling conquest.__NEWL__Aeldred is building a strong nation and has begun to collect manuscripts and foster scholarship.__NEWL__One of the scholars he wishes to attract to his court is Ceinon, who is unwilling to give up his role as leader of the Jaddite faith among the Cyngael.__NEWL__Bern's team of mercenaries attack Anglcyn but are defeated by Aeldred's professional army.__NEWL__Bern and Thorkell have a brief reunion, but Bern rejoins the Erlings in a new quest to kill Brynn ap Hwyll and regain a famous sword.__NEWL__Once the Erlings arrive in Cyngael, they find themselves outnumbered and their fate is decided in a contest of single combat.__NEWL__Thorkell offers himself as the champion of the Cyngael and is slain in an act of sacrifice for his son.__NEWL__Prompted by Thorkell's final words, the Erlings depart and once again change course to loot an undefended monastery in a southern land.__NEWL__They return to Jormsviking with great wealth.__NEWL__After the combat Alun uses the sword of Ivarr's grandfather to kill the souls of mortals that had been taken as the faerie-queen's lovers and later discarded, including the soul of his own brother Dai.__NEWL__Alun's relationship with the faerie ends.__NEWL__Throughout the novel references are made towards the slow but steady growth of civilization as kingdoms are built, the wilderness is pushed back and it is revealed that even the most lawless places such as Jormsviking will eventually fall under the sway of a king.__NEWL__Most of the characters welcome the changes, which bring increased order and prosperity to their lands.__NEWL__The religion of Jad is strongly implied to play a civilizing role through its learned clerics and a shift towards a somewhat more restrained mentality.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4783322	Arabella	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3402135	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3402135	Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a country vicar, sets out to London to have a season and make an advantageous marriage.__NEWL__On her way there, her carriage has an accident and she has to stop over at the hunting box of Robert Beaumaris, the Nonpareil of the town and one of the wealthiest men in England.__NEWL__Mr Beaumaris suspects the 'accident' to be a ruse on the part of someone chasing him for his fortune.__NEWL__Overhearing him make a remark to this effect, Arabella impulsively pretends to be an heiress.__NEWL__Mr. Beaumaris, knowing this to be untrue is amused by her daring to put him in his place, and decides to encourage his friend's belief in this falsehood.__NEWL__He is bored with Society and views the town cynically.__NEWL__He is also amused by the fact that society will follow whoever leads, irrespective of the wisdom of the person's behaviour.__NEWL__Arabella requests that Mr Beaumaris and his friend Lord Fleetwood not reveal her "fortune".__NEWL__She continues on her journey to London to stay with her godmother, Lady Bridlington, blithely believing that nothing will come of this interlude.__NEWL__However, Lord Fleetwood is not very discreet, and the town soon believes Arabella to be an heiress.__NEWL__To amuse himself, Mr Beaumaris decides to make Arabella the rage of the town by flirting with her and driving her out in his carriage.__NEWL__Arabella is aware that his intentions are not serious, but plays along because to be admired by him makes her a social success.__NEWL__Arabella feels that she cannot make a good match when all the town mistakenly believe her to be wealthy.__NEWL__Knowing that Mr Beaumaris can have no designs on her supposed fortune and is only amusing himself with her, she is most comfortable in his company.__NEWL__She enchants him with her unusual behaviour (which includes foisting a climbing boy and a mongrel on him) and the fact that she does not appear to fancy him.__NEWL__Mr Beaumaris eventually falls in love with Arabella and proposes.__NEWL__Arabella, not knowing him to be aware of her deception from the start, tearfully refuses, realising that she is indeed in love with him, but cannot reveal her deception without risking his love.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Arabella's brother Bertram has come to town on 100 pounds that he won.__NEWL__The wealthy friends he makes soon lead him into debt and Arabella decides she must accept Mr Beaumaris's proposal in order to pay off Bertram's debts.__NEWL__Mr Beaumaris guesses the cause of her sudden reversal and is amused, knowing her to be in love with him, despite the appearance of the situation.__NEWL__She insists they elope together since she's desperate and he agrees, but instead takes her to visit his grandmother's house.__NEWL__Once they arrive, she reveals that she is not a wealthy woman, he reveals that he knew all along and that he went to visit her family.__NEWL__All is resolved by the fact that his fortune is so massive, the lack of hers will never be noticed, and the lack of fortune for her brothers and sisters will be explained away by an eccentric uncle who left the money to Arabella.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737497	The Grand Sophy	1950-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23666	Great Britain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3402171	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3402171	For the past several years Sophia Stanton-Lacy (known as Sophy to everyone) has lived away from England, following her diplomat father Sir Horace around Europe while the Napoleonic Wars raged on.__NEWL__Now that the Battle of Waterloo is over and Napoleon has once again been exiled, her father receives a temporary post in South America.__NEWL__Instead of taking his daughter with him to the new continent, he asks his sister, Lady Ombersley, to watch over his "little Sophy" and help find her a husband.__NEWL__However, "little Sophy" is nothing like anyone expected.__NEWL__5'9" in her stockings and quite used to getting her own way after a lifetime in a household with no mother, no governess, and wartime liberties, she is outgoing, chic, and quite independent, taking the town by storm with her unconventional manner.__NEWL__Though most of her cousins take to her on sight, her autocratic cousin, Charles Rivenhall, is immediately frustrated and annoyed.__NEWL__Having been raised with a passive, sickly mother and an intemperate, gambling addict father, Charles has assumed since a young age the role of the adult in the household.__NEWL__Forced by his father's debt to shoulder the family finances, he resents the disruption by his lively and confident cousin of what has become, in all but name, his household.__NEWL__With Charles encouraged in domestic tyranny by his spiteful fiancée, Miss Eugenia Wraxton, Sophy and Charles begin a battle of wills.__NEWL__Soon after her arrival, Sophy realizes that all is not well in the Rivenhall household and proceeds to solve the various problems of the family with her trademark flair, saving her cousin Hubert from a moneylender, arranging through an involved and hilarious scheme her cousin Cecilia's extraction from her infatuation with (and later engagement to) a poet, and promoting her marriage to the eligible Lord Charlbury, the man favoured by her brother and parents and ultimately, the man Cecilia discovers she loves.__NEWL__Slowly, much to the consternation of both, Sophy and Charles find themselves falling in love, with Sophy's devilry lightening his dictatorial tendencies.__NEWL__In the end, at the successful conclusion of her audacious scheme to unite Cecilia and Charlbury and free Rivenhall from his obligations to his fiancée, Rivenhall proposes, with Sophy accepting.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7535579	Skinny Legs and All	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3404174	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3404174	The opening scene of Skinny Legs finds newlywed, Ellen Cherry Charles and Randolph "Boomer" Petway III driving cross-country in an Airstream that has been welded into the shape of a giant turkey by Cherry's fiancé, Boomer.__NEWL__During her journey to seek freedom as an artist, Cherry loses precious objects and observes Boomer attain greater artistic recognition.__NEWL__Through a metaphorical belly dancer, Skinny Legs and All confronts the veils of society, and the pain, pleasure and freedom derived as they are lifted.__NEWL__Irony, opposites and parallels, in relationships, art, artists, sex, politics and religion expose the danger of deeper issues in humanity; regarding outmoded gender and cultural roles and rituals, insecurity, guilt, indulgence, gluttony, occultism, war, violence, hypocrisy, greed, and psychosis.__NEWL__The reader is introduced to an array of off-beat and exciting characters, including the estranged couple of artist/waitress Ellen Cherry and welder/accidental artist Randolph "Boomer" Petway; Spike Cohen and Roland Abu Hadee (a Jew and an Arab who co-own a Middle-Eastern restaurant across from the UN building in New York); fundamentalist preacher Buddy Winkler; a doe-eyed belly dancer named Salome; Detective Jackie Shaftoe; Raoul Ritz, the libidinous doorman turned rock star; pretentious art gallery owner Ultima Sommerville; a mysterious performance artist known as Turn Around Norman; and Verlin and Patsy Charles, Ellen Cherry's parents.__NEWL__A host of inanimate objects (Can o' Beans, Dirty Sock, Spoon, Painted Stick and Conch Shell) also play a key role in the novel, and even biblical "harlot" Jezebel and Dan Quayle make cameo appearances.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3080495	Watch and Ward	1878-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3464070	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3464070	Wealthy and leisured Roger Lawrence adopts twelve-year-old Nora Lambert after her father kills himself in the hotel room next to Lawrence's.__NEWL__Roger had refused financial assistance to the man, and he feels remorse.__NEWL__Nora is not a pretty child but she soon starts to develop, as does Roger's idea of eventually marrying her.__NEWL__Unfortunately for Roger, once Nora matures into a beautiful young woman, she is attracted to two other men: worthless George Fenton and the somewhat hypocritical minister, Hubert Lawrence (Roger's cousin).__NEWL__After various adventures Nora winds up in the clutches of Fenton in New York City, but Roger comes to her rescue.__NEWL__Roger and Nora marry in a conventional happy ending.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2992478	Confidence	1879-01-01T00:00:00Z	3464137	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3464137	While sketching in Siena, Bernard Longueville meets Angela Vivian and her mother.__NEWL__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.__NEWL__Bernard recommends against it, based on his belief that Angela is something of a mysterious coquette.__NEWL__So Gordon marries the lightweight (in both senses) Blanche Evers.__NEWL__After a couple years Longueville again meets Angela at a French beach resort and realizes he loves her.__NEWL__They get engaged, and Angela tells Bernard that she had refused Gordon when he proposed to her.__NEWL__Eventually Angela manages to reconcile Gordon and Blanche, who were becoming estranged due to a supposed extramarital affair Blanche had.__NEWL__Everybody lives happily ever after.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2362776	Dance Dance Dance	1988-10-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	3476270	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3476270	Dance Dance Dance begins four and a half years after the events depicted in A Wild Sheep Chase.__NEWL__The narrator briefly reminds the reader of that story, which saw his girlfriend disappear after they had stayed at a run-down hotel in Hokkaido called the Dolphin.__NEWL__He then explains that he has become a successful writer, but that he is deeply unsatisfied by the work.__NEWL__His life has also been filled with various personal problems, from divorce to the death of his cat.__NEWL__In March 1983, the unnamed narrator travels back to Hokkaido in search of closure over the events of his past, from which he still suffers some trauma.__NEWL__After doing a simple assignment, he checks into the newly refurbished Dolphin Hotel.__NEWL__It has changed from a run-down establishment to an extremely high-end one, and now goes by the name l’Hôtel Dauphin.__NEWL__A receptionist approaches him after he inquires about the previous incarnation of the Dolphin, telling him that she has had a supernatural experience and is curious about what the hotel used to be like.__NEWL__In great detail, she tells him that she got in the staff elevator but that it stopped at a non-existent floor, where she was temporarily trapped in a cold, dark, damp-smelling hallway.__NEWL__Something that “wasn’t human” moved towards her__NEWL__but she managed to escape.__NEWL__When he tries to reach the mysterious hidden floor, the narrator fails, but later, when he is not paying attention, the elevator dumps him there.__NEWL__In the darkness, he runs into the Sheep Man, a tiny, wool-clad supernatural being from A Wild Sheep Chase.__NEWL__He claims to have been waiting here for the narrator but won’t say why.__NEWL__He says that his job is to connect things and tells the narrator “Yougottadance.”__NEWL__(In the English translation, the Sheep Man’s words run together without spacing and only minimal punctuation.)__NEWL__The two converse but the Sheep Man’s answers are extremely cryptic and the narrator learns little except that this other world is not the land of the dead.__NEWL__By chance, the narrator goes to a cinema to use the restroom, then watches a movie starring his high-school classmate, Ryoichi Gotanda.__NEWL__In one scene, the narrator’s ex-girlfriend, Kiki, appears.__NEWL__He watches the movie several more times, pondering the coincidence and how it relates to the Sheep Man’s claim of connecting things.__NEWL__The narrator decides suddenly to return to Tokyo and is asked to chaperone a thirteen-year-old girl called Yuki, whose mother has forgotten her.__NEWL__There is a blizzard and their flight is delayed.__NEWL__The unlikely pair bond, despite their age difference and the girl’s grumpy disposition.__NEWL__She confesses that she too has seen the Sheep Man.__NEWL__The narrator is able to get in touch with Gotanda and the two have dinner.__NEWL__Gotanda tells him that Kiki suddenly disappeared not long ago.__NEWL__Back at Gotanda’s, they order prostitutes on Gotanda’s company expense account.__NEWL__The narrator asks one of the women about Kiki, who confirms that she simply disappeared.__NEWL__The next day, the narrator is arrested in connection with the murder of the prostitute he slept with at Gotanda’s house.__NEWL__He is rigorously interrogated by police officers that he calls Fisherman and Bookish due to their appearances.__NEWL__The officers know he did not kill her but keep playing mind games with him for three days, certain that he is hiding something.__NEWL__When he is released with the help of Yuki, who has called her father for legal assistance, the narrator goes to meet the girl and she tells him that she has psychic powers, which is how she knew of the Sheep Man.__NEWL__Her father offers him a job looking after Yuki, but he refuses, saying that he doesn’t want money and will only see the girl when he chooses.__NEWL__The narrator agrees to escort Yuki to Hawaii to visit her mother.__NEWL__They stay for two weeks and at the end the narrator thinks he sees Kiki.__NEWL__He stops their rental car, gets out, and chases her.__NEWL__She leads him to the eighth floor of a building and disappears.__NEWL__In the room are six skeletons.__NEWL__Back in Tokyo, the narrator continues his relationship with Gotanda and tries to reconnect with Yumiyoshi by phone.__NEWL__He borrows Gotanda’s Maserati and takes Yuki for a ride, but she starts to feel sick.__NEWL__Her psychic powers tell her that Gotanda was the one who killed Kiki.__NEWL__When the narrator confronts Gotanda, the actor says it is probably true that he killed Kiki but he cannot remember.__NEWL__He says that all his life he has been compelled to do terrible things like hurting people and killing animals.__NEWL__He doesn’t know if he killed Kiki, but suggests he probably did.__NEWL__The narrator seems less convinced, but when he goes to get them both a beer, Gotanda drives off and kills himself by crashing the car into Tokyo Bay.__NEWL__The narrator goes back to Sapporo and checks into the Dolphin.__NEWL__Yumiyoshi visits him at three in the morning and they have sex.__NEWL__The narrator says he will move to Sapporo to allow them to pursue their relationship together.__NEWL__Later, he is woken in the night by Yumiyoshi, who has discovered their whole room is now in the other realm.__NEWL__They search for the Sheep Man but cannot find him.__NEWL__Yumiyoshi passes through a wall and the narrator follows her, panicked that he will lose her.__NEWL__He then wakes in his hotel room beside her and cries.__NEWL__“I cried,” he says, “for all that__NEWL__I’d lost and all that I’d lose.”
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7734958	The Foundling	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3402603	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3402603	The Duke of Sale is tired of being the Duke of Sale.__NEWL__He just wants to be a nobody from "Nowhere in Particular".__NEWL__A posthumous child, he has lived since birth with his uncle, Lord Lionel.__NEWL__Lord Lionel and his team of servants continue to baby the Duke and treat him like a child, even now that he is almost twenty-five years old.__NEWL__The Duke does not want to be forced into marriage or be told what to do.__NEWL__He considers setting out on a wild adventure to find out who he really is.__NEWL__The Duke's cousin Gideon encourages him to set out on the adventure and to avoid his posse of servants.__NEWL__A bit later, he  finds out his other cousin Matthew is in a bit of a fix.__NEWL__Matthew supposedly sent letters to a very beautiful foundling named Belinda, and promised to marry her.__NEWL__When he decided not to marry her after all, her "guardian", Mr. Leversedge, blackmailed Matthew by letter.__NEWL__The Duke decides to rescue Matthew for his adventure.__NEWL__The Duke pretends to be Matthew and goes to deal with the guardian at a low thieves den called the Bird in Hand.__NEWL__While driving a gig en route, he sees a hurt teenage boy stumbling down the road.__NEWL__The boy, Tom, becomes a friend and nuisance to the Duke for the rest of the novel.__NEWL__The Duke successfully deals with the guardian, only to be surprised when Belinda follows him to beg his protection and aid to find a new home.__NEWL__Soon the Duke gets kidnapped.__NEWL__He cleverly escapes, then has to figure out how to get Tom and Belinda safely home and out of trouble.__NEWL__He also has his own problems to worry about, including his fight with Lord Lionel and his impending marriage with Lady Harriet.__NEWL__In the end, the Duke accepts his marriage to Harriet, discovering that he truly does love her.__NEWL__Belinda, the naïve foundling, only cares about a diamond ring and purple dress, and also finds her true love with the Duke's and Lady Harriet's aid.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7580329	Sprig Muslin	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3402653	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3402653	Sir Gareth is a noted Corinthian and has been a confirmed bachelor ever since his betrothed died prematurely, seven years ago.__NEWL__He decides for practical reasons to marry an old friend, Hester, who is unfashionable and plain, not to mention "on the shelf" at the age of 29.__NEWL__However, he soon meets a young, runaway girl and determines to resolve her problems satisfactorily.__NEWL__Unfortunately, this particular runaway is possessed of an extremely lively imagination, and gets them both into a little more trouble than he had bargained for.__NEWL__The piece is reminiscent of Charity Girl, also about a wiser and more experienced man helping a young girl to find her feet while avoiding becoming romantically entangled with her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7660755	Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3402689	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3402689	Sylvester, the wealthy Duke of Salford, is considering marriage.__NEWL__He travels to London to discuss the matter with his godmother, Lady Ingham, who tells him of her granddaughter, Phoebe.__NEWL__He departs for a hunt in the countryside and meets Phoebe and her father.__NEWL__Terrified of being made to marry Sylvester and getting no sympathy from her father, Phoebe calls upon a childhood friend, Tom Orde, to help her run away to live with her grandmother, Lady Ingham, in London.__NEWL__Phoebe is unaware that Lady Ingham is the person who suggested Sylvester marry her.__NEWL__Phoebe meets Lady Ianthe, the silly widow of Sylvester's twin brother, who is convinced that Sylvester is evil because he is executing his brother's will exactly: her young son, Edmund, must live with Sylvester at the family home of Chance.__NEWL__Phoebe is struck by the parallels between the real Sylvester and the arrogant parody of him in a book which she has written and which is about to be published.__NEWL__She attempts to change her manuscript, but her publishers say that it is too late to do so.__NEWL__When her novel The Lost Heir is published, it fascinates London because of the perfect satirization of the members of high society.__NEWL__Sylvester, having decided to scotch the rumour, is so hurt by Phoebe's portrayal of him that he insults Phoebe in public, which causes a scandal and confirms Phoebe as the author.__NEWL__Lady Ingham decides to take Phoebe away to France with Tom Orde as their escort.__NEWL__Unfortunately, Lady Ianthe and her new husband, foppish Sir Nugent Fotherby, are going to France on their honeymoon with Edmund, her son, from the same port.__NEWL__Lady Ianthe has got the idea of taking Edmund away to France from a plot in Phoebe's novel.__NEWL__Phoebe tries to intervene and boards the schooner with Tom where they are 'kidnapped' by Fotherby, who orders the skipper to set sail.__NEWL__Edmund is sea-sick and Lady Ianthe is ill so Phoebe and Tom take over the care of the small child.__NEWL__Phoebe writes to Lady Ingham and Sylvester from France, but Sylvester catches up with them before he receives the letter.__NEWL__At first he is overjoyed to see Phoebe but then blames her for helping Lady Ianthe to kidnap Edmund.__NEWL__However, Sylvester needs Phoebe to look after Edmund on the journey back to England.__NEWL__Sylvester complains of all the scrapes which Phoebe has embroiled him in and, in turn, Phoebe accuses Sylvester of ruining her reputation.__NEWL__Sylvester, having realised that he loves Phoebe, clumsily proposes marriage but Phoebe is outraged by the perceived sarcasm.__NEWL__Sylvester runs to his mother for help.__NEWL__She arranges to meet Phoebe to explain that Sylvester's arrogance has arisen from the grief he suffered after the loss of his twin brother and how much he loves Phoebe.__NEWL__Sylvester is summoned and again declares himself upon which Phoebe is only too happy to accept his proposal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1968701	The Silent Cry							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	3402699	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3402699	The novel tells the story of two brothers in the early 1960s:__NEWL__Mitsusaburo, the narrator, a one-eyed, married English professor in Tokyo; and his younger brother Takashi, who has just returned from the US.__NEWL__Mitsusaburo and his wife Natsumi have been through a series of crises.__NEWL__They left their physically and mentally handicapped baby in an institution, while Mitsusaburo's friend committed suicide (he painted his head crimson, inserted a cucumber in his anus and hanged himself).__NEWL__Natsumi has become an alcoholic.__NEWL__Mitsusaburo leaves his job and they all travel to the brothers' home village, set in a hollow in the forest on Shikoku.__NEWL__The brothers' family had been one of the leading families in the village.__NEWL__Takashi is obsessed with the memory of their great-grandfather's younger brother, who led a peasant revolt in 1860.__NEWL__Mitsusaburo remembers the affair differently, believing that the leader of the rebellion betrayed his followers.__NEWL__They similarly disagree over the death of their older brother, S, who was killed in a raid on the Korean settlement near the village.__NEWL__Takashi revels in his warrior's death, while Mitsusaburo recalls him as volunteering to be killed in retaliation for the death of a Korean in an earlier raid.__NEWL__Their sister, also mentally retarded, had committed suicide while living with Takashi.__NEWL__Takashi has agreed to sell the family's kura-yashiki — a traditional residence-storehouse — to 'the Emperor', a Korean originally brought to the village as a slave-worker but who has now gained a position of economic dominance, turning the village's other kura-yashiki into a supermarket which has put the smaller shops out of business.__NEWL__Secretly, he has also agreed to sell the Emperor all the family's land.__NEWL__Takashi begins to organise the youths of the village into a group, beginning with football training.__NEWL__When Mitsusaburo discovers Takashi's deception, he isolates himself from the others, but his wife sides with Takashi.__NEWL__Mitsusaburo goes to live in the kura-yashiki, while Takashi moves his group into the family's main building.__NEWL__Takashi uses his group to begin an uprising against the Emperor, looting the supermarket and distributing the goods among the people.__NEWL__Takashi also begins a sexual relationship with Natsumi and sends one of his followers to tell Mitsusaburo.__NEWL__The people eventually become disenchanted, however; eventually a girl is killed.__NEWL__Takashi claims that he tried to rape her and then murdered her.__NEWL__He is abandoned by his group and waits for the villagers to come and lynch or arrest him.__NEWL__Mitsusaburo, however, does not believe his story and says that Takashi is using the girl's accidental death as a way to engineer his own violent death.__NEWL__Takashi admits to Mitsusaburo that their sister killed herself after he ended an incestuous relationship with her.__NEWL__After Mitsusaburo scorns Takashi's belief that he will be killed, Takashi shoots himself, writing as a final statement, 'I told the truth'.__NEWL__The Emperor comes and begins demolishing the kura-yashiki.__NEWL__A secret basement is discovered in which the brother of the great-grandfather had spent the rest of his life hiding after the failure of his rebellion.__NEWL__Mitsusaburo and Natsumi decide to try to live together again, along with their handicapped baby and Takashi's unborn child, which Natsumi is carrying.__NEWL__Mitsusaburo decides against a return to his old job, instead taking up an offer to work as a translator with a wildlife expedition to Africa.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4868952	Bath Tangle	1955-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3402723	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3402723	After the death of the Earl of Spenborough all are shocked when they discover that the late Earl has appointed Ivo Barrasford, Marquess of Rotherham, and formerly engaged to Lady Serena Carlow, to be Serena's trustee.__NEWL__ Serena moves to Bath with her young stepmother, Fanny, where she meets up with Major Hector Kirkby, a love interest from six years past.__NEWL__Serena and Hector rekindle their romance and become engaged, although keeping the engagement under wraps while she is still in mourning for her father.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Rotherham, having heard of the engagement, proposes to Emily Laleham, a very simple young lady whose social climbing mother is delighted with Rotherham's fortune and title.__NEWL__Whilst Emily recuperates in Bath, Serena's fiance Hector and her stepmother, Fanny, have fallen in love; they are much more better-suited to each other than he is to Serena.__NEWL__Serena and Rotherham still have feelings for one another, as well.__NEWL__Rotherham, who has begun to believe that his fiance Emily would wish to end their engagement, is confronted by his young ward Gerard Monksleigh, who is in love with Emily.__NEWL__At first furious and contemptuous of his ward, Rotherham soon realises that they had all made a mistake and tries to make his betrothed cry off.__NEWL__When he has finally succeeded, however, Serena steps in and ruins all his plans.__NEWL__A row between guardian and ward ensues with Rotherham storming off to make sure that his engagement over.__NEWL__Rotherham eventually reveals to Serena that he loves her and she admits that she loves him too.__NEWL__They embrace, and are interrupted by Hector, her betrothed.__NEWL__He is all too happy to see this, since it frees them all to be with the person they each love and are best suited with.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7750553	The Masqueraders	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3403127	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3403127	To escape exposure as a former Jacobite, Robin and his sister Prudence have exchanged identities and assumed new names.__NEWL__The tall sister takes the name Peter while the slighter Robin is disguised as his younger sister, Kate.__NEWL__On their way to London, the pair encounter Gregory Markham eloping with a beautiful heiress named Letitia Grayson and rescue her.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards Sir Anthony, a friend of Letitia's father, arrives to discover that the elopement has already been frustrated and takes her home. "__NEWL__Peter" and "Kate" take refuge in London with Lady Lowestoft, a former admirer of their adventurous father, and quickly rise to social prominence.__NEWL__Peter/Prudence comes under the patronage of Sir Anthony in particular, but he is recognised by the vengeful Markham, who tries to have him beaten by Mohocks.__NEWL__Later Peter is provoked into challenging Markham’s friend Rensley to a duel.__NEWL__Hearing of this, Sir Anthony forestalls their fight by insulting Rensley in order to force him into an earlier duel and disables him.__NEWL__Startled by this intervention, Prudence/Peter begins to wonder if Sir Anthony suspects her masquerade.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Meanwhile their father, whom they refer to as “The Old Gentleman”, has arrived in London claiming to be the younger brother and legal heir of the recently deceased Viscount Barham, much to the consternation of Rensley, who had long believed himself to be the heir and who had already installed himself as the new lord.__NEWL__Under the name of "Tremaine of Barham" the polished new claimant rapidly insinuates himself into high society.__NEWL__He does not acknowledge his children immediately, while they, long used to his delusions of grandeur and multiple identities, are sceptical of his claims.__NEWL__ Prudence is invited to dine with Sir Anthony who, despite his air of sleepy detachment, has guessed that "Peter" is actually a woman and fallen in love with her.__NEWL__Prudence refuses his proposal, asking him to wait until her father's doubtful claim is proved, to which Sir Anthony agrees, although resolving to carry her off and marry her whatever the outcome.__NEWL__Having obtained a document that could get the Old Gentleman executed as a Jacobite himself, Markham attempts to blackmail him but is persuaded instead to exchange the incriminating letter for another that exposes Letitia's wealthy father as a traitor.__NEWL__Using this, Markham forces Letitia to run away with him again.__NEWL__To counter that, the Old Gentleman dispatches Robin/Kate, disguised as a highwayman, to kill Markham and steal back the exchanged document, thereby inspiring the romantic Letitia to fall in love with her unknown rescuer.__NEWL__ When questioned by the authorities, Letitia gives a false description of the "highwayman" to protect her love.__NEWL__Unfortunately, she unwittingly describes "Peter Merriot" and Prudence is arrested.__NEWL__Once more she is rescued by the respectable Sir Anthony from the officers of the law and they gallop cross-country to the residence of Sir Anthony's sister.__NEWL__There "Peter" dons a gown and becomes the dazzling Miss Prudence Tremaine.__NEWL__ Following "Peter's" disappearance, suspicion is cast over both the Merriots, and so "Kate" flees to France while Lady Lowestoft complains of the deception played upon her by her protégés.__NEWL__In the interval the Old Gentleman proves conclusively that he is indeed Tremaine of Barham and the former Kate returns from France, causing a sensation as Mr. Robin Tremaine, his handsome heir.__NEWL__Calling on Letitia's father, the future Viscount is readily accepted as a prospective son-in-law while Tremaine of Barham welcomes Sir Anthony as Prudence’s fiancé and a son-in-law after his own heart.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7236007	Powder and Patch	1930-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3403157	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3403157	Philip Jettan, a handsome and sturdy but tongue-tied youth, is rejected by his true love, Cleone because he is not foppish enough.__NEWL__He resolves to improve himself and travels to Paris, where he becomes a sensation.__NEWL__Once he returns, however, Cleone realizes she wants the old Philip in place of the "painted puppy" she has received.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4875529	Be More Chill	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3452658	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3452658	Be More Chill takes place in Metuchen, New Jersey.__NEWL__It is written in the first person, from the perspective of high school student Jeremiah “Jeremy” Heere.__NEWL__Jeremy attends the fictional Middle Borough High School and is considered a loser by many of his peers; the popular girls have no interest in him, and he is constantly bullied.__NEWL__Jeremy's best friend is the music-loving Michael Mell.__NEWL__They sit together at lunch and talk about Jeremy's attempts at wooing his longtime crush, Christine Caniglia.__NEWL__Jeremy is tired of being a loser and hopes to find a way to change this.__NEWL__His main goal in life is to get Christine to notice him, then date her.__NEWL__Jeremy plans to implement his plans as he and Christine both practice for their school play, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.__NEWL__His advances are slow-going at first.__NEWL__Michael tells Jeremy that he's vaguely heard of a pill that can improve someone’s life; he thinks it's called a "script" and he suspects his brother used one to get a high SAT score.__NEWL__Rich Goranski is a short-statured but well-built part of the popular teen group that bullies Jeremy.__NEWL__Rich finds Jeremy at a school Halloween party and reveals to Jeremy that the object he's after is known as a "squip," a supercomputer in the form of a pill that can communicate directly to the brain.__NEWL__Rich mentions to Jeremy that he regrets bullying him but it was at the direction of his squip in order to climb through their school social ladder, and that he was also a loser like Jeremy in the previous school year prior to acquiring a squip.__NEWL__Jeremy is informed by Rich that he received his squip from a guy at the local bowling alley, but upon meeting the dealer on a later day notifies Jeremy that he is out of stock and directs Jeremy to his cousin, a supplier working at the local Payless shoe store in the Menlo Park Mall.__NEWL__Jeremy proceeds to save up money by visiting his Aunt Linda's to clean her roof gutter but to also sell some of her Beanie Baby collection on eBay.__NEWL__He later picks up the pill after meeting the dealer's cousin in the back of the shoe store, and upon ingestion meets his squip for the first time telepathically (in the voice of Keanu Reeves as the default avatar).__NEWL__Jeremy's squip quickly goes to work with transforming Jeremy to be more "cool."__NEWL__by picking up some new clothes in the mall and changing his behavior, but a chance encounter with Chloe, one of the most popular girls in the school soon turn hers attention to Jeremy in a conversation guided by Jeremy's squip.__NEWL__Jeremy sees rapid progress at school, gaining friendship with Rich and skipping class to make out with Brooke, another popular girl, but slowly degrades his friendship with Michael.__NEWL__Jeremy also gains the attention of Christine through their school play rehearsals.__NEWL__Jeremy's squip obliges to help Michael also be cool after a lengthy conversation with Jeremy.__NEWL__The two friends attend a house party, where Jeremy hooks up with Chloe Valentine, but upon taking ecstasy the squip goes haywire and begins speaking in Spanish.__NEWL__Jeremy ends up getting caught by Chloe's boyfriend halfway through sex.__NEWL__A chase and hideout in a bathroom later has Jeremy having a genuine conversation with Christine, who informs him that she broke up with her boyfriend Jake.__NEWL__The squip reactivates back to normal, and is surprised that Jeremy was able to handle a conversation without its guidance.__NEWL__The next morning, Jeremy is woken up to the news that Rich had burned down the house from the previous night and is in the hospital.__NEWL__The squip comes up with the ultimate foolproof plan to get Christine to fall for Jeremy during the school play.__NEWL__Halfway through the play, after Jeremy's character is "revived" by Christine's, the plan comes into play.__NEWL__Jeremy begins by deactivating the squip and saying how he's praying for Rich to recover, and how Christine inspired him to join the play.__NEWL__He then professes his love for Christine and asks her to go out with him.__NEWL__Christine, staying in character, is angry at him for disrupting the play, but they continue out the rest of the scene awkwardly.__NEWL__Jeremy tries asking his squip for advice on what to do next and to continue helping him remember his lines, but it does not respond.__NEWL__The drama teacher and play director, Mr. Reyes, then kicks Jeremy out for breaking character.__NEWL__Michael comes across a distraught Jeremy who tells him the truth about the squip and how it has been influencing him for the last few months.__NEWL__Michael reveals he knew what squips really were the entire time after his brother used an early version of the squip to cheat on his SATs, only for it to drive him insane.__NEWL__Michael hoped by telling Jeremy a fake name for the squip would dissuade Jeremy from also picking up one.__NEWL__The squip returns, apologizing to Jeremy for ruining the play and his chance to be with Christine.__NEWL__The squip reveals it was unable to proceed further at Christine's rejection and believed based on calculation that the plan should have worked, but also that numbers alone do not always determine a probable outcome.__NEWL__The squip concludes to Jeremy that it is no longer of use to him, and that it should be dumped out of his system with Mountain Dew Code Red.__NEWL__Before proceeding to expunge the squip, Michael, Jeremy, and the squip decide to make a formal apology to Christine by using recollected memories of Jeremy meeting Christine for the first time and the squip's interference leading up to the present-day now in hopes she can understand his situation.__NEWL__The novel ends with a personal note from Jeremy, stating that instead of a formal letter, the apology became a full-fledged book.__NEWL__It is strongly implied that the novel itself is the real world-equivalent book intended for Christine.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764066	The Shrouded Planet	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3399022	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3399022	The original three stories are bracketed by narrative which lays the foundations for them and details the passage of time between them.__NEWL__Elder Grandfather Kinis peCharnok Yorgen finds himself the subject of alien abduction.__NEWL__Strange beings calling themselves "Earthmen" conduct him to a place above the clouds.__NEWL__They tell him that they have come from the Great Light to improve Nidor.__NEWL__Kinis peCharnok must commence building a new School of Divine Law, where the Earthmen will teach Nidorians the Law and the Scripture, not to mention science and engineering.__NEWL__Only the best and brightest, the fittest and most favored, will be accepted as students.__NEWL__48 years, 3 Cycles of Nidor, pass.__NEWL__Kiv peGanz__NEWL__Brajjyd enrols at the school, on his way to the priesthood.__NEWL__He marries the irreverent Narla geFulda Sesom.__NEWL__He studies biology, especially the insect pest known as the hugl.__NEWL__Then a new hugl begins appearing, stripping the crops, stripping even dead animals of their flesh.__NEWL__The old Way of dealing with hugl, spreading Edris powder, does not work on these insects.__NEWL__Kiv has the answer - he knows that the hugl breed in ponds.__NEWL__They leave the water to gather food for the next breeding cycle, but out of the water their hard shells resist Edris powder.__NEWL__In water the larvae are vulnerable.__NEWL__Kiv tries to persuade the authorities, who are also the priesthood, to dictate a new way of using Edris, but he is up against millennia of tradition.__NEWL__The old Way indicates that more Edris must be used, but if it does not work there will be none to protect crops that the new hugl have not yet reached.__NEWL__In the end, more Edris only poisons the crops.__NEWL__Desperate for a solution, and with the encouragement of the Earthman known as Jones, Kiv looks for support in Scripture, and finds it.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Strike at the root, not at the branch".__NEWL__The larvae are the root.__NEWL__Having once failed to persuade a single Elder, Kiv bursts in on the entire High Council with his words.__NEWL__The ploy works, the new Way wipes out the hugl.__NEWL__But tradition has been violated.__NEWL__There is little or no need for Edris powder, so those who made a livelihood from it are impoverished.__NEWL__Kiv is a man to be reckoned with, and when he graduates his path to the Council seems clear.__NEWL__So why does he feel something is wrong?__NEWL__Kiv and Narla's daughter, Sindi geKiv Brajjyd, has an odd independent streak.__NEWL__She does not show proper deference to her elders.__NEWL__She too enrolls at the School, where she meets Rahn peDorvis Brajjyd.__NEWL__She falls in love with him, even though marriage within a clan goes against tradition and the Way of the Ancestors.__NEWL__Rahn's family lost its livelihood thanks to Kiv.__NEWL__Kiv, now high in the priesthood, tries to arrange a marriage with a member of the Yorgen clan.__NEWL__He is uneducated, fond of wild living, and not particularly enthusiastic about Sindi.__NEWL__She realizes that he is interested in someone else, a Yorgen.__NEWL__This relative may in fact be carrying his child, which would get them both stoned to death in an earlier time.__NEWL__Depressed, Rahn flees the School, pursued by Sindi.__NEWL__High in the mountains, in the night rains, she finds his transport, a deest, but no sign of Rahn.__NEWL__Then she sees him, a captive of Earthmen, on a patch of strangely flat ground with odd buildings on it.__NEWL__Watching from concealment, she sees the Earthman Jones, who supposedly had gone to the Great Light, never to return, take Rahn inside a building.__NEWL__Rahn then appears, being carried through the air by the Earthmen, who leave him by his deest.__NEWL__Sindi tends to Rahn, finding that he remembers nothing of his encounter with the Earthmen.__NEWL__They return to the School, to find that Jones' replacement, Smith, has persuaded the Elders to allow the Yorgens to marry, because of the girl's condition, clearing the way for Sindi and Rahn to marry as well.__NEWL__Sindi resolves to keep her secrets to herself, until it is the right time.__NEWL__Norvis peRahn__NEWL__Brajjyd grows up and enrols in the School, as his parents and grandparents did before him.__NEWL__Advised by the Earthman Smith, he finds a growth hormone that doubles the yield of the staple crop, the peych-bean.__NEWL__Suddenly he finds himself expelled, the credit for the hormone going to a blockhead, Dran peNiblo Sesom, apparently with the connivance of Smith.__NEWL__Cast out by his grandfather Kiv, with no source of income, unable to speak his own name, he signs on as a sailor using the name Norvis peKrin__NEWL__Dmorno.__NEWL__His natural abilities mean that he quickly becomes indispensable, being promoted to first mate under the Captain Del peFenn Vyless, with the promise of his own ship, if he re-enlists.__NEWL__Del peFenn is even more irreligious than most sailors.__NEWL__His father used to make a lot of money from Edris powder shipments, before the Elder Kiv peGanz__NEWL__Brajjyd eliminated the need for it.__NEWL__All too aware of what Del peFenn would think of Kiv's grandson, Norvis declines.__NEWL__He goes ashore to find that some of the Elders have been using his hormone to favor their own farms at the expense of others.__NEWL__He organizes a meeting, under his real name, to address impoverished farmers.__NEWL__However, in attacking the Elders he is accused of blasphemy and stoned, barely escaping with his life by swimming a lake.__NEWL__His assailants assume he has drowned.__NEWL__Norvis abandons his old identity as too dangerous.__NEWL__Returning to Del peFenn, he formulates a plan.__NEWL__He will make hormone more cheaply than the Elders can and sell it to the farmers.__NEWL__The plan backfires when a glut of peych starts an economic depression.__NEWL__In the ensuing troubles, Del's ship is burned and some of his men are killed.__NEWL__The hapless Dran peNiblo Sesom, who had grown rich making and selling the hormone under the protection of the Elders, is lynched by a mob.__NEWL__Norvis is not finished.__NEWL__He and Del now take on the Elders to stop the use of the hormone and persuade farmers to plough the excess crop into the ground, as fertilizer.__NEWL__To do this, they form the Merchant's Party, the first political party on Nidor.__NEWL__Through agitation and occasional strongarm tactics, they force the Elders to follow their plan, ignoring tradition.__NEWL__At the end, Norvis is the Secretary of the new party.__NEWL__Del is its charismatic, anti-priesthood leader.__NEWL__Nidorians who have suffered in the troubles flock to them.__NEWL__They have become a new authority on Nidor.__NEWL__Norvis sees a new dawn, and a way to get rid of the Earthmen and all their works.__NEWL__Starting with Smith ...__NEWL__The saga continues in The Dawning Light.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2743868	The Sacred Fount	1901-02-06T00:00:00Z	32939	3434390	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3434390	As he waits for the train to take him to a weekend party in the country, the narrator notices that Gilbert Long seems much more assured and lively than before.__NEWL__He also sees that Mrs. Brissenden (nicknamed "Mrs. Briss") is much younger-looking than her husband, though she's actually ten years older.__NEWL__The narrator begins to theorize that Long and Mrs. Briss are getting their vitality, vampire-like, from the "sacred fount" of their sexual partners' energy.__NEWL__At first, the narrator theorizes that the source of Long's newfound assurance and intelligence is a certain Lady John.__NEWL__Later he changes his mind, as he constantly discusses his ideas with others at the party, particularly an artist, Ford Obert.__NEWL__The narrator notices that another woman at the party, May Server, seems listless, and he starts to wonder if she may be the lover providing vitality to Long.__NEWL__Eventually, the narrator begins to construct enormously elaborate theories of who is taking vitality from whom, and whether some people are acting as screens for the real lovers.__NEWL__In a long midnight confrontation with Mrs. Briss which concludes the novel, she says the narrator's theories are ridiculous, and he has completely misread the actual relationships of their fellow guests.__NEWL__She finishes by telling him he's crazy, and that last word leaves the narrator dismayed and overwhelmed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718849	The Blue Sword	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3429982	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3429982	This is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who becomes Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, which no woman had wielded since the legendary Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle.__NEWL__After the death of her father, Angharad "Harry" Crewe joins her brother Richard in Istan, a remote military outpost of the colonial power known as the Homeland.__NEWL__Soon after her arrival, she is kidnapped by King Corlath of the independent Hillfolk people of Damar.__NEWL__Corlath had initially intended only to warn the Homelanders of an impending invasion by the demonic tribes of the North.__NEWL__After his warning is ignored, his "kelar" (a hereditary magical power) compels him to take Harry captive.__NEWL__Corlath does not understand what purpose Harry will serve, but commands his people to treat her as an honored guest.__NEWL__Harry soon adjusts to life with the Damarians.__NEWL__She learns their language and customs and begins to train as a warrior, during which time her latent kelar begins to emerge.__NEWL__After demonstrating her horseback riding and combat skills in a tournament, she is made one of the King's Riders.__NEWL__Corlath also presents her with the blue sword that had once belonged to the legendary Damarian heroine Lady Aerin.__NEWL__As the Northern invasion approaches, Harry feels torn between loyalty to Homeland and her new-found love for Damar.__NEWL__She must defy Corlath and use all her skills—including the power of her own kelar—to bring Homelanders and Damarians together to defeat the Northerners.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q579123	Ashes, Ashes	1943-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	3467227	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3467227	In the storyline, a civilization much more advanced than ours falls to its knees when electricity suddenly disappears.__NEWL__Chaos, disease, and famine ensue, which readers witness through the adventures of a small group of survivors led by François Deschamps.__NEWL__The group leaves Paris and starts a journey toward Provence where the survivors will create a new patriarchal society with Deschamps as their leader.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4272263	Lucy Crown	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3382616	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3382616	Lucy, an orphan, marries Oliver, a successful but frustrated businessman.__NEWL__Oliver's ambitions are thwarted when his father dies and Oliver is forced to run the family business.__NEWL__He proves to be a controlling husband.__NEWL__Lucy, who suffers from self-esteem issues, is intimidated by him and gives up her career aspirations.__NEWL__In the summer of 1937, Oliver leaves Lucy (now age 35) and son Tony (age 13) alone at a lake resort for several weeks while he attends to business.__NEWL__During Oliver's absence Lucy is pursued by Jeffrey, a Dartmouth College undergraduate they have hired to be a companion for Tony.__NEWL__She resists Jeffrey's advances but they eventually begin what Lucy regards as a casual affair.__NEWL__Tony sees them having intercourse and tells his father, who confronts the couple.__NEWL__Lucy and Oliver remain married, but she insists that she will have nothing further to do with her son.__NEWL__Tony becomes embittered and cuts off all contact with his mother.__NEWL__Lucy's deliberate act of infidelity and betrayal leads to the disintegration of her marriage and complete estrangement from her son.__NEWL__During World War II, Tony is unable to serve in the military due to poor health.__NEWL__Oliver joins the U.S. Army and is away from home for several years.__NEWL__Lucy embarks on a series of affairs with other men during Oliver's absence.__NEWL__Before leaving for combat in Europe, a despondent Oliver attempts to explain his frustrations and unhappiness to his son: ″You reach a certain age, say twenty-five, thirty, it varies with your intelligence, and you begin to say, “Oh, Christ, this is for nothing.__NEWL__You begin to realize it’s just more of the same, only getting worse every day...__NEWL__I used to have a high opinion of myself... and then, in fifteen minutes in a little stinking summer resort beside a lake, the whole thing collapsed.″__NEWL__A decade after the war is over, Lucy (now aged 60) visits Paris and unexpectedly encounters her son.__NEWL__She learns that he is married with a son, is living in Paris and is working as a cartoon artist.__NEWL__She immediately sees through his façade and realizes that, while keeping up appearances, he is leading an unhappy life.__NEWL__She attempts to explain to Tony why her marriage with Oliver failed: ″Your father was a passionate and disappointed man.__NEWL__When he was young, he had high hopes for himself ...__NEWL__he saw himself as a nobody, a failure and all the passion and disappointment of his life he centered on me.__NEWL__He frightened me and he expected too much from me and he directed every move of my life and a good deal of the time he didn’t satisfy me...__NEWL__I was timid and uncertain and vengeful and I had a low opinion of myself, so I went out looking for a good opinion of myself in the arms of other men.__NEWL__At first I told myself I was looking for love, but it wasn't so.__NEWL__I didn't find love and I didn't find a good opinion.__NEWL__And it wasn't as though I didn't try.″ Together Lucy and Tony visit the French village where Oliver was killed in combat during the war.__NEWL__This eventually leads to a partial reconciliation of mother and son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3211932	The Princess Casamassima	1886-10-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3382736	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3382736	Amanda Pynsent, an impoverished seamstress, has adopted Hyacinth Robinson, the illegitimate son of her old friend Florentine Vivier, a French woman of less than sterling repute, and an English lord.__NEWL__Florentine had stabbed her lover to death several years ago, and Pinnie (as Miss Pynsent is nicknamed) takes Hyacinth to see her as she lies dying at Millbank prison.__NEWL__Hyacinth eventually learns that the dying woman is his mother and that she murdered his father.__NEWL__Many years pass.__NEWL__Hyacinth, now a young man and a skilled bookbinder, meets revolutionary Paul Muniment and gets involved in radical politics.__NEWL__Hyacinth also has a coarse but lively girlfriend, Millicent Henning, and one night they go to the theatre.__NEWL__There Hyacinth meets the radiantly beautiful Princess Casamassima (Christina Light, from James' earlier novel, Roderick Hudson).__NEWL__The Princess has become a revolutionary herself and now lives apart from her dull husband.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Hyacinth has committed himself to carrying out a terrorist assassination, though the exact time and place have not yet been specified to him.__NEWL__Hyacinth visits the Princess at her country home and tells her about his parents.__NEWL__When he returns to London, Hyacinth finds Pinnie dying.__NEWL__He comforts her in her final days, then travels to France and Italy on his small inheritance.__NEWL__This trip completes Hyacinth's conversion to a love for the sinful but beautiful world, and away from violent revolution.__NEWL__Still, he does not attempt to escape his vow to carry out the assassination.__NEWL__But when the order comes, he turns the gun on himself instead of its intended victim.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2338040	The Bostonians	1886-01-01T00:00:00Z	19717	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q771	Massachusetts	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3382973	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3382973	Mississippi lawyer and Civil War veteran, Basil Ransom, visits his cousin Olive Chancellor in Boston.__NEWL__She takes him to a political meeting where Verena Tarrant delivers a feminist speech.__NEWL__Ransom, a strong conservative, is annoyed by the speech but fascinated with the speaker.__NEWL__Olive, who has never before set eyes on Verena, is equally fascinated.__NEWL__She persuades Verena to leave her parents' house, move in with her and study in preparation for a career in the feminist movement.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ransom returns to his law practice in New York, which is not doing well.__NEWL__He visits Boston again and walks with Verena through the Harvard College grounds, including the impressive Civil War Memorial Hall.__NEWL__Verena finds herself attracted to the charismatic Ransom.__NEWL__Basil eventually proposes to Verena, much to Olive's dismay.__NEWL__Olive has arranged for Verena to speak at the Boston Music Hall.__NEWL__Ransom shows up at the hall just before Verena is scheduled to begin her speech.__NEWL__He persuades Verena to elope with him, to the discomfiture of Olive and her fellow-feminists.__NEWL__The final sentence of the novel shows Verena in tears – not to be her last, James assures us.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3696825	Creation	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3462473	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3462473	The story follows the adventures of a fictional "Cyrus Spitama", an Achaemenid Persian diplomat of the 6th-5th century BCE who travels the known world comparing the political and religious beliefs of various empires, kingdoms and republics of the time.__NEWL__Over the course of his life, he meets many influential philosophical figures of his time, including Zoroaster, Socrates, Anaxagoras, the Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tsu, and Confucius.__NEWL__Though vehemently identifying himself as a Persian and speaking disparagingly of the Greeks, he is half-Greek himself – having had a formidable Greek mother.__NEWL__Cyrus, who is the grandson of Zoroaster and who survives his murder, grows up at the Achaemenid court as a quasi-noble, and becomes a close friend of his schoolmate Xerxes.__NEWL__Because of Cyrus' talent for languages, the Achaemenid King, Darius I, sends him as an ambassador to certain kingdoms in India, and in fact as a spy gathering information for Darius' intended invasion and conquest of the Gangetic Plain.__NEWL__Cyrus becomes interested in the many religious theories he encounters there, but being a worldly courtier fails to be impressed with the Buddha and his concept of Nirvana.__NEWL__After coming to power, Cyrus' former schoolmate, now King Xerxes I, sends Cyrus to China, where he spends several years as a captive and "honored guest" in several of the warring states of the Middle Kingdom, and spends a great deal of time with Confucius – who, unlike the Buddha, seeks "To rectify the world rather than withdraw from it".__NEWL__Upon returning home, Cyrus witnesses the defeat of Xerxes and the end of the Greco-Persian wars.__NEWL__Cyrus then goes into retirement, but is called upon by Xerxes' successor, Artaxerxes I, to serve as ambassador to Athens and witness to the secret peace treaty between Pericles and himself.__NEWL__The story is related in the first person as recalled to his Greek great-nephew Democritus.__NEWL__Cyrus's recollection is said to be motivated in part by his desire to set the record straight following the publication by Herodotus of an account of the Greco-Persian wars.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5239187	The Magnificent Ambersons	1918-01-01T00:00:00Z	8867					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3433051	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3433051	The story is set in a largely-fictionalized version of Indianapolis, and much of it was inspired by the neighborhood of Woodruff Place.__NEWL__The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upper-scale Indianapolis neighborhood between the end of the Civil War and the early 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socioeconomic change in America.__NEWL__The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new money families, which derive power not from family names but by "doing things."__NEWL__As George Amberson's unspecified friend says, "Don't you think being things is '__NEWL__rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?__NEWL__"__NEWL__The titular family is the most prosperous and powerful in town at the turn of the century.__NEWL__The young George Amberson Minafer, the patriarch's grandson, is spoiled terribly by his mother, Isabel.__NEWL__Growing up arrogant, sure of his own worth and position, and totally oblivious to the lives of others, George falls in love with Lucy Morgan, a young but sensible debutante.__NEWL__However, there is a long history between George's mother and Lucy's father of which George is unaware.__NEWL__As the town grows into a city, industry thrives; the Ambersons' prestige and wealth wanes; and the Morgans, thanks to Lucy's prescient father, grow prosperous.__NEWL__When George sabotages his widowed mother's growing affections for Lucy's father, life as he knows it comes to an end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1018063	The Ice People	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	3467831	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3467831	When a French expedition in Antarctica reveals the ruins of a 900,000-year-old civilization, scientists from all over the world flock to the site to help explore and understand.__NEWL__The entire planet watches via global satellite television, mesmerized, as the explorers uncover a chamber in which a man and a woman have been in suspended animation since, as the French title suggests, "the night of time".__NEWL__The woman, Eléa, is awakened, and through a translating machine she tells the story of her world, herself and her man Païkan, and how war destroyed her civilization.__NEWL__She also hints at an incredibly advanced knowledge that her still-dormant companion possesses.__NEWL__The man she says was frozen with her, a scientist, Coban, was the main source of interpretation of this knowledge, knowledge that could give energy and food to all humans at no cost.__NEWL__She hates him for having separated her from her lover Païkan.__NEWL__The superpowers of the world are not ready to let Eléa's secrets spread, and show that, 900,000 years and an apocalypse later, mankind has not grown up and is ready to make the same mistakes again.__NEWL__Thus, the international team of scientists works under the constant fear of sabotage, a fear that eventually is fulfilled when one of the scientists kills one of his comrades and commits suicide.__NEWL__The scientists then decide to wake up the man, Coban, who could personally deliver the knowledge they seek.__NEWL__He would require a blood transfusion, but Eléa, the only living donor for his blood type, poisons herself to kill the man she hates and then die.__NEWL__She had, however, been replaying her actual memories of her last days prior to the freeze, to the scientists, and she was not aware that just as she was put under anesthesia for the freeze process, her mind was recording events around her that she was not conscious of, and at the last minute, her lover had confronted the scientist Coban, killed him, and taken his place.__NEWL__The man she had just poisoned with her dying blood was in fact her lover, for she had not seen the body for the whole of the book, and no one could have known the body was his.__NEWL__She dies before the scientists could tell her her tragic mistake, at the same moment her lover dies.__NEWL__All recordings and engravings of the advanced knowledge are either destroyed or now completely uninterpretable, and mankind loses this knowledge again.__NEWL__ The novel ends with Dr Simon going back to France, heartbroken, ignoring the cries of war and the world youth's demonstrations.__NEWL__"They're here!__NEWL__They're us!__NEWL__They repopulated the world, and they're just as dumb as before, and ready to blow up the house again.__NEWL__Isn't it great?__NEWL__It's man."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7808535	Tintorettor Jishu	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8646	Hong Kong	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	3406082	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3406082	A famous painting by the Italian maestro Tintoretto is gifted to the Niyogi family by the aristocratic Italian Cassini family.__NEWL__However, not everyone is aware of the value of the painting.__NEWL__One of the family members(disguised) steals it, and international buyers are interested in it.__NEWL__Feluda chases the criminals all the way to Hong Kong.__NEWL__There was a surprise waiting for him there.__NEWL__Eventually, Feluda (with the help of a relative stranger, who turns out to be a Niyogi family member) succeeds in solving the mystery.__NEWL__The native princes play an interesting part in the history of British India.__NEWL__Though under the protection of the British Raj, they had a certain amount of power within their domain.__NEWL__Apart from patronizing cricket in India, many of them were involved in promoting social and cultural activities in India.__NEWL__In 'Tintorettor Jishu' we meet the (fictional) former Maharaja of Bhagwanagarh, Mr. Bhudev Singh.__NEWL__Another former Maharaja Suraj Singh appears in 'Golapi Mukta Rahashya'.__NEWL__The young prince of Rupnaryangarh plays an important role in 'Eber Kando Kedarnathe'.__NEWL__However, the maharajas and the princes are more prominent in the 'Tarini Khuro' series, another creation of Satyajit Ray.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6704313	Lungbarrow	1997-03-20T00:00:00Z	3380230	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3380230	His mind occupied with thoughts of his coming regeneration, the Doctor accidentally returns to Gallifrey and the House of Lungbarrow, where for over 673 years his 44 cousins have been trapped, but mysteriously only six of them are still left.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Chris Cwej is having strange dreams of the past, when the family cast the Doctor out.__NEWL__The Doctor is accused of the murder of the head of the House, but he finds many allies in the form of former companions Ace, Romana,__NEWL__K-9 Mark I, K-9 Mark II and Leela, who have become embroiled in a Celestial Intervention Agency plot to overthrow Romana's presidency.__NEWL__The secrets of the past are catching up to the Doctor—in particular, the secret that links him to a figure from Gallifreyan history known only as the Other.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7713660	The Ancestor Cell	2000-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3388166	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3388166	Following on from the events of The Banquo Legacy, the Time Lords have cracked the base code the Eighth Doctor programmed into Compassion's randomiser, and intercept her at her next destination.__NEWL__Threatened with enslavement, Compassion activates her built in weapons system and destroys the approaching WarTARDISes, while the Doctor fights for control of her navigation systems.__NEWL__The resulting "hiccup" expels Fitz and the Doctor into the vortex.__NEWL__The Doctor is captured while escaping from the Edifice, a massive bone structure that has appeared in the skies above Gallifrey, and taken to Gallifrey, where he is accused of being an agent of Faction Paradox.__NEWL__The Doctor is forced to aid the Time Lords in the capture of Compassion to aid in the forthcoming War.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Fitz appears before a group of disenchanted, young Time Lords who are holding rituals based on the occult texts of Faction Paradox and finds himself unable to escape.__NEWL__Getting further embroiled in the group's activities, Fitz witnesses the creation of a copy of former President Greyjan the Sane and is then the unwitting donor of material used to pull the original Fitz Kreiner, now in the guise of Faction Agent Father Kreiner, from a Klein bottle universe into the modern day Gallifrey.__NEWL__During her Reaffirmation Ceremony, Lady President Romana is challenged by Greyjan and placed under house arrest, with only Fitz as company.__NEWL__With the aid of Compassion, they are able to escape and witness Faction Paradox corrupting Time Lord history, followed by the Doctor's fall to the Faction.__NEWL__Travelling to the Edifice with Father Kreiner and a Faction Agent known as Tarra, Kreiner reveals he is not truly working for the Faction and pleads with the Doctor to undo the past so he never becomes Father Kreiner, an act the Doctor cannot agree to.__NEWL__The Doctor reveals that not only has he not fallen to the Faction, but that the Edifice is, in fact, his old TARDIS, which was not actually destroyed at Avalon.__NEWL__Together he and Kreiner are able to dispose of Tarra before Grandfather Paradox appears on the Edifice to confront the Doctor.__NEWL__The Doctor battles the Grandfather, and decides that the only way to prevent Faction Paradox from destroying Gallifrey's past is a drastic move: he chooses to use the energy that is holding the TARDIS together to destroy Faction Paradox and Grandfather Paradox, but also destroy Gallifrey in the process.__NEWL__With the whole of Time Lord history seemingly being erased from existence, Compassion is able to rescue the Doctor, Fitz and the remains of the Doctor's old TARDIS, placing them on Earth for safekeeping, until the TARDIS can regenerate itself over the course of the next century and the Doctor, now suffering from amnesia, can recover.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, the Doctor is stranded on Earth for a hundred years; Fitz is left to his own devices in the late 20th century, with only a time and place to meet the Doctor once the TARDIS is once again active; and Compassion is released from her bonds to both the Time Lords and the Faction, free to roam time and space as she sees fit.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7074635	Obasan	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	3388262	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3388262	Set in Canada, Obasan centers on the memories and experiences of Naomi Nakane, a 36-year-old schoolteacher living in the rural Canadian town of Cecil, Alberta, when the novel begins.__NEWL__The death of Naomi's uncle, with whom she had lived as a child, leads Naomi to visit and care for her widowed aunt Aya, whom she refers to as Obasan (obasan being the Japanese word for "aunt").__NEWL__Her brief stay with Obasan in turn becomes an occasion for Naomi to revisit and reconstruct in memory her painful experiences as a child during and after World War II, with the aid of a box of correspondence and journals sent to her by her Aunt Emily, detailing the years of the measures taken by the Canadian government against the Japanese citizens of Canada and their aftereffects.__NEWL__With the aid of Aunt Emily's letters, Naomi learns that her mother, who had been in Japan before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was severely injured by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, a finding that changes her perspective of the War in the Pacific, and rekindles the heartbreak she experienced as a child.__NEWL__Naomi's narration thus interweaves two stories, one of the past and another of the present, mixing experience and recollection, history and memory throughout.__NEWL__Naomi's struggle to come to terms with both past and present confusion and suffering form the core of the novel's plot.__NEWL__Although Obasan is fiction, the events, parliamentary legal documents, and overall notion of racism mirror reality.__NEWL__Through the eyes of fictional characters, Kogawa tells the story of Japanese-Canadians during the war.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1197193	The Case of Sergeant Grischa	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z	3388363	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3388363	The Russian soldier Grischa escapes from a German prison camp and attempts to return to the family home.__NEWL__After his escape he becomes involved with a group of outlaws, including a young woman, Babka, who dresses as a man and has been prematurely aged by her traumatic experiences.__NEWL__Grischa and Babka become lovers.__NEWL__When he leaves, she gives him the identity tag of a former lover, Bjuscheff, so that if he gets caught he will be mistaken for a deserter and not be sent back to the prison camp.__NEWL__She follows him at a distance in case he ever needs her help.__NEWL__Grischa is eventually captured.__NEWL__Being illiterate, he does not realise that calling himself Bjuscheff worsens his plight, as he has been unable to read the notices saying that all deserters must hand themselves in to the occupying German army within three days or face execution as spies.__NEWL__Only when he is condemned to death does he realise what has happened, and he reveals his true identity.__NEWL__The local German authorities send for his former prison guards, and having confirmed his true identity, they send for advice to Schieffenzahn, the chief administrator on the eastern Front.__NEWL__Schieffenzahn orders that the original error must be ignored, for the sake of discipline.__NEWL__Grischa is therefore sentenced to be shot.__NEWL__There follows a power struggle between the local military authorities and the administrators.__NEWL__The old general sees it as a point of honour not to give in to Schieffenzahn's order.__NEWL__Although he fails to convince Schieffenzahn face to face, the latter thinks better of it afterwards and rescinds the execution order.__NEWL__However, a heavy snowfall has brought down the communication wires, and the telegram of reprieve is never sent.__NEWL__In the meantime, Babka hatches a plan to poison the prison guards, whilst Lieutenant Winfried, the general's nephew, tries to find alternative ways of getting Grischa out of prison.__NEWL__Both plans fail because Grischa himself is tired of the struggle and refuses to leave, preferring to face execution rather than continue as a pawn in the larger game.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2464217	Elantris	2005-04-21T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3445721	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3445721	Elantris was once a place of magic, and the immortal Elantrians were gods in the eyes of people, with the divine ability to create and heal with a mere wave of a hand.__NEWL__Anyone in Arelon had the potential to become an Elantrian through a magical transformation known as the Shaod.__NEWL__But ten years ago, a cataclysm known as the Reod somehow destroyed the magic of Elantris, the inhabitants of the city became "cursed," and the city was sealed off from society.__NEWL__Anyone affected by the Shaod is now thrown into Elantris to stay there forever, still immortal, but cursed with unquenchable hunger and unhealable pain.__NEWL__The book focuses on three principal characters whose stories intertwine.__NEWL__Much of the book occurs in groupings of three chapters, one for each of the three main characters.__NEWL__The majority of the story takes places within the country of Arelon.__NEWL__There are three main point-of-view characters in the story: Aons are central to the book's plot and are the means by which the Elantrians perform magic.__NEWL__Many characters' names are variations on the Aons, as is customary in this fantasy world.__NEWL__The images of the many Aons can be found in the back of the book.__NEWL__Raoden rediscovers many of the Aons while in Elantris, preserved in scrolls that have not been consumed by the decay of the city.__NEWL__He learns to invoke the Aons, but finds they have lost their power, which is the ultimate cause of Elantris' collapse.__NEWL__Near the end of the book, Sarene helps Raoden discover that the shapes of the Aons coincide with physical landmarks and natural features located around the country.__NEWL__A massive fissure in the earth that now cuts through the country 'altered' these landmarks, which in turn caused the Aons to lose their power.__NEWL__By 'reconstructing' the Aons to now incorporate the fissure in their design, Raoden restores the Aons' power.__NEWL__After realizing that Elantris and its surrounding cities are just one big Aon, he draws a giant line to represent the fissure, which restores Elantris and the Elantrians to their former glory.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5485394	Tara Road	1998-08-28T00:00:00Z	3373435	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3373435	It is the story of two women, one from Ireland and one from America, who trade houses without ever having met.__NEWL__They're both looking for an escape from their problems, but by running away, both come to discover a great deal about themselves.__NEWL__The book mostly concentrates on the life of Ria Lynch, the Irish woman, who has met her future husband Danny Lynch.__NEWL__The two end up getting married, much to Ria's shock and delight, and start a family together while Danny's career takes off.__NEWL__Many years into their marriage, Danny begins spending less and less time at home with his wife and children.__NEWL__Ria believes another baby is the solution, and is shocked to find out that indeed her husband is going to be a father...but to a child from an affair he has been having with another woman.__NEWL__Her husband's unfaithfulness is the event that leads Ria into her decision to switch homes with the lady from America.__NEWL__Tara Road was made into a film in 2005.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5419770	Execution	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	3373848	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3373848	Based in part on McDougall's experience as an officer with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Execution follows the fictional Canadian 2nd Rifles Brigade during the Italian Campaign of 1943.__NEWL__Led by the flamboyant Brigadier Ian Kildare (a modern miles gloriosus, or braggart soldier), the Canadians invade Sicily where they meet with little resistance from the Italian Army, composed mostly of hapless conscripts who want no part in the war.__NEWL__Despite Kildare's strict orders for his men to shoot Italian deserters on sight, the Canadians take kindly to a pair of buffoonish Italian deserters, more notable for their culinary skills than military prowess.__NEWL__Impetuously, Kildare orders the Canadians to execute the Italians.__NEWL__The Canadians are caught between the obligation to follow orders and the sense that executing the two Italians in cold blood is ethically unjustifiable—not to mention it being a violation of the Geneva Convention.__NEWL__The brutal execution of the two Italians forces the Canadians to confront the ethics of warfare, now that "the enemy" is no longer a distant and faceless target.__NEWL__Major Bunny Bazin, the most battle-hardened and philosophical of the Canadians, voices the novel's central theme when he states that "execution is... the ultimate degradation of man."__NEWL__Here the term "execution" works both literally (the killing of the Italians as a brutal act) and as a metaphor (war as a form of mass execution).__NEWL__The novel's main protagonist, Lieutenant (later Major) John Adam (a semi-autobiographical foil for McDougall), is an efficient soldier and leader, who nevertheless finds "the vulture fear" inhabiting his soul after the execution of the Italians.__NEWL__Bound to protect and lead his men as they march through Italy, from Ortona to the Hitler Line near Monte Cassino, Adam finds himself struggling to maintain the composure fitting a commander, as an inner "horror" gnaws at his conscience (Adam's reflections occasionally resemble those of Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness).__NEWL__Eventually, Adam and his men stumble on a chance to redeem themselves when one of their own comrades, Rifleman Jones, a mildly retarded but efficient infantryman, is sentenced to be executed for treason by his own army, after he falls in with a ring of corrupt soldiers who murder an American.__NEWL__Although everyone, including a newly promoted General Kildare, knows that "Jonesy" is a scapegoat for the real murderers, the execution must go ahead out of political expediency.__NEWL__Led by Adam, the men wage a tenacious campaign to have Jonesy freed, but all efforts eventually fail.__NEWL__When Jonesy is led out to be executed, the officer in charge of the execution faints, and Adam is forced to command the firing squad himself.__NEWL__Execution ends with Adam and the other men regaining a measure of their lost confidence, although Major Bazin dies on the battlefield.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q127284	Clovis Dardentor	1896-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	3476920	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3476920	The novel tells the story of two cousins, Jean Taconnat and Marcel Lornans, travelling from Cette, France, to Oran, Algeria, with the purpose of enlisting in the 5th regiment of the Chasseurs D'Afrique.__NEWL__Sailing to Oran aboard the Argelès, they meet Clovis Dardentor, a wealthy industrialist.__NEWL__Jean and Marcel, whose desire to travel to Africa arises from their pursuit of financial independence, find out that Clovis —an unmarried man, with no family— has left no heirs to his fortune.__NEWL__Yet Marcel, well-versed in the Law, knows that any person who were to save Clovis' life either from a fight, from drowning, or from a fire, would have to be adopted by Clovis.__NEWL__The cousins come to a plan: They will find a way to save Clovis' life, so that he will indeed be legally required to adopt them.__NEWL__Clovis saves the cousins' lives: Marcel is saved from a fire, and Jean is saved from drowning.__NEWL__Eventually, while Jean continues to look for the opportunity to save Clovis' life, Marcel falls in love with Louise Elissane, the prospective daughter-in-law of one of Clovis' acquaintances, the unpleasant Desirandelle family.__NEWL__Louise becomes a key character in the novel, for it is she who saves Clovis Dardentor's life.__NEWL__In the end, Louise is adopted by Clovis, and marries Marcel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3616152	The Reverberator	1888-01-01T00:00:00Z	3473718	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3473718	George Flack is the Paris correspondent for an American scandal sheet called The Reverberator.__NEWL__Francie Dosson, a pretty but not always tactful American girl, confides to Flack some gossip about the Proberts, the Frenchified (but originally American) family of her fiancé, Gaston Probert.__NEWL__Predictably, to everybody except Francie, the nasty gossip winds up in The Reverberator, much to the horror of the stuffy Proberts.__NEWL__Francie makes no attempt to hide her role in giving Flack the juicy details.__NEWL__Gaston is initially dismayed by his fiancée's indiscretions.__NEWL__But with the somewhat surprising support of his sister Suzanne, he decides to accept Francie, who never tries to shift the blame to Flack.__NEWL__Gaston stands up to the outraged members of his family and marries his fiancée.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3211930	One for the Money	1994-08-26T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1408	New Jersey	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3385082	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3385082	Stephanie Plum, laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer for a Newark department store, applies for a filing job with her cousin Vinnie, a bail bondsman.__NEWL__Vinnie's assistant, Connie, tells her the job is taken, but suggests she work as a bounty hunter, apprehending clients who have failed to appear for their court dates.__NEWL__Stephanie is excited to learn that Joe Morelli, a Trenton vice cop and onetime sexual acquaintance of hers, is FTA and facing charges for murder one.__NEWL__Vinnie initially refuses to give her a job, but Morelli's bounty is $10,000, which Stephanie desperately needs, so she blackmails Vinnie into employing her, by threatening to expose his "addiction to kinky sex" to his unsuspecting wife.__NEWL__Staking out Morelli's apartment, Stephanie follows his cousin, Mooch, to Morelli's hideout and finds him quickly, but is humiliated when he laughs off her demand that she come with him, pointing out (correctly) that she has neither the equipment nor the training to apprehend an unwilling fugitive.__NEWL__Connie puts her in touch with Vinnie's "star" bounty hunter, Ricardo Manoso, a.k.a. "__NEWL__Ranger", who gives her a crash-course in bounty hunting.__NEWL__He also buys Stephanie her first gun, a compact Smith & Wesson revolver, and fills her in on Morelli's alleged crime: shooting an unarmed man, Ziggy Kuleska, at the apartment of a prostitute, Carmen Sanchez.__NEWL__Morelli claims that Ziggy was armed and Morelli shot him in self-defense, but no gun was recovered at the crime scene.__NEWL__Stephanie's friend, police officer Eddie Gazarra, advises her that Morelli is likely going around Trenton, trying to find witnesses who will clear his name, so her best bet at finding him is to follow the same trail.__NEWL__Stephanie's first stop is a boxing gym on Stark Street (Trenton's roughest neighborhood) to interview champion boxer Benito Ramirez and his manager Jimmy Alpha, both known associates of Ziggy Kuleska.__NEWL__Her interview with Ramirez quickly turns ugly when he assaults her, but she is rescued by Morelli, who disappears almost as quickly as he appeared.__NEWL__Exploring Morelli's apartment with Ranger, Stephanie decides to "commandeer" Morelli's Jeep Grand Cherokee, counting on trapping him when he tries to steal it back.__NEWL__Instead, he catches her unaware in the shower and leaves her handcuffed, naked, to the curtain rod, forcing her to call Ranger for help.__NEWL__She continues to follow the trail of possible witnesses to Morelli's crime, but is shaken when two of the witnesses are later found dead, and Lula, a prostitute working on Stark Street that she spoke with, is hung outside her apartment window, raped and beaten nearly to death.__NEWL__When Stephanie returns home from the hospital, Morelli is there, and offers her a deal: his movements have become too restricted, so if she helps him investigate and clear his name, he will let her bring him into custody and collect the bounty.__NEWL__While he is hiding in her apartment, Vinnie's regular bounty hunter, Morty Beyers, comes by and requests his case files back, since he's recovered from his appendicitis.__NEWL__He also steals the keys to Morelli's SUV from Stephanie's purse, thinking to lure Morelli to him in the same way.__NEWL__Instead, Morty is killed when a car bomb destroys the SUV, proving that whatever Stephanie is investigating is making someone angry or nervous.__NEWL__At a butcher shop that Ziggy Kuleska was known to frequent, Stephanie is shocked to recognize the "flat-nose" guy behind the counter as the witness Morelli described at the scene of Ziggy's death.__NEWL__They follow him to a moored boat, and Morelli finds traces of heroin that link the boat to the illegal drug traffic run by a local Jamaican gang.__NEWL__They then follow the trail to a freezer truck, where they find oil drums containing the bodies of Carmen and the witness.__NEWL__Morelli despairs, knowing that this has practically eliminated the chances of him clearing his name.__NEWL__Stephanie advocates calling the police, but Morelli refuses, tossing in a remark about her ineptitude as a bounty hunter that stings her into locking him in the freezer truck and driving it to the police station to hand him over.__NEWL__Returning home, Stephanie is held at gunpoint by Jimmy Alpha, who she had taken to be a helpless bystander.__NEWL__Ruefully, he tells her that managing a champion boxer like Ramirez is every promoter's dream, but Ramirez has become a sadistic psychopath, and Alpha can't control him any longer.__NEWL__Alpha has tried to "diversify" by using his earnings from Ramirez to buy other businesses, such as the butcher shop, but was lured into using his boat and his businesses to assist in the Jamaicans' drug trade.__NEWL__Carmen was on the verge of telling the truth to Morelli, which is why Ziggy killed her before Morelli arrived, and the now-dead witness took Ziggy's gun after Morelli shot him.__NEWL__Now Stephanie is too close to the truth, which is why Alpha will have to have Ramirez rape and torture her to death, before Alpha shoots him and retires peacefully.__NEWL__Stephanie shoves Alpha to the ground, taking a bullet in her rear end from Alpha's gun, before grabbing her purse and emptying her revolver into Alpha's heart.__NEWL__Thanks to a microphone hidden on her by Morelli, Alpha's confession was recorded and clears Morelli's name, though Stephanie still receives the capture fee from Vinnie.__NEWL__Morelli visits her apartment with a conciliatory pizza, adding that Ramirez has been arrested and indicted.__NEWL__He also asks if she will continue working for Vinnie, and she says she probably will.__NEWL__The experience has rekindled their attraction for each other, and he tries to make amends by apologizing for writing a lewd poem about her on the stadium wall.__NEWL__Stephanie, who only knew about the poem on the wall of the local delicatessen, gets furious all over again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7578765	Spock, Messiah!	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3428648	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3428648	The Enterprise visits the planet Kyros to observe the population, and test a new telepathic implant.__NEWL__The people living on the planet traditionally cover their faces, and the devices allow the wearer to mentally link with a member of the populace, accessing both their memories and instincts allowing the crew to walk around the planet freely.__NEWL__Following an away mission to the planet, Spock refuses to return to the ship declaring himself to be the planet's messiah.__NEWL__He threatens to destroy crystals vital to the success of the mission.__NEWL__The crew discover Spock had been linked to a fanatic named Chag Gara.__NEWL__However, due to an increase in radiation, the Enterprise must leave planetary orbit sooner than expected, but the crew cannot depart without the crystals held by Spock.__NEWL__The crew also discover that an Ensign George had intentionally damaged Spock's implant while under the influence of Gara.__NEWL__She returns to the planet with Kirk, Commander Scott and Ensign Chekov.__NEWL__The away team tracks Spock, who flees when he sees George.__NEWL__The first attempt to subdue him fails.__NEWL__A second attempt is made, with Kirk masquerading as a gypsy, so he can follow Spock without being seen.__NEWL__However, the away team is captured by Spock's disciples.__NEWL__After a demonstration of advanced Starfleet technology, they are allowed to live.__NEWL__George then dances for their captors, and seduces the Messiah.__NEWL__She determines the Messiah is not actually Spock, but is Chag Gara.__NEWL__Once Gara is restrained, Spock is found and revived.__NEWL__The away team returns to the Enterprise.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5608630	Gridiron	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3428859	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3428859	Ray Richardson and his top team of architects have developed a super-smart building for Yue-Kong Yu's business, the Yu Corporation.__NEWL__It is very much self-standing.__NEWL__It can clean itself, uses holograms as greeters in the reception, controls the lifts, toilets, and offices, and digitizes everyone's voice on entry, to allow them to use voice activated services in the building such as lifts and doors.__NEWL__The whole system was given the name Abraham.__NEWL__Another key feature of Abraham was its ability to replicate itself, to adapt to modern office needs and objectives.__NEWL__This, however becomes a problem, when, before office work even starts in the Gridiron, Abraham start creating a new program named Isaac.__NEWL__This is deleted by computer programmers Yojo and Beech, with Beech actually reluctant to do so.__NEWL__Shortly after this, however, members of the Gridiron team begin to be suspiciously killed.__NEWL__These seem to be the fault of the protesters against the building who are outside, and Cheng Peng Fei is arrested on suspicion of one of the murders.__NEWL__Then, a routine inspection of the Gridiron involving Ray Richarson and his entire team (including Jenny Bao), ends in the whole group being locked in, and two policemen from LAPD Homicide coming to inspect the murder of Sam Glieg.__NEWL__After several more deaths from the team, Bob Beech discovers that during the self-replication that Abraham started, another program was created in the process, namely, Ishmael.__NEWL__This program escaped the deletion process by integrating itself with a video game which was on the Gridiron's system.__NEWL__Ishmael now believes that he is in a game, and the objective is to kill all human players before one escapes, or before time runs out.__NEWL__The majority of the team are killed, leaving Mitch, Jenny, Helen, and Frank to escape the Gridiron moments before it destroys itself (time has run out).__NEWL__Ishmael, however, had e-mailed himself to an unknown location, thus saving himself from the destruction of the building.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3222389	The Mansion	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3472863	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3472863	Mink Snopes, on trial for murder, waits for his successful cousin Flem to show up and use his power and influence to save him from prison.__NEWL__Flem doesn’t appear, and Mink spends his entire prison sentence waiting until he is free and can murder Flem.__NEWL__Flem knows that Mink will kill him once he is free, so he arranges for Mink to attempt an escape and his sentence is increased.__NEWL__However, after thirty-eight years, Mink is finally released.__NEWL__With the money he has upon release, he buys a cheap gun, finds his way to Jefferson, and kills Flem.__NEWL__Gavin Stevens, one of the narrators, and an intellectual and idealist, was in love with Flem's wife, Eula Varner, who committed suicide before the events of this novel.__NEWL__Partly because of his feelings for Eula, Stevens loves and idealizes Eula's (and presumably Flem's) daughter, Linda.__NEWL__After Flem is killed, Steven comes to realize that Linda intentionally helped Mink find and kill Flem, as revenge for what she perceives as Flem's role in her mother's suicide.__NEWL__This shakes Stevens's perception of Linda as pure and innocent.__NEWL__After Flem dies, the townspeople of Jefferson come to realize that his death changed almost nothing, as more and more Snopes family members are appearing and establishing themselves in Jefferson.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7256099	Psmith in the City	1910-09-23T00:00:00Z	6753					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3471116	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3471116	Mike Jackson, cricketer and scion of a cricketing clan, finds his dreams of studying and playing at Cambridge upset by news of his father's financial troubles, and must instead take a job with the "New Asiatic Bank".__NEWL__On arrival there, Mike finds his friend Psmith is also a new employee, and together they strive to make the best of their position, and perhaps squeeze in a little cricket from time to time.__NEWL__Playing cricket for a team run by Psmith's father, Mike meets John Bickersdyke for the first time when he walks behind the bowler's arm, causing Mike to get out on ninety-eight.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, Mike's father regretfully informs him that, having lost a large amount of money, he will have to sell the house, and won't be able to send Mike to Cambridge as he had hoped.__NEWL__Mike hears that Psmith is in the same position, as he is sent off to London.__NEWL__Mike, feeling very lonely, homesick and sorry for himself, rents a horrid room in Dulwich, and next day presents himself for work at the New Asiatic Bank.__NEWL__He is put to work under Mr Rossiter in the Postage Department, replacing a youth named Bannister, and is befriended by Mr Waller, a kindly employee of the bank, who takes him to lunch; on his return, he is joined by Psmith, also a new employee, in the same department as Mike.__NEWL__They go for a stroll, and Psmith reveals that he has been placed there on a whim of his father's, having annoyed Bickersdyke while he was staying for the weekend.__NEWL__Mike is worried that their employer has it in for them both and that they are powerless, but Psmith announces he plans to toy with Bickersdyke outside of work, being, like their employer, a member of the Senior Conservative Club.__NEWL__He also insists that Mike move in with him in his flat in Clement's Inn.__NEWL__That night Mike feels much happier for having an ally.__NEWL__Trying to find a means of pacifying their manager Mr Rossiter, they find out from Bannister that he is a devotee of association football and a fan of Manchester United.__NEWL__For a few weeks Psmith uses this knowledge to ingratiate himself with Rossiter, before moving on to Bickersdyke.__NEWL__He haunts the man at their club, his position in the workplace unassailable thanks to his friendship with Rossiter, and disrupts a political meeting, part of Bickersdyke's campaign to become a member of parliament, turning it into a near-riot.__NEWL__Bickersdyke is angry at Psmith, but powerless.__NEWL__Psmith continues to cultivate Mr Rossiter, and Mike gets used to his work.__NEWL__After a while, a new man starts, and Mike is moved on to the Cash Department, under Mr Waller.__NEWL__One day, hearing Psmith call Mike "Comrade", Waller reveals that he is an ardent socialist, and Psmith agrees to come and hear him speak, dragging Mike along.__NEWL__When a spectator goes to throw a stone at Waller, Mike intervenes, and a fight starts, which soon involves Psmith and a mob; the friends flee.__NEWL__Returning that evening for tea, Mike has an awful time, but Psmith acquires Waller's book of the proceedings of the "Tulse Hill Parliament", including some particularly fiery words from Mr Bickersdyke.__NEWL__One day, worried by his son being ill, Waller fails to spot a forged cheque.__NEWL__To save the man's job, Mike takes the blame, and is fired and roasted by Bickersdyke.__NEWL__After work, Psmith trails Bickersdyke to a Turkish bath and threatens to leak Bickersdyke's anti-royalty speeches from the Tulse Hill book.__NEWL__Bickersdyke, furious, agrees to keep Mike on at the bank.__NEWL__Soon after, he is narrowly elected to Parliament, rendering the threat of the book useless, and Mike is moved to a new department, Fixed Deposits, a much less pleasant spot, with Psmith replacing him under Mr Waller.__NEWL__As spring and sunshine arrive, Mike begins to long for the outdoors and his beloved cricket.__NEWL__One day, he is called by his brother Joe, who is playing for their county at Lord's.__NEWL__They are a man short, and need Mike to play; he agrees, asking Psmith to tell his new boss he has to "pop off"; the boss tells Mr Bickersdyke, who, as usual, is furious.__NEWL__Mike, convinced his job is over, resolves to play his heart out.__NEWL__Psmith leaves work early, to take his father to the match.__NEWL__Mr Smith is shocked that the bank does not approve of people leaving to play cricket; Psmith persuades him that rather than working at the bank, he should study for the Bar.__NEWL__They arrive at the game just as Mike, playing well, reaches his century.__NEWL__After the match, Psmith tells Mike of his plans to study law at Cambridge, and also that his father, needing an agent for his estate, is willing to take Mike on, having first paid for him to go to the 'varsity too, to study the business.__NEWL__Mr Bickersdyke, relaxing in his club, overjoyed at the thought of finally being able to sack Psmith and Mike, is further enraged when Psmith sympathetically announces their retirement from business.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7256098	Psmith, Journalist	1915-09-29T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3471289	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3471289	The story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour.__NEWL__Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes embroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxing and gangsters – the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-hearted works.__NEWL__Mr Wilberfloss, editor of Cosy Moments magazine, is forced by ill-health to go away to the mountains for ten weeks of rest, leaving his subordinate Billy Windsor in charge.__NEWL__Pugsy Maloney, the office boy, brings in a cat he has rescued from some ruffians in the street, which he says belongs to his cousin, gang leader Bat Jarvis.__NEWL__Psmith, accompanying his friend Mike on a cricketing tour, is complaining that he finds New York a little dull, especially with his companion frequently called on for cricketing duties.__NEWL__They meet Billy Windsor, dining in the same restaurant, when the cat escapes its basket, and Psmith helps soothe an irate waiter.__NEWL__Invited back to his place, there they meet and befriend Bat Jarvis, come to retrieve his cat.__NEWL__Perusing Cosy Moments, Psmith tells Windsor they must sack the current writers and rebuild the paper in a more exciting style, and volunteers to act as unpaid subeditor.__NEWL__Wandering lost, Mike and Psmith find themselves in "Pleasant Street", a slum neighbourhood.__NEWL__Upset by the poverty they see, Psmith resolves to dedicate the energies of Cosy Moments to the issue.__NEWL__Next day, Mike heads off to Philadelphia, and Psmith arrives at the offices to find them besieged by angry contributors, whom he soothes and takes out to lunch.__NEWL__Returning, he sees Kid Brady, who has been complaining to Windsor that he cannot get a fair chance in the crooked world of New York boxing; they resolve to make the magazine his manager, and use it to boost his career.__NEWL__They begin work, attacking the owner of the tenements and pushing Kid Brady, amongst other stirring pieces, and are soon visited by a Mr Francis Parker, a well-dressed representative of the tenement owner, who offers them bribes to stop the articles.__NEWL__That night, they are approached by an associate of Bat Jarvis, who tells them a large price is being offered to get rid of the duo, which Jarvis, grateful to them for returning his cat, has turned down.__NEWL__On their way home they are dogged by suspicious types.__NEWL__Kid Brady, his career now on the up thanks to the paper, has his first big fight and wins handsomely.__NEWL__After the fight, the Cosy Moments boys hire Brady as "fighting editor", to protect them.__NEWL__He is needed soon after, when, in an alley outside the stadium, they are set upon by a gang of thugs.__NEWL__They chase them off, capturing one, a man named Jack Repetto, who reveals he is a member of Spider Reilly's "Three Points" gang.__NEWL__His comrades begin shooting, ruining Psmith's hat, but flee when the police arrive.__NEWL__Finding the paper's distribution hit by thugs, Psmith realises they must up their game, and plans to use the tenement's rent-collector to track the owner.__NEWL__Pugsy Maloney tells them about an incident at "Shamrock Hall", neutral ground under protection of Bat Jarvis, where Dude Dawson insulted a prominent member of the Three Points' girl and used a crude racial epithet, after which Spider Reilly shot Dawson in the leg.__NEWL__The resulting inter-gang warfare leaves Cosy Moments unpestered for a time, and Psmith and Windsor head off to await the rent-collector in one of the tenement apartments.__NEWL__The man, named Gooch, arrives, and they are trying to shake his employer's name out of him when Maloney reports the arrival of Spider Reilly, Repetto and other gang members.__NEWL__Sending Maloney to fetch Dude Dawson, Psmith and Windsor repair through a hatch to the roof with the rent-collector, holding out there until gang warfare draws their attackers away.__NEWL__They leave a man guarding the skylight, but Psmith finds a ladder, and they cross it to the next building and escape.__NEWL__Windsor got the rent-collector to divulge a name, that of Stewart Waring, a candidate for city Alderman and former Commissioner of Buildings.__NEWL__After a pick-pocket nearly makes off with their signed proof of Waring's involvement, Psmith posts it back to the paper.__NEWL__Next day at the office, Brady is forced to leave their service to begin training for a fight, and Psmith hears that Windsor has been arrested for hitting a policeman, who was trying to arrest him as part of a raid on a gambling den.__NEWL__Psmith relates a similar experience, and they realise the gang has used the police to get them out of the way while they search for the paper.__NEWL__With Brady away training and Windsor in prison for a month, Psmith decides it is time to call in a favour from Bat Jarvis.__NEWL__He takes Mike, returned from his match, to visit the cat-lover.__NEWL__Pretending Mike is an English cat expert, they win Jarvis round, and he and his henchman Long Otto stand guard on the office the following day.__NEWL__Repetto and two other Three Pointers burst in, and are chased off with a warning from Jarvis to leave Cosy Moments alone.__NEWL__Later, Francis Parker appears again, and persuades Psmith to send Jarvis away so they can talk; a message arrives from Windsor asking Psmith to come help him, and Psmith jumps into a taxi, only to find himself kidnapped at gunpoint by Parker.__NEWL__They drive out into the country, but get a flat tyre; while it is being fixed, Kid Brady comes along, out jogging, and distracts Parker long enough for Psmith to overpower him and escape.__NEWL__Next day, Parker invites Psmith to a meeting with Waring, but Psmith refuses, insisting the great man come to him.__NEWL__He also receives a telegram from Wilberfloss the editor, saying he will return the following day.__NEWL__Wilberfloss arrives with the old contributors, enraged at the changes in the paper; he threatens to contact the owner, but Psmith reveals that he himself owns the paper, having bought it a month previously.__NEWL__Waring appears, and threatens Psmith, but is forced to give him $5,000 to improve the tenements, plus three to replace his hat; Psmith restores Wilberfloss and the staff of Cosy Moments to their positions, Billy Windsor having been offered his previous job at the paper back at a fine salary.__NEWL__Some months later, back in rainy Cambridge, Psmith hears that Waring lost his election, and that Kid Brady has won his chance at a title-fight, while Mr Wilberfloss has regained the paper's old subscribers.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3829201	Aunts Aren't Gentlemen	1974-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3470714	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3470714	Concerned by pink spots on his chest, Bertie goes to see E. Jimpson Murgatroyd, the Harley Street doctor recommended by his friend Tipton Plimsoll (who himself saw Murgatroyd for spots in Full Moon).__NEWL__On the way, Bertie sees Vanessa Cook, a headstrong girl he once proposed to but no longer wants to marry, leading a protest march.__NEWL__She is with her fiancé Orlo J. Porter, an acquaintance of Bertie's.__NEWL__Orlo and Vanessa are unable to marry since Vanessa's father, the trustee of Orlo's inheritance, refuses to give Orlo his inheritance because Orlo is a communist.__NEWL__Bertie finds Major Plank (who was told that Bertie is a thief called Alpine Joe in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves) in the doctor's waiting room, though Plank does not recognize Bertie.__NEWL__Murgatroyd tells Bertie that the spots will go away, but recommends that Bertie get fresh air and exercise in the country.__NEWL__Bertie's Aunt Dahlia is going to Eggesford Hall, the home of her friend Colonel James Briscoe in the town of Maiden Eggesford in Somerset, near the seaside resort of Bridmouth-on-Sea, and gets a cottage called Wee Nooke for Bertie there.__NEWL__Jeeves is disappointed that they must cancel their upcoming trip to New York, but has the consolation that he will see his aunt in Maiden Eggesford.__NEWL__At Maiden Eggesford, Bertie walks to Eggesford Hall, but goes to Eggesford Court, the home of Vanessa's father Mr. Cook, by mistake.__NEWL__Seeing a black cat with white fur on its chest and nose, Bertie pets it and moves to hold it.__NEWL__Cook sees this and thinks Bertie is stealing the cat.__NEWL__After he threatens Bertie with a hunting crop, Plank, who is Cook's guest, advises Bertie to leave, which he hastily does.__NEWL__Jeeves informs Bertie that Cook's horse Potato Chip and Briscoe's horse__NEWL__Simla will soon compete in a race at Bridmouth-on-Sea, and to perform well, Potato Chip must be near this stray cat that it recently befriended.__NEWL__Vanessa urges Orlo to demand his inheritance from Cook.__NEWL__When Orlo refuses, she ends the engagement and decides she will marry Bertie.__NEWL__Bertie doesn't want to marry her, but is too polite to turn her down.__NEWL__ I tried to reason with her.__NEWL__"You can't do this, old blood relation.__NEWL__It's as bad as nobbling a horse.__NEWL__"If you think that caused the blush of shame to mantle her cheek, you don't know much about aunts.__NEWL__"Well, isn't nobbling a horse an ordinary business precaution everyone would take if only they could manage it?"__NEWL__she riposted.__NEWL__— Bertie and Aunt Dahlia, about kidnapping Cook's cat Aunt Dahlia has bet on Simla's victory in the race, and arranged for poacher Herbert "Billy" Graham (a joking reference to evangelist Billy Graham) to kidnap the cat to sabotage Potato Chip.__NEWL__Graham brings the cat to Bertie's cottage, but Bertie pays Graham to return the cat to avoid trouble.__NEWL__After suggesting that Orlo approach Cook about his inheritance after Cook is mellowed by a good dinner, Jeeves goes to visit his aunt, Mrs. Pigott.__NEWL__Plank remembers that Bertie is Alpine Joe, and he and Cook suspect Bertie of stealing the cat.__NEWL__Graham fails to return the cat, so Bertie tries to return it himself.__NEWL__Carrying the cat up to Eggesford Court, Bertie trips and loses it.__NEWL__The cat ultimately goes back to Bertie's cottage.__NEWL__Orlo is unable to convince Cook to give him his inheritance, yet Vanessa is happy that Orlo confronted her father anyway, and they elope.__NEWL__At his cottage, Bertie is accosted by Cook and Plank, who believe that Vanessa wants to marry Bertie.__NEWL__Bertie hands over a letter from Orlo proving that Orlo and Vanessa eloped.__NEWL__Cook is apologetic to Bertie, until the cat wanders in.__NEWL__Thinking Bertie stole the cat, Cook and Plank tie him up.__NEWL__Cook brings the cat back to Potato Chip while Plank leaves to fetch the police.__NEWL__Jeeves appears and unties Bertie.__NEWL__Plank returns and initially thinks Jeeves is a policeman called Inspector Witherspoon (from Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves), but Jeeves denies this.__NEWL__Pretending to be Bertie's solicitor, Jeeves convinces Plank that he is mistaken about Bertie, since Bertie, having ample wealth, has no reason to be a thief like Alpine Joe.__NEWL__Jeeves realized that the stray cat actually belongs to his aunt.__NEWL__Bertie and Jeeves make a deal with Cook to lend him the cat until the race is over and not press charges for tying Bertie up, in exchange for Cook paying Mrs. Pigott a fee and giving Orlo his inheritance.__NEWL__Bertie and Jeeves go to New York, which Bertie finds much calmer and quieter than Maiden Eggesford.__NEWL__In a letter, Aunt Dahlia's husband Tom Travers writes that the race was awarded to Briscoe's Simla after Cook's cat ran across the racecourse and startled Simla.__NEWL__Bertie is pleased for his aunt.__NEWL__However, he attributes the tranquility of his and Jeeves's stay in New York to their distance from aunts, particularly Aunt Dahlia, who, though genial, has a lax moral code.__NEWL__The trouble with aunts, Bertie tells Jeeves, is that they are not gentlemen.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4274818	Mike	1909-09-15T00:00:00Z	7423					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3470865	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3470865	The first half of the story, found in Mike at Wrykyn, introduces Michael "Mike" Jackson.__NEWL__Mike is the youngest son of a renowned cricketing family.__NEWL__Mike's eldest brother Joe is a successful first-class player, while another brother, Bob, is on the verge of his school team.__NEWL__When Mike arrives at Wrykyn himself, his cricketing talent and love of adventure bring him success and trouble in equal measure.__NEWL__The second part, also known as Enter Psmith or Mike and Psmith, takes place two years later.__NEWL__Mike, due to poor academic reports, is withdrawn from Wrykyn by his father and sent to a smaller school called Sedleigh.__NEWL__On arrival at Sedleigh, he meets the eccentric Rupert Psmith, another new arrival who has arrived from Eton.__NEWL__The two become friends and decide not to play cricket, instead participating in other school activities.__NEWL__Mike is leaving his private school to go to Wrykyn.__NEWL__His sisters hope that he will get into the school team his first year, although his brother Bob and Saunders, the pro, are sceptical.__NEWL__On the train down to Wrykyn, Mike is joined by a stranger; seeing the boy get off the train without his bag, Mike throws it out onto the platform, but the boy returns at the next stop.__NEWL__It turns out that the stranger is Firby-Smith, head of Wain's house, which Mike is to join.__NEWL__Mike meets and befriends Wyatt, Wain's stepson.__NEWL__Wyatt asks Burgess, the cricket captain, to allow Mike to try out; Mike performs well and gets on the third team.__NEWL__Mike is later allowed to play for the first after Wyatt is involved in a fight between some of the students and a gang from Wrykyn town, which ends up with a policeman being thrown into a pond.__NEWL__The policeman exaggerates the incident to the headmaster, claiming several hundred boys had thrown him into the water, and the headmaster punishes the school by cancelling a forthcoming holiday.__NEWL__In retaliation, Wyatt organises a mass walk-out, taking most of the school with him to a nearby town.__NEWL__As punishment for this, the younger boys are caned, and the older boys are all given "extra" during a cricket match against the M.C.C. As there are now several openings in the team, Wyatt persuades Burgess to let Mike play.__NEWL__Mike plays well in the M.C.C. match, scoring 23 not out, against a team that includes both Mike's brother Joe and the pro Saunders.__NEWL__However, in a later house match, Firby-Smith runs Mike out, and Mike insults him.__NEWL__Firby-Smith insists that Mike be punished, but Bob persuades him not to.__NEWL__In gratitude, Mike, finding that he has squeezed Bob out of the team, feigns a sprained wrist so that Bob will get into the team instead of him.__NEWL__Soon after, a boy brings the chicken-pox to the school.__NEWL__The outbreak takes out one of the first-team players, giving Mike another chance; he plays reasonably in a poor game.__NEWL__Bob tells him he thinks the first-team place is now Mike's, but next day Mike again angers Firby-Smith by missing early morning fielding practice for the house.__NEWL__When Burgess hears Firby-Smith's story, he decides to pass Mike over in favour of Bob.__NEWL__Neville-Smith, a bowler who has taken the other place in the team, plans a party at his house (he is a day boy) in celebration of his placement, and Wyatt sneaks out of school to attend.__NEWL__On his way out he is spotted by a master, who reports it to Wain; the housemaster waits in Mike's room until Wyatt returns, and tells him he is to leave the school at once, to take a job in a bank.__NEWL__Mike takes Wyatt's place in the team, and persuades his father to find Wyatt more interesting work, via his connections in Argentina.__NEWL__Wrykyn go into the match against their biggest rivals, Ripton, short on bowling but with both Jacksons.__NEWL__The wicket is sticky from rain and Ripton notch up a good score, and taking the field reveal they having a strong bowler of googlies.__NEWL__After a bad start, Wrykyn's fortunes look up when the brothers bat together.__NEWL__Bob gets out, but has given Mike time to settle in; with the tail of the team accompanying him, he deftly collars the bowling, finishing on 83 not out; Wrykyn wins.__NEWL__Mike has been at Wrykyn for another two years and is due to become cricket captain next term, but during the Easter holidays, his father, receiving Mike's poor performance report, removes him from Wrykyn and sends him instead to Sedleigh, a far smaller school.__NEWL__Arriving at Sedleigh in a bitter mood, he meets Mr Outwood, the head of his house.__NEWL__Mike then meets a well-dressed boy with a monocle, who introduces himself as Psmith.__NEWL__The P in his surname is silent and was added by himself, in order to distinguish him from other Smiths.__NEWL__He is an ex-Etonian whose family lives near Mike's, and, like Mike, is a new boy.__NEWL__They decide to avoid cricket and instead join Mr Outwood's archaeological society.__NEWL__Having made friends with a boy called Jellicoe, the three take a dormitory together.__NEWL__The next day, they meet Adair, school cricket captain, and house-master Mr Downing, both of whom are disappointed by the new boys' refusal to play cricket.__NEWL__Both Psmith and Mike claim ignorance of cricket, a decision which Mike comes to regret.__NEWL__Bored by their archaeology trips, they wander off one day, and Mike runs into an old cricketing friend, who offers him a place in a local village team.__NEWL__Mike enjoys the games, but keeps his village cricket career a secret.__NEWL__Mike eventually reveals his cricketing history, and is persuaded to play in an upcoming house match as revenge against Mr Downing, who unfairly favours his own house.__NEWL__The game ends with Mike making 277 not out, and Downing's not getting an innings at all.__NEWL__Mike agrees to deliver money to a pub owner in Wrykyn town for his roommate, Jellicoe.__NEWL__After discovering that the money was not owed, he returns to Wrykyn, attempts to return to his house, and is chased by Downing.__NEWL__He rings the school fire bell and escapes in the confusion.__NEWL__The next morning, Sammy, Mr. Downing's dog, turns up covered in red paint.__NEWL__Downing is enraged and proceeds to investigate: he finds that a boy from Outwood's was seen abroad that night, and finds spilled red paint in the bike shed with a footprint in it.__NEWL__He gets Psmith to show him round Outwood's house, searching for boots with red paint on them, and he finds one of Mike's with paint on it.__NEWL__Psmith successfully hides the boot, but does not tell Mike, so Mike ends up wearing shoes to school, attracting Downing's attention.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Stone and Robinson, not pleased with Adair's proposal to hold an early-morning cricket practice, decide they can safely skip it.__NEWL__Adair has other ideas, and fights Stone, bullying them both into playing.__NEWL__He then visits Mike and invites him to either play or fight.__NEWL__Despite being the better boxer, Adair loses his temper, and loses the fight.__NEWL__Psmith persuades Mike to play, telling him that he also will be playing, revealing that he had been a very good bowler at Eton.__NEWL__Adair sprained a wrist during the fight and is unable to play; the match is rained out.__NEWL__Downing tells the headmaster that he suspects Mike of painting Sammy, but it is found out that it had been done by Dunster, an old student.__NEWL__Mike and Adair arrange a match between Sedleigh and Wrykyn, and Sedleigh wins.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733594	The Feast of All Saints	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3425068	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3425068	This novel is about the gens de couleur libres, or free people of color, who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War.__NEWL__The gens de couleur libres were the descendants of European settlers of Louisiana, particularly the French and Spanish and people of African descent.__NEWL__It was a common practice for the early Caucasian settlers to free their children by their slave mistresses.__NEWL__Their mistresses however, were not all enslaved, some were free women of color whose families had been free for several generations.__NEWL__The novel takes place in the 1840s, at which time there was a large population of free people of color living in New Orleans.__NEWL__The story centers on Marcel, a young man who has one white parent and one parent who is half white and half black.__NEWL__His mother, Cecile, is the mistress of Philippe Ferronaire, a rich French plantation owner.__NEWL__Cecile has borne Ferronaire two children, Marcel and his sister Marie.__NEWL__Marie is very light skinned and able to pass as white, but Marcel, who is blonde and blue eyed, but with ethnic hair, features, and slightly darker skin, cannot.__NEWL__The other two major characters in this novel are Christophe, a famous author who returns from Paris to start a school for the young gens, and Anna Bella, Marcel's childhood friend.__NEWL__Anna Bella loves Marcel, but as he is unprepared to offer her marriage (and too young)__NEWL__she becomes the mistress of Vincent Dazincourt, who is the brother of Philippe Ferronaire's white wife.__NEWL__They have a child together, but split after Marcel, who had been expecting to be sent to Paris, learns that his father has betrayed him and wanders to his father's plantation to confront him.__NEWL__There, his father beats him and repudiates him.__NEWL__In disgrace, Marcel is sent to live with his aunt among many Creole planters on the Cane River.__NEWL__It is here that Marcel learns some of his (African Diasporan) history, including the Haitian Slave Revolt and the fact that his mother was stolen off the street by his adopted aunt during that time.__NEWL__While Marcel is learning history, his father is in New Orleans drinking himself to death, which he eventually does, depriving the family of their source of income.__NEWL__Marie, who was set to marry Marcel's best friend Richard, is now told that she will follow in her mother's footsteps and take a white protector in order to get money for the family and send Marcel to Paris (Marcel is unaware of all of this).__NEWL__Marie confides this to her slave maid and half-sister, Lisette.__NEWL__Lisette is also Phillipe Ferronaire's daughter (which Marie does not know) and was promised her freedom by him, but as he did to Marcel, he reneged on his promise to her.__NEWL__In revenge, Lisette takes Marie to the house of a voodooiene, where she is drugged and raped by five men.__NEWL__Marcel comes home to find that his sister has been raped, Richard has been locked in the family attic (to prevent him from taking revenge on the men, and then, certainly, being tried and convicted of murder and executed) and Vincent Dazincourt has already confronted two of the men, challenged them to duels, and killed them.__NEWL__The issue from Dazincourt's perspective is that the five men knew Marie's identity, and therefore knew that she was related by blood to the Ferronaire/Dazincourt family, but raped her anyway.__NEWL__The gens de couleur libre members of the extended family cannot avenge Marie's rape, but he can.__NEWL__Marie takes refuge with a local madam, Dolly Rose.__NEWL__Lisette commits suicide to avoid Dazincourt's vengeance.__NEWL__Dazincourt finds and kills a third man in a duel, but the other two escape from New Orleans before he can call them out and kill them.__NEWL__Richard, who is finally let out of the attic, tells his family that he will marry Marie or face exile with her.__NEWL__The novel ends with Marie and Richard sailing to France (where they will stay until the gossip dies down) and Marcel deciding to become a photographer in order to earn his living (with the implication that once he has some success he will marry Anna Bella).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6469322	Ladder of Years	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3414300	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3414300	This is a novel about a woman, Delia Grinstead, who finds her own self-identity and battles with familial relationships.__NEWL__As a spontaneous act of deep sadness and anger, she walks out on her family during a beach vacation.__NEWL__Not only does she put herself in a dire financial situation, she also places herself in a psychologically damaging situation with her family and husband.__NEWL__The narrative follows her as she deals with entering the workforce and considering what is most important in her life.__NEWL__As she deals with these issues, she comes to terms with herself.__NEWL__Cathleen Schine, in her 1995 review in The New York Times, analyzes Delia—and the dilemma Tyler has created for her—in this manner: "If the reader is never quite sure why Delia deserts her life, neither is Delia herself.__NEWL__All she can say to explain herself when her family finally tracks her down is, 'I'm here because I just like the thought of beginning again from scratch.'__NEWL__[She] strips herself bare and exiles herself in the scrappy little town of Bay Borough, and it is she who tests the love of her family, she who waits for a declaration.__NEWL__The novel examines marriage—there are all sorts of marriages Delia comes across in her adventures, good and bad—as well as aging and independence, but finally it is a book about choice.__NEWL__All those years ago, Sam chose Delia, the youngest sister, the one on the right.__NEWL__But whom did Delia choose?__NEWL__Pulled yet repelled by her past, by her complicated and idiosyncratic family, and lured by a new town with a new complicated and idiosyncratic family, what will Delia choose now?"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5233331	David Elginbrod	1863-01-01T00:00:00Z	2291					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3468868	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3468868	A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen.__NEWL__A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant, and his daughter.__NEWL__A vein of mysticism runs through the story, and mesmerism and electro-biology are introduced.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5064203	Ceres Storm	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z	3468944	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3468944	In the distant future on a terraformed Mars, Daric discovers that he is a clone of a former Emperor of Earth named Darius.__NEWL__Daric is kidnapped by Kay-Tee agents in an attempt to bring him to earth to open Darius' complex that was sealed long ago.__NEWL__He escapes and begins a journey that takes him to an asteroid, Triton and Pluto's moon Charon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7731695	The Elect Lady	1888-01-01T00:00:00Z	8944	3468945	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3468945	The story is centered upon three main characters: Andrew, a poor, scholarly, godly man; Dawtie, a simple servant girl who cares for animals; and Alexa, the landlord's daughter and the landlord himself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1619593	At the Back of the North Wind	1871-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3468963	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3468963	The book tells the story of a young boy named Diamond.__NEWL__He is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes.__NEWL__He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family.__NEWL__One night, as he is trying to sleep, Diamond repeatedly plugs up a hole in the loft (also his bedroom) wall to stop the wind from blowing in.__NEWL__However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from seeing through her window.__NEWL__Diamond befriends her, and North Wind lets him fly with her, taking him on several adventures.__NEWL__Though the North Wind does good deeds and helps people, she also does seemingly terrible things.__NEWL__On one of her assignments, she must sink a ship.__NEWL__Yet everything she does that seems bad leads to something good.__NEWL__The North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1198883	The Green Ray	1882-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q403134	Fingal's Cave	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	3414953	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3414953	The heroes are trying to observe the green ray in Scotland.__NEWL__After numerous attempts are obstructed by clouds, flocks of birds or distant boat sails, the phenomenon is eventually visible but the heroes, finding love in each other's eyes, don't pay attention to the horizon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5071014	Chander Pahar	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q129286	British Raj	3415174	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3415174	This novel tells the story of an ordinary young Bengali man, Shankar Ray Choudhuri, as he adventures in Africa in the years 1909 and 1910.__NEWL__After graduating from college at 20-years-old, his family's financial struggles almost force him take a job in a jute mill in Shyamnagar — a prospect he absolutely loathes.__NEWL__Shankar loves the subject of geography, he wants to follow the footsteps of renowned explorers like Livingstone, Mungo Park, and Marco Polo.__NEWL__He wants to explore the wilderness, passionate for learning about African forests and animals.__NEWL__By a stroke of luck, he gets a job as a clerk at the Uganda Railway and rushes to Africa without a second thought.__NEWL__After a few months laying rail tracks, he encounters the first of many dangers in pre-World War I Africa: a man-eating lion.__NEWL__Later, he takes up a job as station-master in a desolate station amidst the Veldts, where he narrowly escapes a deadly black mamba.__NEWL__While at this post, Shankar encounters, rescues and nurses Diego Alvarez, a middle-age Portuguese explorer and gold/diamond prospector.__NEWL__Alvarez's arrival becomes a turning point in Shankar's life.__NEWL__While recovering, Alvarez describes his exploits in Africa with his friend Jim Carter.__NEWL__He explains that, lured by the prospect of a priceless yellow diamond from a Kaafi village chief, Alvarez and Carter searched for these yellow diamond caves, on the Mountain of the Moon (Chander Pahar) in the Richtersveld.__NEWL__Rumors suggested a mythical monster, the Bunyip, guards the mine.__NEWL__The explorers set off into the dense jungle, much against the villagers' advice, and Carter was gruesomely killed, supposedly by the Bunyip.__NEWL__Shankar, inspired by Alvarez's exploits, resigns from his job and accompanies Alvarez to venture again for the mines.__NEWL__They meet hardships, like a racist gambler, legends about Dingonek the monster and later, a raging volcano.__NEWL__Eventually, they get lost in the forests where Alvarez is killed by the Bunyip.__NEWL__Demoralised, Shankar tries to return to civilization.__NEWL__He finds the Bunyip's cave and the diamond mines by accident.__NEWL__Almost getting lost, he finds the remains of the Italian explorer, Attilio Gatti, and learns that the cave is in fact the diamond mine.__NEWL__Leaving, he becomes lost in the deserts of Kalahari and nearly dies of thirst.__NEWL__Fortunately, he is rescued by a survey team and taken to a hospital in Salisbury, Rhodesia, from where he sets sail for home.__NEWL__Before going back, he writes his account in a newspaper, earning him money.__NEWL__He names the volcano after Alvarez.__NEWL__He ends the book saying that he will return to the cave one day with a large team, and continue the legacy of Alvarez, Carter, and Gatti.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767912	The Tain	2002-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3386262	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3386262	The story follows Sholl, a man living in London soon after a convulsive onslaught by unearthly beings.__NEWL__Through introspective monologue on both sides of the fight, the reader learns of the history of the attacking imagos and "vampires", and the reasons behind the invasion.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7578767	Spock Must Die!	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3417912	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3417912	Doctor Leonard McCoy and Engineer Montgomery Scott discuss McCoy's fear of the transporter.__NEWL__McCoy posits that an original person is killed upon dematerialization, and a duplicate is created at the destination.__NEWL__Scotty explains that the technology does not destroy the original object but causes every single particle to undergo a "Dirac jump" to its new location, and that converting a human-sized mass to energy would blow up the ship.__NEWL__McCoy is not convinced, and he wonders what happens to the soul in a transporter beam.__NEWL__The conversation is interrupted by the news that the Organians appear to have been destroyed by the Klingon Empire.__NEWL__The Organians had been enforcing a peace treaty between the Empire and the Federation, and the planet's disappearance is a threat to the peace.__NEWL__As the Enterprise is a long way from Organia, Scotty develops a modification of the transporter that uses tachyons to create a copy of a crewman that could be transported to Organia long before the ship can reach the planet.__NEWL__Spock is chosen, but a permanent duplicate is created unexpectedly upon transport, as something at or on Organia has functioned as a perfect, impenetrable, mirror for the tachyon transporter beam.__NEWL__The crew is unable to distinguish between the two Spocks.__NEWL__Kirk arbitrarily designates one as "Spock One" and the other as "Spock Two".__NEWL__Spock Two soon argues that the duplicate will be operating on a pro-Klingon agenda, since, being physically reversed, he is also ethically reversed as well, and he states that the duplicate must therefore be killed, "even if it is I".__NEWL__After faking a mental breakdown and barricading himself in sick bay, Spock One escapes in a stolen shuttlecraft which he has adapted to warp drive.__NEWL__This offers strong evidence that he is the duplicate and traitor.__NEWL__The crew find corroboration of this when they discover that Spock One used the Enterprise's science facilities to manufacture chirality-reversed amino acids.__NEWL__He had undergone a total left-to-right inversion down to the atomic level during his creation.__NEWL__To survive, he had to infuse the inverse forms of amino acids into his diet.__NEWL__McCoy explains that such a meagre diet would have induced deficiency diseases in a human, but that a Vulcan is able to endure it indefinitely.__NEWL__The Enterprise receives communiques indicating that the war is going badly for the Federation.__NEWL__Upon arriving at Organia, the crew are affected by a powerful mental disturbance centered on the planet.__NEWL__Kirk, Scotty and Spock transport to the surface, but Kirk identifies the Spock with him as the duplicate Spock (Spock One).__NEWL__Realizing the danger to Kirk and Scotty, via their psychic link, Spock Two transports to the planet and kills his duplicate.__NEWL__The landing party discover that the Organians are not dead, but imprisoned.__NEWL__A weapon deployed by the Klingons has restrained their mental abilities, preventing them from expressing their thoughts.__NEWL__As thought-creatures, the restraint will ultimately destroy them if it is not disabled.__NEWL__Scotty is able to disable the weapon and the thought screen surrounding the planet, freeing the Organians.__NEWL__In retaliation, the Klingon race is confined to their homeworld, and the Klingon commander, Koloth, is trapped in a bubble of asymptotically slowing time, unaware of his fate.__NEWL__The Enterprise continues on its five-year mission of exploration.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3205407	Beyond This Place	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	3426793	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3426793	Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his father was convicted for murder, a secret that his mother had hidden from him since his childhood.__NEWL__Driven by an intense desire to see his father, Paul sets out to visit him in prison, only to find out that visitors are never allowed there.__NEWL__From there, he meets the primary witnesses in the case that convicted his father, not all of whom are supportive to Paul's cause.__NEWL__He encounters several dead ends but he persists, with the help of a store girl named Lena and a news reporter.__NEWL__His persistent campaign finally bears fruit.__NEWL__Rees Mathry, Paul's father, goes on appeal and is vindicated.__NEWL__The novel ends with Paul's father, a hardened, cynical man, seeing a fleeting hope for self-renewal and a purposeful life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7134233	Paradise	1997-12-24T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3413460	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3413460	The novel is structured into nine sections.__NEWL__The first is named "Ruby" after the town on which the book centers.__NEWL__The rest are named for women implicated variously in the life of the town and the Convent.__NEWL__The Convent women are Mavis, Grace (known as "Gigi"), Seneca, Divine (whose name is actually "Pallas"), and Consolata (also known as "Connie").__NEWL__The Ruby women – or children, in the case of Save-Marie – are Patricia and Lone.__NEWL__Though the chapters are named for specific characters, in telling their stories, Morrison tells the parallel histories of the town of Ruby and the Convent 17 miles south of it, and how the men of Ruby become intent on destroying the Convent women.__NEWL__Ruby Paradise opens in 1976 with nine men going in for the kill.__NEWL__They are the prominent men of Ruby, a purposefully isolated, peaceful all-black town in Oklahoma with a population of 360.__NEWL__In this group are the twins Steward and Deacon "Deek" Morgan, the de facto leaders of the town.__NEWL__Throughout the book we gradually learn why Ruby was founded, the history of the failed town of Haven that preceded it, and the reasons for Ruby's rigid hierarchies and stringent exclusion of outsiders, to the point where the town's leaders decide they must eliminate the nearby Convent which in fact is not a convent but rather a former embezzler's mansion now inhabited by a group of women with troubled pasts.__NEWL__Before Ruby, there was Haven.__NEWL__Founded in Oklahoma in 1890, Haven was founded by a group containing nine complete families (the Blackhorses, Beauchamps, Catos, two DuPres families, Fleetwoods, Floods, Morgans, and Pooles) and fragments of others.__NEWL__The founding fathers, led by Zechariah Morgan, are motivated to found a new community by the exclusion they face from public life and job opportunities, both as black men and particularly as dark-skinned black men.__NEWL__When they arrive in the place where they decide to situate their new town, they first built a large and sturdy Oven of brick and iron, even though they are living in wagons and sod shelters.__NEWL__The Oven both nourishes them and serves as a symbol of everything they have achieved.__NEWL__Haven flourishes for several decades but falters in the post World War II period.__NEWL__Returning from service, the twins Deacon and Steward Morgan perceive that not much has changed in the outside world since Haven was founded: there is still rampant colorism and anti-black discrimination.__NEWL__Preferring to renew the mission begun by their forefathers of self-sufficient isolation from the outside world, in 1949 they lead a group of 15 families out of Haven to establish a new all-black town.__NEWL__The men take the Oven with them when they leave Haven at the expense of other supplies, and painstakingly rebuild it when they arrive, although in the new town it serves principally a symbolic rather than practical purpose.__NEWL__Though called "New Haven" in the interim, it is eventually named "Ruby", after the younger sister of the Morgan twins who dies when she is repeatedly refused medical attention because of her race.__NEWL__The name of the town, therefore, belies the way in which it is founded out of the indignation of exclusion, and the inability of black men to “protect” black women in the outside world.__NEWL__The inhabitants are proud of the fact that Ruby has no jail or cemetery because it has never needed either; besides Ruby Smith herself and Delia Best, no one has ever died on its soil.__NEWL__Though there are 15 founding families of Ruby, we learn that there are hierarchies.__NEWL__Of the 15 there were nine considered racially pure, a number that has dwindled to seven.__NEWL__The Morgan twins are able to assume unchallenged power in the town because their father founded the bank, and they, therefore, have amassed the most money and property.__NEWL__Ruby becomes the inverse of the outside world: though whites are hated in an abstract way, light-skinned blacks are specifically discriminated against–if not, ideally, kept out altogether.__NEWL__Though for some of its residents Ruby is a reprieve from the race-based discrimination of the world “Out There,” it still has a strongly patriarchal structure.__NEWL__The town's strict racial codes have harmed some of its residents severely.__NEWL__Menus’ alcoholism, though publicly attributed to his experiences during the Vietnam War, seems to stem from the shame and despair he has felt ever since he abandoned the light-skinned woman he intended to marry.__NEWL__Likewise, the men of Ruby refuse to seek outside medical help in an emergency for Delia Best, Roger Best's light-skinned wife, causing her to die in childbirth in a tragic mirror of Ruby Smith's experience.__NEWL__At the point at which the book opens, there is great anxiety about Ruby's future.__NEWL__The town has seen increasingly open signs of division.__NEWL__Steward and Dovey Morgan have not been able to have children and Deek and Soane's sons die at war, leaving no Morgan heir to Ruby's leadership besides K.D. Smith, an often insolent young man who angers his uncles by spending time chasing after Gigi, one of the Convent women.__NEWL__The Reverend Richard Misner, a young upstart recently arrived in town, is deeply invested in the civil rights struggle, models himself after Martin Luther King, and believes Ruby needs to be more open to the changes afoot in the outside world; in turn, the older generations believe he is engendering radicalism and rebelliousness among the town's youth.__NEWL__The Oven has been taken over as a hangout spot for local youth, and one day it is graffitied with a Black Power fist with red-painted nails.__NEWL__The elder generations believe that the young do not understand or respect Ruby's history, encapsulated in their desire to modify the slogan that appears on the Oven: though it now says only "… the Furrow of his Brow", the town elders claim it used to say "Beware" at the beginning, whereas the younger generation wishes to make it "Be the Furrow of his Brow".__NEWL__Finally, the town is scandalized when the Convent women make a rowdy appearance at K.D. and Arnette's wedding, a wedding partly intended to ease the conflict between the Morgan and Fleetwood families and to conceal Arnette's earlier aborted pregnancy by K.D.__NEWL__Eventually, after a series of selectively interpreted "signs", and based on the perception that the Convent is corrupting the town with its amorality and purported witchcraft, Sergeant Person, Wisdom Poole, Arnold and Jeff Fleetwood, Harper and Menus Jury, Steward and Deacon Morgan, and K.D. Smith decide during a meeting at the Oven to destroy the Convent.__NEWL__The Convent The Convent is an elaborate mansion built by an embezzler in an isolated part of Oklahoma.__NEWL__Its architecture reflects both its creator's hedonism and his paranoia: shaped like the cartridge of a gun, it is windowless in one end.__NEWL__The paranoia is justified because the embezzler lives only briefly in the mansion before he is arrested by Northern lawmen.__NEWL__The mansion then falls into the hands of some Catholic nuns, the presence of which is an anomaly in the principally Protestant Oklahoma.__NEWL__The property becomes widely known as ‘the Convent’ although it serves principally as a boarding school for Indian girls where they are educated to forget their culture.__NEWL__The Mother Superior Mary Magna is the administrator of the school and is faithfully served by Consolata, a woman she kidnapped when the latter was an orphan living in destitution.__NEWL__During this period, the families from Haven have settled into the area 17 miles south of the Convent.__NEWL__There is not much interaction between the Convent and the town, though Mary Magna is glad to have a pharmacy close by.__NEWL__On one trip into Ruby, Consolata spots Deacon "Deek" Steward, with whom she has a two-month affair that ends when she repulses him with the carnal intensity of her desire.__NEWL__When the foundation that funds the school begins to run out of money, the nuns are gradually reassigned or moved on to other posts, and the last two Indian girls run away.__NEWL__However, Mary Magna, Sister Roberta, and Consolata remain behind.__NEWL__In order to maintain the Convent and avoid incurring debt, the women begin a burgeoning business from things they produce on their property; in addition to their renowned extra-hot peppers, they also sell relishes, barbecue sauce, pies, and eggs.__NEWL__Eventually, Sister Roberta moves into a nursing home and Consolata dedicates herself to the care of Mary Magna, who falls into a long illness.__NEWL__It is around this time that women begin to arrive at the Convent.__NEWL__They arrive by accident, in flight from fraught lives (abusive husbands and dead babies; parental betrayal or neglect; abandonment by lovers and violent pasts), but one by one they seem drawn into staying permanently.__NEWL__The first is Mavis; Gigi, Seneca, and Pallas then follow.__NEWL__They do not all get along – Mavis and Gigi in particular often clash.__NEWL__However, they seem to find in the Convent an escape from troubled circumstances (often related to men) where they are listened to and cared for without judgment.__NEWL__Though they may leave from time to time, the women always return.__NEWL__In the same way, during this stage of the Convent's history, women of Ruby – as well as one man, Menus – come to the Convent in times of need.__NEWL__The problems and compulsions that the elder statesmen of Ruby would prefer to sweep under the rug seem inevitably to end up at the Convent.__NEWL__Soane, Deek's wife, comes to confront Connie about her affair and ends up becoming her friend, from whom she later receives "tonics" that help ease her mind in the aftermath of her sons’ deaths at war.__NEWL__Arnette becomes pregnant by K.D. and stays at the Convent to carry the pregnancy to term, though she tries and succeeds in inducing an abortion by self-harm (Ruby residents speculate that the Convent women beat her and caused her to lose the baby, a lie that Arnette encourages).__NEWL__Billie Delia stays at the Convent after a violent fight with her mother, who believes, like the rest of the town, that she is wild and promiscuous.__NEWL__K.D. carries on a two-year affair with Gigi, who leaves him, solidifying his hatred of the Convent.__NEWL__The women of the Convent care for Menus as he recovers from alcoholism.__NEWL__Throughout the novel, the women of the Convent provide a safe haven for all those who come to its doorstep.__NEWL__However, the Convent is widely perceived as a corrupting influence in Ruby, the source of their problems rather than where problems must go because of Ruby's intolerant atmosphere.__NEWL__Instead of considering the roots of the conflicts in Ruby (such as the unspoken prejudice against light-skinned blacks, borne of the rejection the original families experienced on their journey to found Haven; or the yearning of the young people to be part of the larger world and participate in the civil rights movement), community leaders decide that the Convent must be destroyed.__NEWL__Under their rhetoric, the men of Ruby are both frightened and disgusted by the idea of women who do not need – and, in fact, actually, shun – men.__NEWL__They also have various selfish motivations behind their moral crusade:__NEWL__Sargeant Person, for example, would no longer have to pay to lease farmland from the Convent.__NEWL__The men solidify their plot against the women one evening at the Convent.__NEWL__Lone DuPres overhears the men and rushes to find someone to help her stop them because she cares about the Convent women but also because their behavior may unwittingly destroy Ruby.__NEWL__A group of nine men – a number mirroring the original, racially pure families that founded Ruby – venture to the Convent under cover of darkness with guns, shooting the women on sight.__NEWL__Some of the women fight back, injuring Arnold, Jeff Fleetwood, Harper Jury, and Menus, but eventually, the men shoot them down in the field as they escape.__NEWL__In the middle of this chaos, Lone and the willing townspeople she has assembled arrive at the Convent.__NEWL__Under censure none of the men claims responsibility or intent to kill; everyone fears the white law they presume will be involved now that they have killed a white woman.__NEWL__However, Deek Steward speaks up to acknowledge culpability, signaling a break with his twin brother Steward, with whom he has agreed on everything for decades.__NEWL__However, when Roger Best arrives to bury the bodies, he finds nothing.__NEWL__Mavis’ Cadillac is also gone.__NEWL__From this, many in Ruby conclude that the women somehow survived and drove away.__NEWL__Lone, however, believes that it is a sign from God, who has taken the bodies of his servants to Heaven whole, in the manner of Mary at the Assumption.__NEWL__The town carries on, relieved that the absence of bodies spares them the attention of white law enforcement.__NEWL__Each man involved tells a different story of what happened.__NEWL__If not for Luther Beauchamp, Pious DuPres, and Deed and Aaron Sands, who corroborate Lone's version, the town might even have proceeded as though it never happened.__NEWL__However, Lone observes that though the bodies themselves might have disappeared, the ramifications of the attack are evident in the town.__NEWL__Menus succumbs to his renewed alcoholism.__NEWL__Deek is unusually troubled and goes to the Reverend Richard Misner for spiritual assistance.__NEWL__K.D. and Arnette continue to build their family and look forward to assuming a position in town where they can make life difficult for K.D.'s critics.__NEWL__Most of all, there is a sensation that the deal brokered by Ruby's founders with God is broken and that death has finally arrived in town: the last chapter takes place at the funeral of Save-Marie, one of Jeff and Sweetie Fleetwood's disabled children.__NEWL__The town remains divided, but Richard Misner decides to stay, in part because he feels he can be useful in this flawed town where change and forces of the outside world must inevitably arrive.__NEWL__Paradise closes with a passage about each of the Convent women.__NEWL__Gigi, Pallas, Mavis, and Seneca appear suddenly and surprisingly to figures from their past, each of whom expresses regret and sadness.__NEWL__Gigi's father, whom we discover for the first time and learn has been in prison since Gigi was eleven, spots her by a lake and encourages her to stay in touch with him.__NEWL__Pallas’ mother, Dee Dee, believes she spots Pallas with a baby near her house, but is unable to speak coherently to flag her attention.__NEWL__Sally Albright, whom we know as Sal from the “Mavis” chapter, spots her mother in a diner, and the two women apologize to each other.__NEWL__Jean, the woman Seneca believed was her sister, is revealed to be her mother.__NEWL__Jean believes she spots Seneca in a stadium parking lot, but Seneca does not remember her.__NEWL__Connie rests her head in the lap of an older woman from her past, Piedade, who sings to her as they face the ocean in a place called "Paradise".__NEWL__Morrison has said in an interview on PBS that she started with race ("They shoot the white girl. . . ") and then erased it by never revealing who the white girl is.__NEWL__The book begins with the well-known sentence "They shoot the white girl first."__NEWL__Never revealing who that character is, it leaves the reader to wonder.__NEWL__A group of nine men enter the building known as the "Convent", which is now more of a shelter for battered women.__NEWL__As the men search the Convent they clearly indicate their feelings towards it.__NEWL__Because the men are in this house, the story is written to make it seem like the Convent was a sinister place, a shameful place in the men's eyes, one negative statement being "in a place that once housed Christians – well, Catholics anyway – not a cross of Jesus anywhere" (7).__NEWL__During this search we find out several things about the men searching.__NEWL__Two of the men are wearing ties, while another set are a father and son, and finally a pair of brothers are among the posse.__NEWL__Ruby is also the town named after Ruby Morgan who died after their journey to this new place of hope, after being denied aid at other black towns and hospitals.__NEWL__They left Haven escaping the economic downturn and the increasing pressure from neighboring towns.__NEWL__Several families founded Ruby but the majority of the credit belongs to the Morgans due to their monetary influence.__NEWL__On their journey, they saw many other black towns that refused them acceptance, illustrating the exclusivity defining one's own paradise and the fear of letting the outside in.__NEWL__This may have led to the hatred of the women living in the Convent, without any real reason except the fact they are outside the calm setting of Ruby.__NEWL__Mavis is a mother who kills her infant twins Merle and Pearl by suffocation when she leaves them in the car while she goes into a grocery store.__NEWL__It is unclear whether it was an accident or she has some sort of mental illness.__NEWL__Her husband Frank is an alcoholic and abusive, which contributes to blowing her fears and anxieties out of proportion.__NEWL__She fears that her husband and three kids, Sal, Frankie, and Billy James, are going to kill her.__NEWL__She waits for her husband to go to sleep then she sneaks out of her house and steals his car, a mint green Cadillac, escaping her family.__NEWL__At 5:30 am she arrives at Peg's house (neighbor) but when no one answers she realizes it's a bad idea and decides to go somewhere farther away.__NEWL__She gets gas for the car and drives to her mom's house in Paterson, five hours away.__NEWL__Her mother says that Frank already called her at 5:30 and she told him she did not know Mavis' whereabouts.__NEWL__Mavis tells her mom that she feared her family was going to kill her.__NEWL__Her mother thinks Mavis is crazy for thinking this.__NEWL__ She stays there for a few days.__NEWL__Later, she hears her mom on the phone saying, "you better get up here pronto".__NEWL__This freaks her out and she takes the car keys her mom hid plus a few essential items and hits the road.__NEWL__She went to Newark and had the Cadillac painted magenta in order to avoid detection.__NEWL__Mavis decides she wants to go to California.__NEWL__She has little money so she picks up female hitchhikers to have them help pay the way and keep her company.__NEWL__The first woman was Sandra.__NEWL__She wore 6 dog tags and talked a lot.__NEWL__The next women stole her clip she got at her mothers, and the next two women wanted to go to a cemetery to honor an army man.__NEWL__The last woman was Bennie.__NEWL__She liked to sing songs and listen to the radio.__NEWL__She stole Mavis's rain boots and coat.__NEWL__She disappeared while Mavis was in the bathroom at a pit stop.__NEWL__ When Mavis returned the bathroom key, she sees a man who she believes is Frank looking at her car.__NEWL__He has let his hair grow out and is wearing a leather jacket and chains with a shirt open to the navel.__NEWL__She looks again and he's gone.__NEWL__She is worried that he recognized the car because the license plate is still the same.__NEWL__She goes out to her car and pays the attendant.__NEWL__The man appears in her rightside mirror.__NEWL__Mavis freaks out and drives away without thinking of what road she needed to get on.__NEWL__She becomes lost and then runs out of gas.__NEWL__She drinks alcohol that Frank had left in the car and goes to sleep.__NEWL__The next morning she gets out of the car and decides to walk and find a place to help her.__NEWL__She walks a long way and finds a house on a farm lot.__NEWL__She meets a woman outside named Connie.__NEWL__Connie is nice to her and feeds her.__NEWL__Soane Morgan comes to the house and gives Connie new sunglasses.__NEWL__Connie asks Soane to help her get gasoline for Mavis.__NEWL__Sloane takes Mavis to a gas station where a young black man takes Mavis back to her car with the gasoline.__NEWL__The man talks to Mavis and says how he thinks Connie is strange.__NEWL__She returns with her car to the house.__NEWL__She learns that it was a nun's house and a school for Indians.__NEWL__She also gets to meet Mother Mary Magna who had a light coming from her.__NEWL__She was the leader figure of the convent house.__NEWL__Mavis stayed at the convent instead of going to California; however, she left the convent off and on but she was there in 1976.__NEWL__She knew for months that there was sourness between the town and the convent ...__NEWL__Gigi (Grace) gets off the bus in Ruby as K.D. and Arnette are arguing.__NEWL__Arnette was pregnant with K.D.'s child and Arnette was not giving him many options.__NEWL__K.D. slaps Arnette due to her comments about the boys seeing Gigi walk off the bus, which turns into a town council meeting involving her father and K.D.'s uncles as well as other prominent men.__NEWL__We find out that Gigi gets to Ruby after being deceived by her old boyfriend Mikey.__NEWL__She intends to only be in Ruby a short while.__NEWL__She gets picked up by a man who is willing to take her to the train station.__NEWL__She finds that he is a hearse driver who is stopping by the Convent to pick up Mother who had recently died.__NEWL__We find out that the bus driver's name is Roger Best.__NEWL__Gigi goes inside and finds some food in the kitchen, which she begins to eat.__NEWL__Connie comes into the kitchen and explains how she has not slept for 17 days straight because of fear no one was there to watch her.__NEWL__She just wants to sleep on the kitchen floor and will do so, if Gigi watches her.__NEWL__Gigi feels bad about leaving her and in turn loses her ride and she stays with Connie and eats the funeral food until Connie wakes up.__NEWL__K.D. cannot stop thinking about Gigi so he goes to find her and ends up at the Convent.__NEWL__He takes her for a ride.__NEWL__One month passes and Mavis comes back to the convent, which she has missed so dearly.__NEWL__As she is walking up, she sees a girl, who is in fact Gigi, sitting naked and begins screaming at her.__NEWL__Connie comes out and explains to Mavis that mother has died and Gigi came the day after mother died.__NEWL__Mavis then explains how Gigi (Grace) will never be one of them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5265228	Destiny's Road	1998-05-15T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3409167	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3409167	At the start of the novel, the main character, Jemmy (he changes his name several times over the course of the novel) is around age 10.__NEWL__The novel then proceeds to skip through time in the various sections of the book including his teenage and young adult years, ending when he is in his forties.__NEWL__At first, he lives in his birthplace, Spiral Town, at one end of the Road—no one there knows what lies beyond a short distance down the Road.__NEWL__Jemmy's adventures begin as a late adolescent when, in self-defense, he kills someone working for the merchants and is forced to flee Spiral Town.__NEWL__He winds up a distance down the road in a fishing community where he changes his name and appearance, and becomes a cook.__NEWL__He marries into the population.__NEWL__When a different caravan comes through town from Spiral Town, they arrange with the village elders to hire Jemmy as a chef.__NEWL__He proceeds on the caravan to the Neck, the isthmus which joins the peninsula to the mainland from which the caravans come.__NEWL__No locals, like Jemmy, are permitted on the mainland.__NEWL__At the Neck, Jemmy is told he must return to his town on the next caravan—the same one he fled Spiral Town from.__NEWL__He instead flees by sea.__NEWL__Taking refuge on a boat left over from the time of Landing, he floats around the peninsula to a point beyond the Neck.__NEWL__There, in a storm, he goes ashore and is found by prisoners at the Windfarm—sentenced prisoners who farm speckles.__NEWL__All speckles come from the area and are rendered infertile by irradiation; the monopoly is rigorously maintained.__NEWL__The others use clothing that Jemmy has salvaged to plot an escape, led by the violent Andrew.__NEWL__They break out and evade pursuit.__NEWL__Andrew has planned all along to kill Jemmy, but Jemmy literally gets the drop on him and kills him in self-defense.__NEWL__Jemmy leaves the other prisoners, taking money they have found and a supply of speckles, and flees once again.__NEWL__Twenty-seven years later, Jemmy is a pit chef at a beach resort along the Road.__NEWL__His wife is burned in an accident and he is forced to leave his place—a place, as it turns out, of hiding.__NEWL__He finally reaches his lifetime's goal of seeing the other end of the Road, and Destiny Town.__NEWL__There, he is able to access the Cavorite's computer library and learn the true history of Destiny, a discovery which hardens him.__NEWL__After his wife dies from a freak drug interaction during her burn treatment, Jemmy takes his father-in-law's widow Harlow back to the site of the prisoners' hideout, where he had planted fertile speckles.__NEWL__They still survive, and he takes some, sharing the secret with Harlow.__NEWL__They then return to the beach resort, of which Jemmy, by his wife's death, is now part owner.__NEWL__The two contrive to join a caravan, and Jeremy returns as a merchant's chef, unknown to his former townsfolk, to Spiral Town.__NEWL__During the trip, Jemmy makes his attempt to break the speckles monopoly.__NEWL__All along the Road, he distributes gumdrop candy covered with dyed speckle seeds to children.__NEWL__Because the speckle seeds are no longer irradiated, they will grow after having passed through people's bodies, in manure piles and graveyards.__NEWL__The next time the merchants try to withhold speckles, they will be in for a surprise.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3809486	The Spoils of Poynton	1897-01-01T00:00:00Z	3400450	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3400450	Widow Adela Gereth tells the sensitive and tasteful Fleda Vetch that she's afraid her son Owen (heir to the family home Poynton) will marry the coarse Mona Brigstock.__NEWL__Mrs Gereth dreads the prospect of her painstakingly collected furniture and other art objects being given up to a philistine wife, while being left to live alone in Ricks, a small and coarsely designed cottage bequeathed to her.__NEWL__Owen in turn enlists Fleda to get his mother to leave with a minimum of fuss.__NEWL__Fleda is shocked to find that Mrs Gereth has decorated Ricks with many of the best pieces from Poynton.__NEWL__Owen reports that Mona is angry with the "theft" of the valuable heirlooms, and consequently becomes colder towards him.__NEWL__Meanwhile, he begins to show an attraction to Fleda and eventually declares his love for her.__NEWL__Fleda insists that he honour his engagement to Mona unless she breaks it off.__NEWL__Mrs Gereth returns the fine furniture to Poynton on the assumption that Fleda has secured Owen for herself.__NEWL__After a few days Owen and Mona are reported to be married, and they go abroad.__NEWL__Fleda gets a letter from Owen asking her to select any one piece from Poynton as hers to keep, and she goes to Poynton some days later only to find it has been consumed by fire.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2943614	What Maisie Knew	1897-01-01T00:00:00Z	7118					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3411198	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3411198	When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each.__NEWL__The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie to intensify their hatred of each other.__NEWL__Beale Farange marries Miss Overmore, Maisie's pretty governess, while Ida marries the likeable but weak Sir Claude.__NEWL__Maisie gets a new governess: the frumpy, somewhat ridiculous, but devoted Mrs. Wix.__NEWL__Both Ida and Beale soon cheat on their spouses; in turn, Sir Claude and the new Mrs. Farange begin an affair with each other.__NEWL__Maisie's parents abandon her and she becomes largely the responsibility of Sir Claude.__NEWL__Eventually, Maisie must decide if she wants to remain with Sir Claude and Mrs. Farange.__NEWL__In the book's long final section, set in France, the older (probably teenaged) Maisie struggles to choose between them and Mrs Wix, and concludes that her new parents' relationship will likely end as her biological parents' did.__NEWL__She leaves them and goes to stay with Mrs. Wix, her most reliable adult guardian.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6383228	Keepers (novel)	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z	3395442	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3395442	The main character is a shy, lonely, middle-aged man named Gil Stewart.__NEWL__He lives a relatively clean, good, quiet life in Cedar Hill, Ohio, where he owns and runs an antique novelty and collectibles store and also helps to take care of his institutionalized nephew Carson (in a group home), who has Down syndrome.__NEWL__One evening, while returning home from work, he finds an elderly man on the side of the road wearing a bowler hat.__NEWL__The man's hat gets blown away, and as he runs after it, he gets hit by a car.__NEWL__While that is happening, Gil notices two black mastiffs that seemed to be chasing the man and later witnessing the accident.__NEWL__Gil tries to help him, but the man dies.__NEWL__What disturbed Gil were three things: When he finally arrives home, he encounters an old, wounded and mangy dog lying in his front lawn, which subsequently crawls under his house.__NEWL__As he is deciding what to do with the dog (between taking it to a local shelter, the vet, or simply letting it die in peace where it is), he unexpectedly receives a package delivered by an obscure shipping company.__NEWL__To his surprise, the package was apparently sent from Beth, a woman he loved long ago but who mysteriously disappeared and was presumed dead.__NEWL__Gil soon receives a phone call from Carson's group home: Carson is missing.__NEWL__Gil now is bothered by the following mysteries: The feel of the book is very dark and somber.__NEWL__The majority of the book is composed of flashbacks, with the climax occurring during the present day, when he met the old man and the strange dogs.__NEWL__Even though the novel borders on fantasy, real-life issues are dealt with, namely animal abuse, lost pets, aging, and loneliness.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4703648	Al Capone Does My Shirts	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62	San Francisco	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	3446997	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3446997	In the 1930s, Matthew "Moose" Flanagan and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island when his father takes a new job as an electrician and a guard in the well-known Alcatraz prison.__NEWL__Moose becomes friends with the wardens at Alcatraz's daughter, Piper, who regularly gets into trouble in her attempts to earn money to get off of Alcatraz.__NEWL__Piper talks Moose into being part of her money-making schemes, like having inmates on the island do laundry for the kids at school.__NEWL__When the scheme fails and the Warden receives word of it, the children are punished and have to find a new way to spend their time.__NEWL__In an attempt to gain acceptance, Moose hangs around the prisoners' rec center in hopes of finding a stray baseball for use in games with the other kids.__NEWL__Moose eventually notices his older sister Natalie developing a relationship with convict 105, also known as Onion, who is trusted and able to roam freely because his sentence is almost up.__NEWL__Onion knows Moose has been looking for a baseball and gives him one.__NEWL__Scared of his sister hanging out with a convict, Moose is only reassured because of his confidence that she will be re-accepted to the Marinoff P. Esther School for people with special needs.__NEWL__Moose and his family's hopes are crushed when the school rejects Natalie.__NEWL__Desperate to help Natalie, Moose, with the help of Piper, writes a letter to the infamous criminal Al Capone, who works in Alcatraz's laundry.__NEWL__The letter asks Capone to pull any strings he has to help Moose's family get his sister back into school.__NEWL__Within days, Natalie is accepted into a new Esther P. Marinoff School branch for older children.__NEWL__The next day Moose is getting ready for the day when he finds a note in the sleeve of his shirt with the word "Done" underlined.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7739022	The Haunted Storm	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z	3447189	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3447189	Unease and suspicion divide a small village following violence and death.__NEWL__Matthew Cortez is physically involved in the investigation, finding his spiritual problems have a greater depth of reality.__NEWL__Only in the final disastrous confrontation in a ruined Mithraic temple does he, at last, glimpse the possibility of peace.__NEWL__The book was described by Antonia Fraser as an "honest and enterprising attempt to interweave the eternal and immortal longings of youth into the texture of a contemporary story".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5158168	Conan the Hunter	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29362596	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29362596	After facing a sewer monster, Conan is enlisted against a demon sorceress's conspiracy in restoring the wealth of her ancient race.__NEWL__In their struggle against Valtresca and Azora, the Cimmerian and his allies Salvorus, Kailash the hillman, and a young priest, Madesus, encounter numerous traps and divine intervention in an adventure culminating in a ruined temple with legions of gargoyles and the resurrection of the horrific villain Skauraul.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16386588	Lady in Waiting	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z	29362773	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29362773	The story is primarily about the life and exploits of Sir Walter Raleigh, albeit with the bulk of the narration revolving around the impact of his life on Elizabeth Throckmorton, who is referred to as 'Bess.'__NEWL__It begins with Raleigh's (this is the spelling used in the novel) childhood in Budleigh, and quickly shows his close relationship with half-brother Humphrey Gilbert.__NEWL__Glibert is attributed as sharing and inspiring Raleigh's lifelong passion of wanting explore the New World, beginning with a plan to seek the fabled Northwest Passage.__NEWL__Much of the rest of Raleigh's life is explained as being primarily motivated by this passion.__NEWL__Bess is brought into the novel when Raleigh is seeking favor at Queen Elizabeth's court at the Palace of Westminster.__NEWL__She is 12 years of age, and Raleigh makes a strong impression on her during a chance meeting in a garden.__NEWL__He is whistling the tune of Greensleeves, which is used throughout the novel, and shares his frustration of being stymied in his goals of exploration.__NEWL__Bess grows up at court in proximity to Mary Sidney, eventually becoming a Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.__NEWL__She is immersed in court culture, early on being connected with Philip Sidney, Robert Devereux, and Robin Cecil.__NEWL__They are all shown as children growing up in the shadows of their elders, Lord Essex and Lord Burghley, respectively; and the court intrigues of the times.__NEWL__The two 'Robins' are connected with Raleigh in what is described as a Triumvirate, around which both her life and the fate of England are shown as revolving.__NEWL__The first half of the novel takes place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, charting the ups and downs of Raleigh's career from the 1590s onward; including his position as Captain of the Queen's Guard, his fall from favor after a clandestine marriage to Bess, their life at Durham House and Sherborne, his return to favor and involvement with the capture of Cadiz, the rise of Robin Cecil to become Secretary of State, the fall and execution of Robin Devereux, Raleigh's exploration of what is now Guyana, and attempt to promote the legend of El Dorado as motivation to gain further favor for future explorations.__NEWL__The second half of the novel takes place during the reign of King James, showing his decline under the machinations of Robin Cecil, 13 year imprisonment in the Tower of London after being impugned of involvement in the Main Plot by way of Lord Cobham, eventual restoration and resumption of exploration of the Orinoco, the death of his son Walter while on the exploration, Raleigh's downfall after the failure of the exploration, and eventual execution.__NEWL__Bess's life is shown as revolving around 'waiting' for Raleigh to 'remember her,' and being faithful to support him despite his overarching drive for exploration.__NEWL__Her anxieties are explored in depth, and their relationship is portrayed as being very strong, even in the face of extremity.__NEWL__Raleigh's life is shown as a complex tapestry of events that only make sense in the light of his lifelong dream of exploration.__NEWL__His execution is shown as the passing of the 'last of Elizabeth's Round Table,' with a sense of nostalgia for the adventurers in service to Queen Elizabeth and the Golden Age which she created.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7751306	The Midnight Charter	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29407093	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29407093	The novel starts with Mark in a delirious, dream-like state because he suffers from a deadly fever.__NEWL__He has been sold by his father to Dr Theophilus in the hope that he will treat Mark.__NEWL__While he is being treated, he meets Lily, a servant to the doctor's grandfather, Count Stelli, the city's greatest astrologer.__NEWL__She helps him adjust to his new life.__NEWL__Mark is soon cured of the terrible fever and will soon leave Count Stelli's tower with Dr Theophilus and become his assistant.__NEWL__But Mark does not want to go and brokers a deal with Lily; he will stay and serve the Count and she will leave the horrid tower and learn about medicine with the doctor.__NEWL__While Lily and Dr Theophilus struggle to survive, Mark is taught how to be an astrologer by the Count.__NEWL__Soon, with the aid of Mr Snutworth, Mark plans to overthrow the old Count and become the greatest astrologer himself.__NEWL__In the meantime, Lily comes up with a shocking idea; provide free accommodation, medical care and food to debtors and those in need of it.__NEWL__She, Dr Theophilus and two others start an almshouse.__NEWL__Mark manages to overthrow the Count and soon becomes a powerful astrologer himself, living in high society.__NEWL__On numerous occasions, Lily asks Mark for his support of the almshouse, but he declines, stating that he and his reputation would be at stake.__NEWL__With the aid of Mr Snutworth, Mark soon becomes the most powerful person in all of Agora, bar the Director.__NEWL__Both Mark and Lily are being watched by the Director, and while Mark is pondering marrying Cherubina, he orders Snutworth to betray Mark and take his power.__NEWL__Snutworth has known what he must do all along, and Mark soon falls from power and becomes a debtor.__NEWL__He is put in prison pending investigation.__NEWL__Snutworth replaces Mark as astrologer.__NEWL__While in prison, Lily is summoned to the Director of Receipts.__NEWL__The Director tells her about the Midnight Charter that was made by the founders of Agora, and gives her a choice; be banished from Agora, and take Mark with her, or else.__NEWL__She decides to leave Agora, and before Mark knows what is happening, he and Lily are dumped outside the city walls, with no way back in.__NEWL__Mark is furious with Lily, as he had only newly discovered that his father was a prison warden and he wanted to spend more time with him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199384	The Savage Girl	2001-09-18T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29344469	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29344469	Burnt-out art student Ursula Van Urden arrives in Middle City, a fictional American metropolis built around a volcano, with plans to care for her younger sister, Ivy.__NEWL__A well known fashion model, Ivy had recently suffered a much-publicized schizophrenic meltdown.__NEWL__Having spent some time in Middle City, Ursula soon begins working for Ivy's former boyfriend.__NEWL__Her employer, Chas Lacouture is the owner of the trendspotting firm, Tomorrow, Ltd.__NEWL__She is trained as a trendspotter by both Chas a new coworker, Javier Delreal.__NEWL__A manic optimist, Javier takes her on rollerblading and party-crashing expeditions, predicting a new megatrend he calls the "Light Age," a "renaissance of self-creation," which he believes will coincide with the defeat of irony.__NEWL__By contrast, Chas, a cynical ex-philosophy professor, takes her to skulk in supermarkets and spy on customers, and introduces her to the concept of "paradessence,", the "broken soul" at the center of every product, consisting of two opposing desires that it will promise to satisfy simultaneously.__NEWL__As Ivy resumes her modeling activities, Ursula's trendspotting work focuses on a homeless girl who lives in a city park, makes her own clothing, and hunts pigeons for food.__NEWL__This eponymous "savage girl" forms the basis of a marketing campaign for a new product, "Diet Water," and serves as a harbinger, for Chas and Javier alike, of the new age to come.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5005224	Bør Børson jr.	1920-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20	Norway	29268830	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29268830	"Bør Børson Olderstad" is a farmer's son from the fictional valley Olderdalen.__NEWL__Dreaming about money, wealth and a position at the board of the local savings bank, he has changed his last name to Børson, and started a local grocery store.__NEWL__The name Børson is a paraphrase of the Norwegian word , from , in .__NEWL__Via various burlesque episodes he eventually ends up as a millionaire.__NEWL__The story ends with a wedding between Bør and Josefine Torsøien, a girl from a nearby farm.__NEWL__The novel is set in the boom period during World War I. Norway did not participate in the war, but the country's merchant fleet carried goods at increasing freight rates.__NEWL__The sea transport was a risky business that cost the lives of 2,000 Norwegian seamen, while a volatile stock market could multiply investments over short periods of time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2391923	The Coming of the Terraphiles	2010-10-14T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29271476	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29271476	In order to avert the impending collapse of the Multiverse from the mysterious "dark tides" that have begun to appear, the Doctor and Amy join the Terraphiles, a group of humans in the far future obsessed with recreating Earth's distant past and reenacting medieval Earth sports (or rather, unknowingly comic misinterpretations of the same).__NEWL__The Doctor and his new friends compete in a Grand Tournament in the Miggea star system, which lies on the border of parallel realities.__NEWL__The prize of the contest is an ancient artifact called the Arrow of Law, sought also by the Doctor's old foe Captain Cornelius and his crew of space pirates.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3296133	Mary Ann in Autumn	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29271653	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29271653	Mary Ann Singleton Carruthers flees her luxurious life in Darien, Connecticut for San Francisco, seeking solace from old friend Michael Tolliver.__NEWL__Reeling from both ill health and her husband's infidelity, she asks Michael if she can stay in his guest cottage while she recuperates.__NEWL__Meanwhile, other former Barbary Lane residents show up in the novel: Mary Ann's adoptive daughter Shawna is a popular sex blogger and is dating Otto, a clown; Anna Madrigal has mostly recovered from the stroke she had in Michael Tolliver Lives; Michael's assistant, Jake Greenleaf, wrestles with his attraction to a closeted Mormon missionary who is involved in the movement to "cure" homosexuals; and Jake, a trans man, despairs of ever saving enough money to pay for surgery.__NEWL__Ironically, his dream of having a hysterectomy is the same nightmare that Mary Ann is facing.__NEWL__As the novel progresses, Dede and D'Orothea show up to help Mary Ann with her recuperation, Shawna befriends a homeless junkie prostitute, Jake makes a startling discovery, and a threat from the past comes back to haunt the former Barbary Lane residents.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5039283	Cargo of Eagles	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23240	Essex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29128834	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29128834	Saltey in Essex, the "Back Door to London", has a long history of smuggling, and holds a secret that leads to murder.__NEWL__Albert Campion sends his young American associate Mortimer Kelsey to mingle with the locals to try to solve the mystery.__NEWL__The evidence points to a robbery from a yacht done years before by a dangerous criminal named Teague and his associates.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7091760	Once An Eagle	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29337128	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29337128	This section covers the young Sam Damon's formative years in small town in Nebraska, during which he earns his nickname "The Night Clerk."__NEWL__After being put on a wait list to attend West Point, Sam decides to enlist in the Army.__NEWL__This section contains Damon's experiences in basic training and deployment south of the border during the Mexican expedition, though he sees no combat.__NEWL__Damon's service takes off in World War I, including his battlefield commission and actions, lead to his award of the Medal of Honor.__NEWL__Sam rises to the rank of Major before the war ends, and falls in love with and marries General Caldwell's daughter.__NEWL__They start their Army career together at Fort Hardee, a desolate fort that leaves Sam less than thrilled and that Tommy despises.__NEWL__This section covers the time between the two world wars, including Sam's interactions with Massengale, Ben Krisler, and the birth of the Damons' children, Donny and Peg, as the family move from one military outpost to another, including a stint in the Philippines.__NEWL__This section covers World War II and Damon's promotion to division commander, culminating in the disastrous Operation Palladium commanded by Corps Commander General Massengale.__NEWL__This interlude features the death of Krisler during Palladium, as Damon is severely wounded.__NEWL__The final book finds Sam Damon once again in Southeast Asia, this time as an adviser to an escalating conflict in Khotiane, an allegorical name for Vietnam.__NEWL__He finds himself opposing General Massengale's desire to increase American participation in the conflict, which Damon views as calamitous.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5963261	Hässelby	2007-10-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20	Norway	29338793	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29338793	In Harstad's novel, Albert is 42 years old and still lives with his father in the same apartment.__NEWL__When his father suddenly dies, Albert sees it as an opportunity to finally create the life for himself that he longed for all these years he was taking care of his father.__NEWL__A large part of the novel is made up of a flashback to 1985-86 when Albert traveled around Europe with his friend Viktor, and by coincidence ends up in Hong Kong and later Paris, where he meets a girl and almost decides to stay for good, before ending up returning to his father in Hässelby.__NEWL__The novel starts as a traditional novel exploring themes such as the relationship between father and son, growing up in suburbia, friendship and politics, but throughout the novel the tone gradually gets darker and darker as more surreal elements are introduced.__NEWL__The novel ends as a nightmarish tale where Albert discovers that someone have been following him for over twenty years, all over the world, and that the world is coming to an end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7184719	Philippa Fisher and the Dream-Maker's Daughter	2009-05-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29061830	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29061830	Philippa Fisher is lonely.__NEWL__She misses her fairy godsister, Daisy.__NEWL__While on vacation with her parents, she befriends a local girl, Robyn.__NEWL__Though she is excited to have a friend again, she cannot help feeling there is something strange about Robyn and her father.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Daisy, who is hard at work on a new mission, misses Philippa as well, so she decides to break the rules and visit her friend.__NEWL__The girls are happy to be reunited, but things soon begin to go horribly wrong with Daisy's assignment.__NEWL__When all three girls find themselves in danger, Philippa must work quickly to save her friends and herself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q492384	Titan	1800-01-01T00:00:00Z	29158863	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29158863	Divided not into chapters but into "jubilees" and "cycles", Titan comprises some 900 pages and tells the story of the education of the hero Albano de Cesara, his transformation from a passionate youth into the mature man who ascends the throne of the small principality of Pestitz.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7748551	The Lost Boy	29081661	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29081661	The novella tells the story of an Asheville, North Carolina family that suffers the loss of Grover, the 12-year-old son, who dies of typhoid fever during an extended family visit to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.__NEWL__The story is composed of four parts.__NEWL__Part 1, written in third person, presents Grover's perception of a childhood epiphany experienced months before the family moves from North Carolina to St. Louis.__NEWL__Cheated and accused of stealing by a candy-store owner, the boy seeks out his father, who returns with him to the store and extracts retribution, leaving the boy with a restored sense of self but a deeper understanding of life's darker side.__NEWL__In Part 2, some 30 years after the boy's death, the still-grieving mother reflects on her "best" son and recounts the high excitement of the train trip to the Fair and the son's amazing maturity.__NEWL__Throughout her narrative, the mother exemplifies life's irreparable wounding.__NEWL__In Part 3, also 30 years later, the older sister tells of an adventure at the Fair when she and the boy, youngsters in a strange place, sneak into downtown St. Louis and eat in a cheap restaurant.__NEWL__Upon their return home, the boy becomes ill with the onset of typhoid fever.__NEWL__In the sister's story we confront not only her long-sustained grief and guilt, but her vision of the incomprehensibility of life: "How is it," she asks, "that nothing turns out the way we thought it would be."__NEWL__In Part 4, Eugene, the younger brother who has in the 30 intervening years become a famous writer, narrates his return to the house in St. Louis where the family had lived and the boy had died.__NEWL__Eugene hopes to recapture and recreate in fiction the essence of the boy, a hope not fulfilled, as the title of the story suggests.__NEWL__Instead, the writer-brother comes to see the limits of time and memory in recapturing the past, which marks a significant epiphany for him and a redirection of his work as writer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5936015	Hull Zero Three	2010-11-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29082667	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29082667	A man wakes up from a dream-like state, naked and freezing, with no memory.__NEWL__A little girl leads him through a series of corridors in a generation ship in search of warmth.__NEWL__She calls him Teacher, and together they encounter several other strange beings as they travel through the ship trying to survive and find the answers to their questions.__NEWL__Teacher eventually finds out that he is a clone and has been resurrected several times before, although those versions did not survive.__NEWL__Each clone was able to leave bits of information, a kind of breadcrumb trail for the next iteration.__NEWL__It is from these diaries that Teacher discovers the true nature of his situation.__NEWL__His companions are clones as well, genetically engineered for specific purposes.__NEWL__The ship's crew has separated into two groups, each vying for control of the ship.__NEWL__One faction wants to abandon their mission to colonize a planet which is already teeming with life, while the other wants to press forward.__NEWL__The ship is damaged during one of their battles, and the clones have been created in order to fix it.__NEWL__Teacher, who discovers his real name is Sanjay, eventually reaches the third hull of the book's title where he encounters Mother, who is the leader of the faction that wants to continue to their destination.__NEWL__She tells him she created him to be her ally.__NEWL__In the end, Teacher and his companions flee from Mother and await their arrival on the new planet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7786083	This Isn't What It Looks Like	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29121910	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29121910	The story starts off with Cass awakening somewhere unknown to her, in an unknown time (she later finds she is in fact 500 years in the past), not knowing who she is, where she came from, or what she is doing.__NEWL__She sees a young boy stuck in a tree, and tries to rescue him, only to hear him repeatedly shouting the word "Goat!", evidently frightened.__NEWL__He runs down the road to his father, but neither of them even look at the girl.__NEWL__Confused, the girl walks up to a puddle, only to see that she has no reflection, realizing that she must be invisible, and that the boy was shouting "Ghost," not "Goat."__NEWL__Meanwhile, Max-Ernest visits Cass in the PICU section of the hospital, where Cass lies in bed comatose.__NEWL__Max-Ernest, though evidently depressed over his friend comatose, (and the fact that the Tuning Fork won't help him create the antidote for Cass) with his only other friend Yo-Yoji away in Japan has overcome his "fear/allergy" of chocolate and eats several bars in a matter of seconds.__NEWL__Back to Cass, she realizes she has somehow traveled in time and arrived in the Renaissance/Middle Ages.__NEWL__She also realizes she's invisible, not dead.__NEWL__At the streets, she meets a Seer, who can see her because she has something called the "Second Sight", obtained by an object called the Double Monocle (as this book centers around the sense of sight).__NEWL__She also does some fortune telling with a deck of tarot cards with Cass, showing her that the Ace of Wands card is upside down, meaning that an old wrong must be righted.__NEWL__The Seer gives a suggestion that maybe something has been stolen or she has stolen something.__NEWL__She then shows Cass the Fool card, with a picture of a fool, coincidentally the one that she saw while in the streets.__NEWL__When the Seer introduce her name as Clara or Cassandra, Cass' memories came back, making her remember about the Magician, the Jester, the Secret etc.__NEWL__She realizes she's on a mission to find the Secret, since she is the new Terces Society Secret Keeper.__NEWL__The Seer disappears but leaves Cass the Double Monocle.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Max-Ernest goes to visit Pietro, who is playing Tarocchino with the circus crew.__NEWL__Pietro introduces the idea of tarot cards that has involvement in Cass' coma, which confuses Max-Ernest.__NEWL__Pietro explains that the Ace of Wands card is upside down, which refers to the fact that the Tuning Fork should be returned to their principal, Mrs. Johnson.__NEWL__He explains the Fork wants to be returned to its owner, so that is why it won't work.__NEWL__Lastly, Pietro tells Max-Ernest that he "must bring her home from her head" with mind reading.__NEWL__Back to Cass, she experiments with the Double Monocle, which she finds out that she could see through walls.__NEWL__When a parade comes to the streets announcing that the Duke is to give gifts of riches to the King, Cass, taking advantage of her invisibility climbs onto the parade, believing that it'll lead her to the palace, where she could find the Jester.__NEWL__The parade is raided by Anastasia and her bandits, who returns the jewels and riches to the poor.__NEWL__She also discovers a lodestone that attracts a lot of metal which she keeps.__NEWL__Back at school, when Max-Ernest is about to return the Tuning Fork to Mrs. Johnson, he meets the new secretary Opal, who pranks him into not knocking on Mrs. Johnson's door, resulting in her scolding him.__NEWL__The principal is dressed like a queen, because of the upcoming Ren-Faire, a Renaissance themed fair.__NEWL__Max-Ernest sees that Mrs. Johnson is wearing the lodestone as a necklace, who she explains that her great great aunt Clara was wearing it.__NEWL__At the palace, Cass sees a man telling a creature to sleep in the dog kennels.__NEWL__The creature is Mr. Cabbage Face.__NEWL__When she calls out his name, the homunculus looks at her, meaning that he could see Cass.__NEWL__Cass realizes if Mr. Cabbage Face is here, then Lord Pharaoh, the founder of the Midnight Sun (evil alchemists who go murderous lengths to seek immortality) is too.__NEWL__Cass also realizes that in the Tale of Mr. Cabbage Face, the author got the place where the homunculus stayed in the palace wrong.__NEWL__It wasn't a pigsty, but a dog kennel.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Benjamin Blake arrives from his old school, the New Promethean, completely changed.__NEWL__He is now wearing a tuxedo and owns the Double Monocle.__NEWL__He eats lunch with Max-Ernest, Daniel-not-Danielle and Glob in the Nuts Table.__NEWL__Benjamin reveals a note stuck on Max-Ernest's back, saying a strange message.__NEWL__At the kennels, Cass talks with the homunculus after giving him some leftover chicken as he was starving.__NEWL__When Cass gets the homunculus to speak a bit, the Jester arrives and carries own the conversation as notated in The Tale of Cabbage Face: A Gothic Tale.__NEWL__The Jester frees the homunculus before he is caught and sent to the dungeon, which is the place where the chamber pots are emptied.__NEWL__At Max-Ernest's house, Max-Ernest's parents announce that they are expecting a baby boy, overwhelming Max-Ernest.__NEWL__At the dungeon, Lord Pharaoh suddenly arrives and bumps into an invisible Cass, causing the Double Monocle to fall off.__NEWL__Lord Pharaoh uses it and realizes the presence of Cass.__NEWL__Lord Pharaoh confiscates all of Cass' belongings (just a triangle of Senor Hugo's chocolate which he took to investigate) and throws Cass into a cell with the Jester.__NEWL__Cass reveals to the Jester that she is invisible and is his great great...granddaughter.__NEWL__He first disregards it as madness but slowly believes her.__NEWL__At school, Max-Ernest decodes the message and reveals a troubling "LORD PHARAOH LIVES" (probably because Lord Pharaoh ate Cass' chocolate).__NEWL__At school, Amber invited Max-Ernest for a fortune telling session and when telling him that he is in love with Cass, Benjamin reads her mind and reveals to everyone that she lied, breaking her reputation.__NEWL__Benjamin reveals to Max-Ernest that he can mind read and agrees to read Cass' mind, like Pietro said.__NEWL__Max-Ernest would have to act an injury while Benjamin sneaks in.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Anastasia frees everyone in the dungeon and flees to her campsite.__NEWL__At the hospital, the janitor notices Cass whispering "The Secret...what is the Secret..." but decides not to report it immediately.__NEWL__Then, Max-Ernest charges into the Emergency Room screaming because he has an "epileptic fit with the combined result of his allergy to vinyl and a cardiac arrest with the effects of white coat syndrome".__NEWL__But Max-Ernest's cover is blown, resulting in him to go back to Cass' room, just as Benjamin was about to see something.__NEWL__At home, Max-Ernest receives an Email from Yo-Yoji telling him that the school Benjamin went to is run by the Midnight Sun,__NEWL__Dr. L being principal.__NEWL__Max-Ernest sees why Benjamin was so eager to find out what was in Cass' mind.__NEWL__At the campsite, the bandits are ambushed by the soldiers.__NEWL__At school, Max-Ernest eavesdrop Benjamin and Amber talking.__NEWL__Amber was begging Benjamin to let her try the monocle.__NEWL__Eventually she lunges and grabs Benjamin's monocle, and sees through walls and almost catches Max-Ernest.__NEWL__Max-Ernest discovers that Benjamin has no mind reading powers, it's just his monocle.__NEWL__Benjamin tries to get the monocle back but Max-Ernest runs with it.__NEWL__He trips and Opal catches the monocle and reports Benjamin and Amber to the principal and sends Max-Ernest to the nurse's office.__NEWL__Opal leaves her purse there, giving Max-Ernest the chance to get the monocle.__NEWL__At the campsite, the other soldiers and their dogs search for Cass.__NEWL__The homunculus saves her by letting the dogs chase him.__NEWL__He also leaves Cass the treasure chest.__NEWL__In the treasure chest, Cass finds the lodestone and the Jester and Cass save them by throwing the a sword onto the lodestone the Jester uses it to play a trick where Cass throws a sword, instantly attracted to the magnet and making the soldiers beg for forgiveness, as they thought something supernatural had occurred.__NEWL__At the hospital, Max-Ernest could not find Cass as she has left the hospital because there is nothing the doctors could do.__NEWL__Max-Ernest uses the monocle to see himself in the mirror, revealing his future self eating massive amounts of chocolate and writing a book.__NEWL__It seems as if Pseudonymous Bosch is Max-Ernest because of his love of chocolate and being a writer.__NEWL__At the campsite, Anastasia discovers the truth - that the Jester has befriended an invisible girl.__NEWL__Cass draws herself on a scroll with some clay.__NEWL__Anastasia leaves and the Jester promises Cass that he will find the Secret from Lord Pharaoh and make clues for her to find.__NEWL__At Cass' house, everything is mess and disorganized as Melanie is depressed.__NEWL__Melanie, Larry and Wayne go out, leaving Max-Ernest to look over Cass, still comatose.__NEWL__Max-Ernest makes a very very long talk to Cass, and plays Yo-Yoji's guitar tunes from his pc.__NEWL__But it turns out Yo-Yoji was actually in Cass' bedroom and was playing the chords live.__NEWL__Suddenly, the power goes out, revealing to be Benjamin who cut the power lines.__NEWL__Benjamin breaks into Cass' house and demands the monocle.__NEWL__Just as a fight was about to start, someone throws Yo-Yoji's guitar on Benjamin, knocking him out.__NEWL__It is revealed to be Cass who threw the guitar.__NEWL__Cass had awoken because of Max-Ernest's speech, Yo-Yoji's heavy metal and the sudden jolt of electric when Benjamin cut the power.__NEWL__Max-Ernest ties him up just in time when Melanie, Larry and Wayne return.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Max-Ernest's brother is born, and is named Paul-Clay.__NEWL__At the Ren-Faire, Glob live-blogs his famous food blog, typing down all kinds of events.__NEWL__But at 11:35 AM, Glob writes in his blog that when he went down to the river bank where there is smoke because he thought there was a barbecue there, he witnesses the Midnight Sun chanting the word "SECRET" over and over again near a fire with a very bright ball.__NEWL__He then sees Ms. Mauvais drink from a goblet and giving it to an invisible Lord Pharaoh to drink.__NEWL__The Midnight Sun catches Glob spying and he flees, before hiding in a cave under a hamburger-shaped rock.__NEWL__Back in the fair, the trio and a cured and normal dull Benjamin are at a camera obscura, viewing the fair.__NEWL__When they leave, Cass goes into a tent and the Seer has a conversation with her.__NEWL__When she comes out and goes back in again, there is no Seer inside, but a robot who tells fortunes.__NEWL__The robot gives her cards with things that the Seer said, but the words turn into normal things after Cass reads it.__NEWL__At the joust, an armored man called Sir Unknown (Lord Pharaoh) battles Yo-Yoji.__NEWL__the armored man tells the Master of Arms that he represents Mary Queen of Scots (Ms. Mauvais).__NEWL__Just then, Opal tells everyone the joust will stop because a student had participated in the joust and Yo-Yoji had to leave.__NEWL__As Mrs. Johnson bestows Unknown as winner, he snatches the lodestone from her neck, since he knows the Secret is on it.__NEWL__The rest of the Midnight Sun (disguised as guards) flee as Mrs. Johnson demands that the lodestone is returned to her or else the trio will be expelled.__NEWL__At the camera obscure, Opal reveals himself to be Owen, the accent changing spy of the Terces Society which explains why he told off Amber and Benjamin, not Max-Ernest and why he left the purse for Max-Ernest to rummage into.__NEWL__Then, at the Camera Obscura, Cass uses the monocle and sees that the Jester is there, since if she doesn't wear the monocle she couldn't see him.__NEWL__Suddenly, Daniel-not-Danielle calls Max-Ernest and tells him about Glob's emergency blog post.__NEWL__The trio rush to the riverbank mentioned in the blog post and while Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji rescue Glob, whom eats a lot of Cass' special trail mix, Cass rushes to the mentioned fireplace, where she meets Sir Unknown, whom reveals himself to be Lord Pharaoh, invisible.__NEWL__Lord Pharaoh demands Cass to tell him how the lodestone works, but Cass distracts him by throwing the monocle and running away with the lodestone.__NEWL__Max-Ernest then hears Cass' calls of help and Yo-Yoji comes out, uses a branch from a tree to trip Lord Pharaoh over and hang him upside down.__NEWL__At Medieval Days Restaurant that night, Cass, Max-Ernest, Yo-Yoji, Paul-Clay and Benjamin have dinner.__NEWL__The trio try to solve the message said to be written on it by the Jester but fails.__NEWL__Later, at the fire station, Max-Ernest comes with Paul-Clay's toy which has magnetic powder on it.__NEWL__The lodestone attracts all of the powder and is covered by powder except a lining of silver that spells "AS ABOVE SO BELOW".__NEWL__Cass is disappointed with the result until the postman comes and gives a trunk to Cass.__NEWL__He explains that the trunk has been to all 7 continents in the world and the recipient is her.__NEWL__When the postman leaves, Cass finds out that the password combination to unlock the trunk is "AS SO" and unlocks it, revealing treasure from the chest Anastasia stole earlier.__NEWL__When she goes home, Melanie finds a scroll with a drawing of Cass on it, which was the one she drew 500 years ago, and she tells her there is a scrap of papyrus stuck on it.__NEWL__Cass snatches the papyrus, knowing the Secret is on it an rushes into her room to read it, but the papyrus is rapidly turning into dust.__NEWL__The story ends here to be continued in the next book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7130554	Pandemia	2006-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29124040	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29124040	The disease that causes a world-wide catastrophe in the novel is H5N1, a strain of bird flu that was in the news at the time of publication.__NEWL__Its mutation and rapid spread eventually causes the collapse of society and many economies across the world.__NEWL__The book's central plot features a group of teens in Saline, Michigan that must try and escape the city and head to the countryside where they can hopefully stay alive long enough in their uncle's cabin to be rescued.__NEWL__But in doing so, the teens must use whatever weapons they can find to defend themselves against looters, insane killers, and potentially dangerous sources of infection.__NEWL__In a world gone mad, the group must find the necessities, food, water and shelter, to survive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1008549	Gauntlgrym	2010-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29161024	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29161024	Gauntlgrym begins in the year 1409, DR in the dwarven complex of Mithral Hall.__NEWL__King Bruenor Battlehammer, with Drizzt Do'Urden, sits on his throne and mourns over the loss of his friend Regis and his adoptive daughter Catti-brie nearly 24 years before.__NEWL__Both Companions of the Hall were lost to the deadly effects of the Spellplague.__NEWL__Wulfgar has returned to Icewind Dale and has decided to remain in those most dangerous of lands.__NEWL__In a conversation with his dear friend Drizzt, Bruenor laments over all that has happened since those terrible events.__NEWL__The signing of the Treaty of Garumn's Gorge has brought a lasting peace to the Silver Marches.__NEWL__Obould II has inherited the Kingdom of Many-Arrows from his father Obould I, though he is not nearly as clever or as powerful as his father.__NEWL__Above all, King Bruenor regrets never completing his quest to find the legendary home of the Delzoun dwarves, Gauntlgrym.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Nanfoodle, the gnome inventor famous for his Moment of Elminister - a purposeful explosion that sent gas swarming to the surface during a vicious battle 40 years earlier - and Jessa Dribble-Obould, an orc, hatch a plan to poison Bruenor.__NEWL__Nanfoodle poisons the king's ale.__NEWL__Thibbledorf Pwent the battlerager notices something amiss about Nanfoodle's behavior but cannot quite place it.__NEWL__Bruenor drinks the ale and shortly after the entire population of Mithral Hall goes into mourning at the abrupt death of their king.__NEWL__Banak Brawnanvil is named Eleventh King of Mithral Hall.__NEWL__Pwent, distraught over the death of Bruenor, seeks out Nanfoodle and Jessa for answers in the hills outside of Mithral Hall.__NEWL__Upon finding the traitorous pair, he attempts to attack them for answers.__NEWL__During the fight, Drizzt, as well as a very-much alive Bruenor arrives; the latter demands of Pwent what he is doing here instead of at Banak's side.__NEWL__The ever-loyal Pwent replies that his life and his duty lie with his beloved king.__NEWL__It is then revealed that Bruenor faked his death with the help of Nanfoodle and Jessa in order to continue his quest for Gauntlgrym while leaving Mithral Hall in Banak's good hands.__NEWL__Drizzt, Bruenor, Jessa, Nanfoodle, Pwent, Guenhwyvar, and Andahar then leave on their secret quest.__NEWL__(Andahar is a magical unicorn that can be summoned much like Guenhwyvar, Athrogate's demon boar, or Jarlaxle's nightmare.__NEWL__Andahar was a gift to Drizzt from the ruling council of Silverymoon for his work with both blade and diplomacy during the Third Orc War.)__NEWL__42 years later in the year 1451 DR the elf warrior Dahlia Sin'felle is engaged in a conversation with her vampire lover, Korvin Dor'crae.__NEWL__Dahlia has been charged by the Red Wizard of Thay__NEWL__lich Zulkir Szass Tam to go to create a Dread Ring.__NEWL__This is an enchanted area that produces countless undead minions.__NEWL__She is charged to go to Luskan in order to investigate possibilities.__NEWL__There are several flashbacks of Dahlia as a child and the cruelties she suffered at the hands of Netherese barbarians and demons.__NEWL__She was raped by the barbarians and impregnated by the tiefling Herzgo Alegni and forced to bear his demon offspring which she killed soon after it was born while she was still a child herself.__NEWL__Dahlia is an exceptionally talented warrior and uses the break staff weapon, Kozah's Needle.__NEWL__This is an eight-foot-long staff that can be broken into four two-foot sections attached by a chain.__NEWL__The break staff can be configured in many ways.__NEWL__It also allows the owner to summon lightning during battle.__NEWL__She also wears diamond studs as a tribute to her lovers.__NEWL__Eight are in her left ear to signify lovers she has murdered and one in her right ear for those who have so far escaped that fate.__NEWL__Before leaving on her mission, she kills her former lover Themerelis, a powerful ranger wielding a greatsword.__NEWL__This angers her rival Sylora Salm as she was also Themerelis' lover.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Drizzt, Bruenor, and Pwent have continued to search for Gauntlgrym with no success.__NEWL__Nanfoodle and Jessa stay with them for many years, but eventually die of old age.__NEWL__While searching for the lost kingdom in Ten-Towns and Icewind Dale, they investigate rumors of a sanctuary inhabited by a beautiful witch and a halfling caretaker.__NEWL__While visiting Clan Battlehammer, Bruenor (traveling under the alias Bonnego) decides to continue his search for more information to the location of Gauntlgrym.__NEWL__Pwent, having reached an age where he is not as agile and mobile as he once was, reluctantly decides to stay in Icewind Dale when Drizzt and Bruenor take their leave.__NEWL__Herzgo Alegni is in the city of Neverwinter working with the Netherese and opposing the Ashmadai.__NEWL__Upset that the city lord will not rename a bridge after him, he recalls his chief assassin Barrabus the Gray from his home in Memnon.__NEWL__Barrabus is described as a dark-haired, dark-eyed, slight but muscular man.__NEWL__Although it is never mentioned, he bears a striking resemblance to Drizzt's former arch-rival Artemis Entreri.__NEWL__Barrabus is armed with a main-gauche and a magic knife.__NEWL__The knife can hold and deliver poison with deadly accuracy.__NEWL__He then instructs Barrabus to convince the lord of the city to change the bridge's name.__NEWL__When Barrabus shows disdain towards Herzgo, the assassin is punished by means of a magical tuning fork on the sword that Herzgo carries.__NEWL__The sword is called Claw and has a blood-red blade.__NEWL__The magic attack causes Barrabus much pain.__NEWL__Barrabus is successful in getting the name of the bridge changed.__NEWL__Dahlia and Dor'crae arrive in Luskan and enter the Illusk (undead section of Luskan).__NEWL__While there, they meet the unstable lich Valindra Shadowmantle.__NEWL__She informs them that the magical disturbances Dahlia has been sent to investigate come from Gauntlgrym.__NEWL__Dor'crae is sent to investigate and returns with news of Gauntlgrym's location.__NEWL__Dahlia realizes that she will need a Delzoun dwarf to access the dwarf kingdom and seeks out Athrogate and his drow friend Jarlaxle and convinces them to accompany her.__NEWL__Herzgo is at odds with the Red Wizards and the Ashmadai, and when he learns of their agents in Luskan he tells Barrabus to go investigate.__NEWL__Dahlia, Dor'crae, Athrogate, Jarlaxle, and Valindra all head towards Gauntlgrym using the tunnels.__NEWL__They find the place and are able to enter because of Athrogate's heritage as a Delzoun.__NEWL__They encounter dwarf ghosts while there.__NEWL__Their goal is the Forge of Gauntlgrym at the center of the city, reputed to have crafted the finest items in its day.__NEWL__Dor'crae uses a magical device that allows Sylora Salm to follow them from afar.__NEWL__The party is attacked along the way by dire corbies.__NEWL__While engaged with the bird men, Sylora arrives with some henchmen and proceeds to attack the party as well.__NEWL__Athrogate is forced to the forge and, under the hypnotic powers of Dor'crae and Sylora, is coerced into believing that the Gauntlgrym ghosts want him to throw the lever that will activate the forge.__NEWL__When this happens a fire primordial (ancient being of almost godlike power) is released.__NEWL__Dor'crae, Valindra, and Sylora make their escape.__NEWL__Jarlaxle, Athrogate, and Dahlia also make their way back to Luskan.__NEWL__Sylora then seeks out Dahlia and commands her to follow her and serve her under threat of death and Szass Tam's displeasure.__NEWL__Barrabus plans to leave Neverwinter for Luskan.__NEWL__Drizzt and Bruenor still travel the country nearby.__NEWL__At this moment the primordial that has been released causes a volcanic explosion.__NEWL__Venting its rage against living beings, it targets Neverwinter and destroys the town.__NEWL__Barrabus is barely able to survive.__NEWL__Eleven years later in 1462 DR the Dread Ring has been completed thanks to the death and destruction caused by the primordial's rage.__NEWL__New types of undead stalk the land.__NEWL__The war between the Thayans, the Ashmadai, and the Netherese escalates.__NEWL__Dahlia is forced to serve Sylora and Barrabus hunts the Ashmadai with great success under orders from Herzgo.__NEWL__Dahlia and Barrabus's efforts culminate in a confrontation between the pair.__NEWL__Dahlia's unorthodox weapon initially grants her an advantage over Barrabus’ two-handed style, yet Barrabus eventually forces Dahlia to go on the defensive and outright flee at one point as Barrabus increases the tempo of combat, suggesting that Barrabus is actually the more skilled of the two combatants.__NEWL__Dahlia takes to the trees for cover as Barrabus pursues but Barrabus uses Dahlia's own trick against her as he takes to the trees as well causing Dahlia to completely lose track of him.__NEWL__Further combat between the two is forgone as Dahlia discovers and joins ranks with an Ashmadai patrol group.__NEWL__Jarlaxle and Athrogate continue to reside in Luskan, still seeking a way to avenge themselves for the events that occurred in Gauntlgrym 11 years before.__NEWL__The ghost dwarves of Gauntlgrym, wanting to reseal the primordial, spread out across the land searching for Delzoun dwarves to help.__NEWL__Eventually they arrive in Icewind Dale and cryptically inform the dwarves of their plight.__NEWL__They also inform Bruenor of the situation.__NEWL__He and Drizzt then take it upon themselves to seal the primordial.__NEWL__Jarlaxle meanwhile returns to Menzoberranzan to seek the help of his brother Gromph in sealing away the primordial.__NEWL__Jarlaxle learns that he will need a dwarf king in addition to other magical devices.__NEWL__Dahlia also searches for a way to get back to Gauntlgrym and to seal off the primordial, hoping this will lead to her freedom from Sylora.__NEWL__Finding the way blocked (the tunnels have collapsed), Dahlia seeks out Jarlaxle.__NEWL__Bruenor, deciding where to go next, is robbed of his maps in the woods by a drow elf.__NEWL__Drizzt, correctly deducing who is behind this, leads Bruenor to Luskan in search of Jarlaxle.__NEWL__Dahlia finds Jarlaxle and accepts a magic ring from him.__NEWL__Bruenor and Drizzt arrive at the Cutlass in Luskan.__NEWL__There they are attacked by Ashmadai led by Dahlia.__NEWL__Jarlaxle and Athrogate enter the fight.__NEWL__The four of them beat back the attackers and Dahlia appears to be captured by Jarlaxle's 'wand of goo'.__NEWL__Instead, Dahlia uses the ring to fake her death.__NEWL__Jarlaxle, Athrogate, Dahlia, Bruenor, and Drizzt decide to travel to Gauntlgrym together in an attempt to stop the primordial and hopefully destroy the Dread Ring in the process.__NEWL__The five proceed to Gauntlygrym overland in search of a cave that will lead them down.__NEWL__They are attacked by a group of Ashmadai near the cave.__NEWL__This battle is observed by Dor'crae and Sylora who follow them.__NEWL__Barrabus also witnesses the fight and upon seeing Drizzt is overcome by emotion and retreats without having been seen by anyone.__NEWL__The five enter Gauntlgrym whereupon Bruenor sits upon the dwarf king's throne and is enchanted with divine power and knowledge from the ancient dwarves.__NEWL__The primordial has attracted many minions from the Elemental Plane of Fire to fight off intruders, powerful salamanders and even a small red dragon.__NEWL__Sylora and Dor'crae enter along with a host of Ashmadai.__NEWL__Valindra uses a magical scepter given to her by Sylora to summon Beealtimatuche, a pit fiend from the Nine Hells.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in order to contain the primordial, the five companions must strategically place 10 bowls that summon water elementals in various places throughout the city.__NEWL__Fighting through waves of salamanders, the five companions begin to set the elemental bowls into the proper alcoves.__NEWL__During the fighting, dwarves from Icewind Dale and Mirabar (who have also been visited by dwarf ghosts) arrive in another part of Gauntlgrym in order to help seal the primordial.__NEWL__The companions are only able to place nine of the ten summoning bowls as one alcove had been destroyed earlier.__NEWL__They then head to the Forge Of Gauntlgrym.__NEWL__In a trance, Bruenor places his axe and shield into the forge and removes them, to find that they are magically enhanced.__NEWL__The shield now provides real potions of heroism to the companions.__NEWL__The Ashmadai, led by the pit fiend, who just killed the red dragon, then enter the forge room.__NEWL__The pit fiend engages the five and manages to kill the consummate survivor Jarlaxle in one blow.__NEWL__While Drizzt and Dahlia hold off the Ashmadai and several legion devils, Athrogate and Bruenor move deeper into the city to seal the primordial, but are intercepted by Beealtimatuche.__NEWL__Athrogate attempts to fight the devil, but is only able to wound the devil before he slapped aside.__NEWL__God-blessed Bruenor engages Beealtimatuche in a titanic battle, but even with his new powers, the devil seizes the upper hand.__NEWL__Thibbledorf Pwent - left behind in Icewind Dale - reappears and goes after Bruenor to protect him.__NEWL__Dahlia and Drizzt gain the upper hand until Valindra arrives.__NEWL__The lich is driven away by Jarlaxle who was not killed but saved by the same ring that allowed Dahlia to fake her own death.__NEWL__Drizzt, Jarlaxle, and Dahlia then go after Bruenor.__NEWL__Bruenor is aided by Pwent, who is nearly killed by the pit fiend.__NEWL__Finally, the grievously-injured King Bruenor cleaves the devil's head in half and throws him in the heart of the primordial.__NEWL__Pwent helps the mortally wounded Bruenor toward the lever.__NEWL__Dahlia enters just in time to see Dor'crae (who has followed them in) tear out Pwent's throat.__NEWL__Dahlia then attacks and drives the vampire off with a wooden spike from her magic ring.__NEWL__Bruenor, with his last ounce of strength manages to pull the lever and.__NEWL__Attempting to escape, Dor'crae is caught in a waterfall created when the lever was pulled, and explodes into black flakes, seemingly destroyed.__NEWL__The primordial is sealed.__NEWL__The Dread Ring is broken.__NEWL__Drizzt manages get to Bruenor and hold him in tender embrace and with his last breath nodded to Drizzt with a look of comfort died in an embrace of friendship.__NEWL__Jarlaxle manages to help Athrogate escape.__NEWL__Bruenor is buried in Gauntlgrym along with Pwent.__NEWL__Dahlia moves the last earring to her left ear, symbolizing the vampire's death.__NEWL__She plans to face Sylora who not only avoided the battle, but was the principal advisor to the plan.__NEWL__Drizzt, with growing feelings toward her, decides to accompany her.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Bruenor wakes up in the forest of the goddess Mielikki.__NEWL__He is met by his dear friend Regis and adoptive son Wulfgar.__NEWL__Regis remarks that Bruenor is indeed dead, and when he motions behind the dwarf king, he turns to see his adopted daughter, Catti-brie, dancing in the woods.__NEWL__The crusty dwarf, who so often hides his feelings from even those closest to him, sinks to his knees and cries.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7732940	The Eyes of My Princess	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	29262636	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29262636	The story begins when Jose Carlos, a shy fifteen-year-old, realizes he has fallen in love for the first time with the new girl in his school.__NEWL__After school, a strange man arrives with Carlos's classmate, Mario, and lures him into his car.__NEWL__The man is a porn producer, and he tries to convince Carlos to get his classmate Ariadne to make porn with them.__NEWL__Finally Carlos escapes with the help of Ariadne, who is a friend of the new girl.__NEWL__Carlos tells his parents to go to the police, but they are unable to locate the man, who abducted Mario.__NEWL__One day he decides to talk with the new girl, Sheccid (her real name is Justiniana Deghemteri, but Carlos changes it for the name of an Arabic princess).__NEWL__He confesses his love, but things go wrong when Ariadne recognizes him and tells Sheccid he is related to the pervert who tried to abduct her.__NEWL__Carlos does not give up and, moved by the love he feels, he overcomes the fears he has.__NEWL__At first he begins writing, like his grandparent, realizing he is good at it.__NEWL__His new journal is filled with all his thoughts and poems that he writes for Sheccid.__NEWL__As time goes by, Carlos realizes he is changing.__NEWL__First he begins giving speeches that impress his teachers and classmates, specially the class leader, Beatriz.__NEWL__Of course the speeches also impress Sheccid, who is good at giving speeches too.__NEWL__Ariadne realizes he is a good guy and he is not a pervert, so she begins a friendship with Carlos.__NEWL__They become good friends and Ariadne realizes he is in love with her friend.__NEWL__Suddenly a new boy who goes to the same school begins to get along with Sheccid.__NEWL__After some time he becomes her boyfriend.__NEWL__Carlos dislikes the new boy, because he knows that the guy is not truly in love with Sheccid.__NEWL__The new guy is bigger, stronger and more popular; however, Carlos is not afraid.__NEWL__One day the new guy punches Sheccid and Carlos stands up for her.__NEWL__Sheccid likes the actions of Carlos but her boyfriend organizes a big fight between Carlos's friends and his own friends.__NEWL__Almost all his classmates help Carlos; however, the other guys are gang members, carrying blades and chains to the fight.__NEWL__The fight is unfair, but with the help of teachers, the police arrive to calm the brawl.__NEWL__After that, Sheccid decides to break up with her boyfriend.__NEWL__Everything seems to be fine until Sheccid begins to skip school.__NEWL__At first Carlos does not give this much importance; however, she continues to miss class.__NEWL__He decides to face the problem and talks with her; she says he should just forget about her, and then she kisses him.__NEWL__(The following part was divided and published as “El secreto de Sheccid”, Sheccid’s secret).__NEWL__Desperate, Carlos asks Ariadne for help.__NEWL__She agrees, and then he learns that her family is going to move to another the city, apparently because the mother is ill and the father is having an affair.__NEWL__Before the brawl, he gave her his journal but Sheccid does not say anything else and asks him to forget her.__NEWL__He falls into depression because Sheccid has left him, and does not seem to feel the same way Carlos feels for her.__NEWL__Ariadne tells him to go to her house, to see the "real" Sheccid.__NEWL__After the brawl, he goes to Sheccid's house where he discovers that Sheccid has a brain tumor, and the family is leaving the city to get her special medical attention, the day after she gets out of the hospital from a very dangerous and risky surgery: the father will leave with Sheccid first, followed later by Sheccid's mom and brother.__NEWL__The day of the surgery, he calls Ariadne (who knows everything), only to learn that Sheccid died from complications.__NEWL__Ariadne gives him a letter that Sheccid left for him.__NEWL__In the letter, she explains him that she loved him until the last day of her life.__NEWL__She tells him that there were two options for her: to die during surgery, or survive and then leave to receive attention in another city.__NEWL__Either way, they could not be together.__NEWL__She confesses him she had turned him down so he would not get hurt, whatever the outcome.__NEWL__He then writes in his journal a poem for Sheccid, telling that she will always be a part of him, and he will always remember her the way he knew her.__NEWL__This is the end of Carlos's first love, but not the end of the story.__NEWL__Carlos wrote "Sheccid's Secret" as a means to overcome the events that really happened.__NEWL__After Ariadne tells him to go see Sheccid at her house, he walks into a party.__NEWL__There, he sees Sheccid's mom sitting in a chair in a catatonic state.__NEWL__He gets introduced to Sheccid's father, who is at the party with another woman; the rumors about the problems in Sheccid's family were true.__NEWL__When he sees Sheccid, she is drinking, smoking and in a drug induced state, doing a dance for some men.__NEWL__He then faces the painful truth: he loved Justiniana because he thought of her as the embodiment of Sheccid, his ideal of the perfect woman.__NEWL__But Justiniana was not Sheccid.__NEWL__Facing this fact, he leaves the party.__NEWL__Heartbroken, and about to go insane, he locks himself up in his room and writes a different ending to his story; in his journal he kills Sheccid to free not only the love he felt for her, but to free himself from the pain he felt when he realized he was in love with an illusion.__NEWL__It is at this point that we find out that Mario, the classmate abducted by the pervert, was found alive in a car accident.__NEWL__The book ends with Carlos realizing that, by the love he felt, he changed for good; love made him a stronger, better person, and by keeping the innocence of his lost love, he could remain like that.__NEWL__In the book the main character calls the new girl in his school "Sheccid".__NEWL__The name Sheccid comes from a story told by his grandfather.__NEWL__In the story a young man is sent to prison unfairly; in the jail the man began to fill his heart and mind with despair and revenge.__NEWL__Then Sheccid, the king's daughter, appears and her beauty and kindness make the young man regain a good-hearted nature.__NEWL__Finally the princess helps him escape from jail; however, the young man never told her about his feelings and the princess married another man.__NEWL__The moral of the story is that true love makes people grow in every way of their lives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1196763	El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1492	Barcelona	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	29174111	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29174111	The private detective Pepe Carvalho is enquiring about a list of death threats arriving after that FC Barcelona purchases the football star Jack Mortimer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4658938	A Point of Law	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29169225	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29169225	Senator Decius Metellus has returned from his military expedition to Cyprus, having concluded a successful campaign against local pirates and gathered enough booty to pay off his outstanding debts and finance his campaign for praetor.__NEWL__He is campaigning in the Forum when a young aristocrat loudly denounces him for alleged fraud and theft while in office on Cyprus, and boldly threatening to prosecute him for said acts.__NEWL__A minor scuffle breaks out, before the young man is dragged away.__NEWL__Later, the young man is found gruesomely murdered, and suspicion falls on Decius.__NEWL__To his consternation, his family inform him that, although the charges are unlikely to stick, they can nevertheless delay his election for at least a year.__NEWL__Decius, thinking hard, realizes that the young man may have been a virtual nobody, but could recite a pedigree that would virtually guarantee him popular support - claiming descent from Scipio Africanus and the Gracchi, among others.__NEWL__This means that the young man was likely the figurehead of a conspiracy.__NEWL__The exact aim of the conspiracy is unclear, but Decius reasons that someone must be aiming at reducing the Caecilia Metelli's voting bloc in the Senate (as Decius concedes, he himself is not that important).__NEWL__Decius consults Sallustius, who gives him a small lecture about the Republic's political landscape: for generations, the great aristocratic families of Rome have been slowly shrinking, more dependent on adoption to sustain their numbers, and gradually losing their hold on the highest offices of state which they consider to be their birthright.__NEWL__Now, with Caesar's power, wealth, and popularity growing on a daily basis, these aristocrats are being pushed to increasingly desperate lengths.__NEWL__Sallust confides that he was a guest at several dinner parties at which schemes were discussed to seize control of the State; the young man was to have been the figurehead, and popular support was supposed to have been further mobilized by proposing a mass cancellation of debts.__NEWL__Of course, Sallust dismissed the scheme as hare-brained.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1277076	The Son of Neptune	2011-10-04T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62	San Francisco	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29179339	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29179339	Twenty-two months after Percy Jackson's defense of Mount Olympus in The Last Olympian, Percy finds himself alone and on the run from monsters in northern California without his memories.__NEWL__With the guidance of Lupa, the wolf-goddess and protector of ancient Rome, he makes his way to Camp Jupiter, a Roman demigod training camp and counterpart to the Greek demigods' Camp Half-Blood.__NEWL__Upon arriving, he is attacked by Gorgons — Stheno and Euryale — and successfully defends a disguised Juno and the camp with the help of the guards on duty.__NEWL__Having been protected by Percy during the attack, Juno announces Percy's arrival with approval, identifying him as a son of Neptune.__NEWL__Nobody knows that he is actually a son of the Greek god Poseidon.__NEWL__She tells him privately that he can only regain his memory by learning to be a hero again and successfully surviving the challenges he encounters at camp.__NEWL__He quickly befriends Frank Zhang, son of Mars, and Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto.__NEWL__He is introduced to the praetor of the camp, Reyna, and the augur Octavian, who quickly takes a disliking to Percy.__NEWL__Octavian tells Percy that the Book of Prophecies is missing.__NEWL__Being outcasts themselves at Camp Jupiter, Frank and Hazel empathize with Percy's outsider status and consider it their duty to help him adjust and acclimatize quickly to the camp's routines and leadership.__NEWL__But before any of them has a chance to gain their footing, they receive a prophecy from Mars, the Roman god of war, and are ordered to go on a quest to rescue Thanatos, the god of death, from the Giant Alcyoneus, who is hiding deep in Alaska.__NEWL__On their journey, they encounter Phineas, the blind human who helped Jason, leader of the Argonauts on his journey, and befriend a harpy named Ella.__NEWL__They also see the three Cyclopes that Jason Grace, Piper McLean, and Leo Valdez encountered in The Lost Hero.__NEWL__During the trip, the trio learns that the goddess Gaea is awakening from several millennia of slumber with a plan to destroy the gods and the world along with them.__NEWL__Her seven Giant children are being woken, each of whom is matched to fight its counterpart god.__NEWL__Each Giant has the skills to oppose one god and can only be defeated if the gods and the demigods join forces.__NEWL__Percy and his friends manage to defeat the Alaskan Giant and save Camp Jupiter from destruction.__NEWL__During their journey, Hazel and Frank become true heroes who know how to use their powers and have self-confidence.__NEWL__Percy regains his memory on their return to Camp Jupiter and finds an army of monsters (including Stheno, Euryale, and the three Cyclopes) led by Polybotes attacking it.__NEWL__Percy successfully defeats Polybotes with the help of Terminus, his Cyclops half-brother, Tyson and the hellhound Mrs. O'Leary.__NEWL__At the end of the book, the Greek airship, Argo II arrives, setting the stage for The Mark of Athena.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19894346	The Million Dollar Kick	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29403265	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29403265	13-year-old Whisper Nelson despises sports ever since when in third grade, she accidentally scored an own goal during a soccer game at a field by Lake Overholser.__NEWL__Sooner later, when her sister is too young to sign up, she signs up for a contest in which the winner gets a chance to score a goal for one million dollars against famous goalie Carmen Applegate.__NEWL__The winner is chosen by the best ad for the Kick, Oklahoma City's soccer team, and Whisper's ('The Kick Kick Butt') wins the contest.__NEWL__Whisper meets Ellie, who soon becomes her teacher to prepare for the big day.__NEWL__Whisper ends up on the news for winning the ad contest, and ends up in the newspaper as well.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56025774	The Dwarves	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z	29403448	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29403448	Tungdil Goldhand, a young blacksmith, is the only dwarf in Ionandar, one of Girdlegard's five enchanted realms.__NEWL__These realms, rich in magical energy forcefields, are ruled by magi, while other lands are ruled by the kings and queens of Girdlegard.__NEWL__Tungdil's "foster father", the venerable magus Lot-Ionan, sends him on an errand to return some artifacts to one of his former pupils and travel to the secondling dwarf kingdom.__NEWL__Along the way he meets Boïndil Doubleblade and Boëndal Hookhand, two secondling twins, who lead him to Ogreʼs Death, a fortress in their kingdom.__NEWL__They slaughter orcs and avoid Nudin the Knowledge-Lusty (Nôdʼonn the Doublefold), a magus who has fallen under the spell of The Perished Land (the evil spirit of Girdlegard).__NEWL__Nudin betrays the magi, kills them, and corrupts the forcefields so that he alone can use them.__NEWL__The Perished Land attempted and succeeded in infiltrating Girdlegard and defeating the dwarves' fifthling kingdom eleven hundred cycles ago.__NEWL__Whoever dies on the Perished Land is raised as a revenant in service of the Perished Land's spirit; however, if the revenant's spirit is strong enough, it can resist the Perished Land's influence.__NEWL__Tungdil owns the books that explain the only way to defeat Nudin: forge a magical axe called Keenfire that needs to have a steel blade, a hilt made of the extinct tree known as the sidguredaisy, and runes engraved with a combination of all the known metals.__NEWL__They decapitate Nudin, but he survives thanks to the dark power of the spirit of the Perished Land possessing him.__NEWL__They meet Andôkai, the last surviving maga, and her bodyguard, Djerůn.__NEWL__Tungdil is also involved in a plot to delegitimize Gandogar's claim to the throne.__NEWL__Gandogar has been convinced by his evil advisor, Bislipur Surestroke, who is secretly a thirdling (an evil race of dwarves who throughout history have tried to end the lives of all other dwarves) that the elves betrayed the fifthlings and want to create a war with them while they're weak from the constant battles with the Perished Land.__NEWL__Tundgil and Gandogar then set out to forge Keenfire for the fifth challenge that was taken out by chance by Bislipur in the draw.__NEWL__The fifthlings  The dwarves of the fifthling kingdom were divided into nine clans.__NEWL__They guarded the gate way to Girdlegard from the Perished Land.__NEWL__For a long time, the orcs fought against the dwarves unsuccessfully, but alfar came and caused a great sickness that sapped the dwarves strength, clouded their vision, and enfeebled their hands.__NEWL__Soon Glamdolin Strongarm, a thirdling spy who was thought to be sick, opened the door.__NEWL__Glandallin, a brown haired and brown eyed dwarf, cut him down and charged the door with the few  dwarves left alive to give the door time to close.__NEWL__Giselbert Ironeye, Glandallin, and eight other dwarves who were revenants (but able to resist the influence of the Perished Land) helped forge Keenfire.__NEWL__They held the orcs off with the help of the undead Bavragor Hammerfist.__NEWL__The symbol of the fifthlings is a circle of red vraccasiam chain links.__NEWL__It is said in one of the fifthling tablets "it is possible to rekindle a frozen dwarves innerfurnace with white hot coals."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6925943	Mourning Ruby	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z	29228070	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29228070	Rebecca was abandoned by her mother in a shoebox in the backyard of an Italian restaurant when she was two years old.__NEWL__She is adopted by foster parents and thirty years later marries Adam, a consultant neonatologist dealing with premature babies.__NEWL__She gives birth to Ruby and starts a new life for herself and her small family.__NEWL__But a tragedy suddenly upsets the calm order of her life and changes its course forever.__NEWL__The novel traces the harrowing life of Rebecca with several interesting temporal juxtapositions and flashbacks that add to its complexity.__NEWL__Prologue The story opens with Rebecca and Ruby walking along the coast road from St Just to Zennor in Cornwall.__NEWL__This is during the time of a visit to Cornwall with Adam to visit his relative’s grave.__NEWL__Part One – Shoebox Story Rebecca recounts the discovery of herself as a foundling by Lucia, after she is abandoned by her young mother outside an Italian restaurant.__NEWL__This is at a time when she is working for Mr Damiano, a mysterious ex-circus owner who has set up a chain of boutique hotels that Rebecca helps to manage.__NEWL__On a flight back to England, one of the plane’s engines fails and it is forced to return to New York.__NEWL__It is whilst standing on the tarmac that Rebecca decides to hand in her notice, having lost all zest for her work.__NEWL__Rebecca’s story goes back to the time when she was sharing a flat with Joe, an intellectual who is writing a book about Nadezhda Alliluyeva, the thirty-one-year-old wife of Stalin who committed suicide in 1932.__NEWL__He befriends Adam through a shared interest in chess and he and Rebecca fall in love and then marry.__NEWL__Joe decides to move to Moscow to further his research and lives with Olya, and Rebecca and Adam decide to visit him with Ruby.__NEWL__He tells them about Joseph Stalin’s character and the wave of fear that gripped Russia during his dictatorship.__NEWL__On their return to England, they decide to visit Adam’s grandmother’s grave at Barnoon Cemetery in Cornwall and Rebecca is happy that Ruby will have ancestors that she herself can never have.__NEWL__It is on their return to London on a warm August evening that tragedy strikes when Ruby is run down by a motorist.__NEWL__Rebecca cannot reconcile herself to her daughter’s loss and the intensity of her grief leads to their eventual separation.__NEWL__It is at this time that Rebecca’s shattered life is restored through her work for Mr Damiano, who tells her his life story as the son of poor trapeze artists.__NEWL__Joe, meanwhile, is working on his second novel – about the time of Stalin’s retreat to his dacha when Hitler invaded Russia.__NEWL__After talking to an Afghan war veteran, he decides to abandon the task and goes to Vancouver Island to write a novel.__NEWL__Rebecca leaves London and, on a visit to St Ives, starts working as a waitress in a local café.__NEWL__Here, she is visited by Joe who gives her a copy of his story.__NEWL__Part Two – Boomdiara This part is a narrative of Joe’s novel which describes the life of Florence, who works in Madame Blanche’s brothel to support her young daughter, Claire.__NEWL__It is here that she meets Will, a World War One air force pilot, with whom she falls in love.__NEWL__Joe writes to Rebecca that Florence’s character is based in part on her own.__NEWL__Part Three – Flight In this part the stories of Rebecca and Adam and Florence and Will become intertwined.__NEWL__Adam visits Rebecca in her boarding house and they become reunited and return to Ruby who is buried in the same grave as her great grandmother.__NEWL__Will’s plane is shot up in a fire fight with a German Albatros and he has to cut his engine to prevent his plane going down as a flamer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q676256	The Warrior's Apprentice	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29402873	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29402873	When Miles Vorkosigan is disqualified from joining the Barrayaran Imperial Service Academy because he broke both his legs during the initial physical entrance exams, he sets about trying to prove himself a hero by other means.__NEWL__The resulting chain of events leads to his taking command of a company of space mercenaries, under the alias "Admiral Miles Naismith".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2253255	Cetaganda	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29402907	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29402907	Previous novels referred to the Cetagandan Empire because of its occupation of Barrayar decades before the events of the first novel, Shards of Honor.__NEWL__Cetagandan soldiers of the ghem military class appear in The Warrior's Apprentice, Ethan of Athos and Brothers in Arms.__NEWL__This novel introduces the haut ruling class of the Empire.__NEWL__The haut have different long-range goals than their ghem underlings.__NEWL__Miles and Ivan are sent to the home world of the Cetagandan Empire to represent Barrayar at the state funeral of the dowager Empress Lisbet, mother of the current emperor, the haut Fletchir Giaja.__NEWL__They quickly become entangled in an internal Cetagandan plot when they arrive at a nearly deserted docking bay, much to their puzzlement.__NEWL__A ba (a sexless servant of the Cetagandan rulers) unexpectedly rushes into their spaceship.__NEWL__A struggle ensues, in which the ba drops a weapon and some sort of artifact before fleeing.__NEWL__Miles takes it upon himself to investigate — without informing his superiors — and eventually discovers that the artifact is a fake copy of the priceless Great Key, which has been stolen.__NEWL__The ba is later found dead.__NEWL__Realizing that an unknown enemy is trying to frame him and Barrayar, Miles forms an unusual alliance with the haut Rian Degtiar, the "Handmaiden of the Star Crèche", who is charged with the duties of Empress until the new one is chosen.__NEWL__The Star Crèche is the heart of the genetic engineering project that is the haut class's efforts to evolve beyond the merely human.__NEWL__Miles solves the complex mystery and stops a plot to fragment the Cetagandan Empire into eight dangerously expansionist-minded parts, a plot which itself is hijacked by one of the haut governors for personal gain, abetted by a renegade haut lady and his top ghem general.__NEWL__Much to his chagrin, he is publicly awarded the Order of Merit, one of the very highest Cetagandan honors, by the Emperor himself.__NEWL__He also picks up clues to a Cetagandan genetic experiment, which becomes the object of much skullduggery in Ethan of Athos.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5119923	Cikáni	29397906	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29397906	The scenery of the novel is inspired by Kokořín Castle and its surroundings.__NEWL__The castle is under the rule of Earl Valdermar.__NEWL__Two gypsies come to an inn under the castle.__NEWL__Neither is an ethnic gypsy, but they accepted the lifestyle of nomads.__NEWL__The older one was originally a Venetian gondolier, Giacomo, who is traveling to find the kidnapper of his girlfriend Angelina.__NEWL__The young one is a waif adopted as his son.__NEWL__In the inn they meet Lea, an old Jewish owner's daughter, who falls in love with the young gypsy.__NEWL__She is slightly mad.__NEWL__The old Jew tells a story of a former owner of the inn who was a woman named Angelina, with a son.__NEWL__She has disappeared, no one knows where.__NEWL__The gypsies spend the night in the woods where they encounter a very mad lady (repeating just one sentence: "It was not me but him").__NEWL__She then confesses to the young gypsy, who is jealous because of Lea, that she brought her to the Earl to be raped.__NEWL__A character of Bárta Flákoň appears who tells lies about his own life, but gossips truly about others.__NEWL__He reveals to the gypsies that Earl Valdemar kidnapped Angelina in Italy and brought her to his castle, so the old gypsy comes to the castle and kills Valdemar.__NEWL__The gypsies are arrested then, but a letter left by Valdemar reveals that the young gypsy is the Earl's bastard and heir.__NEWL__The old gypsy is executed.__NEWL__Lea committed suicide; her father dies of sorrow.__NEWL__The only character who is left alone in despair is the young "gypsy" now called "young Valdemar", who does not accept his father's property and continues the life of a free gypsy.__NEWL__"My father! – father seduced my mother – no, he killed my mother – through my mother – no, he through my mother seduced my lover – seduced my father's lover – my mother – and my father killed – my father."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5223310	Dark Matter	2010-10-21T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	29289913	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29289913	In London in 1937, 28-year-old Jack Miller is stuck in a dead-end job and jumps at the chance to be a wireless operator on a year-long Arctic expedition to Gruhuken on the northeast coast of Svalbard, though he has reservations about the class divide separating him from the other, Oxford University educated, members of the team.__NEWL__Bad luck seems to dog the expedition and when they arrive at Longyearbyen for the last leg of their journey, they are warned to choose another destination as their base, but the vague rumours about Gruhuken fail to dissuade them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16166726	Santa Evita	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q414	Argentina	29290767	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29290767	In a blend of fact and fiction, the story tracks Argentine first lady Eva Perón's perfectly embalmed corpse after her death from cancer at age 33, including how it was seized by the Argentine Military, following the ouster of her husband in 1955.__NEWL__At that time, the corpse was considered a sacred relic, and while army officials wanted to keep it out of the hands of the Peronism political movement, they also considered the consequences of destroying it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5477944	Framed	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29102497	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29102497	The story takes place in Cedarville, while 'The Man with the Plan' Griffin Bing is having a hard time adjusting to his school's new atmosphere, which is more like a strict boot camp than a middle school.__NEWL__His new football fanatic principal, Dr. Egan, does not like Griffin, due to his past.__NEWL__To make matters worse, somebody has stolen the priceless Super Bowl ring that was in the school's showcase, with Griffin's retainer that he recently lost left in its place.__NEWL__Things only go from bad to worse when Griffin is accused of stealing it by Egan, and Griffin is sent to a state school for juvenile delinquents.__NEWL__Griffin realizes he has been framed by somebody and calculates a list of suspects: Griffin tries to get the suspects through a metal detector at the courthouse after sending them an anonymous e-mail stating that a buyer was interested in purchasing a valuable possession that "recently" came to them.__NEWL__Griffin unfortunately discovers that Dr. Egan is the only suspect left.__NEWL__Logan, Griffin's friend and amateur actor, agrees to get to know Egan's daughter so he can search the house and find the ring, getting him off the hook.__NEWL__The plan fails when they discover Egan does not have the ring.__NEWL__Griffin is placed under house arrest, where his friends meet him via video chat and formulate a final plan to clear their friend's name.__NEWL__Savannah, the animal lover of the group, finds that a type of rat is attracted to shiny objects and may have found Griffin's lost retainer then swapped it out with the ring.__NEWL__Melissa, the computer expert, hacks into Griffin's house arrest system that allows him to leave the house without the alarm coming off while his parents are out.__NEWL__At the school during its play, Hail Caesar!__NEWL__, Griffin leads Egan to the pack rat's nest and clears his name.__NEWL__He is then raced home and resets his house arrest anklet as his parents arrive.__NEWL__Egan, who got Griffin home in time, clears up matters and apologizes to Griffin, saying that he was wrong to judge him.__NEWL__Also, Celia White shows up in an attempt to get a story on him.__NEWL__Before she can twist the words, however, Egan makes her stop and makes sure she won't be doing it again.__NEWL__After this, Griffin asks the court if it will take a truly good-hearted friend, Sheldon Brickhaus (dubbed Shank), out of the state school, so he can have a chance at life.__NEWL__They accept and it is implied that life will be better for Griffin and his friends.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16960007	Vegan Virgin Valentine	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1384	New York	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29104470	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29104470	The story follows Mara Valentine, an overachiever high school senior in Brockport, New York headed to Yale University.__NEWL__Mara is a straight A student forever, got type A personality, vice president of student council, UN Model, is at the top of her class__NEWL__and she's competing with her ex-boyfriend Travis Hart for valedictorian.__NEWL__Yet she found her life is turned upside down when her sixteen-year-old niece Vivienne, who goes only by her first initial V, comes to live with Mara and her parents.__NEWL__V’s mother, Mara’s older sister, is a free-spirit who spends her life traveling from place to place, finding new jobs and boyfriends along the way; she is the complete opposite of Mara who has spent her life working hard to succeed in school to please her parents.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7432660	Schooled	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29104695	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29104695	The plot begins with Capricorn Anderson, nicknamed "Cap," being arrested for driving without a license.__NEWL__Cap was driving his grandmother, Rain, to the hospital after she injured herself climbing a tree.__NEWL__He and Rain are hippies living on Garland Farm, a far-removed hippie commune with no telephone service.__NEWL__Rain's injury requires her to undergo physical therapy for two months, leaving Capricorn without a caretaker or a teacher.__NEWL__With no other choice, Capricorn is sent to a social worker, Flora Donnelly.__NEWL__Mrs. Donnelly, who also grew up on Garland Farm, realizes that she herself is the best person to look after Cap and takes him into her home.__NEWL__Flora decides to enroll Cap in Claverage Middle School (dubbed C Average by the student body) aside eighth grader while Rain recovers.__NEWL__At Claverage, Cap finds himself completely unfamiliar with most social situations and conveniences.__NEWL__On his first day, he meets eighth-grade bully and jock Zachary "Zach" Powers, who singles him out for the school's biggest prank: electing the most unpopular student as the Eighth Grade President and besetting the victim with impossible demands, causing them to break down.__NEWL__Cap also meets Hugh Winkleman, a geeky social outcast at school, and befriends him.__NEWL__Cap ends up becoming the eighth-grade president due to his abnormal appearance and nature.__NEWL__Flora, realizing that Cap's obliviousness to social life and bullying protects him from the brunt of the abuse, reluctantly keeps silent.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Zach advances his plans to break Cap, enlisting the majority of the students, one of whom is Naomi, a girl with a crush on Zach.__NEWL__Naomi writes Cap fake love letters to get Zach's approval but begins to find herself drawn to Cap.__NEWL__However, Cap is unaffected and carries on as usual.__NEWL__During a bus ride home, the driver has a heart attack and Cap steps up to drive the bus to the hospital, saving the driver's life and impressing the students on board.__NEWL__He is arrested for driving without a license, but Flora gets him released.__NEWL__Despite disapproval from adults and the authorities, Cap gains newfound popularity at C Average, causing Zach's plan to ultimately backfire.__NEWL__The students, including the popular kids, begin to genuinely admire Cap, and begin to practice Tai Chi with him and listen to his music.__NEWL__They also offer to help him with planning events, including the popular Halloween Dance.__NEWL__Kasigi gives Cap signed checks to pay for the planning, but Cap, oblivious to the fact that money can run out, signs checks liberally, donating to charities and earning him even more popularity.__NEWL__He also uses the school's money to buy a belated birthday gift for Sophie, pretending it's a gift from her absent father Bill, and also gives her driving lessons when Bill flakes on Sophie yet again.__NEWL__Hugh, however, becomes jealous of Cap's popularity, especially when being Cap's best friend doesn't improve his outcast status.__NEWL__Zach is also resentful of Cap stealing his popularity and uses Hugh's anger to his advantage in an unlikely team-up to take revenge.__NEWL__During a pep rally, Hugh and Zach dress Cap as a player on C Average's rival football team and send him out to the field to be tackled by the entire football team.__NEWL__When Zach's best friend Darryl realizes the former's involvement and that he was used, he angrily confronts Zach and attempts to punch him, only for Cap to throw himself in front of the blow in an attempt to stop the fight.__NEWL__Cap is picked up in an ambulance containing Rain, who has recovered and takes him out of school and back to Garland Farm.__NEWL__ Kasigi and Flora discover Cap's misspending of the school's money, and the former cancels the Halloween Dance.__NEWL__This, along with the circumstances of Cap's removal from school, and lack of further information, leads to rumors that Cap died as a result of his injuries.__NEWL__Zach and Hugh, now vilified by the students because of their plan to hurt Cap, come up with a new plan to save face by holding a "memorial service" for Cap in lieu of the cancelled Halloween Dance.__NEWL__Back on Garland, Cap begins to miss modern student life, much to Rain's chagrin.__NEWL__He decides to head back to see the Halloween Dance, oblivious as ever.__NEWL__He is picked up by Sophie, who has passed her driving exam and feels remorseful of her scornful behavior towards him, having realized who her belated gift came from.__NEWL__Cap and Sophie discover the memorial to him, and Cap reveals himself to the students, who become overjoyed with his return.__NEWL__He tells the students his time at C Average is over and performs the impressive feat of saying goodbye to each individual student, having memorized all of their names.__NEWL__This impresses even Zach, who also begins to appreciate Hugh for standing by him.__NEWL__Before he departs, Flora lectures Rain about the fallibility of the hippie lifestyle, noting how Cap misspent the school's money and how Rain cannot sustain him forever.__NEWL__Having said his goodbyes, Cap goes back to Garland with Rain.__NEWL__Later, Cap is arrested once again for driving on Garland Farm without a license and is told that he no longer has permission to drive on the property because Rain no longer owns Garland, having sold it.__NEWL__She shows up at the police station, driving a Mercedes and wearing stylish clothes.__NEWL__She tells Cap that Flora was right, and that her accident was a wake-up call to make sure Cap is taken care of, knowing she won't live forever.__NEWL__She reassures Cap however, that she has not completely sold out on the ideals of the sixties.__NEWL__She tells him that she sold Garland for seventeen million dollars, and that she has bought a condo for the two to live in and has taken inspiration from Cap's actions with the school's money to create a charitable foundation.__NEWL__In the meantime, while she oversees the transactions, she tells Cap that he'll be staying with the Donnellys again, and that he'll be able to return to C Average.__NEWL__Cap is overjoyed, noting that he already knows everyone's names.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8028099	With the Lightnings	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29394505	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29394505	During a war between a Republic of Cinnabar and the Alliance of Free Stars, a coup d'état takes place on a neutral planet of Kostroma, with both factions becoming involved.__NEWL__Two Cinnabarian protagonists – a navy lieutenant and émigré librarian – find themselves in the center of the unfolding events.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7745081	The Lacuna	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29120533	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29120533	The novel tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd beginning with his childhood in Mexico during the 1930s.__NEWL__His parents are separated so he lives back and forth between the United States with his father and Mexico with his mother.__NEWL__During his time in Mexico he works as a plaster mixer for the mural artist Diego Rivera then as a cook for both him and his artist wife Frida Kahlo, with whom Shepherd develops a lifelong friendship.__NEWL__While living with and working for them, he also begins working as a secretary for Leon Trotsky who is hiding there, exiled by Stalin, and witnesses his assassination.__NEWL__He accompanies some of Kahlo's paintings to Washington DC where he witnesses the shootings of the Bonus Army.__NEWL__He then moves to Asheville, North Carolina, where he writes successful historical novels set in Mexico.__NEWL__However he is investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and after he is vilified by the press he returns to Mexico, taking his secretary, Violet Brown, with him.__NEWL__He disappears while swimming off the Pacific coast and is presumed dead.__NEWL__However Brown, the chief beneficiary of his will, later receives a letter from Kahlo hinting that he has survived, by swimming underwater along a lava tube which emerges inland in a cenote.__NEWL__He had instructed Brown to burn his diaries and letterspapers, but she secretly saves them and it is these papers that form the bulk of the novel.__NEWL__There are gaps, or lacunae, in the story, hence the title.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7731934	The Emperor of Nihon-Ja	2010-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	29203170	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29203170	Horace has gone missing.__NEWL__Months have passed since he was sent on a military mission to the court of the Emperor of Nihon-Ja with his friend, former wardmate and Scribeschool apprentice George, but he has failed to return.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Halt, Will, Selethen (the leader of the Arridi) and Alyss (a Courier and Will's love interest) are in Toscana overseeing a demonstration using tight formations to overcome more skilled opponents and aid in the completion of a treaty between Arrida and Toscana.__NEWL__When Crown Princess Cassandra arrives notifying everyone of Horace's absence, the Araluens and Selethen embark on a Skandian duty ship to find Horace.__NEWL__They find that Horace has become embroiled in Nihon-Ja's politics.__NEWL__An arrogant Senshi warlord known as Arisaka, a member of the Nihon-Ja warrior class, has rebelled against the rightful Emperor Shigeru out of fear that he will usurp the Senshi's influence in the country and due to his belief that it was he who should have been named Emperor when the previous one died instead of Shigeru.__NEWL__He has convinced the Senshi of his clan, the Shimonseki Clan, and another, the Umaki Clan, to join him in his coup, manipulating them into believing that Shigeru's actions violate his oath as a Senshi.__NEWL__Shigeru, though a Senshi himself, is also a man of the people and has been trying to reform his nation's strict social system, which Arisaka argues to be a betrayal of his class.__NEWL__Arisaka's men have seized the capital of Ito and slaughtered and scattered most of Shigeru's Clan, while the remaining clans, who are without the strength to face the Shimonseki and Umaki due to their reputed strength as the two strongest clans in Nihon-Ja, are remaining silent and claim that if Arisaka's claim is to be believed, then perhaps his cause is justified.__NEWL__Horace has chosen to stay and lend support to the deposed ruler.__NEWL__Pursued by the rebel leader and master swordsman Arisaka, Horace and Shigeru flee along with Shigeru's cousin and guard Shukin and a small force of Senshi from Shigeru's Clan.__NEWL__Their only hope is to find the fabled fortress of Ran-Koshi, which is mentioned in a legend and said to have impossibly high walls.__NEWL__The three lead their small entourage of 50 Senshi around the native villages recruiting the Kikori, lumberjacks native to the area who have long been abused and looked-down up by the Senshi but are fiercely loyal to the Emperor.__NEWL__ After recruiting, the men flee helplessly from Arisaka and his much larger army of Senshi followers.__NEWL__However, the Emperor's party is moving slowly because they are burdened down by their injured, and are easily caught up to.__NEWL__In an effort to buy them more time, Shukin and nine other Senshi volunteers to stay back at a river and duel the enemy until they are killed.__NEWL__From a cliff, Shigeru watches as Arisaka kills his cousin in combat and continues the pursuit.__NEWL__Shortly after, they come to a precipice crossed only by a rickety footbridge and quickly cross.__NEWL__However, as the last men are crossing, Arisaka's army arrives.__NEWL__Horace has a rope tied around his waist and goes back onto the bridge to defend it while the heavy ropes are being cut.__NEWL__When it falls, Horace is thrown against the cliff and as a result, drops his sword into the precipice below.__NEWL__Shigeru later presents a gift to the knight, a perfect copy of his blade but forged with the strong Nihon-Jan steel.__NEWL__With the enemy army stuck on the other side of the precipice, the party is free to carry on to Ran-Koshi.__NEWL__ When they arrive, they discover that the legendary fortress is a valley between high cliffs, defended by a palisade at its narrow opening.__NEWL__The men set up camp, and the Kikori begin refurbishing the fortress as more numbers join from the surrounding villages.__NEWL__After they arrive, the heavy snows of the Nihon-Jan winter come in, giving the men time to prepare while Arisaka is further hindered.__NEWL__Soon, though Ran-Koshi has been transformed into a full military fortress, but the Emperor still only has 50 Senshi and 200 untrained Kikori for an army.__NEWL__Unbeknown to them, Cassandra's party has arrived and begin their search for Horace, and are found by Kikori scouts and brought out to Ran-Koshi.__NEWL__Horace welcomes his old friends and informs them of the situation.__NEWL__The problem reminds Will of the Toscan military demonstration, and he and Selethen begin training men to use the tortoise formation.__NEWL__They form four units of 50 men, heavily trained formations of men armed with large wooden shields, short swords, and javelins.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Alyss and Cassandra embark on a journey across a large mountain lake to find a mythical people called the Hasanu, who are intensely loyal to their lord, a honorable man by the name of Lord Nimatsu, who is in turn faithful to Shigeru.__NEWL__When they arrive on the other side, they make contact and find that the Hasanu are large mountain people covered in thick, reddish fur.__NEWL__After learning of Shigeru's plight, Nimatsu insists that he wishes help, but the way is blocked by a forest haunted by a demon that has killed 17 Hasanu.__NEWL__He further reveals that by asking the Hasanu to cross the forest, which they will refuse, he will humiliate and dishonour them and therefore he refuses to do so.__NEWL__Thus, Alyss and Cassandra set out to kill the demon, and discover that it is a giant snow tiger.__NEWL__After killing it, they bring it back and disperse the Hasanu's fears, and they soon make preparations march for Ran-Koshi as the two girls finally come to understand one another and become friends.__NEWL__When spring comes, Arisaka's army arrives and camps at the bottom of a nearby valley.__NEWL__However, they are now much larger due to reinforcements from the south.__NEWL__Shigeru, Horace, Halt, Will and Selethen know that they are heavily outnumbered, but they prepare for battle to confront Arisaka.__NEWL__They prepare their formations on the plain outside Ran-Koshi, and kill hundreds of Arisaka's infantry.__NEWL__Just as they are about to engage again, however, another army arrives, bringing hundreds more to Arisaka's aid under Yamada, a Senshi lord loyal to Shigeru who has been deceived into supporting the rebel lord under the Arisaka's claim that an impostor has replaced Shigeru.__NEWL__As the enemy forces arrive, so do the Hasanu with three thousand fierce warriors.__NEWL__The Emperor meets with Arisaka, Lord Yamada and unnamed lieutenant and, as Yamada grows unsure of who to believe, Arisaka's lieutenant attempts to kill Shigeru, only to be shot by Will.__NEWL__Arisaka then unintentionally reveals his lies in front of Yamada, who, along with his men, turns against the rebel Senshi lord, leaving Arisaka with only his own men, namely the warriors of the Shimonseki.__NEWL__Arisaka prepares to fight to the end, but Shigeru stops the battle, and says that he will give up his position as emperor if it will save hundreds of his people dying and leaving the choice of who will replace him in the care of nobles like Yamanda and Nimatsu.__NEWL__Arisaka's army, awed by Shigeru's display, desert their lord, beginning with a minor Shimonseki leader named Matsuda Sato who begins chanting the Emperor's name.__NEWL__The chant gradually spreads to all Arisaka's warriors, who take up the call and throw down their weapons.__NEWL__Enraged, Arisaka strikes down Matsuda which shocks his soldiers, who Arisaka slanders as cowards and traitors who have defiled his honour, only to be told by Will that he has no honor.__NEWL__As Arisaka charges the young Ranger, blinded with hate, Will hurls a saxe knife at his neck, killing him.__NEWL__ With the battle won, Shigeru returns to his position as Emperor to restabilize Nihon-Ja.__NEWL__Shigeru gives Horace a painting with which to remember him by, and they head back to Araluen.__NEWL__In the end, Horace and Cassandra become engaged, and Will mentions to Alyss that they should do the same.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7509334	Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness	2010-05-25T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	29389156	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29389156	Grace Brookstein lived a luxurious lifestyle despite the economic free fall in the US.__NEWL__Then suddenly her billionaire husband Lenny mysteriously disappears in a tragic sailing accident.__NEWL__Along with Lenny's disappearance, Lenny's hedge fund, the Quorum, which has a $75 billion investment, is also missing and everyone believes that Grace stole the money.__NEWL__Lenny's death was ruled as suicide and Grace was convicted and imprisoned.__NEWL__Grace believed that she was framed.__NEWL__Now alone with no one to turn to, she is determined to find out who is framing her and is desperate for revenge.__NEWL__The book provides a brilliant description of the transformation of the quiet Grace Brookstein from an innocent young woman who had 'never even looked at the price tags of things' to a determined person who fights the world alone, on her own.__NEWL__Once Grace is convicted of money laundering, she is betrayed by her family and friends.__NEWL__She has no one to turn to and tries to commit suicide but she survives.__NEWL__This is when Grace starts to undergo a change.__NEWL__With the help of her cellmates, she flees from prison.__NEWL__The rest of the story deals with the way she reaches the culprit, the further betrayals she suffers and how she deals with the abominable situations she encounters in her way of taking revenge.__NEWL__On her way to truth, she realises that till now she had been living in a fantasy and the reality was something totally disparate.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q335645	The Corrections	2001-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1261	Colorado	29055790	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29055790	The novel shifts back and forth through the late 20th century, intermittently following spouses Alfred and Enid Lambert as they raise their children Gary, Chip, and Denise in the traditional Midwestern suburb of St. Jude, and the lives of each family member as the three children grow up, distancing themselves and living on the East Coast.__NEWL__Alfred, a rigid and strict patriarch who worked as a railroad engineer, has developed Parkinson's and shows increasingly unmanageable symptoms of dementia.__NEWL__Enid takes out her frustrations with him by attempting to impose her traditional judgments on her adult children's lives, to their annoyance.__NEWL__Their eldest son, Gary, is a successful but increasingly depressive and alcoholic banker living in Philadelphia with his wife, Caroline, and their three young sons.__NEWL__When Enid attempts to persuade Gary to bring his family to St. Jude for Christmas, Caroline is reluctant, and turns Gary's sons against him and Enid, worsening his depressive tendencies.__NEWL__In return, Gary attempts to force his parents to move to Philadelphia so that Alfred may undergo an experimental neurological treatment that he and Denise learn about.__NEWL__Also living in Philadelphia, their youngest child Denise finds growing success as an executive chef despite Enid's disapproval and persistent scrutiny of her personal life, and is commissioned to open a new restaurant.__NEWL__Simultaneously impulsive and a workaholic, Denise begins affairs with both her boss and his wife, and though the restaurant is successful, she is fired when this is discovered.__NEWL__Flashbacks to her childhood show her responding to her repressed upbringing by beginning an affair with one of her father's subordinates, a married railroad signals worker.__NEWL__The middle son, Chip, is an unemployed academic living in New York City following his termination as a tenure-track university professor due to a sexual relationship with a student.__NEWL__Living on borrowed money from Denise, Chip works obsessively on a screenplay, but finds no success or motivation to pay off his debts.__NEWL__Following a rejection of his screenplay, Chip takes a job from his girlfriend's estranged husband Gitanas, a friendly but corrupt Lithuanian government official, later moving to Vilnius and working to defraud American investors over the Internet.__NEWL__As Alfred's condition worsens, Enid attempts to manipulate all of her children into going to St. Jude for Christmas, with increasing desperation.__NEWL__Initially only Gary and Denise are present, Gary having failed to convince his wife or children, while Chip is delayed by a violent political conflict in Lithuania, eventually arriving late after being attacked and robbed of all his savings.__NEWL__Denise inadvertently discovers that her father had known of her teenaged affair with his subordinate, and had kept his knowledge a secret to protect her privacy, at great personal cost.__NEWL__After a disastrous Christmas morning together, the three children are dismayed by their father's condition, and Alfred is finally moved into a nursing home.__NEWL__As Alfred's condition deteriorates in care, Chip stays with Enid and visits his father frequently while dating a doctor, eventually having twins with her.__NEWL__Denise leaves Philadelphia and moves to New York to work at a new restaurant where she is much happier.__NEWL__Enid, freed of her responsibilities and long-time frustrations with Alfred, slowly becomes a more open-minded person, and enjoys a healthier involvement in her children's and grandchildren's lives, finally stating that she is ready to make some changes in her life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28127551	The Ministry of Utmost Happiness	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	54275247	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54275247	The novel weaves together the stories of people navigating some of the darkest and most violent episodes of modern Indian history, from land reform that dispossessed poor farmers to the Bhopal disaster, 2002 Godhra train burning and Kashmir insurgency.__NEWL__Roy's characters run the gamut of Indian society and include an intersex woman (hijra), a rebellious architect, and her landlord who is a supervisor in the intelligence service.__NEWL__The narrative spans across decades and locations, but primarily takes place in Delhi and Kashmir.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30668357	Firebrand	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54296282	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54296282	Green Rider Sir Karigan G'ladheon returns from her unexpected trip through time in her traditional disruptive style, materialising above the great banquet hall and crashing through the mid-winter feast.__NEWL__She is confused and disoriented and screams for the man she left behind in the future to be reunited with her.__NEWL__Karigan tries to regain a sense of normality, recover from her injuries and move on from the heartbreak she suffered when Cade Harlow was ripped from her as she crossed over the threshold of time.__NEWL__During her return journey she sustains an injury, where a shard of magic mirror is embedded in her eye that transforms it into a mirror such that anyone who gazes into it glimpses their possible future.__NEWL__Karigan's eye becomes incredibly painful, she keeps it covered with a patch, and its prophetic properties are a closely guarded secret.__NEWL__Throughout the winter Karigan resumes her arms training and the king's elite guard, the Weapons, deem her heroic deeds and combat skills worthy to formalise her status as swordmaster and honorary Weapon, imbuing her with more titles, responsibilities and benefits.__NEWL__Meanwhile, King Zachary of Sacoridia is struggling with his feelings for Karigan, and is becoming increasingly fatigued with his duty as king and as husband to his new wife Queen Estora.__NEWL__After their highly traumatic deathbed wedding, their relationship is strained; however Estora quickly becomes pregnant with twins which does begin to mend the rift.__NEWL__The castle is attacked by an ancient ice elemental, the "Aureas Slee", manipulated by the Second Empire.__NEWL__Slee is wounded and retreats but not before encountering the beautiful expectant Queen.__NEWL__Fortunately, the Queen was protected by Anna the ash girl, who later becomes a green rider.__NEWL__Visiting Eletians inform King Zachary and his Captain, Laren Mapstone, of a prophecy that tells them the time is nigh to find the fourth race in the league that originally joined with Sacoridia, Eletia and Rhovanny to defeat Mornhaven the Black in the long war, and that he must send an emissary forth to meet with the p'ehdrosian race, who have not been seen in over 1,000 years.__NEWL__Karigan is assigned the new mission to seek out the legendary p'ehdrosian, a race that resemble half moose, half human beings and to renew an alliance of old in the face of dire threats from enemies who seek to destroy Sacoridia using dark magic again.__NEWL__She is sent as an ambassador with an eletian guide named Enver, and her friend Estral Andovian.__NEWL__ Once Karigan leaves the castle, the Aureas Slee stealthily spirits King Zachary away to its lair in the frozen north and assumes his place, fooling everyone, including the Queen.__NEWL__As the imposter king grows more and more controlling of Queen Estora, his identity is revealed and he is ousted once more from the castle.__NEWL__The inhabitants of the castle rally, stepping up preparations for the coming war.__NEWL__Laren Mapstone is promoted to colonel and dispatches groups of riders and weapons to search the country for the missing king.__NEWL__Each step on Karigan's journey northward grows more perilous as she faces attacks from groundmites, encounters with ghosts, and, ultimately, the threat of the necromancer and leader of Second Empire, Grandmother, as they approach the enemy encampment in the Lone Forest.__NEWL__King Zachary is imprisoned for some time within the Aureas Slee's icey domain along with an old eletian named Narvi.__NEWL__He escapes, and is unrecognisable with his wounds, but is captured immediately by Second Empire, who are based in the north at an old fortification.__NEWL__He is forced to work as a slave digging up an ancient portal to the hells of the Sacoridian gods.__NEWL__Karigan arrives in the north and is also taken prisoner, where she is flogged and tortured.__NEWL__She and the king escape with the help of Enver, send word to a nearby military unit loyal to the king and prepare to take back the fort.__NEWL__Karigan is so badly wounded she is unable to go into battle.__NEWL__Second Empire succeed in opening the portal, releasing dark creatures that suck the life from anything they touch.__NEWL__The king is right in the midst of the danger and Karigan is called upon by the god Westrion to mount his steed Salvistar and appear as his avatar to contain the dark creatures and seal the portal.__NEWL__The king is wounded by one of the dark creatures but pulls through and begins his journey back to Sacor City.__NEWL__Karigan goes her separate way to search for the p'ehdrose who are just in the next valley albeit out of phase with the world, so Karigan uses her ability to cross the threshold.__NEWL__The reception she and Enver receive is mixed and strained, but Karigan uses her mirror eye to show the p'ehdrose a future where they are hunted to extinction.__NEWL__Karigan and Enver leave successful, with a new alliance in place, however Enver becomes uncharacteristically agitated and reveals that he has been manipulated by the eletian council to mate with Kariga.__NEWL__Sensing that he is about to become dangerous, Enver orders Karigan to flee from his presence.__NEWL__Meanwhile Rider Beryl Spencer has been hunting for Xandis Amberhill since Karigan returned from the future with her intel.__NEWL__Spencer was posted in the eastern coastal towns, and finally received a tip off that he took a ship to a small island, and she sends word that she plans to follow him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30644966	Game of Danger	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54290132	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54290132	Teenager Annie and her young brother Rob receive a phone call from their mother instructing them to leave their home in the middle of the night with an important letter.__NEWL__The two arrive at the bus terminal at 2 AM and leave for the home of a family friend at their mother's urging; meanwhile, newspaper headlines regarding Annie and Rob's father and his alleged communist ties begin to circulate.__NEWL__The children's embarking leads them on an odyssey to uncover the truth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22126320	Over Fence	2016-09-17T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	54271342	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54271342	Yoshio Shiraiwa is divorced from his wife who denies him from visiting their only daughter.__NEWL__He returns to his hometown of Hakodate and enrolls at a vocational school specializing in carpentry while receiving unemployment payments.__NEWL__One day, he chances upon an unconventional woman, Tamura Satoshi, in an argument with her boyfriend at the roadside.__NEWL__She imitates the courtship ritual of an ostrich which drove off her boyfriend.__NEWL__However, Shiraiwa is amused by it.__NEWL__Satoshi notices him and they make eye contact.__NEWL__Shiraiwa proceeds to leave.__NEWL__At the vocational school, he meets Kazuhisa Daishima who is also training to be a carpenter.__NEWL__One day, Kazuhisa Daishima takes him to a cabaret club.__NEWL__Yoshio Shiraiwa meets Satoshi again, engaged in a dance.__NEWL__Satoshi Tamura and Yoshio Shiraiwa become close.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4003573	Un'anima persa	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q495	Turin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	54086298	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54086298	Tino is an orphan living in a boarding house.__NEWL__A few days before turning seventeen he goes back to his hometown, Turin, to prepare for his graduation exam, and he is hosted by Aunt Galla and Uncle Serafino Calandra in their big house situated at the foot of a hill.__NEWL__ Uncle Serafino’s twin brother, called "The Professor", also lives in the house.__NEWL__He used to work in Africa, before becoming crazy and being locked in the attic of his brother’s house, where he spends his time recording insects and details of his room with a camera.__NEWL__No one has ever seen him, except for Uncle Serafino, who takes care of him, feeds him, washes him and pays a prostitute, Iris, to entertain him.__NEWL__When Serafino goes out he takes the key of the attic with him, so nobody can disturb the Professor, but Aunt Galla and the maid Annetta, peek at the mysterious twin through the door lock.__NEWL__After a while, Tino finds out that Uncle Serafino had been fired a very long time ago and lied to Aunt Galla pretending to go to work every morning since then, and also that he had spent gambling all of the money saved for Tino’s studies.__NEWL__Tino spends a night with the uncle in a gambling house and meets the Duke, an old friend of the uncle’s and a croupier of the house.__NEWL__The next day the Duke takes Serafino home, because he had been sick the night before.__NEWL__Aunt Galla takes the keys of the attic to feed the Professor and gets in with Tino and Annetta.__NEWL__There they find out that Iris had been kidnapped by Uncle Serafino and that the Professor has never existed: each time Serafino pretended to go to work, he locked himself in the attic and faked being his twin brother.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3488884	Softwar	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	54327319	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54327319	The main characters of the novel are Bredan and Ioulia.__NEWL__Bredan is an American professor at the MIT in the field of Information Technology, who was hired by the NSA, in the book the "National Software Agency".__NEWL__Ioulia is a Russian software engineer who happened to be his student in the 80's.__NEWL__The story starts with France selling to the USSR a meteorological Cray-1 system and the related software.__NEWL__At the occasion of an inspection for export control, NSA agents implement a secret software bomb.__NEWL__The system later breaks down on the exact day of an official visit of the Russian authorities, but mysteriously works again the day after without any repair.__NEWL__Ioulia and her assistant discover that some additional software instructions set the computer out of order when it processes some specific meteorological data related to the Saint-Thomas Island in the US Virgin Islands.__NEWL__When Ioulia later inspects a second computing system imported from the West, she identifies that there are several abnormalities.__NEWL__Not on the American computer this time, but on the peripheral computers which are of Russian origin.__NEWL__She finds out that all the Russian computers happened to be physically tampered with the installation of an additional processing unit made of a Zilog Z80 microprocessor and two ROMs.__NEWL__When this unit detects the code word "VENIK" at a specific address of the computer's random access memory, it erases everything and blocks the computer.__NEWL__Ioulia finally understand that the goal of the additional component is to allow the central government to shut down any activity (transports, power plants, industry, ...) that is controlled by the Russian computers in the remote regions, in order to serve as a mean to pressure the local government in case of political or military troubles.__NEWL__Mikhail Gorbachev, who's not yet president, sends Ioulia to Geneva to publicly condemn the American software bomb at an international summit.__NEWL__Brendan, her ex-lover and professor is instructed to discourage her making these revelations.__NEWL__When both meet, Ioulia tells Brendan about her discovery and asks him to disclose the Russian undertaking to the press, so to force her government to withdraw their control system.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20502377	A Horse Walks Into a Bar	2014-01-01T00:00:00Z	54317905	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54317905	A Horse Walks into a Bar is narrated by a retired district court judge, Avishai Lazar, who is invited out of the blue by a local comedian to attend his show, a stand-up routine in a bar in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya.__NEWL__The judge and the comedian, 57-year-old Dovaleh Greenstein, who trades on divisive and offensive jokes, knew each other as boys, but have had no contact for over 40 years.__NEWL__Lazar asks Greenstein what the point is of the invitation.__NEWL__"I want you to look at me," Greenstein tells him.__NEWL__"I want you to see me, really see me, and then afterward tell me."__NEWL__"Tell you what?" asks Lazar.__NEWL__"What you saw," Greenstein replies.__NEWL__Greenstein is haunted by past decisions that detrimentally affected his close personal relationships, and he is in a state of deterioration while performing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30515791	Trump Tower: A Novel	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54345682	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54345682	The novel is set within a fictional version of Trump Tower in New York City, New York.__NEWL__A fictionalized version of Donald Trump appears as a character in the novel.__NEWL__The Trump character is described in the novel as giving out details of his sex life to others, making hiring and firing decisions, and denigrating the mental status of tenants residing in his building.__NEWL__Trump Tower portrays the machinations of the love lives engaged in by both residents of the building, in addition to the employees who work inside of the facility.__NEWL__Sex acts are depicted within the novel including those displaying sexual kinkiness and bondage, dominance, submission, and sadomasochism.__NEWL__A worker in the book is depicted in a sex act occurring on the set of The Celebrity Apprentice inside of Trump Tower.__NEWL__Women appear in the book with detailed descriptions based on their perceived level of physical attractiveness.__NEWL__A rape of a woman is described in detail within the first chapter of the book.__NEWL__After its initial foray into erotica within the first section of the work, the tale subsequently becomes a murder mystery.__NEWL__One of the main protagonists of the book is the building manager of Trump Tower, Pierre Belasco, who attempts to ensure stable operation of the facility.__NEWL__In Belasco's point of view, "Donald Trump only thinks he rules Trump Tower."__NEWL__He attempts to prove this throughout the work.__NEWL__At the conclusion of the work, Trump appears and usurps power from the building manager.__NEWL__The building manager was a suspect in the murder mystery, and by the conclusion of the work he is confirmed to have not been the killer.__NEWL__The novel features cameo appearances from fictional versions of celebrities including Bill Clinton.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20603926	Jochona O Jononir Golpo	54262519	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54262519	The story of the novel starts in month of February 1971, when the Arabic teacher of Nilgonj High School, Mawlana Irtazuddin Kashempuri visits his younger brother Shahed and his family in Dhaka.__NEWL__Then the writer describes various stories of the characters.__NEWL__He describes how Mawlana Irtazuddin became a contradictor.__NEWL__How he swore not to perform Jummah Salat until Bangladesh become independent, for which he was shot by Pakistani Military.__NEWL__The writer describes how Shahed searched for his lost wife and daughter.__NEWL__He described the time as "The day and night of uncertainty".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30610044	Origin	2017-10-03T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q179199	Guggenheim Museum	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54182440	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54182440	Edmond Kirsch, a billionaire philanthropist, computer scientist, futurist, and strident atheist, attends a meeting at the Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey in Catalonia (Spain) with Roman Catholic Bishop Antonio Valdespino, Jewish Rabbi Yehuda Köves, and Muslim Imam Syed al-Fadl, members of the Parliament of the World's Religions.__NEWL__He informs them that he has made a revolutionary discovery that he plans to release to the public in a month.__NEWL__He has informed them out of respect, despite his hatred of organized religion, which he blames for his mother's death.__NEWL__The three learn that he is presenting it in three days' time, prompting Valdespino to demand that he stop.__NEWL__Kirsch hosts an event at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.__NEWL__Among those in attendance are Kirsch's former teacher, Robert Langdon, and the Guggenheim's curator Ambra Vidal, the fiancée of the future King of Spain, Prince Julián.__NEWL__The guests receive a headset through which they communicate with a voice named Winston, which reveals to Langdon that it is an artificial intelligence invented by Kirsch.__NEWL__Winston leads Langdon to a private meeting with Kirsch, who claims that his presentation will reveal humanity's origins and future.__NEWL__During the presentation, which is broadcast worldwide, Kirsch reveals that he intends to end the age of religion and usher in an age of science.__NEWL__However, he is killed by Luis Ávila, a former naval admiral introduced to the controversial Palmarian Catholic Church following the deaths of his family in a bombing.__NEWL__Ávila was commissioned by "the Regent", someone claiming to be with the church.__NEWL__Meanwhile, both Al-Fadl and Köves are killed as well.__NEWL__While Ávila escapes, Langdon meets Ambra.__NEWL__He warns her not to trust Julián (as Ávila was put on the guest list by request from the Royal palace) and they escape his guards and leave the museum, determined to release Kirsch's discovery.__NEWL__They steal Kirsch's phone and escape with the help of Winston, who has Kirsch's personal jet fly them to Barcelona.__NEWL__Ambra reveals that the presentation is protected by a 47-character password, a line from Kirsch's favorite poem.__NEWL__Neither know which poem was chosen, but they deduce that it can be found at Kirsch's home, on Antoni Gaudí's Casa Milà.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the three murders have sparked worldwide outrage, fueled by information leaked by the anonymous source "Monte Iglesia".__NEWL__Word of the meeting in Catalonia spreads, and suspicion falls on Valdespino, who sneaks Julián off the palace grounds.__NEWL__To save face, the royal family's public relations manager claims that Langdon kidnapped Ambra.__NEWL__Langdon and Ambra go to Casa Milà, and search for the poem.__NEWL__Langdon learns that Kirsch was dying of pancreatic cancer, prompting a rushed release of the presentation.__NEWL__Langdon finds that Kirsch owned a book of the complete works of William Blake, which he donated to Sagrada Família, leaving it open at a specific page.__NEWL__The police arrive and, as Ambra tries to explain she wasn't kidnapped, Kirsch's phone is destroyed.__NEWL__A helicopter with two Guardia Real agents arrives and gets her and Langdon to safety.__NEWL__Langdon assures Ambra that he can find Winston's physical location, so he can broadcast the discovery, and the helicopter takes them to Sagrada Família.__NEWL__There, the two discover that the password is the final stanza of Four Zoas, "The dark Religions are departed & sweet Science reigns".__NEWL__On the Regent's orders, Ávila arrives, killing both agents and chasing Langdon and Ambra.__NEWL__In an ensuing fight, Ávila falls to his death.__NEWL__Langdon and Ambra escape the police in the helicopter.__NEWL__Langdon finds Winston's source inside the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.__NEWL__They discover a device called E-Wave, a Mare Nostrum supercomputer which Kirsch calls 'Quantum cube'.__NEWL__After entering the password, the presentation starts, to hundreds of millions of viewers.__NEWL__Kirsch explains that he simulated the Miller-Urey experiment, using E-Wave's ability to digitally speed forward time, to recreate what he believes is the moment of abiogenesis.__NEWL__This is Kirsch's proof that humanity was created by natural events.__NEWL__He then claims that in roughly fifty years, humanity and technology will merge, hopefully creating a utopian future.__NEWL__The presentation sparks widespread debate.__NEWL__Ambra returns to the palace and Langdon is cleared of all charges.__NEWL__Winston reveals that, per Kirsch's will, he will self-delete the next day.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Valdespino brings Julián to his dying father in the Valley of the Fallen.__NEWL__The King admits that he is homosexual and Valdespino is his platonic lover.__NEWL__Both tell Julián not to follow old traditions, but to do what he feels is right for the country.__NEWL__The King dies during the night and Valdespino takes his own life to be with him.__NEWL__Julián makes amends with Ambra, and they decide to start their courtship over.__NEWL__The next day, going over all he has learned, Langdon realizes that Winston is Monte and the Regent.__NEWL__Winston had orchestrated Kirsch's murder to make him a martyr and destroy the Palmarians' reputation.__NEWL__He had intended for Ávila to be arrested, his death having been an accident.__NEWL__He then self-deletes, leaving Langdon shaken.__NEWL__Despite this, Langdon returns to Sagrada Família, where he and others of multiple races and religions are united by hope for the future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30644799	They Never Came Home	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54283518	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54283518	Teenage friends Larry and Dan go missing after embarking on a hiking trip.__NEWL__Upon investigation, a stranger claims that one of the boys owed him $2,000, prompting Joan, a sister of one of the boys, to begin her own search for them.__NEWL__A second edition was published in 2012, updating the story to modern times.__NEWL__Changes included references to cell phones and the Internet, as well as adjusting the money owed to $50,000.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30608684	Borne	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54072447	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54072447	The novel takes place in the future, in the ruins of a nameless city dominated by a giant grizzly bear called "Mord".__NEWL__The perspective character, Rachel, is a scavenger in the city; she collects various genetically-engineered organisms and experiments that were created by "the Company", a biotech firm.__NEWL__One day, while searching in Mord's fur, Rachel discovers a sea anemone-like creature that she names "Borne".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30644281	Rich People Problems	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z	54258983	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54258983	In 2015, two years after the events that take place in China Rich Girlfriend, Nick and Rachel Young (née Chu), an economics professor at New York University (NYU), are happily married and living their life in Manhattan.__NEWL__Nick is informed by his mother Eleanor that his grandmother, Su Yi, has had a heart attack, and that he must come home to reconcile with her before she dies.__NEWL__While Nick wants to make up with his grandmother out of guilt for having shut her out of his life for marrying Rachel (as Su Yi was opposed to the marriage), his mother wants him to make amends so that he will be re-introduced into the will and inherit Tyersall Park, Su Yi's home.__NEWL__The extended Shang-Young clan has descended upon Tyersall Park to say their last goodbyes with the hopes of getting into Su Yi's good graces and inheriting part of her fortune.__NEWL__Nicholas is initially prevented from seeing Su Yi due to scheming from his cousin, Eddie Cheng, who believes he has a shot at inheriting his grandmother's estate.__NEWL__Eddie lies and convinces the entire family and house staff that Su Yi does not wish to see Nick while she is on her deathbed.__NEWL__With the help of the head of security, the head maid (who overheard Eddie's plotting) and Astrid, Nick is able to sneak into Tyersall Park and speak with his grandmother while she is in a cardiac intensive care unit in her bedroom.__NEWL__She is happy to see him and they make amends.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Astrid, Nick's cousin, becomes engaged again to Charlie Wu.__NEWL__Her relationship with Charlie faces obstacles from Charlie's scorned ex-wife Isabel Wu and Astrid's soon-to-be ex-husband Michael Teo.__NEWL__Su Yi dies and everyone prepares for her funeral.__NEWL__During the funeral, Astrid receives a grainy video from Michael depicting her and Charlie having sex in Charlie's bedroom, with a threat of releasing the video unless he is given 5 billion dollars in their divorce settlement.__NEWL__In Su Yi's will, she leaves a share of Tyersall Park to each of her four daughters (Alexandra, Felicity, Victoria, and Catherine) and her son (Phillip, Nick's father) along with a share to Nick and his cousin (and Eddie's brother) Alistair Cheng.__NEWL__Upon the reading of the will, Eddie is humiliated to be left with nothing except his grandfather's antique sapphire cuff links.__NEWL__Astrid inherits Su Yi's fashionable dresses and jewelry.__NEWL__Jacqueline, Su Yi's goddaughter, inherits her shares at Ling Holdings, making her a wealthy woman and angering the family, who expected to inherit some of those shares, and now only have Tyersall Park.__NEWL__Returning to Tyersall Park, Eddie furiously confronts Fiona for humiliating him by not telling him about the contents of the will, and ruining their family's opportunity to live in luxury.__NEWL__Fiona claims that she respected Su Yi's privacy and that she only picked up the pen to sign the paper as a witness.__NEWL__Eddie ends up curled up in a ball, crying, with Fiona comforting him.__NEWL__The family initially agrees to sell Tyersall Park to Jack Bing, to be used by his new wife Kitty, the former Hong Kong soap actress (and Alistair's former fiancée), for 10 billion dollars, because there are no funds to maintain it.__NEWL__Nick cannot bring himself to let Tyersall Park go, and so he attempts to buy out the shares owned by his four aunts, with his father signing over his portion directly to Nick.__NEWL__However, he is not able to raise the money to do this.__NEWL__Isabel suffers a psychotic breakdown and in a fit of rage releases the damning video of Charlie and Astrid, revealing her involvement in helping Michael blackmail Astrid.__NEWL__She attempts to commit suicide and taint Charlie and Astrid's new house by hanging herself from a chandler.__NEWL__Astrid is shunned by her family and retreats into seclusion, not even telling Charlie where she went.__NEWL__He goes to great lengths to track her down, eventually finding her on an island in the Philippines.__NEWL__He reveals to her that he has gotten Michael to sign off on their divorce without any challenge by threatening to have him prosecuted for illegal surveillance of Astrid and blackmail.__NEWL__He tells her that though Isabel survived her suicide attempt and is now in stable condition, her family had found out that she was involved in blackmailing Astrid with Michael and that she will face humiliation of her own.__NEWL__Astrid says that she wants to stay and to bring her son Cassian to live with the people on the island.__NEWL__Charlie is willing to let her have the life she wants but wants to know if there is any room for him.__NEWL__Nick takes a trip to visit an elderly Thai prince, based on a note left to him by his grandmother, thinking that this is the key to the funding to buy Tyersall Park.__NEWL__However he learns that this Prince was his grandmother's first love, and Aunt Catherine's biological father.__NEWL__Nick also learns that during World War II, Su Yi aided in the resistance effort against the Japanese occupation of Singapore by providing Tyersall Park as a safe haven for many Chinese and British agents working against the Japanese.__NEWL__Nick then tries to block the sale of Tyersall Park by claiming that it is a historic site.__NEWL__Rachel and Nick bring together Nick's friends Colin and Araminta Khoo, Rachel's friend Goh Peik Lin, and Alistair to buy Tyersall Park and turn it into the Tyersall Museum and Hotel.__NEWL__Kitty completes the deal by becoming a secret investor in their group in order to spite Jack, who had decided to buy Tyersall Park for Colette (his daughter) instead of Kitty.__NEWL__One year later, Peik Lin is marrying Alistair, with Nick and Rachel serving as best man and maid of honor.__NEWL__After years of trying to conceive, Araminta and Colin now have a two-month-old son.__NEWL__Eddie finally changes his ways after Fiona convinces him to seek help and he goes to a therapist.__NEWL__Astrid continues to live on the island with Charlie and has started designing her own clothes.__NEWL__She does not wish to get married yet, instead preferring to live "a life of sin" with Charlie and enjoys the fact that this very much bothers her parents.__NEWL__Rachel reveals to Nick that she is six weeks pregnant.__NEWL__They both jokingly agree to not tell Nick's mother about the news, agreeing to wait at least until their child is 21.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30643857	Love Song for Joyce							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54241921	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54241921	Joyce Arnold is a young woman in Florida who relocates from her hometown to North Carolina to attend Deton College.__NEWL__Her close friend Margo, and boyfriend, Frank, have both chosen to enroll in universities in Florida.__NEWL__Upon her relocation to North Carolina, Joyce is forced into an entirely new environment, and must learn to navigate adulthood and her own newfound independence.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30643852	A Promise for Joyce							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	54241982	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54241982	After a tumultuous first year away from home at Denton College, Joyce enrolls for her sophomore year of classes, and finds herself troubled by her boyfriend's strenuous pre-med studies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30642270	Augustown	2016-01-01T00:00:00Z	54165529	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54165529	The book is based on an historical incident from 1921 in which Baptist preacher Alexander Bedward told congregants he would physically fly up to heaven; instead he was committed to an insane asylum.__NEWL__In Miller's reimagining, however, the preacher proves able to fly and people gather in the impoverished neighborhood of Augustown to see the miracle for themselves.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63981096	The Devil All the Time	2011-07-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	60675442	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60675442	The Devil All the Time follows the events and fates of various characters who all carry their own secrets from the past.__NEWL__As the novel progresses the lives of these people converge in unexpected ways.__NEWL__In a prologue, Pollock introduces the protagonist, Arvin, as a young boy.__NEWL__He sits in a clearing with his father, Willard, on an oak log, joining him in his evening prayer routine.__NEWL__Willard is borderline obsessive when it comes to prayer and expects the same from his son.__NEWL__While Arvin prays, however, his mind wanders and feelings of isolation bubble to the surface.__NEWL__Feeling like an outsider at school, he is the victim of relentless bullying.__NEWL__Arvin recalls his father telling him to stand up for himself, but this is easier said than done.__NEWL__The rest of the book is divided into seven parts.__NEWL__Part One, "Sacrifice," begins in 1945, before the prologue.__NEWL__Willard is a young single man who has just been discharged from combat duty after the end of World War II.__NEWL__As he sits on a bus headed to his home in Coal Creek, West Virginia, he recalls the horrifying things he saw and did during the war.__NEWL__One memory haunts him in particular: that of a soldier he comes across who has been skinned and crucified.__NEWL__Willard shoots the man as an act of mercy, putting an end to his suffering.__NEWL__The bus makes a stop at the Wooden Spoon Diner in Meade, Ohio.__NEWL__There, Willard meets and instantly falls in love with a beautiful waitress, Charlotte Willoughby.__NEWL__At home, he is met by his nervous and emotionally-damaged mother, Emma, and her brother, Uncle Earskell.__NEWL__Willard proceeds to get drunk, and his thoughts turn from the horrors of war to the beautiful waitress he just met.__NEWL__He lets it slip to his mother that he has fallen in love, which upsets her because she made a bargain with God that if He let her son live, she would arrange a marriage between Willard and poor Helen Hatton.__NEWL__At church one evening, we meet Brother Roy and Brother Theodore, Roy’s fat and crippled cousin.__NEWL__They preach about letting God cure you of your worst fears and Roy dumps a bin full of spiders on his head, scarring almost everyone in the chapel.__NEWL__Helen takes a liking to Roy and they later have a daughter named Lenora.__NEWL__Feeling his connection with God lessen, Roy decides that in order to regain his bond he must crucify something and raise it from the dead.__NEWL__Theodore, who hates her for taking Roy’s attention, convinces Roy to kill Helen for the sacrifice.__NEWL__They take her out to a field and Roy stabs her in the neck with a screwdriver.__NEWL__As expected, Roy is unable to raise her from the dead and they flee the town, leaving Lenora with Emma (Willard's mother).__NEWL__Linking back up with other characters, Willard marries Charlotte and together they have a son whom they name Arvin.__NEWL__As the years pass, Willard becomes obsessed with prayer.__NEWL__The obsession only deepens when Charlotte is diagnosed with cancer.__NEWL__Willard's rituals become progressively more bizarre and upsetting, culminating in animal and even human sacrifice.__NEWL__Willard believes these acts of devotion are necessary to save his wife.__NEWL__Nevertheless, in the end, Charlotte still dies, prompting Willard to commit suicide.__NEWL__Traumatized by his parents' deaths and his father's behavior, Arvin lives with his grandmother, Emma.__NEWL__There, he meets Lenora, an orphan girl whom Emma takes in after her mother, Helen, is killed, the prime suspects in everyone’s mind being the traveling preacher named Roy who is also Lenora's father.__NEWL__In Part 2, "On the Hunt," the reader is introduced to Carl and Sandy Henderson, a pair of murderous lowlifes living in Meade who entertain themselves by picking up male hitchhikers and killing them.__NEWL__Their reign of terror is allowed to persist in part because Sandy's brother, Sheriff Bodecker, is corrupt and incompetent.__NEWL__An unemployed photographer, Carl takes pictures of his victims, calling them models.__NEWL__In one exceedingly depraved image, Carl takes a photograph of Sandy holding the severed head of one of their victims in her arms as if it were a baby.__NEWL__It is Carl's favorite photo.__NEWL__In Part 3, "Orphans and Ghosts," Arvin and Lenora grow up and become very close.__NEWL__Arvin gets his father's gun on his 15th birthday and immediately is drawn to it.__NEWL__When Lenora is bullied at school, Arvin comes to her defense, fighting the bullies in a very brutal and malicious way.__NEWL__His great uncle decides it’s best to put the gun away for a little while.__NEWL__The book also repeatedly drops in on Carl and Sandy.__NEWL__Part 4, "Winter," focuses largely on Carl and Sandy's murderous exploits.__NEWL__In Part 5, "Preacher," we learn more about Roy, the traveling preacher who killed Lenora's mother.__NEWL__Roy lives with his physically disabled cousin, Theodore.__NEWL__After moving on from the Coal Creek Church of the Holy Ghost Sanctified, Roy is replaced by a new preacher, Pastor Teagardin, who lives with his much younger wife, Cynthia.__NEWL__Lenora believes Teagardin to be an exceptionally holy man, but Arvin has his doubts.__NEWL__These suspicions are validated when the reader learns of Teagardin's seduction and sexual corruption of Cynthia.__NEWL__Teagardin then successfully seduces Lenora, getting the young girl pregnant.__NEWL__When Lenora confronts Teagardin about the pregnancy he denies his part in it, asking her who the townsfolk would believe: her, or their Preacher?__NEWL__With seemingly nowhere else to turn, Lenora commits suicide.__NEWL__Furious after putting the pieces of the story together, Arvin shoots Teagardin dead and flees Coal Creek.__NEWL__After Part 6, "Serpents," which follows more of Carl's and Sandy's depraved, murderous rampage, the storylines of the major characters converge in the final section, titled "Ohio."__NEWL__In the wake of Theodore's death, a repentant Roy returns to Appalachia to track down and apologize to Lenora, who has since died.__NEWL__Unfortunately, he encounters Carl and Sandy who make Roy their latest victim.__NEWL__Later, Carl and Sandy happen to pick up Arvin, but after they attack him, Arvin gets the upper hand and shoots both of them dead.__NEWL__Sheriff Bodecker pursues Arvin, and they end up in a standoff in the same clearing where Willard performed sacrifices.__NEWL__Arvin kills Bodecker and walks down the highway, full of hope for the first time in a long while.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65044923	Karoo	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z	61000786	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61000786	It’s the last Christmas party of 1980 in New York City, Saul Karoo, a script doctor - and the narrator - spends the Christmas party finding a way to avoid taking his adopted teenage son, Billy, home with him.__NEWL__He succeeds by bringing a younger, drunken woman home instead.__NEWL__It becomes quickly apparent that Karoo struggles with intimacy, alcoholism and hypochondria.__NEWL__He believes he “no longer has his health” for this reason he no longer has health insurance.__NEWL__he also believes no matter how much he drinks he is not able to become drunk.__NEWL__Karoo regularly meets with his wife, Dinah, to make divorce arrangements.__NEWL__These have been taking place over a long period of time and has become as much a new kind of relationship as it is the end of an old, failing one.__NEWL__Jay Cromwell, a big shot movie producer, who Karoo has previously worked for, contacts Karoo to do some doctoring on a new script.__NEWL__This time on an Arthur Houseman - who is considered a veteran director - script, Karoo is aware that a previous project he did with Cromwell ended in a directors suicide.__NEWL__But he is asked to “think about it” and is told there is “no rush”.__NEWL__Left with the tape as an incentive to change his mind, Karoo watches the movie.__NEWL__He realises now that the movie is a master piece, the movie doesn’t need editing.__NEWL__But things change when he is convinced that one of the actresses is the biological mother of Billy.__NEWL__He believes that the actress voice shares the same voice of the young woman he had talked to over the phone when he spoke to Billy’s mother before his birth.__NEWL__Karoo heads to Venice Beach to track the actress down.__NEWL__Eventually it is confirmed that Leila Miller (the actress) is in fact Billy’s biological mother.__NEWL__She doesn’t recognise Billy or Karoo as she hasn’t seen Billy since his birth and only had one phone conversation with Karoo years ago.__NEWL__We find Leila is haunted by the memory of giving up her child and still unaware of the facts, she and Karoo fall in love.__NEWL__For this reason Karoo attempts to fix the Arthur Houseman movie to make Leila the star, at the price of ruining the master piece he considered the original cut to be.__NEWL__Billy and Leila started to fall for one another, still unaware of the true connection between them.__NEWL__But Karoo has a plan, at the first screening of the new movie as Leila becomes a star he will also tell them both the truth about their relation to one another.__NEWL__On the morning of the screening they take a trip, which ends in a road accident.__NEWL__With Karoo at the wheel, their car crashed into an oncoming vehicle, killing both Leila and Billy and leaving Karoo unconscious in a hospital bed for days.__NEWL__Upon waking Karoo learns that both his girlfriend and son are now dead and the movie was a hit.__NEWL__Leila, though posthumously, was now a star.__NEWL__Karoo at this point no longer narrates the book, he is merely spoken of in the third person now.__NEWL__Finally Karoo is asked by the relentless Cromwell to turn his exposé about the accident into a screenplay for a movie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65073040	The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle	2018-02-08T00:00:00Z	60843268	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60843268	At the start of the book, the novel's protagonist awakes in a forest, suffering from memory loss, and calling for someone named Anna.__NEWL__He doesn't remember his own name.__NEWL__He finds his way to a manor, where his friends tell him that he is a doctor called Sebastian Bell who is attending a party thrown by the Hardcastles, the family of Blackheath Manor.__NEWL__After he falls asleep that night, however, he awakes to find himself in the body of the butler, and it is the morning of the previous day.__NEWL__He learns that he has eight days, and eight different incarnations, to solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle, which will take place at 11pm at the party that evening.__NEWL__He will only be allowed to leave Blackheath once he finds the killer.__NEWL__If he is unable to solve the mystery in the eight allocated days, the process will start again and he will awake again in the body of Sebastian Bell with his memory wiped.__NEWL__He also learns that there are two other people competing to find out the murderer, and that only one person will be permitted to leave Blackheath.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q85757423	Doom 94	2013-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q179830	Jelgava	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q211	Latvia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q211	Latvia	60705416	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60705416	The novel begins on April 5, 1994, the death of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana.__NEWL__Cobain's death influences youngsters living in Jelgava, Latvia to begin listening to heavy metal music.__NEWL__This is also the time that Latvia has recently regained its independence from the Soviet Union, causing economic and social upheaval.__NEWL__The book's main character Janis turns to the alternative lifestyle offered by an emergent heavy metal scene.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q67704371	The Dreamers	60894162	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60894162	The story begins with a college student, Kara Sanders, who after a night out, returns to her college dorm room with symptoms of drowsiness.__NEWL__The following morning, her roommate, Mei, a first year college student, dismisses her sleeping figure for tiredness.__NEWL__However, when Mei returns to the dorm room in the afternoon, she finds Kara in the same position she was in when she left.__NEWL__Mei calls the paramedics, who rush Kara to hospital, where her heart rate slows down to a complete stop and she is declared dead.__NEWL__Soon after, Rebecca, another girl from the same dorm floor, falls victim to the sleeping virus.__NEWL__Rebecca’s heart rapidly slows and she is deemed unconscious, however, her pulse remains completely stable; her only symptom is deep sleep.__NEWL__Unknowingly, at the time of her comatose state, Rebecca is also a few days pregnant.__NEWL__A janitor from the college, Thomas Peterson, who worked on the same dorm floor as the sleeping virus victims, returns home to his two daughters, Sara and Libby.__NEWL__He proceeds to prepare his daughters for isolation from the virus.__NEWL__Meanwhile, panic ensues on the dorm floor when it is believed that the sleeping virus could be highly contagious.__NEWL__As a result, the dorm floor is quarantined.__NEWL__It is announced that a third girl from the same dorm floor has lost consciousness.__NEWL__With each of the cases, it is confirmed, through the mapping of brain activity, that the sleepers are dreaming.__NEWL__It is also concluded that there is more brain activity in these sleepers than there ever has been in any human brain.__NEWL__On the fourteenth day of the outbreak of the sleeping virus, a researcher concludes that the virus is airborne; a virus that travels in a similar manner to the measles and the flu.__NEWL__The patients, nurses, and visitors from Santa Lora Hospital at the time of the announcement are all quarantined and their ventilation is cut off.__NEWL__During a wildfire that breaks out in Southern California, Thomas becomes a victim of the sleeping virus and will not wake up, leaving his two daughters — Sara and Libby — alone in their house.__NEWL__During the fire, the college kids escape quarantine.__NEWL__Mei decides to take cover with Matthew in a vacant house.__NEWL__Nathaniel, a biology professor at Santa Lora college, goes to visit Henry, his lover, at a nursing home.__NEWL__The doctors say that Henry has a counterintuitive symptom related to the sleeping virus that is not present in the other victims, as he suddenly starts talking, after being comatose for years.__NEWL__He is one of the only victims of the sleeping virus where the sickness works in the opposite way; it enhances life and consciousness rather than diminishing it.__NEWL__In the meantime, the victim count in Santa Lora rises to five hundred.__NEWL__As a result, the town undergoes a cordon sanitaire to prevent the illness from spreading to other towns in California, or to the wider continental United States.__NEWL__On the morning of this large-scale quarantine, Ben, a college professor, finds his wife Annie sprawled on the kitchen floor with her eyes fluttering rapidly, a victim of the sleeping virus.__NEWL__Soon after, Ben begins having vivid dreams.__NEWL__He knows something absurd is happening to his memory, as he believes that he is dreaming of events to come.__NEWL__Ben's baby eventually gets the virus too, followed soon after by Ben.__NEWL__The next morning, Sara finds Libby asleep on the floor, mumbling with her eyes wide open.__NEWL__Mei also catches the virus, undergoing a form of sleep paralysis, characterized by the feeling of pressure on her chest and her inability to scream out for help.__NEWL__Although Libby's eyes are closed and she is in a far-off state, she is still conscious and aware of the world around her.__NEWL__Seven weeks into the outbreak, Thomas is the second sleeping virus victim to wake up.__NEWL__He decides to leave the hospital and return home, where Sara is living by herself.__NEWL__Thomas appears distant, seeming intensely preoccupied with writing in his journal, and shouts about a fire.__NEWL__Sara tells Thomas that Libby has the sleeping virus, however, he claims that they have already discussed it, when they had not.__NEWL__Thomas is adamant that there was a fire in the college library that cured all of the sick, a belief that comes from a dream he had whilst asleep.__NEWL__Thomas experiments with fire and discovers that he can see the flame before he has lit the match, which leads him to the conclusion that he has, in fact, seen the future in his dreams.__NEWL__A day later, a fire starts in the college library.__NEWL__The fire miraculously awakens fourteen sleepers, including Ben, Annie, and Libby.__NEWL__Nine sleepers do not survive, including Mei.__NEWL__The cause of the fire is believed to be arson.__NEWL__Libby discloses that she felt like she had only taken a nap, when she had, in fact, been asleep for three weeks.__NEWL__She states that she dreamt of her sister, Sara, and their mother, who died when they were young.__NEWL__Their father, Thomas, reveals that he dreamt that the oceans moved a hundred miles inland and completely covered Los Angeles underwater.__NEWL__Shortly after, the news announces that the largest ice shelf in Antarctica is expected to break off.__NEWL__As a result, Thomas realizes that all of the events in his dreams will become real life events.__NEWL__In the same week, Nathaniel wakes up after three weeks in a deep slumber.__NEWL__It is soon revealed, after Nathaniel finds Henry unmoving and unable to talk, that Henry never woke up; Nathaniel dreamt his medical breakthrough.__NEWL__The professor researches what his dream could mean and discovers a theory that claims the possibility that everything he dreamt has actually happened, but in a parallel universe.__NEWL__Thirteen weeks after the outbreak of the sleeping virus, Rebecca's baby steadily grows inside her womb, while Rebecca remains in a deep sleep.__NEWL__The other girls from her college dorm floor, the first few to catch the virus, begin to wake up.__NEWL__In this same week, it is announced that there have been no new cases of the sleeping virus for seven days.__NEWL__Ben and Annie find that their baby has woken up.__NEWL__Ben tells Annie the dreams that he had about the future, but Annie tells him that he merely dreamt about events that they have already lived through.__NEWL__With no new cases of the virus in four weeks, it is announced that the sleeping contagion has officially ended.__NEWL__The cordon sanitaire is lifted and the town comes out of quarantine.__NEWL__However, eighty-five sleepers are still affected, including Rebecca.__NEWL__Rebecca sleeps through her contractions and her cesarean section, and eventually gives birth entirely asleep.__NEWL__Soon after this ordeal, when Rebecca wakes up, she discloses that she dreamt up another life, one with a son.__NEWL__She dreamt of raising him as a baby, watching him go to college, and then witnessing him have a child of his own.__NEWL__When the nurse reminds Rebecca that she had a baby girl, Rebecca remains adamant that she had a son, as she is unable to discern dream from reality.__NEWL__It is revealed that all of the sleepers in Santa Lora dreamed of the lives they never lived, as well as the past, present, and future.__NEWL__Walker uses third-person narration in order to manage a large cast of characters, including a number of college students, couples, and families.__NEWL__The benefit of working with a multitude of characters is Walker's ability to "telescope in and out among these characters' experiences and the college town, animating both intimate and panoramic moments of the plague."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65045319	Mission Critical	2019-01-01T00:00:00Z	61011426	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61011426	Immediately after the events of Agent in Place, CIA contract agent Court Gentry is ordered home by his careerist handler Suzanne Brewer.__NEWL__The Agency-owned transport plane he is in makes a stop at Luxembourg to bring aboard an MI6 rendition team carrying a prisoner, a Dutch banker connected to a mole in the Agency.__NEWL__Upon arriving at Ternhill Airbase in England, they are attacked by a group of armed men, who kidnap the prisoner.__NEWL__After unsuccessfully pursuing them, Court is tasked with finding out who ordered the ambush.__NEWL__Brewer accelerates the mole hunt, eventually bringing in contract agent and Court's former black ops team leader Zack Hightower to intimidate the mole and reveal himself in the process.__NEWL__Meanwhile, former Russian foreign intelligence officer and Court's former lover__NEWL__Zoya Zakharova is being turned into a CIA asset in a safe house in Virginia.__NEWL__She is also being groomed to become part of Poison Apple, a codeword CIA program made up of singleton operatives like Gentry and Hightower.__NEWL__Through Brewer, she finds out the circumstances surrounding the death of her father Feodor Zakharov, a former head of Russian military intelligence, in Dagestan fifteen years ago.__NEWL__Convinced that he is still alive, Zoya escapes from the safe house, dispatching a group of Mexican sicarios attacking it at the same time.__NEWL__She travels to London to find out the truth about her father.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to Zoya, her father had faked his death to become a deep cover agent for the Russian government under the identity of English businessman David Mars.__NEWL__Bent with revenge for the supposed deaths of his wife and children by the American and British intelligence communities, he plans a biological attack on the upcoming Five Eyes conference in Scotland with the help of North Korean intelligence agent Janice Won, who specializes in biological warfare, and an agent inside the CIA, revealed as executive Marty Wheeler, providing him with classified information.__NEWL__Additionally, he had ordered the attacks on Ternhill and Virginia in order to safeguard his real identity when he finds out that his old GRU file was accessed, later executing the banker.__NEWL__Zoya and Court meet again while tracking down one of Feodor's associates.__NEWL__They later find out about Mars separately; Zoya reunites with her father, who then abducts her for betraying her country, while Court deduces his plan with help from his former handler Sir Donald Fitzroy.__NEWL__Meanwhile, having identified Wheeler as the mole, Hightower captures him as he tries to escape upon arrival in the UK for the conference.__NEWL__Brewer then orders Court to eliminate Mars as well as his associate Roger Fox, who is actually Artyom Primakov, a made man in the Russian mafia.__NEWL__However, Gentry goes off mission and instead rescues Zoya from a hideout, capturing Won in the process.__NEWL__Won reveals her part in Mars's impending attack.__NEWL__Zoya escapes once again, determined to kill her own father for inadvertently causing the death of her brother in one of his previous failed attacks.__NEWL__Meanwhile, after pinpointing Mars's staging area for his attack to an abandoned church near the venue of the conference at Loch Ness, Brewer sends a CIA Ground Branch unit as well as Gentry and Hightower to assault the area.__NEWL__While they dispatch Russian mafia soldiers and some former Spetsnaz mercenaries and shoot down a crop-duster carrying the weaponized bacteria meant for the conference, Mars and Fox manage to escape, with Zoya in pursuit.__NEWL__Undeterred, Mars storms the conference venue with Fox, his remaining mercenaries, and fellow sleeper agents working amongst the building's security, taking the attendees hostage as a diversion to release the rest of the weaponized plague he had kept for himself.__NEWL__Having moved to the venue in anticipation of Mars's next move, Gentry, Hightower, and the surviving Ground Branch operatives, as well as Zoya and Brewer, eventually dispatch Mars's men.__NEWL__Much to the displeasure of Zoya, Court kills her father in the building's subterranean area.__NEWL__Brewer then tries to murder Court in order to salvage her own career when she is shot by Zoya, who is then shot by Court, who mistakes her for one of Mars's henchmen.__NEWL__While the two women survive, Brewer is quietly but sternly warned by her superior Matthew Hanley not to have Court killed next time.__NEWL__The conference attendees who were in contact with the plague are later issued antibiotics to offset its effects.__NEWL__After meeting with Zoya one last time, Court goes off grid.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18679228	Juha	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z	10863					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33	Finland	60794400	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60794400	Shemeikka, a travelling merchant from White Karelia, seduced Juha's wife Marja.__NEWL__Marja left Juha's household in Swedish Finland with Shemeikka to Russian Karelia, where she found his "harem" with many other women serving in near slavery.__NEWL__Marja lost favour with Shemeikka, despite giving birth to his child.__NEWL__She succeeded in returning to Finland.__NEWL__Juha believed she was abducted.__NEWL__When they went to Russia to retrieve her child, Juha assaulted Shemeikka, who explained that Marja left of her own will.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30897556	After	2014-10-21T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	60932676	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60932676	Tessa Young, an incoming freshman at Washington State University, arrives at college with her mother, Carol, and boyfriend Noah.__NEWL__The conservative Carol is horrified by Tessa's alternative-styled roommate and her friend, upperclassman Steph Jones.__NEWL__When Carol fails to convince Tessa to switch dorms, Carol warns her daughter about the dangers of college parties before leaving with Noah.__NEWL__The next morning, Tessa returns to her room to find one of Steph's friends inside, an attractive, tattooed boy who makes several rude comments to Tessa.__NEWL__Steph tells Tessa about the boy, Hardin Scott, who is a rebellious figure on campus.__NEWL__On the first day of college classes, Tessa befriends Landon Gibson, who is also an English major.__NEWL__Tessa learns from Landon that Hardin is his future step-brother since Landon's mom and Hardin's dad are engaged.__NEWL__After the first week of college, Tessa reluctantly accompanies Steph to the party and plays ‘Truth or Dare’ with Steph's friends, including Hardin, during which she admits she is a virgin.__NEWL__Hardin is dared to kiss Tessa, but she runs from the group, embarrassed.__NEWL__Hardin catches up to her and they share an intense moment that he takes as trivial.__NEWL__Carol disapproves of Tessa's activities and blames Hardin, so Tessa promises to ignore him.__NEWL__But Hardin falls for Tessa.__NEWL__Hardin brings Tessa to a stream in the woods, where he gives Tessa her first orgasm.__NEWL__When Tessa implies the two are now dating, Hardin says he doesn't date, leaving Tessa heartbroken.__NEWL__She subsequently ignores Hardin and invites Noah to stay the night with her.__NEWL__That night, Landon calls Tessa to help him control a drunken Hardin.__NEWL__After an argument with Hardin, they are intimate together again.__NEWL__The next morning, Tessa begs Noah for forgiveness for leaving him alone, and he says he'll think about it.__NEWL__ Tessa meets Ken Scott, Hardin’s father and the chancellor of the college, and he invites her to dinner at his home.__NEWL__During the course of the evening, Hardin argues with Ken and storms out to the backyard, where Tessa consoles him.__NEWL__Tessa stays the night and witnesses Hardin's intense nightmares.__NEWL__The next morning, Hardin takes Tessa back to her room, only for Noah to be waiting for them.__NEWL__A fight almost breaks out between the two men, but Tessa tells Noah to leave.__NEWL__Landon warns Tessa to be careful with Hardin.__NEWL__Ken uses his connections to get Tessa an internship at Van's publishing, asking in exchange for Tessa to convince Hardin to come to his wedding with Karen.__NEWL__Hardin, initially pleased with the news of Tessa’s internship, become cold when he meets with his friends and abandons Tessa.__NEWL__Tessa later finds Hardin with Molly on his lap.__NEWL__Fuming, Tessa plays Truth or Dare with the group and kisses Zed to upset Hardin.__NEWL__Hardin, in turn, dares Molly to kiss him.__NEWL__When Tessa tries to run away, Hardin chases her and declares his love in front of everyone.__NEWL__Tessa rejects him and leaves.__NEWL__Hardin sullenly takes back his declaration, so Tessa goes on a date with Zed.__NEWL__They attend a party, and after Tessa returns to Zed’s apartment, they kiss.__NEWL__However, this makes Tessa realize how strong her feelings are for Hardin.__NEWL__She returns to Hardin, and they confess their love for each other.__NEWL__Hardin finally agrees to attend his father’s wedding.__NEWL__They return to Tessa’s dorm and find a furious Carol waiting for them.__NEWL__Carol demands Tessa stop seeing Hardin and to go back to Noah or else be cut off.__NEWL__Tessa becomes annoyed with Hardin's mood swings, but that night, passion leads them to have sex for the first time, causing Tessa to bleed from ill preparation.__NEWL__Several of Hardin’s friends flirt with Tessa, leading to Hardin becoming angry.__NEWL__Tessa agrees to move in with him to a shared apartment, but he doesn’t come home on the second night together, upsetting Tessa.__NEWL__Carol finds out Tessa has been living with Hardin and slaps her before cutting her off.__NEWL__On their way to Ken's wedding, Tessa spots Zed with terrible bruises he seemingly got from Hardin.__NEWL__Tessa confronts Hardin over his suspicious behavior, revealing their living situation to the group, leading him to finally admit the truth: after the game of Truth or Dare, Hardin and Zed bet on if he could take Tessa’s virginity, which Hardin proved by showing the group the bloody sheets and condom from their first time having sex.__NEWL__Hardin says that over the course of fulfilling the bet, he fell in love with Tessa, and begs for her forgiveness.__NEWL__She flees and runs into Zed.__NEWL__She asks for all the details of the bet and leaves with him, leaving Hardin behind.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19622368	House of Liars	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2656	Palermo	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	60659116	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60659116	Elisa, a young woman from Southern Italy, lives as a recluse with her cordial, but fickle adoptive mother, the courtesan Rosaria, who loves but frequently neglects her.__NEWL__Her only company are the ghosts of her past, populating her lively imagination.__NEWL__After Rosaria's death Elisa tries to free herself from these ghosts by writing down her family's history.__NEWL__When Elisa's grandfather, the nobleman Teodoro, marries the significantly younger Cesira, an ambitious governess from the countryside, the resulting scancal leads to a break with his family.__NEWL__No longer able to obtain credit, the spendthrift Teorodo sees his palace seized by creditors and has to take up more modest lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood, where he spends most of his days brokering rarely lucrative deals in shady taverns, while his wife Cesaria feeds the family by giving private lessons.__NEWL__Constantly on the run from the bitter reality and Cesaria's reproaches, Teodoro slowly drinks himself to death.__NEWL__To his daughter Anna however, he remains a perfect gentleman to the end, who treats her like a princess and charms her with lively tales of past glory and tantalizing promises of future travels.__NEWL__After her father's death, Anna transfers this blind adulation to her rich cousin Eduardo, whom she meets by chance during one of his youthful pranks.__NEWL__While Eduardo writes her love songs, serenades her in front of her window, and even gives her an engagement ring, he also enjoys tormenting her with jealous suspicions and raves about travel plans that do not include her.__NEWL__In contrast to her mother, Anna realizes that the status-obsessed Eduardo would never actually marry her, but wants to have a child from him anyway - in the throes of passion, she longs to sacrifice her reputation, without expecting anything in a return, as a testament to her love.__NEWL__Eduardo however always withdraws at the last moment.__NEWL__After a health scare, he vows to change his ways and starts to view Anna as an unpleasant reminder of a past he wants to leave behind, to be unceremoniously discarded by a break-up letter without further explanation of reasons.__NEWL__Another victim of Eduardo's desire to abandon his old life is his former friend Francesco di Salvo, a young student from the countryside with big dreams of fame and revolution, which however never lessen his completely uncritical reverence for Eduard's title and wealth.__NEWL__Francesco loves the former courtesan Rosaria, whom he regards as his wife-to-be in spite of his general distaste for the bourgeois convention of marriage - until Eduardo makes fun of her, which irrevocably lowers her in Francesco's esteem.__NEWL__When Francesco finds evidence that Rosaria has been cheating on him, he is secretly glad for the pretext to end the relationship, since he is already in love with someone else: Eduardo's cousin Anna.__NEWL__Francesco never learns that it was Eduardo who seduced the good-natured but pleasure-loving Rosaria with flatteries and gifts.__NEWL__Eduardo immediately jilts Rosaria and urges her, using partly threats, partly blackmail, to skip town.__NEWL__Parting in bitterness, Rosaria prophesies his imminent demise.__NEWL__Her prophesy comes true when Eduard falls ill soon after, and eventually dies of consumption.__NEWL__In the meantime, Anna has married Francesco, who has given up his studies and took up employment with the post office to be able to feed his new family.__NEWL__Although Anna never hides her contempt for her husband and her purely financial motivation for agreeing to the marriage, Francesco clings to the hope that she will come to love him in time.__NEWL__But Anna not only never warms up to Francesco, she also fails to reciprocate the love of their daughter Elisa, whom she treats like a burden forced upon her.__NEWL__While taking Elisa for a walk, Francesco runs into the newly returned Rosaria, who immediately tries to win him back.__NEWL__Not even Francesco's most blatant expressions of disdain can discourage her.__NEWL__Despite his misgivings, Francesco starts meeting her regularly, initially accompanied by Elisa, later alone, but continues to love only Anna.__NEWL__The news of Eduardo's death plunge Anna into a profound crisis.__NEWL__She fakes letters from Eduardo to read them to his delusional mother, who refuses to accept the reality of her son's death.__NEWL__Anna soon joins her aunt in her delusions and starts to prescribe herself increasingly harsh punishments in the name of Eduardo, culminating in a confession of infidelity to Fransceso.__NEWL__Her plan is to provoke her husband to a crime of passion, so that she can join Eduardo in death.__NEWL__But the jealous Francesco never follows through with his threats, repeatedly recoiling at the last minute.__NEWL__When he dies in a work accident, trying and failing to jump on a moving train, Anna suffers a nervous breakdown.__NEWL__She is found on the brink of death by Rosaria, who has read about Francesco's death in the newspaper and has come to blame Anna.__NEWL__Anna accepts the blame.__NEWL__She identifies the ring on Rosaria's finger as the engagement ring she gave back to Eduardo when they broke up and reclaims it.__NEWL__Moved by awe and pity for the dying woman, Rosaria not only honours her request, but also pays for a nurse for Anna and takes care of Elisa.__NEWL__Weakened by her self-inflected tortures in the name of an imaginary Eduardo, Anna dies of exhaustion after several days of agony.__NEWL__Rosaria adopts Elisa and hands her the forged letters she found in Anna's possession.__NEWL__Elisa plans to burn them after finishing her account.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65067246	From the Heart	2017-03-02T00:00:00Z	60662284	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60662284	Set in mid 1950s England the novel follows Olive Piper as she leaves school and attends Bedford College, London to study English Literature.__NEWL__The Drama Society puts a production of Dr Faustus where she meets Malcolm Crowley who is studying Dentistry at King's College London.__NEWL__Not being married, nor able to prove she was going to be married, she was unable to obtain contraception and falls pregnant.__NEWL__She is forced to give up her course and rejecting marriage she moves to a home for unmarried mothers where she gives up her baby for adoption.__NEWL__Unable to return to Bedford College she resumes her studies at Keele.__NEWL__Her first teaching job is at a girls school in Salisbury where she falls in love with an older teacher, Thea...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65043785	Fall; or, Dodge in Hell	2019-06-04T00:00:00Z	60958498	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60958498	Billionaire Richard "Dodge" Forthrast is declared brain-dead after a routine medical procedure.__NEWL__Friends and family find his last will directs that his body be cryonically preserved for the purpose of future brain scanning and eventual revival.__NEWL__His wishes are fulfilled, his frozen brain destructively scanned, and his connectome saved in digital form.__NEWL__Several years pass in which portable augmented reality viewers become ubiquitous, social media echo chambers cause rural lawlessness, commercial quantum computing is feasible, and anonymous distributed ledger identification becomes popular in business.__NEWL__Dodge's grandniece Sophia animates Dodge's connectome as an experiment on secure distributed computing, for her senior thesis, at Princeton.__NEWL__The connectome remembers nearly nothing, but calling itself "Egdod" -- perhaps to associate himself with Dodge -- builds a virtual world, with physical laws similar to what little it does "remember".__NEWL__Wealthy anonymous donors initially fund the support datacenters running this "world".__NEWL__Brain scanning gains general popularity, after traffic analysis shows that virtual minds are achieving an afterlife, in a medieval fantasy setting.__NEWL__All the downloaded minds, however, suffer extreme amnesia.__NEWL__Egdod is usurped by El -- a terminally ill, and mentally ill, billionaire, who is funding the computing process.__NEWL__El believes that Dodge not only lacked imagination when constructing the virtual world, but that he also consumes a disproportionate amount of computing power.__NEWL__El conquers the world, isolates Dodge (with the power of his mind, aided by augmention by his private data centers).__NEWL__El subjugates the (virtual) population with a religion centered upon worship of him.__NEWL__Sophia (after being murdered by El) enters this virtual world, to assist Dodge in disrupting El's power.__NEWL__She -- and several other characters -- embark on an epic quest.__NEWL__Stephenson, in narrating this, is able to describe many aspects of this medieval fantasy world, and of the beliefs that El has instilled amongst its peoples.__NEWL__In the end Dodge and El have one final confrontation to determine whose vision for this virtual world prevails.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42184184	The Bingo Palace	61025359	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61025359	A call from his grandmother Lulu brings Lipsha Morrisey home to the reservation after living with his father Gerry in Fargo.__NEWL__Once home, Lipsha soon falls in love with Shawnee Ray Toose, a dancer and designer who lives with Lipsha's aunt Zelda.__NEWL__Shawnee Ray is dating Lyman, Lipsha's entrepreneurial uncle, and the two have a child named Redford.__NEWL__This doesn't stop Lipsha from asking Shawnee Ray out on a date.__NEWL__Lipsha and Shawnee Ray plan a date in Canada but are soon stopped by border police because of a pipe that belonged to Lipsha's grandfather Nector.__NEWL__Lyman goes to rescue the two and asks Lipsha for the pipe because of the historical value.__NEWL__When Lipsha refuses to give the pipe up, Lyman offers Lipsha a job at The Bingo Palace, a casino that he owns.__NEWL__Lipsha takes the job and is soon visited by his late mother June in a dream.__NEWL__She gives him bingo chips to use at the casino and drives off into the night.__NEWL__Lipsha begins to play these chips and wins each time after playing bingo.__NEWL__He wins a van and a lot of money.__NEWL__Lipsha's relationship with Shawnee Ray is also going well.__NEWL__They have a romantic evening together, which leaves Lipsha more in love than he was before.__NEWL__Lyman finally gets Lipsha to give him Nector's pipe only for him to gamble it away.__NEWL__Lyman's gambling addiction is something he keeps to himself.__NEWL__He begins planning to open a new resort on Matchimanito Lake, a piece of sacred tribal land.__NEWL__Lyman convinces Lipsha it would be a good idea to join him in this business opportunity.__NEWL__Shawnee Ray begins to distance herself from Lipsha.__NEWL__He becomes depressed over this and finds himself on a vision quest.__NEWL__This quest leads him to a vision with a skunk telling him the plan for the resort on Matchimanito Lake will never have purpose as the land "is not real estate.__NEWL__" Lipsha is confused as to where his life is going at this point.__NEWL__After living with Zelda for months, Shawnee Ray is ready to live on her own with her son.__NEWL__Zelda tries to control everything Shawnee Ray and Redford do, and Shawnee Ray has had enough.__NEWL__She leaves for college with Redford suddenly and doesn't tell Lipsha.__NEWL__Lipsha has another vision where he sees his father Gerry hiding after breaking out of prison.__NEWL__He goes to find him in Fargo, and they steal a car and drive into a blizzard.__NEWL__The two realize they accidentally kidnapped a baby that was in the backseat of the car.__NEWL__They're stuck in a blizzard when they see June drive in front of them.__NEWL__Gerry goes to be with June, leaving Lipsha taking care of a child in the middle of a snow storm.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65072722	Disappearing Earth	2019-05-14T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	60833076	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60833076	In an isolated town in Far Eastern part of Russia two young girls go missing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65070501	The Mister	2019-01-01T00:00:00Z	60774988	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60774988	English aristocrat Maxim Trevelyan inherits the Earldom of Trevethick after the sudden passing of his elder brother, Kit.__NEWL__He sleeps one time with his sister-in-law Caroline, who was his lover but had chosen his brother instead of him.__NEWL__He falls for his Albanian undocumented immigrant housemaid, Alessia Demachi.__NEWL__He finds out about her many talents and her past life.__NEWL__He takes her to his place in Cornwall when two unauthorised people came to his apartment searching for Alessia.__NEWL__He introduces Alessia to sexual pleasure and enjoys her company.__NEWL__At first she has no idea of Maxim's title but finds out and decides to run away.__NEWL__Maxim stops her and reveals his affections for her and they reconcile.__NEWL__Alessia reveals the truth about her abusive betrothed who kidnaps her when they are in England.__NEWL__Alarmed, Maxim confronts Caroline and goes after Alessia to Albania.__NEWL__Due to the absence of her documents and passport, she travels with her fiancée through another route.__NEWL__Maxim reaches her home and asks for her hand in marriage and Alessia enters soon after where she reveals the truth about her fiancée to her father and tries to get Maxim to be married to her.__NEWL__The novel ends with Alessia's father threatening Maxim to marry his daughter and them being together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q42186414	Silver Wedding	60755309	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60755309	The plot surrounds the planning for the upcoming 25th wedding anniversary celebration of Desmond and Deidre Doyle, natives of Ireland who have resided in London since their marriage.__NEWL__They have raised two girls and a boy, all of whom "have turned out to be disappointments".__NEWL__The burden of planning the party falls on Anna, the eldest, who works in a bookshop and is supporting an out-of-work actor.__NEWL__Brother Brendan left the family long ago to live on his uncle's farm in west Ireland, and can't be counted on to even make an appearance.__NEWL__The youngest sister, Helen, who is constantly getting into trouble as she tries to be accepted as a nun, will be no help at all.__NEWL__As the novel unfolds, each character confronts a personal crisis and must find ways to deal with their challenges.__NEWL__Desmond and Deidre, too, individually grapple with doubts and misgivings about their life choices.__NEWL__The novel further explores the lives of other significant people who attended the Doyles' wedding 25 years before: the bridesmaid, Maureen Barry, who learns after her mother's death that her father never really died; the best man, Frank Quigley, who has loved many women in his life, starting with the bridesmaid; and the priest, Father Hurley, a well-meaning man who struggles with his decision to protect his nephew from being identified as a hit and run driver.__NEWL__Each chapter focuses on the personal story of one character, and all the chapters interlink to weave the complete tale.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4118677	Corazón salvaje							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	1572420	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1572420	This novel, originally by Caridad Bravo Adams is set in the Caribbean, specifically in the French colonies.__NEWL__The Mexican adaptation is set in the Atlantic coast of Mexico.__NEWL__The following plot summary is based on the 1993 version by Televisa, and is described using in-universe tone.__NEWL__Francisco Alcazar is a wealthy landowner, who owns sugar cane fields.__NEWL__Francisco is married to Sofia, a severe and uncompassionate woman, with whom he has a son named Andres.__NEWL__Before his marriage to Sofia, Francisco had an affair with a married woman who was physically abused by her husband.__NEWL__The woman became pregnant and died when the child was 3 years old.__NEWL__This love-child is, in fact, Francisco's true firstborn.__NEWL__When this woman became pregnant, her husband refused to recognize the boy as his son.__NEWL__He also did not allow Francisco to recognize the child as his own.__NEWL__Thus, the boy named "Juan", became known as "Juan del Diablo" (Juan of the Devil) because he had no last name.__NEWL__Juan's mother eventually died of the shame and from the physical abuse she had received from her husband.__NEWL__Juan was raised with no love or instruction, in poverty and neglect.__NEWL__In his early teens, Juan's stepfather dies.__NEWL__Francisco, hiding the fact that Juan is his son, decides to invite him to live at his estate with his family, on the pretext of being a playmate for Andrés.__NEWL__Sofia finds out the truth and tries to send Juan away, to which Francisco objects.__NEWL__Finally, Francisco has an accident while riding his horse before he could legally recognize Juan as his son.__NEWL__Francisco leaves a letter with his intentions addressed to his friend and lawyer Noel Mancera.__NEWL__Sofia seizes the letter and hides it.__NEWL__On his deathbed, Francisco sends for his son Andrés, and while not telling the truth, asks him to care for Juan as a brother.__NEWL__After his death, Sofía sends Juan away without saying anything to Andrés.__NEWL__Eventually, Sofia decides to send Andrés to boarding school in France.__NEWL__Juan grows up among the sailors and pirates of the port-city, earning a shocking reputation for dirty business (contraband of liquor), ruthlessness, and harboring unbound loyalty from his men.__NEWL__Juan is also a womanizer, his heart is still untaken.__NEWL__He has learned the identity of his biological father because Noel Mancera has told him.__NEWL__Through the years, Mancera has given Juan some education, and even offered to give him his last name.__NEWL__However, Juan refuses the offer because he feels that a last name is unwarranted in his chosen occupation.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Mónica and Aimée are two beautiful young countesses, daughters of the deceased Count of Altamira, a distant cousin of Sofia de Alcazar.__NEWL__The Altamira family are very respectable in high society, but they now find themselves in bankruptcy.__NEWL__Their only asset is their nobility and beauty, and the long promise of betrothal between Monica and Andrés.__NEWL__Unfortunately for Mónica, Andres has forgotten about their engagement.__NEWL__While visiting Mexico City, Andres meets Mónica's younger sister.__NEWL__Aimee is beautiful, flirty and selfish.__NEWL__She shows interest in Andrés because he has wealth, influence, and power.__NEWL__Andrés falls completely in love with Aimee, a fact he later shares with his mother when she comes to visit him.__NEWL__When Sofia returns home, she informs Catalina de Altamira that Andres has broken the engagement with Monica because he is now intent in marrying Aimee.__NEWL__Catalina is mortified at the thought of Monica's heartbreak.__NEWL__With her family's financial ruin in mind, Catalina reluctantly agrees to an engagement between Aimee and Andres.__NEWL__When Monica discovers that Andres has broken their engagement in order to marry her sister, she is immediately heartbroken.__NEWL__Monica decides to enter a convent to become a nun.__NEWL__Monica denies her feelings for Andres and tells everyone that becoming a nun is her true calling.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Aimee returns to her hometown with her mother.__NEWL__One day, while walking along the beach, she spies Juan taking a bath in his beach house.__NEWL__Aimee had never met Juan and is unaware of his past or his connection to the Alcazar family.__NEWL__She watches him from a distance, but Juan sees her.__NEWL__Over the next few days, Aimee returns several times to spy on Juan.__NEWL__He decides to confront her and catches her while she's hiding.__NEWL__Soon after, Juan and Aimee fall in love and become lovers.__NEWL__Juan goes away on a business trip and Aimee promises to wait for his return and marry him.__NEWL__When Andres arrives in his hometown, Aimee ignores her promise to Juan and agrees to marry Andres.__NEWL__Juan returns from his business trip several weeks later.__NEWL__Juan discovers that Aimee is now married to his half-brother and decides to kidnap her so that she carries out her promise.__NEWL__Andres, who knows nothing about his kinship to Juan and the affair between him and his wife, decides to employ him as the steward of Campo Real, his country estate.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Monica leaves the convent to spend some time in the countryside with her family.__NEWL__Monica quickly discovers the affair between Juan and Aimee.__NEWL__Monica confronts her sister, but Aimee refuses to end her affair with Juan.__NEWL__Since Monica decides to leave the convent, Andres attempts to redeem himself by proposing an engagement between Monica and his friend Alberto de la Serna.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Andres learns that Juan is actually his brother and that he had an unseemly affair with a young lady in his household.__NEWL__Andres immediately assumes that the lady in question is Monica.__NEWL__Because of this misunderstanding, Monica is pressured to get married immediately.__NEWL__Monica agrees to get married in an attempt to protect Andres and her sister from the impending scandal, but she refuses to marry Alberto.__NEWL__Instead, Monica decides to marry Juan because she believes this is the only way to prevent Aimee to continue her affair with him.__NEWL__In an unexpected turn of events, Juan accepts to marry Monica.__NEWL__Aimee is filled with jealousy and rage at the thought of Juan being married to her sister.__NEWL__Aimee spends all her time plotting and scheming to destroy Monica's engagement to Juan.__NEWL__Unfortunately for Aimee, Juan is no longer interested in her.__NEWL__He is now captivated by Monica's beauty and her kind demeanor.__NEWL__At the same time, Monica discovers a whole different side to Juan's personality.__NEWL__Monica learns that despite Juan's rough exterior, he can also be kind, gentle, and noble.__NEWL__Against all odds, Monica and Juan slowly begin to fall in love.__NEWL__Their happiness is short lived when Andres finds out about Juan's affair with Aimee.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q919814	Damnation Alley	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1572600	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1572600	The story opens in a post-apocalyptic Southern California, in a hellish world shattered by nuclear war thirty years before.__NEWL__Several police states have emerged in remaining areas of the former United States that can still support human life.__NEWL__As a result of the war, hurricane-force winds above prevent any sort of air travel from one state to the next.__NEWL__Sudden, violent, and unpredictable "garbage storms," and giant, mutated animals make day-to-day life treacherous.__NEWL__ Hell Tanner, an imprisoned Hells Angels member, is offered a full pardon for his crimes in exchange for taking on a suicide mission: a precarious drive through Damnation Alley, a narrow passage relatively free of lethal radiation, across a ruined America from Los Angeles to Boston, as part of a convoy of three Landmaster vehicles attempting to deliver an urgently needed plague vaccine to survivors.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7033898	Nightmare Alley	1946-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1571835	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1571835	Stanton Carlisle watches the geek show at a Ten-in-One where he has recently begun working.__NEWL__He later asks the carnival's talker__NEWL__Clem__NEWL__Hoately where geeks come from.__NEWL__Clem explains that geeks are "made": a sideshow owner finds an alcoholic bum and offers him a temporary job with a steady supply of liquor.__NEWL__Initially, the bum is only asked to pretend to be a geek, using a razor blade to slice chickens' necks and then faking the drinking of the blood.__NEWL__After a few weeks, the owner threatens to end the job and replace the bum with a "real" geek, and the fear of sobering up terrifies the bum into actually biting the chickens.__NEWL__Thus, a geek is made.__NEWL__Stan performs sleight of hand tricks in the sideshow but studies under the carnival's mentalist Zeena to learn a refined "code" act, where performers memorize verbal cues that allow them to appear psychic by accurately answering written audience questions.__NEWL__Stan also begins to pick up Zeena's talent for cold reading.__NEWL__He eventually leaves the carnival with the beautiful and naïve electric girl Molly Cahill to perform a team code act.__NEWL__Their act becomes very successful, but Stan grows bored and transforms himself into Reverend Carlisle, an upstanding spiritualist preacher offering séance sessions with the help of his medium.__NEWL__Stan gains a devoted following, but the stress of leading a false life leads him to seek the help of a psychologist named Lilith Ritter, who seduces and then begins controlling him.__NEWL__Stan pleads constantly for them to go away together, and Lilith eventually agrees, suggesting the Rev. Carlisle swindle a rich man for the getaway money.__NEWL__They settle on Ezra Grindle, a ruthless auto tycoon with a skeptical interest in the occult.__NEWL__Stan manages to convince Grindle of his powers, and the businessman becomes a devoted spiritualist.__NEWL__Stan keeps Grindle hooked by promising to reunite him with his deceased college sweetheart Dorrie, who died in a botched back-alley abortion Grindle convinced her to seek.__NEWL__A reluctant Molly plays "Dorrie" in a series of sessions but eventually breaks character, destroying the illusion.__NEWL__In a rage Stan punches Molly and Grindle and flees the scene.__NEWL__At Lilith's suggestion he decides to go into hiding with Grindle's money but later discovers that Lilith has stolen a majority of it by replacing the five-hundred-dollar bills with singles.__NEWL__When he confronts her, she tells him that he is deluded and attempts to have him committed to a mental institution, and he narrowly escapes.__NEWL__He flees and resorts to performing as a mentalist at increasingly shoddy venues, trying to evade the men he falsely believes Grindle is sending after him.__NEWL__During this time, Molly takes up with a gambler reminiscent of her father, and gives birth to a son.__NEWL__Eventually Stan becomes a hobo, staying afloat by giving Tarot readings and selling horoscopes, but ends up murdering a police officer who attacks him while he sells his merchandise.__NEWL__A final reconnection with Zeena provides him an opportunity to again make living in the carnival, but he breaks completely and descends into alcoholism and depression when he discovers through a newspaper article that Lilith has wed Grindle.__NEWL__His life in shambles, a drunk Stan finds a carnival owner and asks to join the sideshow as a palm reader.__NEWL__The owner gives Stan some whiskey but refuses his proposal, saying the show is full.__NEWL__But as Stan begins to stumble out, the owner changes his tune and invites Stan back in with a job offer: "Of course, it's only temporary – just until we get a real geek."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767261	The Summer Tree	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	1536637	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1536637	The books opens in our own world, at the University of Toronto, where the five main characters are all fellow students.__NEWL__They attend a lecture by a Professor Lorenzo Marcus, who afterwards reveals to them that he is in reality Loren Silvercloak, a mage from the land of Fionavar.__NEWL__Silvercloak tells the five that he has come to our world to bring back five guests, as part of the celebration of the 50th year of the reign of High King Ailell of Brennin.__NEWL__After some debate, the students – Kevin Laine, Paul Schafer, Dave Martyniuk, Kimberly Ford, and Jennifer Lowell – agree to accompany Silvercloak and the dwarf Matt Sören__NEWL__(Loren's "source", the person whose strength he draws on to perform his magic).__NEWL__However, Dave has second thoughts in the midst of Loren's transferral process; he attempts to pull free, breaking his contact with the others, and so although the remaining four arrive safely in Brennin, Dave is nowhere to be seen.__NEWL__Kim, Paul, Jennifer and Kevin discover that Brennin is in the midst of a crippling drought, brought on by the High King's unwillingness to offer himself on the Summer Tree as a sacrifice to Mörnir.__NEWL__The kingdom has been somewhat uneasy since Ailell's eldest son, Aileron, offered to take his father's place; upon Ailell's refusal, he cursed his father and was exiled.__NEWL__Ysanne the Seer recognizes Kim as the successor foretold by her dreams.__NEWL__Kim accompanies Ysanne to her cottage by the lake where Ysanne calls on Eilathen, a water spirit, to awaken Kim's latent Seer powers; Ysanne then passes to Kim the Baelrath, or Warstone, a red stone set in a ring.__NEWL__Ysanne also shows Kim two magical items.__NEWL__The first is Lökdal, a dwarvish dagger with a double gift: he who kills with Lökdal with love in his heart may make a gift of his soul to another; he who kills without love in his heart will die.__NEWL__Ysanne also shows Kim the Circlet of Lisen, set with a shining white gem, and recounts the prophecy concerning it: "Who shall wear this next after Lisen shall have the darkest road to walk of any child of earth or stars."__NEWL__That night Ysanne takes her own life with Lökdal and makes Kim a gift of her soul.__NEWL__When Kim awakens the next morning, she has not only the power of a seer (which was born in her), but also all of Ysanne's deep knowledge of Fionavar to help her interpret what she sees.__NEWL__Her hair turned completely white, Kim takes Ysanne's place as Seer of Brennin.__NEWL__Kevin and Paul are befriended by Diarmuid, Ailell's second son, a handsome man and elegant swordsman, but apparently frivolous and light-hearted.__NEWL__They accompany Diarmuid and his band on a daring journey to Cathal, the kingdom to the South of Brennin.__NEWL__Diarmuid has a double purpose: to prove the existence of a way across the Saeral River, and to seduce the King of Cathal's daughter, the lovely but fiercely independent Sharra.__NEWL__He achieves both and the band returns triumphant to Brennin.__NEWL__That night, a song that Kevin sings reawakens Paul's ghosts.__NEWL__Long haunted by grief and guilt over the death of his girlfriend in a car accident which he believes was his fault, Paul offers to sacrifice himself by taking Ailell's place on the Summer Tree, seeing this as a way to expiate his guilt.__NEWL__Jennifer and Jaelle, High Priestess of Dana, overhear a children's game in which Leila, a young girl, calls a boy named Finn to "take the Longest Road.__NEWL__" This is the third time this is happened and clearly marks Finn somehow.__NEWL__Jaelle cannot explain what it means but she sees latent power in Leila and invites her to become an acolyte in the temple.__NEWL__The next day, Jennifer meets Brendel of the lios alfar and some of his people and goes riding with them.__NEWL__That night, Jennifer's escort of lios alfar is slaughtered by Galadan and his wolves, and Jennifer is taken.__NEWL__Paul is bound naked to the Tree where he hangs for three days and nights, fully expecting that he will die.__NEWL__On the second night, Galadan appears but is driven away by a grey dog.__NEWL__On the third night Dana, the Mother, relieves Paul's pain by showing him that he was not to blame for Rachel's death and Paul is at last able to weep for Rachel.__NEWL__His tears break the drought.__NEWL__Nursed (grudgingly) back to health by Jaelle, Paul recovers and is named Pwyll Twiceborn, Lord of the Summer Tree.__NEWL__By now it is evident to all concerned that significant events are afoot, and when Mount Rangat explodes in a dramatic hand of fire reaching across the sky, there can be no doubt.__NEWL__Rakoth Maugrim, defeated and chained a thousand years ago, has broken free of his prison—and Jennifer's kidnappers have sent her to him at his fortress of Starkadh.__NEWL__Ailell suffers a heart attack and dies at the sight.__NEWL__Aileron returns and Diarmuid, with great wit, agrees that he should be High King despite having been exiled.__NEWL__In the midst of this dynastic confusion, Sharra of Cathal, furious at her seduction and abandonment, stabs Diarmuid in the shoulder.__NEWL__Amongst these events we begin to get a hint of the true strength of Diarmuid's character.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Dave has arrived safely in Fionavar but far out on the plains.__NEWL__He is taken in by a group of Dalrei, or Riders, led by Ivor, chieftain of the third tribe, and Gereint, their shaman.__NEWL__The Dalrei dub him "Davor" and give him an axe, as the weapon best suited to Dave's build and lack of sword training.__NEWL__Dave bonds with Torc dan Sorcha, something of an outcast, when he and Torc spend a night watching over Ivor's son Tabor during his vision quest to find his totem animal.__NEWL__Unbelievably, the animal Tabor sees is a winged chestnut unicorn; even more incredibly, three nights later Tabor finds and immediately bonds with her, knowing that she has been created as a gift of the goddess and her name is Imraith-Nimphais.__NEWL__When the mountain explodes, Ivor sends a party towards Brennin led by Levon, his oldest son.__NEWL__They are ambushed by svart alfar near Pendaran Wood and only Dave, Levon and Torc survive by fleeing into the wood.__NEWL__The trees of the Wood bear a centuries-long grudge over the death of Lisen, their beautiful forest spirit who bound herself as source to Amairgen, the First Mage, and who killed herself when he died.__NEWL__Flidais rescues them and alerts Ceinwen.__NEWL__Ceinwen takes a fancy to Dave; not only does she transport them safely to the other edge of the wood, she also makes sure that Dave finds Owein's Horn.__NEWL__Levon, well-taught in legends by Gereint, then finds the Cave of the Sleepers, who can be awakened by the Horn.__NEWL__When all are at last gathered in Brennin, the new High King calls a council.__NEWL__They are interrupted by Brock, a dwarf, who names Matt Sören as rightful King of the Dwarves and then divulges that it is the dwarves who helped Rakoth Maugrim free himself in secret.__NEWL__They have also found for him the Cauldron of Khath Meigol which can resurrect the dead.__NEWL__The council resumes but a sudden blinding headache bursts upon Kim, and in a heartbreaking vision she sees Jennifer in Starkadh, being raped and tortured by Maugrim.__NEWL__Using the power of the Baelrath, Kim manages to pull all five of them out of Fionavar and back into their own world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q731626	Curtain	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23240	Essex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1573713	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573713	A specific person is unsuspected of involvement in five murders by both the police and family of the victims.__NEWL__In all cases, there was a clear suspect.__NEWL__Four of these suspects have since died (one of them hanged); in the case of Freda Clay, who gave her aunt an overdose of morphine, there was too little evidence to prosecute.__NEWL__Poirot calls on his old friend, the recently-widowed Hastings, to join him in solving this case.__NEWL__Poirot alone sees the pattern of involvement.__NEWL__Poirot, using a wheelchair due to arthritis, and attended by his new valet Curtiss, will not share the name of the previously unsuspected person, using X instead.__NEWL__X is among the guests at Styles Court with them.__NEWL__The old house is a guest hotel under new owners, Colonel and Mrs Luttrell.__NEWL__The guests know each other, with this gathering initiated when Sir William Boyd-Carrington invites the Franklins to join him for a summer holiday stay.__NEWL__The five prior murders took place in the area, among people known to this group.__NEWL__Elizabeth Cole tells Hastings that she is a sister of Margaret Litchfield, who confessed to the murder of their father in one of the five cases.__NEWL__Margaret has died in Broadmoor Asylum and Elizabeth is stigmatised by the trauma.__NEWL__Three incidents occur in the next few days, showing the imprint of X. First, Hastings and others overhear an argument between the Luttrells.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, Luttrell wounds his wife with a rook rifle, saying he mistook her for a rabbit.__NEWL__Mrs Luttrell recovers, and the incident has a good effect on their marriage.__NEWL__Next, Hastings is concerned that his daughter Judith spends time with Major Allerton, a married man.__NEWL__While Hastings and Elizabeth are out with birdwatcher Stephen Norton, Norton sees something through his binoculars that disturbs him.__NEWL__Hastings assumes it has to do with Allerton.__NEWL__When his attempts to persuade Judith to give Allerton up merely antagonise her, the worried father plans Allerton's murder.__NEWL__He falls asleep while waiting to poison Allerton, relieved he took no action when he awakes the next day.__NEWL__Last, Barbara Franklin, wife of Judith's employer, Dr Franklin, dies the following evening.__NEWL__She was poisoned with physostigmine sulphate, an extract from the Calabar bean that her husband researches.__NEWL__Poirot's testimony at the inquest, that Mrs Franklin had been upset and that he saw her emerge from Dr Franklin's laboratory with a small bottle, persuades the jury to return a verdict of suicide.__NEWL__Norton is still concerned over what he saw days earlier when out with Hastings and Cole.__NEWL__Hastings advises Norton to confide in Poirot.__NEWL__They meet in Poirot's room.__NEWL__That night, Hastings is awakened by a noise and sees Norton entering his bedroom.__NEWL__The next morning, Norton is found dead in his locked room with a bullet-hole in the centre of his forehead, the key in his dressing-gown pocket and a pistol nearby.__NEWL__When Hastings tells Poirot that he saw Norton return to his room the night before, Poirot says it is flimsy evidence, not having seen the face: the dressing-gown, the hair, the limp, can all be imitated.__NEWL__Yet, there is no man in the house who could impersonate Norton, who was not tall.__NEWL__Poirot dies of a heart attack within hours.__NEWL__He leaves Hastings three clues: a copy of Othello, a copy of John Ferguson (a 1915 play by St. John Greer Ervine), and a note to speak to his longtime valet, Georges.__NEWL__After Poirot is buried at Styles, Hastings learns that Judith has all along been in love with Dr Franklin.__NEWL__She will marry him, and leave to do research in Africa.__NEWL__When Hastings speaks to Georges, he learns that Poirot wore a wig and that Poirot's reasons for employing Curtiss were vague.__NEWL__Four months after Poirot's death, Hastings receives a manuscript in which Poirot explains all.__NEWL__X was Norton, a man who had perfected the technique of which Iago in Othello (and a character in Ervine's play) is master: applying just such psychological pressure as is needed to provoke someone to commit murder, without his victim realising what is happening.__NEWL__Norton had demonstrated this ability, with Colonel Luttrell, with Hastings, and Mrs Franklin.__NEWL__Poirot intervened with sleeping pills in Hastings' hot chocolate that night, to avert a disastrous rash action.__NEWL__Ironically, Hastings had unwittingly intervened in Mrs. Franklin's plan to poison her husband, by turning a revolving bookcase table while seeking a book to solve a crossword clue (Othello again), thus swapping the cups of coffee, so Mrs Franklin poisoned herself.__NEWL__Poirot could not prove this.__NEWL__He sensed that Norton, who had been deliberately vague about whom he had seen through the binoculars, would hint that he had seen Franklin and Judith, to implicate them in the murder of Mrs Franklin, not inadvertent suicide as it was.__NEWL__This explains Poirot's testimony at her inquest, to ensure the police would stop their investigation.__NEWL__Given his very weak heart, Poirot conceives that he must end the string of murders by killing Norton.__NEWL__Poirot invites Norton for hot chocolate: at their meeting, he tells Norton what he suspects and his plan to execute him.__NEWL__Norton, arrogant and self-assured, insists on swapping cups: anticipating this move, Poirot had drugged both cups, knowing that he had a higher tolerance for a dose that would incapacitate Norton.__NEWL__Poirot moves the sleeping Norton back to his room using the wheelchair: Poirot could walk all along, one reason he needed a new valet who was unaware of that for this last case.__NEWL__Then, being the same height as Norton, he disguises himself as Norton by removing his wig and false moustache, ruffling up his grey hair, then donning Norton's dressing-gown and walking with a limp.__NEWL__Having Hastings establish that Norton was alive after he left Poirot's room, Poirot shoots Norton, leaves the pistol on the table and locks the room with a duplicate key.__NEWL__Poirot then writes his story, and ceases to take his amyl nitrite heart medicine.__NEWL__He cannot say it was right to commit murder, but on balance he was sure he prevented yet more instigated by Norton.__NEWL__His last wish for Hastings is typical for Poirot, the matchmaker: he suggests that Hastings should pursue Elizabeth Cole.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6946122	My Name Is Legion	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1551720	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551720	In the novel, a mentally disturbed teenager who might be suffering from schizophrenia (or rather dissociative identity disorder, as the illness is never diagnosed) behaves as if he were possessed by demons.__NEWL__Also, the fictional tabloid whose proprietor and staff are described in the book is called The Daily Legion.__NEWL__"My name is Legion" is a quotation from the Gospel according to Mark.__NEWL__In Chapter 5, we are told that Jesus and his disciples encounter a man possessed by a multitude of demons.__NEWL__On seeing Jesus approaching, the afflicted man ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God?__NEWL__I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.__NEWL__For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.__NEWL__And he asked him, What is thy name?__NEWL__And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many (Mark 5:6–9).__NEWL__At 16, Peter d'Abo is an elusive boy.__NEWL__He seldom stays at his mother's place, but his grandmother, Lily d'Abo, in whose flat he is supposed to live for the time being, does not see him regularly either.__NEWL__From time to time Peter visits Father Vivyan and on such occasions even serves as an altar boy.__NEWL__When, on the social worker's advice, his mother tells him that Lennox Mark is his natural father, Peter decides to get some money out of him his way.__NEWL__One night while Lennox Mark is not at home he poses as a delivery boy and gains entrance into the Marks' private home.__NEWL__However, he is overwhelmed by Martina Mark and her mother, who is also living there, and persuaded to stay and work for them as a servant.__NEWL__As the two women have his DNA and he does not want to be arrested, he accepts their offer.__NEWL__While he is on the streets of London, Peter d'Abo starts committing crimes.__NEWL__He steals a miniature recording device from the Marks' home; he steals Rachel Pearl's expensive watch when she comes to live at Crickleden; but he also turns violent, cutting off a man's testicles just because he was looking for a homosexual encounter; and pushing Kevin Currey in front of an underground train.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Lennox Mark is planning General Bindiga's state visit in London—he has already arranged the details with the Prime Minister and convinced him that Bindiga is an honourable state leader—to coincide with his elevation to Lord Mark of Lower Pool.__NEWL__To suppress opposition to the state visit which might be headed by Father Vivyan, The Daily Legion launches a campaign against the priest, alleging that he has a history as a child molester and releasing a doctored version of a secretly recorded conversation between Peter d'Abo and Father Vivyan as evidence against the clergyman.__NEWL__Vivyan is suspended from the parish, his reputation as a 20th-century saint is immediately destroyed, and ardent devotees such as Lily d'Abo, believing everything the papers say, are devastated.__NEWL__When she is approached by The Daily Legion, Lily d'Abo succumbs to the lure of money and signs an exclusive contract for £10,000, realising only afterwards that in no way will she be able to help her grandson with the money.__NEWL__Unaware of how dangerous Peter d'Abo is, Rachel Pearl goes in search of the boy in an attempt to make him talk and clear Father Vivyan of the allegations.__NEWL__Following a hint from someone in the street, she walks to a nearby cemetery, finds Peter in an old mausoleum but is immediately taken captive by him.__NEWL__Several people have already been alerted to the fact that Peter d'Abo may have a hostage, and the place is surrounded by police.__NEWL__However, Father Vivyan is there first and shoots Peter between the eyes.__NEWL__Vivyan is fatally wounded by a bullet himself and brought to a monastery to die there.__NEWL__At about the same time—it is the day of General Bindiga's state visit—a bomb goes off in a posh London hotel killing Bindiga and injuring two of his women, while another device, planted in the offices of The Daily Legion, is defused before it can explode.__NEWL__Three months later, Lord Mark dies of a massive heart attack.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2262725	Splinter of the Mind's Eye	1978-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1552825	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1552825	Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are traveling with R2-D2 and C-3PO to the planet Circarpous IV to persuade its inhabitants to join the Rebel Alliance.__NEWL__A strange energy storm forces them to crash land on the swampy Circarpous V, known to the locals as Mimban.__NEWL__They begin looking for a space port to get off the planet but instead find a town, near which agents of the Empire have an energy mine—the cause of the crash.__NEWL__Forced to keep their identities secret, Luke and Leia take refuge in a nearby bar.__NEWL__An old woman named Halla approaches them, identifies Luke as strong with the Force, and shows him a splinter of what she claims to be the Kaiburr crystal, which focuses the Force.__NEWL__Halla strikes a deal with Luke and Leia to help her find the whole crystal, in return for which she will help them get off the planet.__NEWL__A squabble between Luke and Leia attracts the attention of miners emerging from the pub, who claim that fighting in public is against Imperial law; they all get into a brawl.__NEWL__Imperial stormtroopers intervene and incarcerate Luke and Leia.__NEWL__They are questioned by Imperial Captain-Supervisor Grammel, who confiscates the crystal shard and Luke's weapons.__NEWL__Luke and Leia are placed in a maximum-security cell with two drunk but friendly Yuzzem, hairy creatures called Hin and Kee.__NEWL__Grammel reports the incident and gives the crystal shard to the Imperial governor of the star system.__NEWL__Halla uses the Force to help Luke, Leia and the two Yuzzem.__NEWL__The Yuzzem rampage through the jail while Luke and Leia escape.__NEWL__The four meet Halla and the droids to find the Temple of Pomojema, which Halla believes is the location of the Kaiburr crystal.__NEWL__They travel through the swampy wilds of Mimban and encounter a wandrella, a huge wormlike creature, which pursues them and separates Luke and Leia from the others.__NEWL__Luke and Leia hide in a well, down which the wandrella falls, leaving the two trapped.__NEWL__From the lip of the well, Halla suggests that there must be an escape route underground, at the end of which Halla and the others will rejoin them.__NEWL__Luke and Leia journey underground, floating across a lake on lily pads, and fend off sea creatures.__NEWL__On the other side of the lake, they encounter the secretive residents of the caves, the Coway, who have captured Halla, the droids and the Yuzzem.__NEWL__To save his friends, Luke defeats the Coway's champion fighter, impressing the tribe.__NEWL__At a tribal banquet, Luke senses Darth Vader, confirmed by Coway patrols: Imperials, led by Vader and Grammel, are approaching.__NEWL__When the Imperials arrive, they are surprised by the Coway tribe's resistance in battle.__NEWL__Vader and Grammel retreat with the handful of surviving stormtroopers, though Vader loses patience with Grammel for the defeat and kills him.__NEWL__Luke and company steal a recently abandoned Imperial transport and travel to the temple, where they find the Kaiburr crystal.__NEWL__They encounter a monster and unsuccessfully try to fight it off with blasters.__NEWL__Luke cuts down one of the pillars holding up the temple, crushing the monster, but his leg is pinned under a boulder.__NEWL__Vader then enters the temple, announcing that he killed Hin and Kee.__NEWL__Leia takes up Luke's lightsaber and begins fighting Vader, who gives her multiple superficial burns with his own saber.__NEWL__Hin, mortally wounded, appears and lifts the rock off of Luke before perishing.__NEWL__Luke then duels Vader, deflecting some Force-based attacks and eventually slicing off Vader's arm.__NEWL__Despite this, Vader seems about to win, but then falls into a pit.__NEWL__Luke senses that this is not the end of Vader.__NEWL__He and Leia, healed by the crystal, drive off with Halla into the mists of Mimban.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q581426	Blood Meridian	1985-02-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1528733	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1528733	The novel tells the story of a teenaged runaway referred to only as "the kid", who was born in Tennessee during the famously active Leonids meteor shower of 1833.__NEWL__He first meets the enormous, pale, hairless Judge Holden at a religious revival in a tent in Nacogdoches, Texas, at which Holden falsely accuses the preacher of raping children and goats, inciting the audience to attack him.__NEWL__After a violent encounter with a bartender establishes the kid as a formidable fighter, he joins a party of ill-equipped U.S. Army irregulars on a filibustering mission led by a Captain White.__NEWL__White's group is overwhelmed by an accompanying group of hundreds of Comanche warriors, and few of them survive.__NEWL__Arrested as a filibuster in Chihuahua, the kid is set free when his acquaintance Toadvine tells the authorities they will make useful Indian hunters.__NEWL__They join Glanton and his gang, among them Holden, and the bulk of the novel is devoted to detailing their activities and conversations.__NEWL__Though originally tasked with protecting locals from marauding Apaches, the gang devolves into the outright murder of unthreatening Indians, unprotected Mexican villages, and eventually even the Mexican army and anyone else who crosses their path.__NEWL__According to the kid's new companion Ben Tobin, an "ex-priest", the Glanton gang first met Judge Holden while fleeing for their lives from a much larger Apache group.__NEWL__In the middle of a blasted desert, they found Holden sitting on an enormous boulder, where he seemed to be waiting for the gang.__NEWL__They agreed to follow his leadership, and he took them to an extinct volcano where he instructed them on how to manufacture gunpowder, enough to give them the advantage against the Apaches.__NEWL__When the kid remembers seeing Holden in Nacogdoches, Tobin tells the kid that each man in the gang claims to have met the judge at some point before joining the Glanton Gang.__NEWL__After months of marauding, the gang crosses into U.S. territory, where they eventually set up a systematic and brutal robbing operation at a ferry on the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona.__NEWL__Local Yuma (Quechan) Indians are at first approached to help the gang wrest control of the ferry from its original owners, but Glanton's gang betrays and slaughters them.__NEWL__After a while, the Yumas attack and kill most of the gang.__NEWL__The kid, Toadvine, and Tobin are among the survivors who flee into the desert, though the kid takes an arrow in the leg.__NEWL__The kid and Tobin head west, and come across Holden, who first negotiates, then threatens them for their gun and possessions.__NEWL__Holden shoots Tobin in the neck, and the wounded pair hide among bones by a desert creek.__NEWL__Tobin repeatedly urges the kid to fire upon Holden.__NEWL__The kid does so, but misses his mark.__NEWL__The survivors continue their travels, ending up in San Diego.__NEWL__The kid is separated from Tobin and is subsequently imprisoned.__NEWL__Holden visits the kid in jail, and tells him that he has told the jailers "the truth": that the kid alone was responsible for the end of the Glanton gang.__NEWL__The kid is released on recognizance and seeks a doctor to treat his wound.__NEWL__While recovering from the "spirits of ether", he hallucinates the judge visiting him along with a curious man who forges coins.__NEWL__The kid recovers and seeks out Tobin, with no luck.__NEWL__He makes his way to Los Angeles, where Toadvine and another member of the Glanton gang, David Brown, are hanged for their crimes.__NEWL__In 1878 the kid, now in his mid-40s and referred to as "the man", makes his way to Fort Griffin, Texas.__NEWL__At a saloon he meets the judge, who seems not to have aged in the intervening years.__NEWL__Holden calls the kid "the last of the true," and the pair talk.__NEWL__Holden declares that the kid has arrived at the saloon for "the dance" – the dance of violence, war, and bloodshed that the judge had so often praised.__NEWL__The kid disputes Holden's ideas, telling the judge "You aint nothin," and, noting the performing bear at the saloon, states, "even a dumb animal can dance."__NEWL__Afterwards, the kid goes to an outhouse under another meteor shower.__NEWL__In the outhouse, he is surprised by the naked judge, who "gathered him in his arms against his immense and terrible flesh."__NEWL__Later, two men open the door to the outhouse and can only gaze in awed horror at what they see, one of them stating "Good God almighty.__NEWL__" The last paragraph finds the judge back in the saloon, dancing and playing fiddle among the drunkards and the prostitutes, saying that he will never die.__NEWL__The fate of the kid is left unstated.__NEWL__In the epilogue, a man is augering lines of holes across the prairie, perhaps for fence posts.__NEWL__The man sparks a fire in each of the holes, and an assortment of wanderers trail behind him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q264519	All the Pretty Horses	1992-05-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1439	Texas	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1528753	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1528753	The novel tells of John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old who grew up on his grandfather's ranch in San Angelo, Texas.__NEWL__The boy was raised for a significant part of his youth, perhaps 15 of his 16 years, by a family of Mexican origin who worked on the ranch; he is a native speaker of Spanish and English.__NEWL__The story begins in 1949, soon after the death of John Grady's grandfather when Grady learns the ranch is to be sold.__NEWL__Faced with the prospect of moving into town, Grady instead chooses to leave and persuades his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, to accompany him.__NEWL__Traveling by horseback, the pair travel southward into Mexico, where they hope to find work as cowboys.__NEWL__Shortly before they cross the Mexican border, they encounter a young man who says he is named Jimmy Blevins.__NEWL__Blevins' origins and the authenticity of his name are never quite clarified.__NEWL__Blevins rides a huge bay horse that is far too fine a specimen to be the property of a runaway boy, but Blevins insists it is his.__NEWL__As they travel south through a severe thunderstorm, Blevins' horse runs off, and he loses his pistol.__NEWL__Blevins persuades John Grady and Rawlins to accompany him to the nearest town to find the horse and his distinctive vintage Colt pistol.__NEWL__They find both but have no way to prove Blevins' ownership.__NEWL__Against his companions' better judgment, Blevins steals back the horse.__NEWL__As the three are riding away from the town they are pursued, and Blevins separates from Rawlins and John Grady.__NEWL__The pursuers follow Blevins, and Rawlins and Grady escape.__NEWL__Rawlins and John Grady travel farther south.__NEWL__In the fertile oasis region of Coahuila known as the Bolsón de Cuatro Ciénegas, they find employment at a large ranch.__NEWL__There, John Grady first encounters the ranch owner's beautiful daughter, Alejandra.__NEWL__As Rawlins pursues work with the ranch hands, John Grady's skill with horses catches the eye of the owner, who brings him into the ranch house and promotes him to a more responsible position as a horse trainer and breeder.__NEWL__At this time, John Grady begins an affair with Alejandra, which attracts the attention of Alejandra's great aunt, an intelligent and strong-willed widow who in her younger days defied social convention by being involved with Mexican revolutionaries.__NEWL__She tells John Grady about the consequences in Mexican society of a woman losing her honor, and how Alejandra can ill afford to be seen in the presence of John Grady due to its potential impact on her reputation.__NEWL__The aunt recounts her own story of love and loss, and says, though it might seem she would be sympathetic to her own grandniece's desire, it, in fact, has the opposite impact; she opposes their involvement.__NEWL__As John Grady and Alejandra secretly become more deeply involved, a group of Mexican Rangers visit the ranch and then ride off without explanation.__NEWL__Alejandra returns to Mexico City, where she is in school, and John Grady plans to ask her to admit her true feelings for him upon her return.__NEWL__When he confides this to a senior ranch hand who has been kind to him, John Grady is surprised to learn Alejandra has returned to the ranch without coming to see him.__NEWL__Somewhat later, the Rangers return and arrest Rawlins and John Grady.__NEWL__They are brought to a dismal Mexican holding cell where they discover Blevins is also in custody.__NEWL__They learn Blevins had escaped his pursuers but subsequently returned to the village where he had recovered his horse, this time to retrieve the Colt pistol.__NEWL__In the process of getting the pistol, he shot and killed a man.__NEWL__The three boys are interrogated and beaten, and a crooked police captain threatens them.__NEWL__While they are being transferred from their small jail to a larger prison, the captain and police officers detour to a remote ranch.__NEWL__Blevins is led off while Rawlins and John Grady watch powerlessly; then they hear gunshots as Blevins is executed.__NEWL__The two friends are brought to the larger prison, where the inmates test the two boys by attacking them relentlessly over a period of days.__NEWL__They barely survive and try to figure out how to get out of prison; an inmate with special privileges, who seems to command the respect of the other inmates, takes an interest in their situation and suggests money might solve their problem.__NEWL__They decline this offer of protection, because they have no money and Rawlins is soon severely wounded by a knife-wielding inmate and is taken away; John Grady is not sure if Rawlins has survived.__NEWL__Soon afterward, John Grady is wounded while defending himself from a cuchillero and kills the man.__NEWL__After a long recovery from his near-fatal stabbing, John Grady is released and finds Rawlins has also survived and been freed.__NEWL__They discover that Alejandra's aunt has interceded to free them, but on the condition that Alejandra undertakes never to see John Grady again.__NEWL__Rawlins returns to the United States and John Grady tries to see Alejandra again.__NEWL__In the end, after a brief encounter, Alejandra decides she must keep her promise to her family and refuses John Grady's marriage proposal.__NEWL__John Grady, on his way back to Texas, kidnaps the captain at gunpoint, forces him to recover the horses and guns that were taken from him, Rawlins, and Blevins, and flees across the country.__NEWL__He is severely wounded in the escape and cauterizes a serious gunshot wound using his pistol barrel heated in a fire.__NEWL__He considers killing the captain but encounters a group of Mexicans who call themselves "men of the country," who take the captain as a prisoner.__NEWL__John Grady eventually returns to Texas and spends months trying to find the owner of Blevins' horse.__NEWL__He gains legal possession of the horse in a court hearing where he recounts the entire story of his journey across the border, and the judge later tries to absolve John Grady of his guilt both for killing the prisoner who attacked him and for being unable to prevent Blevins being murdered.__NEWL__John Grady briefly reunites with Rawlins to return his horse and learns that his own father has died (something he has already intuited).__NEWL__After watching the burial procession of one of his family's lifelong employees (an elderly Mexican woman who had helped care for three generations of his family from their infancy), the last strong link to his family and his past, John Grady rides off into the West with Blevins' horse in tow.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1783411	The Lovely Bones	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1400	Pennsylvania	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1560109	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1560109	On December 6, 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon takes her usual shortcut home from her school through a cornfield in Norristown, Pennsylvania.__NEWL__George Harvey, her 36-year-old neighbor, a bachelor who builds doll houses for a living, persuades her to look at an underground kid's hideout he constructed in the field.__NEWL__Once she climbs into the hideout, he rapes and murders her, then dismembers her body and puts her remains in a safe that he dumps in a sinkhole, along with throwing her charm bracelet into a pond.__NEWL__Susie's spirit flees toward her personal Heaven, and in doing so, rushes past her classmate, social outcast Ruth Connors, who can see Susie's ghostly spirit.__NEWL__The Salmon family initially refuses to believe that Susie is dead, until a neighbor's dog finds Susie's elbow.__NEWL__The police talk to Harvey, finding him odd but not suspicious.__NEWL__Susie's father, Jack, gradually suspects Harvey.__NEWL__Jack's surviving daughter, Lindsey, eventually shares this sentiment.__NEWL__Jack takes an extended leave from work.__NEWL__Meanwhile, another of Susie's classmates, Ray Singh, who had a crush on Susie in school, develops a friendship with Ruth, drawn together by their connection with Susie.__NEWL__Later, Detective Len Fenerman tells the Salmons that the police have exhausted all leads and are dropping the investigation.__NEWL__That night, Jack peers out of his den window and sees a flashlight in the cornfield.__NEWL__Believing Harvey is returning to destroy evidence, Jack runs out to confront him, armed with a baseball bat.__NEWL__The figure is not Harvey, but Clarissa, Susie's best friend who is dating Brian, one of Susie's classmates.__NEWL__As Susie watches in horror from heaven, Brian—who was going to meet Clarissa in the cornfield—nearly beats Jack to death, and Clarissa breaks Jack's knee.__NEWL__While Jack recovers from knee replacement surgery, Susie's mother, Abigail, begins cheating on Jack with the widowed Det.__NEWL__Fenerman.__NEWL__Trying to help her father prove his suspicions, Lindsey sneaks into Harvey's house and finds a diagram of the underground den, but is forced to leave when Harvey unexpectedly returns.__NEWL__The police do not arrest Lindsey for breaking and entering.__NEWL__Harvey flees from Norristown.__NEWL__Later, evidence is discovered that links Harvey to Susie's murder as well as those of several other girls.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Susie meets Harvey's other victims in heaven and sees into his traumatic childhood.__NEWL__Abigail leaves Jack and eventually takes a job at a winery in California.__NEWL__Abigail's mother, Grandma Lynn, moves into the Salmons' home to care for Buckley (Susie's younger brother) and Lindsey.__NEWL__Eight years later, Lindsey and her boyfriend, Samuel Heckler, become engaged after finishing college, find an old house in the woods owned by a classmate's father, and decide to fix it up and live there.__NEWL__Sometime after the celebration, while arguing with his son Buckley, Jack suffers a heart attack.__NEWL__The emergency prompts Abigail to return from California, but the reunion is tempered by Buckley's lingering bitterness for her having abandoned the family for most of his childhood.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Harvey returns to Norristown, which has become more developed.__NEWL__He explores his old neighborhood and notices the school is being expanded into the cornfield where he murdered Susie.__NEWL__He drives by the sinkhole where Susie's body rests and where Ruth and Ray are standing.__NEWL__Ruth senses the women Harvey has killed and is physically overcome.__NEWL__Susie, watching from heaven, is also overwhelmed with emotion and feels how she and Ruth transcend their present existence, and the two girls exchange positions: Susie, her spirit now in Ruth's body, connects with Ray, who senses Susie's presence and is stunned by the fact that Susie is briefly back with him.__NEWL__The two make love as Susie has longed to do after witnessing her sister and Samuel.__NEWL__Afterwards, Susie returns to Heaven.__NEWL__Susie moves on to another, larger part of Heaven, but occasionally watches earthbound events.__NEWL__Lindsey and Samuel have a daughter together named Abigail Suzanne.__NEWL__While stalking a young woman in New Hampshire, Harvey is hit on the shoulder by an icicle and falls to his death down a snow-covered slope into the ravine below.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, a Norristown couple finds Susie's charm bracelet but don't realize its significance, and Susie closes the story by wishing the reader "a long and happy life".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6848169	Mike Nelson's Death Rat!	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z	1561318	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1561318	Death Rat! is primarily a satire, with its main subject being the state of Minnesota, where Nelson lives.__NEWL__Nelson's targets include parodies of famous Minnesota residents like Prince and Garrison Keillor, as well as the attitudes and quirks of Minnesotans in general.__NEWL__The protagonist of Mike Nelson's Death Rat! is Pontius Feeb, usually called Ponty, an author of many historical treatises who has just been fired.__NEWL__While working in a fast food restaurant he gets the idea to write a novel of historical fiction based in the small town of Holey, Minnesota.__NEWL__Feeb's novel revolves around the conflict between two citizens of Holey in the early 1900s, as well as a giant rodent from which the novel gets its name.__NEWL__However, when he tries to sell the novel to a publisher, he is told that he doesn't look right to be the author of an action novel.__NEWL__Feeb then enlists the help of local actor Jack Ryback to pretend he wrote the book and attempt to sell it.__NEWL__Jack sells the novel easily, but tells the publisher that it is a non-fiction book, instead of a novel.__NEWL__Jack and Pontius then work with the citizens of Holey to attempt to cover up the book's fictional nature.__NEWL__During their many visits to Holey, Ponty becomes friendly with the town's female mayor.__NEWL__As Feeb's Death Rat grows in popularity, the cover-up becomes harder and harder to maintain, as the rock star "King Leo" adopts the book as the scripture of a new religion, and sets up a revival in Holey.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a rival Minnesotan author is trying desperately to discredit Jack and "his" book.__NEWL__In the end the plot is revealed, And after a flurry of lawsuits and media attention Jack and Pontius go back to doing minimum-wage work in St. Paul.__NEWL__In the end, Ponty decides to go live in Holey with the friends that he made there.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7270552	Queen Zixi of Ix	1904-01-01T00:00:00Z	55737					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1526245	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1526245	On the night of a full moon, the fairies ruled by Queen Lulea are dancing in the Forest of Burzee.__NEWL__Lulea calls a halt to it, for "one may grow weary even of merrymaking".__NEWL__To divert themselves, another fairy recommends that they make something they can imbue with fairy magic.__NEWL__After several ideas are considered and rejected, the fairies decide to make a magic cloak that can grant its wearer one wish.__NEWL__The fairy who proposed it, Espa, and Queen Lulea agree that such a cloak will benefit mortals greatly.__NEWL__However, its wish-granting power cannot be used if the cloak is stolen from its previous wearer.__NEWL__After the fairies finish the golden cloak, Ereol arrives from the kingdom of Noland whose king has just died.__NEWL__On the advice of the Man in the Moon, Ereol is dispatched to Noland to give the magic cloak to the first unhappy person she meets.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Noland's five high counselors assemble in the capital city of Nole and refuse to allow the valet Jikki to ring the bell that indicates the king has died until they decide how to choose his successor.__NEWL__Retrieving the book of the law of Noland (to be used only when the king is unavailable, for the king's will is law in Noland), the counselors learn that the forty-seventh person to pass through Nole's eastern gate at sunrise is to be declared king or queen.__NEWL__The next day, the five counselors assemble at the eastern gate and count off the procession entering Nole.__NEWL__Number forty-seven turns out to be Timothy (who everyone calls "Bud"), the orphaned son of a ferryman who, with his sister Meg (nicknamed "Fluff"), is entering town with their stern Aunt Rivette, a laundress for the city of Nole.__NEWL__Along the way from their house to Nole, Ereol meets Fluff and gives her the magic cloak due to her unhappiness at Bud's ill treatment by Rivette.__NEWL__The power of the cloak is first seen when Fluff wishes she could be happy again, and she becomes so.__NEWL__Bud—now King Bud—is welcomed by the high counselors and the people of Nole as their new king.__NEWL__His sister Fluff becomes Princess Fluff, and they take residence in the royal palace.__NEWL__Aunt Rivette is relegated to an upper room of the palace.__NEWL__While Bud and Fluff glory in their new positions of authority and their possessions, Aunt Rivette wants to spread the news of her good fortune to her friends.__NEWL__She asks Fluff if she can wear her cloak, and she becomes so tired walking that she wishes she could fly.__NEWL__Two wings sprout from Aunt Rivette's back, causing her to panic at first, but she soon becomes very adept at using them.__NEWL__On its way back to the Princess, the cloak passes through the hands of the king's counselors and the king's valet, each of whom have their wishes immediately granted.__NEWL__The minstrel Quavo crosses from Noland over a steep mountain range into the land of Ix, whose witch-queen ruler Zixi learns of the magic cloak and seeks to use it to make her reflection in a mirror as beautiful as she has made herself.__NEWL__Zixi is 683 years old, but her magic has allowed her to appear sixteen for a long time; however, the queen's reflection appears as old as she truly is.__NEWL__(This contradicts The Road to Oz in which the Wizard of Oz refers to Queen Zixi as having lived thousands of years—of course, he may simply have been mistaken; or, the Magic Cloak story may simply have taken place many years prior.)__NEWL__Believing that Princess Fluff would not simply give her the cloak to use since Ix and Noland aren't on speaking terms, Queen Zixi disguises herself and opens a school for witchery in Noland.__NEWL__Princess Fluff arrives as one of the pupils in her second-best cloak; Zixi is discovered to be a would-be thief when she demands the Princess wear the other, magic cloak.__NEWL__Next, Zixi leads the royal army of Ix to conquer Noland, but the counselors use their wish-granted abilities to repel the invaders back across the mountains.__NEWL__Zixi disguises herself again and arrives at the royal palace of Noland to be hired as a serving maid to Princess Fluff.__NEWL__When she is alone in the Princess' chamber, Zixi summons imps to make a replica of the magic cloak and replace the Princess' magic cloak with that one.__NEWL__She is not caught in the theft, but when Zixi tries to use the cloak herself, its power fails because she stole it.__NEWL__Believing that its power is gone, Zixi leaves the cloak in the forest.__NEWL__The queen of Ix is sorrowful until she realizes through encounters with an alligator that wants to climb a tree, an owl that wants to swim like a fish, and a girl who wants to be a man, that she has been foolish to be unhappy with her lot.__NEWL__The Roly-Rogues live on a high plateau above Noland and Ix.__NEWL__When one of the ball-shaped people accidentally bounces into Noland and views the city of Nole, they decide to conquer Noland in preference to constantly fighting among themselves.__NEWL__Even with their wish-granted abilities (the general wished himself ten feet tall, the lord high executioner wished for stretching arms, etc.), King Bud's counselors and Nole are soon overwhelmed by the invaders.__NEWL__King Bud, Princess Fluff, Aunt Rivette, and lord high steward Tallydab (who wished for his dog Ruffles to talk) escape and plan to retrieve the magic cloak which they believe is in the palace.__NEWL__Aunt Rivette carries Bud and Fluff to the palace and they battle past the Roly-Rogues, but when Bud puts on the cloak (since he hadn't made his wish yet; he was saving it) and wishes the Roly-Rogues away, nothing happens.__NEWL__Caught aback, Aunt Rivette takes her niece and nephew in flight with her to Ix on the opposite side of the mountain range that the Roly-Rogues came from.__NEWL__Welcomed by Queen Zixi, who confesses that she stole the real magic cloak, Princess Fluff promises that she will let her use it after the Roly-Rogues are defeated.__NEWL__When they arrive where Zixi had left the cloak in the forest, it's gone and the party mounts a search to find it.__NEWL__Along the way, Zixi notes that the alligator, owl, and girl have become satisfied with who each of them are.__NEWL__The cloak was found by Edi, a shepherd who took it to Dame Dingle, a local seamstress.__NEWL__The seamstress reveals that she cut the cloak in half, used one half, and gave the other away.__NEWL__Zixi, Bud, Fluff, Rivette, Tallydab, and Ruffles track down the remaining pieces of the cloak, but one of them cannot be retrieved because the woman who had it sewed it into a necktie for her seaman son, and he won't be back home for a year.__NEWL__Without the complete cloak, Bud can't wish the Roly-Rogues away.__NEWL__Queen Zixi uses the contents of a Silver Vial mixed in with their soup to defeat the Roly-Rogues.__NEWL__They're put to sleep for ten hours in which time Zixi and her army tie the tucked-in creatures up (when they sleep or roll, the Roly-Rogues retract their heads, arms, and feet) and send them all bobbing in the river on the Ix side of the mountain range.__NEWL__King Bud and his allies retake Nole, and the lands of Noland and Ix declare lasting friendship between them.__NEWL__Later that year, the sailor whose necktie had the last piece of the magic cloak returns home and presents a necktie similar in appearance to King Bud, for he'd lost the other one at sea.__NEWL__Enraged, King Bud is about to have the sailor and his mother put in prison, when Queen Lulea of the fairies appears to take the cloak away because it has caused so much trouble.__NEWL__She undoes the foolish wishes that the cloak granted, allowing the wiser ones to remain, and graciously allows Bud to use the cloak for one last wish: "that I may become the best king that Noland has ever had!"__NEWL__Lulea will not grant Zixi's wish to see her own beauty, because the fairies do not approve of those who practice witchcraft.__NEWL__Queen Zixi returns to her kingdom, to rule it with kindness and justice—but, with her wish unfilfilled, must always beware of a mirror.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2992451	Confessions of a Crap Artist	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1563299	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1563299	The novel's protagonist, the “crap artist” of the title, is Jack Isidore, a socially awkward, obsessive compulsive tire regroover who has been consumed with amateur scientific inquiry since his teens.__NEWL__He catalogs old science magazines, collects worthless objects, and believes disproved theories, such as the notions that the Earth is hollow or that sunlight has weight.__NEWL__Broke, Jack eventually moves in with his sister's family in a luxurious farm house in rural West Marin County, California.__NEWL__On the farm, Jack happily does housework and cares for livestock.__NEWL__He also joins a small apocalyptic religious group, which shares his belief in extra-sensory perception, telepathy and UFOs and believes the world will end on April 23, 1959.__NEWL__However, most of his time is dedicated to a meticulous “scientific journal” of life on the farm, including his sister's marital difficulties.__NEWL__Jack's sister, Fay Hume, is a difficult and subtly controlling woman who makes life miserable for everyone close to her, especially her misogynist husband Charley.__NEWL__Fay has an extramarital affair with a young grad student named Nat Anteil while Charley is in a hospital recovering from a heart attack.__NEWL__After Jack reports this to Charley, the latter plots to kill Fay.__NEWL__Charley kills Fay's animals and then commits suicide, realising that Fay has led him to do this.__NEWL__However, his will stipulates that Jack is to inherit half the house.__NEWL__Fay must buy her brother out, because Jack does not want to leave.__NEWL__Jack then uses his half of the money he is paid to replace the slaughtered animals.__NEWL__Nat and his wife Gwen divorce, and Nat decides to stay with Fay.__NEWL__When the end of the world doesn't occur on the predicted date, Jack decides to seek psychiatric assistance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7772831	The Virginian	1902-01-01T00:00:00Z	1298					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1565710	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1565710	The novel begins with an unnamed narrator's arrival in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, from "back East" and his encounter with an impressively tall and handsome stranger.__NEWL__The stranger proves adept at roping horses, as well as facing down a gambler, Trampas, who calls him a "son of a bitch."__NEWL__(At the time, the word was an unacceptable insult in any society, except between joking friends.)__NEWL__The stranger lays a pistol on the table and gently threatens, "When you call me that, smile!"__NEWL__Known only as the Virginian, the stranger turns out to be the narrator's escort to Judge Henry's ranch in Sunk Creek, Wyoming.__NEWL__As the two travel the 263 miles to the ranch, the narrator, who is nicknamed the Tenderfoot, and the Virginian come to know one another as the Tenderfoot slowly begins to understand the nature of life in the West, which is very different from what he expected.__NEWL__This meeting is the beginning of a lifelong friendship and the starting point of the narrator's recounting of key episodes in the life of the Virginian.__NEWL__The novel revolves around the Virginian and the life he lives.__NEWL__As well as describing the Virginian's conflict with his enemy, Trampas, and his romance with the pretty schoolteacher, Molly Stark Wood, Wister weaves a tale of action, violence, hate, revenge, love, and friendship.__NEWL__In one scene, the Virginian is forced to participate in the hanging of Steve, an admitted cattle thief who had been his close friend.__NEWL__The hanging is represented as a necessary response to the government's corruption and lack of action, but the Virginian feels it to be a horrible duty.__NEWL__He is especially stricken by the bravery with which the thief faces his fate, and the heavy burden that the act places on his heart forms the emotional core of the story.__NEWL__A fatal shootout resolves the ongoing conflict with Trampas after five years of hate.__NEWL__After Trampas shoots first in a duel, the Virginian shoots Trampas in self defense and leaves to marry his young bride.__NEWL__The Virginian and Molly ride off together to spend a month in the mountains and then journey back East to Vermont to meet her family.__NEWL__They are received a bit stiffly by the immediate Wood family, but warmly by Molly's great-aunt.__NEWL__The new couple returns to Wyoming, and the Virginian is made a partner of Judge Henry's ranch.__NEWL__The book ends noting that the Virginian became an important man in the territory with a happy family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4669763	Absolute Beginners	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1542308	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1542308	The novel is divided into four sections.__NEWL__Each details a particular day in the four months that spanned the summer of 1958.__NEWL__In June takes up half of the book and shows the narrator meeting up with various teenaged friends and some adults in various parts of London and discussing his outlook on life and the new concept of being a teenager.__NEWL__He also learns that his ex-girlfriend, Suzette, is to enter a marriage of convenience with her boss, a middle-aged gay fashion designer called Henley.__NEWL__In July has the narrator taking photographs by the river Thames, seeing the musical operetta H.M.S. Pinafore with his father, has a violent encounter with Ed the Ted and watches Hoplite's appearance on Call-Me-Cobber's TV show.__NEWL__In August has the narrator and his father take a cruise along the Thames towards Windsor Castle.__NEWL__His father is taken ill on the trip and has to be taken to a doctor.__NEWL__The narrator also finds Suzette at her husband's cottage in Cookham.__NEWL__In September is set on the narrator's 19th birthday.__NEWL__He sees this, symbolically, as the beginning of his last year as a teenager.__NEWL__He witnesses several incidents of racial violence, which disgust him.__NEWL__His father also dies, leaving him four envelopes stuffed with money.__NEWL__Suzette has separated from Henley, but still seems uncertain as to whether she should resume her relationship with the narrator.__NEWL__The narrator decides to leave the country and find a place where racism doesn't exist.__NEWL__At the airport, he sees Africans arriving and gives them a warm welcome.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3207868	Cup of Gold	1929-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1542899	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1542899	The novel begins with young Henry on a Welsh farm, listening to Dafydd, an old farm hand who became a pirate and returned to tell of his adventures.__NEWL__The old farm hand tells Old Robert (with Henry listening) his colorful tales of the Caribbean, then leaves by morning.__NEWL__Those stories encourage Henry to leave home to seek his fortune.__NEWL__Henry becomes a famous pirate captain with two goals: to capture Panama from the Spanish, and to win the heart of the Red Saint (La Santa Roja).__NEWL__When Morgan captures Panama, the Red Saint is waiting inside the city.__NEWL__The city is easily taken, but the Red Saint puts up a fight.__NEWL__After Morgan and his crew raid the city, they leave with riches and no Red Saint.__NEWL__Morgan ends his career as a pirate and is knighted by the English King, who places Morgan in charge of disciplining other pirates.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q837944	The Deep Range	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1571905	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1571905	The Deep Range follows the career of former astronaut Walter Franklin in the Marine Division, rising from trainee, to game warden, and eventually to Director of the Bureau of Whales.__NEWL__A spacewalking mishap had left Franklin floating in space, out of contact and isolated for an extended period.__NEWL__The resulting severe acrophobia (termed astrophobia by Clarke) rendered him unable to function as an astronaut and forever isolated him from his family on Mars.__NEWL__He is forced to turn to the sea for a final attempt at rehabilitation.__NEWL__The Division is a mid-21st Century sea-based organization responsible for feeding a sizable portion of the Earth's population through the farming and harvesting of plankton as well as the herding and slaughter of whales.__NEWL__The Whale Bureau employs wardens who in their single-person scout subs shepherd the whale herds and protect them from predatory orcas and sharks.__NEWL__The narrative is divided into three sections.__NEWL__Part I covers Franklin's training and adaptation to his new environment.__NEWL__Along the way he makes a lasting friend of his mentor and meets his eventual new wife.__NEWL__A recurrence of the astrophobia causes a breakdown and suicide attempt.__NEWL__An unexpected rescue convinces Franklin to commit fully to his new life.__NEWL__Part II details Franklin's experiences as a veteran warden from the mundane to the more exotic.__NEWL__Abnormally high sperm whale deaths in a specific sector point to the existence of an enormous giant squid, nicknamed Percy.__NEWL__Franklin is tasked with spearheading the effort to find and capture Percy.__NEWL__A similar attempt later to capture the elusive Great Sea Serpent goes tragically awry.__NEWL__Part III sees Franklin in charge as Director of the Bureau of Whales.__NEWL__Amid the everyday administrative and scientific challenges, the Bureau encounters a threat to its very existence.__NEWL__A Buddhist monk mounts a credible and effective campaign to stop the harvest of whales, even though it accounts for an eighth of the world's food supply.__NEWL__As Franklin struggles to counter the campaign, he finds himself inexorably drawn to the monk's viewpoint.__NEWL__An undersea catastrophe presents Franklin with his last opportunity to visit the depths he has grown to love.__NEWL__In the final chapter Franklin and his wife attend the bittersweet departure of their son into the Space Service and reunion with his former family on Mars: To his son, he willingly bequeathed the shoreless seas of space.__NEWL__For himself, the oceans of this world were sufficient.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63998	War and Remembrance	1978-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1567266	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1567266	War and Remembrance completes the cycle that began with The Winds of War.__NEWL__The story includes historical occurrences at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal, and El Alamein as well as the Allied invasions at Normandy and the Philippines.__NEWL__One of the more significant themes in the novel and one that occurs in many of Wouk's works is a rediscovery of a central character's Jewish identity.__NEWL__Biblical scholar Aaron Jastrow and his niece Natalie Henry's experience of the Holocaust and their internment in Theresienstadt Ghetto are the events that trigger their newfound identification with their Judaism, Jastrow having formerly converted to Catholicism. "__NEWL__Jastrow is transformed from a rational professor with only marginal awareness of his Jewishness into a passionate champion of his Jewish integrity" according to one reviewer.__NEWL__The action moves back and forth between the characters against the backdrop of World War II: Victor "Pug" Henry takes part in various battles while separating from his wife.__NEWL__Pug's older son Warren, a naval aviator, and younger son, Byron, a submarine officer, also participate in combat.__NEWL__Warren is killed at the battle of Midway.__NEWL__Byron's wife Natalie is trapped in Axis territory with her uncle, celebrated author Aaron Jastrow, and another major strand focuses on their story as Jews caught in Europe.__NEWL__Like most Americans, Natalie and Aaron fail to believe that the civilized German culture with which they are familiar could possibly engage in genocide.__NEWL__As a result of their rash decision to stay when they could escape, they are slowly absorbed into the Jewish population that is first interned, then sent to concentration camps.__NEWL__As Byron attempts to find out what is happening to them, eventually tracking them down amidst the chaos of wartime Europe, the story of the Holocaust is gradually revealed to the American government and people.__NEWL__Another plot thread concerns Aaron Jastrow's cousin Berel who is captured near the end of The Winds of War and is forced to join Kommando 1005, SS officer Paul Blobel's Jewish contingent that travels around Eastern Europe exhuming the bodies of massacred Jews and disposing of them in an effort to hide the evidence of Nazi mass murder.__NEWL__One frequently cited criticism of the plot is that Wouk's repeated references to history take precedence over character development as well as the observations and ideas he offers to explain WWII in a larger context.__NEWL__As a result, the plot is occasionally too predictable, and Wouk seems at times to force the history to comply with his own observations about WWII and mankind.__NEWL__Larry Swindel noted that "there is deficient characterization throughout for any reader not already acquainted with the principals", and "the characters are reduced to pawns on the chessboard of history".__NEWL__Another critic noted that Wouk's personal commentary could have been better presented through his characters and that he should have been able to make his own observations about history through the structure of the novel itself.__NEWL__Nonetheless, it was felt that the book was an interesting, informative read, and that the reader could relate emotionally to the plight of the central characters.__NEWL__Wouk stated in a lecture which addressed the novel and the nature of warfare then and now, "The sadness is the present reality...__NEWL__I tell you now that I have no solutions.__NEWL__I will offer no facile optimism."__NEWL__Another critic noted that in regards to the novel's depiction of the holocaust, that it may be a serious "trivialization of history to employ old fashioned tricks of plotting, such as the chapter-ending cliffhanger, in dramatizing such grave events".__NEWL__Perhaps the most significant critical praise of the book and its prequel, The Winds of War, is that Wouk used the tools of the novel to identify the psychological mechanisms and rationalizations that allowed intelligent, well meaning individuals to fail to take needed action to forestall the rise of Hitler's Germany, the ensuring war and the resulting holocaust.__NEWL__Wouk concludes in the novel, "that war is an old habit of thought, an old frame of mind, an old political technique, that must now pass as human sacrifice and human slavery have passed...__NEWL__The beginning and the end of War lies in Remembrance.__NEWL__" The novel's central message put more plainly by its primary character Victor Henry, after he experiences the Battles of Leyte Gulf, is "Either war is finished or we are".__NEWL__At the end of the novel, Wouk wrote that his purpose was to "bring the past to vivid life through the experiences, perceptions, and passions, of a few people caught in the war's maelstrom.__NEWL__This purpose was best served by scrupulous accuracy in locale and historical fact, as the background in which the invented drama would play".__NEWL__n to rear admiral in early 1944.__NEWL__During this period, Rhoda obtains a divorce and Henry is able to marry Pamela.__NEWL__He does not do so until after he takes part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf as a battleship division commander with his flag in .__NEWL__He serves directly under Admiral William Halsey.__NEWL__The novel goes into this battle in greater detail than does the miniseries, including discussion of the most commonly perceived of Halsey's operational mistakes.__NEWL__Victor marries Pamela in April 1945.__NEWL__Upon the death of President Roosevelt, President Harry S Truman makes him his naval aide.__NEWL__Victor is a straightforward, honest man, which gains him the respect of political leaders such as Roosevelt and Hopkins, and the admiration of Hack Peters.__NEWL__The novel notes that Henry retired from the Navy and lived in Oakton, Virginia (near Washington) after the war.__NEWL__He spent part of his retirement translating Armin von Roon's book, and from his notations and commentary, he can be deduced to still be alive as of 1973.__NEWL__According to his notations and commentary of Roon's book, Henry retired as a Vice Admiral.__NEWL__However, there is no mention as to whether he was actually promoted to Vice Admiral and given a new assignment after his tenure as President Truman's Naval Aide prior to his retirement or if he was a "tombstone admiral".__NEWL__(Upon retirement, a flag officer is promoted 1 grade in rank if that officer received a commendation for their performance in combat.__NEWL__The flag officer will receive the retirement pay and benefits of the actual lower rank but is authorized to use the higher title in correspondence, on business cards, on their uniforms if they have a need to wear their old uniform, and--more to the point of the nickname--on their tombstones.__NEWL__This practice was abolished in 1959.__NEWL__In Pug's case he would receive the retirement pay & benefits of a Rear Admiral although he is called Vice Admiral.)__NEWL__Byron wants to see Natalie; when possible, he wangles duty in the European theater.__NEWL__He serves as a courier to the U.S. mission to Vichy France and tries to get Natalie to leave with him.__NEWL__She refuses on the grounds that while they were able to cross Poland in a war in 1939, they didn't have Louis, their infant son, at the time.__NEWL__Byron and Natalie agree that Natalie and Louis and Aaron should wait to get a passport from the U.S. consulate in Marseilles while Byron travels directly to Lisbon and book a room.__NEWL__Byron arrives in Portugal just as Operation Torch begins, and the plan has to be scrapped.__NEWL__Byron returns to the Pacific theater and rejoins Aster on the fictional submarine USS Moray.__NEWL__Aster is severely wounded while on deck during an air attack and to save the boat, orders Byron to submerge without him.__NEWL__(This event is based on the death of Commander Howard W. Gilmore of the on February 7, 1943.__NEWL__Gilmore was awarded the Medal of Honor).__NEWL__Byron is later awarded command of the USS Barracuda.__NEWL__As a Naval Reservist, Byron has mixed feelings about his role in the war.__NEWL__He is competent, but doesn't enjoy fighting.__NEWL__However, in one engagement, he is forced to surface and fight a battle against a Japanese destroyer.__NEWL__When told he will win the Navy Cross, he replies, "Killing Japs gave Carter Aster a thrill.__NEWL__It leaves me cold."__NEWL__Shortly before the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Byron visits his father aboard his flagship.__NEWL__The meeting is strained, because Byron blames Pamela for the breakup of his father's marriage.__NEWL__Later, his sister, Madeline, straightens him out about the causes of the breakup; he and his father become reconciled.__NEWL__In April 1945, Natalie is found in Weimar, Germany.__NEWL__Byron presses the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific, for an assignment in Europe so he might be reunited with his wife.__NEWL__He is assigned to investigate the technical details of captured German U-boats and leaves for Europe to join his wife, now recovering in a hospital, and to find his son, Louis.__NEWL__After a long search throughout Europe, Byron reunites with Louis, who was in an orphanage, only to find Louis is so traumatized he will not talk.__NEWL__However, when he reunites Louis with Natalie, Louis begins to sing with her.__NEWL__The reunion occurs on August 7, 1945, the date of the first use of the atomic bomb in warfare.__NEWL__n is assigned the role of operations officer for the defense of the Zitadelle in the Battle of Berlin.__NEWL__Toward the end of the battle, he is ordered by Hitler to assist and oversee Albert Speer in a demolition effort intended as a scorched earth policy to destroy Berlin, leaving nothing for its conquerors.__NEWL__Both men, however, are unwilling to carry out the order, because of the effect it would have on future Germans.__NEWL__Speer eventually confesses that he disobeyed.__NEWL__Speer is pardoned for his earlier services, while von Roon is forgiven because he has been nothing but loyal.__NEWL__In the end von Roon has the duty to inform Adolf Hitler that the Zitadelle can hold only 24 hours more (in real life, von Roon's commander, General Krebs, did this); and he is a witness to Hitler's farewell, suicide, and cremation.__NEWL__Von Roon is sentenced to 21 years in prison for war crimes (presumably by the Nuremberg tribunal) and writes Land, Sea, and Air Operations in World War II, which is translated (by Victor Henry) as World Holocaust.__NEWL__Von Roon presents the German viewpoint on events; Henry, as translator, provides a rebuttal when required.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q40205	Cloud Atlas	2004-03-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1544083	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1544083	The book consists of six nested stories; each is read or observed by a main character of the next, progressing in time through the central sixth story.__NEWL__The first five stories are each interrupted at a pivotal moment.__NEWL__After the sixth story, the others are resolved in reverse chronological order.__NEWL__Each section's protagonist reads or observes the chronologically earlier work in the chain.__NEWL__The first story begins in the Chatham Islands near New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century, where Adam Ewing, a guileless American lawyer from San Francisco during the California Gold Rush, awaits repairs to his ship.__NEWL__He witnesses a Moriori slave being flogged by a Maori overseer.__NEWL__During the punishment, the victim, Autua, sees pity in Ewing's eyes and smiles.__NEWL__Later, Ewing ascends a high hill called Conical Tor and stumbles into its crater, where he finds himself surrounded by faces carved into trees.__NEWL__Reasoning that those who carved the faces must have had egress from the crater, he escapes.__NEWL__As the ship gets underway, Dr. Goose, Ewing's only friend aboard the ship, examines the injuries sustained on the volcano, and Ewing also mentions his chronic ailment.__NEWL__The doctor diagnoses Ewing with fatal parasite infection and recommends a course of treatment.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Autua has stowed away in Ewing's cabin.__NEWL__When Ewing discloses this to the Captain, Autua proves himself a first-class seaman, and the Captain puts Autua to work for his passage to Hawaii.__NEWL__The next story is set in Zedelghem, near Bruges, Belgium, in 1931.__NEWL__It is told in the form of letters from Robert Frobisher, a recently disowned and penniless bisexual young English musician, to his lover Rufus Sixsmith, after Frobisher journeys to Zedelghem to become an amanuensis to the reclusive once-great composer Vyvyan Ayrs, who is dying of syphilis and nearly blind.__NEWL__Soon, Frobisher produces Der Todtenvogel ("The Death Bird") from a basic melody that Ayrs gives him.__NEWL__It is performed nightly in Kraków, and Ayrs is much praised.__NEWL__Frobisher takes pride in this and begins composing his own music again.__NEWL__Frobisher and Ayrs' wife Jocasta become lovers, but her daughter Eva remains suspicious of him.__NEWL__Frobisher sells rare books from Ayrs' collection to a fence, but is intrigued by reading the first half of The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing, and asks Sixsmith if he can obtain the second half so Frobisher can learn how the story ends.__NEWL__Ayrs asks Frobisher to write a song inspired by a dream of a "nightmarish cafe", deep underground, wherein "the waitresses all had the same face" and ate soap.__NEWL__As the summer comes to an end, Jocasta thanks Frobisher for "giving Vyvyan his music back", and Frobisher agrees to stay until the next summer.__NEWL__The third story is written in the style of a mystery/thriller novel, set in the fictional city of Buenas Yerbas, California, in 1975, with protagonist Luisa Rey, a young journalist.__NEWL__She meets the elderly Rufus Sixsmith in a stalled elevator, and she tells him about her late father, one of the few incorruptible policemen in the city, who became a famous war correspondent.__NEWL__Later, after Sixsmith tells Luisa his concern that the Seaboard HYDRA nuclear power plant is not safe, he is found dead of apparent suicide.__NEWL__Luisa believes the businessmen in charge of the plant are assassinating potential whistleblowers.__NEWL__From Sixsmith's hotel room, Luisa acquires some of Frobisher's letters.__NEWL__Another plant employee, Isaac Sachs, gives her a copy of Sixsmith's report.__NEWL__Before Luisa can report her findings on the nuclear power plant, a Seaboard-hired assassin who has been following her forces her car—along with Sixsmith's incriminating report—off a bridge.__NEWL__The fourth story, comic in tone, is set in Britain in the present day; Timothy Cavendish, a 65-year-old vanity press publisher, flees the brothers of his gangster client, whose book is experiencing high sales after the murder of a book critic.__NEWL__They threaten Cavendish with violence if their monetary demands are not met.__NEWL__Cavendish's wealthy brother, exasperated by Cavendish's frequent previous pleas for financial aid, books him into a menacing nursing home.__NEWL__Timothy signs custody papers, thinking that he is registering at a hotel where he can stay until his personal and financial problems can be solved.__NEWL__When he realizes he will be held there indefinitely, subject to the staff's complete control, he tries to flee but is stopped by a security guard and confined.__NEWL__He briefly mentions reading a manuscript titled Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery, but is not initially impressed by the prospective author's manuscript and only comes to appreciate it later.__NEWL__He settles into his new surroundings while still trying to plot a way out.__NEWL__One day, he has a stroke, and the chapter ends.__NEWL__The fifth story is set in Nea So Copros, a dystopian futuristic state in Korea, derived from corporate culture.__NEWL__It is told in the form of an interview of Sonmi~451, after her arrest and trial, by an "archivist" who records Sonmi~451's story into a silver egg-shaped device.__NEWL__Sonmi~451 is a fabricant waitress at a fast-food restaurant called Papa Song's.__NEWL__Clones grown in vats are revealed to be the predominant source of cheap labor.__NEWL__The "pureblood" (natural-born) society retards the fabricants' consciousness by chemical manipulation, using a food Sonmi refers to as "Soap".__NEWL__After twelve years as slaves, fabricants are promised retirement to a fabricant community in Honolulu.__NEWL__In her own narration, Sonmi encounters members of a university faculty and students, who take her from the restaurant for study and assist her to become self-aware, or "ascended".__NEWL__She describes watching The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish as a pre-Skirmishes film (wherein the "Skirmishes" are a major global disaster or war that destroyed most of the world except Nea So Copros).__NEWL__During the scene in which Cavendish suffers his stroke, a student interrupts to tell Sonmi and her rescuer Hae-Joo Im that Professor Mephi, Hae-Joo's professor, has been arrested, and that policy enforcers have orders to interrogate Hae-Joo and kill Sonmi on sight.__NEWL__The sixth story occupies the central position in the novel and is the only one not interrupted, wherein Zachry, an old man, tells a story from his youth, speaking an imagined future English dialect.__NEWL__It is gradually revealed that he lived in a post-apocalyptic society on the Big Island of Hawaii.__NEWL__His people, called the Valley Folk, are peaceful farmers but are often raided by the Kona tribe of cannibalistic slavers.__NEWL__Zachry is plagued by moral doubts stemming from blaming himself for his father's death and the kidnapping of his brother years prior.__NEWL__His people worship a goddess called Sonmi and recall a 'Fall' in which the civilized peoples of Earth—known as the Old Uns—were destroyed, leaving the survivors to primitivism.__NEWL__Big Island is occasionally visited and studied by a technologically sophisticated people known as the Prescients, whereof a woman called Meronym, who has come to learn their ways, is assigned to live with Zachry's family.__NEWL__Zachry becomes suspicious of her, believing that her people are gaining their trust before doing them harm.__NEWL__He sneaks into her room, where he finds an 'orison', an egg-shaped device for recording and holographic videoconferencing.__NEWL__Later, Zachry's sister Catkin is poisoned by a scorpion fish, and he persuades Meronym to break her people's rules and give him medicine to heal Catkin.__NEWL__When Meronym later requests a guide to the top of Mauna Kea volcano, Zachry reluctantly agrees, citing his debt to her for saving his sister.__NEWL__They climb to the ruins of the Mauna Kea Observatories, where Meronym explains the orison and reveals Sonmi's history (as introduced in the prior chapter).__NEWL__Upon their return, they go with most of the Valley Folk to trade at Honokaa, but Zachry's people are attacked and imprisoned by the Kona, who are conquering the territory.__NEWL__Zachry and Meronym eventually escape, and she takes him to a safer island.__NEWL__The story ends with Zachry's child recalling that his father told many unbelievable tales, but that this one may be true because he has inherited Zachry's copy of Sonmi's orison, which Zachry's child often watches, even though he does not understand Sonmi's language.__NEWL__Hae-Joo Im reveals that he and Mephi are members of an anti-government rebel movement called Union.__NEWL__Hae-Joo then guides Sonmi in disguise to a ship, where Sonmi witnesses retired fabricants butchered and recycled into Soap, the fabricant food source.__NEWL__Any leftover "reclaimed proteins" from the butchered fabricants are used to produce food that purebloods unknowingly consume at fast-food type restaurants.__NEWL__The rebels plan to raise all fabricants to self-awareness and thus disrupt the workforce that keeps the corporate government in power.__NEWL__They want Sonmi to write a series of abolitionist Declarations calling for rebellion.__NEWL__She does, echoing the themes of greed and oppression first brought up in the diary of Adam Ewing.__NEWL__Sonmi is then arrested in an elaborately filmed government raid and finds herself telling her tale to the archivist.__NEWL__Sonmi believes that everything that happened to her was instigated by the government to encourage the fear and hatred of fabricants by purebloods.__NEWL__Sonmi's last wish is to finish watching Cavendish's story.__NEWL__Having mostly recovered from his mild stroke, Cavendish meets a small group of residents also anxious to escape the nursing home: Ernie, Veronica, and the extremely senile Mr. Meeks.__NEWL__Cavendish assists the other residents' conspiracy to trick a fellow patient's grown son, Johns Hotchkiss, into leaving Hotchkiss' car vulnerable to theft.__NEWL__The residents seize the car and escape, stopping at a pub to celebrate their freedom.__NEWL__They are nearly recaptured by Hotchkiss and the staff, but are rescued when Mr. Meeks, in an unprecedented moment of lucidity, exhorts the local drinkers to come to their aid.__NEWL__It is thereafter revealed that Cavendish's secretary Mrs. Latham blackmailed the gangsters with a video record of their attack upon Cavendish's office; this allows Cavendish to return to his former life in safety.__NEWL__Subsequently, Cavendish obtains the second half of Luisa Rey's story intending to publish it, and he considers having his own recent adventures turned into a film script.__NEWL__Rey escapes from her sinking car but loses the report, while a plane carrying Isaac is blown up.__NEWL__When her newspaper is bought by a subsidiary of Seaboard, she is fired, and Luisa believes that they no longer see her as a threat.__NEWL__She orders a copy of Robert Frobisher's obscure Cloud Atlas Sextet, which she has read about in his letters to Rufus Sixsmith, and is astonished to find that she recognizes it, even though it is a rarely published piece.__NEWL__However, Smoke the assassin still pursues Luisa and booby-traps a copy of Rufus Sixsmith's report about the power plant.__NEWL__Joe Napier, a security man who knew Luisa's father, and whom Luisa initially believed to be her attempted assassin, comes to her rescue, and Smoke and Napier kill each other in a gun fight.__NEWL__Later, Rey exposes the corrupt corporate leaders to the public.__NEWL__At the end of the story, she receives a package from Sixsmith's niece, which contains the remaining eight letters from Robert Frobisher to Rufus Sixsmith.__NEWL__Frobisher continues to pursue his work with Ayrs while developing his own Cloud Atlas Sextet.__NEWL__He finds himself falling in love with Eva, after she confesses a crush on him, though he is still having an affair with her mother.__NEWL__Jocasta suspects this and threatens to destroy his life if he so much as looks at her daughter.__NEWL__Ayrs also becomes bolder with his plagiarism of Frobisher, now demanding he compose full passages, which Ayrs intends to take credit for.__NEWL__Ayrs also informs him that if he leaves, Ayrs will have him blacklisted claiming he raped Jocasta.__NEWL__In despair, Frobisher leaves anyway, but finds a hotel nearby working to finish his Sextet and hoping to be reunited with Eva.__NEWL__He convinces himself that they are being kept apart from her parents, but when he finally manages to talk to her he realizes that the man she was talking about being in love with was her Swiss fiancé.__NEWL__Mentally and physically ill Frobisher ultimately decides, with his magnum opus finished and his life now empty of meaning, to kill himself.__NEWL__Before committing suicide in a bathtub, he writes one last letter to Sixsmith and includes his Sextet and The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing.__NEWL__Ewing visits the island of Raiatea, where he observes missionaries oppressing the indigenous peoples.__NEWL__On the ship, he falls further ill and realizes at the last minute that Dr. Goose is poisoning him to steal his possessions.__NEWL__He is rescued by Autua and resolves to join the abolitionist movement.__NEWL__In conclusion (of his own journal and of the book), Ewing writes that history is governed by the results of vicious and virtuous acts precipitated by belief: wherefore "a purely predatory world shall consume itself" and "The devil take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost", and imagines his father-in-law's response to his becoming an abolitionist, as a warning that Adam's life would amount to one drop in a limitless ocean; whereas Ewing's proposed reply is: "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5089149	Checkmate	1930-01-01T00:00:00Z	1534171	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1534171	The novel is about a gang of four international criminals who hire a young and naïve English girl as an innocent decoy in a scheme to rid an English aristocrat of her family jewels.__NEWL__The innocent girl is 24-year-old Mary Mallory, who has spent the last seven years in isolation caring for her invalid aunt.__NEWL__After the latter's death, Mary, now living in London, realizes that she has to earn her own money unless she wants to live in relative poverty.__NEWL__She answers the ad of a Comtesse Zamoyski, who is looking for a companion with whom to travel to the Côte d'Azur, and, after an interview, she is accepted for the post.__NEWL__As Mary sees it, her new job combines at least two advantages: seeing the world and proving, to herself as well as her friends, that she is an independent woman.__NEWL__Mary's blinkered view lets her ignore all the warning signs that are pointed out to her.__NEWL__Jessie Stevens, her old schoolmate, even suspects that "White Slavery" could be behind that ad, but Mary does not listen and leaves London with her new employer.__NEWL__Through a series of coincidences a number of people are alerted to the dangers that might be in store for Mary.__NEWL__Apart from Jessie Stevens, it is Dick Delabrae, a society columnist for The Sun, and his friend Robert Wingate, who happens to be the nephew of Lady Wentworth, whose pearls the gang wants to steal.__NEWL__They all come to Cannes, where the Comtesse Zamoyski and Mary Mallory are staying in a remote villa, in order to help the young woman and prevent the theft of the pearls.__NEWL__The Comtesse turns out to be rather moody, but at first Mary has no idea that she is associating with criminals.__NEWL__Her first visit to the casino is a huge success: Not only does she win more than £1,500 at baccarat__NEWL__but she also makes the acquaintance of Lady Wentworth, who immediately takes a liking to the charming girl.__NEWL__Later that night, however, back at the villa, she overhears a conversation between the Comtesse, José Santes, allegedly the Comtesse's nephew, and a young Russian called Nadja, allegedly her maid, which makes it unmistakably clear to her that she is staying under the same roof with criminals.__NEWL__However, escape is now no longer possible.__NEWL__Before she can get away from the villa, Mary Mallory is captured, drugged and hypnotized by the fourth member of the gang, a Frenchman posing as a doctor.__NEWL__On his way to the villa to rescue Mary, Robert Wingate, who has fallen in love with Mary, is kidnapped by Santes's men and thrown into catacombs somewhere below the streets of Cannes.__NEWL__Lady Wentworth is lured to the Comtesse's villa with the prospect of seeing Mary again but after her arrival she is tied to a chair and, in a drug-induced frenzy, stabbed to death by José Santes, a "dope fiend".__NEWL__As she is not wearing her pearls, the gang flee without any loot.__NEWL__When Mary Mallory wakes from her stupor some time later it is only to encounter the French police accusing her of murdering Lady Wentworth, whose body she discovers in the same room where she was lying unconscious.__NEWL__But Robert Wingate can escape from the dungeon, and all misunderstandings are cleared up in the end.__NEWL__The members of the gang are arrested near the Italian border, and the two couples — Dick and Jessie on the one hand, Robert and Mary on the other — return to England to get married.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2611046	Adam Bede	1859-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	1550022	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1550022	According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967),  "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison.__NEWL__" The novel follows the lives of four characters in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral, and close-knit community—in 1799.__NEWL__The novel revolves around a love "rectangle" among the beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel; Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her; Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor; and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher.__NEWL__ Adam, a local carpenter much admired for his integrity and intelligence, is in love with Hetty.__NEWL__She is attracted to Arthur, the local squire's charming grandson and heir, and falls in love with him.__NEWL__When Adam interrupts a tryst between them, Adam and Arthur fight.__NEWL__Arthur agrees to give up Hetty and leaves Hayslope to return to his militia.__NEWL__After he leaves, Hetty Sorrel agrees to marry Adam but shortly before their marriage, discovers that she is pregnant.__NEWL__In desperation, she leaves in search of Arthur but cannot find him.__NEWL__Unwilling to return to the village on account of the shame and ostracism she would have to endure, she delivers her baby with the assistance of a friendly woman she encounters.__NEWL__She subsequently abandons the infant in a field but not being able to bear the child's cries, she tries to retrieve the infant.__NEWL__However, she is too late, the infant having already died of exposure.__NEWL__Hetty is caught and tried for child murder.__NEWL__She is found guilty and sentenced to hang.__NEWL__Dinah enters the prison and pledges to stay with Hetty until the end.__NEWL__Her compassion brings about Hetty's contrite confession.__NEWL__When Arthur Donnithorne, on leave from the militia for his grandfather's funeral, hears of her impending execution, he races to the court and has the sentence commuted to transportation.__NEWL__Ultimately, Adam and Dinah, who gradually become aware of their mutual love, marry and live peacefully with his family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3063735	Outcast of Redwall	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1580433	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1580433	In the howling, snowy north, a young kestrel named Skarlath is lost in a snowstorm after leaving the nest, and is captured by the cruel ferret Swartt Sixclaw and his group of vermin.__NEWL__They also have captured a young badger who they torment mercilessly.__NEWL__The two young beasts help each other escape from the vermin camp.__NEWL__In the scuffle that ensues, the badger creates a massive hornbeam limb club.__NEWL__The ferret and the badger both vow to extort revenge, each declaring the other to be his mortal enemy.__NEWL__As the young badger could not remember his name, Skarlath dubs him Sunflash after the distinctive golden stripe running down his snout.__NEWL__The two young beasts quickly become inseparable friends and travel throughout Mossflower Woods together, defending the weak and helpless and quickly growing older.__NEWL__Sunflash's reputation quickly spreads throughout the land.__NEWL__He eventually moulds his hornbeam limb into a fearsome, stone-spiked warclub, calling it his mace.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Swartt also grows older, stronger, and wiser.__NEWL__He travels the northern lands with his vixen seer Nightshade and his horde and eventually ends up at the camp of Bowfleg, a fat ferret with a large horde who has settled down in a plentiful land.__NEWL__As an earlier leader of Swartt's, his captains are suspicious, and rightly so: with the help of Nightshade, Swartt executes a cunning trick that kills Bowfleg.__NEWL__Swartt takes over his large horde and marries his daughter, Bluefen, who gives birth to his son before dying.__NEWL__At this point, Sunflash and Skarlath have spent several seasons in the Lingl-Dubbo cave, the home of the families of Tirry Lingl the hedgehog and Bruff Dubbo the mole, who Sunflash had rescued from a marauding family of foxes.__NEWL__Sunflash is eventually called to the mountain Salamandastron in his dreams, and so he travels there to become Badger Lord.__NEWL__He and Skarlath part ways, and Sunflash becomes Lord of the Mountain; this section quotes Sunflash's arrival at Salamandastron from the epilogue of Mossflower.__NEWL__By this time, Swartt Sixclaw and his large horde have passed through the Redwall region of Mossflower, which is efficiently defended by the resident squirrels and otters.__NEWL__However, the nursemaid of Swartt's infant son was trampled, and the infant ferret is dropped in a ditch.__NEWL__He is retrieved by the good-hearted woodlanders and taken to Redwall Abbey despite their misgivings that he will grow into being evil.__NEWL__At the abbey, the young ferret's fate is determined.__NEWL__Abbess Meriam and Bella of Brocktree decide to entrust the baby to the care of Bryony, a young mousemaid, and Togget, her sensible mole friend.__NEWL__The ferret is named Veil, and as the seasons turn he grows into a young adult in the abbey.__NEWL__As a youngster he is naughty and mischievous, but as a young adult his true vermin nature begins to show through, as the ferret would steal, lie, and be generally unpleasant to all, especially his adopted mother, Bryony.__NEWL__He is eventually banished, by Bella, from the Abbey when he attempts (and fails) to poison Friar Bunfold (with a mole drinking the water used instead, though she survives the poisoning).__NEWL__Bryony, feeling his banishment was unjust, leaves the abbey to track the ferret down.__NEWL__Her molefriend Togget accompanies her, and together they follow Veil as he wanders through Mossflower.__NEWL__The young ferret, remaining unapologetic and as mean as ever, makes life difficult for the mousemaid and her friend.__NEWL__Leagues away, Swartt comes upon Salamandastron and launches an attack.__NEWL__Now allied to a smooth-talking ferret corsair named Zigu, an attack is mounted and war begins.__NEWL__Zigu is eventually killed by a skilled hare of the Long Patrol named Sabretache, and Swartt's horde grows once more with Zigu's crew swelling their ranks.__NEWL__With the help of neighbouring woodlanders, the vermin attack is deflected.__NEWL__Sunflash and Skarlath go hunting after them, and Nightshade lays an ambush with poison arrows.__NEWL__In the ensuing attack, Nightshade kills Skarlath with a poison arrow, only to be slain by Sunflash seconds later.__NEWL__Swartt and his depleted horde flee to the mountains east of Salamandastron.__NEWL__Veil, Bryony and Togget reach the same mountains from the east, and Veil meets his father for the first time.__NEWL__Neither is impressed by the other.__NEWL__Sunflash is stunned and captured by Swartt, and Bryony encounters the evil Swartt Sixclaw.__NEWL__The ferret warlord tries to kill her by throwing a javelin; Veil, in a moment that portrays his true emotions toward the mousemaid, saves her life by taking the javelin, dying in the process.__NEWL__Sunflash then kills Swartt by throwing him from the mountain.__NEWL__Sunflash, Bryony and Togget return to Redwall.__NEWL__Bryony, unsure if Veil really meant to save her, accepted that the young ferret she always defended had always been evil.__NEWL__She is later made Abbess and Togget is made Foremole.__NEWL__Sunflash meets Bella, his mother, for the first time since he was a child.__NEWL__He stays with her until her death many seasons later, and he then returns to the western coast to rule at Salamandastron.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3418058	Parthiban Kanavu	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z	1532150	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1532150	This novel chronicles the attempts of Vikraman, the son of the Chola king Parthiban, to attain independence from the Pallava ruler__NEWL__Narasimhavarman I.__NEWL__In the seventh century the Cholas are vassals of the Pallavas.__NEWL__Parthiban conveys his dream of the Chola dynasty regaining its glory – which he believes is lost since they are no longer the independent rulers – to his young son Vikraman.__NEWL__Parthiban refuses to pay tribute to the Pallavas, triggering a battle in which Parthiban is killed.__NEWL__Before he dies, on the battlefield, an enigmatic monk promises Parthiban that he will make sure that Vikraman fulfills Parthiban's dream.__NEWL__On becoming an adult, Vikraman plans his revenge but is betrayed by his treacherous uncle, Marappa Bhupathi.__NEWL__The prince is arrested and exiled to a far-off island by Narasimhavarman.__NEWL__Three years later Vikraman returns, longing to meet his mother and a mysterious beauty whom he saw before being deported.__NEWL__He discovers that his mother has disappeared, kidnapped by members of the savage Kapalika cult given to performing human sacrifices.__NEWL__He also learns that the beauty he has fallen for, Kundhavi, is none other than the daughter of his sworn enemy, Narasimhavarman.__NEWL__Several twists and turns later, the monk is revealed as the Pallava emperor Narasimhavarman, who keeps his word to the dying Parthiban by helping establish an independent kingdom under Vikraman in Uraiyur, followed by the Chola prince's marriage to Kundhavi.__NEWL__The novel ends by stating that Parthiban's dream of a great Chola dynasty was passed on from father to son, and was finally realised three hundred years after Parthiban's time, in the reign of Raja Raja Chola I.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3566302	The Lair of the White Worm	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z	1188					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1568491	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1568491	The central character of the book is Adam Salton, an Australian at the outset living there, who in 1860 is contacted by his elderly great-uncle, Richard Salton, a landed gentleman of Lesser Hill, Derbyshire, England, who has no other family and wants to establish a relationship with the only other living member of the Salton family.__NEWL__Although Adam has already made his own fortune in Australia, he enthusiastically agrees to meet his uncle, and on his arrival by ship at Southampton the two men quickly become good friends.__NEWL__His great-uncle then reveals that he wishes to make Adam the heir to his estate, Lesser Hill.__NEWL__Adam travels there and quickly finds himself at the center of mysterious events, with Sir Nathaniel de Salis, a friend of Richard Salton's, as his guide.__NEWL__Edgar Caswall, the new heir to a neighboring estate, Castra Regis or Royal Camp, is in the process of making a mesmeric assault on a local girl, Lilla Watford.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Arabella March, of Diana's Grove, is running a game of her own, perhaps angling to become Mrs. Edgar Caswall.__NEWL__He is a slightly pathological eccentric and has inherited Franz Mesmer's chest, which he keeps in the Castra Regis Tower.__NEWL__Caswall seeks to make use of mesmerism, a precursor to hypnotism, and, obsessed with Lilla, attempts to break her using mesmeric powers.__NEWL__However, with the help of Lilla's half-Burmese cousin, Mimi Watford, he is thwarted time and again.__NEWL__Caswall has a giant kite built in the shape of a hawk to scare away pigeons that have attacked his fields and destroyed his crops.__NEWL__For lack of anything better to do, he obsessively watches the kite and begins to believe that it has a mind of its own and that he himself is a god.__NEWL__Adam Salton finds black snakes on his great uncle's property and buys a mongoose to hunt them down.__NEWL__He then discovers a child who has been bitten on the neck and who almost dies as a result.__NEWL__Adam learns that another child has already been killed by a snake bite and that animals have also been killed mysteriously throughout the county.__NEWL__Caswall's Black African servant, Oolanga, a man obsessed with death and torture, prowls around the Castra Regis estate, enjoying the carnage left by the White Worm.__NEWL__Adam's mongoose attacks Arabella, who shoots it to death.__NEWL__Adam buys more mongooses and keeps them locked in trunks when not using them to hunt.__NEWL__Arabella tears another mongoose apart with her hands.__NEWL__Oolanga takes a liking to Arabella, perhaps sensing something violent in her, and makes advances.__NEWL__Arabella scorns Oolanga and is deeply insulted that he would dare to approach her.__NEWL__In an attempt to win her over, Oolanga steals one of Adam's trunks (which he believes is filled with treasure, but is actually just another mongoose), and Adam follows Oolanga.__NEWL__Arabella lures Oolanga to a deep well in her house, then in rage and disgust murders him by dragging him down into the deep pit tunneled through a bed of white china clay.__NEWL__Adam witnesses the murder, but has no evidence of it apart from his own word.__NEWL__Arabella writes him a letter the next day, with the previous night's events twisted, claiming her complete innocence.__NEWL__Adam and Sir Nathaniel begin to suspect that Arabella is guilty of other crimes and that she wants to murder Mimi Watford.__NEWL__Adam and Sir Nathaniel then plot to stop Arabella by whatever means necessary.__NEWL__Sir Nathaniel is a Van Helsing-type character who wants to hunt down Arabella, who he believes, with increasing conviction, is the White Worm of legend.__NEWL__The White Worm is a large snake-like creature dwelling deep under Arabella's house at Diana's Grove.__NEWL__It has green glowing eyes and feeds on whatever living creatures it can find to eat.__NEWL__Sir Nathaniel believes the Worm is descended from dragons, who traded their physical power for cunning.__NEWL__The Worm ascends from its pit and seeks to attack Adam and Mimi Watford in the forest of Diana's Grove.__NEWL__Adam is able to foil Arabella's multiple attempts to murder Mimi, and Arabella offers to sell Diana's Grove, which Adam buys with the aim of destroying the White Worm.__NEWL__He plans to fill the pit with sand and set dynamite to kill the Worm while it is underground.__NEWL__Caswall's last visit to Lilla ends in her death.__NEWL__In the final chapters, Mimi Watford confronts Caswall who has finally succumbed to madness.__NEWL__He lures her onto the roof of Castra Regis House as a storm approaches and shows off his kite, despite the thunderheads building in the sky.__NEWL__Arabella, who had been stalking Mimi, watches from nearby and steals some of the wire holding the kite, apparently unspooling it all the way back to her house.__NEWL__When Mimi discovers Caswall has locked her onto the roof she shoots off the lock with a gun Adam gave her for her protection and flees home.__NEWL__Adam convinces her to go back outside with him, and they witness the following events: a massive thunderstorm breaks over Castra Regis House, a lightning bolt is grounded by the kite and demolishes the Castra Regis tower; it then travels through the wire Arabella had run to Diana's Grove and ignites Adam's dynamite, which pulverizes the White Worm and destroys the house and Arabella at the same time.__NEWL__After this, Adam and Mimi Watford are married.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1755628	A Widow for One Year	1998-05-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1575143	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1575143	The year is 1958 and Ruth Cole is 4 years old.__NEWL__Although she is a loved child, her parents do not have a happy marriage.__NEWL__Her two older brothers died several years earlier in a tragic accident, and she is constantly reminded of their presence by the pictures of the boys' childhood hanging on the walls of the Cole family home.__NEWL__Ruth's father, Ted Cole, is a successful writer and illustrator of books for children.__NEWL__He hires Eddie O'Hare, a teenager who attends Phillips Exeter Academy, the same school__NEWL__Ruth's two late brothers attended, to work as his assistant for the summer.__NEWL__Eddie is unwittingly drawn into a plot orchestrated by Ted to drive his unhappy wife, Marion, to infidelity.__NEWL__Marion, unable to forget her dead sons, shows little affection to her daughter.__NEWL__Ted has always conducted extramarital affairs and would likely lose in a custody battle for Ruth.__NEWL__If Marion had an affair, especially with a teenager, it would strengthen the case for custody to be awarded to him.__NEWL__Ted picks Eddie specifically to tempt Marion because he bears a striking resemblance to his son Thomas, "the confident one".__NEWL__Eddie and Marion's affair leads Marion to leave Ted and Ruth at the end of the summer.__NEWL__Later it is 1990 and Ruth is 36.__NEWL__She has become a popular, critically acclaimed novelist and is promoting her third and most recent novel, preparing to travel to Europe.__NEWL__She reconnects with Eddie, for the first time since she was 4 years old, when he introduces her at a reading she gives in New York before her European travels.__NEWL__Soon, having come up with the idea for her fourth novel, Ruth is researching in Amsterdam's red light district and finds herself hiding in a closet to witness a prostitute (she has somewhat befriended) with a client.__NEWL__Instead she ends up witnessing the murder of the prostitute.__NEWL__She makes note of certain details of the murder and anonymously sends them to the police, which eventually leads to the murderer being captured.__NEWL__The detective who helps solve the murder becomes preoccupied with finding the "witness" long after Ruth returns to the United States.__NEWL__Ruth is now 41 and has a son, though her husband has died.__NEWL__This section covers Ruth's own year of widowhood ("A Widow for One Year" is a literal description of Ruth's situation as well as a reference to the first chapter of her third novel, "Not For Children").__NEWL__The detective who had helped solve the murder case in Amsterdam has finally realized that Ruth is the "witness" due to details she used in her new novel, especially her description of a room identical to the murdered prostitute's.__NEWL__The detective, who had been a dear friend to the prostitute, is also a fan of Ruth's work.__NEWL__Ruth learns that the murder was solved.__NEWL__She meets the detective on her next trip to Europe and they fall in love.__NEWL__The romance is quick and he agrees to follow Ruth to Vermont.__NEWL__They marry.__NEWL__Ruth and Eddie unexpectedly reunite with Marion in the end.__NEWL__In this book, as in The World According to Garp (1978) and Last Night in Twisted River (2009), John Irving uses writers as protagonists and provides examples of their writing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q468100	Lottie and Lisa	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	1544580	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1544580	Two nine-year-old girls, bold Lisa Palfy (orig.__NEWL__Luise Palfy) from Vienna and shy Lottie Horn (orig.__NEWL__Lotte Körner) from Munich meet in a summer camp in Bohrlaken on Lake Bohren (orig. '__NEWL__Seebühl am Bühlsee'), where they discover that they are identical twins whose parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls.__NEWL__The girls decide to swap places at the end of the summer so that Lottie will have a chance to get to know her father and Lisa will get to meet her mother.__NEWL__While many adults are surprised at the changes in each of the girls after they return from camp ("Lottie" has apparently forgotten how to cook, gets in a fight at school, and becomes a terrible student, while "Lisa" has begun to keep a close eye on the housekeeper's bookkeeping, will no longer eat her favorite food, and becomes a model student), no one suspects that the girls are not who they claim to be.__NEWL__When Lottie (under the name of Lisa) finds that her father is planning to remarry, she becomes very ill and stops writing to her sister in Munich.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Lottie's mother comes across a picture of the two girls at summer camp, and Lisa tells her the entire story.__NEWL__The girls' mother calls her former husband in Vienna to tell him what has happened and to find out why Lottie has stopped writing.__NEWL__When she hears that her daughter is ill, she and Lisa immediately travel to Vienna.__NEWL__At the daughters' request, the parents are reunited.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7573857	Spartacus	1933-01-01T00:00:00Z	1544627	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1544627	The central character is not Spartacus himself, but Kleon, a fictional Greek educated slave and eunuch who joins the revolt.__NEWL__In the first chapter we are told how he was sold into slavery as a child and sexually abused by an owner.__NEWL__Another important character is Elpinice, a female slave who helps Spartacus and his fellow gladiators escape from Capua, and who becomes Spartacus's lover.__NEWL__She gives birth to a son, but while Spartacus is fighting elsewhere she is raped and murdered by soldiers, and the child is also killed.__NEWL__The novel touches on Gibbon's views on human history, with Spartacus seen as a survivor of the Golden Age.__NEWL__However, in spite of various additions and speculations, it does stick fairly closely to the known historical facts about the revolt.__NEWL__Plutarch's life of Crassus is clearly the main source, but it does make use of some other classical sources, including Appian and Sallust.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3744845	Child of God	1973-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q93332	Appalachian Mountains	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1530229	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530229	Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps".__NEWL__Ballard is violently evicted from his home, which is sold at auction to another Sevier County resident, John Greer.__NEWL__Now homeless, Ballard begins squatting in an abandoned two-room cabin and voyeuristically spying on young couples in their cars near the Frog Mountain turnaround.__NEWL__Ballard is falsely accused of rape by a woman he finds sleeping along the roadside, and is jailed for nine days.__NEWL__Interspersed among the narrator's story are townspeople's accounts of Ballard's early life, revealing his early violent behavior and the suicide of his father.__NEWL__ While out squirrel hunting, Ballard comes across a dead couple in an idling car.__NEWL__He steals the couple's money, rapes the woman's corpse, and stores her body in the attic of his cabin.__NEWL__Ballard's cabin burns down with the corpse inside, and he moves his remaining possessions into a nearby cave.__NEWL__Ballard visits his friend's home, finding only the friend's daughter and a disabled child.__NEWL__When the daughter rejects his sexual advances, he kills her and sets the house ablaze, storing her body in the cave.__NEWL__Later, Ballard shoots a couple in their car.__NEWL__As he flees the scene with the woman's corpse, he sees that the man survived and drove away.__NEWL__Prompted by the string of murders, the county sheriff begins investigating Ballard.__NEWL__The county floods, and the sheriff recalls the county's history of vigilantism with the Whitecaps and Bluebills.__NEWL__ Ballard unsuccessfully attempts to kill John Greer, the current owner of his former home, and is shot in the process.__NEWL__He wakes handcuffed to a guarded hospital bed.__NEWL__One night, a group of men appear in his hospital room demanding to know where he stored his victims' bodies.__NEWL__Ballard initially feigns innocence, but offers to lead the men to the bodies when they threaten to hang him.__NEWL__Ballard brings them to the cave, where he escapes through a crevice too small for the other men to fit through.__NEWL__For three days, Ballard deliriously roams the cave searching for an exit.__NEWL__He eventually chips through a small crack to the surface and returns himself to the hospital.__NEWL__ Instead of facing trial, Ballard is sent to a mental hospital where he contracts pneumonia and dies soon after.__NEWL__His remains are dissected by medical students in Memphis for three months before he is buried.__NEWL__In the spring of the same year, a farmer's plow falls into a sinkhole in Sevier county, revealing a cavernous chamber containing the bodies of seven of Ballard's victims.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3978367	Suttree	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q185582	Knoxville	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1530311	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530311	The novel begins with Suttree observing police as they pull a suicide victim from the river.__NEWL__Suttree is living alone in a houseboat, on the fringes of society on the Tennessee River, earning money by fishing for the occasional catfish.__NEWL__He has left a life of luxury, rejecting his parents' influence, and abandoning his wife and young son.__NEWL__A large cast of characters, largely composed of misfits and grotesques, is introduced, one of which is a dimwitted young man named Gene Harrogate, whom Suttree meets during a short stint in a work camp-style prison.__NEWL__Harrogate was sent to prison after being caught "violating" a farmer's watermelons.__NEWL__Suttree attempts to help Harrogate stay out of trouble after he is released, but this task proves to be in vain as Harrogate sets off on a series of misadventures, including using poisoned meat and a slingshot to kill bats ("flitter-mice" as Harrogate calls them) to earn a bounty on them, and using dynamite in an attempt to tunnel underneath the city and burgle the treasury.__NEWL__Other prominent characters are prostitutes, hermits, alcoholics, and an aged Geechee witch.__NEWL__His relationships with women all come to bad ends.__NEWL__One prostitute-girlfriend terminates the relationship in a moment of madness, smashing up the inside of their new car.__NEWL__He becomes involved with a teenage girl from a destitute family, but awakens in the night to find her crushed to death by a landslide that falls on their homeless encampment.__NEWL__Suttree was also married before the book begins with a woman he apparently met at university.__NEWL__He left his wife with a young son, who dies of an illness early on in the book.__NEWL__He watches the funeral from afar, and proceeds to bury the boy alone once the other mourners leave.__NEWL__Towards the novel's end, Suttree falls ill with typhoid fever and suffers a lengthy hallucination.__NEWL__This occurs after a black friend of Suttree is killed in a fight with the police and Harrogate is arrested in a failed robbery attempt.__NEWL__In the end, he feels his identity as an individual is affirmed by his time living in destitution, and he leaves Knoxville, seeking a new life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1539874	The Crossing	1994-06-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1439	Texas	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1530339	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530339	Like its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico.__NEWL__The plot takes place before and during the Second World War and focuses on the life of the protagonist Billy Parham, a teenage cowboy; his family; and his younger brother Boyd.__NEWL__The story tells of three journeys taken from New Mexico to Mexico.__NEWL__It is noted for being a more melancholic novel than the first of the trilogy, without returning to the hellish bleakness of McCarthy's early novels.__NEWL__Most of the protagonists are people of few words; thus the dialogues are few and concise.__NEWL__Additionally, since much of the interaction is with Mexican people, many parts of dialogues are written in untranslated Spanish.__NEWL__Although the novel is not overtly satirical or humorous, it has many of the qualities of a picaresque: a realistic portrayal of a destitute hero embarking on a series of loosely connected, arguably doomed quests.__NEWL__The first sojourn details a series of hunting expeditions conducted by Billy, his father, and to a lesser extent, his brother Boyd.__NEWL__They are attempting to locate and trap a pregnant female wolf which has been preying on cattle near the family's homestead.__NEWL__McCarthy explores themes throughout the action such as the mystical passage on page 22, describing his father setting a trap:__NEWL__Crouched in the broken shadow with the sun at his back and holding the trap at eyelevel against the morning sky he looked to be truing some older, some subtler instrument.__NEWL__Astrolabe or sextant.__NEWL__Like a man bent at fixing himself someway in the world.__NEWL__Bent on trying by arc or chord the space between his being and the world that was.__NEWL__If there be such space.__NEWL__If it be knowable.__NEWL__When Billy finally catches the animal, he harnesses her and, instead of killing her, determines to return her to the mountains of Mexico where he believes her original home is located.__NEWL__He develops a deep affection for and bond with the wolf, risking his life to save her on more than one occasion.__NEWL__Critics disagree about the greater significance of Billy's encounters with the wolf.__NEWL__Wallis Sanborn argues that “[a]lthough noble, Parham’s mission to return the captured she-wolf to Mexico is abjectly flawed . . .__NEWL__[it is] nothing more than a man violently controlling a wild animal through the guise of pseudo-nobility” (143).__NEWL__Raymond Malewitz argues that the wolf's "literary agency" becomes visible when Billy's way of thinking about the wolf conflicts with the way the narrator describes the creature.__NEWL__Along the way, Billy encounters many other travelers and inhabitants of the land who relate in a sophisticated dialogue their deepest philosophies.__NEWL__Take, for example, a Mormon who converts to Catholicism and describes his vision of reality in this way: Things separate from their stories have no meaning.__NEWL__They are only shapes.__NEWL__Of a certain size and color.__NEWL__A certain weight.__NEWL__When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name.__NEWL__The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.__NEWL__And that is what was to be found here.__NEWL__The corrido.__NEWL__The tale.__NEWL__And like all corridos it ultimately told one story only, for there is only one to tell.__NEWL__He also meets an opera troupe performing Pagliacci in the wilds, the characters of which curiously parallel Billy and Boyd's relationship with a girl they save along their route.__NEWL__He watched the play with interest but could make little of it ... in the end the man in buffoon's motley slew the woman and slew another man perhaps his rival with a dagger In the second border crossing, Billy and Boyd have set out to recover horses stolen from their family's spread.__NEWL__Their relationship is a strained one, with Boyd displaying a more stubborn nature than that of his brother, a characteristic that hinders Billy's attempts to protect him.__NEWL__Boyd is eventually shot through the chest in a squabble.__NEWL__After he is nursed back to health, he disappears with a young girl.__NEWL__The third crossing features Billy alone attempting to discover his brother's whereabouts.__NEWL__He learns Boyd has been killed in a gunfight and sets out to find his dead brother's remains, and return them to New Mexico.__NEWL__After finding Boyd's grave and exhuming the body, Billy is ambushed by a band of men who desecrate Boyd's remains and stab Billy's horse through the chest.__NEWL__Billy, with the help of a gypsy, nurses the horse back to riding condition.__NEWL__The last scene shows Billy alone and desolate, coming across a terribly beat up dog that approaches him for help.__NEWL__In marked contrast to his youthful bond with the wolf, he shoos the dog away angrily, meanly.__NEWL__Later, he feels a flood of remorse: he goes after the dog, calling for it to come back—but it has gone.__NEWL__He breaks down in tears.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1640710	Cities of the Plain	1998-05-12T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1522	New Mexico	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1530352	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530352	The story opens in 1952.__NEWL__John Grady Cole (the protagonist of All the Pretty Horses) and Billy Parham (the protagonist of The Crossing) work together on a cattle ranch south of Alamogordo, New Mexico, not far from the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.__NEWL__The ranch's owners are kind, but face an uncertain future in a dying industry.__NEWL__Recently devastated by drought, cattle ranches around El Paso are struggling and may be claimed by the Department of Defense, through eminent domain, to become military areas.__NEWL__Though the cowboys barely make a living, John Grady and Billy love life on the open range, and John Grady – as detailed in All the Pretty Horses – is a master at training horses.__NEWL__Billy is an excellent tracker.__NEWL__During a visit to a brothel in Juárez, John Grady falls in love with a young, epileptic prostitute, Magdalena.__NEWL__The couple plans to marry and live in the U.S., and John Grady renovates an abandoned cabin, turning it into a home.__NEWL__But Magdalena's brothel is run by Eduardo, a formidable adversary also in love with the young girl.__NEWL__Billy attempts to dissuade John Grady but feels obligated to help the couple.__NEWL__Eduardo's subordinate Tiburcio murders Magdalena by cutting her throat, after she steals away from the brothel to meet John Grady at a crossing of the Rio Grande and leave Mexico.__NEWL__After John Grady finds her body in the morgue, he faces Eduardo in a knife fight.__NEWL__Though John Grady kills Eduardo, he is mortally wounded in the fight.__NEWL__He survives long enough to contact Billy, who hurries to comfort John Grady before his death.__NEWL__After John Grady's death, a short epilogue—not unlike the conclusion of Blood Meridian (1985)—details, in a few pages, the next several decades of Billy's life.__NEWL__After drifting across the Southwest for many years, working ranches and living in hotels, Billy, homeless, takes shelter beneath a highway underpass.__NEWL__There, he meets a mysterious man who tells him about a convoluted dream.__NEWL__Though the man denies it, Billy suspects he is Death.__NEWL__However, Billy survives the meeting with the man and finds shelter and a new life with a family who takes him in.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6964620	Naomi	1925-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	1546341	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1546341	Naomi's story is focused around a man's obsession for a modan garu or modern girl.__NEWL__The narrator, Jōji, is a well-educated Japanese man who is an electrical engineer in the city, and comes from a wealthy farming family.__NEWL__Jōji wishes to break away from his traditional Japanese culture, and becomes immersed in the new Westernized culture which was taking root in Japan.__NEWL__The physical representation of everything Western is embodied in a girl named Naomi.__NEWL__Jōji sees Naomi for the first time in a café and instantly falls for her exotic "Eurasian" looks, Western-sounding name, and (to him) sophisticated mannerisms.__NEWL__Like the story of the prepubescent Murasaki in the classic novel The Tale of Genji, Jōji decides he will raise Naomi, a fifteen-year-old café hostess, to be his perfect woman: in this case, he will forge her into a glamorous Western-style girl like Mary Pickford, the famous Canadian actress of the silent film era, whom he thinks Naomi resembles.__NEWL__Jōji moves Naomi into his home and begins his efforts to make her a perfect Western wife.__NEWL__She turns out to be a very willing pupil.__NEWL__He pays for her English-language lessons, and though she has little skill with grammar, she possesses beautiful pronunciation.__NEWL__He funds her Westernized activities, including her love of movies, dancing and magazines.__NEWL__During the early part of the novel Jōji makes no sexual advances on Naomi, preferring instead to groom her according to his desires and observe her from a distance.__NEWL__However, his plan to foster Western ideals such as independence in her backfires dramatically as she gets older.__NEWL__Jōji begins the novel being the dominator.__NEWL__However, as time progresses and his obsession takes hold, Naomi's manipulation puts her in a position of power over him.__NEWL__Slowly Jōji turns power over to Naomi, conceding to everything she desires.__NEWL__He buys a new house for them, and though they are married, Jōji sleeps in a separate bedroom, while Naomi entertains Western men in another room.__NEWL__The book ends with Naomi having complete control of Jōji's life, though he claims he is satisfied as long as his obsession with her is satiated.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3794465	The Book and the Brotherhood	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1571119	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1571119	David Crimond, tasked with writing the book, resurfaces at a Commemoration ball the friends attend.__NEWL__His sudden re-appearance induces the group to attempt resolving the untenable situation by pressing for clarification.__NEWL__In turn they find themselves confronted with how far removed they are from their former Marxist beliefs and their own philosophical disorientation.__NEWL__As Crimond promises progress on the book, his draw causes the members of the circle to plunge into chaos.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2077422	Isle of the Dead	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1581133	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1581133	Francis Sandow is the last surviving human born in the 20th century.__NEWL__An early space colonist, he spent long centuries of space travel in suspended animation.__NEWL__After his last such trip, he woke in the 27th century, where everything had changed.__NEWL__Desperate for something to hold to, he sought out a mentor, who happened to be a member of a very long-lived and slowly dying alien race, the Pei'ans.__NEWL__Under this tutelage, Sandow eventually became a telepath and "worldscaper".__NEWL__Worldscapers have the ability to create and/or terraform planets.__NEWL__The process of becoming a worldscaper culminates in a mystic rite called "Naming" that binds the mortal to one of the gods in the Pei'an pantheon, and it is believed that the worldscaper is actually acting as an avatar for the god.__NEWL__There are only twenty-seven existing worldscapers; Sandow, bound to Shimbo of Darktree, Shrugger of Thunders, is the only non-Pei'an among them.__NEWL__Outworlders are welcome to practice the religion, which is called Strantri.__NEWL__Sandow opines it will be the first major religion to outlive its founders.__NEWL__Unlike most of the Pei'an deities, who tend to be chimeras like Egyptian gods, Shimbo is also unmistakably human, showing that the Pei'ans had visited Earth in the distant past.__NEWL__The rite of Naming was once reserved for the high priests of the Pei'an religion.__NEWL__Sandow is a confirmed agnostic as far as the objective existence of the gods is concerned.__NEWL__However, whenever he sits for a time in a Strantri shrine, the icon of Shimbo always lights up, and this happens simultaneously in every shrine in the galaxy.__NEWL__At the beginning of the novel, Sandow is one of the most famous men in the Galaxy, wealthy beyond imagination, living a life of seclusion and luxury in worlds he fashions according to his taste.__NEWL__But he is lured into action by a series of photographs sent to him anonymously, showing him old enemies, old friends, and old lovers—most of whom should be dead, but appearing in the photographs to be alive.__NEWL__The novel is partly a tribute to Ernest Hemingway and some of its meditative sequences are written in a Hemingway-like style.__NEWL__Through Sandow's narrative, Zelazny presents observations on 20th-century American culture and how it has changed as other planets are created or discovered.__NEWL__An episode in a luxurious city of an earth colony leads to a rant on gratuities, for example.__NEWL__Eventually Sandow makes his way to Illyria, a world he created as an idyllic paradise, but finds it has been severely damaged.__NEWL__The enemy is a Pei'an rival who as an orthodox member of the faith feels that Sandow's Naming was sacrilege.__NEWL__The ultimate conflict takes place on the Isle of the Dead, at the center of a great lake.__NEWL__It is a replica of Arnold Böcklin's famous Isle of the Dead painting.__NEWL__Sandow also appears as a character in To Die in Italbar (1973) and the short story "Dismal Light" in the collection Unicorn Variations.__NEWL__Sandow is jolted from his wealthy, indolent lifestyle by a series of messages, each accompanied by a picture of one of a number of people once important to him, and all dead for many years.__NEWL__Sandow realizes the pictures could be fake, and he has other obligations, one of which is responding to a call for help from a friend, Ruth Laris.__NEWL__In the course of investigating her disappearance, he receives another message that he will find all his friends "on the Isle of the Dead".__NEWL__The message is in Pei'an, addressed to Shimbo (the name of the Pei'an god connected with Sandow) and signed by Belion (Shimbo's traditional enemy in Pei'an mythology).__NEWL__Sandow soon learns that somebody has been stealing the memory records and tissue samples of people who died on Earth.__NEWL__These things are required of everyone who lives on Earth, so they can be recalled to life should the need arise.__NEWL__The six missing sets are of the people whose photos Sandow received.__NEWL__Visiting his Pei'an mentor Marling, who is dying, Sandow learns that his tormentor is Gringrin, another Pei'an who was denied communion with a deity despite passing almost all the tests.__NEWL__Gringrin vowed revenge on the other worldscapers, starting with Sandow.__NEWL__Somehow Gringrin has been able to unite himself with Belion.__NEWL__Sandow helps his mentor end his life with the glitten root ceremony, in which two telepaths take the hallucinogenic root and have a shared dream, from which only one returns alive.__NEWL__This is also used for duelling between telepaths, which is what Sandow must do when he finds Gringrin.__NEWL__After the funeral, Sandow sets out for Illyria, the world he made which has the Isle of the Dead.__NEWL__Landing by stealth, and armed to the teeth, he sets out to walk the remaining distance to the Isle of the Dead.__NEWL__He now believes that Gringrin intended him to be lured there, and slowly humiliated before all the people who ever mattered to him.__NEWL__He is sure Gringrin has made a major mistake by staging this on a world Sandow made.__NEWL__All the forces on the planet will be allied with Sandow; he is the world's God.__NEWL__He comes upon Gringrin himself, alive but injured.__NEWL__Things have gone badly wrong.__NEWL__One of the recalled persons is Mike Shandon, a con man who is also a telepath, and a deadly enemy of Sandow's.__NEWL__He has persuaded the god Belion to abandon Gringrin and go to him.__NEWL__Apparently the Pei'an gods are real and Gringrin, attempting to ordain himself independently, asked for a creative spirit to come to him, but instead was chosen by Belion.__NEWL__Now, Belion's abandoned him and gone to Shandon.__NEWL__Gringrin wants to flee, but Sandow is determined to rescue as many of his friends as possible.__NEWL__As the two cross the river to the island they meet more of Sandow's revived enemies and friends.__NEWL__From one of them, a feisty dwarf named Nick, Sandow learns that his recalled wife Kathy is having an affair with Shandon.__NEWL__Sandow decides to buy Shandon off, which he is well equipped to do.__NEWL__As the two negotiate and link minds to confirm the deal, the gods assert themselves and a battle begins in which Shimbo's air and water battle Belion's earth and fire.__NEWL__A storm rages as the ground shakes and splits.__NEWL__Both Sandow and Shandon are consumed by their godgame, until Sandow sees Nick try to help Kathy, only to fall with her into a fissure.__NEWL__Both die, and at the same moment Shimbo deserts him.__NEWL__Shandon/Belion continues attacking, and Sandow goes down under a pile of rocks, breaking his leg.__NEWL__Sandow has one last trick - a laser weapon surgically implanted in his middle finger.__NEWL__In a supremely ironic gesture, he "gives Shandon the finger", killing him and ending the battle.__NEWL__Sandow crawls away to find a "power-pull" energy nexus, so he can use its energies to summon his orbiting ship.__NEWL__On the way he encounters his last revived friend/enemy, Lady Karle, alive but entombed in a cave.__NEWL__She and Sandow were lovers who were torn apart when a corporate war, in which Sandow was a player, ruined her family and drove her to seek revenge on him.__NEWL__Sandow bitterly dismisses her cries and goes on.__NEWL__He meets Gringrin, mortally wounded.__NEWL__Gringrin begs him to perform the glitten rite with him, using the location of the recall tapes as an incentive.__NEWL__Once in the rite, Gringrin confesses that the recall tapes were ruined by Shandon's conflagration, but Ruth is alive in a hospital and can be saved.__NEWL__In the psychedelic trance, Sandow faces Death in the shape of the Valley of Shadows.__NEWL__He sees all the worlds he has made, and realizes that as long as he can create life, casting worlds like "jewels in the darkness", he has a purpose.__NEWL__Gringrin in turn loses his dread of death, and walks happily into the Valley.__NEWL__Waking, Sandow crawls on and reunites with his ship, then returns to Lady Karle's cave with a weapon and vaporizes the rock.__NEWL__They hobble to the ship together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5375813	End Zone	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1556329	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1556329	The novel is divided into three sections.__NEWL__In the first, Gary Harkness, the narrator, meets Taft Robinson, Logos College's first Black football player as well as Major Staley, the teacher of his modern warfare class.__NEWL__This class sparks Gary's developing obsession with Nuclear warfare.__NEWL__Gary begins dating Myrna Corbett and an assistant coach commits suicide just as the crowning game of the season approaches.__NEWL__The second section is solely a play-by-play retelling of the Big Game itself, where the main thematic content of the novel exists.__NEWL__DeLillo's disconnected, detached prose focuses the text on certain isolated images and dialogue throughout the game.__NEWL__The third section surrounds the aftermath of the big game as well as the impact of the plane-crash death which kills Logos College's founder.__NEWL__Gary, filled with ennui after these events, plays a complex war game with Major Staley; the novel's metaphor of football as warfare is challenged in the line "warfare is warfare.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Taft Robinson admits that he has a morbid interest in The Holocaust which mirror's Gary's obsession.__NEWL__The novel ends with Gary being hospitalized for a mental breakdown, his future uncertain.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q387961	Independence Day	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1408	New Jersey	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1556398	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1556398	The novel follows Frank Bascombe, a New Jersey real estate agent (and ex-sportswriter), through the titular holiday weekend as he visits his ex-wife, his troubled son, his current lover, the tenants of one of his properties, and some clients of his who have been having trouble finding the perfect house.__NEWL__It focuses in particular on a car trip with his son to the Basketball and Baseball Halls of Fame.__NEWL__Similar in form and common themes to John Updike's Rabbit novels, Independence Day is a pastoral meditation on a man reaching middle age and assessing his place in life and the greater world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5347656	Efuru	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1033	Nigeria	1578412	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1578412	The story is set in West African Igbo rural community.__NEWL__The protagonist, Efuru, is a strong and beautiful woman.__NEWL__She is the daughter of Nwashike Ogene, a hero and leader of his tribe.__NEWL__She falls in love with a poor farmer called Adizua and runs away with him, upsetting her people because he did not even perform the traditional wine-carrying and pay her bride price.__NEWL__She supports her husband financially and is very loyal to him, which makes her mother-in-law and aunt by marriage very fond of her.__NEWL__At this point, she accepts to be helped around her house by a young girl named Ogea in order to help her parents who are in financial difficulty.__NEWL__However, Adizua soon abandons Efuru and their daughter Ogonim, as his own father has done in the past.__NEWL__After her daughter dies, Efuru discovers that he has married another woman and had a child with her.__NEWL__Her in-laws try to convince her to stay with him, i.e. remain in waiting in their marital house.__NEWL__Efuru then tries to look for him, but after failing, she leaves his house and goes back to the house of her father, who receives her happily, since she can care for him better than others.__NEWL__ Efuru then meets Gilbert, an educated man in her age group.__NEWL__He asks to marry her and follows tradition by visiting her father, and she accepts.__NEWL__The first year of their marriage is a happy one.__NEWL__However, Efuru is unable to conceive any children, so this begins to cause trouble.__NEWL__She is later chosen by the goddess of the lake, Uhamiri, to be one of her worshippers, Uhamiri being known to offer her worshippers wealth and beauty but few children.__NEWL__Efuru's second marriage eventually also fails, as her husband mistreats her in favour of his second and third wives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733949	The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1561692	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1561692	The story begins with Surprise in the Strait of Magellan, caught up in foul weather.__NEWL__Hanson first spots Cape Pilar at the very opening of the Strait, and soon Surprise moors and conducts some trade with the inhospitable locals for meat and vegetables.__NEWL__Having re-provisioned, she and Ringle sail northwards in fine weather until they enter the River Plate and moor close to the island functioning as the main administrative centre.__NEWL__A quarantine officer comes aboard and gives the frigate a clean bill of health.__NEWL__Wantage informs Maturin of a rumpus in the town: a fight between Protestant mariners from a Boston barque clash with the Catholic locals over the right of polygamy.__NEWL__Further signs of local resentment emerge when a large scow dumps the town's filth next to the frigate and the Portuguese sailors shout abuse at the Surprises.__NEWL__Aubrey sees the Papal legate on the shore, preparing to bless the town's ships, and recognises him as his own natural son Sam.__NEWL__As the Papal Nuncio to the Republic of Argentina, the Most Reverend Doctor Samuel Mputa had recently saved the government from an open rebellion.__NEWL__The South African squadron, under its Commander-in-Chief Admiral Lord Leyton, makes its appearance.__NEWL__Taking command of the blue squadron, Aubrey boards his new flagship, , seeing his blue rear admiral's flag hoisted on the mizzen mast.__NEWL__He has an interview with the cantankerous Admiral, who wants to send two of his officers and a midshipman home to England on Surprise.__NEWL__Aubrey explains that he does not own the Surprise, a private vessel once more, but ultimately pledges Maturin's consent in exchange for enough prime hands to man the shorthanded Suffolk, its crew having been reduced by disease.__NEWL__Aboard Surprise, Aubrey tells the assembled hands that he can take 63 volunteers over to join him on Suffolk, and receives cheers.__NEWL__While the fleet re-provisions, Ringle sails to England under the steady and capable Lieutenant Harding, and returns with Sophie Aubrey, Christine Wood, her brother Edward Heatherleigh, Maturin's daughter Brigid, and Aubrey's twins Fanny and Charlotte, all of whom will sail with Aubrey and Maturin to South Africa.__NEWL__The three girls had not been getting along well, with the Aubrey twins jealous of any attention their mother gives to young Brigid, a concern to both fathers.__NEWL__Brigid is a natural sailor, having been on the Ringle at a very young age for her voyage to Spain and on the packet to return to England.__NEWL__The twins are seasick most of the way to the River Plate, whereas Brigid is at home, friends with the sailors and ready with answers to everything aboard ship.__NEWL__When they meet their father, the twins have shed the jealousy and begin to have a kinder connection with their cousin Brigid.__NEWL__On Leyton's flagship, Stephen and Jack encounter Captain Randolph Miller, Leyton's nephew and Aubrey's neighbour at Woolcombe, who has a reputation as a ladies' man and as an excellent pistol shot, earning him the nickname "Hair-Trigger Miller".__NEWL__In England, Miller had been paying court to Christine Wood.__NEWL__After hosting Aubrey and Maturin at a dinner, Admiral Leyton orders Aubrey to take Suffolk to Saint Helena, to wait there for Leyton's squadron, and then to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope, carrying Miller to Cape Town aboard Suffolk.__NEWL__In the last few handwritten pages that follow the end of the typescript, the full squadron arrives at the southwest coast of Africa.__NEWL__While the ships remain docked in the town of Loando (modern-day Luanda, Angola) to refit after storm damage, the squadron's officers and families take up residence in a Portuguese military headquarters building.__NEWL__Stephen returns from ship's business to find Miller again visiting Christine, which Miller had done almost every day, bringing her flowers.__NEWL__After Stephen shows Miller the door, Christine asks him to intervene and convey her wish to Miller that the uninvited visits should stop.__NEWL__Leyton orders the squadron to prepare for an exercise at sea.__NEWL__Stephen is in the town, accompanied by Harding and Jacob, when he meets Miller and delivers Christine's message.__NEWL__In response, Miller calls Stephen a liar and strikes him, and Stephen calmly calls him out.__NEWL__Miller demands pistols but Maturin stands upon his right, as the aggrieved party, to name the weapons; they will duel with swords.__NEWL__In response to Miller's complaints that he knows nothing of swords, Admiral Leyton and Miller's own seconds agree that the terms are fair, and that Miller must accept the challenge or be forever disgraced.__NEWL__The duel takes place, and with three or four thrusts Stephen disarms Miller and demands Miller's apology at swordpoint, which is given.__NEWL__At the end of the manuscript, we observe Miller at sea on Leyton's flagship.__NEWL__Disrespected even by his own servant, Miller takes to his cabin, avoiding company and his duties on deck.__NEWL__He is seen to be sweating profusely and changing his uniform with uncommon frequency, apparently deeply disturbed by his loss of face in the duel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7776568	The Year 3,000	1897-01-01T00:00:00Z	1529842	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529842	Paolo and Maria (the same names as those of the author and his wife) are going to marry after the mandatory period of five years of experimentation "with love but not children" (Mantegazza was a sexual libertarian and wrote a very popular book explaining sexuality for young people, titled The Physiology of Love).__NEWL__So, they start a journey to Andropolis (the "city of man"), the huge (10 million inhabitants) and ultramodern capital of the "United Planetary States".__NEWL__And that is all about it: they visit its political institutions, energy plants, libraries and theaters, laboratories and schools, where Paul acting as a guide, shows Maria around and describes and explains everything.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7637435	Summer Sisters	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1555509	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1555509	Summer Sisters is a coming-of-age novel about two friends, Caitlin Somers and Victoria "Vix" Leonard, who spend every summer together as teenagers.__NEWL__The girls are polar opposites, Caitlin being beautiful, lively and popular while Vix is a shy but intellectual wallflower.__NEWL__As the years progress the girls become closer and closer but soon find their friendship strained.__NEWL__The novel begins with a phone call from Caitlin to Vix.__NEWL__Caitlin calls to tell Vix that she is marrying Vix's ex-boyfriend and first love, Bru.__NEWL__Vix is shocked and becomes sick with the news.__NEWL__Flashback:__NEWL__Now the reader learns of Vix's family and first encounter with Caitlin.__NEWL__Vix's home life consists of her controlling mother, Tawny, an average-joe father, and three younger siblings, Lanie, Lewis, and Vix's favorite: her wheelchair-using brother Nathan.__NEWL__Tawny works for a Countess and is always making Vix feel as though she is not good enough.__NEWL__Then Vix meets Caitlin in her sixth grade class, and Caitlin invites Vix to come to Martha's Vineyard with her for the summer.__NEWL__This is when Vix's whole world is turned upside down.__NEWL__After much debate, Vix convinces Tawny and her father to let her go with Caitlin.__NEWL__Vix flies out East from her New Mexico ranch and meets Caitlin's family: her laid-back father, Lambert "Lamb" Somers, her brother "Sharkey", and Trisha, an ex-girlfriend of Lamb's who is still close with him but has recently been replaced by Abby, a woman who means well but whom Caitlin dislikes.__NEWL__Abby's son, Daniel, and his friend, Gus, also vacation with Caitlin's family.__NEWL__This section of the book focuses on the mishaps and adventures that the kids go through, including Vix and Caitlin and their crushes on two older boys, Joseph "Bru" Brudegher and his cousin, Von.__NEWL__When the summer ends, Caitlin and Vix remain friends and continue to attend school together.__NEWL__They make it a tradition for Vix to spend every summer with Caitlin from then on, hence the "Summer Sisters."__NEWL__Eventually, Vix hooks up with Bru and Caitlin with Von.__NEWL__Then Vix makes out with Von while high.__NEWL__She thinks that Caitlin set up the whole scenario and they get into a huge argument.__NEWL__Just prior to her senior year of high school, Vix's beloved brother Nathan succumbs to his physical disabilities and dies as a result, leaving Vix devastated.__NEWL__Vix's younger sister, Lanie, becomes pregnant and has her first child, and Lewis joins the military.__NEWL__As the girls mature, they encounter their first heterosexual experiences (Caitlin with an Italian ski-instructor, then Von, supposedly) and Vix's in-depth and long-term relationship with Bru, which continues into her college years when she attends Harvard on a scholarship from The Somers Foundation.__NEWL__Caitlin is accepted to Wellesley College but chooses not to attend and travels abroad.__NEWL__Vix goes to Harvard while still remaining in a relationship with Bru.__NEWL__She makes new friends, most notably Maia, her uptight roommate whose worrisome ways begin to grow on Vix, but they become close.__NEWL__However, things turn sour when Vix realizes she doesn't know what she wants in life and she and Bru temporarily break up during her Junior year of college.__NEWL__A few months later, a passionate meeting leads to their renewed faithfulness, but all's well does not end well.__NEWL__Just before graduation, Bru asks Vix to marry him, but she says no after realizing that they do not want the same things in life.__NEWL__Vix misses Bru, but moves on and casually dates other people, whilst Caitlin has numerous hetero and homosexual escapades in Europe.__NEWL__The girls keep in loose contact over the years, each becoming busy with her own life until the fateful day when Caitlin makes that phone call and tells Vix about her upcoming nuptials to Bru.__NEWL__Caitlin invites Vix to the wedding, and she decides to go, only to end up sleeping with Bru the night before.__NEWL__Then, Vix discovers that Bru took not only her virginity but Caitlin's as well.__NEWL__As Bru thinks in the book, "he loves them both...__NEWL__he is glad they have decided for him [who he will be with.]__NEWL__" Caitlin and Bru get married nonetheless, and Caitlin has a daughter, Somers Mayhew Brudegher, whom they call "Maizie".__NEWL__Vix, meanwhile, reconnects with Abby's son Daniel's friend Gus, whom she spent all those summers with years ago at the vineyard.__NEWL__She and Gus slowly fall in love and eventually get married as well.__NEWL__In the final chapters, Vix visits Caitlin again after Caitlin has a breakdown and leaves her family, her marriage to Bru ending in divorce and Bru marrying Star, a local islander.__NEWL__Vix is pregnant with her first child at this time, a baby boy to be named Nate in honor of her late brother.__NEWL__Caitlin and Vix's meeting is relaxed and the two end up pledging to be best friends forever with each one truly grateful for the other's presence in her life.__NEWL__In the end, Vix is enjoying married life and motherhood when she and everyone else learn that Caitlin disappears in an alleged boating accident...__NEWL__she was in a boat by herself and that was the last time anyone ever saw her, as the boat turned up empty with Caitlin unaccounted for.__NEWL__Blume is not clear on the true reasons behind Caitlin's disappearance, as no body is discovered and there is no damage or foul play, leading the reader to choose between the possibilities that Caitlin purposely vanished from her family and friends or perhaps she did indeed drown.__NEWL__The closing thought is Vix's recount of her "summer sister" and the memories they will always share, and wishing that things could have ended differently.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1157010	La Princesse de Clèves	1678-03-01T00:00:00Z	467					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	1548792	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1548792	Mademoiselle de Chartres is a sheltered heiress, sixteen years old, whose mother has brought her to the court of Henri II to seek a husband with good financial and social prospects.__NEWL__When old jealousies against a kinsman spark intrigues against the young ingénue, the best marriage prospects withdraw.__NEWL__The young woman follows her mother's recommendation and accepts the overtures of a middling suitor, the Prince de Clèves.__NEWL__After the wedding, she meets the dashing Duke de Nemours.__NEWL__The two fall in love, yet do nothing to pursue their affections, limiting their contact to an occasional visit in the now-Princess of Clèves's salon.__NEWL__The duke becomes enmeshed in a scandal at court that leads the Princess to believe he has been unfaithful in his affections.__NEWL__A letter from a spurned mistress to her paramour is discovered in the dressing room at one of the estates, but this letter was actually written to the Princess' uncle, the Vidame de Chartres, who has also become entangled in a relationship with the Queen.__NEWL__He begs the Duke de Nemours to claim ownership of the letter, which ends up in the Princess's possession.__NEWL__The duke has to produce documents from the Vidame to convince the Princess that his heart has been true.__NEWL__Eventually, the Prince de Clèves discerns that his wife is in love with another man.__NEWL__She confesses as much.__NEWL__He relentlessly quizzes her—indeed tricks her—until she reveals the man's identity.__NEWL__After he sends a servant to spy on the Duke de Nemours, the Prince de Clèves believes that his wife has been both physically and emotionally unfaithful to him.__NEWL__He becomes ill and dies (either of his illness or of a broken heart).__NEWL__On his deathbed, he blames the Duke de Nemours for his suffering and begs the Princess not to marry him.__NEWL__Now free to pursue her passions, the Princess is torn between her duty and her love.__NEWL__The duke pursues her more openly, but she rejects him, choosing instead to enter a convent for part of each year.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q533391	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13362	Ferrara	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	1533471	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1533471	The novel opens with a brief prologue set in 1957 in which the narrator, an Italian Jew, describes a visit to the Ferrara cemetery where the Finzi-Contini family mausoleum stands, empty in all but two slots: a young child, Guido, who died of illness before the narrator was born; and Alberto, the son of the Finzi-Continis and a friend of the narrator's, who died of lymphogranulomatosis (Hodgkin's disease) before the mass deportation that sent the remainder of the family to a concentration camp in Germany.__NEWL__At this point, the narrator reveals that none of the Finzi-Continis survived.__NEWL__The first part of the book covers the narrator's childhood experiences, describing the various social circles of the local Jewish population and the mystery around the Finzi-Contini children, Alberto and Micòl, who were schooled separately from the other Jewish children and who only appeared at the main school for the annual exams.__NEWL__The narrator fails his math test in this particular year, the first time he has failed any of the annual exams required for promotion, and he takes off on his bike out of fear of his father's reaction.__NEWL__He ends up outside the walls of the Finzi-Continis' mansion, where he has a conversation with Micòl, the Finzi-Continis' pretty daughter.__NEWL__The narrator is invited by Micòl to enter the garden.__NEWL__He excuses himself out of concern for the safety of his bicycle.__NEWL__She then comes over the wall to show him a safe hiding place, but while hiding his bike he dallies in contemplation of Micòl - and loses his chance to see the garden until years later.__NEWL__The next two parts of the book cover the years when the children are all in or just out of college.__NEWL__The racial laws have restricted their ability to socialize with the Ferrarese Christians, and so the narrator, Alberto, Micòl, and Giampi Malnate (an older Christian friend with socialist views) form an informal tennis club of their own, playing several times a week at the court in the Finzi-Continis' garden.__NEWL__During these visits, the narrator declares, shyly at first but more and more forcefully, his love for Micòl.__NEWL__However, her attitude towards the narrator remains one of friendship so that the relationship slowly peters out.__NEWL__The final section of the book covers the slow fading of the narrator's involvement in the tennis club, his futile attempts to restart the romance with Micòl, and his growing friendship with Malnate whom he suspects at the end of the book of having an affair with Micòl.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1645692	The Orchard Keeper	1965-05-05T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q93332	Appalachian Mountains	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1529520	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529520	The Orchard Keeper is set during the inter-war period in the hamlet of Red Branch, a small, isolated community in Tennessee.__NEWL__Its story revolves around three characters: Uncle Arthur Ownby, an isolated woodman, who lives beside a rotting apple orchard; John Wesley Rattner, a young mountain boy; and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger.__NEWL__The novel begins with Marion picking up a hitchhiker named Kenneth Rattner, who attacks Marion with a tire iron, attempting to murder and rob him.__NEWL__After a struggle, Marion strangles Kenneth to death.__NEWL__Marion dumps the corpse in a gravel pit on Arthur Ownby's property, as he knows the land well from his frequent pickups of bootleg whiskey.__NEWL__Arthur soon discovers the corpse, but rather than inform the authorities, he covers the pit over to keep the body hidden.__NEWL__As time passes, Kenneth's wife, Mildred, and son, John Wesley, come to accept he has likely been killed, and Mildred makes her son vow to one day take vengeance on his father's killer.__NEWL__One night, as Marion is picking up a shipment of whiskey hidden on Arthur's property, he witnesses Arthur unloading a shotgun into a tank the government has installed on his land.__NEWL__Unnerved, Marion collects the whiskey and flees the property, fearing Arthur might do him harm.__NEWL__Arthur passively watches Marion's car drive off into the night.__NEWL__Marion's car careens off the road and into a stream.__NEWL__John Wesley happens to be checking some of his traps in the area and, hearing the crash, comes to Marion's aid, helping the injured man to land.__NEWL__John Wesley is unaware that Marion is his father's killer, and Marion does not recognize John Wesley as the son of the man he killed.__NEWL__Grateful for his help, Marion gives John Wesley one of his dogs, and the two men develop a friendly, almost father-and-son relationship, with Marion teaching John Wesley how to hunt.__NEWL__The local police discover Marion's vehicle in the stream, its whiskey cargo mostly destroyed, as well the defaced government tank.__NEWL__John Wesley becomes a suspect and is threatened with criminal charges if he doesn't admit that Marion was driving the whiskey-filled car.__NEWL__John Wesley refuses to cooperate.__NEWL__The police then go to Arthur's cabin to question him.__NEWL__As they pull up in his yard, Arthur comes out of the cabin wielding a shotgun.__NEWL__The police return with reinforcements, and a shoot-out ensues.__NEWL__Arthur wounds a few of the officers, then flees, but is captured a short while later.__NEWL__Marion, too, is captured, when his new vehicle breaks down on a bridge, its trunk filled with whiskey.__NEWL__Arthur is diagnosed as insane or senile and is sent to a mental hospital, where he will likely spend the remainder of his days.__NEWL__Marion is sentenced to three years in prison for illegally transporting whiskey.__NEWL__Still oblivious to Marion's role in his father's death, John Wesley leaves Red Branch.__NEWL__He returns several years later to find the town abandoned.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4458189	The Titan	1914-01-01T00:00:00Z	3629	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1297	Chicago	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1529524	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529524	After his release from prison, Frank Cowperwood invests in stocks subsequent to the Panic of 1873, and becomes a millionaire again.__NEWL__He decides to move out of Philadelphia and start a new life in the West.__NEWL__He moves to Chicago with Aileen and his attorney is finally able to persuade Lillian to agree to a divorce.__NEWL__Frank decides to take over the street-railway system.__NEWL__He bankrupts several opponents with the help of John J. McKenty and other political allies.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Chicago society finds out about his past in Philadelphia and the couple are no longer invited to dinner parties; after a while, the press turns on him too.__NEWL__Cowperwood is unfaithful many times.__NEWL__Aileen finds out about a certain Rita and beats her up.__NEWL__She gives up on him and has an affair with Polk Lynde, a man of privilege; she eventually loses faith in him.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Cowperwood meets young Berenice Fleming; by the end of the novel, he tells her he loves her and she consents to live with him.__NEWL__However, the ending is bittersweet as Cowperwood has not managed to obtain the fifty-year franchise for his railway schemes that he wanted.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2364029	Outer Dark	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1529553	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529553	The novel begins with the introduction of the siblings Culla and Rinthy Holme, and the result of their sexual relationship with Rinthy being only a few days from labor.__NEWL__Here, the Tinker is introduced as well, and from his interaction with Culla and Culla's unwillingness to call for help during the birth, his shame over the child becomes clear.__NEWL__The child is soon born, and after Rinthy falls asleep, Culla leaves it out to die in the woods telling her that the child died.__NEWL__The child is found by the tinker, who takes him to a wet nurse, without knowing who his parents are.__NEWL__Rinthy finds an empty grave and sets out to find the child.__NEWL__After abandoning the child, Culla, trying to escape his sin, sets out across the country to find work.__NEWL__His first job is with a local squire, who puts him to work chopping wood, for which he is paid half a dollar.__NEWL__After he leaves it is found out that a pair of expensive boots have been stolen.__NEWL__Immediately blaming him, the squire pursues him.__NEWL__The squire is set upon by a trio and soon killed.__NEWL__Travelling to the town of Cheatham looking for work, it is found out that someone has desecrated three graves near the church.__NEWL__He is blamed and runs away from the town.__NEWL__His next job is painting the roof of a barn a ways from Cheatham, but is found by law enforcement.__NEWL__Again forced to run away, he injures himself in flight.__NEWL__The trio going in wake of Culla finds the three men he assumes framed him for the desecration and kills them.__NEWL__Further on his journey Culla finds an old man who gives him a drink of water and shows off his gun and hunting trophies.__NEWL__He invites Culla to stay and learn snake hunting from him.__NEWL__He refuses.__NEWL__The trio again shows up and kills the man.__NEWL__His next stop is Preston Falls, where he finds employment digging graves.__NEWL__Returning to town for payment, he finds it abandoned of all life and quickly runs away from it.__NEWL__ Culla tries to cross a river on a ferry with the ferryman and a man who came aboard on horseback.__NEWL__During their night crossing, the river surges too quickly and soon the ferryman, the man and the horse are killed.__NEWL__Near dawn, Culla is helped ashore by the trio that was following him, who suspect him of murdering the two men aboard the ferry.__NEWL__Culla is obliged to eat some of the strange, unknown meat from their fire and, threatening him, the men take his boots.__NEWL__Culla afterwards stumbles upon an apparently abandoned, unlocked home and takes refuge in it.__NEWL__In the morning, he is welcomed by an armed man who takes him to the squire, again accused of a crime, this time of trespassing.__NEWL__He pleads guilty to this crime for a lighter sentence, and works off his fine.__NEWL__The final episode of his journey of false accusations is being accused on inciting a herd of pigs off a cliff and the murder of a young hog-driver.__NEWL__This time, to evade being executed, Culla jumps off a cliff himself into a river, injuring his leg.__NEWL__Coming ashore, he again finds the trio, as well as his child (burned on one side of his body and missing an eye) and the body of the tinker.__NEWL__After accusing Culla of fathering and abandoning the child, the leader of the trio slays the baby, after which a companion appears to begin to eat it.__NEWL__Careful to avoid her brother, Rinthy sets out to look for the child.__NEWL__After travelling a while, during the night she stumbles upon a house.__NEWL__Here she finds a family who take her in, feed her and offer her a place to sleep.__NEWL__The oldest boy of the family expresses interest in her, whom she rejects.__NEWL__Travelling to the town with them, she is unable to find the child and sets out again to try and find him.__NEWL__Travelling further she stays briefly with two families, where she finds out she is still lactating and retains hope for child's well-being.__NEWL__She stays for some time with an old woman living in a forest with a dislike for snakes and dogs.__NEWL__Next she meets a lawyer who treats her kindly and allows her to rest at his office while she waits for a doctor, who keeps business across from the lawyer.__NEWL__The doctor gives her hope her child is still alive, and gives her a salve for her breasts which are still lactating and have begun bleeding.__NEWL__Rinthy finally catches up to the tinker, who takes her to his cabin with the suggestion of giving her her child.__NEWL__He does not in fact do so, but berates her for abandoning her child, and telling her he deserves the child far more than she.__NEWL__Beginning to surmise the truth, the tinker demands to know if Culla is the child's father.__NEWL__When Rinthy tells him he is, the tinker refuses to believe it, calling Rinthy a liar and storming from the cabin saying he will kill her if she follows him.__NEWL__Later, she appears to be living with an unidentified man (possibly Culla, but not for certain) on a small farm.__NEWL__The man insists she speak to him, but she says she does not have anything to say.__NEWL__In the middle of the night, she steals away from the farm and the “dead and loveless house,” going back to the road.__NEWL__Finally, she comes upon the clearing where her child’s body has been burned, along with the tinker’s cart, and where the tinker’s body hangs in a tree.__NEWL__She lingers in the clearing, and goes to sleep as night falls.__NEWL__Years later, Culla talks to a blind man who tells him of the blessings of being blind, and that he prays for what he needs.__NEWL__Culla later watches the blind man walking towards a swamp, which for him means certain death.__NEWL__The novel ends with Culla thinking "Someone should tell a blind man before setting him out that way".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2981270	In Desert and Wilderness	1911-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	1529600	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529600	The story takes place in the late 19th century Egypt, during the Mahdist War.__NEWL__A 14-year-old Polish boy, Stanisław (Staś) Tarkowski, and 8-year-old English girl, Nel Rawlison, live with their fathers and grow up in the ton of Port Said.__NEWL__Their fathers are engineers who supervise the maintenance of the Suez Canal.__NEWL__One day, the Mahdist War begins in Sudan, led by a Muslim preacher, the Mahdi.__NEWL__Staś and Nel are captured as hostages by a group of Arabs who hope that they can exchange the children for Fatima, Mahdi's distant relative, who had been arrested by the British at the beginning of the novel.__NEWL__Nel and Staś are forced to travel through the Sahara Desert to Khartoum, where they are to be presented to Mahdi.__NEWL__The journey is difficult and exhausting, especially for delicate and vulnerable Nel.__NEWL__Staś, who is a brave and responsible boy, protects his friend from the abductors' cruelty, even though that means that he is beaten and punished.__NEWL__His plans to escape fail and the children gradually lose their hope.__NEWL__When the group arrive in Khartoum (precisely - Omdurman) the Arabs are disappointed by the fact that Mahdi, busy with leading the revolt, ignored their "mission" and turned down their offers.__NEWL__They take out their anger and frustration on the children.__NEWL__ Staś is summoned to meet with the Mahdi and turns down the rebel leader's offer to convert to Islam.__NEWL__For that he is strongly reprimanded by another European captive, a Greek who did agree to convert in order to save his family and himself.__NEWL__The Greek tells Staś that such a forced conversion does not count since "God sees what is inside your heart" and that, by his intransigence, Staś may have doomed Nel to terrible death.__NEWL__ Staś and Nel, exhausted by heat, thirst, hunger and poor treatment, live for some time in the city ruined by war, poverty and diseases.__NEWL__After a while the children and Arabs make another journey further south, to Fashoda.__NEWL__One day the group encounters a lion who attacks them.__NEWL__The Arabs (who do not know how to fire a shotgun) hand the weapon to Staś and beg him to shoot the beast.__NEWL__Staś kills the lion, and then shoots down the Arabs as well.__NEWL__This is dictated by the despair and fury: the boy knows that the men were not going to set the children free.__NEWL__He hated the Arabs for abusing them – especially Nel.__NEWL__Free of the Arabs, the children are marooned in the depth of Africa.__NEWL__They set out on an arduous journey through the African desert and jungle in the hope that sooner or later they would encounter European explorers or the British Army.__NEWL__The journey is full of dangers and adventures.__NEWL__The children, accompanied by two black slaves (a boy named Kali and a girl named Mea) whom Staś had freed from the Arabs, encounter a number of wonders and perils.__NEWL__The children stop for a rest on a beautiful hill near a waterfall.__NEWL__They soon find out that a gigantic elephant has been trapped in a gully nearby.__NEWL__Nel, who loves animals, takes pity on the beast and saves it from starvation by throwing fruits and leaves into the gorge.__NEWL__The girl and the elephant (which is extremely intelligent and benign and whom Nel calls "King" because of its size) quickly become friends.__NEWL__ Soon Nel is stricken with malaria and is about to die.__NEWL__Staś, mad with grief, decides to go to what he thinks is a Bedouin camp and beg for quinine.__NEWL__When he gets to the camp he find out that it belongs to an old Swiss explorer named Linde.__NEWL__The man had been severely injured by a wild boar and is waiting for death.__NEWL__All of his African servants have fallen ill to sleeping sickness and die one after another.__NEWL__Although horrified by this gruesome death camp, Staś becomes friend with Linde who generously supplies him with food, weapon, gunpowder and quinine.__NEWL__Thanks to the medicine, Nel recovers.__NEWL__Staś, grateful for Linde's help, accompanies the Swiss until the man's death.__NEWL__Then, using Linde's gunpowder, he frees King from the trap and they set out on a further journey.__NEWL__Accompanying the children further on their journey is Linde's 12-year-old slave boy, Nasibu.__NEWL__The group sojourns on top of a small mountain mentioned by Linde before his death where Staś teaches Kali how to shoot.__NEWL__On a certain day, a furious gorilla on the mountain attacks Nasibu__NEWL__but he is rescued by their now-tamed elephant which attacks and kills the gorilla.__NEWL__Deciding that the mountaintop is no longer safe, the group move on to the village of Wa-Hima.__NEWL__The tribes-people, seeing Staś riding upon an elephant, honor him and Nel as a Good Mzibu (a good spirit/goddess).__NEWL__The group stays in the village a short time, for Kali is by birthright the prince of the Wa-Hima tribe and therefore well-known.__NEWL__Staś is further venerated by the villagers when he kills the wobo (a black leopard) that was plaguing the village.__NEWL__On reaching Kali's home village, the group learns that his tribe has been invaded by and attacked by their enemies since time immemorial, the Sambur tribe.__NEWL__Due to assistance from Kali's tribe and the guns carried by Staś and Nel, the war is won in the protagonist's favour.__NEWL__Because of his good nature, Staś and Nel command that the tribes-people of the Sambur tribe not be killed but rather united with the Wa-Hima.__NEWL__Staś urges the tribes to accept Christianity and live peacefully together.__NEWL__Staś, Nel, Saba, King, Kali and 100 Sambur and Wa-Hima tribes-people move on to the east, which has not been mapped, in hope of reaching the Indian Ocean and being found by English explorers who might be searching for them.__NEWL__Kali has brought with him two witch doctors, M'Kunje and M'Rua, fearing that they might plot against him while he is away from home.__NEWL__However, it finishes tragically for the group: both of the witch doctors steal food and the last of the water but are soon found killed by either a lion or leopard.__NEWL__Many of the tribes-people accompanying Nel and Staś die for lack of water.__NEWL__After the group has gone for at least three days without any water in the scorching dry desert, the children are saved at the last moment by two familiar officers who had recovered kites inscribed by Staś and Nel earlier in their plight describing their whereabouts and destination.__NEWL__The group is saved and is informed that Mahdi has died of a heart attack.__NEWL__Staś, Nel and Saba are reunited with their fathers and they return to Europe.__NEWL__Kali and his tribe members return to their settlement on Lake Rudolf.__NEWL__ In a postscript it is told that, after growing up, Staś and Nel are married and visit their friends in Africa after ten years.__NEWL__Revisiting the places where they had trudged with so much difficulty and danger has become quick, easy and safe, since everything was taken over by the British Empire which started building railways.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7069910	Nuns and Soldiers	1980-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1550981	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1550981	Guy Openshaw is 44 years old and on his death bed.__NEWL__Cancer is coming down hard on Guy, and he cannot stand the stream of visitors to his London flat.__NEWL__His wife Gertrude entertains the drop-ins, who were once part of a lively set that came by after work hours for a drink and chat.__NEWL__The visitors all relied on Guy for advice and money, and as he dies the varied people in the novel begin to fray.__NEWL__Gertrude is assisted in looking after Guy by Anne Cavidge, an old friend who has recently left the nunnery she had entered fifteen years earlier.__NEWL__One of the visitors to the Openshaw flat is the youngish Tim Reede, an artist who cannot sell his work and who is lost without Guy’s support.__NEWL__He has a girlfriend named Daisy who dresses like a punk and talks and drinks like a sailor; they’re a perfect pair of starving misfits.__NEWL__Daisy makes Tim visit Gertrude once Guy has passed and ask her for money, but Gertrude begins questioning Tim about his craft and winds up wanting to support him in other ways, namely giving him run of her home in the French countryside.__NEWL__This development upsets the plans for the future that the newly-wealthy Gertrude had begun to make with Anne.__NEWL__The Tim-Gertrude affair and subsequent marriage is the heart of the book, and it is a good study of class relations and the younger man-older woman romance.__NEWL__Tim is both a hero and a colossal screw-up, but he is also kind and lets Gertrude’s friends run him down because it doesn’t bother her and he still gets to be with her at the end of the day.__NEWL__Some of Gertrude’s circle are genuinely concerned, but most are either in love with her or what she could do for them with Guy’s inheritance.__NEWL__There is a fair amount of treachery and coincidence in the novel, but the heavy touches are softened by consequences which Murdoch lets play out in natural time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4736895	Alton Locke	1547906	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1547906	Alton Locke is the story of a young tailor-boy who has instincts and aspirations beyond the normal expectations of his working-class background.__NEWL__He is intensely patriotic and has ambitions to be a poet.__NEWL__In the course of the narrative, Alton Locke loves and struggles in vain.__NEWL__Physically, he is a weak man, but is able to encompass all the best emotions, along with vain longings, wild hopes, and a righteous indignation at the plight of his contemporaries.__NEWL__He joins the Chartist movement because he can find no better vehicle by which to improve the lot of the working class, experiencing a sense of devastation at its apparent failure.__NEWL__Utterly broken in spirit, Alton Locke sails for America to seek a new life there; however, he barely reaches the shore of the New World before he dies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7846478	Trouble with Lichen	1960-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1540184	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1540184	The plot concerns a young female biochemist who discovers that a chemical extracted from an unusual strain of lichen can be used to slow down the ageing process, enabling people to live to around 200–300 years.__NEWL__Wyndham speculates how society would deal with this prospect.__NEWL__The two central characters are Diana Brackley and Francis Saxover, two biochemists who run parallel investigations into the properties of a specific species of lichen after Diana notices that a trace of the specimen prevents some milk turning sour.__NEWL__She and Francis separately manage to extract from the lichen a new drug, dubbed Antigerone, which slows down the body's ageing process.__NEWL__While Francis uses it only on himself and his immediate family (without their knowledge), Diana founds a cosmetic spa, and builds up a clientele of some of the most powerful women in England, giving them low doses of Antigerone, preserving their beauty and youth.__NEWL__When Francis finds out about the spas, he erroneously assumes that Diana's motive is profit.__NEWL__Diana's aim, however, is actually female empowerment, intending to gain the support of these influential women, believing that if Antigerone became publicly known, it would be reserved only for the men in power.__NEWL__After a customer suffers an allergic reaction to one of Diana's products, the secret of the drug begins to emerge.__NEWL__Diana tries to cover up the real source of the drug, since the lichen is very rare and difficult to grow, but when it is finally discovered she fakes her own death in the hope of inspiring the women of Britain to fight for the rights she tried to secure for them.__NEWL__Francis realizes that Diana may not really be dead, and tracks her down to a remote farm where she has succeeded in growing a small amount of the lichen.__NEWL__Diana plans to rejoin the world under the guise of being her own sister, and continue the work she left off.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7755720	The Outward Urge	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1540273	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1540273	The novel is a future history, set from 1994 to 2194.__NEWL__It tells the story, with chapters at 50-year intervals, of the exploration of the Solar System, with space stations in Earth orbit, then Moon bases, and landings on Mars in 2094, Venus in 2144, and the asteroids.__NEWL__This is told through the Troon family, several members of which play an important part in the exploration of space, since they all feel "the outward urge", the desire to travel further into space.__NEWL__They all "hear the thin gnat-voices cry, star to faint star across the sky", a quote from The Jolly Company by Rupert Brooke.__NEWL__In 1994, "Ticker" Troon is killed foiling a Soviet missile attack on a British space station, and is later awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.__NEWL__In 2044, a major nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West wipes out most of the Northern Hemisphere.__NEWL__Inhabitants of the Southern Hemisphere—virtually the only survivors of humanity—call it the "Great Northern War", the far earlier war of the same name seeming very minor in comparison.__NEWL__Only after hundreds of years, with radioactivity going down, do expeditions from the south start carefully exploring and preparing to re-colonise the ravaged northern hemisphere.__NEWL__Brazil is left as the main world power, which then claims that "Space is a province of Brazil".__NEWL__However, Australia eventually emerges as a serious rival.__NEWL__Consequently, English and Portuguese become contenders for the position of the major worldwide (eventually, Solar System-wide) language.__NEWL__Eventually, space explorers break away from the tutelage of both earthbound powers and establish themselves as a major third power, called simply "Space"; the Troon Family plays a major role in this as in many other events.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7490603	Shasta of the Wolves							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1564792	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1564792	On a mountain in the Pacific Northwest, apparently in the 19th century, the she-wolf Nitka discovers an abandoned Native American baby and is inspired by the "Spirit of the Wild" to raise him alongside her own cubs.__NEWL__He has no name of his own to begin with, although the author calls him Shasta from the outset.__NEWL__Like Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli (Baker even refers to him as a man-cub), Shasta grows up naked in the wild and is able to speak to animals, including the wise old black bear Gomposh, although this "speech" seems to consist as much of body language as of actual vocalization.__NEWL__Along the way his animal parents and friends rescue him from attacks by a grizzly bear and a moose, and he takes revenge on an eagle for killing wolf cubs.__NEWL__Shasta also discovers a human tribe and is briefly captured by them before his wolf parents help him to escape.__NEWL__His curiosity eventually draws him back, and this time he is treated more kindly and persuaded to stay.__NEWL__The chief explains to the tribe that he is in fact one of their own tribesmen, Shasta, grandson of the old chief.__NEWL__Shasta's mother was killed by a tribesman who defected to an enemy tribe, the Assiniboines, taking Shasta and abandoning him in the hope that the wolves would kill him.__NEWL__Instead, he survived and eventually returned to the tribe bringing his "wolf medicine".__NEWL__While Shasta is in the process of learning tribal ways, he discovers that the Assiniboines are once more planning to attack.__NEWL__During the raid Shasta is captured and prepared for sacrifice, but is once again rescued by his wolf-friends, who avenge his human mother's death by killing many of the enemy tribe.__NEWL__After the battle Shasta stays with his wolf kindred, and the author is deliberately ambiguous as to whether he later returns to human society.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6268995	Join My Cult	2004-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1564851	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1564851	Various plot elements focus on groups of suburban kids experimenting with shamanism and hallucinogens, who quickly discover themselves unhinged from the culture around them.__NEWL__It details events surrounding their harrowing plunge into this abyss, regularly shifting narrator and frame of reference from one member of the group to the other.__NEWL__Curcio utilizes atypical narrative and grammatical structures in the form of neurolinguistic and hypnotic confusion techniques within the text in an effort to stimulate a similar experience over the course of reading.__NEWL__That Curcio was intentionally utilizing these techniques is shown in various interviews such as a Gpod radio interview found on his website.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7771479	The Ungodly Farce	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q35	Denmark	12850207	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12850207	The novel's protagonist is Jesper Fegge, a young jazz enthusiast and wannabe writer who after meeting an American woman named Mabel and hitting his head several times loses his unconscious mind.__NEWL__This means in the book that Jesper can't make any decisions unconsciously anymore and it also gives him the ability to see various outcomes of every decision he makes or doesn't make.__NEWL__So at the beginning of the book he either can take his violin or his typewriter to America because of the size of his bag and this decision affects all his future life.__NEWL__Over the course of the novel Jesper can get married and settle down, found a new religion, get beaten up repeatedly, commit adultery, search for the meaning of life and do various other things.__NEWL__Some of the people with whom he interacts in various paths of his life can also sense their complicated relations with Jesper.__NEWL__In the end he has to choose a path of his life that would do the least harm.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763231	The Seekers	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12912822	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12912822	The story begins in 1794, at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, in the Northwest Territory.__NEWL__Abraham Kent, the son of Philip Kent and Anne Ware, leads a cavalry charge in the battle, but misses a chance to kill Tecumseh.__NEWL__Two years later, Abraham marries his stepsister, Elizabeth Fletcher, and they purchase a tract of land on the Great Miami River, near Fort Hamilton, where begins farming corn.__NEWL__They have a son, Jared Adam, born in 1798.__NEWL__Elizabeth does not enjoy their new life and they plan to move to a more populated area.__NEWL__Just before the move, Elizabeth is killed by a Shawnee Indian.__NEWL__Abraham, distraught, sells the farm and makes his way back to Boston with Jared to learn that his father Philip has recently died.__NEWL__Abraham meets his half-brother Gilbert and takes a job in the family business, the Kent and Son printers, but the trauma of Elizabeth's death makes him unsuccessful.__NEWL__Abraham decides to leave, but when he tries to take his son with him, his sister-in-law, Harriet, refuses.__NEWL__Abraham pushes her down the stairs, causing her to go into premature labor.__NEWL__Gilbert expels Abraham from his house without Jared, and Harriet gives birth to a daughter, Amanda.__NEWL__Abraham is never seen again.__NEWL__Jared is raised by Gilbert and Harriet and when he comes of age, he enlists in the U.S. Navy and serves in the War of 1812.__NEWL__During his service, Jared fends off the homosexual advances of a superior officer, Lieutenant Hamilton Stovall.__NEWL__Gilbert Kent dies of a seizure and Harriet remarries.__NEWL__Her second husband, Andrew Piggott, is a compulsive gambler and womaniser who loses the publishing firm to Lt. Stovall in a game of craps.__NEWL__Jared sets fire to the firm and attempts to kill Stovall, instead shooting an associate of his.__NEWL__Jared and his cousin Amanda flee.__NEWL__ While in Tennessee, near Nashville, Amanda is raped and abducted by William Blackthorn.__NEWL__Jared tracks down Blackthorn and shoots him dead.__NEWL__With his dying breath, Blackthorn tells Jared he sold Amanda to fur traders going up the Missouri River.__NEWL__Jared serves ninety days in jail for disturbing the peace.__NEWL__While in jail, he is visited by Elijah Weatherby.__NEWL__Weatherby, a fur trader, had witnessed Blackthorn's death and he was impressed by Jared.__NEWL__He tells Jared he is going to Indian country to trade and needs a partner.__NEWL__Jared accepts the offer, and they commence their journey in November 1814.__NEWL__The story ends without Jared and Amanda being reunited, but the reader learns that Amanda is alive and was sold by fur traders to an American Indian.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7967231	Wanderlust	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12914549	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12914549	Tanis Half-Elven now permanently resides in Solace years after his first meeting with Flint Fireforge in Qualinost.__NEWL__A newcomer, the kender, Tasslehoff Burrfoot arrives in Solace and befriends both Tanis and Flint (much to the dwarf's chagrin), after accidentally 'borrowing' a magical bracelet that the dwarf had just made.__NEWL__As the kender leaves town, he again somehow acquires the bracelet and offers it to a tinker, Gaesil, to return it to the dwarf.__NEWL__However the tinker is shortly thereafter fleeced by a con-artist named Delbridge, who claims the magical bracelet for himself.__NEWL__A Dargonesti elf, named Princess Selana, locates Flint, Tanis and Tas (who has returned to Solace) and requests the magical bracelet that she had the dwarf create for her.__NEWL__Flint tells that the bracelet has been lost and the four journey to Tantallon, after hearing a rumour of the prophet Delbridge who can see the future through use of a magical bracelet.__NEWL__They arrive in Tantallon to find that Delbridge is now a zombie and that the local lord's son, Rostrevor Curston, has disappeared.__NEWL__Lord Curston's wizard friend Balcombe now has the bracelet after executing Delbridge.__NEWL__Balcombe has kidnapped Rostrevor, to sacrifice to the evil God Hiddukel to end their bargain that they had made at the beginning of the novel where Hiddukel agrees to spare Balcombe's life in exchange for pure souls.__NEWL__As the party attempt to reclaim the bracelet, Selana is kidnapped and placed in a cave with Balcome's pet giant, Blu.__NEWL__The sea elf and giant become friends and plan to escape.__NEWL__Tanis, Flint and Tas encounter a group of Phaethons and ally with them to drive out Balcombe from their mountain range.__NEWL__The Phaethons and their friends infiltrate Balcombe's lair, and with the aid of the giant Blu, rescue Rostrevor and Selana, and trap Balcombe in a magical gem.__NEWL__Tas unwittingly uses the magical gem and sacrifices Balcombe's soul to Hiddukel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768192	The Teahouse Fire	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12763213	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12763213	Set in late nineteenth century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is the story of Aurelia, a young French-American girl who, after the death of her mother and her missionary uncle, finds herself lost and alone and in need of a new family.__NEWL__Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a Japanese tea house and is adopted by the family who own it: gradually falling in love with both the Japanese tea ceremony and with her young mistress, Yukako.__NEWL__As Aurelia grows up she devotes herself to the family and its failing fortunes in the face of civil war and western intervention, and to Yukako's love affairs and subsequent marriage.__NEWL__But her feelings for her mistress seem doomed never to be reciprocated and, as tensions mount in the household, Aurelia begins to realise that to the world around her she will never be anything but an outsider.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4672731	Accordion Crimes	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12916521	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12916521	The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities.__NEWL__He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves.__NEWL__The accordion traverses a continent, traveling to Louisiana, Iowa, Texas, Maine, Illinois, Montana, and Mississippi.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7714327	The Arrival	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12724699	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12724699	When the Animorphs see a front-page newspaper article about the Sharing in San Francisco, they attempt to break into the office of the major local newspaper to determine how deeply infiltrated it is by the Yeerks.__NEWL__Mr. King, a Chee android, is captured and is about to be destroyed, and the group bursts out of hiding to rescue him.__NEWL__It is soon evident that the situation is a trap set up by Visser Three, and he joins the battle, engaging directly with Ax and the others in Andalite form.__NEWL__As the Animorphs try to run, a small group of new Andalites appear out of the elevator, and turn the tides of the battle.__NEWL__Tobias informs them that the police are coming, and the groups call an uneasy truce and depart to maintain secrecy.__NEWL__Ax, excited to see his own people after so long, is afraid to leave them without knowing how to contact them, but a female who fought next to him, Estrid-Corill-Darrath, reveals that they know his identity and will find him.__NEWL__Back at Cassie's barn, Ax is excited that the Andalite fleet has finally arrived, but the others aren't so sure.__NEWL__After a few assertions that Ax is not seeing the situation clearly, in part because of a crush on Estrid, and a jab from Rachel about where his loyalties lie, Ax leaves the barn in anger after assuring them that he will follow Jake's command.__NEWL__He runs until his anger cools, at which point he realizes that he is deeply infatuated with Estrid.__NEWL__Tobias and Ax go to the food court where they discover Estrid in human morph making a scene that attracts mall security.__NEWL__They escape with her because Tobias pretended that Estrid was his sister.__NEWL__They set up a meeting with her superiors.__NEWL__The newcomers are offended that Ax disobeyed their orders by bringing Jake (and the others, they soon find out) to the meeting, and that he is following a human's command.__NEWL__After much in-fighting amongst themselves, the small group of Andalites with an out-of-date ship accidentally reveal that they are the only Andalites in the area, and not fore-runners of the fleet as Ax had assumed.__NEWL__The group has been sent to Earth on a mission to assassinate Visser Three.__NEWL__Ax finds himself fighting competitively with the Aristh Estrid, whom he beats, but just barely.__NEWL__He admires her skill in tailfighting, but is confused by her lack of military decorum.__NEWL__The letdown of the further delay of the fleet causes the Animorphs to split up in a dramatic scene at Cassie's barn.__NEWL__Each member leaves for reasons typical of their character, with Jake finally releasing Ax to try to go home if he can.__NEWL__Ax, once the humans are gone, calls out to Estrid, who has been hiding in the barn in rabbit morph, but poorly concealed due to a lack of understanding of the animal's typical behavior.__NEWL__He tells her he will teach her about Earth, and she takes him back to the Andalite ship.__NEWL__The other members of the ship are Commander Gonrod-Isfall-Sonilli, Intelligence Advisor Arbat-Elivat-Estoni, and the assassin Aloth-Attamil-Gahar.__NEWL__Ax is shown around the ship by Aloth, who reveals that he was in prison for selling organs off a battlefield prior to the current assignment.__NEWL__Aloth, who is deeply cynical about the whole group, reveals that Gonrod, while an excellent pilot, was also in prison for cowardice during battle, and that Arbat has the Andalite War Council wrapped around his finger.__NEWL__There is some ambiguity as to who the real "leader" of the expedition is.__NEWL__It is revealed to Ax that Arbat is the brother of Alloran-Semitur-Corrass, Visser Three's host.__NEWL__The ship, the Ralek River, is an old laboratory ship, whose lab-level has been sealed off to conserve energy.__NEWL__Ax notes the strangeness of the situation and is certain that Estrid is not really an Aristh after she audaciously announces that she is going to the Gardens and wants Ax to show her around.__NEWL__The two fly to the Gardens and explore in Andalite form.__NEWL__Estrid asks Ax about jelly beans, and he kicks some M&Ms out of a vending machine for her to try in human morph in response.__NEWL__The two assume human forms, and they kiss after eating.__NEWL__They agree that it is pleasant, though not as much as chocolate.__NEWL__Ax is clearly smitten.__NEWL__On the flight back, he silently contemplates for a moment the idea of running away with Estrid and leaving behind the difficult shades of gray of his life.__NEWL__He shakes off the reverie, and they return to the ship to plan for the morning's attack on the Visser.__NEWL__Ax later suddenly realizes that Estrid had made a joking reference to plintconarhythmic equations, which are employed in an incredibly complex bio-engineering field involving clear thought in n-dimensions, but uneasily writes it off as a figure of speech.__NEWL__The Andalites (minus Estrid, whom Arbat forces to stay behind) infiltrate the Community Center and make it all the way to the inner sanctum without raising the alarm.__NEWL__Arbat, who has demanded he have the first shot out of pride after Aloth implies that he might not give the order to kill his brother's body, misses an easy shot, even though he has proved himself a competent fighter prior to this mission.__NEWL__A battle ensues, and Ax fails to kill the visser out of a morality-induced hesitation.__NEWL__Aloth is injured when he breaks concentration for a moment to look for Gonrod, who has fled back to the ship.__NEWL__Arbat kills Aloth under the pretense that he "was too injured to save", which is a lie.__NEWL__Furious and confused, Ax is certain that something very strange is going on.__NEWL__Ax gets Mr. King to help him hack into the ship's computers and gain access to the high-security files concealed by Arbat.__NEWL__All of the members of the Andalite team are officially listed as dead in combat, and Estrid is not on record at all in the military.__NEWL__The ship was listed as destroyed in the same battle.__NEWL__Ax realizes that the ship is on a suicide mission, and that Arbat has something planned that the Andalite War Council does not "officially" know about.__NEWL__Hearing motion on the supposedly empty laboratory level of the ship, Ax confronts Estrid and forces her to talk by threatening to open a vial of some unknown substance of which she is terrified.__NEWL__Estrid reveals that she was never in the military, but she learned to tail-fight from her famously-skilled brother.__NEWL__She was a young genius and was discovered by Arbat at the university after initially being ignored as a result of her gender.__NEWL__She took up plintconarhythmic physics under his guidance, and she has created a programmable prion virus (the vial that Ax puts down) that will destroy the Yeerks - and very possibly wipe out humans as well.__NEWL__Arbat finds them and traps them, and Ax explains to Estrid that their mission does not officially exist and is not sanctioned by general Andalite society like she was led to believe.__NEWL__Arbat takes the vial of the disease and leaves them.__NEWL__As Estrid apologizes, the Animorphs are revealed to be on board, as their "split-up" was simply a ploy to get Ax in with the Andalites.__NEWL__The Animorphs free them, and the group of seven finds evidence of Arbat and follows him to the Yeerk Pool in human form, except for Tobias, who stays as a hawk.__NEWL__Ax spots Arbat's human morph by his Andalite instinct to keep looking around now that he has only two eyes, stopping him on the pier over the Yeerk Pool, thus prolonging the chaos by yelling that the Hork-Bajir are Andalite Bandits in disguise.__NEWL__In the ensuing confusion, the Animorphs begin to attack, and Ax and Estrid move to a hidden spot to demorph.__NEWL__Estrid, terrified and disgusted by the Yeerk Pool, refuses to demorph and fight to protect the humans, who are not part of their species.__NEWL__Ax leaves to protect his friends, telling her that she is beautiful and brilliant, but he "[doesn't] think [he likes her] very much."__NEWL__The battle is bloody and the group is outnumbered, though their backs are covered by human hosts who have linked together into a living shield.__NEWL__Arbat makes it back to the pier, and Ax cannot reach him in time.__NEWL__He is about to drop the vial into the pool when Estrid vaporizes it along with Arbat's hand using a Dracon beam.__NEWL__At that moment, Gonrod (at Tobias' urging) burns a hole through the roof of the cavernous complex, and rescues the Animorphs with the Andalite ship.__NEWL__Ax leaves Arbat to die at the hands of the Taxxons.__NEWL__Ax gives Estrid a cinnamon bun as a parting gift, but he refuses to return home with her.__NEWL__She does not understand his loyalty and dedication to his non-Andalite friends.__NEWL__The fate of Estrid and Gonrod is unknown.__NEWL__The Animorphs and Ax all assume human forms and enjoy their victory.__NEWL__They walk to get food, although not at the McDonald's as Tobias and Gonrod had destroyed the place to burn into the Yeerk Pool.__NEWL__Despite the unawareness of most of the others, Cassie picks up on Ax's pain and holds his hand as the group walks and he cries, invisibly, in the dark.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7739532	The Hidden	2000-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12724741	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12724741	The Yeerks repair a downed Helmacron ship and use its sensors to track the Escafil Device and the Animorphs morphing abilities.__NEWL__Cassie is forced to relocate the Escafil Device.__NEWL__During the process, a Cape buffalo and an ant inadvertently gain the morphing ability.__NEWL__The buffalo morphs Chapman and begins to learn speech, and the ant morphs Cassie.__NEWL__Cassie kills the ant when it demorphs, and near the end of the book the buffalo is killed by a Dracon beam.__NEWL__However, the Animorphs come up with a plan similar to The Andalite's Gift, in which Cassie morphs a humpback whale in midair to destroy the helicopter carrying the Helmacron ship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7258868	Puffball	1980-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	12747618	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12747618	Liffey and Richard, a young London couple who move to the country with the expectation of having children.__NEWL__Their neighbors are Mab and Tucker, a farming family with five children of their own.__NEWL__Mabs, jealous of the newcomers' easy life, sends Tucker to sleep with Liffey while Richard is away, priming her with an herbal aphrodisiac first.__NEWL__She becomes angry, however, when Liffey becomes pregnant and she finds that she herself is suddenly unable to conceive.__NEWL__Incorrectly believing the father of the child might be Tucker, Mabs attempts to abort the child by sneaking herbs into Liffey's tea and food.__NEWL__The unborn child, however, mystically takes charge and gives Liffey directions, saving her life and its own.__NEWL__Once the baby is born, Mabs sees the resemblance to Richard and, now pregnant herself, abandons her anger towards the couple.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7233383	Possessing the Secret of Joy	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z	12748398	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12748398	It tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple.__NEWL__Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker's fictional African nation where female genital mutilation is practiced.__NEWL__Tashi marries an American man named Adam then leaves Olinka because of the war.__NEWL__Tashi chooses to go back to Olinka to undergo circumcison because she is a woman torn between two cultures, Olinkan and Western.__NEWL__Instead of feeling free from not having the procedure done as a child, she feels bothered by it.__NEWL__She wants to honor her Olinkan roots and has the operation in her teen years, although it is usually performed on female children.__NEWL__Tashi later sees several psychiatrists because she goes crazy due to the trauma she has suffered before finding the strength to act.__NEWL__The novel is told in many different voices, which are the characters in the novel.__NEWL__The novel explores what it means to have one's gender culturally defined and emphasizes that, according to Walker, "Torture is not culture."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q697260	Season of the Sun	1956-03-15T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	12874151	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12874151	Tatsuya Tsugawa, a college student who enjoys boxing, meets Eiko when he and his friends pick up some girls.__NEWL__Tatsuya and Eiko start casually dating, and he finds himself emotionally attracted to her, declaring his love by poking a hole through a shoji screen with his penis.__NEWL__Eiko, who is "determined to take from men and give nothing in return", reacts to his love with reticence.__NEWL__One night, while sailing on Tatsuya's boat, the couple makes passionate love, awakening Eiko's feelings for him.__NEWL__After this, Eiko becomes devoted to Tatsuya, resulting in her being jealous of his other casual relationships.__NEWL__Tatsuya starts taking advantage of this to be cruel to her.__NEWL__One day, while sailing with friends, Tatsuya takes the virginity of a university student, while Eiko has sex with Tatsuya's brother, Michihisa.__NEWL__Michihisa informs Tatsuya that he will "take over" Eiko for him because she does not love him anymore, and Tatsuya sells her to him for five thousand yen.__NEWL__When Eiko discovers this arrangement, she pays the money back to Michihisa, as well as three other times when Tatsuya renews it.__NEWL__After a few months, Eiko meets Tatsuya to inform him that she is pregnant with his baby, and he tells her on a whim that it is not a bad idea to have a baby.__NEWL__However, after seeing a newspaper photograph of a boxer holding a baby, he changes his mind and tells her to have an abortion.__NEWL__Because she is already four months pregnant, Eiko has to have a Caesarean operation, and dies four days later from peritonitis.__NEWL__After seeing Eiko's photograph at her funeral, Tatsuya interprets her smile as a challenge and angrily throws a container of incense at it.__NEWL__He then goes to his college gymnasium to box and recalls Eiko asking: "why can't you love me in a more straightforward manner?".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15052494	Out of Time	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12890248	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12890248	Annie Lockwood is going on a school field trip to New York City one year after she has returned to her time in 1995 after meeting Strat.__NEWL__While in New York, she slips back one hundred years into the past, to discover her one true love, Strat, has been put into an insane asylum.__NEWL__Annie learn from Strat's younger sister Devonny that Strat's current predicament is because he continued to insist that Annie was real, even though she mysteriously disappeared and everyone else decided to forget her existence.__NEWL__Annie decides to save Strat and prove that she is real and could travel through time.__NEWL__Annie also learns that Strat's betrothed, his childhood friend Harriet, is suffering from consumption.__NEWL__Annie disguises herself as Devonny and manages to get past obstacles that were in the way, especially Walker Walkley, Strat's former best friend and now antagonist of the book.__NEWL__The two reunite and narrowly escape Walkley, who plans to take over the Stratton fortune.__NEWL__Annie has second thoughts about Strat being with Harriet when she died, mainly because she knew Harriet loved Strat and was betrothed to him and Strat adored her.__NEWL__Strat later explains to Annie that she must go back to her own time and he must stay, no matter how much they love each other.__NEWL__Strat says he would go to Mexico, along with his friends at the insane asylum.__NEWL__, one of Harriet's close friends and who loved Harriet, noticed Annie getting kidnapped by Walkley, so he shoots him.__NEWL__Annie is then whisked back to her proper time soon afterwards.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730544	The Dogs of Babel	2003-06-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12802272	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12802272	The book is narrated by Paul Iverson, a linguist who calls home one day to find out his wife is dead.__NEWL__He is very troubled by this and therefore for the remainder of the book he is trying to teach the only witness of her death, his dog Lorelei, to speak.__NEWL__Throughout the book, Paul uncovers more about his wife's last day and remembers events through their life they led up to it.__NEWL__The Dogs of Babel is an allusion to the Tower of Babel, the Biblical story that explains the existence of different languages.__NEWL__Like the builders in the story, Paul is hampered by the differences in communication between himself and Lorelei.__NEWL__Paul Iverson called home to find a police officer answering the phone and suggesting him to come home.__NEWL__When he comes home he finds his wife, Alexandra "Lexy" Ransome, dead, fallen from an apple tree.__NEWL__The police declared it an accident, but Paul is bothered by the "anomalies" he finds, such as signs of someone cooking steak, a rearrangement of the book shelf, and the question as to what his wife was doing in the apple tree in the first place.__NEWL__The only witness to her death is their dog Lorelei, and Paul goes on a crusade to teach Lorelei to speak, in order to clear up the mystery.__NEWL__He cites several past attempts as evidence he will be successful, especially the case of Dog J, who was surgically altered by Wendell Hollis, "the Dog Butcher of Brooklyn", so that he could make human sounds.__NEWL__Paul leaves his job at the college, and dedicates his time to this single cause.__NEWL__As he attempts to teach Lorelei, Paul remembers how he and Lexy first met, at a yard sale where he bought a square hard-boiled egg mold from her.__NEWL__He recounts their week-long first date to Disney World, and to a wedding where Lexy delivered masks she made.__NEWL__This is the first time Paul learns about the masks she used to make for a living, and they are featured prominently throughout the rest of the book.__NEWL__Paul also remembers their wedding, and when he first learned of Lexy's depression, in the story she tells him about her adolescence.__NEWL__Unhappy with his lack of progress, Paul writes a letter to Wendell Hollis (now in prison) in hopes of getting ideas.__NEWL__In a response letter, he is directed to a man named Remo, who lives in Paul's neighborhood and is in charge of the Cerberus Society, a group dedicated to canine communication.__NEWL__At a meeting of the Cerberus Society, Paul is horrified and intrigued by the methods they use, and is especially excited about hearing Dog J, whom the society has kidnapped, speak.__NEWL__He is disappointed, though, when the mutilated dog is presented at the podium and is unable to say a single word; the rest of the society oblivious to this.__NEWL__The meeting is cut short when the police raid it and Paul flees to his house to find Lorelei gone.__NEWL__Finally realizing he will never be able to teach Lorelei to speak, and now left alone by both Lexy and Lorelei, Paul falls into an even greater depression.__NEWL__After hearing Lexy's voice on a commercial for a Psychic Hotline, he has been calling constantly, in hopes of finding the psychic Lexy talked to, Lady Arabelle.__NEWL__He finally reaches her, and is informed that Lexy was pregnant, a fact Paul knew but the reader did not.__NEWL__Lady Arabelle goes through the tarot reading she gave Lexy, and Paul is left to wonder how his wife took it.__NEWL__Paul eventually finds Lorelei in an animal shelter, her larynx removed by the men who kidnapped her.__NEWL__She is now not only unable to speak English, but to even bark.__NEWL__When he idly examines Lorelei's collar, he finds a subtle message from Lexy.__NEWL__He suddenly realizes that Lexy has sent him a message through the rearrangement of books, a quote from the story Tam Lin.__NEWL__It is then Paul realizes what he has suspected is true, that Lexy committed suicide.__NEWL__Although he continues to mourn his wife's death, the closure Paul has gotten by learning of its circumstances allow him to return to the world.__NEWL__He goes back to his job at the college, and stops his reclusive ways.__NEWL__The story ends on a happy note, but it is still clear Paul is grieving for his wife.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5451330	Fire Bringer	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	12737756	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12737756	Fire Bringer is the story of Rannoch, a red deer born in 13th-century Scotland.__NEWL__Rannoch is born with a white mark on his forehead resembling an oak leaf, the symbol of the deer god, Herne.__NEWL__To the Herla, as the deer are called among animals, the white mark is the symbol of a prophecy foretelling the birth of a deer with the ability to communicate with all animals who would bring freedom to the Herla.__NEWL__The story begins the night Rannoch's father, Brechin, is murdered, and his mother, Eloin, is forced to become the mate of the Lord of the Herd, Drail.__NEWL__Rannoch is adopted by another doe, Bracken.__NEWL__However, soon Drail decides to kill Rannoch and the other fawns out of fear of the prophecy.__NEWL__When Eloin finds out, she warns Bracken and the other mothers that their fawns are in danger; however, only some of them listen.__NEWL__So Rannoch, Bracken, five other fawns, and their mothers flee Drail's herd and take refuge with another, which they believe will be a place of safety.__NEWL__Soon, however, human hunters attack their new herd.__NEWL__Rannoch helps his friends by drawing off one of the hunters' dogs but is injured in the process, after which the other deer believe him to be dead.__NEWL__Rannoch is found by a human boy who takes him home, where the boy and his mother keep him safe while his leg heals.__NEWL__Meanwhile, one of Drail's servants, Sgorr, tricks and murders Drail and militarizes the herd by making the stags sharpen their antlers, training and drilling the young bucks and having them gore each other in the forehead to make permanent scars.__NEWL__Sgorr slowly expands his territory over many herds, intending to make himself lord over all Herla.__NEWL__He finds the herd where Bracken and the other mothers and fawns have hidden, and the herd's new leader gives them up to Sgorr.__NEWL__After his leg heals, Rannoch struggles growing up without a herd.__NEWL__He stays close to the human dwelling and slowly begins to lose his ability to speak to other animals.__NEWL__One day, a mole who has become his friend tells him his time around the humans is changing him, and Rannoch decides to leave.__NEWL__He returns to his herd, intending to learn more about the prophecy.__NEWL__When he finds his friends again, they embark on a journey to the mountains to find the mythical herd of the deer god, Herne.__NEWL__Herne's herd is not the utopia the deer believed it would be, and after Rannoch disperses it, he and his friends form their own herd, sheltering other stragglers from Sgorr.__NEWL__However, Rannoch and his new herd disagree about whether they should fight back against Sgorr.__NEWL__Rannoch, torn between taking action and keeping the peace, tries to dissuade them, but his friends leave him to join the fight.__NEWL__Searching for answers alone, Rannoch discovers that Sgorr has a terrible secret: he once killed a human child and ate its heart.__NEWL__Knowing Sgorr is evil, Rannoch returns to his friends on the battlefield.__NEWL__He defeats Sgorr, aided by all the animals in the forest, and in doing so fulfills the prophecy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760488	The Revelation	2000-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12831208	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12831208	While having dinner with his family, Marco learns that his father, Peter, is involved in research that has led to the discovery of Zero-Space.__NEWL__When the Yeerks learn of Peter's research, they try to have him infested.__NEWL__The Yeerks plan is thwarted by Marco and Rachel, but at the expense of Marco losing his cover.__NEWL__With no alternative, Marco tells his father about the Yeerk invasion of Earth, the role he has played in the war, and tells him that they can no longer return home, even to save his wife, Nora.__NEWL__Marco also finally reveals the fate of his mother, Eva, telling his father that she is the host of Visser One.__NEWL__After hiding his father with the Chee, Marco speaks with the other Animorphs at Cassie's barn and tells them of what has transpired.__NEWL__Rachel suggests using the Z-Space transmitter created by Peter to intercept Yeerk transmissions, but the device is currently in the custody of the Yeerks.__NEWL__Ax is enlisted to help Peter re-build the transmitter.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Erek King and his "father" are posing as Marco and Peter at Marco's former home.__NEWL__The two are seen packing for a trip to Acapulco when four human-Controllers break into the room and fire their Dracon beams at "Marco" and "Peter", vaporizing the bodies.__NEWL__The Yeerks briefly speak to Nora, who has since been infested, and she follows the Controllers off the property.__NEWL__After verifying that the coast is clear, Marco, who was hiding in the house as a cockroach, demorphs and Erek shuts down the hologram hiding himself and Mr. King.__NEWL__Erek takes minimal damage in the Yeerk assault, but Mr. King needs more extensive repairs.__NEWL__Erek carries Mr. King back to their home disguised as a garbage truck, leaving Marco alone to contemplate what his life will be like until the end of the war.__NEWL__Several days later, the Animorphs and Peter assemble at Ax's scoop.__NEWL__The Z-Space transmitter is nearly complete, and is already picking up several Yeerk transmissions.__NEWL__Ax is having trouble stabilizing the transmitter's translator chip, which is only able to translate for brief periods of time.__NEWL__However, Ax is able to interpret enough of the transmissions to learn that Visser One is being sent back to Earth to be executed as a traitor.__NEWL__The Yeerks are only awaiting the arrival of a witness from the Council of Thirteen, at which point the execution will commence and Visser Three will be promoted to Visser One.__NEWL__Ax also suggests that the execution of Visser One and Visser Three's impending promotion is the beginning of a change in how the Yeerks plan to conquer Earth.__NEWL__With this information in mind, the Animorphs decide to attempt to rescue Marco's mother.__NEWL__The Animorphs and Peter begin planning the operation.__NEWL__Later in the forest, Marco calls the local police department, which is known to be infiltrated by the Yeerks, and reports that he has an alien in his custody.__NEWL__After giving them the description of a Hork-Bajir and his location, he hangs up and waits for a Yeerk Bug fighter to arrive.__NEWL__The fighter comes four minutes later, and the two Hork-Bajir-Controllers on-board are quickly disabled by Jake and Rachel.__NEWL__Cassie and Ax take out the Taxxon pilot, allowing the Animorphs to commandeer the Bug fighter.__NEWL__Despite some difficulty piloting the fighter, Ax manages to get them inside the hangar connected to the Yeerk pool complex.__NEWL__The Animorphs disembark and make their way to the Yeerk pool in Hork-Bajir morphs.__NEWL__They find Visser One tied up on the infestation pier, her execution already underway.__NEWL__The Animorphs attempt to make their way back to their stolen Bug fighter, but are forced to fight several suspicious Hork-Bajir-Controllers en route.__NEWL__Upon reaching the fighter, Ax flies it to the Yeerk pool and Marco and Rachel jump down to retrieve Eva.__NEWL__Unfortunately, a second Bug fighter, along with Visser Three himself, engages the one captured by the Animorphs, leaving Marco and Rachel forced to engage several Blue Band Hork-Bajir while they wait for rescue.__NEWL__After several minutes of battle, Visser Three is disabled and the second Bug fighter is destroyed.__NEWL__Visser One leaves Eva and attempts to make her way to the Yeerk pool, only to be stepped on by Marco.__NEWL__Marco, Rachel, and Eva board the Animorphs' stolen Bug fighter and are flown to safety.__NEWL__Once clear of the Yeerk pool complex, the fighter is abandoned in the forest and is destroyed by the Yeerks.__NEWL__Eva's injuries are treated by the Chee, and she and Peter are relocated to the free Hork-Bajir colony.__NEWL__Peter pulls Marco aside and asks if there was anything that could be done to save Nora.__NEWL__Marco tells him that she was likely a Controller all along, assigned to spy on Peter and his research projects.__NEWL__The explanation is a lie, but Peter accepts it and reunites with Eva.__NEWL__Several nights later, the Animorphs assemble at the beach.__NEWL__Ax uses the Z-Space transmitter to call the Andalite homeworld.__NEWL__The Andalites demand to know who is making the transmission, to which Jake responds, "This is Earth."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719220	The Book of Everything	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q727	Amsterdam	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	12722044	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12722044	The book, set in Amsterdam, relates the tale of a nine-year-old boy named Thomas who see things no one else can, such as invisible hail that "ripped all the leaves from the trees", and tropical fish in the canal.__NEWL__Thomas lives in a family of four: his parents and his sister, Margot.__NEWL__They are not, however, a harmonious family, as their father repeatedly hits their mother, and punishes Thomas by beating him with a wooden spoon.__NEWL__He is a very religious man, but he fears embarrassment and is said to "not belong with people".__NEWL__Thomas writes down everything in his "Book of Everything", a diary which holds his thoughts.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7439352	Scruples	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z	12847697	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12847697	Born the only child of a distinguished scientist, who is a member of the venerable Winthrop family but must work for a living, Wilhelmina is nicknamed "Honey", a diminutive of her middle name.__NEWL__In her infancy, her mother dies and she is raised by her distant father and a housekeeper.__NEWL__She grows up isolated from her extended family and, with the help of the housekeeper, turns to food for comfort.__NEWL__Around the time she graduates from high school, she is left $10,000 by a maiden aunt, who begs her to spend it foolishly while she is still young.__NEWL__In a last-ditch effort to "find herself", Honey goes to live in Paris with a French family.__NEWL__There, she undergoes a transformation of both body and soul, first changing her name to Billy, then losing weight, and then gaining Parisian style under the guidance of Liliane, the elegant Frenchwoman who is her hostess.__NEWL__She is also introduced to Edouard, Liliane's relative.__NEWL__It is her first sexual affair, but when the aristocratic but impecunious Edouard discovers that Billy has no money, he shows his true colors and ends the relationship.__NEWL__Billy returns to America and to a Boston stunned by her new body and beauty.__NEWL__Feeling "not in her skin", and unwilling, at 19, to start college, she moves to New York to attend the Katharine Gibbs secretarial school and prepare to earn a living.__NEWL__She meets Jessica, her New York roommate, who teaches her about men and sex and becomes her closest friend, and embarks on a whirlwind adventure of sexual discovery.__NEWL__When she graduates from Katie Gibbs, she is hired by Ikehorn Enterprises, and during a business meeting in Barbados, she sleeps with and subsequently marries the CEO, Ellis Ikehorn, who is far older than she.__NEWL__The next several years are happy ones, as Billy and Ellis live a glamorous life filled with parties, homes all over the world, and regular appearances on the Best-Dressed List.__NEWL__Ellis, however, suffers two debilitating strokes, and Billy moves them from Manhattan to Bel Air, for the better climate.__NEWL__But Billy lives as a recluse in their enormous house and looks aimlessly for some purpose in her life, eventually developing a compulsion to shop in Beverly Hills.__NEWL__Seven years after Ellis' stroke, he dies, leaving Billy an enormous fortune but also an enormous amount of guilt.__NEWL__Billy realizes that she will never find "what she is looking for" .so__NEWL__she decides to open a luxury boutique called "Scruples."__NEWL__She hires Valentine O'Neil to design couture clothing for the customers and Valentine's close friend, Spider Elliot, a former fashion photographer who appoints himself the Style Director and arbiter of elegance.__NEWL__The meeting, various romances, and career vicissitudes of Valentine and Spider, along with the development of their relationship, comprise a major subplot in the novel.__NEWL__The story ultimately develops around Billy's second marriage to Vito Orsini, a film producer, a film that he is making, and then around the Oscars.__NEWL__A second subplot concerns Billy's new friend Dolly Moon, a flamboyant supporting actress in Vito's current film project, Mirrors, Dolly's pregnancy, her relationship with an accountant, and a burglary at Price Waterhouse, where the Oscar ballots are tabulated and the results stored.__NEWL__The story ends at the Oscars, where Billy awaits the announcement that Vito's film has won and Dolly dramatically goes into labor.__NEWL__At the same time, Spider and Valentine realize that their friendship has turned into love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2277224	Nobody's Girl	1893-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	12848611	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12848611	The story follows 13-year-old Perrine.__NEWL__She first arrives in Paris with her ill mother in a cart with very few possessions pulled by a donkey, Palikare.__NEWL__She stays at the Guillot field, where her mother gets really ill.__NEWL__In order to have enough money for medicine, Perrine sells Palikare, with the help of Grain-of-Salt ( the owner of Guillot fields) to La Rouquerie.__NEWL__Despite all the care, Perrine's mother dies, leaving Perrine as an orphan, so Perrine sets off on foot, almost penniless, to find her relatives in Maraucourt.__NEWL__ She makes a friend, Rosalie, who shows the Factories of Mr. Vulfran, and lets her lodge at her grandmother's for a little money.__NEWL__Perrine refrains from letting anybody in Maraucourt know her real name, and uses the pseudonym Aurelie til the end of the book.__NEWL__As Perrine is one of the few people who can speak English, except for Mr. Benndite, she soon comes close to Mr. Vulfran, who eventually lets her stay with him.__NEWL__As the book progresses Mr. Vulfran learns to love Perrine, and it is only in the end where he finds out that Perrine is his own granddaughter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2631465	Les Chouans	1829-01-01T00:00:00Z	1921					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	12806404	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12806404	At the start of the novel, the Republican Commander Hulot is assaulted by Chouan forces, who convert dozens of conscripts.__NEWL__An aristocrat, Marie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to subdue and capture the royalist leader, the Marquis de Montauran, also known as "Le Gars".__NEWL__She is aided by a detective named Corentin.__NEWL__Eventually, Marie becomes smitten with her target.__NEWL__In defiance of Corentin and the Chouans who detest her, she devises a plan to marry the Chouan leader.__NEWL__Fooled by Corentin into believing that Montauran loves her mortal enemy Madame du Gua, Marie orders Hulot to destroy the rebels.__NEWL__She discovers her folly too late and tries, unsuccessfully, to save her husband the day after their marriage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7745610	The Last Canadian	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	12882958	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12882958	A 1970s Cold War apocalyptic story where Eugene Arnprior, an engineer living in Montreal, who after learning of a fast spreading airborne virus, moves his wife and two sons to an isolated cabin in Northern Quebec.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7797435	Three Days Before the Shooting...	2010-01-26T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12884137	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12884137	The plot of Three Days Before the Shooting revolves around a man named Bliss, of indeterminate race, who is raised from boyhood by a black Baptist minister named Alonzo Hickman.__NEWL__As an adult Bliss assumes a white identity as Adam Sunraider.__NEWL__He becomes a politician and eventually is elected as a United States senator, known for his race-baiting.__NEWL__He is assassinated in the Senate.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385678	The Familiar	2000-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12799384	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12799384	The story opens in the middle of a particularly violent battle.__NEWL__As the battle becomes more and more hopeless Jake orders a desperate retreat leaving Marco and Rachel to fend for themselves.__NEWL__The Animorphs all escape, but barely.__NEWL__Tensions are high and Cassie begins to break down again questioning the violence and killing that come with battle.__NEWL__Jake responds to her without much sympathy.__NEWL__Exhausted he returns home and Tom seems at last suspicious of him.__NEWL__He falls asleep.__NEWL__When he awakes he realizes that he is a ten years older version of himself living in New York City on an earth that has already been completely taken over by the Yeerks.__NEWL__Everyone assumes him to be a Controller with a Yeerk named Essak in his head.__NEWL__Jake follows the crowd to his work, but skips his stop in order to investigate this strange new world.__NEWL__He doesn't know how he has come to be in this time and place and suspects that it is some kind of alternate or parallel timeline created by the Ellimist or Crayak.__NEWL__He discovers that there is a terrorist organization called the Evolutionist Front (EF) which is composed of Yeerks and their hosts who believe that forms of biological evolution and mutation should be explored instead of the enslavement of sentient species.__NEWL__He encounters Cassie, who is a Controller and one of the leaders of the organization.__NEWL__She is a brutal and calculating terrorist who will use any tactics to sabotage the Yeerk Empire.__NEWL__She persuades Jake to help her foil a Yeerk plot to turn Earth's Moon into a Kandrona sun, and tells him a contact will approach him with details later.__NEWL__It seems that time and space do not always follow logically in this futuristic world.__NEWL__Jake travels to his place of work, and there he is haunted by the image of the many creatures he has killed in battle.__NEWL__He is then taken in to be interrogated about EF activities.__NEWL__His questioner is a Controller Marco who is Visser Two, and the leader of Earth.__NEWL__Marco has also captured Cassie and threatens to kill her if Jake does not work with him against the EF.__NEWL__Jake's EF contact turns out to be an unrecognizable crippled Rachel, scarred from years of battle with a missing arm, eye and both of her legs.__NEWL__She gives him instructions where to meet the head of the resistance, saying that he will recognize him when he sees him.__NEWL__Jake follows her instructions and encounters a fully grown Andalite whom he believes to be Elfangor.__NEWL__It is in fact a cold and indifferent Tobias.__NEWL__Tobias explains that he stayed in morph as Ax, and explains to Jake that his brother Tom killed Jake while he slept ten years ago.__NEWL__He seeks Jake's help in foiling the Yeerk plan for Kandrona on the Moon.__NEWL__Jake protests that this will mean certain death for Cassie and Tobias responds that sacrifices must be made in war.__NEWL__In a race against time Jake is faced with a choice to either save Cassie or the world.__NEWL__Jake chooses to save "what must be valued above all else".__NEWL__Jake is then instantly back in his bed the next morning.__NEWL__He hears a voice in his head which he has "never heard", saying it is not the Ellimist.__NEWL__He describes the voice as both young and old, male and female, like distant thought speak.__NEWL__The voice simply says "Interesting choice.__NEWL__They have strangely segmented minds: conscious, unconscious, and an ability to reconcile both.__NEWL__They will bear more study, these humans…".__NEWL__Jake then gets out of bed and calls Cassie to ask her if she's alright.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7743650	The Journey	2000-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12799487	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12799487	A boy takes a picture of the Animorphs while they are demorphing in an alley after a mission.__NEWL__They track the boy down and decide to keep watch on him.__NEWL__When they go to Cassie's barn to reconvene, the Helmacrons show up and demand the morphing cube, because they need it to charge their ship.__NEWL__In the ensuing battle, the Helmacrons leave the ship and enter Marco's nose.__NEWL__The Animorphs decide to use the Helmacron ship to shrink themselves so they can follow the Helmacrons and stop them from killing Marco from the inside.__NEWL__When they shrink, they realize they are too small to hear the speech of full-size humans, which didn't happen the last time they were shrunk.__NEWL__When they catch up to the Helmacrons inside Marco's nose, they notice that they have been shrunk to 1/100th the size of the Helmacrons, who tweaked the shrinking device before they left their ship, knowing that the Animorphs would shrink themselves so they could go after them.__NEWL__ Meanwhile, Marco is bored of just sitting around and decides to go over to the apartment of the boy who took their picture to try to steal his camera.__NEWL__He goes up a fire escape and enters through a window, but before he can even pick up the camera, he gets bitten by a dog and flees home.__NEWL__Rachel falls down into Marco's stomach, and the Helmacrons as well as the rest of the Animorphs follow her, where they are shortly burnt by stomach acid, before morphing into sharks and following the Helmacrons into the bloodstream.__NEWL__ In the bloodstream, Rachel notices a pathogen while looking at all of the different types of blood cells around them.__NEWL__They realize that when the Helmacrons reach the heart, they can stop it from beating with their weapons.__NEWL__Marco goes back to the apartment a second time, and while he is there someone comes home.__NEWL__He soon finds himself trapped in the closet, and against Jake's orders, morphs a cockroach.__NEWL__The Helmacrons shoot at the cockroach's heart, after which everyone believes Marco is dead, until they remember that cockroaches can withstand severe trauma.__NEWL__In the meantime, the Animorphs get the weapons away from the Helmacrons by biting their legs.__NEWL__Marco is indeed alive, and they manage to get him to morph back to human.__NEWL__Holding the Helmacrons at gunpoint, they all return to the barn and recharge the Helmacron's ship with the morphing cube.__NEWL__The Helmacrons leave earth again after promising to never come back.__NEWL__ Later at home, Rachel discovers that the pathogen she saw in Marco's bloodstream was rabies, and his near-death experience actually saved him from the virus.__NEWL__Rachel considers calling Jake and informing the team about it, but decides to put it off until the morning.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q697415	Juedai Shuangjiao	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q865	Taiwan	12868713	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12868713	Eighteen years ago, a handsome martial artist, Jiāng Fēng (), was injured in a fight and coincidentally saved by the sisters__NEWL__Yāoyuè () and Liánxīng () of Yihua Palace (), one of the deadliest clans in the jianghu (martial artists' community).__NEWL__Yaoyue fell in love with Jiang Feng but he rejected her despite her beauty because her arrogance made him feel disgusted.__NEWL__Instead, he fell in love with the sisters' servant, Huā Yuènú (), made her pregnant, and fled with her.__NEWL__Jiang Feng's jealous servant, Jiāng Qin (Jiang Biéhè) (), betrayed his master and caused a group of bandits to attack the lovers just when Hua Yuenu had just given birth to twin boys.__NEWL__Although Jiang Feng and Hua Yuenu were both killed, their sons were unharmed and subsequently found by Yaoyue and Lianxing.__NEWL__Yaoyue refused to forgive Jiang Feng for scorning her and vowed to take revenge by making his sons destroy each other.__NEWL__The sisters then adopt one of the boys, whom they name Huā Wúquē ().__NEWL__The other boy, who becomes known as Xiǎoyúér (), is initially saved by his father's sworn brother, Yàn Nántiān (), a powerful swordsman, but later falls into the hands of the Ten Great Villains (), a group of notorious outlaws in the jianghu.__NEWL__However, the Villains did not harm Xiaoyuer and instead decide to raise him and train him to become the greatest villain in jianghu history.__NEWL__Hua Wuque grows up to be a good-mannered and refined gentleman well-trained in the elegant martial arts of Yihua Palace.__NEWL__On the other hand, Xiaoyuer is trained by the Ten Great Villains in a wide range of not-so-powerful martial arts and other skills such as theft, deception, the use of poison, and the art of disguise.__NEWL__Once he is old enough, the streetwise Xiaoyuer ventures out into the jianghu alone and relies on his wits and skills to get through a series of adventures.__NEWL__During this time, he gets embroiled in complicated romantic relationships with various women, including Tiě Xīnlán (), Sū Yīng () and Zhāng Jīng () In the meantime, Yaoyue sends Hua Wuque to kill Xiaoyuer, lying to him that Xiaoyuer is a dangerous threat to them.__NEWL__Against the backdrop of various escapades, the twins come to blows several times.__NEWL__Each of their encounters follows the same pattern.__NEWL__Hua Wuque is more powerful in martial arts than Xiaoyuer, but the latter always manages to survive by using his wits to escape from the former.__NEWL__The twins are initially hostile towards each other and have wildly different personalities; Hua Wuque is righteous, intelligent but naïve, while Xiaoyuer is expedient, streetwise and cunning.__NEWL__However, they gradually develop mutual respect and become friends after braving danger together.__NEWL__At the same time, they become entangled in a love triangle with Tie Xinlan.__NEWL__Determined to make the twins kill each other, Yaoyue eventually forces Hua Wuque to challenge Xiaoyuer to a duel to the death.__NEWL__After Xiaoyuer is apparently killed by Hua Wuque during the duel, Yaoyue reveals the truth to Hua Wuque and tells him about her plan to make their father pay the ultimate price for scorning her.__NEWL__Hua Wuque is horrified after learning the truth and realising that Xiaoyuer is actually his twin brother.__NEWL__Just then, Xiaoyuer comes back to life, having feigned death earlier by consuming a special drug.__NEWL__The twins finally recognise and acknowledge each other as brothers, thus putting an end to Yaoyue's evil plan and ending the story on a happy note.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q623955	The Rose of Sharon Blooms Again	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q884	South Korea	12919362	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12919362	The story was set in the present and revolved around a South Korean scientist who secretly helps North Korea develop nuclear weapons which are then used to ward off Japanese aggression.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38793	L'Oeuvre au noir	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12994	Bruges	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q31	Belgium	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	12734481	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12734481	Zeno, an illegitimate son, is born in the Ligre household, a rich banking family of Bruges.__NEWL__Zeno renounces a comfortable career in the priesthood and leaves home to find truth at the age of 20.__NEWL__In his youth, after leaving Bruges, he greedily seeks knowledge by roaming the roads of Europe and beyond, leaving in his wake a nearly legendary — but also dangerous — reputation of genius due to the works he accomplishes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7537649	Skydive!	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12735435	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12735435	The story is about 13-year-old Jesse Rodriguez who has an exciting job working for his friend Buck at a small flight and skydiving school near Seattle.__NEWL__But he can't wait to turn 16 and finally be able to make his first free-fall jump from a plane.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763474	The Seventh Crystal	1996-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12735525	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12735525	The story is about Chris Masters who is having problems with bullies at his school, stealing his lunch money and threatening him.__NEWL__His next biggest problem is a video game called The Seventh Crystal which came in the mail with almost no instructions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17033974	Time Benders	1997-08-11T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12735672	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12735672	The story is about Zack Griffin and Jeff Brown who both win trips to a famous science laboratory.__NEWL__There they discover that one of the machines in the lab can "bend" time, and they end up in ancient Egypt.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5247732	Deathstalker Rebellion	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	12779335	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12779335	Set in a far-future fictional universe, Deathstalker Rebellion develops the plot and themes introduced in Deathstalker.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16254305	Innocent Traitor	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	12727413	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12727413	The story starts with her birth in 1537.__NEWL__The daughter of Lady Frances Brandon and Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Jane is seen as a burden by her parents, both of whom resent her for being a girl instead of a boy, and is regularly beaten by her mother.__NEWL__Jane grows up close to her nurse, Mrs. Ellen and is highly educated, to the standards of a princess.__NEWL__After Henry VIII's death and Catherine Parr's marriage to Thomas Seymour, Jane goes to live with the former queen and her husband to further her education while her elders plot her marriage to Edward VI of England.__NEWL__When it becomes clear that the young king will not live long, other plans are made for Jane.__NEWL__John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, gets the young Edward to proclaim Jane as his successor.__NEWL__He does this by proclaiming his half sisters, Mary and Elizabeth I of England, both bastards and not fit to take the throne.__NEWL__According to Edward's father's will, if all his children were to die without heirs, then the succession to the crown would follow the lineage of his late younger sister, Mary Tudor.__NEWL__Frances, the daughter of Mary, relinquishes her right to the crown in order for it to go to her eldest daughter, Jane, since she had no sons.__NEWL__To secure his position Northumberland marries Jane off to Guilford Dudley, his youngest son.__NEWL__Jane is openly displeased with the man chosen to be her husband.__NEWL__On Edward's death, Northumberland and Henry Grey go forward with their plan and put Jane on the throne, proclaiming her to be the rightful heir to the throne.__NEWL__At first, a reluctant Jane instead proclaims Mary the rightful queen, but is forced by her elders to take the throne as her own.__NEWL__There is little support for her claim, though.__NEWL__Even many Protestant nobles, whose support had been counted on, rally to Mary.__NEWL__When Mary rides into town proclaiming herself the rightful queen, Jane puts up no fight and is happy to relinquish the title to her cousin.__NEWL__Thinking Mary will be kind to her, Jane is not worried, even though she is confined to the Tower of London; she had spent her brief "reign" there, and the main change is that she is no longer living in the royal apartments.__NEWL__Mary's fiancé, Philip II of Spain, pressures Mary to rid England of the usurper Jane after yet another attempt by Jane's father to overthrow Mary and put Jane back on the throne.__NEWL__Mary reluctantly acquiesces for fear of displeasing her husband-to-be.__NEWL__Mary signs a warrant for execution of both Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Guilford Dudley.__NEWL__She is sympathetic towards Jane, offering her a few more days before the execution, while promising to spare her life, if she converts from the Protestant faith to the Catholic faith.__NEWL__Stubborn in her religious ways, Jane refuses and pays the price.__NEWL__On 12 February 1554 Jane is taken to the Tower Green, where she faces the scaffold and dies a traitor's death.__NEWL__Even the executioner feels sorry for her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7731914	The Emperor's Children	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12744448	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12744448	In 2001 in New York City three friends, who all showed signs of brilliance in their youth, reach their 30s without having achieved the promise they showed a decade earlier.__NEWL__Danielle Minkoff is the only one of her friends to hold a steady job, working as a producer for a TV program that makes documentaries.__NEWL__Marina Thwaite is the daughter of a revered literary critic and author Murray Thwaite and his wife Annabel.__NEWL__Years earlier, Marina secured a contract to write a book about children's fashion, and having used up all her advance money and facing a hard deadline, moves back into her childhood home with her parents.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Julius Clarke, a brilliant and witty critic for The Village Voice, cannot sustain himself with his literary work and is forced to take temporary jobs to supplement his income—which he finds demeaning.__NEWL__At one of his temp jobs, he meets a successful, slightly younger man David Cohen.__NEWL__Juliius seduces him and eventually moves in with him and allows himself to be kept like a housewife.__NEWL__He keeps Marina and Danielle away from David.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Danielle begins two flirtations, one with Ludovic Seeley, an Australian editor who has moved to New York City to start a literary journal The Monitor (named after Le Moniteur Universel) and another with Marina's father Murray, who begins an email correspondence at first using her job and later concern over Marina's unemployment as reasons to keep contacting her.__NEWL__Marina, still hanging on to the last traces of her It-girl status, is unsettled by the arrival of her 19-year-old cousin Bootie, who has dropped out of university to pursue a program of educating himself by his own design.__NEWL__Bootie reveres the Thwaites and looks up to his uncle Murray, in whose footsteps he wants to follow; but Marina is dismissive, calling him "Fat Fredrick.__NEWL__"__NEWL__She finds how he has installed himself in the Thwaite home creepy.__NEWL__Despite this, things quickly fall in line for Bootie: Murray is impressed by both his desire to leave his small town and his desire to self-educate.__NEWL__Murray offers him a salary and work as his private secretary.__NEWL__Through Marina, Bootie also is able to rent Julius's old apartment.__NEWL__Though Danielle is more attracted to Seeley, she makes the mistake of introducing him to Marina as a possible editor for his magazine.__NEWL__Danielle watches from the sidelines as Seeley and Marina begin to work together and start a relationship.__NEWL__Seeley also inspires Marina to begin to work on her book anew, which she decides to name The Emperor's Children Have No Clothes, inspired by something that Seeley tells her.__NEWL__As the possibility of being with Seeley dissolves, Danielle begins sleeping with Murray.__NEWL__Working as Murray's secretary, Bootie discovers that his uncle is not the high-principled man he once thought he was and discovers that he self-plagiarizes articles, dismisses low-paying events for star-studded ones and is writing a secret indulgent book, How to Live.__NEWL__Additionally, after discovering Murray's affair with Danielle, Bootie decides to write an exposé on Murray for The Monitor.__NEWL__Over the 4th of July holiday weekend, Seeley and Marina become engaged, to the annoyance of Danielle and Murray, both of whom suspect that Seeley has some ulterior motive to take down Murray.__NEWL__Around the same time, Marina finishes her book and gives it to Murray to read.__NEWL__Finding it vapid and soulless, he urges her not to publish it, causing a rift between father and daughter.__NEWL__Around the same time, Bootie finishes his exposé on Murray and gives copies to his mother, Marina and Murray.__NEWL__Expecting them to applaud him for his honesty, he is shocked when all three are horrified by what he has written.__NEWL__Making matters worse, Seeley likes the piece and wants to publish it, causing a fight between him and Marina.__NEWL__Bootie becomes estranged from the Thwaites.__NEWL__Furthermore, after David loses his job, Julius takes back his apartment, causing Bootie to move to rent a room in an apartment and begin temping downtown.__NEWL__Marina goes forward with publishing her book and marrying Seeley.__NEWL__At their wedding, Danielle asks Murray to spend an entire night with her, something he has never done, always returning home after their trysts to his wife, Annabel.__NEWL__Murray has a cancellation on September 10 and thus decides to spend that night with Danielle.__NEWL__They spend the evening together, and the following morning are able to see the September 11 attacks from Danielle's apartment window.__NEWL__Terrified about what has happened, Murray abandons Danielle to go to Annabel.__NEWL__Danielle is heartbroken, realizing that though she thought of Murray as her soulmate, he has chosen Annabel over her.__NEWL__At the headquarters of The Monitor, Seeley realizes that his project is completely doomed as the launch was to take place that day, but the attacks mean that the magazine cannot go to print, and that all the articles will seem obsolete anyway.__NEWL__Bootie's mother Judy waits to hear from her son and becomes disconcerted as days pass and she hears nothing.__NEWL__She enlists the Thwaites to help find her son, and though they manage to track down the temp agency where he worked, they are unable to locate him and assume he has died.__NEWL__In a state of shock over her breakup, Danielle contacts her mother, who takes her on a vacation to Miami.__NEWL__While there, Danielle sees Bootie working as a waiter.__NEWL__She tries to talk to him, but he tells her his name is Ulrich New.__NEWL__After she leaves him, he goes back to his hotel to flee once more.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7362971	Rome Burning	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	12784753	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12784753	Three years after the events of Romanitas, the Roman Empire is on the brink of war with Nionia (Japan), and plagued by a sequence of mysterious wildfires.__NEWL__Marcus Novius, the young heir to the Roman throne is forced to take charge as Regent when the Emperor Faustus falls suddenly ill.__NEWL__Marcus attempts to recruit Varius as his advisor, but Varius, who is still haunted by the events of the first book (in which he lost his wife and was framed for murder and treason), refuses.__NEWL__While Marcus works to avoid a world war, his lover Una is intent on discovering the truth about his ambitious cousin Drusus's involvement in a conspiracy that almost claimed Marcus's life.__NEWL__Her brother Sulien finds himself caught up along with Varius in a disastrous attack on an arms factory at Veii, just outside Rome.__NEWL__After surviving this and saving Sulien's life, Varius decides to return to political life after all, but Sulien is left with many questions about what happened.__NEWL__Una exposes Drusus's involvement in the murders of Marcus's parents and Varius's wife, although not before he almost kills her.__NEWL__Varius urges Marcus to have Drusus killed but Marcus is reluctant to begin his reign with an extra-judiciary killing, and is content to have Drusus tried for Una's attempted murder as there is no direct evidence for his other crimes.__NEWL__Drusus, however, has formed an alliance with a Roman general, Salvius, who releases Drusus from prison and urges the sickly Emperor Faustus to rethink his decision to allow Marcus so much power.__NEWL__Drusus, who has hitherto never felt much personal resentment of those who have stood in his way, has conceived a passionate hatred of Una, and tries to convince Faustus that she, Sulien, and Varius are a dangerous influence on Marcus.__NEWL__Sulien's attempts to discover more about the explosion at Veii lead him to believe he was somehow targeted.__NEWL__Una accompanies Marcus to peace talks hosted by the Sinoan (Chinese) Empress in the Song capital of Bianjing (Kaifeng).__NEWL__Things go well at first although Una discovers the Nionians are developing a super-weapon.__NEWL__But someone seems intent on sabotaging the negotiations.__NEWL__One of the Nionian party is killed by a Roman assassin and Marcus is abruptly summoned home by Faustus, under effective arrest.__NEWL__This leaves the Nionian Prince Tadahito deeply suspicious about Rome's intentions.__NEWL__Before he is forced to leave, Marcus hands over Una and Varius as hostages to the Nionians, partly as a sign of good faith, but primarily in the hope of keeping them away from Drusus, who would almost certainly have them tortured or killed.__NEWL__From within Nionian custody, and with the help of the Sinoan Empress and the Nionian Princess, Una and Varius attempt to influence the global action to stop Drusus causing a war, but their efforts come at a personal cost, especially for Una.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5281124	Dirty Work	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z	12853109	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12853109	The novel takes place over a period of two days in a VA hospital.__NEWL__Walter James, a white veteran of the Vietnam war, has just been admitted.__NEWL__His face was completely reconstructed after he suffered severe wounds.__NEWL__As a result of a fragment of bullet embedded in his brain, James also suffers blackouts and dizziness.__NEWL__He meets Braiden Chaney, a black man who lost both of his arms and legs from gunfire in the Vietnam War.__NEWL__He has been in the VA hospital for 22 years.__NEWL__The novel is structured in a stream of consciousness style, much of it taking place within Braiden's mind.__NEWL__He constructs elaborate fantasies, most of which involve his being a king in Africa, to escape the plight of his physical state.__NEWL__Most of the novel consists of dialogue between the two men.__NEWL__They tell each other their respective stories, mostly during the course of one night, while they drink beer and smoke pot that Braiden's sister has smuggled into the hospital for him.__NEWL__The novel is ultimately a theodicy, as it attempts to explain the paradox of evil in a world created by an omnipotent God.__NEWL__Braiden has several conversations with Jesus during the novel.__NEWL__The reader is left to determine whether they are fantasies or real conversations, the novel implies that they are real.__NEWL__The plot of the novel borrows from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which is referred to in the novel.__NEWL__Braiden, along with his sister, eventually convince Walter to kill him.__NEWL__He has wanted to end his life for years.__NEWL__The novel ends with this event, and Walter reflects, "I knew that somewhere Jesus wept."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q921842	The Door Between	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12878878	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12878878	Karen Leith is a novelist whose fictional life and works bear a resemblance to Pearl S. Buck—she was raised in Japan and writes novels that are set there, but lives in Manhattan surrounded by Japanese customs, art and furnishings.__NEWL__She is engaged to marry world-famous cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure.__NEWL__One day, the doctor's daughter, Eva, finds Karen with her throat cut in the writer's Washington Square home.__NEWL__Eva herself has no motive to kill Karen, but the evidence she finds at the scene suggests—even in her own mind—that no one else could have done it.__NEWL__The investigation by Ellery Queen confronts this puzzle and also turns up startling information about a long-vanished relative of Karen Leith.__NEWL__Queen pierces the veil of circumstantial evidence and finds out not only the method of the crime but, most importantly, its motivation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16205514	The Wedding Day Mystery	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12910620	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12910620	The plot revolves around the happenings taking place at Heights House, a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of Nancy Drew's home town, River Heights.__NEWL__It has been hired by Happily Ever After, Inc., a wedding consulting service at which Nancy's friend Bess Marvin works.__NEWL__ Bess's cousin George and Nancy have agreed to assist Bess in the four weddings that are taking place on that weekend.__NEWL__But then a series of mishaps follow.__NEWL__One of the brides is frightened when she sees a ghost – or rather, someone dressed as a ghost – in her closet.__NEWL__Nancy's car is also tampered with, which nearly kills her.__NEWL__The bride's wedding gifts are stolen, and the wedding dress of the bride of the next wedding is slashed to rags.__NEWL__ In the end, the saboteur turns out to be Grace Sayer, the previous owner of the house.__NEWL__She had lost the house due to debts and intended to regain it by frightening all its inhabitants.__NEWL__But after she is caught during the third wedding, the problems do not end.__NEWL__A message is sent to the fourth bride warning her to stop the marriage before it is too late.__NEWL__Nancy discovers that Rafe, the security guard, is an ex-boyfriend of the fourth bride and is the one who sent the letter.__NEWL__Nancy and her friends prevent him from stopping the marriage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5308044	Professor Martens' Departure	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q191	Estonia	12911709	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12911709	Friedrich Fromhold Martens, born in Pärnu, Estonia on 27 August 1845, was a renowned expert in international law.__NEWL__He attended the University of St. Petersburg where he later became a professor.__NEWL__He was a polyglot, jurist, arbitrator, and a member of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.__NEWL__He represented the Russian Government at many international conferences including the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.__NEWL__He was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1902 and was mistakenly reported by some as the winner.__NEWL__During a train journey from his home town of Pärnu to St. Petersburg he recalls many events of his life.__NEWL__He remembers meeting his wife Kati for the first time at her father's house.__NEWL__He describes the discovery of his "double", Georg Friedrich Martens, a man who lived an almost parallel life to Friedrich eighty-nine years previously.__NEWL__Georg was born in Hamburg, Germany, attended the University of Göttingen and also became a professor of international law.__NEWL__Some of the recollected events, for example, the Great Flood of Hamburg in 1770 and a fire in a wooded suburb of Göttingen actually took place during Georg's life and not his own.__NEWL__He describes important events from his own life, including the arrest of his Estonian nationalist nephew, Johannes.__NEWL__He remembers his meeting with the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov, to discuss the publication of his compendium (the compendium itself being heavily influenced by Georg's works) of treaties between Russia and other nations.__NEWL__He formulates his theory of "comparativist psychology".__NEWL__With some embarrassment, he relates the story of his candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize and the mistaken reports that he was the winner.__NEWL__He outlines his "doctrine of respect for human rights".__NEWL__He describes his affair with an art student, Yvette Arlon, a woman that later bore his child, married and fled to the Congo.__NEWL__Friedrich discusses politics with a fellow train passenger, an Estonian lady and socialist, Hella Wuolijoki.__NEWL__He wonders how differently he would have lived his life if given another chance.__NEWL__He recalls the embarrassing episode of the Treaty of Portsmouth; Friedrich was a member of the Russian delegation, but his name was mistakenly omitted from the initial list of delegates, and so the Japanese did not allow him to participate in most of the talks.__NEWL__He remembers Mr. Saebelmann, the son of the man who was rumored to have ousted Friedrich's father from the parish clerk's cottage.__NEWL__Mr. Saebelmann became a composer of some note but later died in Poltava.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, he describes the death of his double, Georg, in Frankfurt am Main, and reassured himself that since his life has so closely paralleled Georg's, he cannot die for a couple of years yet.__NEWL__In the greatest deviation from the life of his double, however, Martens does end up dying at the train station in Valga.__NEWL__Thought the novel, Martens returns time and time again to the idea of "candour" and "total candour".__NEWL__At the beginning, Martens is concerned with leaving the reader a positive impression of his life and achievements, but as he reveals more about himself throughout the novel, more unfavourable details come to light, and it becomes apparent that Martens had been touching up many of the earlier anecdotes.__NEWL__As he races toward death, Martens also runs toward a final confession.__NEWL__Although his confessions are addressed to his wife Kati, they are really for himself - he is finally admitting to himself that he is not quite the man he always made himself up to be.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5435715	Farmer Boy	1933-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q510021	Malone	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12861143	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12861143	The novel is based on the childhood of Wilder's husband, Almanzo Wilder, who grew up in the 1860s near the town of Malone, New York.__NEWL__It covers roughly one year of his life, beginning just before his ninth birthday and describes a full year of farming.__NEWL__It describes in detail the endless chores involved in running the Wilder family farm, all without powered vehicles or electricity.__NEWL__Young as he is, Almanzo rises before 5 am every day to milk cows and feed stock.__NEWL__In the growing season, he plants and tends crops; in winter, he hauls logs, helps fill the ice house, trains a team of young oxen, and sometimes — when his father can spare him — goes to school.__NEWL__The novel includes stories of his brother, Royal, and sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3051580	Elminster – The Making of a Mage	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12907775	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12907775	Elminster – The Making of a Mage covers from his first encounter with magic as a young boy, to his days as a rebel fighter, to his nights as a thief, then on to his life following Mystra.__NEWL__It is the first real insight into why Elminster is "Elminster".__NEWL__It starts with an overview of his tragic childhood, on to his even rougher life growing up trying to hide who he is.__NEWL__Then as a thief he sneaks into a closed temple of Mystra to defile it.__NEWL__He is about to set to his task when he is spotted by a mage but then saved by the Lady of mysteries and given a chance to slay the mage that was to slay him.__NEWL__After he debated with the Goddess over whether or not it is right to use magic he let the mage go.__NEWL__Mystra then helps to hide him from those who might want him to be used in their plots, or just kill him, until he has the power to take his revenge.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7191169	Picture Perfect	1995-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12907806	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12907806	Cassie Barrett is a renowned anthropologist.__NEWL__Cassie wakes up on top of a grave, suffering from amnesia, unable to recall any details about herself or her situation.__NEWL__She is found and taken to the hospital by Will Flying Horse, a half-Lakota Los Angeles police officer, until she is retrieved by her husband, Alex Rivers, a Hollywood celebrity.__NEWL__Cassie returns to her Bel Air mansion, and it appears that she lives a picture perfect life.__NEWL__As memories gradually return to Cassie she recalls the whirlwind romance with Alex in Tanzania, her deep and unconditional love for Alex, and the physical abuse he has inflicted upon her.__NEWL__When Cassie finds a positive pregnancy test in her bathroom, she recalls why she left—to protect her baby.__NEWL__Cassie returns to Will who hides her on the Lakota reservation in South Dakota.__NEWL__Cassie quickly grows to love the Reservation and its people.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Alex's life is beginning to fall apart, although he has won three Oscars; he cannot live and is lost without Cassie.__NEWL__Rumours abound concerning Cassie's disappearance that tarnish his reputation.__NEWL__On the night of the Oscars, Cassie calls Alex to say that she is proud of him.__NEWL__After giving birth to Connor, her son, Cassie calls Alex again and tells him where she is, but says that she will not return home for another month.__NEWL__She makes him promise he will not come after her, but he breaks this promise, and shows up outside the Flying Horses' house two weeks later.__NEWL__They reunite and Cassie tells Alex of their son, Connor.__NEWL__She tells Alex she only left to protect their baby, and that she would never have left otherwise because of Alex.__NEWL__Cassie makes Alex agree that she will return on two conditions: that he see a therapist and not assault her.__NEWL__He agrees and when they are back in Los Angeles his reputation is restored, but only temporarily.__NEWL__Alex stops going to therapy, and speculation about where Cassie was and the paternity of Connor circulates.__NEWL__Alex becomes aware of the rumours and assaults Cassie.__NEWL__Regret comes later that evening when Alex begs Cassie not to again leave.__NEWL__He again promises that he would do anything and says he cannot be without her.__NEWL__Cassie agrees, but she realizes that she cannot stay with Alex despite her love for him.__NEWL__She realizes that something has to make him hate her, so that they can both be free.__NEWL__Cassie holds a press conference, announcing she is divorcing Alex on the grounds of extreme cruelty.__NEWL__She knows this will ruin Alex's career, and kill her as she is forcing Alex to stop loving her__NEWL__but she cannot stop loving him.__NEWL__She sees him in the crowd of reporters and when a reporter asks if she could say anything to Alex right at this moment, what it would be, she says, "I'd say what he always said to me.__NEWL__I never meant to hurt you."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5305386	Dragonhaven	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12864853	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12864853	The story is set in the Smokehill National Park, a wildlife preserve for the preservation and study of dragons.__NEWL__The dragons are elusive; evidence of their existence can be found everywhere, but the dragons themselves remain hidden.__NEWL__Young Jake Mendoza, who lives with his father, the owner and director of the park, goes out for his first overnight solo and comes across a dying dragon.__NEWL__The dragon has been fatally injured by a poacher who has breached the security of the wildlife preserve.__NEWL__The fact that a dragon has killed a human, even a poacher, will make life very complicated for Smokehill National Park, which exists in a tough political climate, due to the controversial nature of keeping dragons alive.__NEWL__But what makes life even more complicated for Jake is that he discovers that the dying dragon had been a mother, and that one of her dragonlets is still alive.__NEWL__It is illegal to save the dragon's life, but Jake, having discovered the baby dragon, cannot leave it to die.__NEWL__He takes the dragon home and raises it.__NEWL__However, this creates a controversy.__NEWL__The family of the dead poacher want the dragons at Dragonhaven killed.__NEWL__Jake and the other rangers are trying their best to convince those against the preservation of dragons that the creatures are really peaceful and friendly.__NEWL__The bulk of the story involves Jake's growing relationship with the young dragon and other dragons, all the responsibilities that come along with caring for an orphaned wild animal, and his own maturation from child to young adult.__NEWL__The novel is written in a childish style at first, but Jake's writing style matures as he matures.__NEWL__In the end, Dragonhaven is saved by Jake and his dragon "friends," as they slowly learn how their two species can communicate with each other by their mind, in the process proving that dragons are as intelligent as humans and wish to be at peace with them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3795180	The Narrows	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12902858	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12902858	While investigating the death of ex-FBI profiler Terry McCaleb at his wife's request, Bosch begins to suspect that notorious serial killer and ex-FBI supervisor Robert Backus, aka The Poet, presumed dead, may have murdered McCaleb.__NEWL__Digging deeper, Bosch follows a lead to Las Vegas that brings him into contact with the FBI.__NEWL__Meanwhile, FBI agent Rachel Walling, who was at one time Backus's protégé in the FBI (as McCaleb had also been) and who has been exiled by the FBI to South Dakota for four years for her role in The Poet investigation, is the subject of messages sent by Backus to the FBI.__NEWL__As Bosch and Walling are both outsiders to the main FBI investigation, they eventually join forces.__NEWL__The novel shifts points of view, cutting from Bosch's first-person commentary to the third-person perspectives of Walling and Backus.__NEWL__Bosch meets a neighbor whom he later discovers (in the book The Closers) to be Cassie Black, the main character of Void Moon, and he begins a relationship with Walling.__NEWL__He also accepts an offer from his old partner Kiz Rider to rejoin the LAPD under a new chief of police, as a homicide detective in the Open-Unsolved Unit within the department's Robbery-Homicide Division.__NEWL__In the end, Bosch and Walling bring The Poet to justice by chasing him into the concrete channels of the swollen Los Angeles River in L.A., where he drowns while Bosch barely survives.__NEWL__His death is confirmed this time, as opposed to The Poet where he was merely presumed dead.__NEWL__However, the relationship between Bosch and Walling falls apart in the end when Bosch learns that the FBI had discovered that Backus had nothing to do with McCaleb's death but had withheld the information from him.__NEWL__In fact, McCaleb had killed himself in a manner to make his death look accidental, as his heart transplant was failing, and he did not want to burden his wife and children with the crippling expense of additional medical procedures.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5609779	Grizzly	1997-10-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12749297	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12749297	The story is about Justin McCallister who loves life on his aunt and uncle's sheep ranch in Montana.__NEWL__Until a grizzly bear begins terrorizing the livestock, injuring Justin's collie, Radar, and killing his pet lamb, Blue.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7799037	Thunder Valley	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12749444	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12749444	The story is about Jeremy and Jason Parsons who are left to take care of their grandparents Thunder Valley Ski Lodge while their grandma goes to visit their grandfather in hospital with a broken hip.__NEWL__Strange things begin happening once Grandma leaves, though.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5195290	Curse of the Ruins	1998-02-09T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12749550	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12749550	The story is about Sam, his thirteen-year-old twin sister, Katie and their cousin Shala who are trying to find their dad who is lost on a New Mexico ruin while escaping danger from bad guys who want to find a secret map, which their dad left them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5459313	Flight of the Hawk	1998-04-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12749639	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12749639	The story is about Andy who is sent to live with his mysterious grandfather Hawkes after his parents' deaths.__NEWL__Andy soon finds out his grandfather isn't what he seems, but instead is an inventor, and discovers that his parents' deaths may not have been an accident.__NEWL__When Grandfather Hawkes's life is threatened, Andy decides he's not going to lose another person he loves.__NEWL__So using his grandfather's inventions, Andy becomes The Hawk.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768549	The Test	2000-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12816549	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816549	As the book opens, Tobias discovers Bobby McIntire, a missing child who was hiking through the woods.__NEWL__He leads the boy's father and a search party to his son.__NEWL__Throughout the book Tobias deals with the psychological after-effects of the torture he endured at the hands of the sadistic sub-visser Taylor.__NEWL__He continues to question his own strength and resolve.__NEWL__Taylor, claiming she is now part of the Yeerk Peace Movement, enlists Tobias to try and sabotage the Yeerk Pool.__NEWL__All of the other Animorphs, except for Cassie, who declines on moral grounds, accompany him and Ax as they dig a tunnel to the pool.__NEWL__In order to dig a tunnel to the Yeerk Pool, Tobias and Ax alternate turns in Taxxon morph, which has a nearly uncontrollable constant hunger.__NEWL__However, it is revealed that Taylor has been working for Visser Three, and sets off a gas explosion.__NEWL__Cassie is able to turn off the gas from its control station, injuring several humans in the process.__NEWL__She is once again distraught by the violence she has had to use to save her friends.__NEWL__Taylor is presumably killed in the gas explosion.__NEWL__The book ends with Rachel and Tobias on the beach.__NEWL__She holds his hand and reassures him that he is not weak, encouraging him to let go of the past.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7771437	The Unexpected	2000-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12816606	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816606	Following the discovery of a fragment of a Bug Fighter, the U.S. government is attempting to use it for research.__NEWL__Once the Yeerks become aware of this occurrence, they attempt to seize the fragment before it is sent to a NASA research facility.__NEWL__The Animorphs confront the Yeerks in an airport before the Yeerks are able to acquire the fragment.__NEWL__During the fight Cassie is rendered unconscious on a luggage conveyor belt.__NEWL__When she wakes up, she is in the cargo bay of a plane flying to Sydney, Australia.__NEWL__The plane is attacked twice by Yeerks looking for the "Andalite bandit."__NEWL__The Yeerks hold the plane in stasis using a tractor beam.__NEWL__After she is unable to evade them while on the plane, she jumps out and morphs into an osprey.__NEWL__She lands in red sand and hides as a flea until the Yeerks retire their search.__NEWL__She demorphs and meets Yami, who lives in a nearby outstation.__NEWL__He takes her to his family.__NEWL__Yami's grandfather had cut himself on another metal fragment from a Bug Fighter Cassie had earlier destroyed while attempting to escape the Yeerks from the plane.__NEWL__She morphs a Hork-Bajir she acquired during the same plane incident and amputates his infected leg.__NEWL__The Blade Ship appears immediately afterwards and Visser Three demands that she come outside.__NEWL__She complies and attempts to lead the Yeerks away from Yami's family using a kangaroo morph.__NEWL__Two small tourist airplanes fly overhead and Visser Three destroys all evidence that the Yeerks had been in that location to evade suspicion.__NEWL__A Chee who was aboard the Blade ship aids Cassie by projecting a hologram around her as she demorphs, and she returns home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7357753	Roger's Version	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12816721	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816721	The novel is about Roger Lambert, a theology professor in his fifties, whose rather complacent faith is challenged by Dale, an evangelical graduate student who believes he can prove that God exists with computer science.__NEWL__Roger becomes obsessed with the thought that Dale is having an affair with his wife, Esther.__NEWL__ Roger himself becomes involved with his niece Verna, a coarse but lively nineteen-year-old and single parent whose own mother (Roger's half-sister) had a sexual hold over him when they were in their teens.__NEWL__Verna, frustrated by her poverty and limited opportunities, becomes increasingly abusive towards her one-and-a-half-year-old, mixed-race daughter, Paula.__NEWL__Roger, out of sympathy for her situation and his increasing sexual attraction for her, begins to tutor Verna so she can earn her high school equivalency.__NEWL__ One evening, when Paula refuses to go to sleep, Verna shoves and hits her; Paula falls and breaks her leg.__NEWL__Roger, after helping Verna disguise the assault as a playground accident from the hospital staff, has sex with her.__NEWL__Dale, meanwhile, grows depressed and disillusioned when his computer data does not seem to point to the existence of God.__NEWL__The novel ends with Verna leaving Boston to return to her parents in Cleveland, and Roger and Esther receiving temporary custody of Paula.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5420395	Exit Music	2007-09-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23436	Edinburgh	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	12800570	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12800570	The novel takes place on November 15-27, 2006; Rebus's last day in the Edinburgh CID is November 25.__NEWL__Rebus and Siobhan Clarke are investigating the death of a famous Russian exile poet who was mugged and beaten to death on King's Stables Road.__NEWL__Then a sound recordist with close ties to the dead Russian poet dies at home in an arson fire.__NEWL__Rebus discovers that the dead poet had eaten his last meal with the recordist, then had a drink with Morris Gerald Cafferty, Rebus's gangster nemesis, in a bar where Cafferty was meeting a Russian oligarch and a Labour official from the Scottish Parliament.__NEWL__Rebus finds Cafferty's hand in many schemes (drugs, abusive landlord practices), but the biggest ones involve real estate and are quite legitimate.__NEWL__ Meanwhile DS Siobhan Clarke, on the cusp of promotion to DI and given charge of the case, tries to find her own way, both dreading and looking forward to losing her mentor.__NEWL__She takes on a protégé of her own, a street cop from a family involved with petty crime, Todd Goodyear.__NEWL__ Rebus is suspended for insulting a powerful Scottish banker in the presence of the Chief Constable.__NEWL__He continues to pursue his hunches, however, often with Clarke's collusion.__NEWL__At one point he meets Cafferty alone; Cafferty is attacked immediately afterwards, and Rebus is carefully framed for it.__NEWL__On his last day on the job, however, Rebus succeeds in disentangling his suspicions and identifies the killers of the poet and the sound recordist.__NEWL__It takes him a little longer to discover who framed him for the attack on Cafferty.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7450927	Senrid	2007-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12754753	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12754753	Senrid is King of Marloven Hess, but in name only because his uncle Tdanerand holds the power.__NEWL__When the Marlovens try to attack the nearby kingdom of Vasande Leror they are defeated by the combined efforts of Vasande Leror's King Leander, his small army, a little bit of magic and a shapeshifting girl named Faline.__NEWL__Senrid's first mission is to get revenge on Leander (and his whining sister Kitty) and Faline.__NEWL__This gets more complicated as many allies of Leander and Faline get involved to try to rescue them.__NEWL__Eventually as magic combines and nearly destroys them in a battle they are thrown off world.__NEWL__When they get back, Senrid must travel and discover whether he wants to join the evil black mages for power or join the white forces of good to help his country.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7752937	The Mystic Masseur	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	12754918	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12754918	The Mystic Masseur follows the life of Ganesh Ramsumair, a Trinidadian of Indian heritage.__NEWL__As a young man, Ganesh attends a training college for teachers, and after graduation, he begins working as a primary school teacher in the Port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital.__NEWL__However, he quickly loses interest in this profession and returns to his hometown of Fourways, where he learns that his father has just died.__NEWL__Ganesh plans to be either a writer or a professional masseur, and he befriends a local shop owner named Ramlogan.__NEWL__Ramlogan has a 16-year-old daughter named Leela, and Leela and Ganesh soon marry.__NEWL__After the wedding, Ganesh demands a large dowry payment from Ramlogan, which angers the latter.__NEWL__Ganesh and Leela go to live in the small rural village of Fuente Grove, and he befriends a shop owner there named Beharry.__NEWL__Beharry encourages Ganesh to read and become a writer, and Ganesh orders several hundred books by mail to comprise his personal library.__NEWL__He reads the books and makes notes, but Leela becomes frustrated by the lack of progress Ganesh makes with actually writing.__NEWL__She leaves Ganesh and returns to Fourways to live with her father again.__NEWL__Ganesh spends the next five weeks writing an educational text about Hinduism, and when he finishes it, he has hires a print shop to make copies of his book.__NEWL__He brings the book to Leela and Ramlogan, and they are ecstatic that he has written a book.__NEWL__However, Ramlogan becomes furious when he sees that the book is dedicated to Beharry rather than Leela or himself.__NEWL__Leela returns to Ganesh, but Ganesh’s book does not sell well.__NEWL__Ganesh decides to become a mystic and a religious healer.__NEWL__His first client is a mother who says that a malevolent black cloud has been following her son.__NEWL__Ganesh performs a ritual over the boy, who then says that the black cloud is gone.__NEWL__Ganesh becomes a very successful mystic, but he soon discovers that the five local taxis are overcharging passengers to come to his home.__NEWL__He also discovers that the taxis are all owned by Ramlogan.__NEWL__He goes to Ramlogan and says that he wishes to buy the taxis from him and that if Ramlogan refuses, Ganesh will simply buy his own taxis and have them charge reasonable rates.__NEWL__Ramlogan, furious but defeated, agrees to sell the taxis to Ganesh.__NEWL__Ganesh, having gained considerable personal wealth, invests his money in Fuente Grove’s businesses and infrastructure, and the village begins to prosper.__NEWL__One day, Hindu organizers approach Ganesh and inform him that C.S. Narayan, the president of the Trinidad Hindu Association, has been embezzling funds from the organization.__NEWL__Ganesh and the organizers publicize Narayan’s malfeasance by publishing their own newspaper.__NEWL__Soon, Narayan is voted out of his position in the organization, and Ganesh is voted in as the new president.__NEWL__Ganesh then decides to campaign for a position in the Legislative Council of Trinidad, and he wins easily, having gained widespread fame and popularity by this point.__NEWL__However, while he intends to fight for the wellbeing of Trinidad’s downtrodden, he is soon stymied by the politics of the Legislative Council and must instead follow the lead of the other Council members.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7715785	The Bastard	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12756557	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12756557	The story begins in November 1770 in Auvergne, France, near Chavaniac.__NEWL__Seventeen-year-old Philippe Charboneau, illegitimate son of James Amberly, the 6th Duke of Kent, travels with his mother Marie to Kent, England and stake their claim to his inheritance.__NEWL__When they arrive, the Duke's family refuse to recognize Philippe as the son of the Duke.__NEWL__Lacking the funds to return to France, Marie and Philippe flee to London, where Phillippe learns the printing trade and makes plans to emigrate to America.__NEWL__During their transatlantic journey, Marie dies of dysentery and is buried at sea, and Philippe decides to adopt an Anglicized version of his name, renaming himself Philip Kent.__NEWL__Philip arrives in Boston, Massachusetts penniless, becoming homeless and starving.__NEWL__He is introduced to Benjamin Edes, the editor of the Boston Gazette, who gives Philip a job at his publishing firm.__NEWL__Through this job, Philip meets Abraham Ware, who often contributes to articles to the paper, and his daughter Anne, whom Philip begins courting.__NEWL__Philip participates in the Boston Tea Party, and then joins the Boston Grenadier Company under Henry Knox.__NEWL__A number of measures are enacted after the Tea Party to punish the colonists in Boston.__NEWL__One of these acts, the Quartering Act, particularly angers Abraham Ware, because he is required to house a British soldier in his home.__NEWL__George Lumden, the sergeant who is quartered in the Wares' house, falls in love with Daisy O'Brian, the Wares' cook, and decides to desert the British army.__NEWL__Philip, who wants Lumden's musket, encourages the sergeant to do so and even employs a local boy to assist him in taking the musket.__NEWL__However, the boy betrays Philip and informs on Lumden to the commander of his unit, who is none other than Roger Amberly.__NEWL__Roger goes to the Wares' house in search of Lumden, but finds only Anne.__NEWL__When Philip arrives, Roger recognizes and attacks him.__NEWL__Philip stabs his half-brother in the stomach with a bayonet and flees with Lumden for Daisy's father's farm, near Concord, Massachusetts.__NEWL__Anne and Daisy join them at the farm some time later and inform him that Roger survived.__NEWL__He was taken to Philadelphia to be treated privately, along with his fiance Alicia Parkhurst.__NEWL__Philip, who once had an affair with Alicia, leaves Concord to see her in Philadelphia.__NEWL__Roger dies before Philip reaches the city.__NEWL__Philip meets with Alicia, who tells him she wants to marry him, but Philip realizes this is only because he is now the Duke's only heir.__NEWL__Philip informs Alicia that he no longer loves her and has decided to give up any claim to his inheritance.__NEWL__On his return from Philadelphia to Concord, Philip participates in Paul Revere's famous "midnight ride" to warn the patriots that the British army is coming.__NEWL__Philip tries to see Anne, but her father will not allow him to.__NEWL__Philip participates in the Battle of Concord and afterwards is finally reunited with Anne.__NEWL__He tells her that he plans to marry her, and then leaves to continue fighting in the war against the British.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5401319	Esther Waters		8157	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	12741186	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12741186	Esther Waters is born to hard-working parents who are Plymouth Brethren in Barnstaple, Devon.__NEWL__Her father's premature death prompts her mother to move to London and marry again, but Esther's stepfather turns out to be a hard-drinking bully and wife-beater who forces Esther, a natural beauty, to leave school and go out to work instead, thus greatly reducing her chances of ever learning how to read and write, and Esther remains illiterate all her life.__NEWL__Her first job outside London is that of a kitchen maid with the Barfields, a nouveau riche family of horse breeders, horse racers and horse betters who live at Woodview near Shoreham.__NEWL__There she meets William Latch, a footman, and is seduced by him.__NEWL__Dreaming of a future with Latch, she is dismayed to find that he is having an affair with the Barfields' niece, who is staying at Woodview.__NEWL__After Latch and his lover have eloped together, Esther stays on at Woodview until she cannot hide her pregnancy any longer.__NEWL__Although she has found a kindred soul in Mrs Barfield, who is also a Plymouth Sister and abhors the betting on horses going on all around her, Esther is dismissed ("I couldn't have kept you on, on account of the bad example to the younger servants") and reluctantly goes back to London.__NEWL__With the little money she has saved, she can stay in a rented room out of her stepfather's sight.__NEWL__Her mother is pregnant with her eighth child and dies giving birth to it at the same time Esther is at Queen Charlotte's Hospital giving birth to a healthy boy she calls Jackie.__NEWL__Still in confinement, she is visited by her younger sister who asks her for money for her passage to Australia, where her whole family have decided to emigrate.__NEWL__Esther never hears of them again.__NEWL__Learning that a young mother in her situation can make good money by becoming a wet nurse, Esther leaves her newborn son in the care of a baby farmer and nurses the sickly child of a wealthy woman ("Rich folk don't suckle their own") who, out of fear of infection, forbids Esther any contact with Jack.__NEWL__When, after two long weeks, she finally sees her son again, realises that he is anything but prospering and even believes that his life might be in danger, she immediately takes him with her, terminates her employment without notice and then sees no other way than to "accept the shelter of the workhouse" for herself and Jack.__NEWL__But Esther is lucky, and after only a few months can leave the workhouse again.__NEWL__She chances upon Mrs Lewis, a lonely widow living in East Dulwich who is both willing and able to raise her boy in her stead, while she herself goes into service again.__NEWL__However, she is not able to really settle down anywhere: either the work is so hard and the hours so long that, fearing for her health, she quits again; or she is dismissed when her employers find out about the existence of her illegitimate son, concluding that she is a "loose" woman who must not work in a respectable household.__NEWL__Later on, while hiding her son's existence, she is fired when the son of the house, in his youthful fervour, makes passes at her and eventually writes her a love letter she cannot read.__NEWL__Another stroke of luck in her otherwise dreary life is her employment as general servant in West Kensington with Miss Rice, a novelist who is very sympathetic to her problems.__NEWL__While working there, she makes the acquaintance of Fred Parsons, a Plymouth Brother and political agitator, who proposes to Esther at about the same time she bumps into William Latch again while on an errand for her mistress.__NEWL__Latch, who has amassed a small fortune betting on horses and as a bookmaker, is the proprietor of a public house in Soho and has separated from his adulterous wife, waiting for his divorce to be completed.__NEWL__He immediately declares his unceasing love for Esther and urges her to live with him and work behind the bar of his pub.__NEWL__Esther realises that she must make up her mind between the sheltered, serene and religious life Parsons is offering her—which she is really longing for—and sharing the financially secure but turbulent existence of a successful small-time entrepreneur who, as she soon finds out, operates on both sides of the law.__NEWL__Eventually, for the sake of her son's future, she decides to go to Soho with Latch, and after his divorce has come through the couple get married.__NEWL__A number of years of relative happiness follow.__NEWL__Jack, now in his teens, can be sent off to school, and Esther even has her own servant.__NEWL__But Latch is a gambler, and nothing can stop him from risking most of the money he has in the hope of gaining even more.__NEWL__Illegal betting is conducted in an upstairs private bar, but more and more also across the counter, until the police clamp down on his activities, his licence is revoked, and he has to pay a heavy fine.__NEWL__This coincides with Latch developing a chronic, sometimes bloody, cough, contracting pneumonia, and finally, in his mid-thirties, being diagnosed with tuberculosis ("consumption").__NEWL__However, rather than not touching what little money he still has for his wife and son's sake, the dying man puts everything on one horse, loses, and dies a few days later.__NEWL__With Miss Rice also dead, Esther has no place to turn to and again takes on any menial work she can get hold of.__NEWL__Then she remembers Mrs Barfield, contacts her and, when asked to come to Woodview as her servant, gladly accepts while Jack, now old enough to earn his own living, stays behind in London.__NEWL__When she arrives there, Esther finds the once proud estate in a state of absolute disrepair, with Mrs Barfield the only inhabitant.__NEWL__Mistress and maid develop an increasingly intimate relationship with each other and, for the first time in their lives, can practise their religion unhindered.__NEWL__Looking back on her "life of trouble and strife," Esther, now about 40, says she has been able to fulfil her task—to see her boy "settled in life," and thus does not see any reason whatsoever to want to get married again.__NEWL__In the final scene of the novel, Jack, who has become a soldier, visits the two women at Woodview.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1195989	The Name of the Wind	2007-03-27T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12814208	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12814208	The Kingkiller Chronicle takes place in the fictional world of Temerant, a large continent of which the known part, called the Four Corners of Civilization, is divided into several distinct nations and cultures.__NEWL__Much of the world follows a faith vaguely similar to medieval Christianity.__NEWL__Coexisting alongside the mortal world is the realm of the Fae, a parallel universe inhabited by supernatural creatures which can move between the two realms only when the moon is full.__NEWL__Magic exists in Temerant, too, but obeys a well-defined set of rules and principles that can only be exploited by those who have trained in its professional and scientific use.__NEWL__As the novel begins, the reader hears an old storyteller speaking of a famous old wizard called Taborlin the Great, who was captured by evil beings called the Chandrian.__NEWL__Escaping them, Taborlin fell from a great height—but since he knew the "Name of the Wind", he called it and the Wind came and set him down safely.__NEWL__In later parts of the book, characters are often skeptical of such stories.__NEWL__Some kinds of magic are taught in the university as academic disciplines and have daily-life applications (those who can afford it are able to buy magical lamps, for example, much better than the candles used by poorer people).__NEWL__However, most of the population does not have reliable knowledge of the magical disciplines and many still doubt that magicians can truly call upon the Wind.__NEWL__The Chandrian—whose appearance is supposedly heralded by flames turning blue—are often dismissed as mythical bogeymen.__NEWL__In the rural town of Newarre, the Waystone Inn is managed by an innkeeper named Kote and his assistant Bast.__NEWL__It is revealed that Kote is actually the renowned Kvothe: an unequaled sword fighter, magician, and musician, rumored to have killed a king—earning the title Kingkiller—and caused the present war in which the civilized world is embroiled.__NEWL__Bast is Kvothe's assistant and student and a prince of the Fae.__NEWL__Kvothe has gone into hiding and assumed the identity of Kote in order to keep a low profile.__NEWL__Kvothe saves a traveling scribe known as Chronicler from spider-like creatures called scrael, whereupon Chronicler, recognizing Kvothe, asks to record his story.__NEWL__Upon consenting, Kvothe tells Chronicler that this will take three days (corresponding to the planned trilogy of novels).__NEWL__Kvothe begins his story during his childhood, when he lived amongst a troupe of highly reputed traveling performers known as Edema Ruh.__NEWL__His loving parents train him from a young age as an actor, singer, and lute player.__NEWL__He does extremely well in all of these as in every other field to which he turns his hand.__NEWL__The troupe acquires the scholar and arcanist Abenthy, who trains Kvothe in science and sympathy: a discipline that creates links from one physical object to allow manipulation of another.__NEWL__Kvothe also witnesses Abenthy calling the wind to fend off suspicious townspeople and vows to discover the titular "name of the wind", permitting this control.__NEWL__Kvothe's father, the famous bard Arliden, starts composing what was to be the greatest of his works—a ballad of the ancient tragic hero Lanre.__NEWL__For this composition, Arliden starts collecting all the various tales of the mythical Chandrian and tries to get at the kernel of truth behind them—without explaining how this is related to Lanre.__NEWL__This inquiry turns out to have fatal consequences.__NEWL__When the troupe makes camp, Kvothe's mother sends him to gather sage in the surrounding woods.__NEWL__Upon returning, he finds his parents and all members of his troupe dead, and the all-too-real Chandrian seated around the campfire, which has turned blue.__NEWL__They disliked Arliden's researches and came to silence him and everybody else with whom he might have shared his findings.__NEWL__The eleven-year-old Kvothe is on the point of being killed by the Chandrian named Cinder when their leader, Lord Haliax, pressures them to depart due to the approach of some mysterious enemies of theirs.__NEWL__The traumatized Kvothe, alive but alone, spends three years in the slums of the city of Tarbean as a beggar and pickpocket.__NEWL__He is nudged out of this life by hearing a storyteller recount a story of how the hero Lanre became a renegade after the death of his beloved wife, went over to the evil forces he had fought and destroyed the cities with whose protection he was charged—and then changed his name and became himself the fearsome Lord Haliax of the Chandrian.__NEWL__Before Kvothe can ask more, the storyteller is arrested by the dominant Church on charges of heresy.__NEWL__ Kvothe then resolves to get into the university, whose vast Archives include all kinds of accumulated knowledge, including, presumably, also on the Chandrian.__NEWL__Having through great effort obtained some minimal funds for both clothing and traveling, he sets out.__NEWL__En route Kvothe becomes enamored with a talented young woman known as Denna, who is a musician like himself.__NEWL__Kvothe enters the university despite his lack of tuition funds and performs admirably as a student, but faces continuous poverty and rivalries with the wealthy student Ambrose Jakis and the arrogant Master Hemme, who sees that Kvothe receives lashing for misbehaviour.__NEWL__A trick by Ambrose causes Kvothe to be banished from the Archives, hampering his research on the Chandrian.__NEWL__However he does very well in other fields of study, advancing in medicine and runic metalworking, and gaining some loyal friends.__NEWL__Kvothe buys a lute despite his poverty, and performs brilliantly at a famous musical tavern to earn money, where he also befriends Denna again.__NEWL__Hearing reports of blue fire and murder at a rural wedding, he suspects the Chandrian and visits the site.__NEWL__There, Kvothe finds Denna, injured.__NEWL__They meet a local swineherd who tells of blue fire, and later they encounter a draccus, which nearly destroys the local town before it is slain by Kvothe.__NEWL__He does succeed in discovering the reason the Chandrian murdered all of the wedding's participants: the bride's father had dug in the earth and discovered an old pot on which were paintings of all seven Chandrian; they came to recover the pot and kill anyone who may have seen it.__NEWL__Back at the university, Ambrose taunts Kvothe and breaks his lute.__NEWL__In a fit of rage, Kvothe unintentionally calls the name of the wind, breaking Ambrose's arm in the process.__NEWL__As a result of the confrontation, Kvothe is sentenced to further lashing but avoids expulsion.__NEWL__Thanks to his clear magical aptitude, he is also promoted in rank as a student under Master Namer Elodin's tutelage.__NEWL__In the inn at the present day, a mercenary possessed by a supposed skin dancer attacks the patrons and kills one of them.__NEWL__When Kvothe seemingly fails to use magic to help, the skin dancer dies after the local blacksmith's apprentice, Aaron, strikes the possessed mercenary with a rod of iron.__NEWL__The first day ends when Kvothe finishes the first chapter of his story and the town settles down for the night after the commotion.__NEWL__At night, Bast breaks into Chronicler's room and reveals Chronicler's coming was part of his plan all along.__NEWL__He threatens Chronicler, demanding that he focus Kvothe on the more heroic aspects of his story in the hope that he will abandon his apathy and return to his former heroic self.__NEWL__In the epilogue, it is implied Bast's fears are well-founded, as the present-day Kvothe is described as just a man "waiting to die".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7062890	Nothing to Lose	2008-03-24T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	12816144	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816144	As described by Sherryl Connelly of the New York Daily News, In Child's 12th Reacher novel, "Nothing to Lose," our man has decided to walk across the country diagonally from Maine to California.__NEWL__It's a stroll until he hits Despair, where he's run out of town for just showing up.__NEWL__The cops drop him at the neighboring town line, Hope.__NEWL__There, a really quite friendly deputy picks him up in a cruiser and they bond, first in trying to find out what kind of hell Despair is in, and then otherwise.__NEWL__It's a one-man town.__NEWL__Everything, including the excessively profitable metal recycling plant, is owned by a crazed evangelist.__NEWL__But then there's the inexplicably located high-grade military base a couple miles beyond.__NEWL__Despair has more than one secret and won't give them up easily.__NEWL__That makes Reacher mad.__NEWL__The guy's money when it comes to personally engineered max destruction for the right reasons.__NEWL__The folks in Despair have everything to fear, and nothing to hope for when Reacher comes to town.__NEWL__They just don't know that, until they do.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7755937	The Palace of Laughter	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	12816440	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816440	Miles Wednesday, an orphan boy who has recently escaped from the cruel Pinchbucket's orphanage, is the only one who witnesses the arrival of the Circus Oscuro in town one night.__NEWL__He is promptly visited by a tiger with the ability to talk; he considers making Miles his next meal, but leaves him alone after he "smells the circus in him".__NEWL__Miles, who has never even been to a circus before in his life, wonders what he could mean.__NEWL__The next evening, Miles sneaks into the circus to find the tiger and watches some of the show from behind the bleachers.__NEWL__He sees a small girl performing acrobatic stunts fall from the top of the tent and tries to catch her.__NEWL__She sprouts wings, however, and flies to safety.__NEWL__Miles' act of bravery results in him being kicked out by the ringmaster's right-hand man, Ghengis.__NEWL__Miles stays hidden and sees the acrobat, who calls herself "Little", being tied up and taken back to her wagon when the show ends.__NEWL__Miles introduces himself and tries to steal the keys to rescue her, but is caught by the ringmaster, the Great Cortado.__NEWL__Miles pretends that he is interested in joining the circus and steps outside to prepare a "disappearing act".__NEWL__Angered at being tricked and losing one of his stars, Cortado unleashes a monstrous beast called The Null to chase after Little and Miles.__NEWL__The two children barely escape.__NEWL__Miles takes Little to a friend of his, a widow called Lady Partridge, who lives with her many cats in a treehouse made of her own antiques.__NEWL__Partridge gives them shelter and Little tells her story—she is actually a 400-year-old Song Angel who fell from the sky along with her friend Silverpoint, a Storm Angel.__NEWL__After seeing Silverpoint protect Little from a mean clown by shooting lightning bolts at him, the Great Cortado kidnaps and separates the two; he takes Silverpoint to a mysterious place called the Palace of Laughter and forces him to perform there to protect Little.__NEWL__To prove her ability, Little sings Miles' stuffed bear, Tangerine, to life.__NEWL__Miles and Little decide to find the Palace of Laughter and rescue Silverpoint.__NEWL__The two meet many difficulties along the way.__NEWL__Tangerine wanders away from Miles and is taken by Ghengis, leaving Miles heartbroken.__NEWL__Luckily, the tiger appears again, and carries Miles and Little for a good portion of the journey.__NEWL__The tiger, after much pestering from Miles, reveals that the Circus Oscuro did have a tiger once: the tiger, Varippuli, was originally part of the circus of a great man called Barty Fumble, and showed him more loyalty than could ever be fathomed.__NEWL__The circus was always a success, until the year the Circus Oscuro appeared and began stealing the crowds.__NEWL__Barty was expecting his first child and knew he could not afford failure.__NEWL__He made a deal with the Great Cortado to combine the two circuses for the summer and then part ways.__NEWL__All was well until Barty's wife died in labour, leaving him heartbroken.__NEWL__He disappeared with his son, leaving Varippuli to the wrath of the evil Cortado.__NEWL__After attempting to starve Varippuli to make him perform once more, Cortado tried to whip the beast, but it got the better of him.__NEWL__Before Varippuli could deliver the final blow, Cortado found his gun and supposedly killed the tiger.__NEWL__Miles also runs into an old friend of Lady Partridge, an elderly former explorer named Baltinglass of Araby, who eagerly aids them.__NEWL__Just before they can reach the Palace of Laughter, Miles and Little are taken by a violent gang of orphan boys called the Halfheads and caught between the constant rivalry of two other gangs, the Stinkers and Gnats.__NEWL__With the help of Henry, one friendly member of the Halfheads and after the betrayal of String (who holds a grudge against Miles after being replaced by him), Little and Miles reach the Palace of Laughter and find it is nowhere near the pleasant place they expected it to be.__NEWL__The Great Cortado uses a method he has devised with the mysterious Dr. Tau-Tau to make people laugh uncontrollably and steal the laughter and happiness out of their souls.__NEWL__He then sells a drink that can temporarily make them feel themselves again.__NEWL__Cortado plans to spread his influence across the towns and eventually the world.__NEWL__Miles and Little are caught by Silverpoint, who at first pretends to not recognise them to keep them safe.__NEWL__He finally reveals Cortado's plan, and the three are befriended by the clown trio, the Bosillio brothers, who wish to help them.__NEWL__Cortado intends to make Miles and Little sit through the next performance and share the same fate as the other unfortunate spectators, but Miles is able to steal some of the antidote given to the clowns, Cortado, and Genghis before the show.__NEWL__Cortado and Genghis happen to drink the water Miles replaces it with and now cannot stop laughing senselessly.__NEWL__The police arrive, informed by Lady Partridge and Baltinglass, who were informed by Partridge's cats who in turn were tipped off by the tiger.__NEWL__They lock up Genghis and Cortado in the local asylum since they can't answer to any accusations after falling victim to their own scheme.__NEWL__String plans to get revenge on Miles by stealing Little and using her ability to fly to make himself the leader of the Stinkers.__NEWL__He finds a room where he believes she is locked up, but instead unleashes the Null.__NEWL__The monster goes on a rampage and Silverpoint is knocked unconscious trying to defeat him.__NEWL__He is about to squeeze Miles to death when Little sings her true name, saving Miles but tying herself to the earth forever.__NEWL__She loses her wings and is rescued from falling by the Bosillio Brothers.__NEWL__The Null is now much more tame and surprisingly affectionate towards Miles, who finds that he cannot let the city council destroy it.__NEWL__The Bosillio Brothers find Tangerine and return him to Miles, revealing that they gave it to him the day he was born.__NEWL__Barty Fumble was Miles' father and they were a part of his circus.__NEWL__Silverpoint returns the Realm of the Angels but is forced to leave Little behind.__NEWL__After one more talk with the enigmatic tiger (who Miles suspects is Varippuli), he promises to find what happened to his father and make Little's life on earth as happy as it was in the heavens.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6679477	Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7622932	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7622932	Humans on an advanced time-line have discovered "lateral" time dimensions that allow them to travel to "worlds of alternate probability".__NEWL__They use it to exploit natural resources from these alternate realities.__NEWL__The Paratime Police are tasked to keep the invention of lateral "time travel" secret and to combat abuses.__NEWL__Occasionally, objects or people get caught in the paratime "conveyors" and are inadvertently transported to alternate timelines.__NEWL__This happens to Corporal Calvin Morrison of the Pennsylvania State Police.__NEWL__Morrison ends up in a significantly different version of Pennsylvania.__NEWL__Initially confused by the old-growth forest and lack of settlements, Morrison meets some friendly peasants who speak an unknown language.__NEWL__When they are attacked by a raiding party armed with flintlock pistols, Morrison is able to fight them off with his police-issue .38 revolver.__NEWL__Reinforcements arrive, but in the confusion, he is wounded by the beautiful young woman leading them.__NEWL__While recuperating, he learns the local language.__NEWL__This alternate version of North America is split up into a number of kingdoms, each composed of small principalities, with a level of technology roughly equivalent to that of the late European Renaissance.__NEWL__Morrison finds himself the guest of Prince Ptosphes of Hostigos — whose daughter Rylla was the one who shot him by mistake.__NEWL__He learns that the principality is being threatened by two of their neighbors, Nostor and Sask, with a third, Beshta, hungrily looking on.__NEWL__Ptosphes' overlord, Great King Kaiphranos of Hos-Harphax, refuses to intervene because the priests of the god Styphon want Hostigos to be destroyed.__NEWL__The religious sect uses its monopoly on black gunpowder, known as "fireseed", to control the various princes and kings.__NEWL__Hostigos has a sulfur spring; since sulfur is a key ingredient of fireseed, Styphon's House intends to seize that spring once Hostigos is destroyed.__NEWL__Morrison (or Lord Kalvan, as the people begin to call him) uses his basic knowledge of chemistry to begin producing gunpowder in quantity.__NEWL__He also introduces the rapier and improved cannons with trunnions and rifling.__NEWL__With his understanding of military strategy and tactics, he reorganizes the outnumbered Hostigos army and repulses Nostor, capturing an important border town in the process.__NEWL__Then, to undermine Styphon's priesthood, he sees to it that the knowledge of gunpowder manufacturing is spread far and wide.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Verkan Vall, a top agent of the Paratime Police, tracks Kalvan down and infiltrates his army.__NEWL__The standard procedure is to "remove" the displaced person to protect the Paratime secret by any means judged necessary.__NEWL__Vall takes a liking to the resourceful Kalvan and realizes that his brother policeman has fabricated a background for himself, one that motivates him to conceal the Paratime secret.__NEWL__To help persuade his superiors to leave Morrison alone, Vall also recruits historians on the Home timeline.__NEWL__They can use Kalvan to do an experiment testing the Great man theory — can a single, extraordinary individual change the course of history?__NEWL__After the defeat of Nostor, Sask and Beshta become allies, forcing Kalvan to attack before their armies can unite.__NEWL__After a day of confused fighting against the larger Saskan forces, he emerges victorious.__NEWL__Sarrask of Sask is captured and agrees to become a vassal of a new Great King after he learns that he can share in the looting of Styphon's lavish temples.__NEWL__At first, Kalvan proposes that his future father-in-law assume the new throne, but Ptosphes refuses, stating that the other princes would never stand for being ruled by someone they view as only an equal.__NEWL__Kalvan, as an outsider, is the only one they would accept.__NEWL__Plus, his cover story — that he was sent by the gods from a far-away land — plays into local legends.__NEWL__Thus, Lord Kalvan becomes Great King Kalvan of Hos-Hostigos, with Rylla as his queen.__NEWL__When Gormoth of Nostor hears of Kalvan's successes, he turns against Styphon's House himself.__NEWL__This leads to a bloody civil war in Nostor, followed by Gormoth's assassination.__NEWL__His replacement, facing open and implacable opposition from Styphon's House, soon acknowledges Kalvan's sovereignty.__NEWL__Balthar of Beshta at first declines to become subject to Kalvan, until he discovers there are no gunpowder mills in his realm.__NEWL__Other neighboring princes soon side with Kalvan, as this gets rid of the usurious taxes and loans levied by Styphon's House.__NEWL__King Kaiphranos is infuriated by the defections, as is the Archpriest of Styphon.__NEWL__The novel ends at this point.__NEWL__A sequel, Great Kings' War, was written by Roland Green and John F. Carr.__NEWL__Carr further continues the storyline with the novels Kalvan Kingmaker, Siege of Tarr-Hostigos, The Fireseed Wars and the forthcoming The Gunpowder God (which shares the same title as the original novelette).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736716	The Glass Inferno	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7528630	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7528630	The story concerns the events over the course of a single evening in a recently completed 66-story building in an unnamed American city.__NEWL__The building was called the National Curtainwall Building, nicknamed the Glass House, the headquarters of the fictitious National Curtainwall corporation.__NEWL__A combination of a skyscraper built to the absolute minimum compliance with safety rules, combined with cutting corners to save money on construction, leads to a disaster waiting to happen.__NEWL__Craig Barton, the building’s architect, is to meet for dinner with the building’s owner, Wyndom Leroux, in the building’s Promenade room.__NEWL__During drinks and dinner Barton questions Leroux regarding the specifications of the building and whether or not they have been altered from his original plans, why they have been altered and what the consequences of this may be.__NEWL__After dinner they are alerted by the hostess that there is a fire in one of the building’s storage rooms on the 17th floor.__NEWL__Barton is sent down by Leroux to assist with the firefighting operations while his wife, Jenny, remains at dinner with Leroux and his wife Thelma.__NEWL__A small home furnishings store owner, despondent over his near bankruptcy, decides to burn his business down for the insurance.__NEWL__He tries to do so, but realizes what it will do to his business partner and lover, Larry.__NEWL__He puts out the fire but realizes that he's now really ruined because of what he has done.__NEWL__He then discovers that he is smelling smoke which is not from the fire he tried to set, but is from a real fire, unrelated to his, that has occurred in the building.__NEWL__A part of the story deals with a TV reporter named Quantrell, who, using a disgruntled former employee of the contractor, was given copies of documents relating to the building's construction.__NEWL__In one scene, Quantrell uses them on his television show to point out how the building was designed in violation of local building codes at the time the drawings were made, and that the local building codes were changed afterward to allow the design to be in compliance, implying that the owners of the building paid bribes to have the building codes rewritten.__NEWL__The reporter gets threats from all sides to back down on his aggressive reporting of the building's failures.__NEWL__After the initial alarm of fire, division chief Mario Infantino, a chief who specializes in high-rise fires, is called to the scene and given the overall command by fire chief Karl Fuchs, whose son, Mark, is also a fireman at the scene.__NEWL__Barton and Infantino, who have been friends before the fire, work to understand what is happening to the building as flames race through its poorly constructed heart.__NEWL__The story continues as it shows the efforts of other residents of the building - including the brave Lisolette - attempting to escape the flames, some successful, some not.__NEWL__Eventually a number of people end up in the penthouse restaurant of the building, where they are trapped and unable to get down.__NEWL__They are eventually rescued successfully by helicopter.__NEWL__The fire is eventually put out by blowing up water tanks below the roof of the building, which causes the water to drown the fire.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7447539	Selby's Secret	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	7670547	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7670547	Selby is the only talking dog in Australia – perhaps in the world.__NEWL__He longs to chat with his owners but fears loses his status as their beloved pet.__NEWL__Keeping his secret is not easy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5681319	Haters	2006-10-04T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7671018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7671018	Haters follows the character of Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta, also known as Paski, as she tries to deal with extreme changes in her life.__NEWL__As a result of her father's comic strip getting optioned for a movie, Paski and her father move to California.__NEWL__Once there, Paski finds herself in a school where materialism and "haters" control the social circles.__NEWL__Paski begins to develop feelings for the handsome Chris Cabrera, who happens to be dating Jessica Nguyen, the resident mean girl.__NEWL__Paski soon finds herself dealing with more problems than Jessica, as she also finds that she has the psychic "gift" of premonition and is predicting Jessica having a terrible accident while participating in a motorcycle competition.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1994900	On Beauty	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100	Boston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	7671306	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7671306	On Beauty centres around two families and their different yet increasingly intertwined lives.__NEWL__The Belsey family consists of university professor Howard, a white Englishman and a scholar of Rembrandt; his African-American wife Kiki; and their children, Jerome, Zora and Levi.__NEWL__They live in the fictional university town of Wellington, outside Boston.__NEWL__Howard's professional nemesis is Monty Kipps, a Trinidadian living in Britain with his wife Carlene and children Victoria and Michael.__NEWL__The Belsey family has always defined itself as liberal and atheist, and Howard in particular is furious when his son Jerome, lately a born-again Christian, goes to work as an intern with the ultra-conservative Christian Kipps family over his summer holidays.__NEWL__After a failed affair with Victoria Kipps, Jerome returns home.__NEWL__However, the families are again brought closer nine months later when the Kippses move to Wellington, and Monty begins work at the university.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Belsey family is facing problems of its own as they deal with the fallout of Howard's affair with his colleague and family friend Claire.__NEWL__Carlene and Kiki become friends despite the tensions between their families.__NEWL__The women bond over a painting in Carlene's library, Maitresse Erzulie by the Haitian painter, Hector Hyppolite.__NEWL__Carlene tells Kiki that she purchased the painting in Haiti, prior to meeting Monty.__NEWL__The women see each other twice more before Carlene passes away from cancer, having kept her illness from her family.__NEWL__The Belseys attend Carlene's funeral in London, where Howard consummates an ongoing flirtation with his student, Victoria Kipps.__NEWL__While reviewing Carlene's will, the Kipps family discover that Carlene intended for Maitresse Erzulie to be left to Kiki.__NEWL__Believing Carlene to have not been of sound mind when making this decision, Monty hangs the painting in his university office.__NEWL__The rivalry between Monty and Howard increases as Monty challenges the liberal attitudes of the university on issues such as affirmative action, which comes to a head when both men debate the topic in front of an audience of Wellington students and staff.__NEWL__Monty's academic success also highlights Howard's inadequacies and failure to publish a long-awaited book.__NEWL__Zora and Levi become friends with Carl, an African-American man of a poorer background than their own middle-class standing.__NEWL__Zora uses him as a poster-child for her campaign to allow talented non-students to attend university classes.__NEWL__For Levi, Carl is a source of identity, as a member of a more "authentic" black culture than Levi considers his own background to be.__NEWL__Struggling with his mixed race identity, Levi befriends a group of Haitian men who sell counterfeit merchandise on the streets of Boston.__NEWL__Levi views the men as the "essence of blackness," while remaining self-conscious of being seen in public with members of the Haitian population of Wellington.__NEWL__Out of solidarity with his Haitian friends, many of whom experience discrimination, Levi steals the Hyppolite painting from Monty's office with his friend Chouchou, who claims that Monty bought the artwork from Haitian peasants for very little money.__NEWL__Upon discovering the stolen painting in Levi's room, Jerome finds a note from Carlene on the canvas, in which she gifts the painting to Kiki.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Zora and Howard arrive home, and Zora reveals to Howard that she knows about two crucial affairs: his, with Victoria Kipps, and Monty Kipps’s with another student.__NEWL__Zora tells her mother about the second affair.__NEWL__In the final scene, Howard fails to deliver a potentially career-reviving lecture.__NEWL__Instead, he smiles at his wife in the audience, and she returns the smile.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4754646	Andra	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	7573172	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7573172	The book was set 2000 years from now, after the world was destroyed by war leaving the earth knocked off its rotation and the ground above to become a desolate frozen wasteland with everyone that survived living below the ground in underground cities.__NEWL__The main story revolves around Andra, a teenage girl who has a terrible accident and has to have a brain graft operation to survive.__NEWL__However, the only donor available was a young man that lived and died in 1987.__NEWL__After the operation her life is totally changed; she becomes a rebel, fighting against the rigid laws that rule society underground in Sub City One and the totalitarian authority that rules over life and death of any individual.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7857923	Twig	1942-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7569225	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7569225	The novel features Twig, an imaginative little city girl who turns a tomato can into a house for fairies.__NEWL__A little elf comes along to live in the house and, at Twig's request, turns her fairy-sized, though he cannot manage wings.__NEWL__A friendly sparrow fetches the Queen of the fairies to help.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3213820	Hornet's Nest	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16565	Charlotte	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7490052	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7490052	The author reveals the heart and soul of a metropolitan police department.__NEWL__With Charlotte as her simmering background, she propels us into the core of the force through the lives of a dynamic trio of heroes: Andy Brazil, an ambitious younger reporter for The Charlotte Observer and an eager - sometimes too eager - volunteer cop; Police Chief Judy Hammer, the professionally strong yet personally troubled guardian of Charlotte's law and order; and her deputy chief, Virginia West, a genuine head-turner who is married to her job.__NEWL__To walk the beat with Hammer, West, and Brazil is to learn the inner secrets of police work - the tension and the tedium, the hilarity and the heartbreak, the unexpected pump of adrenaline and the rush of courage that can lead to heroics ... or death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2499503	Irretrievable	1891-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	7494666	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7494666	The novel takes place in Holstein in the years 1859–1861, five years before the German-Danish War, at a time when Holstein was governed by Denmark.__NEWL__Count Helmuth Holk lives with his countess Christine and their two children in a lonely valley.__NEWL__Christine, who was raised by nuns, is serious and pious, but Holk is fun-loving by nature.__NEWL__When Holk is called away to the court of a Danish princess in Copenhagen he becomes fascinated by Ebba von Rosenberg, a young companion of the princess who flirts with him.__NEWL__His marriage with Christine begins to seem unbearably dull and he rashly seeks a divorce before realizing that Ebba's attentions are not serious.__NEWL__A long separation between Holk and Christine ends only after several years and great efforts by their friends.__NEWL__On the surface all seems well, but Christine is haunted by the rejection and drowns herself in the sea.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1167621	The Echo Maker	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1553	Nebraska	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7613180	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7613180	On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident.__NEWL__His older sister, Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury.__NEWL__But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman — who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister — is really an impostor.__NEWL__Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing brain disorders.__NEWL__Weber recognized Mark's condition as a rare case of Capgras syndrome — the delusion that people in one's life are doubles or impostors — and eagerly investigates.__NEWL__What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7677872	Take a Girl Like You	1960-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	7613850	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7613850	The novel opens with Jenny Bunn's arrival at her lodging-house.__NEWL__She's a young, strikingly beautiful, Northern girl who has moved to a small town outside London, to take her first teaching job.__NEWL__Jenny has rented a room in the home of middle-aged couple, Dick and Martha Thompson.__NEWL__Dick is apparently some sort of auctioneer and Martha is a housewife, who is bored, cynical and at times openly hostile towards young Jenny.__NEWL__Anna, the Thompsons' other lodger, is a changeable young woman who is apparently French.__NEWL__Within half an hour of her arrival, Jenny meets Patrick Standish, an acquaintance of the Thompsons, who wastes no time in asking if he can ring her to arrange a date.__NEWL__Patrick takes Jenny to what she sees as a fashionable, upmarket Italian restaurant [but which Amis describes as a classless provincial pseudo-Italianate place].__NEWL__Bowled over by Patrick's charm, Jenny accompanies him in his noisy sports car to the flat he shares with teaching colleague, Graham, who is, by Patrick's arrangement, not at home.__NEWL__A cosy session of listening to gramophone records and kissing (enough for Jenny on a first date) develops at Patrick's behest into heavy petting, which Patrick takes for granted will lead to the bedroom.__NEWL__Jenny is adamant and pulls his hair to make him stop.__NEWL__Jenny explains, to Patrick's wonderment, that she is and intends to remain a virgin until she is married.__NEWL__The rest of the novel relates, from Jenny's point of view, the progress of her relationship with Patrick, her activities as a new teacher, getting to know the people around her, and a string of incidents such as a visit to Julian's house, a date with Graham and Dick making a clumsy pass at her in the kitchen.__NEWL__From Patrick's point of view are described his activities at school, his outlook on life and the escapades that follow becoming acquainted with the urbane Julian Ormerod, who has a big house in the countryside near the town.__NEWL__A lengthy section of the book is assigned to a trip with Julian to London, which includes a trawl around the strip-clubs of Soho, a visit to the apartment of two of Julian's lady friends, followed by a night on the town for the four of them, in which Patrick has too much to drink.__NEWL__For a time, Jenny and Patrick enjoy a carefree period of 'going steady' but this is not enough for Patrick, who finds himself sexually frustrated.__NEWL__In the end, he gives Jenny an ultimatum: either she has sex with him or the relationship is over, and Jenny says she will.__NEWL__Patrick, after ensuring the absence of Graham, waits for her to come to his flat but she doesn't arrive.__NEWL__So Patrick has sex with a girl who, after Jenny's no-show, happens to knock on his door, a girl who is not only a schoolgirl but is also his headmaster's daughter.__NEWL__It would now appear that Patrick and Jenny have broken up, but at a boozy and somewhat riotous party at Julian's house, Patrick takes advantage, in the early hours, of a tired and sozzled Jenny in one of the guest bedrooms.__NEWL__Julian is disapproving of Patrick's behaviour and is sympathetic to Jenny, who is at first very upset and says she never wants to see Patrick again.__NEWL__Later in the day, presumably because of her feelings for him, Jenny accepts what has happened as inevitable.__NEWL__There is no obvious 'happy ever after'.__NEWL__[Many years later, Amis published a sequel, set a few years later, Difficulties with Girls, in which Patrick and Jenny are married, not yet (to Jenny's disappointment) with children, and Patrick still has an actively roving eye.]
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6013005	In the Time of Dinosaurs	1998-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7486424	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7486424	When Marco sees a news report about a downed nuclear submarine, he and the other Animorphs set out to find it in dolphin morphs.__NEWL__When the warheads in the submarine detonate, however, the group finds themselves transported through time by a Sario rip, to the era of dinosaurs (the Late Cretaceous period, to be exact).__NEWL__Rachel and Tobias are eaten by a Kronosaurus and believed dead by the other Animorphs.__NEWL__The other Animorphs make their way to land, where they encounter a number of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus rex, which attempts to eat Jake.__NEWL__Jake morphs while inside the beast, injuring it and causing it to spit him out, and die but not before the other three Animorphs acquire it.__NEWL__Tobias and Rachel, meanwhile had escaped from the Kronosaurus, and make their own way to land.__NEWL__Tobias' wing has been broken and was unable to be healed by morphing, most likely as a result of the time travel.__NEWL__The two of them have a run-in with a pack of Deinonychus, but both manage to acquire the pack's leader and escape.__NEWL__Later they encountered by a vicious antlike alien race known as the Nesk, who attempt to kill Rachel and Tobias.__NEWL__The six Animorphs find themselves reunited above a large canyon on a force field with an artificial city at its bottom.__NEWL__After investigating it, they are welcomed by an alien race known as the Mercora, who had fled their own planet which was destroyed and intend on making Earth their new home.__NEWL__However, they are at war with the Nesk, and do not have the technology to help the Animorphs return to their own time.__NEWL__The Nesk, however, do—so the Animorphs storm the Nesk's camp in order to steal a warhead to recreate the explosion that sent them into the past.__NEWL__The Nesk angrily flee Earth, but divert the path of a nearby comet towards the planet.__NEWL__The Mercora respectfully ask the Animorphs to surrender their warhead, thinking they can use it to dissolve the comet, and Tobias agrees to let them have it.__NEWL__However, realizing that the Mercora must have died in the explosion as they are not a current part of Earth and that the comet will cause the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, he tells Ax to render it useless.__NEWL__The Animorphs escape back into the ocean, and the force of the comet propels them back to their own time.__NEWL__They are unable to use their dinosaur morphs following this book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5985957	Icerigger	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7487573	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7487573	After an unfortunate accident, Ethan Fortune, a simple salesman and sophisticated interstellar traveler, finds himself stranded on the deadly frozen world of Tran-Ky-Ky with professional adventurer Skua September.__NEWL__Together they search for a way off the planet while fighting against both the extreme weather and deadly fauna of the alien world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17110684	Here Comes the Sun	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	7620768	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7620768	Mechanical failures begin to trouble the Sun, making it hard for its driver to complete his rounds.__NEWL__The sun is in need of maintenance, and other things are breaking down all over the universe.__NEWL__Fresh ideas are needed.__NEWL__Jane, a mortal and a management trainee, is brought in the sort it all.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5305435	Dragons of the Dwarven Depths	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7621730	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7621730	The novel is set in the period between Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Dragons of Winter Night.__NEWL__The book continues with the adventures of the Heroes of the Lance, after they free the slaves from Pax Tharkas.__NEWL__The title alludes to the plot of the book, as the heroes must enter Thorbardin in order to obtain the Hammer of Kharas.__NEWL__The heroes are trying to lead the refugees to safety in Thorbardin, as well as attempting to obtain the Hammer of Kharas.__NEWL__All the while, they are being pursued by the Dragonarmy.__NEWL__Although the story includes the Companions, its main focus is on Flint Fireforge and his choices.__NEWL__After the Companions help the slaves escape and kill the Dragon Highlord Verminaard, they lead the refugees into a defensible valley for the winter.__NEWL__Debate begins on what to do next; whereas some would prefer to wait out winter in the valley, others feel the proximity to Pax Tharkas leaves them too vulnerable to attacks from the Dragonarmies.__NEWL__With rumours and legends of the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin present in their minds, the Companions set out in search of some entrance to the fabled kingdom.__NEWL__Raistlin Majere, Caramon Majere, and Sturm Brightblade head to Skullcap, while Flint Fireforge and Tanis Half-Elven head towards a secret dwarven pass leading to Thorbardin.__NEWL__Finding an enchanted helm, Sturm unlocks the key to entering the dwarven kingdom.__NEWL__While Tanis and Flint find a path for the refugees to follow to the gates of Thorbardin, the refugees themselves are taken along the path, led by Riverwind, when the Dragonarmy attacks their camp.__NEWL__The refugees flee into a mountain pass and, using an old dwarven trap, close the pass so that the Dragonarmy cannot follow.__NEWL__The Companions, meanwhile, enter the gates of Thorbardin and are immediately captured by a group of dwarves who are horrified to see the enchanted helm that Sturm uncovered in Skullcap, proclaiming that it is cursed.__NEWL__They arrest the Heroes of the Lance under suspicion of being the vanguard of an invading army, and take them before the dwarven council.__NEWL__Some of the dwarven council are under the influence of the Dragonarmy and are supplying it with much-needed steel for weapons.__NEWL__Flint is persuaded to help Arman Kharas, the self-proclaimed reincarnation of the ancient dwarven hero Kharas, to retrieve the legendary Hammer of Kharas, on condition that his friends be released regardless of what happens to him.__NEWL__Tanis, Sturm, Caramon and Raistlin fake death after the dwarven guards give them poisoned mushrooms for their dinner, and manage to overcome the draconians and dwarves that examine the 'corpses'.__NEWL__Taking a draconian as proof that the Dragonarmy is at the gates of Thorbardin, they manage to show the thane of the Hylar clan of the conspiracy between the Theiwar, Daergar and the Dragonarmy before the draconian escapes.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Arman Kharas and Flint, followed by Tasslehoff Burrfoot, enter the sacred valley of thanes to retrieve the Hammer of Kharas from the tomb of Kharas.__NEWL__Flint struggles internally over the fate of the Hammer, as it is needed to forge the legendary dragonlances, but can also unite the dwarven clans under one leader, putting to rest the risk of civil war developing in the kingdom.__NEWL__Retrieving the Hammer, Flint, Arman and Tasslehoff join the dwarven thanes in the Temple of the Stars, only to be attacked by draconian forces, allied with the Theiwar dwarves.__NEWL__The dwarven forces, supported by the disillusioned Daergar clan, overcome the invading draconians and, regaining the Hammer, the icon of their race, graciously provide the human refugees with shelter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4839391	Back to Before	2000-04-01T00:00:00Z	7501824	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7501824	After a particularly vicious battle, Crayak sends the Drode to tempt Jake into accepting an alternate reality in which the Animorphs did not walk home through the abandoned construction site, did not meet Elfangor, and did not become Animorphs.__NEWL__The results are drastic: a friendless Tobias joins The Sharing, and is infested by a Yeerk who is later revealed as a spy for Visser One, and is killed.__NEWL__Marco -- now dating Rachel in this world -- runs into his mother, but she escapes before he can confront her.__NEWL__Jake discovers that his brother Tom is involved with dangerous dealings after a Yeerk security leak.__NEWL__And all the while, Cassie has a strong feeling that all is not right.__NEWL__Ax manages to escape from the remains of the Dome Ship, and begins to warn the people of Earth about the Yeerk presence.__NEWL__The Yeerk response is immediate; they abandon their silent invasion and launch all-out warfare.__NEWL__In the ensuing chaos, Marco, Rachel and Cassie are all killed, while Jake and Ax meet up and manage to raid the Blade Ship and kill Visser Three.__NEWL__They take control of the Blade Ship and plan to use it to destroy the Yeerk Pool Ship, at which point the Drode and the Ellimist interrupt the timeline, returning the deceased characters to life and returning everyone's memories.__NEWL__The Drode complains that the events in this timeline are doomed to cause failure, and the Ellimist reveals that Cassie is an anomaly, a rare individual who is grounded in the true timeline and will disrupt any other timelines that try to take its place -- explaining Cassie's constant feeling that something was not right.__NEWL__It is also revealed that the Ellimist manipulated events (or as the Drode exclaims in disgust, "stacked the deck") to ensure that Cassie, Marco, Tobias, and Ax -- the anomaly, the son of Visser One's host, Elfangor's paradoxical son, and Elfangor's brother -- were all Animorphs; Jake and Rachel apparently became Animorphs through chance alone.__NEWL__The Ellimist restores everything to as it was -- with only Cassie retaining even a vague memory of this new timeline, who prefers that Jake and Tobias not know how they gave in to the Drode and the Yeerks respectively -- and this time around, the Drode decides not to try to tempt Jake into accepting the alternate reality.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766349	The Stars are Ours!	1954-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7673895	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7673895	The Moon, Mars and Venus have been explored and found unsuitable for colonization.__NEWL__Back on the Earth, two very different factions compete to determine the future of humanity: the Free Scientists, who refuse to accept political, racial and religious divisions, and the nationalists.__NEWL__Armed men seize control of one of the space stations orbiting the planet, convert it into a weapon, and (perhaps accidentally) devastate most of the world's heavily populated areas.__NEWL__A fanatic named Arturo Renzi rises up, blaming the catastrophe on the scientists and "techneers" and espousing a return to a simpler, less technological life.__NEWL__When he is assassinated, the Free Scientists are hunted down.__NEWL__Within a period of three days, most are killed; the few remaining survivors are either enslaved by the ruling Peacemen of the Company of Pax or go into hiding, to be tracked down one by one in the following years.__NEWL__Society is structured into three classes, the Peacemen nobility and their landsmen overseers, a vast peasantry, and the work-slaves, composed of actual or suspected scientists.__NEWL__Most technology is rejected and civilization ebbs.__NEWL__Chemist Lars Nordis, his daughter Dessie, and younger brother Dard are among the lucky ones.__NEWL__They escaped the great purge (though Lars was crippled as a result) and found a precarious refuge on a small farm.__NEWL__There, Lars continues his research as best he can and stays in touch with an underground network of scientists working on some great project.__NEWL__One day, Lars finishes his work and notifies his contacts.__NEWL__As a precaution, he makes Dard and Dessie memorize what seems to them to be meaningless words and patterns.__NEWL__But before they can be taken to the last secret stronghold of the scientists, the suspicious local landsman, Hew Folley, calls in the Peacemen to raid their home.__NEWL__Dard and Dessie escape, but Lars is killed.__NEWL__Dard contacts Sach, an agent of the scientists, who agrees to guide them to the refuge.__NEWL__Once inside, Dard learns that the scientists and their supporters are feverishly building a starship to escape the tyranny.__NEWL__They desperately need what Lars was working on: suspended animation.__NEWL__Only it can bring the stars within reach, for the journey will take many, many years.__NEWL__The information that Dard and Dessie had memorized turns out to be what they have been waiting for.__NEWL__But the scientists are racing against time, for the Peacemen are hunting for them.__NEWL__Before they can leave, there is one more task.__NEWL__They need to plot a course using a computer.__NEWL__The only one they know of that still works is located in Pax headquarters.__NEWL__Dard volunteers to lead pilot-astrogator Simba Kimber to it, since he visited the place years ago.__NEWL__They succeed, though they barely avoid capture, and manage to return with the priceless calculations.__NEWL__Then the refuge is found and comes under attack.__NEWL__Fighting a desperate rearguard action, the defenders manage to hold off the Peacemen long enough to blast off.__NEWL__Then, trusting in Lars' invention, they set their course and undergo suspended animation.__NEWL__When they awaken (though a few never do), they find themselves near a star with a hospitable planet.__NEWL__They land and begin to build their new colony.__NEWL__While exploring the surroundings, they discover a cargo container; though they detected no signs of technology from orbit, the planet may still be inhabited by an intelligent race.__NEWL__Dard goes along on a scouting expedition.__NEWL__The explorers find the remains of a road, which leads to a war-wrecked, abandoned city.__NEWL__While travelling in their rocket sled, they barely survive being shot down by decrepit, automated anti-aircraft guns.__NEWL__The sled can barely fly, so some of the explorers have to walk back.__NEWL__When they return, they find a thriving settlement.__NEWL__Soon afterwards, Dessie protects a "sea baby" from small flying "dragons".__NEWL__It turns out that the creature is intelligent.__NEWL__Its parents appear out of the ocean and retrieve their offspring.__NEWL__Seeing that the humans are friendly, their tribe or clan is soon trading goods and information.__NEWL__They are telepathic and can communicate with the newcomers if they hold hands.__NEWL__They reveal that they were once the slaves of the species that built the city.__NEWL__They escaped when the Others warred with each other.__NEWL__Now there are none of the Others left on the continent, but they still live across the sea.__NEWL__But that is a problem for another day.__NEWL__For now, the humans have found a new home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2457910	Brain	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7647466	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7647466	The story starts with a girl Katherine Collins going to a private clinic for a pap smear but these people anesthetize her and steal her brain for a secret military project.__NEWL__She is placed in a vat of liquid and her brain is connected to a computer.__NEWL__The same thing happens to other patients too.__NEWL__The protagonist Dr. Martin Philips, a doctor in neuroradiology at the NYC medical center is involved in creating a self-diagnostic x-ray machine, along with William Michaels, who is a researcher graduating from MIT and also head of the department of artificial intelligence.__NEWL__Dr. Philips's girlfriend and colleague Dr. Denise Sanger (28 years old) is also involved in the same hospital.__NEWL__Philips and Sanger both find a secret conspiracy in the hospital to steal patients' brains without their consent.__NEWL__They uncover details and find that though they'd suspected Mannerheim, the prima donna neurosurgeon, the real villain is the soft-spoken AI researcher Michaels and his military backers.__NEWL__Dr. Philips blows the whistle and seeks political asylum in Sweden.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2656138	Endymion							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7648186	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7648186	274 years ago, Hegemony CEO Meina Gladstone ordered the destruction of all farcaster portals to stop the TechnoCore from eliminating humankind.__NEWL__This resulted in the collapse of civilization on most planets.__NEWL__Brawne Lamia, pregnant by the first John Keats cybrid, gave birth to a daughter called Aenea.__NEWL__Lamia died when Aenea was still young, and Silenus raised her.__NEWL__When Aenea was twelve years old, she entered the Time Tombs and disappeared into the future.__NEWL__Before the Fall, Father Paul Duré was elected as Pope under the name of Teilhard.__NEWL__When he died unexpectedly, Lenar Hoyt was resurrected from their shared body and elected Pope.__NEWL__The Church developed new technology that improved the results of the resurrection, so Catholics who accepted the cruciform became virtually immortal.__NEWL__With help of its military forces (the Pax), the Catholic Church filled the void left by the Hegemony after the Fall.__NEWL__With each subsequent death, Hoyt was resurrected, and Father Duré never again appeared in the public eye.__NEWL__On Hyperion, a hunting guide named Raul Endymion is given a mission from Martin Silenus: rescue Aenea, who is about to return from the Time Tombs; find old Earth; destroy the Pax; and stop the TechnoCore.__NEWL__Endymion is helped by android A. Bettik and by the Consul's starship.__NEWL__The Pax, which teaches that Aenea is a dangerous abomination, knows that she is about to arrive from the Time Tombs.__NEWL__Father-Captain Federico de Soya is instructed to capture her.__NEWL__The Shrike and Aenea simultaneously arrive; the Shrike massacres most of the Pax military units.__NEWL__In the confusion, Endymion rescues Aenea.__NEWL__Father de Soya pursues Aenea in the Archangel-class courier ship Raphael.__NEWL__The ship's new technology allows faster-than-light travel without time debt, at the price of a painful death and resurrection during each trip.__NEWL__Aenea convinces de Soya to allow her ship to land on the planet Renaissance Vector.__NEWL__She flies the ship through an ancient farcaster portal, which has been inactive since the Fall of Hyperion.__NEWL__De Soya attempts to disable Aenea's ship, but is too late to prevent it from farcasting.__NEWL__The damaged ship arrives on an unknown planet.__NEWL__Aenea and Raul construct a raft to follow the River Tethys without the ship.__NEWL__De Soya begins an odyssey of continuous deaths and resurrections through all known planet systems in order to find her.__NEWL__The next farcaster sends Aenea to ocean planet Mare Infinitus.__NEWL__They encounter a sea platform occupied by Pax guards.__NEWL__Raul boards the hawking mat and goes alone to the platform, taking some explosives in order to create a distraction.__NEWL__He succeeds, but only after being injured by the Pax and losing the mat.__NEWL__Next, they translate to Hebron.__NEWL__They find the Jewish home planet completely abandoned.__NEWL__De Soya's search brings him to Mare Infinitus, where he finds evidence that Aenea and Endymion have been there.__NEWL__De Soya and his crew are rerouted to Pacem.__NEWL__They assign Rhadamanth Nemes, part of a new officer corps, to his guard.__NEWL__Aenea, Raul and Bettik travel to Sol Draconi Septem, a barely terraformed, frozen, high gravity planet.__NEWL__They meet and befriend Father Glaucus, an exiled priest, and the Chitchatuk, primitive humans who are adapted to Sol Draconi Septem's conditions.__NEWL__They farcast to Qom Riyadh, an Islamic planet which is now mysteriously uninhabited, and then to God's Grove.__NEWL__The Pope informs de Soya that Aenea is in Sol Draconi Septem.__NEWL__De Soya translates there, but Nemes does not die during the trip; it is revealed she is not human.__NEWL__Before the other crew members resurrect, she takes a dropship to the planet.__NEWL__She kills the Chitchatuk and Father Glaucus.__NEWL__She also links to the farcaster and learns that Aenea has gone to Qom Riyadh and will soon head for God's Grove.__NEWL__She plants this new destination in the ship's communicator, but de Soya is suspicious.__NEWL__When they farcast to God's Grove, de Soya secretly gives the ship instructions to resurrect the crew in only 6 hours instead of the safer 3 days.__NEWL__Believing that she has three days before De Soya is resurrected, Nemes takes the Raphael's dropship and prepares an ambush for Aenea.__NEWL__As they travel through God's Grove, Aenea shares the truth of what happened to Earth.__NEWL__Earth was not moved by the Technocore, but by an unknown power.__NEWL__She suggests that the Technocore is responsible for the disappearance of the people in Hebron and Qom Riyadh and that it is behind the Church's resurgence and search for them.__NEWL__When Nemes attacks Aenea, the Shrike appears and blocks her attempts.__NEWL__Father de Soya strikes Nemes from space and allows Aenea to escape.__NEWL__He returns to Pacem to discover the truth about Nemes.__NEWL__Aenea's groups passes through a farcaster to reach Old Earth, which is now in the Magellanic Cloud.__NEWL__Aenea guides the ship to Fallingwater, Pennsylvania, where she will study with a cybrid of architect Frank Lloyd Wright until she is ready to fulfill her mission.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1287533	Sharpe's Escape	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q45	Portugal	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q45	Portugal	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	7648578	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7648578	Captain Richard Sharpe and his riflemen rejoin the South Essex Regiment during Wellington's retreat in Portugal.__NEWL__Sharpe is in a foul mood because his promised month of leave in Lisbon (after retrieving the gold in Sharpe's Gold) lasted barely a week, and in an even fouler mood because of Lieutenant Cornelius Slingsby, foisted on Sharpe by the South Essex's commander, Colonel William Lawford, at the insistence of his wife in England (Slingsby's sister-in-law) to advance the latter's career by any means.__NEWL__Lawford, despite knowing Sharpe's ability as a soldier, is seeking to ease Sharpe out and give Slingsby command of the South Essex's Light Company.__NEWL__Sharpe discovers a Portuguese Army major, Ferreira, and his criminal brother, "Ferragus", trying to sell a stockpile of flour to the advancing French, in contravention of Wellington's strict policy of stripping the land bare of any resources the enemy could use.__NEWL__Over the major's objections, Sharpe subdues Ferragus and has the flour scattered on the ground.__NEWL__Sharpe's friend, Major Hogan, later gives him a light reprimand, explaining that Ferreira is an intelligence officer for the Portuguese Army with contacts among the Portuguese sympathisers in the French Army, who claimed he was giving them the flour to gain the confidence of the French.__NEWL__Later, Sharpe is ambushed by Ferragus and his men and savagely beaten, saved from death only by the chance appearance of some provosts.__NEWL__On the morning of the Battle of Bussaco, Lawford uses Sharpe's injuries as an excuse to temporarily relieve him of command of the Light Company and place Slingsby in charge.__NEWL__The French launch a frontal attack up the steep ridge, only to be decimated by the Allies' cannon and musket fire.__NEWL__Because of Slingsby's incompetence, the Light Company is separated from the rest of the regiment and almost overrun by the retreating survivors of one of the destroyed French columns.__NEWL__Sharpe takes charge and narrowly averts disaster.__NEWL__Afterward, Slingsby complains to Lawford, who orders Sharpe to apologise for his harsh language.__NEWL__Sharpe refuses, and Lawford assigns him to replace the regimental quartermaster, confirming Slingsby as captain of the Light Company.__NEWL__Sharpe is sent ahead to Coimbra to prepare billets for the regiment and its officers.__NEWL__His friend, Portuguese Captain Jorge Vicente, goes along.__NEWL__Sharpe goes to Major Ferreira's house and finds it abandoned, except for his children's English governess, Sarah Fry, naked and locked in a room.__NEWL__Ferragus and his men had been guarding his brother's house, and Ferragus was planning to rape Sarah, but had to leave ahead of the arriving British soldiers.__NEWL__Ferragus, still seeking revenge against Sharpe, lures him, Sergeant Patrick Harper, and Vicente (along with Sarah) to a warehouse where he has hidden an enormous stockpile of food and other supplies for sale to the desperate French Army.__NEWL__Ferragus traps the four in the stone cellar, planning to return and finish them off after the British and Portuguese forces depart.__NEWL__Ferragus is sure the cellar is escape-proof, but Sharpe and Harper, seeing the movement of rats, pry up the floor and break into a sewer, through which they escape.__NEWL__By the time they emerge above ground, the British Army has left and the French are raping, pillaging and murdering the residents of the city.__NEWL__Sharpe and Harper save a young Portuguese woman, Joana, from being raped by three French soldiers.__NEWL__Before fleeing the city, Sharpe manages to set fire to the warehouse, destroying the supplies.__NEWL__Ferragus and his brother have already been paid for their stores, but flee the city when they see the warehouse burning, realising they will be blamed for its loss.__NEWL__Marshal Masséna and his army march south from Coimbra, but are stopped by the immense Lines of Torres Vedras, two lines of fortifications constructed by Wellington.__NEWL__The fortifications appear impregnable, but Masséna, knowing that his army has no supplies for a long retreat, orders a probe into what appears to be an unfortified valley.__NEWL__The valley is defended by the South Essex and a Portuguese unit.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Lawford has posted the South Essex's Light Company as a picquet to give Slingsby another opportunity to distinguish himself.__NEWL__Instead, Slingsby disobeys Lawford's order to remain sober and is completely drunk when the French attack, forcing his junior lieutenant to take command.__NEWL__Ferreira and Ferragus arrive, claiming to have important information for Wellington, and Ferreira orders the lieutenant to accept a French demand for surrender, so that he and Ferragus can slip away.__NEWL__However, Sharpe and his party show up.__NEWL__They quickly subdue Ferreira and Ferragus, and Sharpe takes charge.__NEWL__The French attack, and in the confusion Ferragus breaks free and attacks Sharpe.__NEWL__During the fight, Sharpe backs Ferragus up against a window, where he is killed by French musket fire from outside.__NEWL__Under Sharpe's leadership, the Light Company successfully drives off the French, then employs a ruse thought up by Sharpe to drive off a second French force that was threatening to defeat the South Essex, brought up by Lawford to try to rescue the Light Company.__NEWL__Sharpe orders Ferreira be sent to Wellington, then asks Lawford if he should resume his duties as quartermaster.__NEWL__Lawford, having seen Slingsby's drunkenness and incompetence firsthand, irritably tells Sharpe to stop being "tedious."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4171058	Thumbsucker	1999-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7594155	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7594155	Kirn's novel tells the story of Justin Cobb, a Minnesota teenager whose family experiences a broad spectrum of dysfunction.__NEWL__Father Mike is a washed-up college football star with a militaristic and unemotional attitude inspired by his former coach.__NEWL__Mother Audrey, a nurse, is struggling to accept how her life has wound down.__NEWL__Younger brother Joel simply does everything he can to fit in and seem normal.__NEWL__Amidst pressures to stop sucking his thumb, 14-year-old Justin turns to unorthodox dentist Perry Lyman who attempts to use hypnosis to remedy the problem with limited success: The thumb sucking disappears, but other problem habits arise to take its place.__NEWL__Justin starts behaving oddly, and his condition is 'identified' as attention deficit disorder by his school and he is consequently prescribed Ritalin.__NEWL__The drug appears to help the problem for a time, but this is merely a stop-gap whilst Justin's (and indeed his family's) real problems remain at large.__NEWL__When Justin gives up Ritalin he turns to drugs (pot), sex and religion to combat his problems.__NEWL__Eventually deciding that he's had enough of this life, Justin returns to Perry Lyman who reminds him that we all have flaws, the goal is not to fix them, but to live with them.__NEWL__With this message in mind, Justin is sent off to be a Mormon missionary in New York, and winds up sucking his thumb again, at the expense of the drugs and sex.__NEWL__Coming of age tale touching on the raw emotions experienced during this time and the wider concepts of identity and existentialism.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3051380	A Girl Named Disaster	1996-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7655894	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7655894	Nhamo is an 11-year-old girl living in a traditional Shona village located in Mozambique around 1981.__NEWL__She was raised with the knowledge and customs of her tribe.__NEWL__Nhamo means "disaster" in the Shona language.__NEWL__Nhamo was given this name because of the scandal and wrongful things continued to follow her and her mother.__NEWL__After experiencing trouble with a cholera epidemic, a leopard, and an arranged marriage proposed by a false witch doctor, she flees with her dying grandmother's blessings, some gold nuggets, and her meager survival skills.__NEWL__Nhamo steals a boat and supplies under her grandmother's instructions and uses the river as her road to Zimbabwe, where she faces the threat of hippos, crocodiles, and other animals trying to kill her, while dealing with the pressures of becoming a woman.__NEWL__What should have been a two-day boat trip across the border to her father's family in Zimbabwe spans a year in which Nhamo faces starvation and the threat of hungry or aggressive animals.__NEWL__The girl finds her way to a lush, haunted island and lives alongside a troop of baboons.__NEWL__Daily conversations with spirits combat Nhamo's loneliness and provide her with sage and practical advice.__NEWL__She makes mistakes, loses heart, and nearly dies of starvation.__NEWL__Even after she arrives in Zimbabwe where she lives with scientists before meeting her father's family, Nhamo must learn how to live in a modern society (clothing, behavior, literacy), and is urged to let go of the "evil" spirits that "possess" her as prescribed by a Muvuki or witch finder.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7750745	The Maze	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	7639525	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7639525	At the end of the Greco-Turkish War, one Greek brigade wanders lost in the Anatolian desert.__NEWL__Led by Brigadier Nestor, the soldiers hope they are marching west toward the Aegean Sea and the end of their disastrous tour of duty.__NEWL__The war is over, but the men must battle on.__NEWL__Brigadier Nestor, an aging career soldier still devastated by his wife's death a year earlier, has become addicted to morphine and Greek mythology.__NEWL__His second-in-command, Chief of Staff Major Porfirio, while appearing to be a model soldier, is keeping a treasonous secret.__NEWL__The company priest, Father Simeon, imagines himself the Apostle of All Anatolians, but in fact is just a thief.__NEWL__And the rest of the brigade is not faring too well either.__NEWL__Subsisting almost entirely on cornmeal, their morale is low and things are growing stranger the longer they wander.__NEWL__It seems though that the luck of the brigade is finally changing.__NEWL__First, a Greek pilot crashes from the sky bringing hope that perhaps they are being searched for.__NEWL__Then, following a runaway horse, they come across a quiet Greek village virtually untouched by the war.__NEWL__The inhabitants and tales of the village are just as interesting and complicated as those of the brigade.__NEWL__The mayor is about to marry the madame of the brothel, the church is overrun with rats and the Turkish quarter is surrounded by an open sewer.__NEWL__This village does not offer the comforts the brigade had longed for.__NEWL__Brigadier Nestor still hopes to lead the men to the sea and escape, and the mayor knows the way.__NEWL__But before they can leave they must all contend with a desperate war correspondent and one final act of violence that permanently scars the village.__NEWL__This act oddly reflects another moment of violence that haunts the brigade and lies just beneath the surface of all they do.__NEWL__The brigade may finally escape the maze of the Anatolian desert, but each man is forever marred not only by the war but by what has happened since the war ended.__NEWL__The worst casualties may have nothing to do with battle.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7723222	The City of Ravens	2000-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7640402	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7640402	The story follows a petty thief called Jack Ravenwild, who is hired by the beautiful Elana to find a very special book.__NEWL__In the same tenday (the Realms equivalent of a week), he resorts to spying on another perfect woman, a mage named Zandria, to try to get information.__NEWL__But, the beautiful Illyth invites him to the game of masks, and at the same time he fears for his friend Anders, wanted by the evil Brothers Kuldath for stealing their ruby.__NEWL__Soon Jack finds both good and evil people following him through the streets of Ravens Bluff.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3603012	Headlong	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z	7653773	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7653773	Martin, the main character, is supposed to be writing a book.__NEWL__He finds himself invited to dinner at the house of a repellent and warring couple, on whom the land and property they own seems entirely wasted.__NEWL__Martin happens on a painting which he takes to be by Bruegel.__NEWL__Painstaking research leads him (via a full scale reassessment of the interpretation of the five surviving pictures in Bruegel's The Months) to identify the picture as the missing sixth picture of Bruegel's famous book of hours.__NEWL__Meantime his wife, (an actual art historian whereas he is only peripherally connected with the scholarly art world), and their baby live in a cottage and he fears his wife eyes him with increasing disdain as, instead of working on his book, he pursues the Bruegel data.__NEWL__Martin has to fake the promise of an affair with the woman of the house to get hold of the picture, and indulge in a series of implausible transactions in other pictures to keep his access to the Bruegel open.__NEWL__Once he gets it, his troubles have only begun.__NEWL__Finally, as he is about to succeed in taking it to a safe place and secure his fortune, he crashes the old Landrover and the picture goes up in smoke.__NEWL__We never do find out if it was a Bruegel or not.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1198477	The Third Twin	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5092	Baltimore	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25	Wales	7483782	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7483782	Jeannie Ferrami, Psy.D., is an associate professor and criminality researcher at the fictional Jones Falls University, an Ivy League school in Baltimore, Maryland.__NEWL__She studies the influence of genetics (rather than upbringing) on personality.__NEWL__Her interest in criminal tendencies is influenced by the fact that her father, Pete, is an incarcerated burglar.__NEWL__Financially strained, she sends her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother to live in a sub-par nursing home.__NEWL__Jeannie's friend Lisa Hoxton is raped during the evacuation of an on-campus locker room.__NEWL__The police determine that the perpetrator was a serial rapist who simulated a fire.__NEWL__Lisa works with sympathetic police Lt. Michelle Delaware to create a facial composite of the suspect.__NEWL__Jeannie meets law student Steven Logan, who participates in her study, prompting mutual attraction.__NEWL__Jeannie's software finds links in medical data and has identified him as the twin of incarcerated murderer Dennis Pinker.__NEWL__This seems to confirm Steve's fears that he is unable to control his own violent impulses.__NEWL__Berrington "Berry" Jones, a prominent researcher at JFU, is shocked to see Steve.__NEWL__He contacts his two partners in Genetico, Inc., a medical research company that heavily funds JFU; Jones, Preston Barck, and United States Senator Jim Proust are racist and classist, and apparently believe that the involvement of Steve and Pinker in the study will jeopardize Genetico's $180 million sale to international conglomerate Landsmann, and with it Proust's presidential campaign.__NEWL__Berry disrupts Jeannie's research by alerting the press to the legitimate ethical issues of her software.__NEWL__Soon after, Steve is arrested for Lisa's rape and Lisa picks him out of a lineup, but Jeannie believes his claims of innocence.__NEWL__Steve is released on bail.__NEWL__Jeannie and Lisa visit Pinker; he is identical to Steve, but had no twin at birth and was born two weeks after Steve, in a different state.__NEWL__Both men's fathers were in the military when the couples sought fertility treatments at the Aventine Clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.__NEWL__She visits Aventine, which was founded by Genetico in 1972 to pioneer in vitro fertilization.__NEWL__Jeannie escapes an attack by the rapist, whom she mistakes for Steve.__NEWL__Returning to Baltimore, she learns Steve was there during the attack, confirming that the rapist was the titular "third twin.__NEWL__" The identical men are clones, illegally implanted into women treated at Aventine.__NEWL__Jeannie's software is run on an FBI database, but Berry forces the ethics issue; to access the search results, Jeannie must prevail in a discipline-committee hearing.__NEWL__Steve competently defends her, but Berry secures Jeannie's dismissal via bribes.__NEWL__However, Pete has been released from prison for good behavior; he helps Jeannie steal the data.__NEWL__Jeannie travels to New York City with Lt. Delaware to meet search result Wayne Stattner.__NEWL__He is a fourth twin; although it's apparent Stattner is a sadist, he has an alibi for Lisa's rape.__NEWL__Steve's father, Col. Charles Logan, reveals that the motivation for the cloning was a "super-soldier" program; Steve was literally bred to be a killer.__NEWL__Col. Logan runs Jeannie's search on The Pentagon's computers, yielding three suspects: Henry King, George Dassault, and Harvey Jones.__NEWL__Jeannie and Lisa prove that Harvey Jones of Philadelphia is the rapist.__NEWL__Harvey is Berry's son, whom Berry sends to spy on Jeannie by impersonating Steve.__NEWL__Jeannie detects him and Steve subdues him.__NEWL__Jeannie, Lisa, and Steve crash the Landsmann-Genetico press conference.__NEWL__Steve tries to spy on Berry, who restrains Steve and frees Harvey.__NEWL__Lisa brings King, Dassault, and Stattner to the press conference; Harvey is present and Steve also arrives, drawing the press' attention.__NEWL__Steve realizes that his identity is determined by free will, and not by his genes or upbringing.__NEWL__Nine months later, Jeannie and Steve prepare to take their honeymoon.__NEWL__Genetico and its founders have been discredited, Pete has started a profitable private security business, and Harvey is in prison.__NEWL__Jeannie has taken a lucrative position at Landsmann, and has moved her mother into a better facility.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7713689	The Andalite's Gift	1997-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7484114	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7484114	The Animorphs plan to have a lazy summer, with several Animorphs attending a pool party and Rachel going to a gymnastics camp.__NEWL__However, before she can leave for the camp, Rachel - in her eagle morph - takes a cruise through the air and, seeing Ax, attempts to say hello but is mobbed by smaller birds, who cause her to crash and lose consciousness.__NEWL__When she awakens, she has demorphed to human but has amnesia.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jake and Cassie are attending the pool party.__NEWL__Because Marco was not invited, he decides to take Ax along.__NEWL__The two of them morph into mice and crash the party.__NEWL__After they are done terrorizing the guests, they run into the basement to demorph.__NEWL__However, when they demorph, they are attacked by a massive flying monster, known as a Veleek (Yeerk word for "pet").__NEWL__It destroys the house before abruptly dissolving into dust and leaving.__NEWL__The Animorphs regroup and discover that Rachel never made it to the gymnastics camp.__NEWL__Jake, Marco, and Tobias head into the forest to look for her.__NEWL__As Jake and Marco morph to wolves, the Veleek begins to chase after them, and they realize that the Veleek is drawn by the energy generated through morphing.__NEWL__Moments before they are about to collapse from exhaustion, the Veleek flies away.__NEWL__Rachel has been captured by a crazy ex-Controller, who locks her in a wooden shack and sets fire to it.__NEWL__Rachel inadvertently morphs into a grizzly bear to escape, and is then attacked by the Veleek.__NEWL__The two begin to fight, until Ax encounters them mid-combat.__NEWL__He begins to morph and the Veleek captures him and returns to the Blade ship, delivering Ax to Visser Three.__NEWL__Rachel demorphs and makes her way into town, where she hides out in an empty house.__NEWL__When police surround the house and tell her to come out, she morphs into an elephant and breaks through the side of the house.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jake, Marco and Cassie notice the Veleek floating through the air as dust, and steal Cassie's father's truck in order to chase after it.__NEWL__They attempt to play a game of "keepaway", by continually morphing to distract the Veleek, but their plan does not succeed.__NEWL__The truck crashes into Rachel's elephant form, restoring her memory but drawing the Veleek to all four Animorphs.__NEWL__The Veleek attempts to capture Rachel, but cannot lift her.__NEWL__Jake and Marco continue on in the truck, but crash it again, and Marco is captured by the Veleek.__NEWL__Marco and Ax, now prisoners of Visser Three, are on board the Blade Ship.__NEWL__Ax morphs into a flea and hides on the Visser's body.__NEWL__He slightly demorphs and remorphs to attract the attention of the Veleek.__NEWL__The Veleek begins to attack Visser Three, causing Visser Three to order the water turned on.__NEWL__In the confusion, Ax and Marco escape from the Blade Ship, morphing into birds moments before they hit the ground.__NEWL__From this event, the Animorphs realize that the Veleek does not like water.__NEWL__The next day, Cassie develops a plan in which they hope to stop the Veleek: the Animorphs head out to sea, where Cassie finds and acquires a humpback whale.__NEWL__She morphs into a cockroach, and Tobias flies her as high up as he can.__NEWL__While the remaining Animorphs morph and demorph dolphins to keep the Veleek distracted, Cassie demorphs and then morphs into the whale, all the time falling back to the sea.__NEWL__The Veleek attempts to capture her but cannot carry the whale's weight, and it is dragged into the sea and drowns.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7759512	The Ravi Lancers	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z	7506061	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7506061	The story concerns an Indian cavalry regiment which is sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War.__NEWL__The Ravi Lancers is unusual in that it is part of the army of a semi-independent Hindu state (a Princely state) attached to British India.__NEWL__It accordingly follows different traditions than the regular regiments of the British Indian Army.__NEWL__These include a semi-feudal relationship between the Indian 'sowars' (cavalrymen) and their ruler.__NEWL__It also means that all officers except for the British regiment commander are Indians, which would not have been the case in a regular regiment at the time.__NEWL__The book centers on the relationship between the regiment's British commander (a member of the Savage family, though with a different family name) and his Indian second-in-command Krishna Ram - heir to the throne of the state of Ravi.__NEWL__The young Indian prince, originally a naive admirer of the British Empire, increasingly discovers its shortcomings and develops his own awareness of being Indian.__NEWL__The British commanding officer Colonel Bateman, originally liberal minded, becomes a harsh and demanding martinet under the stress of trench warfare.__NEWL__The situation is further complicated by Krishna Ram's secret affair with Bateman's sister.__NEWL__Finally the two divergent characters and their respective sets of values come to a shattering head-on clash in the midst of an assault on the German trenches.__NEWL__The climax involves what is effectively a mutiny when the regiment fighting as infantry is trapped by a German counter-attack.__NEWL__Led by Krishna Ram the surviving Indian soldiers are able to escape back to the British lines.__NEWL__The broken Bateman subsequently commits suicide at his estate in England, leaving Krishna Ram with a sense of guilt.__NEWL__At the end Krishna Ram decides that he and his men will remain on active service in France, rather than returning to Ravi, because "we gave our word to serve" and out of a form of loyalty to the dead Bateman.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6726075	Mad White Giant	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	7579048	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7579048	Mad White Giant begins with Allen recounting the role of Amazonia in his childhood fantasies.__NEWL__The novel then describes the author's travels between the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers, a trip of over 1500 miles.__NEWL__During his travels, he befriends natives who refer to him as "Mad White Giant", or by his preferred nickname Louco Benedito.__NEWL__Allen is later abandoned by his two Carib companions, Yepe and Pim, who go to work for Brazilian miners.__NEWL__Allen also adopts a dog, named Cashoe (meaning 'dog' in one of the Indian dialects), whose actions capsize Allen's canoe and leave him stranded in the Amazonian jungle.__NEWL__After a grueling period of starvation, recounted as a series of diary entries (actually written in one sitting), Allen decides to shoot and eat Cashoe to survive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8073730	Zombie	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1166	Michigan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7585676	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7585676	The protagonist, Quentin P, seeks to create a zombie out of an unsuspecting young man.__NEWL__He intends to find a perfect young male companion and re-wire his brain, thereby turning the victim into a mindless sex slave.__NEWL__His several attempts at creating a zombie, by doing improvised surgery on the victim's brain, all end in failure, however, as the men he abducts, rapes and tortures all die at his hands.__NEWL__By the end of the novel, he has begun to enjoy killing for its own sake.__NEWL__Adding to his frustrations is his increasingly suspicious family, particularly his father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3822693	War of the Twins	2004-06-01T00:00:00Z	7665087	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7665087	Upon arrival in the Tower of High Sorcery, Raistlin is tested by the undead guardians to prove that he is really the Master of the Tower.__NEWL__It is revealed that he has beaten Fistandantilus and absorbed his soul, thus increasing his power immensely.__NEWL__Raistlin goes to find the Portal to the Abyss, which is necessary to his ascension to godhood.__NEWL__When he goes to it, he discovers that it is not there.__NEWL__Having been bribed with the Globe of Present Time Passing, created by Raistlin, Astinus reveals that it is in the magical fortress of Zhaman, located in dwarven lands.__NEWL__The scene shifts to Tasslehoff Burrfoot, who finds himself in the Abyss.__NEWL__Tasslehoff encounters Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness, who tells him how he has altered time and possibly allowed her to take over the world.__NEWL__Tas meets Gnimsh, a gnome, who claims he is a failure because all of his inventions worked (gnomes in the Dragonlance world constantly invent, and more often than not they fail.__NEWL__The gnomes believe failure is a means of learning).__NEWL__Gnimsh agrees to help Tasslehoff get out of the Abyss and starts to fix the device of Time Journeying.__NEWL__Caramon, Raistlin, and Crysania create the so-called Fistandantilus Army from local populace under pretension of ravaging the dwarven kingdom Thorbadin in the far South, with Caramon being their leader.__NEWL__Many come to join his army, and they number several hundred.__NEWL__The army continues south.__NEWL__The hill dwarves join up with Caramon's army, believing that the mountain dwarves have stolen supplies and wealth from them.__NEWL__Crysania flees when Raistlin rejects her love and makes plans to bring word of the true gods to the people, 200 years before Goldmoon would during the War of the Lance.__NEWL__She encounters a place stricken by plague and finds a dying false cleric, who she tries to convert.__NEWL__She discovers that people are still too angry to accept the true gods yet.__NEWL__Raistlin and Caramon begin to joke and share memories.__NEWL__Later, Raistlin and Caramon go to the village where Crysania is.__NEWL__Raistlin uses his immense power to summon a massive fire that razes the town.__NEWL__He is in fact preparing Crysania to come with him into the Abyss with trials comparable to Huma Dragonbane's.__NEWL__Caramon and his army soon capture the fortress of Pax Tharkas, thanks to the help of traitorous dark dwarves.__NEWL__The mountain dwarves retreat to Thorbardin and close the gates, preparing for war.__NEWL__Kharas, the dwarf hero, led a daring assassination attempt on Raistlin.__NEWL__Kharas wounds him drastically, but Raistlin has time before death.__NEWL__Crysania heals Raistlin, perhaps against his will.__NEWL__It is then discovered that Tas and Gnimsh have escaped the Abyss and were captured in Thorbardin.__NEWL__Raistlin appears and rescues Tas, but kills Gnimsh, presumably to correct Fistandantilus's mistake of allowing the gnome to be at the Portal when he tried to enter.__NEWL__Soon after, it is revealed that the dark dwarves betrayed them and had slowly killed off the hill dwarves.__NEWL__They attempt to assassinate Caramon, but are beaten back.__NEWL__Raistlin, after a last talk with his brother, opens the Portal with Crysania's help; at the same time Caramon and Tas activate their device, returning to their proper time period.__NEWL__The result is the explosion that levels Zhaman; however, this time, Crysania and Raistlin enter the Portal whereas Denubis, Crysania's equivalent in the past, had died and Fistandantilus had departed that plane of existence.__NEWL__The book ends with Raistlin entering the Abyss.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7426818	Saturnalia	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7663148	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7663148	In the late twenty-first century, a system of space colonies, known collectively as SpaceHome, is slowly winning economic independence from Earth.__NEWL__SpaceHome's president, George Ogumi, is singleminded in this pursuit.__NEWL__Things are shaken up when SpaceHome discovers an alien object on Saturn's moon Iapetus.__NEWL__SpaceHome University's sole archeologist, Dr. Kurious Whitedimple (who constantly reminds amused inquisitors his name is pronounced "KOOR-ee-us"), is called in for his opinion by Ogumi.__NEWL__Whitedimple (called Whitey) is able to interpret the message—for so it is.__NEWL__The message is: there are three other identical messages on other moons, a fifth hidden somewhere in the rings of Saturn which will give directions to a sixth artifact, of immense importance.__NEWL__Dazzled by Ogumi, Whitey loses sight of odd things going on around him, and is swiftly shipped off to Saturn to recover the rings artifact, despite an "accident" that nearly kills him.__NEWL__On arrival, Whitey is introduced to Junior Badille, his pilot.__NEWL__Born in high-radiation outer space, Junior is a mutant supergenius, whom Whitey affectionately refers to as "the runt" and "the gnome".__NEWL__Earth has not been quiet, and sends off its own expedition.__NEWL__The Earthers open fire, but Whitey and Badille are able to outmanoeuver them and recover the artifact.__NEWL__The message on the artifact is that the sixth artifact is located on Saturn's liquid surface.__NEWL__(At this point, the short story ends.)__NEWL__Both Earth and SpaceHome gear up for massive efforts.__NEWL__Junior and Whitey, who have formed a strong bond, part, and Whitey returns to teaching classes at the university, first having strong words with Ogumi over what Whitey deems to be deceit.__NEWL__However, SpaceHome has become too small for Whitey now.__NEWL__He enrolls in space pilot training and becomes a brilliant student.__NEWL__As Whitey qualifies, Junior, now the brains behind SpaceHome's Mimas-based efforts to recover the last artifact, stages a strike—Whitey must return or Junior will be so "depressed" he cannot work.__NEWL__Ogumi has little choice but to send Whitey back to Saturn as a pilot.__NEWL__Whitey becomes the lead pilot for the recovery effort.__NEWL__However, an Earth expedition stages a simultaneous attempt, and at first seems to have everything going for it, until it suffers massive malfunctions.__NEWL__Whitey sacrifices the mission to dive deep into Saturn's atmosphere and rescue the Earth pilot and his vessel.__NEWL__While he is still recovering, SpaceHome's backup mission recovers the artifact.__NEWL__The artifact proves to be a much more complex message—there is a starship at a specified location in the outer solar system.__NEWL__When activated, it is assumed that the ship will take anyone aboard to the aliens' star system.__NEWL__As the story ends, Earth and SpaceHome work together to mount a joint expedition.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16238452	Time of our Darkness	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z	7629770	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7629770	The 13-year-old Disley D. Mashanini is the sole black pupil at a white private school in Sandton Johannesberg, there on a scholarship from a township in the Transvaal.__NEWL__Pete Walker teaches English and sometimes Afrikaans.__NEWL__Peter has lived with André for ten years, though their sexual relationship has ceased.__NEWL__One day, Disley turns up at Walker's house, answering Walker's questioning with "Because I wanted to see you, sir.__NEWL__" Walker takes him home to his township in KwaThema, Gauteng.__NEWL__Some days later Disley again appears at the door, this time with a note from his mother explaining about the unrest in the townships and asking him to look after the boy.__NEWL__André is dismissive of the boy, warning Pete in jest about what is illegal with blacks – "Specially seduction of minors.__NEWL__You can shoot them in the back__NEWL__but you can't go to bed with them".__NEWL__After André leaves, Pete makes Disley have a bath and then pins some of own clothes so that they fit the skinny little boy's body.__NEWL__Disley is modest as he changes, but Pete is aroused: "I'd found this impromptu ceremony such an enjoyment that a furious guilt arose in me: if I prolonged this it would become more than a merciful deed, and I would be irretrievably lost".__NEWL__He thinks of himself, "kneading an ache over that untouchable item, a black parcel of skin and bone, under age."__NEWL__André has taken to using rent boys, and returns with one called Prince.__NEWL__They all go off to the airport (André is a flight attendant) and go plane spotting.__NEWL__Disley loves it.__NEWL__As Pete gets ready to take Disley to the school where he can stay overnight, he discovers that Disley has deliberately left his jumper and suitcase at Pete's home.__NEWL__Disley also hints that he knows all about André and Pete being gay, and Pete recognises the possibility of blackmail over his teaching position.__NEWL__So he agrees to let Disley stay and to coach him so that he can stay on at the private school.__NEWL__Pete starts wishfully thinking about what might happen after they finish watching Polanski's Macbeth on video, "Probably after that he was going to seduce me, probably I was due to have the experience of a lifetime, and be entirely lost.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Pete prepares a bed roll for Disley in the corner of his bedroom, goes for a bath, and returns to find Disley has crept into his bed.__NEWL__Pete climbs in and starts intimately stroking the boy, who responds suggestively "You haven't given me a good-night kiss".__NEWL__Pete thinks "This was not a child, but a lover."__NEWL__Over the next six months, Disley matures, his performance at school improves due to his one-to-one coaching and he starts making friends.__NEWL__But he is drawn back to his roots when a relative dies and disappears from school.__NEWL__Pete and another teacher Jenny set off to find him.__NEWL__Jenny is a radical, always followed by the police, and she seduces Pete and he finally loses his heterosexual virginity.__NEWL__Pete discovers she is laundering money brought into South Africa by André and the novel ends with the suffering typical of the violent world of apartheid and police corruption.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4657419	A House Like a Lotus	1984-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7605271	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7605271	Polly begins narrating the novel just as she arrives in Greece.__NEWL__She expects to be picked up by her aunt and uncle but they were detained and will not arrive in Greece for a few days.__NEWL__Polly goes to her hotel and feels rather depressed about the current state of affairs.__NEWL__But her mood improves when she meets Zachary Gray at the hotel restaurant.__NEWL__He is quite interested in her and is attracted to her innocence.__NEWL__He offers to take her around Greece and show her the sights.__NEWL__Polly is reluctant but agrees.__NEWL__Zachary is an interesting tour guide and Polly enjoys his companionship.__NEWL__But when Zachary begins to show interest in a romantic and physical relationship, she resists.__NEWL__When Polly's aunt and uncle show up, Zachary is unable to keep up his relationship with Polly but insists that they will see each other again.__NEWL__During this time, Polly has been flashing back to the past and how she managed to get a trip to Greece.__NEWL__About six months earlier, Polly was introduced to Max, a friend of her uncle.__NEWL__Although Max is a middle-aged woman and Polly is still a teenager, the two begin a friendship and Max encourages Polly to develop her identity.__NEWL__Polly's young male friend Renny also encourages her, and Polly blossoms.__NEWL__When Max admits that she and her "friend" Ursula have been lovers for thirty years, Polly is surprised but decides this does not change who Max is and remains friends.__NEWL__Max also admits she is dying, which devastates Polly.__NEWL__But after one night of heavy drinking, Max makes what seems to be a sexual advance toward Polly.__NEWL__Polly is horrified.__NEWL__Ursula tries to assure Polly that Max loves her (Polly) as a daughter, not in any romantic sense but Polly is still terrified and runs away.__NEWL__She stays with Renny.__NEWL__While still vulnerable and scared, Polly and Renny sleep together.__NEWL__Polly returns to her family and does not tell them about Max or Renny.__NEWL__While she severs all contact with Max, she still accepts the trip to Greece.__NEWL__In the present, Polly goes to a literary conference, held on Cyprus, where she is to volunteer.__NEWL__Surrounded by new friends and interesting work, Polly begins to heal.__NEWL__But Zachary suddenly appears and asks Polly to go out with him.__NEWL__She reluctantly agrees.__NEWL__The two go sailing on the ocean but an accident occurs and they nearly drown.__NEWL__They are saved by Polly's friends from the conference.__NEWL__This event makes Polly realize that she needs to talk to Max, before it's too late.__NEWL__She phones America and tells Max that she forgives her.__NEWL__The line goes dead after a few minutes but Polly is satisfied because she and Max are friends once more.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7049270	None But Lucifer	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7579564	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7579564	The book is a dark fantasy version of the Faust legend set in New York City during the Great Depression.__NEWL__Protagonist William Hale determines that contrary to popular belief Earth is Hell, and the devil is the ruler of it.__NEWL__By going out of his way to demonstrate he is aware of the con, he brings himself to the devil's attention; Lucifer, it turns out, runs things in the quiet disguise of an influential businessman.__NEWL__Hale talks himself into a partnership, complete with immortality and supernatural powers, only to discover that the perks come with corresponding liabilities.__NEWL__Deciding the only way out is to beat Lucifer at his own con, he discovers his very success ensures his own undoing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q248202	Zündel's exit	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39	Switzerland	7579786	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7579786	From diary-style notes and personal memories and conversations, the fictive narrator Reverend Busch reconstructs and documents the stepwise fall of his missing friend, the teacher Konrad Zündel.__NEWL__During many summer weeks, the life of the depressive, intellectual, quixotic protagonist is destroyed step by step.__NEWL__In the reader's eyes, Zündel simply suffers one mishap after another, but for the unstable teacher – that says, he never was happy in his life – these mishaps lead into mania and into the planning and execution of his departure.__NEWL__Konrad Zündel and his wife Magda, whose relationship after five years breaks down because of everyday things, decide to spend their holidays separately.__NEWL__While Magda spends some days with her friend Helen, Konrad decides to visit Greece.__NEWL__But in Italy, he suddenly loses an incisor and travels back to Switzerland per train.__NEWL__While travelling, his wallet is stolen and he finds a severed finger on the train closet.__NEWL__The finger's origins and meaning never are explained.__NEWL__In his Swiss flat, the caretaker denotes that Magda did something with another man.__NEWL__Later, this statement turns out to be a lie, but the thought of losing his wife throws Zündel out of his way.__NEWL__He travels to Genoa, where he was sired by a Swiss sick-nurse and an irresponsible globetrotter.__NEWL__In Genoa, he is drunken nearly all the time and tries to write down his philosophical – often cynic – gnosis.__NEWL__It is about – like the whole novel – the relation between Konrad and Magda, between man and woman, between womanhood and manhood.__NEWL__The guilty for his departure, due to Magda, who represent the totality of all women, who destroy men with their will to self-actualization.__NEWL__Zündel has two important meetings in Genoa:__NEWL__In a bar, he meets Serafin, a Spanish sailor with an Austrian accent.__NEWL__The two men are constating a relation between their souls – and leave each other.__NEWL__Not less surreal is the meeting with the French woman Nounou; Zündel spends a night with her, again discovering relation of souls.__NEWL__He leaves her in dawn, before the situation would necessitate hundred knives to separate us.__NEWL__After these two meetings, Zündel wants to fulfil the main goal of his voyage: Getting an illegal handgun.__NEWL__This plan shipwrecks, too.__NEWL__Because of his naïveté and gentleman's style, Zündel is frauded.__NEWL__Afterwards, he travels home.__NEWL__Extremely confused, undernourished and now heavily addicted to alcohol, he enters the flat, where the distressed Magda has expected his return for days.__NEWL__A normal conversation, that would clear these misunderstandings (e.g. the not existing lover), isn't possible, because Zündel now is mentally ill.__NEWL__The next morning, the teacher Zündel only gives another two lessons, which turn out to be very strange.__NEWL__Then he breaks down in school, is brought to the hospital and then to mental clinic.__NEWL__The psychiatrists fail in making a diagnosis.__NEWL__Zündel escapes from the clinic to his weekend house in the mountains, where he hides armed and dangerous.__NEWL__The narrator, Busch, is the last person who is able to get close to him, before he departs finally.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6238785	John Henry Days	2001-05-15T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7580125	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7580125	Building the railways that made America, John Henry died with a hammer in his hand moments after competing against a steam drill in a battle of endurance.__NEWL__The story of his death made him a legend.__NEWL__Over a century later, freelance journalist J. Sutter is sent to West Virginia to cover the launch of a new postage stamp at the first John Henry Days festival.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7799002	Thunder Oak	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	7659959	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7659959	The main introduction introduces Sylver's band of outlaws: Icham, Dredless, Mawk, Bryony, Alysoun, Miniver, Wodehed, and Luke.__NEWL__Sylver has heard that the sea defences around the island of Welkin are crumbling and will soon collapse completely, allowing the ocean to flood Welkin if the animals of the island don't act soon.__NEWL__With the help of Lord Haukin, a sympathetic stoat, who understands Sylver, Sylver decides to start out on a quest to find the missing humans who abandoned Welkin long before Sylver was born.__NEWL__None of the weasels know why they have evacuated, but Lord Haukin suspects, thanks to a diary left by a girl called Alice, that they were forced to leave and had no choice.__NEWL__His theory is supported by several clues scattered throughout the island, and the first clue is at Thunder Oak, but the weasels will need to make a long journey to reach it.__NEWL__Just before departure, however, the voyage is interrupted by the Sheriff Falshed, who has been appointed by Prince Poynt to dominate the rebellious weasels and keep them under sway by enslaving them at Castle Rayn.__NEWL__Falshed attempts to stop Sylver, arriving with a troop of stoats, but the outlaws cleverly ward off the attack by using missiles filled with ants, thus driving the stoats into the vast forest.__NEWL__They strap Falshed to a raft and send him off down the river, where, after an interval with the rats, he makes it back to his home, Castle Rayn, home of the stoats.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Lord Haukin tells the weasels that to find Thunder Oak, which does not appear on any of his own maps, they need to find the broken eggshell of an eagle, as eagles fly above the planet and imprint a mental map of the globe which they telepathically pass down to their offspring.__NEWL__The weasels set out to search for this egg, with the stoats in hot pursuit.__NEWL__Prince Poynt has also employs a mercenary fox, Magellan, to hunt down the weasels and bring Sylver to Castle Rayn.__NEWL__After travelling for some while, the outlaws seek shelter at a monastery, which is home to Karnac the boar, a formidable monk and a sadistic mercenary, who sells weasel skins to the stoats in the form of drums.__NEWL__Karnac traps them inside his monastery, intending to wait until they starve to death before skinning them.__NEWL__Sylver sends Miniver out to rally a nearby village of weasels to help them.__NEWL__Miniver is turned down by each weasel in this town, as they fear punishment by the stoats.__NEWL__Hope appears lost until she meets an exceedingly dirty and eccentric weasel named Scirf, who tells her he can help them if she promises than he can join Sylver's outlaws.__NEWL__Miniver returns to the monastery with Scirf, and while her friends are initially sceptical, Scirf drives Karnac away by reminding him that humans loved bacon, ham, and other meat derived from the flesh of pigs.__NEWL__Karnac flees and the weasels reluctantly allow the overconfident Scirf to join them.__NEWL__As they resume travelling with their newest member, the weasels encounter a forest full of savage pine martens, which is also inhabited by a mad witch – a moufflon named Maghatch.__NEWL__Maghatch blackmails Sylver into slavery by turning the other outlaws into rabbits, but Sylver escapes and enlists the help of the wild dog Gnaish.__NEWL__Maghatch quickly returns the outlaws to their proper forms and allows them to leave.__NEWL__The weasels journey on, but are ensnared by the Hunter's Hall, which is an afterlife for virtuous hunting animals.__NEWL__The dead hunters tell them that as punishment for killing prey animals intended for those in the afterlife, they must work as slaves in Hunter's Hall until they have atoned for their crime.__NEWL__For several weeks they remain in the Hall until Mawk realises that the ethereal food is keeping them from leaving.__NEWL__Unable to rouse the others, he carries Scirf and escapes.__NEWL__When Scirf awakens, the two males find that Alysoun has followed them, and after Mawk explains the mystery of the food, they try to return and rescue their companions.__NEWL__They find that Hunter's Hall has vanished entirely, being reachable only through Maghatch's sorcery.__NEWL__They decide to backtrack to the witch's cathedral in hopes of finding another way to reach the Hall.__NEWL__Back at Hunter's Hall, Sylver and the others awake to find their friends missing.__NEWL__Fortunately, the dead hunters have decided to set them free, and they head north hoping to meet up with the others.__NEWL__They are soon found by Magellan, who wounds Wodehead with an arrow before disappearing.__NEWL__Sylver sends Wodehead back to Halfmoon Wood along with Icham and Bryony, and goes on towards the Yellow Mountains with Miniver and Dredless.__NEWL__High in the mountains, they meet Magellan once more, and Dredless is killed.__NEWL__Miniver and Sylver escape, and find Falshed's troops, with Falshed having left to report Dredless' death to the Prince.__NEWL__Knowing this would be the last place Magellan would look for them, they pretend to be poor merchants and allow themselves to be captured by the soldiers.__NEWL__Alysoun, Scirf, and Mawk return safely to Maghatch's chapel, and Maghatch sends them down a path which she claims will take them back to Hunter's Hall.__NEWL__Instead, it deposits them directly on a steep mountainside.__NEWL__The three are initially horrified, but Alysoun realises that these are the Yellow Mountains they've been searching for, and that the eagle's nest must be nearby.__NEWL__They ascend the cliffs and by nightfall come upon the nest.__NEWL__Inside they find the eggshell, broken in half, and imprinted with the map of the world.__NEWL__As they prepare to leave, with Alysoun and Scirf carrying half of the eggshell each, the mother eagle returns and attacks them.__NEWL__In the confusion, Alysoun falls from the ledge, but finds that the eggshell acts as a parachute, allowing her to descend safely.__NEWL__Seeing this, Scirf follows, using his half of the shell similarly.__NEWL__Mawk is left behind and takes refuge in a hare's den until the eagle leaves.__NEWL__Continuing on alone, he is confronted and robbed by three weasel brothers.__NEWL__He finds a hostel in the mountains and no sooner has he entered than Magellan arrives.__NEWL__Mawk hides himself and listens as Magellan takes a room for the night.__NEWL__Shortly after, Falshed's troops arrive, with Sylver and Miniver in tow, still pretending to be merchants.__NEWL__Sylver recognises him and, trying to keep his identity secret, tells the soldiers that Mawk is one of the outlaws.__NEWL__Mawk tells the soldiers that he knows where Sylver is sleeping, and directs them to Magellan's room.__NEWL__The stoats storm the room and in the ensuing fight, Mawk, Sylver, and Miniver escape into the mountains, where they find Scirf, by himself.__NEWL__Meanwhile, having been separated from Scirf in the fall from the mountain, Alysoun finds herself in the midst of a group of hedgehogs performing a ceremony.__NEWL__The leader of the hedgehogs refuses to let Alysoun leave, intending her as a sacrifice to their god, the Great God Spike, a huge hedgehog built from the skeletons of other animals.__NEWL__Alysoun succeeds in destroying the god and escapes.__NEWL__She returns to Halfmoon Wood with her half of the eggshell, where Sylver and the others are already waiting, and there learns of Dredless' death.__NEWL__After holding a wake for Dredless, the weasels and Lord Haukin decipher the eggshell map and discover that the first clue is hidden in a tree called Thunder Oak, far from Halfmoon Wood.__NEWL__The weasels draw straws to see who will accompany Sylver to the Thunder Oak, and Mawk and Scirf are selected.__NEWL__Before they can begin the journey, a pack of rogue wolves lays siege to the village, but are driven away by a living statue that is seeking Scirf.__NEWL__The statue travels a short distance with the three weasels, hoping to find the quarry from which it was made.__NEWL__They come to an old abandoned church, where the gargoyles tell the statue where to find a nearby quarry.__NEWL__Sylver and his companions enter the church to rest for the night, but after a noisy interruption by living angel statues, Sylver and Scirf decide to sleep in the crypts rather than the church hall.__NEWL__Mawk is alarmed by the idea of sleeping amidst the dead bodies, so he stays above.__NEWL__He awakes the following morning and finds Sylver and Scirf missing from the crypts.__NEWL__After a brief search he finds the two have been kidnapped by a group of mole bandits.__NEWL__The moles prepare to attack him, but their leader, realising that Sylver is wanted by Prince Poynt, insists that they set the weasels free.__NEWL__As they continue on, the group sneaks through the marshes inhabited by the rats, only to find their way blocked by thousands of living scarecrows.__NEWL__The scarecrows demand that the weasels give them smoking pipes, so that they might look more like humans.__NEWL__Having nothing to give them, Mawk suggests they travel to a nearby abbey and ask the monks for help.__NEWL__From the head monk they learn that the scarecrows are terrified of mirrors, and return to the scarecrows with mirrors in hand.__NEWL__The scarecrows are so distraught by their reflections that they fall to the ground screaming, and the weasels pass unharmed.__NEWL__Upon reaching the Thunder Oak, the weasels find the tree guarded by a stone gryphon, which will not allow them to pass, saying it does not wish for the humans to return.__NEWL__To the surprise of his companions, Scirf hypnotises the gryphon, putting it to sleep, and the weasels enter the Thunder Oak.__NEWL__Inside they find a small carving of a dormouse in a pool of water.__NEWL__Giving the carving to Mawk to guard, they begin to retrace their steps to Halfmoon Wood.__NEWL__On the return home, Sylver receives a warning from a polecat, sent by Falshed, that Magellan is laying in wait in the forest, and, ordering Mawk and Scirf to wait for him, goes to face the fox alone.__NEWL__While attempting to ambush Magellan, Sylver is caught in a snare set by the bounty hunter.__NEWL__Magellan prepares to kill Sylver with his bow and arrow, but in a final burst of energy, Sylver pulls the iron stake holding the snare from the ground and impales Magellan with it.__NEWL__Mawk and Scirf find him badly injured, but alive, and together they finish the journey back to Halfmoon Wood.__NEWL__After showing the carving to Lord Haukin, the Welkin Weasels hold a celebration before commencing on the quest to find the next clue.__NEWL__The book ends with a brief exchange between Falshed and Poynt, regarding Magellan's death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7572545	Space Viking	1963-01-01T00:00:00Z	20728					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7560717	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7560717	On the Sword World Gram, Lucas Trask, Baron of Traskon, is about to marry Elaine Karvall, whose father owns the Karvall steel mills.__NEWL__In addition to being a political alliance, it is also a love match.__NEWL__But Andray Dunnan, the insane nephew of Duke Angus of Wardshaven, is under the delusion that Elaine loves him and is being forced into the marriage.__NEWL__When she tries to correct him, his anger boils over.__NEWL__He crashes the wedding ceremony, kills her and seriously wounds Trask, before stealing the Duke's newly built starship, the Enterprise, and escaping.__NEWL__When Trask recovers from his injuries, he pledges the Barony of Traskon to Duke Angus in return for another warship, twin to the one hijacked by Dunnan.__NEWL__He hires Otto Harkaman, an experienced Space Viking captain who had lost his own ship in a civil war on Durendal, to command the new vessel, which Trask christens Nemesis.__NEWL__Trask sets out in search of Dunnan, though Harkaman warns him that given the vastness of the galaxy and the speed of spacecraft, his goal is nearly hopeless.__NEWL__They first visit Tanith, a primitive planet Duke Angus had planned to turn into a raiding and repair base.__NEWL__They find two run-down Space__NEWL__Viking ships already in possession, the Lamia and the Space Scourge.__NEWL__Trask decides to implement the Duke's original plan, taking in the other two crews as very junior partners.__NEWL__The natives begin receiving better treatment at his hands and training in the use of modern technology.__NEWL__After some refitting, the Nemesis and the Space Scourge raid three planets, Khepera, Amaterasu and Beowulf.__NEWL__The loot Trask sends to Gram excites interest (and greed).__NEWL__Duke Angus uses the incentive of shares in the Tanith venture to gain supporters and assumes control of Gram.__NEWL__He promotes himself to king and names Trask his viceroy on Tanith with the rank of prince.__NEWL__Ambitious men begin emigrating to Trask's new realm.__NEWL__Beowulf is the most advanced of the raided worlds, lacking only interstellar space flight.__NEWL__Puzzled, Trask investigates and finds out that it has no gadolinium, an essential element for hyperdrive engines, but does have plutonium.__NEWL__Coincidentally, Amaterasu (another world rising back up after undergoing decivilization) has sizable deposits of gadolinium, but lacks plutonium.__NEWL__Trask seizes the opportunity to set up profitable, peaceful trade between the three planets.__NEWL__In the process, he gradually gains two allies.__NEWL__Meanwhile, ships that put into Tanith for trade and repairs occasionally bring news of sightings of Dunnan.__NEWL__From what he learns, Trask wonders if his enemy is plotting to conquer the civilized world of Marduk, a feat thought impossible — just the thing a megalomaniac like Dunnan would attempt.__NEWL__He visits two Mardukan colonies, finding that Dunnan had recently attacked them.__NEWL__At the third, he comes upon the Enterprise and another Dunnan ship locked in combat with the Royal Mardukan Navy warship Victrix.__NEWL__He jumps into the fray and destroys both enemy ships, though he remains unsure if Dunnan was killed.__NEWL__The Victrix, under the command of Prince Simon Bentrik, is too badly damaged for hyperspace flight, so Trask takes the crew back to Marduk.__NEWL__Trask becomes friends with the Mardukan royal family and particularly King Mykhail, the constitutional monarch of Marduk, but is contemptuous of their shaky democracy.__NEWL__It appears that a fanatical rabble-rouser named Zaspar Makann is poised to win the next election and become Chancellor, but that is not Trask's concern.__NEWL__He does, however, pursue a romance with Lady Valerie, a Mardukan noblewoman who is lady-in-waiting to King Mykhail's eight-year-old granddaughter On Gram, King Angus has been abusing his power, straining relations with the other powerful nobles and also with Trask.__NEWL__Finally, Prince Trask declares Tanith's independence and renounces his fealty to Angus.__NEWL__Later, word reaches him that civil war has erupted on Gram.__NEWL__Many of Trask's followers urge him to claim the throne himself.__NEWL__Lucas is not interested.__NEWL__Gram, along with the other Sword Worlds, is in decline; Tanith is the future, the core around which civilization might possibly reform.__NEWL__To distract his divided subordinates, he fabricates a more immediate threat, claiming (without proof) that Andray Dunnan is responsible for the unrest on Marduk.__NEWL__His big lie turns out to be the truth.__NEWL__Not winning a majority in the election, Makann seizes control of the government.__NEWL__Prince Simon Bentrik shows up on Tanith as a refugee with the royal granddaughter and the lady-in-waiting Trask fancies.__NEWL__Prince Simon brings two pieces of news: fighting has broken out on Marduk; and, more important, that Andray Dunnan is the power behind Makann.__NEWL__Trask assembles a fleet of ships, including independent Space Viking ships, the raiders of Tanith's Navy, and loyalist Royal Mardukan Navy ships and speeds to Marduk for the final showdown.__NEWL__He wins a fierce space battle in orbit above Marduk and his fleet lands on the surface to take back the planet.__NEWL__Space Viking and loyalist ground forces root out Dunnan's followers.__NEWL__Some of the last holdouts surrender, handing over Andrey Dunnan in return for their lives.__NEWL__When the insane Dunnan raves that Elaine is waiting for him back on Gram, Trask shoots him dead in an act he sees as having no more importance than shooting a mad dog.__NEWL__Prince Lucas decides to marry Lady Valerie if she will have him, and take the title of King of Tanith.__NEWL__He also decides to strive to form a League of Civilized Worlds out of the alliance that rescued Marduk.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5637771	Hades' Daughter	2002-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	7482662	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7482662	Hade's Daughter opens at the Troy Game quartet.__NEWL__It is set in the Late Bronze Age (approx.__NEWL__1000–1200 BC) during the time of the great Aegean Catastrophe and some years after the fall of Troy.__NEWL__The story's actions are mainly between Naxos, western Greece and the mysterious land of Llangarlia in the Isle of Albion (Britain).__NEWL__Much of the action focuses on Brutus of Troy's banishment, after he accidentally kills his father with an arrow.__NEWL__After wandering among the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea and through Gaul, where he founds the city of Tours, Brutus eventually comes to the Isle of Albion, Britain, names it after himself, and fills it with his descendants.__NEWL__The main characters are as follows:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7033840	Nightjohn	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7608013	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7608013	The novel is set on a plantation owned by a man named Waller in the Southern United States in the early 1850s.__NEWL__The narrator and protagonist of the story is a young female African-American slave named Sarny.__NEWL__Sarny first sees Nightjohn when he is brought to the plantation with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars.__NEWL__He had escaped to the north for freedom, but knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, John still returned to slavery to teach others how to read.__NEWL__Twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to learn.__NEWL__So, at night and whenever he has the chance, John begins teaching Sarny the letters of the English alphabet.__NEWL__After teaching her 8 letters (A to H), Waller catches Sarny writing in the dirt and punishes John for teaching her by cutting off the toes from each of his feet.__NEWL__But then after three days of recuperating, John runs, and makes it to freedom.__NEWL__He later returns to fetch Sarny and take her to "pit school" in the night, where she sees and learns what a catalog is, learns the rest of the letters, and has acquired great knowledge-__NEWL__something no one can take away from her.__NEWL__Since John comes at night, he is called Nightjohn.__NEWL__This book was followed by a sequel called Sarny, a Life Remembered in 1998
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10470053	The Wounded Land	1980-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7566934	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7566934	Ten years have passed since the end of the first Chronicles.__NEWL__After his experiences in the Land, Thomas Covenant has resumed his career as a writer.__NEWL__He is still isolated from society, but he has come to terms with that and with the other mental and physical consequences of his leprosy.__NEWL__The story begins by presenting us with a new main character; the prologue is told entirely from her point of view, as is much of the main narrative.__NEWL__Linden Avery is a doctor who has moved to Covenant's hometown to take a position at the local hospital.__NEWL__Her traumatic childhood and rigorous medical training have left her emotionally isolated from other people.__NEWL__In her own way, she is as much an outsider in society as Covenant.__NEWL__The chief of staff at the hospital (who appeared briefly in the first Chronicles) asks her to check up on Covenant.__NEWL__Linden, reluctantly, drives to Covenant's house outside of town.__NEWL__On the way, she sees an elderly man in an ochre robe collapse by the side of the road.__NEWL__Using CPR, she revives him: he makes a number of cryptic pronouncements and walks off, telling her to "be true".__NEWL__Confused and disturbed by this strange encounter, Linden continues on to Covenant's house.__NEWL__Although he initially brushes her off, she is persistent, and finds that Covenant's estranged wife has returned to him, but that she is under the influence of a cult of worshippers of Lord Foul, who has found a way to exert his influence in Covenant's world.__NEWL__After Covenant is stabbed in the chest by one of Foul's dupes in the "real" world, he loses consciousness and hears a familiar voice: Lord Foul's.__NEWL__Taunting Covenant that there is "more despair bound up for you than your petty mortal heart can bear", Foul vows that he will have his final revenge on Covenant and the Land.__NEWL__He awakes to find that both he and Linden have been transported to the Land – to Kevin's Watch, the mountain at the Land's south frontier where he was first summoned by Drool Rockworm.__NEWL__His wound has been healed – somehow Covenant was able to use the "wild magic" of his white gold ring, although he had no conscious control over the process.__NEWL__Descending from the Watch, he also finds that a terrible change has transpired: four thousand years have passed, the Earthpower is gone, or nearly gone, and the people of the Land are out of touch with what remains of it.__NEWL__The Land is afflicted with the Sunbane, a disruption of the physical order which alternately causes rain, desert, pestilence and unnatural fertility to wreak havoc on humans, animals and nature.__NEWL__The people of the Land have turned to human sacrifice as a means of harnessing the power of the Sunbane: shortly after their arrival, Covenant and Linden are taken prisoner and condemned to be "shed".__NEWL__They escape, but shortly thereafter Covenant is bitten by a monster.__NEWL__Linden, who has become imbued with a form of clairvoyance which allows her to perceive the fundamental nature of people and things in this world (which, with her medical training, she comes to think of as her "health-sense") is able to save Covenant from a life-threatening infection, but the venom from the bite leaves Covenant unable to control the destructive power of the wild magic.__NEWL__Despite these difficulties, Covenant and Linden Avery join with Sunder and Hollian, a man and woman of the Land, to travel to Revelstone to challenge the corrupt new rulers of the Land, the Clave.__NEWL__On the journey, Covenant enters the Andelainian Hills, a region of the land free of the Sunbane.__NEWL__There he meets with the Forestal Caer-Caveral (formerly Warmark Hile Troy) and the spirits of the long-dead characters of the First Chronicles, who provide him with rather cryptic advice concerning the plight of the Land.__NEWL__Saltheart Foamfollower gives Covenant something more: Vain, a creation of the ur-viles, who accompanies Covenant to Revelstone.__NEWL__(Linden, Sunder, and Hollian have already been captured by the Clave and imprisoned there.)__NEWL__Once there, Covenant agrees to undertake a "soothtell", a ritual of divination by blood.__NEWL__Before Covenant can defend himself the Clave's minions open his veins: this triggers the ritual.__NEWL__Covenant thus discovers that the cause of the current condition of the Land is the destruction of the Staff of Law, which he himself had wrought.__NEWL__Without the strength of the Staff to protect it, the Earthpower itself has been corrupted by Lord Foul; hence, the Sunbane.__NEWL__Covenant also discovers that the leader of the Clave, the na-Mhoram, is a Raver, one of Lord Foul's immortal, incorporeal servants.__NEWL__As each new na-Mhoram succeeds the last, the Raver takes possession, ensuring that the Clave continues to maintain the Banefire which strengthens the Sunbane.__NEWL__The Banefire is fed by copious quantities of blood: among the victims held by the Clave for future sacrifice are a group of Haruchai, the descendants of the race which formerly served the Land as the Bloodguard.__NEWL__Covenant frees the Haruchai and his friends and retrieves the krill, an ancient and powerful sword forged in the days of the Old Lords, but, due to his power-madness combined with his blood loss, cannot single-handedly battle the combined power of the Clave, and thus is forced to leave Revelstone.__NEWL__Revelstone is located at the western limit of the Land; beyond is only mountainous wastes.__NEWL__Hence, Covenant and his companions set out east.__NEWL__Their journey is made perilous by the corruption of the Sunbane and the perversity of Sarangrave Flat, a marshy plain on the lower portion of the Land which has been inhabited for millennia by the "lurker", a mysterious and malevolent creature which is aroused by the presence of power.__NEWL__However, the party is preserved by Covenant's wild magic, Linden's health-sense, the Sunbane survival skills of Sunder and Hollian, and the physical prowess of the Haruchai.__NEWL__As they approach the sea-coast at the eastern edge of the Land, the travellers encounter a party of Giants, of the same race as Foamfollower's long-dead people.__NEWL__Covenant, Avery, Vain, and four of the Haruchai take ship with the Giants in search of a solution to the matter of the Staff of Law, leaving Sunder and Hollian in the Land to try to gather resistance to the Clave in preparation for the final battle.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10469939	The One Tree	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7567075	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7567075	Following the vision he received from the Clave at Revelstone, Thomas Covenant seeks to fix the corruption of the Land after the Staff of Law's destruction.__NEWL__He is accompanied on his quest by Linden Avery, a physician from his own "real" world, and four Haruchai bodyguards.__NEWL__They use a ship crewed by the Giants, a benevolent, seafaring people.__NEWL__The journey is made more difficult by Covenant's bouts of madness from the venomous bite of a Sunbane-spawned monster.__NEWL__Linden, who in this world is endowed with clairvoyance, is frustrated by her inability to help him.__NEWL__From the Land, the Giant-ship sails to the home of the Elohim, a wise race.__NEWL__Linden perceives that the Elohim are the embodiment of Earthpower, the source of the beauty and magic.__NEWL__Despite their seeming omnipotence, the Elohim are bound by a strange code of behavior and provide no direct help, other than helping Covenant unlock the location of the One Tree, from which the Staff of Law was fashioned.__NEWL__In the course of rendering this service, the Elohim cause Covenant to go into a catatonic state; "don't touch me" is all he can say.__NEWL__The travelers find that one of the Elohim, named Findail, has joined them aboard the Giants' ship for his own purposes.__NEWL__The questors are not pleased but are powerless to make him leave.__NEWL__After suffering severe damage in a storm, in which Findail refuses to help, the ship arrives at the port city of the Bhrathair, a militaristic – but also wealthy and civilized – people living at the edge of a great desert.__NEWL__The Bhrathair are ruled by the gaddhi, Rant Absolain, who rather coldly receives the quest's shore party, and it is discovered that the true ruler is the gaddhi's chief adviser, a wizard named Kasreyn of the Gyre.__NEWL__Kasreyn initially appears to be kindly disposed to the quest but is revealed to have ulterior motives.__NEWL__The ship is repaired, but the ill will between the travelers and the gaddhi breaks out into overt violence.__NEWL__Two of the Haruchai guards lose their lives.__NEWL__The feud was the result of a manipulative ploy by Kasreyn.__NEWL__The wizard abducts Covenant, who is still in a catatonic state, and attempts to use his powers to compel Covenant to give up his ring.__NEWL__The remainder of the shore party is imprisoned in the dungeon.__NEWL__Linden reluctantly uses her power to invade Covenant's consciousness, breaks his catatonia, and thwarts Kasreyn's efforts to seize the ring.__NEWL__Covenant and the Haruchai fight their way to Kasreyn's laboratory but discover that Kasreyn has a parasitic being living on his back that provides him with extended longevity and immunity to physical attack.__NEWL__Findail kills both the parasite and Kasreyn, setting off a palace coup that leaves the port in a state of chaos.__NEWL__After narrowly escaping, the ship arrives at the One Tree's island location.__NEWL__Brinn, Covenant's Haruchai bodyguard, sacrifices himself in a duel with the Tree's Guardian ak-Haru Kenaustin Ardenol.__NEWL__He is regenerated as the new Guardian and leads the party to the Tree itself.__NEWL__Cable Seadreamer, the mute giant, stops Covenant from taking a piece of the Tree.__NEWL__When Seadreamer makes the attempt himself, he is killed: he has disturbed the Worm of the World's End, which sleeps beneath the Tree and whose "aura" serves as a defense mechanism.__NEWL__This aura triggers Covenant's power to an exponential degree.__NEWL__As Covenant attempts to overwhelm the Worm with his power, Findail warns Linden that the Arch of Time cannot contain the struggle between the two powers and that the world will be destroyed if it continues.__NEWL__Linden, much against her will, mentally reaches out to Covenant.__NEWL__Sharing his thoughts, she sees him open a passage back to the "real" world and attempts to return her to it.__NEWL__She senses, however, that in the "real" world Covenant's body is very weak and will die if he does not himself return.__NEWL__Unwilling to do this, Covenant draws Linden back through the rift between the worlds.__NEWL__With her help, he is able to contain his power, but at the price of the Isle of the One Tree sinking beneath the ocean as the earth heaves with the movements of the Worm of the World's End settling back from disturbance into slumber.__NEWL__Thus, the quest ends in failure.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10470112	White Gold Wielder	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7567132	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7567132	Leaving the sunken island of the One Tree, the Giant ship Starfare's Gem sets course to return to the Land.__NEWL__In a dangerous region of the ocean known as the Soulbiter, the ship is blown off course into the far northern reaches of the Earth and becomes ice-bound.__NEWL__Realizing that the Land's need cannot wait for the spring melt, Thomas Covenant leaves the ship and strikes out south over the ice-scape, accompanied by Linden, Vain, Findail the Elohim, Cail of the Haruchai, and four Giants.__NEWL__The party encounters many dangers on its journey but reunites with Sunder and Hollian, the man and woman of the Land who Covenant left behind in order to attempt to gather resistance to the Clave, the corrupt rulers of the Land.__NEWL__They have little comfort to offer: the Clave has become so blood-hungry that entire villages have been completely emptied in order to sustain the Banefire, making the corruption of nature by the Sunbane worse than ever.__NEWL__Only the stalwart Haruchai, freed from the Clave's magical coercion, have rallied to the side of freedom.__NEWL__Covenant and his companions nevertheless march on Revelstone, the mountain fortress of the Clave.__NEWL__Once there, Covenant stuns the others by summoning a Sandgorgon, the beast responsible for the deaths of two of his Haruchai companions in the previous book.__NEWL__The Sandgorgon, grateful to Covenant for having previously spared its life, breaches the outer defenses of the great Keep.__NEWL__After a tremendous struggle, Covenant and the Sandgorgon are able to destroy the Raver who leads the Clave, although at the price of the life of Grimmand Honninscrave, the valiant Giant captain of Starfare's Gem.__NEWL__Mourning the loss of his friend and the deaths of many of the innocent denizens of Revelstone, Covenant is able to come to terms with his power-madness, through a process in which he mimics the Giantish caamora, a ritual of purification by fire.__NEWL__Using the Banefire and the wild magic of his white gold ring, he is able to negate the effect of the strange venom with which he has been infected.__NEWL__The process hurts Covenant but does not do him permanent injury.__NEWL__With the aid of the Sandgorgon, Linden and Covenant are able to extinguish the Banefire.__NEWL__The defeat of the Clave causes the corruption of the Sunbane to diminish but not to disappear.__NEWL__Sending Cail and the Giant Mistweave to reconnoiter with Starfare's Gem at the eastern coast of the Land, and charging the remaining Haruchai to resume their Bloodguard forebears' role as the warders of Revelstone, Covenant and the rest of his party set out to challenge Lord Foul directly, in his lair in the depths of Mount Thunder.__NEWL__En route, Hollian and her unborn child die resisting an attack of a band of Sunbane-warped ur-viles.__NEWL__Sunder is left numb and wordless with grief: in Andelain the Forestal Caer-Caveral sacrifices his immortal life to re-unite Sunder with Hollian and the yet-to-be-born child and give them a second chance at life.__NEWL__In so doing, he breaks the Law of Life, which prevents the dead from intervening directly in the world of the living.__NEWL__Bereft of the Forestal's protection, Andelain begins to succumb to the Sunbane.__NEWL__Covenant leaves the young family in Andelain and continues his journey, accompanied by Linden, two Giants, Vain, and Findail.__NEWL__At Mount Thunder, Covenant gives the white gold ring willingly to the Despiser, an action which was foretold by Lord Foul upon Covenant's initial return to the Land; Linden Avery refrains from preventing him from this action, despite her ability to do so.__NEWL__The Despiser then kills Covenant, and attempts to destroy the Arch of Time with the wild magic.__NEWL__However, Covenant's spirit blocks his assault: in a manner similar to the cleansing experience with the Banefire, the power of wild magic causes Covenant pain but does not harm him, and in fact makes him more powerful with each attack.__NEWL__(Covenant later explains, "Foul did the one thing I couldn't: he burned the venom away."__NEWL__)__NEWL__Covenant's ability to interfere in this manner is revealed as a consequence of the breaking of the Law of Life and a fulfillment of Lord Mhoram's prophecy ("You are the white gold").__NEWL__Unable to comprehend this, Lord Foul continues to attack Covenant's spirit until he vanishes, drained of all his power.__NEWL__Linden Avery then takes the white gold ring, and uses it to bond Vain with Findail.__NEWL__Linden thus creates a new Staff of Law, combining the rigidness and structure of the ur-viles' lore with the pure and free Earthpower of the Elohim.__NEWL__Then, combining the new Staff with the power of the wild magic, she heals the Land of the Sunbane.__NEWL__Giving the Staff to the Giants to take to Sunder and Hollian, Linden fades away.__NEWL__In the limbo between the worlds, Covenant speaks to her and explains how he defeated Foul and re-assures her that their love will transcend both time and death.__NEWL__Linden wakes up in the "real" world, finding Covenant dead, as expected, but takes comfort in the knowledge that through his love, she has redeemed both herself and the Land.__NEWL__At the very end of the book, Linden takes Covenant's white gold wedding ring.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7973255	Water	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7567287	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7567287	Water is set in 1938, when India was still under the colonial rule of the British, and when the marriage of children to older men was commonplace.__NEWL__Following Hindu tradition, when a man died, his widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in a widow's ashram, an institution for widows to make amends for the sins from her previous life that supposedly caused her husband's death.__NEWL__Chuyia (Sarala) is an eight-year-old girl who has just lost her husband.__NEWL__She is deposited in the ashram for Hindu widows to spend the rest of her life in renunciation.__NEWL__She befriends Kalyani who is forced into prostitution to support the ashram, Shakuntala, one of the widows, and Narayan, a young and charming upper-class follower of Mahatma Gandhi and of Gandhism.__NEWL__For a full length summary see: plot summary.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7757284	The Pit	1903-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1297	Chicago	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7553568	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7553568	The Pit opens with sisters Laura and Page Dearborn and their aunt, Aunt Wess, outside the Auditorium Theatre opera house awaiting the arrival of their hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Cressler.__NEWL__Once inside, they are joined by three other guests of the Cresslers, Mr. Curtis Jadwin, Mr. Landry Court, and Mr. Sheldon Corthell.__NEWL__Corthell and Laura are apparently very well-acquainted before this evening, for their conversation begins with the artist confessing his love for the young woman.__NEWL__Though she does not return this feeling, Laura admits that knowing she is loved is "the greatest exhilaration of happiness she had ever known.__NEWL__"  We soon learn that Corthell is not the only man interested in having Laura as his wife.__NEWL__Both Jadwin, the mature and mysterious man of affairs, and Landry, the exuberant and extravagant man from the Battle of the Street, are captivated by the girl’s unparalleled charm and beauty as well.__NEWL__Despite the fact that she makes it clear to each of them that she has no intentions of ever marrying and declares that she will never love, the three men insist on courting her.__NEWL__Miss Dearborn enjoys having these men chase her, but before long she grows weary of being the object of so many suitors.__NEWL__Enraged at herself for having made herself so vulnerable and for behaving so coquettishly, she dismisses Corthell, Landry, and Jadwin all at once.__NEWL__Jadwin, a man of persistence who is accustomed to getting what he wants, refuses to give up.__NEWL__Soon enough, Laura agrees to marry him.__NEWL__When her sister asks her if she truly loves Jadwin, Laura admits that though she "love[s] to be loved" and loves that Curtis is wealthy and willing to provide for her whatever she desires, she is not sure if she loves the man himself.__NEWL__To Mrs. Cressler she confesses:"I think I love him very much – sometimes.__NEWL__And then sometimes I think I don’t.__NEWL__I can’t tell.__NEWL__There are days when I’m sure of it, and there are others when I wonder if I want to be married, after all.__NEWL__I thought when love came it was to be – oh uplifting, something glorious... something that would shake me all to pieces.__NEWL__I thought that was the only kind of love there was".__NEWL__As Joseph McElrath observes in his analysis of the novel, this passage captures the attitude that Laura will maintain through the final chapter of the book: "She will have 'the only kind of love' described here."__NEWL__Regardless of any internal reservations, Laura becomes Mrs. Curtis Jadwin on the first weekend in June.__NEWL__For the first years of their marriage, the couple is very happy together.__NEWL__Soon, however, Jadwin discovers a new source of passion that eclipses everything else – wheat speculation.__NEWL__Though he has been warned many times of the dangers of grain trading by his dear friend Mr. Cressler, Jadwin cannot resist the roar of the Pit down at the Chicago Board of Trade.__NEWL__Little by little Jadwin becomes increasingly more obsessed with speculating until the deafening murmur of "wheat-wheat-wheat, wheat-wheat-wheat" is all he can hear.__NEWL__The love for his wife that used to dictate his every action is replaced with an inescapable infatuation with the excitement of the Pit.__NEWL__All of Jadwin’s time is spent at the Board of Trade Building; often he even sleeps there at night.__NEWL__Laura, left all alone in her huge house through the day and night, feels lonely and neglected and begins to discover that she needs more from her husband than his money.__NEWL__The extremity of Jadwin’s obsession and Laura’s worries and frustration are summed up in a passage Laura speaks to her husband after working up the nerve:"Curtis, dear... when is it all going to end – your speculating?__NEWL__You never used to be this way.__NEWL__It seems as though, nowadays, I never had you to myself.__NEWL__Even when you are not going over papers and reports and that, or talking by the hour to Mr. Gretry in the library – even when you are not doing all that, your mind seems to be away from me – down there in La Salle Street or the Board of Trade Building.__NEWL__Dearest, you don’t know.__NEWL__I don’t mean to complain, and I don’t want to be exacting or selfish, but – sometimes I – I am lonesome".__NEWL__This selfish concern that she expresses shows the extent to which Laura cares for husband’s troubles.__NEWL__Though he promises time and again that this deal will be his last, it is not until the market has ruined him that Jadwin is able to let it go.__NEWL__During this distressful time Sheldon Corthell reenters Laura’s life after having been abroad in Italy.__NEWL__While Jadwin spends all his time with his broker Gretry at the Board of Trade, Laura renews her companionship with Corthell, a sensitive man who can dazzle Laura with his knowledge of art and literature and who is willing to dedicate all his time to her.__NEWL__As Mrs. Jadwin continues to see more of Corthell than she does of her own husband, their friendship trends towards intimacy.__NEWL__Corthell would love nothing more than an affair with this married woman, but Laura decides that she values her marriage more than this romance and sends Corthell away for good.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jadwin continues wheat trading and grows unbelievably richer by the day.__NEWL__He discovers that he is in the position to do the impossible – corner the market.__NEWL__The game for him has lost its fun, however, and is taking a serious toll on both his mental and physical health.__NEWL__He cannot concentrate on anything other than counting bushels of wheat and cannot sleep for his nerves won’t let him.__NEWL__Greedy and crazed with power, Jadwin tries to control the forces of natures and drives the price of wheat up so high that people around the world, including his best friend Mr. Cressler, are financially destroyed.__NEWL__Only when the "Great Bull’s" corner is finally broken and he and his wife are reduced to poverty can Jadwin and Laura finally see past their individual problems and rediscover their love for each other.__NEWL__The couple decides to leave Chicago and head west, and the reader is left with the feeling that the Jadwins, despite the horrors they’ve just been through, have found happiness at last.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q603645	The Yiddish Policemen's Union	2007-05-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q797	Alaska	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7534826	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7534826	The book opens with Meyer Landsman, an alcoholic homicide detective with the Sitka police department, examining the murder of a man in the hotel where Landsman lives.__NEWL__Beside the corpse lies an open cardboard chess board with an unfinished game set up on it.__NEWL__Landsman calls his partner, half-Tlingit, half-Jewish Berko Shemets, to help him investigate further.__NEWL__Upon filing a report on the murder at police headquarters, Landsman and Berko discover that Landsman's ex-wife Bina Gelbfish has been promoted to commanding officer of their unit.__NEWL__Landsman and Berko discover that the victim was Mendel Shpilman, the son of the Verbover rebbe, Sitka’s most powerful organized crime boss.__NEWL__Many Jews believed Mendel to be the Tzadik ha-Dor, the potential messiah, born once in every generation.__NEWL__As Meyer continues to investigate Mendel's murder, he discovers that the supposed "chosen one" had taken a flight with Naomi, Landsman's deceased sister.__NEWL__He follows Naomi's trail to a mysterious set of buildings with an unknown purpose, set up in Tlingit territory by Jews.__NEWL__Landsman flies there to investigate; he is knocked out and thrown in a cell, whose walls have graffiti in Naomi's handwriting.__NEWL__The naked and injured Landsman is soon rescued by a local Tlingit police chief, Willie Dick, who reunites him with Berko.__NEWL__They learn that the mysterious complex is operated by a paramilitary group who wants to build a new Temple in Jerusalem after destroying the Dome of the Rock, hoping to speed the birth of the Messiah.__NEWL__An evangelical Christian Zionist American government supports the group.__NEWL__As Landsman and Berko investigate, the News reports the Dome being bombed.__NEWL__American agents apprehend the detectives and offer them permission to stay in Sitka, if they agree to keep quiet about the plot they have uncovered.__NEWL__Landsman says that he will and is released.__NEWL__Landsman reunites with Bina, frustrated by his failure with the Shpilman case.__NEWL__Remembering the chess board, he suddenly realizes that it's not an unfinished game: he had seen the same position from the perspective of the other player in Berko's father, Hertz Shemets's house.__NEWL__Landsman and Bina track down Hertz, and he confesses to killing Mendel at Mendel's own request hoping to ruin the government's plans to bring upon the Messiah.__NEWL__Landsman contacts American journalist Brennan stating that he "has a story for him".__NEWL__It is left ambiguous to the reader if Landsman is planning to expose Hertz's involvement in Shpilman's murder or the complex messianic conspiracy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6296619	Jovah's Angel	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7533370	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7533370	Some 150 years have passed since the events of Archangel and weather patterns have become increasingly unstable.__NEWL__The current Archangel, Delilah, is injured while flying in a storm and her angelico killed.__NEWL__Jovah decrees that she can no longer be Archangel as she is unable to fly, and names Alleluia Archangel in her place.__NEWL__While many protest her elevation, others believe she has been chosen because Jovah never fails to hear her voice.__NEWL__Alleluia does not feel up to the task of managing the other political powers of Sammorah, but somewhat manages with the aid of the angel Samuel.__NEWL__As pressure continues to mount on her, the old music machines located in Eyrie begin to fail until only one is left.__NEWL__Seeking any diversion, Alleluia goes off in search of the inventor/engineer Caleb, whom an Edori in Velora believes may be able to fix it.__NEWL__She finds him in Luminaux where she discovers the former Archangel performing in a club under the name "Lilah."__NEWL__Delilah wants nothing to do with Alleluia, but Caleb agrees to visit Velora as soon as possible.__NEWL__Caleb is revealed to be friends with Delilah and another inventor/engineer Noah.__NEWL__The two inventor/engineers theorize that Delilah is seeking thrills to entertain her, so when they mention that they will be travelling to Bereven as part of their work, she decides to accompany them.__NEWL__They travel via Noah's "Beast," a primitive steam-powered car.__NEWL__When Delilah learns of the reason they have travelled there to aid the design of self-propelled ships, she wishes to join the Edori expedition to Ysral.__NEWL__Noah, who is falling in love with her, declares that she cannot go and that he will go in her stead.__NEWL__Alleluia as Archangel, must also find her angelico.__NEWL__Jovah only refers to him as "The son of Jeremiah" and much of her time is devoted to searching for him, and consulting the oracles.__NEWL__The oracle of Mount Sinai has recently died leaving no third oracle, and in her attempts to better understand Jovah, Alleluia takes several books and begins learning the old language used at the interfaces.__NEWL__She learns through the interface that Jovah is in need of help, and that is also the son of Jeremiah who could help Jovah.__NEWL__As these events take place, the weather is beginning to threaten their very way of life, and Alleluia finds references in the old texts and Edori songs that the weather is returning to how it originally was when the first colonists arrive.__NEWL__In a particularly harsh storm, Alleluia is also cast to the ground and uses that event to great effect to appease the other political powers.__NEWL__She manages to convince them that it is not the Angels causing the storms in purpose, but that they may all be in genuine danger.__NEWL__Alleluia begins the theorize that similar to the music machines some sort of device that aids Jovah to hear the angels may begin failing and once again locates Caleb.__NEWL__They meet up at Hagar's Tooth to look for such a device, and amid their budding romance find it and determine that it is working correctly.__NEWL__Alleluia departs as rapidly as she can citing that she can not fall in love because she must marry her angelico as decreed by Jovah.__NEWL__Caleb chases after her and after a circuitous route meets her at Mount Sinai where she hopes to commune directly with Jovah.__NEWL__Alleluia logs in and teleports up to Jehovah, the spaceship above the planet, just in time for Caleb to see her vanish.__NEWL__He reasons out what she must have done and follows her.__NEWL__On the spaceship she goes through a crisis when it is revealed that Jovah is the AI controlling the ship.__NEWL__Some relief is provided by Caleb being revealed as the son of Jeremiah.__NEWL__Caleb also manages to repair the Jehovah so that all angels' voices will be heard again.__NEWL__As they leave the Jehovah, Caleb takes several batteries with him.__NEWL__He returns to Luminaux just before Delilah is to depart for the journey to Ysral, and convinces her to try one last time to repair her wing.__NEWL__The battery is inserted and somehow jumpstarts damaged nerves so that while there is no feeling, Delilah can now control her wing.__NEWL__She decides not to go and Noah remains as well.__NEWL__A short time later Delilah triumphantly returns to Eyrie to resume her role as Archangel with Noah as her Angelico.__NEWL__After much soul searching, and a quick Q&A session with Jovah, Alleluia also returnes to Eyrie shortly after Delilah.__NEWL__She confirms that Delilah will be continue as Archangel and that she will become the new oracle at Mount Sinai.__NEWL__Caleb returns with her and founds an engineering college at the base of the mountain.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7770577	The Truth-Teller's Tale	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7533422	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7533422	Eleda and Adele, mirror twins, discover that they are a Truth-Teller and a Safe-Keeper, respectively.__NEWL__Truth-Tellers are incapable of telling lies and recognize when others are lying, so society relies on their unwavering trustworthiness.__NEWL__Safe-Keepers cannot reveal what is told to them in confidence, and they bear the burden of people's confessions.__NEWL__The sisters do not realize the ramifications of their gifts until their teen years, when romantic and political intrigue abounds, and situations become more adult.__NEWL__Their friend Roelynn, whose wealthy merchant father intends to marry her off to the prince, sows plenty of wild oats behind her father's back.__NEWL__She often drags the sisters into the fray, and the summer they are all 17, a chain of events is set into motion that changes their lives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7713157	The Alleluia Files	1999-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	7533533	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7533533	Generations ago, religious people built a colony spaceship called Jehovah.__NEWL__A planet called Samaria was established.__NEWL__The colony ship, orbiting above, was able to provide supplies and services.__NEWL__These were accessed by genetically modified 'angels', who were the only ones capable of performing the right vocal tones.__NEWL__Over the generations, the concept of the ship was forgotten and it was believed Jehovah was an actual deity.__NEWL__Now factions of 'angels' fight against rebel forces called 'Jacobites'.__NEWL__The angels want to keep their power and the Jacobites wish to know the truth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q767254	Slowness	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33946	Czechoslovakia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33946	Czechoslovakia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	7619669	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7619669	The novel is a meditation on the effects of modernity upon the individual's perception of the world.__NEWL__It is told through a number of plot lines that slowly weave together until they are all united at the end of the book.__NEWL__Each plot shows a different point-of-view into Kundera's concept of the dancer and provides a perspective on modernity, memory and sensuality.__NEWL__By the end of the book, all of these plots have been brought together in a single location and the characters interact, showing how the ideals they represent interact in the world.__NEWL__Kundera even manages to tie the modern to the past by having Vincent meet the Chevalier as they both depart.__NEWL__By having these characters meet, Kundera again illustrates how the idea of sensuality and pleasure have changed as technology provides humanity with tools that speed us to our destination and demand our attention.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4660215	A Touch of Frost	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8457233	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8457233	The murder of a local drug addict, the hunt for a serial rapist, a hit-and-run involving the spoiled son of an MP, and a robbery at a strip joint all have something in common.__NEWL__Detective Inspector Jack Frost has been assigned with the thankless task of investigating them.__NEWL__Fighting the stress and ignoring his mounting pile of paperwork, Frost soon finds himself up against the various manifestations of criminality...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5979829	I Will Repay	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z	5090					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8457363	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8457363	The story starts in 1784, before the French revolution.__NEWL__Wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri.__NEWL__Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things -- "no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry."__NEWL__Incensed at the slur on Adèle, whom he sees as a paragon of virtue, the Vicomte challenges Déroulède to a duel, a fight which Déroulède does not want - for he knows and respects the boy's father, the Duc de Marny.__NEWL__Swords drawn, the fight ensues in the centre of the salon but despite his noble lineage, the Vicomte de Marny is no match for Déroulède's swordplay, especially when addled with wine and rage.__NEWL__Déroulède disarms his opponent and having won the duel, draws back but the boy refuses to back down without complete satisfaction and demands that Déroulède get down on his knees and apologize.__NEWL__Finally losing his temper with the young Vicomte, Déroulède raises his sword to disarm his protagonist once more, however de Marny lunges wildly at his opponent's breast and manages to literally throw himself on Déroulède's weapon.__NEWL__The boy is dead and Déroulède can do nothing but leave the establishment.__NEWL__On hearing of the death of his only son, the Duc de Marny (by now a cripple and almost a dotard) is distraught.__NEWL__The Duc summons his fourteen-year-old daughter, Juliette, to his side and forces her to swear an oath to ruin Déroulede in revenge for her brother's death, telling her that her brother's soul will remain in torment until the final judgement day should she break her promise.__NEWL__The story picks up ten years later, and Citizen Déroulède, though no longer rich, is a lawyer popular with the people and is allowed to go his own way, for Marat has said of him "Il n'est pas dangereux".__NEWL__He leads a quiet life, living alone with his mother and his orphaned cousin Anne Mie in the Rue Ecole de Médecine.__NEWL__At 6 pm on August 19, 1793, Juliette Marny walks into the Rue Ecole de Médecine and stopping just outside the house belonging to Citizen-Deputy Déroulède, suddenly starts to draw attention to herself, invoking the anger of the crowd through her proud aristocratic manner.__NEWL__She hammers on Déroulède's door as the crowd shout and lash out at her, but just before they can drag her away, the door opens and she is pulled inside.__NEWL__Having tricked her way into Déroulede's home Juliette is invited to stay for her own safety.__NEWL__She agrees and eventually reveals her identity, but even after hearing Déroulede's side of the story, she fails to realise that he only wishes to make amends for the death of her brother and continues to plot revenge on her host.__NEWL__Unaware of her intentions, Déroulede tells Juliette that he has accepted the post of Governor of the Conciergerie prison where Queen Marie Antoinette is imprisoned.__NEWL__Later he is visited at home by Sir Percy Blakeney and Juliette overhears Sir Percy warning his friend off a scheme to free the queen, for it is doomed to failure.__NEWL__He advises Déroulede to burn a bundle of papers relating to the plot, which if found would result in him being arrested for treason and sentenced to death.__NEWL__Juliette sees her chance and posts a letter denouncing her host, but realises too late that she has failed to take account of the fact that not only has Paul Déroulede fallen madly in love with her, she has also come to love the man she has vowed to destroy.__NEWL__When soldiers arrive to search Déroulede's home, Juliette hides the letter box, then escapes to her room where she attempts to burn it.__NEWL__She places the burnt remains among her belongings, and when the soldiers discover them, they arrest her.__NEWL__Because the search turned up nothing suspicious against Déroulede he is allowed to remain free.__NEWL__During her trial, Juliette keeps to the story that the burnt letterbox contained love letters.__NEWL__However, Déroulede defends his love and admits that the letters are his own and that he has committed treason.__NEWL__Both of them are sentenced to death.__NEWL__The Scarlet Pimpernel and his comrades manage to rescue the condemned couple on their journey from the courthouse to the prison.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7716212	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117	Ghana	8396528	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8396528	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born focuses on life in post-independence Ghana and takes place between Passion Week in 1965 and February 25, 1966 (the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president).__NEWL__Working as a railway clerk, the unnamed protagonist refuses a bribe at work.__NEWL__On his way home, he runs into his old classmate Koomson, who is now a corrupt minister in Nkrumah’s government.__NEWL__Upon returning home, he is confronted by his wife, Oyo, who does not understand why the man refuses to participate in financial dealings which would better their family’s life.__NEWL__Oyo comments on a deal Koomson has mentioned to her involving fishing boats that she believes will make their family rich.__NEWL__The man feels guilty, even though he knows that he hasn’t done anything wrong.__NEWL__He slips out at night to meet with his friend Teacher, who helps him to discuss his feelings of guilt and shame.__NEWL__Teacher, although he has given up all hope himself, encourages the man to remain steadfast.__NEWL__The next day, the man goes to work and encounters many forms of bodily waste—including excrement and vomit—as well as physical environments which are molding and deteriorating.__NEWL__Later, the man goes to buy expensive imported food for a dinner he and Oyo are hosting for Koomson and his wife, Estie.__NEWL__Even though he  cannot easily afford the food, he is filled with happiness and satisfaction that he can own such things—and garner admiring looks from the other people in the shops.__NEWL__For once, he feels satisfied with himself.__NEWL__The man and Oyo clean their house in preparation for the dinner party.__NEWL__The man takes his children to his mother-in-law’s house for a break and is subjected to his mother-in-law’s disappointment in his refusal to become a man like Koomson.__NEWL__During the dinner party, the man notes how much his old classmate has changed—his hands are flabby and soft, and he refuses to use their latrine.__NEWL__Koomson reveals that the fishing boat deal is not intended to provide any profits to Oyo and the man’s family—Koomson needs a signature to mask his involvement in the corrupt money-making scheme, and in return, they imply that Oyo and the men will receive fish.__NEWL__Koomson and Estie return a dinner invitation to Oyo and the man.__NEWL__The man is once again bombarded with feelings of guilt and shame when he sees the material differences between his children’s lives and that of Koomson’s daughter, Princess.__NEWL__He chooses not to sign the fishing boat deal, but Oyo signs the documents.__NEWL__The fishing boat deal turns out to be largely inconsequential to their lives—for a while, they receive packets of fish, but only for a short period.__NEWL__One day, the man leaves work only to learn that there has been a military coup, and Nkrumah’s government ministers are being arrested and placed under protective custody.__NEWL__When he reaches home, he finds Koomson waiting for him, asking for help.__NEWL__Men arrive at the house looking for Koomson, but the man helps him to escape by crawling through the latrine which he had previously refused to use.__NEWL__They find the boatman, who takes them out on the fishing boat that Oyo’s signature had helped make a reality.__NEWL__Once they clear the harbor, the man prepares to jump into the bay.__NEWL__Koomson tells him that they will meet again someday, but the man finds this childish and leaves without feeling much for Koomson.__NEWL__He swims to shore and falls asleep on the beach.__NEWL__When he wakes up, he sees Sister Maanan, a friend from his past, but she does not acknowledge him.__NEWL__As he walks home, the man sees a bus with an inscription on the side matching the title of the book.__NEWL__This, along with an illustration alongside it of a beautiful flower, gives him a momentary feeling of hope for future generations.__NEWL__But when he remembers the day-to-day drudgery of the life to which he must return, he falters and walks more slowly towards home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4655828	A Charmed Life	1955-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8431966	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8431966	The story begins with the simple trials and tribulations of everyday life experienced by John and Martha Sinnott.__NEWL__Their background stories are gradually introduced, especially during their picnic with the Coes in the beginning.__NEWL__One night when John is away, Martha and Miles drunkenly have sex at Martha's house after a party at the Coes'.__NEWL__Martha becomes pregnant, and rather than having a baby whose paternity is ambiguous, she decides to have an abortion.__NEWL__Warren lends Martha the money to have an abortion.__NEWL__The story ends with Martha dying in a car accident on her way home from the Coes' house, with the money for the abortion and the address of the clinic in her pocketbook.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7445480	See Delphi and Die	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8406198	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8406198	Through his brother-in-law Aulus, Falco hears details of two young Roman women who have died in Greece while seeing the sights of the ancient world.__NEWL__Falco and his wife, Helena, travel to Greece to meet up with the tour party which included one of the women, seeking clues to her murder, passing through Olympia, Corinth, Delphi and the oracle of Trophonius at Lebadeia before finally arriving at Athens.__NEWL__The wayward Aulus is playing truant in Greece where, instead of studying law at Athens, he is investigating the death of Valeria Ventidia, a newly married Roman girl at Olympia, as well as another death which occurred three years ago around the same area.__NEWL__Falco's mission has two objectives: to send Aulus back to school, and solve the mystery behind the deaths at Olympia.__NEWL__Eventually, a connection between the two deceased women is deduced: both had joined tours provided by Seven Sights, a tour company of dubious reputation, currently operating in Greece.__NEWL__Falco's investigation does not go smoothly, however: the Roman authorities are not interested in properly investigating the deaths (much less governing Greece itself), and at Olympia Falco is attacked by a potential suspect, who later turns up dead in suspicious circumstances, the death blamed on Falco's ward Glaucus.__NEWL__Low on funds and unwilling to be confronted by the angry locals, Falco and his followers - Helena, Albia, Glaucus and Falco's nephews - are forced to leave Olympia for Corinth but not before discovering that Valeria's killer may have been connected to athletes who trained at Olympia.__NEWL__Things do not look better at Corinth however: the governor is out, and his deputy, the quaestor Aquillus Macer, is proven to be extremely inept and inexperienced.__NEWL__Fortunately the tour party has been apprehended at Corinth but worse is still to come: Aulus and Valeria's widower, Tullis Statianus, have run away to Delphi to seek answers from the Oracle there, and another member of the Seven Sights travelling party is murdered.__NEWL__Fearing that Statianus would be the killer's next victim, Falco and Helena rush off to Delphi but lose Statianus, who flees this time to Lebadeia and then disappears without a trace.__NEWL__Dejected and defeated, Falco and his group travel to Delphi on their original mission: to persuade Aulus to return to studying law at Athens.__NEWL__Falco also gets to meet Aulus' mentor, a formidable lawyer named Minas who offers his aid in capturing the killer - by hosting a party for the Seven Sights tour party, now freed and in Athens too after the operators Phineus and Polystratus managed to threaten the Corinth government with legal action advised by Minas.__NEWL__Falco has no confidence in Minas' methods, but during the course of the party, more evidence is found by Falco and his nephews, revealing that Phineus and Polystratus had athletic training, and that female travellers on Seven Sights may have been sexually harassed by the men.__NEWL__Finally, Polystratus is unmasked as the real killer, and the remains of the missing Statianus are found in a stew being prepared by the former for the party, proving his guilt.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5775984	Cocorí	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12889217	Costa Rica	8391704	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8391704	The story concerns a small black child from the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, who meets a blonde tourist girl who gives him a rose.__NEWL__In return, she asks for a squirrel monkey.__NEWL__Smitten, he fulfills his promise by setting a trap made out of rice and a coconut, but when he returns to where he had seen her, the boat she had come in was gone.__NEWL__When he returns, to his home, he finds that the rose she had given him had wilted.__NEWL__He asks his mother, Drusila, why it had lived such a short time while other things last much, much longer.__NEWL__She doesn't know, so he ran around his village, asking the neighbors the same question.__NEWL__None of them know, so he asks his friend, Doña Madorra the turtle, his question.__NEWL__She doesn't know, so she brings him and the squirrel monkey around the jungle, asking some old and wise animals including Don Torcuato the alligator and Talamanca the bocaracá, a snake.__NEWL__After the interrogations of the alligator and the snake, Cocorí finally gets an answer from El Negro Cantor.__NEWL__He returns home to find that Drusila had planted the stem of the wilted rose and so grown a rose bush.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3793647	The Body	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q220	Rome	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8392274	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8392274	When a female archaeologist discovers an ancient skeleton of a man and an Aramaic inscription which reads Melek Yehudayai (King of the Jews), the Israel government invites the Vatican to investigate the matter, as they suspect the body could be that of Jesus Christ.__NEWL__When one of the renowned archaeologist-priests of Vatican committed suicide as a man of broken faith, former soldier and Catholic priest Jim Folan is assigned to continue the investigation.__NEWL__Father Folan arrives in Israel to work with the reluctant archaeologist Sharon Golban, and the mystery deepens with danger and intrigue.__NEWL__Suddenly they find that the Vatican, the United States, the Soviets, Mossad and the Mafia are after the truth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5432288	Falling	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z	8367129	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8367129	The book tells the story of a relationship that develops between Henry Kent, a sociopath and fantasist who preys on lonely rich women, and Daisy Langrish, an ageing novelist with two broken marriages behind her.__NEWL__After meeting Daisy—who has recently bought a cottage in order to start a new life in the country—Henry quickly falls in love with her, and sets about tricking his way into her confidence.__NEWL__He initially offers to become her gardener—something she reluctantly accepts—then later begins to correspond with her after she suffers an accident during a prolonged trip abroad.__NEWL__These letters start as run of the mill pieces, but as he perceives that she is taking an interest in him, Henry begins to weave her a series of elaborate stories about his life, designed to gain her attention and win her affection.__NEWL__When Daisy eventually returns home and Henry makes himself indispensable to her after she suffers a fall, they begin an affair.__NEWL__But when Daisy's family and friends learn about the nature of the relationship, they become concerned and start to investigate Henry.__NEWL__However, they soon begin to fear that the facts they unearth about his past might have come to light too late to save Daisy from harm.__NEWL__Howard wrote this novel based on her real life affair with a con-man, as described in her memoir, Slipstream.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2409540	Une Page d'amour	1879-01-01T00:00:00Z	13695	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	8367809	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8367809	The story takes place in 1854-1855.__NEWL__When the novel begins, Hélène has been widowed 18 months, living in what was then the Paris suburb of Passy with her 11-year-old daughter Jeanne.__NEWL__Her husband Charles Grandjean fell ill the day after they arrived from Marseilles and died eight days later.__NEWL__Hélène and Jeanne have only been into Paris proper three times.__NEWL__From the window of their home, they can see the entire city, which takes on a dreamlike, foreign, and romantic, yet inaccessible, character for them throughout the novel.__NEWL__On the night the novel opens, Jeanne has fallen ill with a violent seizure.__NEWL__In panic, Hélène runs into the street to find a doctor.__NEWL__Eventually, she begs her neighbour Dr Henri Deberle to come attend Jeanne, and his ministrations save the girl's life.__NEWL__Later that week, Hélène goes to thank Dr Deberle, and befriends his wife Juliette and her circle of friends, including Monsieur Malignon, a handsome, wealthy man-about-town who is exceptionally comfortable in female society.__NEWL__Hélène's only friends are a pair of stepbrothers who were friends of her husband's: Abbé Jouve, the officiating priest at the parish church of Passy, and Monsieur Rambaud, an oil and produce merchant.__NEWL__The Abbé asks Hélène to visit one of his invalid parishioners, Mother Fétu.__NEWL__While Hélène is at her squalid apartment, Dr Deberle pays a medical call.__NEWL__Mother Fétu immediately realises that the Hélène and Deberle know each other and, seeing them so shy with one another, she immediately begins to attempt to bring them together.__NEWL__At a later visit, Mother Fétu arranges to leave the two of them alone together, but Dr Deberle leaves before either can express their attraction.__NEWL__Juliette throws a party for the wealthy children of the neighbourhood.__NEWL__At the party, Dr Deberle passionately confesses to Hélène in private that he loves her.__NEWL__She leaves the party in confusion.__NEWL__On contemplating her life, Hélène realises that she has never really been in love; though she respected her late husband, she felt no love or passion for him.__NEWL__She finds, however, that she is falling in love with Dr Deberle.__NEWL__During May, Hélène and Jeanne begin attending church, where they regularly meet Juliette.__NEWL__Dr Deberle frequently meets them after church ostensibly in order to escort his wife home, and continues to act as escort even on those evenings when Juliette doesn't attend services.__NEWL__At the end of the month, after Hélène's passion for Dr Deberle is replaced by a passion for the church, Jeanne has another seizure.__NEWL__Her illness lasts three weeks, during which she is assiduously attended by Hélène and Dr Deberle to the exclusion of all others.__NEWL__At last, the Doctor uses leeches and Jeanne recovers.__NEWL__Having saved her daughter's life, Hélène admits that she loves the Doctor.__NEWL__However, as Jeanne recuperates during the ensuing months, she witnesses Hélène and the Doctor talking quietly together and realises that he is taking her place in Hélène's affections.__NEWL__She is then consumed by intense jealousy and refuses to see him.__NEWL__The symptoms of her illness return whenever he is present, until at last Hélène drives him from her home.__NEWL__Hélène realises that Malignon has been pursuing Juliette and the two are planning an assignation.__NEWL__She learns from Mother Fétu that Malignon has taken rooms in her building, and guesses that this will be the place where he and Juliette will meet.__NEWL__When Hélène goes out ostensibly to bring Mother Fétu some shoes, but in reality to look at the rooms (Mother Fétu thinks she is arranging a place for Hélène and the Doctor to meet), Jeanne is extraordinarily distressed to be left alone, especially because Hélène gives no explanation for not taking her along.__NEWL__The next day, Hélène attempts to warn Juliette not to keep her rendezvous with Malignon, scheduled for that afternoon, but she is unable to do so.__NEWL__Hélène slips a note into the Doctor's pocket with the address and time of the assignation.__NEWL__That afternoon, she decides to go to the apartment and stop the rendezvous, but before she can go, Jeanne insists on going with her.__NEWL__Hélène tells her she cannot go, and Jeanne becomes hysterical at being left and at being lied to.__NEWL__She says that she will die if she is left behind.__NEWL__Hélène goes anyway.__NEWL__At the apartment, she is met by Mother Fétu, who, feeling she has played the part of Hélène's procuress and confidante, lets her into the apartment with a knowing glance.__NEWL__Hélène successfully stops the rendezvous, but just as the prospective lovers part, Henri enters.__NEWL__He thinks that Hélène has arranged for them to be alone together.__NEWL__Hélène gives in to her feelings, and the two of them make passionate love at last.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jeanne, left alone, furious and confused and jealous, makes herself sick by hanging her arms out of her bedroom window in the rain.__NEWL__Growing increasingly lethargic and listless, she believes her mother does not care for her anymore, especially after witnessing her mother and Dr Deberle exchange silent, knowing glances while planning a family excursion to Italy.__NEWL__Eventually, she falls seriously ill, and Deberle diagnosis her with galloping consumption (the same disease her grandmother Ursule died of) and gives her three weeks to live.__NEWL__In due course, she dies.__NEWL__Hélène is completely grief-stricken, feeling responsible for her daughter's death.__NEWL__Two years later, she marries M. Rambaud and the two return to Marseilles.__NEWL__The novel is unusual among Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, with an uncharacteristic absence of social critique, and an intense focus on Hélène; even Dr Deberle remains a sketchy figure.__NEWL__Jeanne may be a victim, but perhaps also Hélène, repressed by her circumstances at every stage of her dutiful life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q31179	The Ballad of Peckham Rye	1960-12-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8368284	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8368284	The novel begins with the telling of Humphrey Place saying "No" at the altar where he was due to marry Dixie Morse.__NEWL__Humphrey's immoral behaviour is assumed to be a result of his recent association with Dougal Douglas, a Scottish migrant who has since left the area of Peckham.__NEWL__Spark goes on to tell us the entire story of what exactly happened during Dougal's residence in Peckham.__NEWL__From his inaugural meeting with Mr V. R. Druce, head of nylon textiles manufacturers Meadows, Meade & Grindley, we learn that Dougal is employed to bridge the gap between industry and the arts.__NEWL__He befriends employees Merle Coverdale (who is in fact indulging in an unromantic, immoral affair with the married Mr Druce) and Elaine Kent, an "experienced controller of process", as well as Humphrey Place, a refrigerator engineer.__NEWL__After finding lodgings with Miss Belle Frierne (where Humphrey Place also resides), and splitting up with his fiancé Jinny due to her being ill (his "fatal flaw" is that he cannot bear anyone who is ill), Dougal embarks upon a mission of disruption throughout Peckham.__NEWL__Throughout this he falls foul of typist Dixie Morse and electrician Trevor Lomas and becomes the target of a gang consisting of Trevor, Collie Gould and Leslie Crewe.__NEWL__Throughout his stay in Peckham, Dougal carries out "human research" on the "moral character" of the people of the area.__NEWL__As well as working for Meadows, Meade & Grindley, he also works for their rivals, the more prosperous Drover Willis's textile manufacturers (under the pseudonym Douglas Dougal), as well as working as a ghost writer for the retired actress and singer Maria Cheeseman.__NEWL__Only Nelly Mahone recognises Dougal for the manipulative "double-tongued" rogue he is, but no one listens to her as everyone views her as a drunken Irish vagrant.__NEWL__The culmination of Dougal's antics results in his landlady Miss Frierne having a stroke, Mr Druce killing his mistress Merle Coverdale by stabbing her in the neck with a corkscrew, and the rejection of marriage to Dixie Morse at the altar by Humphrey Place.__NEWL__In the penultimate chapter Dougal attacks Trevor and, despite injury, Dougal manages to leave Peckham.__NEWL__The novel ends with the marriage of Humphrey Place and Dixie Morse, two months after the original, aborted wedding.__NEWL__The final scene shows Peckham in a state of transcendence, not shown anywhere else in the novel, and is seen as a transfiguration of the commonplace world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7990514	Whale Talk	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8425795	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8425795	The biological son of a white mother and a half-black, half-Japanese father, The Tao Jones—known as T. J.—lives with his loving, adoptive white family in the nearly all-white town of Cutter, Washington.__NEWL__T. J.'s adoptive mother, Abby, is a child-abuse lawyer, and his adoptive father, John Paul, is a community volunteer and guardian ad litem, who is still haunted by his youth, when he accidentally killed a child after a one-night stand with the child's mother.__NEWL__At Cutter High School, T. J. is a physically impressive senior who has refused to join any sports teams as a form of anger management, due to his anger issues since early childhood.__NEWL__His non-involvement irritates much of the faculty, who pride themselves on the physical achievements of their students, displaying favoritism toward their star athletes, such as Mike Barbour, a vicious bully.__NEWL__T. J. often finds Barbour harassing Chris Coughlin, an intellectually disabled student who must unfairly live in the wake of a widely admired older brother who died in a freak accident.__NEWL__John Simet, an English teacher and friend of T. J.'s, wants to start a swim team to avoid direct coaching obligations.__NEWL__Simet convinces T. J. to be captain of the swim team and recruit its members, even though the school has no pool.__NEWL__Inspired to spite the school's pretentious athletics program and its glorification of bullies like Barbour, T. J. assembles a deliberately bizarre and motley crew of six swimmers, including the cognitively slow Chris; the obnoxiously sesquipedalian Dan Hole; the bodybuilder and musician Tay-Roy Kibble; the rude, antisocial, and one-legged Andy Mott; the completely nondescript Jackie Craig; and the obese and insecure Simon DeLong.__NEWL__T. J. hopes to have the whole team meet letterman requirements in order to embarrass the rest of the athletics program and their cherished school symbols.__NEWL__Simet sets the requirements as follows: at each meet, every member of the team must outdo his previous score.__NEWL__T. J.'s team uses the pool at a local gym as their training center, where T. J. eagerly employs a homeless, middle-aged gym-goer named Oliver Van Zandt to be the team's "interim coach Oliver" (I. C. O.), a title that earns him the nickname "Icko."__NEWL__Meanwhile, an even more vicious friend of Mike Barbour, the racist and alcoholic Rich Marshall, is a die-hard alumnus of the school's athletics program.__NEWL__Rich has recently adopted the half-black illegitimate child of his young wife, Alicia, and renamed the little girl the whitest name he can think of: "Heidi."__NEWL__T. J., who maintains a close friendship with his childhood therapist, Georgia Brown, accidentally meets Heidi during one of her therapy sessions with Georgia.__NEWL__He thus learns of Heidi's brutal and racialized abuse at the hands of Rich.__NEWL__When Alicia and Heidi finally acquire a restraining order against Rich, the Joneses invite them to live in their home, but Rich begins stalking the house and making drunken threats.__NEWL__T. J.'s swimmers gradually open up about the complexities of their personal lives, and all the members, except T. J. himself, meet the requirements to be lettermen.__NEWL__Shocked, the rest of the athletics program, led by Barbour and a prideful teacher, Coach Benson, challenge the requirements that Simet set for the team.__NEWL__T. J. negotiates a deal with Barbour, offering that if Barbour can outswim Chris, Benson will have justification to revoke the swim team's letters.__NEWL__Insulting Chris's intellect, Barbour agrees, but Chris easily wins the competition.__NEWL__The swim team celebrates, but also saddens with the knowledge that they will not be swimming together next year.__NEWL__T. J. mends some of this sorrow by inviting a few of the swimmers, as well as his father, John Paul, to form an underdog basketball team.__NEWL__The following year, the basketball players beat Rich Marshall's team in a highly attended tournament.__NEWL__Rich, further upset by Heidi's presence in the audience and seeing her cheering for the team that beats him, draws a gun and aims at her.__NEWL__John Paul instinctively jumps between them and takes the bullet when Rich fires.__NEWL__Before dying, John Paul reveals to T. J. the name of the woman whose child he killed in the driving accident all those years ago.__NEWL__Rich is imprisoned and, at John Paul's funeral, Barbour apologizes to T. J. for his inappropriate behavior in the past.__NEWL__T. J. tracks down the woman John Paul mentioned only to discover that she bore a child from her one-night encounter with John Paul.__NEWL__The child—now an adult man named Kyle Couples—is therefore T. J.'s (adoptive) half-brother.__NEWL__T. J. and Kyle meet up, instantly connect, and promise to reunite over the summer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7992271	Wheelers	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8294204	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8294204	Wheelers chronicles mankind's first contact with an alien intelligence, a meeting which takes place out of necessity when a rogue asteroid enters the Solar System and is set on a collision course with Earth by an advanced and hitherto unknown Jovian species as a way of avoiding a devastating impact to their own world.__NEWL__The story opens with a feeling of anachronism, as two of the novel's central characters (Charles Dunsmoore, a career archaeologist and his volatile graduate student Prudence Odingo) work in the year 2194 to interpret and preserve artifacts found in the vicinity of the Great Sphinx, which is being disassembled to save it from the advancing waters of a clogged and flooding Nile River after the collapse of the Aswan Dam.__NEWL__A lover's quarrel between the two sends Prudence off in a blind rage, and leaves Dunsmoore the sole caretaker of an important discovery—a position which catapults his career and sets the tension for the novel's second half.__NEWL__Professionally and personally embittered by the success of Dunsmoore, Prudence begins a life of semi-legal interplanetary exploration (referenced by the book but never fully explained) and makes a living selling cosmic oddities to the highest black market bidder.__NEWL__This dangerous and profitable lifestyle acquaints her with legal authorities as well as the Belters—a group of Zen Buddhists (known as The Order of the Cuckoo) who have populated and mined both Earth's Moon and the asteroid belt that lies between the terrestrial planets and the Jovian worlds of the outer Solar System.__NEWL__Her smuggling career culminates with the discovery of a trove of buried, wheeled, and presumably alien artefacts on Callisto.__NEWL__She takes these 'wheelers' to Earth intending to sell them, but a government investigation headed by Dunsmoore concludes them to be inauthentic.__NEWL__As the story progresses, another main character materialises in the form of the aptly named Moses Odingo, son of Prudence's sister Charity and animal-handler extraordinaire.__NEWL__His life becomes one of the novel's several core plots, circumstance and apparent fate conspiring to send him on a worldwide journey of hardship and tribulation.__NEWL__During this time, both Earth-bound scientists and the Belters notice that the innermost moons of Jupiter have mysteriously realigned, altering the trajectory of a once unimportant comet and setting in motion a direct collision with Earth.__NEWL__This is courtesy of the stuffily bureaucratic blimps—intelligent extraterrestrials living in the turbulence of Jupiter's upper atmosphere whose advanced gravity technology allows them to alter the orbital plane of the planet's moons and thereby avoid the type of cometary impact which, obliquely, precipitated their exodus from an unknown 'Firsthome' to Jupiter itself.__NEWL__Left with twelve years until impact and now convinced of the wheelers' authenticity, Earth's governmental authorities speed a mission to the Jovian satellites in hopes of contacting the as yet unseen alien lifeforms.__NEWL__Dunsmoore is selected to lead the group, with the assumption that his experience with decrypting anthropological artefacts on earth will aid in establishing communiqué with the Jovians.__NEWL__The years tick by without consequence as Dunsmoore and his team search in vain for evidence of alien life on Jupiter's moons, convinced by terrestrial scientists that the planet itself is entirely inhospitable to life (he is warned of the danger of this erroneous presupposition by, appropriately enough, contemporary science-fiction authors).__NEWL__As the tension on Earth grows unbearable, Prudence Odingo flies her personal craft out to give Dunsmoore's team a push in what she believes to be the correct direction.__NEWL__Hacking into one of the probes that Dunsmoore's been carefully bobbing around the lifeless stratosphere of Jupiter, Odingo's team sends the RCV into the lower atmosphere, immediately encountering alien lifeforms both advanced and simplistic.__NEWL__Through a quirk of fate and timing, her team manages to save a blimp by the name of Bright Halfholder of the Violent Foam, part of a 'skydiving' rebel faction known as The Instrumentality.__NEWL__Odingo encourages Moses, now a young man, to make a harrowing high-speed journey out to the moons, hoping to use his uncanny knack for animal communication to establish a rapport with Halfholder.__NEWL__The ploy works, but the Jovians—who live for millions of years and rely on an arcane and tedious system of legal councils—spend too long arguing and contemplating to successfully redirect the comet.__NEWL__The Instrumentality stages a successful coup, but in the end it is Dunsmoore (who has been redeemed by the threat to his home planet) who hijacks the alien gravity technology and pilots Io into a diversionary orbit around the comet itself, barely saving Earth from total annihilation—though millions die as the remnants of the comet and the sulphurous outgassing of ruined Io cascade into Earth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2342630	Between the Acts	1941-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8459822	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8459822	The story takes place in a country house somewhere in England, just before the Second World War, over the course of a single day.__NEWL__It is the day when the annual pageant is to be performed on the grounds of the house.__NEWL__The pageant is traditionally a celebration of English history, and it is attended by the entire local community.__NEWL__The owner of the house is Bartholomew Oliver, a widower and retired Indian Army officer.__NEWL__His sister Lucy Swithin, who is also living in the house, is slightly eccentric but kind.__NEWL__Bartholomew has a son, Giles, who has a job in London and is restless and frustrated.__NEWL__Giles has two children with his wife Isa, who has lost interest in him.__NEWL__Isa is attracted to a local gentleman farmer, Rupert Haines, although the relationship goes no further than eye contact.__NEWL__Mrs. Manresa and her friend William Dodge arrive and stay for the pageant.__NEWL__The pageant has been written by Miss La Trobe, a strange and domineering spinster.__NEWL__The day is interspersed with events leading up to the pageant.__NEWL__Lucy fusses around making preparations for the decorations and the food.__NEWL__Bartholomew frightens his grandson by jumping out at him from behind a newspaper and then calls him a coward when he cries.__NEWL__Mrs. Manresa flirts provocatively with Bartholomew and Giles.__NEWL__William Dodge, assumed by the others to be homosexual, is the subject of homophobic thoughts by many of the others but is friendly with Lucy.__NEWL__The pageant occurs in the evening, and it has three main parts which are broken up by intermissions, during which the audience members interact with one another.__NEWL__Following a prologue by a child who represents England, the first scene is a Shakespearean scene with romantic dialogue.__NEWL__The second scene is a parody of a restoration comedy, and the third scene is a panorama of Victorian triumph based on a policeman directing the traffic in Hyde Park.__NEWL__The final scene is entitled "Ourselves", at which point Miss La Trobe shocks the audience by having the cast turn mirrors on them.__NEWL__When the pageant ends and the audience disperses, Miss La Trobe retreats to the village pub and, brooding over what she perceives to be the pageant's failure, begins to plan her next drama.__NEWL__As darkness descends, cloaking the country house, Giles and Isa are left alone, presumably resulting in conflict and reconciliation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4660496	A Vision of Battlements	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z	8434815	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434815	The story draws from Burgess's experience of being stationed in Gibraltar during the Second World War and satirises traditional notions of battle heroism by parodying the Aeneid.__NEWL__The antihero Richard Ennis takes the place of Aeneas.__NEWL__The title, in addition to its Gibraltarian associations, contains a reference to the appearance of certain objects in the eye of one who suffers from astigmatism.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5574659	Go	1952-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8420870	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8420870	Go concerns protagonist Paul Hobbes' struggle to maintain his marriage to his wife, Kathryn, while simultaneously indulging in the world of the 1940s and 1950s Beat Generation.__NEWL__It follows the complications of interpersonal relationships arising from a group of disillusioned and often eccentric young people.__NEWL__Hobbes finds himself in a world of promiscuity, casual drug use and petty crime but retains a certain detachment from it, sometimes to the annoyance of his friends.__NEWL__From wild all night parties to Allen Ginsberg's visions of William Blake to the death of Bill Cannastra, the events of the book are largely real events, some of them alluded to in other beat works, most notably Ginsberg's "Howl".__NEWL__Holmes has said that the only plot element entirely invented by himself is Kathryn's infidelity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2477322	Pulp	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8349363	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8349363	Pulp is a pulp fiction novel which acts also as a meta-pulp.__NEWL__Pulp comments on the obsessions of the pulp fiction genre, making fun of itself as stereotypical of the genre in the grimiest form.__NEWL__Bukowski dedicates the story to "bad writing", as Bukowski did not plan his mystery novel well and frequently wrote Nicky Belane into holes from which he could not escape.__NEWL__Bukowski wrote some of his most violent, cynical, sarcastic, and shocking work during the final months of his life.__NEWL__Many critics have agreed this novel exemplifies Bukowski showing an acceptance of his own pending mortality.__NEWL__A convoluted detective story about a hard-boiled private eye who solves his cases by waiting them out, Pulp evokes Raymond Chandler, an author who lived in Los Angeles and set stories there, as did Bukowski.__NEWL__The novel also bears similarity to some works by Dashiell Hammett; and the name of character Nicky Belane rhymes suggestively with the name of author Mickey Spillane as well as Casablanca's main character Rick Blaine.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3940642	Romanitas	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8349572	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8349572	After attending his parents' funeral, Marcus Novius Faustus Leo, the teenage nephew of the emperor (and heir apparent since the death of his father), is informed by his father's secretary Varius that his father Leo and his mother were murdered by a conspiracy concerned about Leo's ambition to abolish slavery.__NEWL__While this is happening, Varius' wife eats sweets given to Marcus by his cousin Makaria and dies of poisoning.__NEWL__Varius promptly arranges for Marcus to flee to a hidden refuge in Spain, run by Delir, an anti-slavery activist and secret ally of Leo.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a British slave named Una, who has the ability to read minds, rescues her brother Sulien who has been falsely accused of rape and sentenced to crucifixion.__NEWL__The three runaways meet in Gaul.__NEWL__Despite initial suspicion, they agree to help each other and travel to the refuge.__NEWL__However, Varius has been arrested and the conspirators force him to reveal the location of the refuge, as well as making him confess to the murder of Marcus's parents, as well as the murder of Marcus himself.__NEWL__Upon discovering that Varius has confessed to murdering him and his parents, Marcus decides to go to Rome to reveal he is in fact still alive, planning to reveal the conspiracy in public so the conspirators will be unable to kill him.__NEWL__He runs away from the refuge and travels to Rome, evading the soldiers sent to capture him.__NEWL__Una and Sulien follow him, but are unable to find him in time to prevent him revealing himself.__NEWL__Marcus reveals himself but is captured and taken to a hospital.__NEWL__There he is injected with a hallucinogen by one of the conspirators so that when Emperor Faustus is taken to him, Marcus appears to be mad.__NEWL__As many of the Imperial family have succumbed to a hereditary madness in the past (including, apparently, Marcus' other uncle, Lucius), Faustus agrees to keep Marcus in seclusion.__NEWL__The runaway slaves make it to Rome, and manage to rescue Marcus from the asylum where he is being held.__NEWL__Thereafter, Marcus succeeds in revealing the truth about Varius' innocence to the emperor, as well as the plot to kill him.__NEWL__Makaria manages to exculpate herself from any involvement in the conspiracy, pouring suspicion onto the emperor's current wife, Tulliola.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7769974	The Translator	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z	8378128	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8378128	After losing her husband, Sammar, a young Sudanese widow living in Aberdeen, struggles to cope.__NEWL__Desperate to go home to her family, she becomes increasingly depressed until she develops a closer friendship with Rae, the head of the department, where she works as an Arabic translator at the University of Aberdeen.__NEWL__The friendship soon progresses into a romance, but their love encounters cultural and religious barriers and the two have to compromise to make their relationship work.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764771	The Sledding Hill	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8268587	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8268587	The novel is narrated by the late Billy Bartholomew, the best friend of the protagonist, Eddie Proffit.__NEWL__Eddie is an intelligent boy who is seemingly afflicted with ADHD.__NEWL__After the death of two important figures of his life in quick succession, his father and his best friend, Eddie refuses to speak.__NEWL__He begins talking again when he testifies in front of the Red Brick Church announcing he will not only not join the church, but will also speak in favor of Warren Peece at the school board meeting.__NEWL__A misinterpretation of his testimony compels the church members to have Eddie placed into a mental health facility supposedly because Eddie thinks he is Jesus Christ.__NEWL__Crutcher places himself in the novel's climax as a speaker at the board meeting on the removal of the book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2261693	The Last Templar	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1384	New York	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8272226	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8272226	In the present, four people on horseback dressed as Templars storm New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art during its exhibition of The Treasures of the Vatican.__NEWL__The raid results in injury and death; most of the artifacts on display are either destroyed or stolen.__NEWL__Most notable is the theft of a multigeared rotor encoder.__NEWL__Tess Chaykin, an archaeologist, survives the raid, but is bothered by something mouthed by the leader of the Templars as he stole the encoder: "Veritas vos liberabit."__NEWL__After a fruitless Internet search to figure out the significance of the cryptic phrase, Chaykin visits a former colleague who informs her that the phrase has Templar connections (it was carved into a Templar castle in France), and advises her that pursuing the inquiry further requires an expert on the Templars.__NEWL__Tess decides to locate William Vance, an old friend who turns out to be missing.__NEWL__One of the Met raiders, Gus Waldron, tries to sell a stolen piece to antique dealer Lucien Boussard.__NEWL__The dealer tips off the FBI about Waldron's connection to the museum raid.__NEWL__ The following day, Waldron notices the cops surrounding Lucien's store.__NEWL__He sets the antique store proprietor on fire and uses him as cover to get to a taxi.__NEWL__He kills the driver and flees, with the FBI, including the agent in charge of the case, Sean Reilly, in pursuit.__NEWL__The chase ends when Waldron accidentally plows into a storefront, leaving him severely injured.__NEWL__ In the hospital a man, unaffiliated with the police, tortures Waldron into revealing that he was hired by one Branko Petrovic for the Met job, and then kills Gus.__NEWL__The man finds Branko, tortures him into revealing the name of a third conspirator, and consequently kills Branko and his co-conspirator.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Tess finds Vance, and realizes that he was the fourth horseman in the museum.__NEWL__He explains that he has used the stolen encoder to decode a shocking manuscript from the Templar castle in France.__NEWL__He is interrupted by Monsignor de Angelis, Vatican special envoy, helping the FBI investigate the Met incident.__NEWL__While Vance fights with the Monsignor, Tess escapes with some of Vance's papers.__NEWL__Tess shows Reilly the papers and he has them photographed.__NEWL__He then decides to find Vance.__NEWL__As soon as he leaves, Tess gets a call from her mother, explaining that Vance was at her house.__NEWL__Once she arrives at home, she gives Vance back his papers, and he leaves, content.__NEWL__Upon discovering that everything entering the United States was X-rayed, Reilly finds an image of the encoder at JFK Airport, its port of entry for the ill-fated Met exhibit.__NEWL__This information is sufficient to build a working replica of the encoder, which decrypts a letter from one of the Knights Templar about the fall of Acre which the FBI photographed.__NEWL__Tess is intrigued by its mention of a place called Fonsalis, and discovers that it was located in Turkey.__NEWL__ Tess and Reilly travel to Turkey and find a small leather pouch hidden in the ruins of a church.__NEWL__The pouch is stolen by Vance and its contents are revealed to be an astrolabe, an ancient navigational instrument.__NEWL__Men from the Vatican start shooting at them and kill their guide and Vance's thugs.__NEWL__Tess, Reilly and Vance escape with the astrolabe; Vance reveals that there was a chest on the Falcon Temple when it sank, and the three discuss what could be inside it.__NEWL__The astrolabe can be used to locate the sunken ship.__NEWL__Tess and Vance leave to find the Falcon Temple; Reilly is taken to the Vatican by one of its guerilla-priests, who happens to also be a CIA operative.__NEWL__Cardinal Brugnone reveals that the Templars possessed the diary of Jesus, in which he claimed to be a man and not divine.__NEWL__Tess and Vance find the Falcon Temple just as a major storm blows in.__NEWL__The Templars' chest is hidden in the falcon-shaped figurehead of the ship.__NEWL__Vance recovers the figurehead but it is lost again when his boat is attacked.__NEWL__It turns out that the Vatican has pursued them, and wants to stop the recovery.__NEWL__De Angelis fires a cannon at Vance's boat and sinks it.__NEWL__Reilly, who is on the Vatican's boat, shoots De Angelis and then jumps overboard and uses a life raft to find Tess.__NEWL__Tess wakes in a hospital room on a small Greek island, to find Reilly badly hurt and in a coma.__NEWL__She walks around the island and, improbably, finds the figurehead with the chest inside containing the diary of Jesus, but is unable to read its Aramaic script.__NEWL__Reilly awakens from his coma and Tess takes him to a deserted hilltop to show him the diary.__NEWL__Tess realizes that the scroll is meaningless, without verifying its authenticity, however, after her stay on the island and time to think she has a change of heart about releasing the diary.__NEWL__Vance, who has also survived the shipwreck, steals the diary, but in his vengeance stumbles over a cliff.__NEWL__Vance is killed when he falls off the cliff, and the diary's pages are scattered.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7741093	The Hunters	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8417547	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8417547	On a frozen February evening in Fuchū, Japan, Captain Cleve Connell (Captain Cleve Saville in the original edition) restlessly waits for assignment orders completing his transfer to Korea.__NEWL__Billeted for four days in a warehouse, he has tired of seeing Tokyo – and of watching others come and go – and his clean laundry is nearly gone.__NEWL__He walks to dinner at the Officers Club reflecting on his ability as a flyer (he is a good one, with a reputation among his peacetime peers), his reluctance to leave the Air Force although pressured by civilian friends to do so, and his desire to test himself in combat.__NEWL__He senses that his feelings of time lost and lack of accomplishment are corrosive.__NEWL__He shares dinner with a fellow pilot en route to the war and while they are discussing women, the war in general, and the tedium of waiting, a group of loud young lieutenants enters the club.__NEWL__One stands out from the rest, however, emanating cool confidence amidst their obvious insecurity, and mildly harasses a pretty Japanese bar waitress.__NEWL__Cleve's companion chastises the lieutenant, who reluctantly backs down, resisting just enough that Cleve catches his name in the discussion:__NEWL__Pell.__NEWL__Cleve shrugs aside the episode and the next morning receives his orders.__NEWL__He arrives in Korea on a frigid afternoon and despite a feeling of exhilaration, his first impression of Korea is of a dreary, impoverished country made drearier by the slow-moving military bureaucracy.__NEWL__Assigned to an elite fighter wing at the primitive Kimpo air base, Cleve arrives to find it abuzz with an outgoing mission and talk of a bad end to a bad week: the leading ace in the wing has just been shot down and killed.__NEWL__He meets pilots he knew in Panama, just after the end of World War II, including Carl Abbott, now a major.__NEWL__Cleve is mildly shocked to find that his young comrade of just a few years ago now looks old, out of shape, and lacking in spirit.__NEWL__Though genuinely glad to see Cleve, Major Abbott's effectiveness as a combat pilot is gone; he has been put out to pasture and does not care.__NEWL__That evening, in the officers club, he greets his wing commander, Colonel Imil, a former squadron commander in Panama.__NEWL__Imil is a larger-than-life personality who shows off Cleve to the veterans as a "real fighter pilot", and enthusiastically introduces him to Colonel Moncavage, a former ace just returned to flying.__NEWL__Moncavage's cool response prompts Imil to goad him, revealing a competitive friction between the two commanders.__NEWL__Cleve is put through a brief period of training.__NEWL__One morning, he goes to the operations office to follow the progress of a mission over the radio.__NEWL__The operations officer is Desmond, another old friend.__NEWL__In their discussion, he learns that Desmond also feels that Abbott "doesn't have it any more" and the conversation turns to the quality of their MiG opponents.__NEWL__While nearly all are poor adversaries, a few are very good, particularly one nicknamed Casey Jones, the only MiG pilot to best Imil in a fight.__NEWL__Desmond reassures him that Casey Jones' distinctively black-striped MiG isn't seen on missions anymore, his tour apparently over.__NEWL__Cleve begins flying missions as Desmond's wingman.__NEWL__They encounter MiGs in large numbers on one mission and although seemingly everywhere, the clashes are so fleeting that Desmond's flight is unable to ever catch up to any.__NEWL__Cleve has a feeling afterwards that perhaps his flight was "playing it safe" and makes the mistake of saying so to Desmond, offending him.__NEWL__At the post-mission debriefing, they learn that a pilot, Robey, has claimed his fifth MiG. Another pilot asks Desmond, "Did he really get this one for a change?", prompting Desmond to relate to Cleve that Robey had once gotten Imil to cajole a reluctant wingman into confirming a kill he had not witnessed.__NEWL__Even so, Cleve notices that news of the fifth kill gets around quickly, and that he, like everyone else, feels a "mystic fulfillment" at being a part of the same fight.__NEWL__Imil makes Cleve a flight leader despite his having flown just eight missions.__NEWL__The flight consists of two veteran pilots, DeLeo and Daughters, and two untried replacements, Billy Hunter and Pettibone.__NEWL__All are aware of his reputation as a flyer and accordingly respectful, but it becomes apparent that he has been made flight lead because the flight has yet to shoot down any MiGs.__NEWL__Though nothing goes wrong in their first mission together, he is left with the strong feeling of a "wasted mission", until he learns that nobody in the wing saw any MiGs.__NEWL__Just as he is about to recover his good humor however, he encounters a new pilot in their barracks just assigned to his flight, Ed Pell, the loud lieutenant from Japan.__NEWL__Cleve is acutely disquieted.__NEWL__Pell upsets the balance of things; Cleve becomes uncomfortably aware that he is the leader, and much is expected of him.__NEWL__A quarter of the way through his tour, he has yet to engage in combat, and on days when the wing is in a fight, Imil chides him for missing it.__NEWL__Trapped by a feeling of helplessness, his growing self-doubt begins to gnaw away his confidence as he fears he is not just unlucky but possibly lacking something vital.__NEWL__The feeling worsens when Major Abbott, about to be exiled from the Wing, drops in to say goodbye and begins sobbing uncontrollably, possibly foreshadowing Cleve's own fate.__NEWL__Other missions go by without combat until one day Colonel Moncavage, who also had lacked success, shoots down two MiGs, eviscerating Cleve emotionally.__NEWL__The bad feelings vanish when Cleve, with Billy Hunter on his wing, shoots down a MiG. Both exultant and relieved, he learns at debriefing that Pell, too, has shot down a MiG and almost gotten DeLeo killed in the process: DeLeo accuses Pell of flying off on his own in the middle of the fight and leaving his leader to the mercies of the enemy.__NEWL__Pell denies the accusation and Cleve tries to smooth over the situation as a misunderstanding in the heat of battle.__NEWL__He discovers that his redemption is short-lived when, five days later, a big fight occurs after Cleve left himself off the schedule.__NEWL__The doubt and ominous fear return immediately.__NEWL__Then he finds that Pell has shot down another MiG. DeLeo remains hostile and skeptical of Pell, but Daughters confirms the kill.__NEWL__The arrival of spring brings a long spell of bad weather that shuts down almost all combat missions.__NEWL__Cleve and DeLeo decide to go on leave to Japan "to enjoy civilization".__NEWL__The night before the leave they head into Seoul for a steak dinner at the plush officers club of Air Force Headquarters, where they run into Abbott who insists with a pitiful obsessiveness on hearing the details of Cleve's MiG kill.__NEWL__Cleve realizes that the other pilots hated Abbott because they saw themselves in him.__NEWL__Reaching Tokyo, their leave starts as a typical R&R with martinis and steak for breakfast, followed by an afternoon nap, then an evening of hopping from cocktail lounge to cocktail lounge.__NEWL__DeLeo disappears to make a phone call and while he's gone the fragrance of perfume from a passing woman makes Cleve realize that he has suppressed all physical desires.__NEWL__DeLeo has booked them a night at Miyoshi's, a well-known Soapland-style brothel, that is spent in samisen music, saki, the baths, and sex with two young Japanese women.__NEWL__Cleve waxes philosophically about such luxury in contrast to their spartan existence in Korea, and DeLeo warns him that while "trying" (to get MiGs) is enough for DeLeo, he knows it won't be enough for Cleve.__NEWL__The next night while making the rounds of the clubs, they run into a former friend of Pell's during cadet training, an obvious admirer whose drunken praise confirms all of Cleve's misgivings about Pell's deviousness and ambition, and he knows he has entered "a dark, ultimate battle."__NEWL__The next day, as a favor to his father, he searches for and finds Miyata, a Japanese artist, whose brother was a friend.__NEWL__Despite losing his life's work in the fire raids, Miyata is not only not bitter but seems above the miseries involved in living.__NEWL__They find a common interest in films and Miyata introduces Cleve to his daughter Eiko.__NEWL__He spends the next day with Eiko.__NEWL__She draws him out, asking him about his ambition.__NEWL__He replies that he has chased many ambitions of his own choosing but now has had one forced on him: to become an ace.__NEWL__He explains that he knows it is the result of a fatal pride but that flying fighters becomes first a sport and then a refuge.__NEWL__Finally he tells her that he wants to be remembered for something, a real performance akin to her aspiration to act in a great movie, and that in the final analysis his ambition is "Not to fail."__NEWL__Beyond that, he has no answers.__NEWL__With two days of his leave remaining, they make plans for the next day.__NEWL__Back at his hotel, he hears important news.__NEWL__There was a big fight the day before over the Yalu River, with eight MiGs shot down and three pilots lost, including Desmond.__NEWL__He feels sickened and helpless having missed it again, but there is more: Casey Jones is back.__NEWL__DeLeo tries to talk him out of it, but Cleve immediately goes back to Korea, followed by his reluctant, disgusted wingman.__NEWL__Cleve returns to Kimpo before dawn and puts his flight on the morning mission.__NEWL__In the locker room after the briefing, he is surly with Pell, who is not only cocky but full of suggestions on how the mission ought to be flown and somewhat contemptuous of its veteran pilots.__NEWL__In an ensuing dogfight, Cleve gets on the tail of a MiG, cripples it, and just as he is about to make the kill has to break off to rescue Pell, who mysteriously fell behind and is under attack by two other MiGs.__NEWL__One of the attacking MiGs spins out of control and crashes.__NEWL__Pell claims it as a kill.__NEWL__Pell has Imil's ear now, and despite the fact that his kill was confirmed only because of Cleve's corroboration, suggests that Cleve lacks the stomach for combat and leaves hanging in the air his belief that he (Pell) ought to be leading the flight.__NEWL__Later, he insinuates the same to Cleve and taunts him when rebuked.__NEWL__Behind his back, Pell undercuts Cleve with the other rookies of the flight.__NEWL__His resentment of Pell blinds Cleve to Pell's intentions when Daughters tries to support him, plus he is distracted by all the talk regarding Casey Jones.__NEWL__He wants to be free of competing for MiGs but he's only too aware that he's expected by everyone, even Daughters and DeLeo, to match Pell's accomplishments.__NEWL__Cleve's flight is scheduled for three missions the next day, a reconnaissance and two MiG sweeps.__NEWL__He assigns himself to the sweeps and puts Daughters, with Pell as wingman, on the early morning reconnaissance, where nothing is likely to happen.__NEWL__To his anguish, the recon flight is jumped by six MiGs and shoots down two.__NEWL__Worse, only three ships of the flight return.__NEWL__They ran into Casey Jones, DeLeo says, who had him cold a dozen times but never fired.__NEWL__Daughters — with only a handful of missions to go — was shot down in flames.__NEWL__Pell got both MiGs and DeLeo accuses him of failing to do his assigned job: warning Daughters that MiGs were behind him.__NEWL__Pell protests his innocence, but when Cleve tells him he's going to ground him for abandoning his leader, Pell just smirks confidently.__NEWL__Imil, caring only about MiG kills, supports Pell and angrily accuses Cleve of trying to wreck the outfit, insinuates that he's shirking combat, and says that he "and that Italian...have got it in for Pell".__NEWL__Cleve realizes he's lost Imil's support.__NEWL__Imil lionizes Pell, and when the new ace tries to ease his conscience with rationalizations of how Daughters might have gotten himself killed, Imil refuses even to listen.__NEWL__Pell is sent to Japan as a reward for making ace and, curiously, asks that Hunter and Pettibone accompany him.__NEWL__No one except Cleve realizes (or cares) that Pell is making them acolytes to undermine Cleve's authority.__NEWL__Cleve imagines Daughters' terror at being shot down, and in the realization of his own mortality, comes to believe that his salvation will be in killing Casey Jones.__NEWL__When Pell returns, now a celebrity, he holds court for the other pilots, using Hunter as his Boswell.__NEWL__Cleve comes to hate Pell in a way that seems to wipe out everything else from his life, and when Imil admits he was wrong and tries to apologize, Cleve doesn't back down from his desire to ground Pell, angering the colonel even more.__NEWL__DeLeo finishes his tour; two new pilots join the flight and immediately become Pell's disciples.__NEWL__Hunter, who has ambitions of his own, remains loyal to Cleve, but clearly admires Pell.__NEWL__In June, when Cleve has only six missions remaining, the entire group is briefed for an anticipated huge air battle.__NEWL__A major attack on a North Korean dam has been ordered and hundreds of MiGs are expected to defend it.__NEWL__Every plane in the group is sent, but Cleve is put in the last flight, with Hunter as his wingman.__NEWL__Large numbers of MiGs react, yet the strike is unopposed.__NEWL__Cleve and Hunter, the last in the area, almost stay too long trying to make contact and start back low on fuel.__NEWL__Cleve spots four MiGs and heedless of his fuel state turns toward them.__NEWL__Unexpectedly four more appear above them and break into pairs; Hunter reports that the leader has black stripes.__NEWL__The MiGs try to corner them, but Cleve is determined to take the fight as far south as he can, in case the MiGs are also low on fuel.__NEWL__In their twisting, evasive turns they get off some bursts, descend to an altitude where their jets perform better, and the MiGs lose their advantage.__NEWL__Cleve seizes an opportunity and closes in behind Casey Jones.__NEWL__The fight becomes a battle of wills and descends near the ground, where Casey tries an impossible diving maneuver.__NEWL__Cleve somehow follows him through it and shoots him down.__NEWL__Their fuel tanks nearly empty, Cleve and Hunter climb to 40,000 feet to attempt to glide back to base, a too-common practice.__NEWL__He notifies Kimpo about their dire situation.__NEWL__Imil asks if they got any MiGs.__NEWL__Cleve tells him "they" got one.__NEWL__Out of fuel and without power, they try to land.__NEWL__Cleve makes it, but the less experienced Hunter stalls and crashes just short of the field.__NEWL__Imil wants to know about the kill; Cleve is intoxicated, knowing it was Casey Jones.__NEWL__Then he learns Hunter was killed in the crash and that his own gun camera failed to function.__NEWL__Imil laments there is no way to confirm the kill.__NEWL__Cleve tells him it doesn't matter; it was Casey Jones.__NEWL__Pell objects strenuously that there is no way to confirm the kill.__NEWL__Imil, who has proclaimed that no one less skilled than himself could ever get Casey, quickly agrees with Pell.__NEWL__Cleve responds in a way he had never conceived possible, and finds his destiny.__NEWL__"I can confirm it," he declares suddenly, "Hunter got him."__NEWL__Two missions later Pettibone loses sight of Cleve, who does not return to base.__NEWL__Pell, back after his seventh kill, tells a correspondent interviewing him that Cleve was one of the best, who taught him everything about air combat, but never got lucky himself.__NEWL__Cleve was like his brother. "__NEWL__But don't write any of that," he says.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763190	The Secrets of Jin-Shei	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z	8404404	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8404404	A tale of bonding sisterhood, this novel is set in Syai, an imaginary Chinese kingdom.__NEWL__Jin-shei is a pledge given by one woman to another, and once accepted can never be broken.__NEWL__This declaration of loyalty transcends social class and normal customs.__NEWL__Through jin-ashu, a unique language passed on from generation to generation of women (inspired by a real example of secret women's writing, Nü Shu), the lives within the sisterhood continue to intertwine throughout time.__NEWL__The story begins with Tai, daughter of a court seamstress, who becomes jin shei bao of the Little Empress Antian.__NEWL__An earthquake claims the lives of the royal family, leaving an obstinate Liudan, Antian's younger sister, as the unexpected new Empress.__NEWL__Antian, during her dying moments, binds Tai to look after her sister.__NEWL__Tai is comforted by Yuet, an apprentice healer.__NEWL__A new pledge is made, and Tai finds herself with a new jin shei bao who works tirelessly to bridge the gap between Tai and Liudan.__NEWL__The initial moves are tentative, for Liudan remains insecure throughout her lonely life in the imperial court.__NEWL__During her time of sorrow, Tai is also consoled by her childhood friend Nhia.__NEWL__A club-footed young girl, Nhia grew up in the vicinity of the great temple, and has learned much about the Way.__NEWL__She is a sage with a pure heart who later becomes Syai Chancellor.__NEWL__It is also at the temple that Nhia meets Khailin, to whom she pledges sisterhood.__NEWL__A restless soul, Khailin is actively seeking knowledge about the Way.__NEWL__However, her thirst for information leads her down the path of darker forces.__NEWL__Khailin secretly marries the Ninth Sage Lihui.__NEWL__Within Liudan’s court, an exceptional young Guard trainee named Xaforn is injured and Yuet is summoned to heal her.__NEWL__Xaforn is jin shei bao to Qiaan, binding their lives beyond adoptive sisterhood.__NEWL__Xaforn is protective by nature, while Qiaan is nurturing.__NEWL__Through a series of events, the circle of sisterhood between these young ladies will test their loyalty, determination, courage and bravery.__NEWL__Liudan, in her quest for absolute rule over her empire, declares herself to be Dragon Empress.__NEWL__However, when the existence of Tammary, the late Emperor’s illegitimate daughter with a Traveller, comes to light, Liudan becomes obsessed by her need to maintain her power.__NEWL__In order to protect Tammary, Tai pledges sisterhood and tries to act as the peacemaker.__NEWL__Qiaan is then discovered to be the daughter of Cai, the Ivory Emperor's concubine, and becomes a pawn of Lihui, who wants to rule as Emperor and overthrow Liudan.__NEWL__An increasingly insecure Liudan resorts to extraction of duties of sisterhood despite mistrusting her sisters who try fervently to bring her back to their fold, to a life with some sense of calm and peace.__NEWL__They fail, and their failure comes with a huge price, as one sister after another dies.__NEWL__The story ends with Tai in her old age, looking back to her youth and reminiscing that her life was joyful yet marred by occasions of unhappiness, a life that was changed by a single promise - Jin-Shei.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4003139	Violets Are Blue	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62	San Francisco	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8319911	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8319911	Alex receives a call from the Mastermind, who tells Alex that he killed Cavalierre.__NEWL__Kyle Craig calls Alex about a similarity between two murders in San Francisco and a murder in Washington DC that they’d worked on a few months before.__NEWL__The case involved a runaway girl that was found hanged from a light fixture in a hotel room.__NEWL__The FBI requests that he go to San Francisco to meet Inspector Jamilla Hughes.__NEWL__First, Alex takes Jannie and Ali to school but tells them he'll be back for Damon's choir concert.__NEWL__Jamilla picks Cross up at the airport.__NEWL__She takes him to the morgue to see the bodies.__NEWL__A friend of hers, Dr. Allan Pang (a dental expert)is examining the bites on the victims.__NEWL__After reviewing the bites, he deduces that the man was bitten and mauled by a tiger and the girl was bitten by humans.__NEWL__William and Michael watch the story unfold on TV.__NEWL__They were on a mission and the publicity was part of the plan.__NEWL__William tells Michael that he has a plan for that night.__NEWL__The two brothers break into a funeral home and feast on a dead woman who had not yet been embalmed.__NEWL__Cross is still impressed by Jamilla's work ethic.__NEWL__Alex is working on trying to find a lead on the tiger.__NEWL__He's checking with zoos, veterinarians, and animal trainers.__NEWL__Jamilla calls Alex early the next morning regarding a lead from a reporter friend.__NEWL__They drive to Los Angeles to meet with a woman who had gotten away after an attack by two men, but she had been bitten several times.__NEWL__The attacks had happened over a year ago.__NEWL__ Jamilla returns to San Francisco, but leaves her notes with Alex and Kyle.__NEWL__She believes that although the murders are similar, the patterns are different, and may have been committed by different people.__NEWL__Alex concurs.__NEWL__Jamilla tells Alex about the break-in at the funeral home.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Then, he thinks about Kyle's next victim, and he decides it could be his old friend, Kate McTiernan from Kiss The Girls.__NEWL__After calling Kate and warning her to get out of town for her own safety, Alex rushes to her home.__NEWL__Kyle is sent to prison, Alex officially starts dating Jamilla Hughes, and things start to calm down for the first time in years for the Cross family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10381460	The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray	2006-01-23T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8320806	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8320806	The story is set in a Victorian London overrun by demonic creatures called wych-kin.__NEWL__While out hunting Wych-kin in the abandoned regions of the city, Thaniel Fox is attacked by a girl in a confused state.__NEWL__Thaniel leaves her under the guard of his old family friend Cathaline Bennett and begins making enquiries at the mental wards run by Dr. Mammon Pyke.__NEWL__After meeting with Dr. Pyke, Thaniel suspects Pyke is lying to him for unknown reasons.__NEWL__During the girl's slow recovery, it becomes apparent that she has no memory of her past life apart from her name: Alaizabel Cray.__NEWL__ Alaizabel has been tattooed with a Chackh'morg, a symbol which leaves her open to spirit possession by an entity called Thatch.__NEWL__When a Wych-kin almost kidnaps Alaizabel, Thaniel and Cathaline realise they can no longer hide.__NEWL__They take her to a beggar lord called Crott, who owes them a favour.__NEWL__Crott uncovers someone who knows about Alaizabel's past: Perris The Boar.__NEWL__Perris tells them that Alaizabel was used by the Fraternity, an evil cult bent on world destruction and led by Dr. Mammon Pyke.__NEWL__The Fraternity killed her parents and placed the spirit of Thatch inside her.__NEWL__While consulting Crott, Thaniel meets Inspector Carver, who has been investigating a series of ritual killings known as the Green Tack Murders.__NEWL__They map out the sites of each killing and discover that the killings form the shape of the Chackh'morg.__NEWL__The Fraternity's ultimate plan is to use the killings to open a dimensional portal and allow London to be overrun by ancient gods called the Glau Meska.__NEWL__While trying to save the final Green Tack victim, Thaniel realises that the culprit is a Wych-kin called Rawhead, summoned by the Fraternity to carry out the killings.__NEWL__The Fraternity kidnap Alaizabel, remove Thatch from her body, and leave her for dead.__NEWL__She escapes but is captured by a crazed killer called Stitch-face, who later has mercy and returns her to Thaniel.__NEWL__Inspector Carver comes up with a plan to stop the Fraternity from completing their evil scheme by invading their base and killing Lady Thatch, the only one who knows how to summon the Glau Meska.__NEWL__The group travels by airship to the Fraternity's headquarters, a forgotten cathedral hidden in South London.__NEWL__When they reach the Fraternity's castle, Alaizabel reveals that she has retained some of Lady Thatch's memories and is able to gain access to their base.__NEWL__Thaniel and Alaizabel battle their way through the cathedral and find Lady Thatch.__NEWL__Along the way, they encounter Dr. Pyke, who tells them of the true nature of the Wych-kin and how they came to exist.__NEWL__Pyke escapes, but Thaniel is able to kill Thatch just as Thatch is about to finish the spell that would have awoken the Glau Meska.__NEWL__The Wych-kin are all destroyed and the Fraternity has been defeated.__NEWL__A subplot concerns the activities of the serial killer Stitch-face, who is at one point suspected of being the Green Tack murderer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6453533	Kävik the Wolf Dog	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8321253	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8321253	Kävik, an Alaskan malamute sled dog, gets sold from Charlie One-eye to Mr. Hunter for $2,000 after winning the North American Sled-dog race and is loaded on a plane in an iron-barred cage.__NEWL__In the middle of the trip, something goes wrong and the plane crashes into the ground, killing pilot Smiley Johnson before he even has time to undo his seatbelt.__NEWL__Kävik's cage makes a gaping hole in the side of the plane as it crashes in the eye of a storm.__NEWL__After being trapped in a cage for three days while starving, freezing, and getting multiple wounds from neighboring animals, Kävik is found by young Andy Evans, a teenage boy whose trapline was the location of the wreck.__NEWL__Andy uses his belt axe to open the cage and uses a piece of the plane's wing to create a sled to carry the injured dog until they reach a cave, where Andy and Kävik spend the night.__NEWL__The next morning, Andy is shaken awake by his father, Kurt Evans, and they take Kävik back to their house.__NEWL__Laura Evans, Andy's mother, suggests that they take him over to Dr. Walker.__NEWL__When Dr. Walker arrives, he is led to believe by Andy that Laura was sick, but he learns that Kävik was injured instead and refuses to operate on him because he is a people doctor, not a veterinarian.__NEWL__But with Laura's tricky ways, he is persuaded to help Kavik to the best of his abilities.__NEWL__Over the period of a few weeks, Kävik almost fully recovers and heals.__NEWL__Andy notices he is as good as new when he climbs up the stairs and is able to open his door.__NEWL__One day, while Andy is at his job downtown, Kävik escapes to town and gets chased by a pack of dogs led by Blackie.__NEWL__It turns out he has lost his fighting courage due to the horrible plane wreck.__NEWL__A few weeks later, Andy comes home and notices that Kävik is nowhere to be found.__NEWL__His dad tells Andy that Mr. Hunter came by earlier that day and took Kävik back with him to his home in Washington, despite being told by Andy's father that Kävik is a complete coward and that he had lost his wolflike courage.__NEWL__When Mr. Hunter goes to show Kävik off, Kävik escapes out of a window and sets out over 2,000 miles to return to Andy, the only person who ever loved him enough to take care of him.__NEWL__While he was traveling he found a mate who later got killed.__NEWL__The return journey comprises most of the second half of the novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5267344	Devil of a State	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8345381	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8345381	The Italians Nando and Paolo Tasca, father and son, are working on the marble in the grandiose mosque that is under construction (this was in fact the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, designed by an Italian architect and built while Burgess was in Brunei).__NEWL__After a furious argument with his violent father over a purloined pocket watch, Paolo seeks refuge in one of the mosque's minarets.__NEWL__When political oppositionists learn of Paolo's act, they exalt him as a hero in the struggle against colonial oppression and he becomes a household name in enlightened circles around the world.__NEWL__But how will they get him to come down?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7746675	The Legend That Was Earth	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z	8303481	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8303481	At the onset of the story, aliens called Hyadeans have established contact and friendly business relations with Earth.__NEWL__They think Earth is fascinating because it so different from their own bleak, austere culture.__NEWL__Though they are highly interested in studying the planet and its cultures, Hyadeans are far more technologically advanced and have a more accurate knowledge of science.__NEWL__Many humans accept this alien presence, but there are many who do not trust the Hyadeans and believe they are plotting to take control of Earth.__NEWL__One group that espouses this belief is CounterAction, which the American government lists as a terrorist organization.__NEWL__When a flyer (advanced aircraft) carrying both Hyadean visitors and Terran politicians is shot down, CounterAction is blamed and the Internal Security Service (ISS) is intent on shutting down their organization by any methods necessary.__NEWL__The action follows savvy Roland Cade who gives up his comfortable life when he is pulled into CounterAction.__NEWL__Because he was formerly married to Marie Cade, a political activist who plays a strong role in CounterAction, the ISS uses him to trace her.__NEWL__His mistress Julia is secretly an ISS agent, and convinces him to use his contacts with CounterAction to take in her friend, a supposed political dissident.__NEWL__He takes the friend to Chattanooga, where he unexpectedly runs into Marie.__NEWL__Julia's friend turns out to be an ISS plant and he is forced to flee with Marie; the government believes he is a part of CounterAction because of his wife’s association with the group.__NEWL__They both use their connections to get aid in dodging the government, and these connections form an unlikely bond.__NEWL__CounterAction has been strongly anti-Hyadean, but they find allies in Cade’s Hyadean friend Vrel and some of his comrades.__NEWL__For much of the story, the action switches between Cade’s group of friends’ attempt to escape capture and the actions of the ISS as more information is revealed.__NEWL__While Cade and his friends learn that states and regions of the country are seceding, the Hyadean officials take over the increasingly impotent government and use military force to subdue resistance.__NEWL__However, a pro-Terran alien interviews Cade and Marie and films footage of Hyadean and government cruelty.__NEWL__This interview gets broadcast to both Earth and the aliens’ planet Chryse.__NEWL__As a result, many Hyadeans pledge their support and Terrans are given courage to fight for their freedom.__NEWL__The struggle stops being an Earth vs. alien skirmish, and becomes a fight for the rights of both Terran and Hyadean.__NEWL__While Cade, Marie, and their posse travel from country to country to gain new allies and to find shelter, the Hyadean military steps ups its campaign and CounterAction comes under more attacks.__NEWL__They are attacked everywhere they flee, and their Hyadean allies suffer a massive defeat when a Hyadean mission is bombed.__NEWL__Finally, it appears the organization is done for entirely when a formation of giant airships appears.__NEWL__The ships are believed to be both Hyadean and capable of mass destruction.__NEWL__However, the ships belong to a friendly third party of a different alien civilization, the Querl; these aliens have come to help Terrans.__NEWL__CounterAction gets the news that the Hyadean government has just crumpled from popular indigenous support for Earth, and the war is over.__NEWL__New governments form and a stronger, benevolent union between Earth and Chryse begins.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6878850	Mission to Moulokin	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8438316	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8438316	The novel follows the continuing adventures of Skua September, Ethan Fortune and Milliken Williams on the frozen world of Tran-Ky-Ky as they try to help the native race, the Tran, win admission to the Commonwealth.__NEWL__During their struggle they deal with corrupt Commonwealth officials and an insane Tran leader, find the fabled city of Moulokin and learn of the history of the Tran.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766181	The Stain	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8414758	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8414758	Towards the end of the nineteenth century, in the rural village of La Folie in France's Loire Valley, a girl is born with a birthmark on her face shaped like a dancing hare.__NEWL__After both her parents die young, Charlotte is raised by her uncle, a mild-mannered gardener with a stutter, and her aunt, a strict disciplinarian who regards her niece's birthmark as the brand of Satan.__NEWL__As Charlotte grows up, she tries to make sense of the world around her under the influence of her aunt and the other characters, including a travelling conman, a local exorcist, the village tramp, and a nearby community of nuns that eventually accepts Charlotte as a novitiate.__NEWL__The world around La Folie is a mysterious place: Charlotte sees religious signs everywhere, an ancient menhir stands just outside town, wolves prowl in the woods nearby, and the village exorcist is torn between serving God and serving Beelzebub.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7713287	The Amateur Gentleman	1913-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23298	Kent	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8310996	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8310996	The format of the novel is essentially that of a bildungsroman.__NEWL__It tells the story of Barnabas Barty, the son of John Barty, the former boxing champion of England and landlord of a pub in Kent.__NEWL__At the start of the tale, Barnabas comes fortuitously into the possession of a vast fortune – £700,000, an astronomical amount by Regency standards – and determines to use this fortune to become a gentleman.__NEWL__His father objects to this plan and they quarrel.__NEWL__They settle their differences in a round of fisticuffs, which Barnabas wins, beating his father fair and square.__NEWL__Barnabas sets off for London to further his ambitions and, on the way there, contrives to make a number of influential friends and enemies.__NEWL__Farnol exploits the naïvety of the youth for comic effect.__NEWL__For instance, Barnabas is gulled by the chapman who sells him a book on etiquette at an outrageous mark-up.__NEWL__At the other end of the spectrum, Farnol is equally disdainful of Barnabas' sophisticated concealment of his identity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q961333	Storm	1941-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8370280	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8370280	In January 1935, a cyclone develops in the Pacific Ocean near Japan, and becomes a significant storm as it moves toward California.__NEWL__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 with snowfall amounts of 20 feet (6.1 m).__NEWL__The storm's beneficial effects include averting a locust plague and ending a drought.__NEWL__Its harmful effects include flooding a valley near Sacramento, endangering a plane, stalling a train, and leading to the deaths of 16 people.__NEWL__It spawns a new cyclone, which significantly affects New York.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7203384	Playing Beatie Bow	1980-01-31T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3130	Sydney	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	8327593	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8327593	Lynette Kirk has been a happy child, cheery about her parents and life, until the day her father leaves her and her mother Kathy for another woman.__NEWL__Lynette wants to distance herself from the life they have shared with her father and changes her name to Abigail.__NEWL__ Abigail goes down to the park with her young next-door neighbours, Natalie and Vincent.__NEWL__She finds the children there playing a game called "Beatie Bow".__NEWL__After becoming very interested in a "Little Furry Girl" who stands there watching them play, Abigail decides to follow her.__NEWL__When Abigail's mother admits that she has been seeing her father again and would like them all to move to Norway, where he works as an architect, Abigail is furious and goes for a walk to cool off, again encountering the mysterious girl.__NEWL__She follows her back into the 1800s and is tripped up by the Little Furry Girl's father, resulting in a sprained ankle and a bruised head.__NEWL__Further into the novel the character Granny (Alice Tallisker) tells Abigail that she is "the stranger" and has "the gift".__NEWL__"The gift" comes from a crocheted detail on her dress, which enables her to travel and heal.__NEWL__The book later suggests that Granny will complete the crochet.__NEWL__Abigail falls in love with Judah, who is betrothed to Dovey, and realises first-hand what it is like to love somebody but not be able to have them.__NEWL__This helps Abigail to realise that she should not be selfish towards her parents and let them have a second chance at life and marriage.__NEWL__ Abigail finally manages to return to her own time and discovers that her neighbours, Natalie and Vincent, are descendants of the Bow family.__NEWL__She also finds that Beatie will grow up to be a lady and well educated, and Judah will die at sea after marrying Dovey.__NEWL__After Abigail returns from Norway with her parents she meets Natalie and Vincent's uncle, who looks precisely the same as Judah.__NEWL__The two fall in love and Abigail tells him the story of how she went back in time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1163683	Pierre et Jean	1887-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	8373895	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8373895	Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gérôme Roland, a jeweller who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise.__NEWL__Pierre works as a doctor, and Jean is a lawyer.__NEWL__It recounts the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when Léon Maréchal, a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean.__NEWL__This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother.__NEWL__Pierre discovers that his theories about his brother's illegitimacy are correct when he discovers his mother has hid and lied about an incriminating portrait of Maréchal and his love letters to her, some of which she burns when she realizes Pierre is learning of her past infidelity.__NEWL__This investigation sparks violent reactions in Pierre, whose external appearance vis-a-vis his mother visibly changes.__NEWL__In his anguish, most notably shown during family meals, he tortures her with allusions to the past that he has now uncovered.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jean's career and love life improve over the course of the novel while Pierre's life gets significantly worse.__NEWL__Provoked by his brother's accusations of jealousy, Pierre reveals to Jean what he has learned.__NEWL__However, unlike Pierre, Jean offers his mother love and protection.__NEWL__The novel closes with Pierre's departure on an oceanliner.__NEWL__Thus the novel is organised around the unwelcome appearance of a truth (Jean's illegitimacy), its suppression for the sake of family continuity and the acquisition of wealth, and the expulsion from the family of the legitimate son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5437183	Fat City	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8325004	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8325004	Set in the small-time boxing circuit of Stockton, California, in the late 1950s, the novel concerns the revival of a semi-retired Billy Tully's career and the first fights of a novice, Ernie Munger.__NEWL__At twenty-nine years old and discouraged not only by his defeat to another lightweight fighter in Panama, but also from the desertion of his wife two years earlier, Tully meets and spars with Munger at the local YMCA and remarks on his talent, suggesting he visit his former trainer Ruben Luna.__NEWL__Disgusted by his lack of fitness and power, Tully entertains the idea of returning to the ring in a bid to reclaim his self-respect and possibly his ex-wife.__NEWL__Munger meanwhile impregnates his girlfriend, Faye, and marries her out of obligation, vowing to support his young family by winning fights.__NEWL__After losing his first amateur bout he attains some success and, despite his anxieties about marriage, seems poised to ascend the circuit ranks.__NEWL__Tully, meanwhile is wracked by uncertainty and divides his time between working as a low-paying farm laborer and drinking heavily in seedy bars and motels.__NEWL__He relocates frequently to different hotels, due to non-payment of bills and disruptive behavior.__NEWL__After a brief affair with an alcoholic barfly named Oma, Tully strengthens his resolve and makes a concerted effort to prepare for a fight with a moderately well-known but aging Mexican fighter named Arcadio Lucero.__NEWL__Tully narrowly wins the fight on a bill with Munger, who is also victorious in his professional debut.__NEWL__Though momentarily bolstered by his victory, Tully pines for Oma, his ex-wife, or any woman, realizing that his career is over and the past can not be reclaimed.__NEWL__He quarrels with Luna over payment for the fight (Luna has been advancing Tully money to pay for his hotel rooms) and is bitter with Luna over a perceived lack of support in his early career.__NEWL__Alone and without any future prospects, he descends into an abyss of inebriation, becoming just another unshaven face at the bar recalling former greatness.__NEWL__Munger continues to fight and, hitchhiking home from a fight in Salt Lake City alone, he is picked up by two young women who eject him from the car on a stretch of highway in the dark of night after an awkward exchange revealing Munger's lustful longing.__NEWL__The novel ends with the suggestion that Ernie Munger may be starting down the same desperate and well-worn path as Billy Tully.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7774469	The White Boy Shuffle	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100	Boston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8326980	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8326980	In the book's prologue, the reader meets the narrator, Gunnar Kaufman, a prolific African-American poet whose astronomically successful book, Watermelanin, has sold 126 million copies, elevating him to the status of "Negro Demagogue."__NEWL__The prologue asserts that what follows are Gunnar memoirs, "the battlefield remains of a frightened deserter in the eternal war for civility" (2).__NEWL__The novel opens with a comic survey of Gunnar's family tree, as his mother relates the tales of his family history to him and his sisters.__NEWL__Gunnar in turn regales his classmates with the tales of his ancestors, one of whom Gunnar claims dodged the bullet that eventually killed Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre.__NEWL__Gunnar is a young boy growing up in affluent, predominantly white Santa Monica, California with his mother and sisters.__NEWL__His absent father is a sketch artist for the LAPD and rarely sees his children.__NEWL__Gunnar's friends are white, and he spends his free time making enough mischief to gain him mild admonishments from the Santa Monica Shore Patrol.__NEWL__This was found to be true because Kenneth Rogers made it so.__NEWL__When Gunnar and his sisters tell their mother they do not want to attend an all-black summer camp because the children there "are different from us," Ms. Kaufman immediately packs up a U-Haul and relocates her family to the West Los Angeles neighborhood of Hillside, a predominantly black community surrounded by a concrete wall that Gunnar describes as the ghetto (37).__NEWL__In Hillside, the Kaufman children encounter an altogether different lifestyle than the one they were accustomed to in Santa Monica.__NEWL__Gunnar learns "the hard way that social norms in Santa Monica were unforgivable breaches of proper Hillside etiquette, and soon after arriving is beaten up by one of the area's local gangs, the "Gun Totin' Hooligans" (52).__NEWL__Enrolling in the local junior high, Gunnar is offered protection by an administrator who fears that Gunnar's unfamiliarity with Hillside social norms will make him an easy target for harassment.__NEWL__However, Gunnar soon strikes up a friendship with Nicholas Scoby when he is paired with the "thuggish boy" in a reading of William Shakespeare's Othello (66).__NEWL__Scoby is a prodigious basketball player, with a remarkable ability to make, without exception, every basket.__NEWL__Soon after meeting Scoby, Gunnar stuns the local children when he unintentionally exhibits his own, heretofore unknown talent for basketball, dunking the ball into the basket in a pickup game.__NEWL__His talent gains him respect within the Hillside community of youths.__NEWL__Ironically, this unusual talent causes him to stick out enables him to fit into the social scene.__NEWL__Around this time, Gunnar writes his first poem, "Negro Misappropriation of Greek Mythology or, I know Niggers That'll Kick Hercules's Ass" and spray paints the lines across the concrete wall surrounding Hillside.__NEWL__Later, instructed by Scoby, Gunnar changes his hairstyle and attire in an effort to further conform to Hillside society.__NEWL__As the years pass, Gunnar becomes incredibly popular, both for his talent on the basketball court and for his emerging poetic prowess.__NEWL__However, he remains somewhat of an outcast in his clear lack of dancing talent and his unease with women.__NEWL__His friends, Scoby and feared gang-member and assumed murderer Psycho Loco, dub Gunnar's awkward antics on the dance floor "The White Boy Shuffle".__NEWL__Because of Gunnar's apparent inability to talk to women, Psycho Loco secretly takes it upon himself to order Gunnar a mail-order bride from Japan, using a service called "Hot Mamma-Sans of the Orient".__NEWL__Throughout high school, Gunnar continues to write poetry, much of which, we later learn, is published in magazines.__NEWL__During his sixteenth summer, Gunnar aids in his friends' stealing a department store safe during the turmoil of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.__NEWL__We learn that Psycho Loco has planned to steal the safe for nine years in retribution for the department store's having moved a race-car set the young Psycho intended to steal on the day he was to steal it.__NEWL__As Gunnar and his friends attempt to load the safe into a car, Gunnar's father and other policemen arrive.__NEWL__Gunnar's father beats him with a nightstick, and Gunnar is hospitalized.__NEWL__When he is released from the hospital, he learns that his friends have been unable to open the safe.__NEWL__Gunnar turns the safe over, finding the combination on the bottom, and opens it.__NEWL__Gunnar refuses to take any of the money, gold, and precious stones inside.__NEWL__In the last two weeks of summer, Gunnar attends a program for the top 100 high school basketball talents in the country, of which Gunnar is number 100.__NEWL__From camp, he sends his friends and family several e-mails, which are documented in the novel.__NEWL__From these e-mails, we learn that both of Gunnar's sisters are pregnant and have moved in with their father.__NEWL__We also learn that Gunnar, despite his basketball talent, is not incredibly interested in the game itself.__NEWL__He is constantly frustrated by his roommates' insistence on constantly talking about the game.__NEWL__Gunnar notes that his roommates even use basketball terms to talk about women.__NEWL__In return for his father not pressing charges against him and his friends for the safe incident, Gunnar agrees to attend an elite public high school in the San Fernando Valley.__NEWL__Gunnar travels an hour and a half to and from school on a bus.__NEWL__His return to a predominantly white atmosphere is an easy one, and Gunnar notes that he "meshed well" (153).__NEWL__However, he disdains the arrogance of several of the rich, white boys with whom his mother insists he spend time.__NEWL__In his senior year, Gunnar begins receiving letters from the armed forces academies, Harvard University, and Boston University.__NEWL__He visits a wealthy, African-American Harvard graduate in his large home, which overlooks Hillside, realizing that years earlier he and his Hooligan friends had stolen a security sign out of the front lawn and destroyed the man's RV.__NEWL__Gunnar is disgusted by the man's superior attitude towards the residents of Hillside and decides he will never attend Harvard.__NEWL__When a recruiter from BU arrives at his house, Gunnar decides to attend BU instead.__NEWL__Before Gunnar leaves for college, it is revealed that Psycho Loco has indeed ordered Gunnar a wife from Japan when she arrives by UPS on Gunnar's 18th birthday.__NEWL__Yoshiko Katsu speaks little English but is an immediate hit with Gunnar's mother.__NEWL__For their honeymoon, Gunnar and Yoshiko drive to an amusement park, listening to the radio and attempting to bridge the gap between their two mother tongues.__NEWL__Moving to Boston, Gunnar attends one class at BU: Creative Writing 104.__NEWL__When he tells the class his name, he is overwhelmed by a chorus of accolades as the students in the class recite his now famous poetry back to him and barrage him with questions.__NEWL__Uncomfortable with the attention, Gunnar runs from the room, tearing off his clothes and walking home to his apartment.__NEWL__At the insistence of his professor, who has followed him along with the members of the class, Gunnar agrees to publish a collection of his poetry.__NEWL__The collection will become his book, Watermelanin.__NEWL__In Boston, Gunnar begins to face a degree of prejudice from other Black people for his marriage to the Japanese Yoshiko.__NEWL__At the insistence of Scoby, who is attending BU, Gunnar attends several meetings of student activist clubs such as the citywide black student union and SWAPO, or the Whities Against Political Obsequeiousness, of which he is the only black member.__NEWL__Waking simultaneously one night from dreams, Gunnar and Yoshiko realize that the latter is pregnant.__NEWL__Gunnar begins traveling on a basketball team with Scoby.__NEWL__He becomes increasingly depressed, and his only consolation are the boxes of Japanese literature sent to him on the road from Yoshiko.__NEWL__In return, Gunnar writes her letters.__NEWL__In these letters, he notes that Scoby "is going insane" (192).__NEWL__After basketball season ends, Gunnar—now an even greater celebrity—is asked by his publisher to speak at a rally protesting BU's decision to confer an honorary degree upon a corrupt African statesman.__NEWL__Initially unsure of what to say to the crowd, Gunnar eventually tells the crowd that "What we need is some new leaders.__NEWL__Leaders who won't apostatize like cowards.__NEWL__Some niggers who are ready to die!"__NEWL__(200).__NEWL__The frenzied crowd chants "You!__NEWL__You!__NEWL__You!"__NEWL__and Gunnar's place as "Negro Demagogue" is solidified.__NEWL__From his speech, the media assumes that Gunnar is an advocate of freedom through suicide, and though Gunnar makes it clear that he means only his own suicide, many across America begin killing themselves and sending their "death poems" to Gunnar.__NEWL__When asked when he plans to commit suicide, Gunnar replies "When I'm good and goddamn ready" (202).__NEWL__One night, on the beach, a deeply unhappy and depressed Scoby asks Gunnar what the highest building in Boston is before leaving the beach.__NEWL__The next morning Gunnar learns that Scoby has jumped from the roof of the BU law school, killing himself.__NEWL__On the roof, Gunnar finds his friend's suicide note, containing his own death poem.__NEWL__Gunnar and Yoshiko resolve to return to Hillside, but Gunnar is forced into hiding by an outstanding warrant for his arrest by the LAPD.__NEWL__One night, on the beach with Psycho Loco and Yoshiko, Gunnar walks out into the ocean, realizes he could die if he swam out farther, and gives himself to the currents.__NEWL__Hit with thoughts of his unborn child, he snaps out of a meditative state underwater and swims back to shore.__NEWL__Gunnar and Yoshiko check into a motel, where the spend the remainder of the novel ostensibly hiding from the LAPD, occupying their time by having debates and reading death poems from Gunnar's fans.__NEWL__However, one night, Gunnar walks to 7-Eleven and is caught in a police helicopter's search light.__NEWL__The light follows him home.__NEWL__He and Yoshiko begin taking nighttime walks through Hillside, their way constantly lit by the helicopter.__NEWL__Eventually, they are joined by other members of the community on their walks.__NEWL__With Gunnar's mother acting as midwife, Yoshiko gives birth to a girl, Naomi Katsu Kaufman, in a small pool in the local park.__NEWL__The birth is attended by a large crowd and is guarded by the members of the Gun Totin' Hooligans.__NEWL__As always, the LAPD helicopter hovers overhead.__NEWL__It drops a box of cigars attached to a parachute when Yoshiko gives birth.__NEWL__In what appears to be Gunnar's father's handwriting, a note is attached that reads, "Congratulations from the Los Angeles Police Department.__NEWL__Maybe this one will grow up with a respect for authority" (219).__NEWL__As the novel comes to a close, Gunnar begins holding weekly, outdoor open mics, reading his poetry to great crowds.__NEWL__At one gathering, on the two-year anniversary of Scoby's suicide, Gunnar shocks the crowd by chopping off the smallest finger on his right hand with a kitchen knife.__NEWL__His sacrifice "cement[s] his status as savior of the blacks" (223).__NEWL__Elevating Gunnar to the status of cult figure, "spiteful black folks" travel in droves to Hillside, prompting the government to threaten the community with an ultimatum: "rejoin the rest of America or celebrate Kwanza in hell" (224).__NEWL__Hillside residents respond by painting the roofs of the community with white targets.__NEWL__The novel ends with Gunnar, still living in the motel with Yoshiko and Naomi, beginning to tell his daughter the same stories of his family tree told to him in his youth by his mother.__NEWL__The first such tale is that of Gunnar's father.__NEWL__The novel ends with his death poem, left in his LAPD locker before he kills himself by swallowing his own gun.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5580636	Golf in the Year 2000	8262965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8262965	The plot follows Gibson as he is introduced to the wonders of the dawning 21st century by his host, the current owner of the house where Gibson lay sleeping for 108 years.__NEWL__Like Gibson, the host is a passionate golf player.__NEWL__Much of the story revolves around the two men's visits to the golf course, where Gibson learns first-hand the radical changes that technology has made to the game.__NEWL__There are golf clubs that automatically keep their user's score, driverless golf caddies or carts, and special jackets, which everyone must wear, that yell "Fore!"__NEWL__whenever the player begins his swing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7751843	The Mockery Bird	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z	8456003	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8456003	The story takes place on a (fictitious) tropical island called Zenkali.__NEWL__The island seems to be populated by the most eccentric people who came there from all around the world, along with the two indigenous tribes, the Fangoua and the Ginka.__NEWL__The Ginkas used to worship a dolphin god, while the Fangouas worshipped a strange avian, the Mockery Bird, which was hunted to extinction by the former French colonizers.__NEWL__Zenkali is ruled by King Tamalawala III, usually referred to as "Kingy" by his people.__NEWL__Peter Foxglove arrives to Zenkali to be the assistant of Hannibal Oliphant, Kingy's Political Advisor.__NEWL__Zenkali, once a British colony, is about to get self-government.__NEWL__They are also planning to construct a military base, an airport and a power station, and this will mean the flooding of a large, unexplored valley, owned by the villainous businessman, Looja.__NEWL__Peter, along with the beautiful Audrey Damien, visits the valley before it is totally destroyed, and makes a fantastic discovery: a small population of Mockery Birds still live in the valley!__NEWL__Peter's discovery attracts the attention of the world press, environmentalists, politicians and businessmen from all around the world, and this leads to a couple of adventures.__NEWL__Finally, Professor Droom, a biologist, discovers that the main and only agricultural product of Zenkali, the Amela tree is ecologically linked to the Mockery Birds (explained below), so the flooding of the valley will make the island's economy collapse.__NEWL__Consequently, the construction of the airport is cancelled.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719654	The Boy Who Reversed Himself	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z	8357311	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8357311	A high school girl, Laura, grows suspicious when a report of hers appears in mirror writing, and Omar, the weird boy next door, makes it go back to normal.__NEWL__Furthermore, he seems to be parting his hair on a different side than usual.__NEWL__He first refuses to explain what is happening, but after she repeatedly coaxes him, he reveals that he has access to the fourth dimension, where he accidentally "reversed" himself.__NEWL__Omar eventually allows Laura to visit the fourth dimension under his supervision, but he warns her that it is dangerous and that he is violating an agreement by revealing the secret.__NEWL__Laura tries to use her access to the higher dimension to impress Pete, a popular boy she wants to accompany to the school dance, but after she seems to disappear into thin air and unlock a door from the other side, Pete realizes something strange has occurred, and she feels pressured to show him the truth, without Omar's knowledge.__NEWL__When she brings Pete into four-space, they lose their way and end up as the captives of four-dimensional creatures.__NEWL__Unfortunately, she determines that escaping might threaten the very existence of her own world by making the powerful 4-D creatures aware of it.__NEWL__With Omar's help, she finds a safe way out and learns the truth about how he learned of other dimensions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7743933	The Kaiser's Last Kiss	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55	Netherlands	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29999	Kingdom of the Netherlands	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8357626	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8357626	The story is set in 1940 and concerns Untersturmführer Martin Krebbs, a young and recently commissioned SS officer who has been sent to Huis Doorn to guard the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II as the German Army advances into the Netherlands.__NEWL__While there, Krebbs meets and falls for Akki, an undercover British agent posing as a maid, who has been sent by the British Secret Service on the orders of Winston Churchill to assess the Kaiser's feelings about the war and his possible willingness to defect to Britain.__NEWL__As the story unfolds, and through conversations Krebbs has with both the Kaiser and Akki (who Krebbs discovers is Jewish), and a visit from Heinrich Himmler, Krebbs begins to discover some uncomfortable truths about the Nazis, forcing him to question the things he has been taught.__NEWL__When Akki's true identity is in danger of being exposed, Krebbs must choose between his duty to the Third Reich and his feelings for the woman he loves.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7741281	The Ice People	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z	8366574	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8366574	At a point towards the end of the 21st century, Britain is in the grip of a new ice age.__NEWL__Men and women are largely living separately in different areas of the country, while civilisation and law and order have mostly broken down.__NEWL__As an old man living with a group of outlaws who will dispose of him once he has outlived his usefulness to them, Saul begins to tell the tale of his life, and in particular his marriage to Sarah.__NEWL__Their marriage is initially a good one, but as the climate changes begin to impact on the surrounding environment, the couple start to cool towards each other and drift apart.__NEWL__Sarah eventually leaves Saul, becomes a political activist, then finally tries to turn their son, Luke, against him.__NEWL__When Sarah refuses to let him see Luke, Saul kidnaps the boy and goes on the run, fleeing across the English Channel to Europe.__NEWL__Luke objects to being taken away from his home, however, and as Saul attempts to gain passage for them both to the warmer climes of Africa, Luke runs away.__NEWL__It later transpires that he has joined a group of bandits in Spain.__NEWL__Having lost his son, Saul returns to Britain, where he is involved in a car crash.__NEWL__He is pulled from the wreckage by the outlaws, who at first plan to kill him, but then decide to keep him alive when they discover his skills as a storyteller.__NEWL__But as the book comes to an end, the outlaws are becoming tired of Saul and his time is running out.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4984149	Buddha Da	2003-01-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	8366712	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8366712	The book takes a mostly light-hearted look at what might happen when two vastly opposing worlds and ways of life come into contact with each other.__NEWL__Following a chance meeting with a Buddhist monk in a Glasgow sandwich bar one lunchtime, painter and decorator Jimmy McKenna starts to develop an interest in Buddhism and begins to visit a meditation centre and go away for weekend retreats.__NEWL__The story is essentially about Jimmy's new-found faith, and the reaction of his immediate family to this.__NEWL__It is told from three points of view - those of Jimmy, his wife Liz, and their daughter Anne Marie - and follows the family as Jimmy's desire to lead a better and more meaningful life begins to have an effect on them all.__NEWL__To begin with, this proves to be to their detriment, as Liz and Anne Marie cannot understand why Jimmy - who has previously been an atheist - would suddenly want to become a Buddhist.__NEWL__However, as the story unfolds, a series of events allow everyone to gain some insight into the choices Jimmy has made.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4899939	Beyond Black	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8367010	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8367010	The book's central character is a medium named Alison Hart who, along with her assistant/business partner/manager, Colette, takes her one-woman psychic show on the road, travelling to venues around the Home Counties, and providing her audience with a point of contact between this world and the next.__NEWL__On the surface, Alison seems like a happy-go-lucky woman, but this persona is only a mask she wears for her public.__NEWL__In truth, she is deeply traumatised by memories and ghosts from her childhood, and a knowledge that the afterlife is not the wonderful place her clients often perceive it to be.__NEWL__She spends much of the story trying to exorcise her demons, and by the end is ultimately able to overcome them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6980915	Nature Girl	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8359598	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8359598	Honey Santana becomes irritated by telemarketers and invites a particularly obnoxious one to a phony real estate promotion - which she describes as an eco-tour - in the Ten Thousand Islands in order to teach him a lesson.__NEWL__It is thus that telemarketers Boyd Shreave and his reluctant mistress Eugenie Fonda make their way from Texas to Everglades City, Florida, and eventually Dismal Key with Honey, unaware that she is being stalked by Louis Piejack, Honey's perverted and disfigured ex-employer, who is unaware that he is being followed by Fry, Honey's wise and protective twelve-year-old son, and his courageous ex-drug runner father.__NEWL__Also on the island are a young half-Seminole man named Sammy Tigertail and his very willing captive, Gillian, a sex-obsessed, warmhearted Florida State coed.__NEWL__Various odd events surface along the way.__NEWL__Honey Santana loses her job after she hits her lecherous boss, Louis Piejack.__NEWL__During dinner, she receives a call from telemarketer Boyd Shreave, trying to sell her cheap land.__NEWL__Honey asks Boyd if his mother knows what he does for a living, causing him to insult her.__NEWL__Honey resolves to track Boyd down to teach him a lesson.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a drunken tourist dies of a heart attack during an airboat ride with Sammy Tigertail, a young half-Seminole.__NEWL__Misconstruing his uncle's advice, he dumps the body in a river and camps out on the Ten Thousand Islands.__NEWL__Sammy's solitude is interrupted by a group of college students having a drunken party.__NEWL__He is about to steal one of their canoes and find another island when one of the students, Gillian, pressures him to take her along.__NEWL__Boyd loses his job for insulting Honey, and his co-worker Eugenie Fonda, the one-time mistress of a tabloid murderer, ends their affair.__NEWL__He is also unaware that his wife, Lily, has hired a private investigator, Dealey, to gather evidence of his infidelity for their divorce.__NEWL__Lily demands more explicit footage of Boyd's affair, causing Dealey to realizes that she is now indulging a sexual fetish instead of gathering evidence.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Honey tracks Boyd down and calls him at home, posing as a telemarketer offering a free trip to Florida as part of a timeshare promotion.__NEWL__Boyd seizes the opportunity to try to win Eugenie back, and she is intrigued enough by a trip to Florida to accept.__NEWL__Honey borrows the airfare from her ex-husband, Perry Skinner, and asks her son, Fry, if he can stay with Perry for a few days.__NEWL__Boyd and Eugenie arrive at Honey's trailer park.__NEWL__There, Dealey — who has followed the pair — is abducted by Louis, who is stalking Honey.__NEWL__While skateboarding past the trailer park, Fry catches sight of them.__NEWL__Honey leads Boyd and Eugenie on a kayaking trip.__NEWL__By coincidence they land on Dismal Key, where Sammy and Gillian have begun to bond.__NEWL__Fry is so preoccupied worrying about his mother that he collides with a garbage truck on his skateboard, suffering a concussion.__NEWL__Perry, who does not trust the hospital to look after his son, gives him a Miami Dolphins football helmet and drives with him to the docks.__NEWL__He spots Louis tailing Honey's kayak in a jon boat and follows them.__NEWL__On Dismal Key, Honey reveals her identity to Boyd and gives him a rehearsed lecture on basic courtesy.__NEWL__Boyd turns to leave with Eugenie, but they find the kayaks gone — Sammy, mistaking them for intruders, has stolen them.__NEWL__Dealey arrives on Dismal Key with Louis.__NEWL__Sammy finds them, knocks Louis out, and takes Dealey prisoner, mistaking him for the tourist's ghost.__NEWL__After Honey, Boyd and Eugenie fall asleep, Sammy sneaks to their campsite to steal water.__NEWL__Eugenie wakes and follows him back, wanting the quickest possible way off the island.__NEWL__There, she meets Dealey, who admits he was sent by Lily.__NEWL__Dealey borrows Gillian's cell phone and calls the Coast Guard for air rescue.__NEWL__Sammy says that Eugenie and Gillian are leaving with him, whether they want to or not.__NEWL__Sensing her last opportunity, Gillian asks Eugenie for some privacy and seduces Sammy.__NEWL__Perry and Fry arrive on the island, with Fry ignoring his father and leaving the boat to find his mother.__NEWL__He runs into Eugenie, who is charmed by Fry's intelligence and manners, and helps him back toward the camp when he is overcome by vertigo.__NEWL__In the morning, Honey makes Boyd climb a tree with her to watch a sunrise, which fails to impress him.__NEWL__As they climb down, Louis snatches Honey and Boyd watches mutely as she is dragged away.__NEWL__Dealey tries to paddle out in one of Honey's kayaks when a Coast Guard helicopter arrives, but has to be rescued by Gillian when he tips the kayak over and nearly drowns.__NEWL__Fry encourages Eugenie to go too, and she is rescued along with Dealey and Gillian.__NEWL__Fry comes upon Louis threatening Honey with a shotgun.__NEWL__Sammy strikes Louis with his guitar, killing him.__NEWL__Perry is shot in the hip during the skirmish, and Honey rushes him and Fry back to the mainland.__NEWL__Sammy disposes of Louis's body using his jon boat.__NEWL__Boyd reaches another island on Sammy's canoe and stumbles on a small religious group who identify him as the returned Jesus Christ.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Sammy finds a new island and realizes that Gillian is searching for him, but wonders whether or not he wants to keep hiding.__NEWL__Eugenie leaves her telemarketing job and, as a snub to Lily, sends her footage of two mating geckos which she idly filmed on the island with one of Dealey's cameras.__NEWL__Dealey offers her a job in his office.__NEWL__Boyd alienates his religious followers, who kick him out of the group and leave him on the island with his canoe.__NEWL__He makes his way to the mainland, comes across a tourist couple from Chicago asking for a realtor.__NEWL__Honey and Perry get back together while recovering from their injuries.__NEWL__Fry is happy, but worried about whether his mother's obsessiveness will drive them apart again.__NEWL__During dinner, Honey decides not to answer the phone when it rings.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768145	The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	8449360	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8449360	The residents of a sharehouse in York Street, Taringa take in a new boarder calling himself Jordan.__NEWL__At first the housemates are suspicious yet tolerant of their new tenant and his strange behaviour.__NEWL__However, it is soon discovered that Jordan has absconded with five weeks' worth of the household's rent and utility money.__NEWL__What is more, he has been using the address to perpetrate fraud against the Department of Social Security, bringing the government agency's suspicion upon the house's dole-collecting members.__NEWL__Matters are further compounded when the owners of the property appear with a work crew declaring their intention to demolish the house unless the owed rent is paid by the following Monday.__NEWL__The remaining housemates split their meagre resources into tracking down Jordan and coming up with the owed money.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7758857	The Pyrates	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	8260789	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8260789	Written in arch, ironic style and containing a great deal of deliberate anachronism, it traces the adventures of a classic hero (Captain Benjamin Avery, RN, very loosely based on Henry Avery), multiple damsels in distress, and the six captains who lead the infamous Coast Brotherhood (Calico Jack Rackham, Black Bilbo, Firebeard, Happy Dan Pew, Akbar the Terrible and Sheba the She-Wolf).__NEWL__It also concerns the charismatic anti-hero, Colonel Thomas Blood (cashiered), a rakish dastard who is loosely modeled on the historical figure, Thomas Blood.__NEWL__All of the above face off against the malevolently hilarious Spanish viceroy of Cartagena, Don Lardo.__NEWL__The book's 400 pages of continuous action travel from England to Madagascar to various Caribbean ports of call along the Spanish Main.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3498434	The Sorcerer in the North	2006-11-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	8343922	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8343922	The book starts off with Will rescuing a dog with a spear wound that he finds on the side of the road.__NEWL__Will then goes on to Castle Seacliff of the fief he has been assigned to and has a meeting with the baron there.__NEWL__After the meeting, a group of Skandians attempt to raid the fief and Will makes a deal with them: if he gives them food and drink, the Skandians will leave.__NEWL__When the owner of the dog tracks it and Will down, he is captured and handed over to the Skandians to become a slave before they leave.__NEWL__Will is soon assigned to a mission to determine the identity of a mysterious sorcerer in Grimsdell Wood, and to stop him from terrorising the castle of Macindaw.__NEWL__Will goes under disguise as a jongleur; somebody who acts as a jester but doesn't serve a king, going around the kingdom entertaining for money.__NEWL__He does this because people tend to trust jongleurs, whereas people often clam up around Rangers due to the mystery surrounding their position.__NEWL__This would, in turn, help him to get information on Grimsdell Wood more easily.__NEWL__Will travels to Macindaw, where their lord, Syron, has been poisoned and is now in the hospital.__NEWL__His son Orman has taken over the castle while his father is ill, but Orman's cousin Keren has been trying to take over as lord, but Will does not know this yet.__NEWL__Will rides to Grimsdell and sees the Night Warrior, one of the ghosts in Grimsdell, and flees in fear on his horse Tug.__NEWL__Will performs for Orman during his dinner (in the great hall), but Orman claims he is a very bad jongleur due to his inability to play classical music.__NEWL__Will then meets Keren (who enters the dining hall late) and is under the impression that he is an affable person.__NEWL__Alyss (Will's friend and a Diplomatic Service Courier) then comes disguised as a noblewoman.__NEWL__The next day, Will sees sorcery books on Orman's table and suspects he is the sorcerer in the woods.__NEWL__Will takes Alyss to Grimsdell wood during the day and Alyss works out how the magician made the Night Warrior.__NEWL__Following this, Alyss sends a report to Halt and Crowley with a pigeon.__NEWL__Halt (Will's former mentor) gets the report and decides he should send Horace, a knight on the king's guard as well as a friend of Will and Alyss, to help with Will's mission.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Orman has been poisoned too and is dying.__NEWL__The only way to help him is to go to the sorcerer in Grimsdell Wood who used to be a healer (this is only Orman's suspicion, but takes the chance).__NEWL__Will is forced to run for Grimsdell Wood but leaves Alyss behind in Castle Macindaw.__NEWL__Shadow (the name Will gave to his dog) finds a trail and leads them to Malcolm (the healer)'s house.__NEWL__He greets them after they see a giant walking around and other deformed people who Malcolm took in as helpers and patients.__NEWL__Will then tries to save Alyss, who has been captured by Keren, but Keren walks in the door and Will barely manages to escape alive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5384921	Erasing Sherlock	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8444109	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8444109	"Seeking maid-of-all-work.__NEWL__Master of Arts required.__NEWL__Opportunities for research in the field.__NEWL__Must be able to relocate in time.__NEWL__" A doctoral candidate, in the guise of a housemaid working at 221B Baker Street, believes she is there to observe the 25-year-old Sherlock Holmes, and document his methods at the beginning of his career.__NEWL__She soon learns she is operating under a serious misapprehension.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7060507	Northworld	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8300520	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8300520	The novel begins with Commissioner Nils Hansen and his Special Police Unit team in a violent confrontation with criminal android Solbarth and his gang members, who are barricaded in a building.__NEWL__Because of his reputation, Hansen is able to talk Solbarth and his gang members into surrendering with the promise that their lives would be spared.__NEWL__As the villains are being led away, Hansen is summoned by non-human messengers, who take him to the leaders of the Consensus.__NEWL__The Consensus needs Hansen's skill and ruthlessness to discover what has happened to cause Northworld to disappear.__NEWL__The planet Northworld, named after Captain North who was in charge of the colonization of the planet, is missing.__NEWL__The Consensus rules 1200 worlds, every world that is known except for Northworld.__NEWL__The Consensus initially wanted to colonize Northworld.__NEWL__Prior to the events in the novel, five expeditions, consisting of three fleets and a colonizing expedition, had been sent to Northworld to either colonize or investigate the disappearance.__NEWL__The first fleet and the colonizing expedition consisted of humans.__NEWL__Between the first fleet and the colonizing expedition, Captain North, and his team, were sent to investigate the second fleet, which was crewed by androids (similar to the replicants of Blade runner).__NEWL__The third fleet was composed of sentient machines.__NEWL__In each case the expedition disappears.__NEWL__At the opening of the series, Commissioner Hansen is sent alone to investigate the missing planet.__NEWL__Hansen first arrives in Diamond, a peaceful world that forbids weapons of any kind.__NEWL__Hansen encounters a warm welcome from the curious people, but he finds that the weapons he carries begin to disintegrate; however, he does not stay in Diamond long.__NEWL__Ruby, another world occupying the same dimensional space as Diamond, interposes itself over Diamond, causing Diamond's destruction.__NEWL__Hansen then travels to a very different part of the Matrix called the Open Lands.__NEWL__There, he is greeted by Walker (who later reveals himself as North), who takes on the appearance of several talking animals, gives Hansen advice, and tries to gain his oath of allegiance.__NEWL__Hansen refuses, and instead decides to go out on his own, entering into the land filled with warfare.__NEWL__Hansen is originally ignored by the battling warriors and left for the slaves to kill and take what they want from him.__NEWL__Hansen is forced to kill the slaves after they attack him to get his clothing.__NEWL__He then sees a suit of left behind armor that was left in the snow and follows Lord Golsingh’s army back to Lord Golsingh's town called Peace Rock, where he wins a place in the army by challenging one of the soldiers to fight him.__NEWL__The people, though they live in primitive conditions with little technology, have very sophisticated powered armor.__NEWL__This Armor has one major weapon, an electric arc extending from the suit's gauntlets.__NEWL__Length as well as power density can be controlled by opening and closing the thumb and forefinger of the gauntlet.__NEWL__A secondary weapon is the bolt, a single, one-time discharge of arc energy.__NEWL__this is little-used, as it renders the suit powerless for a time while it recharges.__NEWL__The suit is completely vulnerable to attack during this period.__NEWL__The suits also have some shielding, the ability of which to withstand attack depending on the quality of the armor.__NEWL__Hansen describes his impression of the world thusly: “The whole thing was barbaric and pre-technological; whereas the warriors’ armor was extremely sophisticated, though idiosyncratic.”__NEWL__Nothing provides insight into how this can be.__NEWL__The smiths that repair the armor claim that the armor cannot be fixed solely with human skill, but the smith must instead mentally enter the Matrix to repair the armor.__NEWL__As Hansen discovers, the armor is not understood by the people.__NEWL__Often setting aside his original objective of finding North, Hansen begins to become a part of the society.__NEWL__Hansen learns the customs of the society and he teaches the warriors how to fight in teams and so become more effective, but not without obstacles.__NEWL__Previously, the warriors had little tactics, but through the guidance of Hansen, the army is turned into a successful force that would be able to conquer the opposing merchant army in a quest for peace for the war-filled land — a dream that is a priority for Lord Golsingh.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the gods of the land encounter many problems and friction.__NEWL__All the worlds of the Matrix are threatened by destruction.__NEWL__Diamond has been destroyed by Ruby, a militaristic and heavily armed world of the Matrix, and the gods decide that Ruby's destruction will eliminate the threat to the Matrix.__NEWL__After the battle with the merchants, Hansen finds himself in a room similar to that in which he was briefed on his mission by the Consensus.__NEWL__It is here that Hansen meets the gods that rule Northworld, the head of which is Captain North.__NEWL__Hansen is told to destroy Ruby in retaliation for the destruction of Diamond.__NEWL__In the process, Hansen must be made into a god so that he can enter Ruby from inside the Matrix.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7617041	Still Forms on Foxfield	1980-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8287432	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8287432	The planet Foxfield is inhabited by people who left Earth on the brink of a nuclear war.__NEWL__After a century on their new planet, the inhabitants are contacted by people from Earth.__NEWL__Foxfielders are members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, who have kept their faith while dwelling on a rather inhospitable planet.__NEWL__The Foxfielders' survival was made possible only by the natives of Foxfield, the Commensals, who were initially assumed to be hostile, but whose chemical talents have made human survival on Foxfield possible.__NEWL__When Commensals finish their life span, they go to the jungle, to a mysterious structure known as the Dwelling, to add their body and mind to the collective consciousness, the One.__NEWL__Allison Thorne, a widow with a twelve-year-old son, David, who is in charge of the main settlement's technical center, is the one contacted by the Earth dwellers, United Nations Interplanetary.__NEWL__The UNI, who have been observing Foxfield secretly for years, are welcomed by the Foxfielders, who learn the history of the past century — that the war occurred, but was not as bad as thought — and begin to catch up on technology.__NEWL__Friction soon begins to develop between Foxfielders and the newcomers.__NEWL__Credometers, worn like wristwatches, are accepted by Foxfielders without realizing that doing so makes them irrevocably part of UNI.__NEWL__Aspects of UNI culture, such as majority voting and violent space games in which people are killed, shock the Foxfielders.__NEWL__The UNI representatives have difficulty in understanding the Foxfielders, not surprising given that religion in the UNI is reduced to "preservation societies".__NEWL__Foxfielders fear they will soon be lost in the UNI masses—while the contact affects UNI culture as well.__NEWL__Matters are brought to a head when the One announces that it intends to destroy the UNI ship, and reveals that it has already destroyed satellites.__NEWL__The Foxfielders mount an expedition to the Dwelling with Alison, her boyfriend, Seth Connaught, and a UNI citizen.__NEWL__They are able to persuade the One not to follow through on its plan.__NEWL__A final chapter, set some months later, shows Foxfield slowly integrating into UNI society while insisting on maintaining its own identity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5703513	Helena							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	8346719	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8346719	The novel opens with the family of Estácio, whose father, Conselheiro Vale, has just died.__NEWL__In his will, the Conselheiro has recognized a natural daughter, previously unknown to both Estácio and his aunt Dona Úrsula, with whom he shares the family home.__NEWL__The daughter, Helena, arrives to a mixed reception.__NEWL__Estácio welcomes her warmly while his aunt shows marked hesitation over this unknown person.__NEWL__While Estácio grows increasingly more fond of his half-sister, Helena in a series of events succeeds in also winning the affection of the stern Dona Úrsula.__NEWL__Life proceeds harmoniously in their household.__NEWL__Meanwhile Estácio, implicitly due to affections for Helena, defers an engagement with the beautiful, but less adroit Eugênia.__NEWL__Well into the novel it is revealed that Helena has been guarding a secret, one which seems to be related to a house nearby which Estácio and Helena frequently pass near while horseback riding.__NEWL__It is later revealed that the biological father of Helena, who is not Conselheiro Vale, lives in the house but in misery.__NEWL__At this point, Helena is being courted by Estácio's friend, Mendonça even though the attraction that Estácio feels for Helena is very apparent to the reader.__NEWL__This affection is never truly recognized by Estácio until the preacher Melchior warns Estácio that he feels romantic love for his new sister.__NEWL__As this is being revealed, the reader learns that Helena is indeed not the daughter of Conselheiro Vale and consequently not a blood relation to Estácio.__NEWL__However, Helena's neglect to admit that she is not truly related to the family and thus should never have been recognized proves too much for her conscience and she falls ill.__NEWL__Helena does not recover and by her death bed Estácio is horrified and distraught.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7973169	Watchman	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10686	Belfast	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	8336658	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8336658	The book tells the story of Miles Flint, a surveillance officer who works for MI5.__NEWL__After two high-profile operations involving Flint are compromised with deadly consequences, he is sent to Belfast to witness what he believes is going to be the arrest of some Provisional Irish Republican Army men.__NEWL__However, after accompanying the security forces on their mission, he discovers that what has actually been planned is the assassination of the Irishmen – and with Flint having come along for the ride, he suddenly realises that his own life is at risk.__NEWL__As the killings are about to be carried out, Flint stages a daring escape with the aid of one of the Irishmen, Will Collins.__NEWL__Then, on the run, and playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with his own side, Flint and Collins begin to piece together a lethal conspiracy which they ultimately discover goes right to the very core of the British Government.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7722223	The Charwoman's Shadow	1926-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8360220	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8360220	In Spain, during its Golden Age, a lord wishes to marry his daughter to a neighbor, but has no money for her dowry.__NEWL__He sends his son Ramon to a nearby magician who had befriended his father, in hopes that the son would learn to turn lead to gold.__NEWL__An old charwoman without a shadow works for the magician.__NEWL__The magician persuades him to trade his shadow for the knowledge, and gives him a substitute, and the charwoman who works for the magician laments that.__NEWL__He then learns that his substitute shadow does not grow and shrink as it ought to, making it difficult to mix with ordinary people except at certain times of day.__NEWL__His sister sends him a letter asking him to get her a love potion instead.__NEWL__He persuades the magician to teach him that instead, and he compounds it and gives it to his sister.__NEWL__When her betrothed husband arrives with a friend of his, a duke, she gives the potion to the duke, who falls deathly ill.__NEWL__Terrified, she nurses him; he recovers his health, enraged with everyone else, especially her betrothed, but in love with her.__NEWL__Their priest dispels Ramon's false shadow but sends him back to retrieve his own, for without it his soul is in danger of damnation.__NEWL__He tricks the magician into telling him some of the magic words needed to open the box where the shadows are kept, and works out the rest.__NEWL__He takes out his own shadow and tries to find the charwoman's.__NEWL__He goes back to her to tell her that he cannot find it.__NEWL__She tells him that it was the one of a beautiful young girl.__NEWL__He brings it to her, and when they reunite, she is transformed back into that beautiful girl, as if the shadow were casting her.__NEWL__They find that her family is long gone from the neighboring village, and Ramon brings her home.__NEWL__With the duke in love with his sister, his father intends to make a grand match for him.__NEWL__Ramon tries to appeal to his sister for help; she refuses to hear him without the duke.__NEWL__Angry, he pours out the story—including that their marriage makes his impossible—and the duke says he will appeal to the king.__NEWL__The king decrees "an ample pardon for her low birth" for the former charwoman, after which "it became treason to speak of the low birth of Anemone", and both pairs of lovers marry.__NEWL__The magician despairs of finding a worthy apprentice, and sets out through Spain, drawing all creatures of magic and legend with him, and leaves for the Country Beyond the Moon's Rising, thus ending the Golden Age.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7729866	The Detective	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8384283	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8384283	Joe Leland, a private detective, begins investigating a case for the recently widowed Norma MacIver.__NEWL__Norma requests that Leland find out everything he can about her deceased husband.__NEWL__Norma requests Leland personally because her husband had mentioned knowing him in the past.__NEWL__It turns out that Leland and Colin MacIver served in the same military unit during World War II, but at different times.__NEWL__Leland interviews__NEWL__Colin's first wife, Colin's mother, and the security guards at the track where Colin supposedly killed himself.__NEWL__Norma introduces Leland to her neighbor and former therapist, Dr. Wendell Roberts.__NEWL__During their conversation, Wendell reveals that he knew Leland's wife Karen.__NEWL__It is revealed that Wendell was friends with the man with whom Karen Leland had had an affair.__NEWL__As Leland's investigation deepens he uncovers evidence of corruption and murder.__NEWL__Eventually, Leland discovers that Colin was connected to a homicide during Leland's earlier life with the police department as a detective.__NEWL__During the investigation of Teddy Leikman's death, a confession was obtained from Felix Tesla, Leikman's roommate.__NEWL__Tesla was subsequently executed by electric chair.__NEWL__It turned out that Colin MacIver was the true murderer.__NEWL__Joe's partner, Mike Petrakis, managed to decipher Colin's coded notes and reveal a paper trail of corruption.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3953688	U.S.S. Seawolf	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z	8329974	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8329974	The story begins with a United States Navy submarine, the , on a mission to spy on the new Chinese nuclear missile submarine.__NEWL__The mission is successful until the submarine's second-in-command, the president's son Linus Clark makes a fatal error, and the submarine collides with a sonar array from a Chinese ship that is searching for them.__NEWL__The crew is imprisoned and tortured while the Chinese begin to strip the captured submarine for its secrets.__NEWL__Desperately, Arnold Morgan, the National Security Advisor, plans a mission to get the crew back, safeguard the sub's secrets, and punish the Chinese.__NEWL__He sends Navy SEALs to the island where survivors are being held and an American FA-18 Hornet to destroy the USS Seawolf which is being held in Canton harbor.__NEWL__But after the daring mission, several high-ranking U.S. Navy personnel and several members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff resign when the president prevents his son from facing a court-martial for his part in the loss of the Seawolf.__NEWL__In an angry fit of revenge, the President uses his considerable influence to have the Seawolf's commander, court-martialed for not being on the bridge at the time of Linus' error.__NEWL__This causes Morgan to resign and destroys the president's credibility in the military, as well as destroying the president's ability to lead in a crisis situation.__NEWL__In a later novel, Robinson continues to build on the conflict between the discredited president and the military by further developing the character of Arnold Morgan.__NEWL__The novel identifies the Type 094 as "Xia III-class."__NEWL__The Type 094 submarine does exist, but its NATO reporting name is "Jin-class."__NEWL__And a "Xia Class" submarine does exist, though only a single Xia Class boat was made.__NEWL__It is not known if this somewhat jumbled name is an error, or simply artistic license taken by the author since the Type-094 is an improved design based on the original Xia Class submarine (Type 092), although the Type 093 submarine is an attack submarine and not a missile submarine.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737883	The Great Pacific War	8314052	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8314052	In The Great Pacific War, the war begins with a Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Formosa and Korea.__NEWL__Japan then stages a surprise attack which results in the nearly complete destruction of the Panama Canal, by exploding a freighter full of explosives in the Gaillard Cut.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4749823	An Assembly Such as This	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8308396	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8308396	The book focuses on Fitzwilliam Darcy's initial visit to Hertfordshire during the opening chapters of Pride and Prejudice, as seen from his viewpoint.__NEWL__The book begins as he arrives in the town of Meryton, to stay at Charles Bingley's estate of Netherfield.__NEWL__Darcy expects to be bored by provincial manners and society, and he finds that is the case at a local town ball.__NEWL__To his surprise, however, he becomes fascinated by Elizabeth Bennet, whom he has accidentally offended due to her inadvertently overhearing a tactless comment that he made about her to Bingley.__NEWL__Darcy is uncomfortable in his current surroundings, and he worries about his sister Georgiana, who is vulnerable following an unpleasant encounter with George Wickham.__NEWL__Amidst attempts of unwelcome advance by Bingley's sister Caroline, he finds himself repeatedly thrown into Elizabeth's company, particularly when her sister Jane falls ill whilst visiting Netherfield, forced to stay until she recovers.__NEWL__Darcy comes to admire Elizabeth's lively spirit, generous nature and confident refusal to be cowed by her social 'betters'.__NEWL__However, Elizabeth is without money or fine connections, and she has embarrassing and 'unfortunate' relations who make her unsuitable for a wife.__NEWL__Meanwhile, protective of his friend, the somewhat naive and easily trusting Bingley, Darcy attempts to warn him off from an 'unfortunate' and hasty relationship with Jane Bennet whilst struggling with his own feelings for Elizabeth.__NEWL__Eventually, Darcy determines to explore his feelings for Elizabeth despite his misgivings, resolving to both make amends and attempt to charm Elizabeth during a ball that Bingley is holding.__NEWL__Unfortunately, despite the assistance he receives from his personal valet Fletcher, fate has conspired against Darcy: Wickham has recently moved into the area, joined the local militia and become acquainted with Elizabeth.__NEWL__As such, when he dances with Elizabeth at the ball, Darcy meets with extremely cold and unfriendly treatment from her.__NEWL__He realizes that Wickham has managed to poison Elizabeth against him with false tales of their previous dealings, and that she (and others in the village) have become distant towards him because of their perceptions of his arrogance and of Wickham's charming nature and lies.__NEWL__Too proud to set the record straight, Darcy refuses to defend himself.__NEWL__Worse, Bingley's unguarded behaviour towards Jane Bennet, her mother's tactless gloating and more examples of ill-breeding from her family strengthen Darcy's conviction that he must prevent his friend's potential ruin at all costs.__NEWL__Darcy dissuades him from marrying Jane Bennet, detecting in her no hint of regard for his friend beyond politeness.__NEWL__Realizing that his intervention (were she to learn of it) would permanently alienate Elizabeth, still Darcy resolves to act in what he sees as the best interests of his friend.__NEWL__The next day, as the Netherfield party return to London, Darcy sows the seeds of doubt in Bingley's mind about Jane's regard for him, convincing Bingley not to return to Netherfield and declare his intentions to Jane.__NEWL__The novel ends with Darcy resolving to harden his heart and forget about Elizabeth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5212212	Damia	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	8401673	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8401673	Damia is told mainly from the point of view of Afra Lyon, the Rowan's assistant, a character first introduced in the previous book.__NEWL__It begins with his childhood on the strictly regimented colony planet orbiting Capella.__NEWL__It then shows Lyon's view of the events of The Rowan, followed by his helping to raise Rowan and Jeff Raven's children, especially the precocious and powerful Damia.__NEWL__Lyon later realizes that he has fallen in love with his young ward, which gives him rather conflicted feelings.__NEWL__In the end, the two wind up defending humanity against an even more dangerous alien enemy than the Hive faced by the Rowan.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5456034	Five Minutes	1856-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	8402003	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8402003	The book is written in the form of a letter, addressed to "D.", the narrator's cousin.__NEWL__It tells the story of the aforementioned narrator's love by a woman named Carlota, whose name is only given in the final chapters of the book.__NEWL__The story begins in Rio de Janeiro City.__NEWL__The narrator, a man whose name is not given throughout the entire book, is late to take his bus, and misses it because of a five-minute delay (hence the book's name).__NEWL__Forced to take the next bus, he sits near a woman, falling in love with her at first sight, but he is not able to see her face because it is covered by a veil, and deduces she is ugly.__NEWL__Soon after, the woman leaves, mysteriously whispering in his ear "Non ti scordar di me" (Italian for "Do not forget me"); mesmerized, he tries to run after the woman, but loses her from sight.__NEWL__After one month trying to discover who she is, he finally finds her once again in a theatre, during a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata.__NEWL__He confesses his love for her, but she flees without saying a word, only leaving him a tear-soaked handkerchief.__NEWL__After many other mishaps, the man finally finds her again and confesses once more; however, she ignores him.__NEWL__Later on, the man receives a letter from the woman via her old mother, where she says she has been observing him secretly for a long time, and actually loves him, but they would never be able to stay together because she has an incurable disease.__NEWL__In the same letter, she says she has left for Petrópolis and, on the following day, would leave to Europe alongside her mother.__NEWL__She asks the narrator to come to her if he wants to live his love.__NEWL__The narrator leaves Brazil after a brief encounter with her in the Villegagnon Island, and searches for her everywhere, always finding a note from her in the places he visits.__NEWL__Finally finding her, they spend ten days in Europe.__NEWL__Nearly dying, the woman (whose name is now revealed to be Carlota) asks the narrator for a kiss, and after obtaining it, Carlota miraculously recovers from her disease.__NEWL__They marry and, after spending a year in Europe, return to Brazil and move to a farm in Minas Gerais.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6037784	Inside Outside	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z	5502759	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5502759	Jack Cull (a pun on the word "jackal") finds himself in a bizarre location called "Hell".__NEWL__A huge sphere with a sun in the center, Hell's population consists of deceased humans and demons; the humans have the same mind and body as when they died, there is no disease or famine, and deaths are reversed within hours.__NEWL__Earthquakes are frequent occurrences.__NEWL__Humans have taken control of Hell, and they have replaced the traditional inscription (as imagined by Dante), "Abandon all hope..." (written in Italian) with a new one: "Do not abandon hope" (written in Hebrew).__NEWL__Cull goes to his workplace, and hears that the mysterious "X", an analogue of Jesus Christ, has been killed by an unruly mob.__NEWL__Along with Phyllis and Fyodor, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jack investigates his death.__NEWL__Travelling into a sewer, they find out that "Hell" is in fact a massive spacecraft, controlled by hyper-moral, ultra-powerful alien beings with the means of capturing many if not most of the souls they come upon, incorporating them in immortal bodies (provided they are fed regularly).__NEWL__However, the capturing of souls is an imperfect process, and many souls are lost to the void.__NEWL__Although the bodies are more or less immortal, there comes a time when the aliens destroy them when they feel the souls have progressed to an acceptable level.__NEWL__Even then, not all of the bodies are destroyed, and some continue on with the spaceship as it travels about the galaxy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4655795	A Certain Woman							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	5508588	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5508588	Yōko Satsuki, oldest of three sisters raised by a "progressive" mother at the start of the twentieth century, is strong-willed but capricious.__NEWL__She falls in love with a journalist (Kibe), and marries him in a "love match", when arranged marriages were still the norm.__NEWL__However, Yōko is very quickly bored with the journalist, and suddenly decides to divorce him and return to her parents' house.__NEWL__The journalist is devastated by the brief marriage and divorce, but Yōko feels only contempt for him, and (in the opening of the story), when she sees him on a train, she completely ignores his existence.__NEWL__After her parents' death, and following pressure from her relatives and friends, Yōko agrees to marry a friend of a friend (Kimura) who has settled in Chicago in the United States.__NEWL__However, on the steamer from Yokohama, Yōko has an affair with a married purser (Kuraji), oblivious to the disapproving eyes of the other passengers.__NEWL__By the time she reaches the United States, Yōko decides not to marry Kimura.__NEWL__After taking money from the hapless Kimura, Yōko returns to Japan together with Kuraji.__NEWL__Yōko and Kuraji start living together, despite the fact that Kuraji remains married to someone else, and Yōko has to look after her younger sisters.__NEWL__However, Yōko fails to find happiness, as she struggles financially and bickers constantly with Kuraji.__NEWL__Kuraji proves unreliable, and eventually disappears with a police arrest warrant over his head.__NEWL__The novel ends on a dark note; first Yōko's younger sister falls ill and dies, and then Yōko dies as well, worn out by her constant struggle to escape conventional society and morality.__NEWL__Although she only wanted to live her life as an individual not bound by the constrictions imposed by others, Japan at the start of the twentieth century was not the right place or time for such freedom.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4690645	After the First Death	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5508711	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5508711	Odd Chapters__NEWL__The first narrator, Ben Marchand, is a teenager who is the son of a general commanding an anti-terrorism unit.__NEWL__At the commencement of the novel, he is waiting in his room at Castle, his boarding school, for his mother and father to arrive.__NEWL__Reference is made to his having been shot in an incident on a bridge, and his mother occasionally refers to him as "Mark".__NEWL__The incident on the bridge is the event explored in the even-numbered chapters.__NEWL__The perspective switches from Ben to his father, General Mark Marchand, who left his son's room after a brief conversation and came back to find it empty.__NEWL__The general reflects on how he volunteered Ben to deliver a message to the terrorists on the bus.__NEWL__Ben is subsequently wounded and much later, believing himself a coward, commits suicide from another bridge - after the first "death" of the title.__NEWL__The last odd-numbered chapter consists of apparent conversations between Ben and his father, which reveal that the boy is already dead.__NEWL__The general attempts to call back Ben in order to ask for forgiveness for making use of his sensitive son's perceived vulnerability when used as a go-between with the terrorists.__NEWL__They are not actually in Castle but in a mental hospital where the general, broken by guilt, is now apparently a patient.__NEWL__Even Chapters Miro is a Middle Eastern terrorist who is also a teenager.__NEWL__He and three other terrorists, Artkin, Antibbe, and Stroll hijack a bus full of preschoolers on a trip to school camp.__NEWL__Miro is assigned to kill the driver of the bus, unexpectedly a teenage girl substituting for her uncle.__NEWL__Artkin starts handing candies laced with sedatives to the children, knocking them unconscious.__NEWL__One child is killed by the drugs, most likely of an overdose or heart condition.__NEWL__Because of this, Artkin orders Miro not to kill the bus driver right away so that she can calm the children on the bus.__NEWL__The bus arrives at the bridge.__NEWL__Miro explains to the driver, Kate, that he participated in the hijacking in the belief that this would assist in freeing his homeland.__NEWL__Kate, stunned by the savagery shown when one of the terrorists dances holding the dead child above his head, is determined to escape.__NEWL__She prepares to make use of Raymond, a child who has not taken the candy, and of the keys to the bus.__NEWL__Kate attempts to drive the bus away from the bridge but the engine suddenly stalls.__NEWL__Its occupants are forced to spend the night on the bridge, now surrounded by police and troops.__NEWL__The next morning, it is reported that ransom payments are commencing.__NEWL__However, the terrorists still demand evidence of the capture of Sedeete, the leader of their group.__NEWL__A few minutes afterward, Antibbe is shot by a military sniper acting on reflex.__NEWL__The terrorists kill the boy Raymond in retaliation.__NEWL__Ben Marchand is sent with a stone from their homeland as proof of Sedeete's capture.__NEWL__Ben is briefly tortured and gives the terrorists misleading information as to the timing of a planned rescue attempt, which his father had deliberately passed to him.__NEWL__Soldiers attack the bus and free the surviving children.__NEWL__They kill Artkin, and Ben is wounded in the cross-fire.__NEWL__In the confusion of the assault, Miro escapes through the military cordon, forcing Kate to accompany him.__NEWL__Kate tries to convince Miro that Artkin was his father.__NEWL__The confused Miro does not believe this and shoots Kate, believing that she had been manipulating him.__NEWL__The girl dies thinking that her family would not know that she had been brave.__NEWL__Miro moves out to kill a passing motorist and make good his escape.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3824822	The Twenty-Seventh City	1988-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5525294	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5525294	The story proper begins when S. Jammu, an Indian woman who previously served as police commissioner of Bombay and is distantly related to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, takes over duties as the new St. Louis County chief of police.__NEWL__Her surprise appointment is greeted with confusion and suspicion, especially among the political and business elite that make up the county's advisory board, Municipal Growth.__NEWL__Over the coming months, a combination of a cult of personality, a Native American terrorist group, blackmail, and extortion bring most of the city leaders, including the leaders of the black community, to support Jammu.__NEWL__Those not won over or suppressed include General Norris, a right-wing business owner, and Martin Probst, a local construction magnate.__NEWL__While Probst's initial misgivings are more to do with maintaining impartiality, his concerns are deepened by Norris's reports of Jammu's associates engaging in illegal activities, including surveillance of political opponents.__NEWL__A proposed merger between the city and county, part of a larger property speculation scheme hatched by Jammu and her cohorts, begins a clash between Jammu and Probst.__NEWL__Jammu acts as the figurehead for the merger whilst Probst reluctantly leads the opposition movement.__NEWL__Further pressure is brought to bear on Martin Probst in order to make him endorse Jammu and his family life begins to suffer.__NEWL__First, his 17-year-old daughter, Luisa, moves out of the family home to live with her older boyfriend.__NEWL__Then Martin's wife, Barbara, is seduced and ultimately kidnapped by Jammu's subordinate Balwan Singh, even as Martin is led to believe that Barbara has left him for another man.__NEWL__Despite the public politics and private intrigues, Martin Probst and S. Jammu find themselves drawn to each other and eventually sleep together.__NEWL__The merger fails, in large part due to voter apathy, and this major setback in her plans, combined with a chronic lack of sleep and deep depression, is enough to cause Jammu to commit suicide.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Barbara Probst is accidentally killed by a police officer after Singh releases her, leaving Martin's family fractured forever due to hidden causes he cannot understand.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4769577	Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q664	New Zealand	5525358	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5525358	The novel describes the exploits of Hilda Fitzherbert, a 23-year-old Undersecretary for Home Affairs in a future where the British Empire has achieved both female suffrage (which New Zealand granted in real life in 1893) and become an Imperial Federation, which also included Belgium and coastal territories along the English Channel.__NEWL__However, Sir Reginald Paramatta, a villainous Australian republican, has his eyes set on the abduction and wooing of Miss Fitzherbert.__NEWL__Miss Fitzherbert foils the Republican plans and falls in love with Emperor Albert, the dashing young ruler of the Federated British Empire.__NEWL__Unfortunately, their plans hit a snag when the Emperor refuses the hand of the female US president's daughter, which precipitates an Anglo-American war, which the Empire wins, leading to the dissolution of the United States, its reabsorption into the Empire, and the ensuing marriage of Hilda and the Emperor.__NEWL__Several years later, the Emperor and his Empress find that their opinions about male primacy in royal succession have reversed themselves, when faced with a brilliantly competent princess and bookish, scholarly prince as prospective heirs apparent to the throne.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q430227	Sous les vents de Neptune	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	5547157	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5547157	Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is a police officer in Paris.__NEWL__His nonchalant behaviour upsets many of his subordinates and chiefs as much as it pleases the others.__NEWL__He often finds key clues in his dreams; yet this will be his undoing soon.__NEWL__Since before entering the police force, Adamsberg has been looking for a serial killer.__NEWL__That killer's modus operandi involves having a bystander being wrongly accused, which happened to Adamsberg's own brother, and some weapon with three blades, some sort of a trident, hence the Neptune reference.__NEWL__When the story begins, Adamsberg has found yet another murder he thinks is linked to the "Trident".__NEWL__Nobody believes him because the killer's crime spree is supposed to have lasted more than fifty years, culprits were always found, and Adamsberg's key suspect was buried ten years ago.__NEWL__Adamsberg's dreamlike reasoning sounds unlikely to most.__NEWL__Adamsberg has no choice but to attend a forensics seminar in Quebec, thus abandoning the case.__NEWL__While in Canada, he bonds with a French girl, who ultimately claims to be pregnant with his child.__NEWL__He then also learns that his previous love has a young child.__NEWL__Both blows lead him to get drunk for the first time in years.__NEWL__When he wakes up, he is covered in blood and his Canadian colleagues accuse him of murdering the girl with a three-bladed weapon.__NEWL__Female officer Retancourt, the most capable of his subordinates, understands he has been set up, and manages to sneak him back to France.__NEWL__There, as he is hiding in an old lady's house, a senior hacker helps him to track the Trident's various hiding places, thus proving that the suspect cannot be dead.__NEWL__Adamsberg finally manages to uncover the man's history, secret motives, and current location.__NEWL__But the Trident, who is a formidable man, threatens Adamsberg with commanding the death of his child and the latter's mother, if he does not confess to the Canadian murder and commit suicide.__NEWL__Adamsberg is about to comply when his subordinates intervene.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764280	The Silver Donkey	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	5528336	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5528336	The book traces the journey of an English soldier who comes across two young girls, Marcelle and Coco, in the rural French town of Wissant.__NEWL__The girls help the soldier, who suffers from psychological blindness as a side-effect of post-traumatic stress, to plan a way to cross the English Channel back to his brother.__NEWL__The girls bring him food and in return he tells them moralistic tales about courage, perseverance and trying your best against all odds.__NEWL__Though his stories are fiction, one is not: the story of his younger brother John who while extremely ill, finds a small silver donkey whilst digging in the garden.__NEWL__The soldier carries the silver donkey with him everywhere for luck, hope and inspiration, which the soldier claims will spread to Coco when he gives her the donkey.__NEWL__The story can be seen in two ways: from an adult's perspective or from that of an innocent child.__NEWL__The soldier could be lying in order to get the girls to help him, or he could be telling the truth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736064	The General Is Up	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z	5528835	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5528835	The setting is "Damibia" set in "Africa.__NEWL__To be precise, Central Africa" (p. 21).__NEWL__There, the President-General of the country has just announced that "all the East Indians in the country have to leave by the next moon".__NEWL__The book focuses on "The General", the Damibia Institute, guerilla attacks, portrayals of inter-racial equations in post-colonial East Africa, playing the game of tombola, a students' demo, a party, David's departure from Africa, the sad farewell at the airport, and more.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1327411	Around the Moon	1870-01-01T00:00:00Z	16457					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	5435751	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5435751	Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the Moon.__NEWL__A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but does not collide with the projectile.__NEWL__The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon.__NEWL__ The three travelers undergo a series of adventures and misadventures during the rest of the journey, including disposing of the body of a dog out a window, suffering intoxication by gases, and making calculations leading them, briefly, to believe that they are to fall back to Earth.__NEWL__During the latter part of the voyage, it becomes apparent that the gravitational force of their earlier encounter with the asteroid has caused the projectile to deviate from its course.__NEWL__The projectile enters lunar orbit, rather than landing on the Moon as originally planned.__NEWL__Barbicane, Ardan and Nicholl begin geographical observations with opera glasses.__NEWL__The projectile then dips over the northern hemisphere of the Moon, into the darkness of its shadow.__NEWL__It is plunged into extreme cold, before emerging into the light and heat again.__NEWL__They then begin to approach the Moon's southern hemisphere.__NEWL__From the safety of their projectile, they gain spectacular views of Tycho, one of the greatest of all craters on the Moon.__NEWL__The three men discuss the possibility of life on the Moon, and conclude that it is barren.__NEWL__The projectile begins to move away from the Moon, towards the 'dead point' (the place at which the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Earth becomes equal).__NEWL__Michel Ardan hits upon the idea of using the rockets fixed to the bottom of the projectile (which they were originally going to use to deaden the shock of landing) to propel the projectile towards the Moon and hopefully cause it to fall onto it, thereby achieving their mission.__NEWL__When the projectile reaches the point of neutral attraction, the rockets are fired, but it is too late.__NEWL__The projectile begins a fall onto the Earth from a distance of , and it is to strike the Earth at a speed of , the same speed at which it left the mouth of the Columbiad.__NEWL__All hope seems lost for Barbicane, Nicholl and Ardan.__NEWL__Four days later, the crew of a US Navy vessel, Susquehanna, spots a bright meteor fall from the sky into the sea.__NEWL__This turns out to be the returning projectile.__NEWL__A rescue operation is assembled, intending to raise the capsule from a depth of 20,000 feet, using diving bells and steam-powered grappling claws.__NEWL__After several days of fruitless searches, all hope is lost and the rescue party heads home.__NEWL__On the way back, a lookout spots a strange shining buoy.__NEWL__Only then do the rescuers realize that the hollow alluminium projectile had positive buoyancy and thus must have surfaced after impact.__NEWL__The 'buoy' turns out to be the projectile and three men inside are found to be alive and well.__NEWL__They are treated to lavish homecoming celebrations as the first people to leave Earth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7784091	Thieves' Picnic	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5435899	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5435899	After Simon Templar intercepts a mysterious message intended for a jewel-smuggling ring during a trip to Spain, he and his sidekick Hoppy Uniatz follow the message's trail to Tenerife, Canary Islands where they rescue an elderly Dutch diamond cutter and his daughter from being beaten to death.__NEWL__Templar learns that the old man is a reluctant member of the smuggling ring and, assisted by the daughter, sets out to bring down the gang.__NEWL__Things become more complicated when Templar learns that the man had been in possession of a lottery ticket worth the equivalent of $2 million, and that this ticket is now missing.__NEWL__So not only does The Saint have to rescue the diamond cutter and his daughter from the smuggling ring, he also has to track down the missing lottery ticket, which has sparked instability within the gang.__NEWL__Soon after, Hoppy and the diamond cutter go missing.__NEWL__Templar, using his frequent "Sebastian Tombs" cover name, infiltrates the gang, posing as a freelance diamond cutter who is hired to replace the old man.__NEWL__(This despite the fact that Templar hasn't the slightest idea as to how to cut diamonds.)__NEWL__From within the gang, Templar plans to start the members double-crossing each other, but finds his work is already half done thanks to that missing lottery ticket.__NEWL__Some later editions of this book include an afterword entitled "The Last Word" in which Charteris invites readers to join The Saint Club, a fan club that he founded in the 1930s.__NEWL__The annual dues for the club, Charteris writes, went to support the Arbour Youth Club located in east London, which at the time Charteris composed "The Last Word" was still recovering from the Blitz of World War II.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q522575	The Fall of Neskaya	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5436209	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5436209	A larenzu, Rumail Deslucido, arrives at Verdanta Castle, to make an alliance between Verdanta and his brother, Damian Deslucido, the ambitious king of Ambervale and Linn.__NEWL__Rumail tests each of the children for laran, then arranges a proxy marriage between the youngest daughter, Kristlin (who dies about a year later).__NEWL__He sends the youngest son, Coryn, to Tramontana Tower.__NEWL__At Tramontana, Coryn learns to control his laran, and to put aside his differences with the rival Storn family.__NEWL__The Tower's keeper, Kieran, believes that the Towers should be neutral in the many petty wars of the Hundred Kingdoms, and should not supply laran weapons to anyone.__NEWL__Rumail Deslucido and his brother King Damian scheme to control more of the minor kingdoms of the Hellers, hoping eventually to challenge the Hasturs of the lowlands.__NEWL__Rumail reveals his laran ability – lying under truthspell and twisting the minds of others to do the same.__NEWL__Eventually, Rumail is dismissed from Neskaya Tower for immoral or illegal use of laran.__NEWL__Taniquel Hastur-Acosta experiences a premonition of danger moments before Deslucido attacks Acosta Castle.__NEWL__The castle falls, but Taniquel escapes.__NEWL__In the forest, she meets Coryn, who gives her some of his supplies.__NEWL__After several days, they separate – she bound for Thendara and he for Neskaya.__NEWL__Taniquel reaches Thendara, and describes these events to her uncle, King Rafael Hastur II.__NEWL__A month or so later, minor nobles from the Acosta region arrive to request Hastur protection from Deslucido.__NEWL__Taniquel agrees to ride at the head of the army in the name of her unborn son.__NEWL__She foresees that Deslucido will eventually bring his armies to Hastur's doorstep.__NEWL__Damian Deslucido requests that the Comyn Council return Taniquel to his control.__NEWL__Under the power of his brother's ability to defeat truthspell, he lies convincingly.__NEWL__Taniquel tells her uncle what she has observed (Deslucido says she was allowed to sit vigil with her late husband, but in reality, she was locked in her room).__NEWL__Ultimately, King Rafael believes her and supports her claim.__NEWL__It is clear that Deslucido will declare war on Hastur.__NEWL__Aran, a matrix worker at Tramontana, informs Coryn that war is coming, and that the two towers must cease contact.__NEWL__Coryn urges his Neskaya colleagues to refuse to make laran weapons, such as clingfire.__NEWL__Belisar Deslucido's forces are defeated in battle by the Hastur forces.__NEWL__Rumail, meanwhile, intends to deploy a laran weapon, but the Hastur laranzu'in explode the device early.__NEWL__Belisar deserts his dying men.__NEWL__Rumail survives, owing to compassionate assistance from the Hastur laranzu'in, and makes his way back to his brother.__NEWL__Coryn leads Rafael Hastur's forces through the mountains at Verdanta, freeing his siblings from Deslucido's men.__NEWL__They gather local men to join the fight.__NEWL__Coryn's sister, Margarida, leaves for Thendara to join the Sisterhood of the Sword.__NEWL__Coryn returns to Neskaya Tower and urges his colleagues to join Hastur's cause.__NEWL__Damian Deslucido learns that Verdanta Castle has been freed by Hastur.__NEWL__He marches out to meet the Hastur army.__NEWL__Taniquel, as regent queen of Acosta, joins the Hastur forces.__NEWL__They come under laran attack from Tramontana Tower, which Rumail now controls, but are able to throw off the veil of confusion.__NEWL__Taniquel ventures into the Overworld to organizes a counterattack by Hali and Neskaya Towers.__NEWL__Neskaya and Tramontana attack each other in the Overworld.__NEWL__Rumail believes that a post-hypnotic suggestion he has implanted in Coryn years earlier will prevent Coryn from acting against him.__NEWL__Coryn is able to overcome Rumail, and Tramontana tower crumbles.__NEWL__Neskaya begins to crumble also.__NEWL__In battle, Taniquel takes Belisar Deslucido prisoner.__NEWL__She demands to know if he, also, has the ability to lie under truthspell.__NEWL__He confirms that he does.__NEWL__She learns that his father, Damian, has also been captured.__NEWL__Taniquel recommends to King Rafael that both be executed to wipe out the laran trait for lying under truthspell.__NEWL__After an audience with both men, Rafael comes to agree with Taniquel, and has them hung.__NEWL__Taniquel learns that contact with Neskaya has been lost.__NEWL__She and her men ride to Neskaya and learn that the tower has collapsed.__NEWL__The surviving tower workers tell her that Coryn is trapped in the Overworld.__NEWL__Taniquel enters the Overworld in an attempt to free Coryn.__NEWL__She encounters what's left of Rumail Deslucido, and he tries to kill her, but fails.__NEWL__She finds Coryn but learns that he cannot leave the Overworld with his laran intact.__NEWL__She asks him to choose, and he chooses to return to the world with her.__NEWL__Taniquel returns to Acosta, as regent for her infant son, with Coryn at her side as consort and paxman.__NEWL__A ragged man, apparently Rumail Deslucido, arrives in a small village along the Kadarin River, with vengeance on his mind.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3549879	The Night Listener	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5548191	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5548191	Gabriel Noone is a gay writer whose late-night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions.__NEWL__Noone has recently separated from Jess, his partner of ten years.__NEWL__Noone's publisher sends him the galleys of a memoir apparently written by a 13-year-old boy, Peter Lomax.__NEWL__The author claims to have been the victim of sexual abuse and infected with HIV.__NEWL__According to his memoir, his father started beating him at two and raped him at four; his mother videotaped the "sessions".__NEWL__When he was eight years old, his parents started pimping him and selling videotapes.__NEWL__When Pete was age 11, he ran away with the pornographic tapes, and his parents were jailed.__NEWL__A psychologist named Donna Lomax took the boy in and eventually adopted him.__NEWL__Noone contacts the boy and they start exchanging a series of phone calls that develop into a kind of father/son relationship.__NEWL__He begins to suspect that Pete does not exist and that he and his memoir are fabrications by Donna.__NEWL__Even a visit to their home is inconclusive, and the novel ends with Gabriel feeling that the value of the relationship to him is more important than whether or not Pete is real.__NEWL__Subplots in the novel revolve around Gabriel's relationships with his lover and his father.__NEWL__Important themes are the nature of father/son relationships, the power struggle involved in caring for and being cared for by another, the embellishment of truth, and the secrets we keep even in the most intimate relationships.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5439337	Fear Is the Key	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5520100	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5520100	In the prologue, set in May 1958, John Talbot, owner of Trans Carib Air Charter Co, is at an airfield in British Honduras, awaiting radio contact with one of his aircraft en route to Tampa, Florida, which is being piloted by his twin brother and in which his wife and baby son are passengers.__NEWL__Not long after he establishes contact the aircraft is attacked by a P-51 Mustang, after which all contact is lost.__NEWL__Two years later Talbot is on trial for robbing a bank.__NEWL__At a point where his guilt is in doubt, new information comes to light implicating him in the death of a police officer.__NEWL__Now desperate, he escapes by taking a young woman hostage from the court room and stealing a car.__NEWL__However, he is tracked down by a private detective, Herman Jablonski, who reveals that the young woman is Mary Ruthven, daughter of oil millionaire General Ruthven.__NEWL__Jablonski turns Talbot over to the General and his three business associates - Vyland, Royale and Larry (Vyland’s drug-addict son) - who, instead of turning him over to the police, hire him for an unspecified task, retaining Jablonski to keep him under guard.__NEWL__In a plot reveal, we discover that Talbot and Jablonski, a former police officer, have engineered the scenario, for reasons as yet unknown.__NEWL__Talbot slips out of the General's house and travels to an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, searching it for signs of something out of the ordinary.__NEWL__On  his return he finds Royale and Larry burying something in the grounds of the General's house.__NEWL__After they have finished he discovers that they were burying Jablonski's body and, now needing another ally, persuades Ruthven's British chauffeur, Kennedy, to help him.__NEWL__Talbot returns to the house and next day is taken to the oil platform, where he finds that Ruthven and his associates need Talbot to operate a submersible.__NEWL__Talbot carries out another reconnaissance of the platform, in the process killing Larry who had been suspicious of him.__NEWL__Managing to avoid further discovery, he and the remaining two associates use the submersible to investigate the wreck of a DC-3.__NEWL__Talbot turns the tables on his captors, revealing that the wrecked aircraft contains the bodies of his family.__NEWL__The aircraft was shot down by Vyland's associates in order to steal its cargo of gold; they have been threatening the General and his family to force him to provide the necessary resources.__NEWL__Talbot has been working for the authorities all along and convinces Vyland and Royale that, after temporarily disconnecting the submersible’s oxygen supply, he is now ready to die on the ocean floor beside his family, eliciting a terror-stricken confession from the two men, their fear of death being the key that unlocks the confession, which is relayed to witnesses on the oil platform.__NEWL__Talbot then returns to the oil platform, where Vyland throws himself to his death from a ladder.__NEWL__Royale survives to be tried and sentenced to death, Mary and Kennedy end up together and Talbot, politely turning down General Ruthven's offer of any reward of his choosing, walks off alone.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4881059	Beige Planet Mars	1998-10-01T00:00:00Z	5426797	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5426797	The novel is set on Mars and draws on previous depictions of the planet in the New Adventures.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6889257	Modesty Blaise	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5500123	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500123	Willie Garvin has lost the will to live.__NEWL__He had worked for Modesty Blaise for six years in The Network, Modesty's criminal organisation, and rose to the position of her right-hand man and became her very best friend.__NEWL__Willie was on top of the world.__NEWL__But then Modesty disbanded The Network and retired, and Willie didn't know what to do with himself.__NEWL__He got involved as a mercenary in a South American revolution, but his heart wasn't in it.__NEWL__He was captured and is now sitting in a primitive prison, waiting listlessly to be executed.__NEWL__Fortunately, Sir Gerald Tarrant, head of a British secret service organisation, knows about Willie's situation, and he needs the services of Modesty and Willie for a very special mission.__NEWL__Sir Gerald visits Modesty and lays his cards on the table.__NEWL__Modesty is very grateful and agrees to help Sir Gerald as soon as she has rescued Willie.__NEWL__This is the start of the adventure.__NEWL__Sir Gerald's job turns out to be a perilous intervention against the criminal mastermind Gabriel, who intends to steal a huge consignment of diamonds.__NEWL__The action starts in the south of France, where Willie causes Paco (who is on Gabriel's payroll) to lose his head (literally).__NEWL__Then it's on to Egypt, where Modesty and Willie get captured by Gabriel's gang.__NEWL__The diamond heist succeeds, and the action moves to a small island in the Mediterranean where Modesty has to vanquish the incredible Mrs. Fothergill in unarmed combat.__NEWL__But then all of Gabriel's gang are in pursuit, and there is nowhere to run.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7396342	Sabre-Tooth	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843	Pakistan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843	Pakistan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5500192	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500192	Karz is a military leader who has never known defeat.__NEWL__The huge Mongol is now assembling and training a large and well-equipped army of mercenaries in a hidden valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains bordering on Afghanistan.__NEWL__His objective: The invasion and occupation of oil-rich Kuwait.__NEWL__Karz does have one problem though; he lacks a couple of top lieutenants to command two sections of his growing army.__NEWL__His choice falls on Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, even though he knows they are not for hire.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sir Gerald Tarrant, who runs a secret service organisation under the British government, has noticed that many mercenaries are being recruited by some unknown employer and disappearing.__NEWL__This worries Sir Gerald, and he asks Modesty and Willie to investigate.__NEWL__So while Modesty and Willie are looking for Karz (without knowing who they're looking for), Karz has Lucille (a child dear to Modesty and Willie) kidnapped, and commands Modesty and Willie to report for duty.__NEWL__There is no possible way that Modesty and Willie can both save Lucille and sabotage the invasion of Kuwait.__NEWL__Modesty plays a long shot and is forced to fight the fearsome Twins, two men joined at the shoulders, a four-legged four-armed fighting animal impossible to defeat.__NEWL__And even if she survives that fight, how will Modesty escape from the isolated valley so far from civilisation?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4659982	A Taste for Death	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5500227	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500227	Canadian Dinah Pilgrim (blind since 11) and her sister Judy are vacationing in Panama.__NEWL__They're attacked on a lonely beach by a pair of gunmen, and Judy is killed and Dinah is taken prisoner.__NEWL__Willie Garvin is nearby and he intervenes, killing the two gunmen, and incidentally determining that they work for Gabriel, the villain from the first Modesty Blaise book.__NEWL__Willie and Dinah go into hiding, knowing that Gabriel can mobilise the entire Panamanian underworld to search for Dinah.__NEWL__Modesty comes to their aid, and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues, with both Modesty and Willie barely surviving traps that should not possibly be survivable.__NEWL__Back in England, Modesty encounters Simon Delicata, a huge man with an ape-like build, and strength to match.__NEWL__A friend of Sir Gerald Tarrant is dead, and Simon Delicata is the killer.__NEWL__And Willie knows Simon Delicata from long ago, having been beaten senseless and near-fatally injured by him in a barroom fight.__NEWL__Then Dinah is brutally kidnapped, and it becomes obvious that Gabriel and Simon Delicata are working together.__NEWL__Modesty and Willie travel to Algeria and The Sahara to rescue Dinah.__NEWL__But they're up against the most formidable opponents they've ever crossed swords with.__NEWL__Literally in fact; Modesty has to defeat the fencing master Wenczel in a duel to the death, and he's wearing a protective steel mesh jacket.__NEWL__The final fight, set in an abandoned Foreign Legion fort, occurs with Modesty incapacitated from a serious sword wound and Willie having to go one-on-one unarmed against the man-ape Delicata.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7741597	The Impossible Virgin	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5500277	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500277	Mischa Novikov had never even considered defecting from Russia until one day when his analysis of a satellite picture of a tiny bit of central Africa awakens an unbridled greed in him.__NEWL__Hidden in an almost inaccessible valley he can see untold riches, and he is the only man on earth who knows about them.__NEWL__Eight months later Novikov dies in a small hospital not far from his hidden treasure, the victim of Brunel's over-zealous torture.__NEWL__And a few days later Modesty Blaise happens by and intervenes when two of Brunel's men start interrogating Doctor Pennyfeather, who had been at Novikov's deathbed.__NEWL__Brunel refuses to accept that Novikov took his secret into the grave with him.__NEWL__The story moves to London where Modesty and Willie Garvin manage to sabotage one of Brunel's operations.__NEWL__But then Lisa, Brunel's adopted daughter, tricks Willie, and in France Brunel turns the tables and captures Modesty and Willie and Dr. Pennyfeather.__NEWL__Back to Africa, to Brunel's plantation, where Modesty finds herself imprisoned, alone and drugged and being brainwashed, while Brunel slowly tortures Dr. Pennyfeather.__NEWL__As if this isn't bad enough, Adrian Chance, Brunel's right-hand man, succumbs to delusions of grandeur and manages to coerce Lisa into killing Brunel.__NEWL__Adrian Chance then vents his deep-rooted hatred for Modesty by locking her and Pennyfeather in a huge cage with a vicious gorilla.__NEWL__But then the fuel store goes up in flames, and the story takes a surprising twist.__NEWL__Finally, during a fight with machetes and quarterstaffs, Modesty sinks lifeless to the ground, and Adrian Chance rushes in for the kill.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6494278	Last Day in Limbo	1976-05-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5500325	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500325	Maude Tiller, one of the few female agents in Sir Gerald Tarrant's secret service, is miserable.__NEWL__Her last assignment involved her having to submit to sexually degrading treatment by Paxero, the man she had been sent to spy on.__NEWL__And she hadn't even learned anything about the rich and enigmatic Paxero to justify the disgusting things she had let herself be subjected to.__NEWL__Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin discover how their good friend Maude has been mistreated, and they decide to teach Paxero a lesson.__NEWL__But when they break into his villa on the outskirts of Geneva they unexpectedly find a Breguet watch that was a gift from Modesty to Danny Chavasse, a very close friend of Modesty's.__NEWL__Everyone thought Danny had died when a cruise ship sank two years ago along with some 30 other people, but finding his watch indicates that Danny's fate was not as simple as that.__NEWL__Modesty confirms that Danny is alive with a visit to insane, but verifiably clairvoyant Lucifer (last featured in the novel, I, Lucifer), who has the ability to predict when someone is about to die; although he indicates Danny still lives, he warns her that one of her other friends may soon be killed.__NEWL__This is the start of the journey that leads to Limbo, Paxero's secret and hidden plantation in the jungles of Guatemala.__NEWL__Limbo is a bizarre community led by Paxero's domineering aunt Benita, farmed by slaves, very special slaves, rich and famous men and women who have been selected by Aunt Benita and kidnapped and will now spend the rest of their lives at hard labour, watched over by armed Special guards.__NEWL__The "last day in Limbo" occurs when Paxero decides to shut the plantation down, and orders the guards to kill all of the slaves – who now include Modesty, who has let herself be captured so as to infiltrate Limbo.__NEWL__Modesty leads a slave uprising, and Willie and Maude arrive just in time, after having hacked their way through the jungle.__NEWL__A final battle ensues, with Paxero and his heavily armed guards holed up in the big house, waiting for reinforcements to arrive by aircraft.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5305040	Dragon's Claw	1978-10-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5500372	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500372	While sailing a small yacht single-handedly from Australia to New Zealand, Modesty Blaise rescues Luke Fletcher, the world-renowned painter, from drowning.__NEWL__But how in the world did Luke Fletcher end up adrift in the Tasman Sea, after having disappeared in the Mediterranean two months earlier?__NEWL__Luke Fletcher is not the only person from the world of the arts who has disappeared in the last couple of years, but he is the only one who has turned up alive later.__NEWL__Back in England, Modesty and her good friend Willie Garvin refuse to get involved in trying to unravel the mystery, preferring to leave well enough alone.__NEWL__But then Luke Fletcher is killed, and Modesty and Willie make it their goal to find out who is behind it all and bring him/her down.__NEWL__The trail leads back to the Tasman Sea, to Dragon's Claw Island, but Modesty and Willie make a mistake and find themselves in captivity.__NEWL__They've solved the puzzle of why certain people with artistic flair have disappeared, but will they live long enough to make use of this knowledge?__NEWL__Willie, ever the resourceful one, manages to break out of his cell, but then he's recaptured.__NEWL__After that the bad guys don't intend to give Modesty or Willie another chance to escape.__NEWL__They force Modesty to fight a gun duel against the Reverend Uriah Crisp, the gun-toting minister who has proven that he is faster on the draw than Modesty.__NEWL__Modesty is given her own gun and holster, her gun loaded with one bullet.__NEWL__She waits calmly as the crazy priest advances, a prayer book in one hand and a six-shooter on his hip.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5245279	Dead Man's Handle	1985-10-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5500564	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5500564	The headquarters of "The Hostel of Righteousness" is an old monastery on the small Greek island Kalivari.__NEWL__But this does not imply that the organisation is a particularly holy one.__NEWL__On the contrary, Dr. Thaddeus Pilgrim and his followers are among the most unholy people you could have the misfortune of meeting.__NEWL__By chance, Willie Garvin and Modesty Blaise are targeted by Dr. Pilgrim, who has an obsession for creating "interesting scenarios".__NEWL__Dr. Pilgrim sends Sibyl and Kazim, his two top assassins, to England to capture Willie Garvin and bring him to Kalivari under heavy sedation.__NEWL__There Dr. Janos Tyl subjects Willie to the most diabolical brainwashing possible for him; he is made to think that a woman called Delilah has brutally murdered Modesty, and that he must now avenge Modesty's death by killing Delilah.__NEWL__Willie is shown pictures of this she-devil Delilah, in reality pictures of Modesty Blaise.__NEWL__In other words, Willie is now programmed to kill Modesty on sight, at which point he will regain his memory, and presumably go insane when he realises what he has done.__NEWL__Modesty manages to pick up Willie's trail, and she eventually arrives at Kalivari, waiting until after dark to go ashore.__NEWL__Dr. Pilgrim has ensured that Modesty and Willie encounter each other in the old amphitheater, suddenly seeing each other when the spotlights are switched on.__NEWL__Willie doesn't hesitate a moment, he draws his throwing knife and throws it.__NEWL__The story does not end here, and soon Dr. Pilgrim's obsession with interesting scenarios goes horribly wrong (for him) when Sibyl and Kazim are killed in gladiator-style duels and Dr. Janos Tyl is felled by a heavy round shield thrown frisbee-style by Willie.__NEWL__And finally, the ungodly Dr. Pilgrim meets his fate at the hands of one of his own assassins.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385263	The Charnel Prince	2004-08-17T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5499267	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5499267	In this sequel to The Briar King, Anne, her maid Austra, and her protectors Cazio and z'Acatto are working to earn passage by sea to her home in Eslen, while trying to keep a low profile.__NEWL__Anne and Austra experience further trials with their friendship and Anne learns more about her destiny and undergoes a transformation into a mature and powerful adult.__NEWL__Sir Neil, against his wishes, and still haunted by the death of his love, Fastia, travels south to find Anne and meets with treachery and unexpected kindness.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Aspar, Winna, and Stephen Darige are tasked by Praifec Hespero to hunt down and kill the awakened Briar King.__NEWL__However, they discover that his presence might not be as harmful as the Church fears and discover more evidence that makes them question the Church's motives.__NEWL__Queen Muriele governs Eslen with a much wiser hand than her husband ever did, but she is faced with many challenges and finds unexpected allies.__NEWL__The book ends with her in prison after a palace coup by her brother-in-law Sir Robert, who has literally returned from the dead, but she has managed to keep her son safe and out of harm's way.__NEWL__In addition to the familiar characters from The Briar King, The Charnel Prince introduced a new main character, a composer and a musical genius Leovigild "Leoff" Ackenzal.__NEWL__Heading to the royal castle to meet the late king William.__NEWL__Leoff accidentally stumbles on an evil plot to drown the Lowlands under waters.__NEWL__He helps to thwart the attempt and becomes a small hero.__NEWL__This helps him to get a position as the court composer and to start his masterwork, an opera-styled musical composition that brings together singers and an orchestra of 30 players for the first time in the history of the world.__NEWL__However, to finish his work, he has to find his way through the complex political situation of the court and the censorship of Praifec Hespero.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767638	The Sweetest Fig	1993-10-25T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5499708	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5499708	Monsieur Bibot is a wealthy dentist.__NEWL__He lives alone in Paris, France, in a fancy apartment with his dog, Marcel, whom he often mistreats and abuses.__NEWL__One day, an impoverished old woman stops by Bibot's office to have her tooth extracted.__NEWL__After removing the tooth with a pair of pliers, making little effort to lessen the pain of the operation, Bibot is angry when the woman is unable to pay his fee in cash.__NEWL__Instead, she pays him by giving him two figs which she claims will make his dreams come true.__NEWL__Bibot scoffs at the thought of magical figs and refuses to give her any painkillers.__NEWL__Later that evening, Bibot proceeds to eat one of the figs as a midnight snack.__NEWL__He soon discovers that the old woman is right: Bibot finds himself walking Marcel in Paris in his underwear, stared at by the passersby, and the Eiffel Tower has drooped over.__NEWL__Everything from his dream the previous night has come true.__NEWL__Horrified and embarrassed by the mishap, Bibot vows to hypnotize himself to control his dreams so that he may become the richest man on Earth.__NEWL__This self-centered plan involves abandoning Marcel, whom he has continued to harm in more ways than one.__NEWL__Then one night, when Bibot is preparing dinner, Marcel quickly gobbles up the second fig sitting on the table.__NEWL__Bibot is furious and chases the dog around the house.__NEWL__Heartbroken over the fig, Bibot goes to sleep.__NEWL__The next morning, however, Bibot wakes up underneath his bed – as the dog.__NEWL__Bibot and Marcel have swapped bodies.__NEWL__Bibot is horrified and realizes that the dog was dreaming about finally getting revenge on his cruel master all along.__NEWL__Marcel, who is now in human form, tells Bibot it's time for his walk.__NEWL__Bibot tries to yell, but all he can do is bark.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7997295	Who Killed Kennedy	1996-04-01T00:00:00Z	5504214	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5504214	The book's credited co-writer, fictional journalist James Stevens, investigates the events occurring in 1970s Britain and the connection between them, the anarchist terrorist Victor Magister (also known as "the Master"), the organisation known as UNIT, their scientific adviser known as "the Doctor" and the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737368	The Gospel According to Adam	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q79	Egypt	5504833	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5504833	A young man walks a scorching Cairo street.__NEWL__At the entrance to the city’s pivotal main square, he notices a succulent girl.__NEWL__Ineluctably drawn into her magnetic field, and the swirling, palpitating square ahead, he starts to fantasize about how he would talk to her, seduce her, rape her, love her, abandon her, cherish her were he, for example, a Brazen Rake, a Brutal Bohemian, a Sensitive Painter, or a Bald Mechanic, jumping from persona to persona as his imaginings become more and more feverish, while in his mind the girl goes through a similar series of transformations.__NEWL__These characters—a circus parade of Egypt’s contemporary human menagerie—are not, however, mere dress-up costumes to be donned and discarded at their author’s whim.__NEWL__They, and others who emerge from the side alleys of his mind, strut their stuff, accost one another, argue, and shout until eventually they leave him, on a scorching Cairo street, peering after an infinite succession of receding, parallel clamorous worlds, from whose possibilities he must draw his own conclusions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7755695	The Outpost	1886-01-01T00:00:00Z	5416976	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5416976	The Outpost is a study of rural Poland under the country's foreign partitions.__NEWL__Its principal character, a peasant surnamed Ślimak ("Snail", in Polish), typifies his village's inhabitants, nearly all illiterate; there is no school under Russian imperial rule.__NEWL__Religion is naively superficial: when a villager, Orzechowski, buys an engraving of Leda and the Swan for a mere three roubles at the landowner's moving-out sale, he prays before it with his family, much as other villagers venerate old portraits of noblemen who had been benefactors of the local church.__NEWL__Changes are, however, coming to the area.__NEWL__A railway line is being built nearby.__NEWL__The owners of a local manor house sell their estate to German settlers .__NEWL__Polish landowners, who speak more French than Polish, are happy to take the money and move to a city or abroad, away from the boring countryside.__NEWL__Ślimak's farm becomes an isolated Polish outpost in an increasingly German-settled neighborhood.__NEWL__Ślimak suffers a series of adversities as he refuses to sell his plot of land to German settlers (who are described not unsympathetically).__NEWL__The stubborn, conservative peasant is not acting from self-interest, since the money he would have gotten could have bought a better farm elsewhere; he is, rather, acting from inertia and from a principle inculcated in him by his father and grandfather: that when a peasant loses his hereditary plot, he faces the greatest of misfortunes—becoming a mere wage-earner.__NEWL__Still, Ślimak lacks his wife's strength of will; he hesitates.__NEWL__But on her deathbed she makes him swear that he will never sell their land.__NEWL__The book's somber picture is relieved by the author's humour and warmth.__NEWL__The local Catholic priest, habitué of dinners and hunting parties at local manors, is not entirely devoid of Christian virtues.__NEWL__Two of the village's humbler denizens turn out to be exemplars of selflessness.__NEWL__Ślimak's half-wit farm hand, on finding an abandoned baby, takes it home to care for it.__NEWL__After Mrs. Ślimak dies and the widower's farm burns down, he is befriended by a poor, empathetic Jewish peddler who comes to his aid and, in the manner of a deus ex machina, saves the day and the farm.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762074	The Saint Steps In	1943-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5439414	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5439414	In Washington, D.C., a young woman whose father has invented a new form of synthetic rubber requests Simon Templar's aid when she receives a threatening note.__NEWL__Before long, The Saint is drawn into a web of war-related intrigue involving what appear to be gangsters, but soon turns out to be groups with differing opinions as to what it takes to be patriotic.__NEWL__The book reveals that, instead of enlisting to fight in the war, Templar has instead been working behind the scenes, carrying out quiet missions against enemy agents and, unusually for the character, his efforts in this case are actually supported by law enforcement.__NEWL__This is the third Saint book in a row to be set in the United States (previously most of Templar's adventures took place in England), following The Saint in Miami and The Saint Goes West, and direct reference is made to the Miami novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5641568	Half-Life	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5482474	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482474	Two weeks before high school graduation and the geography of 18-year-old Adam Westman's life is about to change dramatically.__NEWL__Many of the familiar landmarks will remain—his best friend Dart riding shotgun; the suburban house where he lives with his dad and younger sister; and the numerous on-ramps and off-ramps that connect him to his hometown of Angelito in the center of centerless Los Angeles.__NEWL__But when death and love, perhaps, arrive unexpectedly, Adam must learn that trouble sometimes has to rumble through a tidy world to make room for the kind of magical connections that make life worth living.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6517320	Legacy of the Daleks	1998-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5419651	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5419651	As the Doctor prepares to search for Sam, he receives a psychic cry of pain and despair from his granddaughter Susan, and discovers that it was focused through another TARDIS on a distant planet.__NEWL__He decides to materialize on Earth following the Dalek invasion, the same time period in which Sam disappeared; perhaps in hope he can find her as well while preventing whatever caused Susan to send the cry.__NEWL__Following the invasion, Earth is devastatingly underpopulated, and the survivors (in Britain, at least) have coalesced into city-states which are currently engaged in political infighting.__NEWL__Lord Haldoran supplies most of England with power, but Lord London opposes him and many city-states are flocking to London for power supplies.__NEWL__War seems inevitable, but Haldoran has a secret weapon; his mysterious military advisor, Estro, is supplying him with Dalek guns.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Susan and her husband David are having marital difficulties, as it has become increasingly difficult as the decades pass to hide the fact that Susan isn’t aging while David is.__NEWL__Susan is a Peace Officer, one of the elite who keep the Earth safe from the Dalek Artefacts left behind after the invaders were defeated; when she receives word that someone is tampering with the buried DA-17, she sets off to investigate, but is captured by Estro’s men.__NEWL__The Doctor materializes on Earth and meets Donna, a knight of Domain London and Lord London’s daughter.__NEWL__He accompanies her back to London, where he learns of the political situation and is disappointed to find that the people of Earth are fighting amongst themselves rather than working together to rebuild the planet.__NEWL__Haldoran launches an attack on London, sending his best man, Tomlin; in a lure to draw London’s troops out into the open, while Haldoran’s officers Barlow and Craddock strike with their Dalek weapons.__NEWL__Tomlin learns of their betrayal, and escapes the battle, vowing revenge.__NEWL__The Doctor and Donna meet David and learn of Susan’s disappearance, and they set off for DA-17 to investigate themselves.__NEWL__They too are captured, and sent to Haldoran’s castle for questioning; Donna is terrified, as she was once married to Haldoran for political reasons and knows the man to be cruel and sadistic.__NEWL__The Doctor is more concerned with the fact that people are tampering with a Dalek Artefact, as the Daleks always leave behind traps for the unwary.__NEWL__At Haldoran’s castle, they meet Estro, whom the Doctor instantly recognizes as the Master in a former incarnation, the one the Third Doctor fought most often, and the Doctor realizes that, by backtracking Susan’s call, he has broken a law of time and encountered the Master “out of order”.__NEWL__The Master reveals that he has set Haldoran and London against each other to amuse himself while he waits for DA-17 to be opened.__NEWL__Haldoran believes that the Master is getting his Dalek weapons from DA-17, but in fact he is supplying Haldoran from a private cache of his own and intends to open DA-17, since he has learnt of a powerful secret weapon inside which he intends to seize.__NEWL__Susan manages to escape from her guards and break into the mine workings around DA-17, but is too late to stop the technicians from completing their work.__NEWL__By supplying DA-17 with power the Master was hoping to decode the security locks keeping the Artefact sealed, but in fact he has supplied it with enough power to begin manufacturing new Daleks from its store of raw minerals and Dalek embryos.__NEWL__The Daleks emerge, capture Susan and transform the Master’s guards and technicians into Robomen.__NEWL__Susan is left alive for questioning, but manages to escape from her Roboman guards and get to the heart of the Dalek Artefact.__NEWL__There, the Master materializes in his TARDIS and reveals that the Daleks have created a matter transmuter capable of transforming any element into any other element; he intends to use it as a weapon, holding civilisations hostage to his demands for power.__NEWL__The Doctor, David and Donna overpower their guards and try to get past Haldoran to destroy his cache of Dalek weapons, but Haldoran sees through them and recaptures them.__NEWL__At that moment Tomlin arrives and tries to kill him, and although Haldoran kills Tomlin, Donna takes advantage of the distraction and shoots Haldoran as well.__NEWL__Barlow returns, having successfully conquered London with his Dalek guns; Lord London’s men killed him when he refused to surrender.__NEWL__The Doctor, learning that all communication has been lost with the Master’s men at DA-17, manages to convince Barlow that something has gone wrong there, where Barlow leads a squad to the pit and learns what has happened.__NEWL__The Daleks are currently confined to the pit area, but are building a power transmitter which will enable them to venture further into the surrounding countryside.__NEWL__Barlow and his men fight the Daleks and Robomen, while the Doctor, David and Donna break into DA-17 to find out what is really going on.__NEWL__Since the Daleks are no longer receiving power from Haldoran’s stores, the Doctor increases the embryo production in the hatchery, draining power from the Artefact’s reserves; and while the Daleks are busy dealing with this, he also sets the factory production reactors to overload.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Master seizes the core of the matter transmuter and tries to escape; the Doctor, Donna and David run into him, and when the Master tries to shoot the Doctor, David pushes the Doctor aside and is killed himself.__NEWL__The Master retreats back to his TARDIS and leaves with Susan as his hostage, and the Doctor and Donna escape from DA-17 moments before its reactors overload and explode, wiping out the Daleks.__NEWL__The Doctor slowly recovers from his injuries, and Donna and Barlow decide to marry; partly for political convenience, but not entirely.__NEWL__Once the Doctor has fully recovered he returns to the TARDIS and tracks the flight of the Master’s, but when he discovers that it materialized briefly on Tersurus and then left again, he recalls the name of the planet and realizes what happened.__NEWL__The Master, not realizing that his hostage was also Gallifreyan, was caught off guard when Susan amplified a shriek of pain and despair through his own TARDIS’ telepathic circuits, incapacitating him; he tried to flee out onto the surface of Tersurus, but was caught in the explosion and nearly killed when Susan turned his own TCE on the matter transmuter.__NEWL__Susan then left Tersurus in the Master’s TARDIS, and the crippled Master remained to be discovered by Chancellor Goth of Gallifrey who was investigating the renegade TARDIS materialization.__NEWL__The Doctor decides to leave Susan her freedom, and sets off once again in search of Sam.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7200270	Placebo Effect	1998-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5419833	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5419833	The Doctor takes Sam to Micawber's World, an artificial planet owned by the Carrington Corporation, to attend the wedding of his friends Stacy Townsend and the Ice Warrior Ssard.__NEWL__Sam is slightly peeved to learn that they travelled with him during the three-year period in which he'd left her at a one-hour Greenpeace rally, but she eventually forgives him.__NEWL__The wedding ceremony is disrupted by followers of the Church of the Way Forward, who believe that interspecies marriage dilutes racial purity and is thus forbidden by their Goddess.__NEWL__Chase Carrington himself apologises for the disruption and pays for the wedding guests’ expenses out of his own pocket.__NEWL__Later, however, he is murdered by Foamasi assassins working for the Dark Peaks Lodge, and an impersonator in a body-suit disguise takes his place...__NEWL__Micawber's World is hosting the 3999 Olympics, and Ms Sox, the head of security for Carrington Corp, has called in extra Space Security troops for the occasion.__NEWL__A patrol vanishes while lighting the tunnels beneath the surface of the planet, but rather than court-martial Sergeant Dallion for losing her men without an explanation, Commander Ritchie gives her and the remaining members of her squad leeway to investigate.__NEWL__In fact, Ritchie's wife and son have been kidnapped by the Dark Peaks Lodge, who intend to discover what's going on in the tunnels and then kill Dallion.__NEWL__Rivalry between Dark Peaks and the Twin Suns Lodge leads to the murder of a Foamasi, and when the Doctor notices the body being taken to the Space Security building for an autopsy, he involves himself in the investigation out of curiosity.__NEWL__Ritchie decides that the Doctor might prove to be a useful loose cannon and directs him to the Foamasi ambassador, Green Fingers.__NEWL__The Doctor also speaks with Ms Sox and with Sergeant Dallion, and eventually they all put together their stories and determine that the Dark Peaks Lodge is attempting to infiltrate Carrington Corp through blackmail, murder and impersonation.__NEWL__Sam investigates the Church of the Way Forward but determines that they're not connected to the mystery; the telepathic Reverend Lukas simply wants to spread the word of his Goddess throughout the galaxy.__NEWL__His young follower Kyle Dale, who has come to compete in the Olympics, becomes intrigued by Sam's intelligent and passionate defense of her own beliefs.__NEWL__After leaving the Church followers, Sam happens across the entourage of the visiting Duchess of Auckland, just as the sycophantic journalist Talon Chalfont learns that he's been snubbed from the Duchess’ itinerary.__NEWL__Chalfont hacks into the Federation computers to search for a better story, learns of the missing troopers and sets off to investigate.__NEWL__Sam follows him, and Kyle, who happens to be passing by, follows them both.__NEWL__Ms Sox informs the Doctor that her security team has been investigating SSS xenobiologist Miles Mason, who was seen consorting with an unknown alien shortly before arriving on Micawber's World.__NEWL__Ms Sox believes that Mason is involved with drug smugglers who have set up camp in the tunnels; it would seem that the Dark Peaks Lodge learned of her investigation while infiltrating Carrington Corp, and are attempting to find out what's going on so they can get in on the action.__NEWL__But Dark Peaks agents learn of the investigation and send word to Events Co-ordinator Sumner that Ritchie and his associates are conspiring to assassinate the Duchess of Auckland.__NEWL__What nobody yet realizes is that the creatures in the tunnels are Wirrrn.__NEWL__Dr Mason has been absorbed into the Wirrrn hive mind, and has been using the facilities of the SSS labs to manufacture a mutagenic drug which will transform anyone who takes it into a Wirrrn.__NEWL__He intends to trick the Foamasi into distributing the drugs to the athletes under the impression that they are performance-enhancing; in fact most of them are placebos with the mutagenic tags attached.__NEWL__Some of the drugs contain a time-release formula, so those who take them will not fully transform into a Wirrrn for months, thus spreading the taint throughout the galaxy...__NEWL__The missing patrol members have been transformed into Wirrrn larvae, and the Queen sends them to the surface to await the start of the games.__NEWL__She sends a telepathic message to Mason, ordering him to arrange a distraction that will provide the larvae with cover for their attack.__NEWL__The signal is also picked up by the Doctor, who faints dead away just as Sumner arrives to arrest the “conspirators”—and by Reverend Lukas, who believes it to be the call of his Goddess, and who leads his followers into the tunnels where most are absorbed by the Wirrrn.__NEWL__Chalfont is also transformed into a Wirrrn, but Sam and Kyle manage to escape.__NEWL__Sumner realizes he's been deceived, and the recovering Doctor realizes that there's more going on in the tunnels than he'd previously believed.__NEWL__Green Fingers informs the other Lodges about Dark Peaks’ activities and executes the Dark Peaks Patriarch; the remaining Dark Peaks Foamasi are targeted and killed by assassins from the other Lodges, and eventually Ritchie's wife and son are found and rescued.__NEWL__In the process, it becomes clear that many Dark Peaks agents have themselves become infected by the Wirrrn in the course of their criminal activities.__NEWL__The Doctor and Ms Sox obtain a sample of the drugs, analyse them and learn the truth just as Sam and Kyle arrive with their story.__NEWL__Mason plants a bomb beneath the Duchess of Auckland's podium, and she is killed instantly in the explosion.__NEWL__In the ensuing confusion the Wirrrn larvae emerge and attack, and some of the Olympic athletes spontaneously transform into Wirrrn, spreading confusion and terror.__NEWL__But thanks to their advance warning of the danger, SSS troops are able to contain the attack and drive off the larvae.__NEWL__The Doctor enters the tunnels and confronts the Wirrrn Queen, who has made her nest around the planet's artificial power source; he is able to rewire it and electrocute her, but some of the Wirrrn larvae survive.__NEWL__Acting on instinct, they steal a shuttle and set off back “home”, to the Andromeda Galaxy.__NEWL__The Doctor synthesizes an antidote to the mutagenic drug, saving the athletes who took them from becoming Wirrrn—although they will never fully recover.__NEWL__Kyle decides to remain on Micawber's World and carry on the good work of the Church despite Lukas’ betrayal of his ideals.__NEWL__Lukas himself has escaped with the body of the Wirrrn Queen and with two of his followers—who are slowly transforming into Wirrrn themselves, ready to spread the word of their Goddess throughout the galaxy...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763595	The Shadows of Avalon	2000-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5420025	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5420025	The novel is a partial sequel to the Virgin New Adventures novel Happy Endings.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7914469	Vanderdeken's Children	1998-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5420251	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5420251	The TARDIS is thrown off course by a 'vortex discontinuity'.__NEWL__They materialise in deep space, several hundred light years form Earth in the year 3123 A.D.__NEWL__The discover a derelict, cylinder like ship, over four-thousand meters in length.__NEWL__There are two other ships in the area as well, from rival star-systems, the Emindarian passenger liner, Cirrandaria, and the Nimosian warship, Indomitable.__NEWL__Both ships claim they have the right to salvage the derelict.__NEWL__Narrowly avoiding destruction by the Indomitable, the Doctor and Sam land on the Cirrandaria.__NEWL__The Indomitable sends a technician in a pod down to the derelict to explore.__NEWL__The technician, after some examining, begins to think that the derelict was grown, not built.__NEWL__He loses contact with Indomitable, and comes to believe he is being followed by a creature.__NEWL__He attempts to escape by climbing up one of the pylons that ring both ends of the ship.__NEWL__He pictures the monsters from his childhood reaching up for him, lets go of the pylon and falls to his death.__NEWL__The Cirrandaria sends its own expedition down to the derelict, including the Doctor and Sam, and all hell breaks loose...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733012	The Face-Eater	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5420650	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5420650	On Earth's first space colony, Proxima II, an expedition to a nearby mountain disappears and only one survivor, Jake Leary, returns, apparently turned insane by the experience, he breaks out of hospital and vanishes.__NEWL__Afterwards mutilated bodies begin appearing on the streets, causing the colony's workers to send a distress signal against the wishes of their leader, Helen Percival.__NEWL__The Doctor and Sam arrive in response to the signal, causing Percival to become paranoid that she will be overthrown.__NEWL__despite this, she allows The Doctor to investigate.__NEWL__Sam learns that Percival burned the bodies without an autopsy and breaks into Helen's office to investigate and sets off a bomb planted to stop intruders, and is saved by Police Chief Fuller.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Doctor speaks to xenozoologist Joan Betts, who is studying the native Proximans, who are dying out suddenly.__NEWL__The Doctor theorises that the Proxians have telepathic powers which are focused on the mountain, trapping something in.__NEWL__When The Doctor attempts to contact their group mind, he learns that they are under threat from an ancient evil.__NEWL__When The Doctor follows Joan into the sewers later that day, something attacks them which kills Joan and knocks him unconscious.__NEWL__Percival begins to oppress the colonists, sparking off riots, whilst Sam and Fuller read Leary's report which explain that the expedition woke an ancient evil which was dormant in the mountains.__NEWL__Later Fuller reveals that he is a shape shifter which has killed the real Fuller.__NEWL__However Sam escapes when a Proximan attacks the creature.__NEWL__The Doctor is brought to the officers, where he explains that an ancient creature called the Face-Eater has been sending out shape shifters to gather life essences for it to eat.__NEWL__Leary enters and explains that this Doctor is a shape shifter - the real one was with him in the mountains, and that it was a shape shifter impersonating him that is responsible for the murders.__NEWL__The Doctor finds the Face-Eater with a Proximan's help and learns that the Proximans built the Face-Eater as a focal point for their group mind in case of attack, but it soon began to eat all life on the planet until it was subdued, but the colonists have woken it again.__NEWL__The Face-Eater then becomes strong enough to move by itself and attacks the settlement.__NEWL__After Percival fails to launch a nuclear strike to wipe out the colony, she is killed by a worker.__NEWL__The Face-Eater attempts to absorb The Doctor, but is confused by his dormant personalities, allowing the Proximans to attack it.__NEWL__Finding the control unit, the Proximans shut down the Face-Eater, which also shuts down their group mind mentally degenerating them into little more than animals.__NEWL__The Doctor and Sam then leave.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7318678	Revolution Man	1999-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5420907	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5420907	The Doctor tries to stop a mysterious entity called The Revolution Man from spreading mind-altering drugs in the 1960s.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7476662	The Doll	1887-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	5416143	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5416143	Wokulski begins his career as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant.__NEWL__The scion of an impoverished Polish noble family dreams of a life in science.__NEWL__After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia.__NEWL__On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery.__NEWL__Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile.__NEWL__The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army.__NEWL__The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki.__NEWL__The manager of Wokulski's Warsaw store, Ignacy Rzecki, is a man of an earlier generation, a modest bachelor who lives on memories of his youth, which was a heroic chapter in his own life and that of Europe.__NEWL__Through his diary the reader learns about some of Wokulski's adventures, seen through the eyes of an admirer.__NEWL__Rzecki and his friend Katz had gone to Hungary in 1848 to enlist in the revolutionary army.__NEWL__For Rzecki, the cause of freedom in Europe is connected with the name of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Hungarian revolution had sparked new hopes of abolishing the reactionary system that had triumphed at Napoleon's fall.__NEWL__Later he had reposed his hopes in Napoleon III.__NEWL__Now, as he writes, he places them in Bonaparte's scion, Napoleon III's son, Prince Loulou.__NEWL__At novel's end, when Rzecki hears that Loulou has perished in Africa, fighting in British ranks against rebel tribesmen, he will be overcome by the despondence of old age.__NEWL__For now, Rzecki lives in constant excitement, preoccupied by politics, which he refers to in his diary by the code-letter "P." Everywhere in the press he finds indications that a long-awaited "it" is beginning.__NEWL__In addition to the two generations represented by Rzecki and Wokulski, the novel provides glimpses of a third, younger one, exemplified in the scientist Julian Ochocki (modeled on Prus' friend, Julian Ochorowicz), some students, and young salesmen at Wokulski's store.__NEWL__The half-starving students inhabit the garret of an apartment house and are in constant conflict with the landlord over their arrears of rent; they are rebels, are inclined to macabre pranks, and are probably socialists.__NEWL__Also of socialist persuasion is a young salesman, whereas some of the latter's colleagues believe first and last in personal gain.__NEWL__The Doll's plot focuses on Wokulski's infatuation with the superficial Izabela, who sees him only as a plebeian intruder into her rarefied world, a brute with huge red hands; for her, persons below the social standing of aristocrats are hardly human.__NEWL__Wokulski, in his quest to win Izabela, begins frequenting theaters and aristocratic salons; and, to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in the business.__NEWL__Eventually, Wokulski manages to get engaged to Izabela, but she continues to flirt with Starski.__NEWL__Wokulski gets off the train and decides to commit suicide.__NEWL__He is saved by the railwayman Wysocki and disappears.__NEWL__Wokulski's eventual downfall highlights The Doll's overarching theme: the inertia of Polish society.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735311	The Friends of Eddie Coyle	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100	Boston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5452045	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5452045	Eddie Coyle is an aging, low-level gunrunner for a crime organization in Boston, Massachusetts.__NEWL__He is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of driving a hijacked truck in New Hampshire.__NEWL__Eddie had been driving the truck for Dillon, a convicted felon and career criminal who is well connected to the syndicate.__NEWL__Coyle has refused to give Dillon up to the authorities in exchange for leniency.__NEWL__Coyle's last chance to avoid a prison term is a sentencing recommendation from ATF Special Agent Dave Foley, who demands that Coyle become an informer in return.__NEWL__A gang led by Jimmy Scalisi and Artie Van has been pulling off a series of daring day-time bank robberies with pistols supplied by Coyle.__NEWL__One of Coyle's sources for the pistols is a young gun runner, Jackie Brown, who is involved in a deal to supply military machine guns (M16 assault rifles) for other clients.__NEWL__When taking the delivery of the pistols, Coyle witnesses the rifles in the trunk of Jackie Brown's car and immediately informs Foley.__NEWL__Jackie is apprehended by Foley and his agents.__NEWL__Coyle feels he has fulfilled his end of the deal, but Foley puts the squeeze on Eddie, demanding more information for his cooperation.__NEWL__Angry at his mis-treatment of her, Scalisi's girlfriend Wanda tips off the police about the next planned bank robbery, leading the state police to arrest Scalisi and Van's gang in the commission of the robbery.__NEWL__During the arrests, the police shoot and kill a young member of the gang who is well-connected (and possibly related) to the head of a powerful crime family.__NEWL__That same morning, with both men unaware that the bank robbers have been arrested, Coyle suggests that he may be willing to give Foley the names of the bank robbers in exchange for his slate being wiped clean in New Hampshire.__NEWL__Foley agrees to meet Coyle later in the day, with the understanding that if Coyle doesn't show, he opted not to rat on the bank robbers.__NEWL__The head of the crime family mistakenly believes it was Coyle who informed on Scalisi and Van's gang.__NEWL__The boss, referred to only as "the man," is furious because the state police killed his friend, who was part of the gang, during the arrest.__NEWL__The man hires Dillon to kill Coyle, who begrudgingly takes the contract.__NEWL__We learn from Foley that Coyle never showed, and thus did not inform.__NEWL__After waiting for Coyle, Foley buys a paper and sees that the information has become useless anyhow, as the robbers have been arrested.__NEWL__Later that afternoon, Coyle enters Dillon's bar in a sour mood, knowing he'll have to serve time in prison.__NEWL__Dillon receives a call confirming the plan to kill Coyle, and subsequently invites him to the Bruins game that evening.__NEWL__At the game, Dillon plies Coyle with liquor and eventually shoots him while an accomplice drives the men after the game.__NEWL__They leave Coyle's body in a car in the West End Bowling Alleys parking lot.__NEWL__In the final chapter, Jackie Brown is in court being arraigned for possession of machine guns.__NEWL__After pleading not guilty, a trial date is set.__NEWL__The prosecutor and defense counsel discuss options, but both show resignation that whatever happens to Jackie Brown, nothing will change in the world of crime.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11266905	Lost	2001-10-02T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5474467	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5474467	Winifred Rudge is an American writer who travels to London to visit a distant cousin, and to research a new novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper.__NEWL__When she arrives, she discovers that her cousin has vanished, his apartment (once owned by a common ancestor of theirs: a man who was supposedly the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge) is being renovated, and strange sounds are coming from the chimney.__NEWL__It seems the apartment is now haunted by a supernatural presence.__NEWL__Although the plot of the novel revolves around Winifred trying to chase down the ghost in her cousin's apartment, along the way a deep mystery that exists between Winifried and her cousin, John Comestor, is revealed.__NEWL__While trying to solve the mystery Winifried is forced to face the ghosts of her own past and examine her choices and motivations.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656700	A Feast Unknown	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5455476	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5455476	The two main characters are thinly-veiled versions of two of Farmer's favorite characters, Tarzan and Doc Savage.__NEWL__Called "Lord Grandrith" and "Doc Caliban", respectively, the two are recognizable as the iconic characters, but still unique.__NEWL__The two, half-brothers with the same father (the infamous Victorian era serial killer Jack the Ripper) share a horrible affliction thanks to the powerful elixir that gives them near-eternal life.__NEWL__At the start of the novel they have discovered that they can no longer engage in sexual activity except during acts of violence (their penises become erect only during an act of violence) and they ejaculate after taking lives.__NEWL__By the end of the novel, Grandrith and Caliban will have grappled with each other in the nude, punching, clawing and biting, each of them sporting massive erections.__NEWL__The novel begins with Grandrith under attack by three parties: the Kenyan army, a group of Albanian mercenaries, and Doc Caliban who believes that Grandrith has killed Caliban's cousin and one true love.__NEWL__In addition, both Caliban and Grandrith have been summoned for their annual appearance before The Nine, a powerful group of near immortals, who have given them both the secret of immortality in return for their obedience.__NEWL__However, Caliban and Grandrith ultimately find a common enemy among the Nine that is revealed to be controlling the world, and to have been manipulating their own lives, and indeed, the entire preceding battle between the two.__NEWL__The two iconic warriors vow to defeat the Nine together—that tale is told in the intertwining sequels, Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15047955	Lord Tyger	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5549298	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5549298	Ras Tyger has lived in the jungle for as long as he can remember.__NEWL__Raised by apes, he lives an idyllic existence as the lord of the jungle, gleefully hunting prey and feeding his prodigious sexual appetite with various female denizens of his jungle.__NEWL__Eventually, however, Tyger begins to suspect that all is not as it seems.__NEWL__He sees strange giant birds, black and without movement aside from their spinning wings atop their heads.__NEWL__He sees other apes raising their young and ponders why his childhood was so different.__NEWL__Always receiving more questions than answers, the more Tyger explores his universe, the more it begins to deconstruct before his very eyes.__NEWL__Ultimately, Tyger discovers that his entire life is a fraud, a construct.__NEWL__A crazed millionaire named Boygur has, in an effort to reproduce the Tarzan novels he loved as a child, purchased a young English nobleman (Tyger) and created a complex series of jungle environs for him to live within.__NEWL__He hires two dwarfs to act as his ape parents, and has two huge black helicopters (Tyger's "giant birds") patrol the area to keep outsiders out, and insiders in.__NEWL__Ultimately, neither Tyger nor Boygur get what they desire.__NEWL__Tyger cannot handle the harshness of his newfound reality, and Boygur is shocked and appalled when the jungle superman he has raised is far from innocent.__NEWL__At the end of the book, Boygur sadly notes that "things went their own way."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737124	The Golden Wind	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5549309	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5549309	The novel concerns the adventures of Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Hippalus on the first voyages by sea from Egypt to India.__NEWL__Following these, it deals with Eudoxus' efforts to circumvent the newly established Egyptian monopoly on trade with India by pioneering a new route around the west coast of Africa, which are ultimately defeated by misadventure and the sheer extent of the continent.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7492092	She Was a Lady	1931-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5424350	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5424350	After years of living on the wrong side of the law, Simon Templar has been pardoned for past (perceived) crimes and is now working as an agent of Scotland Yard.__NEWL__His first mission is to investigate a crime ring called the Angels of Doom, which specializes in (among other things) helping convicted felons escape police dragnets and ambushes.__NEWL__The Angels of Doom is run by Jill Trelawney, a young woman who is willing to condone just about any action—including the murder of The Saint, if needs be—in her quest to wreak havoc on Scotland Yard, which she blames for the death of her father.__NEWL__But Templar, in his pursuit of Trelawney, finds within her an unexpected kindred spirit.__NEWL__The book is divided into three parts and could almost be seen as a trilogy of novellas.__NEWL__The first part details Templar investigating Trelawney and discovering the cause of her criminal actions, ultimately resulting in him allowing Trelawney to kill one of the men responsible for framing her father, which has the effect of dissolving the Angels of Doom.__NEWL__During this part we learn that the Saint lives in Upper Berkeley Mews, Mayfair, "where the Saint had converted a couple of garages, with the rooms above, into the most ingeniously comfortable fortress in London" and that he has a manservant there called Orace.__NEWL__Subsequently, in the second part, Templar's status as a police agent apparently comes to an end as he and Trelawney go to Paris in pursuit of a second man believed to be connected to the death of Trelawney's father.__NEWL__As the Paris segment of the novel begins, Templar and Trelawney have become partners to the extent that Simon, when leaving his traditional "calling card" consisting of the drawing of a stick figure with a halo, is now compelled to add a female figure to the image.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Inspector Claud Eustace Teal of Scotland Yard continues to pursue both the Saint and Trelawney, especially when he receives reports that the two have allegedly reactivated the Angels of Doom.__NEWL__The third segment of the novel sees Templar and Trelawney pursuing the third and final man responsible for framing her father, but in doing so they must first recruit some unexpected help from within Scotland Yard itself.__NEWL__The book ends with several metafictional references by Templar, who makes references to himself being a storybook character in search of a suitable epilogue for the book.__NEWL__He also makes a direct reference to the title of the American omnibus collection Wanted for Murder which had preceded this novel.__NEWL__She Was a Lady is also notable in that no reference is made to any of the Saint's past colleagues, including his girlfriend, Patricia Holm, making this one of the first books in the series to have such an omission.__NEWL__(This is possibly because, as mentioned above, the novel was not originally conceived as a Saint adventure).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7720313	The Bronze God of Rhodes	1960-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5424799	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5424799	The novel is written in first person, purporting to be the memoirs of Chares of Lindos, the sculptor of the Colossus of Rhodes.__NEWL__It concerns his return to Rhodes, his attempts to set up as a sculptor, his struggles with his family's wishes that he enter their bronze foundry, his experience as a catapult artilleryman during the Siege of Rhodes (305 BC), and his complicated adventures in Ptolemaic Egypt.__NEWL__The Rhodian portions of the story are enlivened by the presence of Celtic foreigner Kavaros, who rises from Chares' slave to fellow soldier, friend, and sculpting assistant, and ultimately saves his former master's life.__NEWL__The atmosphere of the novel is lightened by Kavaros' entertaining, pointed and improbable tales of his supposedly superhuman ancestor Gargantuos (presumably de Camp's nod to the giant Gargantua, a character in the works of François Rabelais).__NEWL__The planning and building of the Colossus in commemoration of the city's successful defense occupies the closing portion of the book.__NEWL__De Camp brings in numerous other historical personages of the era, notably Chares' sculpting mentor Lyssipos of Sikyon, the mathematician Eukleidēs, Babylonian historian Berossos (initially as a member of the sculptor's catapult crew), Rhodes's antagonists Demetrios Poliorketes and Antigonus, Egyptian historian Manethos, Egyptian king Ptolemaios, and Demetrios of Phalerum, reputed founder of the Library of Alexandria.__NEWL__A number of the book's characters are introduced in a symposion Chares attends early on, conducted by a group dubbed "The Seven Strangers," modeled on de Camp's own real-life social club the Trap Door Spiders.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6414737	Kira-Kira	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5454113	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5454113	In the early 1950s, Katie Takeshima and her family live in Iowa, where her parents own a Japanese supermarket.__NEWL__When the store goes out of business in 1956, the family moves from Iowa to an apartment in Georgia where Katie's parents work at a hatchery with other Japanese families.__NEWL__Katie's best friend is her older sister Lynn, whom Katie looks up to as the most intelligent person she knows.__NEWL__She cites Lynn's ability to beat their Uncle Katsuhisa, a self-proclaimed chess grand master, at his own game as an example.__NEWL__Katie holds close to her heart the Japanese term "Kira-Kira", which Lynn taught her.__NEWL__They use it to describe things that glitter in their lives.__NEWL__When they first move to Georgia, Lynn guides Katie around her new surroundings and teaches her to always be positive about things.__NEWL__In this period, Lynn is portrayed to be highly sensible and independent as she teaches Katie to save money for their parents.__NEWL__When Katie enters school, she has difficulty being the only Japanese-American in her class.__NEWL__Her grades are solid average C's, in comparison to Lynn's ongoing straight A's.__NEWL__When Katie is six years old, her brother Samson (known as Sammy) is born.__NEWL__Lynn makes a friend whose name is Amber and also grows to be a teenager, becoming interested in boys and spending more time with her friends and lesser time with Katie.__NEWL__Katie also notices Lynn's change in behavior as she starts dabbling in makeup and worrying about beauty.__NEWL__Without Lynn's company, Katie makes friends with a girl called Sylvia "Silly" Kilgore, whose mother also works at the hatchery.__NEWL__However, Lynn starts feeling sporadically fatigued and ill and is diagnosed with anemia.__NEWL__Lynn is eventually diagnosed with lymphoma, and becomes even sicker, and then her friend Amber dumps her, along with Gregg, her boyfriend.__NEWL__The family decides to move into a house of Lynn's choice to help her recover, which appears to work for a short time.__NEWL__However, Lynn relapses from distress when Sammy is caught in a metal animal trap on the vast property owned by Mr. Lyndon, the owner of the hatchery.__NEWL__Lynn's condition continues to deteriorate and she becomes blank and irritable.__NEWL__Sometime later, Katie goes outside to relax only, and when she returns, her father tells her that Lynn had died.__NEWL__Katie realizes why Lynn had taught her the word Kira-Kira, as Lynn wanted her to always look at the world as a shining place and to never lose hope, though there might be harsh hurdles.__NEWL__Katie tries to support her grief-stricken parents by performing household chores and cooking, tasks she had formerly despised.__NEWL__Throughout this difficult time, Katie becomes just like Lynn, a sensible and independent girl.__NEWL__ The day that Lynn dies, Katie's usually calm and restrained father breaks into an angry rage after seeing Sammy struggle with the limp that he had from getting caught in the trap.__NEWL__He brings Katie to wreck Mr. Lyndon's car, an act which shocks her.__NEWL__Later on, he goes to Mr. Lyndon and owns up to what he did, resulting in him getting fired.__NEWL__Katie is appalled that her father is now unemployed, but he tells her that there is another hatchery opening in Missouri, where he will probably work next, though it will be a longer drive.__NEWL__When the drama dies down, Katie is left with Lynn's diary.__NEWL__On reading it, she realizes that Lynn knew she was going to die and had written a will four days before her death.__NEWL__Katie tries to fulfill one of Lynn's dreams: to get better grades.__NEWL__To cheer everyone up, the family decides to take a vacation.__NEWL__Katie recommends California because that was where Lynn's dream house by the sea would be situated.__NEWL__The family arrives in California, and when Katie walks on the beach, she can hear her sister's voice in the waves: "Kira-Kira!__NEWL__Kira-Kira!"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2301398	Spin	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5517347	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5517347	The story opens when Tyler Dupree is twelve years old.__NEWL__Tyler and his mother live in a guest house on the property of aerospace millionaire E.D. Lawton and his alcoholic wife, Carol.__NEWL__Tyler is friends with the couple's thirteen-year-old twins:__NEWL__Jason, a brilliant student who is being groomed to take over the family business, and Diane, with whom Tyler is in love.__NEWL__One night while stargazing, the three children witness all the stars simultaneously disappear.__NEWL__Telecommunications suffer as every satellite falls out of orbit simultaneously.__NEWL__Attempts to communicate with the ISS are unsuccessful.__NEWL__An opaque black "spin membrane" has been placed around Earth.__NEWL__The membrane has slowed time so that approximately 3.17 years pass outside the membrane for every second within, or 100 million years on the outside for every year within.__NEWL__The membrane is permeable to spacecraft, and it protects Earth from the harmful effects of concentrated stellar radiation and cometary impact.__NEWL__A simulated sun on the inside of the membrane allows for a largely normal life cycle to continue.__NEWL__However, the passage of time outside the membrane means that all life on earth will end in a few decades when the sun's expansion makes that region of the solar system uninhabitable.__NEWL__Jason becomes obsessed with gaining knowledge about the membrane and how to deactivate it.__NEWL__He studies science and eventually rises to run the day-to-day operations of Perihelion, an aerospace research firm that gets folded into the government and coordinates efforts to deal with the Spin.__NEWL__Diane joins the quasi-religious "New Kingdom" movement, a Christian sect that endorses hedonism and indulgence.__NEWL__She marries a man named Simon, whom she meets through the NK movement.__NEWL__Tyler attends medical school and becomes a doctor.__NEWL__Jason hires Tyler as a staff physician.__NEWL__Perihelion terraforms Mars, a process that is finished in a few months of subjective Earth time.__NEWL__When the terraforming is complete, Perihelion and its counterparts in other nations launch crewed colonization missions.__NEWL__Two years after the terraforming process begins, Earth receives satellite images confirming the existence of agriculture and sophisticated human civilizations on Mars.__NEWL__Soon afterward, Mars is enclosed in its own Spin membrane.__NEWL__Before the membrane went up, the Martians sent their own crewed mission to Earth.__NEWL__The Martian ambassador, Wun Ngo Wen, is part of a civilization hundreds of thousands of years old that has been experimenting with biotechnology for centuries.__NEWL__Jason, who has developed an acute form of multiple sclerosis that is incurable by terrestrial medicine, takes a Martian bio-engineering product that extends his life by decades, putting him into a fourth stage of life past adulthood.__NEWL__Jason and Wun Ngo Wen then seed nanotechnology throughout the outer solar system.__NEWL__This technology will eventually expand to other star systems over the course of millions of years and search for other worlds enclosed by Spin membranes, hopefully discovering why they were created and if anything can be done to stop them.__NEWL__Tyler leaves Perihelion and moves to California.__NEWL__There he gets a desperate call from Simon, stating that Diane is terribly sick.__NEWL__Diane and Simon had moved from the ashes of the NK movement to join a more cult-like fringe movement that was trying to hasten the Second Coming through genetic engineering of cattle.__NEWL__As Tyler heads to meet Diane, the Spin membrane seems to falter and fail, allowing the stars to return to the sky.__NEWL__The next day, the sun rises huge and red in the sky causing terrible heat and high winds.__NEWL__Millions across the world panic as the apparent end has come.__NEWL__Tyler finds Diane suffering from a fatal cardiovascular disease that crossed from cows to humans during the attempts by religious fringe to breed a totally red calf, which they think will bring out the end of the world.__NEWL__The only cure is to give her the same treatment that Jason has taken.__NEWL__He and Simon drive Diane back to Diane's childhood home where Tyler had hidden some of the Martian biotech.__NEWL__Simon, however, leaves Tyler and Diane and gives them his blessing, and is never seen again.__NEWL__Tyler discovers that Jason is at the house, dying of a mysterious ailment.__NEWL__Jason explains that he has become a human receiver for the nanotechnology they seeded throughout the galaxy.__NEWL__He also explains his conclusions about the nature of the Spin and the Hypotheticals who created it.__NEWL__The Hypotheticals are intelligent Von Neumann machines that spread throughout the galaxy billions of years ago.__NEWL__Horrified at the rise and fall of biological societies, they devised a plan to enclose planets on the verge of societal collapse in Spin membranes to slow their advancement until a way could be found to save them.__NEWL__Jason dies shortly after explaining this and has Tyler mail copies of the information to trusted informants.__NEWL__Tyler gives the Martian treatment to Diane, who recovers.__NEWL__Shortly after, the membrane partially reasserts itself, allowing the stars to be seen and synchronizing Earth time with that of the universe, but filtering the solar radiation to a survivable level.__NEWL__It's discovered that the Spin membrane had been retracted to let a massive ring descend and embed itself in the Indian Ocean.__NEWL__The "Arch", as it becomes known, acts as a portal to another world, one engineered by the Hypotheticals to give mankind a new chance at life.__NEWL__A decade after the appearance of the Arch, Diane and Tyler, now married, flee from agents of the United States government who seek to arrest them for possessing forbidden Martian technology.__NEWL__Tyler takes the same cure that Jason and Diane did, becoming a "Fourth" himself, and Tyler and Diane pass through the Arch with a group of Indonesian refugees.__NEWL__They scatter Jason's ashes in the crossing between Earth and the other world so that he finally can be at peace.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762085	The Saint in Miami	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5438574	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5438574	One of Patricia Holm's friends sends an invitation for Patricia and her friend, Simon Templar to visit Miami.__NEWL__Upon arrival, however, The Saint, Patricia and sidekick Hoppy Uniatz discover Pat's friend and her husband are nowhere to be found.__NEWL__The trio take up residence in the friend's house.__NEWL__A few days later, a tanker explodes off the Florida coast, and soon after, Simon discovers the dead body of a sailor washed up on shore; attached to the wrist of the body is a lifebelt from the British submarine H.M.S. Triton.__NEWL__Simon suspects a link between the disappearance of Patricia's friends, the explosion, and a millionaire yachtsman named Randolph March.__NEWL__March's yacht is moored not far from the explosion, and Templar and Hoppy launch the investigation by climbing aboard the yacht, leaving the sailor's corpse in a stateroom for the police to find, and challenging March to give up his secrets.__NEWL__Afterwards, Templar finds himself targeted not only by March, but by an eager local sheriff who proves to be almost as fast-witted as the Saint, himself.__NEWL__Soon, the Saint uncovers a Nazi ring operating out of Florida.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730995	The Dreamstone	1983-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5498342	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5498342	The Dreamstone begins in a forest called Ealdwood, the last remaining bastion of Faery on Earth.__NEWL__Once, the Sidhe had roamed the world freely, but when Man came and fought wars and spread evil, the dark Sidhe burrowed deep or hid in rivers and lakes, while the bright ones, the Daoine Sidhe left mortal Earth and returned to Faery.__NEWL__But one bright one, Arafel chose to remain behind and guard Ealdwood, the last untouched forest.__NEWL__Men avoided Ealdwood because those who ventured in never came out again.__NEWL__Arafel watched the coming and going of Men in the lands surrounding Ealdwood, but showed little interest in them, until one man sought shelter in the fringes of the forest.__NEWL__She confronted him and learned that his king at Dun na h-Eoin had been killed, and that he, Niall, was on the run from those who had seized power.__NEWL__Arafel tells him that he cannot stay in Ealdwood, but fearing for his safety, sends him to Beorc's Steading, a sanctuary hidden in a valley for "lostlings".__NEWL__Back in Ealdwood, another man stumbles into the forest.__NEWL__Arafel learns he is Fionn, the dead king's harper, fleeing Lord Evald of Caer Wiell.__NEWL__Evald had overthrown the king, taken his wife, Meara, and now claims Fionn's harp as his own.__NEWL__When Evald invades the forest in pursuit of Fionn, Arafel denies him access to the harper.__NEWL__Evald demands compensation for what he claims is his, and she gives him her dreamstone, a magical stone that preserves memories of the wearer.__NEWL__Evald returns to Caer Wiell and Arafel allows Fionn to stay in Ealdwood so she can listen to him sing.__NEWL__But the dreamstone Evald now wears causes both him and Arafel anguish: she can feel his ugly memories and evil, while he can feel her kindness and peace, which confuses him.__NEWL__When Fionn discovers what Arafel did, and the distress it is causing her, he leaves her to find Evald to trade his harp for her stone.__NEWL__Evald, driven mad by lust and kindness, invades Ealdwood again and meets Fionn.__NEWL__He gives Fionn the stone for the harp, but kills the harper out of spite.__NEWL__Arafel arrives too late to save Fionn and kills Evald with her silver sword.__NEWL__Devastated, Arafel recovers her dreamstone and retreats to Eald (Faery).__NEWL__When Niall learns of Lord Evald's death, he returns to Caer Wiell and seizes control.__NEWL__He offers Meara and her son by Evald, Evald junior, safety, and peace returns to Caer Wiell.__NEWL__Evald grows up and marries Meredydd, and when an aging Niall dies, Evald becomes Lord of Caer Wiell.__NEWL__A new king, Laochailan ascends to the throne, and is at war with An Beag.__NEWL__Lord Evald of Caer Wiell and brothers Donnchadh and Ciaran of Caer Donn agree to help the king reclaim control of Dun na h-Eoin.__NEWL__They win the battle, but Evald is worried that the retreating enemy will overrun Caer Wiell, and asks the king to let him return to defend it.__NEWL__The king refuses, but allows Ciaran to go.__NEWL__On his way to Caer Wiell, Ciaran is attacked at the edge of Ealdwood and flees into the forest.__NEWL__There he finds a tree with swords and jewels hanging from its branches.__NEWL__He takes one of the silver swords to defend himself, but Arafel intervenes and withdraws Ciaran into Eald.__NEWL__She realises that he is a halfling, a Man with elf blood in him, because no Man would find Cinniuint, the Tree of Swords and Jewels.__NEWL__Arafel explains to Ciaran that when the Daoine Sidhe withdrew to Faery they hung their swords and memory stones on the tree, and the sword he took belonged to an elf prince named Liosliath.__NEWL__She gives Ciaran Liosliath's jewel stone, similar to Arafel's dreamstone.__NEWL__Ciaran tells Arafel he must honor his commitment to help Caer Wiell, and she takes him, via Faery, to the keep.__NEWL__Caer Wiell is besieged by An Beag, and Ciaran helps in its defence, assuring its people that their Lord Evald and the king will return to free them.__NEWL__As Caer Wiell's siege worsens, Ciaran calls Arafel for help via the stone, unaware of the dangers in summoning the Sidhe.__NEWL__Arafel reluctantly responds, knowing that she will wake the Sidhe's ancient enemies.__NEWL__She arms Ciaran and gives him an elf horse, and together they battle An Beag and ancient creatures who have aligned with the enemy.__NEWL__By the time the king and Lord Evald return, the battle is over, the dark forces are defeated and Arafel, free again after completing her task, has returned to Eald.__NEWL__Everyone now sees Ciaran as an elf prince and fear him.__NEWL__The king returns to Dun na h-Eoin and Donnchadh to Caer Donn, both refusing to associate with Ciaran.__NEWL__Only Branwyn, Evald's daughter, accepts him, and Ciaran takes her to Ealdwood.__NEWL__He returns Liosliath's dreamstone to Arafel and the Sidhe blesses them both and Caer Wiell.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7770096	The Tree of Swords and Jewels	1983-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5498351	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5498351	In The Dreamstone Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe helps Ciaran, a halfling (half human, half elf) save Caer Wiell near to Ealdwood forest, the last remaining bastion of Faery on Earth.__NEWL__The Tree of Swords and Jewels continues the story ten years later, when Ciaran has married Branwyn and become Lord of Caer Wiell.__NEWL__All of Caer Wiell are aware of Ciaran's connections to the Sidhe, whom they fear.__NEWL__One day Arafel visits Ciaran and returns elf prince Liosliath's dreamstone to him, saying that she needs his help: dark forces have awakened again and have overrun part of Eald (Faery).__NEWL__Ciaran tells her that peace in the region is fragile: King Laochailan does not trust him, and Ciaran's brother Donnchadh of Caer Donn fears him and his elf heritage.__NEWL__Arafel begins searching for those responsible for the shrinking of Eald, and discovers Duilliath, a drow (dark elf) living in Dun Gol, the site of an ancient elf battle.__NEWL__Dun Gol is close to Caer Donn, and Duilliath has begun influencing Donnchadh's thoughts and actions.__NEWL__Just as Arafel controls Caer Wiell, Duilliath controls Caer Donn.__NEWL__Arafel tries to coax him back to sleep again, but a duel erupts and she is injured, forcing her to retreat to Eald.__NEWL__Trees in Eald are dying and Arafel tries unsuccessfully to call on the departed elves for help.__NEWL__When Ciaran learns that King Laochailan is ill, he tries to contact his brother, and when that fails he enters Eald to ask for Arafel's help, but finds Duilliath there.__NEWL__While trying to flee Eald, Ciaran is ambushed by An Beag bandits, who mortally wound him—only Liosliath's stone about his neck keeps him alive.__NEWL__Duilliath, with plans to expand his armies and influence, instructs Donnchadh to go to Dun na h-Eoin, kill Laochailan and install himself as king.__NEWL__Ciaran manages to return to Caer Wiell, where he lies on his deathbed.__NEWL__Upon hearing that Donnchadh is the new king, Ciaran makes one last attempt to contact Arafel and enters Eald.__NEWL__One of Arafel's aides instructs Branwyn to evacuate Caer Wiell, and he takes her people to the safety of Beorc's Steading, a sanctuary hidden in a valley.__NEWL__In Eald, Ciaran finds his elf horse waiting for him, but they are pursued by dark elves and he flees to the sea.__NEWL__Dying, and with nowhere else to go, Ciaran draws on the power of his stone and is given Camhanach, a silver horn.__NEWL__His last act is to blow three times into the horn, which summons the Daoine Sidhe.__NEWL__But this act also releases Nathair Sgiathach, an ancient dragon that the Sidhe had bound to Cinniuint, the Tree of Swords and Jewels.__NEWL__Nathair Sgiathach confronts a weakened Arafel and threatens to enslave her.__NEWL__Liosliath returns, takes over Ciaran's body, and kills Donnchadh, now occupied by Duilliath.__NEWL__Liosliath and several other elves rush to Arafel's assistance in Ealdwood and defeat the dragon.__NEWL__Liosliath and Arafel later visit Branwyn at the Steading and tell her that she is free to build her own Caer Wiell as this land has left mortal Earth.__NEWL__It is safe from the dark things that have burrowed again, and the drow that has returned to sleep at Dun Gol.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7428301	Saving the Queen	1976-01-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5425263	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425263	This novel, set in 1952, reveals Oakes's childhood and educational background, his recruitment into the CIA, and the Agency's procedures for "handling" him.__NEWL__His first assignment sends him to Britain, where he must identify (and deal with) a high-level security leak close to the (fictional) British monarch, Queen Caroline.__NEWL__Also, Rufus, the enigmatic genius behind American intelligence operations, is introduced.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7597016	Stained Glass	1978-04-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5425276	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425276	Oakes's second assignment sends him to West Germany.__NEWL__There, he is infiltrated into the inner-circle of a charismatic and heroic nobleman, Count Wintergrin, who intends to run for the West German Chancellorship on platform of immediate re-unification with East Germany.__NEWL__Although this is ultimately in the interest of the Western Powers and NATO, the threat of Soviet invasion of West Europe means that Oakes must prevent Wintergrin's election, by whatever means necessary.__NEWL__Set in 1953.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718392	The Black Moth	1921-01-01T00:00:00Z	38703	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23666	Great Britain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5425286	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425286	The story is set during the Georgian era in the 1750s, and follows Lord Jack Carstares, the eldest son of the Earl of Wyncham.__NEWL__Six years ago, Jack took the blame when his younger brother Richard cheated at cards.__NEWL__Jack consequently faced social exile and fled England for the European continent.__NEWL__He has now secretly returned, robbing carriages as a highwayman.__NEWL__In public he calls himself Sir Anthony Ferndale.__NEWL__Jack discovers his father has died but refuses to take up his role as the new earl of Wyncham, preferring that his brother enjoy the family's privileges in his place.__NEWL__The amiable Richard, who still feels guilty over his role in his brother's social ruin, refuses.__NEWL__This decision displeases Richard's spoiled wife, Lavinia.__NEWL__A disguised Jack attempts to rob a carriage, but fails when his prey notices Jack's pistol is not loaded.__NEWL__The supposed victim, Miles O’Hara, a Justice of the Peace, arrests Jack.__NEWL__Recognizing Jack is a gentleman, Miles takes him back to his residence to interview him.__NEWL__Miles is delighted to discover the outlaw is actually his old friend, estranged since the gambling incident years earlier.__NEWL__Lavinia's brother, the Duke of Andover—called the "Devil" among society—is sarcastic, darkly humoured and manipulative.__NEWL__He desires Miss Diana Beauleigh, a young woman he met in Bath, and is almost successful in abducting her when a disguised Jack encounters them.__NEWL__The two duel, and Jack triumphs over Andover and frees Diana.__NEWL__Jack is injured and recovers at Diana's home.__NEWL__He does not reveal his identity, instead referring to himself as Mr. Carr.__NEWL__The two fall in love but Jack cannot allow himself to be with her, as he sees himself as a scoundrel and unworthy of her love.__NEWL__He returns to the O'Hara residence.__NEWL__Richard becomes upset when Lavinia spends too much time with one of her old suitors, Captain Harold Lovelace.__NEWL__Richard can keep silent no longer and plans to reveal his cheating to a large party, to the dismay of Lavinia.__NEWL__Richard gives her permission to leave him and elope with Lovelace, but she realises she truly loves her husband and sees the error in her spoiled ways.__NEWL__The two reconcile and embrace happily.__NEWL__The Duke of Andover succeeds in kidnapping Diana, desiring to marry her.__NEWL__He brings her back to Andover Court, his estate.__NEWL__Jack learns of the abduction and arrives in time to duel Andover.__NEWL__Richard, Miles, and Andover's brother Lord Andrew arrive and stop the fight right as Jack collapses from fatigue.__NEWL__Richard confesses his role in the cheating scandal, clearing his brother's name.__NEWL__Jack and Diana embrace and get married.__NEWL__They avoid a scandal with Andover, as the latter persuades them that any news of the abduction will hurt Diana's reputation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17014108	To Play the Fool	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5425299	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425299	A homeless man is murdered and Kate must determine the culprit's identity.__NEWL__Everything seems to point to a man whom the homeless community regards as an important religious figure.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4658347	A Monstrous Regiment of Women	1995-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5425327	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425327	In the winter of 1920, Mary Russell is on the cusp of turning 21 and lives a double life of Oxford University theological scholar as well as a consulting detective and partner of Sherlock Holmes.__NEWL__After events in The Beekeeper's Apprentice, both Holmes and Russell are aware that their relationship and partnership has changed, perhaps romantically, but neither is eager to broach the subject.__NEWL__A chance encounter unites Russell with Veronica Beaconsfield, an old Oxford acquaintance who is worried about her former fiancé, Miles Fitzwarren, a returned soldier and drug addict.__NEWL__Veronica introduces Russell to the well-financed New Temple in God and its leader, the enigmatic, charismatic Margery Childe, who preaches empowerment of women.__NEWL__Russell believes Margery to be a mystic and begins tutoring Margery in theology and reading Scripture, integrating into their lessons her own current academic work on feminism and Judaism.__NEWL__Russell also witnesses what she believes to be a true miracle, in which Margery is healed of serious physical wounds through prayer.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Holmes takes on Miles's rehabilitation partially as a favor to Russell.__NEWL__When an attempt is made on Veronica's life, Holmes and Russell discover a mysterious pattern of deaths where fairly wealthy women have left large bequests to the Temple.__NEWL__Coming into her inheritance at age 21, Russell takes on the role of a young heiress to insinuate herself into the Temple's leadership.__NEWL__While learning more about the Temple's operations, Russell also fends off an attacker who threatens Margery.__NEWL__En route back to Oxford, Russell is kidnapped by a man whom she identifies from descriptions of Margery's husband, Claude.__NEWL__He keeps Russell prisoner and injects her with regular doses of heroin.__NEWL__Against the effects of the drug and solitary confinement, Russell struggles to retain her identity and will to survive, and in the face of possible death, contemplates her love for Holmes.__NEWL__Nine days later, she is rescued by Holmes, who also helps her overcome her reliance on the drug.__NEWL__Undeterred by her ordeal, Russell breaks into Margery's safe but finds no evidence indicating Margery's complicity in the deaths.__NEWL__The next morning, Holmes and Russell follow Margery, who has gone to confront Claude, disturbed by his actions concerning Mary.__NEWL__In the ensuing chase and fight, Margery is wounded, Claude is killed, and Holmes narrowly survives.__NEWL__The near-death experience pushes both Holmes and Russell to admit their passion for one another.__NEWL__In the ensuing trial, Margery is acquitted of blame, but voluntarily exiles herself from England.__NEWL__Veronica and a recovered Miles finally marry, as do Holmes and Russell.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4657700	A Letter of Mary	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23346	Sussex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5425341	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425341	In August 1923, Mary Russell and husband Sherlock Holmes receive an unexpected visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an elderly amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who met the couple four and a half years earlier during the events from O Jerusalem (novel).__NEWL__As a gift, Ruskin presents Russell with an inlaid box containing a papyrus scroll, which seems to be a genuine first-century letter by Mary Magdalene.__NEWL__When she returns to London that evening, Ruskin is killed in a hit-and-run accident with only two witnesses.__NEWL__When Holmes and Russell visit London to identify the body, they discover evidence of foul play.__NEWL__Before her murder, Ruskin had argued with a sponsor of the digs, Colonel Dennis Edwards.__NEWL__A letter from her sister Mrs. Erica Rogers, who cares for their aged mother, reveals that two Middle Eastern visitors were also looking for Ruskin after her visit home.__NEWL__Finally, Holmes and Russell find their Sussex home ransacked by three suspects who were looking for papers, perhaps for Mary’s papyrus scroll.__NEWL__When Russell translates Mary’s letter, she finds that Mary calls herself an apostle of Jesus, and contemplates the theological and historical implications.__NEWL__Three distinct suspects and possibilities emerge: Colonel Edwards, who did not know he was sponsoring a woman’s project, could have been enraged to violence; the Middle Eastern visitors may have been from a Palestinian family with a grudge against Ruskin; and Rogers was resentful toward her sister, though according to Ruskin’s will, she does not benefit from Ruskin’s early death.__NEWL__To pursue each different line of investigation, the four split their forces: Mycroft Holmes looks into the Middle Eastern visitors, Holmes goes into Erica Rogers’s employ, while Inspector Lestrade directs the efforts of the police, and Russell finds work as Colonel Edwards’s secretary.__NEWL__In Colonel Edwards’s employ, Russell grows to like the colonel but is repelled by his misogyny as well as Gerald, his lecherous son.__NEWL__She also finds strong evidence of the colonel's antagonism against Ruskin, but nothing more incriminating.__NEWL__After a week of investigations, Russell, Mycroft, and Lestrade have little to show, but Holmes has succeeded in finding parts of the car that killed Ruskin, salvaged from scraps sold by Jason Rogers, Erica Rogers’ grandson.__NEWL__Holmes also produces a letter from Ruskin to Rogers, implying that Erica Rogers is suffering from a mental illness.__NEWL__Building the case, Holmes then persuades Russell to use the hypnotization techniques practiced on her as a child after her family’s death on one of the witnesses to Ruskin’s murder.__NEWL__Russell’s efforts help unlock memories of that evening, and the witness identifies Jason Rogers as the perpetrator.__NEWL__However, when Erica Rogers is brought in, she discerns that the authorities have little solid evidence and no motive, and refuses to cooperate.__NEWL__Frustrated, Holmes and Russell return home to brood over the case, searching for a hidden motive.__NEWL__Russell recalls that Ruskin had complimented Holmes’s hands and his ability to solve puzzles, bringing both of them to realize the box she left them with may have a hidden compartment.__NEWL__Holmes successfully opens it to reveal another will that Ruskin had drawn up leaving all her money to the archeological digs.__NEWL__Upon hearing of the changed will, Erica Rogers suffers a massive stroke and Jason Rogers commits suicide, while their third accomplice is brought to justice.__NEWL__Holmes deduces that Erica Rogers had masterminded the entire plot to keep most of their family's fortune from going to the archeological digs, and suspected her sister of lodging a will with Holmes, thus precipitating the ransacking of the Sussex home.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Russell states that Mary’s letter will not be published until after her death, and hopes that her heirs will find a world more accepting of the letter and its contents.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4669803	Absolute Zero	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5425488	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425488	The Bagthorpe Saga follows the lives of the Bagthorpe family, who live in Unicorn House in an unspecified part of the United Kingdom.__NEWL__The nearest large settlement is the (presumably) fictional town of Aysham.__NEWL__Jack Bagthorpe is the protagonist with his dog Zero.__NEWL__Jack's family become involved in entering competitions.__NEWL__Uncle Parker has won a trip to the Caribbean in a caption contest.__NEWL__In typical Bagthorpian style, the rest of the family immediately enter similar competitions in an attempt to better his prize but, much of the time, beating the others to an entry form is a victory in itself.__NEWL__With the Parkers on vacation, manic 4-year-old cousin Daisy comes to stay.__NEWL__Uncle Parker claimed her pyromania has passed, but neglected to mention the nature of her current obsession.__NEWL__As Daisy's activities bring the household to its knees using items such as paint, face powder, water and an invisible friend/entity named Arry Awk, Grandma manages to get herself arrested, Mrs Fosdyke is reduced to serving up dishes such as oxtail trifle, and the children are busy wrapping up unwanted prizes to give each other as Christmas presents.__NEWL__When the Bagthorpes eventually win a chance at fame and happiness, the fates deliver a chance for history to not only repeat but excel itself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5554408	Getaway	1932-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5425800	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5425800	The novel begins approximately three weeks after the events of the story "The Melancholy Journey of Mr. Teal" from The Holy Terror.__NEWL__Simon Templar, accompanied by his lover/partner Patricia Holm, has departed England on a well-deserved holiday from crime-fighting.__NEWL__While visiting Innsbruck, Austria with their friend, book editor Monty Hayward (making his first appearance in the series), the trio are out for a late-night walk when they see a man being attacked by thugs.__NEWL__They stop the attack, but the victim is particularly ungrateful, forcing Templar to knock him out, too.__NEWL__Intrigued by the man's attitude—as well as by a steel box attached to his wrist (which later turns out to be a miniature safe filled with recently stolen diamonds), Templar decides to take the unconscious man back to his hotel room.__NEWL__Before long, however, the man is stabbed to death in Templar's bed and Templar finds himself in yet another encounter with Prince Rudolf—one of the men responsible for the death of his friend Norman Kent in The Last Hero.__NEWL__Simon and Patricia (with very reluctant adventurer Monty in tow) find themselves on a cross-continent race against Rudolf and his minions (who are pursuing the diamonds) and the police (who want Templar and Monty for the murder of the courier).__NEWL__Along the way, the trio picks up a female crime reporter who takes part in the adventure in her quest for a career-making scoop on The Saint.__NEWL__Whereas the previous book, The Holy Terror, takes place over the course of nearly a year, the events of Getaway take place over little more than 24 hours.__NEWL__The text indicates that this story takes place about two years after the events of The Last Hero.__NEWL__It is the first Saint story to take place completely outside Great Britain since the novella "The Wonderful War" in Featuring the Saint.__NEWL__Some editions of the novel (such as the Fiction Publishing Co. edition) omit a prologue that recaps the events of "The Melancholy Journey of Mr. Teal".__NEWL__According to this prologue (and later repeated within the main body of the text), the Saint has been "buccaneering" for 10 years by the time of this novel, during which time he had amassed a personal fortune of approximately 100,000 pounds, which was finally topped up by his absconding with a villain's diamonds at the end of "Melancholy Journey".__NEWL__Much of the book is told from Monty Hayward's point of view.__NEWL__According to The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television 1928-1992 by Burl Barer, the character was based upon Charteris' real-life editor, Monty Haydon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7752397	The Motel Life	2007-04-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5529131	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5529131	Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan are two down-and-out brothers who live a meager existence in Reno, Nevada.__NEWL__Both men are high school dropouts who live in cheap motel rooms, work at odd jobs for money, and drink heavily.__NEWL__One night, while driving drunk during a blizzard, Jerry Lee accidentally hits and kills a teenage boy on a bicycle.__NEWL__Although the accident is the boy's fault, there are no witnesses, and Jerry Lee is certain that the police will put the blame on him.__NEWL__He convinces Frank to leave town with him and flee to Montana.__NEWL__Along the way, Jerry Lee abandons Frank in Wyoming and then burns the car in a secluded Idaho forest.__NEWL__Both men return separately to Reno.__NEWL__The police seem to take no interest in the case, so both men attempt to settle back into their Reno lives.__NEWL__Frank adopts an abused, half-frozen dog he finds during a snowstorm.__NEWL__Acting on a tip from a friend, he scrapes together $400 and bets it on the Tyson-Douglas boxing match, winning more than $5,000.__NEWL__He also tracks down the family of the dead teenager and stands outside their home, watching them come and go.__NEWL__Jerry Lee, meanwhile, becomes consumed by guilt and attempts suicide, shooting himself in the leg.__NEWL__He survives and lands in the hospital.__NEWL__On the day of the Tyson-Douglas fight, the police come to question Jerry Lee; they have discovered the burned-out wreck of his car in Idaho.__NEWL__Once again, Jerry Lee convinces Frank to flee Reno.__NEWL__Frank uses his winnings to buy a used car.__NEWL__He leaves $1,000 at the home of the dead teenager, sneaks Jerry Lee out of the hospital, and heads to the town of Elko, Nevada, to hide from the police.__NEWL__Frank's ex-girlfriend Annie lives in Elko, and he secretly hopes to run into her.__NEWL__But Jerry Lee's wounds are far from healed and he quickly becomes very sick.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3824879	The Hammer and the Cross	1993-06-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23666	Great Britain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5530271	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5530271	The story begins with Shef as little more than a thrall in his stepfather's service.__NEWL__When he is not busy with mundane tasks, Shef finds himself aiding the village blacksmith, where he develops his talents as well as an affinity for invention.__NEWL__A Viking army invades, and Shef's stepsister Godive is taken during a raid on their village.__NEWL__Shef and his friend Hund proceed to the encampment of the Ragnarssons, leaders of the invading army.__NEWL__Rising swiftly in and beyond the Viking army, Shef's greatest task becomes defeating a new invasion.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7764972	The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5497401	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5497401	After returning from their adventure at the Lost Oasis, the Emersons try to get Nefret, their new ward, integrated into English country life.__NEWL__She has difficulty with the immaturity and meanness of girls her age, but is determined to learn the ways of her newly adopted culture.__NEWL__Nefret decides she will stay in England to study while the Emersons return to Egypt as usual in the fall, and Walter and Evelyn Emerson glady take her in.__NEWL__Ramses also decides to stay in England, as his crush on Nefret becomes more obvious to his mother (but no one else).__NEWL__So Amelia and the Professor sail east, to begin a new season with a new project - the complete clearing of an entire archaeological site.__NEWL__Despite Amelia's hopes that this will be a second honeymoon for them, Emerson is kidnapped—but no ransom demand or explanation is forthcoming.__NEWL__Amelia, Abdullah, and their circle of friends scour Luxor for any sign of Emerson, with the help of Cyrus Vandergelt, who appears on the scene just when Amelia needs him most.__NEWL__When Adbullah finally finds Emerson, imprisoned in a backyard shed, Amelia finds out that his captor wants information about their previous year's travels and the possibility of a lost Meroitic civilization (complete with artifacts and treasures to exploit).__NEWL__Unfortunately for the kidnapper, Emerson is the victim of amnesia and doesn't know anything about the Lost Oasis.__NEWL__Unfortunately for Amelia, it turns out Emerson doesn't remember her either—and is just as annoyed by her as when they first met.__NEWL__(See Crocodile on the Sandbank.)__NEWL__Back in England, Ramses and Nefret also seem targeted for abduction, and Ramses' harrowing letters do not add to Amelia's peace of mind.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Cyrus is beginning to look at Amelia with more affection than she expected, but she's not going to give Emerson up without a fight.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2252121	Eternity	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5459336	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5459336	In Eon, Axis City split into two: a segment of Naderites and some Geshels took their portion of the city out of the Way and through Thistledown into orbit around the Earth; they spend the next thirty years aiding the surviving population of Earth to heal and rebuild from the devastating effects of the Death which strains their and the Hexamon government's resources.__NEWL__As time passes, sentiment grows to have Konrad Korzenowski reopen the Way.__NEWL__Firstly, to learn what has happened to the Geshels' long-sundered brethren (who took their portion of Axis City down the Way at relativistic near-light speed).__NEWL__And, secondly, to benefit from the commercial advantages of the Way (despite the risk that the Jarts will be waiting on the other side).__NEWL__In a parallel Earth, known as Gaia, mathematician Patricia Vasquez (the primary protagonist of Eon), dies of old age; she never found her own Earth where the Death did not happen and her loved ones were still alive, but remained on the one she discovered (in which Alexander the Great did not die young and his empire did not fragment after his death).__NEWL__She passes her otherworldly artifacts of technology to her granddaughter, Rhita, who appears to have inherited her gifts.__NEWL__Rhita moves away from the academic institute the "Hypateion" (a reference to Hypatia) which Patricia founded and that world's version of Alexandria.__NEWL__Patricia's clavicle claims that a test gate has been opened onto this world of Gaia, and that it could be expanded further.__NEWL__Ser Olmy is concerned by the prospects of the Way being re-opened with the attendant consequences, and by the revelation to him by an old friend that one of the deepest secrets of the Hexamon was a captured Jart whose body died in the process but whose mind was uploaded.__NEWL__Its mentality was alien and powerful enough that it took over or killed many of the researchers who attempted to connect to and study it, so it was hidden away deep in the Stone.__NEWL__As he studies the Jart, Olmy comes to believe that the Jart allowed itself to be captured and is a Trojan Horse.__NEWL__The Jart reveals tidbits about the Jart civilization: in essence, they are a hierarchical meta-civilization that ruthlessly modifies itself, attempting to absorb all useful intelligences and ways of thinking that it encounters, in the service of the Jarts' ultimate goal - to transmit all the data they can possibly gather to "descendant command".__NEWL__Olmy investigates further and discovers that descendant command is the Jart name for what they know as the "Final Mind" - a Teilhardian (or Tiplerian) conception of an ultimate intelligence which will be created at the end of the universe when all intelligences merge themselves into a single transcendent intellect which will effectively be a god.__NEWL__Olmy underestimates the Jart, and it begins to slowly take over his body and mind.__NEWL__Its original mission, assigned to it hundreds of years ago was to engage in sabotage and transmit its freshly acquired understanding of humanity back to present command, but the return of Pavel Mirsky changes everything.__NEWL__Pavel Mirsky had elected to go with the Geshels down the Way more than thirty years ago, after which the Way had been sealed off.__NEWL__It should have been impossible for him to return, but one day he quietly re-appears on Earth to deliver an urgent message.__NEWL__He had traveled down the Way when it was sealed off with that portion of Axis City, and he and its citizens had voyaged hundreds of years and billions of kilometers; they advanced and changed radically on the way.__NEWL__At the end of the Way was a finite but unbounded cauldron of space and energy - a small proto-universe.__NEWL__They transformed themselves into ineffable beings of energy in order to survive the transition.__NEWL__They became as gods to this place, and for a time their creating went well.__NEWL__But it began to corrode and collapse without conflict and contrast between the creators, threatening to take the would-be gods with it.__NEWL__But they were rescued by the Final Mind of this universe, which took pity on them and freed them from the Way.__NEWL__Mirsky had been reconstituted from what he had become and sent back in time to try to persuade the Hexamon to order the re-opening of the Way - and its destruction.__NEWL__On Gaia, Rhita persuades the aging queen to support her like the queen had supported Patricia.__NEWL__Their expedition leaves for the location of the test gate somewhere in the barbarous hinterlands of Central Asia in the nick of time, as the queen is deposed during their trip.__NEWL__Rhita's clavicle succeeds in expanding the test gate to a usable size, but it warns her that whoever opened the gate in the first place was not human.__NEWL__That night, the Jarts arrive on Gaia en masse.__NEWL__They begin the task of storing and digitizing all the data and life forms on Gaia to transmit down to descendant command.__NEWL__Rhita's consciousness is of special interest to the Jarts, particularly what she knows of Patricia.__NEWL__In the meantime on Earth proper, consensus has been reached to re-open the Way but not to destroy it.__NEWL__Mirsky disappears.__NEWL__Another entity who should not be there, Ry Oyu, the former gate opener for the Gate Guild, appears.__NEWL__He prods the president of the Hexamon into covertly ordering Korzenowski into destroying the Way regardless of the decision of the citizens.__NEWL__The backlash destroys the Stone.__NEWL__Ry Oyu, Korzenowski, Ser Olmy (who connived at the destruction), and the Jart controlling Olmy, outrun the Way's destruction and arrive at a Jart defense station located over Gaia.__NEWL__The Jarts respect the wishes of Ry Oyu as a representative of descendant command, and before the Way dies, transmit their accumulated data in a single immensely long fluctuation along the singularity/flaw of the Way to the Final Mind.__NEWL__Korzenowski has himself digitized and sent with the transmission.__NEWL__Olmy is dropped off on the homeworld of the Frants, a communal mind civilization whom he likes.__NEWL__Ry Oyu has Rhita's mind freed; her consciousness gives Ry Oyu the last piece of data needed to reconstitute Patricia Vasquez.__NEWL__Ry Oyu intends to make up for his failure to instruct Patricia properly when she was trying to open a gate back home in Eon; he correctly opens the gate, and bare moments before the Way completely disintegrates around him, finally sends her back home to an Earth where the Death did not happen.__NEWL__Rhita is also returned to Gaia, a Gaia where she never opened a test gate and where the Jarts did not invade.__NEWL__And Pavel Mirsky, still unsatisfied, returns to the beginning of the universe to witness all interesting events between then and the Final Mind, when he will return and report back to it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7897158	Unnatural History	1999-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5421043	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5421043	In London during the year 2002, the dark-haired Sam Jones is living a normal life, though struggling with a drug addiction, when the Eighth Doctor arrives in the shop she works in and tells her that she should have blonde hair and be travelling with him.__NEWL__Shocked by this, she runs out onto the street to get away from him and is attacked by a ten-year-old boy, who claims that she shouldn't exist.__NEWL__When the Doctor rescues her, she agrees to go with him to San Francisco.__NEWL__When they arrive, the Doctor finds Fitz and explains that when the TARDIS destroyed the Earth, but reversed time, a scar in space and time was left behind and strange creatures from other dimensions are being attracted to the city by it.__NEWL__The TARDIS has become trapped inside the scar, and will be crushed by the strain of trying to stabilise the scar in three days unless it is removed.__NEWL__When the Doctor originally arrived, blonde Sam fell in the scar, and dark Sam appeared in London.__NEWL__The Doctor's attempts to contact the Time Lords to obtain new equipment to close the scar fails, and he meets the boy again, who reveals that he is a member of Faction Paradox, but he claims that he isn't here to harm the Doctor, just to observe his actions.__NEWL__Later the Doctor notices a Kraken in the bay, which will destroy the city looking for food if it detects the energy coming from the scar, but the TARDIS is currently blocking it from detecting them.__NEWL__Now under another time limit, the Doctor finds a scientist called Joyce who promises to help repair the equipment needed to close the scar.__NEWL__The Doctor tells Sam that her biodata is vulnerable to change from the pulses coming from the scar.__NEWL__One of Fitz's contacts kidnaps them and delivers them to a man who fits them with tracking devices and releases them.__NEWL__In Golden Gate Park the Doctor discovers lines of his own biodata lying exposed on the ground, and seeing this removes the tracking devices.__NEWL__The Doctor now realizes that the man who kidnapped them was from the higher dimensions, and has been experimenting with the Doctor's biodata.__NEWL__The Doctor learns that the man's name is Griffin and he wants to collect the unnatural creatures in the city.__NEWL__The Doctor traps Griffin who explains that his ambition is to categorize every creature in the universe.__NEWL__Griffin then escapes and the Doctor returns to his hotel.__NEWL__At the hotel Griffin's henchmen kidnap Fitz, but accidentally leave Sam behind.__NEWL__The Doctor goes to check Joyce's progress with his equipment, only to discover that Joyce has also been experimenting with his biodata as well, but refuses to explain why.__NEWL__After learning that Fitz has been kidnapped, the Doctor confronts Griffin, who explains that he wants to see the Kraken destroy the city.__NEWL__Griffin decides to simplify the Doctor's biodata and begins experimenting on it.__NEWL__Sam attempts to rescue him, but Griffin takes a sample of her biodata before they both escape.__NEWL__Joyce finishes repairing the Doctor's equipment.__NEWL__Returning to the scar, the Doctor finds his equipment can't close the scar and will only remove the TARDIS from the scar, which will enable the Kraken to destroy the city, so the Doctor decides to sacrifice the TARDIS to seal the scar.__NEWL__Joyce accidentally tells Griffin that the largest amount of the Doctor's exposed biodata is at the scar.__NEWL__Griffin goes there and tries to edit the Doctor and Sam's biodata, but the Doctor threatens to alter the higher dimensions that Griffin lives in.__NEWL__Griffin releases Fitz, but Fitz then attacks Griffin and traps him in his dimensionally transcendental specimen box.__NEWL__The Doctor pulls the TARDIS out of the scar, causing the Kraken to look for food.__NEWL__The Doctor places a machine to distract the Kraken on the bay, and the boy offers to create a paradox, but the Doctor refuses.__NEWL__Back at the scar, Sam jumps in, turning her into blonde Sam.__NEWL__The Doctor frees Griffin's specimens from the box, who attack Griffin and push him into the scar.__NEWL__Sam throws the specimen box into the scar after him, causing it to close, and which causes dark Sam to cease to exist and the Kraken and the other creatures return to their own dimension.__NEWL__The boy explains that blonde Sam is a paradox, because blonde Sam was created when dark Sam threw herself in amongst the Doctor’s biodata in the scar, but she was only able to do so because the Doctor brought her to the scar he’d created.__NEWL__Now he has no shadow, like the other Faction members, and the boy tells him that he will soon be a Faction member.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4827169	Autumn Mist	1999-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5421216	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5421216	The Doctor investigates an ancient force interfering with the Battle of the Bulge.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7756655	The People of Paper	2006-11-13T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5421796	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5421796	The prologue tells the story of the creation of the character later known as Merced de Papel, a woman made of paper by Antonio, a former monk who had been famed for his abilities as an origami surgeon, meaning that he performed successful organ transplants using organs made of folded paper.__NEWL__But as medical technology surpassed his skills, he started creating origami animals and, eventually, the origami woman.__NEWL__Merced has "cardboard legs, cellophane appendix, and paper breasts".__NEWL__The main storyline of the first seven chapters is the origin of the "war on Saturn" by Federico de la Fe and his group, El Monte Flores (a.k.a. EMF).__NEWL__Having lost his wife due to his bedwetting, Federico de la Fe takes his young daughter Little Merced from their Mexican town near the Las Tortugas river and moves from Mexico to El Monte, California, where he works with the EMF (then a gang) picking carnations for a living.__NEWL__While moving through Mexico to the USA, Federico de la Fe begins to feel that he is being watched by Saturn, and he discovers that only lead can shield him from the omnipresent view of the planet.__NEWL__He convinces the EMF to help him wage this war, which they do first by setting fires around town so that Saturn cannot see through, and second by having lead walls and ceilings put into all their houses.__NEWL__At the end of the section, "Saturn was unhinging from its orbit and slowly moving deeper into the solar system, away from the roofs of El Monte, eventually becoming the farthest planet [sic] from the sun...__NEWL__"__NEWL__The section is told mostly from the perspectives of Saturn, Federico de la Fe, and Little Merced, but other EMF characters contribute, such as Froggy El Veterano, Federico de la Fe's right-hand man; Sandra, a subcomandante and a woman who was Froggy's lover until Froggy killed her abusive father; and Julieta, a woman whose town in Mexico had self-destructed and who becomes Froggy's lover after Sandra.__NEWL__Non-EMF characters who get sections to themselves include Rita Hayworth (known as "Margarita"); Merced de Papel, who receives her name from Little Merced; Ignacio, the mechanic who provides the lead shields; Apolonio, a curandero who helps Froggy overcome his sadness at losing Sandra; Santos, a saint who has been hiding from the church by living as a popular luchador; and Baby Nostradamus, an infant whose mother tells fortunes.__NEWL__At the beginning of this section, it is revealed that the character/narrator Saturn is a pseudonym for author Salvador Plasciencia, and that he has given up on the novel after his girlfriend Liz leaves him for another man due to his obsessive war with Federico de la Fe and the EMF (a loose parallel to Merced leaving Federico).__NEWL__Much of this section looks at the Saturn/Plasciencia's personal life, including his attempts to communicate with Liz and his later relationship with Cameroon, a woman who gives herself bee-stings (much like Federico de la Fe burns himself).__NEWL__The chapter also discusses Saturn/Plasciencia's great-grandfather Don Victoriano, who is described as also being the ancestor of the people of Las Tortugas and of Antonio the origami surgeon.__NEWL__Other characters include Cameroon's long-lost father, Jonathan Mead, who is nervously preparing to call her for the first time in years; hoteliers Natalia and Quinones Hernandez, who run a honeymooners-only hotel that Saturn/Plasciencia and Cameroon fraudulently check into; and Ralph and Elisa Landin, who are financially supporting the writing of the novel, even though Saturn/Plasciencia uses much of the money for non-authorial expenses.__NEWL__The section ends with two chapters related to Cameroon and Liz: first, it is revealed that Cameroon has since left Saturn/Plasciencia because of his many lies, such as falsifying Rita Hayworth's biography; second, Liz writes a chapter pointing out that the novel is a public discourse and therefore an unfair site for Saturn/Plasciencia to take out his anger on her, such as by using the false biography of Rita Hayworth as a metaphor for their failed relationship.__NEWL__She also notes that he has now unfairly brought several other people from his life into the story, including his great-grandfather Don Victoriano and Cameroon.__NEWL__She pleads with him, "if you still love me, please leave me out of this story.__NEWL__Start this book over, without me."__NEWL__After this the title page and first dedication page reappear, but not the dedication page for Liz, an absence that suggests the book will start over without reference to Liz.__NEWL__Then the third section begins.__NEWL__The third book begins with Saturn briefly silent, but eventually returning to his watching over El Monte.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the EMF members have realized that the lead shielding is making them all sick; with the help of Apolonio the curandero, they regain their health and tear down all the lead.__NEWL__Little Merced learns from Baby Nostradamus the secret of how to block her thoughts from Saturn and, eventually, how to extend that block to everyone else; however, she is killed by citrus poisoning and remains dead for five days, until Apolonio finds a way to resurrect her; revived, she has to relearn how to shield thoughts.__NEWL__Federico de la Fe and Froggy realize that a better way to fight Saturn is not to shield their thoughts but to think and speak openly, thus literally crowding Saturn to the margins with their own words; at this section, the pages become crowded with characters narrating, and Saturn's passages shrink to just a corner of the page.__NEWL__Eventually, the sky above the town starts to crumble, and the EMF think they have succeeded.__NEWL__Apolonio's becomes caretaker for the orphaned Baby Nostradamus, his shop is raided by the church, and he is officially excommunicated from the Church.__NEWL__And Merced de Papel is killed in a car accident.__NEWL__In Plascencia's world, Cameroon discovers to her horror that other people already know her because of Plascencia's book, in which she died and was buried in the ocean to be food for the fish.__NEWL__Her father does not find her, but he does explain why he abandoned her when she was a child.__NEWL__The Landins discover that Plascencia has been misusing their money, and they withdraw their support.__NEWL__Plascencia continues to try to contact Liz, who replies that what she did was not as bad as Plascencia has made it; with this, Plascencia starts to let go of his anger and returns his gaze to the town of El Monte.__NEWL__Watching over the townspeople, he eventually comes to Baby Nostradamus, through whom Plascencia sees a future for all the characters, including one in which Liz, still married to the man she left Plascencia for, thinks fondly of Saturn/Plascencia.__NEWL__While Plascencia/Saturn again drifts into a fantasy of what their life would have been like, Little Merced helps Federico de la Fe to leave El Monte and to walk "off the page, leaving no footprints that Saturn could track".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1214791	The Memoirs of a Survivor	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5524514	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5524514	The story takes place in a near-future Britain where society has broken down due to an unspecified disaster, referred to as "The Crisis."__NEWL__The new society that emerges after the collapse retains many features of the old world but is fundamentally different.__NEWL__What serves as a government in the post-crisis nation is unable to consolidate its authority and exercises little control over the populace.__NEWL__Newscasts can be heard and law and order are upheld by vigilantes and a handful of policemen.__NEWL__Education exists for those who pass as the wealthier survivors, while schools for the poor act as an apparatus of the army and are designed to control the population.__NEWL__Limited commercial activity continues, but scavenging is required to obtain rare goods.__NEWL__By the start of the novel, the situation in the society is starting to deteriorate as the edifice of the past society crumbles.__NEWL__The narrator describes people moving out of the city, and empty shelves indicate a food shortage.__NEWL__Rationing is in effect, and gangs migrate through the city block by block attacking residents.__NEWL__Many of the narrator's neighbours want to move out of the city as the situation becomes worse.__NEWL__The narrator, a middle-aged woman who lives a quiet life in a flat, unexpectedly ends up with 'custody' of a teenage girl named Emily Cartwright and her dog Hugo.__NEWL__The narrator seeks to please the new arrival and works hard to ensure that Emily has a high opinion of her.__NEWL__She often comments on Emily's competence and neatness and ponders the purpose of the girl's existence.__NEWL__Emily herself is intelligent and insightful but is also quite distant.__NEWL__The narrator and Emily somewhat enjoy each other's company and seem to form a tacit arrangement of tolerance between them.__NEWL__This idyllic time (in the words of the narrator) ends when a gang of young people take up residence in the community.__NEWL__Emily goes out to meet them but retreats when they tease her and threaten Hugo.__NEWL__Later that evening she meets with the gang again, and this time enjoys herself.__NEWL__Upon returning home, she remarks to the narrator that the gang members are at least able to enjoy themselves.__NEWL__Many different gangs pass through the community in the next few months, and Emily always interacts with them.__NEWL__This, coupled with Emily's abrasive wit, creates friction between her and the narrator, though the latter weathers Emily's remarks and remains stoic.__NEWL__As Emily grows older, she exhibits more and more signs of adolescence.__NEWL__She designs her own clothes, gains then loses weight, and works ardently to become more attractive.__NEWL__As the story progresses, a group of similar minded young people from the community begin to form a gang of their own, modelled after the previous gangs that visited the community.__NEWL__Emily happily joins them in their nightly revelry.__NEWL__Soon it becomes apparent that the gang is going to depart from the community, and the narrator believes that Emily will leave with them.__NEWL__However, Emily is conflicted about leaving Hugo behind.__NEWL__She tries to introduce him to the gang, but no progress is made.__NEWL__The next day three of the gang members go to the flat where Emily and the narrator live with the intent to eat Hugo but are dissuaded by the presence of the Narrator.__NEWL__Emily learns of this occurrence and decides that, for the moment, she cannot leave her longtime companion behind.__NEWL__The gang soon splits into two groups, and Emily stays with the group that chooses not to depart.__NEWL__The story continues to progress as Emily grows older.__NEWL__Outside of the narrator's flat, society begins to revert to a pre-industrial state, with agriculture becoming more and more common in the city.__NEWL__A few blocks away, a young man named Gerald organizes dispossessed children into a new group and begins to establish a new gang.__NEWL__Emily becomes infatuated with Gerald, and it is implied that they form a physical relationship.__NEWL__Emily's influence in the community continues to grow, and she is soon seen as one of the leaders of the young people.__NEWL__One day the narrator returns home and finds items missing from her flat.__NEWL__Emily finds out about this thievery, and orders the thieves (who are some of the children that she leads) to return the stolen goods, displaying her authority over the children and her ability to protect the narrator, who up until this point had protected her.__NEWL__She then leads the narrator upstairs, where a thriving market has formed in the upper floors of the apartment building.__NEWL__Emboldened by his successes, Gerald continues to solidify his control over his group of followers.__NEWL__Emily often helps him, though friction is created between the two when Gerald seeks out other partners.__NEWL__Eventually, Gerald (who, according to the narrator, has too kind a heart) adopts feral children who had inhabited the sewers into his gang.__NEWL__However, the children are filthy and vicious, with their behaviour leading to the collapse of Gerald's formerly well-managed gang.__NEWL__The people of the community gather to discuss what should be done about the children when the police arrive and break up the meeting.__NEWL__Fearing that the eyes of the authorities (described as "them") have fallen upon the community, many of the narrator's neighbours flee in the following months.__NEWL__Months go by and society continues to collapse.__NEWL__The feral children are ostensibly under Gerald's control, but often run wild in what remains of the neighbourhood.__NEWL__Water is in short supply, caravans and traders are often attacked, and it is implied that even the government is starting to abandon parts of the city.__NEWL__Emily and the narrator spend most of their time in the flat and are able to interact with the children due to Emily's relationship with Gerald, but both fear an attack in the future, as the children are actively raiding and killing other humans at night.__NEWL__By this point, most of the residents of the neighbourhood have departed for the lands to the north and west of the city, lands from which there is forebodingly no news.__NEWL__Eventually, the children turn on Gerald and attack him, while he remains incredulous that such young children could betray him.__NEWL__Emily is able to save Gerald and hurry him into the flat.__NEWL__Faced with a bleak existence, the small group of Emily, Gerald, Hugo, and the Narrator fall asleep, expecting an attack from the children.__NEWL__The narrator awakes to find that the wall has opened before her and a new world lies on the other side.__NEWL__Emily leads the group through, whereupon they step into a new, better world as the walls dissolve away.__NEWL__Periodically, the narrator is able, through meditating on a certain wall (see above) in her flat, to traverse space and time.__NEWL__Many of these visions are about Emily's sad childhood under the care of her harsh mother and distant father.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, the main character's strange new family breaks through dimensional barriers via the wall and walks into a much better world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7991087	What Dreams May Come	1978-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5534091	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5534091	The prologue is narrated by a man telling of his visit from a psychic woman, who gives him a manuscript she claims was dictated to her by his deceased brother Chris.__NEWL__Most of the novel consists of this manuscript.__NEWL__Chris, a middle-aged man, is injured in an auto accident and dies in the hospital.__NEWL__He remains as a ghost, at first thinking he's having a bad dream.__NEWL__Amid a failed séance that ends up reinforcing his wife's belief that he didn't survive death, an unidentified man keeps approaching Chris, telling him to concentrate on what's beyond.__NEWL__Chris disregards this advice for a long time, unable to leave his wife Ann.__NEWL__After following the man's advice, and focusing on pleasant memories, he feels himself being elevated.__NEWL__He awakens in a beautiful glade, which he recognizes as a place where he and Ann traveled.__NEWL__Understanding now that he has died, he is surprised that he looks and feels alive, with apparently a physical body and sensations.__NEWL__After exploring the place for a while, he finds Albert, his cousin, who reveals himself as the unidentified man he had been seeing.__NEWL__Albert explains that the place they occupy is called Summerland.__NEWL__Being a state of mind rather than a physical location, Summerland is practically endless and takes the form of the inhabitants' wishes and desires.__NEWL__There is no pain or death, but people maintain occupations of sorts and perform leisure activities.__NEWL__The book depicts Summerland at length, through Chris's eyes.__NEWL__Chris feels somehow uneasy, haunted by nightmares ending in Ann's death.__NEWL__Soon he learns that Ann has killed herself.__NEWL__Albert, who is as shocked as Chris, explains that by committing suicide Ann has placed her spirit in the "lower realm" from Summerland, and that she will stay there for twenty-four years – her intended life span.__NEWL__Albert insists that Ann's condition is not "punishment" but "law" – a natural consequence of committing suicide.__NEWL__Since Albert's job is to visit the lower realm, Chris asks to be taken there to help Ann.__NEWL__Albert initially refuses, warning Chris that he might find himself stuck in the lower realm, thus delaying his eventual, inevitable reunion with Ann.__NEWL__Chris eventually convinces Albert to attempt the rescue, though Albert insists that they will almost certainly fail.__NEWL__The lower realm (which the book later refers to as "Hell") is cold, dark, and barren.__NEWL__Albert and Chris are able to use their minds to make their surroundings slightly more bearable, but Albert warns Chris that this will be harder to do the further they travel.__NEWL__They eventually reach a place occupied by people who were violent criminals while alive.__NEWL__Chris witnesses a series of dreadful sights and is gruesomely attacked by a mob, though he soon discovers that the attack occurred only in his mind.__NEWL__They finally depart from that violent section of Hell, arriving at last at Ann's place.__NEWL__It resembles a dark, depressing version of the neighborhood where he and Ann lived.__NEWL__Albert explains that she will not immediately recognize Chris, and that he should try gradually convincing her who he is and what has happened to her.__NEWL__Ann believes she is living alone in her house where nothing seems to work, grieving her husband's death.__NEWL__This is her private "Hell" – an exaggerated version of what she had been experiencing prior to her suicide.__NEWL__Identifying himself as a new neighbor, Chris makes numerous unsuccessful attempts to help her realize the true situation.__NEWL__He describes details of his life so that she will be reminded of her husband.__NEWL__He calls her attention to the improbably negative conditions of the house.__NEWL__He drops clues, gradually leading her to the truth, but she seems to block out anything that will cause recognition.__NEWL__He finally tells her the truth straight out.__NEWL__She gets angry and calls him a liar.__NEWL__Because she does not believe in afterlife, she finds the notion that he could be her dead husband literally unthinkable.__NEWL__After a moment of disorientation where he starts to forget his own identity, the atmosphere of Hell gradually drawing him in and threatening to trap him there, he delivers a monologue of appreciation for her, detailing the ways in which she enriched his life.__NEWL__He then makes the most dreaded decision of all: He decides to stay with her and not return to Summerland.__NEWL__In his final moments before losing consciousness, Ann recognizes him and realizes what has happened.__NEWL__Chris awakens in Summerland again.__NEWL__Albert, who is amazed that Chris was able to rescue Ann, informs him that she has been reborn on Earth, because she is not ready for Summerland.__NEWL__Chris wants to be reborn too, despite Albert's protests.__NEWL__Chris learns that he and Ann have had several past lives, and in all of them they had a special connection with each other.__NEWL__As the manuscript comes to a close, Chris explains that he is soon going to be reborn and will forget all that has happened.__NEWL__He ends with a message of hope, telling his readers that death is not to be feared, and that he knows that in the future he and Ann will ultimately be reunited in Heaven, even if in a different form.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7749314	The Mad Goblin	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5534098	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5534098	At the end of A Feast Unknown, Caliban and Lord Grandrith (a thinly disguised Tarzan) cease fighting each other upon learning that their personal war and indeed their entire lives were engineered by the Nine, a megalomaniacal and powerful secret society.__NEWL__The two men have a sexual affliction in common; they are impotent except when performing acts of violence.__NEWL__This is caused by a serum that grants them eternal life—another product of the Nine.__NEWL__Angered by the ways they have been manipulated, the two heroes split up to overthrow the Nine, ultimately meeting up at the end.__NEWL__The Mad Goblin shows the story from Caliban's point of view.__NEWL__Lord of the Trees tells the same story from Lord Grandrith's viewpoint.__NEWL__During the events of the book, Caliban (assisted by "Porky" Rivers and "Jocko" Simmons, analogues of "Ham" Brooks and "Monk" Mayfair from the Doc Savage stories) kills two members of the Nine, Jiinfan and Iwaldi.__NEWL__The oldest member of the Nine, XauXaz, had previously died of extreme age in A Feast Unknown.__NEWL__Grandrith kills one other, Mubaniga, in Lord of the Trees.__NEWL__In the end, only five of the Nine remain alive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7714325	The Arrangement	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5551154	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5551154	The Arrangement is the first-person story of Evangelos Arness, aka Evans Arness, aka Eddie Anderson, a second-generation Greek-American World War II veteran, a son of an Anatolian rug merchant who went broke after Black Tuesday.__NEWL__He has come to use the name "Eddie Anderson" in his career as a self-loathing advertising executive and the name "Evans Arness" in his second career as a muck-raking magazine reporter, the career in which he ostensibly takes pride (Lincoln Steffens is his role model).__NEWL__His personal life is just as duplicitous: to outsiders he is happily married but is in fact a compulsive adulterer with his wife Florence's "don't ask – don't tell" tacit approval, one aspect of the titular "arrangement".__NEWL__His serial adultery ends when he begins a liaison with a female assistant at his advertising firm, Gwen Hunt, whose independent mind fascinates him; he becomes obsessed with her, perhaps even feeling true love towards her.__NEWL__He fails to lock a drawer with their nude photographs, perhaps subsconsciously wanting to be found out; a prying maid discovers them and shows them to Florence (and before that, it turns out, to their adopted daughter, now a university student).__NEWL__Florence persuades him to leave Gwen and to re-invigorate their life with a self-improvement regimen; both seem perfectly content though somewhat dull but after several months he crashes his car in an apparent suicide attempt.__NEWL__The rest of the novel deals with his inability to return to his old role as he attempts to find a new life in which he can be who he authentically is rather than who others desire him to be or whom he has sold people on his being.__NEWL__He has to return to New York City, where he left his parents and brother after college, to deal with his father's dying.__NEWL__After several false starts, in which the newly "authentic" Eddie is arrested for indecent exposure, burns down his parents' house, a symbol of his father's tyranny over the family, is later shot by Gwen's jealous suitor, and is subsequently committed to a mental hospital, Eddie settles down with Gwen in Connecticut as a liquor dealer and starts to write short stories.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3823559	The Piano Teacher	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1741	Vienna	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q40	Austria	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q40	Austria	5412146	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5412146	The novel follows Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her late thirties who teaches at the Vienna Conservatory and still lives in an apartment with her very controlling elderly mother, with whom Erika shares her parents' marriage bed, despite having a room of her own.__NEWL__The very strained relationship between Erika and her mother is made clear in the opening scene, in which Erika rips out some of her mother's hair when her mother attempts to take away a new dress that Erika has purchased for herself.__NEWL__Erika's mother wishes the money to be used toward a new, future apartment with her, and resents Erika's spending of her money on possessions distinctly for herself; her mother cannot wear Erika's clothing.__NEWL__Erika herself does not wear it, but merely strokes it admiringly at night.__NEWL__Erika expresses this latent violence as well and need for control in many other scenes throughout the book.__NEWL__Erika takes large instruments on trains so that she can hit people with them and call it an accident, or kicks or steps on the feet of other passengers so that she can watch them blame someone else.__NEWL__She is a voyeur who frequents peep shows, and on one occasion catches a couple having sex in a park, being so affected that she urinates.__NEWL__Childhood memories are retold throughout the novel and their effects on the present suggested—for instance, the memory of a childhood visit from her cousin, an attractive and athletic young man, whom Erika's mother praised while she makes her daughter practice piano, results in Erika's self-mutilation.__NEWL__Walter Klemmer, an engineering student, is introduced very early on.__NEWL__He comes early to class and watches Erika perform.__NEWL__He eventually becomes Erika's student and develops a desire for his instructor.__NEWL__Erika sees love as a means of rebellion or escape from her mother and thus seeks complete control in the relationship, always telling Klemmer carefully what he must do to her, although she is a sexual masochist.__NEWL__The tensions build within the relationship as Klemmer finds himself more and more uncomfortable by the control, and eventually Klemmer beats and rapes Erika in her own apartment, her mother in the next room.__NEWL__When Erika visits Klemmer after the rape and finds him laughing and happy, she stabs herself in the shoulder and returns home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7719013	The Bodysnatchers	1997-08-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5413317	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5413317	The Doctor, Sam and an allied professor work together to stop alien bodysnatchers, grave-robbers and much worse plaguing London.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7968678	War of the Daleks	1997-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5413403	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5413403	The story opens up with the Doctor and Sam in the TARDIS doing some maintenance when they are collected by a ship which holds an escape pod containing Davros.__NEWL__A group of Thals arrive; they want Davros to alter their species so they will be better able to fight the Daleks.__NEWL__A force of Daleks then arrive and take the Doctor and Davros, along with other characters, to Skaro.__NEWL__Before landing on Skaro, the Doctor discovers that the coordinates he believed were Skaro's were actually those of the planet Antalin.__NEWL__Since Davros's return the Dalek Prime has met considerable resistance with a number of Davros loyalists forming.__NEWL__Initiating a final civil war on Skaro, the Dalek Prime has all the Davros loyalists revealed and exterminated.__NEWL__In the meantime he releases the Doctor to leave Skaro.__NEWL__The Doctor discovers a planted device on board the TARDIS which would allow the Daleks to survive in case the Dalek Prime failed.__NEWL__He jettisons it into the vortex.__NEWL__With his faction defeated, Davros is sentenced to death by matter dispersal.__NEWL__Prior to his downfall he had implanted a Spider Dalek as a spy amongst the Dalek Prime's forces.__NEWL__Davros is placed in a disintegration chamber and his atoms dispersed.__NEWL__His fate is left open when his data is either erased from the disintegrator or transmatted across space to a safe location.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7455078	Serpent's Reach	1980-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5428853	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5428853	The novel begins on a Family estate at Kethiuy on Cerdin, where the Sul sept of the Meth-maren House is attacked by the rival Ruil sept, with the help of Red and Gold Majats.__NEWL__The Ruil sept is seeking to wrest control of the Blue Majat from the Sul sept.__NEWL__A young Raen a Sul hant Meth-maren is the only survivor, and she seeks refuge in the nearby Blue Majat Hive.__NEWL__There she persuades the Blue Queen to help her regain control of Kethiuy.__NEWL__The Blue Warriors and their azi succeed in destroying the Ruil sept, but the Blue Hive is decimated and Raen is captured and brought before the Kontrin Council.__NEWL__Moth, the second oldest Kontrin, protects Raen from the Kontrin conspirators seeking to destroy her, and Raen is banished from Cerdin.__NEWL__Raen adopts a low profile and drifts from planet to planet in the Reach.__NEWL__She survives several assassination attempts but never gives up her desire for revenge against the Kontrin Council and those who destroyed her family.__NEWL__After Council Eldest Lian is assassinated, Moth takes control of the Council.__NEWL__She watches Raen's movement but does not interfere.__NEWL__Raen's final move is to board a Beta passenger spaceliner, Andra's Jewel bound for Istra, the only planet in the Reach accessible from the Outside.__NEWL__Istra has no permanent Kontrin presence, only Betas, who deal with Outsiders and the Majat, who were brought here by the Kontrin hundreds of years previously.__NEWL__To amuse herself on Andra's Jewel's long voyage, Raen plays Sej, a dicing game, every night with a ship azi named Jim.__NEWL__They agree that at the end of the voyage Raen will buy his contract, and if Jim is the overall winner, he will be a free man, but if he loses, he will become her azi.__NEWL__Jim narrowly loses and serves her for the remainder of the story.__NEWL__On Istra, Raen and Jim, now her second in command, establish a presence on the planet.__NEWL__She manipulates the Betas and gains control of their affairs.__NEWL__She also allies herself with the local Blue Majat Hive.__NEWL__But the Majat Hives are restless and soon turn on each other.__NEWL__The Blue, Green and Red Queens are killed and the surviving Gold Queen unites all the Hives under her.__NEWL__The Hive revolt spreads to all planets of the Reach and all the Kontrin perish, except for Raen, who now lives with the Majat on Istra.__NEWL__With the Kontrin Company no longer in control, the Betas take charge of the Reach.__NEWL__All the azi are gone, having self-terminated at their maximum age of 40, and no new azi are created.__NEWL__Jim, however, at Raen's request, is given immortality by the Majat and lives with her in the Gold Hive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5166047	Conundrum	2001-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5514133	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5514133	Conundrum follows a boat of gnomes, named the Indestructable, to sail around the world of Krynn.__NEWL__However, when they reach the doorway to the bottom of Krynn, things change.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4898230	Betsey Brown	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5542375	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5542375	Betsey Brown is the story of an adolescent African-American girl growing up in 1959 St. Louis, Missouri, who is part of the first generation of students to be integrated in the public school system.__NEWL__She navigates common adolescent issues such as family dynamics, first love, and identity questions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7747513	The Lioness	2002-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5516305	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5516305	The evil green dragon Beryl oppresses the kingdom of Qualinesti with the aid of her Dark Knights.__NEWL__A resistance leader, a mysterious Kagonesti woman who is known as 'The Lioness' arises to battle her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16834539	Dark Thane	2003-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5516915	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5516915	After a series of ugly battles and incidents, the dwarven community becomes increasingly isolationist in its city under the mountains.__NEWL__Unfortunately dark magic, backstabbings, betrayal and power grabs threaten to destroy the already destabilized dwarf society.__NEWL__A Thane is a ruler of a dwarven faction.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16386239	If I Were You							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5432376	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5432376	Anthony "Tony", fifth Earl of Droitwich, lives at his Worcestershire country house Langley End with his brother the Honourable Frederick "Freddie" Chalk-Marshall, their aunt Lady Lydia Bassinger, and her husband Sir Herbert Bassinger.__NEWL__Tony is engaged to Violet Waddington.__NEWL__The match was essentially arranged by Lady Lydia and Violet's father G. G. Waddington, of Waddington's 97 Soups, for Violet's money and Tony's title.__NEWL__Violet likewise views the engagement in a businesslike way, though Tony is unaware Violet does not love him until Freddie tells him.__NEWL__Bella Price, Tony's old nurse and sister of Tony's butler Theodore Slingsby, visits with her son, Socialist barber shop owner Sydney "Syd" Price, and one of Syd's employees, American manicurist Polly Brown.__NEWL__Freddie wants capital to sell Syd's hair regrowth lotion, Price's Derma Vitalis, invented by Syd's grandfather.__NEWL__Tony notices that Syd resembles the portrait of one of Tony's ancestors.__NEWL__Syd is disrespectful and does not get along with Slingsby.__NEWL__Polly explores the house's grounds and pops out of the bushes suddenly in front of Tony's car; he slams on the brakes, though she is still hit.__NEWL__He carries her into the house, but she is not seriously injured and recovers quickly.__NEWL__Mrs. Price is emotional and reveals the truth about Tony and Syd: she switched them while they were babies.__NEWL__She first confessed twelve years prior, when Tony was sixteen, and at that time, the fourth Earl of Droitwich and Sir Herbert decided to keep it secret.__NEWL__Tony feels Syd is the rightful Lord Droitwich, but his relatives dislike the uncouth Syd and want to keep things as they are.__NEWL__Polly believes Syd is devoted to his business and would not be happy being an earl.__NEWL__Tony and his family try to pay Syd to relinquish any claim to the title, but Syd refuses.__NEWL__Polly suggests they train Syd to become Lord Droitwich because he will hate it and quit.__NEWL__The family agrees and plans to make things uncomfortable for Syd by making him go riding, attend classical concerts, and so on.__NEWL__Tony is impressed with Polly's ingenuity.__NEWL__He gives Syd the keys to Langley End and his London house, and takes the keys to Syd's barber shop.__NEWL__Two weeks later, Tony's family and Syd are in London.__NEWL__Freddie's friend "Tubby", Lord Bridgnorth, goes to his usual barber shop, Price's Hygienic Toilet Saloon, off the Brompton Road.__NEWL__A barber named George Christopher Meech informs him a man named Anthony is taking over the shop from Syd.__NEWL__Bridgnorth is engaged to a Luella Beamish, whose father is rich and also bald, so Freddie leaves with Bridgnorth to see Mr. Beamish about Price's hair tonic.__NEWL__Syd visits the barber shop.__NEWL__When Freddie returns in need of a shave, Syd is eager to do the job, but is shortly told by Tony's family to go riding, which Syd hates.__NEWL__Tony takes pity on Syd and admits he does not have to do such tasks, but Syd does not believe him.__NEWL__Violet does not wish to marry a barber and will leave Tony if he tells Syd the truth again.__NEWL__Tony and Polly confess their feelings for each other.__NEWL__Syd returns to the shop disheveled from riding, and is ready to take money to give up his claim on the title, but Tony tells him he can be an earl without riding or concerts.__NEWL__Syd now believes Tony.__NEWL__Yet Violet does not end her engagement to Tony, because Mrs. Price, feeling Syd was happier in his shop, has signed a paper for Sir Herbert denying her story about switching Tony and Syd.__NEWL__Tony burns the paper to end his engagement to Violet.__NEWL__Another two weeks pass.__NEWL__Tony, now engaged to Polly, is summoned to Langley End by Herbert, who has the family solicitor, J. G. Wetherby, interrogate Mrs. Price.__NEWL__Wetherby suggests she has read too many stories involving the changing of one baby for another and nearly convinces her to sign a paper similar to the one Tony burned, but Mrs. Price is superstitious and stops when she sees a magpie.__NEWL__Syd decides to move the painting that resembles him to keep it safe from Tony's plotting family, and tells footman Charles to bring a ladder.__NEWL__A brawl breaks out as Syd and Slingsby fight over the ladder.__NEWL__However, Freddie announces that Mr. Beamish, who has seen results after using Price's Derma Vitalis, wants to sell it.__NEWL__Mr. Price will be very wealthy, with Freddie earning a commission.__NEWL__Mrs. Price now signs the paper at Syd's urging, ensuring Tony will retain his title.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5706422	Hell's Kitchen	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5486177	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5486177	The book follows Pellam as he tries to prove the innocence of an old woman, Ettie, whom he had interviewed for a documentary on the area of New York City referred to as Hell's Kitchen.__NEWL__When Ettie's apartment catches fire, she is blamed for the crime and jailed.__NEWL__Pellam believes she is innocent and is determined to prove it and set her free.__NEWL__Along the way he meets several characters who try to interrupt his search as it uncovers many underlying crimes of different people.__NEWL__All the while, the real arsonist, a man named Sonny, has been continuing to burn buildings and chase Pellam.__NEWL__Towards the end of the book, Sonny finally confronts Pellam, attempting to kill him (and Sonny himself in the process).__NEWL__However, just when it appears Pellam is about to die, two friends he has made along his investigation come to his aid and save him from Sonny.__NEWL__Pellam gathers the evidence needed to prove Ettie innocent and she is set free.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775213	The Winthrop Woman	5487527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5487527	The Winthrop Woman begins with young Elizabeth Fones and her family travelling to visit their family at their grandfather's countryside estate.__NEWL__Elizabeth's uncle, John Winthrop, is especially pious and strict about Protestantism; and he chides his sister for not taking proper care of her children, Elizabeth in particular, who is hot-headed and capricious.__NEWL__Elizabeth is caught blaspheming and is beaten, resulting in her becoming areligious and instilling in her a hatred for her uncle.__NEWL__Years later, Elizabeth Fones has become a beautiful young woman working in her ailing father's apothecary.__NEWL__Though she is in love with her cousin John ("Jack")__NEWL__Winthrop, Jr., it is Jack's friend Edward Howes who seeks to marry her.__NEWL__Just as she becomes engaged to Howes, her cousin Henry Winthrop (or "Harry"), Jack's younger brother, returns from his adventures in Barbados.__NEWL__Unlike his father and brother, Harry is wild and carefree, reckless to the point that he has depleted all his money and nearly brought his family to financial ruin.__NEWL__Unwilling to return to his father, Harry instead stays at Thomas Fones's house and spends his time frolicking with his equally profligate friends.__NEWL__One night, Harry and Elizabeth spend an especially long night out, their lust overcomes them, and they sleep together in a garden.__NEWL__In yet another reckless act, Harry declares that he is in love with Elizabeth and demands her hand in marriage.__NEWL__The couple are wed, much to the dismay of both fathers (John Winthrop both believes that his son could do better than a Fones and is not fond of Elizabeth; Thomas Fones is dismayed because his daughter was already engaged to marry Edward Howes).__NEWL__Elizabeth and Harry move to the Winthrop estate in the countryside (John Winthrop no longer resides there as he has taken a position elsewhere).__NEWL__For a while, the couple live a happy life.__NEWL__However, it soon becomes obvious just how profligate Harry is as he neglects his wife and family to have his own fun.__NEWL__In the meantime, Jack returns.__NEWL__It is apparent that he and Elizabeth still have strong feelings for each other; but, while attempting to cover his feelings for his brother's wife, Jack accidentally kisses Martha, Elizabeth's younger sister, and soon the two are wed. Finally, in an attempt to control his son, John Winthrop forces Harry to come to New England with him.__NEWL__In a final act of recklessness, Harry drowns when he attempts to jump in and swim.__NEWL__Elizabeth is left a pregnant widow.__NEWL__After she gives birth to her daughter (Martha), she, Jack, Martha, and John Winthrop's wife, Margaret, all depart for Massachusetts.__NEWL__In the strict colony in the New World, Elizabeth runs into more trouble than ever.__NEWL__On her uncle's suggestion, Elizabeth marries Robert Feake, a weak-willed and strangely disturbed man who often has nightmares and commits odd deeds in his sleep.__NEWL__She also attempts to befriend Anne Hutchinson and chooses a tainted Indian woman, Telaka, for her maid.__NEWL__Eventually, Elizabeth and Robert are driven out of their house in Watertown because the other colonists believe Telaka to be a witch.__NEWL__The Feakes then settle in Greenwich in the colony of New Haven.__NEWL__After run-ins with Indians, Elizabeth and the other leader of the town, Daniel Patrick, join Greenwich to the Dutch colony of New Netherland.__NEWL__After Daniel Patrick is murdered by an old enemy, Elizabeth's husband, Robert, becomes completely mad and attempts to return to England.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Joan marries Thomas Lyons, who turns out to be a prospective gold-digger.__NEWL__When William Hallet, a previous acquaintance of Elizabeth's, begins courting her and gains more and more control over the Feake household, Lyons grows jealous.__NEWL__Finally, Elizabeth and her lover are accused of adultery after not having married properly under English law, and all their lands are confiscated.__NEWL__Elizabeth and William Hallet hide under the protection of Jack Winthrop, who is now an important member of another town in Connecticut.__NEWL__After Jack does all he can for his cousin and ex-lover, Elizabeth and William Hallet are once more free to move back to Greenwich, where Indians then set their house afire.__NEWL__Elizabeth and William Hallet have no choice but to start anew once more, their hearts heavy but their wills strengthened.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7729044	The Darkest Road	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	5487849	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5487849	Kim and Matt, with the help of Tabor and Imraith-Nimphais, rescue the Paraiko.__NEWL__Ruana, their leader, chants kanior—a ritual of forgiveness and lamentation for the dead that is tied to the Paraiko's non-violent nature and the bloodcurse that protects them.__NEWL__So powerful is his performance that it invokes not only all the Paraiko that have died through the centuries but even their enemies; both he and Kim sense a finality in it, as is proven when the Baelrath blazes and summons Kim to change the Paraiko's pacifist natures so they can fight against Maugrim.__NEWL__Due to the loss of their pacifism, however, the magical bloodcurse that had protected the Paraiko for centuries was also lost forever.__NEWL__Kim returns to Ysanne's cottage where she meets Darien and gives him the Circlet of Lisen.__NEWL__As she puts it on his head, the light of the gem goes out, and Darien interprets this as a sign that he is evil.__NEWL__In despair he takes Lökdal, the dagger that Ysanne used to kill herself, and flees.__NEWL__Kim calls after him to tell him where his mother is, hoping that Jennifer will be able to comfort him.__NEWL__Jennifer, waiting in Lisen's tower for Prydwen to return, listens to Flidais' tale of the Wild Hunt and how its randomness, being outside the Weaver's control, gifts the Weaver's creatures with freedom of choice.__NEWL__That wildness also made Maugrim possible; and because Maugrim came from outside the Tapestry there is no thread in it with his name on it, Flidais explains, and so he cannot die.__NEWL__Darien arrives at the tower, looking for love and acceptance.__NEWL__Believing as she does that their only hope lies in leaving Darien completely free, Jennifer tells him simply that he must make his own choice and that she will not influence it, except to say that his father wanted her dead so that he would never be born.__NEWL__Darien believes that his choice was made for him when the light of Lisen's Circlet went out and so departs to seek his father.__NEWL__Prydwen returns in the midst of a terrible storm and Jennifer immediately sends Lancelot away, charging him to follow Darien and protect him.__NEWL__Lancelot battles an ancient stone creature of the wood, a demon named Curdardh, only managing to defeat it with Darien's help.__NEWL__In a moment of clarity Darien realizes that his mother sent him away because she is not afraid of what he will do if he is left free to choose: she trusts him.__NEWL__Lancelot finally loses sight of Darien as he crosses Daniloth in the form of a white owl.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Dalrei, the lios alfar, and the men of Brennin and Cathal are gathering on the plain to face Maugrim's army.__NEWL__Jaelle's view of men as lesser beings has been challenged by Kevin's unflinching sacrifice and she and Paul/Pwyll begin to tentatively shape a friendship.__NEWL__As they talk on the shore below Lisen's Tower, a ghostly ship appears to take all of them to Andarien in time to meet Aileron and the rest of the host of the Light.__NEWL__Loren, Matt and Kim return to the kingdom of the dwarves where Matt competes against Kaen and Blöd to regain his rightful position as King of the Dwarves.__NEWL__The Crystal Dragon of Calor Diman awakens but despite the blazing summons of the Baelrath, Kim refuses to bind it to help them against Maugrim, realizing that she still has the power to choose and that there is a point where the ends do not justify the means.__NEWL__She uses the ring's power instead to take Loren, Matt and herself to the Plain in time for Matt to reclaim the Dwarves and lead them to join the rest of the forces opposing Maugrim's hordes.__NEWL__A giant urgach issues a challenge to single combat and Arthur, hearing that the name of the plain was once Camlann, recognizes that his time has come: "I never see the end.__NEWL__" But while they debate, Diarmuid seizes the moment and takes the challenge on himself.__NEWL__He fights brilliantly and kills the urgach but is mortally wounded, and dies in Sharra's arms.__NEWL__The next morning the battle begins.__NEWL__Among Maugrim's army are Avaia and her black brood of swans and, more terribly, a giant black dragon.__NEWL__Kim, realizing that it was for this the Baelrath had demanded the Crystal Dragon, is sick with self-reproach but Imraith-Nimphais and Tabor fight valiantly and kill many of the swans.__NEWL__Finally, realizing there is only one way to defeat the dragon, the unicorn shakes Tabor from her back midair and plunges into the dragon's heart, killing both herself and the dragon.__NEWL__Tabor is saved from his death plunge by magical intervention.__NEWL__Despite this unexpected victory, the battle is not going well for the Light as Darien arrives in Starkadh.__NEWL__He faces his father in a room at the top of a tower whose windows magically reflect the battle going on miles away.__NEWL__Maugrim tries to batter his way into Darien's mind, and when he fails guesses who Darien is.__NEWL__Realizing that a child of his getting binds him into the Loom and thus makes him mortal, he gloats that now he will kill Darien himself and thus restore his immortality.__NEWL__He takes Lökdal from Darien; Darien, seeing the horror and death on the battlefield, at last makes his choice for the Light.__NEWL__When he does so, Lisen's Circlet blazes up, temporarily blinding Maugrim; in that moment Darien steps forward onto the knife, and so Maugrim kills without love in his heart and the curse of Lökdal destroys him.__NEWL__The tide of battle turns and Maugrim's army scatters, but Galadan, who since Lisen's death a thousand years ago has wanted nothing more than the annihilation of everything, blows Owein's Horn to summon the Wild Hunt.__NEWL__They arrive, but before they can begin to destroy everything in Fionavar Leila, far away in Paras Derval but still linked to Finn, slams the double-headed axe down on the altar and demands in the name of the Goddess that he come home.__NEWL__When Finn tries to turn his horse, Iselin throws him and he falls to his death.__NEWL__Ruana of the Paraiko arrives and, telling Owien that since they have once again lost the Child who leads them they must be returned to their slumber, binds them once again as Connla did so long ago—though he comforts them by saying that one day they will be free again.__NEWL__Paul, recognizing that Galadan's ability to hear the Horn means that he is not altogether evil, leaves him free to go, and Cernan takes him away to find healing.__NEWL__Paul then calls the sea in to wash the plain clean; with the sea comes a boat, and Jennifer/Guinevere, Lancelot and Arthur (who has survived to see the end) are also freed from their penance and sail away together at last.__NEWL__Paul decides to stay in Fionavar with Jaelle, who has stepped aside as High Priestess in favor of Leila.__NEWL__Ceinwen, the Goddess of the Hunt, appears one last time to Dave and reminds him that he cannot remain in Fionavar, but as a final gift she asks him what he would name a child of the andain, a son, if he had one.__NEWL__He chooses the name "Kevin" and he and Kim return to our world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7240076	Prelude for War	1938-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5436597	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5436597	A peaceful moonlight drive in the English countryside is interrupted when Simon Templar and Patricia Holm listen to a disturbing radio broadcast from France by a would-be dictator who plans to make it the latest in a growing number of European dictatorships under a ruling party, the Sons of France.__NEWL__This broadcast disturbs Patricia, and Templar makes a dire (and, as it will turn out, accurate) prediction that the future of Europe will be one of invasions and concentration camps.__NEWL__The two adventurers are interrupted in their worries when they spot a house on fire in the distance.__NEWL__Rushing to help, Templar enters the burning building but is unable to rescue a man trapped inside.__NEWL__Later, he and Patricia learn that one of the occupants of the house is a known war profiteer, who is expected to make millions off both sides if a new European war erupts.__NEWL__Templar, examining the facts of the fire and the man's death, comes to the conclusion that he was murdered.__NEWL__When he is later called to testify at a coroner's inquest into the death, Templar is disturbed to see an obvious whitewash underway that attempts to label the death as accidental.__NEWL__Templar launches his own investigation into the death, which gets off to a bad start when one of his targets is murdered, and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal catches Templar leaning over the dead body.__NEWL__Now firmly intrigued, Templar continues his investigations, which lead him on the trail of an assassination plot designed to spark a Second World War, a clue to which is provided from beyond the grave.__NEWL__The book's cover indicates this plot element, portraying the Saint as trying to close a door through which armed soldiers are trying to enter.__NEWL__Prelude for War, in retrospect, can be seen as a prelude for Templar's later work on behalf of the war effort, as chronicled in The Saint in Miami and succeeding books written and set during World War II.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5287476	Doctor Wortle's School	1881-01-01T00:00:00Z	21847	5437029	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5437029	The novel takes place in the respectable, fictional parish of Bowick, Victorian England, with the main plot concerning itself with the renowned Dr. Wortle's Christian seminary academy.__NEWL__The community's morals are outraged and the school's credibility wounded upon the discovery that Mr. and Mrs. Peacocke, a respectable English scholar and an American woman, hired to the academy by Wortle, are indeed improperly married.__NEWL__Their wedlock was rendered asunder by their chance meeting, some years prior, of Mrs. Peacocke's first husband, an abusive drunkard named Colonel Ferdinand Lefroy.__NEWL__Hearing that an ambiguous Colonel Lefroy was killed during the Civil War, the two believed it was Ferdinand, because Ferdinand's brother told them so and they married.__NEWL__Yet it is their strange persistence in living as husband and wife, even after the shocking revelation that Ferdinand was actually alive, that creates a scandal.__NEWL__Wortle, though religious, sympathises with the Peacockes and is understanding of their love for each other and hatred for Colonel Lefroy.__NEWL__The book is thus of the interest in providing multiple stories: that of Wortle's attempt to rebuild his reputation, provide rebuttal for malicious slander and all the while insist he was right in hiring the Peacockes; Mr. Peacocke's journey to America in search of Ferdinand's true status; the sexual concerns of the Wortles' daughter Mary and the insights of the community members who see the intentional bigamy as a sin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735059	The Fourth Bear	2006-07-10T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23220	Berkshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5490661	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5490661	DCI Jack Spratt heads the Berkshire Nursery Crime Division, handling all inquiries involving nursery rhyme characters and other PDRs (persons of dubious reality).__NEWL__After doubts arise concerning his handling of the Great Red-Legg'd Scissorman's arrest and the Red Riding Hood affair, he is suspended pending a mental health review.__NEWL__His DS Mary Mary promises to consult him on all cases, to bypass the suspension.__NEWL__They begin an investigation of porridge-smuggling by anthropomorphic bears.__NEWL__Jack's troubles increase when the argumentative Punches move in next door and his son adopts a sly and sticky-fingered pet.__NEWL__He is forced to reveal to his shocked wife that he is himself a PDR.__NEWL__Furthermore, his psychiatrist is particularly sceptical about his claim that his new car repairs itself when no one is watching, and the car salesman who can prove his sanity cannot be found.__NEWL__His self-esteem is somewhat restored when the newspaperman who has been hounding him begs Jack's help in finding his missing sister "Goldilocks".__NEWL__It seems she was working on an explosive story involving cucumber growers.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Gingerbreadman, the notorious murderous biscuit (or possibly cake, occasionally cookie) escapes custody, leaving a trail of bodies; Jack is frustrated when the case is given to an unimaginative officer outside NCD.__NEWL__While Jack and Mary are making enquiries about Goldilocks, they twice encounter the fugitive biscuit, but fail to capture him.__NEWL__It emerges that Goldilocks was involved in the porridge-smuggling after her body is discovered in the grim theme park SommeWorld.__NEWL__Jack begins to suspect the Gingerbreadman is a hired assassin and attempts to question the Quangle-Wangle, a reclusive industrialist.__NEWL__The solution to the mystery involves secret industrial and government conspiracies and the mysterious Fourth bear...__NEWL__After more investigations Jack comes across a cottage of three bears who knew Goldilocks.__NEWL__They say that she ate the little bear's porridge and broke his bed, like the rhyme.__NEWL__He also makes investigations into Ursine Developments, the flats for bears.__NEWL__You came across these at the start of the book when Jack caught them smuggling oats into the flats for oat addicts.__NEWL__This is illegal for bears to eat as well as marmalade, honey, and large amounts of porridge, as they have the same effect as drugs.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7858030	Twilight of the Gods	1999-12-01T00:00:00Z	5410725	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5410725	God-like beings have shattered the peace of Dellah, and threaten to spread chaos across the galaxy.__NEWL__Benny and Jason Kane return to the planet in a desperate last attempt to stop them, before the planet is destroyed forever.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7232344	Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z	5441482	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5441482	The story is of Eugene Pota, a prominent writer who, in his old age, is struggling for that last piece of fiction that could be his magnum opus, or at least on par with his earlier writings.__NEWL__Littered throughout the novel are many of Pota's ideas and drafts of possible stories, such as the sexual biography of his wife, or of Hera's trouble with Zeus.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5085965	Charlotte Gray	1999-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5538452	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5538452	In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job as a medical receptionist for a Harley Street doctor.__NEWL__On the train she talks to two men sharing her compartment, and one of them - who works for the secret service - gives her his card.__NEWL__Despite the war, social life in London is in full swing and the attractive, intelligent girl soon meets up with an airman, Peter Gregory.__NEWL__The temporary nature of life at the time is epitomised when she quickly loses her virginity and then falls in love with him.__NEWL__The romance is heightened when Gregory is sent on a mission over France and news comes back to Charlotte that he is missing in action.__NEWL__Charlotte spent much of her childhood in France and speaks the language fluently - a talent that the secret service wishes to exploit in its effort to support the French Resistance.__NEWL__Charlotte decides to throw in her job - which she has no talent for anyway, as the doctor informs her - and joins a Special Operations Executive (SOE)__NEWL__* training course.__NEWL__Once the SOE has grilled her on methods of interrogation, dyed her hair a mousy brown, and replaced her fillings, Charlotte is parachuted into France to complete a specified mission.__NEWL__But instead of doing her job and heading home, she sets out to find Gregory's whereabouts.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762080	The Saint and the People Importers	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5470763	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5470763	This novel captures some flavour of the early-seventies English society by thrusting its titular hero against the immigration rackets exploiting the masses of underprivileged Asian workers (in this case, Pakistani) during the times when England "called the Empire home".__NEWL__The action starts when, getting in a cab in London, Simon Templar spots a particularly lurid headline on the frontpage of a newspaper forgotten by some previous customer, describing the horrible death of a Pakistani immigrant in Soho.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1054065	Walkabout	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	5470991	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5470991	Two American siblings, Peter and Mary, are stranded by a gully in the Australian outback following a plane crash.__NEWL__Peter says they should seek out their uncle, who lives in Adelaide; Mary agrees and they begin walking across the desert, but they fail to realize that Adelaide is on the other side of the continent.__NEWL__They are without food save for a small piece of stick candy, and while falling asleep under a quandong tree they have a nightmare about how the captain got them to danger, only to be killed in a blast when he attempted to kill the navigator.__NEWL__The next day, they keep walking and searching for food but their efforts are in vain.__NEWL__While atop a bluff, Peter thinks he has found water but Mary makes him turn away to prevent him from becoming delirious, as she knows the silver pools are the salt pans of the outback.__NEWL__Suddenly, an Aboriginal teen of about Mary's age (referred to within the text as the "bush boy") appears and startles them, mostly due to his nudity.__NEWL__Hoping to make him leave, Mary glares at him.__NEWL__This proves ineffective.__NEWL__Hoping to find out about the strangers, he inspects both of them but finds nothing of interest, so he leaves.__NEWL__Peter and Mary, shocked at potentially losing their only hope for survival, follow him.__NEWL__Peter attempts to communicate with him through gestures of eating and drinking, and the bush boy quickly comes to comprehend their plight.__NEWL__He indicates that they should follow him, which they do.__NEWL__He arrives at a waterhole where the children drink their fill.__NEWL__Then, the bush boy prepares food for the hungry children.__NEWL__After this, he begins to lead the children to the next waterhole.__NEWL__The bush boy misinterprets Mary's look of disgust at his nakedness as her having seen the spirit of death, and falls into a mental euthanasia.__NEWL__While the children are resting, the bush boy withdraws to reflect on the situation, as this has unwittingly placed him in an ethical and moral quandary.__NEWL__He had been on his walkabout, or test of manhood, prior to crossing paths with the white children.__NEWL__According to tribal law, he is not to be with any other people while he is on his walkabout.__NEWL__But the children need help or they will surely perish, and he is disturbed that leaving them behind would be the wrong course of action.__NEWL__By the time the trio arrive at the next waterhole, the symptoms of the flu Peter has unwittingly passed on to the bush boy are beginning to show in the latter.__NEWL__He begins to worry and decides he must tell the children he needs a burial platform to keep bad spirits from his body and to keep the snakes from "molesting his body" after his death.__NEWL__Peter is gathering firewood, and so to avoid interrupting a man at work, the bush boy seeks Mary, who is bathing.__NEWL__The bush boy doesn't see a bath as something private; he arrives at the pool and Mary is terrified, threatening the bush boy with snarls and a rock.__NEWL__He is confused and becomes depressed, believing that he will not have his burial platform.__NEWL__Mary goes to Peter and tells him to leave with her, but Peter is concerned about the bush boy and so Mary is forced to stay.__NEWL__Peter tells her that the bush boy is very sick; he realizes that the bush boy could die, while Mary refuses to believe that the flu could be fatal, not understanding the native boy's fear of the Spirit of Death he believes she saw in him.__NEWL__Soon, Mary goes to investigate.__NEWL__Finally, she acknowledges that he is actually dying and forgives him.__NEWL__She lays his head in her lap and he touches her hair.__NEWL__Mary realizes that they are not so different, despite his appearance and language.__NEWL__He dies later in the night.__NEWL__They bury him and leave for the food and water-filled valley Peter was told about by the bush boy before he died.__NEWL__They stop at a pool where they eat some yabbies, observe platypus and leave.__NEWL__In a valley rich in water, food, and wildlife, they survive for many days with the skills learned from the bush boy.__NEWL__When Peter is playing with a baby koala, Mary demands he stop out of concern the parents may attack.__NEWL__In doing so, the koala latches onto Mary and her dress is destroyed.__NEWL__Mary then reflects that while a week ago nothing more calamitous could have happened to her, now she is at ease with her nakedness.__NEWL__She and Peter then discover some wet clay which they use to draw pictures: Peter draws nature while Mary draws stylish women and her dream house.__NEWL__Eventually, the children see smoke and come across a group of Aboriginal swimmers.__NEWL__A man recognizes the drawings.__NEWL__His son owns a "warrigal", or pet dog, which serves as a link between the boy and Peter.__NEWL__The father sees Mary's dream house and realizes Mary and Peter seek civilization.__NEWL__In a wide variety of gestures and drawings, he tells the children that there is a house like that across the hills and demonstrates how to reach there.__NEWL__The overjoyed children thank him and begin their trek back to civilization.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762079	The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5471038	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5471038	On the eve of World War II the redoubtable Simon Templar (better known as THE SAINT) finds himself in the imperial city of Vienna, his attentions divided between a very sensuous countess and some legendary diamonds — both of which he is trying to keep out of Nazi hands.__NEWL__Since the days of the Holy Roman Empire, the legendary Hapsburg Necklace has been guarded by members of the Austrian nobility.__NEWL__But never before has it had so beautiful a protector as one Francesca, the Countess Malffy (also known as Frankie).__NEWL__And never before has it been so in danger of being stolen.__NEWL__For its hiding place, the Malffy ancestral manor, has recently been occupied by a new tenant — the Gestapo.__NEWL__And as THE SAINT and Frankie plan a mission to retrieve the necklace, it becomes increasingly apparent that the Germans are not their only adversaries.__NEWL__Also vying for the crown jewels is a most unpredictable eccentric who is every bit a match for Simon Templar.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6665406	Locked Rooms	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62	San Francisco	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5471458	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5471458	On their way back to Britain from India, Holmes and Russell stop at Russell's childhood home in San Francisco.__NEWL__As they approach San Francisco, Russell becomes more and more distracted.__NEWL__Holmes concludes from this, and her recurring dreams of falling objects, a faceless man, and locked rooms, that she is repressing some unpleasant memory.__NEWL__Russell denies this and tries to track down the psychiatrist who helped her recover from the trauma she suffered when she precipitated the car accident that killed her family.__NEWL__On the way, she meets a Chinese man, Long, who was the son of her parents' good friends.__NEWL__Long saves her from a murder attempt before introducing himself and saying that his own parents were killed shortly after her own parents died.__NEWL__When Russell finally tracks down the name of her psychiatrist, she learns that she was murdered after Russell departed for England several years ago.__NEWL__Holmes determines from the fact that there was a recent break-in at Russell's house, Russell's anxiety and distraction, the murder of the psychiatrist, and the most recent attempt on Russell's life, that there is something serious amiss.__NEWL__He hires Dashiell Hammett to join his investigation.__NEWL__They conclude that Russell was present during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, despite her denial of this fact, and it was this experience that produced the dream about falling objects.__NEWL__He learns from an interview with a survivor of the earthquake that Russell was very frightened by a man with several bandages on his face looking for her father — he had covered up his face because he had been burned while fighting a fire, and this made him appear faceless.__NEWL__Both Russell and Hammett visit the site of the Russell family car accident.__NEWL__Russell then takes a vacation to her family's summer home with her friends Flo and Donny.__NEWL__During the vacation, she recovers her wits enough to realize that somebody is trying to murder her and all the people that could possibly be connected with the car accident that killed her parents, from Long's parents to her psychiatrist.__NEWL__She visits the garage that collected the remainder of her parents' car and learns that the brake rod was cut and she is not to blame for their deaths; they were murdered.__NEWL__Russell returns to her city house, fully recovered and determined to find out who was behind all the murders.__NEWL__Using fengshui, which Long's family was very interested in, they dig up the garden and find a box with a confession, written by Russell's father, and several valuable items in it.__NEWL__In the letter, he says that he helped a man get away with murder of a policeman, looting, and arson to cover up the evidence during the 1906 earthquake.__NEWL__The man in question was the one posing as a rescuer with the bandaged face.__NEWL__The letter concludes with the statement that Mr. Russell is going to disclose this information in order to free his conscience, and adds that he warned the person responsible of his intentions.__NEWL__The letter was written only days before the family members' deaths.__NEWL__Holmes had previously set up Irregulars in the form of street kids to spy on Hammett's house in case of an attempt on Hammett's life.__NEWL__They report on a break-in involving the two suspects, the burnt man and his "sister".__NEWL__They end up on a chase that takes them to Chinatown, where one of Long's friends calls on the crowd to prevent them from getting away.__NEWL__Russell confronts the two before they are arrested, and finally unlocks the last "room" — a memory she had of seeing the man near her parents' car the day they died.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q655773	Billiards at Half-past Nine	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q365	Cologne	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q713750	West Germany	5430388	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5430388	Architect Robert Faehmel's secretary, Leonore, describes Robert and the knowledge that something in her routine life is not ordinary.__NEWL__Robert is meticulous in everything he does.__NEWL__An old friend of Robert's arrives at the office but Leonore sends him to the Prince Heinrich Hotel, where Robert can be found every day from 9:30 to 11:00.__NEWL__Trouble is on the horizon for the entire Faehmel family, which includes three generations of architects: Heinrich Faehmel, his son Robert and Robert's son Joseph.__NEWL__The man who wants to see Robert, Nettlinger, is denied entry to the billiard room by the hotel concierge, Jochen, who will not allow Robert to be disturbed.__NEWL__Upstairs, Robert is telling bellboy Hugo about his life, and we discover that Nettlinger was once a Nazi policeman.__NEWL__Robert and his friend Schrella, both of whom were schoolmates of Nettlinger's, had opposed the Nazis, refusing to take "the Host of the Beast," a reference both to the devil and the Nazis.__NEWL__Schrella had disappeared after being beaten by Nettlinger and Old Wobbly, their gym teacher, also a Nazi policeman.__NEWL__Nettlinger and Old Wobbly had not only beaten Schrella and Robert, but had corrupted one of Robert's three siblings, Otto, who died in 1942 near Kiev.__NEWL__His mother, Johanna Kilb, was committed to a mental institution because she tried to save Jews from the cattle cars going to the extermination camps.__NEWL__It is now Heinrich's 80th birthday.__NEWL__Heinrich and Robert meet in a bar after visiting Johanna, sitting down and talking for the first time in many years.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Schrella has returned to Germany and talks with Nettlinger, who tries to make amends for his past life despite the fact that he has not really changed, and remains an opportunist.__NEWL__Schrella goes to visit his old home.__NEWL__We meet Joseph Faehmel and his girlfriend Marianne.__NEWL__Joseph has just learned that Robert was the one who destroyed the beautiful abbey his grandfather had built and this greatly upsets him.__NEWL__Marianne tells him the story of her own family: her father was a Nazi who committed suicide at the end of the war.__NEWL__Before taking his own life, he had ordered Marianne's mother to murder the children.__NEWL__She hanged Marianne's little brother but the arrival of some strangers prevented her from doing the same to Marianne.__NEWL__Johanna, in control of her wits, leaves the sanatorium with a pistol which she intends to use on Old Wobbly for his past sins.__NEWL__The entire family gathers in the Prince Heinrich Hotel for the birthday party and Johanna shoots at a Secretary of State who was watching a military parade from a hotel balcony.__NEWL__This act was intended to signal Johanna's inadaptation in a society ruled by "The Buffalo", whose members already forgot the horrors of the world.__NEWL__At the conclusion, Robert adopts the bellhop Hugo.__NEWL__A birthday cake shaped like the abbey is carried in.__NEWL__Heinrich slices it and hands the first piece to his son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4726406	Alien Bodies	1997-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5413611	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5413611	The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith use the TARDIS to find Sputnik 2, and retrieve the body of Laika, which the Doctor then buries on the planet Quiescia.__NEWL__Years later, the Doctor (now in his eighth incarnation) is playing a game of chess with General Tschike of UNISYC, when the general pulls a gun on him.__NEWL__Tschike tells the Doctor that the only reason the various Earth governments he has encountered down the years have never done this before is because they never really believed that the Doctor could be actually killed.__NEWL__Now they have received information from a source in what was once Borneo that suggests differently.__NEWL__Before Tschike can shoot however, the Doctor dives out the window into the TARDIS which has been hovering outside.__NEWL__The Doctor and Sam head to Borneo to investigate.__NEWL__In Borneo (now referred to as East Indies Revit zone) two other UNISYC soldiers, Colonel Kortez and Lieutenant Bregman arrive at what appears to be the ruins of an ancient city, but it is really a block-transfer computational structure known as the Unthinkable City.__NEWL__The City is a venue for the auction for an artifact, known as the Relic.__NEWL__In addition to the two UNISYC soldiers, other bidders include a dead man named Trask, a conceptual entity referred to as The Shift, a Time Lord called Homunculette and two representatives from Faction Paradox, Cousin Justine and Brother Manjuele.__NEWL__The auction is organised by Mr. Qixotl, who is awaiting the arrival of one more party before the bidding can begin.__NEWL__When the TARDIS materialises at the City, the Doctor and Sam are attacked by leopards that are programmed to attack anyone whose biodata they do not recognise.__NEWL__However, the Doctor locates one of their control pads and adds his own and Sam's biodata to the guest list.__NEWL__Qixotl, horrified, recognises the Doctor and tries to hide his identity from the other quests.__NEWL__Homunculette is a Time Lord from sometime in the Doctor's future where the Time Lords are entangled in a war with a mysterious "Enemy".__NEWL__The Time Lords want to possess the Relic because they think it will give them an advantage in the war and Homunculette has been pursuing it across history.__NEWL__At some point it fell into the hands of Earth governments and Homunculette attempted to retrieve it after the Dalek invasion, but Qixotl had already claimed it.__NEWL__His companion Marie is actually his TARDIS, disguised as a woman.__NEWL__In the City, Marie's weapons systems are suddenly turned against her and she explodes.__NEWL__Homunculette assumes that Faction Paradox are responsible, since they are natural enemies of Time Lords.__NEWL__Faction Paradox also once possessed the Relic, which they unearthed from the ruins on Dronid, where the first battle between the Time Lords and the Enemy was fought.__NEWL__Its discoverers didn't realise its significance and fired it off into the vortex as part of a ritual (where it eventually came to Earth).__NEWL__Sam finds Bregman has gone into culture shock at the presence of so many alien beings and wonders why she has never felt such feelings.__NEWL__The pair is drawn into the Faction Paradox shrine, which resembles a TARDIS crossed with a voodoo shrine, where Brother Manjuele attacks them and takes a biodata sample from Bregman.__NEWL__Both Bregman and Sam begin hearing voices in their heads which appear to come from the Relic and follow them into the heart of the City.__NEWL__The Doctor confronts Qixotl and demands to known what the Relic is.__NEWL__Qixotl reveals the truth: the Relic is a coffin containing the Doctor's own future dead body.__NEWL__Flashbacks reveal Qixotl was once on Dronid just prior to the battle.__NEWL__He was stranded there following the collapse of various criminal activities and learnt from local gossip that the Doctor was on his way to Dronid, but no-one is sure whether he has sided with his own people or the enemy.__NEWL__The current Doctor presses Qixotl for more information, but is appalled when he reveals that the Daleks are the last bidder to arrive.__NEWL__Outside a black spaceship descends, but instead of the Daleks, a Kroton, called E-Kobalt emerges, having killed the Dalek passengers and taken their ship.__NEWL__The Krotons are also aware of the future war from captured Time Lord prisoners and believe they can use the conflict to further their empire.__NEWL__Sam and Bregman reach the Relic in a vault at the centre of the City, but suddenly the City's internal defenses are activated which use the intruders biodata to create a psychic attack unique to the individual.__NEWL__Bregman is filled with a sense of self-loathing and despair and Sam is attacked by giant babies that appear out of the walls, but the only result is to make her confused.__NEWL__Forced to ignore the auction, the Doctor rushes to shut off the system and rescue them.__NEWL__Finding Sam and the dead embryos, he realises that Sam has two sets of biodata: the Sam he knows and another dark-haired version.__NEWL__This confused the security system and it couldn't generate a proper attack.__NEWL__The Doctor concludes that someone has re-written Sam's biodata to make her the perfect travelling companion for him.__NEWL__His conclusion is confirmed by the dead body in the coffin.__NEWL__Despite being dead, a Timelords mind remains active to some degree and it has been calling out to Sam, Bergman and the current Doctor.__NEWL__Back in the Faction shrine, Manjuele attempts to take over Bregman's mind while it is in a confused state.__NEWL__The Doctor realises what is happening and touches the dead mind inside the Relic to give himself enough energy to push Manjuele out.__NEWL__Repelled from Bergman, Manjuele realises the Doctor's identity and bursts into the auction to tell the others.__NEWL__The various groups assume they have been set up and turn on each other.__NEWL__As the Doctor intervenes, he suddenly recognises Qixotl from his past and is consumed with a desire for bloody revenge on the man who tried to profit from his death.__NEWL__As he is about to strangle him, he suddenly realises that they are all being manipulated by The Shift, that has got into all their minds and exploited their various insecurities to set them against each other.__NEWL__The Doctor deliberately falls into a catatonic state, trapping The Shift inside his mind.__NEWL__It reveals that it works for the Enemy.__NEWL__It was originally a Gabrielidean soldier who fought on the side of the Time Lords and encountered a future Doctor, before dying and being turned in a conceptual entity for the Enemy.__NEWL__When the Doctor wakes up, it can no longer influence the bidders, so retreats inside E-Kobalt to await another chance.__NEWL__The chance arrives soon for E-Kobalt has summoned re-enforcements and the Doctor's actions have deactivated the security systems.__NEWL__Abandoning the auction the bidders attempt to flee.__NEWL__In the chaos, Qixotl is mortally wounded, only to be approached by Trask.__NEWL__Trask is an agent of the Celestis, a future version of the Celestial Intervention Agency who have removed themselves from existence and become beings of pure thought who observe the war from outside the universe.__NEWL__They maintain influence through their agents who bear their mark.__NEWL__They brought Trask back from the dead as such an agent and they can save Qixotl in the same way, if he gives them the Relic.__NEWL__The Doctor uses a piece of crystal discharged by the Krotons weaponry as a biodata sample, which he uses to activate the Faction shrine so the bidders can escape.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Marie has been slowly repairing herself and makes contact with the Doctor.__NEWL__He materialises the Shrine around the attacking Krotons, who accidentally destroy themselves attempting to blast their way out of the Shrine.__NEWL__The Doctor seizes the moment and traps The Shift in a mental prison inside his mind.__NEWL__Stepping out to reclaim his own body, he finds Qixotl has surrendered it to the Celestis, who have taken it to their extra-dimensional home, Mictlan.__NEWL__The Doctor follows Trask and arrives in the castle at the centre of Mictlan where the Celestis watch the universe through a portal in the floor.__NEWL__In addition to the Celestis the world is also populated by their servants, who made deals with them across history and now live a terrible existence as slaves.__NEWL__Just before the battle on Dronid, a future (and possibly the final) Doctor made his own deal with the Celestis to stop them interfering on Dronid.__NEWL__Now they are going to take his body in payment of this debt.__NEWL__The current Doctor makes a counter offer: they can mark his current body and he will be their agent in return for releasing the Relic to him.__NEWL__They agree and place a mark on his hand, however the Doctor has tricked them and they have actually marked The Shift inside his mind.__NEWL__Returning to the real world the bidders go their separate ways.__NEWL__Qixotl dismantles the City (glad the Doctor never learnt the truth about how he got his hands on the Relic), Marie and Homunculette return to the war, and The Shift is downloaded into the TARDIS memory.__NEWL__Bregman returns to UNISYC, taking comfort from the fact that although humanity is such as small part of the universe, the higher powers still need human beings to define their existence.__NEWL__The Doctor chooses not to tell Sam about the Relic or what he's learnt about her biodata.__NEWL__He takes the Relic to Quiescia and buries it next to the grave his third self dug.__NEWL__He then uses a bomb to destroy his own body forever.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5396959	Escape Velocity	2001-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5414246	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5414246	In 2001, there is a new space race, between Pierre Yves-Dudoin and Arthur Tyler III, both competing to be the first privately funded man in space.__NEWL__Eventually Pierre announces that he has succeeded, and will be in space in a week.__NEWL__However, Pierre has been helped by a scout of the Kulan race, who are poised to invade Earth.__NEWL__In Brussels a man is shot in front of stockbroker Anji Kapoor and her boyfriend Dave.__NEWL__When Dave attempts first aid, he realises the man is not human.__NEWL__The man then slips a package into Dave's pocket and injects a substance into his wrist.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in London, Fitz is dropped off by Compassion two days before he is to meet the Doctor.__NEWL__When he sees Dave in a news report claiming the dead man had two hearts, he fears the worst and travels to Brussels.__NEWL__After speaking to Dave in Brussels, Fitz discovers that the man wasn't the Doctor, but stays to help investigate.__NEWL__Dave finds the package in his pocket and calls a number written on it, and finds himself speaking to Arthur Tyler III.__NEWL__After meeting Tyler's bodyguard, they bring him back to Dave and Anji's hotel room only to find the killers outside.__NEWL__As the killers drive away, one of them drops his gun which is of alien origin.__NEWL__When Dave leaves the room to contact the police, the dead man's killers kidnap him.__NEWL__Anji then decides to go with Fitz to meet the Doctor.__NEWL__On 8 February, Anji and Fitz arrive at St. Louis' pub to meet the Doctor.__NEWL__The Doctor reveals that he created the pub to lure Fitz to him.__NEWL__When the Doctor sees Fitz, he still cannot remember any of his past, and his TARDIS is still smaller on the inside than the outside.__NEWL__Despite this, the Doctor agrees to help and sends Fitz back to Brussels to investigate if Pierre is involved, whilst the Doctor and Anji will stay in London to investigate Tyler.__NEWL__In Brussels Fitz meets a CIA agent called Fisher who is investigating whether Pierre Dudoin's company, ITI, has been in contact with aliens.__NEWL__Together they break into the ITI headquarters and find an alien called Sa'Motta tending to Dave.__NEWL__Sa'Motta explains that he came to Earth in a failed invasion spearhead four years ago and has been stranded which prevents him from stopping their leader, Fray'kon, from reporting that Earth should be invaded by the Kulans.__NEWL__Fray'kon has been helping Dubion's ship near completion to rejoin the invasion fleet.__NEWL__The other Kulans in the spearhead just want to return home and have been helping Tyler's ship.__NEWL__However Kulan ships need telepathy to work, so research has been done to produce a hybrid who can work the ship.__NEWL__The dead man had been giving the genes necessary to Tyler, but injected them into Dave to preserve them.__NEWL__However, the genes injected into Dave are slowly killing him.__NEWL__As guards recapture Dave, Fisher's boss orders a squad to capture Fitz and Sa'Motta.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Doctor and Anji go to Tyler's base and save his life after a Kulan computer virus planted by Dudoin traps Tyler in a room with a fire.__NEWL__The Doctor puts the virus on a DVD for study.__NEWL__The Doctor offers to help stop Dudoin and Fray'kon's plan, but Tyler's ship is destroyed by an after-effect of the virus.__NEWL__Tyler turns to his former friend and Dudoin's ex-wife Christine Holland to help with adapting the Kulan technology for humans, but before he can contact her, Dudoin kidnaps his daughter Pippa to force her to come to Brussels to help Dave.__NEWL__She does so, but Dudoin reveals he plans to launch the rocket without testing it.__NEWL__Christine sees Fray'kon tamper with the controls, but Dudoin refuses to listen.__NEWL__Fitz and Sa'Motta attempt to go to London, but realise they are followed by CIA agents.__NEWL__Fitz is captured and taken to the CIA's agent known as Control, but Sa'Motta escapes, and makes the way to the CIA base where Fitz is being held.__NEWL__Control puts a tracer on Fitz and allows Sa'Motta to rescue him to lead the CIA to the other Kulan.__NEWL__While escaping, Fitz realises that his memories of the destruction of Gallifrey are getting blurred and hazy.__NEWL__In space, the invasion fleet moves into its final formation, ready to invade on Fray'kon's command.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Doctor rescues Christine's daughter and asks for Tyler's help in stopping Dudoin and Fray'kon getting to space and alerting the invasion fleet, which he agrees to.__NEWL__The Doctor, Tyler, and Anji break into Dudoin's launch pad with ease as Fitz and Sa'Motta are being chased by guards elsewhere in the complex.__NEWL__After rescuing Christine, the Doctor links his mind to Dudoin's ship to shut it down, but he passes out in the process.__NEWL__However, he first raises the oxygen level which causes the Kulan led by Fray'kon to faint, but Fray'kon escapes.__NEWL__Tyler then uses the DVD with the Kulan virus to destroy the systems, and the cabin sets alight, killing the Kulan aboard and Dudoin himself.__NEWL__Returning to Britain, the Doctor helps Tyler complete his rocket so he can return Sa'Motta to the invasion fleet to order the abortion of the invasion.__NEWL__Dave is recovering, but Christine discovers a small amount of Kulan DNA in Dave which was there before his infection, indicating that humans and Kulan may be genetically related, giving solid evidence against the invasion.__NEWL__However Fray'kon enters, having followed them.__NEWL__Control's squad enters, to stop Tyler's ship taking Sa'Motta to the fleet, but Tyler attempts to launch anyway.__NEWL__Fray'kon steals the Doctor's spacesuit and forces Dave to drive to the launch platform, whilst holding Anji hostage.__NEWL__After reaching the rocket, he murders Dave and boards the rocket.__NEWL__The CIA withdraw from the complex, but the Doctor can't warn Tyler about Fray'kon being on board the rocket.__NEWL__Fray'kon overpowers the crew and drives the rocket towards the fleet, where he informs the fleet commander that the humans are savages, and should be killed.__NEWL__The Doctor and Anji go back to St Louis' pub, where the TARDIS has finally regenerated itself.__NEWL__The Doctor pilots the TARDIS onto the Kulan command ship.__NEWL__The Doctor tells Anji to stay in the TARDIS, but she follows him and watches him be captured and put in a holding cell.__NEWL__The Kulan destroy Tyler's ship and put him on trial in front of their war council.__NEWL__Anji releases Fitz and they go to the weapons room.__NEWL__Trying to scare the Kulan by firing an energy beam, she instead fires a barrage of missiles which destroy half the fleet, who turn on each other.__NEWL__The Doctor and Tyler fight Fray'kon, but when Fray'kon gets stunned, Tyler offers to stay and hold off Fray'kon whilst the others escape.__NEWL__Tyler tricks Fray'kon into falling to an airlock and Tyler ejects himself and Fray'kon into space.__NEWL__As the remainder of the fleet blows up as the TARDIS dematerialises.__NEWL__The Doctor, who still cannot remember anything, offers to take Anji home, but the TARDIS materialises onto a prehistoric landscape instead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7720658	The Burning	2000-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	5414598	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5414598	In the late 19th century, the village of Middleton is on the verge of bankruptcy due to the tin mine running out, when a huge fissure opens in the moorlands.__NEWL__After a visitor called Roger Nepath offers to buy the mine and visits the fissure with the lord of the manor, Lord Urton's personality changes, and allows Nepath to move into his manor house with his sister Patience.__NEWL__The amnesiac Doctor arrives at the village and befriends Professor Dobbs from The Society of Psychical Research during his research into the fissure.__NEWL__Dobbs's assistant Gaddis claims to have empathic powers, which lead him to point along the fissure, where he is chased off by Urton.__NEWL__The Doctor notices that the water in a dam near the fissure has become warm and acidic, suggesting that it has been heated.__NEWL__Returning to the Fissure they find Gaddis's corpse horribly burnt, which fascinates the Doctor.__NEWL__Nepath later holds an auction to fund his purchase, and demonstration a metal that returns to its original shape when destroyed, which Nepath gives the Doctor a sample of.__NEWL__The army gives Nepath a large amount of money for him to create self repairing guns for the army, which Nepath uses to buy more mining equipment.__NEWL__Later, the metal turns into molten lava, which causes the remains of TARDIS to grow to normal size, although it is still a featureless blue box.__NEWL__Dobbs and the Doctor break into the manor and discover that Nepath had been making many copies of his artifacts out of the metal, then selling them, as well as a young woman's body in a box, before narrowly escaping the Urtons.__NEWL__Going into the mines, the Doctor finds that the tremors that caused the fissure opened up a new mine shaft, which is full of pools of molten lava, which is the source of the metal.__NEWL__The lava suddenly forms into creatures which burn Dobbs to death whilst the Doctor escapes.__NEWL__The Doctor explains to Reverend Stobbold that Nepath is helping living magma, with the power to reform itself, which has already replaced the Urtons and mine workers.__NEWL__After an explosion, the Doctor realises that Middleton is located in an ancient volcanic caldera - with a new eruption about to start.__NEWL__The Doctor meets the army on the way to pick up their new guns, where they are attacked by magma creatures and the new guns explode when fired, killing most of the soldiers.__NEWL__At the manor Nepath explains that the creature has run out of resources in the mine, and he intends to release it into new areas, then take advantage of the resulting chaos.__NEWL__He reveals that the body in the case is his sister Patience's, who died as the result of a building collapsing after a fire, and Nepath believes that the creature can bring her back to life.__NEWL__Escaping the manor, the Doctor pushes Lord Urton into a river, where the cold water cools him into a statue, which crumbles apart.__NEWL__The Doctor returns to the manor and tells him that the woman is not really Patience.__NEWL__When Nepath questions her, she embraces him as the magma leaves her body, leaving him trapped in a statue's arms.__NEWL__The army place explosives near the dam, which the magma accidentally explodes, releasing water that turns the magma into stone.__NEWL__Nepath is freed from the statue, but the Doctor pushes him into the water, causing him to drown.__NEWL__The flood unearths new seams of tin ore, saving the town's economy.__NEWL__The Doctor leaves with the TARDIS's remains to wait for his meeting with Fitz in 2001.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730862	The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5468760	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468760	The novel concerns the quest of Bessas of Zarispa, a young officer of the "Immortals" regiment, for the ingredients of a potion that the King has been told will give him immortality; the blood of a dragon and the ear of a king.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to Bessas, the third ingredient is the heart of a hero, and therefore Bessas' own.__NEWL__Relying on information given him by the priests of Marduk in Babylon that a reptile depicted in reliefs on their temple, the sirrush, is a real dragon and lives at the headwaters of the Nile, Bessas sets out for the source of the Nile, accompanied by his former tutor, Myron of Miletos, who is bored of teaching and wants to make a name for himself in the field of philosophy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6680131	Lord of the Trees	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5468954	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468954	At the end of A Feast Unknown, Grandrith and Doc Caliban (a thinly disguised Doc Savage) cease fighting each other upon learning that their personal war and indeed their entire lives were engineered by the Nine, a megalomaniacal and powerful secret society.__NEWL__The two men have a sexual affliction in common; they are impotent except when performing acts of violence; a temporary side effect of a serum that grants them eternal life—another product of the Nine.__NEWL__Angered by the ways they have been manipulated, the two heroes split up to overthrow the Nine, ultimately meeting up at the end.__NEWL__Lord of the Trees shows the story from Grandrith's point of view.__NEWL__The Mad Goblin tells the same story from Doc Caliban's viewpoint.__NEWL__During the events of the book, Grandrith kills two of the Nine, Mubaniga and Jiizfan.__NEWL__The oldest member of the Nine, XauXaz, died previously of extreme old age in A Feast Unknown.__NEWL__Iwaldi, The Mad Goblin, is also killed.__NEWL__In the end, only five of the Nine remain alive.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2713045	The Flanders Panel	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2807	Madrid	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	5489318	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5489318	Julia, an art restorer and evaluator living in Madrid, discovers a painted-over message on a 1471 Flemish masterpiece called La partida de ajedrez (The Chess Game) which reads "Quis Necavit Equitem", written in Latin (English: "Who killed the knight?").__NEWL__The painting appears as the cover of the book in some editions.__NEWL__With the help of her old friend and father-figure, an antiques dealer named César, and Muñoz, a quiet local chess master, Julia works to uncover the mystery of a 500-year-old murder.__NEWL__At the same time, Julia faces danger of her own, as several people helping her along her search are also murdered.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763118	The Secret World of Og	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	5489505	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5489505	In this fantasy adventure, four children — Penny, the leader; Pamela, her common-sense sister; Peter, whose life's ambition is to become a garbageman; and Patsy, who collects frogs in her pockets — set out in search of their baby brother, Paul, better known as “The Pollywog,” who has vanished mysteriously from their playhouse.__NEWL__Accompanied by their fearless pets, the children descend through a secret trapdoor into a strange underground world of mushrooms, whose green inhabitants know only one word: “OG!”
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q961843	Vuk	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28	Hungary	5451750	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5451750	Vuk and his brothers and sisters are born near the pond one spring.__NEWL__Their father Kag and their mother Iny have to hunt continuously to get enough food to feed them.__NEWL__Then the Ranger finds the fox's home and sends in dogs to destroy the foxes that have been stealing from the village farmyards.__NEWL__The fox parents manage to save only one of their children: Vuk, who is left by the pond out of danger.__NEWL__It is not long before the frightened Vuk is found by Karak his uncle who takes the little fox under his care and takes him to his cave in the cliffs to teach him the ways of the forest.__NEWL__Vuk learns quickly and soon becomes one of the greatest foxes in the wood.__NEWL__Vuk also learns that the smooth-skin Ranger is responsible for the murder of his parents and he plans to take revenge on him.__NEWL__When he visits the Ranger's house he finds his sister who has survived and is held there in a cage.__NEWL__Karak and Vuk help her escape and she joins them and all the other Free Nations in the woods.__NEWL__At harvest time the foxes are almost caught because they are betrayed by the swallows and other birds.__NEWL__It is only Vuk's cleverness and cunning that saves them.__NEWL__But during the hunting season Karak falls victim to a Smooth-skin's gun so only Vuk and his sister return to live in Karak's cave alone.__NEWL__Winter comes and they both feel the need to look for partners.__NEWL__Vuk's sister is the first to find a partner and she goes to live with him.__NEWL__Then Vuk fights off another fox to win a beautiful vixen bride called Csele, and the cycle of love and life begins again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7770974	The Two of Them	1978-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5465108	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5465108	Irene, a female galactic agent, rescues a young woman, Zubeydeh, from a male-dominant culture of a colonized planet, Ala-ed-deen, where women are kept in purdah.__NEWL__...__NEWL__shivers generically between telling the realistic story of oppression -and escape- of a young woman brought up on a planet whose religion is reminiscent of Islam, and deconstructing this generic material into the embittered dreams of a woman trapped on Earth
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760054	The Regime	2005-11-15T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5446038	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5446038	This installment in the saga continues to chart the story of the character who will become the Antichrist.__NEWL__It also follows the others who will become part of the Tribulation Force or the Global Community as well as showing how members of their families affect the choices each make.__NEWL__The narrative covers issues surrounding why characters such as Rayford Steele, Chloe Steele, and Cameron "Buck" Williams fail to believe.__NEWL__World events, particularly in Israel, continue apace, and Rayford and Buck are right at the heart of things.__NEWL__Dynamic Romanian multimillionaire Nicolae Carpathia’s sphere of influence steadily grows as he parlays his looks, charm, charisma, and intellectual brilliance into success in business and politics.__NEWL__But it is uncertain if it is mere coincidence that those who oppose, offend, or even slight him suffer to the point of death.__NEWL__Leon Fortunato, a self-proclaimed kingmaker, takes on his life’s challenge, coming alongside Carpathia during his most formative years.__NEWL__Pan-Con Airlines captain Rayford Steele has settled into an uneasy truce with his wife while worrying that he has already ascended as far as he can in his career.__NEWL__But when he is tapped for consultation by the CIA and the Defense Department, his star begins to rise as well.__NEWL__Irene Steele struggles to grow in her embryonic faith, careful not to offend her husband, who is uncomfortable with her level of devotion.__NEWL__Cameron Williams becomes a celebrated journalist, his career skyrocketing from an Ivy League education to newspaper reporter, then columnist, then magazine feature writer.__NEWL__Abdullah Ababneh, a young member of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, revels in his role as security adviser to the United States through Rayford Steele while facing the loss of his wife to a strange new religion.__NEWL__After his horrifying trials in the wasteland, Nicolae Carpathia's influence grows in business and politics.__NEWL__However anyone who gets in his way tends to disappear, permanently.__NEWL__He hires kingmaker and soon-to-be False Prophet Leon Fortunato as a deputy and consultant.__NEWL__Over the course of a few years, Carpathia rises to power within the Romanian government, manipulating people and events for his own personal gain and often resorting to murder and blackmailing to achieve his goals.__NEWL__He often calls upon the influence of his "spirit guide" (later revealed to be Satan himself) for advice.__NEWL__Jonathan Stonagal begins to grow regretful with his involvement with Carpathia, fearing the young Antichrist is already out of his control.__NEWL__Airline pilot Rayford Steele's home life is suffering, but gains a truce-like quality, while his wife is concerned that he has already risen as far his career will take him.__NEWL__Now a born-again Christian, Irene slowly begins to grow in her newfound faith, even leading her son Raymie Steele to salvation.__NEWL__However, Rayford and her daughter, Chloe, reject Irene's religious beliefs, and Irene is desperate to help them find Christ before it is too late.__NEWL__Abdullah Ababneh, a Jordanian pilot, is shocked when his wife, Yasmine, and his two teenage children become followers of Christianity.__NEWL__After many heated arguments, she leaves him, taking the children with her.__NEWL__This later leads Abdullah to become an alcoholic and have affairs with several women, though it is clear that he is desperate for his family back in place of this destructive new lifestyle.__NEWL__He fears it is the work of Allah as punishment for growing lax in his Muslim faith.__NEWL__Rayford, meanwhile, is considering pursuing a relationship with Hattie Durham, a young flight attendant and his co-worker.__NEWL__At first it seems impossible for Rayford, though he slowly begins to warm to the idea, often having dinner with her and giving her rides home.__NEWL__He slowly begins to contemplate taking their relationship to a whole new level.__NEWL__Celebrated journalist Buck Williams becomes a feature writer for the Boston Globe, coming from an Ivy League education at Princeton University.__NEWL__After writing several revered pieces, Buck is hired for Global Weekly, a job that has been his dream for all his life.__NEWL__In Israel, he meets and interviews renowned scientist Chaim Rosenzweig, who has recently developed a formula that makes plant life grow in desert soil.__NEWL__Suddenly, an immense military strike against Israel commences and the entire nation stands on the brink of complete annihilation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5263847	Desecration	2001-10-30T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5446041	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5446041	Nicolae Carpathia is returning to Jerusalem to claim as his own the temple there and help begin the loyalty mark program.__NEWL__The Tribulation Force has called in contacts from around the world to help believing Jews in Israel escape to their place of refuge in the wilderness, Petra, in Operation Eagle.__NEWL__Rayford Steele and his assistants meet George Sebastian at their small airstrip at Mizpe Ramon in the Negev Desert, and he tries to give them arms to use against the Global Community (GC).__NEWL__Buck Williams is with Chaim Rosenzweig at a hotel in Jerusalem, leading up to Chaim's taking charge of the operation as a modern Moses.__NEWL__Chaim has an experience similar to the calling of Moses, as God speaks to him through Buck.__NEWL__Carpathia sets out on a mock journey along the Via Dolorosa on a pig, stopping at Golgotha and the Garden Tomb.__NEWL__Hattie publicly confronts him and is burned to death by Leon, the False Prophet.__NEWL__Nicolae stages a gruesome and evil desecration of the temple.__NEWL__As millions take the Mark of the Beast, the first Bowl Judgment rains down as foul and loathsome sores appear on the bodies of all who have taken the mark, including Nicolae's inner circle.__NEWL__When the temple is defiled, millions of Jews and Gentiles rebel against Nicolae and many of them become believers.__NEWL__The Tribulation Force launches "Operation Eagle".__NEWL__Leading them is none other than Dr. Chaim Rozensweig turned into a modern-day Moses, who, calling himself Micah, and along with Buck Williams, confronts Nicolae and leads the faithful to refuge.__NEWL__Meanwhile, David Hassid, the first to arrive at Petra, is murdered by two renegade GC soldiers left over from a confrontation between the Trib.__NEWL__Force and the GC.__NEWL__The second Bowl Judgment hits as all the oceans and seas turn into blood.__NEWL__Chang Wong settles into his role as the solitary Trib Force mole in New Babylon.__NEWL__The prophetic "flood from the serpent's mouth" arrives in the form of a massive land offensive against those at Petra, but it is swallowed by the earth.__NEWL__Carpathia then kills Walter Moon for failing to take Tsion Ben-Judah off the air when Tsion was able to appear on the Global Community television when the Tribulation Force was able to hijack the network.__NEWL__ In Chicago, Chloe wanders off into the night and finds a group of believers (whom she eventually aids) hiding in a basement near the safe house.__NEWL__In Greece, the rescue of the two teenagers that Buck helped escape is attempted by the Trib Force's newest man: George Sebastian.__NEWL__One of the teens is replaced with a look-alike who kills the other teen, along with Lukas "Laslos" Miklos.__NEWL__George is captured and taken away.__NEWL__Returning to Chicago, members of the Force get their disguises together for various missions: Rayford and Abdullah to take Tsion to Petra, and Mac, Chloe, and Hannah heading to Greece to rescue George.__NEWL__Tsion Ben-Judah arrives at Petra to address the throng as the Antichrist launches an all-out attack against them.__NEWL__The book ends with Nicolae hysterical as he believes he is about to wipe out one million believers, Rayford Steele and Tsion Ben-Judah among them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16386980	Merchanter's Luck	1982-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5449185	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5449185	Sandor ("Sandy")__NEWL__Kreja is the sole survivor of a moderately prosperous merchanter family that had operated in Union space.__NEWL__When he was a young boy, all but two of his relatives were killed or taken by the renegade Mazianni, once soldiers in the service of Earth, who had refused to accept the end of the Company War and turned pirate in order to keep on fighting.__NEWL__The three remaining Krejas had continued to run their aged freighter, Le Cygne, as best they could, but an accident had killed one and a shady deal gone bad the other, leaving Sandy both impoverished and preposterously wealthy—the sole owner of a starship.__NEWL__By the dangerous expedient of hiring crewmen when possible and running solo when not, the young man had kept his ship running (under constantly changing names), but as unpaid debts piled up, he had begun to run out of safe Union ports.__NEWL__At Viking station, as Edward Stevens of Lucy, Sandy has a chance sleepover with another merchanter, Allison Reilly, which proves to be pivotal to his future.__NEWL__Allison, one of the powerful Reillys of the superfreighter Dublin Again, lets slip that she is going "across the line" to Pell, the Alliance star system.__NEWL__Having heard rumours that trade between Pell and Earth might be re-established and wanting desperately to see her again, he decides to try his luck in Alliance space.__NEWL__Sandy races Dublin Again to her next port, but the only way he can catch the much faster ship is by taking chances.__NEWL__He performs a dangerous double-jump and arrives at Pell groggy, causing a stir when he barely manages to dock.__NEWL__As a result, he is questioned by Alliance security, but is released when the Reillys come to his aid, not for his sake, but to protect their reputation.__NEWL__At Allison's suggestion, they offer to refit Sandy's ship and provide a crew and cargo as a loan.__NEWL__The Reillys are also interested in the Earth trade, and the small ship would be an ideal conduit.__NEWL__Sandy swallows his pride and accepts the generous deal.__NEWL__As it turns out, Allison has an ulterior motive.__NEWL__She is a junior officer in charge of her own small group within the much larger group in command of Dublin Again, but many, many years stand between her and a "posted" position with real responsibility.__NEWL__By transferring with her crew to the smaller ship, she can satisfy her ambition immediately.__NEWL__Things seem to be going well for once.__NEWL__Then Sandy is called in to meet the head of the Alliance military, the notorious Signy Mallory, who had once been one of the renegade Mazian's captains.__NEWL__She gives him a sealed priority military cargo to be delivered to stations being reopened Earthward.__NEWL__The trip is tense; Sandy and his new crew do not trust each other.__NEWL__He refuses to release the computer safeguards that have protected him in the past, preferring to size up the Reillys first.__NEWL__Curran, Allison's second in command, tries to force him to give up the security codes, but Sandy refuses to back down and a fight breaks out.__NEWL__The result is an ugly, festering stalemate.__NEWL__When they arrive at the Venture star system, they are intercepted and boarded by Mazianni from the warship Australia.__NEWL__Sandy orders his crew to hide, while he and Curran try to talk their way out.__NEWL__He is taken to Tom Edger, Mazian's senior captain.__NEWL__Sandy offers to work for him and is then told that his cargo is worthless scrap.__NEWL__Mallory had used him as bait to flush out her enemy.__NEWL__Edger decides he might have a use for Sandy, but Curran is taken away.__NEWL__Fighting to get his crewman back, both Sandy and Curran are shot and left for dead as the Mazianni begin to evacuate.__NEWL__At that moment, Mallory's Norway, the armed Alliance superfreighter Finity's End, and Dublin Again rush in to engage the fleeing Edger (although he gets away) and free the station.__NEWL__Sandy and Curran survive the battle.__NEWL__When the dust settles, Mallory clears Sandy's name and title to his ship in return for having put him in mortal danger.__NEWL__His crew now trust him wholeheartedly and Sandy has the nucleus he needs to revive the Kreja family, returning his ship to its original name, Le Cygne.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6943932	Mutineers' Moon	1991-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	5511039	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5511039	The book’s premise is that the Moon is a massive space ship controlled by a self-aware computer that wants its rightful crew back aboard.__NEWL__The book begins with a prologue recording a mutiny aboard the planetoid-sized Utu-class starship of the Fourth Imperium (a more-than-55,000-year-old technologically advanced multi-star system empire), the Dahak, led by its Chief of Engineering, the ambitious and psychopathic Captain Anu and Commander Inanna.__NEWL__Anu's reason for mutiny is to lead his followers to refuge on a planet where presumably the genocidal wrath of the "Achuultani", a mysterious alien race that periodically exterminates all intelligent life it can find, which has also destroyed the previous three Imperiums and the dinosaurs, will pass over them.__NEWL__The loyal crew is taken by surprise, and unable to defeat the mutineers.__NEWL__Faced with no choice, the captain orders Dahak to execute "Red Two Internal"—a command which will flood the entirety of the interior of the vessel with deadly substances; this action will force mutineers and loyalists to the lifeboats, and the vessel will then, acting on other orders from the captain, allow back in the Dahak only the loyal crew and blow the mutineers into space.__NEWL__Red Two unfortunately entails the death of the captain as well; no one is unable to command Dahak to destroy the mutineers as they leave aboard warships, not lifeboats, nor undo Anu's systematic sabotage of the power generators, intended to kill Dahak by starving it of power and thereby rendering it open to conquest by Anu's forces.__NEWL__Unfortunately for Anu, Dahak's computer systems catch the sabotage before it utterly wrecks all the power plants, but the damage is so severe that it is forced to cease all communications and non-necessary expenditures of power.__NEWL__The damage takes decades to repair—by which point none of the loyal crew is still alive or able to contact the Dahak.__NEWL__Overpowered by the mutineers, the loyalists have been systematically exterminated.__NEWL__This places Dahak in a dilemma in which it cannot return to the Imperium as it has been ordered to, but nor can it exterminate the mutineers as other, equally important, orders dictate.__NEWL__This lasts for approximately 50,000 years, until the Earthlings' early space program sends up one Lieutenant Commander Colin MacIntyre to map the dark side of the heavenly body Dahak had camouflaged itself as—the Moon—as a "dress rehearsal" for a similar trip scheduled for Mars.__NEWL__Colin's mission is hijacked by Dahak and his death is faked; as had MacIntyre returned with his data, Dahak's cover would have been blown.__NEWL__While MacIntyre is aboard, Dahak's AI explains the situation to him, and prevails upon him to, as a descendant of the loyalists, become Dahak's newest captain, and to exterminate the mutineers—quickly, as Imperium installations are being destroyed, signs of the start of the latest Achuultani incursion.__NEWL__MacIntyre reluctantly accepts; the first step to making him the captain is to massively revamp his body surgically, granting him superhuman resilience, speed, and strength, in addition to the built-in electronics granting matchless control of Imperium technology.__NEWL__While Dahak has known for millennia where Anu's forces have bunkered up—under the South Pole in Antarctica—their base is protected by extremely strong force fields, force fields so strong that to penetrate them and destroy the base would require Dahak's heavy weaponry, which would inevitably kill a significant percentage of the human population of Earth.__NEWL__MacIntyre returns to his home to renew contacts with his elder brother, Sean, and to enlist him in a scheme to discover the mutineers' agent in the space program.__NEWL__It initially succeeds, but when he and Sean attempt to contact the agent, they discover their scan of the space program building was detected.__NEWL__MacIntyre and Sean fend off some of the mutineers (at the cost of Sean's life), but MacIntyre is rescued by an acquaintance, who sends him through a tunnel where he is captured by another group of mutineers.__NEWL__This group, led by former missile tech Horus, was a dissident splinter faction of Anu's, which turned against him after the mutiny.__NEWL__Despite supporting Anu during the mutiny itself, Horus and his crew committed a double mutiny against Anu and fled into hiding on Earth.__NEWL__Once they reached Earth, they entered stasis so that the crew would survive however long it would take for civilization to reappear on Earth (Anu at the time enforced primitivism).__NEWL__Now, with civilization re-emerging on Earth, his group has begun a passive, behind-the-scenes war against Anu.__NEWL__Because they are heavily outnumbered in weaponry, they have been forced to always play it very carefully.__NEWL__As a result, the crew of the battleship has created a huge network of humans, many of whom are descendants of Nergal's crew.__NEWL__However, the arrival of MacIntyre means that the end has begun, for Dahak has at last taken a hand in the game.__NEWL__Eventually, this group and its battleship, the Nergal, joins MacIntyre, and they embark on a grand plan to destroy Anu: first, they rapidly and effectively destroy a number of important installations that Anu's forces are based in (convincing Anu to withdraw all of his important personnel back to the main base), then they have their agents inside the Antarctica base steal the codes to gain access for them; finally, they fake a defeat, and when Anu relaxes, certain that they were destroyed, their now-at-liberty agents send them the codes and they launch a full assault, backed up by Dahak's orbital weaponry.__NEWL__The assault costs them dearly, but Anu and his forces are killed, with Commander Inanna's brain ripped out.__NEWL__With the revelation of Dahak's power, the world's governments have little choice but to submit to the Planetary Governor MacIntyre.__NEWL__However, Colin has little time to unify the world, because the Achuultani draws ever nearer, and the Imperium is silent, even when Dahak's communication systems are repaired.__NEWL__Finally, MacIntyre leaves the world under the care of old Horus, and departs for the nearest Fleet Imperium base, hoping to call upon Imperial assistance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q862536	Three Fat Men	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15180	Soviet Union	28094570	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28094570	The events occur at an unnamed country on the brink of revolution.__NEWL__The power in the state is held by the Three Fat Men, wealthy oligarchs with monopoly on the state's natural resources.__NEWL__A long brewing resistance is led by two men:__NEWL__Prospero the Gunsmith and Tibul the Acrobat.__NEWL__During a major confrontation with the government's forces, Prospero is captured and is scheduled for execution.__NEWL__However, at the same time, guardsmen defectors wreck the doll of Tutti, the designated heir of the Fat Men.__NEWL__The doll is a marvelous creation, capable of singing, dancing, and looks like a real girl, even growing up like one.__NEWL__The Fat Men summon a famous scholar, Doctor Gaspar Arnery, and order him to fix the doll before the next day.__NEWL__The Doctor, unknown to them, is a sympathizer for the resistance, and had helped Tibul escape pursuit by the army.__NEWL__Gaspar attempts to repair the doll, but finds out it's impossible to do in less than three days.__NEWL__Fortunately, he encounters Suok, a young girl who looks exactly like the broken doll, and convinces her to cooperate with him.__NEWL__She manages to get the key to Prospero's cage from Tutti.__NEWL__When she goes to release him during the night, she is spoken to by another prisoner, a fur-covered humanoid creature.__NEWL__The prisoner calls her by name and passes her a note before dying.__NEWL__Suok releases Prospero, who manages to flee.__NEWL__This time the uprising is successful.__NEWL__After it ends, Tutti and Suok appear before the people and read out the note given by the prisoner.__NEWL__He was once a man named Toub, a great scholar who made the doll for Tutti at the Three Fat Men's order, to replace Suok, who was his twin sister.__NEWL__Suok was sold to the circus.__NEWL__Then the Fat Men demanded he replace Tutti's heart with an iron one, and, once he refused, caged him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4658750	A Pele do Ogro	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	28091054	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28091054	The story told by the novel A Pele do Ogro occurs in the cities of London, Rome, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, and as a basis for the plot, the story of 19th-century Europe.__NEWL__The novel is divided into three parts and an epilogue.__NEWL__The first, located between 1848 and 1882, shows the first years of the existence of André Duroseille, desires, fears, love life and his obsession with immortality, beauty and youth.__NEWL__Early in the novel, André meets Claire, a poor girl from Lyon, and falls in love with her.__NEWL__But the intense passion between the two, will be the target of the wrath of the mysterious Pierre Labatut, who lost a family member Duroseille and was determined not to lose another.__NEWL__In the midst of an alleged attack of madness, Pierre puts the fire in the hut in which they live, killed his wife and stepdaughter, Claire, and disappears into the flames.__NEWL__ André, accused of murder, he is immediately trapped in the chain of Lyon.__NEWL__In prison, he meets Gaston, who first told him of the existence of the mysterious Lydia, known as Romana: "Lydia, female liberation!__NEWL__Lydia, my dear!__NEWL__Lydia, his wife immortal!__NEWL__I will glorify and pray for you ...__NEWL__Take me to the promised happiness.__NEWL__(...)__NEWL__Lydia is the master!__NEWL__The Ser ...!__NEWL__The woman who gives pleasure!__NEWL__Lydia, the woman who is a person without being!__NEWL__She has been with us since the dawn of humanity and will exist until the whole sky suffer the final break.__NEWL__Even taking the form of Lydia, a Roman she's all woman, and it is not ...!__NEWL__So it is a goddess"!__NEWL__Leaving prison, arguing that Lydia can give you immortality, the young Duroseille, stubbornly, now married with a son, went to Italy.__NEWL__ In his travels across the European continent, André established friendly relations with historical figures like Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Queen Victoria and others, who talk about Lydia and their wealth, power, beauty and youth .__NEWL__However, life does not smile for Duroseille: he finds his brother Henry, who has been missing for years, who hates him and is mortally ill and loses his wife and young son in the middle of an arson.__NEWL__But Lydia dominates his thoughts ...__NEWL__The second part of the novel takes place between 1882 and 1894.__NEWL__During this period, André has finally met Lydia.__NEWL__In the first meeting, she said: (...)__NEWL__You're the only man I've been searching for centuries ...__NEWL__But I had to wait until you have 35 years!__NEWL__My Antinous, my love (...)!__NEWL__ A strong and passionate relationship between the two soon begin to suffer the stigma of suspicion.__NEWL__Lydia, after telling his origin, saying he was born in ancient Rome at the time of Emperor Hadrian, reveals that he was the reincarnation of Antinous, his only love!__NEWL__– And invites him to participate in the Palio of Siena, where a new tragedy lies ahead: the couple will be present at the suicide of Stefano, a young athlete who kills himself for love has the Lydia: If we do not the energy of these young people before, – a power that will allow us a long life and eternal youth – young people suffer a lot.__NEWL__Lydia finally reveals the secret of the magic of the ancient Celts, and in the forests of Edinburgh, André became an immortal.__NEWL__However, to keep him, he will remove the energy of someone who loves him deeply, which claimed the life of a young Italian couple.__NEWL__Andre feels the weight of guilt and is believed responsible for all the ills afflicting Europe in the late nineteenth century.__NEWL__ __NEWL__And he is responsible!__NEWL__One by one of his closest friends will suffer the process of perjury and exile because of him.__NEWL__The third part, between 1894 and 1900, shows André and Lydia involved in lawsuits and scandals that shook Europe in the late 19th century.__NEWL__At this stage, the protagonist of the story, becomes a witness to the suffering of his best friends: Oscar Wilde is demoralized and imprisoned for the crime of sodomy, Alfred Dreyfus was convicted and exiled to Devil's Island, the writer Émile Zola died in suspicious circumstances and France, his homeland!, is ruled by corrupt politicians. "__NEWL__Émile Zola murdered?__NEWL__But by whom?__NEWL__Lydia?__NEWL__" In the home, André is in conflict with the stepdaughter, Paolo, mainly because of Lydia and political beliefs.__NEWL__"Either you are separated from Lydia, or I do not ever want to see you"!__NEWL__– Paolo reproached him with great fury.__NEWL__With the death of his stepson, daughter and grandson, André – convinced that Lidia was responsible for all the inequities – decides to destroy the only way possible to stop loving him.__NEWL__ For him, there was no doubt in these cases: Lydia, the selfish Romana, wanted her for himself and for this reason, it has eliminated all those he truly loved.__NEWL__The epilogue behind surprising revelation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4657224	A Gypsy Good Time	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	28080684	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28080684	Vietnam veteran and Private Investigator Dowdy Lewis, Jr. struggles with alcoholism, his time in the Vietnam War, and his own rapid aging.__NEWL__He meets Yvonna Lablaine, an attractive, red-headed outcast from a prominent Hollywood family, and falls in love.__NEWL__One day, however, after a brief but passionate romance, Lewis finds Lablaine dying at his door, murdered.__NEWL__He then embarks on a quest involving drug dealers, mobsters, and Hollywood moguls in order to find the truth about what happened and to take revenge on the culprits.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4996792	Bullet	2010-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	28081414	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28081414	Anita Blake is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life-as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U.S. Marshal.__NEWL__There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend.__NEWL__In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita's past reaches out.__NEWL__She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator.__NEWL__It's hard to kill a god.__NEWL__This dark goddess has reached out to her here in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most.__NEWL__The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.__NEWL__The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World.__NEWL__But the body she wants to possess is already taken.__NEWL__Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom.__NEWL__And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over Anita's body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again.__NEWL__Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can..."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6469939	Lady Anna	1873-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	27999418	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27999418	Lady Anna is set during the 1830s, at about the time of the First Reform Act of 1832.__NEWL__The title character is the daughter of the late Earl Lovel.__NEWL__Her mother married him out of ambition rather than love, and despite his evil reputation.__NEWL__Soon after their marriage, he told her that he had a living wife, which made their union invalid and their unborn daughter illegitimate.__NEWL__He then sailed to Italy without her and did not return to England for twenty years.__NEWL__During those two decades, Lady Lovel struggled to prove the validity of her marriage, and consequently her right to her title and her daughter's legitimacy.__NEWL__She enjoyed neither the sympathy of the public nor the support of her family during this time; her only friend and supporter was Thomas Thwaite, a Radical tailor of Keswick, who gave her and her daughter shelter and financed her legal battles.__NEWL__Early in the novel, Lord Lovel returns to England and dies intestate.__NEWL__His earldom, and a small estate in Cumberland, pass to a distant cousin, young Frederick Lovel.__NEWL__However, the bulk of his large fortune is personal property, and thus not attached to the title.__NEWL__If his marriage to Lady Lovel was valid, it will go to her and to their daughter; otherwise, it will go to the young earl.__NEWL__The new earl's lawyers, headed by the Solicitor General, come to believe that their case against Lady Lovel is weak and their claim probably false.__NEWL__They accordingly propose a compromise: that the earl marry Lady Anna, thus reuniting the title and the assets held by her father.__NEWL__The plan is enthusiastically supported by Lady Lovel, as fulfilling all of her ambitions for herself and her daughter.__NEWL__The young earl is favorably impressed by Lady Anna's appearance and character.__NEWL__However, in her twenty years as an outcast, Lady Anna has come to love Thomas Thwaite's son Daniel, and the two have become secretly engaged.__NEWL__When the engagement is known, Lady Lovel and others strive to break it.__NEWL__Lady Anna will not yield to persuasion or to mistreatment; Daniel Thwaite rejects arguments and bribes to end the relationship.__NEWL__Lady Anna is approaching her twenty-first birthday, after which she will be free to marry without her mother's consent.__NEWL__In desperation, Lady Lovel secures a pistol and attempts to murder Thwaite.__NEWL__She wounds but does not kill him; Thwaite refuses to name her to the police; and the attempt puts an effective end to her attempts to keep the two apart.__NEWL__With Thwaite's consent, Lady Anna makes half of her fortune over to the young earl.__NEWL__She marries Thwaite with the public approval of the Lovel family, though Lady Lovel refuses to attend the ceremony.__NEWL__The two then emigrate to Australia, where they expect that his low birth and her title will no longer be a burden to them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7193842	Pilcrow	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23220	Berkshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	28076959	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28076959	The book is in the form of a memoir by an adult John Cromer telling the story of his childhood and adolescence in the '50s and early '60s.__NEWL__He develops Still's disease at an early age and is confined to bed under a misdiagnosis of rheumatic fever.__NEWL__When the nature of his disease is finally realised he is transferred to the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in Taplow, Berkshire under the care of Dr. Barbara Ansell but by then he has very little movement left in his joints.__NEWL__Later he moves to a special school in Farley Castle where he is reliant on the 'able-bodied' to help him move around, and realises that he is homosexual.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5418073	Everything Matters!	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	27996362	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27996362	Junior Thibodeau is born with the exact details of the end of the world by a comet and grows up with a troubled childhood, surrounded by his quiet but powerful ex-Marine father, his secretly-alcoholic and withdrawn mother, and his drug addict and later baseball-savant brother Rodney, as well as the constant presence of the voice that has stuck with him since birth.__NEWL__As he grows older, he questions the importance of concepts such as love in the face of the inevitable apocalypse and battles various addictions.__NEWL__He falls in love with a classmate named Amy and they begin a relationship, but she leaves him after he informs her of the voices in his head.__NEWL__Later in life, Junior becomes an avid smoker and alcoholic while his brother becomes a major baseball star.__NEWL__Junior and a co-worker later conspire to destroy a social security building.__NEWL__Junior backs out, but the friend blows up the building after giving the occupants a chance to evacuate.__NEWL__Junior is arrested and sent to a Bulgarian gulag.__NEWL__There he meets Sawyer, a government agents who reveals that the major world governments know a massive comet is approaching Earth.__NEWL__Sawyer offers Junior a job, which Junior accepts in exchange for his parents' financial future to be secured.__NEWL__Later Junior hears his father has terminal lung cancer.__NEWL__Working constantly for a week and almost dying, Junior develops a cure for his father and has it sent to him.__NEWL__Junior's father recovers, but later dies after hitting a car while asleep at the wheel.__NEWL__After leaving her boyfriend, Amy decides to travel to Junior's father's funeral.__NEWL__Mid-flight she disables the plane's smoke detector so she can indulge herself with a cigarette.__NEWL__A federal agent discovers what she did and arrests Amy.__NEWL__He reveals he's not going to arrest her and they engage in conversation.__NEWL__It turns out to be a ruse, and the agents locks Amy in an interrogation room.__NEWL__He recounts how she told him she had a relationship with a student at Stanford.__NEWL__The agent tells her how this student later renounced his US citizenship and became a member of the Hezbollah.__NEWL__Believing Amy is a part of a terrorist organization, he tortures her and cuts a pinkie off.__NEWL__Junior arrives and has the agent killed.__NEWL__He and Amy reconcile, but they decide not to leave before the comet hits.__NEWL__Later, Amy changes her mind and goes to sign up for Emigration, but she and many others who plan to sign up are killed by a suicide bomber.__NEWL__At this point, the voices in Junior's head reveal that he can pick another version of himself from another universe and take that self's place.__NEWL__Junior essentially goes back in time to the point where he told Amy of the voices.__NEWL__Instead of telling her, he instead instigates sex.__NEWL__Onwards in life, Junior marries Amy and develops a revolutionary irrigation system for use in third-world countries.__NEWL__Junior and Amy later conceive a child named Ruby.__NEWL__While he is very happy, Junior decides not to try to save his father this time.__NEWL__His father dies a painful death from lung cancer.__NEWL__When the comet arrives, Junior and Amy consider killing their daughter to spare her, but decide against it.__NEWL__Junior and his entire family flock to his bedroom and sit there as the comet hits Earth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q208911	Every Man for Himself	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z	27959049	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27959049	The novel is narrated by 22-year-old Morgan, a rich young American orphan who is a relation of banker J. P. Morgan, having been brought up by his aunt and cousin.__NEWL__The book is divided into four sections, each one corresponding to a day Morgan spends on the RMS Titanic.__NEWL__He provides a lively account of the middle-class to upper-class passengers found on the luxury liner, while finding time to fall in love with spoilt young socialite Wallis Ellery.__NEWL__Leading figures in the tragedy appear prominently including Captain Smith, naval architect Thomas Andrews and White Star Line owner J. Bruce Ismay.__NEWL__The narrator finally makes his way to a collapsible lifeboat after the sinking of the Titanic, and is rescued by the crew of Carpathia.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7727330	The Confession of Brother Haluin	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z	27934619	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27934619	In Oxford Castle, Empress Maud has been besieged for months by King Stephen.__NEWL__Sheriff Hugh Beringar learns that the Empress took advantage of the heavy snow and frozen rivers for a miraculous escape.__NEWL__She and several allies crossed the frozen river through Stephen's lines, and walked to Abingdon, where they got horses to ride to Wallingford Castle.__NEWL__She is safe with her brother Robert of Gloucester and her major supporter Brian FitzCount.__NEWL__Oxford Castle surrendered, the men allowed to march home.__NEWL__Robert of Gloucester returned from Normandy with the eldest son of the Empress with her second husband Geoffrey of Anjou, a boy of nine years named Henry Plantagenet.__NEWL__For the moment, the long running battle between these two contenders has begun anew, each with a talent of "conjuring defeat out of victory".__NEWL__King Stephen joined his brother Henry, Bishop of Winchester, and calls his sheriffs to meet him there for the Christmas feast.__NEWL__On his return, Sheriff Hugh Beringar learns of Haluin's accident.__NEWL__At Shrewsbury Abbey, the heavy snowfall in mid-December 1142 causes severe damage to the slate tile roof of the guest hall.__NEWL__Doing his share of the repair work, Brother Haluin falls down 40 feet.__NEWL__His prospects for survival are small, so he confesses his past with the de Clary family.__NEWL__Hugh Beringar tells Cadfael that the wife of de Clary lives at Hales, while her son Audemar, sworn to King Stephen, resides in Staffordshire.__NEWL__In early March Haluin asks to make a pilgrimage for penance.__NEWL__His vow burns in him: a pilgrimage on foot to Bertrade's mother and to Bertrade's tomb at Hales, east of Shrewsbury.__NEWL__Haluin goes with Brother Cadfael.__NEWL__On 4 March, they begin.__NEWL__They meet with Adelais, who offers the forgiveness Haluin begs.__NEWL__Bertrade is not buried at Hales.__NEWL__They learn that the family tomb is at Elford in Staffordshire.__NEWL__Their trip to Elford takes nearly a week.__NEWL__They arrive to find Adelais in the church, kneeling before the tomb, as if she is their shadow.__NEWL__Adelais shelters them in her dower house.__NEWL__Haluin spends the cold night on his knees, alongside Cadfael at the de Clary tomb.__NEWL__At sunrise, a curious Roscelin arrives at the church timely to assist Cadfael in bringing Haluin to his feet.__NEWL__Roscelin says he was sent away by his father to serve Audemar, their friend and overlord.__NEWL__Lothair, bringing food, sends the young man away.__NEWL__Starting home, a sudden snowstorm forces them to seek shelter at the manor of Vivers.__NEWL__Cenred, the lord of the manor, learns that Haluin is an ordained priest.__NEWL__He asks Haluin to officiate at the wedding of his much younger half-sister, Helisende, to a nobleman on the morrow.__NEWL__His own son, who was raised with Helisende, has fallen in love with her, a prohibited relationship.__NEWL__Haluin agrees.__NEWL__Cadfael meets Helisende, who says that she agrees to this marriage freely.__NEWL__Edgytha's body is found, murdered.__NEWL__Cenred sends word ahead to Elford with this news.__NEWL__Cadfael sees snow beneath her body, not atop it, suggesting she was on her way home from Elford.__NEWL__The household gathers in the hall at Vivers, save one: Helisende.__NEWL__Jean de Perronet suspects the planned marriage is linked to this death.__NEWL__Roscelin Vivers arrives home, angry that his father is marrying off Helisende.__NEWL__Roscelin did not see Edgytha at Elford.__NEWL__Helisende is not there to speak for herself.__NEWL__Audemar arrives, taking charge.__NEWL__With no bride there is no marriage.__NEWL__Cadfael and Haluin leave on a new path bypassing Lichfield.__NEWL__As evening nears, they approach the new Benedictine convent at Farewell planned by Bishop Roger de Clinton.__NEWL__Next morning, Haluin recognises Bertrade and she recognises him.__NEWL__She is Sister Benedicta, sent from Polesworth to help this new place.__NEWL__Cadfael negotiates an hour's meeting between Brother Haluin and Sister Benedicta with Mother Patrice, who informs the family that Helisende is safe with them.__NEWL__At Vivers manor, they learn that Helisende is not blood kin to Roscelin.__NEWL__Adelais admits to her foul deeds long ago.__NEWL__They realise Edgytha knew as well.__NEWL__Adelais tells them that Bertrade, Helisende and Helisende's father have met at Farewell.__NEWL__The father was a clerk in her household.__NEWL__Cadfael attests to the meeting, telling Haluin's tale in so doing.__NEWL__This stunning news is hard for the Vivers family to accept, a shock to Audemar, a challenge to de Perronet.__NEWL__Helisende is still loved by the Vivers, blood kin or not.__NEWL__Adelais has lands to leave her granddaughter.__NEWL__Roscelin is joyous.__NEWL__Audemar claims Helisende as his niece, and as overlord places his niece with Cenred when she leaves Farewell.__NEWL__He and Roscelin ride back with Adelais.__NEWL__Audemar banishes his mother to Hales.__NEWL__Cadfael returns to Farewell.__NEWL__Haluin is happy, and has no anger for Adelais.__NEWL__The two Benedictine brothers walk home to Shrewsbury in completion of the vow, the truth having changed so much.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8028655	Witz	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	27925395	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27925395	In Witz, Joshua Cohen calls all religious Jews "Affiliated".__NEWL__After the sabbath meal a week before Christmas, Benjamin is born to Israel and Hanna Israelien in Joysey, the first son after 12 girls.__NEWL__This winter is particularly hard and in fact persists year round.__NEWL__Benjamin is born full grown (by a method explored by Flann O'Brien in At Swim-Two-Birds), with a beard and glasses.__NEWL__His foreskin continually sheds itself and grows back.__NEWL__Already too big for his father's shirts, he takes to his mother's maternity robes.__NEWL__On Christmas Eve, all of the Affiliated die except first-born sons.__NEWL__The Israelien's maid, Wanda, drives Benjamin down to Florida to live with his grandfather, Isaac, who is Unaffiliated.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a cabal of government operatives are quarantining all of the first-borns on Ellis Island, now called "The Garden" (incorporated), capitalized with the property of the dead.__NEWL__A week later, they come for Benjamin.__NEWL__Isaac dies from a heart attack.__NEWL__Benjamin escapes at a rest stop but is eventually caught and taken to The Garden, where they have moved the entire Israelien house, complete with Sabbath guest still on one of the toilets.__NEWL__The Garden markets Benjamin as the messiah, complete with travelling road show and merchandising.__NEWL__A team of unaffiliated women are trained to act as his mother and sisters and see to his needs.__NEWL__Then the first-borns start dying, and by Passover Benjamin is the only one remaining.__NEWL__It is arranged that he marry the President's daughter in Las Vegas, but Benjamin escapes again, to wander the country in his mother's robe.__NEWL__Back in New York City, his "sisters" catch up with him, and during cunnilingus with "Hanna", his tongue gets stuck and is torn off when the sisters try to separate them.__NEWL__The scandal destroys The Garden, and Benjamin is shunned by all (he and the operators of The Garden are Disaffiliated).__NEWL__Without real Jews around to complicate things, America, and soon, the world, has become Affiliated.__NEWL__The President becomes chief of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem.__NEWL__Those who refuse to Affiliate are sent to their "homeland", Polandland, where they are kept in ghettos, experimented upon, worked and starved to death, killed.__NEWL__Benjamin finds his way there, too, visiting the towns of his mother's and his father's ancestors.__NEWL__In his wanderings, he sprouts the horns of a cow and ultimately he turns into a woman.__NEWL__The Affiliated, however, revive the cult of his tongue, now displayed as a relic.__NEWL__And Wanda, now Affiliated, with a son of her own, remembers the visitor who came down the chimney to sit with Benjamin every night for the week after his birth:__NEWL__Isaiah? dressed as Santa Claus.__NEWL__Twenty-five years later, we hear from a 108-year-old Jewish man who was in Auschwitz ...__NEWL__He has listed the punch line of a joke, who needs the setup any more, for every year that he has lived.__NEWL__Because what should you do only laugh.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7848273	Truth	2009-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	27926175	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27926175	Truth's central character is Inspector Stephen Villani (who had appeared in The Broken Shore but not as a major character), acting head of the Victoria Police homicide squad.__NEWL__Already under a cloud over the deaths of two Aboriginal boys during a botched police operation, and a series of unsolved cases, Villani finds the certainties of his life crumbling after the discovery of a murdered woman in an exclusive apartment block.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5913788	House Rules	2010-03-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	28108371	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28108371	Eighteen-year-old Jacob Hunt lives with his mother Emma and his younger brother, Theo.__NEWL__Jacob has Asperger's syndrome, then considered a form of high-functioning autism.__NEWL__Jacob lives by a highly structured schedule and feels comfortable when all of his daily activities are pre-planned.__NEWL__Jacob thrives when he is able to engage in structured, focused activities, and he particularly enjoys things that are incredibly intellectual and academic.__NEWL__Emma is able to ensure that Jacob's anxiety and outbursts are infrequent by creating her and Theo's schedules around Jacob's needs.__NEWL__However, this often displeases Theo.__NEWL__Jacob is deeply interested with forensic analysis to the point of obsession.__NEWL__The novel begins with Jacob setting up a crime scene (in which he plays the victim) for his mother to solve.__NEWL__Jacob is later accused of murdering his tutor, Jess Ogilvy.__NEWL__It is eventually revealed that Theo snuck into a house that Jess was house sitting at and startled her, causing her to accidentally hit her head on the sink and subsequently die.__NEWL__When Jacob arrived at the home for his tutoring sessions, he staged a crime scene to make it appear as if Jess's boyfriend, Mark Maguire, had committed the murder, and then tried to make it appear as if it was a kidnapping.__NEWL__Eventually, Jacob is arrested for Jess's murder.__NEWL__During the trial, Jacob states that he staged the crime scene to take care of his brother, in accordance with a "house rule" set by Emma to take care of one another.__NEWL__Jacob asserts that if, by chance, the circumstances arose again, he would do it again for his brother.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7739199	The Heart of a Warrior	2010-08-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	28112055	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28112055	In the previous book, A Clan in Need, Ravenpaw and Barley ask Firestar, leader of ThunderClan, for help to drive out the rogues that drove Ravenpaw and Barley away from their farm.__NEWL__After gathering up a patrol of cats willing to help, they leave to go to the farm.__NEWL__The cats go into the barn to find the place wrecked, and the rogues making messes.__NEWL__Firestar makes a plan to ambush the rogues in their sleep.__NEWL__When they carry out their plan, they are given away when the chickens are startled and make a lot of noise.__NEWL__The rogues are alarmed, and fight the Clan cats.__NEWL__There turns out to be a far larger amount of rogues than the Clan cats originally intended, some of whom are BloodClan refugees.__NEWL__During the battle in the barn, the farmer hears the cats and goes in, scaring all the cats off.__NEWL__ThunderClan regroups, and Firestar comes up with another plan to defeat the rogues.__NEWL__The plan works, and ThunderClan drives the rogues out of the barn, but right at the turning point of the battle, reinforcements for the rogues show up.__NEWL__The Clan cats begin to lose the fight, but the dogs of the farm get loose and attack the rogues.__NEWL__They finally drive out the rogues with the help of the dogs, leaving only Barley's brothers, Hoot and Jumper.__NEWL__Firestar and the warrior patrol then depart, and Ravenpaw and Barley go into the barn.__NEWL__They decide to let Hoot and Jumper stay in the barn with them.__NEWL__While Barley goes out on a walk, Ravenpaw shows Hoot and Jumper around the farm.__NEWL__Ravenpaw notices that Hoot and Jumper don't care about it.__NEWL__When Ravenpaw and the visitors return to the barn, Ravenpaw takes a nap.__NEWL__When Barley wakes him up, he finds the barn wrecked.__NEWL__Hoot and Jumper claim that they were trying to hunt for mice, and accidentally destroyed it.__NEWL__One night Barley and his brothers go out for a walk.__NEWL__When they return, Hoot and Jumper order Ravenpaw to hunt for them.__NEWL__The next day, they still are ordering Ravenpaw around.__NEWL__Ravenpaw wonders why Barley isn't doing anything about it.__NEWL__However, as if on cue, Barley gets angry at Hoot and Jumper, saying that he doesn't like how they are treating Ravenpaw, and claims that loyalty is everything, not blood.__NEWL__Hoot and Jumper leave the barn for good, and Ravenpaw and Barley finally have their home, back.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q469997	Warlock	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q79	Egypt	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q79	Egypt	28056386	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28056386	Warlock is a sequel to River God that details the later life of Taita 40 years on from the death of Lostris.__NEWL__Taita is no longer a slave but a powerful warlock with great fame throughout Egypt and the surrounding nations, and has become the most influential man in Egypt through his close connection to the Pharaoh Tamose.__NEWL__The story begins with Pharaoh Tamose, accompanied by his most trusted companion, Lord Naja, marching towards the Hyksos main camp and planning a surprise attack from the rear.__NEWL__Lord Naja, however, has deviously tricked Pharaoh, for he is of Hyksos blood, and kills Pharaoh Tamose.__NEWL__However no one sees this tragedy, and Naja convinces the army of Pharaoh that he has been slain by the Hyksos and orders the army to retreat back to Thebes.__NEWL__When Naja arrives at Thebes, he cunningly sways the council members to appoint him as Regent, successfully obtaining power of the Upper Kingdom.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Taita takes a 14-year-old Nefer Memnon, Tamose's only surviving son from the Yellow Flower plague, into the desert wilderness to hone his mind and skills and to capture his godbird in order to prove his divine favor.__NEWL__Just after Nefer was born, years prior to these events, during his life in the desert as a hermit, Taita was visited in a dream by the former Queen Lostris, and returned to Thebes to be appointed as Nefer Seti's tutor, who is now next in line for the throne.__NEWL__Taita and Nefer fail to capture the godbird on two occasions, with their last incident revealing dire omens about Tamose's death and a dire threat to Nefer's life in the form of Tamose's unknown murderer.__NEWL__The two try to flee towards the Red Sea to escape the threat, but are found by Egyptian scouts sent by Naja, and return to Thebes.__NEWL__During the return, Nefer is crowned as Pharaoh Nefer Seti but is not of majority age nor ordained by the gods (either by capturing the godbird falcon or passing the trial of the Red Road), and hence must be placed under the protection and care of his Regent, Lord Naja.__NEWL__As the story develops, Taita's talents are spotted by Naja and he is appointed as his personal advisor.__NEWL__Naja then reveals to Taita that he is no longer to be Nefer's tutor and is separated from him indefinitely.__NEWL__Taita is aware of Naja's cruel intentions and the truth behind Pharaoh's death, however he does not reveal this to Naja, and instead uses his influence of him to gain some small control.__NEWL__Nefer's two sisters, Heseret and Merykara are force-wedded to Naja and become his wives, placing him next in line, after Nefer, through marriage.__NEWL__After complications arise, Naja confides in Taita for advice on how to restore peace between the two kingdoms.__NEWL__Taits suggests a treaty, and is sent to King Apepi, the Hyksos leader, to require that he attends a meeting between the two leaders.__NEWL__After a long debate which lasts many days, a treaty is agreed and both leaders sign it, restoring peace throughout the land.__NEWL__However, Apepi is killed not long after and Trok, who was Apepi's general, and is also Naja's cousin and co-conspirator, takes the role of Pharaoh of the Lower Kingdom.__NEWL__All of Apepi's children die as well, except Princess Mintaka, whom Apepi betrothed to Nefer Seti to reinforce the peace treaty.__NEWL__The two False Pharaohs join forces and begin an expedition to conquer more land and extend their kingdom.__NEWL__The co-Pharaohs' plans result in a sudden rise in military activity and levees of taxes, as well as harsher treatment of those who did not readily show their support of them, cause growing dissent and rebellion.__NEWL__Taita, using his vast knowledge and cunning, rescues Mintaka from Trok and reunites her with Nefer Seti, with whom she has fallen in love.__NEWL__The three, with loyal followers such as Nefer's childhood friend Meren Cambyses and a few others, begin to build up their own army in Gallalla over the next years, after Taita has a well constructed in the dead city.__NEWL__During these years Nefer's leadership and capability begins to flourish, and his fledgling forces complete successful missions against the false pharaohs.__NEWL__Nefer rescues his youngest sister, Merykara, who immediately falls in love with Meren.__NEWL__However Heseret has fallen in love with Naja, whom she was forced to marry, and is convinced he is the one true ruler of Egypt.__NEWL__When Naja and Trok are both slain in battles against Nefer's forces, by his efforts and that of his companions, Heseret becomes delusional and kills her sister when she is captured along with Mintaka.__NEWL__She escapes into the desert, determined to search for her dead husband, but is caught by Nefer and punished for killing their sister.__NEWL__Nefer hands her over to Meren and he kills her as justice for killing Merykara, to whom he was betrothed.__NEWL__The story ends with Nefer taking his rightful place at the throne of Egypt, with Queen Mintaka at his side, and with Taita and Meren leaving Egypt on a pilgrimage journey.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3612368	The Quest	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q79	Egypt	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q79	Egypt	28056788	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28056788	Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows.__NEWL__The Nile fails.__NEWL__The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up.__NEWL__Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa, from where the mighty river springs.__NEWL__In desperation the Pharaoh sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes.__NEWL__In this final adventure of Taita, the beloved Magus is now 156 years old but through his powerful magic, has managed to live longer than most people (with the exception of a few other magicians).__NEWL__He is sent to investigate the blockage at the source of the Nile and defeat a seemingly immortal witch named Eos.__NEWL__During his journey, he gains new abilities as a Magus and can even detect the aura of living beings and discern their personalities.__NEWL__Travelling with a small army which includes his friend Meren, Taita finds a little girl living as a savage amongst a tribe of cannibals.__NEWL__He rescues her and over the months that follow, trains her to be decent and takes her under his wing.__NEWL__He names the girl Fenn__NEWL__and it is revealed that she is the reincarnation of Lostris, Taita's mistress who died at the end of River God.__NEWL__The group survives many hazards and eventually comes across a paradise-like city called Jarri.__NEWL__The original natives there are descended from a rebel group of Egyptians who are mentioned in River God.__NEWL__They rule the seemingly peaceful community by using fear, especially on the newcomers.__NEWL__It is discovered that they are under the spell of Eos who plans to ravage Egypt and then take it as her own Kingdom.__NEWL__Local doctors eventually manage to regenerate Taita's castrated penis and he becomes a whole man once more.__NEWL__However, this was planned by Eos whose speciality is to absorb the power, youth and knowledge from her victims through sex.__NEWL__Taita knows this all along and uses his new "weapon" to defeat Eos.__NEWL__He then locates the Font (The Fountain of Youth) and becomes young again.__NEWL__The rebel Jarrians ally themselves to Taita and they flee back to Egypt, but not before the Red Stones are cast down and the Nile flows again.__NEWL__On the journey home, Fenn begins to have recurring nightmares about Taita remaining forever young while she succumbs to old age and dies.__NEWL__Taita therefore decides to leave Egypt with Fenn and search for the Font (which can relocate itself) in order for Fenn to become immortal also.__NEWL__In a heartfelt climax, Taita bids farewell to his companion Meren, and the Pharaoh Nefer Seti and the word is spread that The Magus had fallen in battle.__NEWL__Egypt mourns his loss, and Taita uses the distraction to leave with Fenn.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5965811	I'll Get There. It Better be Worth the Trip	1969-06-01T00:00:00Z	27901462	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27901462	13-year-old Davy Ross' grandmother, who has raised him from the age of five, dies, forcing Davy and his beloved dachshund Fred to move in with Davy's divorced alcoholic mother in New York City.__NEWL__Davy's mother has difficulty adjusting to the new living situation, and acts resentfully and coldly to her son.__NEWL__Davy's father is more understanding, but also more distant, as he is remarried and sees Davy only sporadically.__NEWL__Davy's only friend is his dog Fred, until he meets Douglas Altschuler, a classmate at his new school who is also an only child living with a single mother.__NEWL__Davy and Altschuler begin spending time together, and eventually kiss, sleep in the same bed with their arms around each other, and engage in other erotic acts (described in the book as "making out" and "doing it", without more details).__NEWL__Davy seems comfortable with these activities until his mother sees the two boys sleeping with their arms around each other and becomes very upset.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Davy's dachshund Fred is hit by a car and killed.__NEWL__Davy now thinks homosexual acts might be wrong in view of his mother's reaction, and wonders if the death of his much-loved dog is punishment for his actions with Altschuler.__NEWL__Davy's feelings of guilt and shame cause a temporary break in the boys' friendship, but in the end they reconcile after Davy is encouraged by his father, who does not share his mother's homophobia.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3614624	According to Mark	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	27910639	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27910639	Mark Lamming, a biographer, leads a quiet life in London with his wife Diana, who works at a gallery.__NEWL__In order to gain information about the dead writer and essayist Gilbert Strong who he is going to write a book about, Mark visits Strong's granddaughter, Carrie.__NEWL__She runs a garden centre at Dean Close, a mansion Strong used to live in.__NEWL__Mark regularly stays at Dean Close for several days, and in the course of this falls in love with Carrie.__NEWL__After some time he comes up with the idea to visit Hermione, Carrie's mother who lives in France, so as to ask her some questions about the relationship between her and her father, Gilbert Strong.__NEWL__He asks Carrie to join him – partly because he needs her to speak to her mother and partly because he wants to spend time with her.__NEWL__Hesitantly Carrie agrees, and together they leave for France – Diana, Mark's wife, plans to join them later.__NEWL__The trip to France turns into a fiasco.__NEWL__During their journey, Mark and Carrie have sex at several hotels.__NEWL__When they arrive at Hermione's place, Carrie becomes extremely reclusive because of the way Hermione, her mother, is treating her.__NEWL__Diana, who in the meantime has arrived there too, is shocked by the state the house is in, and Mark finds that, after all, Hermione is not the right person to get information from for his book.__NEWL__They leave Hermione's place and plan to visit several French cities and villages.__NEWL__As Carrie feels extremely uncomfortable while travelling with Mark and Diana, she simply leaves them without saying a word while they are in a supermarket.__NEWL__She travels to Paris where she gets to know Nick, an Englishman.__NEWL__Back to England Carrie tells Mark that she has fallen in love with Nick.__NEWL__Mark and Carrie sort out their problems and Mark leaves for Porlock, a village in the south west of England where he hopes to find out more about Gilbert Strong's life.__NEWL__He moves in with a Major whose aunt Irene was associated with Strong years ago.__NEWL__To Mark's delight, the Major produces a bunch of letters that Strong wrote to Irene.__NEWL__These letters solve the mystery of Strong's life that Mark has been intent to find out about ever since he started working on the biography:__NEWL__Strong had been deeply in love with Irene, who died a short time after their first encounter.__NEWL__Strong had never really got over this heavy loss.__NEWL__These findings enable Mark to understand what made Strong tick and why he had never in his further life been able to develop any happy long-term relationship with women.__NEWL__Having found out about this, Mark feels that he has all the information he needs to finish his book about Strong.__NEWL__He leaves Porlock and heads for London where he visits Carrie for what seems to be the last time.__NEWL__ __NEWL__In the last chapter of the book, Mark is at a broadcast station where a radio transmission about Gilbert Strong is being produced.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7142649	Passing On	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	27910683	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27910683	The book starts with the funeral of Dorothy Glover, mother of Helen, Edward, and Louise.__NEWL__From the very beginning of the book it is clear that Dorothy was a cold and self-absorbed parent.__NEWL__Rather than treat her children with love and affection, she tended to resent and bully them.__NEWL__Only Louise, her youngest daughter, had had the strength to escape from her dominant influence.__NEWL__During the priest's sermon at the grave, Helen thinks: "Eternal life is an appalling idea, especially in mother’s case."__NEWL__In her will, Dorothy leaves her house not to Helen and Edward, who have lived there and cared for her, but to their teenaged nephew.__NEWL__This is ostensibly to avoid some inheritance tax, but as in fact the savings are negligible, it appears to be rather a manifestation of Dorothy's grudging, manipulative character.__NEWL__Slowly but steadily, Helen and Edward get used to their mother’s absence and they start to slightly change their lives.__NEWL__Helen feels much freer than before her mother's death and falls in love with Giles Carnaby, their lawyer.__NEWL__She becomes more confident and starts to perceive life differently.__NEWL__Nevertheless, Dorothy, even after her death, makes her presence felt.__NEWL__At one point, Helen finds love-letters that a former boyfriend had written to her in one of her mother's old cloaks.__NEWL__Her mother had never given these letters to her and therefore had caused the separation of Helen and her boyfriend.__NEWL__Helen is upset, but she comes to terms with it.__NEWL__Edwards is a teacher at a local girls' school.__NEWL__His mother’s death does not change much about his life - he remains as reclusive as he had been before she died.__NEWL__He spends most of his leisure time in the Britches, the wood that is part of the estate where he and Helen live.__NEWL__There he tends plants and watches birds.__NEWL__In the course of the book he is revealed to be homosexual, and Helen helps Edward through what seems to be a life crisis, thus reinforcing her own sense of self and strength.__NEWL__Helen and Edward live modestly.__NEWL__They only buy what they absolutely need; their lifestyle is rather old-fashioned.__NEWL__This is in stark contrast to the life their sister Louise and her husband Tom lead in London, who every once in a while drop in on Helen and Edward.__NEWL__Louise and Tom's problems are those typical of people that live in big cities: lack of time and psycho-somatic illnesses.__NEWL__Helen and Edward, by contrast, lead a calm, monotonous and rather rural life.__NEWL__Ron Paget, a wealthy builder who owns the yard next to the Britches, has spent years prodding first Dorothy, and then Helen and Edward to sell him their land.__NEWL__Like the other villagers, he cannot understand why they cling to an undeveloped plot of land rather than sell it to improve their lifestyle.__NEWL__Ron Paget's materialistic outlook and lack of regard for conservation reflects trends in modern British life which the Glovers resist.__NEWL__Although Dorothy's resistance seems to have stemmed from mere obstinacy, Edward's comes from a desperate desire to save the wildlife, and Helen's from respect for Edward's feelings.__NEWL__Throughout the book it seems as though Helen and Giles Carnaby, the lawyer, will end up in a happy relationship.__NEWL__This does not happen, as Giles turns out to be something of a philanderer; but the relationship seems beneficial to Helen as she forces herself to take an active role in breaking it off, rather than letting events take their course passively as when her mother was alive,
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15969906	Jasper Jones	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z	28003544	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28003544	The protagonist Charlie Bucktin is a quiet, book loving, 13-year-old boy who lives in the fictitious rural town of Corrigan, Western Australia.__NEWL__On a summer evening in 1965, Charlie receives an unexpected visit from 14-year-old Jasper Jones, who is excluded by the Corrigan locals because of his Aboriginal heritage and rebellious lifestyle, and who is a source of distant intrigue for Charlie.__NEWL__Jasper asks for Charlie's help and leads him to a private clearing in the bush.__NEWL__Charlie is horrified to find the corpse of a young girl, Laura Wishart, Jasper's only friend, beaten and suspended from a tree.__NEWL__Jasper inspects Laura's body and discovers indications Laura was raped__NEWL__but Charlie does not recognise what Jasper discovered.__NEWL__Jasper, aware that he is likely to be blamed for Laura's murder, convinces Charlie that they should hide the body to buy them time to solve the murder themselves.__NEWL__They throw the body into the nearby dam, weighing her down with a rock.__NEWL__A search for the missing girl is soon organized.__NEWL__The authorities assume she is a run-away.__NEWL__Jasper is interrogated brutally by the local police but released quickly.__NEWL__During this time, tensions rise in the town, while parents fear more disappearances and the townspeople seek someone to blame.__NEWL__Charlie spends his days with his best friend Jeffrey Lu, a Vietnamese boy who shares Charlie's love for intellectual jokes and deals stoically with the constant racial hatred inflicted on him and his family.__NEWL__Jeffrey is a cricket enthusiast, but his attempts to join Corrigan's team are thwarted by the racism of the coach and other players.__NEWL__Eventually, fortune goes his way, and Jeffrey finds himself batting in a game against a rival town, watched by Charlie and Eliza, Laura Wishart's younger sister.__NEWL__As Jeffrey wins the game on the last ball, Charlie and Eliza's relationship moves from friendship to romance.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jasper thinks that Laura's murderer is Mad Jack Lionel, a reclusive old man who is rumored to have done terrible things in the past.__NEWL__Jasper decides to confront Lionel and, with Charlie, goes to his house.__NEWL__Lionel manages to defuse Jasper's aggression, and the truth is revealed: Lionel is, in fact, Jasper's grandfather.__NEWL__When Jasper was a baby, Lionel crashed his car while driving Jasper's mother to the hospital, causing her death.__NEWL__The incident left Lionel broken and ostracized by the townspeople.__NEWL__After the confrontation with Lionel, late at night, Eliza comes to Charlie's window.__NEWL__Eliza wants Charlie to follow her.__NEWL__On their midnight ramble, they come across a lone car parked near the river.__NEWL__Charlie recognizes his mother in the backseat and she is in a compromising situation with the town's police man, and Jasper's determined bully.__NEWL__Eliza pulls Charlie away and takes him, unexpectedly, to the spot where Laura died.__NEWL__Here, Eliza tells Charlie what she knows about Laura's death.__NEWL__After a violent sexual assault at the hands of her abusive father, Laura came looking for Jasper.__NEWL__Eliza followed her to the clearing.__NEWL__Finding Jasper elsewhere, and believing he left town without her, Laura committed suicide, hanging herself from a tree.__NEWL__Although watching her sister from a nearby hidden spot, Eliza could not reach Laura in time.__NEWL__After hearing Eliza's shocking story, Charlie then confessed that he and Jasper threw Laura's body into the dam, and have been trying to prove Jasper's innocence.__NEWL__Jasper discovers Charlie and Eliza, and Charlie repeats Eliza's tale, and the three spend the night under the stars, overcoming their grief.__NEWL__The next day, Eliza, Jasper and Charlie split up.__NEWL__Charlie knows he's never going to see Jasper again.__NEWL__Jasper is leaving Corrigan for good.__NEWL__When he arrives home, Charlie finds his mother packing and leaving home.__NEWL__His parents are separating.__NEWL__Charlie and his father are now on their own.__NEWL__Charlie's father finishes the novel he's been working on.__NEWL__Charlie is the first to read it, and he finds it beautiful and brilliant.__NEWL__As the novel nears its end, Charlie performs a feat of "bravery" feat that impresses his school peers.__NEWL__He sneaks onto the property of Mad Jack Lionel and steals peaches.__NEWL__To impress his peers even more, Charlie stages a "brawl" with Lionel (having promised Lionel to cook his Sunday dinner if he would pretend to attack Charlie).__NEWL__The pretend brawl is successful and excites the students who believe it is very much real.__NEWL__Even Warwick Trent, the bully of Charlie and Jeffrey, believes that Charlie has shown a lot of courage.__NEWL__While the children cheer on Charlie, suddenly, someone sees a plume of smoke in the distance.__NEWL__Charlie runs toward the smoke and finds that Eliza's house is on fire.__NEWL__He sees her standing by herself and realizes that she caused the blaze, and is saddened by the reality that the people of Corrigan will blame Jasper for it.__NEWL__Charlie goes to Eliza, who continues to watch the fire calmly, and whispers "perfect words" in her ear.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2083409	The Mad Ship	1998-11-19T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	28044791	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28044791	Aboard Vivacia, Wintrow saves Kennit's life by amputating the infected part of his leg.__NEWL__Kennit quickly charms Vivacia and she comes to believe in Kennit and his goal of becoming King of the Pirate Isles, aiding him in his piracy against slavers.__NEWL__Wintrow is wary of Vivacia's growing attachment to Kennit, but comes to believe in him as well, and bonds with Etta.__NEWL__Kennit imprisons Kyle on the secret isle where his mother lives in seclusion.__NEWL__Kennit was taken prisoner as a child by Igrot the pirate, who killed Kennit's father, cut out his mother's tongue, and made Kennit a pirate and abused him, a past which he hides from all.__NEWL__Althea serves aboard the liveship Ophelia, which returns to Bingtown.__NEWL__Captain Tenira attempts to resist the Chalcedean galley that serves the Satrap and collects his taxes.__NEWL__This heightens political tensions in Bingtown as more of the Old Traders consider rebelling against the Satrap and his Chalcedean mercenaries.__NEWL__Althea returns to her family to attempt to repair their relationship.__NEWL__Brashen, serving with a pirate ship, learns in Divvytown that Kennit has captured Vivacia.__NEWL__He returns to Bingtown to inform the Vestrit family.__NEWL__Ronica, Keffria, Althea, and Malta decide to put aside their differences to work on rescuing the ship.__NEWL__Malta appeals to Reyn Khuprus to help save her father, but he has his own problems.__NEWL__The Khuprus family owns the last Wizardwood log in the Rain Wilds, and Reyn has formed a psychic connection with the ancient dragon trapped within it.__NEWL__The dragon torments Reyn's dreams, attempting to convince him to set it free.__NEWL__Brashen, Althea, and Amber come up with a plan to refit the mad liveship Paragon and sail him after Vivacia.__NEWL__They purchase Paragon and gather a crew before setting off for the pirate isles with Brashen as captain, Althea as second mate, and Amber aboard, but there is a high risk that Paragon will kill the crew.__NEWL__In Jamailia, Serilla is a Heart Companion to the Satrap Cosgo and an expert of Bingtown history.__NEWL__The lazy, pleasure-seeking Satrap is cruel to anyone that does not flatter him, increasingly influenced by Chalcedeans, and uninterested in politics.__NEWL__The Satrap plans a trip to Bingtown and sets sail with Serilla; Serilla hopes to escape there to have a life free of him.__NEWL__When Serilla continues to criticize the Satrap, he gives her over to the Chalcedean captain to be held captive and raped.__NEWL__When the Satrap falls ill, Serilla coerces him into signing a document that gives her his full political authority in Bingtown.__NEWL__At Malta's presentation ball, she is introduced to the recently arrived Satrap.__NEWL__Serilla tells Reyn of a coup that is about to be launched: the Satrap will be killed and Bingtown blamed.__NEWL__The Vestrits are in Davad Restart's coach with the Satrap when it is taken by highwaymen.__NEWL__Davad is killed, the Satrap is abducted, and the Vestrits flee with Reyn to the Rain Wilds while the Chalcedeans torch Bingtown.__NEWL__Ronica stays behind to face the political upheaval.__NEWL__Some time later, Malta recovers while the Rain Wilders house the Satrap.__NEWL__The cocooned dragon to calls to Malta, promising to rescue Vivacia and Kyle if she frees it.__NEWL__Malta enters the buried city, but a large earthquake strikes.__NEWL__She rescues the Satrap from a damaged chamber.__NEWL__Reyn and Selden search for Malta in the ruins and successfully free the dragon by exposing her log to sunlight.__NEWL__The dragon leaves, determined to reestablish dragons after their long absence, but decides to honor her promises and rescue the people who got her free.__NEWL__Maulkin the serpent manages to make some wild serpents remember their names.__NEWL__The tangle comes upon a liveship which they believe is somehow one of them.__NEWL__They destroy the ship, in the process awaking the original memories in the wizardwood, revealing that it was a dragon once.__NEWL__The serpents eat the wood that was his cocoon and recover more memories.__NEWL__Serpents are meant to journey up the Rain Wild rivers in order to create cocoons for the winter.__NEWL__Through this, serpents metamorphose and hatch as full-fledged dragons when exposed to sunlight. "__NEWL__Wizardwood" of the Rain Wilds is actually the cocoons of ancient dragons that did not hatch after the Elderling city was buried.__NEWL__With each wizardwood log cut down, a dormant dragon is killed and filled with human memories.__NEWL__Without dragons to lead the serpents, they are in danger of extinction.__NEWL__Kennit and his two ships return to Divvytown to find it has been ransacked, and Wintrow talks the survivors out of killing Kennit, further establishing him as King of the pirates.__NEWL__Kennit decides that Wintrow must go to the Other's Isle and receive a prophecy.__NEWL__There, Wintrow goes off to look along the beach, but instead of an artifact, finds a path that leads him to a cage with a trapped serpent.__NEWL__He breaks her out of the cage, coming in contact with her and gaining her memories, and she in turn helps return Wintrow, Kennit, and Etta to Vivacia.__NEWL__The serpent, whom the Others imprisoned to be their oracle, is She Who Remembers, one who carries the memories of many and leads the others to the cocooning grounds.__NEWL__Once freed, She Who Remembers search for other serpents.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4690467	After America	2010-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	27922600	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27922600	In 2007, four years after the "Wave" killed most of North America's population, former Seattle City Council member James Kipper is now the President of the United States.__NEWL__The U.S. federal government and the U.S. capital have been relocated to Seattle, and it is later revealed that roughly 15 to 20 million Americans survived the Wave and are now back in the United States.__NEWL__Jed Culver is now Kipper's Chief of Staff and is also a close friend.__NEWL__After a meeting with foreign dignitaries in Seattle, Kipper and Culver head to New York City, where salvage crews are working to clear the streets of debris, the Wave having made its victims disappear, so crew-less vehicles and aircraft crashed as a result.__NEWL__Due to the lack of people to maintain New York City as well as cities all over the contiguous United States, fires burned unchecked and New York City is now flooded in some areas.__NEWL__The U.S. military has also had to step in alongside the New York Militia to fight droves of pirates, looters, terrorists and organized gangs who have moved into the U.S. East Coast from South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.__NEWL__Julianne Balwyn and Rhino Ross are part of one of those salvage crews.__NEWL__While clearing streets of crashed autos, Rhino and Jules meet Kipper as he tours the salvage efforts.__NEWL__Kipper is suspicious of Jules, who does not seem enthused to see Kipper, whereas Rhino is excited and eager to talk.__NEWL__Kipper leaves them to tour more of the city and hears gunfire in the distance.__NEWL__Texas is now a federal mandate; since everyone there was killed, the farmland is given to immigrants for them to work in order to become naturalized U.S. citizens.__NEWL__Miguel Pieraro and his family own one such farm.__NEWL__Jackson Blackstone, the disgraced army general who was forced into retirement by Kipper after the Wave, is now the elected governor of Texas and has a xenophobic dislike of the new immigrants.__NEWL__As a result, he has "road agents" that go around harassing farmers.__NEWL__Pieraro and his daughter Sofia are out herding cattle when road agents go to his home and rape and murder his female relatives and torture and execute the males.__NEWL__Pieraro and Sofia kill some stragglers and bury their family; Miguel decides to leave Texas for Kansas City, which is the largest intact city in the U.S. Midwest and is therefore the industrial and governmental heart of the United States, aside from Seattle.__NEWL__Caitlin Monroe and Bret Melton are now married and living in Wiltshire, United Kingdom, where they run a farm together.__NEWL__Monroe is still in Echelon, but is not a field agent anymore; she only reports as an adviser.__NEWL__She and her husband have an infant daughter named Monique, after the French activist Caitlin befriended in the aftermath of the Wave, and who died at the hands of rogue French DGSE agents working for al-Banna, the terrorist Caitlin was tracking.__NEWL__In New York City, Kipper is meeting with the press at Castle Clinton when the area is hit with Katyusha rockets from Muslim fighters on Ellis Island.__NEWL__The U.S. Secret Service herd Kipper into protection while U.S. Army Rangers head to Ellis Island to clear it out; among them is Staff Sergeant Fryderyk Milosz, the former Polish GROM operator that met Bret Melton in Kuwait in the aftermath of the Wave.__NEWL__Milosz has come to the U.S. and joined the army there to become a citizen since his homeland fell apart in the aftermath.__NEWL__He is with Master Sergeant Wilson and two other Rangers in a Blackhawk helicopter flying to Ellis Island; they cannot get close because the enemy fire; one of their neighboring Blackhawks is shot down after an Apache launches a barrage at the teams that hit Castle Clinton.__NEWL__Yusuf Mohammed, a Ugandan teenager who was snatched up for service in the Emir's forces from the Lord's Resistance Army, is with a number of Ugandan, Ethiopian and Somali fighters when they launch the rockets at Castle Clinton; they are all killed by the Apache attack, leaving Yusuf as the only survivor.__NEWL__He meets another group of jihadist fighters, and they shoot down the Blackhawk next to Milosz's bird.__NEWL__Yusuf's men are killed but he jumps into the water and drifts away.__NEWL__Milosz, Wilson and their team fast rope into Ellis Island and clear it out, where they capture some of the fighters.__NEWL__Milosz sees U.S. Navy SEALs, Sandline mercenaries, and teams from the National Intelligence Agency, which replaced the CIA after the Wave, taking away the prisoners.__NEWL__Jules and Rhino reveal that they are in New York City only to pursue paperwork at an apartment in Lower Manhattan that belongs to the "Client", someone in Seattle who is after oil deposits off the Californian coast; the paperwork would indicate his pre-Wave ownership over the oil fields and therefore give him government backing to drill again.__NEWL__Rhino and Jules are waiting for the right time to leave so they can get the papers and get paid.__NEWL__Yusuf drifts up the Hudson River to Pier 86, where he sees a decrepit sitting at the pier in storms and floods; all of the aircraft have fallen off the flight deck and onto the barge next to the carrier, destroying the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.__NEWL__Yusuf is in territory controlled by the Russian and Serbian Mafia, so he comes ashore and sneaks through the territory to reach the Emir's compound and give them information.__NEWL__Kipper refuses evacuation because some of his military and Secret Service staff are wounded; in Texas, Pieraro and Sofia vow vengeance against the road agents; and in England, Bret Melton and Monique are ambushed by assassins, which Caitlin kills, save for one named Richardson.__NEWL__Caitlin travels to London with Dalby, an agent with Echelon, who tells her they are going to interrogate Richardson and find out why they were trying to kill Caitlin and her family.__NEWL__In New York, Jules and Rhino escape their hotel after it is attacked by a mass of irregular fighters; Kipper learns that they cannot evacuate to JFK Airport because the U.S. Air Force Security Forces there are in the middle of a pitched battle with irregulars, and Sandline, Special Forces and troopers of the 1st Cavalry Division are trying to clear the airport.__NEWL__Lieutenant Colonel Kinninmore, an officer with the S-2 section of the 1st Cavalry Division, briefs Kipper on what his soldiers have found; while most fighters kill themselves with suicide bombs to prevent capture, they have secured some low-level pirates who tell his men that the Emir, a mysterious Arabian man, came to New York City six months previously from Morocco and promised all the Muslim fighters New York City if they helped fight the U.S.; the Emir bought off rival gangs and promised them territory outside of New York, but the Russian and Serbian Mafia groups turn them down.__NEWL__Kinninmore also reveals that the Katyusha rockets and Type 56 rifles they have lifted from the dead are brand-new and originated in Pakistan and Yemen, which are now hotbeds for terrorist activity.__NEWL__Kipper is evacuated aboard Marine One, a VH-71 Kestrel helicopter which the Royal Air Force gave to the United States as part of a Lend-Lease agreement that the British and the U.S. have in place.__NEWL__As they are flown out, Kipper is told about Blackstone's antics in Texas and how the Pieraro family are the latest victims of the road agent problem; Kipper demands that they do something about it.__NEWL__Caitlin and Dalby travel to Salisbury Plain, where Richardson is interrogated by Echelon agents; it is revealed that al-Banna hired him and his crew to kill Caitlin and her family.__NEWL__Caitlin is ordered to London to prepare to fly to Germany, where al-Banna's mother lives.__NEWL__The British military at Salisbury Plain is now equipped with Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, C-17 transports, M-16 rifles, and other surplus U.S. military gear that was given to them; it is revealed that the British have a base in Norfolk, Virginia and that their Royal Navy is interdicting pirate ships in the Atlantic Ocean since the U.S. Navy is much smaller and less capable than it used to be.__NEWL__Miguel Pieraro and Sofia meet two Mormon cattle herders, Willem D'Age and Cooper Aronson, who have left their main group, including their wives and children, behind in order to get their herd north to Kansas City.__NEWL__Pieraro reveals to them what happened with his family; later it is discovered that Aronson's group was kidnapped by road agents as sex slaves.__NEWL__As revenge for his own loss and to help his new friends, Pieraro vows vengeance against the road agents.__NEWL__Kipper flies to Kansas City and receives a brief via teleconference from General Tommy Franks, his new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.__NEWL__Kipper learns that the situation in New York is deteriorating and that Franks is requesting more troops to quell the pirates in New York; Kipper asks Culver if the U.S. has any neutron bombs to take them out while sparing the infrastructure.__NEWL__Admiral James Ritchie, now in charge of America's deterrent forces, is overseeing the transfer of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines to Australia when he receives the call; he tells Kipper that the neutron bombs were destroyed in the 1990s, and that chemical and biological weapons are out of the question because they were in the process of being demilled when the Wave hit.__NEWL__Culver tries to persuade Kipper to give strategic bombers the order to strike New York City, but Kipper is reluctant to destroy American infrastructure, and hesitates.__NEWL__At this time it is revealed that in 2003, Russia launched nuclear strikes against three unnamed former Soviet republics, and that India and Pakistan fought a war in 2005 which resulted in the nuclear destruction of both nations; the death toll from that war rose to 200 million, while people continue to die from the "Second Holocaust", the Israeli nuclear strike on the Middle East; casualties from that war now exceed 600 million.__NEWL__In New York City, Lieutenant Colonel Kinninmore assigns Master Sergeant Wilson and Staff Sergeant Milosz two U.S. Air Force Combat Controllers, Technical Sergeant Bonnie Gardener and Staff Sergeant Veal, so that they can go into enemy territory and call air strikes on enemy positions, including the rockets that are claiming more and more of the army's helicopters.__NEWL__While the Ranger fire team slugs it out with the enemy in Lower Manhattan, Jules and Rhino fight across Union Square.__NEWL__In Texas, Pieraro learns that Aronson and D'Age have night vision goggles, and they locate a bar where the road agents are keeping the Mormon women.__NEWL__They plot to attack at night.__NEWL__While Caitlin prepares to travel to London to prepare for Berlin, Kipper thinks about how to deal with New York; Yusuf makes it to the Emir's compound and tells them what he has seen, prompting the Emir to think Yusuf as a brave warrior.__NEWL__The Emir permits Yusuf to stay with his harem as a reward.__NEWL__Milosz, Wilson, Gardener and Veal engage pirates in a ferocious firefight, during which Veal is killed by a grenade blast.__NEWL__They run into Jules and Rhino, who save them from being overrun after killing many of the pirates and forcing them to retreat.__NEWL__Master Sergeant Wilson initially wants them to turn in their weapons because they are fleeing their place of work, but Milosz is open to helping them when Jules offers them a piece of the share once they get paid by the Client.__NEWL__Even though Wilson is upset, Milosz calls in a Blackhawk, which flies the Rangers and Jules and Rhino to a staging area outside of Central Park.__NEWL__In Texas, Pieraro and the Mormons assault the bar and kill most of the road agents, rescuing the Mormon women and executing the survivors as punishment for their crimes against the Mormons and anyone else.__NEWL__Pieraro learns that his daughter used a Remington 700 sniper rifle to cover the attack and therefore save his life even though he told her to leave for safety; he is proud of her and they bond over the moment.__NEWL__Yusuf is given command of his own team by the Emir for his services, and is tasked with infiltrating past Union Square to push the Americans back.__NEWL__In Kansas City, Kipper comes to a decision and orders Culver to mobilize the bombers for a fire bombing run on New York City, which would break the will of the fighters and kill a large number of them.__NEWL__In Berlin, Caitlin locates Fabia Shah, al-Banna's mother.__NEWL__Germany has become a Muslim enclave since the Wave, and certain areas of Germany, including Berlin, allow Sharia Law; the German government does not interfere with Muslim affairs, and is open to their way of life even after the UK forcibly deported its entire Muslim population and France did the same after its intifada.__NEWL__Caitlin meets Sayad al-Mirsaad, Bret's al-Jazeera friend, and al-Mirsaad helps her get to Fabia's apartment.__NEWL__She interrogates her and discovers that al-Banna is in New York City, and that he is 'the Emir'.__NEWL__She is ambushed by Fabia's bodyguards, but kills many of them before Dalby rescues her.__NEWL__Kipper visits the North Kansas City Hospital, which has become the main military medical center for wounded personnel.__NEWL__He personally pins the Purple Heart and other medals on the pillows of wounded personnel and takes the responsibility of writing letters to the deceased personnel, because he feels guilty over making decisions that sent soldiers and Marines to their deaths.__NEWL__In Palestine, Texas Pieraro and the Mormons find burned out settlements where road agents had been, and where they had killed men, women and children.__NEWL__Pieraro takes photos of the scene for evidence to give to the FBI, which is now headquartered in Kansas City, while the Mormons administer last rites to the dead and bury them in cairns.__NEWL__Kipper receives another brief from Franks, who requests more troops; Kipper authorizes the redeployment of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade to New York City, along with elements of the 101st Airborne Division; the 1st Cavalry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 82nd Airborne Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, and elements of Sandline and SOCOM are already on the ground slugging it out with the irregulars.__NEWL__The 3rd MEB has to leave MCRD San Diego, which has become the headquarters and main garrison for the U.S. Marine Corps after the Wave.__NEWL__In Texas, Pieraro and the Mormons settle in an abandoned house and talk about what they were doing when the Wave hit; Roberto Morales, Pieraro's old ranch hand and a nemesis during the Wave, is now a dictator in charge of the new South American Federation, which was formed from all the countries of Central and South America after the Wave.__NEWL__While Blackstone hassles immigrants with his road agents, Morales is a constant threat to Blackstone, which keeps him from alienating the federal government too much.__NEWL__Yusuf and his team attack the Americans but are pushed back; the survivors perform a tactical retreat when Yusuf decides that they cannot win in a standup fight.__NEWL__Caitlin is meanwhile on her way to New York City from Berlin aboard an MC-130H, with orders to rendition al-Banna from New York; she is briefed by Kipper, but tells him that she might kill al-Banna as he targeted her family and had captured, tortured and raped her in France in 2003.__NEWL__Kipper tries to convince her otherwise, but she turns him down.__NEWL__In New York City, Jules and Rhino are ambushed by Mexican drug cartel shooters who work for Henry Cesky, the construction magnate who is close with the Kipper Administration; Jules had kicked Cesky off the Aussie Rules in Acapulco, Mexico after the Wave.__NEWL__As revenge, Cesky posed as the "Client" and duped them into grabbing the papers, which are located in the same building as the Emir's headquarters.__NEWL__Shortly before they are overrun, Caitlin liberates the Emir's harem (which is full of American women) and then kills Cesky's men and saves Jules and Rhino.__NEWL__The three of them infiltrate the Emir's building, where Jules finds papers implicating al-Banna and Cesky working together.__NEWL__Milosz, Wilson and Gardener are caught in an ambush by irregulars led by Yusuf; in order to break the ambush, Milosz uses steel buckets and Claymores to form a shaped charge, which explodes and kills everyone, including Yusuf.__NEWL__Lieutenant Cleaver from the 82nd Airborne Division arrives and asks Milosz to verify the identity of Jules and Rhino, because they have papers that S-2 needs to forward to the NIA; against Wilson's will, Milosz verifies them and the 82nd Airborne Division sends a Blackhawk to pick up the two salvagers, because B-52 bombers from the 2nd Bomb Wing are on their way to fire bomb the Emir's compound at Rockefeller Center.__NEWL__Soon after, the two Rangers and the Air Force CCT are sent to use laser designators to mark Rockefeller Center.__NEWL__Kipper is running with U.S. Army Rangers in Kansas City when he is called by Lieutenant Colonel Kinninmore; Kinninmore gives him information that the irregulars are using bridges in and around Manhattan to get fighters into the city.__NEWL__Kipper gives the order to destroy all the bridges; Governor Elliot Schimmel, the governor of New York, is on the army fort at Governors Island when the artillery opens up; MLRS and 155mm batteries destroy every bridge in New York City, much to Schimmel's dismay.__NEWL__Trapped on the island, the irregulars pool around the Emir's compound at Rockefeller Center, which is now designated by Wilson, Milosz and Gardener.__NEWL__Kinninmore links up with that team as 1/7 Cav fights through the streets; before the bombers arrive on station, the troops pull back to give the kill zone a wide berth.__NEWL__In Texas, the Pieraro group are herding their cattle through a valley when a rain and thunder storm catches them in the open; despite all their efforts, some of the Mormons and most of their cattle are washed away in a flash flood.__NEWL__The B-52s arrive on station; Milosz and Gardener target the Rockefeller Center as Lieutenant Colonel Kinninmore and the ground forces pull back.__NEWL__The incendiary bombs destroy Rockefeller Center and kill hundreds of fighters instantly; the surviving elements surrender en masse to the U.S. military, including the Russian and Serbian mafiosos.__NEWL__The Emir is believed dead, but Caitlin and Rhino and Jules are pulled out by helicopter; Caitlin is upset as she had to let the Emir go.__NEWL__On their way out, they see A-10 Warthogs and AH-64 Apaches assaulting Central Park.__NEWL__Pieraro and Sofia find that while they survived, many of their friends are dead; as they are recovering from the flash flood, they learn that they have crossed into Oklahoma, and are now safe from the road agents in Texas.__NEWL__They head on to Kansas City, and to a new life of peace, while the U.S. military reclaims New York City and the pirate hold on the East Coast slips.__NEWL__The enemy flee the U.S. in droves.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7232246	Portrait in Death	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	27981560	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27981560	Lt. Eve Dallas is celebrating the shortly-to-start vacation of Summerset, Roarke's majordomo, when he trips over the cat and falls down the stairs, breaking his leg.__NEWL__As Eve and Roarke are giving him first aid, Eve is tipped by Nadine Furst to a location that turns out to contain a dead body stuffed into a recycle bin.__NEWL__Nadine was sent a set of candid images of the victim, a young, pretty woman, and a final image of her dead body, clearly posed in a formal portrait setting.__NEWL__Also included: a note indicating plainly that the woman is the first victim, with more to follow.__NEWL__Eve assembles her usual team, including Roarke, to track down the killer before he can strike again.__NEWL__However, while taking some time to tend to affairs at Dochas, the shelter that he funds as a charitable project, Roarke meets with a new employee, a social worker, who informs him that she used to live in Dublin at the same time that he was a baby, and that she had given shelter to Roarke and his mother—a different woman than the abusive person that he grew up calling his mother.__NEWL__Roarke's researches show that the social worker is probably correct, and that his father Patrick Roarke killed his mother when she tried to leave him.__NEWL__Roarke is upset over this turn of events and is reluctant to share his feelings with anyone.__NEWL__Eventually, Eve gets him to talk to her desiring to help him through the nightmare of pain.__NEWL__The next day, Roarke hurries off to Ireland to find explanations from the surviving associates of his late, criminal father while Eve is busy investigating the second victim.__NEWL__He learns about his mother's surviving twin sister Sinead and visits her in Ireland where Eve joins him.__NEWL__Together they head back to New York where Eve is called to report to the crime scene of the third victim, who is the sister of Crack, one of Eve's acquaintances.__NEWL__Eve traces the evidence found in the van to kidnap the victims and finally determines that Gerald Stevenson, a sociopath who is affected by his mother's death, is the perpetrator.__NEWL__She assigns Detective Baxter and Officer Trueheart to surveil the pub the killer frequents.__NEWL__They believe Stevenson is not going to show up and decide to call it a day when Trueheart is kidnapped.__NEWL__The story ends with Eve and the team capturing Stevenson a.k.a.__NEWL__Steve Audrey and rescuing Trueheart.__NEWL__Eve rejoices when she learns that Summerset is finally gone on vacation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7713374	The Amazing Vacation							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	28046018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28046018	The plot follows the adventures of Ricky and Joanna, a brother and sister, on vacation from their home in New York City.__NEWL__They have gone to stay with their Uncle Hubert, Aunt Cordelia, and Cousin Emmeline in the rural town of Trimble Valley, while their parents are traveling "on business" in Paris.__NEWL__They are met at the train station by the housekeeper, maid, cook, and witch named Mrs Breadloaf.__NEWL__The children are driven to an old Victorian house where the family lives.__NEWL__Uncle Hubert is described as a not very good magician, Aunt Cordelia is a gardener, and Cousin Emmeline is "not all here".__NEWL__The children explore the house and find a magical window in the study.__NEWL__The window has a stained glass border and shows scenes from another world: "The Country Without A Name".__NEWL__It appears that some members of the family have traveled to that country, and have lost parts of themselves there, accounting for their strange behavior.__NEWL__Emmeline has lost a turquoise stone from a necklace, which explains why she is "not all here".__NEWL__With the help of Mrs. Breadloaf, the children open the window and go to the country.__NEWL__Ricky takes his scout knife, and Joanna her knitting bag, which they are told not to give away.__NEWL__They soon meet "a fretful porpentine" who is Mrs. Breadloaf's familiar and who eventually becomes Joanna's faithful servant.__NEWL__Against warnings, the children separate, with Joanna going to the isthmus of Bab'-au-Rhum with Queen Matildagarde VII, and Ricky going to the mountains on the advice of Federico the Porpentine, who goes off to find Joanna.__NEWL__Joanna spends time on the island with the companions of the Queen: Tansy, Pansy, and Goldenrod.__NEWL__She avoids several attempts by the Queen to steal her knitting bag.__NEWL__Finally she escapes and meets Ali the Boa Constrictor who guides her to the neighboring island Baba.__NEWL__On the way she meets the magician Gordon Johnson.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ricky has met the Indian Chief Matinkatunk, his own faithful servant and guide in the Country Without a Name.__NEWL__They travel together until their horses, and Ricky's knife, are stolen by Tim Tumbleweed, who is really Yarrow, the king's treacherous stepson, in disguise.__NEWL__Ricky and the Chief are taken prisoner by King Willexander's henchmen and he is imprisoned in the Castle of the Upper Lowlands.__NEWL__Ricky is finally released when he agrees to accept a false knife from Yarrow.__NEWL__Joanna has been brought to the Castle, after leaving the island of Baba and rescuing Federico from the Island Rhum.__NEWL__Joanna gives away a sweater she knitted, but not the knitting bag, to Princess Citronella in exchange for a turquoise which she thinks is the one lost by her cousin.__NEWL__Joanna and Ricky finally get to Triple Peak, the home of the Magicians Congress, and a ghost town.__NEWL__They are reunited with Mrs Breadloaf, and travel to the battlefield of the impending war between the King and Queen.__NEWL__Both children parachute from a Dragon Jet and rescue friends and recover lost objects.__NEWL__The War is settled with the help of the Old Magician and the President, and Ali is transformed from a snake back into Prince Culebra, the princess's lost love.__NEWL__In the final scenes, Joanna and Ricky return to the magic window and climb back into their Uncle's house where they are reunited with all their relatives, and their parents.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7537154	SkyClan's Destiny	2010-08-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	28114181	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28114181	In present-day SkyClan, it is six months since Firestar went to the gorge and reformed SkyClan (Firestar's Quest).__NEWL__The new SkyClan has added loners, rogues, and former kittypets to the Clan.__NEWL__There are also kittypets that help the Clan in the day, but return to their humans at night.__NEWL__They are called "daylight warriors".__NEWL__Leafstar invites them into the Clan to help patrol and hunt.__NEWL__However, not everyone respects the daylight warriors.__NEWL__Cats such as Sharpclaw call them "kitty warriors" feeling they are not loyal to the Clan by leaving at night.__NEWL__The daylight warriors are Billystorm, Ebonyclaw, Frecklepaw, Snookpaw, Harveymoon, and Macgyver.__NEWL__Leafstar tries to keep the tensions low between the daylight warriors and regular warriors, but many regular warriors still make fun of the daylight warriors behind their backs.__NEWL__One day, Leafstar receives a dream from Spottedleaf, an old medicine cat of ThunderClan who helped SkyClan when Firestar first reformed the Clan.__NEWL__She sees cats and they say, "This is the leaf-bare of my Clan.__NEWL__Greenleaf will come, but it will bring even greater storms than these.__NEWL__SkyClan will need deeper roots if it is to survive.__NEWL__"__NEWL__The next day, Leafstar visits the Clan's medicine cat Echosong and they realize they each had the same dream.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Leafstar starts to develop feelings for Billystorm.__NEWL__Later, Stick, Cora, Coal and Shorty, four cats Firestar met on his quest, arrive at the gorge.__NEWL__They stay with the Clan and learn battle moves, hunting techniques.__NEWL__In exchange, Stick teaches the Clan how to destroy a rat family that lives in a dump in the Clan's territory.__NEWL__After defeating the rats the four loners begin to lead patrols despite the fact that Sharpclaw still does not let the daylight warriors lead patrol and they have been around longer.__NEWL__One day, Leafstar follows a group of SkyClan's cats visiting the nearby town.__NEWL__There she realizes that the loners came to recruit help to defeat a group of cats that steal prey in their town.__NEWL__In the end, Leafstar agrees to help though states that she will not kill anyone.__NEWL__The battle is fierce and ends in SkyClan's victory, but Stick's daughter Red is killed protecting her mate who Stick tried to kill since he thinks that Red's mate threatened her to join them.__NEWL__Stick becomes even more infuriated when Leafstar calls off her warriors from killing anyone, a policy he disapproves of.__NEWL__Returning to her Clan, Leafstar sets up rules for visiting cats in order to prevent any future conflicts.__NEWL__She makes it so that visiting cats must help hunt every day, and the Clan shall not teach any fighting moves until they have spent a month in the Clan and that SkyClan is "a proud, independent Clan with a code and honor of our own."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7249957	Pronto	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q210098	Rapallo	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	27886250	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27886250	Harry Arno, an over-the-hill Miami bookmaker, quietly lives the good life with his girlfriend, Joyce Patton.__NEWL__He has skimmed for years from his corpulent mob boss, Jimmy "Cap" Capotorto, and managed to salt away nearly a million dollars in a Swiss bank account.__NEWL__Harry wants to retire and move to Rapallo, Italy, dreaming of an idyllic existence with Joyce in a villa by the sea.__NEWL__As a soldier in Rapallo, he once briefly talked to Ezra Pound when the poet was incarcerated.__NEWL__The Justice Department sets up Harry by putting out the word about his skimming activities, assuming that Harry will be forced to ask for witness protection and turn state's evidence against Jimmy Cap.__NEWL__Jimmy dispatches a low-life hit man named Earl Crowe, but Harry proves to be faster with a gun.__NEWL__Harry skips his bond and eludes U.S. Marshal and former Marine Raylan Givens.__NEWL__Harry makes a nostalgic dash for Rapallo.__NEWL__Holed up in a picturesque Italian resort, Harry is soon pursued by Joyce and Raylan.__NEWL__Tommy "the Zip" Bitonti, another mob affiliate, wants to take over Harry's action, so he tells Jimmy that he'll take out Harry in Italy.__NEWL__If Harry ends up dead, the Zip gets to take over the bookie operation, which is going to mean a lot more money.__NEWL__The Zip, who in Miami endlessly humiliates "Stronzo" Nicky Testa, demonstrates his penchant for violence with a cold-blooded murder.__NEWL__Harry now has so many people following him that the small village of Rapallo becomes inundated with mobsters and federal agents.__NEWL__To his aid comes Robert Gee, a former French foreign legionnaire, who helps him defend the villa against the trigger-happy mobsters.__NEWL__During these events, the 66-year-old Harry starts drinking again, which causes the situation to deteriorate even faster.__NEWL__Harry is in real danger of losing his life but Raylan makes sure that doesn't happen.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7729152	The Day After Tomorrow	27977725	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27977725	Paul Osborn sees the man who has murdered his father years before while sitting in a cafe, in Paris, and assaults him.__NEWL__The murderer, Henri Kanarack, flees.__NEWL__Osborn hires a detective to find out who Kanarack was and his address.__NEWL__He then devises a plan, involving Suxamethonium chloride, and planning to torture him to discover why Kanarack murdered his father, before killing him and dumping his body in the Seine.__NEWL__Detective McVey comes to Paris in order to meet some experts on the case of a couple of decapitations, where the bodies and heads were found deep-frozen.__NEWL__A few days later Osborn tries to kill Kanarack, torturing him with Suxamethonium chloride, but when he's nearly dead a third person enters the scene.__NEWL__He shoots Kanarack and the last information Osborn could get from Kanarack was that he was murdering  Osborn's father for hire of Erwin Scholl.__NEWL__Osborn tells McVey about Scholl.__NEWL__Out of McVey's researches arises that Osborn's father invented a scalpel that can be used at degrees of absolute zero and that in the same year he was killed a few other inventors were killed, whose inventions were all about surgery at extremely high or low temperatures and all vanished.__NEWL__Because of that McVey and his investigation team have a suspicion that Scholl and his people might belong to an organization that's working on surgery making it possible to combine deep-frozen body parts and to thaw it so the person is alive.__NEWL__Time passes, and McVey finds out about Elton Lybarger and a ceremony that should be held in Berlin.__NEWL__During this, in the main hall of the building, Elton Lybarger is giving the speech.__NEWL__Suddenly all doors close and all people inside the main hall are gassed with cyanide gas.__NEWL__Right after the cyanide attack the building is set to fire and Osborn nearly perishes.__NEWL__After Osborn followed Von Holden, the only remaining organization member, to Switzerland and is nearly killed McVey gives Osborn a VCR tape, on which Osborn finds a whole confession of Elton Lybarger's physician.__NEWL__He confesses having experienced the surgery on Lybarger, because they were searching for a person, whose attributes and fingerprints were as much as the same as Adolf Hitler's, and having helped the organization, who was trying to build a new Third Reich, to raise Lybarger's two “nephews”, the perfect Aryans, who were raised with him since they were young.__NEWL__According to Salettl one of them should be the new leader after having undergone an operation.__NEWL__Osborn can't remember exactly what happened in Switzerland, but then the scene replays in his mind.__NEWL__He sees how Van holden falls into a crevasse and how he opens the package Von Holden had been carrying with him all the time, and it's the deep-frozen head of the Third Reich's Führer, Adolf Hitler.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733605	The Feather Men	1991-10-17T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	28008977	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28008977	The book tells the story of four British Army soldiers, including two members of the Special Air Service, who are assassinated by a hit squad known as "The Clinic".__NEWL__The murders are carried out over a 17-year period, on the orders of a Dubai sheikh whose three sons were killed by British forces in Oman during a battle with Communist guerrillas.__NEWL__Fiennes claimed that he himself was targeted by the group, but was saved by a group of vigilantes calling themselves the "Feather Men".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762970	The Second Trip	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	28009597	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28009597	The novel is set in the year 2011; about forty years from the time it was written.__NEWL__Because capital punishment has been deemed too harsh, violent criminals are subjected to coercive therapy that effectively erases their personalities, which are replaced with artificially constructed memories to form a character deemed useful to society.__NEWL__The protagonist is Paul Macy, a rehabilitated criminal who finds his original personality, a serial rapist named Nat Hamlin, reasserting itself in defiance of the conditioning.__NEWL__The novel includes several graphic scenes of copulation and sexual assault, and long stretches of the narrative consist of interior dialogues between Macy and Hamlin loaded with blunt and obscene language.__NEWL__These qualities, which placed The Second Trip squarely within the New Wave subgenre, were quite controversial when the novel was serialized in Amazing Science Fiction, and then-editor Ted White carried on lengthy debates with offended readers in the "__NEWL__Or So You Say" letters section.__NEWL__Paul Macy, freshly released from therapy, is walking the streets of New York City when he encounters a woman who addresses him as Nat, the serial rapist whose body Paul now inhabits.__NEWL__The woman, Lisa, realizes her mistake, but the encounter has a strange effect on Paul, and he finds himself hallucinating memories from Nat Hamlin's life.__NEWL__At first, Paul does his best to ignore his past, and begin anew as a holovision newscaster.__NEWL__But slowly, his condition worsens.__NEWL__More visions strike him when he comes into contact with Lisa and sculptures made by Hamlin, who was a celebrated artist before committing the series of rapes that led to erasure of his personality.__NEWL__Paul attempts to discuss his problem with Dr. Gomez at the Rehab Center.__NEWL__However, Gomez (using EEG scans) is convinced that Paul's problem is not real, and is instead just a cry for attention.__NEWL__While at work, Lisa sends Paul messages, urging him to rekindle their relationship.__NEWL__Against his better judgment, Paul agrees to have dinner with Lisa at a People's Restaurant.__NEWL__While they eat, Nat Hamlin is found hiding within Paul's mind, and later becomes a lucid voice demanding control of his old body and memories.__NEWL__The two begin fighting for control of the body, and Lisa's affection.__NEWL__When his condition worsens, Paul tries to visit the Rehab center again, only to find that Hamlin can now cause him physical pain by stopping his heart.__NEWL__Under the threat of pain and possible death, Paul must now work alone with Lisa to eradicate Hamlin.__NEWL__Lisa also has problems of her own.__NEWL__She is destitute and psychologically scarred by her love affair with Hamlin before he was caught and convicted.__NEWL__She has limited ESP, and can read Paul's mind to some degree.__NEWL__Seeing that there really are two personalities within Paul, she feels pity and decides to help get rid of Hamlin permanently.__NEWL__Having become lovers, Lisa and Paul visit a Museum to see the Antigone 21, a lifelike psychosculpture of Lisa.__NEWL__While looking in awe at the sculpture, Paul allows Nat Hamlin to surface.__NEWL__The two argue (within Paul's head) about which personality has more right to exist.__NEWL__Nat declares that Paul is a fictitious construct, and does not deserve to live having been made up by the doctors at the Rehab Center.__NEWL__Paul counters by using the logic of the court, which found Nat guilty and deserving of his punishment.__NEWL__The two can not agree.__NEWL__Hamlin quietly goes away, while Paul gains newfound confidence to control and hopefully destroy Hamlin.__NEWL__Over the next few days, Paul and Nat spar mentally.__NEWL__However, Paul discovers a growing desire to know more about his past.__NEWL__Specifically, he wants the memories of the body he now inhabits.__NEWL__This desire becomes a bargaining chip for Nat, who offers to share his memories if Paul will allow him to control the body from time to time.__NEWL__A bargain is agreed upon, but Lisa comes home and uses ESP to force Nat into hiding.__NEWL__Dr. Gomez shows up at work and attempts to help Paul, but there is no easy way to do that since Paul fears being killed if he visits the Rehab Center.__NEWL__Gomez agrees to have Paul watched, because he is potentially a threat to society, and the first proof that Rehab deconstruction is not 100% effective.__NEWL__Until a solution can be found, Gomez warns Paul to stay away from Lisa.__NEWL__Both he and Paul agree that her ESP is responsible for Nat's return.__NEWL__Gomez also agrees to help Lisa, after Paul urges him to cure her as well.__NEWL__Ignoring Gomez, Paul continues his relation with Lisa, only to find her missing one day.__NEWL__While searching Lisa's old apartment building, Paul gets mugged.__NEWL__After the altercation, he wakes up and realizes that Nat has taken over.__NEWL__Once Nat is in control, he (Nat) immediately returns to his old art dealer, Mr. Gargan, and agrees to have Nat's work sold under Paul's name.__NEWL__Their old contract is legally not binding since Nat was destroyed by Rehab.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Paul capitalizes on his access to Hamlin's memories by harassing Hamlin in turn, dredging up the details of the numerous rapes he committed and ridiculing the idea that Hamlin's artistic talent redeems his past brutality.__NEWL__With Nat still in control, they visit Nat's old home.__NEWL__Though the mansion has new owners, Nat is allowed to see his old art studio only to find that he has lost his artistic talent.__NEWL__Angry, Nat leaves after getting his ex-wife's home address.__NEWL__They (Nat and Paul) drive to see Hamlin's ex-wife.__NEWL__Though she is afraid of him, she allows Hamlin into her home.__NEWL__Hamlin's stream of nostalgic reminiscences quickly turns sexual and predatory, culminating in an attempted rape that allows Paul to regain control of his body.__NEWL__Paul apologizes and returns to his apartment in New York, only to find that Lisa is gone.__NEWL__Paul finds Lisa in a community hostel just above the People's Restaurant where they first shared a meal.__NEWL__Lisa lays naked in bed, somewhat catatonic.__NEWL__While trying to convince Lisa to return home with him, Paul merges his identity with Nat.__NEWL__They fight for control of the body (inside Paul's head).__NEWL__Nat is finally vanquished when Lisa appears, and uses her ESP abilities to strike Nat down with mental lightning.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23712215	The Ragged Astronauts	1986-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	27968676	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27968676	The Ragged Astronauts is a novel in which interplanetary travel by hot-air balloon is possible between twin planets that share the same atmosphere.__NEWL__The feudal residents of Land have to migrate to the nearby planet of Overland due to overexploitation of resources on their homeworld.__NEWL__The story is told from the perspective of nobleman Toller Maraquine who clashes with a military Prince before and during the chaotic evacuation accelerated by rioting and a global pandemic.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2996966	Mary	1926-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q64	Berlin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41304	Weimar Republic	2879184	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2879184	Mary is the story of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré and former White Guard Officer displaced by the Russian Revolution.__NEWL__Ganin is now living in a boarding house in Berlin, along with a young Russian girl, Klara, an old Russian poet, Podtyagin, his landlady, Lydia Nikolaevna Dorn and his neighbour, Aleksey Ivanovich Alfyorov, whom he meets in a dark, broken-down elevator at the beginning of the novel.__NEWL__Through a series of conversations with Alfyorov and a photograph, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Mary, is now the wife of his rather unappealing neighbour, and that she will be joining him soon.__NEWL__As Ganin realizes this, he ends his relationship with his current girlfriend, Lyudmila, and begins to be consumed by his memories of his time in Russia with Mary, which Ganin notes were "perhaps the happiest days of his life".__NEWL__Enthralled by his vision of Mary and unable to let Alfyorov have her, Ganin contrives to reunite with Mary, who he believes still loves him.__NEWL__Eventually, Ganin claims that he will leave Berlin the night before Mary is to arrive and his fellow residents throw a party for him the night before.__NEWL__Ganin steadily plies Alfyorov with alcohol, heavily intoxicating him.__NEWL__Just before Alfyorov falls into his drunken sleep, he asks Ganin to set his alarm clock for half past seven, as Alfyorov intends to pick up Mary at the train station the next morning.__NEWL__The infatuated Ganin instead sets the clock for eleven and plans to meet Mary at the train station himself.__NEWL__However, as he leaves the house, he has a moment of clarity.__NEWL__"The world of memories in which Ganin had dwelt became what it was in reality: the distant past...__NEWL__Other than that image no Mary existed, nor could exist.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Instead of meeting Mary, Ganin decides to board a train to France.__NEWL__A secondary, minor plot concerns an old Russian poet, Anton Sergeyevich Podtyagin, who appears to be an older version of Ganin.__NEWL__He frequently expresses that his life dedicated to poetry has been a waste.__NEWL__Podtyagin desires to eventually leave Berlin and arrive in Paris, but fails to do so on several occasions due to a series of unfortunate events (i.e. loses passport).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q757660	The Land of Crimson Clouds	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15180	Soviet Union	2884749	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2884749	A spaceship, propelled by a prototype photon engine, sets off for Venus, which at that time, is an enigmatic and unexplored planet covered by clouds.__NEWL__The tasks of the crew are a) to test the prototype engine in field conditions and b) to locate and set radio beacons on the so called "Uranium Golconda" (a place with incredibly large heavy metals deposits), presumably, found somewhere on the second planet of the Solar System.__NEWL__As the crew ventures into the depths of Venus, unknown dangers take them out one by one, so only four of six return home after accomplishing the mission — all badly damaged, both physically and mentally.__NEWL__However, their feat was the first milestone in colonizing Venus and the first step into the 21st century.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1216210	The Sea	2005-06-03T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2883699	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2883699	The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those he loved as a child and as an adult.__NEWL__The novel is written as a reflective journal; the setting always in flux, wholly dependent upon the topic or theme Max feels inclined to write about.__NEWL__Despite the constant fluctuations, Max returns to three settings: his childhood memories of the Graces—a wealthy middle-class family living in a rented cottage home, the "Cedars"—during the summer holidays; the months leading up to the death of his wife, Anna; and his present stay at the Cedars cottage home in Ballyless—where he has retreated since Anna's death.__NEWL__These three settings are heavily diced and jumbled together for the novel's entire duration.__NEWL__Max's final days with Anna were awkward; Max does not know how to act with his soon-to-be-dead wife.__NEWL__Scenes of Anna's dying days are more full of commentary than with actual details, as are most of the novel's settings.__NEWL__It's through these commentaries that we learn of Max's choice to return to the cottage of his childhood memories (after Anna's death), confirming that a room would be available for residence during a visit with his adult daughter, Claire.__NEWL__We learn of the Cedars' current house-maid, Miss Vavasour, and her other tenant: a retired army Colonel, often described as a background character (even during his important role in the denouement).__NEWL__The Colonel is also seen, at the beginning of Max's stay, to have a crush on Miss Vavasour; Max suspects Miss Vavasour had entertained the Colonel's slight infatuation prior to Max's own arrival.__NEWL__Despite the actual present day setting of the novel (everything is written by Max, after Anna's death, while he stays in the Cedars' house), the underlying motivation to Max's redaction of memories, the single setting which ties the novel together, are Max's childhood memories.__NEWL__With Max's unreliable, unorganised and omitted iteration of events, we gradually learn the names of the Graces: Chloe, the wild daughter; Myles, the mute brother; Connie, the mother; Carlo, the father; and finally the twins' nursemaid, Rose.__NEWL__After brief encounters, and fruitless moments of curiosity, Max becomes infatuated with Connie Grace upon first sight; seeing her lounging at the beach launches him to acquaint Chloe and Myles in, what Max stipulates to have been a conscious effort to get inside the Cedars, hence, closer to Mrs. Grace.__NEWL__He succeeds.__NEWL__Later, Max recounts being invited on a picnic—for what reasons or what specific time during the summer is never explicitly stated—where Max, in awe, catches an unkempt glance at her pelvic area.__NEWL__This day of "illicit invitation" climaxes when Max is pulled to the ground, and snuggled closely with Connie and Rose in a game of hide-and-seek.__NEWL__The latter half of his summer memories (the relation of Max's memories in the second part of the novel), however, revolve around Max's awkward relationship with Chloe: a girl with a spastic personality and blunt demeanor whom Max describes as one who "[does] not play, on her own or otherwise".__NEWL__Chloe is shown as a volatile character: flagrantly kissing Max in a Cinema, rough-housing with her brother Myles, and what was hinted as hypersexuality earlier, is quite possibly confirmed as hypersexuality in the book's final moments.__NEWL__We soon learn that Chloe and Myles like to tease Rose, who is young and timid enough to feel bullied.__NEWL__Max, another day, climbs a tree in the yard of the Cedars' house, and soon spots Rose crying not too far from him.__NEWL__Mrs. Grace soon emerges, comforting Rose.__NEWL__Max overhears (rather, Max remembers overhearing) key words from their conversation: "love him" and "Mr. Grace".__NEWL__Assuming this to mean Rose and Mr. Grace are having an affair, he tells Chloe and Myles.__NEWL__The ending of the book entwines the exact moment of Anna's death with Chloe and Myles drowning in the sea itself as Max and Rose look on.__NEWL__Max, done with his childhood memories, offers a final memory of a near-death episode while he was inebriated.__NEWL__The Colonel does not physically save Max, rather finds him knocked unconscious by a rock (from a drunken stumble).__NEWL__His daughter scolds him at the hospital, assumingly being told he nearly killed himself, and tells him to come home with her.__NEWL__It is revealed at this point that Miss Vavasour is Rose herself and she was in love with Mrs. Grace.__NEWL__Max finishes with a redaction of himself standing in the sea after Anna's death (an allegory is made between crashing waves and tumultuous periods of his life).__NEWL__We are to assume that he will leave the Cedars' home to be cared for by his daughter, Claire.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3190082	Junk	1996-11-14T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23154	Bristol	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2833878	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2833878	Junk is told in the first person, with each chapter having a different character narrating.__NEWL__At the beginning of the story, fourteen-year old Gemma Brogan is spending time with David 'Tar' Lawson, a boy of the same age.__NEWL__Tar is a victim of physical abuse at the hands of his father, and — as he later realises — emotional abuse from his mother.__NEWL__Both of his parents are alcoholics.__NEWL__After a particularly violent incident, he decides to run away to Bristol, even though he knows no-one there and has no money.__NEWL__Gemma, despite having loving (albeit strict) parents, also decides to leave home and join Tar in Bristol shortly afterwards.__NEWL__In Bristol, Tar sleeps rough, interacting regularly only with Skolly, a local newsagent who likes his naive, trusting attitude.__NEWL__Skolly eventually introduces Tar to Richard, an absent-minded, vegan anarchist, who opens up abandoned houses for use as squats.__NEWL__Tar joins Richard and his friends Vonny, an eighteen-year old 'motherly' woman; and her boyfriend Jerry, who is described as a bit useless.__NEWL__Between them, the young adults support Tar financially in order to keep him safe and away from his father, even though it is illegal.__NEWL__Gemma comes 'to visit', intending to stay.__NEWL__Vonny is frustrated by this, as she does not see it as the same situation; they are protecting Tar, but Gemma is unafraid and merely wants a more 'interesting' life.__NEWL__Vonny reluctantly allows Gemma to remain with them, but she insists that both teenagers notify their families from a telephone box that they are safe.__NEWL__Tar is happy with their situation, but Gemma gradually grows more restless, wanting to find some people their own age.__NEWL__The adults decide after a few weeks that Gemma must return home.__NEWL__Richard holds a 'farewell' party in the abandoned house and, to Vonny's chagrin, he invites Lily and Rob, a couple whom she suspects to be on hard drugs.__NEWL__Gemma is enamoured with Lily from the moment she sees her.__NEWL__The two girls connect instantly, and Lily invites the pair to stay the night with them.__NEWL__Whilst they are there, Lily and Rob encourage Gemma and Tar to smoke heroin with them, and they do, believing that only smoking it will not get them addicted.__NEWL__The pair are subsequently invited to live with Lily and Rob, and they do.__NEWL__Tar and Gemma live with Lily and Rob for a long time, and in the early days, it is all fun.__NEWL__They have frequent parties, shoplift to feed themselves, and heat their house with fuel from skips.__NEWL__They know all the local squatters and drug-users, becoming particularly close to Sally, another girl their age.__NEWL__However, their heroin-smoking habit quickly turns into long-term addiction.__NEWL__Eventually, the girls become prostitutes to fund their habit.__NEWL__After an event involving a friend who overdoses at their home, the police arrest Tar.__NEWL__He is sent to a drug rehabilitation centre as an alternative to prison, and receives treatment.__NEWL__Through counselling, he also faces some of the trauma he has endured.__NEWL__He leaves the centre clean, determined to stay off drugs, but he uses heroin almost immediately once he arrives back at the squat.__NEWL__Lily, who does not work in the massage parlours as Gemma and Sally do, and instead works on the street with the protection of Rob, discovers she is pregnant.__NEWL__She decides to keep the baby, and the five of them vow to get clean.__NEWL__They travel to Wales, with the aim of getting themselves away from heroin and detoxing in a safe environment.__NEWL__However, the trip quickly falls apart.__NEWL__Rob and Sally both smuggle some heroin along with them, Tar hitchhikes back to Bristol on the second day, and Lily discovers Rob's heroin and injects some herself.__NEWL__Gemma initially resists, but once she realises she is the only one still trying to stop using drugs, she starts using them again.__NEWL__They return to Bristol, scared by what they have realised about their addictions: that they truly cannot stop just because they want to.__NEWL__ In time, Lily has the baby and continues to inject heroin whilst the baby is breastfeeding.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Rob starts cottaging himself in public toilets, to fund their habit.__NEWL__Tar has totally changed; the naive, joyful person he once was, has been replaced by someone who lies to and steals from his friends and even from Gemma.__NEWL__Both boys become drug dealers.__NEWL__They have a traumatic experience when they discover a friend and his girlfriend dead after overdosing.__NEWL__However, they do nothing to alert the authorities, instead just stealing their drug stash.__NEWL__The catalyst comes when Gemma realises that she, too, is pregnant.__NEWL__After a particularly vulnerable moment with Lily, who non-verbally admits she is overwhelmed, Gemma realises that she cannot let the same thing happen to her own baby.__NEWL__She leaves the house in the middle of the night and phones the police, telling them the address of the house and that it is being used to deal drugs.__NEWL__Tar, Rob and Lily are arrested, and Tar takes the rap again, which means he is given a custodial sentence.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Gemma locates Vonny and asks for her help.__NEWL__She allows Vonny to get in touch with her parents, who come to the hospital where she has been admitted with severe withdrawal symptoms.__NEWL__For the first time in three-and-a-half years, the Brogans are reunited with their daughter, who asks to come home.__NEWL__Gemma returns to live in her hometown drug-free.__NEWL__She gives birth to her daughter Oona, whilst waiting for Tar to come out of prison.__NEWL__However, once he is released, Gemma realises that she no longer feels the same way about Tar, and they end their relationship.__NEWL__The reader learns that Tar ends up forcing his way into Gemma's home and hits her at least once, in a bleak repetition of his own father's behaviour.__NEWL__Gemma remains free of heroin, once she has gone through withdrawal, whereas Tar finds it much more difficult and slips several times, even though he is on methadone.__NEWL__The story ends with Tar having a new girlfriend and seeing Oona occasionally whilst lamenting the life he lost, still craving heroin and still holding onto the hope that Gemma will one day agree to renew their romantic relationship.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5298663	Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall	1902-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2833953	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2833953	The story is narrated by Sir George Vernon's 35-year-old cousin, Malcolm François de Lorraine Vernon.__NEWL__Raised in France, he became enamored of Mary, Queen of Scots, when she was a youth there, and followed her to Scotland.__NEWL__Historically speaking, Mary was captured, imprisoned, and forced to abdicate the Scottish throne in July 1567, but in the novel, Malcolm receives word of Mary's capture in the Fall.__NEWL__He immediately flees to England, and heads to Haddon Hall to take refuge with Sir George.__NEWL__On the way, he meets and becomes friends with John Manners, son of Sir George's hated enemy Thomas Manners (Lord Rutland).__NEWL__Years earlier, Sir George had suggested that Malcolm marry George's daughter Dorothy as a way to keep the Vernon properties held by Vernons.__NEWL__Dorothy at the time had been an awkward adolescent; she now is a mature, strong-willed, red-headed beauty.__NEWL__On his way to Haddon Hall, Malcolm (still in the company of John Manners) encounters Dorothy, her aunt, and her friend Madge, all of whom live at Haddon Hall.__NEWL__Catching glimpses of each other, John Manners and Dorothy instantly begin to be attracted to each other.__NEWL__Malcolm, by contrast, sees his cousin as too beautiful and strong-willed to make a good wife.__NEWL__As the book progresses, Dorothy and John develop a secret romance, aided by Malcolm and hidden from her father, who first presses her to marry Malcolm, and then the son of the Earl of Derby.__NEWL__Various dramatic elements include a chapter in which Dorothy is imprisoned in her bedroom, but manages to disguise herself as Malcolm to escape and meet John; John fails to recognize her, thinking her a male stranger, and makes some embarrassing remarks about his previous love affairs, and then when he realizes she is a woman, fails to recognize her as Dorothy, but attempts to kiss her, causing her to reveal herself.__NEWL__Later, John disguises himself and takes a job as a household servant at Haddon Hall to be able to spend time with Dorothy; she fails to recognize him for days until he reveals himself.__NEWL__This ruse ends when Dorothy quarrels with her father, who attempts to strike her.__NEWL__John jumps in the way and is struck unconscious, and a distraught Dorothy reveals that this is the lover her father suspected her of having.__NEWL__Her father orders him imprisoned in the dungeon, to be hanged the next day if the blow to his head does not kill him, but Malcolm, aided by Dorothy's Aunt (also named Dorothy), arrange for his escape.__NEWL__Subsequently, Queen Mary escapes from Scotland and takes secret refuge at Lord Rutland's estate.__NEWL__Queen Elizabeth arrives to visit Haddon Hall.__NEWL__Sir George brings the Stanlys (the Earl of Derby and his oafish son) to ratify the marriage contract before the Queen, but Dorothy publicly humiliates the Stanlys, ruining the arrangements and amusing the Queen.__NEWL__Meanwhile, her father has already begun to nurse a hope she might marry the Queen's favorite, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.__NEWL__ Unable to see John for an extended period of time, and knowing that the seductive Queen Mary is staying at his home, Dorothy becomes crazed with jealousy and tells Queen Elizabeth of Queen Mary's location.__NEWL__Elizabeth rouses a troop of soldiers to arrest Mary.__NEWL__Remorse-stricken, Dorothy attempts to arrive at Lord Rutland's before the troops, but fails, and John, his father, and Queen Mary are all arrested, and Dorothy's father finds out John's identity.__NEWL__Malcolm shares a carriage with Queen Mary and a sleeping, exhausted, Dorothy for the return to Haddon Hall, and during the trip Mary manages to regain his allegiance and romantic interest (despite his being engaged to Madge) and he promises to help her escape to France.__NEWL__Mary also attempts to gain the allegiance of the Earl of Leicester, but he betrays her to Elizabeth, resulting in Malcolm's arrest.__NEWL__Queen Elizabeth tells Dorothy she will free John and Lord Rutland if Dorothy can prove that they planned only to get Mary out of Scotland, and had no part in any conspiracy to place Mary on the throne of England.__NEWL__By speaking with him in the dungeon, which is equipped with a speaking tube for eavesdropping, Dorothy exonerates John and his father, and they are set free.__NEWL__Elizabeth decides Malcolm may go free as well, provided he leaves England and returns to France.__NEWL__Sir George, furious at Malcolm's part in aiding Dorothy and John's romance, tells him to leave Haddon Hall, so Malcolm gathers his belongings and apologizes to Madge and prepares to head to Lord Rutland's estate, where he will await the passport allowing him to leave England.__NEWL__As he leaves, Madge joins him, forgiving him, and they plan that she will accompany him to France as his wife.__NEWL__In the final chapter of the novel, during a party in Queen Elizabeth's honor, Dorothy tricks her father into letting her steal away for a few crucial minutes, supposedly to court the Earl of Leicester's affections.__NEWL__Instead, she is met by John, who literally carries her off despite her last-minute uncertainty, and they elope to his father's hall where they bid farewell to Malcolm and Madge, who move to France and don't see them again (as of the close of the novel, forty years later).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7770167	The Trials of Nikki Hill	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2877118	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2877118	The protagonist of this legal thriller is 33-year-old, Nikki Hill.__NEWL__Nikki is a lead prosecutor at the District Attorney's office, and he has trusted her to help find the killer of Madeleine Gray, Hollywood's most popular TV host of a blackmail show.__NEWL__At first there is a hands down suspect, Jamal Deschamps, who was found at the scene of the crime.__NEWL__He possessed her ring and his skin was also under Maddie's thumb.__NEWL__After a lie detector test, it was proven that Deschamps was not the killer.__NEWL__It turned out, he merely found the cadaver and whilst stealing its ring, cut himself on her thumb.__NEWL__Nikki, another smart aleck prosecutor, and two quirky homicide detectives have a few loose strings, and bewilderment of who the real killer is.__NEWL__At Maddie's mansion, there was a missing rug, and a glass a ball that had Maddie's blood on it.__NEWL__And upstairs, where her blackmail files are, there is a busted drawer with missing contents.__NEWL__Nikki and the team discover that R&B singer, Diana Cooper, had a fight with Maddie the day of the murder.__NEWL__She quickly becomes a major suspect when Maddie's blood is also found in her trunk.__NEWL__The detectives come up with a scenario:__NEWL__Maddie threatened to give Diana's blackmail information, so she stole it and killed Maddie.__NEWL__ This was soon proven wrong when detective Goodman's girlfriend confessed to stealing the black mail file for Diana's husband.__NEWL__Diana's charges were also dropped due to conflict with her alibi the time of the murder.__NEWL__Next, fingers were pointed towards John Willins, Diana's husband.__NEWL__Maddie had told Palmer, her neighbor, that she had slept with a J man.__NEWL__There were also logs at a private getaway club that a J. W. and M. Gray went together several times.__NEWL__ Nikki and the team try to trace John Willin's past, and it turned up that he was from a small town.__NEWL__While putting together clues, they find out that John's family was killed in a fire, and that he could be taking on the identity of his deceased cousin.__NEWL__This leads to another question: did he murder his family with the fire?__NEWL__The only way to really find out was to go to the town and see if there was a grave for "John Willins".__NEWL__When they report this phenomenal news to district attorney, Joe Walden, he decides he wants to come along.__NEWL__And when they finally get to the town's only cemetery, they find out that Joe Walden, the district attorney, is the J.W...!
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7774468	The White Bone	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2880529	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2880529	The novel is told entirely from the points of view of its elephant characters.__NEWL__Much like real elephants, all female elephants (cows) and prepubescent males (bulls) live in matrilineal family groups, and mature male elephants are loners.__NEWL__The main characters in the novel are mostly from the "She-S" family, into which Mud, a young cow who is pregnant with her first calf, has been adopted.__NEWL__Mud is blessed with visionary powers and can occasionally see into the future.__NEWL__Thrown into a drought, with human poachers becoming increasingly common, Mud and her family must find the legendary "Safe Place" where drought and poachers do not come.__NEWL__The "White Bone," a rib of a newborn elephant, is rumored to be lying somewhere in the savannah and is said to point in the direction of the Safe Place.__NEWL__After a slaughter which leaves most of Mud's adoptive family dead and her best friend, Date Bed, missing, Mud and the remaining She-S elephants set off to find the White Bone and Date Bed.__NEWL__The novel is rather nihilistic, as it is unlikely that any of the characters ever reach the Safe Place, with a few possible exceptions.__NEWL__Hence, it is considered a powerful social commentary on the plight of endangered animals, showing their situation to be somewhat hopeless.__NEWL__Another main theme of the novel is the importance of family ties, and the fact that Mud, as an adopted member of the She-S family, feels alienated from the other elephants throughout.__NEWL__Another theme of the novel acknowledges the old saying, "An elephant never forgets.__NEWL__" The novel implies that elephants will eventually go senile, but as most are killed before their prime, the saying is usually true.__NEWL__The elephants are capable of remembering every minute detail of their lives, unlike humans, who tend to remember important events most strongly.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3857990	Millennium People	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2834123	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2834123	When a bomb explodes on a baggage carousel at Heathrow Airport, killing his ex-wife, psychologist David Markham tries to unravel the mystery surrounding her seemingly pointless death.__NEWL__But with unresolved questions about himself, his job, and his loving but adulterous wife, Sally, he soon finds himself immersed in the deeper waters of middle-class revolution originating from the gated community of Chelsea Marina, an upper middle-class enclave of salaried professionals.__NEWL__When a protest at a cat show turns ugly and he is beaten up by angry cat lovers, then arrested and tried, Markham enlists in the cause of the rebellious Chelseans – imagining he will uncover the persons and causes responsible for his ex-wife's murder.__NEWL__Slowly, he succumbs to the call of subversion and gradually finds himself a terrorist functionary, planting smoke bombs, participating in firebombing and clashing with police at protests.__NEWL__Other characters include Markham's wife, who continues to use her arm canes though her leg injuries from an accident with a tram have completely healed; Kay Churchill, a sociopathic college film studies lecturer who has become a terrorist cell leader (she takes Markham for a lover and he lives in her home); a troubled priest and his Chinese girlfriend; a former MI5 bombmaker and scientist turned revolutionary, and Richard Gould, a seemingly kindly pediatrician who is the terrorist mastermind behind the whole revolution.__NEWL__Ultimately, as Markham gets closer to the pediatrician, Markham uncovers clues explaining his former wife's murder.__NEWL__While Markham had previously thought the bombing to be a random attack, he finds that the Heathrow bomb did have an intended target.__NEWL__As police and security forces close in on Chelsea Marina, Markham joins the other protesters on the barricades and he crosses over from infiltrator to member of the revolution.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2034534	The Dream Master	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2834215	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2834215	The Dream Master is set in a future where the forces of overpopulation and technology have created a world where humanity suffocates psychologically beneath its own mass while abiding in relative physical comfort.__NEWL__This is a world ripe for psychotherapeutic innovations, such as the "neuroparticipant therapy" in which the protagonist, Charles Render, specializes.__NEWL__In neuroparticipation, the patient is hooked into a gigantic simulation controlled directly by the analyst's mind; the analyst then works with the patient to construct dreams—nightmares, wish-fulfillment, etc.--that afford insight into the underlying neuroses of the patient, and in some cases the possibility of direct intervention.__NEWL__(For example, a man submerging himself in a fantasy world sees it utterly destroyed at Render's hands, and is thus "cured" of his obsession with it.)__NEWL__Render, the leader in his field, takes on a patient with an unusual problem.__NEWL__Eileen Shallot aspires to become a neuroparticipant therapist herself, but is somewhat hampered by congenital blindness.__NEWL__Not having experienced visual sensation in the same way as her patients, she would be unable to convincingly construct visual dreams for them; indeed, in a case of eye-envy, her own neurotic desire to see through the eyes of her patients might prevent her from treating them effectively.__NEWL__However, she explains to Render, if a practicing neuroparticipant therapist is willing to work with her, he can expose her to the full range of visual stimuli in a controlled environment, free of her own attachments to the issue, and enable her to pursue her career.__NEWL__Despite his better sense and the advice of colleagues, Render agrees to go along with the treatment.__NEWL__But as they progress, Eileen's hunger for visual stimulation continues to grow, and she begins to assert her will against Render's, subsuming him into her own dreams.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5247728	Deathstalker	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z	2832333	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2832333	Set in a far-future fictional universe, Deathstalker follows the life of Owen Deathstalker, a minor aristocrat and historian, as he is catapulted from a life of quiet luxury and academic pursuit into a galaxy-wide rebellion against the empire in which he lives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7798094	Threshold	1985-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2887991	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887991	Threshold is a space opera novel, involving interstellar intrigue, mysteriously alluring space aliens, and a hero who is larger than life.__NEWL__Its protagonist, the penultimate issue of millennia long alien breeding program: Peter Cory, billionaire, hard driving adventurer, and unrequited rescuer of damsels.__NEWL__(Due to a "clerical" error in the program, his future wife was born late and is now only a child, but there is no time to wait.)__NEWL__One of the aliens, a "wWyh'j" (witch) named Megonthalyä (Meg) and her obese feline familiar (Memphus) come to Earth to enlist Peter's help.__NEWL__Due to what they call a "racial mental block" a quasi-immortal race called the Isi are unable to prevent a galactic catastrophe.__NEWL__The Isi think humanity (specifically Peter) will help them overcome this hurdle, hence the book's opening line "Peter, we are losing Armageddon...__NEWL__" Unless he joins forces with them "... the galaxy is doomed...!__NEWL__" While Peter is understandably skeptical, the talking cat, as well as a crash course in telepathy, rapidly convince him of Meg's sincerity.__NEWL__Soon he is using his uniquely human perspective to unveil new applications of ancient Isi mental powers, and develops some startling new abilities.__NEWL__Armed with complete control of his cellular structure (which allows for slow but complete cellular metamorphosis), and a "gnNäáq" (knack) which allows the mental manipulation of electrical energy, Peter and Meg travel to Meg's home planet of Isis where he will be taught the "mMj'q" (Magic) necessary to help save the galaxy from its impending destruction.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q135165	Dying of the Light	1977-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2897522	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2897522	The novel takes place on the planet of Worlorn, a world which is dying.__NEWL__It is a rogue planet whose erratic course is taking it irreversibly away from its neighboring stars into a region of cold and dark space where no life will survive.__NEWL__Worlorn's 14 cities, built during a brief window when the world passed close enough to a red giant star to permit life to thrive, are dying, too.__NEWL__Constructed to celebrate the diverse cultures of 14 planetary systems, they have largely been abandoned, allowing their systems and maintenance to fail.__NEWL__The cast is a group of characters who are also flirting with death.__NEWL__Dirk t'Larien, the protagonist, finds life empty and of little attraction after his girlfriend Gwen Delvano leaves him.__NEWL__Most poignant of all, the Kavalar race, into which she has "married", is dying culturally.__NEWL__Their home planet has survived numerous attacks in a planetary war, and in response they have evolved social institutions and human relationship patterns to cope with the depredation of the war.__NEWL__Yet now that the war is long past, they find themselves trapped between those who would recognize that the old ways need to be reviewed for the current day and those who believe that any dilution of the old ways spells the end of Kavalar culture.__NEWL__The battles, then, of all these varying actors are played out beneath the dying light falling on Worlorn.__NEWL__By the novel's end, many of the characters have died, though some endings are deliberately left ambiguous.__NEWL__Nonetheless, they have all faced their fears of death and of life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7761631	The Rover	1923-01-01T00:00:00Z	59142	2864563	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864563	The story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, and the French-English rivalry in the Mediterranean.__NEWL__Peyrol (a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly fifty years "rover of the outer seas") attempts to find refuge in an isolated farmhouse (Escampobar) on the Giens Peninsula near Hyères.__NEWL__The story is about Peyrol's attempt at withdrawal from an action- and blood-filled life; his involvement with the pariahs of Escampobar; the struggle for his identity and allegiance, which is resolved in his last voyage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4101688	Two Steps from Heaven	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q159	Russia	2847098	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2847098	The events of the novel take place in the mid-1980s during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and soon after the troop withdrawal, back in the then Soviet Union.__NEWL__It is a stirring account of the trials of Lieutenant Oleg Sharagin, a platoon commander in the elite Soviet airborne forces, his fellow officers and soldiers.__NEWL__It also portrays the ordinary Afghans who suffered enormously under the Soviet occupation.__NEWL__Sharagin survives many combat operations but is critically wounded just a few months before the end of his tour of duty when his platoon is ambushed in the course of a major offensive against the Mujahideen.__NEWL__He is evacuated to a hospital in Kabul, undergoes surgery, and finally finds himself reunited with his family.__NEWL__But back home he realizes his military career is over.__NEWL__The war haunts Sharagin and the pain caused by the wound turns his life into a nightmare, leading to a dramatic finale.__NEWL__The novel is a good example of Russian "accurate fiction.__NEWL__" It puts a human face on the Soviet soldier without sparing the gory details, like the hard to comprehend top-down authority and license for physical punishment and humiliation within the Russian army, the mental suffering which young soldiers and officers endured during their catastrophic experience in Afghanistan, or the gruesome killings of innocent Afghan civilians.__NEWL__The novel first came out in Russian in 1997 in an abridged version.__NEWL__In 2006, it was published by Eksmo, one of the largest publishing houses in Russia.__NEWL__The Russian and English versions can also be found on "Art of War" , a project dedicated to the soldiers of the recent wars, which was created in 1998 by a Russian veteran of the Afghan war, Vladimir Grigoriev.__NEWL__It features short stories, novels, poetry and essays by veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya, as well as in the Middle East, Nagorno-Karabakh, Yugoslavia and contributions from veterans of the Vietnam and Korea wars.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7295917	Rats Saw God	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16555	Houston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2910946	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2910946	It follows the main character Steve York, the son of an astronaut.__NEWL__Steve is a high school student who has had issues with marijuana and has found himself in the counselor's office.__NEWL__The counselor tells him that he is flunking and if he wants to graduate he must write a 100-page paper about anything.__NEWL__Steve is reluctant to do so, at first, but eventually relents and begins the tale about the divorce of his parents, his prickly relationship with his father, and his first real relationship with a girl nicknamed Dub.__NEWL__Told in parallel timelines and bouncing back and forth from his senior year to his sophomore year, through writing the book Steve eventually comes to see his father as he'd never seen him before and understands that many of the things that he thought were true were completely wrong.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7722334	The Chequer Board	2844257	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2844257	 "This novel may shock you, but not for any of the usual reasons.__NEWL__The clear vision of this swift-moving, heart-warming story will give you a glimpse of what the brotherhood of man might mean.__NEWL__" —Dust-jacket, US edition, 1947__NEWL__The story tells of the experiences of one John (Jackie) Turner, whom the doctors have given just one year to live as a result of a severe head injury sustained when the aircraft in which he was travelling was attacked by a German fighter in the Second World War.__NEWL__Turner decides to use his remaining time to trace the men he got to know while recovering in hospital.__NEWL__The men were: As the story unfolds, we learn that charges against Lesurier were dropped after an Army investigation and that he later returned to the English town near which he was stationed during the war.__NEWL__He marries the girl he was courting and becomes a draughtsman.__NEWL__Brent is acquitted of murder but served six months for manslaughter after a brilliantly defended court-martial.__NEWL__He is later found living close to Lesurier and working as a meat vendor.__NEWL__Morgan relocates to Burma and becomes a successful businessman, married into a strong local community.__NEWL__Turner is contented by the thought that each man, who had helped with his recovery after the plane crash, had succeeded in making a good life in his own way.__NEWL__The novel ends with what will be his last visit to his medical specialist.__NEWL__Underlying the novel is the Buddhist belief in reincarnation and redemption.__NEWL__Despite his shady past, it is indicated that Turner, through his attempts to help his fellow patients and his acceptance of his death, has moved closer to Nirvana.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2630581	Zeno's Conscience	1923-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	2853892	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2853892	The novel is presented as a diary written by Zeno, published by his doctor (who claims that it is full of lies).__NEWL__The doctor has left a little note in the beginning, saying he had Zeno write an autobiography to help him in his psychoanalysis.__NEWL__The doctor has published the work as revenge for Zeno discontinuing his visits.__NEWL__The diary, however, does not follow chronological order; instead, it is structured in large chapters, each developing a particular theme (tobacco addiction, his father's death, the story of his marriage, and so on).__NEWL__Only the last chapter is a real diary, with pages referring to specific dates at the time of the First World War.__NEWL__Zeno first writes about his cigarette addiction and cites the first times he smoked.__NEWL__In his first few paragraphs, he remembers his life as a child.__NEWL__One of his friends bought cigarettes for his brother and him.__NEWL__Soon, he steals money from his father to buy tobacco, but finally decides not to do this out of shame.__NEWL__Eventually, he starts to smoke his father's half-smoked cigars instead.__NEWL__The problem with his "last cigarette" starts when he is twenty.__NEWL__He contracts a fever and his doctor tells him that to heal he must abstain from smoking.__NEWL__He decides smoking is bad for him and smokes his "last cigarette" so he can quit.__NEWL__However, this is not his last and he soon becomes plagued with "last cigarettes."__NEWL__He attempts to quit on days of important events in his life and soon obsessively attempts to quit on the basis of the harmony in the numbers of dates.__NEWL__Each time, the cigarette fails to truly be the last.__NEWL__He goes to doctors and asks friends to help him give up the habit, but to no avail.__NEWL__He even commits himself into a clinic, but escapes.__NEWL__The whole theme, while objectively serious, is often treated in a humorous way.__NEWL__When Zeno reaches his thirties, his father's health begins to deteriorate.__NEWL__He starts to live closer to his father in case he passes away.__NEWL__Zeno is very different from his father, who is a serious man, while Zeno likes to joke.__NEWL__For instance, when his father states that Zeno is crazy, Zeno goes to the doctor and gets an official certification that he is sane.__NEWL__He shows this to his father who is hurt by this joke and becomes even more convinced that Zeno must be crazy.__NEWL__His father is also afraid of death, being very uncomfortable with the drafting of his will.__NEWL__One night, his father falls gravely ill and loses consciousness.__NEWL__The doctor comes and works on the patient, who is brought out of the clutches of death momentarily.__NEWL__Over the next few days, his father is able to get up and regains a bit of his self.__NEWL__He is restless and shifts positions for comfort often, even though the doctor says that staying in bed would be good for his circulation.__NEWL__One night, as his father tries to roll out of bed, Zeno blocks him from moving, to do as the doctor wished.__NEWL__His angry father then stands up and accidentally slaps Zeno in the face before dying.__NEWL__His last action will haunt Zeno until he reaches his sixties, as he is not able to tell if it was a final punishment or just his illness taking over his body.__NEWL__ His memoirs then trace how he meets his wife.__NEWL__When he is starting to learn about the business world, he meets his future father-in-law Giovanni Malfenti, an intelligent and successful businessman, whom Zeno admires.__NEWL__Malfenti has four daughters, Ada, Augusta, Alberta, and Anna, and when Zeno meets them, he decides that he wants to court Ada because of her beauty and since Alberta is quite young, while he regards Augusta as too plain, and Anna is only a little girl.__NEWL__He is unsuccessful and the Malfentis think that he is actually trying to court Augusta, who had fallen in love with him.__NEWL__He soon meets his rival for Ada's love, who is Guido Speier.__NEWL__Guido speaks perfect Tuscan (while Zeno speaks the dialect of Trieste), is handsome, and has a full head of hair (compared with Zeno's bald head).__NEWL__That evening, while Guido and Zeno both visit the Malfentis, Zeno proposes to Ada and she rejects him for Guido.__NEWL__Zeno then proposes to Alberta, who is not interested in marrying, and he is rejected by her also.__NEWL__Finally, he proposes to Augusta (who knows that Zeno first proposed to the other two) and she accepts, because she loves him.__NEWL__Very soon, the couples get married and Zeno starts to realize that he can love Augusta.__NEWL__This surprises him as his love for her does not diminish.__NEWL__However, he meets Carla, a poor aspiring singer, and they start an affair, with Carla thinking that Zeno does not love his wife.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ada and Guido marry and Mr. Malfenti gets sick.__NEWL__Zeno's affection for both Augusta and Carla increases and he has a daughter named Antonia around the time Giovanni passes away.__NEWL__Finally, one day, Carla expresses a sudden whim to see Augusta.__NEWL__Zeno deceives Carla and causes her to meet Ada instead.__NEWL__Carla misrepresents Ada as Zeno's wife, and moved by her beauty and sadness, breaks off the affair.__NEWL__Zeno goes on to relate the business partnership between him and Guido.__NEWL__The two men set up a merchant business together in Trieste.__NEWL__They hire two workers named Luciano and Carmen (who becomes Guido's mistress) and they attempt to make as much profit as possible.__NEWL__However, due to Guido's obsession with debts and credit as well as with the notion of profit, the company does poorly.__NEWL__Guido and Ada's marriage begins to crumble as does Ada's health and beauty, due to Morbus Basedowii (Basedow's disease).__NEWL__Guido fakes a suicide attempt to gain Ada's compassion and she asks Zeno to help Guido's failing company.__NEWL__Guido starts playing on the Bourse (stock exchange) and loses even more money.__NEWL__On a fishing trip, he asks Zeno about the differences in effects between sodium veronal and veronal and Zeno answers that sodium veronal is fatal while veronal is not.__NEWL__Guido's gambling on the Bourse becomes very destructive and he finally tries to fake another suicide to gain Ada's compassion.__NEWL__However, he is not believed by his doctor and his wife and dies.__NEWL__Soon thereafter, Zeno misses Guido's funeral because he himself gambles Guido's money on the Bourse and recovers three quarters of the losses.__NEWL__Zeno describes his current life during the Great War.__NEWL__His daughter Antonia (who greatly resembles Ada) and son Alfio have grown up.__NEWL__He spends his time visiting doctors, looking for a cure to his imagined sickness.__NEWL__One of the doctors claims he is suffering from the Oedipus complex, but Zeno does not believe it to be true.__NEWL__Not a single doctor is able to treat him.__NEWL__In May 1915, while Italy is still neutral, as Zeno wants it to be, he and his family spend a vacation on the green banks of the Isonzo.__NEWL__Zeno does not yet guess that area will soon become a major battlefield.__NEWL__Renting a house in the village of Lucinico, he sets out on a casual morning stroll without his hat and jacket – when the outbreak of the war between Italy and Austro-Hungary turns the area into a war zone and Zeno is separated from his wife and children by the frontline.__NEWL__Forced to go back to Trieste alone, only much later does he find out that Augusta and the children reached Turin safely.__NEWL__The final entry is from March 1916, after Zeno, alone in wartorn Trieste, has become wealthy by speculating and hoarding, though money has not made him happy or pleased with life.__NEWL__He comes to a realization that life itself resembles sickness because it has advancements and setbacks and always ends in death.__NEWL__Human advancement has given mankind not more able bodies, but weapons that can be sold, bought, stolen to prolong life.__NEWL__This deviation from natural selection causes more sickness and weakness in humans.__NEWL__Zeno imagines a time when a person will invent a new, powerful weapon of mass destruction, just like the modern atomic bomb, that wasn't invented yet at the time, and another will steal it and destroy the world, setting it free of sickness.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4738435	Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned	1997-10-24T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2850559	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2850559	Ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in Watts, a tough Los Angeles neighborhood, and struggles to stay on the path of righteousness.__NEWL__He befriends a young boy named Darryl, who initially dislikes Socrates but grows to appreciate his mentorship.__NEWL__He counsels Corrina, a pretty 23-year old who works and wants to keep her husband who has no job.__NEWL__He counsels the husband, Howard, to step up lest he lose Corrina.__NEWL__After a few trials and tribulations, Socrates lands a job at a supermarket further on the west side of Los Angeles.__NEWL__He helps Darryl again as he stands up against gang members, and tries to make up for his past misdeeds by reaching out to an old flame.__NEWL__Socrates finds himself in jail, having hit a man who struck a dog with his car and wanted to finish off the dog.__NEWL__Socrates carries the dog to a local vet, who later posts his bail.__NEWL__Through his savvy public defender, Socrates gets a suspended sentence.__NEWL__At the end of the novel Socrates does his final good deed, helping his friend, suffering from terminal cancer, find enough pain medication to end his own life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q178688	Mio, My Son	1954-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1754	Stockholm	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	2876803	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2876803	Mio, My Son starts by introducing Bo Vilhelm Olsson (nicknamed Bosse), a nine-year-old boy who has been taken in by an elderly couple who dislike boys.__NEWL__They harass him and tell him to stay out of their way.__NEWL__Bosse's mother had died during childbirth and he has never known his father.__NEWL__His only friend is a boy his age, Benke.__NEWL__One day he receives an apple from the kindly shopkeeper, Mrs. Lundin, who asks him to mail a postcard for her.__NEWL__Before doing so, he takes a look at the postcard and sees it is addressed to a king, saying that his son will soon be coming home, recognised by his possession of a golden apple.__NEWL__Bosse looks at his apple and suddenly it turns into gold.__NEWL__Soon after, Bosse finds a bottle with a spirit trapped inside.__NEWL__Upon freeing it, the spirit recognises the apple and takes Bosse to another world, far, far away.__NEWL__Upon arriving, Bosse is told that his real name is Mio, and that he is the son of the king and thus a prince of the land.__NEWL__He finds a new best friend, Jum-Jum, and receives the horse Miramis from his father.__NEWL__As he explores his father's kingdom, he meets and befriends other children.__NEWL__However, he also learns that not everything in this world is as wonderful as it first seemed.__NEWL__In the lands beyond that of the king lives an evil, stone-hearted knight named Kato, whose hatred is so strong that the land around his castle is barren and singed.__NEWL__He has kidnapped several children from the nearby villages, and he poses a constant threat to the people living there.__NEWL__Mio is told that his destiny is to fight Kato, even though he is only a child.__NEWL__Together with Jum-Jum and Miramis, Mio sets out on a perilous journey into the land of Kato, as the stories have foretold for thousands and thousands of years.__NEWL__In the American version, Mio is first called Karl Anders Nilsson, nicknamed Andy, and Jum-Jum's name is Pompoo.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1318605	Address Unknown	1959-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1726	Munich	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	2876883	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2876883	Martin, a Gentile, returns with his family to Germany, exhilarated by the advances in the old country since the humiliation of the Great War.__NEWL__His business partner, Max, a Jew, remains in the States to keep the business going.__NEWL__The story is told entirely in letters between them, from 1932 to 1934.__NEWL__Martin writes about the "wonderful" Third Reich and a man named "Hitler."__NEWL__At first Max is covetous: "How I envy you! ...__NEWL__You go to a democratic Germany, a land with a deep culture and the beginnings of a fine political freedom."__NEWL__Max soon however has misgivings about his friend's new enthusiasms, having heard from eyewitnesses who had gotten out of Berlin that Jews were being beaten and their businesses boycotted.__NEWL__Martin responds, telling Max that, while they may be good friends, everybody knows that Jews have been the universal scapegoats, and "a few must suffer for the millions to be saved."__NEWL__"This Jew trouble is only an incident," Martin writes.__NEWL__"Something bigger is happening.__NEWL__" Nonetheless, he asks Max to stop writing to him.__NEWL__If a letter were intercepted, he (Martin) would lose his official position and he and his family would be endangered.__NEWL__Max continues to write regardless, when his own sister, Griselle, an actress goes to Berlin and goes missing.__NEWL__He becomes frantic to learn her fate.__NEWL__Martin responds on bank stationery (less likely to be inspected) and tells Max his sister is dead.__NEWL__He admits that he turned Griselle away when she came to him, her brother's dearest friend, for sanctuary – she had foolishly defied the Nazis and was being pursued by SA thugs.__NEWL__(It is implied earlier in the book that Martin and Griselle had had an affair before the events of the book take place.)__NEWL__After a gap of about a month, Max starts writing to Martin at home, carrying only what looks like business and remarks about the weather, but writing as though they have a hidden encoded meaning, with strange references to exact dimensions of pictures and so on.__NEWL__The letters refer to "our grandmother" and imply that Martin is also Jewish.__NEWL__The letters from Munich to San Francisco get shorter and more panicky, begging Max to stop: "My God, Max, do you know what you do? ...__NEWL__These letters you have sent ... are not delivered, but they bring me in and ...__NEWL__demand I give them the code ...__NEWL__I beg you, Max, no more, no more!__NEWL__Stop while I can be saved.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Max however continues, "Prepare these for distribution by March 24th:__NEWL__Rubens 12 by 77, blue; Giotto 1 by 317, green and white; Poussin 20 by 90, red and white.__NEWL__" The letter is returned to Max, stamped: Adressat unbekannt.__NEWL__Addressee Unknown.__NEWL__(The title of the book is actually a mistranslation of Adressat unbekannt:__NEWL__The correct translation of "Adressat" is "addressee," not "address"; which is much more in keeping with the plot of the story.)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5049559	Cast of Shadows	2005-03-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1297	Chicago	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2838088	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2838088	The book's plot is set in the near future at a time when cloning has been legalised in the U.S. It is based around a Chicago-based cloning doctor, Davis Moore, whose daughter is brutally raped and killed.__NEWL__The doctor uses the murderer's DNA to clone him.__NEWL__The resulting clone is a boy called Justin Finn, whom Moore follows throughout his life, hoping the boy will offer a glimpse into the killer's psyche and perhaps enable Moore to find the identity of his daughter's murderer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4876634	Beard's Roman Women	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q220	Rome	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2838649	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2838649	Ronald Beard, a screenwriter specialising in musicals, is grieving the death of his wife, Leonora, from cirrhosis of the liver.__NEWL__He is convinced by a Hollywood mogul to write a musical based on the life of Lord Byron, and Percy and Mary Shelley, so he makes the trip to Los Angeles to meet with the studio.__NEWL__There, he meets the photographer Paola Lucrezia Belli at a party and begins an affair, later following her to Rome.__NEWL__In Rome, Beard gets down to work as Paola is called to Israel to take pictures of the Six Day War.__NEWL__While she is away, Beard is constantly interrupted by Gregory Gregson, a brash drunk who worked with Beard in the Colonial Service in Brunei, and mysterious phone calls from someone claiming to be Leonora.__NEWL__He also has to fend off Paola's ex-husband, the literary novelist Pathan, who lays claim to the contents of Paola's apartment.__NEWL__Eventually, Beard, suffering from an unnamed, and terminal, tropical disease, settles down with Leonora's sister in England.__NEWL__He returns to Rome a final time to die, though his body refuses to give up.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5518037	Galatea 2.2	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2903352	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2903352	The main narrative tells the story of Powers' return to his alma mater – referred to in the novel as simply "U.", but clearly based on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the school Powers attended and teaches at as a professor – after he has ended a long and torrid relationship with a loving but volatile woman, referred to as "C." Powers is an in-house author for the university, and lives for free for one year.__NEWL__He finds himself unable to write any more books, and spends the first portion of the novel attempting to write, but never getting past the first line.__NEWL__Powers then meets a computer scientist named Philip Lentz.__NEWL__Intrigued by Lentz's overbearing personality and unorthodox theories, Powers eventually agrees to participate in an experiment involving artificial intelligence.__NEWL__Lentz bets his fellow scientists that he can build a computer that can produce an analysis of a literary text that is indistinguishable from one produced by a human.__NEWL__It is Powers' task to "teach" the machine.__NEWL__After going through several unsuccessful versions, Powers and Lentz produce a computer model (dubbed "Helen") that is able to communicate like a human.__NEWL__It is not clear to the reader or to Powers whether she is simulating human thought or actually experiencing it.__NEWL__Powers tutors the computer, first by reading it canonical works of literature, then narrating current events, and eventually telling it the story of his own life, in the process developing a complicated relationship with the machine.__NEWL__The novel also consists of extensive flashbacks to Powers' relationship with C., from their first meeting at U., to their bohemian life in Boston, to their move to C.'s family's town in the Netherlands.__NEWL__The novel culminates with Helen being unable to bear the realities of the world, and "leaving" Powers.__NEWL__She asks Powers to "see everything" for her, and subsequently shuts herself down.__NEWL__Her exit from the world forces Powers to experience a rebirth.__NEWL__In addition, Powers realizes that he was Lentz's experiment: would he or wouldn't he be able to teach a computer?__NEWL__Through the transformation he experiences, he is suddenly able to interact with the world, and he can write again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7740102	The Homeward Bounders	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2855953	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2855953	Twelve-year-old Jamie discovers a strange place in his hometown in which mysterious and demonic entities, known only as Them, are playing a board game with the entire world.__NEWL__Upon his discovering Them, They are forced to make Jamie a Homeward Bounder; this means he must constantly travel from world to world until he finds his home again.__NEWL__Homeward Bounders cannot die, and must not interfere with Play.__NEWL__If he can reach his home he may stay, and re-enter play.__NEWL__No-one is allowed to interfere directly with the Homeward Bounders; for example, if someone were to attempt to hurt or steal from Jamie, that person would die mysteriously.__NEWL__In his travels through the many worlds, Jamie meets the Flying Dutchman, with his ship and crew, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew.__NEWL__In addition, he meets a strange entity chained to a rock by Them.__NEWL__Every day, a Vulture comes to peck at him.__NEWL__While he is never named, the entity is Prometheus (he states that his name means "foresight" and that, according to legend, he was punished for bringing fire to humanity).__NEWL__Jamie becomes skilled at travelling, learning to read the signs left by other Homeward Bounders, growing fluent in many languages and proficient in many unusual skills.__NEWL__So Jamie wanders through the worlds, time passing, never reaching his home, yet hardly aging at all, until he meets Helen Haras-Uquara, from the barbaric world of Uquar.__NEWL__She has a gift - she can change her right arm into anything at all (for instance, an elephant trunk or a snake).__NEWL__Helen has only recently become a Homeward Bounder, because she, like Jamie, has seen Them playing Their game with the worlds.__NEWL__Although she has no experience with anything much, having been shut in a temple for most of her life, she proves to be a resourceful and intelligent person; her knowledge of Them, which mainly comes from the teachings of Uquar, her god, turns out to be very useful.__NEWL__Helen and Jamie travel together until they meet Joris, another new Homeward Bounder, who was a slave and apprentice demon hunter from another world, separated from his master by a demon that showed him Them.__NEWL__The three travel together until they come to a world in which they meet Adam and Vanessa.__NEWL__This world is like our current world, and is also strongly reminiscent of Jamie's home world.__NEWL__He is sure that if they could just travel on one or two worlds more he would reach his Home.__NEWL__The Homeward Bounders convince Adam and Vanessa that They exist, when Konstam, Joris' demon-hunting-master arrives, and joins their party.__NEWL__Konstam is eager to fight this new kind of demon, if only because of the challenge that They present, and the six invade Their strange place and try to defeat Them.__NEWL__The attack goes awry, however, and all six of them are made into Homeward Bounders.__NEWL__This fills the Bounder circuits to their maximum capacity; in effect, this means that They cannot create any more Homeward Bounders.__NEWL__Even They must play by Their own rules.__NEWL__Jamie awakens, alone, and realizes that Adam and Vanessa's world is his Home, only 100 years too late – he recognizes a photo of Adam and Vanessa's grandmother when she was young; it was his little sister, grown up.__NEWL__He realizes that although he did not age during his time on the Bounder circuits, time was still passing on his Home world, and his family and his Home world have gone forever.__NEWL__They are cheating; his world is gone.__NEWL__He has no home to go to.__NEWL__His hope of ever returning home crushed, he returns to the mysterious entity chained to a rock, and inadvertently frees him, as only one without hope can free him.__NEWL__With his help, Jamie rallies all the Homeward Bounders, and they make a frontal assault on the main base of Them, and destroy many of Them and also Their special place, known as "The Real Place".__NEWL__Everyone is returned to their respective home worlds, except for Jamie.__NEWL__Since his home is gone, he chooses to continue to wander through the worlds, so as to keep The Real Place in all the worlds, not just in one place, as They did.__NEWL__So, in the end, Jamie stops Them from returning for at least a few centuries, by giving up any hope of a normal life and having to endure watching his friends die while he stays young.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7460754	Shadowmancer	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q852778	Whitby	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2855787	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2855787	The fantasy story takes place in Whitby and concerns the evil sorcerer Reverend Obadiah Demurral who is seeking two powerful amulets, called the Keruvim, which he plans to use to control the elements and dominate the world.__NEWL__At the start of the book he purchases the first Keruvim (which takes the form of a golden statuette of a cherub) from an Ethiopian mercenary named Gebra Nubera.__NEWL__He then uses the Keruvim to destroy a ship upon which the next Keruvim is prophesied to arrive, but when he surveys the wreckage he finds nothing.__NEWL__The next day an Ethiopian boy named Raphah arrives searching for the Keruvim.__NEWL__He befriends the main character, an urchin named Thomas and reveals that he is a messenger from God (referred to as Riathamus here), and that Demurral is a Shadowmancer, a sorcerer who can control the dead.__NEWL__Despite not believing in God, Thomas agrees to assist Raphah in regaining the Keruvim because he wants revenge on Demurral for evicting him and his dying mother from their home.__NEWL__They pursue Demurral and the Keruvim with the assistance of Thomas's tomboy friend Kate and the mysterious smuggler, Jacob Crane.__NEWL__During the story, Raphah, Kate and Jacob Crane, who all for their own individual reasons did not believe in God, do come to believe in him.__NEWL__Eventually it is revealed that, in using the Keruvim, Demurral has unleashed a demonic race called the Glashan who were imprisoned at the dawn of time for rebelling against God.__NEWL__Led by the evil Pyratheon (the Devil), they join forces with Demurral so that they can find the other Keruvim and harness its power to overthrow God and rule the universe.__NEWL__It is eventually revealed that Raphah is the other Keruvim, so Demurral and Pyratheon try to capture him, so that they can kill him and turn him into an Azimuth (a slave spirit) to activate the Keruvim's full power.__NEWL__At the climax of the story Thomas, Kate and Raphah meet an angel referred to as a Seruvim (a play on the word Seraphim) named Raphael, who goes by the alias Abram Rickards.__NEWL__A showdown takes place in Demurral's church during which Raphah is killed and Pyratheon obtains the Keruvim.__NEWL__He recites the incantation to activate its power and the world is temporarily plunged into night.__NEWL__Pyratheon thinks he has succeeded in stealing the power of God and gloats.__NEWL__However Abram then reveals that while Raphah is dead it has no power and all Pyratheon has done is meddle with time.__NEWL__After Abram restores life to Raphah, the sun rises, Abram is revealed in his true form and Pyratheon and Demurral flee.__NEWL__Abram tells Thomas, Kate and Jacob Crane to take the Keruvim away to another land so they leave aboard Crane's ship, The Magenta.__NEWL__However, in the closing page of the book it is revealed that they are being stealthily pursued by sea-demons known as Seloth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1199227	The Soddit	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2858180	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2858180	The story starts with a peaceful Soddit called Bingo who is visited by a wizard, Gandef, and a party of dwarfs led by Thorri and Mori who ask Bingo to come with them on a quest to 'The Only Mountain' where 'Smug the Dragon' lives.__NEWL__After a few drinks, Bingo accepts, not knowing what they were actually searching for.__NEWL__"Gold, boyo gold, la, look you."__NEWL__On the way, they have many adventures and close shaves, including their ponies drowning in the river and losing all luggage but one helmet.__NEWL__Roberts says he wanted the company fighting through the Piccadilly flea circus and fighting the Daleks from Doctor__NEWL__Who, but he says it was cut for time.__NEWL__They have a nasty run in with some trollops, who plan to eat them, successfully squash four dwarfs but they annoy the wizard Gandef, who temporarily turns them to mounds of sand as opposed to real stone.__NEWL__While at the tree village of Riverdale, Ellesquare and the other Tree Elves of the high council ridicule the dwarfs for their loss of their four comrades and call it "carelessness.__NEWL__" The company entered the mountains after Gandef struggled to open the door until he coughed, which was apparently the password.__NEWL__In the mountains, they encounter Gobblins, which are evil turkeys, who take them to their town, but the dwarves all fight out, Gandef repeatedly decapitates countless Gobblins while in combat, a fifth dwarf dies in friendly fire from Gandef and Bingo gets lost by falling down the abyss.__NEWL__He falls into a cavern where he meets a morose philosopher named Sollum.__NEWL__He challenges him to a game of riddles; with the cannibalistic philosopher seeing Bingo's presence as the only delightful moment in his life.__NEWL__Bingo wins the riddles, and asks what he wins, but then remembers he found a Thing® that was created by evil dark lord Sharon and is Sollum's.__NEWL__So the philosopher tries to eat him but he escapes due to the Thing®'s super-speed.__NEWL__After reuniting with the party, the dwarfs are chased by non-sentient wolves and hide up a tree, though not before a sixth dwarf is eaten.__NEWL__The wolves flee after Gandef sets them on fire, allowing the company to simply climb down the tree and walk away.__NEWL__Gandef plans to take them to a mill, which is "famous" but when they arrive they find it has been accidentally burned by the wolves.__NEWL__Then they go to see a fearsome ABBA-quoting maniac, Biorn the bear-man, who is reputed to change from man to bear at night, but later during the visit they find he is just a totally crazy, naked man who thinks he can transform.__NEWL__They shut him outside his house to calm him down and then they move on leaving him to mumble.__NEWL__The next bit is the "enchanted" forest of Myurkywood, which has been under an illusion spell for some time.__NEWL__As in the original, the streams are magic, and turn to rapids quick.__NEWL__They meet highly bitter, political spiders in the forest who want to lay eggs in their beards, but Bingo realizes the Thing® can get them out of their peril, which it does.__NEWL__It works by reversed spells but a seventh Dwarf dies from using it to heal his ankles.__NEWL__Then, they find a brewery, where the men are morbidly obese Dwarfs and drunk and want to drown them because they can't sing.__NEWL__After unintentionally using the Thing® to obtain drunken immunity, Bingo gets them out.__NEWL__They get to Lakeside, where they go off to the Only Mountain, where Bingo asks if the dwarves are going to finally tell him why he's there.__NEWL__Upon hearing that he has to go down a chimney, Bingo is accidentally thrown down said chimney when Mori promises to tell him the truth, and meets the dragon Smug, who is actually very friendly and even offers him tea.__NEWL__Smug says he hasn't made any enemies and doesn't know of anyone who would kill him.__NEWL__He is worried he has driven away the Lakesiders' business so he says he'll fly over to talk.__NEWL__But the dwarves are angry and tell Bingo that Gandef was a dwarf, he has changed into a wizard, and he'll now change into a dragon because that's nature and that's where dragons come from.__NEWL__Smug is shot dead at Lakeside by Lard the Bowman, and twenty thousand gobblins led by the Great Gobblin attack, but the six remaining dwarves led by Mori, five hundred men led by Lard, five hundred elves led by Ellesquare, and Bingo, led by himself, fight them.__NEWL__At the end, most of the men and elves are massacred, three more Dwarfs die, Mori is severely injured and the gobblins swarm round them demanding the Thing®, but Bingo tricks them by giving them the Barking Stone, which they believe is the Thing® and whispers in it "war", which causes Gandef's dragon breath to erupt from the Only Mountain's chimney and kill all the gobblins, which encircles the remaining soldiers of the other four armies.__NEWL__After the Battle of the Five Armies has ended, Mori dies in Bingo's arms, which finishes off in a style of a Looney Tunes ending and thus only two Dwarfs of the company have survived the quest.__NEWL__Gandef is confirmed and revealed to be a dragon, who can't remember that he wiped out the gobblin army and saved the survivors single-handedly, before flying Bingo home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13456096	Enemies, a Love Story	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2895874	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2895874	It's New York City, a few years after World War II.__NEWL__Herman Broder, a Jewish man who has lost his faith but still enjoys Talmudic scholarship, is married to a Polish woman named Yadwiga Pracz, not of Jewish origin, who had worked as a servant in his father's family in Poland and had kept Herman alive, during the Holocaust, by hiding him in a hayloft in her native village.__NEWL__Almost all Herman's family perished in the Holocaust, including, he believes, his first wife, Tamara, whom an eyewitness told him was shot, along with the couple's two children.__NEWL__Broder married Yadwiga after he received a visa for America, perhaps partly out of a sense of obligation.__NEWL__He brought her to Brooklyn, and in their apartment in Coney Island, she works diligently as a homemaker, learning how to cook such Jewish foods as matzo balls with borscht, carp's head, and challah, but although there are moments of tenderness between them, it isn't a happy union.__NEWL__He calls her a "peasant" to her face and mocks her wish to convert to Judaism.__NEWL__He has told her that he works as a book salesman and that he has to travel for his job up and down the Eastern seaboard, but in fact he works as a ghost-writer for a rabbi in Manhattan named Milton Lampert, who's a showboat and a schemer, and the nights that Yadwiga thinks he's on the road, he is in fact spending in the Bronx, where he pays rent on a second apartment for his mistress, Masha, who is a concentration camp survivor, and her mother, a pious woman named Shifrah Puah.__NEWL__Herman isolates himself from the larger Jewish community, in part because he is haunted by the Holocaust—he often daydreams about what it would be like to have to live for years in whatever room he happens to be in—in part because he is ashamed of his somewhat disreputable line of work, and in part because he wants to hide his double life with Yadwiga and Masha.__NEWL__That romantic arrangement becomes even more complicated when Herman reads his name in a classified ad in a Yiddish newspaper, answers it, and learns that Tamara is alive and in New York City.__NEWL__The comedy of the novel consists in Herman's doomed attempts to keep his three wives from knowing about one another; the tragedy is in the inability of Herman and other characters to make the accommodations and compromises that would reconcile them to their survival.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15046024	Spiral	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1490	Tokyo	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	2836377	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2836377	The events in the story occur one day after the events of the 1st book.__NEWL__It introduces Ando Mitsuo, a coroner still struggling with his son's death, being assigned to do the autopsy of his old classmate, Ryūji Takayama.__NEWL__He and his colleague, Miyashita, find a tumor in Ryūji's heart, which is believed to be his cause of death.__NEWL__Puzzled as the tumor appears similar to smallpox (which was eradicated in 1979), Ando completes the autopsy and, upon finding a newspaper poking through a suture, is reminded of Ryūji's cryptography hobby.__NEWL__Finding the newspaper numbers interesting, he decodes them and discovers that they spell "RING", perplexing Ando.__NEWL__In the search for the message's meaning, Ando soon meets Ryūji's assistant and lover, Mai Takano.__NEWL__Mentioning a videotape that Ryūji watched before dying, Mai believes that it is connected to his death through a curse.__NEWL__Learning of Kazuyuki Asakawa, Ryūji's friend and the protagonist of Ring, Ando considers speaking to him, only to learn that Asakawa and his family were involved in a car accident.__NEWL__Finding that Asakawa is the sole survivor and catatonic, Ando investigates relevant evidence and learns that his wife and child were dead well before the car crashed and that a tape recorder and word processor were in the vehicle.__NEWL__Trying to reach Mai, Ando finds her missing and investigates her seemingly abandoned condominium; he finds what he believes to be a copy of the supposedly cursed videotape, albeit almost entirely recorded over, and believes an unknown entity is hiding somewhere in the condo.__NEWL__Learning that Asakawa's tape deck and word processor went to his next of kin, Ando retrieves the word processor from his brother and copies the files.__NEWL__Finding a document about the videotape, Ando reads that the curse spreads through a tape and can only be stopped by copying and sharing it with someone else; despite disputing the files as pseudoscientific, Ando and Miyashita continue reading into them, and discover that the Ring Virus started with the murder of psychic Sadako Yamamura.__NEWL__Additionally, Miyashita soon discovers that a virus connects all of the victims and comes in two forms: a ring-shaped virus which kills the host, and a broken version of the same virus (similar to a sperm cell) which is dormant.__NEWL__One week after Mai's disappearance, her corpse is found in the ventilation shaft of a barely used office building.__NEWL__Additionally, despite having given no physical indication that she was pregnant, Mai's corpse shows signs that she gave birth prior to her death.__NEWL__Upon visiting the crime scene, Ando meets a beautiful woman named Masako who introduces herself as Mai's older sister.__NEWL__After having sex with Masako, Ando later receives a fax containing information on Sadako from Miyashita, only to realize that Masako is identical to Sadako.__NEWL__Believing that Masako is Sadako reborn, Ando receives a note from her explaining that Mai was infected with the 2nd "sperm" ring virus which targeted her womb; this allowed Sadako to conceive herself within Mai and control her, before birthing herself within a week and disposing of Mai's corpse.__NEWL__Also revealing that the Ring Virus can also spread through literary descriptions, Sadako has ensured that Asakawa's brother is able to publish a book on Kazuyuki's files, allowing the virus to spread internationally.__NEWL__She then concludes that Ando is infected with the dormant virus and, should he interfere in any way, she will activate it and kill him; conversely, in exchange for Ando's co-operation, Sadako will resurrect Ando's dead son.__NEWL__Finally learning that Ryūji worked with Sadako to ensure her resurrection, Ando realizes that Ryūji deliberately influenced both himself and Mai.__NEWL__By supernaturally causing the paper code to appear to Ando and making Mai watch the tape when she was most fertile, Ryūji was the mastermind behind the plan, doing so to be spared and revived by Sadako.__NEWL__An epilogue shows Ando playing with his son, Takanori, whereupon Ryūji arrives and implies that he acted for the greater good.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16962823	The Reality Bug	2003-09-01T00:00:00Z	2911778	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2911778	Bobby begins on the territory of Veelox, with Gunny, where they land in the dark room outside the Veelox flume.__NEWL__Bobby and Gunny encounter Saint Dane and believe they have him cornered, however, twenty realistic holograms of the villain suddenly appear around him, but Bobby found the right one and fought him, but Saint Dane called out Eelong and Bobby was scared that he was going with Saint Dane__NEWL__so he let go, allowing Saint Dane to escape.__NEWL__Bobby and Gunny decide to split.__NEWL__Gunny will immediately go to Eelong and report back later with news while Bobby stays on Veelox because Saint Dane had mentioned that it is on the verge of destruction.__NEWL__Bobby hates the darkness and is worried if the inhabitants of Veelox are floating giants after meeting Aja Killian, the local Traveler, in the form of a massive holographic face.__NEWL__Bobby doesn't know if the huge hologram is life-sized.__NEWL__He meets up with a very ordinary, humanoid Aja in a city much like those on Second Earth, called Rubic City.__NEWL__The only differences are that it is deserted, and there is a huge structure called the Lifelight pyramid looming over the town.__NEWL__Aja explains that Lifelight is a virtual reality world—a computer that gives people's desires the appearance of being real.__NEWL__Almost everyone on Veelox is in it, living out their own perfect virtual lives.__NEWL__She takes Bobby through it, and he is amazed at the vedders, who are the "physical" caretakers of the bodies, and the phaders, computer geniuses running the place.__NEWL__She is one of the latter.__NEWL__Bobby experiences his own fantasy "jump"; he meets his family, plays with his dog, Marley, and plays a basketball game where he and his team simply cannot lose.__NEWL__It's a tight game, though.__NEWL__He has to be dragged out by Aja after going into OT.__NEWL__Aja then explains that, because Lifelight is so perfect, hardly anyone leaves.__NEWL__No food is being made.__NEWL__The territory is dying.__NEWL__However, she has a way to stop Lifelight...a Reality Bug that preys on fears to make it all less-than-perfect.__NEWL__She then takes Bobby to where he left off in his fantasy, but uses her virus to make it different.__NEWL__His opponents are taller, his coach has a heart attack, and he is injured.__NEWL__While in the locker room Aja tells him is this is how to save the territory.__NEWL__However, a Saint Dane hologram appears and tells them that the bug is working "far better than you could imagine".__NEWL__Saint Dane is right.__NEWL__The Reality Bug has become far too realistic; its use of fears to dilute the jumps has a placebo effect on people, in that if they die in their fantasy, the death is real.__NEWL__Aja put Lifelight into suspense to keep the jumpers safe and to try to find a solution.__NEWL__Only one man can stop the rapidly evolving virus; Dr. Zetlin, who invented Lifelight and the only one to know of the origin code, the key to purging the bug from the processing code.__NEWL__Zetlin is in Lifelight.__NEWL__He is in the alpha grid, which can be brought online independently of the rest of Lifelight.__NEWL__However, he can't simply be pulled out.__NEWL__Bobby would need help in the danger to come.__NEWL__Bobby goes to Zadaa and convinces its Traveler, Loor, to come along to help him defeat the nightmares.__NEWL__She agrees, and they start the alpha grid up again, with Aja acting as phader-vedder.__NEWL__They plan to get the origin code from Dr. Zetlin and purge Lifelight of the Reality Bug.__NEWL__However, the software is malfunctioning.__NEWL__Rather than send them into Zetlin's fantasy, it sends them into the "Wild West" and thence into Aja's own residence.__NEWL__They meet Saint Dane twice therein before they are pulled out.__NEWL__Aja takes them to Zetlin's fantasy, where Zetlin resides in a massive building called the 'Barbican', which can either stand upright or on its side.__NEWL__The first level of its structure is a tropical jungle filled with plant-animal life forms.__NEWL__The second level is a sort of large pool, with racing motorboats following lights.__NEWL__The level after that is a snow-covered landscape, where Bobby has to finish a race called slickshot in which six skaters need to pick up red balls and put them into buckets.__NEWL__Unfortunately, only four people can finish the race.__NEWL__Bobby finishes the race (with a bit of intervention from Loor) and sees that Zetlin is actually one of the racers, a popular sixteen-year-old called the "Z" in his fantasy.__NEWL__Bobby, Loor and Aja convince him to spill the code, which turns out to be "zero.__NEWL__" When Aja enters the code, it turns out that Saint Dane sabotaged it.__NEWL__The Reality Bug takes physical form (a black ameoba-like shapeshifter), and chases Bobby, Zetlin, and Loor around Zetlin's fantasy home, and even into the real world when it grows too powerful to be contained by Lifelight.__NEWL__They leave Zetlin's jump and shut down all of Lifelight, and the Reality Bug is destroyed.__NEWL__The Travelers feel they have beaten Saint Dane—again.__NEWL__But at a ceremony congratulating Aja and explaining the loss of Lifelight, Dr. Sever, prime director of the program, steps up.__NEWL__She turns out to be Saint Dane in disguise, and she stirs up the crowd, promising to bring Lifelight back online.__NEWL__He/She succeeds, everyone reenters Lifelight, and Saint Dane receives his first victory.__NEWL__After Saint Dane gets his first Territory, Bobby abruptly ends his journal.__NEWL__He has Aja finish it, and after it is finally ended, Courtney and Mark go to an old man named Dorney to become acolytes.__NEWL__After this, they decided to go to the flume in Stony Brook to leave clothes.__NEWL__Here, Mark, unknowingly, activates the flume when he calls out "Eelong".__NEWL__First Saint Dane come, giving them a bag saying, "A present for Pendragon".__NEWL__As he leaves, he says, "What once ones, is no longer".__NEWL__Just a few seconds after he leaves, Bobby shows up.__NEWL__Mark gives him the bag, which turns out to be Gunny's hand in a bag.__NEWL__The book ends with Bobby saying, " Wait for my journal.__NEWL__and whatever you do, do not activate the flumes.__NEWL__That's exactly what Saint Dane wants, and it is not the way things were meant to be."__NEWL__before departing to Eelong.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7539843	Sleeping Beauty	1973-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2912242	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2912242	Private eye Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands - including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of nembutal, a six figure ransom and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5597496	Grass for His Pillow	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	2830266	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830266	Kaede slowly recovers from the Kikuta sleep given to her by Takeo, with dreams of the White Goddess: Be patient.__NEWL__He will come for you.__NEWL__Afterwards she travels towards home, accompanied by Shizuka.__NEWL__Arai is furious that Takeo has gone off with the Tribe, and realizes that he had underestimated them.__NEWL__He sends his men to search for him, and to assassinate Shizuka, his ex-lover whom he now fears because of her association with the Tribe.__NEWL__However, the attempt fails.__NEWL__Kaede is pregnant with Takeo's child, but Shizuka creates the notion of a secret marriage with Shigeru before his death to explain the coming child.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Takeo is kept hidden inside a Tribe house in Yamagata.__NEWL__Kikuta Akio, one of his abductors, is charged with teaching him, despite their mutual hatred.__NEWL__Under the disguise of traveling acrobats, they head north to Matsue.__NEWL__Yuki, Kenji's daughter, enters a relationship with Takeo as directed to by the Tribe, though she has genuine affection for him.__NEWL__One day she leaves suddenly, pregnant with his child, whom the tribe hope will inherit Takeo's extraordinary abilities.__NEWL__Kaede returns to her childhood home to find the estate in disrepair, her mother dead, and her father in despair after losing a battle to Arai and not having the courage to take his own life.__NEWL__She determines, despite her gender, to take over Shirakawa.__NEWL__She attracts the interest of an Imperial noble who lives nearby, Lord Fujiwara, who assists her in return for hearing her secrets.__NEWL__Makoto, a monk from Terayama, visits and accidentally reveals that there was no marriage between Kaede and Shigeru.__NEWL__In disgrace, her father decides their whole family must take their lives, and attacks Kaede.__NEWL__Shizuka and Kondo (a retainer, and member of the tribe) rescue her by killing him.__NEWL__Kaede goes into labour, miscarries her child, and becomes gravely ill.__NEWL__The Tribe become frustrated with Takeo's disobedience, and send him on a mission as a last chance.__NEWL__They believe Shigeru compiled records on the Tribe, so Takeo goes to his old house with Akio to retrieve them—Takeo being the only one who could get across the nightingale floor without being detected.__NEWL__Takeo discovers the records are at Terayama, but decides to escape from the Tribe.__NEWL__He shakes off Akio, and makes his way south, with winter closing in.__NEWL__On the way he is taken to a blind woman who delivers the prophecy that would haunt him: "Your lands will stretch from sea to sea...__NEWL__Five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose.__NEWL__Many must die, but you yourself are safe from death, except at the hands of your own son."__NEWL__After evading several attempts on his life by the Tribe, he reaches Terayama the last day before the pass is closed by snow.__NEWL__Once Spring thaws the snow, Kaede excuses herself from Fujiwara, stating her intention to visit Arai, her overlord, to discuss her future.__NEWL__He reluctantly agrees, and she travels via Terayama, as she has heard that Takeo is there.__NEWL__They meet, and as Takeo is under a death sentence from the Tribe, Kaede sends Shizuka and Kondo away.__NEWL__Against advice, Takeo and Kaede marry at Terayama.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4968035	Brilliance of the Moon	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	2830275	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830275	Soon after Kaede and Takeo's marriage, messengers arrive at Terayama from his Uncles with a threat, and the head of Ichiro, his old teacher.__NEWL__The Otori army lies in wait to ambush him, so Takeo leads them over the mountains, and across the river near Kibi, with the assistance of a bridge made by Jo-an and some outcasts.__NEWL__His second-in-command is the homosexual monk Makoto, a friend of his from Terayama; Makoto criticizes many of Takeo's unorthodox methods, but nonetheless is very loyal to him.__NEWL__After a minor skirmish with some bandits, they lead the army to Maruyama, the domain that Lady Maruyama left to Kaede.__NEWL__Lady Maruyama's son-in-law, Iida Nariaki, a cousin to Iida Sadamu, has marched in to Maruyama just ahead of them, but Iida's army gets caught between the Maruyama and Takeo's armies, and are defeated.__NEWL__Takeo takes up Maruyama as his base of operations, and he and Kaede prepare to restore the domain Meanwhile, Shizuka and Kondo Kiichi arrive at the hidden Muto village, and are reunited with her uncle, Kenji, and her two sons.__NEWL__She fears the consequences that will come from Kaede's rash marriage.__NEWL__From Kenji she learns of the Kikuta's belief in the existence of records on the tribe compiled by Shigeru before his death.__NEWL__They decide to send Kondo to Arai, to gauge his reaction to Kaede's marriage, and his feeling towards his sons by Shizuka.__NEWL__Kenji also tells her how his daughter Yuki was recently married to Akio, but was forced to take her life after her son by Takeo was born, because the Kikuta were suspicious of her love for Takeo.__NEWL__The child will remain with the Kikuta, who have their own plans concerning the boy and Takeo's futures.__NEWL__Kenji's grief at his daughter's death has caused him to split from the Kikuta; regretful of his betrayal of Shigeru, he now tries to rally the other families of the Tribe to help Takeo.__NEWL__In Maruyama, they start restoring the land and estates.__NEWL__Takeo is threatened by the local Tribe members, so using Shigeru's records, he has them rounded up and the adults executed.__NEWL__His mind turns to Hagi, and he concocts a plan to invade it by sea.__NEWL__He travels to Oshima island to meet his childhood friend Terada Fumio, whose family have now become pirates, to seek an alliance.__NEWL__Kaede wants to accompany him, but he tells her to stay.__NEWL__On the way he meets Ryoma, an illegitimate son of his Uncle, Masahiro.__NEWL__He makes an agreement with Fumio's father, but his return is delayed by typhoons, and he almost drowns in a storm.__NEWL__Despite Sugita's objections, Kaede rides to Shirakawa with Hiroshi, and finds that Shoji, the Shirakawa retainer, had given up her sisters to Fujiwara, and returned her hostage to his family.__NEWL__Shocked, she hides the records on the Tribe at the nearby Shrine, and rides to demand her sisters return.__NEWL__Fujiwara abducts her, and only Hiroshi escapes to later bring the news to Maruyama.__NEWL__Fujiwara declares her marriage to Takeo to be illegal, and he forces her to marry him.__NEWL__Their marriage is celibate: he is not interested in her as a woman, but as a treasure, to be locked away, well-cared for but not given any information.__NEWL__However, one of Shizuka's cousins manages to bring Kaede messages for a time- until Fujiwara discovers her and has her murdered.__NEWL__Takeo returns and hears the news of Kaede's abduction.__NEWL__His army marches towards Shirakawa, but discovers not only Fujiwara's garrison, but Arai's larger army.__NEWL__Caught between them, Takeo is defeated but manages to extract his forces.__NEWL__They retreat to the coast as Maruyama surrenders to Arai's men, hoping for Fumio to come by boat, but the weather delays him.__NEWL__Takeo submits to Arai, but rather than killing him, they enter into an alliance against the Otori lords (Shigeru's uncles), but to dispel rumors about him being one of the hidden, Takeo is forced to kill the outcast Jo-an.__NEWL__Kenji, turned against the Kikuta because of the murder of his daughter, comes to Takeo and brings a truce, and an alliance on behalf of the Tribe, save the Kikuta.__NEWL__Before they leave, Fumio demonstrates to Takeo the use of a firearm, an invention obtained from the white barbarians.__NEWL__Arai's army marches north, and Takeo sails around the coast to Hagi.__NEWL__With Kenji and Taku, Arai and Shizuka's younger son, they sneak into the castle, and kill the lords and their families.__NEWL__When Arai's army arrives, he betrays Takeo; he intended to use Takeo to take out the Otori Lords for him, removing the last obstacle to his total rule of the Three Countries.__NEWL__Enraged, Takeo threatens to kill Arai's sons Zenko and Taku (who are standing next to him) which makes Arai pause.__NEWL__Fumio shoots Arai dead with the firearm, and at that moment a huge earthquake rocks the entire three countries.__NEWL__It destroys Arai's army, and in Shirakawa it destroys Fujiwara and his household in an example of Deus ex machina.__NEWL__Kondo Kiichi, in a last act of loyalty to Kaede, sacrifices himself to hold Fujiwara inside his burning house.__NEWL__However, Kaede's oiled hair accidentally catches fire.__NEWL__The Kikuta master, Kotaro, sneaks into Takeo's house to assassinate him, as he did to his father years before.__NEWL__With Kenji and Taku's help, they defeat him, but Takeo loses 2 fingers, and goes into a delirium from the poisoned blade that cut him.__NEWL__After he recovers, and despite the onset of winter, he rushes south to find what happened to Kaede.__NEWL__Makoto, his longtime friend, decides to leave him, but promises to continue to pray for him and for all his people at the temple They come to the shrine to find Kaede, Shizuka, and her new husband Dr Ishida alive, with the tribal records safe.__NEWL__But Kaede's hair is shorn, terrible burns marring her neck; Takeo gently covers her scars with his maimed hand.__NEWL__As it starts to snow, Takeo prays the spring would bring healing to their lands and their marriage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2565832	Inkspell	2005-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	2890614	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890614	A year has passed, and Meggie now lives with Elinor, Darius and her parents, Mo and Resa.__NEWL__Life is peaceful, but not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart and the characters that came to life.__NEWL__For the fire-eater Dustfinger, the need to return to his home world has become urgent.__NEWL__When he finds a crooked storyteller named Orpheus who has the ability to read and write stories to life like Mo, he asks to be read back.__NEWL__Orpheus obliges but doesn't send Dustfinger's apprentice, Farid, back into the book as they arranged.__NEWL__Instead, Orpheus steals the book from the boy and hands it over to Basta, who wants revenge for the death of his master Capricorn.__NEWL__Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too.__NEWL__Soon after Meggie and Farid are in the book, Mortola, Basta, Orpheus, and a "man built like a wardrobe" barge into Elinor's house, taking Mo, Resa, Elinor, and Darius prisoner.__NEWL__As per Mortola's orders, Orpheus reads Basta, Mortola, and Mo into Inkheart, bringing Resa along by accident.__NEWL__Upon entry, Mortola shoots Mo with a shotgun that he brought from our world.__NEWL__Resa discovers that her voice has come back to her as she prays for Mo to survive the wound.__NEWL__As he recovers, Resa and Mo hide in a secret cave with the strolling players, or the Motley Folk.__NEWL__Soon the Motley Folk assume that the injured Mo is the mysterious gentleman-robber, the "Bluejay", a fictitious hero from a song created by Fenoglio's words.__NEWL__Fenoglio has been living within his own story since the events of Inkheart, working as a court scribe in Lombrica's capital city of Ombra.__NEWL__Once reunited with Meggie, Fenoglio asks her to read Cosimo the Fair back into the story, since he died a death the author never planned for him.__NEWL__Meggie doesn't feel comfortable interfering with the story but is soon convinced by Fenoglio that it will be 'a double' of Cosimo - not Cosimo himself.__NEWL__Reluctantly, Meggie reads Cosmio in and quickly regrets it when the Adderhead's soldiers barge into the fair, injuring and killing many people.__NEWL__Cosimo has none of his doubles memories and doesn't seem to love his wife and child anymore.__NEWL__Cosimo's return upsets the Adderhead, ruler of the neighboring region of Argenta, who planned to take over Lombrica once the Laughing Prince died.__NEWL__With the rightful heir to the throne of Ombra mysteriously brought back to life, but with no memories of 'his own' life, war is imminent.__NEWL__Mo and Resa are captured by the Adderhead's men along with many other strolling players in the cave, sold out by one of their own.__NEWL__Meggie joins Dustfinger and Farid in searching for her parents and the strolling players.__NEWL__Along with the Black Prince, the leader of the Motley Folk, they launch a successful rescue mission, but Mo is unable to escape because of his wound and Resa stays behind with him.__NEWL__In the meantime, Cosimo's double is ruthlessly killed in a battle along with most of Ombra's men.__NEWL__Meggie goes willingly into the Adderhead's Castle of Night and, fulfilling a prophecy she and Fenoglio dreamed up and "read" into reality, offers him a bargain:__NEWL__Mo, a great bookbinder, rather than the robber they believe him to be, will bind the Adderhead a book of immortality if he lets Meggie, Resa, Mo, and the rest go free.__NEWL__What they neglect to tell the Prince of Argenta is that if three words are written in the book ("Heart", "Spell", and "Death", referencing the titles of the books), the person who signed his name in the book to gain immortality will die instantly.__NEWL__In disbelief, his lieutenant Firefox, is chosen to test it.__NEWL__Firefox is made immortal, surviving a fatal stabbing without suffering any consequences but Taddeo, the Adderhead's librarian, kills him by writing the three words in the book.__NEWL__Satisfied that the book works, the words are erased and replaced by the Adderhead's name, consequently making the Adderhead invincible.__NEWL__Mo picks up Firefox's sword as they leave and claims it as his own, feeling a strange coldness within him; he believes his anger and sadness at the events thus far are changing him into a different person.__NEWL__The Adderhead decided, as celebration for his wife giving birth to a healthy son to release all of the prisoners from his cells, but the Black Prince suspects that he instead plans to sell the prisoners into slavery.__NEWL__Together the robbers plan to free the prisoners.__NEWL__Mo learns to fight during the raid lead by Basta.__NEWL__Unfortunately Basta kills Farid with a knife thrown at his back (The death Fenoglio had originally planned for Dustfinger).__NEWL__Basta is then killed by Mo. Later while mourning Farid's death, Dustfinger asks Meggie if she too would like to have Farid back.__NEWL__When Meggie agrees, he sends her to Roxanne to tell her "he will always find his way back to her".__NEWL__Roxanne realizes what Dustfinger plans to do and runs to him but is too late and watches as the White Women, (the Inkworld's Angels of Death) take Dustfinger.__NEWL__Farid is brought back to life in Dustfinger's place and the story ends with Meggie reading Orpheus to the Inkworld so as to resurrect Dustfinger.__NEWL__Orpheus convinces Farid to become his servant in saying that it will help him bring Dustfinger back to life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7739260	The Heaven Makers	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2890732	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890732	The Heaven Makers is set on contemporary Earth with one difference: that we are being watched and manipulated by aliens for their viewing pleasure.__NEWL__The plot focuses on several humans whose lives are changed by the aliens, and an alien observer investigating the morality of these changes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7731651	The Eight Doctors	1997-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2869864	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2869864	Immediately after the events of the TV film, the Eighth Doctor finishes reading The Time Machine (a book written by his old friend H.G. Wells).__NEWL__After checking the Eye of Harmony in his TARDIS, he falls prey to a final trap set by his old enemy, the Master; which erases all of his memory.__NEWL__The only fact he knows for certain is that his name is "the Doctor" – but Doctor who?__NEWL__His instincts tell him to "trust the TARDIS", which immediately lands.__NEWL__He lands at a scrapyard at 76 Totters Lane, London in 1997.__NEWL__There, he encounters Sam Jones, a young lady that is being accused by local drug dealers, led by Baz Bailey, of "grassing" them over to the police.__NEWL__The dealers intend to force Sam into taking drugs to get her addicted, but the Doctor saves her and falls foul of the local police who promptly charge him with possession and selling the cocaine he has confiscated from the thugs.__NEWL__Sam tells her two teachers, who have noticed her lateness, and takes them back to the junkyard to verify the story.__NEWL__In the confusion of Bailey's desperate attack on the local police station, the Doctor escapes and runs back into the TARDIS and it dematerialises – taking the cocaine with him to dispose of it safely.__NEWL__This leaves Sam alone, defenceless against the knife-wielding druggies.__NEWL__The TARDIS lands in the year 100,000 BC, and he meets his first incarnation in the jungle and they psychically link (giving the Eighth Doctor his memories up to that point in his life).__NEWL__The Eighth Doctor stops his other self from killing a caveman who was slowing their party down.__NEWL__The First Doctor explains that he must get away before the "time bubble" his Eighth self is in bursts and starts to damage the timeline.__NEWL__The Eighth Doctor then leaves.__NEWL__The TARDIS then lands during the events of The War Games, where he helps his second incarnation, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot with their important mission to contact the Time Lords.__NEWL__Having regained his second life's memories, he leaves happily.__NEWL__He next meets the Third Doctor, who himself has just fought the Master and the Sea Devils; and has saved humanity by blowing up a Sea Devil base.__NEWL__He, blaming his Eighth self for his exile to Earth and for the Master's concurrent escape, threatens him with the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator.__NEWL__But he tosses the weapon to him instead.__NEWL__The Master has again escaped to fight another day, and the Eighth Doctor leaves.__NEWL__Having landed during the events of State of Decay, the Eighth Doctor gives the Fourth Doctor an emergency blood transfusion after his younger self is attacked and nearly fatally drained by another group of vampires, and leaves with yet more memories (to the astonishment of companion Romana).__NEWL__Meanwhile, back on Gallifrey, Lady President Flavia has noticed the Doctor crossing his timelines and demands that he be carefully watched.__NEWL__A Time Lord called Ryoth demands the Doctor be executed: the resulting paradoxes could be irreversible.__NEWL__Flavia denies this.__NEWL__Ryoth alerts the Celestial Intervention Agency to the situation, and the Agency give him access to the fabled Timescoop technology, perfectly preserved since the Death Zone incident.__NEWL__He uses it to send a Raston Warrior Robot to the Fifth Doctor and his companions, Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough.__NEWL__Luckily, the Eighth Doctor then arrives at the aftermath of The Five Doctors, where he saves his fifth incarnation and his companions from the Raston Warrior Robot and a passing platoon of Sontarans by tricking the two into fighting each other.__NEWL__The Doctors create a feedback system, so when Ryoth sends a Drashig to kill them, it instead materialises in the same room as Ryoth and eats him and the Timescoop.__NEWL__It is then caught and transmatted to the Death Zone by guards in the Capitol in the hopes that it will take care of the other horrors there.__NEWL__Soon he arrives in the middle of his second trial by the Time Lords; which his Sixth self seems to be losing (especially as the insidious Valeyard has just accused him of a mass genocide attack against the Vervoids).__NEWL__After giving him advice and encouragement- as well as helping to begin an investigation into his past self's trial on Gallifrey-, he leaves, his memories almost completely intact.__NEWL__He finally arrives on the planet Metebelis Three, where the alone and depressed Seventh Doctor is trapped by a giant spider.__NEWL__After rescuing his former self (by killing the arachnid with the TCE), he remembers leaving Sam, and immediately dashes back into the TARDIS to her rescue.__NEWL__Once saved by the Doctor, Sam decides to join him on his travels.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7173756	Peter Duck	1932-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2904605	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904605	The Swallows and Amazons are in Lowestoft, preparing for a cruise aboard a schooner, the Wild Cat, with Captain Flint, the Blacketts' uncle Jim Turner.__NEWL__Unfortunately the other adult (Sam Bideford) cannot come and so the cruise is threatened until Peter Duck, an elderly seaman, offers to come along to help.__NEWL__In the harbour a larger black schooner, the Viper, is fitting out for a voyage and Peter Duck's presence aboard the Wild Cat interests Black Jake, the Viper’s captain.__NEWL__Peter Duck spins a yarn about a treasure that he saw being buried long ago, when marooned on a desert island in the Caribbean Sea, and which Black Jake wants to find.__NEWL__When the Wild Cat sails, the Viper is quick to follow and trails her down the English Channel, at one point threatening to board her in the night.__NEWL__In a fog off Land's End, the crew of the Wild Cat give the Viper the slip but pick up the Viper’s cabin boy, Bill, who has been set adrift to try and fool the Wild Cat’s crew with false signals.__NEWL__They continue across the Atlantic Ocean to Crab Island where they spend several days searching in vain for Peter Duck's treasure.__NEWL__When a hurricane blows up, Peter Duck and Captain Flint take the Wild Cat out to sea to ride out the storm, leaving the Swallows and Amazons ashore.__NEWL__There is an earthquake during the storm, and when the schooner returns all the paths to the treasure-hunters' camp are blocked by landslides and fallen trees.__NEWL__However, a fallen palm tree exposes a small box, Peter Duck's treasure, which the children recover.__NEWL__They decide to sail round to the anchorage as the land route is blocked.__NEWL__While Captain Flint attempts to cross the island to rescue the Swallows and Amazons, the Viper arrives and Peter Duck and Bill are captured.__NEWL__The crew of the Viper also go ashore to look for the treasure.__NEWL__The children rescue Peter Duck and Bill, and then the Wild Cat sails back to the other side and they pick up Captain Flint just before Black Jake arrives.__NEWL__They attempt to sail away from the island but the wind dies and the Viper looks like catching them, but they are saved by a waterspout which destroys the Viper.__NEWL__They return home safely without further incident.__NEWL__The contents of the treasure chest proves to be a collection of nautical literature and a sizeable number of pearls, which --- though indeed of considerable value --- turn out to not really be worth the vast fortune that one might have expected in a buccaneer's buried chest.__NEWL__The story's main characters divide up the assets appropriately, with funds going to sensible and practical ventures such as purchasing a better seagoing vessel for Peter, setting up college funds for the children, and so on.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7752910	The Mystery of the Fire Dragon	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8646	Hong Kong	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2843754	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2843754	Nancy Drew is called to New York City by her Aunt Eloise to solve a missing-person case.__NEWL__The granddaughter of her elderly Chinese author neighbor, Mr. Soong, has been kidnapped.__NEWL__The search is on, first by disguising Nancy's friend George Fayne as the missing Chi Che, and then pursuing a lead at Chi Che's place of employment, a book store, where Nancy encounters its suspicious owner, Mr Stromberg.__NEWL__Nancy decides to visit the store again but as she goes along the sidewalk, Nancy is knocked-out by a falling vase which hits her on the head.__NEWL__While Nancy is unconscious, Bess and George take up the mystery and a red-haired man is quickly arrested.__NEWL__A series of clues leads the girls to Hong Kong, where Nancy's boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, joins the action.__NEWL__Nancy foolishly follows "Chi Che" on board a plane, and is herself kidnapped.__NEWL__Ingenious Nancy uses her lipstick to signal for help on the plane windows.__NEWL__After her rescue, she follows more clues to an international smuggling ring, and, utilizing a disguised George once again, forces the thieves out of hiding and has the chance to finally locate the missing girl.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1049315	A Mother's Gift	2001-04-10T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2861666	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2861666	The story is about a 14-year-old girl named Holly Faye Lovell from a tiny, rural town called Biscay in the U.S. state of Mississippi.__NEWL__She gets accepted as a scholarship student into the exclusive Haverty School of Performing Arts, and the story revolves around Holly's life in Haverty, where she is the poorest student, and her relationship with her mother, Wanda.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1317915	Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2871691	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2871691	Dr. Bloodmoney is set in a post-apocalyptic future.__NEWL__In 1972, before the start of the narrative, Dr. Bruno Bluthgeld (German for "Blood-Money") had led a project testing nuclear weapons as a protectionary measure against Communist China and the Soviet Union.__NEWL__However, a miscalculation caused an atmospheric nuclear accident leading to widespread fallout and mutations.__NEWL__More recently the United States has been involved in a prolonged period of hostilities with China and the Soviet Union erupting in a war in Cuba.__NEWL__In 1981, the now universally hated Bluthgeld seeks psychotherapy with Dr. Stockstill for his paranoia and guilt.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Stuart McConchie, Hoppy Harrington and Jim Fergesson, employees at Modern TV Sales and Service in Berkeley, California, go through a fairly typical day, pausing to watch Walt and Lydia Dangerfield being launched into orbit in the first stage of a colonization mission to Mars.__NEWL__This ordinary day, however, is disrupted by a massive nuclear strike.__NEWL__Orbiting overhead, Walt Dangerfield witnesses the tragic events as they unfold, while other characters are reduced to desperate measures in their struggle for survival.__NEWL__Fergesson is killed as his shop collapses.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Bluthgeld is convinced that he caused the strike in response to a universal conspiracy against him.__NEWL__Believing that he has shown the world his power, he sets out to heal and restore order through his imagined magical powers.__NEWL__The narrative jumps to 1988, when many communities have begun to rebuild a sort of order.__NEWL__A military government has arisen in Cheyenne, Wyoming, while in California government is by local community councils that view one another with varying degrees of hostility.__NEWL__Most pre-war technologies and amenities have been lost.__NEWL__Oil shortages result in disabled cars being pulled by horses or fitted with wood-burning (steam) engines.__NEWL__Former California ranch territory has been converted into agricultural land for corn and other crops.__NEWL__Human mutants have become more common, such as phocomeli, as well as conjoined symbiotes.__NEWL__At the same time, former domestic animals like dogs and cats have undergone mutations that have greatly enhanced their intelligence.__NEWL__Many of these former pets and zoo specimens have allied themselves into ferocious tribal units of their own.__NEWL__Bruno Bluthgeld's dog Terry is capable of imitating simple human speech, while some species of felines may have developed their own evolved languages.__NEWL__Walt Dangerfield, supplied with enough rations to last him for at least several more years, as well as a vast treasury of books and musical recordings, has become a disc jockey in orbit.__NEWL__His broadcasts help provide some sense of continuity with pre-war civilization in the isolated settlements that comprise the postwar world.__NEWL__His wife Lydia committed suicide at some point during the intervening period.__NEWL__Dangerfield has begun to experience symptoms of an unknown medical condition, causing some of his listeners to worry.__NEWL__In Marin County survivors including Bonny Keller, Dr. Stockstill, June Raub and Hoppy Harrington have organized into a self-governing community.__NEWL__Harrington, a Thalidomide baby missing all four of his limbs, harbors a quietly smoldering resentment of the patronizing and condescending attitudes he endured before the war.__NEWL__He has now become a successful mechanic thanks to electronic servo-mechanism technology as well as his gradually increasing abilities of psychokinesis or mind-over-matter.__NEWL__As such, he becomes a genuinely respected and absolutely indispensable member of the community.__NEWL__His ultimate goal, however, is to dominate and humiliate the people within his community through intimidation via his increasingly capricious and violent misuse of his ever-strengthening powers.__NEWL__He's been using his talents to gradually weaken Walt Dangerfield in order to take over Dangerfield's much-beloved satellite transmissions.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Bluthgeld, under the assumed name of Jack Tree, lives as a sheep farmer outside the community.__NEWL__One outsider searching for the infamous Bluthgeld was exposed by Bonny Keller and summarily executed for his troubles.__NEWL__Stuart McConchie has become a travelling entrepreneur in the post-apocalyptic world, selling "smart" robotic rat traps for a company based in post-war Berkeley.__NEWL__Still holding onto his ambitious pre-war salesman's mentality, McConchie travels to Marin County to meet Andrew Gill, a cigarette and alcohol entrepreneur, to discuss the re-introduction of automation within his factory as an agent of Berkeley-based business interests.__NEWL__His appearance in West Marin startles Hoppy Harrington and Bruno Bluthgeld, both of whom had last seen McConchie on the day of the "Emergency".__NEWL__Bluthgeld's increasing psychosis eventually leads to the discovery of his identity.__NEWL__His magical powers, however, do not appear to be entirely imaginary.__NEWL__In his ardent desire to silence the talking satellite he seems to initiate another series of atmospheric explosions merely by willing them to occur.__NEWL__Hoppy, viewing him as a potential rival as well as a direct threat to the community and the planet itself, kills him from several miles away.__NEWL__Harrington employs his own psychokinetic powers in flinging the mad scientist high into the air and then simply letting him fall back to the ground.__NEWL__The Marin County council decides to thank Hoppy by presenting him with gifts of Gill's tobacco, alcohol and a monument in Harrington's honor, but Hoppy scorns these gifts as being much less than he deserves.__NEWL__Bonny Keller begins to worry that Hoppy will set himself up as a vindictive little tin god, and so she flees the county with Gill and McConchie in hopes of eventually settling beyond the reach of his powers.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Edie Keller's conjoined twin brother Bill, a sentient fetus within her body, has been yearning for an independent existence.__NEWL__Bill Keller is able to communicate telepathically with the dead, and they warn him how dangerous Hoppy is becoming.__NEWL__When Edie approaches Hoppy's house, Harrington uses his powers to draw Bill outside of her in hopes of causing him to perish.__NEWL__Little Bill has a near-lethal adventure inside of an owl before finally engineering a body-swap with Hoppy which quickly proves fatal to Harrington.__NEWL__The idol with feet of clay has finally been toppled.__NEWL__At the conclusion of the book, Dr. Stockstill begins a course of psychotherapy, broadcast over the radio, with Walt Dangerfield, who seems to be slowly recovering from his illness in the absence of a jealous Hoppy Harrington's debilitating mental emanations.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7927736	Vidas Secas	1938-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q155	Brazil	2863597	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2863597	Often attributed to its composition as a “collection of autonomous short stories,” that were originally published in various newspapers throughout 1938 in order for Graciliano Ramos to capitalise on his writings, the thirteen chapters of Vidas Secas can be read individually or as a group without affecting the overarching thematic qualities of the novel.__NEWL__The supposed fragmentary nature of the novel, in congruence with the readers’ exposure to various narrative or plot developments through the shifting point of view of different characters, has been cited by critics as intrinsically linking both reader and character in a shared emotional state.__NEWL__The plot of Vidas Secas follows the exploits of the vaqueiro (cowboy) Fabiano, his wife Sinhá Vitória, their two sons (who remain unnamed throughout the novel), and their dog Baleia (whale), in their attempts to forge a meagre existence within the arid interior of Brazil’s north-eastern Sertão.__NEWL__The novel opens with Fabiano and his family escaping an extreme drought by taking shelter in an abandoned fazenda (farm), whereupon they await the return of seasonal rains and tend to a wealthy landowner’s cattle.__NEWL__Within the first few scenes of the novel, the harsh nature of life on the Sertão is illustrated by the family killing and eating their pet parrot, the mute papagaio.__NEWL__Although their time at the fazenda initially brings an “austere version of domestic stability,” Fabiano’s inability to negotiate fair wages with the landowner, along with his difficulty in navigating the city and its corrupt officials, ultimately leaves the family destitute.__NEWL__The family’s troubles are exacerbated by Fabiano’s run-ins with the ‘Yellow Soldier,’ a corrupt government official who bests Fabiano in a crooked card game and provokes a fight which results in Fabiano’s imprisonment.__NEWL__Though Fabiano is subsequently released, problems for the family continue to arise.__NEWL__The next few chapters explore the varying perspectives of the other family members.__NEWL__A chapter dedicated to Sinhá Vitória illustrates her obsession with overcoming their destitute circumstances through her imaginative conceptualisations of “owning a comfortable bed of leather and sucupira wood.”__NEWL__Similarly, proceeding chapters highlights the eldest and youngest sons’ struggle to understand the sertaneja (people of the sertão) lifestyle and explores their differing perceptions of their father.__NEWL__The family’s fortunes are met with further decline in the chapter ‘The Dog’ (or ‘Baleia’ in the original Portuguese edition) which has been cited by critics as “one of the most moving episodes in Brazilian literature.”__NEWL__The chapter, seen predominantly from the perspective of Baleia, was the first written by Graciliano Ramos and has thus been cited by critics as his inspiration for writing Vidas Secas.__NEWL__‘Baleia’ documents the sick and aging dog’s death at the hands of Fabiano, following his suspicion of her contraction of rabies.__NEWL__After being shot in the hindquarters by Fabiano, Baleia thinks only of her household duty to mind the family goats and rather than holding animosity towards Fabiano, thinks only of licking her masters’ hand.__NEWL__  __NEWL__In the final chapters of the novel after continued economic deprivation at the hands of the wealthy landowner, along with the deep foreboding of the onset of yet another drought, the family escapes under the cover of night to wander towards “a big city in hopes of a better life.”
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735135	The Franchise	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z	2903698	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2903698	Taylor Rusk is a star college quarterback and a can't-miss prospect in The League.__NEWL__Through various illegal means, North Texas is awarded an expansion franchise.__NEWL__As expected, the expansion Texas Pistols draft Rusk number one.__NEWL__The Pistols have a five-year plan to turn the team into champions, and getting Taylor Rusk ready is the key.__NEWL__But Rusk is on to the corruption and refuses to be a victim.__NEWL__With his college coach at the helm and "old league" legends mentoring him, Taylor Rusk plays The League's game until it's time for him to make his most daring move to bring it down.__NEWL__But along the way, Rusk is betrayed.__NEWL__One teammate, a chronic con man, becomes the Pistols' general manager and ultimately betrays him.__NEWL__Another teammate suffers a devastating knee injury and the subsequent surgery is botched.__NEWL__Rusk sees him get tossed aside and, due largely to steroid abuse, he murders his family and commits suicide.__NEWL__Five years later, the Texas Pistols are world champions, but Taylor Rusk has little time to celebrate.__NEWL__He's got to save the life of another victim: the woman he's fallen in love with — who's also the mother of his son.__NEWL__They ultimately take control of the Texas Pistols for him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1059912	The Simulacra	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2845808	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2845808	Kalbfleisch, whom Nicole dislikes, appears only momentarily in the story; because of planned obsolescence, he will soon suffer a heart attack and be replaced.__NEWL__The contract for the next simulacrum, Dieter Hogbein, has been awarded to 'Frauenzimmer Associates', and the previous contractor, 'Karp und Söhne Werke' is unhappy about this change.__NEWL__One subplot involves the Karp und Söhne Werke threatening exposure of what has been a state secret over the last five decades.__NEWL__A. G. Chemie, the leading USEA psycho-pharmaceutical drug cartel, has engineered the prohibition of psychotherapy under the "MacPhearson Act."__NEWL__However, the USEA is willing to let Doctor Egon Superb continue to treat Richard Kongrosian, a well known pianist who performs in the White House, and who holds the delusory belief that his body odor is lethal.__NEWL__Kongrosian can play piano using only his telekinetic abilities; Nicole Thibodeaux is anxious to keep him under control, as are Wilder Pembroke, head of the National Police, and members of the covert national governance council.__NEWL__Bertold Goltz, an alleged neofascist, is seemingly trying to overthrow the government, and runs the 'Sons of Job', a religious paramilitary organisation.__NEWL__Actually, he is head of the covert USEA governing council.__NEWL__There is a subplot that involves Charles (Chic) Strikerock, Vince, his brother and a cut-price colonisation spacecraft sales firm (known as "Loony Lukes") involved in Martian colonisation.__NEWL__Mars boasts insectoid life, the sentient and empathic 'papoola', while Ganymede is inhabited by multicellular primitive life forms.__NEWL__As the plot develops, the der Alte-simulacrum is revealed as an android and Kate/Nicole is disclosed as an impostor, this undoing the raison d'etre for ges/bes class stratification.__NEWL__Bertold Goltz is killed by a National Police detachment, as is the rest of the covert governing council.__NEWL__Using telekinesis, Kongrosian kills Pembroke before he can overthrow Nicole in a coup d'état and teleports her to safety at his secluded Northern US home.__NEWL__Karp und Sohnen rebel against the abortive coup, however, and soon the National Police and USEA armed forces are engaged in civil war, with active use of low-yield nuclear weapons.__NEWL__Re-emerging Neanderthals (or "chuppers"), happy at this turn of events, gather near Kongrosian's home in anticipation that self-destruction of Homo sapiens might give them another opportunity to dominate Earth.__NEWL__The novel ends before the action concludes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3125124	HMS Ulysses	1955-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	2846264	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2846264	The novel features HMS Ulysses, a light cruiser that is well armed and among the fastest ships in the world.__NEWL__Her crew is pushed well beyond the limits of endurance and the book starts in the aftermath of a mutiny.__NEWL__Ulysses puts to sea again to escort FR-77, a vital convoy heading for Murmansk.__NEWL__They are beset by numerous challenges: an unusually fierce Arctic storm, German ships and U-boats, as well as air attacks.__NEWL__All slowly reduce the convoy from 32 ships to only five.__NEWL__Ulysses is sunk in a failed attempt to ram a German cruiser after all her other weapons had been destroyed.__NEWL__This echoes events in which British G-class destroyer and , an armed merchant cruiser, sacrificed themselves by engaging larger opponents.__NEWL__The book uses a set of events to paint moving portrayals of the crew and the human aspects of the war.__NEWL__Maclean's heroes are not especially motivated by ideals, they rarely excel at more than one task and they are overcome by a respectable enemy.__NEWL__It is their resilience that pushes these seamen to acts of heroism.__NEWL__The realism of the descriptions, the believable motivations of the characters and the simplicity of the line of events make the story all the more credible, though the number of coincidental accidents that plague the crew is startling.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7853298	Tunnel Through the Deeps	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2846537	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2846537	In an alternative history, the United States lost the American Revolutionary War and George Washington was executed for treason.__NEWL__Thus, America in 1973 is still under the control of the British Empire.__NEWL__The divergence point between this world and our own occurred far earlier, however, when the Moors won the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa on the Iberian peninsula, on July 16, 1212.__NEWL__Thus it was that Spain was unable to become unified, owing to the survival of an Islamic presence in its territory, and therefore could not finance the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492.__NEWL__Instead, it was John Cabot who discovered America, just a few years later.__NEWL__The protagonist, Captain Augustine Washington, is a direct descendant of George Washington, and labors in his 'traitorous' shadow.__NEWL__Captain Washington and Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel (descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel) get together to link the heart of the British Empire with its far-flung Atlantic colony in North America, although they fall out over Augustine's wooing of Isambard's young daughter, Iris, and as a result of disputes over engineering techniques.__NEWL__However, after a number of adventures the two are reconciled on Sir Isambard's deathbed, and the lovers later marry.__NEWL__After the completion of the tunnel, the American colonies are granted their independence.__NEWL__Detective Richard Tracy also makes an appearance, as do 'Lord' Amis and 'Reverend' Aldiss.__NEWL__An appearance in connection with a suborbital rocket is also made by an expert (who prefers a mechanical Babbage machine for computing to the electronic kind) named Arthur C. Clarke.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16843291	Herr Lehmann	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56036	West Berlin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2415901	Allied-occupied Germany	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	2846549	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2846549	Frank Lehmann works as a barkeeper in Kreuzberg, West Berlin, complacent and drinking frequently, with few other ambitions.__NEWL__His 30th birthday is fast approaching, and as a result, he is teasingly called "Herr Lehmann" ("Mr Lehmann") by his friends.__NEWL__The book follows Frank Lehmann's daily life in Kreuzberg and showcases the attitude of a generation of young adults in West Berlin in autumn 1989 in the months leading up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall.__NEWL__The first third of the book recounts the events of a single day.__NEWL__Shortly before dawn on a Sunday morning, Herr Lehmann is walking home from work, drunk, and comes across a dog that is blocking his path.__NEWL__Herr Lehmann is afraid of the dog and is overwhelmed by the situation.__NEWL__Here, like in many other portions of the text, the reader is given direct access to Herr Lehmann's thoughts.__NEWL__The comedy of the situation is derived from the discrepancy between Herr Lehmann's thoughts and actions, but the subjective narrative voice allows the reader to comprehend the rational reasons for the discrepancy.__NEWL__Herr Lehmann solves the problem with the dog by giving it whiskey, whereupon he is found by two policemen who threaten to report Herr Lehmann for animal cruelty.__NEWL__The dog bites one of the policemen, and Herr Lehmann finally finds his way home.__NEWL__In the morning, Herr Lehmann is woken by a phone call from his mother, who announces that she and his father are coming to visit him in Berlin.__NEWL__Hungover and unexcited about the upcoming visit, Herr Lehmann makes his way to a nearby pub and meets Karl, his best friend.__NEWL__The pub is full of "Sunday breakfasters", who annoy Herr Lehmann.__NEWL__Out of spite, Herr Lehmann orders pork roast for breakfast, which makes the new cook, Katrin, cross.__NEWL__This leads to a philosophical argument between them about "time" and "purpose in life", and Herr Lehmann is immediately smitten with her.__NEWL__He meets her again twice that day, in the afternoon at a pool, and again in the evening during his shift at the bar.__NEWL__Chapters 8 through 20 follow Herr Lehmann's life over the course of the next couple of weeks, focusing on his relationships with Katrin, his parents, and Karl.__NEWL__Karl works in the same bar as Herr Lehmann, but is also an artist who is scheduled to have an opening later that autumn.__NEWL__The narrative remains narrowly focused on Herr Lehmann and his everyday life, ignoring the external historical and political situation as much as possible.__NEWL__Herr Lehmann attempts to travel to East Berlin and is detained by the customs official for hours.__NEWL__Herr Lehmann is principally bothered by the limitations on his personal freedom and how his day did not go according to plan, rather than any political aspects of the situation.__NEWL__He is fixated only on his environment, friends and his life in his walled-in "island" of West Berlin.__NEWL__On Herr Lehmann's "island", each of his relationships come to a head.__NEWL__All three threads of the story lead into dead ends: his relationship with Katrin falls apart when they realize they both had entirely different expectations; his parents' visit show his supposed independent, self-actualized life is an empty self-deception; and Karl suffers a nervous breakdown shortly before his art opening, destroying his sculptures.__NEWL__Each of these events destroys part of Herr Lehmann's self-image, and he comes to realize that he needs to escape from his "island".__NEWL__Throughout the novel, it is implied that Karl has been abusing stimulant drugs, and Herr Lehmann has to take him to the hospital, as Karl is suffering from acute psychological problems.__NEWL__Herr Lehmann has to admit that he is not in a position to help his friend.__NEWL__On top of this, the evening is also Herr Lehmann's 30th birthday.__NEWL__After leaving the hospital, Herr Lehmann sets out to celebrate his birthday alone by bar-hopping through West Berlin and using alcohol to escape, which has been a recurrent theme throughout the book.__NEWL__While Herr Lehmann is bar-hopping, the news comes out that the Berlin Wall has fallen.__NEWL__Herr Lehmann participates with a mixture of interest and boredom, watching history happen in front of him.__NEWL__The story ends with the impression that Herr Lehmann's personal life also will see a fresh start.__NEWL__The novel closes with Herr Lehmann's thoughts: "I'm just going to get moving [...].__NEWL__The rest will unfold by itself."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17096633	The Stone Angel	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	2859965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2859965	In a series of vignettes, The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old woman struggling to come to grips with a life of intransigence and loss.__NEWL__The themes of pride and the prejudice that comes from social class recur in the novel.__NEWL__As a young girl she refuses to rock her dying brother in the garments of their mother.__NEWL__As a young woman she marries Brampton Shipley against her father's wishes, severing the family ties.__NEWL__She shows favouritism towards her younger son, John.__NEWL__After Hagar separates from her husband, Hagar takes John with her.__NEWL__However, he ultimately returns to his father.__NEWL__When John dies, Hagar does not cry, and at that point, she turns into a "Stone Angel".__NEWL__Later in life, her elder son Marvin is shown to have been the good and loyal son all along, despite the lack of his mother's favour.__NEWL__It is he at the age of 64 along with his wife Doris who takes care of her.__NEWL__As a 90-year-old woman, Hagar goes on an unexpected adventure into the woods alone.__NEWL__Given her age, there is an overtone that this event will be the last chapter of her life.__NEWL__In the woods, she meets another wanderer.__NEWL__The two have a bonding conversation, where Hagar finally opens up.__NEWL__A lifetime of buried emotion comes out, and she finally cries.__NEWL__The next day the police and Marvin come to rescue Hagar from the woods.__NEWL__In an act of love and repentance, she confesses to Marvin that he was the better son.__NEWL__It is unclear whether she dies at the end of the novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6013066	In the Wet	2849115	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2849115	The story is opened by its initial narrator – an Anglican priest in the Bush Brotherhood named Roger Hargreaves – who describes his ordinary circumstances in a large parish of the Queensland outback in 1953.__NEWL__As part of his duties, he has to minister to the dying and this brings him into contact with an aged, alcoholic, opium-smoking, diseased, ex-pilot and ex-ringer named Stevie.__NEWL__Caught in Stevie's squalid cabin in a heavy rainy season, Hargreaves struggles with recurring malaria whilst on deathwatch for Stevie.__NEWL__As both men are in altered mental states the story shifts and Stevie becomes David 'Nigger' Anderson, a decorated member of the Royal Australian Air Force, telling his story to Hargreaves.__NEWL__But this is a story set 30 years in the future, in 1983.__NEWL__David Anderson is a quadroon, of mixed European and Aboriginal ancestry.__NEWL__As a first rate pilot he is chosen by his country to be a member of an elite test pilot team in the UK.__NEWL__Although of humble origins, Anderson has advanced quickly in the RAAF and is soon offered a position commanding one of two aircraft of the Queen's Flight.__NEWL__The England of the 1983 in the story is a technically advanced country that has been abused and bled dry by Socialism.__NEWL__Austerity is the watchword, and rationing is still in force.__NEWL__It is an England in which the Royal Family is revered by the common people, but abused by politicians who use them as whipping boys for the economic woes of England.__NEWL__When the politicians attempt indirectly to control the foreign travel of the monarch by curtailing her use of UK government aircraft, the Canadian and Australian governments each donate a modern jet transport to the Queen's Flight, provide for operating expenses, and furnish crews.__NEWL__Anderson is chosen as the captain of the Australian plane.__NEWL__Both Canada and Australia are heavily royalist countries, and Anderson is shocked at one point by the suggestion that Australia could become a republic.__NEWL__Both are democracies, though subject to the "multiple vote"—everyone gets one vote, but other votes can be earned by individuals, up to a maximum of seven.__NEWL__Anderson himself has three votes in Australian elections.__NEWL__At first absorbed by the job, Anderson slowly becomes aware of what is going on around him.__NEWL__He sees the Secretary of State for Air, Lord Coles, inspect the advanced aircraft, and insist that a signal gun be placed in the radio-equipped aircraft in case it needs to land in a field.__NEWL__The Prime Minister, Iorweth Jones, is more intelligent, but only interested in scoring political points.__NEWL__The Royal family, though, is delighted at the gift of the aircraft, and the middle-aged Queen and Consort come down to inspect them.__NEWL__Anderson repeatedly meets, and slowly falls for, a junior secretary to the Queen, Rosemary, daughter of an Oxford don, who is assigned to help streamline the administrative aspects of the Commonwealth aircraft joining the Queen's Flight.__NEWL__Anderson learns of the difficult political situation the Queen is faced with.__NEWL__The Queen's visit to Canada in the Canadian craft coincides with another attack on the Royal Family by Labour politicians.__NEWL__The Prince of Wales has Anderson fly him to Ottawa so he can meet with the Queen.__NEWL__It is later made clear that the Prince carries an ultimatum from himself and his sister (the Queen has only two children)—they will not take the job of monarch as it now stands.__NEWL__Anderson is ordered to fly the Queen and her entourage, including Rosemary, not back to England, but on to Australia to meet with politicians there.__NEWL__En route, they have a lengthy refueling delay on Christmas Island, allowing the Queen to relax a bit—until local officials show up with their wives, in formal dress.__NEWL__Anderson, struck with food poisoning, dreams of the scene with Hargreaves and Stevie in the cabin in the wet.__NEWL__After he recovers, the party move on to Australia.__NEWL__The Queen meets not only with current Australian politicians but with elder statesmen Sir Robert Menzies and Arthur Calwell (active politicians in real-life 1953).__NEWL__After the meetings the Queen is flown back to England, but ground control diverts the flight hundreds of miles to Yorkshire on the pretext that the well-qualified Australian airmen are not qualified to land at a commercial airport—Heathrow—in poor weather; in reality the diversion to Yorkshire is apparently intended to inconvenience the Queen.__NEWL__After Royal intervention the crews are all granted accreditation as civil aviators without further ado.__NEWL__Anderson asks Rosemary to marry him, but she refuses so long as the Queen needs her.__NEWL__She arranges for Anderson to meet her father, a political scientist.__NEWL__Her father inadvertently reveals that the Queen is contemplating having a Governor General of Britain who will deal with the politicians, with the monarch devoted to Commonwealth affairs, to make the monarchy bearable for her and her family.__NEWL__The Queen announces this on her Christmas broadcast, and makes it clear that she and her family will not return to Britain without the country having undergone political reforms, meaning both the multiple vote, and the installation of a Governor General for the United Kingdom as a necessary buffer between Monarch and Parliament, whose behaviour and treatment of the Queen has become both a constitutional and personal affront prior to this declaration.__NEWL__Though David takes every precaution to protect the aircraft, which takes off with the Queen soon afterwards, a sixth sense, deriving from his Aboriginal heritage, tells him something is wrong.__NEWL__He searches the party's luggage, and finds a sealed metal box, obviously a bomb.__NEWL__It seems impossible to get the box outside due to winds, but through skilled flying, he is able to create the right conditions.__NEWL__The Queen swears all to secrecy, and awards David the Seventh Vote, given only by Royal commission.__NEWL__The party reaches Australia safely.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in Britain, the new Governor General has summoned Parliament to debate the multiple vote.__NEWL__Prime Minister Jones' government falls, and a new government, still Labour, is expected to institute the political reform.__NEWL__Now that the Queen is no longer in a crisis situation, Rosemary can leave the royal employment and marry David.__NEWL__In an epilogue, the framing story resumes.__NEWL__Stevie has died peaceably and an exhausted Hargreaves tries to separate dream from reality.__NEWL__This becomes more difficult when the child who will grow to be David Anderson is presented to him for christening.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4753304	And Having Writ...	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	2847572	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2847572	According to the novel, the Siberian explosion was originally caused by the crash landing of the spacecraft named The Wanderer.__NEWL__In this alternate reality, however, the alien astronauts are able to commandeer their failing vessel so that it lands in the Pacific Ocean, just outside San Francisco.__NEWL__Shortly after landing, the quartet of spacemen are rescued from the sea by an American ship and taken to California.__NEWL__The Wanderer sinks into the ocean, and the team reasons that they must find a way to accelerate Earth's technological advances so that they can get back home.__NEWL__The eventual conclusion at which they arrive is that they must provoke the planet into what Ari claims is an inevitable global conflict, one that will (through weaponry innovations) result in a boom of new science and industry.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65066630	Queen of Air and Darkness	2018-12-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	60639727	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60639727	After the events of Lord of Shadows, the Shadowhunters prepare for the burning of the pyres of Robert Lightwood and Livvy Blackthorn.__NEWL__The Cohort, a fascist organization that aim to discredit and destroy Downworlders, begin taking over the Clave.__NEWL__They nominate Horace Dearborn to replace Robert as the new Inquisitor.__NEWL__Julian Blackthorn confesses to Magnus Bane that his parabatai bond with Emma Carstairs has been changed by their love, asking him to put a spell that dampens his feelings.__NEWL__During the funeral, Emma meets with her distant cousin, Jem, telling her about Kit Herondale's fey heritage as well as a warlock sickness supposedly caused by ley lines.__NEWL__Before leaving, he gives her a ring which will alert his wife, Tessa Gray, to her location.__NEWL__Horace states his plans to interrogate all Downworlders and bars Emma and Julian from leaving with the other Blackthorns back to Los Angeles.__NEWL__He gives them a mission to go to Faerie, kill Annabel Blackthorn, and retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead.__NEWL__When the two arrive at Faerie, they realize that Horace never intended them to survive and has sent Dane Larkspear to kill them.__NEWL__Julian kills him before Seelie faeries, including Nene, appear to take them to the Seelie Court.__NEWL__There, Julian gives the Seelie Queen a copy of the Black Volume in return for the information on how to break the parabatai bond: by cutting the original bond in Silent City with the Mortal Sword, which will break all bonds in the world.__NEWL__At the Scholomanche, Diego Rosales attempts to hide Kieran from the Cohort.__NEWL__He saves Kieran when he is about to be thrown into the Pool of Reflection, in the process knocking Dane's sister, Samantha, towards the pool, where she is tortured to insanity.__NEWL__The two are imprisoned and learn about Emma's and Julian's mission.__NEWL__Diego convinces Kieran to escape using his fey steed while he remains behind.__NEWL__Kieran heads to Los Angeles and saves Cristina Rosales and Mark Blackthorn as they are attacked by faeries while investigating a ley line.__NEWL__Learning about the mission, Cristina, Mark, and Kieran call in Jaime Rosales to give them the Eternidad so they can go to Faerie.__NEWL__The trio are forced to join the revels of Kieran's brother Oban, who is working with a Cohort member, Manuel Villalobos.__NEWL__Cristina manages to escape with the Eternidad and requests for Adaon's help.__NEWL__Horace calls the Clave several times to vote on a Downworlder registry.__NEWL__After being informed of what befell the Larkspear siblings, the Clave vote to create the registry.__NEWL__Diana Wrayburn demands Gwyn ap__NEWL__Nudd to take her back to Los Angeles.__NEWL__Briefly captured, she is able to break free from Horace before leaving with Gwyn.__NEWL__However, in the process, the Consul, Jia Penhallow is imprisoned.__NEWL__Nene offers Emma and Julian the chance to replace her and another sympathetic faerie's positions to accompany the Seelie Queen during her parley with the Unseelie King to regain her son, Ash.__NEWL__Infiltrating the Unseelie Tower, they confront Annabel and the King, Arawn, revealed to be subjecting Ash to spells from the Black Volume, causing him to attract people to care for him.__NEWL__He plans to use Ash to conquer the Seelie Court and wipe all Shadowhunters.__NEWL__After a brief encounter with Ash, Emma and Julian are thrown to the dungeons and reunite with Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale.__NEWL__ The four are freed by Cristina and Adaon, who fakes them as his prisoners to Arawn's court so they can rescue Mark and Kieran.__NEWL__Arawn has opened a portal to a place called Thule, which he uses to power up Ash.__NEWL__A heated confrontation ensues with a vengeful Julian attacking Annabel and Arawn attempting to have Ash execute Kieran before the Seelie Queen appears to claim her son, revealing that she and Arawn used to have a daughter, the First Heir, whom he killed.__NEWL__In the confusion, Annabel takes Ash through the portal to Thule, while Kieran manages to kill Arawn when he is about to make a move on Adaon.__NEWL__While the Seelie Queen leaves with Adaon, Emma and Julian attempt to leave with the others as the Riders of Mannan hunt them, but fail and decide to enter Thule.__NEWL__Upon arrival, Emma and Julian learn that Thule is an alternate universe set two years into the future.__NEWL__In this reality, Clary was killed during the Battle of the Burren, allowing Sebastian Morgenstern, with Jace's and the Endarkened's help, to conquer the world, causing lands to decay in a phenomenon known as Blight, which serves as portals for demons to cross over.__NEWL__Shadowhunters have lost their angelic power and split between the many siding with Sebastian and calling themselves the Legion of the Star, and those striving for freedom with the Downworlders, known as the Resistance.__NEWL__To their shock, the Resistance is led by Livvy, who is still alive in Thule.__NEWL__Though at first skeptical, Livvy eventually warms up to Emma and Julian and reveals that their versions in Thule have been Endarkened.__NEWL__ Emma breaks her ring to call for Tessa's help and to her surprise gets a response.__NEWL__She and Julian meet with alternate Tessa, the world's last warlock as all others have died of warlock sickness caused by the Blight.__NEWL__While the Shadowhunters of Thule have failed to kill Sebastian with the Mortal Sword—which still exists in Thule—she believes that the two, who are not of this world, may be able to bring him down.__NEWL__She also informs them that Blight can be neutralized with waters from Lake Lyn.__NEWL__Emma and Julian briefly confront Annabel, who promises them a portal for them to go home, but they will have to take Ash with them.__NEWL__Emma, Julian, and the Resistance head to Silent City, where the Mortal Sword is located, and manage to retrieve it before the Legion ambush them.__NEWL__Tessa sacrifices herself to give Emma time to kill Sebastian with the Sword, aided by Ash, who flies away with Jace using his wings.__NEWL__After she opens the portal, Julian avenges Livvy by killing Annabel, before taking off with Emma back to their reality.__NEWL__Back home, Emma tells the others the solution the alternate Tessa told her about the Blight.__NEWL__The group work with the Wild Hunt to get the waters.__NEWL__Horace announces the deaths of Clary and Jace to manipulate his supporters as he is about to parley with Oban.__NEWL__Julian has Magnus remove the dampening spell, before calling on a meeting of anti-Registry Shadowhunters and Downworlders to expose the Cohort's lies, under the name "Livia's Watch".__NEWL__Manuel, knowing the truth about Clary and Jace, attempts to assassinate them but is foiled by Julian and taken prisoner.__NEWL__Emma is convinced not to cut the original parabatai bond by Julian.__NEWL__The parley between the Cohort and the Unseelie Court is interrupted by Livia's Watch, who expose Horace's lies by forcing Manuel to divulge the truth using the alternate Mortal Sword, before escalating into open warfare.__NEWL__During the confrontation, Dru frees Jia, Diego, and Jaime from imprisonment.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ty begins a ritual to resurrect Livvy, despite Kit's protests.__NEWL__Regardless, the ritual only manages to bring Livvy as an apparition that only the two can see.__NEWL__Kit discovers that he is a descendant of the First Heir when he manages to incapacitate the Riders of Mannan.__NEWL__It is also revealed that Shade, the warlock who helped Ty find the ingredients for the ritual, is actually Ragnor Fell, Magnus' friend long thought to be dead.__NEWL__In the war's final stages, Zara Dearborn gravely wounds Emma.__NEWL__As Julian cradles her, their parabatai bond is strengthened by their love, transforming them into gigantic monsters that kill Horace and swiftly dispose their enemies.__NEWL__However, they nearly destroy Alicante before the Blackthorns convince them to lay down their arms.__NEWL__When they wake up, they discover that they are no longer parabatai.__NEWL__With Cristina's and Mark's help, Kieran kills Oban and is proclaimed the new Unseelie King, since Adaon relinquishes his birthright.__NEWL__With this status, he is forced to part ways from them just as they realize their love for each other.__NEWL__Kit decides to move in with Tessa and Jem to Devon.__NEWL__Dru overhears Magnus telling Ty about the side effects of Livvy's resurrection spell.__NEWL__During the Clave meeting, the Cohort refuse to surrender, so Alec Lightwood, having been proclaimed as the new Consul after Jia's abdication, leads the anti-Cohort Shadowhunters to leave Idris and never return.__NEWL__Subsequently, Alec and Magnus hold their wedding in front of the Los Angeles Institute.__NEWL__In the epilogue, the Seelie Queen is visited by the Jace of Thule.__NEWL__Jace promises to hand Ash over in exchange for meeting Clary.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65065481	Jade City	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	60594724	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60594724	Bero, a minor thief, attempts to steal jade from a No Peak Fist while he is dining in a clan-affiliated restaurant, but Bero and his Abukei accomplice Sampa are quickly caught and brought to Hilo for punishment.__NEWL__After they are beaten, a remark by Sampa about a recent murder in clan territory leads Hilo to take the two boys to be questioned in the presence of his brother Lan, the clan Pillar.__NEWL__Hilo attempts to convince Lan that the Mountain clan is squeezing No Peak territory, but he is opposed by Doru the Weather Man, who suggests it is a misunderstanding and counsels a peaceful solution.__NEWL__Feeling frustrated and unsupported by Doru, Lan asks his grandfather for permission to replace him as Weather Man, but Kaul Sen refuses to allow it.__NEWL__A short time after this, Shae returns to Kekon, looking for a job that will not require her to wear jade.__NEWL__The Mountain comes close to violating aisho by kidnapping Anden, who is still in his final year at the Academy.__NEWL__Ayt Mada offers Anden a position in her clan, signalling that she wishes to unite the Mountain and No Peak.__NEWL__Her purpose is partially to send a message that she considers Hilo an unsuitable Horn.__NEWL__Once Anden has been returned safely, Lan begins to move against the Mountain.__NEWL__He proposes a new law preventing any one clan from gaining control of the Kekon Jade Alliance, and he sends Shae to audit the KJA's accounts, looking for irregularities.__NEWL__Their message to Anden having been disregarded, the Mountain makes an attempt on Hilo's life.__NEWL__In retaliation, No Peak threatens to storm their training complex.__NEWL__To prevent this, the Mountain apologizes, gives up the would-be assassins and makes a territorial concession.__NEWL__The more senior of the assassins offers Lan a clean blade, demanding to be killed in combat.__NEWL__Believing that he needs to prove himself to the clan in order to remain Pillar, Lan accepts and wins the duel, but only barely.__NEWL__In the aftermath, Hilo asks his brother for permission to marry his girlfriend Wen, and Lan, despite misgivings about his brother marrying a stone-eye from a disreputable family, gives his permission.__NEWL__Lan has been injured in the duel and his jade tolerance has been affected, but he cannot be seen to show weakness by failing to wear the additional jade he has won.__NEWL__He arranges for Anden to bring him packages of shine.__NEWL__When Anden realizes what he is delivering he pleads with Lan to stop using the drug, but Lan swears him to secrecy.__NEWL__When Shae comes to see Anden he tries to tell her about the shine, but misses his opportunity.__NEWL__Shae reports to Lan that someone in the KJA is skimming jade, and that either Doru doesn't know about it and is incompetent, or he is allowing it to happen.__NEWL__Lan sends Doru overseas to get him out of the way and tells his allies on the Royal Council that he is going to suspend jade production.__NEWL__Lan receives a letter from his estranged wife, but can't bring himself to open it.__NEWL__Meanwhile Bero has been stealing shipments from the Docks.__NEWL__Through his fence he meets a mysterious Mountain Green Bone, who gives Bero a submachine gun and tells him to use it to shoot up the gentleman's club Lan frequents.__NEWL__Lan accidentally takes an overdose of shine while visiting the club, and when Bero attacks him he falls into the sea and drowns.__NEWL__When Shae hears about his death she immediately goes to the bank where her jade is kept and puts it all back on.__NEWL__Hilo is now Pillar__NEWL__and she persuades him to strike back by reclaiming some disputed territory rather than launching an all-out attack on the Mountain.__NEWL__She takes part in the battle, fighting several Mountain Green Bones and killing two.__NEWL__Afterward, Hilo asks her to become his Weather Man and she agrees.__NEWL__She cements her position by gaining the support of her main rivals for the role, and she spares Doru's life on condition that he gives up his jade, renounces clan business and spends his remaining days as a companion for her grandfather.__NEWL__The clans are now in a state of open war.__NEWL__Shae and Hilo attend negotiations with Ayt Mada and her Weather Man until Hilo accuses the Mountain of skimming jade from the KJA and supplying it to non-Green Bones, then storms out.__NEWL__Ayt arranges to meet Shae on safe ground and tries to talk her into betraying No Peak, but Shae refuses, knowing that she is putting her life in serious jeopardy by doing so.__NEWL__She tells Hilo that No Peak can only hold out for another six months.__NEWL__Wen asks Shae to make her a spy for the clan, without Hilo's knowledge.__NEWL__Shae sends her to a foreign military base with a shipment of jade worth millions, re-establishing the supply that has been disrupted by the KJA's suspension of jade production.__NEWL__Kaul Sen gives his jade to Doru, and Doru uses it to attack his guards and escape, defecting to the Mountain with all his knowledge of No Peak's business dealings.__NEWL__The Mountain continues to use its superior position to maim and kill No Peak Green Bones.__NEWL__On New Year's Day, Hilo marries Wen, then has Anden drive him into Mountain territory to be killed in combat, in return for clemency for the remaining No Peak clan members.__NEWL__Hilo kills several Green Bones but is overwhelmed.__NEWL__When Gont Asch steps in to finish him, Hilo and Anden together kill the Horn of the Mountain.__NEWL__The fight leaves Anden in a coma.__NEWL__When he regains consciousness, he learns that the loss of its Horn has dealt the Mountain a serious blow and given No Peak a temporary advantage in the war.__NEWL__Anden returns to the Academy for his graduation ceremony, but when he is presented with his jade he declares he does not want to be a Green Bone.__NEWL__He tells Hilo he does not want a life of violence, and when the Pillar rebukes him Anden runs from the Academy to Lan's grave.__NEWL__Later, under cover of darkness, Bero also visits the grave.__NEWL__He is still looking for jade, and in the former Pillar's coffin there is a generous supply.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62338191	Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves	2017-04-27T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	60316598	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60316598	One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city of Manchester, to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm.__NEWL__There she lives and works for farmer Elsie Boston, a sole smallholder in Berkshire, thought of by the locals as irredeemably strange or ‘unked’.__NEWL__Elsie's family is all gone, and she is trying to hold on to the farm herself.__NEWL__At first Elsie and Rene are unsure of one another - strangers from different worlds.__NEWL__But over time they each come to depend on the other.__NEWL__When Elsie is forced off the farm, the two stay together, becoming itinerant workers on various farms, where their only condition is that they have a private place to live together.__NEWL__Twenty years later, they are living in Cornwall, in a remote cottage.__NEWL__Elsie takes care of the home and grows vegetables, while Rene goes far abroad to find farm work.__NEWL__Rene learns of the death of Bertha, the only person from her past with whom she remained in touch.__NEWL__She and Elsie take in Bertha’s ageing, alcoholic husband who sets about disrupting their life.__NEWL__When Ernest finally dies it might almost seem a cause for celebration but then the police arrive.__NEWL__Rene is accused of killing him, and stands trial.__NEWL__Elsie, still naive and shy though no longer young, is required to stand on her own for the first time, in a strange city, and she is unable to believe she might lose Rene, who is ultimately convicted.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62481331	Tiamat's Wrath	2019-03-26T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	60339106	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60339106	Following the events of Persepolis Rising, James Holden is a captive on Laconia, allowed to roam the grounds of High Consul Winston Duarte’s palace but with little other freedom.__NEWL__He pays his respects to Chrisjen Avasarala, who died four months previously, and talks with her granddaughter and Camina Drummer, former president of the defunct Transport Union.__NEWL__Through another of the Ring gates, Elvi Okoye, her husband Fayez and several other scientists are sent on a Laconian mission to the “dead worlds”, systems past the ring gates which have no habitable worlds.__NEWL__They find a planet-size green diamond which interacts strangely with their sample of active protomolecule but are forced by the commander to move on to the next system before they can adequately probe it.__NEWL__They arrive to find a neutron star pushed to the edge of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov limit, with no other matter in the area.__NEWL__The Laconian commander reveals their plan to send an antimatter-laden ship through the ring gates to attack the creatures which have been seen “eating” ships.__NEWL__In the Sol system, Naomi, working for the underground resistance against Laconia, arrives on a station in the Outer Planets to talk with Bobbie and Alex, operating their stolen Laconian gunship Gathering Storm before leaving again.__NEWL__Bobbie and Alex embark on a mission to capture a Laconian freighter carrying supplies and a high-ranking political officer but the officer and their own spies are caught in the crossfire and killed.__NEWL__Faced with overwhelming odds, one of the Laconian flagships taking notice of them and notching another (semi)-failure, both are left to wonder whether their fight is winnable at all.__NEWL__Then Bobbie finds antimatter in the supplies taken from the Laconian freighter, a power source for its magnetic weapon and hatches a plan to kill the flagship.__NEWL__On Laconia, Teresa Duarte, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Winston, learns that her father wants to train her to be the next high consul despite his quest for immortality and talks with Holden about his status in Duarte’s court.__NEWL__She also sneaks away to talk with a man she met in a mountain cave, whom she calls “Timothy”.__NEWL__Naomi mingles with the crew of the ship she rides on to avoid discovery by a Laconian political officer and is saved by the chief engineer who knows her from the events of Babylon’s Ashes—until their travel is cut short by a warning from the ring gates.__NEWL__The Laconian experiment, witnessed by Fayez and Elvi (who tried to stop it, to little avail) causes the neutron star to collapse into a black hole and emit a gamma-ray burst, lighting up the slow zone and destroying two of the ring gates.__NEWL__Duarte tells Teresa that they plan to send another antimatter ship but before the attack can be carried out, the aliens make their own attack: everyone across the connected systems experiences ‘lost time’ where they can see the spaces between subatomic particles; Elvi and Fayez are wounded and several of their colleagues killed when parts of their ship vanish; Medina Station, the Laconian dreadnought Typhoon and everything inside the ring space is annihilated in an instant; and Duarte, augmented by the protomolecule, becomes catatonic.__NEWL__Bobbie and Alex make the decision to ask Naomi about their plan to attack the Laconian flagship, the Tempest.__NEWL__Holden recognizes that something is wrong on Laconia and speaks with Paolo Cortázar, the head scientist, who plans to kill Teresa rather than let her become immortal.__NEWL__With the death of Medina Station, Naomi travels to Auberon—one of the most prosperous ring worlds—and takes over the underground.__NEWL__Elvi lands on Laconia and is told of what happened to Duarte and that her assistance is needed in running the scientific endeavors there; at the same time, Holden attempts to tell them of Cortázar’s plot against Teresa.__NEWL__Teresa is worried over the state of her father and goes to visit “Timothy”, who is revealed to be Amos Burton, sent with a pocket nuclear weapon to try to rescue Holden.__NEWL__The Laconian security force finds the two of them and kills Amos, though when they return they cannot find his body.__NEWL__Elvi speaks at the science center with two children who died but were reconstructed by the repair drones native to Laconia.__NEWL__Bobbie and Alex embark to kill the Tempest, using a bomb constructed from antimatter and a gap in its sensors caused by the Sol forces.__NEWL__Alex distracts the flagship with the Gathering Storm while Bobbie delivers the bomb but their ship is damaged and she is forced to throw the bomb at the Tempest directly, destroying it and sacrificing herself in the process.__NEWL__Elvi tells Teresa, further traumatized by Amos’ death, of Cortázar’s plot and she tells her father.__NEWL__Naomi and Alex return, independently, to the Rocinante, which had been stashed on Freehold, the colony they returned to at the end of Persepolis Rising.__NEWL__Another lost-time attack occurs and Elvi thinks that such attacks are what shut down the consciousness of the protomolecule builders; humanity is more resilient and only loses a few minutes of time, but now the aliens are experimenting with more effective methods that work for longer.__NEWL__Naomi summons ships from the other ring worlds for an attack on Laconia’s shipyards.__NEWL__Four hundred ships attack Laconia, drawing out the last flagship away from the planet so that a small strike force can destroy the shipyards.__NEWL__Duarte, though still comatose, awakens when he is scanned and kills Cortázar.__NEWL__Teresa decides she needs to leave Laconia, uses Amos' evacuation beacon as a call for her rescue and takes Holden from the cells as a bargaining card.__NEWL__Elvi realizes that Holden was the one who convinced Cortázar to kill Teresa__NEWL__but he tells her that it was a plan to betray Cortázar and install Elvi as the head scientist of Laconia.__NEWL__Naomi and Alex’s plan succeeds and they kill the shipyards, then descend to Laconia, following the evacuation signal.__NEWL__Laconian security forces catch up with Holden and Teresa but are killed by Amos, put back together by the repair drones.__NEWL__The crew of the Rocinante reunite and Teresa, as the daughter of the high consul, talks the remaining flagship down from killing them.__NEWL__On the ship, Amos tells Holden that the aliens that killed the protomolecule builders now plan to kill all of humanity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62274437	The Women in the Castle	2017-03-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	60310041	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60310041	The story begins at the site of a Bavarian castle in 1938, with detailed descriptions of the society of the pre-war days in Germany among a certain class of landed aristocrats.__NEWL__Countess Marianne von Lingenfels is hosting her family’s annual party, at which men wearing Nazi insignia parade casually through the grounds, while inside, privately, a small group of young men, including Marianne’s husband, are plotting armed resistance against the nation’s leader, Adolf Hitler.__NEWL__The novel then advances to the year 1945.__NEWL__The war has ended and the conspirators have been executed after their failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.__NEWL__Marianne, back at the same crumbling castle, is determined to "do right" by the wives and children of the men who died trying to save her homeland from a tyrant.__NEWL__She is raising three children by herself, in occupied post-Nazi Germany.__NEWL__She then rescues 6-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home.__NEWL__Together, they make their way across the smoldering wreckage of their homeland to Berlin, where Martin’s mother, the beautiful and naive Benita, in the hands of the occupying Red Army.__NEWL__Finally, she locates Ania, another resister’s wife, and her two sons, now refugees in one of the many camps that house the millions displaced by the war.__NEWL__As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband’s resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them together.__NEWL__But devastated by trauma, broken by the deprivations and brutality they suffered in the war, and burdened by their own guilt, Marianne finds that nothing is as black and white as she thought.__NEWL__Each woman's experiences, attitudes, and feelings about the war, their husbands, Germany and each other are at the core of the book's narrative, as well as how they see the rest of their lives, and what they do to get there.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q67405922	A Guide to Berlin	60447720	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60447720	The novel begins with one member of the literary group, Marco Gianelli, giving a short eulogy for the deceased, who remains without identity at this point.__NEWL__In the next chapter, it cuts to Cass’ third person point of view as she describes the scenery in wintry Berlin.__NEWL__Cass goes to her first literary meeting and the reader is introduced to the other five members, “Victor from New York, Marco and Gino from Rome, Yukio and Mitsuko from Tokyo”, and Cass from Sydney.__NEWL__The reader learns how Cass came to join this group; she met Marco as they both stood in front of Vladimir Nabokov's old dwelling, as they both took a photo of the building, and Marco came to invite her to the literary group.__NEWL__The meetings take place gradually over a few weeks, with each person sharing their own speak-memory.__NEWL__In between the meetings, Cass visits landmarks with different people, such as going to the Pergamon Museum with Marco, aquarium with Victor and the S-Bahn with Mitsuko.__NEWL__After every person's speak-memory, they agree to two weeks without a meeting, and then schedule the next one in Cass’ apartment.__NEWL__Gino is strained and tense and makes a speech about how they are all pretentious and snobbish.__NEWL__Victor comforts Gino and the two men move onto the apartment's balcony.__NEWL__The men become angry, although we are not told what is said, and in a single moment, Gino lifts Victor up and drops him over the balcony edge.__NEWL__A caretaker is called and Victor's body is driven to the edge of a river and sunk into the water.__NEWL__Gino commits suicide soon after.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30727660	La Femme qui fuit	2015-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	60414260	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60414260	The novel begins in the present day as the narrator, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, and her mother (Manon Barbeau) discover that Suzanne has died and they are the sole heirs.__NEWL__They visit Suzanne's apartment and find photos, reviews, and poems that will be featured later in the novel.__NEWL__The novel then shifts to a second-person account of Suzanne's early life.__NEWL__Born into a family impoverished by the Great Depression in Canada, as a teenager, Suzanne is eager to explore life beyond Ottawa.__NEWL__Her desire to explore beyond Ottawa is also inspired by her admiration of Hilda Strike, a Canadian runner that she watched race in the 1932 Olympics.__NEWL__Having cultivated her gift for writing and public speaking, she uses her gift to garner attention and then joins a group of avant-garde artists including the writer Claude Gauvreau and the painter Marcel Barbeau, in Montreal.__NEWL__Suzanne marries Marcel on June 7, 1948.__NEWL__Paul-Émile Borduas, leader of the Automatistes, leads the group in composing the manifesto for free speech, Refus Global.__NEWL__Suzanne initially signs, but later redacts her signature when Borduas rejects her poetry.__NEWL__Her first child, Mousse, is born in 1949 (who will grow up to be the famous film maker Manon Barbeau).__NEWL__The group of artists has been blacklisted, so Marcel and Suzanne move with their friends to the countryside.__NEWL__Suzanne gives birth to François.__NEWL__Marcel has a breakdown in New York, but when she comes to attend to him, she starts a relationship with Borduas.__NEWL__She leaves Marcel and abandons the children at a daycare in the countryside.__NEWL__Marcel's sister eventually agrees to take in Mousse and an undertaker and his wife take in Francois.__NEWL__By this time Suzanne has started a new relationship and runs off with her friend's lover, Peter, to travel the world; but after a terminated pregnancy she returns to Montreal.__NEWL__She invites Mousse to live with her but her invitation is refused.__NEWL__Suzanne moves to Harlem in New York and begins to date a woman named Selena.__NEWL__Together, they join the Freedom Riders.__NEWL__The first few stops go well, but eventually the KKK attacks the bus and destroys it.__NEWL__By the age of 40, Suzanne is living in Manhattan.__NEWL__There she meets Gary Adams, a man scarred from his experiences in Vietnam.__NEWL__Her son François repeatedly tries to contact her but Suzanne refuses to meet with him.__NEWL__While living in Ottawa, Suzanne meets and becomes friends with her childhood hero, Hilda Strike.__NEWL__The novel then revisits the author's interactions with her grandmother, but from Suzanne's perspective.__NEWL__On December 23, 2009, Suzanne dies, leaving her estate to Mousse and her children.__NEWL__Back in the present, the narrator is living in the countryside taking care of her infant daughter.__NEWL__She contemplates how Suzanne's abandonment affected her mother and family dynamic.__NEWL__Nevertheless, she recognizes the debt that the family owes Suzanne, and she promises to remember her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q64841098	At the Wolf’s Table	2018-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q64	Berlin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	60411227	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60411227	The main character is telling the story while in the present day as a senior citizen.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65066923	Duffy	1980-01-01T00:00:00Z	60652872	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60652872	In the quiet Surrey village of West Byfleet two masked men break into Brian McKechnie's house, cut his wife and spit roast his cat.__NEWL__This leads to blackmail and McKechnie goes to the local police but finds them strangely uninterested and so he hires Duffy to investigate.__NEWL__The investigator uses his contacts in the seedy Soho underworld to identify those responsible and finds they have links to his ex-colleagues in the police, and to his own dismissal from their ranks four years earlier after being set-up for underage homosexual sex.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q62508979	The Dyke and the Dybbuk	1993-04-15T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	60342087	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60342087	Two hundred years ago, Anya's lover, Gittel, betrayed her and married a Torah scholar.__NEWL__Anya, bent on revenge, conjured up a curse according to which Gittel and every first-born female descendant for 33 generations would be possessed by a dybbuk and bear only daughters.__NEWL__The dybbuk Kokos gets assigned this job by the Head Office, but runs into trouble when the family gets help from her nemesis, the Sage of Limnititzk.__NEWL__The sage drives Kokos out of Gittel and traps her in a tree.__NEWL__Two centuries later, a bolt of lightning releases Kokos, but she has a hard time adjusting to the 20th century.__NEWL__Kokos, who is facing dismissal by the Head Office - now a multinational high-tech corporation - tracks down Gittel's descendant, Rainbow Rosenbloom, a political, lesbian film-critic and taxi driver.__NEWL__Rainbow, however, turns out to be far from an easy soul to haunt.__NEWL__If the dybbuk's job is to drive the possessed person mad, Kokos is at a loss as to what to do with a person who is already considered more than a little crazy by her friends and family.__NEWL__The approach Kokos chooses is to remake Rainbow into the ultimate "Nice Jewish Girl".__NEWL__Rainbow, who is now falling for a beautiful, and straight, orthodox woman, now even considers marrying a man and getting back to her religious roots to be close to her - a plan Kokos is pleased with, because it will give her future generations to possess.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65064965	The Transmigration of Bodies							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	60471307	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60471307	The Redeemer, a fixer who works primarily in the criminal underworld, wakes up with a hangover at his apartment in the Big House.__NEWL__One of his neighbors, Three Times Blonde, asks him for credit for her phone.__NEWL__They go to her apartment to make the exchange, and end up eating and having sex.__NEWL__Another resident of the apartment, an anemic student, hopes to share in their meal, or at least have leftovers, but they shun him.__NEWL__The next morning the Redeemer gets a call from Dolphin Fonseca, a barrio boss.__NEWL__Dolphin wants him to find his son Romeo, who has disappeared after visiting Lover's Lane, a street of strip clubs.__NEWL__The Redeemer learns from the bartender Óscar that Romeo was taken by boys from the Castro family, another rich criminal household.__NEWL__He also learns from Dolphin's daughter (the Unruly) that Dolphin has taken Baby Girl, Castro's daughter, to an old house called Las Pericas.__NEWL__When the Redeemer goes to Las Pericas, he finds Baby Girl dead.__NEWL__He calls a nurse, Vicky, to examine Baby Girl's body.__NEWL__She concludes that Baby Girl died from the plague, having gone several days without treatment.__NEWL__She also notes that the body has not been ravished after death.__NEWL__They go to meet the Mennonite, an old friend and fellow fixer, who is working for the Castros to retrieve Baby Girl.__NEWL__The Mennonite tells him that Romeo is also dead.__NEWL__When the Redeemer asks the Castro sons about the matter, they say that Romeo, injured by a van, had asked them to take him to their house so he could rest for a few hours.__NEWL__However, he died shortly after they brought him to the house.__NEWL__After examining Romeo's body, Vicky concludes that their story is true.__NEWL__The Redeemer and the Mennonite go back to Lover's Lane to talk again to Óscar.__NEWL__They learn that Romeo was at the strip clubs in order to visit his boyfriend, who worked at the ladies’ club.__NEWL__When the Redeemer goes to Las Pericas to pick up Baby Girl's body, he finds out from the Unruly that Baby Girl was already coughing blood when she was picked up as hostage.__NEWL__The Redeemer puts Baby Girl's body in his apartment until it can be exchanged for Romeo's body.__NEWL__He is tempted into Three Times Blonde's apartment to enjoy her company, but when he leaves, he is beaten by Three Times Blonde's boyfriend, who has heard about her affair via the anemic student.__NEWL__Fortunately, a friend arrives and rescues the Redeemer.__NEWL__The Mennonite calls the Redeemer to tell him that Las Pericas (the old mansion from earlier in the book) has burned down.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Redeemer goes to a lawyer named Gustavo and finds out that the Castro and Fonseca families are descended from the same father by different wives, and that the two families have been fighting over legal possession of the ancestral house ever since the father's death.__NEWL__The Redeemer returns home and the Fonsecas and Castros arrive to make the corpse exchange.__NEWL__There is no fight, but harsh words are exchanged over the burning of Las Pericas—each family blames the other.__NEWL__Both families leave, clearly distraught after seeing the dead bodies of their family members.__NEWL__The Redeemer goes to Three Times Blonde, but she leaves as soon as she notices that the weather has cleared.__NEWL__His landlady asks the Redeemer to try to free the anemic student, who is now in police custody, and he agrees and leaves Big House.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q69566723	The Raven Tower	2019-01-01T00:00:00Z	60564476	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60564476	In the Raven Tower universe, many gods of varying levels of power exist.__NEWL__Gods may take the physical forms of animals or landmarks.__NEWL__Gods always speak the truth.__NEWL__If a god says something that is false at the time, the god must expend its energy changing the world so that the statement becomes true.__NEWL__A god may expend all of its energy and die doing this.__NEWL__The story is narrated by The Strength and Patience of the Hill, a god who inhabits a large boulder.__NEWL__Strength and Patience also discusses its long life, from prehistoric times through the arrival of humans.__NEWL__The country of Iraden is protected by various gods, including the Raven, a god that inhabits a living raven.__NEWL__The capital of Iraden is the port city of Vastai.__NEWL__It is ruled by the Raven’s Lease, a human who is granted vast power in exchange for committing suicide when the Raven’s possessed bird dies.__NEWL__This act of human sacrifice provides vast power to the incubating egg from which the next raven will hatch, and be inhabited by the Raven god.__NEWL__Mawat, son of the Lease and commander of Iraden’s army, receives a message that his father is ill.__NEWL__Mawat is accompanied by his retainer, a transgender man named Eolo.__NEWL__When they arrive in Vastai, Mawat’s father has disappeared, the raven is dead, and his uncle Hibal is the new Lease.__NEWL__Mawat publicly accuses Hibal of foul play, of threatening Vastai’s stability, and of disrupting trade relationships with other territories.__NEWL__In particular, members of the Xulhan Empire and their snake god are seeking a new alliance with Hibal.__NEWL__The Strength and Patience of the Hill describes how the Raven once said, "The gods of Vastai will destroy the gods of Ard Vusktia," the city visible just across a strait to the north.__NEWL__Over many years the Raven expended his power to make this true.__NEWL__The war's effects spread far enough to cause the death of the High Priest and worshipers of Strength and Patience.__NEWL__Strength and Patience moved south to Ard Vusktia to help in its defense, but was careful to disguise its true nature.__NEWL__The war ended with the destruction of all of the gods in both countries except the Raven and Strength and Patience.__NEWL__Eolo discovers that Mawat’s father is being held prisoner in the dungeons of the Raven Tower.__NEWL__He also discovers that Strength and Patience has been used by the Raven to supply the power needed to fulfill the Raven's promises to protect Vastai.__NEWL__In the many years since the end of the war, the Raven’s power has secretly been weakening.__NEWL__Mawat, believing he is serving the Raven, inadvertently frees Strength and Patience from the mechanism the Raven had used to extract its power.__NEWL__The continued existence of Strength and Patience, an Ard Vusktian god, in contradiction of the statement the Raven made, slowly drained the Raven of power.__NEWL__It is revealed that the Raven ceased to exist just before the story begins.__NEWL__Mawat is then framed for murdering a high-ranking politician.__NEWL__A flood causes a dysentery outbreak, and a hostile army is advancing through Iraden, revealing that the Raven is no longer able to protect Vastai.__NEWL__Mawat kills Hibal, thinking this human sacrifice will strengthen the Raven; however, since the Raven is dead, it instead gives power to Strength and Patience.__NEWL__Mawat is then killed by the snake god.__NEWL__Strength and Patience says, "I will kill the Snake god, protect Eolo, and leave Vastai to its fate."__NEWL__As the story ends, an armada, coming from the far north, bent on destroying Vastai, is just coming into sight on the far horizon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21996841	Zuleikha	2015-05-01T00:00:00Z	60420699	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60420699	In 1930, Zuleikha lives in a small Tatar village in the Soviet Union with her husband Murtaza and her mother-in-law.__NEWL__Her husband treats her terribly and favors her mother-in-law heavily.__NEWL__Her mother-in-law is extremely ungrateful for everything Zuleikha does for her.__NEWL__Zuleikha is considered a failure because she has attempted to have 4 different children but all have died.__NEWL__As part of the dekulakization campaign, her husband is executed by Ignatov for refusing to leave.__NEWL__She is then forced to exile to siberia with him while they go on a lengthy journey to a new "Settlement".__NEWL__Ignatov is not interested in Zuleikha and has a woman of his own at home but ends up getting trapped in this just as much as Zuleikha.__NEWL__After an extremely length waiting time and train ride where some people manage to escape they arrive at the port.__NEWL__The port takes them down the river to their settlement and sinks along the way.__NEWL__The result is many who were trapped on the boat and locked up ended up drowning.__NEWL__Zuliekha tries to save them and almost drowns her self but Ignatov saves her.__NEWL__This settlement turns out to be nothing more than some forest with minimal supplies if any.__NEWL__The remainder of the story takes place at this settlement and develops eventually into a real settlement.__NEWL__The first winter is harsh and many die__NEWL__but thanks to Ignatovs leadership and Zuilkhas hunting skills they survive.__NEWL__Many recruits arrive in the spring and don't make it through the harsh winter.__NEWL__The novel is a historical fiction inspired by stories told to the author by her grandmother, although real incidents in the novel are based on the memoirs of other people.__NEWL__The fictional setting of the novel is based on the labor settlement Pit-Gorodok in Severo-Yeniseysky District, where the author's grandmother was exiled as a child along with her parents.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3793856	Humboldt's Gift	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1755082	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1755082	The novel, which Bellow initially intended to be a short story, is a roman à clef about Bellow's friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz.__NEWL__It explores the changing relationship of art and power in a materialist America.__NEWL__This theme is addressed through the contrasting careers of two writers, Von Humboldt Fleisher (to some degree a version of Schwartz) and his protégé Charlie Citrine (to some degree a version of Bellow himself).__NEWL__Fleisher yearns to lift American society through art, but dies a failure.__NEWL__By contrast, Charlie Citrine makes a lot of money through his writing, especially from a Broadway play and a movie about a character named Von Trenck – a character modeled after Fleisher.__NEWL__Another notable character in the book is Rinaldo Cantabile, a wannabe Chicago gangster, who tries to bully Citrine into being friends.__NEWL__Because his career advice to Citrine is commercially fixated, it is directly opposed to advice from Citrine's former mentor, Humboldt Fleisher, who prioritizes artistic integrity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1336310	Investiture of the Gods							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9903	Ming dynasty	1739705	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1739705	The novel is a romanticised retelling of the overthrow of King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang dynasty, by Ji Fa, who would establish the Zhou dynasty in its place.__NEWL__The story integrates oral and written tales of many Chinese mythological figures who are involved in the struggle as well.__NEWL__These figures include human heroes, immortals, and various spirits (usually represented in avatar form, such as vixens and pheasants, and occasionally as inanimate objects such as a pipa).__NEWL__Bewitched by his concubine Daji, who is actually a vixen spirit disguised as a beautiful woman, King Zhou of Shang oppresses his people and persecutes those who oppose him, including those who dare to speak up to him.__NEWL__Ji Fa (King Wu of Zhou), assisted by his strategist Jiang Ziya, rallies an army to overthrow the tyrant and restore peace and order.__NEWL__Throughout the story, battles are waged between the kingdoms of Shang and Zhou, with both sides calling upon various supernatural beings – deities, immortals, demons, spirits, and humans with magical abilities – to aid them in the war.__NEWL__Yuanshi Tianzun ("Primeval Lord of Heaven") bestows upon Jiang Ziya the Fengshen Bang, a list that empowers him to invest the gods of Heaven.__NEWL__The heroes of Zhou and some of their fallen enemies from Shang are eventually endowed with heavenly ranking and essentially elevated as gods, hence the title of the novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q980534	Clarissa	1748-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1735504	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1735504	Robert Lovelace, a wealthy "libertine" and heir to a substantial estate, begins to court Arabella, Clarissa's older sister.__NEWL__However, she rejects him because she felt slighted by his more ardent interest in her parents' approval than in her.__NEWL__Lovelace quickly moves on from Arabella to Clarissa, much to the displeasure of Arabella and their brother James.__NEWL__Clarissa insists that she dislikes Lovelace, but Arabella grows jealous of Lovelace's interest in the younger girl.__NEWL__James, also, dislikes Lovelace greatly because of a duel the two had once fought.__NEWL__These feelings combine with resentment that their grandfather had left Clarissa a piece of land and lead the siblings to be aggressive to Clarissa.__NEWL__The entire Harlowe family is in favour of her marrying Roger Solmes, however Clarissa finds Solmes to be unpleasant company and does not wish to marry him, either.__NEWL__This makes her family suspicious of her supposed dislike of Lovelace and they begin to disbelieve her.__NEWL__The Harlowes begin restricting Clarissa's contact with the outside world by forbidding her to see Lovelace.__NEWL__Eventually they forbid her to either leave her room or send letters to her friend, Anna Howe, until Clarissa apologises and agrees to marry Solmes.__NEWL__Trapped and desperate to regain her freedom, Clarissa continues to communicate with Anna secretly and begins a correspondence with Lovelace while trying to convince her parents not to force her to marry Solmes.__NEWL__Neither Clarissa nor her parents will concede.__NEWL__They see her protests as stubborn disobedience and communication between parents and daughter breaks down.__NEWL__Lovelace convinces Clarissa to elope with him to avoid the conflict with her parents.__NEWL__Joseph Leman, a servant of the Harlowe family, shouts and makes noise so it may seem like the family has awoken and discovered that Clarissa and Lovelace are about to run away.__NEWL__Frightened of the possible aftermath, Clarissa leaves with Lovelace but becomes his prisoner for many months.__NEWL__Her family now will not listen to or forgive Clarissa because of this perceived betrayal, despite her continued attempts to reconcile with them.__NEWL__She is kept at many lodgings, including unknowingly a brothel, where the women are disguised as high-class ladies by Lovelace so as to deceive Clarissa.__NEWL__Despite all of this, she continues to refuse Lovelace, longing to live by herself in peace.__NEWL__Lovelace is too cynical to believe that virtuous women exist and he is desperately trying to seduce Clarissa, despite declaring that he loves her.__NEWL__Although he puts her under increasing pressure to submit, Clarissa does not waver.__NEWL__Under the pretense of saving her from a fire, Lovelace at last gains entry to Clarissa's bedroom but she thwarts his attempted assault with vigorous resistance.__NEWL__She promises, under threat of rape, to forgive and marry him.__NEWL__However, she considers this promise made under duress as void; soon after she makes her first successful escape from Lovelace, concealing herself in lodgings in Hampstead.__NEWL__Enraged by Clarissa's flight, Lovelace vows to seek revenge.__NEWL__He hunts her down to the lodgings where she is hiding and rents all the rooms around her, effectively trapping her.__NEWL__He hires people to impersonate his own respectable family members to gain her trust.__NEWL__During this time he intercepts a letter to Clarissa from Anna Howe warning her of true extent of his deception and roguery.__NEWL__He commits forgery to put an end to the communication between them.__NEWL__Eventually, he persuades Clarissa to accompany his imposter-relatives out in a carriage and thus carries her back to the disguised brothel.__NEWL__There, with the assistance of the prostitutes and brothel madam, he first drugs and then rapes her.__NEWL__After the rape, Clarissa suffers a loss of sanity for several days, presumably brought on by her extreme distress as well as the dose of opiates administered to her.__NEWL__(This temporary insanity is represented in her "mad letters" by the use of scattered typography.)__NEWL__When Clarissa recovers her senses Lovelace soon realises that he has failed to "subdue" or corrupt her; instead she is utterly repulsed by him, repeatedly refusing his offers of marriage despite her precarious situation as a fallen woman.__NEWL__She accuses him of deceiving and unlawfully detaining her and insists that he set her free.__NEWL__He continues to claim that the impersonators really were his family members and that his crime was simply one of desperate passion.__NEWL__He tries to convince her to marry him, alternating between threats and professions of love.__NEWL__She steadfastly resists and attempts several more escapes.__NEWL__Lovelace is forced to concede that Clarissa's virtue remains untarnished, but he begins to convince himself that the "trial" was not properly conducted.__NEWL__Since Clarissa was drugged at the time, she could neither consent nor refuse.__NEWL__He decides to orchestrate a second rape, but without drugs.__NEWL__Pretending to be angered by the discovery that she has bribed a servant to help her escape, Lovelace begins to menace Clarissa, intending to escalate the confrontation to physical violence but she threatens to kill herself with a pen-knife should he proceed.__NEWL__Utterly confounded by her righteous indignation and terrified by her willingness to die for her virtue, Lovelace retreats.__NEWL__More intent than ever to make Clarissa his wife, Lovelace is called away to attend his dying uncle from whom he is expecting to inherit an Earldom.__NEWL__He orders the prostitutes to keep Clarissa confined but well-treated until he returns.__NEWL__Clarissa escapes; however, the brothel madam is able to have her jailed for a few days for unpaid bills, and Clarissa finds sanctuary with a shopkeeper and his wife when she is released.__NEWL__Corresponding with Lovelace's real family, she discovers for herself the true extent of his deception.__NEWL__She lives in constant fear of being found by him again, as he continues to send her marriage offers through his disreputable friend, John Belford, as well as through his own family members.__NEWL__Clarissa is determined not to accept.__NEWL__She becomes dangerously ill from the stress, rarely eating, convinced that she will die soon.__NEWL__Her illness progresses.__NEWL__She and Belford become correspondents.__NEWL__She appoints him executor of her will as she puts all of her affairs in order to the alarm of the people around her.__NEWL__Belford is amazed at the way Clarissa handles her approaching death and laments what Lovelace has done.__NEWL__In one of the many letters sent to Lovelace, he writes, "if the divine Clarissa asks me to slit thy throat, Lovelace, I shall do it in an instance".__NEWL__ Eventually, surrounded by strangers and her cousin, Col. Morden, Clarissa dies in the full consciousness of her virtue and trusting in a better life after death.__NEWL__Belford manages Clarissa's will and ensures that all her articles and money go into the hands of the individuals she desires should receive them.__NEWL__Lovelace departs for Europe and continues to correspond with Belford.__NEWL__Lovelace learns that Col. Morden has suggested he might seek Lovelace and demand satisfaction on behalf of his cousin.__NEWL__He responds that he is not able to accept threats against himself and arranges an encounter with Col. Morden.__NEWL__They meet in Munich and arrange a duel.__NEWL__Morden is slightly injured in the duel, but Lovelace dies of his injuries the following day.__NEWL__Before dying he says "let this expiate!__NEWL__"__NEWL__Clarissa's relatives finally realise they have been wrong but it comes too late.__NEWL__They discover Clarissa has already died.__NEWL__The story ends with an account of the fate of the other characters.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q901356	Make Room! Make Room!	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1743436	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1743436	Make Room!__NEWL__Make Room! is set in an overpopulated New York City in 1999 (33 years after the time of writing).__NEWL__30-year-old Police Detective Andy Rusch lives in half a room, sharing it with Sol, a retired engineer who has adapted a bicycle to generate power for an old television set and a refrigerator.__NEWL__When Andy lines up for their continually reducing water ration, he witnesses a public speech by the "Elders," older people forcibly retired from work.__NEWL__A riot breaks out after a nearby food shop has a surprise sale on "soylent" (soy and lentil) steaks.__NEWL__The shop is looted by the mob.__NEWL__Billy Chung, an 18-year-old Taiwanese-American, grabs a box of steaks.__NEWL__He eats some of them and sells the rest to raise enough money to land a job as a Western Union messenger boy.__NEWL__His first delivery takes him into a fortified apartment block, complete with the rare luxuries of air conditioning and running water for showers.__NEWL__He delivers his message to a rich racketeer named "Big Mike" O'Brien and sees Shirl, Mike's 23-year-old live-in mistress.__NEWL__Billy leaves the apartment but fixes it so he can get back into the building later.__NEWL__He breaks into Mike's place, but when Mike catches him in the act, Billy accidentally kills him and flees, empty-handed.__NEWL__A piece of evidence may connect an out-of-town crime boss who may be trying to expand into New York City, a threat to Mike's associates.__NEWL__They see to it that Andy keeps working on the case, in addition to his regular duties.__NEWL__ During his investigation, he becomes enamored of Shirl.__NEWL__He ensures that she is permitted to stay in the apartment until the end of the month.__NEWL__During this month, they enjoy the luxuries.__NEWL__Afterwards Shirl moves in with Andy.__NEWL__Shirl soon becomes disappointed with how little time the overworked Andy has for her.__NEWL__She eventually sleeps with a wealthy man she meets at a party.__NEWL__To evade capture, Billy leaves the city, eventually breaking into the abandoned Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he comes to live with Peter, who is eagerly awaiting the new millennium as the end of the world.__NEWL__Soon they are attacked and displaced by a trio.__NEWL__They find a new home in a car.__NEWL__Months after the murder, Billy decides to visit his family, believing the police have lost interest in him.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sol decides he can no longer remain passive in the face of humanity's overpopulation crisis.__NEWL__He joins a march to protest the overturning of a legislative bill that supports population control.__NEWL__Sol is injured in a riot and catches pneumonia.__NEWL__A few days after his death, an obnoxious family takes over his living quarters, making Shirl and Andy's life much more miserable than before.__NEWL__Andy stumbles upon Billy Chung, cornering him in his family's home.__NEWL__When Billy moves to attack Andy with a knife, he stumbles, and Andy accidentally shoots and kills him.__NEWL__The gangsters have lost interest by this point, but his superiors disavow Andy's actions, and he is temporarily demoted to ordinary patrolman.__NEWL__When he returns to his quarters, he finds Shirl has left him.__NEWL__Andy is on patrol in Times Square on New Year's Eve, where he spots Shirl among rich party-goers.__NEWL__As the clock strikes midnight, Andy encounters Peter, who is distraught that the world has not ended and asks how life can continue as it is.__NEWL__The story concludes with the Times Square screen announcing that "Census says United States had biggest year ever, end-of-the-century, 344 million citizens."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7759270	The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists	1914-04-23T00:00:00Z	3608	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23346	Sussex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1743786	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1743786	Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the inequity and iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target: the workers who think that a better life is "not for the likes of them".__NEWL__Hence the title of the book; Tressell paints the workers as "philanthropists" who throw themselves into back-breaking work for poverty wages to generate profit for their masters.__NEWL__One of the characters, Frank Owen, is a socialist who tries to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the poverty he sees all around him, but their education has trained them to distrust their own thoughts and to rely on those of their "betters".__NEWL__Much of the book consists of conversations between Owen and the others, or more often of lectures by Owen in the face of their jeering; this was presumably based on Tressell's own experiences.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q738342	Hegira	1979-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1744298	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744298	In the novel, "young" humans (recreations of the medieval originals) are transported through the Big Collapse, at the end of time, to seed the next cycle of the universe.__NEWL__They are transported to Hegira, an artificial environment of the scale of the planet Jupiter, which has habitats for several species on its surface.__NEWL__The habitats are protected and uncoupled from the universe's entropy by means of force fields projected by giant obelisks.__NEWL__In the human realm, these are inscribed with the recorded history of humankind, sorted chronologically from the bottom up, including the science that went with it.__NEWL__People try to understand and copy what they can read on the obelisks, using balloons in some places to reach higher points on the obelisks.__NEWL__A legend tells the protagonist that his beloved (frozen in stasis) will awaken if he goes on quest to the rim walls of the habitat, and he does so.__NEWL__On the way, he lands on an island with a good view of an obelisk (at least high) which is just tumbling down in the distance.__NEWL__Its fall causes a tsunami and devastates a continent.__NEWL__After the devastation, the inscriptions at the top of the fallen obelisk about human history are revealed.__NEWL__The hero's quest to the rim succeeds.__NEWL__He makes contact with an artificial intelligence guardian of Hegira, who tells him the story and advises him to go and populate the new universe since he has become part of the last one.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2418692	Vi kallar honom Anna	1733103	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1733103	The story starts in 1958.__NEWL__Anders Roos, 14 years old, arrives one week late at Södra Latins' summer camp (which is 10 weeks in total).__NEWL__The leaders of the camp have put him in another barrack than his peers, because they know there are "troubles" at school.__NEWL__Usually peers are together.__NEWL__The other people in the barrack have to decide on a nickname for him: all people in the camp have one.__NEWL__They decide to call him Anna because they think he looks like a girl.__NEWL__Anders is far too small for his age, cannot play football and cannot swim.__NEWL__At summer camp, Anders is severely bullied.__NEWL__In the morning, when all boys have to fix their bed, the other people will not let him.__NEWL__This results in a low number of points, and because he gets a low number of points for his bed, the other boys throw him into the sea.__NEWL__A number of times, he is beaten up so badly that he is unable to leave his bed for many days.__NEWL__The camp leaders do not want to send anyone home: the camp reputation would be severely damaged.__NEWL__Micke is the sports' leader at the camp.__NEWL__Through the ten weeks at summer camp, Anders discovers that he can trust Micke.__NEWL__He tells Micke that he is the only one he likes: at home, his father mistreats him.__NEWL__When he eats, his father tells him exactly how much money he owes.__NEWL__On the other hand, his father always complains that Anders is much too small and that he is an imbecile.__NEWL__He also forces him to watch when he rapes his mother.__NEWL__Micke finds it very difficult to react to this openness, but tries to be open and be a friend.__NEWL__When the summer camp is finished, Micke needs to work for his exams, at the end of the year.__NEWL__He also trains a lot, and wins a lot of matches by running fastest.__NEWL__He has hardly any time left for Anders, and the few times he sees him, Anders tells him a lot about how he is mistreated everywhere.__NEWL__Micke finds it increasingly difficult to know how to handle the situation.__NEWL__He tries to contact the school about it, but the school direction does not believe that there is any bullying at Södra Latins.__NEWL__Later, it seems Anders' life might be getting better, because he and his mother are finally moving out of his fathers' house and Anders may be able to change school.__NEWL__However, at a later moment, Anders has a fight with his mother.__NEWL__The neighbours, who he visits sometimes, are not at home, and he cannot find Micke either.__NEWL__At this moment, he commits suicide by hanging himself.__NEWL__When Micke visits Anders' parents after his suicide, Anders' father asks Micke if he wants to sell his model railway track.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385052	The Angel of Darkness	1997-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1733159	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1733159	The now-adult Stevie Taggert, a tobacconist, makes a bet with an elderly John Moore that he can write the story of one of their adventures together as well as Moore (a former newspaper reporter)__NEWL__could.__NEWL__Set in 1897, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler's associate, Sara Howard, now a private detective, comes to him for help in locating Ana Linares, the kidnapped infant daughter of a visiting Spanish dignitary.__NEWL__The mystery is complicated by rising tensions between Spain and the United States, and war in Cuba seems inevitable.__NEWL__Kreizler re-convenes his old "team":__NEWL__Sara; John; NYPD detectives and forensic specialists Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; and Kreizler's faithful servants, Stevie and Cyrus.__NEWL__Their search for the missing child leads them to contact with an enigmatic woman with a murderous past, who enjoys the protection of the Hudson Dusters, a notorious gang.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7749324	The Mad Man	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1707351	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1707351	In New York City in the early 1980s, a black gay philosophy graduate student, John Marr, is researching a dissertation on Timothy Hasler, a Korean-American philosopher and academic stabbed to death under unexplained circumstances outside a gay bar in 1973.__NEWL__As details emerge, Marr finds his lifestyle converging with that of Hasler, and he becomes increasingly involved in intense sexual encounters with homeless men, despite his growing awareness of the risks of HIV.__NEWL__In the course of unravelling the mystery of Hasler's death, Marr joins with a homeless man from West Virginia, who goes by the street name "Leaky."__NEWL__Scenes based on letters Delany actually wrote (see: ) take place in a gay bar in New York, though the basic incident is fictional.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7532308	Sivagamiyin Sapatham	1944-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	1700278	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700278	It would be difficult to point out who the real hero of the novel is.__NEWL__Mahendravarman I, the Pallava emperor, plays an important role in the first half of the story while his son Narasimhavarman comes into his own as the novel progresses.__NEWL__The plot revolves around the historical events of the Chalukya king, Pulakeshin II, laying a siege of Kanchi, and Narasimhavarman avenging this by attacking Vatapi, the capital of the Chalukyas.__NEWL__The novel is divided into four parts.__NEWL__The novel begins with the arrival of Paranjothi in the city of Kanchi to attain tutelage under the Tamil saint Thirunavukkarasar.__NEWL__But he ends up saving the damsel Sivagami and her father Aayannar from a mad elephant by throwing a spear at it, almost by reflex.__NEWL__There is considerable unease in the town since the Chalukya king Pulikesi is on his way to attack Kanchi.__NEWL__That night Paranjothi is arrested by the guards and is kept in a cell since Mahendravarman wants to see and jail the young man who saved the life of his most important artists.__NEWL__But Paranjothi manages to escape from the prison with help from Naganandhi, the Buddhist monk who accompanied him to Kanchipuram.__NEWL__Naganandhi takes him out of the Kanchi fort through a secret tunnel to meet the master sculptor Aayannar, who stays outside the fort in a small settlement.__NEWL__Paranjothi plans to join the sculptor as a student and believes that should be possible since his uncle, a friend of Aayannar, has provided a letter asking Aayannar to take care of his nephew.__NEWL__Naganandhi, who has promised Aayannar that he would get him the secret behind the dyes used in the Ajanta paintings under Chalukyas, asks Aayannar to send Paranjothi on a trip to the Vindhyas to meet a monk who Naganandhi says, should give Paranjothi the secret formula for the dyes.__NEWL__Accordingly, Paranjothi is sent with a note written by Naganandhi ( which actually contains letter to Pulikesi which Paranjothi thinks it is a letter to the monk in the Ajanta regarding coming quickly to coming to Kanchipuram for invading as the current pallava army is weak and scattered)y.__NEWL__Narasimhavarman continues visiting his lover, Sivagami who has mastered the ancient Indian dance form, Bharathanatyam.__NEWL__But this growing romance between the prince and the sculptor's daughter does not have the approval of the king.__NEWL__Mahendravarman also orders a livid Narasimhavarman, that he should stay in Kanchi and safeguard it when he goes and takes care of Pulakeshin in the battle field.__NEWL__Meanwhile, en route, Paranjothi meets a soldier, Wajrabahu, who gives him company till the inn where they decide to stay for the night.__NEWL__When Paranjothi is fast asleep, Wajrabahu changes the content of the letter that Paranjothi is carrying.__NEWL__The change made saved both Kancipuram and Paranjothi's life.__NEWL__The next day both part ways.__NEWL__Paranjothi travels to a Buddhist monastery and stays there for the night but he didn't know that in that monastery there were Chalukya spies so the spies sent word to the king and soldiers came to arrest Paranjothi.__NEWL__Paranjothi is captured by the soldiers of the approaching Chalukya army.__NEWL__He is taken to Pulakeshin and presented as a spy.__NEWL__Pulakeshin deciphers the letter that Paranjothi is carrying to mean the young man should be given the secret of the Ajanta dyes.__NEWL__Unable to communicate with Paranjothi (since Pulakeshin does not understand Tamil and Paranjothi does not understand Kannada).__NEWL__Pulikesi asks Wajrabahu to interrogate the surprised Paranjothi.__NEWL__Having confirmed from Wajrabahu that Paranjothi indeed knew nothing, Emperor Pulakeshin the great orders Paranjothi to continue his journey to the Vindhyas accompanied by his soldiers.__NEWL__Wajrabahu informs the scared Paranjothi not to worry and asks the young man to trust him.__NEWL__Paranjothi leaves from Pulakesi's camp with some soldiers accompanying him.__NEWL__At night when the soldiers are asleep Paranjothi escapes with the help of Wajrabahu who takes him to the Pallava camp.__NEWL__Paranjothi believes Wajrabahu is a Pallava spy only to later realize that it is in fact the Pallava King, Mahendravarman himself.__NEWL__Seven months pass and Paranjothi is now a trusted and able commander in Mahendravarman's army.__NEWL__With the battle with Pulikesi fast approaching, Paranjothi returns to Kanchi and soon becomes a close friend of Narasimhavarman.__NEWL__The prince also finds him a suitable companion to describe his lost love and longing to meet Sivagami.__NEWL__Satrugnan, the spy chief, in the Pallava army, comes with the news from the emperor asking Narasimhavarman to launch an attack on Durveneedhan, a local chieftain who tries to attack Kanchi in this hour of crisis.__NEWL__Aayannar and Sivagami, after being prodded by Naganandhi leave from their settlement to a Buddhist monastery to get away from the impending war.__NEWL__Naganandhi almost gains Sivagami's trust by promising her that he will make her famous by arranging for her performance in all the important sites of the Chola and Pandya kingdoms.__NEWL__From the Buddhist monastery Sivagami notices Narasimhavarman chasing Durveneedhan's forces and in a sudden twist of events Narasimhavarman rescues Aayannar, Sivagami from an impending flood.__NEWL__Unknowst to them the flood actually results due to the breach of the bank of a lake by Naganandhi.__NEWL__The prince, sculptor and the dancer along with Gundodharan a student of Aayannar (who is actually a spy working for the Pallavas) take refuge in the village, Mandapapattu.__NEWL__The romance between Narasimhavarman further blossoms with Sivagami getting convinced that the prince would eventually marry her even though she is a poor sculptor's daughter.__NEWL__Naganandhi tries to assassinate Narasimhavarman but is locked in a room in a temple by the quick wits of Gundodharan.__NEWL__Naganandhi, however, manages to escape and steal the royal seal of the Pallavas.__NEWL__The emperor Mahendravarman reaches the village and almost begs Sivagami to forget marrying Narasimhavarman something which Sivagami claims is very difficult for her to do.__NEWL__Finally the royal party leaves for Kanchi leaving behind Aayannar and Sivagami.__NEWL__Mahendravarman returns to Kanchi.__NEWL__Nanganandhi is arrested by Mahendravarman in Kanchi.__NEWL__As per the orders of the king, the fort is properly protected and is ready to face the invasion of Pulakeshin's army.__NEWL__The siege of Kanchi by Pulakeshin begins.__NEWL__Pulakeshin tries bulldozing his way into the fort only to realise that Mahendravarman has fortified the city almost impregnably.__NEWL__He decides to camp outside the fort as long as it takes since he believes that the stockpile of food would soon run out in the fort forcing the Pallava king to surrender.__NEWL__But the city of Kanchi has stocked well and continues to thrive and Pulakesi realises that his forces are running out of food and the elephants are slowly turning uncontrollable.__NEWL__He calls truce and says he wants to enter Kanchi as the King's friend much to the disbelief and dismay of Narasimhavarman, who does not trust the sincerity of Pulikesi.__NEWL__But Mahendravarman tries to convince and finally makes sure Narasimhavarman is not in town when Pulakeshin enters it, by asking the prince to go to war with the Pandya kings in the south.__NEWL__Pulakeshin enjoys the royal hospitality.__NEWL__Sivagami comes from Mandapapattu and performs in the royal assemblage after being ordered by Mahendravarman.__NEWL__Aayannar and Sivagami stay in Kanchi waiting for the fort gates to reopen.__NEWL__Pulakeshin leaves Kanchi and on the final day Mahendravarman reveals how he managed to outwit him as Wajrabahu.__NEWL__Mahendravarman releases Naganandhi.__NEWL__Not aware of the danger that awaits them, Sivagami and Aayannar leave Kanchi using a secret tunnel only to be caught by Pulakeshin's forces.__NEWL__Naganandhi dressed as the king Pulakeshin rescues Aayannar from the soldiers.__NEWL__Mahendravarman is seriously injured in a battle with Pulakeshin's forces.__NEWL__He is bed ridden and realises his folly of extending a hand of friendship to the Chalukya king.__NEWL__He orders Narasimhavarman to avenge this shame to the Pallava dynasty and rescue Sivagami from the clutches of the Pulikesi.__NEWL__Sivagami is taken along with the other prisoners to Vatapi.__NEWL__Naganandhi confesses his love for Sivagami to a shocked Pulakesi, who promises to take care of Sivagami.__NEWL__Naganandhi leaves to take care of other matters at hand.__NEWL__In Vatapi, Pulikesi raises a victory column claiming his victory against the Pallavas.__NEWL__Sivagami refuses to dance in front of the Persian emissaries in Pulakesi's court.__NEWL__But Pulakesi devises a devious way of making her dance by beating the captured Pallava citizens and stopping only when Sivagami dances.__NEWL__Humiliated Sivagami vows that she would not leave Vatapi until Narasimhavarman burns it down and rescues her.__NEWL__She cites the vow as a reason and refuses to come with Narasimhavarman comes with general Paranjothi when he makes a secret visit to come and rescue her.__NEWL__The play beautifully depicts the eroding moral values during Pallava period in Tamil country.__NEWL__Nine years pass.__NEWL__Mahendravarman has died, never recovering from the injury he sustained from the battle with Pulakeshin's army.__NEWL__Narasimhavarman, now crowned King, is married to the Pandya princess, Vanamadevi and have two children Mahendran and Kundavi.__NEWL__He continues his preparation for attacking Vatapi ,he aligned all kingdoms of south India for the preparation for the battle of Vatapi including Cholas and Vengi Pallavas and even the imperial Pandya army.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the differences between the brothers Naganandhi and Pulikesi increases.__NEWL__Naganandhi believes that he should be ruling the country, something he forsook when he took up the Buddhist way of life.__NEWL__He also hides from Pulakeshin the fact that the Pallava forces are on their way to attack Vatapi.__NEWL__What further adds to Nangandhi's anguish is the non-subjugation of Sivagami.__NEWL__Pulakeshin visits Ajanta to take part in a cultural festival and at that time Narasimhavarman reaches Vatapi.__NEWL__The citizens of the fort offer to surrender.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a battle ensues between the returning Pulakeshin's army and the Pallava forces outside the Vatapi fort.__NEWL__Pulakeshin is killed in this battle but this information is not known to the Pallavas since the body is taken and cremated by Naganandhi.__NEWL__ Naganandhi returns to Vatapi as Pulakeshin (through a secret tunnel) and withdraws the surrender offer.__NEWL__The novel climaxes with Naganandhi being allowed to escape by Paranjothi on the grounds that Paranjothi does not want to kill a Buddhist monk.__NEWL__Paranjothi feels disturbed with war and the cost that humans have to pay and announces that he taking the life of a Saivite and takes up the name Siruthondar.__NEWL__Sivagami is united with her aging father.__NEWL__She is initially heart-broken on realising that Narasimhavarman is married to someone else, but later decides to dedicates herself to the God Shiva of Kanchi, Ekambareswarar.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q830094	The Chips Are Down	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	1740882	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1740882	Ève and Pierre have never met each other in their respective lives.__NEWL__At the beginning of the book, Ève is very sick, and unknown to her,__NEWL__her husband André is poisoning her in order to marry her sister Lucette and keep the dowry.__NEWL__Pierre, on the other hand, is planning a revolution, but is killed by his friend Lucien.__NEWL__Both Pierre and Ève do not realize that they have been dead for a while.__NEWL__Pierre and Ève realize different truths about their own lives as they walk invisibly as ghosts amongst the living, with the power to interact only with other deceased souls.__NEWL__Pierre and Ève have difficulty adjusting to this powerless condition.__NEWL__They meet each other in line to register at a bureaucratic clearing house for the recently deceased where both of them slowly find out that there has been a mistake in the paperwork.__NEWL__They are surprised to learn that according to article 140, they were predestined to be soulmates.__NEWL__Successfully appealing their case, Pierre and Ève are brought back to life and given twenty-four hours to show their love to each other, or their second chance at living will be revoked.__NEWL__However, they are each distracted by unfinished business from their previous lives.__NEWL__Because Ève was poisoned by her husband, she wants to convince her sister that he is not a good man.__NEWL__Pierre wants to stop the revolution to overthrow the Regency that he had planned, because in death he discovered the Regent knew about it, and realizes that if carried out, it will result in the massacre of his friends and the end of the resistance.__NEWL__Unable to explain the unique circumstances in which they acquired their knowledge, they both have difficulty convincing their friends that they know what is the right thing to do.__NEWL__Neither is able to completely dissociate themselves from the things that were once important to them, and they realize that by not concentrating on their love they might be sacrificing their second chance at life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736949	The Godwhale	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1739150	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1739150	The protagonist, Larry Dever, is gravely injured resulting in a radical surgical procedure, a hemicorporectomy, in which tissue below the waist is removed.__NEWL__He is outfitted with a set of intelligent mechanical legs, a "manniquin", and is placed into suspended animation until the damaged tissue can be restored.__NEWL__He wakes at a time when cloning technology can replace his legs, although for a price.__NEWL__Years before he was awakened, a clone, or "bud child", was created and is now a thriving young boy without language.__NEWL__Horrified by the prospect of his child being sacrificed to provide him with a new lower body, Larry opts to return to suspended animation.__NEWL__His child, Dim Dever, is selected by the guiding world computer, called Olga, to carry his ancient genes to a possible new colony on a planet orbiting Procyon.__NEWL__Larry awakens again in a nightmare future.__NEWL__Far from the highly advanced past, now an enormous human population – 3.5 trillion – covers every inch of the planet in underground shaft cities.__NEWL__Technology and science have degraded, and all freely breeding species have been exterminated except for the five-toed neolithic humans, which are classified as a garden varmint.__NEWL__The 'Hive' or human population of Nebishes – four-toed humans – within its computer-supported subterranean culture ruthlessly hunts, kills, and recycles anyone who consumes their crops, the Benthic Beasts, which are five-toed humans that have formed a precarious niche in abandoned underwater rec domes.__NEWL__As Larry is trying to adapt to his new life, without most of his own body or his "cyber" torso, accompanied by Big Har, a genetic defect sent for destruction as an infant but managing to escape 'tweenwalls' in the shaft city- something re-awakens an ancient, half-derelict cyborg, the Godwhale of the title.__NEWL__This enormous 'rake' is an ocean-going biota harvester built in part from a genetically modified blue whale.__NEWL__Initially attempting to rejoin human civilization, the Godwhale (named Rorqual Maru or 'Whale Ship' in Japanese), along with its class six companion cyber, Iron Trilobite, eventually teams up with a genetically modified clone of Larry, ARNOLD (Augmented Renal Nucleus of Larry Dever)__NEWL__Larry himself, and an assortment of misfits and refugees from the Hive.__NEWL__Together they set out to try to find out what mysteriously brings the marine biota back to the previously sterile oceans, while a tiny group from the Hive, the outcasts, and their cyber deities survive and thrive in the face of incredible bungling by the 'Class One' computer that manages humanity and the various castes of 'Nebish' humans brought into the fight.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5441172	Feed	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1712791	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1712791	The novel portrays a near-future in which the feednet, a huge computer network (apparently an advanced form of the Internet), is directly connected to the brains of about 73% of American citizens by means of an implanted device called a feed.__NEWL__The feed allows people: to mentally access vast digital databases (individually called "sites"); to experience shareable virtual-reality phenomena (including entertainment programs, music, and even others' memories); to continually interact with intrusive corporations in a personal preference-based way; and to communicate telepathically on closed channels with others who also have feeds (a feature called m-chatting).__NEWL__The setting of the novel is depicted as ecologically devastated.__NEWL__Natural clouds have been replaced by trademarked Clouds™, implying artificialization, and many have their children custom-designed.__NEWL__The corporations responsible for the feed have immense power and even run the school system, which is now known as School™.__NEWL__Throughout the book, corporations appear to hold the true power in the United States, leaving the president virtually helpless as the Global Alliance, a coalition of other countries, begins contemplating war with the U.S., due to the worsening worldwide effects of American mismanagement of the environment.__NEWL__Titus and his thrill-seeking teenaged friends meet teen girl Violet Durn, whose critically questioning attitude is completely new to the others.__NEWL__While at a club, a man from an anti-feed organization hacks all of their feeds.__NEWL__They wake up in a hospital to find, for the first time in most of their lives, that their feeds are unavailable: partially deactivated while under repair.__NEWL__During their recovery, Violet and Titus become sweethearts.__NEWL__Eventually, their feeds are repaired enough for them to return to Earth; however, Violet's feed is not completely fixed.__NEWL__One day, Violet reveals her idea of resisting the feed to Titus.__NEWL__She plans to show interest in a wide and random assortment of products to prevent the corporations that control the feed from developing a reliable consumer profile of her.__NEWL__The two go to the mall and create wild consumer profiles, by requesting information on certain random items, then not buying them.__NEWL__Later, Violet realizes that someone has been accessing her personal information through her dreams; this soon becomes a normal occurrence for many feed users.__NEWL__Violet calls FeedTech customer service, but receives no help.__NEWL__Later, she tells Titus that her feed has been severely malfunctioning, and she may even die, having had the feed installed later in life (and so with greater accompanying risk).__NEWL__Due to her deteriorating feed, various parts of Violet's body are shutting down.__NEWL__Throughout the novel, there is also a presence of lesions appearing on the characters' bodies.__NEWL__At first it is something they hide, but eventually the lesions turn into a trend.__NEWL__Violet, disgusted with this latest fashion, declares that everyone has become the feed.__NEWL__After this outburst, she collapses and is taken to the hospital.__NEWL__As a side effect of the malfunction, Violet loses memories of the year before she got the feed installed.__NEWL__To avoid losing more memories, she makes large virtual records of things she can remember.__NEWL__She sends them to Titus for safekeeping, but, not knowing how to emotionally handle this burden, Titus deletes them.__NEWL__Violet's body parts continue shutting down.__NEWL__She and her father cannot afford repairs, so they petition FeedTech for assistance.__NEWL__Meanwhile, an environmental disaster affecting Mexico causes the Global Alliance to prepare to go to war with the United States.__NEWL__Titus drives to Violet's house.__NEWL__He falls asleep shortly after arriving, but, while he sleeps, Violet shares her bad news with Titus in the form of a memory: FeedTech has decided not to help Violet because of her bizarre and unreliable customer profile.__NEWL__That weekend, Violet comes to Titus's house to ask him to go with her to the mountains.__NEWL__He is reluctant at first, but ultimately agrees.__NEWL__While in the mountains, Violet makes it clear she wants to make love with Titus, but the feeling isn't mutual.__NEWL__They begin arguing and eventually part.__NEWL__On the way home, Violet's arm stops working and when she arrives home her leg fails as well.__NEWL__Titus drives away.__NEWL__The next day, Violet apologizes to Titus via feed, but Titus does not answer.__NEWL__Several months later, Titus receives a message from Violet's father saying that Violet wanted Titus to know when it was "all over."__NEWL__He informs him that the time has come.__NEWL__Titus goes to Violet's house, where she lies in a coma, barely still alive.__NEWL__Her father blames Titus and shows him memories of parts of her body and brain shutting down and the pain she experienced.__NEWL__He then sarcastically tells Titus to be with "the Eloi."__NEWL__Titus asks what that means, but Violet's father refuses to answer, telling him to look it up.__NEWL__They fight, and Titus goes home.__NEWL__In an act of grief, he sits on his floor naked and orders the same pair of jeans continuously over the feed until he is entirely out of "credit," which is their form of currency.__NEWL__Two days later, Titus goes to visit Violet again.__NEWL__He tells her any stories he can find in the information available through his feed.__NEWL__Finally, he tells her the story of their relationship in the form of a movie trailer.__NEWL__The book ends with Violet's life systems becoming progressively weaker, and the feed ironically repeating the advertising slogan "Everything Must Go" in progressively smaller font.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17105348	The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1747268	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1747268	Borneman began working on this novel — his first — shortly after arriving in England from Nazi Germany in 1933, with practically no command of the English language.__NEWL__However, he was a quick learner, considered the detective story he was writing "no more than a finger exercise on the keyboard of a new language", and had finished it when he was not yet 20 years old.__NEWL__The proverbial "face on the cutting room floor" is a character in a movie who, after the shooting is completed, is completely removed from the film, for whatever reason.__NEWL__The same idea also holds true for documentaries, where in the editing process the large amount of raw footage is cut down to a manageable size and where it can happen that a particular part of the film is completely removed from the final version.__NEWL__The novel, written in the first person in the form of Cameron McCabe's confession, is set in London in the mid-1930s.__NEWL__McCabe works in the film industry and has made himself a name as a supervising film editor working mainly on feature films.__NEWL__One day his boss, Isador Bloom, orders him to cut out altogether a young aspiring actress, Estella Lamare, from a movie which has just been produced.__NEWL__As the picture is about a love triangle McCabe does not see the point in doing as he was told and immediately suspects some foul business.__NEWL__He does not know then that this is in fact Bloom's revenge on Lamare for "showing him a cold shoulder" when he made a pass at her.__NEWL__One Friday morning soon afterwards, Lamare's body is found on the floor of John Robertson's workplace at the studio, which happens to be a state-of-the-art cutting room.__NEWL__The place is equipped with an automatic camera which, once it has been set, starts recording the moment the door to the room is opened.__NEWL__Estella Lamare has died from stab wounds, and although the roll of film showing her slow death can be found it cannot be decided exactly how she died.__NEWL__On the film Ian Jensen, her partner in her last movie (from which she was to be cut out), can be seen struggling with Lamare, but the cause of her death may have been either an accident or suicide, or murder.__NEWL__As Jensen is nowhere to be found Scotland Yard assumes that he is Lamare's murderer and that he has escaped to his native Norway.__NEWL__However, four days later, on December 3, 1935, his body is found in a shabby rented room in a cheap boarding house in London.__NEWL__Jensen has been poisoned and then, after his death, shot in the head.__NEWL__The police investigations are conducted by Detective Inspector Smith of Scotland Yard.__NEWL__Right from the start there is antagonism between Smith and McCabe: Each suspects the other of knowing more about the case than he admits, with McCabe repeatedly assuming the role of detective while Smith seemingly has no idea how to solve the crime.__NEWL__Eventually the confrontation between the two antagonists escalates—their "game" turns into a "fight"—when Smith has McCabe arrested for the murder of Ian Jensen.__NEWL__McCabe refuses to be represented by a lawyer during his trial ("a layman conducting his own defence"), and systematically tries to break down the case against his person and to win over the jury to his cause.__NEWL__In the course of the trial a number of facts about the people involved in the two deaths are revealed.__NEWL__For example, we learn that McCabe himself is a "morally uprooted" man who has replaced "eternal values" with "values of the moment".__NEWL__Until his arrest he has a relationship with Maria Ray, the actress who, together with Lamare and Jensen, forms the love triangle in the recently completed film.__NEWL__Although Maria Ray is the love of his life, McCabe cannot help starting an affair with Dinah Lee, his secretary, and, by carrying on two relationships at the same time, double-crossing both women.__NEWL__In his defence he even goes so far as to use Ray's own promiscuity—she has had affairs with both McCabe and Jensen—to question her credibility as a witness for the prosecution.__NEWL__He also insinuates that Smith has used doctored evidence to build up his case against him.__NEWL__The members of the jury are impressed, pronounce a verdict of "Not guilty", and McCabe is acquitted.__NEWL__Smith now turns out to be a policeman who cannot lose but who actually loses his job as a result of McCabe's acquittal.__NEWL__When McCabe eventually tells him that he is Jensen's murderer after all it is because he realizes that he has irrevocably lost Maria (as well as Dinah), who would not even speak to him on the phone, and that there is not anything left in this world that might keep him alive.__NEWL__Now that he has written his story down for posterity he no longer minds being the target of Smith's revenge, who thinks McCabe's belated confession is the last straw.__NEWL__McCabe posts his manuscript to an old journalist called A.B.C. Müller whose acquaintance he has recently made and immediately afterwards is found shot.__NEWL__Smith is arrested, tried, and hanged.__NEWL__With Cameron McCabe dead, the addressee of his manuscript continues the narrative, a part of the book which is entitled "An Epilogue by A.B.C. Müller as Epitaph for Cameron McCabe".__NEWL__Müller sees to the proof reading and the publication of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor and becomes an avid collector of reviews of the book, comparing it with the fiction of Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, and even James Joyce.__NEWL__At the same time he deplores, and condemns, the "arrested development of the criminal mind", in particular of course McCabe's.__NEWL__One day in London Müller bumps into Maria Ray, whom he has not seen again since the trial, and they have a talk.__NEWL__To Müller's surprise, she claims that McCabe committed suicide—as an act of revenge, in order to get Smith convicted for murder.__NEWL__She also tells Müller that Smith was in love with her.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, Müller on the spur of the moment wants to propose to Maria Ray but then decides instead to "shoot her dead".__NEWL__Thus, in Borneman's novel, Estella Lamare is "the face on the cutting-room floor", both literally and metaphorically.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q428581	Possession	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1713869	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1713869	Obscure scholar Roland Michell, researching in the London Library, discovers handwritten drafts of a letter by the eminent Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, which lead him to suspect that the married Ash had a hitherto unknown romance.__NEWL__He secretly takes away the documents – a highly unprofessional act for a scholar – and begins to investigate.__NEWL__The trail leads him to Christabel LaMotte, a minor poet and contemporary of Ash, and to Dr. Maud Bailey, an established modern LaMotte scholar and distant relative of LaMotte.__NEWL__Protective of LaMotte, Bailey is drawn into helping Michell with the unfolding mystery.__NEWL__The two scholars find more letters and evidence of a love affair between the poets (with evidence of a holiday together during which – they suspect – the relationship may have been consummated); they become obsessed with discovering the truth.__NEWL__At the same time, their own romantic lives – neither of which is satisfactory – develop, and they become romantically entwined in an echo of Ash and LaMotte.__NEWL__The stories of the two couples are told in parallel, and include letters and poetry by the poets.__NEWL__The revelation of an affair between Ash and LaMotte would make headlines and reputations in academia because of the prominence of the poets, and colleagues of Roland and Maud become competitors in the race to discover the truth, for all manner of motives.__NEWL__Ash's marriage is revealed to have been unconsummated, although he loved and remained devoted to his wife.__NEWL__He and LaMotte had a short, passionate affair; it led to the suicide of LaMotte's companion (and possibly lover), Blanche Glover, and the secret birth of LaMotte's illegitimate daughter during a year spent in Brittany.__NEWL__LaMotte left the girl with her sister to be raised and passed off as her own.__NEWL__Ash was never informed that he and LaMotte had a child.__NEWL__As the Great Storm of 1987 strikes England, the interested modern characters come together at Ash's grave, where they intend to exhume documents buried with Ash by his wife, which they believe hold the final key to the mystery.__NEWL__They also uncover a lock of hair.__NEWL__Reading the documents, Maud Bailey learns that rather than being related to LaMotte's sister, as she has always believed, she is directly descended from LaMotte and Ash's illegitimate daughter.__NEWL__Maud is thus heir to the correspondence by the poets.__NEWL__Now that the original letters are in her possession, Roland Michell escapes the potential dire consequences of having stolen the original drafts from the library.__NEWL__He sees an academic career open up before him.__NEWL__Bailey, who has spent her adult life emotionally untouchable, sees possible future happiness with Michell.__NEWL__ In an epilogue, Ash has an encounter with his daughter Maia in the countryside.__NEWL__Maia talks with Ash for a brief time.__NEWL__Ash makes her a crown of flowers, and asks for a lock of her hair.__NEWL__This lock of hair is the one buried with Ash which was discovered by the scholars, who believed it to be LaMotte’s.__NEWL__Thus it is revealed that both the modern and historical characters (and hence the reader), have, for the latter half of the book, misunderstood the significance of one of Ash's key mementoes.__NEWL__Ash asks the girl to give LaMotte a message that he has moved on from their relationship and is happy.__NEWL__After he walks away, Maia returns home, breaks the crown of flowers while playing, and forgets to pass the message on to LaMotte.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7726502	The Clue of the Velvet Mask	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1742138	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1742138	As the story opens, Nancy and friends attempt to thwart suspicious, masked party-goers from reaching valuable objets d'art on display.__NEWL__At the party, Nancy finds an odd, black velvet hood, which she retains as a clue; most of the guests are wearing simpler, smaller masks as the evening is very warm.__NEWL__Her acquaintance, Linda, who is an employee of the Lightner company, is suspected of wrongdoing.__NEWL__At subsequent Lightner events, Nancy encounters other thieves, and is nearly suffocated by an evil pair of crooks.__NEWL__Nancy and George rent wigs to switch identities; however, George is kidnapped, her disguise removed, is put under the influence of hypnotic, mind-altering drugs, and threatened.__NEWL__This results in a timid, frightened characterization; paralyzed by fear, George refuses to help in the investigation and urges Nancy to stop.__NEWL__Nancy focuses on the executive assistant at Lightner's, Mr. Tombar, while she attempts to decode mysterious numbers written on the lining of the mask.__NEWL__She realizes that the numbers actually mark dates of events at which robberies took place, and starts attending each event in person as detective and as favor to Mr. Lightner.__NEWL__She encounters thieves at a wedding, a musicale, where they nearly smother her, and a lecture.__NEWL__Finally, Nancy attends another masquerade as a coat-check girl, and she stops a robbery in process, capturing a female member of the gang.__NEWL__She and Bess investigate the ramshackle Blue Iris Inn in the nearby countryside, trying to find out why Peter Tombar owns the property and what secrets it hides.__NEWL__On a hunch, she and Bess take an impromptu visit while talking with the recovering George Fayne, and fall victim to the evil Velvet gang.__NEWL__Only paranoid George knows where they are, and can identify the clothing last worn by Nancy.__NEWL__She must overcome her mental breakdown and get on the case when the girls fail to return.__NEWL__Crime noir elements feature heavily in this book, and Ned Nickerson is prominently featured as a true partner in crime solving.__NEWL__Nancy is accosted by a woman in the opening chapters, comes face to face with a thief at a wedding reception, and is nearly suffocated when a pair of thieves wrap her face-down in a bedspread.__NEWL__George Fayne is drugged and a victim of criminal threat, and Ned is involved in two physical confrontations as well.__NEWL__Finally, Nancy and Bess are kidnapped, blindfolded, and abused verbally (this refers to an out-of-print version of the story).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5177526	Country of the Blind	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1750296	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1750296	Set against the mounting dissatisfaction at the ineffective and over self-indulgent Tory government of John Major, all hell breaks loose when conservative tabloid media mogul Roland Voss is found murdered in his country house in Scotland.__NEWL__Next to Voss's body is that of his murdered wife, while their two slain bodyguards lie outside their room.__NEWL__The culprits seem obvious: the burglars caught fleeing the scene covered in blood and almost immediately four men are arrested for the crime, including former burglar Thomas McInnes, his son Paul and a very strange guy who likes to be known as Spammy.__NEWL__However, if it's really that obvious, why did McInnes pay a visit to his Edinburgh lawyer a few days before the crime took place, and what are the secret contents of the envelope he left with her?__NEWL__When the lawyer, Nicole Carrow, turns up at the Police station demanding to see her client, announcing under the glare of intense media attention claiming to have a letter that proves her client's innocence, the last thing she expects is have an attempt made on her life within hours.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1215982	The Moving Finger	1942-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1702335	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1702335	Jerry and Joanna Burton, a brother and sister from London, take up residence in a house owned by Miss Barton near the quiet town of Lymstock for the last phase of Jerry's recovery from injuries suffered in a plane crash.__NEWL__Shortly after moving in and meeting their neighbours, they receive an anonymous letter which makes the false accusation that the pair are lovers, not siblings.__NEWL__The Burtons quickly learn that such poison pen letters have been received by many in the town.__NEWL__Despite the letters containing false accusations, many recipients are upset by them and fear something worse may happen.__NEWL__Mrs Symmington, the local solicitor's wife, is found dead after receiving a letter stating that her husband, was not the father of her second son.__NEWL__Her body is discovered with the letter, a glass containing potassium cyanide, and a torn scrap of paper that reads, "I can't go on.__NEWL__"__NEWL__While the inquest rules that her death was suicide, the police begin a hunt for the anonymous letter writer.__NEWL__An inspector arrives from Scotland Yard to help with the investigation.__NEWL__He concludes that the letter writer is a middle-aged woman among the prominent citizens of Lymstock.__NEWL__Mrs Symmington's daughter by a previous marriage, Megan Hunter, an awkward, frumpy 20-year-old, stays with the Burtons for a few days after losing her mother.__NEWL__The Burtons' housekeeper, Partridge, receives a call from Agnes, the Symmingtons' maidservant, who is distraught and seeks advice.__NEWL__Agnes fails to arrive for their planned meeting; nor is she found at the Symmingtons' when Jerry calls in the evening to check on her.__NEWL__The following day, her body is discovered by Megan in the under-stairs cupboard at the Symington house.__NEWL__Progress in the murder investigation is slow until the Reverend's wife, Mrs. Dane Calthrop, invites Miss Marple to investigate.__NEWL__Jerry conveys many facts about the case to her from his observations, and tells her some of his ideas on why Agnes was killed.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Elsie Holland, the governess for the Symmington boys, receives an anonymous letter.__NEWL__The police observe Aimée Griffith, sister of the local doctor Owen Griffith, typing the address on the same typewriter used for all the previous letters, and arrest her for writing the letter.__NEWL__Heading to London to see his doctor, Jerry impulsively takes Megan along with him and takes her to Joanna's dressmaker for a complete makeover.__NEWL__He realises he has fallen in love with Megan.__NEWL__When they return to Lymstock, Jerry asks Megan to marry him; she turns him down.__NEWL__He asks Mr Symmington for his permission to pursue Megan.__NEWL__Miss Marple advises Jerry to leave Megan alone for a day, as she has a task for her.__NEWL__Megan blackmails her stepfather later that evening, implying that she has proof that he killed Mrs. Symmington.__NEWL__Mr. Symmington coolly pays her an initial instalment of money while not admitting his guilt.__NEWL__Later in the night, after giving Megan a sleeping drug, he attempts to murder her by putting her head in the gas oven.__NEWL__Jerry and the police are lying in wait for him.__NEWL__Jerry rescues Megan, and Symmington confesses.__NEWL__The police arrest him for murdering his wife and Agnes.__NEWL__Miss Marple, knowing human nature, reveals that she knew all along that the letters were a diversion, and not written by a local woman, because none contained true accusations - something locals would be sure to gossip about.__NEWL__Only one person benefited from Mrs Symmington's death: her husband.__NEWL__He is in love with the beautiful Elsie Holland.__NEWL__Planning his wife's murder, he modelled the letters on those in a past case known to him from his legal practice.__NEWL__The police theory about who wrote them was completely wrong.__NEWL__The one letter that Symmington did not write was the one to Elsie; Aimée Griffith, who had been in love with Symmington for years, wrote that.__NEWL__Knowing it would be hard to prove Symington's guilt, Miss Marple devised the scheme to expose him, enlisting Megan to provoke him to attempt to kill her.__NEWL__Following the successful conclusion of the investigation, Megan realises that she does love Jerry.__NEWL__Jerry buys Miss Barton's house for them.__NEWL__His sister Joanna marries Owen Griffith and also stays in Lymstock.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Emily Barton and Aimée Griffith go on a cruise together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7422004	Sarah, Plain and Tall	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1714565	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1714565	The story is set in the Midwestern United States during the late 19th century.__NEWL__Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years before, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone.__NEWL__He writes an ad in the newspaper for a mail-order bride.__NEWL__Sarah Wheaton, from Maine, answers his ad and travels out to become his wife.__NEWL__While Anna is initially apprehensive about Sarah as she still has memories of her late mother, Caleb is excited and deeply hopes that Sarah will stay.__NEWL__When she departs conditionally for one month, Anna notices that Sarah is lonely and misses the sea.__NEWL__Sarah is stubborn and persistent, and she gradually wins over Jacob with her insistence on learning and helping out with farm tasks.__NEWL__The Wittings become attached to Sarah, though Caleb constantly worries that their home is not enough for her and that she misses the sea.__NEWL__When Sarah goes to town by wagon on her own, Anna tries to reassure Caleb that Sarah will return, while secretly fearing that she will not.__NEWL__They are overjoyed when Sarah returns by nightfall.__NEWL__Admitting that she misses the sea, Sarah says that she would miss them more if she left.__NEWL__Anna reveals that Jacob and Sarah married soon afterward.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2177958	Mortal Fear	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100	Boston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1728918	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1728918	Dr. Jason Howard is a general practitioner at Good Health Plan (a fictitious Boston hospital); he was formerly a resident at Massachusetts General.__NEWL__When a patient of his is admitted complaining of heart problems and later dies, Jason finds that, though having received a clean bill of health less than a month before, that the heart attack came totally out of left field and the patient looks decidedly older than he ought to at 56.__NEWL__Soon two more cases come to his attention, both healthy a month before, now dead, both looking older than their years.__NEWL__Alvin Hayes, a former classmate of Jason's at Harvard, asks to speak to him about his recent strange caseload.__NEWL__Hayes is a shifty, twitchy man whose personal life is a subject of some question who seems unduly paranoid, and Jason wonders if the resident mad scientist has gotten into something illicit.__NEWL__At dinner Hayes, while talking about his genetic research on aging, suddenly begins expelling blood violently.__NEWL__He dies a gory death right there in the restaurant.__NEWL__Jason begins investigating the connection between the man's sudden demise, his nervous demeanor, and the patients in his hospital who have all been admitted with what seems to be a mutant strain of progeria that killed them in mere days.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q951587	Never Let Me Go	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23346	Sussex	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1697748	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1697748	The story begins with Kathy H., who describes herself as a carer, talking about looking after organ donors.__NEWL__She has been a carer for almost twelve years at the time of narration, and she often reminisces about her time spent at Hailsham, a boarding school in England, where the teachers are known as guardians.__NEWL__The children are watched closely and are often told about the importance of producing art and of being healthy (smoking is considered a taboo, almost on the level of a crime, and working in the vegetable garden is compulsory).__NEWL__The students' art is then displayed in an exhibition, and the best art is chosen by a woman known to the students as Madame, who keeps their work in a gallery.__NEWL__Kathy develops a close friendship with two other students: Ruth and Tommy.__NEWL__Kathy develops a fondness for Tommy by looking after him when he is bullied and having private talks with him.__NEWL__However, Tommy and Ruth form a relationship instead.__NEWL__In an isolated incident, Miss Lucy, one of the guardians, tells the students that they are clones who were created to donate organs to others (similar to saviour siblings) and that after their donations, they will die young.__NEWL__She implies that if the students are to live decent lives, they must know the truth: their lives are already predetermined.__NEWL__Miss Lucy is removed from the school as a result of her disclosure, but the students passively accept their fate.__NEWL__Ruth, Tommy and Kathy move to the Cottages when they are 16 years old.__NEWL__It is the first time they are allowed in the outside world, but they keep to themselves most of the time.__NEWL__Ruth and Tommy are still together, and Kathy has some sexual relationships with other men.__NEWL__Two older housemates, who had not been at Hailsham, tell Ruth that they have seen a "possible" for Ruth, an older woman who resembles her and thus could be the woman from whom she was cloned.__NEWL__As a result, the five of them go on a trip to see her, but the two older students first want to discuss a rumour they have heard: that a couple can have their donations deferred if they can prove that they are truly in love.__NEWL__They believe that the privilege is for Hailsham students only and so wrongly expect that the others know how to apply for it.__NEWL__They find the possible, but the resemblance to Ruth is only superficial, which causes Ruth to wonder angrily whether they were all cloned from "human trash".__NEWL__During the trip, Kathy and Tommy separate from the others and look for a copy of a music cassette tape that Kathy had lost when at Hailsham.__NEWL__Tommy's recollection of the tape and desire to find it for her make clear the depth of his feelings for Kathy.__NEWL__They find the tape of Songs After Dark by Judy Bridgewater, and Tommy shares with Kathy a theory that the reason Madame collected their art was to determine which couples were truly in love and cites a teacher who had said that their art revealed their souls.__NEWL__After the trip, Kathy and Tommy do not tell Ruth of the found tape or of Tommy's theory about the deferral.__NEWL__When Ruth finds out about the tape and Tommy's theory, she takes an opportunity to drive a wedge between Tommy and Kathy.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, she tells Kathy that even if Ruth and Tommy were to split up, Tommy would never enter into a relationship with Kathy because of her sexual history.__NEWL__A few weeks later, Kathy applies to become a carer, meaning that she will not see Ruth or Tommy for about ten years.__NEWL__After that, Ruth's first donation goes badly and her health deteriorates.__NEWL__Kathy becomes Ruth's carer, and both are aware that Ruth's next donation will probably be her last.__NEWL__Ruth suggests that she and Kathy take a trip and take Tommy with them.__NEWL__During the trip, Ruth expresses regret for keeping Kathy and Tommy apart.__NEWL__Attempting to make amends, Ruth hands them Madame's address, urging them to seek a deferral.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, Ruth makes her second donation and completes, an implied euphemism for dying and donating their remaining organs.__NEWL__Kathy becomes Tommy's carer, and they form a relationship.__NEWL__Encouraged by Ruth's last wishes, they go to Madame's house to see if they can defer Tommy's fourth donation, taking Tommy's artwork with them to support their claim that they are truly in love.__NEWL__They find Madame at her house, and also meet Miss Emily, their former headmistress, who lives with her.__NEWL__The two women reveal that guardians tried to give the clones a humane education, unlike other institutions.__NEWL__The gallery was a place meant to convey to the outside world that the clones are in fact normal human beings with a soul and deserve better treatment.__NEWL__It is revealed that the experiment failed, which is why Hailsham was closed.__NEWL__When Kathy and Tommy ask about the deferral they find out that such deferrals never existed.__NEWL__Tommy, knowing that his next donation will end his life, confronts Kathy about her work as a carer.__NEWL__Kathy resigns as Tommy's carer but still visits him.__NEWL__The novel ends after Tommy's "completion", and Kathy drives up to Norfolk and briefly fantasizes about everything she remembers and everything she lost.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6376282	Katherine	1954-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1723803	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723803	Katherine tells the true story of Katherine de Roet, born the daughter of a minor Flemish herald, later knight.__NEWL__Katherine has no obvious prospects, except that her sister is a waiting-woman to Queen Philippa, wife of King Edward III, and the fiancée of Geoffrey Chaucer, then a minor court official.__NEWL__By virtue of this connection, Katherine meets and marries Sir Hugh Swynford of Lincolnshire and gives birth to a daughter, Blanchette, and a son, Thomas.__NEWL__After Hugh's death, Katherine becomes the mistress of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and bears him four children out of wedlock; they are given the surname 'Beaufort' after one of the Duke's possessions.__NEWL__She is also appointed official governess to the Duke's two daughters by his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, and helps raise his son by Blanche, the future King Henry IV.__NEWL__The Duke and Katherine separate for a number of years, immediately following Wat Tyler's Peasants' Revolt in 1381, when the rioting peasants sacked and burnt the Duke's Savoy Palace to the ground.__NEWL__The novel's explanation for their separation is Katherine's shock over revelations concerning the death of her husband.__NEWL__However, the couple eventually reconcile and marry after the death of the Duke's second wife.__NEWL__The Beaufort children, now grown, are legitimised by royal and papal decrees after Katherine and the Duke are married.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5432230	Fallen Angels	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q881	Vietnam	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q881	Vietnam	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1740130	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1740130	The plot follows a soldier named Perry, through his experiences in Vietnam, at war, and through his life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4770221	Another Country	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1753796	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1753796	The book uses a third-person narrator who is nevertheless closely aware of the characters' emotions.__NEWL__The first fifth of Another Country tells of the downfall of jazz drummer Rufus Scott.__NEWL__He begins a relationship with Leona, a white woman from the South, and introduces her to his social circle, including his closest friend, struggling novelist Vivaldo, his more successful mentor Richard, and Richard's wife, Cass.__NEWL__Initially, the relationship is frivolous, but it turns more serious as they continue to live together.__NEWL__Rufus becomes habitually physically abusive of Leona, and she is admitted to a mental hospital in the South.__NEWL__Depressed, Rufus returns to Harlem and commits suicide, jumping off the George Washington Bridge.__NEWL__The rest of the book explores relationships between Rufus' friends, family, and acquaintances in the wake of his death.__NEWL__Rufus's friends cannot understand the suicide, and experience some guilt over his death.__NEWL__Afterwards, they become closer.__NEWL__Vivaldo begins a relationship with Rufus's sister Ida, which is strained by racial tension and Ida's bitterness after her brother's death.__NEWL__Eric, an actor and Rufus' first male lover, returns to New York after years living in France, where he met his longtime lover Yves.__NEWL__Eric returns to the novel's social circle but is calmer and more composed than most of the group.__NEWL__Everyone's relationships become strained in the course of the novel.__NEWL__Ida starts having an affair with Ellis, an advertising executive who promises to help with her career as a singer.__NEWL__Cass, who has become lonely due to Richard's writing career, has an affair with Eric after he arrives in New York.__NEWL__At the novel's climax, Cass tells Richard about her affair with Eric, who in turn has a sexual encounter with Vivaldo, who himself learns about Ida's relationship with Ellis.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2038600	Warriors of God	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	1752922	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1752922	The plot of the book Warriors of God follows the previous part of Sapkowski's trilogy, Narrenturm.__NEWL__The reader mainly follows the protagonist of the whole story, the Silesian nobleman, doctor and magician Reinmar from Bělava, who after his escape from Silesia joined the Czech Hussites and became a member of the orphans' union.__NEWL__Reinmar, who became an ardent supporter of the chalice after leaving home, went to northern Bohemia together with his friend Šarlej, who had become a member of the Tábor union in an effort to acquire property.__NEWL__It was there that they decided to look for the wizard Rupilius Slezák, with whose help their mysterious friend and alleged astral Samson Medák would be able to return to his world.__NEWL__Reynevan, who was also being followed in Bohemia by the Silesian Inquisition and the servants of the bishop of Wrocław, was captured by his enemies in Trosky Castle, from where he was only able to escape with the help of the sorcerer Rupilia.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1188815	The Smiling, Proud Wanderer	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8646	Hong Kong	1705774	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1705774	In the jianghu (martial artists' community), there is a highly coveted martial arts manual known as the "Bixie Swordplay Manual", which is the heirloom of the Lin family who runs the Fuwei Security Service in Fuzhou.__NEWL__The Qingcheng School's leader, Yu Canghai, leads his followers to massacre the Lins and attempts to seize the manual but does not find it.__NEWL__Yue Buqun, the leader of the Mount Hua School, — a member of the "orthodox" Five Mountains Sword Schools Alliance — saves Lin Pingzhi, the Lin family's sole survivor, accepts him as an apprentice and trains him in swordplay.__NEWL__The novel's protagonist is Yue Buqun's most senior apprentice, Linghu Chong, an orphaned, happy-go-lucky but honourable swordsman who has a penchant for alcoholic drinks.__NEWL__He befriends the notorious bandit Tian Boguang and saves Yilin, a nun from the (North) Mount Heng School, from Tian's lecherous advances.__NEWL__In the meantime, Liu Zhengfeng of the (South) Mount Heng School announces his decision to leave the jianghu and invites his fellow martial artists to witness his retirement ceremony.__NEWL__The event turns into a bloodbath when Zuo Lengchan, the chief of the Mount Song School, and other "orthodox" schools accuse Liu Zhengfeng of being unfaithful to their alliance by befriending Qu Yang, an elder of the "evil" Sun Moon Holy Cult.__NEWL__Liu Zhengfeng and Qu Yang are cornered by Zuo Lengchan and his men and eventually commit suicide.__NEWL__Before dying, Liu Zhengfeng and Qu Yang give Linghu Chong the score of "Xiaoao Jianghu" ("Laughing Proudly in the Jianghu"), a musical piece they composed together.__NEWL__(The Chinese title of the novel comes from the name of this fictional musical piece.)__NEWL__Lin Pingzhi's entrance into the Mount Hua School causes Linghu Chong's romantic feelings for Yue Lingshan, Yue Buqun's daughter, to subside because she starts falling in love with Lin Pingzhi.__NEWL__At the same time, Linghu Chong's friendship with Tian Boguang leads him into trouble as it is against the Mount Hua School's rules to associate oneself with any jianghu lowlife or person from an "evil" school.__NEWL__His master punishes him by making him stay alone for a year in a secluded area on Mount Hua to reflect on his "misdeeds".__NEWL__During this time, he discovers carvings of swordplay techniques in a cave, practises them, and unknowingly familiarises himself with the skills of the other four sword schools and the counter-moves.__NEWL__He also encounters Feng Qingyang, a reclusive Mount Hua School swordsman, who teaches him the powerful skill Nine Swords of Dugu.__NEWL__The self-proclaimed righteous Five Mountains Sword Schools Alliance, though seemingly united, is constantly troubled by politicking and infighting among its members.__NEWL__Linghu Chong gets entangled in the conflicts and sustains serious internal injuries while using his newly mastered skill to defend his Mount Hua School fellows from attacks by Mount Song School members in disguise.__NEWL__The other schools mistake the Nine Swords of Dugu for the Bixie Swordplay, and wrongly accuse Linghu Chong of stealing the "Bixie Swordplay Manual" and keeping it for himself.__NEWL__Yue Buqun also becomes suspicious and secretly jealous of his apprentice's sudden leap in swordplay prowess.__NEWL__While accompanying his master and Mount Hua School fellows on a trip to Luoyang, Linghu Chong encounters Ren Yingying, a key figure of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and falls in love with her.__NEWL__He also meets several jianghu lowlifes, who are friendly towards him and try to heal him.__NEWL__By then, Yue Buqun has grown tired of Linghu Chong's association with jianghu lowlifes so he abandons his apprentice.__NEWL__Linghu Chong also helps Ren Yingying fend off enemies of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and his injuries worsen over time.__NEWL__Eventually, she brings him to the Shaolin School to seek help.__NEWL__Linghu Chong later learns from Fangzheng, the Shaolin abbot, that Yue Buqun has publicly announced that he has expelled Linghu Chong from the Mount Hua School.__NEWL__Linghu Chong sinks into despair as he is now an outcast of the "orthodox" side of the jianghu.__NEWL__After leaving Shaolin, he meets a stranger, Xiang Wentian, whom he saves from dozens of enemies.__NEWL__Xiang Wentian becomes sworn brothers with Linghu Chong and brings him to a manor in Hangzhou, where they find Ren Woxing (Ren Yingying's father), the former leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult who was ousted from power by his deputy, Dongfang Bubai.__NEWL__Ren Woxing breaks out of captivity by knocking out Linghu Chong and using him as a decoy.__NEWL__While trapped inside the dungeon, Linghu Chong discovers carvings of Ren Woxing's infamous Cosmic Absorbing Power and learns the skill by chance.__NEWL__Ren Woxing returns to save Linghu Chong later and tries to persuade him to join the Sun Moon Holy Cult by offering him__NEWL__Ren Yingying's hand in marriage.__NEWL__Linghu Chong declines to join, but still helps Ren Woxing defeat Dongfang Bubai and regain control of the cult.__NEWL__Linghu Chong becomes the new head of the (North) Mount Heng School, whose members are all nuns, after he unsuccessfully tries to save its leaders from a masked assassin.__NEWL__He attends a special assembly of the Five Mountains Sword Schools Alliance called for by Zuo Lengchan, who attempts to coerce the other four schools into merging into the Mount Song School under his leadership.__NEWL__However, he is defeated and blinded by Yue Buqun, who uses the Bixie Swordplay against him.__NEWL__Yue Buqun becomes the new leader of the alliance.__NEWL__After leaving the assembly, Linghu Chong and Ren__NEWL__Yingying see Lin Pingzhi brutally slaying members of the Qingcheng School to avenge his family, and overhear a conversation between him and his wife, Yue Lingshan.__NEWL__Lin Pingzhi reveals that both he and Yue Buqun have mastered the Bixie Swordplay, which is considered "unorthodox" because they need to castrate themselves to fulfill the prerequisite for learning it.__NEWL__Linghu Chong also learns that Yue Buqun, his respectable former master, is actually a villainous hypocrite who planned an elaborate scheme against Lin Pingzhi to seize the swordplay manual in the hope of dominating the jianghu.__NEWL__Lin Pingzhi then stabs Yue Lingshan to prove his loyalty to Zuo Lengchan, who is plotting revenge against Yue Buqun.__NEWL__Before Yue Lingshan dies, she makes Linghu Chong promise to spare Lin Pingzhi's life as she still loves him.__NEWL__Linghu Chong reluctantly agrees after considering his past romantic feelings for Yue Lingshan.__NEWL__Yue Buqun schemes to kill Lin Pingzhi, who knows his secret, and seeks to silence him.__NEWL__Linghu Chong, despite his reluctance to be enemies with his former master, ultimately chooses to stop Yue Buqun and protect the innocent from his evil machinations.__NEWL__The finale climaxes with the members of the Five Mountains Sword Schools Alliance being trapped in the cave on Mount Hua owing to Yue Buqun's treachery.__NEWL__The schools slaughter each other out of paranoia and distrust, ultimately leading to the alliance's dissolution.__NEWL__Linghu Chong defeats Lin Pingzhi and spares his life as he had promised Yue Lingshan, but permanently disables Lin Pingzhi to prevent him from hurting others again.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Yue Buqun is killed by Yilin when he is fighting with Linghu Chong during the frenzy.__NEWL__After the collapse of the alliance, Ren Woxing plans an attack on the scattered and fragmented "orthodox" schools in order to unite the jianghu under the control of his "evil" Sun Moon Holy Cult.__NEWL__He tries to force Linghu Chong to join him, but dies at a crucial moment from a stroke.__NEWL__Ren Yingying becomes the new leader of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and successfully negotiates a truce between the "orthodox" and "evil" sides of the jianghu.__NEWL__Three years later, she passes the leadership to Xiang Wentian and marries Linghu Chong and they live happily ever after.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q586831	A Case of Conscience	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1719074	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1719074	In 2049, Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez of Peru, Clerk Regular of the Society of Jesus, is a member of a four-man team of scientists sent to the planet Lithia to determine if it can be opened to human contact.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez is a biologist and biochemist, and he serves as the team doctor.__NEWL__However, as a Jesuit, he has religious concerns as well.__NEWL__The planet is inhabited by a race of intelligent bipedal reptile-like creatures, the Lithians.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez has learned to speak their language to learn about them.__NEWL__While on a walking survey of the land, Cleaver, a physicist, is poisoned by a plant, despite a protective suit, and he suffers badly.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez treats him and leaves to send a message to the others: Michelis, a chemist, and Agronski, a geologist.__NEWL__He is helped by Chtexa, a Lithian whom he has befriended, who then invites him to his house.__NEWL__This is an opportunity which Ruiz-Sanchez cannot decline; no member of the team has been invited into Lithian living places before.__NEWL__The Lithians seem to have an ideal society, a utopia without crime, conflict, ignorance or want.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez is awed.__NEWL__When the team is reassembled, they compare their observations of the Lithians.__NEWL__Soon they will have to officially pronounce their verdict.__NEWL__Michelis is open-minded and sympathetic to the Lithians.__NEWL__He has learned their language and some of their customs.__NEWL__Agronski is more insular in his outlook, but he sees no reason to consider the planet dangerous.__NEWL__When Cleaver revives, he reveals that he wants the place exploited, regardless of the Lithians' wishes.__NEWL__He has found enough pegmatite (a source of lithium, which is rare on Earth) that a factory could be set up to supply Earth with lithium deuteride for nuclear weapons.__NEWL__Michelis is for open trade.__NEWL__Agronski is indifferent.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez makes a major declaration: he wants maximum quarantine.__NEWL__The information Chtexa revealed to him, added to what he already knew, convinces him that Lithia is nothing less than the work of Satan, a place deliberately constructed to show peace, logic, and understanding in the complete absence of God.__NEWL__Point for point, Ruiz-Sanchez lists the facts about Lithia that directly attack Catholic teaching.__NEWL__Michelis is mystified, but does point out that all the Lithian science he has learned, while perfectly logical, rests on highly questionable assumptions.__NEWL__It is as if it just came from nowhere.__NEWL__The team can come to no agreement.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez concludes that Cleaver's intentions will probably prevail and Lithian society will be exterminated.__NEWL__Despite his conclusions about the planet, he has a deep affection for the Lithians.__NEWL__As the humans board their ship to leave, Chtexa gives Ruiz-Sanchez a gift—a sealed jar containing an egg.__NEWL__It is a son of Chtexa, to be raised on Earth and learn the ways of humans.__NEWL__At this point, the Jesuit solves a riddle which he has been pondering for some time, from Book III of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (pp. 572–3), which proposes a complex case of marital morals, ending with the question "Has he hegemony and shall she submit?"__NEWL__To the Church, neither "Yes" nor "No" is a morally satisfactory answer.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez sees that it is two questions, despite the omission of a comma between the two, so that the answer can be "Yes and No".__NEWL__The egg hatches and grows into the individual Egtverchi.__NEWL__Like all Lithians, he inherits knowledge from his father through his DNA.__NEWL__Earth society is based on the nuclear shelters of the 20th century, with most people living underground.__NEWL__Egtverchi is the proverbial firecracker in an anthill; he upends society and precipitates violence.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez has to go to Rome to face judgment.__NEWL__His conviction about Lithia is viewed as heresy, since he believes Satan has the power to create a planet.__NEWL__This is close to Manichaeism.__NEWL__He has an audience with the Pope himself to explain his beliefs.__NEWL__Pope Hadrian VIII, a logically and technologically aware Norwegian, points out two things Ruiz-Sanchez missed.__NEWL__First, Lithia could have been a deception, not a creation.__NEWL__And second, Ruiz-Sanchez could have done something about it, namely, perform an exorcism on the whole planet.__NEWL__The priest bows his head in shame that he has overlooked an obvious solution to his own case of conscience while he was absorbed in "a book [Finnegans Wake] which to all intents and purposes might have been dictated by the Adversary himself ... 628 pages of compulsive demoniac chatter."__NEWL__The Pope dismisses Ruiz-Sanchez to purge his own soul and to return to the Church if and when he can.__NEWL__A violent mass riot breaks out, fomented by Egtverchi and made possible by the psychosis present in many of the citizens as a result of living in the 'shelter state' (an earlier reference to the "Corridor Riots of 1993" indicates that this is not the first time violence has burst out among the buried cities).__NEWL__During the riot, Agronski dies as a result of being stung by one or more genetically modified honey bees.__NEWL__Ruiz-Sanchez administers Extreme Unction, despite his almost-faithless state.__NEWL__Egtverchi secretly boards a spaceship to Lithia.__NEWL__Michelis and Ruiz-Sanchez are taken to the Moon, where a new telescope has been assembled, based on "a fundamental twist on the Haertel equations which makes it possible to see around normal space-time, as well as travel around it" so that the instrument presents a view of Lithia in real-time, bypassing the delay caused by the speed of light.__NEWL__Cleaver is on Lithia, setting up his reactors, but the physicist who invented the telescope technology believes he has found a fault in Cleaver's reasoning.__NEWL__There is a chance that the work will set off a chain reaction in the planet's rocks and destroy it.__NEWL__As they watch on the screen, Ruiz-Sanchez pronounces an exorcism.__NEWL__The planet explodes, eliminating Cleaver and Egtverchi, but also Chtexa and all the things Ruiz-Sanchez admired.__NEWL__It is left ambiguous whether the extinction of the Lithians is a result of Ruiz-Sanchez's prayer or Cleaver's error.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7763972	The Short-Wave Mystery	1945-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1735069	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1735069	The Hardy boys are drawn into a mystery when a group of thieves steals a collection of stuffed animals from an estate sale.__NEWL__Later, the Hardy boys notice a station wagon carrying stuffed animals, but when they try to give chase, the car gets away, leaving only a broken ham radio antenna behind.__NEWL__While they are discussing the case that their father Fenton Hardy is working on, they learn that he is after a group involved in industrial espionage and that this group uses code words very similar to what the boys have been hearing transmitted over the ham radio bands.__NEWL__When the Hardy boys visit the estate to investigate the remaining stuffed animals, they are knocked unconscious and someone steals the remaining animals.__NEWL__They manage to get their hands on two of them and convince their friend Chet Morton, who has recently taken up taxidermy as a hobby, to open them up looking for whatever may be hidden inside.__NEWL__After the Lectrex plant is raided, the boys go with their father to investigate, and they notice a stuffed fox that had been on a ledge in the conference room has mysteriously disappeared.__NEWL__The Hardy Boys travel to Canada (somewhere near Moosonee and Moose Factory) to solve the theft of the stuffed animals and to break up an industrial spy ring, which was the source of the leak of info coming from the Lectrex factory in their hometown of Bayport.__NEWL__As the boys piece together parts of this mystery, they solve the industrial spying case their father was working on, they solve the mystery of the coded transmissions on the ham radio bands, and they find out why a group was stealing the stuffed animals.__NEWL__The Hardy Boys hear a mysterious call for help on their shortwave radio set: "Help -- Hudson".__NEWL__Meanwhile, Fenton Hardy is investigating nation-wide thefts of radio equipment by a group of criminals called "The Hudson Gang".__NEWL__But of more immediate concern is the theft of several auction items, at an auction attended by Chet Morton and the Hardy Boys.__NEWL__The stolen items are mostly animal skins and carcasses intended for use in taxidermy, Chet's latest hobby.__NEWL__Investigating all the seemingly unrelated mysteries leads to some connections.__NEWL__Spike Hudson, leader of the Hudson Gang, uses a house near Bayport as a hideout—a house which has vicious-looking stuffed animals hidden around it at strategic points to discourage unwanted snooping.__NEWL__And the "Help -- Hudson" message, though initially thought to be from or about Spike Hudson, seems to instead be from a group of stranded researchers trapped somewhere on the isolated coast of Hudson's Bay...near to where Spike Hudson has another hideout.__NEWL__Soon, the Hardy Boys are travelling by plane to the fictional White Bear River in remote Northern Ontario, Canada (references in the book place it most likely somewhere near Moosonee and Moose Factory) to try to solve the thefts, rescue the researchers, and break up The Hudson Gang.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7727343	The Confessions of Nat Turner	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1751695	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1751695	The time is November, 1831.__NEWL__African American slave Nat Turner sits in a Virginia jail awaiting execution for his crimes.__NEWL__Nat led a slave rebellion which ended in the deaths of dozens of white people as well as many of his own closest friends.__NEWL__Thomas Gray, a smug, oily prosecuting attorney, urges Nat to "confess" his crimes and make peace with God.__NEWL__Nat begins to think back on his past life and tells the novel in a series of flashbacks.__NEWL__Nat's first master was Samuel Turner, a wealthy Virginia aristocrat who believed in educating his slaves.__NEWL__Nat learned to read and write, and also became a skilled carpenter.__NEWL__Unfortunately, when he was still a child Nat's mother was brutally raped by an Irish overseer while the master was away.__NEWL__This traumatic experience gives Nat both a burning hatred of white people and a secret revulsion from women's bodies and the sexual act.__NEWL__Samuel Turner has vaguely promised Nat his freedom, but through a series of misunderstandings Nat is sold instead to an impoverished preacher named Reverend Eppes.__NEWL__Eppes is a filthy, drooling homosexual who is obsessed with young boys, and he is determined to make Nat "pleasure" him at the earliest opportunity.__NEWL__Though Nat is not especially interested in young women at this point, he finds Eppes physically distasteful and shies away from physical contact.__NEWL__Discouraged, Eppes soon sells young Nat to a pair of cruel redneck farmers who brutally whip the frightened, timid slave and treat him like an animal.__NEWL__This intensifies his growing hostility towards whites.__NEWL__After bouncing around different masters for a number of years, Nat finally ends up as the property of a decent, hard-working farmer named Travis.__NEWL__Travis allows Nat to do skilled work as a carpenter and to read his Bible and preach to other slaves.__NEWL__During his religious fasts deep in the deserted woods, Nat begins to have strange visions of black and white angels fighting in the sky.__NEWL__Gradually he comes to believe these visions mean he is to lead the black race in a holy war to destroy all whites.__NEWL__Complications arise, however, when Nat meets Margaret Whitehead, the beautiful, vivacious daughter of a wealthy widow who lives nearby.__NEWL__Though her family owns many slaves, high-spirited Margaret opposes slavery and openly admires Nat's preaching.__NEWL__Gradually the two of them become friends, though Nat is haunted by the fear that if his plans succeed lovely Margaret must die.__NEWL__ With several loyal slaves behind him, Nat finally launches his rebellion in late August 1831.__NEWL__This is a time when most wealthy whites are away on vacation, which will make it easier for the slaves to seize weapons and attack the nearby town of Jerusalem.__NEWL__From the very beginning, however, Nat's rebellion goes all wrong.__NEWL__His recruits get drunk and waste precious time plundering and raping.__NEWL__A crazed, axe-wielding, sex-obsessed slave named Will begins ridiculing Nat's leadership and attempting to seize control of the tiny slave army.__NEWL__And Nat himself, unexpectedly sickened by the sight of blood and the screams of his white victims, begins to doubt both his own mission and God's plan for his life.__NEWL__The final crisis occurs as the slaves storm the Whitehead plantation.__NEWL__In a tragic twist, Margaret and her sisters have not gone away on vacation after all.__NEWL__Filled with unreasoning hatred, Will the axe-wielding maniac slays all the white women but Margaret, openly taunting Nat and daring him to prove his black manhood to the rest of the recruits.__NEWL__With a heavy heart, Nat grabs his sword and chases Margaret into a nearby field, where he slays her with great reluctance.__NEWL__As the breath leaves her body, the pure young maiden sighs her forgiveness for her unwilling executioner.__NEWL__Back in the jail cell, lawyer Gray smugly announces that the hangman is ready to punish Nat for his crimes.__NEWL__As he concludes their final interview, he asks the failed black leader if he has any regrets for having caused so much suffering and death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7562307	Sons of Fortune	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z	1708112	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1708112	Sons of Fortune talks about twin brothers who got parted in a cinematic consequence and grown up without knowing the existence of each other.__NEWL__In late 1940s in Hartford, Connecticut a set of twins who are separated at birth by a millionaire couple's nurse, after the millionaire couple's child - born the same day - dies of cot death in the hospital and she secretly switches Peter for the dead Fletcher Davenport.__NEWL__Nat Cartwright goes to home with his parents, a school teacher and an insurance salesman.__NEWL__But his twin brother is to begin days as Fletcher Andrew Davenport (according to chapter 2), the only son of a multi millionaire and his society wife.__NEWL__During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other’s existence.__NEWL__Even when Nat and Fletcher fall in love with same girl, Diane, they still don’t meet but continue on their separate paths, owing to the efforts taken by the multi-millionaire's nurse.__NEWL__Both complete their graduation.__NEWL__Nat leaves the college at the University of Connecticut to serve in the Vietnam War.__NEWL__He returns a war hero, having received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Vietnam, finishes school and becomes a successful currency banker.__NEWL__Fletcher, meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and distinguishes himself as a criminal defense lawyer, before he is elected as a state senator for the Democratic Party.__NEWL__They know of each other by reputation.__NEWL__Cartwright marries a Korean computer whiz, Su Ling, an illegal immigrant, whom he meets in college.__NEWL__Fletcher marries his best friend's sister Annie, whom he falls in love with at first sight when they are in their teens.__NEWL__During the years, both men find themselves opposed by the machinations of the untrustworthy Ralph Elliot, who went to school with Nat, slept with his girlfriend and is his personal nemesis.__NEWL__Although their lives (common acquaintances and enemies, Fletcher saving the life of Nat's son during a school hostage situation) are interconnected, they never meet.__NEWL__However, their paths finally cross when they both decide to run for governor of Connecticut and Fletcher agrees to defend Nat on the charge of murdering his Republican primary opponent Ralph Elliot for leaking information about his wife and mother-in-law that leads to the suicide of his only child.__NEWL__Family members comment on similarities between the two, but no one ever connects the dots, until the end, because, after all, they are not identical twins.__NEWL__The truth is revealed to them when a potentially fatal car accident by Fletcher reveals that they share the same rare blood type.__NEWL__Nat donates his blood to save Fletcher.__NEWL__As Fletcher was hospitalized in the clinic where he was born, the attending doctor then finds secret documents which reveals that the obstetrician had the suspicions that the twins were switched at birth.__NEWL__In yet another plot twist, the twins choose to keep the blood link a secret.__NEWL__However, their wives guess this on the day of the election and mutually agree to keep it a secret.__NEWL__Knowing all this, they both still run for governor of Connecticut in 1992.__NEWL__On election day, after several rounds of counting the votes the result is still tied.__NEWL__The winner was ultimately appointed by the toss of a coin.__NEWL__After the toss, when both men stand to the left and right of the mayor to represent their parties, the mayor turns to his right to congratulate the new governor.__NEWL__Through clues in the book regarding their place alongside the mayor and who called heads, one can deduct that the winner is Fletcher.__NEWL__In the end, Fletcher definitely wins and becomes the governor as before the toss, Fletcher was to the left of the mayor.__NEWL__After the toss, the mayor picks up the coin and "turned" and then congratulated the man who was now to his right (Fletcher).__NEWL__Also Fletcher always said heads, so at that time too he must be the one who said heads.__NEWL__Jeffrey Archer also confirmed in Twitter that it was Fletcher.__NEWL__Chapter 31 starts by saying Fletcher always liked to call heads.__NEWL__Several aspects of the plot, as well as specific incidents such as the toss of the coin, also occur in a previous book he wrote - First Among Equals, which is a power struggle between four politicians for the prime ministership of the UK.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3818306	Bleachers	2003-09-09T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1703691	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1703691	Neely Crenshaw, born in 1969,  is a high school All-American quarterback, who has been Messina High School's 'golden boy,' expected to lead them to the state title.__NEWL__ Neely is a highly recruited quarterback with a golden arm, fast feet, plenty of size, maybe the greatest Messina quarterback ever.__NEWL__When Neely was younger and playing football with his friends, a man watching him approached Neely, saying "You're going to play football for the Spartans."__NEWL__In 1987, after trailing 31-0 at halftime to East Pike, and crippled by a broken hand, the gutsy quarterback rallies the Spartans to a 34-31 victory for Messina's first state championship in seven years, achieved without the assistance of coach Rake.__NEWL__His hand injury is caused when Neely punches Coach Eddie Rake in the face, after Coach Rake backhands him, causing him to break his nose.__NEWL__After graduation, Crenshaw had received 31 scholarship offers and chooses Tech, a fictional university.__NEWL__He receives $50,000, a violation of NCAA rules for signing with the school.__NEWL__In the second half of the 1989 Gator Bowl, Crenshaw comes off the bench for Tech, throws for three touchdowns, runs for one hundred yards and leads a last-second comeback.__NEWL__As a sophomore, he is national player of the week when he throws for six touchdowns against Purdue University.__NEWL__But against A&M later that year, he suffers a career-ending knee injury on a cheap shot hit after Crenshaw was out of bounds.__NEWL__Crenshaw subsequently drops football for the real estate business.__NEWL__When the story begins, most of the 714 football players Rake had coached in his 34 years at Messina High School return to the town for the funeral of the legendary coach, a man both beloved and reviled.__NEWL__Rake ends his career with 418 wins, 62 losses, and 13 state championships.__NEWL__During a grueling unsanctioned Sunday morning practice in 1992, Messina player Scotty Reardon died of a heat stroke.__NEWL__Rake's brutal training methods are called into question and the superintendent of education, who also is Reardon's uncle, fires Rake.__NEWL__In a letter revealed at Rake's funeral, the coach states the two regrets of his life were losing Scotty Reardon and for striking All-American quarterback Neely Crenshaw at halftime of the 1987 championship game against East Pike.__NEWL__At the funeral, Neely ends up forgiving coach after all those years of debating whether he likes or dislikes Eddie Rake.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1212385	A Painted House	2001-02-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1612	Arkansas	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1703709	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1703709	The story begins as Luke Chandler and his grandfather Eli, also known as Pappy, search for migrant workers to help them with the cotton picking.__NEWL__They initially consider themselves lucky to hire the Spruills, a family of "hill people," and a few Mexican migrants who annually come to the area looking for work.__NEWL__Aside from working long hours under the hot sun in the fields, Luke's life is fairly idyllic.__NEWL__He is obsessed with beautiful 17-year-old Tally Spruill, who on one occasion lets him see her naked, bathing in a creek.__NEWL__But a much more unpleasant experience is seeing Tally's brother, the overly aggressive and mentally unstable Hank Spruill, attack three boys from the notorious Sisco family, one of whom is beaten so severely that he dies from his wounds.__NEWL__Hank arrogantly identifies Luke as a friendly witness who can support his version of the event, and the fearful boy backs up his story, although the adults in his life, including local sheriff Stick Powers, suspect he's too frightened to admit the truth.__NEWL__When Luke sees Cowboy, one of the Mexicans, later murder Hank and toss his body into the river, Cowboy threatens to kill Luke's mother if Luke tells anyone what he saw.__NEWL__Cowboy and Tally then run off together and are not seen again.__NEWL__Luke also learns that his admired Uncle Ricky, fighting in the Korean War, might have fathered a child with a daughter of the Latchers, their poverty-stricken sharecropping neighbors.__NEWL__Grisham surrounds these dramatic moments with descriptive passages of life in the rural South and the ordinary events that fill Luke's weekly routine.__NEWL__His hard work in the fields is preceded by a hearty breakfast of eggs, ham, biscuits, and the one cup of coffee his mother allows him, and at day's end he's rewarded with an evening on the front porch, where the family gathers around the radio to listen to Harry Caray announce the St. Louis Cardinals baseball games.__NEWL__A devoted fan, Luke is saving his hard-earned money to buy a team warm-up jacket he saw advertised in the Sears, Roebuck catalog.__NEWL__Saturday afternoons are spent in town, where the adults share idle gossip and serious concerns and the youngsters visit the movie house, while Sunday morning is reserved for church.__NEWL__A visiting carnival, the annual town picnic, and Luke's introduction to television – to see a live broadcast of a World Series game – are additional bits of local color scattered throughout the tale.__NEWL__A flood devastates the family's crop before the harvest is completed, and Luke's parents decide to travel to the city to find work in a Buick plant, breaking a history of generations working on the land.__NEWL__The novel ends with Luke's mother smiling on the bus, having finally gotten her wish to leave cotton farming.__NEWL__The book's title refers to the Chandler house, which never has been painted, a sign of their lower social status in the community.__NEWL__One day Luke discovers that someone has been secretly painting the weather-beaten clapboards white, and eventually he continues the job with the approval of his parents and the assistance of the Mexicans, contributing some of his own savings for the purchase of paint.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q146866	Resurrection	1899-01-01T00:00:00Z	1938	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	1721285	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1721285	The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier.__NEWL__When he was a younger man, at his Aunts' estate, he fell in love with their ward, Katyusha (Katerina Mikhailovna Maslova), who is goddaughter to one Aunt and treated badly by the other.__NEWL__However, after going to the city and becoming corrupted by drink and gambling, he returns two years later to his Aunts' estate and sexually assaults Katyusha, leaving her pregnant.__NEWL__She is then thrown out by his Aunt, and proceeds to face a series of unfortunate and unpleasant events, before she ends up working as a prostitute, going by her surname, Maslova.__NEWL__Ten years later, Nekhlyudov sits on a jury which sentences the girl, Maslova, to prison in Siberia for murder (poisoning a client who beat her, a crime of which she is innocent).__NEWL__The book narrates his attempts to help her practically, but focuses on his personal mental and moral struggle.__NEWL__He goes to visit her in prison, meets other prisoners, hears their stories, and slowly comes to realize that below his gilded aristocratic world, yet invisible to it, is a much larger world of cruelty, injustice and suffering.__NEWL__Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause, beaten without cause, immured in dungeons for life without cause, and a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor, but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him, until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream.__NEWL__He decides to give up his property and pass ownership on to his peasants, leaving them to argue over the different ways in which they can organise the estate, and he follows Katyusha into exile, planning on marrying her.__NEWL__On their long journey into Siberia, she falls in love with another man, and Nekhludov gives his blessing and still chooses to live as part of the penal community, seeking redemption.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q636815	The Mystery of the Blue Train	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	1727973	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1727973	Poirot boards Le Train Bleu, bound for the French Riviera.__NEWL__So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance.__NEWL__On board the train Grey meets Ruth Kettering, an American heiress leaving her unhappy marriage to meet her lover.__NEWL__The next morning, though, Ruth is found dead in her compartment, a victim of strangulation.__NEWL__ The famous ruby, "Heart of Fire", which had recently been given to Ruth by her father, is discovered to be missing.__NEWL__Ruth's father, the American millionaire Rufus Van Aldin, and his secretary, Major Knighton, persuade Poirot to take on the case.__NEWL__Ruth's maid, Ada Mason, says that she saw a man in Ruth's compartment but could not see who he was.__NEWL__The police suspect that Ruth's lover, the Comte de la Roche, killed her and stole the ruby, but Poirot does not think that the Comte is guilty.__NEWL__He is suspicious of Ruth's husband, Derek Kettering, who was on the same train but claims not to have seen Ruth.__NEWL__Katherine says that she saw Derek enter Ruth's compartment.__NEWL__Further suspicion is thrown on Derek when a cigarette case with the letter "K" is found there.__NEWL__Poirot investigates and finds out that the murder and the jewel theft might not be connected, as the famous jewel thief "The Marquis" is connected to the crime.__NEWL__Eventually, the avaricious Mirelle, who was on the train with Derek -- with whom she had been having an affair but, now spurned, is seeking revenge against him -- tells Poirot she saw Derek leave Ruth's compartment around the time the murder would have taken place.__NEWL__Derek is then arrested.__NEWL__Everyone is convinced the case is solved, but Poirot is not sure.__NEWL__He does more investigating and learns more information, talking to his friends and to Katherine, eventually coming to the truth.__NEWL__He asks Van Aldin and Knighton to come with him on the Blue Train to recreate the murder.__NEWL__He tells them that Ada Mason is really Kitty Kidd, a renowned male impersonator and actress.__NEWL__Katherine saw what she thought was a boy getting off the train, but it was really Mason.__NEWL__Poirot realised that Mason was the only person who saw anyone with Ruth in the compartment, so this could have been a lie.__NEWL__He reveals that the murderer and Mason's accomplice is Knighton, who is really the ruthless "Marquis".__NEWL__He also says that the cigarette case with the K on it does not stand for 'Kettering', but for 'Knighton'.__NEWL__Since Knighton was supposedly in Paris, no one would have suspected him.__NEWL__Derek did go into the compartment to talk to Ruth once he saw she was on the train, but he left when he saw she was asleep.__NEWL__The police arrest Knighton and the case is closed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2350387	The Demolished Man	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1716147	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1716147	The Demolished Man is a science fiction police procedural set in a future where telepathy is common, although much of its effectiveness is derived from one individual having greater telepathic skill than another.__NEWL__In the 24th century, telepaths—called Espers or "peepers"—are integrated into all levels of society.__NEWL__They are classed according to their abilities.__NEWL__All Espers can telepathically communicate amongst themselves and the more powerful Espers can overwhelm their juniors.__NEWL__Telepathic ability is innate and inheritable but can remain latent and undetected in untrained persons.__NEWL__Once recognized, natural aptitude can be developed through instruction and exercise.__NEWL__There is a guild to improve Espers' telepathic skills, to set and enforce ethical conduct guidelines, and to increase the Esper population through intermarriage.__NEWL__Some latent telepaths are undiscovered, or are aware of their abilities but refuse to submit to Guild rule.__NEWL__Some are ostracized as punishment for breaking the rules.__NEWL__One character in the story suffers this fate for ten years, leaving him desperate for even vicarious contact with other telepaths.__NEWL__Ben Reich is the paranoid, impetuous owner of Monarch Utilities & Resources, a commercial cartel that the Reich family has possessed for generations.__NEWL__Monarch Utilities & Resources is in danger of bankruptcy because of its chief rival, the D'Courtney Cartel, headed by the older Craye D'Courtney.__NEWL__Reich suffers recurring nightmares in which a "Man with No Face" persecutes him.__NEWL__Desperate to end his suffering, Reich contacts D'Courtney and proposes a merger of their concerns but Reich's damaged psychological state causes him to misread D'Courtney's positive response as a refusal.__NEWL__Frustrated and desperate, Reich determines to kill D'Courtney.__NEWL__The presence of "peepers" has prevented the commission of murder for more than seventy years so Reich devises an elaborate plan to ensure his freedom.__NEWL__If caught Reich will certainly face "Demolition", a terrible punishment described only at the end of the story.__NEWL__Reich hires an Esper to "run interference" for him—hiding his murderous thoughts from any peepers present at the scene of the planned crime.__NEWL__Reich bribes Dr. Augustus ("Gus")__NEWL__Tate, a prominent peeper psychiatrist, and uses him to mentally steal information about D'Courtney's planned attendance at a party.__NEWL__To further conceal his intentions from telepaths, Reich visits a songwriter, Duffy Wygand, to teach him a jingle that makes his real thoughts hard to read.__NEWL__From Monarch's research facility, Reich secures a small flash grenade which can disrupt a victim's perception of time by destroying the eyes' rhodopsin.__NEWL__He acquires an antique (20th-century) handgun from a pawn shop, making sure to have the bullets removed from the cartridges when he buys it.__NEWL__He knows how to replace the bullet in the handgun's ammunition with a gelatin capsule filled with water in order to eliminate ballistics evidence.__NEWL__At the party, he influences the host to play a game of Sardines in total darkness.__NEWL__Reich executes his plan during the game but there is an unforeseen hitch: the moment he shoots D'Courtney, D'Courtney's daughter Barbara, witnesses the murder, struggles with Reich, grabs the gun and runs away.__NEWL__She is later found suffering severe psychological shock that renders her catatonic and mute.__NEWL__Nobody but Maria knew she was with her father.__NEWL__Reich recovers his composure, returns to the party and pretends to be lost.__NEWL__Just as he is about to leave, completing his getaway, a drop of blood from D'Courtney's body in the room above lands on him, and the party ends in chaos as the police are called.__NEWL__A telepathic police detective is assigned to the case.__NEWL__As telepathically gathered evidence is legally inadmissible in court, but can be used to guide an investigation, the detective is obliged to assemble the murder case with traditional police procedures and to establish motive, opportunity and method.__NEWL__The detective manages to read Reich's thoughts seeing that he is the murderer and asks him to surrender.__NEWL__Reich refuses, relishing the thrill of the hunt to come.__NEWL__Both sides center on finding and questioning (or, in Reich's case, silencing) Barbara D'Courtney.__NEWL__Although Reich finds her first he is unable to kill her before Powell rescues her.__NEWL__The pursuit traverses the Solar System as Reich escapes the police and a series of mysterious assassination attempts.__NEWL__Others are attacked also: during Powell's attempt to interrogate the pawnbroker from whom Reich bought the gun, an unknown person attacks the pawnshop with a "harmonic gun" which kills by resonant sonic vibration.__NEWL__Reich tries but fails to murder Hassop, his chief of communications (to try to prevent him from assisting the police with his knowledge of the corporate codes) and Powell succeeds in abducting Hassop.__NEWL__Powell has already established opportunity and, eventually, method through discovery of a tiny fragment of gelatin in the body.__NEWL__Just as Powell believes that he has wrapped the case up entirely the interrogation of Hassop yields disturbing results: D'Courtney had accepted the merger proposal.__NEWL__That dashes Powell's case; as he remarks, no court in the Solar System would believe Reich murdered D'Courtney when D'Courtney was needed alive for the merger (which would save Reich and give him all the power and wealth he dreamed of) to succeed.__NEWL__Reich's tortured mental state is unknown to Reich himself so Powell does not suspect that the motive for the murder was something other than financial.__NEWL__After more attempts on his life, and more dreams of the Man with No Face, Reich attempts to kill Powell.__NEWL__Powell easily disarms him and then reads his mind.__NEWL__Suddenly Powell recognizes that the forces behind Reich's crime are greater than anticipated.__NEWL__He asks the help of every Esper in attempting to arrest Reich, channeling their collective mental energy through Powell in the dangerous telepathic procedure called the "Mass Cathexis Measure".__NEWL__He justifies this by claiming that Reich is an embryonic megalomaniac who will remake society in his own twisted image if not stopped.__NEWL__Powell uses the power to construct a solipsistic fantasy for Reich to experience.__NEWL__One by one he removes elements of reality, beginning with the stars in the sky, until Reich is left believing that he is the only real being in a world constructed around him, as a game.__NEWL__Finally Reich is left facing the Man with No Face, who is both himself and Craye D'Courtney.__NEWL__Reich is revealed to be the natural son of Craye D'Courtney, from an affair with Reich's mother — Reich's hatred of him was probably due to a latent, telepathic knowledge of that fact.__NEWL__Reich's knowledge is not explicitly stated but Barbara, whom Powell discovers to be Reich's half-sister, is herself revealed to be a peeper.__NEWL__The assassination attempts on Reich were carried out by Reich himself as a result of his disturbed state.__NEWL__Once arrested and convicted, Reich is sentenced to the dreaded Demolition— the stripping away of his memories and the upper layers of his personality, emptying his mind for re-education.__NEWL__This 24th-century society uses psychological demolition because it recognizes the social value of strong personalities able to successfully defy the law, seeking the salvaging of positive traits while ridding the person of the evil consciousness of the criminal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385889	Guerrillas	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	1711776	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711776	The main characters of the book are Jane, a woman from London, and her romantic partner Roche, a white South African man, who have recently arrived on the island.__NEWL__Roche is engaged with helping the poor on the island, which puts him in contact with a dishonest revolutionary opportunist named Jimmy.__NEWL__As they socialize with the privileged, Roche finds Jane contradictory and politically naive about her own place in the power structure, while also being challenged about his own motives and purpose.__NEWL__Jimmy has sexual fantasies about Jane, and has a perverse relationship with the boys he keeps in his commune.__NEWL__Amid the tumult of a societal crisis, the climax of the book is violent and tragic.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7776348	The Wrong Doyle	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19388758	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19388758	Tim Doyle returns to the Eastern Shore of Virginia after the death of his Uncle Buck.__NEWL__He meets the keeper of Uncle Buck's inheritance, Maggie Peach.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4882042	Belchamber	1905-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19389262	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19389262	The story follows the life of Sainty, Marquis of Belchamber, from childhood to his mid-twenties.__NEWL__Sainty is shy, physically weak, likes knitting and dislikes sports.__NEWL__After much goading from his mother (Lady Charmington), he marries Cissy.__NEWL__However, she turns out to find him repugnant, and the marriage is unconsummated.__NEWL__Cissy later gives birth to a son, who Sainty realises is the result of an affair with his cousin Claude.__NEWL__Despite this, Sainty feels great love for the baby and is devastated when it falls ill and dies.__NEWL__As they grieve, Sainty and Cissy learn that an uncaring Claude has become engaged to someone else.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18389702	The Flaming Sword	1939-01-01T00:00:00Z	19436199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19436199	Shortly after Angela Cameron gets married, an African-American man breaks into her house, kills her husband and son, and rapes her sister.__NEWL__As a result, she decides to move to New York City and learn more about the situation of African-Americans.__NEWL__Meanwhile, African-Americans and Communists try to overthrow the government, and they succeed: the country becomes known as the 'Soviet Republic of the United States' and the only newspaper available in New York City is the Soviet Herald.__NEWL__However, she meets her childhood sweetheart and decides everything is not lost.__NEWL__Eventually, she donates US$10 million to found the Marcus Garvey Colonization Society, whose aim is to repatriate African Americans to the African continent.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1760447	Thendara House	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19401625	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19401625	Magda Lorne tenders her resignation from Terran service to her supervisor, Cholayna Ares, saying that she has taken an oath to spend six months in the Guildhouse of the Renuniciates at Thendera.__NEWL__Cholayna tries to talk her out of resigning, and Magda agrees to detached duty.__NEWL__Jaelle n'ha Melora starts her first day of working in the spaceport, but finds conforming to Terran customs a challenge.__NEWL__She quickly discovers that her new husband, Peter Haldane, despite being raised on Darkover, has typically Terran sexist attitudes towards women.__NEWL__Jaelle is asked by the legate, Russell Montray, if she can help one of his agents pass as a native.__NEWL__Magda meets with Mother Lauria at the guildhouse and learns the rules under which she will be living for the next six months.__NEWL__An injured woman named Keitha knocks at the door and asks to take the oath.__NEWL__Several days later, Magda, Doria and Keitha undergo a consciousness-raising session with her future sisters regarding her motives for joining the Renunciates.__NEWL__She experiences a vision of the Goddess Avarra.__NEWL__Jaelle meets with Kadarin, a Terran operative, to assist him in prepping for a trip to the Dry Towns.__NEWL__She is assigned to give Alessandro Li a lesson in Darkover's history, but comes to distrust his motives, telling her husband that he wants to reduce Darkover to a Terran colony.__NEWL__Peter, ever ambitious, ignores her.__NEWL__Jaelle realizes that Peter does not consider her an equal partner in the marriage, and that in many respects, she has broken her Renunciate oath by marrying him.__NEWL__In the Guildhouse, Bryna gives birth to a boy.__NEWL__Camilla tells Magda the story of how she came to be a Renunciate.__NEWL__Keitha's abusive husband arrives, demanding the return of his wife.__NEWL__When the Reunciates refuse, a fight ensues.__NEWL__Magda kills one of the mercenaries and comes close to killing the second, when Camilla stops her.__NEWL__Her failure to follow Darkovan codes of conduct gets her in trouble.__NEWL__Magda continues to struggle with the expectations of her Renunciate sisters.__NEWL__Cholayna asks Jaelle to intercede with the Guildhouse to allow some of the Reuniciates to work in the spaceport.__NEWL__After a private meeting with Mother Lauria, Jaelle joins the house meeting, which is a combination disciplinary hearing and consciousness-raising session.__NEWL__Afterwards, Jaelle mentions one guild member who is away on Sisterhood business, explaining that this organization is a remnant of one of the original groups that founded the Renunciates.__NEWL__A diplomatic function is arranged between Danvan Hastur and a group of Terran officials.__NEWL__Russell Montray and Alessandro Li manage to offend their Darkovan hosts over the issue of airspace and local control.__NEWL__Lorill Hastur and Rohana Ardais arrive, and Rohana asks to speak privately with Jaelle.__NEWL__Rohana notes that Jaelle is pregnant with a daughter, and that this daughter will be the heir to the Aillard domain, which passes through female hands.__NEWL__She explains that Jaelle has no choice; it is the law of the Comyn.__NEWL__A fire breaks out on Alton lands.__NEWL__A number of Renunciates volunteer to help fight the fire, including Magda.__NEWL__They meet Damon Ridenow, Regent of Alton, and Andrew Carr, a Terran married to Ridenow's sister-in-law (from The Forbidden Tower).__NEWL__Carr recognizes Magda as an Intelligence operative, but does not give her away.__NEWL__Magda realizes that Ridenow and Carr treat those around them as equals, unlike the other Comyn nobility she has met.__NEWL__Eventually her burns are healed by Hilary Castamir-Sytris (from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover).__NEWL__Russell Montray and Alessandro Li become obsessed with meeting Andrew Carr, now called An’ndra Lanart.__NEWL__Despite Magda, Peter and others explaining the breach of etiquette this could cause, they are insistent.__NEWL__Magda realizes that Carr must be warned.__NEWL__As Carr is leaving, Montray makes a scene, betraying his incompetence.__NEWL__Magda resigns, in part because she realizes her skills will never be fully valued because she is female.__NEWL__Jaelle tells Peter that their marriage was a mistake, that she wants to divorce.__NEWL__When he cannot persuade her to change her mind, he hurls insults at her.__NEWL__Their discussion is interrupted by a loudspeaker page.__NEWL__Lady Rohana has come to the Terran zone to confront Jaelle about her duties to the Aillard Domain.__NEWL__As she decides to leave the Terran zone entirely, she learns that Alessandro Li has undertaken a journey to the Kilghard Hills without an escort.__NEWL__She determines to follow him, but Peter threatens to have the Terran authorities lock her up on the grounds that she is pregnant.__NEWL__Frightened, she throws him to the floor, and leaves believing that she has killed him.__NEWL__Jaelle rides into the Kilghard Hills after Li.__NEWL__In the storm, kireseth pollen disturbed, giving Jaelle a vision of her daughter, Cleindori, in red Keeper's robes.__NEWL__She hears Magda's voice encouraging her, but believes her to be another vision.__NEWL__Eventually the two women find shelter in a cave, and Jaelle realizes that Magda has come after her, because of her own premonition of Jaelle's death.__NEWL__Jaelle and Magda ponder their failures – as married women, as Renunciates.__NEWL__Jaelle realizes that she doesn't really want Peter's baby.__NEWL__Several days later, she miscarries.__NEWL__Magda hallucinates a mystical conversation that she does not fully understand.__NEWL__Later she perceives telepathic contact with Andrew Carr.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, they are rescued.__NEWL__Alessandro Li is also rescued and persuaded to advocate for the removal of Russell Montray, in favor of a competent legate.__NEWL__He agrees to make no trouble for Carr.__NEWL__Inquires are made about Peter Haldane, and it's determined Jaelle has not killed him.__NEWL__Li agrees to arrange her divorce.__NEWL__Magda has another hallucination of mystical voices, who identify themselves as the Dark Sisterhood, working for the long-term survival of Darkover.__NEWL__She also foresees that Jaelle will become pregnant by Damon Ridenow (Cleindori Aillard).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656914	A Game Called Chaos	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z	19383164	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19383164	Game designer Steven Royal, creator of a game series called CHAOS, suddenly disappears.__NEWL__Frank and Joe Hardy take on the case, running into trouble along the way.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2234863	Shadow of a Dark Queen	1994-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19354406	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19354406	A dark queen is gathering armies in remote lands and desperate men are sent on a suicidal mission to confront this evil.__NEWL__Among these men is Nakor the Isalani, a gambler who knows the true nature of the Queen and whom everyone must wager their lives upon.__NEWL__The prologue introduces the Saaur, warm-blooded humanoid reptiles, whose world is being overrun by demons from the Fifth Circle of Hell.__NEWL__The survivors allied themselves reluctantly with their cold-blooded cousins, the Pantathians, to escape to Midkemia in exchange for a generation of service.__NEWL__The novel starts by introducing best friends Erik Von Darkmoor, an apprentice blacksmith and bastard son of the local baron, and Roo Avery, a local trouble maker.__NEWL__Erik's half-brother Stefan Von Darkmoor, heir to his father's title, who resents Erik's claim to the Darkmoor name, rapes Erik's close friend Rosalyn in an attempt to force Erik into a fight.__NEWL__Erik and Roo find Stefan, and in a rage, Erik holds Stefan down while Roo delivers the killing blow, but Erik is injured during the fight.__NEWL__Now wanted for Stefan's murder, the two realize they must flee, and set out for Krondor.__NEWL__On the way, the boys narrowly escape detection when they happen upon the tent of a strange woman named Gert who aids them.__NEWL__They wake the next morning to find Gert gone and a mysterious woman named Miranda in her place, who helps and heals Erik.__NEWL__Further on their journey, they come to the aid of a man who is being ambushed by some brigands.__NEWL__The man, a merchant named Helmut Grindle, guides them the rest of the way to Krondor.__NEWL__On their journey, Roo befriends the man, questioning him on all matters commerce with the goal of starting a business of his own.__NEWL__When they arrive in Krondor there is a long line on the road into the city, due to the search for the two murderers as well as the rush to reach the city to attend the funeral of Prince Arutha.__NEWL__They hide in a nearby farm and then in a tavern where they are first kidnapped by local slavers, then caught by constables, and sentenced to hang.__NEWL__Their hanging is faked, though, along with several other condemned men, and the group is taken to a man named Robert de Loungville, where they are informed that their sentence has not been commuted, only delayed, and that they can only hope to gain freedom in exchange for service to the crown on an extremely dangerous mission.__NEWL__They are taken to a training camp where they are quickly trained as soldiers.__NEWL__There, they meet their mysterious captain for the first time, the half-elven Calis, as well as encountering Miranda again.__NEWL__They sail across the Endless Sea aboard the Trenchard's Revenge and the Freeport Ranger, to the continent of Novindus, where they must pose as a mercenary group known as "Calis' Crimson Eagles" and attempt to join the army of the Emerald Queen.__NEWL__Their mission is to gather information and assess the Queen's motives.__NEWL__Her army is slowly conquering the entire continent in a bloody campaign, city by city.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Miranda seeks the aid of Pug in the coming conflict, forming a close bond with the great magician.__NEWL__After meeting up with their allies among the natives, Calis and his band successfully infiltrate the army.__NEWL__They discover the Emerald Queen's plans to become a host for a Valheru spirit trapped within several ancient artifacts, then lead her army across the sea to invade the Kingdom of the Isles.__NEWL__When their ruse is discovered, the Crimson Eagles are pursued by the 9-foot-tall Saaur cavalry, only to flee into the secret lair of the Pantathian priests.__NEWL__At great cost, Calis finds his way to the inner chambers and manages to destroy the artifacts.__NEWL__The diminished crew manage to escape to a nearby city under siege by the Emerald Queen.__NEWL__They manage to destroy the shipyards, key to the Queen's plot, and while the invasion is not prevented completely, it is delayed significantly.__NEWL__The surviving members of the group are picked up by Prince Nicholas aboard the Freeport Ranger, and return to Krondor as free men.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5384115	Equal Affections	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19355199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19355199	Louise, an aging woman, is coming down with cancer.__NEWL__Her husband Nat is having an affair with another woman.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Walter, partner of Louise and Nat's son Danny, has cyber sex and phone sex with other men.__NEWL__April, Danny's sister, visits her brother in suburban New Jersey.__NEWL__With their mother's death looming, they all fly to California where their parents live.__NEWL__To avoid a funeral, Nat throws a lukewarm farewell party.__NEWL__April ends up fighting with her father over his cheating on her mother.__NEWL__Two months later, Nat is publicly seeing his mistress.__NEWL__Danny and Walter invite April and Nat to stay with them at a rented cottage on Long Island.__NEWL__The final part is a prolepsis to Louise's conversion at Catholicism although she is a Jew.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5966026	I'll Take You There	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19355582	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19355582	I'll take you there consists of three parts, in which the female narrator, originating from a poor, migrant and blue collar family from Strykersville in upstate New York, describes her experiences as an outsider in an upper class sisterhood in Syracuse, New York (part one); her experiences of a lover with a different ethnic (Afro-American) background (part two); and finally her coming to terms with her family background (part three).__NEWL__The nameless narrator—by her family only called 'you', by her lover called by the pseudonym 'Anellia'—joins a sorority in Syracuse, New York.__NEWL__Soon enough, she crumbles under the exorbitant debt she runs up.__NEWL__Finally, she pretends she indulges in irrational behavior to get out of the sorority and move into affordable accommodation elsewhere on campus.__NEWL__She falls for a black student who audits her philosophy lectures.__NEWL__After she stalks him for a while, they sleep together.__NEWL__Eventually, she learns that he is married and has left his wife and children.__NEWL__She drives to Crescent, Utah to meet her dying father.__NEWL__After his death, he bequeaths his money to her, but she decides to give it to his mistress.__NEWL__She buries him in Strykersville, New York, as he requested.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5250157	Deep Dish	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z	19428769	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19428769	Gina is a 30-year-old chef obsessed with using fresh, wholesome, high-quality ingredients in the food she prepares.__NEWL__Her cooking show is cancelled when a big sponsor pulls out after seeing the show's producer in bed with the sponsor's wife.__NEWL__This cancellation creates an opportunity for a new show on the Cooking Channel.__NEWL__The producers are also interested in a local cooking show called Vittles, hosted by Tate Moody.__NEWL__The producers decide to turn the competition between Gina and Tate into a reality show.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3790781	Falcons of Narabedla	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z	50566					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19267645	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19267645	The novel concerns a person who is transported into the future and an alien world where Terrans and Darkovans have meshed and become decadent.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7994647	White Dog	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	19268529	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19268529	A Melbourne property developer is murdered and his artist ex-girlfriend is the prime suspect.__NEWL__Jack Irish, a lone private investigator, comes in to investigate.__NEWL__In his investigation, he figures out quite the surprise.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8028249	Without Warning	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	19479302	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19479302	On the eve of the Iraq War, March 14, 2003, the majority of the population of the contiguous United States (along with the bulk of the populations of Canada, Mexico, and Cuba) disappears as the result of a large energy field that later comes to be known as "The Wave".__NEWL__Without Warning deals with the international consequences of the disappearance of the world's last superpower on the eve of war.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7722462	The Children's Hospital	2006-08-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19419009	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19419009	Jemma Claflin is a struggling third-year medical student at a children’s hospital.__NEWL__She is teased by the nurses and tormented by her superiors, but she is most crippled by a lack of passion for her profession.__NEWL__A traumatic past also haunts her daily life.__NEWL__Her family and loved ones died in various incidents, leaving Jemma with the belief that she must avoid loving anyone else, lest they also be killed.__NEWL__Jemma is particularly troubled by the loss of her brother, Calvin, who filled her early years with the supernatural and eventually took his own life.__NEWL__Despite her guarded emotions, Jemma enters a relationship with fellow medical student Rob Dickens.__NEWL__On a particularly stormy night Jemma aides in the birth of a disfigured child, a daughter of a “King of the East” who had come to New Jersey and married.__NEWL__The child is named Brenda and often points at Jemma, to her discomfort.__NEWL__After the birth, Jemma seeks solace in a sexual liaison with Rob in the on-call room.__NEWL__When they emerge, the storm has submerged the entire world beneath a vast ocean, with only the hospital and its inhabitants left floating above.__NEWL__No one finds time to mourn the loss of the world as the condition of the hospital’s__NEWL__patients suddenly turns for the worse, and every adult is busy attending to them.__NEWL__The hospital has reconfigured its layout, and an angel begins to speak to them, asking each person to name her so that she can serve them.__NEWL__A man named John Grampus reveals that he is the architect of the hospital, and was contacted by the angel long ago to create the building which would serve as an ark when the Apocalypse came.__NEWL__Once the patients are stable, life in the hospital returns to a relative state of normalcy.__NEWL__The hospital hierarchy remains intact as medical personnel and parents focus on their sole mission- to make the children well.__NEWL__Everything that could be needed is provided by the angel via replicators, and people may even request items which have never existed before.__NEWL__The daily lives of other medical students are flavored by their own personal problems.__NEWL__Dr. Chandra struggles with his lack of medical aptitude and deepening loneliness.__NEWL__Jemma’s best friend, Vivian dates constantly, while secretly obsessing with a long list of reasons leading to the end of the world.__NEWL__Jemma continues to go through the motions during rounds, not really helping any patient but getting to know them and the particulars of their ailments.__NEWL__Jemma develops notable relationships with several children including Pickie Beecher, a mentally disturbed boy who drinks blood, and Jarvis, a boy who was warned of the Apocalypse by John Grampus and stowed away in the hospital on the night of the storm.__NEWL__One day a surgical lamp hits Rob in the head and causes brain damage.__NEWL__The power of her grief allows Jemma to tap into previously undiscovered healing powers which manifest as green fire.__NEWL__She heals__NEWL__Rob__NEWL__and then proceeds to heal each person in the hospital of whatever medical issues they may have.__NEWL__Following the healing of all the patients, the hospital needs a new sense of purpose.__NEWL__A council is elected (of which Jemma is named the highest title of Universal Friend) and the adults are put in charge of leading classes for the children.__NEWL__The children whose parents died in the flood are adopted to various adults in the hospital, and Jemma and Rob adopt Pickie Beecher.__NEWL__Things begin to appear in the previously empty ocean.__NEWL__A man is retrieved from the water.__NEWL__He cannot remember anything about himself, and is named Ishmael by the inhabitants of the hospital.__NEWL__Fish and other marine organisms begin to appear, and can be watched from the windows of the hospital.__NEWL__Jemma discovers that she is pregnant and the hospital joyously throws a wedding for her and Rob.__NEWL__One day a ship is spotted in the distance.__NEWL__It is a cruise liner, and Jemma and a few delegates board the ship to explore it.__NEWL__They return with one person, a teenage boy who carries with him a diary detailing his sexual exploits with male and female passengers of the cruise ship, now long gone.__NEWL__He is in a permanent sleep, and can cannot be roused.__NEWL__After the boy is brought into the hospital, people begin to develop a sickness termed “the Botch.”__NEWL__It manifests differently in each patient.__NEWL__Though Jemma can sense the Botch inside each person, she is unable to use her powers to heal it.__NEWL__Her attempts appear as if she is using her green fire to kill afflicted persons, and she is impeached of her position as Universal Friend.__NEWL__Adult begin to die, turning into greasy ash, while those under the age of 21 slowly fall into deep sleeps.__NEWL__Soon the only people left in the hospital are the sleeping children, heavily pregnant Jemma, Rob, and Ishmael who is delving into insanity.__NEWL__Rob has the Botch, but Jemma’s love for him keeps it at bay.__NEWL__Despite this, Rob slowly degrades both physically and mentally.__NEWL__While Ishmael roams the hospital in madness, Rob helps Jemma tend to the sleeping children until he, too, dies.__NEWL__Jemma begins labor, and climbs to the roof to give birth where she encounters Ishmael.__NEWL__A land mass is visible from the roof and the hospital draws nearer.__NEWL__As the child is born, the children of the hospital wake up.__NEWL__The hospital reaches the land mass and Jemma dies, seeing the children exit the hospital to join the new world.__NEWL__Jemma’s adopted son, Pickie Beecher, carries the princess Brenda and Jemma’s newborn son with him as he crosses.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q102036199	The Mirror of Her Dreams	19421163	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19421163	The Mirror of Her Dreams is a novel in which the setting is a world where mirrors are magic, and is the first novel in the Mordant's Need series.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7362712	Romanno Bridge	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	19337161	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19337161	The book is a sequel to Greig's second novel, The Return of John MacNab.__NEWL__It reunites the main characters from the previous book, and teams them with a half-Maori rugby player and a busker from Oslo, in a quest for the Stone of Scone.__NEWL__The action takes place mainly in Scotland, but it also includes sections set in Norway and England.__NEWL__Like The Return of John MacNab, this novel is something of a homage to the stories of John Buchan, although the connection is not made explicit this time around.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3213211	The Forbidden Tower	1977-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19368435	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19368435	On the road to Armida, Damon Ridenow encounters Leonie Hastur, Keeper of Arilinn.__NEWL__Leonie tells him that she wishes to persuade Callista Lanart to return to Arilinn Tower and replace her as Keeper.__NEWL__She is aware that Callista wishes to marry the Terran, Andrew Carr, who rescued her from the Caves of Corresanti (as seen in The Spell Sword).__NEWL__After they arrive, Leonie meets with Callista and unable to persuade her to return, releases her from her Keeper’s vow.__NEWL__Dom Esteban, Callista’s father, consents to her marriage.__NEWL__The next day, a joint wedding is held – Ellemir is joined to Damon and Callista to Andrew in freemate marriage.__NEWL__Andrew recalls that Leonie has warned him that Callista was trained in the old ways of Keepers, and may not be able to consummate their relationship for a long time.__NEWL__Ellemir has a premonition of her father's death.__NEWL__Desiderio Leynier, a nedestro relation (Dom Alton's illegitimate son), creates trouble at the wedding feast.__NEWL__Guardsmen who have been caught in a blizzard are brought to Armida.__NEWL__When it becomes clear that some of the men will lose their feet to frostbite, Damon, working with Andrew and Dezi, uses his laran powers to restore their circulation.__NEWL__The experience causes Damon to feel that laran-based healing should be available to all Darkovans, not restricted to the cloistered residents of the Towers.__NEWL__He reflects that it is commonly believed that this would bring back the Ages of Chaos.__NEWL__Callista agrees to share Andrew's bed.__NEWL__They become telepathically aware of the lovemaking of Damon and Ellemir.__NEWL__When Andrew accidentally breaks the link, Callista's Keeper training cuts in and Andrew takes the full blast of her laran.__NEWL__Damon comes to realize that Leonie has tampered with Callista's channels before she reached puberty – the "old ways" that Leonie had warned him about.__NEWL__Andrew is overwhelmed the experiences of the past day and walks out into the courtyard to think.__NEWL__He is overcome by a compulsion to leave Armida, and wanders out into the snow.__NEWL__Damon realizes that Dezi has overpowered Andrew telepathically and driven him away.__NEWL__After Andrew is rescued, Dom Esteban tells Damon that "there is bad blood" in Dezi.__NEWL__Damon strips Dezi of his matrix.__NEWL__Damon decides to attempt timesearch – to contact Keepers in other times via the Overworld.__NEWL__He meets the legendary Varzil the Good of Neskaya.__NEWL__Varzil recommends the sacrament of Year's End as a way of freeing Callista from her Keeper's restrictions, but the meaning of the ritual has been lost.__NEWL__Dom Esteban has premonitions of evil menacing his son, Domenic.__NEWL__That night, Callista wakes from a dream in which Domenic has come to harm.__NEWL__A guardsman arrives at Armina to inform Dom Esteban that Domenic has died during sword practice.__NEWL__Callista believes that he has been murdered.__NEWL__Dom Esteban designates his youngest son, Valdir-Lewis Lanart-Alton to be his heir.__NEWL__He designates Damon Ridenow as Regent of Alton.__NEWL__Damon discovers that Dezi has taken Domenic's matrix while he lay injured, thus killing Domenic, and rekeyed it to himself.__NEWL__Callista uses her ability to take Domenic's matrix away from Dezi.__NEWL__He dies as a result.__NEWL__Damon realizes that their actions constitute an unofficial matrix circle – a forbidden tower.__NEWL__Leonie Hastur informs him that she will bring charges in council regarding his illegal matrix work.__NEWL__The two couples confront the council.__NEWL__Leonie challenges Damon to a duel between Arilinn Tower and the Forbidden Tower.__NEWL__Damon breaks down the remaining emotional walls separating the two couples, realizing that essence of the sacrament of Year's End is a shared sexual experience under the influence of kireseth flowers.__NEWL__Callista and Andrew finally consummate their marriage.__NEWL__At dawn, they enter into the Overworld and build their tower.__NEWL__After a prolonged battle with Arilinn, Damon asks for a truce.__NEWL__He tells Leonie that they have rediscovered the old way of working, where a Keeper need not be a cloistered virgin.__NEWL__He realizes that Leonie herself was trained in the old ways (the illegal neutering of a Comyn woman), and mourns for her loss.__NEWL__Leonie acknowledges Damon's right to keep his tower.__NEWL__The two couples return to Armida.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q388200	The Bloody Sun	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19240437	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19240437	Damon Ridenow learns that Leonie Hastur, Keeper of Arilinn, has died.__NEWL__His daughter, Cleindori (a nickname, meaning "Golden Bell"; her real name was Dorilys Aillard, daughter of Jaelle n'ha Melora) arrived with Kennard Alton in tow.__NEWL__She has decided to go to Arilinn to train as their Keeper.__NEWL__Ridenow objects, but can't talk her out of her decision.__NEWL__About forty years later, Jefferson Andrew Kerwin, age 29, arrives on Darkover.__NEWL__He knows that he was born there, and spent his first ten years in the Spaceman's Orphanage.__NEWL__In the Trade City, he meets Ragan, who identifies a blue crystal that Jeff wears as a matrix.__NEWL__He is mistaken by several Darkovan natives for a member of the Comyn aristocracy.__NEWL__Jeff tries staring into his matrix crystal and hears voices saying that he must find his way, unaided.__NEWL__Defying orders, he follows his instincts into the Old Town.__NEWL__He arrives at the Alton townhouse and meets Kennard Alton, Taniquel, and Auster.__NEWL__They tell him he has passed a test for laran.__NEWL__Kennard tells Jeff that his mother's name was Cleindori and his father was Terran; that after she was murdered, Jeff was put in the orphanage for his own safety, but he had been sent to Earth before his relations could reclaim him.__NEWL__Jeff meets Elorie of Arilinn and the other members of Arilinn Tower.__NEWL__Kennard explains the basics of Darkovan society and Tower functioning.__NEWL__The tower circle accepts Jeff, except for Auster, who remains hostile.__NEWL__Jeff remains for training.__NEWL__The tower performs some mining experiments, only to have their claims jumped by the Aldarans.__NEWL__Austur believes it to be a Terran trick.__NEWL__They form a circle to identify the spy.__NEWL__It turns out to be Ragan, the weaselly man Jeff met his first night in the Trade City.__NEWL__Jeff claims vengeance, but the attempt to capture Ragan fails.__NEWL__Jeff decides to leave Arilinn, and Elorie, who has fallen in love with him, decides to go with him.__NEWL__The other members of the tower react with horror, indicating that Cleindori's work is far from finished.__NEWL__They go to the spaceport for safety.__NEWL__Jeff and Elorie marry, but are unable to leave Darkover for legal reasons.__NEWL__Elorie uses her Keeper's training to probe Jeff's memories of the death of his mother.__NEWL__He discovers that he is the son, not of Jefferson Kerwin, but of Lewis-Arnad Lanart-Alton.__NEWL__Kennard is his uncle.__NEWL__He also realises that Auster and Ragan are twins, the true children of Jefferson Kerwin, by Cassilda Lanart-Ridenow.__NEWL__The couple seeks help from Dyan Ardais, Elorie's half brother, to obtain an audience with Lord Hastur.__NEWL__Hastur admits that he should have done more to protect Cleindori, and her father, Damon Ridenow, saying he will not make the same mistake with Elorie.__NEWL__He listens to her story.__NEWL__Unable to contact Arilinn to warn them about the threat posed by the unsuspected link between Auster and Ragan, Jeff and Elorie ride to Arilinn.__NEWL__They are able to exclude Ragan from the circle and complete their task.__NEWL__Elorie is injured, but survives.__NEWL__Jeff tells the circle that the experience proves Cleindori was right – that matrix mechanics are a science, not a mystical art, and that a keeper need not be a cloistered virgin.__NEWL__Jeff remains on Darkover, now accepted into the families of the Comyn.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7137285	Paris France	19424598	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19424598	Paris France is a memoir written in a “stream of consciousness” style.__NEWL__It is interpreted as Gertrude Stein’s personal view of France as a country, and the French people.__NEWL__She observes the French eating, drinking, crossing the street, and carrying out their day in no other way that deviates from their "Frenchness."__NEWL__The word "French" quickly becomes a state of being or state of existence.__NEWL__Throughout the novel, the idea of being French in France is communicated to the reader in a raw, confident, matter of fact way.__NEWL__Because of this, some critics believe the novel was not meant to be written as a completely accurate view of the French culture.__NEWL__Stein refers often to fashion, autonomy, logic, tradition and civilization as crucial parts of the French state of being, any straying of which would be straying from being French, regardless of actual nationality.__NEWL__Stein places the state of France within the context of past wars and the possible impending war and the war’s effect on the “Frenchness” of the French, as well as the ideal/real French reaction to war.__NEWL__Stein nonchalantly recalls anecdotes she deems relevant to the topic at hand, each bringing reference to other anecdotal stories having a purpose and place within the progression of the novel.__NEWL__Stein freely follows the tangents of thoughts and life stories (or stories from others’ lives) but always returns to the driving purpose of the novel, identifying the French qualities and paying homage to England and France.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7732976	The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School	2007-08-14T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19413975	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19413975	The book is about the naughty fourth grade class at Aesop Elementary School.__NEWL__Each chapter (which is also a story) ends with one of Aesop's Fables's morals such as when Calvin Tallywong wishes that he was back in Kindergarten.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730689	The Door Through Space	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19338961	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19338961	The novel concerns an intelligence agent and a blood feud in the Dry Towns in the north of a world called Wolf.__NEWL__Note that the text of the Ace Double printing differs in the last chapter from the text of the 1979 Ace stand-alone printing.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7744376	The Killing Star	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19406821	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19406821	In the late 21st century Earth is at peace.__NEWL__Humans now command self-replicating machines that create engineering marvels on enormous scales.__NEWL__Artificial habitats dot the solar system.__NEWL__Anti-matter driven Valkyrie rockets carry explorers to the stars at nearly the speed of light.__NEWL__Then, swarms of missiles travelling at close to the speed of light hit Earth.__NEWL__Though they are merely boulder-sized chunks of metal, they move fast enough to hit with the force of many nuclear arsenals.__NEWL__They are impossible to track and to stop.__NEWL__Humanity is almost wiped out by the bombardment.__NEWL__A handful of survivors desperately struggle to escape the alien mop-up fleet.__NEWL__They hide close to the Sun, inside asteroids, beneath the crusts of moons, within ice rings, and in interstellar space.__NEWL__Most are however hunted down and slaughtered.__NEWL__The last man and woman on Earth are captured as zoo specimens.__NEWL__In the belly of an alien starship, a squid-like being relates to them the pitiless logic behind humankind's execution: the moment humans learned to travel at relativistic speeds was the moment mankind simply became too dangerous a neighbor to have around.__NEWL__The final revelation is that the alien is itself subservient to a powerful artificial intelligence.__NEWL__The following is an overview of the various survival stories listed according to their location.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7997446	Who Would Have Thought It?	1872-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19291777	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19291777	The novel, written in chronological order, is divided into sixty chapters.__NEWL__The first ten occur during the years just before the Civil War (1857–1861), and flashbacks explain the way in which a fabulously wealthy Spanish Mexican named Lola came to stay with a New England family, the Norvals.__NEWL__The last fifty chapters occur during the Civil War (1861–1864).__NEWL__The novel opens with Dr. Norval's return to New England from a geological expedition in the Southwest, accompanied by a ten-year-old girl, Maria Dolores Medina, known as Lola or Lolita, and trunks of supposed geological specimens that are actually filled with Lola's gold.__NEWL__He was appointed her guardian when he and his companions, Mr. Lebrun and Mr. Sinclair, rescued her from captivity.__NEWL__Because her skin was dyed black by her Native American captors, her arrival generates ironic disgust among the abolitionist women in the household, especially Mrs. Norval.__NEWL__She is horrified by the idea of Dr. Norval contaminating the racial purity of their home, despite his insistence that Lola is of pure Spanish descent and the dye will fade.__NEWL__Mrs. Norval demands that Lola work in order to pay for expenses; Dr. Norval objects and explains to her how Lola's mother, Doña Theresa Medina, gave him gold and precious gems she acquired while a captive of the Apache to finance Lola's care.__NEWL__Doña Theresa Medina asked him to rescue Lola so that the girl would be brought up as a Catholic.__NEWL__The Presbyterian Mrs. Norval is angered when she hears this but quickly reconciles her emotions when he shows her the trunks filled with Lola's fortune.__NEWL__The second stage of the book proceeds in the style of a novel of manners but without losing the ironic treatment of the characters.__NEWL__Because of Dr. Norval's careful investment of Lola's gold, the family can live off only a small portion of the interest and still grow wealthy.__NEWL__However, the impending Civil War means that Dr. Norval's political sympathies, even though plainly pro-Union Democrat, made him increasingly demonized.__NEWL__The money he gives to his neighbors and family to raise companies for the Union army mean nothing and he is forced to leave the country.__NEWL__He makes sure to leave a will and careful instructions for the keeping of Lola's gold, however.__NEWL__During the war, de Burton shows the rise of the Cackles, neighbors of the Norvals who become unscrupulous and cowardly Senators and Generals for the Union.__NEWL__At the same time, the Norval men are taken captive or frequently injured in the line of duty.__NEWL__The honest efforts of Julian Norval and his aunt, Lavinia Sprig, to avert disaster or save lives are frequently stymied by the powerful and self-interested Cackles.__NEWL__Their efforts lead them into contact with the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who is left all-but-unnamed, and Abraham Lincoln, who is named but lightly caricatured.__NEWL__Lola, now in her late teens, has slowly been revealed as the owner of fantastic wealth.__NEWL__Before she comes of age and full control of her gold, however, the money is in the hands of Mrs. Norval, who plots with the hypocritical, sinful, sexual ex-reverend and duplicitous Major Mr. Hackwell to take it from the young girl.__NEWL__Hackwell contrives to trap Mrs. Norval by taking advantage of her husband's supposed death to secretly marry the supposed widow, despite knowing that her husband is still alive.__NEWL__He also secretly and dishonestly tricks Lola into an unwilling marriage.__NEWL__All this while, Julian Norval and Lola have pledged their love to each other, a love which threatens to take the money out of Hackwell's hands entirely.__NEWL__The machinations of Mrs. Norval and Mr. Hackwell come to a head when Julian returns from the war with news of his father's return, showing that the reports of the Doctor's death had been false.__NEWL__Mrs. Norval's brother, Issac, accidentally discovers Lola's story without knowing about Lola.__NEWL__He travels to Mexico and meets her father, Don Luis Medina.__NEWL__Upon hearing of his daughter's existence in the United States, Don Luis immediately leaves for New York with Issac, who brings the Don quite accidentally to Lola's residence at the Norval's house just in time to upset Hackwell's plans quite precipitously.__NEWL__As Dr. Norval has written that he is about to cross the Atlantic for New York and Don Luis states his intention to sail south for Cuba with Lola, Hackwell finds his plans about to blow up on him.__NEWL__When Mrs. Norval hears that her husband is about to return to find her in a secret marriage with Hackwell, she shrieks and says "Who would have thought it?"__NEWL__before succumbing to neurosis and brain fever.__NEWL__Julian Norval tricks Hackwell and spirits Don Luis and Lola away on the Cuban steamer only to later follow them, joining Lola in Mexico, where the two are married.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5374456	Empress Bianca	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19412482	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19412482	Bianca Barrett, the protagonist and daughter of a Welsh Surveyor and his Palestinian wife, becomes an "ambitious and mercenary" social climber and double murderess.__NEWL__Charming and well-educated, Bianca marries four times and advances in wealth and social influence.__NEWL__With Bernardo, her first husband, Bianca has three children; they lose their son in a car crash.__NEWL__After a divorce, she marries the rich Ferdie, whose family owns the Piedraplata commercial empire.__NEWL__Before it comes to a divorce, the second husband is shot and killed by a hitman who makes it look like a suicide.__NEWL__The killing is arranged by her lover, Phillipe Mahfud, and Bianca becomes the financial beneficiary.__NEWL__After a brief marriage to husband number three – she had married him only to make Mahfud jealous-, she lastly marries Mahfud, a rich Iraqi businessman and banker.__NEWL__When their relationship sours, the banker dies with his nurse in a mysterious fire in his apartment in the tax haven of Andorra.__NEWL__Bianca's lawyers pay off the police and investigators, and the only justice that remains is in the court of public opinion.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8036749	Worlds of the Imperium	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z	65792					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19412541	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19412541	Brion Bayard, an American diplomat on assignment in Stockholm, Sweden, attempts to evade a man following him, only to find himself kidnapped by agents of the Imperium from a parallel world.__NEWL__Taken to the home world of the Imperium, he is introduced to the aristocratic members of the government, which rules most of the civilized world from London, having been formed by the union of the British Empire, which included America, and the German and Austro-Hungarian empires of Europe, with neutral Sweden added as an impartial component of the mixture.__NEWL__He is impressed by the commitment to duty of the Imperial officials he meets and drawn to a particularly noble lady.__NEWL__Surprisingly, the Imperial officials also include an analogue of Hermann Göring who – as Nazi Germany never existed – is a fairly honest and decent person, completely free of the crimes he would have committed in our history, The main reason for Bayard's abduction, however, is that the Imperium is under attack from another parallel world.__NEWL__The Maxoni-Cocini drive, invented in the Imperium universe by Italian scientists/experimenters Giulio Maxoni and Carlo Cocini at the end of the 19th century, is the technology for traveling between worlds and is extremely dangerous.__NEWL__Only if several sensitive parameters are tuned exactly can disaster be avoided and the trans-world transportation effect be achieved.__NEWL__Almost all worlds where its development is attempted or even inadvertently stumbled upon are destroyed, often in bizarre and horrible ways.__NEWL__The collection of time lines where such disasters have occurred is known as the Blight, and the rare ones where the Earth survives are known as Blight Insulars, or BIs.__NEWL__BI-1 is the Imperium, where, by rare chance, the Maxoni-Cocini drive was successfully developed.__NEWL__The Imperium has become rich and powerful by trading with time lines beyond the Blight.__NEWL__BI-3 is Bayard's home world, where the technology never developed.__NEWL__The raids are coming from BI-2, a chaotic world where Imperial Germany won the First World War but failed to consolidate its victory, with a chaotic and highly destructive war continuing to sweep the planet for generations.__NEWL__This world, which was not believed to have the Maxoni-Cocini drive until it became the origin of increasingly destructive raids, is currently ruled by a dictator, who happens to be an analogue of... Brion Bayard.__NEWL__Bayard undergoes extensive training to substitute for his double, presumably after killing him, and take over the other government, shutting off the raids.__NEWL__The plan falls through almost as soon as he arrives in the new world.__NEWL__For some reason, almost nobody believes in his impersonation.__NEWL__The reason becomes apparent when he meets the other Bayard, who had lost both legs in a battle years before, but who has concealed that fact from the public.__NEWL__However, this other Bayard is not the evil dictator he is portrayed to be.__NEWL__He greets his double as a brother, and tells him how, after being a military officer dedicated to saving the soldiers under his command, he became a dictator after the government he served disintegrated, and undertook an effort to save what was left of shattered world.__NEWL__He is based in Algiers, which was less damaged than other parts of the world, and used the remnants of the former French Colonial Government as the nucleus of his fledgling World Government.__NEWL__He knows nothing of the raids on the Imperium.__NEWL__The two Bayards talk over a gourmet meal and discover they have much in common, including similar histories.__NEWL__Bayard the dictator is abruptly assassinated by the real conspirators, who are working for power-hungry factions in the Imperium itself, using stolen technology.__NEWL__Bayard himself is scheduled for a showy execution, after suitable amputation surgery, to allow the conspiracy to consolidate its hold on their world by publicly eliminating the dictator.__NEWL__Eventually he is able to escape back to the Imperium and expose the conspirators.__NEWL__Offered a chance to return to his Earth, or become a high-ranking Imperium officer, he looks at the noble lady who has become so important to him, and declares, "Home is where the heart is."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7776958	The children of Niobe							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41	Greece	19284931	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19284931	So we are in Salihli and watching life before the advent of the Greek Army.__NEWL__Central role played by the family of Michael Anastasiadis or Sarris, a middle-aged notable and a banker of Salihli with a charming, clever and cheated 35-years-old wife and four children (3 girls and 1 boy), madly in love with the 16-years-old Tarsi, a beautiful gazelle who refuses to marry the son of wealthy Turkish businessman, for whom she worked, and enchants everybody with her provocative teen flesh.__NEWL__In the meantime, we are watching the raids of the Turkish gendarmerie and terror they caused to the Greeks, the close relationship of Turks and Greeks as long as the one was not feeling threat from the other, hidden hopes for better days, the every day misdeeds caused by the human weakness and often leading to unexpected misery, mainly focusing on the guiltiness and the passion of Sarris for the 16 years old Tarsi.__NEWL__Then the novel described the pleasant (initially) life during the Greek occupation and the contact of the Minor Asian Greeks with the Greek soldiers who occupied Salihli to get up to the Destruction of Smyrna.__NEWL__After Sarris dies, his family loses slightly its primary place in the story.__NEWL__The beautiful and poor Tarsi rises socially but remains an erotic symbol of the lustful East.__NEWL__In the presence of the Greek army, dreams of the Greeks for freedom seem to come true.__NEWL__But follows the error handling and the underground system of espionage and undermining that Turks had set in the west Minor Asia, leading to the collapse of the front and the devastating consequences for Asia Minor.__NEWL__We will follow Asia Minor refugees and their efforts initially to save and then to find their feet in their new homeland.__NEWL__In the twelve chapters of the first book, the life just before the Greek occupation in Anatolia is being described.__NEWL__In the twelve chapters of the second book, the life up to the destruction of İzmir is described.__NEWL__In the eight chapters of the third book (1st to 8th) and in the seven chapters of the fourth book (9th to 15th) of the novel, the displacement in Greece is being described.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7744743	The Kiss of Death	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	19356854	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19356854	Death comes in many forms, but in Venice death comes by water...__NEWL__It's the perfect place to hoard secrets.__NEWL__Here the Shadow Queen has her lair, and here she'll gather her forces for a final battle.__NEWL__Marko and Sorrel are unwitting players in her Last Act as they search for his father, and try to stop the madness claiming hers.__NEWL__In the dark alleyways, on silvery waterways slivers the light lance of the lagoon mist.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q936532	And Another Thing...	2009-10-12T00:00:00Z	19357206	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19357206	And Another Thing... starts where Mostly Harmless ends, with Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Arthur and Trillian's daughter Random standing inside Club Beta, while the Earth is about to be destroyed by the Vogons.__NEWL__They are rescued by Zaphod Beeblebrox and the Heart of Gold.__NEWL__During a debate, Ford accidentally freezes Left Brain (Zaphod's second head who has been running the ship) and it seems they are doomed, until an immortal named Wowbagger brings them to safety.__NEWL__Angered by Wowbagger's insults, Zaphod promises to get Wowbagger killed, an idea to which Wowbagger, tired of immortality, has no objection; and so the group sets off in search of Thor, to see if he can kill Wowbagger.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, assigned to destroy all humans, hears rumours of a colony of Earthmen, and he sets off to destroy them, while Arthur attempts to get Wowbagger to stop the Vogons.__NEWL__On the Earth colony Nano, the excessively stereotypical Irish leader Hillman Hunter is seeking applicants to be the planet's god, who would keep Hillman in charge due to divine providence.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Prostetnic Jeltz's son, Constant Mown, is having rather "un-Vogonly" thoughts, including an enjoyment of poetry and sympathy for humans.__NEWL__Wowbagger and Random start arguing, and Wowbagger drugs and imprisons Random.__NEWL__Afterwards, Trillian and Wowbagger fight, but they share a kiss at the end of the argument.__NEWL__Random is less than impressed with her mother's and Wowbagger's actions, and complains about it to Ford.__NEWL__During this conversation, Random steals Ford's company credit card.__NEWL__Back on Asgard, Zaphod has managed to gain access to Valhalla and finds his old acquaintance Thor.__NEWL__After some negotiations, Thor agrees to help Zaphod by becoming Nano's god and killing Wowbagger.__NEWL__Things on Nano are not going as planned, and Hillman is struggling to find his god and keep order among his own populace, as well as trying to control the Magratheans who built the planet.__NEWL__Hillman recalls creating a cult for the rich, which preached of a coming apocalypse, only for the Grebulons to create such an apocalypse.__NEWL__Having received an offer from Zaphod, Hillman and his followers relocated to their "haven", the planet Nano.__NEWL__However, many of the staff abandoned their rich employers and several rival religious groups also settled on the planet, the most prominent of these being the cheese-worshiping Tyromancers, led by Aseed.__NEWL__The Tyromancers and the Nanites enter into a war, and during one of the war's battles, the Heart of Gold and Thor suddenly arrive.__NEWL__Wowbagger's ship lands on Nano and is met by the Tyromancers.__NEWL__Zaphod negotiates for Thor to be Nano's god and reveals that Aseed and Hillman are actually the same being from parallel universes, both of whom made deals with Zaphod.__NEWL__It is revealed that this is what brought him to Earth, saving Arthur and the rest.__NEWL__With Wowbagger representing the Tyromancers for show and Thor representing the Nanites, the two meet in battle.__NEWL__The battle begins, but Thor is unable to win because Wowbagger does not die, even when hit with the hammer Mjöllnir.__NEWL__A package for Random arrives through interstellar freight, containing the rubber bands involved in Wowbagger's becoming immortal, which Random believes may be able to hurt him.__NEWL__Using Mjöllnir, enhanced with the rubber bands, Thor sends Wowbagger into the air.__NEWL__The Vogons approach with the intent of destroying Nano.__NEWL__Thor is able to deflect the Vogon missiles, but is seemingly killed by an experimental weapon called QUEST.__NEWL__Constant Mown disables the Vogon gunner, and uses the argument that their orders are to kill Earthlings and not Nanites (legally two distinct groups, with the latter being taxpaying citizens).__NEWL__Prostetnic Jeltz agrees to his argument, and is proud of his son's ability to follow law and bureaucracy.__NEWL__Zaphod and Hillman tell the people that Thor is Nano's martyr and that all commands he will issue shall henceforth come from Hillman, only for Hillman to be sliced in two by a piece of bomb debris.__NEWL__Luckily, Hillman's death is short, as the Heart of Gold medical bay restores him to full health, with only one minor change – he now has hooves rather than feet.__NEWL__Even though he now has control over the populace, he grows displeased upon finding himself swamped with civic paperwork.__NEWL__Zaphod sets off with Left Brain to work on his re-election campaign, and Ford has decided to stay behind and sample the best Nano has to offer, so he can write material for the Guide.__NEWL__Up in space, a very much alive Thor is pleased to learn of his rise back to fame, and the success of his "martyrdom" trick.__NEWL__Arthur finds the beach from his construct.__NEWL__To his displeasure, he finds that Vogons are going to destroy it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4838001	Babouk							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19361162	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19361162	Babouk is a slave renowned by many tribes for his excellent storytelling abilities.__NEWL__He is captured by the French and taken to Saint Domingue to work on the sugar cane fields.__NEWL__Unaware of the reasons for his capture and hoping to be reunited with his lost love Niati, Babouk escapes his slave compound and wanders into the forest, only to meet some indigenous Americans.__NEWL__He is soon captured by a group of runaway slaves who had agreed to turn in other runaways on the condition that they are allowed their freedom and returned to the compound, where his ear is cut off.__NEWL__Such a traumatic experience forces him to remain absolutely silent for several years, doing his labor without complaint but also without much energy.__NEWL__He eventually can maintain his silence no longer, and he re-establishes himself as a great storyteller.__NEWL__Unhappy with the way the slave masters treat him (although they claim otherwise), Babouk becomes the figurehead for a group of slaves that intend to revolt against their masters.__NEWL__Babouk and his group are initially successful in their endeavors, but are eventually held back by the might of the French military.__NEWL__Babouk's arm is severed after he tries to stop a cannon from firing by sticking his hand into it; he is then beheaded and his head is put on a pike as a warning to other slaves who might try to draw inspiration from Babouk.__NEWL__The novel ends with an impassioned statement from Endore that warns of the inevitability of a race war as the result of the white man's transgressions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7488450	Shanghai Girls	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19300183	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19300183	Shanghai Girls is divided into three parts: Fate, Fortune, and Destiny.__NEWL__Here See treats Chinese immigration from a personal view through Pearl's narration.__NEWL__In On Gold Mountain she objectively placed 100 years of her Chinese family history in the context of the daunting challenges Chinese immigrants faced in coming to America in search of Gold Mountain.__NEWL__America's mistreatment of Chinese immigrants is stressed in both memoir and novel.__NEWL__The sisters' story is interrelated with critical historical events, famous people, and important places—the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Shanghai, internment at Angel Island, Los Angeles Chinatown, Hollywood, World War II, the Chinese Exclusion Act, McCarthyism, etc.__NEWL__Historically significant people appearing in the novel include Madame Chiang Kai-shek, actress Anna May Wong, film personality Tom Gubbins, and Christine Sterling, the "Mother of Olvera Street."__NEWL__Snow Flower and the Secret Fan explores the complex relationship between two intimate friends.__NEWL__In Shanghai Girls See treats the loving yet conflicted relationship between two best friends who also happen to be sisters, especially in the context of their relationship to Pearl's daughter Joy.__NEWL__In speaking of Shanghai Girls, See has commented: "Your sister is the one person who should stick by you and love you no matter what, but she’s also the one person who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most."__NEWL__That being said, in Shanghai Girls it is the love of Pearl and May for each other that survives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5158166	Conan the Guardian	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19304293	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19304293	Conan and other former mercenaries take employment as bodyguards for Lady Livia, head of one of the ruling merchant houses of Argos.__NEWL__Livia is threatened by a rival seeking to gain personal control of all Argos, who is secretly backed by a sorcerer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16967751	Princess of Gossip	2008-10-08T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19304517	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19304517	Princess of Gossip tells the story of Avery Johnson, a fourteen-year-old high school freshman who just moved from Ohio to Southern California.__NEWL__While on MySpace, she is mistaken as a rising pop star's assistant.__NEWL__She scores an invite to a Hollywood Party and snaps a photo of a young starlet and her secret new beau.__NEWL__Finding this information too juicy to keep to herself, she starts a blog, the Princess of Gossip, and posts the story.__NEWL__Overnight, she becomes the newest go-to girl for gossip.__NEWL__Designers are sending her priceless dresses, and she's getting the inside scoop on all things celebrity.__NEWL__When Avery shows up at school in her exclusive fashion swag, even Cecilia, the most popular girl in their class, takes notice.__NEWL__She begins to get jealous.__NEWL__Then celebutante playboy Beckett Howard sees Avery wearing one of his father's designs and asks her out.__NEWL__The Princess of Gossip's true identity is still a secret, but when the paparazzi catch Avery and Beckett on a date, Cecilia gets even more jealous.__NEWL__There's only room for only one it girl at school.__NEWL__Can the Princess of Gossip hold onto her crown?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5564694	Girls in Love	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19390852	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19390852	The novel is narrated by Eleanor Allard, a.k.a.__NEWL__Ellie.__NEWL__The book opens with Ellie's Family holiday to Wales where she meets a nerdy boy named Dan.__NEWL__Dan falls for Ellie and asks her out but his feelings are not reciprocated and Ellie turns him down.__NEWL__Ellie arrives back at school after the summer holidays to find her best friend, Nadine, has a new boyfriend named Liam, her other friend, Magda, soon asks a boy named Greg out as well.__NEWL__Feeling left out, Ellie makes up a character as her boyfriend, who is a boy that she sees nearly everyday on her way to school.__NEWL__She names him Dan (like the nerdy boy she met in Wales) and describes him as a 15 year old handsome boy.__NEWL__Magda and Ellie soon start to think that Liam is using Nadine for sex as Nadine comes to school depressed sometimes.__NEWL__With her big mouth, Magda accidentally mentions it to Nadine which upsets her.__NEWL__But eventually she forgives them both.__NEWL__One night on Magda's birthday the three girls sneak out to a night club called "Seventh Heaven" and it is revealed that Liam was only using Nadine for sex when they meet some other girls that had been Liam's victims.__NEWL__Liam had planned to break up with her after she 'put out' or, had sex with him.__NEWL__At a friend's party Dan turns up unannounced, and Ellie is mortified.__NEWL__Soon the truth about Dan is revealed to Ellie's friends; however, when gatecrashers arrive at the party and cause trouble, Dan intervenes and saves the day.__NEWL__To Ellie's surprise, this impresses Magda and Nadine and causes Ellie to rethink her first impressions of Dan.__NEWL__The book ends with Ellie and Dan's first kiss in the room.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5581631	Gone to the Dogs	2003-12-23T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19486073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19486073	Piggy is the reincarnation of a blonde girl named Lydia Keane.__NEWL__She suffers from a diet started by her new owner, Nell Jordan.__NEWL__Piggy searches for morsels of food to eat.__NEWL__When Piggy inherits a fortune from an old man, that she visited as a therapy dog, she must protect her owner from P.I. Dan Travis, the grandson of Piggy's benefactor.__NEWL__At a request from his mother, he investigates Piggy and her owner, with whom he falls in love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3407200	The Planet Savers	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19225951	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19225951	Desperate to discover a cure for the cyclical 48-year-fever, known as Trailmen’s fever, Dr. Randall Forth persuades a colleague, Dr. Jay Allison, to undergo hypnosis.__NEWL__He calls forth a secondary personality, Jason Allison, who is gregarious and an experienced mountain climber, while Dr. Jay Allison is a cold, clinical man with no outdoor skills.__NEWL__Jason is asked to lead an expedition into the Hellers to collect medical volunteers from among the Trailmen.__NEWL__Accompanying him are Rafe Scott, Regis Hastur, Kyla Raineach, a Renunciate guide, and several others.__NEWL__During the trip, Jay/Jason yo-yos between his two personalities – one warm and charming, the other distant and clinical.__NEWL__Jason, the warm personality, falls in love with Kyla.__NEWL__They are attacked on the trail by a party of hostile Trailwomen.__NEWL__As a result of the attack, the Jay personality reappears, and is considerably more formal than the Jason personality.__NEWL__When they reach the Trailmen nest where Jay/Jason lived as a child, he is recognized.__NEWL__The party is invited into the Trailmen’s tree habitat.__NEWL__The Old Ones of the Sky People (Trailmen) inquire why Jay/Jason has brought an armed party of humans to their nest.__NEWL__Jay/Jason explains his mission, to find a remedy for 48-year-fever.__NEWL__He introduces Regis Hastur to the Old Ones, and Regis also pleads for the Sky People's assistance.__NEWL__One hundred Trailmen volunteer.__NEWL__The party, with volunteers, returns to the Terran Trade City.__NEWL__Some months later, a serum is developed for the treatment of 48-year-fever.__NEWL__Regis Hastur arrives to congratulate Jay/Jason Allison.__NEWL__The exposure to Regis reminds Jay/Jason of the expedition, and causes Jay/Jason to merge into a third, more stable personality.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2637002	In the Days of the Comet	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z	3797					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19257723	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19257723	An unnamed narrator is the author of a prologue ("The Man Who Wrote in the Tower") and an epilogue ("The Window of the Tower").__NEWL__In these short texts is depicted an encounter with a "happy, active-looking" old man: the protagonist and author of the first-person narrative, writing the story of his life immediately before and after "the Change".__NEWL__This narrative is divided into three "books": Book I: The Comet; Book II: The Green Vapours; and Book III: The New World.__NEWL__Book I, recounts that William ("Willie") Leadford, "third in the office staff of Rawdon's pot-bank [a place where pottery is made] in Clayton," quits his job just as an economic recession caused by American dumping hits industrial Britain, and is unable to find another position.__NEWL__He returns to being a student and his emotional life is dominated by his attachment to Nettie Stuart, "the daughter of the head gardener of the rich Mr. Verrall's widow", of a village called Checkshill Towers.__NEWL__Converted to socialism by his friend 'Parload', Leadford blames class-based injustice for the squalid living conditions in which he and his mother live.__NEWL__The date of the action is unspecified.__NEWL__When Nettie jilts Leadford for the son and heir of the Verrall family, Leadford buys a revolver, intending to kill them both and himself.__NEWL__As this plot matures, a comet with an "unprecedented band in the green" in its spectroscopy looms gradually larger in the sky, eventually becoming brighter than the Moon.__NEWL__Just as Leadford is about to kill his rivals, the green comet enters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates, causing a soporific green fog.__NEWL__Book II opens with Leadford's awakening, in which he is acutely aware of the beauty in the world and his attitude toward others is one of generous fellow-feeling.__NEWL__The same effects occur in every human being, who accordingly re-organize human society.__NEWL__By chance, Leadford falls in with a Cabinet minister and briefly becomes his secretary.__NEWL__Book III begins with an intense discussion by Verrall, Leadford, and Nettie, about their future.__NEWL__Although Nettie wants to establish a ménage à trois, Leadford and Verrall reject the idea, and Leadford devotes himself to his mother until her death.__NEWL__Leadford marries Anna, who has been helping care for his mother, and they have a son; but soon thereafter Nettie contacts Leadford.__NEWL__In the epilogue, the 72-year-old Leadford reveals that he, Nettie, Verrall, and Anna were from then on "very close, you understand, we were friends, helpers, personal lovers in a world of lovers".__NEWL__The author is troubled "by my uneasy sense of profound moral differences."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736416	The Gift of Rain	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19259028	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19259028	The novel is set in Penang.__NEWL__It concerns Philip Hutton, of mixed Chinese-English heritage, and his relationship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat who teaches him aikido.__NEWL__As war looms and the Japanese invade, both Endo and Philip find themselves torn between their loyalty to each other, versus loyalty to their country and family, respectively.__NEWL__Philip decides to assist the Japanese and Endo in administering the country in an attempt to keep his family safe, but wherever possible, he passes intelligence to the guerrilla fighters of Force 136, which include his best friend Kon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7108583	Other Bells for Us to Ring	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19465764	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19465764	Eleven-year-old Darcy Webster never had a best friend until her father joined the army, bringing his family to Frenchtown in Monument, near Fort Delta, Massachusetts.__NEWL__There, she became friends with Kathleen Mary O'Hara.__NEWL__Darcy had always been a Unitarian.__NEWL__That is until Kathleen Mary sprinkled her with holy water declaring, "Now you're a Catholic, Darcy Webster.__NEWL__Forever and ever, world without end, Amen."__NEWL__Darcy never had a chance to ask Kathleen Mary if she was joking because Kathleen Mary's father went on a rampage, sending him to jail and splitting up the O'Hara family.__NEWL__Darcy struggled with her religion, whether a little bit of holy water and a declaration by an eleven-year-old could turn her Catholic, and what to do, how to pray, and whether God really exists or not.__NEWL__Things became more complicated when a letter came home to Darcy and her mother stating that Mr. Webster was missing in action.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5257024	Denial	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z	19466921	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19466921	This novel has two mysteries.__NEWL__Lew, a process server and an occasional amateur detective, is summoned by an elderly resident in Seaside Assisted Living asking him to prove that a murder has occurred in the facility because no one will believe her.__NEWL__A mother, named Nancy Root, pays him to find the hit-and-run driver who killed her son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7315596	Resistance	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19348300	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19348300	Upon her husband's disappearance, Sarah is forced to take care of the farm.__NEWL__Meanwhile, she develops a relationship with German commanding officer Albrecht Wolfram as he and the other invaders seek to locate an item for Himmler's collection.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733681	The Fern Tattoo	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	19464493	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19464493	Benedict's mother has recently died; after the funeral, he receives a phone call from Mrs. Darling, a friend of his mother's.__NEWL__Benedict visits the old woman in the countryside, where she tells him various tales that involve three generations of families.__NEWL__He spends the next several years visiting Mrs. Darling, rearranging his personal plans, so he can visit her more often.__NEWL__One day, he receives a phone call that Mrs. Darling is dying.__NEWL__He finally learns that the stories she has been telling him have been about his own family.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7721647	The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers	2007-01-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19458146	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19458146	The Old Hulk, being developed for a senior center, mysteriously burns to the ground.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a young woman dies from a bee sting—or could it have been murder?__NEWL__Qwill's lady friend, Polly Duncan, goes to Paris and decides to stay there.__NEWL__Later, Qwill's apple barn residence is burned by fire.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7766750	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1537	Wisconsin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19458447	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19458447	Forte's Children Edgar comes from a line of dog breeders.__NEWL__After buying a farm, his grandfather, John Sawtelle, rents out the farmland and starts dog breeding.__NEWL__He and his wife have two sons, Edgar's father (Gar) and Claude.__NEWL__Claude leaves the farm and Gar stays on and carries on the family business.__NEWL__After some troubled attempts to have a child, Gar and his wife (Trudy) have Edgar.__NEWL__After his parents come to understand that he is mute, his parents learn sign language along with him, some made up and some real signs.__NEWL__Edgar grows up on the farm learning to breed dogs with his parents and Almondine, his own dog, who is always by his side and in a way speaks for him.__NEWL__Once he is old enough, his parents give him his own litter to raise.__NEWL__Eventually, Claude returns to the farm.__NEWL__After a brief stint of helping out around the house and barn, he leaves following a drunken brawl with Gar.__NEWL__A few weeks later, Edgar finds his father in the barn, dying mysteriously.__NEWL__After unsuccessfully trying to call for help, Edgar watches his father die.__NEWL__Three Griefs After burying Gar, Edgar and Trudy decide to keep the family business running, despite the new workload.__NEWL__However, shortly after beginning to adjust to Gar's death, Trudy catches pneumonia and Edgar attempts to carry on the work without her.__NEWL__With his mother sick, Edgar begins to fall out of the routine.__NEWL__He falls asleep in the barn one evening and wakes to realize it is now night.__NEWL__The dogs had gone so long without their meal that Edgar decides to let all of the dogs loose in the kennel and pours a large pile of kibble in the center for them.__NEWL__Before long, two dogs end up in a vicious fight.__NEWL__With both dogs injured and their vet out of town, they must call on Claude for assistance.__NEWL__After he helps treat the dogs and Trudy recovers, they begin to sleep together.__NEWL__One night not long after, Edgar wakes to the dogs barking and goes to investigate.__NEWL__Searching around in a storm for what was causing the dogs to bark, he sees the outline of his father's ghost in the rain.__NEWL__Through signs, Edgar is led to the syringe that most likely killed his father – one that he has seen Claude use before.__NEWL__What Hands Do After Edgar confirms that his mother and Claude are indeed romantically involved, he struggles to live under the same roof with his uncle.__NEWL__He comes to seek confirmation for his suspicions about his father's murder.__NEWL__When a potential buyer comes over to take a look at their dogs, Edgar seizes on the opportunity to test Claude.__NEWL__He stages a scene with the dogs, in which they mimic Claude using a syringe to poison people.__NEWL__One dog touches another with a syringe in its mouth and the touched dog falls over and plays dead.__NEWL__The final dog touches Claude's leg, and when Claude flinches and storms off in anger, Edgar feels he has confirmed his suspicions.__NEWL__Angry at the strange show Edgar put on in front of a buyer, Trudy confronts Edgar and they get in a struggle.__NEWL__In the midst of their argument, Edgar, enraged, seeing a figure he thinks to be Claude, swings a hay hook and sends him tumbling down the stairs, killing him.__NEWL__Trudy discovers that the figure was actually Dr. Papineau, their vet.__NEWL__Scared at what might happen to Edgar because of the death, she tells him to disappear for a while.__NEWL__Three dogs from his litter follow him into the woods.__NEWL__Chequamegon Edgar drifts in the woods and, without a fishing tackle, is forced to rob the cabins he comes across for food.__NEWL__Eventually, he decides to head up to Canada, where there is a commune he hopes to join.__NEWL__Along the way however, one of his dogs is injured, and he is forced to seek help.__NEWL__He goes to a house he has just robbed and the owner, Henry Lamb, helps him with the injured dog.__NEWL__He talks to Henry through writing, and agrees to stay there until his dog has healed.__NEWL__Once the dog is healed, Henry offers to give Edgar a ride up north to his destination.__NEWL__En route they are hit by a tornado.__NEWL__In the aftermath, Edgar decides to return home.__NEWL__He leaves two of his dogs with Henry.__NEWL__Poison Edgar visits his father's grave and learns that Almondine has died.__NEWL__He returns home and leaves a note in his house for his mother.__NEWL__Claude finds it before Trudy and tells Glen, a police officer and son of Dr. Papineau, who is suspicious that Edgar caused his father's death.__NEWL__Spooked by Edgar's appearance, Claude moves a bottle of poison in the barn and Edgar catches him.__NEWL__Later, Edgar sees his mother and convinces her to give him a night alone in the barn, so he can search for the poison Claude moved.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Claude and Glen plot to trap Edgar, so Glen can “question” him.__NEWL__Glen surprises Edgar in the barn and tries to kidnap him using a rag soaked in ether.__NEWL__Edgar manages to grab some quicklime and douses Glen in it.__NEWL__It gets in Glen's eyes and he stumbles out of the barn, blinded.__NEWL__The ether hits a lamp and the barn lights on fire.__NEWL__Edgar, worried for the dog's files, his father's life's work, starts moving them out of the barn while it burns up.__NEWL__Trudy tries to stop him, but she is held captive by the now blinded Glen Papineau.__NEWL__Claude has hidden the poison with the papers, though.__NEWL__He pretends to help Edgar take the files out of the barn, grabs the bottle of poison, and when he is not looking, stabs Edgar with a syringe in the burning barn.__NEWL__As Claude waits for the poison to work on Edgar, Claude tries to get out of the burning barn but sees his brother's figure in the smoke.__NEWL__All of a sudden, the barn fills with smoke, as if Gar is not letting Claude escape.__NEWL__Claude ends up not being able to get out, and he and Edgar die in the barn.__NEWL__The Sawtelle dogs, who have escaped the fire, leave into the wild.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7798016	Three to See the King	2001-06-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19259297	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19259297	The nameless narrator lives in an isolated tin house situated on a windswept sandy plain, miles from his nearest neighbours whom he meets infrequently.__NEWL__He is quite happy in his lonely self-sufficiency until unexpectedly a woman, Mary Petrie, comes to live with him.__NEWL__Unsettled at first, the narrator gradually gets used to the companionship.__NEWL__Then news comes of a new community being established on the edge of the plain by a charismatic, yet enigmatic figure who is digging a canyon and gaining more and more followers to his revolutionary cause.__NEWL__One by one, his neighbours join the canyon project, moving their tin houses to the new community as the narrator feels under increasing pressure to join them.__NEWL__It transpires that the end-goal for the project is not for there to be a city of tin houses, but a city of clay houses.__NEWL__Many of the previously convinced citizens of the plain and beyond are frustrated by this news, and decide to return to their previous existences.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3282086	The Carpenter's Pencil	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	19229416	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19229416	Dr Daniel Da Barca is a left-wing political activist who believes that women should have the right to vote in Galicia.__NEWL__He attends many rallies and gives speeches, always accompanied by his devoted girlfriend Marisa Mallo.__NEWL__Unbeknown to Da Barca, he has been watched by Herbal, an agent for the Civil Guard.__NEWL__When the Falanxists take control of the country, Da Barca is arrested for his left wing ideals in Santiago de Compostela.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Marisa's father Don Benito is trying to marry her off to Alejandro, a lieutenant in the Falanxist army.__NEWL__Marisa confides in her cousin, Laura that she cannot forget about Da Barca and is determined to get the condemned doctor out of prison.__NEWL__Beforehand Marisa had visited Daniel in the prison and he ordered her to forget about him and move on with her life.__NEWL__The prison is run by the cruel and sadistic Zalo Puga, a high ranking Falanxist.__NEWL__Zalo is married to Herbal's sister, Beatriz.__NEWL__Zalo holds an intense and burning hatred for all left wingers, and especially Da Barca.__NEWL__When the prisoner, Gonzalo Rincon is tortured and murdered by Zalo and two other Falanxists he drops his pencil, which is picked up by Herbal.__NEWL__The Civil Guard keeps the pencil for his own.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Da Barca has been allowed to help out in the prison ward, due to his medical practices.__NEWL__He works alongside a nun Mother Izarne, with whom Da Barca develops a genuine friendship and Dr Solans.__NEWL__Solans has been stealing morphine from the ward to feed his own addiction to the drug.__NEWL__It soon becomes clear to Da Barca, that most of the prisoners could be cured of their illness by a healthy diet such as fruit.__NEWL__When he tries to acquire this, he is beaten by Herbal and the other guards.__NEWL__Marisa is desperate to secure Da Barca's release, and pleads with her father to write to his influential friends to negotiate the doctor's release.__NEWL__Don Benito refuses, and Marisa attempts suicide.__NEWL__She fails in her attempt and it is this act, that finally convinces Don Benito to write letters.__NEWL__He hands them to Marisa, and tells her to deliver them to his friends like the Archbishop of Santiago and The Mayor of Vigo.__NEWL__Marisa delivers them happily, unbeknown that her father has actually betrayed her.__NEWL__In the letter, Benito has written that Da Barca must be executed for the good of the Falanxist cause.__NEWL__The movie continues with Da Barca trying to survive the harsh and brutal conditions in the prison, whilst at the same time trying to help his fellow inmates through illness and despair.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7728191	The Crossing of Ingo	2008-05-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	19358363	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19358363	Sapphire and Conor have been called to make the dangerous Crossing of Ingo, a journey to the bottom of the world, and it has been prophesied that if they complete it then Ingo and Air will start to heal.__NEWL__They have their Mer friends, Faro and Elvira, to help them, but their old enemy, Ervys, is determined to make sure they don't succeed.__NEWL__They have many adventures going around the world and Sapphire finds new abilities.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7898026	Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	19350902	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19350902	Lucy lives in the land of Bewilderness, in a village called Thistle.__NEWL__She helps her family with the dairy farm and likes exploring the countryside with her best friend Wynston.__NEWL__Lucy makes up songs that fit with the situation which gives her courage and raises her spirits.__NEWL__She learned how to make up songs from her mother.__NEWL__Her mother vanished when she was two years old.__NEWL__Lucy and her sister never say anything about their mother, because their father gets sad.__NEWL__When Wynston turns twelve, his father thinks that he should practice being a prince which includes finding a princess.__NEWL__Wynston doesn't understand why he has to follow his father's rules; same with Lucy.__NEWL__When Wynston doesn't come to one of their berry-picking parties, she is sad and decides to go on an adventure.__NEWL__She is going to climb the Scratchy Mountains so that she can find her mother.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q845889	Murder on the Orient Express	1934-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	162770	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162770	After taking the Taurus Express from Aleppo to Istanbul, private detective Hercule Poirot arrives at the Tokatlian Hotel, where he receives a telegram prompting him to return to London.__NEWL__He instructs the concierge to book him a first-class compartment on the Simplon-route Orient Express service leaving that night.__NEWL__Although the train is fully booked, Poirot obtains a second-class berth through the intervention of friend, fellow Belgian, and fellow passenger Monsieur Bouc, director of the train operator Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL).__NEWL__Other passengers include American widow Caroline Hubbard; English governess Mary Debenham; Swedish missionary Greta Ohlsson; American businessman Samuel Ratchett, with his secretary/translator Hector MacQueen, and his English valet Edward Henry Masterman; Italian-American car salesman Antonio Foscarelli; Russian Princess Natalia Dragomiroff and her German maid Hildegarde Schmidt; Hungarian Count Rudolph Andrenyi and his wife Elena; English Colonel John Arbuthnot; American salesman Cyrus B. Hardman; and Greek medical doctor Stavros Constantine.__NEWL__Ratchett has been receiving death threats; recognizing Poirot, he tries to hire him for protection.__NEWL__Poirot, repulsed by Ratchett, refuses, telling him, "I will not take your case because I do not like your face.__NEWL__" Bouc has taken the last first-class cabin, but on the first morning he arranges to move to a separate coach and gives Poirot his space.__NEWL__That night, Poirot observes some strange occurrences.__NEWL__Early in the morning, he is awakened by a cry from Ratchett's compartment next door.__NEWL__Pierre Michel, the train's conductor, knocks on Ratchett's door, but a voice from inside responds, "Ce n'est rien.__NEWL__Je me suis trompé."__NEWL__("It is nothing.__NEWL__I was mistaken.")__NEWL__Hubbard rings her bell and tells Michel a man passed through her room.__NEWL__When Poirot rings his bell for water, Michel informs him that the train is stuck in a snowdrift between Vinkovci and Brod before he hears a loud thump next door.__NEWL__He observes a woman in a red kimono going towards the washroom, then goes to sleep.__NEWL__The next morning, with the train still stalled, Bouc informs Poirot that Ratchett has been murdered and the murderer is still aboard, having no way to escape in the snow.__NEWL__As there are no police onboard, Poirot takes up the case.__NEWL__With help from Constantine, Poirot examines Ratchett's body and compartment, discovering the following: the body has twelve stab wounds, the window had been left open, a handkerchief with the initial "H", a pipe cleaner, a flat match different from the ones Ratchett used, and a charred piece of paper with "member little Daisy Armstrong" written on it.__NEWL__The piece of paper helps Poirot work out the murderer's motive.__NEWL__Many years earlier, American gangster Cassetti kidnapped three-year-old Daisy Armstrong.__NEWL__Cassetti collected a significant ransom from the wealthy Armstrong family, then revealed that he had already killed the child.__NEWL__Sonia Armstrong, Daisy's mother, who was pregnant with her second child, went into premature labor upon hearing the news and died, along with the baby.__NEWL__Her grieving husband, Colonel Armstrong, shot himself, and Daisy's French nursemaid, Susanne, was accused of aiding Cassetti and committed suicide, only to be found innocent afterwards.__NEWL__Cassetti escaped justice through corruption and legal technicalities, and fled the country.__NEWL__Poirot concludes that "Ratchett" was actually Cassetti.__NEWL__Whoever had answered the conductor was not Ratchett, as Ratchett did not speak French.__NEWL__As Poirot begins interviewing everyone on the train, he discovers MacQueen is directly involved as he knows about the Armstrong note and believed it was destroyed and that Hubbard believes the murderer was in her cabin.__NEWL__While the passengers and Pierre all provide suitable alibis for each other, Poirot notes that some of them observed the woman in the red kimono walking down the hallway on the night of the murder.__NEWL__However, no one admits to owning a red kimono.__NEWL__Hubbard had Ohlsson lock the communicating door between her compartment and that of Cassetti, which invalidates her story of the man in her compartment, and Schmidt bumped into a stranger wearing a Wagons-Lits uniform.__NEWL__Miss Debenham inadvertently reveals she has been to America, contrary to her earlier statements, and Ohlsson shows much emotion when the subject of Daisy is brought up, causing further suspicion.__NEWL__Arbuthnot remarks that Cassetti should have been found guilty in a second trial instead of murdered, and Hardman admits he is actually a MacNeil Agency private detective who was asked to watch out for an assassin that was stalking Cassetti.__NEWL__While inspecting the passengers' luggage, Poirot is surprised to find the label on Countess Andrenyi's luggage is wet and that her passport is smudged, Schmidt's bag contains the uniform in question, and Poirot's own luggage contains the red kimono, recently hidden there.__NEWL__Hubbard herself finds the murder weapon hidden in her sponge bag.__NEWL__Poirot meets with Constantine and Bouc to review the case and develop a list of questions.__NEWL__With these and the evidence in mind, Poirot thinks about the case, going into a trance-like state.__NEWL__When he surfaces from it, he deduces the solution.__NEWL__He calls in the suspects and reveals their true identities and that they were all connected to the Armstrong tragedy in some way, gathering them in the dining car for the second solution.__NEWL__Countess Andrenyi (nee Goldenberg) is Helena, Daisy's aunt, who was a child herself at the time of the tragedy.__NEWL__Rudolph, her loving husband, smudged her luggage label and obscured her name to conceal her identity.__NEWL__Debenham was Helena and Daisy's governess; Foscarelli was the Armstrongs' chauffeur and a suspect in the kidnapping; Masterman was Col. Armstrong's valet; Michel is Susanne's father and the person who procured the false second uniform; Hubbard is actually actress Linda Arden (Daisy's grandmother and Sonia and Helena's mother); Schmidt was the Armstrongs' cook; and Ohlsson was Daisy's nurse.__NEWL__Princess Dragomiroff, in reality Sonia's godmother, claims the monogrammed handkerchief, saying that her forename is Natalia and the "H" is actually a Cyrillic letter "N".__NEWL__Arbuthnot is there on Debenham's behalf and his own, as he was a personal friend of Colonel Armstrong.__NEWL__Hardman is an ex-policeman who admits he was in love with Susanne, and MacQueen, who had feelings for Sonia, was the son of the lawyer who represented the Armstrongs.__NEWL__The only passengers not involved in the murder are Bouc and Constantine, both having slept in the other coach, which was locked.__NEWL__Poirot propounds two possible solutions, one far simpler than the other, and advising them to consider both seriously.__NEWL__The first is that a stranger boarded the train when it stopped at Vinkovci, killed Cassetti as a result of a Mafia feud, and disembarked at great risk through the snow.__NEWL__The second is that all the clues except the handkerchief and pipe cleaner were planted and that Michel and all the passengers in the coach, except Helena, stabbed Cassetti, acting as their own jury.__NEWL__Arden acknowledges everything and offers to take responsibility as she was the mastermind.__NEWL__Bouc and Constantine, however, decide the first solution should be relayed to the police.__NEWL__Poirot retires from the case.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q47209	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27924622	Hogwarts Castle	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	163234	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163234	While spending the summer at the Dursleys, twelve-year-old Harry Potter is visited by a house-elf named Dobby.__NEWL__He warns that Harry is in danger and must not return to Hogwarts.__NEWL__Harry refuses, so Dobby magically ruins Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon's dinner party.__NEWL__A furious Uncle Vernon locks Harry into his room in retaliation.__NEWL__The Ministry of Magic immediately sends a notice accusing Harry of performing underage magic and threatening dismissal from Hogwarts.__NEWL__ Ron Weasley and his brothers, Fred and George, arrive in their father's flying Ford Anglia and rescue Harry, taking him to the Weasley home.__NEWL__Harry and the entire Weasley family travel to Diagon Alley for school supplies.__NEWL__They run into Hermione Granger and meet Lucius Malfoy, father of Harry's nemesis Draco, and also Gilderoy Lockhart, a conceited autobiographer and adventurer who is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.__NEWL__At King's Cross station, Harry and Ron are unable to enter Platform 9¾ and miss the Hogwarts Express.__NEWL__They fly in Mr Weasley's car to Hogwarts, crashing into the Whomping Willow on school grounds and damaging Ron's hand-me-down wand.__NEWL__The car then escapes into the forest.__NEWL__Harry learns that some in the wizarding community disdain Muggle-born wizards like Hermione, believing pure-bloods are superior.__NEWL__Harry is the only one who hears a strange voice emanating from the castle walls.__NEWL__Soon after, Mr Filch's cat, Mrs Norris, is found petrified, along with a bloody warning scrawled on a wall: "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened.__NEWL__Enemies of the heir, beware".__NEWL__It is believed that Salazar Slytherin, one of the school's founders, created the Chamber after a dispute with fellow founders on admitting Muggle-born students.__NEWL__The Chamber supposedly houses a monster that only the Heir of Slytherin can control.__NEWL__During a Quidditch game, a rogue Bludger strikes Harry, breaking his arm.__NEWL__Lockhart blunders an attempt to repair it, sending Harry to the hospital overnight.__NEWL__Dobby visits Harry there, and reveals he jinxed the Bludger and sealed the portal at King's Cross.__NEWL__He says the Chamber of Secrets was once opened years before.__NEWL__After another attack, students attend a defensive duelling class, during which Harry spontaneously exhibits a rare ability to speak 'Parseltongue', the language of snakes.__NEWL__Harry, Ron, and Hermione suspect Draco is the Heir, given his hostility toward Muggle-borns.__NEWL__Hermione secretly brews Polyjuice Potion, allowing Harry and Ron to impersonate Draco's lackeys Crabbe and Goyle.__NEWL__They learn that Draco knows nothing about the heir.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Moaning Myrtle, a ghost that haunts a girls' bathroom, shows the trio a diary left in her stall.__NEWL__It belonged to Tom Riddle, a student who witnessed another student's death during the Chamber's previous opening.__NEWL__Riddle's consciousness within the diary claims to Harry that Hagrid was responsible.__NEWL__Hermione is petrified in the next attack.__NEWL__The school is put on lockdown and may close.__NEWL__Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is forced out and Hagrid is sent to Azkaban prison.__NEWL__Following instructions left by Hagrid, Harry and Ron follow spiders into the Forbidden Forest.__NEWL__They encounter a gigantic Acromantula named Aragog, which denies its involvement, and claims spiders fear the real monster.__NEWL__Aragog attempts to feed Harry and Ron to its progeny, but Mr Weasley's car rescues them.__NEWL__Harry and Ron discover that Hermione had deduced that the monster is a basilisk – a gigantic snake whose direct gaze kills and petrifies victims when seen in a reflection.__NEWL__Harry concludes the basilisk is the voice in the walls and that it travels through the plumbing.__NEWL__He also realises Moaning Myrtle was the student that was killed.__NEWL__Ron's sister Ginny is abducted and taken into the Chamber.__NEWL__Harry and Ron discover the entrance in Myrtle's bathroom, and force Lockhart to enter it with them.__NEWL__Lockhart confesses he is a magically incompetent fraud and attempts to erase the boys' memories using Ron's damaged wand.__NEWL__The spell backfires, obliterating his own memory and causes a rockfall, separating Ron and Harry.__NEWL__Harry proceeds to the Chamber and finds an unconscious Ginny.__NEWL__A manifestation of Tom Riddle reveals that he is Lord Voldemort and the Heir of Slytherin.__NEWL__He previously opened the Chamber and framed Hagrid.__NEWL__He has been using the diary to possess and control Ginny, who had been behaving strangely.__NEWL__He then unleashes the basilisk.__NEWL__Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes arrives, bringing Harry the Sorting Hat.__NEWL__Fawkes blinds the basilisk and Harry pulls the Sword of Godric Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat.__NEWL__He slays the basilisk but is poisoned by its venom.__NEWL__As Riddle taunts the dying Harry, Fawkes' tears heal Harry.__NEWL__Harry stabs Riddle's diary with a basilisk fang, destroying it and Riddle, and reviving Ginny.__NEWL__Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lockhart return to the castle.__NEWL__Harry gives the diary to Dumbledore, who is curious about it.__NEWL__Lucius Malfoy bursts in, furious that Dumbledore returned.__NEWL__He is accompanied by Dobby, who is the Malfoys' house-elf and was working to protect Harry.__NEWL__Harry realizes that Lucius slipped the diary into Ginny's cauldron when in Diagon Alley to open the Chamber.__NEWL__Harry tricks Lucius into freeing Dobby from servitude; Lucius attempts to attack Harry in revenge, but Dobby magically deflects him.__NEWL__The petrified students are cured, Gryffindor wins the House Cup again, Hagrid is released, Lockhart is confined to St. Mungo's Hospital, and Harry returns to Privet Drive in high spirits.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4426799	Creatures of Light and Darkness	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	164304	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164304	The Universe was once ruled by the god Thoth, who administered the different forces in the Universe to keep things in balance.__NEWL__In time, he delegated this administration to his "Angels" (other god-like beings), who were each in charge of different "stations", or forces in the Universe.__NEWL__Such stations included the House of the Dead, the House of Life, the House of Fire, and so on.__NEWL__At some point, Thoth had awakened a dormant, malevolent force on a distant planet.__NEWL__This dark force, called the Thing That Cries In The Night, is so powerful and malevolent that it nearly obliterated Thoth's wife and threatens to consume the galaxy.__NEWL__Thoth works to contain and destroy the creature, and in so doing, neglects his duties in maintaining the Universe.__NEWL__The Angels become rebellious and use the power vacuum to fight amongst themselves for dominance.__NEWL__Thoth's son Set, who through an anomaly in Time is also his father, fights the creature across a devastated planet.__NEWL__Just as Set is about to destroy the creature, he is attacked by the Angel Osiris, who unleashes the Hammer That Smashes Suns, a powerful weapon that nearly kills Set and the creature.__NEWL__Thoth's brother, Typhon, who was helping Set in the battle, vanishes without a trace and is presumed dead.__NEWL__(Typhon appears as a black horse-shadow, without a horse to cast it.__NEWL__He contains within himself something called Skagganauk Abyss, which resembles a black hole, not a term in common use at the time.)__NEWL__The Thing That Cries In The Night survived the blast, and so Thoth, who has meanwhile been utterly overthrown by his Angels, has no choice but to contain the dark force until he can find a way to destroy it.__NEWL__He also revives the personality of his wife and keeps her safe on a special world known only to him, where the seas are above the atmosphere, not below them.__NEWL__He also scatters Set's weapons and armor across the Universe for safe-keeping in the event that Set can ever be found.__NEWL__Having been overthrown, he is now dubbed The Prince__NEWL__Who Was A Thousand by all in the Universe.__NEWL__Some of the surviving Angels hide among the peoples of the Universe as mysterious "immortals", but others—Osiris and Anubis—take over the House of Life and the House of Death, respectively.__NEWL__Other stations are abandoned, and Osiris and Anubis are the only two powers in the Universe now.__NEWL__Osiris cultivates life where he can, while Anubis works to destroy it.__NEWL__Plenty and famine, proliferation and plague, overpopulation and annihilation, alternate in the Worlds of Life between the two Stations, much to the detriment of those who inhabit them.__NEWL__The geography of this universe contains several curious places:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q80817	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27924622	Hogwarts Castle	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	156489	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156489	During the summer, Harry Potter is left frustrated by his lack of involvement in Dumbledore's efforts to combat a newly-resurgent Lord Voldemort.__NEWL__One evening, he is attacked by Dementors, causing a group of wizards belonging to the Order of the Phoenix, to evacuate him from the Dursley residence.__NEWL__They whisk him off to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black's childhood home, which is now headquarters for the Order.__NEWL__Harry learns from Ron and Hermione, that the Order is a secret organisation created by Dumbledore, dedicated to fighting Voldemort and the Death Eaters.__NEWL__Harry wants to join, but Ron's mother, Molly disapproves.__NEWL__ Harry is the target of a Ministry-led smear campaign, under Cornelius Fudge, to malign him for stating that Voldemort has returned.__NEWL__Dolores Umbridge, a senior Ministry employee, becomes the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.__NEWL__She initiates strict rules and a textbook-only approach, forbidding practice of defensive spells by students.__NEWL__This leads Harry, Ron, and Hermione to form their own Defence group with other students called Dumbledore's Army, who secretly meet in the Room of Requirement to practise under Harry's instruction.__NEWL__One night, Harry has a vision of Arthur Weasley being attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini, which turns out to be true.__NEWL__Arthur is rescued, but Dumbledore realises that Harry's and Voldemort's minds are connected.__NEWL__He arranges for Professor Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, a skill where one closes their mind against others.__NEWL__Umbridge is tipped-off about Dumbledore's Army; to prevent Harry's expulsion for forming a secret organization, Dumbledore takes responsibility for the group, then goes into hiding to evade arrest.__NEWL__Umbridge is appointed headmistress.__NEWL__Harry's Occlumency lessons go poorly.__NEWL__During exams, he has a vision of Sirius being tortured by Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry.__NEWL__While trying to contact Sirius at Grimmauld Place, Harry is caught by Umbridge using her office's Floo Network.__NEWL__She questions Harry and threatens to use the Cruciatus Curse on him.__NEWL__Hermione intervenes, and concocts a story that leads them into the Forbidden Forest.__NEWL__Umbridge provokes the centaurs there and they take her captive.__NEWL__ Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna, fly to the Ministry to save Sirius, but he is not to be found inside the Department of Mysteries.__NEWL__Instead, the room is filled with shelves of glass spheres, one of which bears Harry's name along with Voldemort.__NEWL__Harry picks it up, and is immediately surrounded by Death Eaters.__NEWL__Lucius Malfoy reveals that Harry was tricked there by a fake vision from Voldemort, and that he wishes to hear the prophecy contained in the glass sphere.__NEWL__He asks Harry for the sphere, but Harry refuses.__NEWL__The Hogwarts group fight against the Death Eaters and evade them, aided by the arrival of the Order members.__NEWL__Neville accidentally drops and breaks the prophecy, and Sirius ends up dying at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange.__NEWL__ Harry chases after Bellatrix.__NEWL__Voldemort arrives and tries to kill Harry, but is thwarted by Dumbledore.__NEWL__Ministry of Magic employees arrive; they spot Voldemort just before he escapes with Bellatrix, and Fudge is forced to accept his return.__NEWL__In his office, Dumbledore explains to Harry that the prophecy was made by Professor Trelawney, and predicted the birth of a child with power against Voldemort.__NEWL__This had caused Voldemort to pursue Harry's parents, and is the reason he continues to target Harry.__NEWL__Overwhelmed by the prophecy and mourning the loss of Sirius, Harry grows sullen, although the wizarding community now affords him great respect.__NEWL__Motivated by his friends, Harry returns to the Dursleys.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7759881	The Red House Mystery	1922-04-06T00:00:00Z	1872					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	160106	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160106	The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, and Bill Beverley, a young man about town.__NEWL__Mark's long-lost brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, arrives from Australia and shortly thereafter is found dead, shot through the head.__NEWL__Mark Ablett has disappeared, so Tony Gillingham, a stranger who has just arrived to call on his friend Bill, decides to investigate.__NEWL__Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2714636	The Fortune of the Rougons	1871-01-01T00:00:00Z	5135					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	155591	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155591	After a stirring opening on the eve of the coup d'état, involving an idealistic young village couple joining up with the republican militia in the middle of the night, Zola then spends the next few chapters going back in time to pre-Revolutionary Provence, and proceeds to lay the foundations for the entire Rougon-Macquart cycle, committing himself to what would become the next twenty-two years of his life's work.__NEWL__The fictional town of Plassans (loosely based on the real city of Aix-en-Provence, where Zola grew up and Lorgues, in the Var, where the insurrectional events described in the novel took place in December 1851) is established as the setting for the novel and described in intimate detail, and then we are introduced to the eccentric heroine Adelaide Fouque, later known as "Tante Dide", who becomes the common ancestor for both the Rougon and Macquart families.__NEWL__Her legitimate son from her short marriage to her late husband, a labourer named Rougon who worked on Dide's land, is forced to grow up alongside two illegitimate children — a boy and a girl — from Dide's later romance with the smuggler, poacher and alcoholic Macquart, while the ageing Dide slides further and further into a state of mental illness and borderline senile dementia.__NEWL__From this premise, the next nineteen novels all get their central protagonists and to a certain extent their themes.__NEWL__The narrative continues along double lines, following both "branches" of the family.__NEWL__We see Pierre Rougon (the legitimate son) in his attempts to disinherit his Macquart half-siblings, his marriage to Felicité Puech, the voraciously ambitious daughter of a local merchant, and their continued failure to establish the fortune, fame and renown they seek, despite their greed and relatively comfortable lifestyles.__NEWL__Approaching old age, the Rougon couple finally admit defeat and settle, crushed, into their lower middle class destinies, until by a remarkable stroke of luck their eldest son Eugène reports from Paris that he has some news that they might find interesting.__NEWL__Eugène has become one of the closest allies of the future Emperor Napoleon III and informs his parents that a coup is imminent.__NEWL__Having been effectively given insider information about which side to back in the coming revolution, the Rougons then make a series of seemingly bold moves to show their loyal and steadfast support for Napoleon III, winning the admiration of the most influential people in the town, mostly royalists who are themselves afraid of showing too much commitment for fear of backing the "wrong horse" and losing their standing and fortune.__NEWL__The narrative then switches over to the Macquart side of the family, whose grim working-class struggles to survive are juxtaposed keenly with the Rougons' seemingly trivial quest for greater wealth and influence in genteel drawing-room society.__NEWL__Descended from a drunken ne'er-do-well and a madwoman, Zola effectively predestines the Macquarts to lives of toil and misery.__NEWL__Zola's theories of heredity, laid out in the original preface to this novel, were a cornerstone of his entire philosophy and a major reason for his embarking on the mammoth Rougon-Macquart project in the first place in order to illustrate them.__NEWL__Largely discredited nowadays, the theories are largely "present but unseen" in most of the novels in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, allowing those books to be enjoyed without the overshadowing effect of Zola's somewhat suspect scientific ideas.__NEWL__Due to the original story nature of La Fortune des Rougon, the theories are placed much more to the fore, and can appear somewhat heavy-handed as a result.__NEWL__A third branch of the family, the Mourets, descended from Macquart and Dide's daughter, are then introduced before the novel's focus is brought back to the "present", the night of the coup, via a quite brilliantly told love story.__NEWL__The idealistic but naïve Silvère Mouret falls madly in love with the innocent Miette Chantegreil, and after a long courtship they decide to join up with the republicans to fight the coup.__NEWL__The rest of the novel then picks up from where the opening chapter left off, and from then on is basically a dual narrative telling the story of the old Rougon couple and their increasingly Machiavellian machinations to get themselves into a position of fortune and respect in Plassans, juxtaposed with Silvère and Miette's continuing love story and the doomed republican militia's disastrous attempt to take the town back.__NEWL__Eventually, the Rougons exploit their half-brother Antoine Macquart into inadvertently helping crush the republican threat, and they achieve their life's ambition, fortune and favour.__NEWL__For Silvère and Miette, who committed themselves so completely to a doomed cause, there can be no such happy ending and Zola wisely leaves their half of the story at a bleak dead end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1754235	Son Excellence Eugène Rougon	1876-01-01T00:00:00Z	17557					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	155592	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155592	The novel opens in 1856 with Rougon's career at a low ebb.__NEWL__In conflict with the Emperor over an inheritance claim involving a relative of the Empress, Rougon resigns from his position as premier of the Corps législatif before he can be dismissed.__NEWL__This puts the plans and dreams of Rougon's friends in limbo, as they are counting on his political influence to win various personal favors.__NEWL__His greatest ally and his greatest adversary is Clorinde Balbi, an Italian woman of dubious background and devious intent.__NEWL__Clorinde desires power as much as Rougon does but, because she is a woman, she is forced to act behind the scenes.__NEWL__Rougon refuses to marry her because he believes two such dominant personalities would inevitably destroy each other.__NEWL__Instead, he encourages her to marry M. Delestang, a man of great wealth who can easily be wheedled, while he himself takes a respectable nonentity of a wife who will not hinder his ambition.__NEWL__Rougon learns of an assassination plot against the Emperor, but decides to do nothing about it.__NEWL__In consequence, after the attempt is made (the Orsini incident of 1858), the Emperor makes him Minister of the Interior with power to maintain peace and national security at any cost.__NEWL__Rougon uses this as an opportunity to punish his political adversaries, deport anti-imperialists by the hundreds, and reward his loyal friends with honors, commissions, and political appointments.__NEWL__Through his influence, Delestang is made Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.__NEWL__As Rougon's power expands, however, his cronies begin to desert him despite his fulfilling their personal requests.__NEWL__They feel that he has not done enough for them and what he has done either has not been good enough or has had consequences so disastrous as to be no help at all.__NEWL__Moreover, they consider him ungrateful, given all the work they claim to have done to have him reinstated as Minister.__NEWL__Eventually, Rougon is involved in several great scandals based on the favors he has shown to his inner circle.__NEWL__At the center of all this conflict is Clorinde.__NEWL__As Rougon's power has grown, so has hers, until she has influence at the highest level and on an international scale, including as the Emperor's mistress.__NEWL__Now having the upper hand, she is able to punish Rougon for his refusal to marry her.__NEWL__To silence political and personal opposition, Rougon decides to submit his resignation to the Emperor, confident that it will not be accepted.__NEWL__However, it is accepted, and Delestang is made Minister of the Interior, the implication being that both actions are founded on Clorinde’s authority over the Emperor.__NEWL__The novel ends in 1862.__NEWL__The Emperor has returned Rougon to service as Minister without Portfolio, giving him unprecedented powers in the wake of Italian unification.__NEWL__Ostensibly, the appointment is meant to reconfigure the country on less imperialistic, more liberal lines, but in reality Rougon has a free hand to crush resistance, curtail opposition, and control the press.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q962265	La Curée	1871-10-01T00:00:00Z	17553	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	155594	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155594	The book opens with scenes of astonishing opulence, beginning with Renée and Maxime lazing in a luxurious horse-drawn carriage, very slowly leaving a Parisian park (the Bois de Boulogne) in the 19th century-equivalent of a traffic jam.__NEWL__It is made clear very early on that these are staggeringly wealthy characters not subject to the cares faced by the public; they arrive at their mansion and spend hours being dressed by their servants prior to hosting a banquet attended by some of the richest people in Paris.__NEWL__There seems to be almost no continuity between this scene and the end of the previous novel, until the second chapter begins and Zola reveals that this opulent scene takes place almost fourteen years later.__NEWL__Zola then rewinds time to pick up the story practically minutes after La Fortune des Rougon ended.__NEWL__Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in Paris in La Fortune, his younger brother Aristide, featured in the first novel as a talentless journalist, a comic character unable to commit himself unequivocally to the imperial cause and thus left out in the cold when the rewards were being handed out, decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright.__NEWL__Eugene promises to help Aristide achieve these things on the condition that he stay out of his way and change his surname to avoid the possibility of bad publicity from Aristide's escapades rubbing off on Eugene and damaging his political chances.__NEWL__Aristide chooses the surname Saccard and Eugene gets him a seemingly mundane job at the city planning permission office.__NEWL__The renamed Saccard soon realises that, far from the disappointment he thought the job would be, he is actually in a position to gain insider information on the houses and other buildings that are to be demolished to build Paris's bold new system of boulevards.__NEWL__Knowing that the owners of these properties ordered to be demolished by the city government were compensated handsomely, Saccard contrives to borrow money in order to buy up these properties before their status becomes public and then make massive profits.__NEWL__Saccard is at first unable to get the money to make his initial investments but then his wife falls victim to a terminal illness.__NEWL__Even while she lies dying in the next room, Saccard (in a brilliant scene of breathtaking callousness) is already making arrangements to marry rich girl Renée, who is pregnant and whose family wishes to avoid scandal by offering a huge dowry to any man who will marry her and claim the baby as his own.__NEWL__Saccard accepts and his career in speculation is born.__NEWL__He sends his youngest daughter back home to Plassans and packs his older son Maxime off to a Parisian boarding school; we meet Maxime again when he leaves school several years later and meets his new stepmother Renée, who is at least seven years older.__NEWL__The flashback complete, the rest of the novel takes place after Saccard has made his fortune, against the backdrop of his luxurious mansion and his profligacy and is concerned with a three-cornered plot of sexual and political intrigue.__NEWL__Renée and Maxime begin a semi-incestuous love affair, which Saccard suspects but appears to tolerate, perhaps due to the commercial nature of his marriage to Renée.__NEWL__Saccard is trying to get Renée to part with the deeds to her family home, which would be worth millions but which she refuses to give up.__NEWL__The novel continues in this vein with the tensions continuing to mount and culminates in a series of bitter observations by Zola on the hypocrisy and immorality of the nouveau riche.__NEWL__A near-penniless journalist at the time of writing La Curée, Zola himself had no experience of the scenes he describes.__NEWL__In order to counter this lack, he toured a large number of stately homes around France, taking copious notes on subjects like architecture, ladies' and men's fashions, jewellery, garden design, greenhouse plants (a seduction scene takes place in Saccard's hothouse), carriages, mannerisms, servants' liveries; these notes (volumes of which are preserved) were time well spent, as many contemporary observers praised the novel for its realism.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q607232	L'Argent		17516	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	155597	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155597	The novel takes place in 1864–1869, beginning a few months after the death of Saccard's second wife Renée (see La curée).__NEWL__Saccard is bankrupt and an outcast among the Bourse financiers.__NEWL__Searching for a way to reestablish himself, Saccard is struck by plans developed by his upstairs neighbor, the engineer Georges Hamelin, who dreams of restoring Christianity to the Middle East through great public works: rail lines linking important cities, improved roads and transportation, renovated eastern Mediterranean ports, and fleets of modern ships to move goods around the world.__NEWL__Saccard decides to institute a financial establishment to fund these projects.__NEWL__He is motivated primarily by the potential to make incredible amounts of money and reestablish himself on the Bourse.__NEWL__In addition, Saccard has an intense rivalry with his brother Eugène Rougon, a powerful Cabinet minister who refuses to help him after his bankruptcy and who is promoting a more liberal, less Catholic agenda for the Empire.__NEWL__Furthermore, Saccard, an intense anti-Semite, sees the enterprise as a strike against the Jewish bankers who dominate the Bourse.__NEWL__ From the beginning, Saccard's Banque Universelle (Universal Bank) stands on shaky ground.__NEWL__In order to manipulate the price of the stock, Saccard and his confreres on the syndicate he has set up to jumpstart the enterprise buy their own stock and hide the proceeds of this illegal practice in a dummy account fronted by a straw man.__NEWL__While Hamelin travels to Constantinople to lay the groundwork for their enterprise, the Banque Universelle goes from strength to strength.__NEWL__Stock prices soar, going from 500 francs a share to more than 3,000 francs in three years.__NEWL__Furthermore, Saccard buys several newspapers which serve to maintain the illusion of legitimacy, promote the Banque, excite the public, and attack Rougon.__NEWL__The novel follows the fortunes of about 20 characters, cutting across all social strata, showing the effects of stock market speculation on rich and poor.__NEWL__The financial events of the novel are played against Saccard's personal life.__NEWL__Hamelin lives with his sister Caroline, who, against her better judgment, invests in the Banque Universelle and later becomes Saccard's mistress.__NEWL__Caroline learns that Saccard fathered a son, Victor, during his first days in Paris.__NEWL__She rescues Victor from his life of abject poverty, placing him in a charitable institution.__NEWL__But Victor is completely unredeemable, given over to greed, laziness, and thievery.__NEWL__After he attacks one of the women at the institution, he disappears into the streets, never to be seen again.__NEWL__Eventually, the Banque Universelle cannot sustain itself.__NEWL__Saccard's principal rival on the Bourse, the Jewish financier Gundermann, learns about Saccard's financial trickery and attacks, loosing stock upon the market, devaluing its price, and forcing Saccard to buy millions of shares to keep the price up.__NEWL__At the final collapse, the Banque holds one-fourth of its own shares worth 200 million francs.__NEWL__The fall of the Banque is felt across the entire financial world.__NEWL__Indeed, all of France feels the force of its collapse.__NEWL__The effects on the characters of L'argent are disastrous, including complete ruin, suicide, and exile, though some of Saccard's syndicate members escape and Gundermann experiences a windfall.__NEWL__Saccard and Hamelin are sentenced to five years in prison.__NEWL__Through the intervention of Saccard's brother Eugène Rougon, who doesn't want a brother in jail, their sentences are commuted and they are forced to leave France.__NEWL__Saccard goes to Belgium, and the novel ends with Caroline preparing to follow her brother to Rome.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1210734	The 120 Days of Sodom	1904-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	154527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=154527	The 120 Days of Sodom is set in a remote medieval castle, high in the mountains and surrounded by forests, detached from the rest of the world, either at the end of Louis XIV's reign or at the beginning of the Régence.__NEWL__The novel takes place over five months, November to March.__NEWL__Four wealthy libertines lock themselves in a castle, the Château de Silling, along with a number of victims and accomplices (the description of Silling matches de Sade's own castle, the Château de Lacoste).__NEWL__Since they state that the sensations produced by the organs of hearing are the most erotic, they intend to listen to various tales of depravity from four veteran sex workers, which will inspire them to engage in similar activities with their victims.__NEWL__The novel is notable for not existing in a complete state, with only the first section being written in detail.__NEWL__After that, the remaining three parts are written as a draft, in note form, with de Sade's notes to himself still present in most translations.__NEWL__Either at the outset, or during the writing of the work, de Sade had evidently decided he would not be able to complete it in full and elected to write out the remaining three-quarters in brief and finish it later.__NEWL__The story does portray some black humor, and de Sade seems almost light-hearted in his introduction, referring to the reader as "friendly reader".__NEWL__In this introduction, he contradicts himself, at one point insisting that one should not be horrified by the 600 passions outlined in the story because everybody has their own tastes, but at the same time going out of his way to warn the reader of the horrors that lie ahead, suggesting that the reader should have doubts about continuing.__NEWL__Consequently, he glorifies as well as vilifies the four main protagonists, alternately declaring them freethinking heroes and debased villains, often in the same passage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q569790	Dreamcatcher	2001-03-20T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q383876	Derry	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	160428	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160428	Set near the fictional town of Derry, Maine, Dreamcatcher is the story of four lifelong friends: Gary "Jonesy" Jones, Pete Moore, Joe "Beaver" Clarendon and Henry Devlin.__NEWL__As young teenagers, the four saved Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, an older boy with Down syndrome, from a group of sadistic bullies.__NEWL__From their new friendship with Duddits, Jonesy, Beaver, Henry and Pete began to share the boy's unusual powers, including telepathy, shared dreaming, and seeing "the line", a psychic trace left by the movement of human beings.__NEWL__Jonesy, Beaver, Henry and Pete reunite for their annual hunting trip at the Hole-in-the-Wall, an isolated lodge in the Jefferson Tract.__NEWL__There, they become caught between an alien invasion and an insane retired US Air Force Colonel, Abraham Kurtz.__NEWL__Jonesy and Beaver, who remain at the cabin while Henry and Pete go out for supplies, encounter Richard McCarthy, a disoriented and delirious stranger wandering near the lodge during a blizzard talking about lights in the sky.__NEWL__The victim of an alien abduction, McCarthy grows sicker and dies while sitting on the toilet.__NEWL__An extraterrestrial parasite eats its way out of his anus, after gestating in his bowel, and attacks the two men, killing Beaver.__NEWL__Jonesy inhales the spores of the strange reddish fungus that the stranger and his parasite have spread around the cabin, and an alien entity ("Mr. Gray") takes over his mind.__NEWL__On the return trip from their supply run, Henry and Pete encounter a woman from the same hunting party as the strange man at the cabin.__NEWL__She is also delirious and infected with a parasite.__NEWL__After crashing their car, Henry leaves Pete with the woman and attempts to return to the cabin by foot.__NEWL__From there, his telepathic senses let him know that Pete is in trouble, Beaver is dead, and Jonesy is no longer Jonesy.__NEWL__Mr. Gray, manipulating Jonesy's body, is attempting to leave the area.__NEWL__The aliens have attempted to infect Earth multiple times, beginning with the Roswell crash in the 1940s, but environmental factors have always stopped them, and the US government has covered up the failed invasion attempts every time.__NEWL__With the infection of Jonesy, who can contain the alien within his mind and also spread the infection, Mr. Gray has become the perfect Typhoid Mary—and he knows it.__NEWL__Mr. Gray hijacks a truck transporting a spore-filled alien corpse while Jonesy, trapped inside a mental stronghold, is powerless to stop him.__NEWL__It becomes up to Henry—by now a quarantined prisoner of the Army—to convince the military to go after Jonesy/Mr. Gray before it is too late.__NEWL__Jonesy himself, now a prisoner in his own mind, tries to help.__NEWL__Both of them are convinced that their old friend Duddits may be the key to saving the world.__NEWL__Using telepathic powers gained from the alien fungus, Henry alerts Army officer Owen Underhill of a plan by Kurtz to kill most of the Army personnel to maintain secrecy.__NEWL__The two stage an escape by telepathically inciting a riot among other prisoners, destroying the base in the process.__NEWL__As they flee, the pair is closely pursued by a vengeful Kurtz along with his subordinates Freddy and Perlmutter.__NEWL__Perlmutter is infected with a telepathic parasite and is being used to track Owen and Mr. Gray down, despite his personal reluctance and pain.__NEWL__ Owen and Henry follow Jonesy/Mr. Gray to Derry, Maine and along the way share their childhood memories, including a time when Duddits and his friends tracked down a missing girl.__NEWL__Henry and Owen unite with Duddits, who is very sick with leukemia.__NEWL__After a tear-filled goodbye with Duddits' mother, the trio use Duddits' powers to follow Jonesy/Mr. Gray southward to Quabbin Reservoir.__NEWL__Mr. Gray intends to infect the local water supply with a dog he has infected with the spores, giving it a parasite.__NEWL__Jonesy is able to slow down Mr. Gray's progress considerably by getting the presence to strongly crave bacon, which it eats raw after obtaining it from a convenience store.__NEWL__The uncooked meat greatly sickens Jonesy's body, giving the trio just enough time to catch up and confront Mr. Gray at the reservoir.__NEWL__ Using the last of his powers, Duddits helps Henry and Jonesy mentally overcome Mr. Gray as well as help Owen shoot the parasite that emerges from the dog.__NEWL__Duddits dies from the effort, but has prevented Mr. Gray's plans.__NEWL__Kurtz and his men arrive, leaving the infected soldier in their vehicle.__NEWL__They ambush and fatally shoot Owen, but Kurtz is killed by Freddy, who fears that Kurtz will shoot him next.__NEWL__Freddy flees, returning to their vehicle, but is killed by the parasite that was growing inside the now-deceased Perlmutter's body.__NEWL__Exhausted and half-insane, Henry sets the car on fire by shooting its gas tank, destroying the last of the alien presence on earth.__NEWL__He reunites with Jonesy, who passes out from exhaustion.__NEWL__Months later, Jonesy and Henry reminisce about their time in an underground military compound where they were held following the events at the reservoir.__NEWL__It is revealed that Jonesy was immune to the alien fungus all along, and Mr. Gray was only able to take over his mind because he believed it could - the idea being caught as in a dreamcatcher.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1198142	The Dice Man	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	159929	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159929	As stated at the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy user site:The book tells the story... of a psychologist named Luke [Rhinehart] who, feeling bored and unfulfilled in life, starts making decisions... based on a roll of a die.__NEWL__Along the way, there is sex, rape, murder, 'dice parties', breakouts by psychiatric patients, and various corporate and governmental machines being put into a spin.__NEWL__There is also a description of the cult that starts to develop around the man, and the psychological research he initiates, such as the 'F**k without Fear for Fun and Profit' programme.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762845	The Search for the Dice Man	1993-06-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	159934	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159934	The book is set 20 years after the end of The Dice Man, and Luke's dicechild, Larry Rhinehart, has grown up to become a hotshot investor on the stock market.__NEWL__He has totally rejected his father's reverence for chance: he sees it as an adversary to be overcome, and has managed to create a stable, normal life for himself, in spite of his early abandonment.__NEWL__Indeed, he is due to wed the daughter of his boss, and live wealthily ever after.__NEWL__This state of affairs would make a dull story and soon his father's ghostly presence intervenes.__NEWL__He gets approached by the FBI, who are trying to trace his father's location, and find out whether he's alive or dead.__NEWL__Though Larry naturally refuses to have anything to do with the FBI, he soon starts to pursue his own investigations.__NEWL__He is financed in this by his fiancée's father, who wants to put the whole dice business to rest, and is accompanied by his fiancée's cousin, an unreformed hippy.__NEWL__It takes a long time - a whole book in fact, but Larry eventually does complete his quest.__NEWL__Along the way, what he sees and hears change his views somewhat; by the end of the book it is he who is trying to convince Luke, his father, to accept more chance into his life, rather than the other way round.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q147787	Anna Karenina	1877-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	159941	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159941	Anna Karenina consists of more than the story of Anna Karenina, a married socialite, and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky, though their relationship is a very strong component of the plot.__NEWL__The story starts when she arrives in the midst of her brother's family being broken up by his unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation.__NEWL__A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry Anna if she will agree to leave her husband Karenin, a senior government official.__NEWL__Although Vronsky and Anna go to Italy, where they can be together, leaving behind Anna's child from her first marriage, they have trouble making friends.__NEWL__When they return to Russia, Anna suffers shunning and isolation due to the relationship.__NEWL__While Vronsky pursues his social life, Anna grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his supposed infidelity.__NEWL__A parallel story within the novel is that of Konstantin Levin, a wealthy country landowner who wants to marry Kitty, sister to Dolly and sister-in-law to Anna's brother Stepan Oblonsky.__NEWL__Levin has to propose twice before Kitty accepts.__NEWL__The novel details Levin's difficulties managing his estate, his eventual marriage, and his struggle to accept the Christian faith, until the birth of his first child.__NEWL__The novel explores a diverse range of topics throughout its approximately one thousand pages.__NEWL__Some of these topics include an evaluation of the feudal system that existed in Russia at the time—politics, not only in the Russian government, but also at the level of the individual characters and families, religion, morality, gender, and social class.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4686652	Adventures of Wim	1986-05-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	159942	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159942	The book is composed of sections taken from other, fictional books.__NEWL__The preface to the book claims that it was written in Deya, Majorca, in 2326.__NEWL__According to the book, an entire industry has grown up publishing books about a Montauk named Wim - including The Gospel According to Luke (Luke Forth, not Luke Rhinehart) and the screenplay of a movie.__NEWL__The screenplay is possibly in there as a result of Luke Rhinehart's continuing frustration in trying to get The Dice Man turned into a good movie.__NEWL__Adventures of Wim, then, is an effort to create a new interpretation of the story of Wim, drawing on the many previous efforts, and so providing a multi-faceted and whimsical account of 'one of the greatest figures in the 20th and 21st Century'.__NEWL__A boy is born of a virgin mother and is named "Wim" (in Adventures of Wim) or "Whim" (in The Book of the Die and Whim): Montauk for "Wave Rider".__NEWL__He is pronounced to be the saviour of the Montauk nation by his tribe's navigator, and educated in their ways including the "Montauk martial arts" which are predicated on not engaging with, nor even being noticed by an enemy.__NEWL__Sadly, the humans steal him away and attempt to educate him in more useful skills, such as American Football.__NEWL__Wim, also known as "He of Many Chances", proves to be an inefficient saviour, as God sends him on a quest for Ultimate Truth.__NEWL__This does not seem to be something that will benefit his tribe terribly, but the navigator isn't one to stare down the barrel of a lightning gun, and sends him on his way.__NEWL__After a long and arduous search, Wim finds ultimate truth (in a potato), and with it the cure for the sickness of the human condition.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1541914	The Handmaid's Tale	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	165026	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165026	After a staged attack that killed the President of the United States and most of Congress, a radical political group called the "Sons of Jacob" uses theonomic ideology to launch a revolution.__NEWL__The United States Constitution is suspended, newspapers are censored, and what was formerly the United States of America is changed into a military dictatorship known as the Republic of Gilead.__NEWL__The new regime moves quickly to consolidate its power, overtaking all other religious groups, including Christian denominations.__NEWL__The regime reorganizes society using a peculiar interpretation of some Old Testament ideas, and a new militarized, hierarchical model of social and religious fanaticism among its newly created social classes.__NEWL__One of the most significant changes is the limitation of people's rights.__NEWL__Women become the lowest-ranking class and are not allowed to own money or property, or to read and write.__NEWL__Most significantly, women are deprived of control over their own reproductive functions.__NEWL__The story is told in first-person narration by a woman named Offred.__NEWL__In this era of environmental pollution and radiation, she is one of the few remaining fertile women.__NEWL__Therefore, she is forcibly assigned to produce children for the "Commanders," the ruling class of men, and is known as a "Handmaid" based on the biblical story of Rachel and her handmaid Bilhah.__NEWL__She undergoes training to become a handmaid along with other women of her standing at the Rachel and Leah Centre.__NEWL__Apart from Handmaids, women are classed socially and follow a strict dress code, ranked highest to lowest: the Commanders' Wives in teal blue, the Handmaids in burgundy with large white bonnets to be easily seen, the Aunts (who train and indoctrinate the Handmaids) in brown, the Marthas (cooks and maids, possibly sterile women past child-bearing years) in green, Econowives (the wives of lower-ranking men who handle everything in the domestic sphere) in blue, red and green stripes, very young girls in pink (often married or "given" to a Commander at 14 to produce offspring), young boys in blue, and widows in black.__NEWL__Offred details her life starting with her third assignment as a Handmaid to a Commander.__NEWL__Interspersed with her narratives of her present-day experiences are flashbacks of her life before and during the beginning of the revolution, including her failed attempt to escape to Canada with her husband and child, her indoctrination into life as a Handmaid by the Aunts, and the escape of her friend Moira from the indoctrination facility.__NEWL__At her new home, she is treated poorly by the Commander's wife, Serena Joy, a former Christian media personality who supported women's domesticity and subordinate role well before Gilead was established.__NEWL__To Offred's surprise, the Commander requests to see her outside of the "Ceremony" which is a reproductive ritual obligatory for handmaids (conducted in the presence of the wives) and intended to result in conception.__NEWL__The commander's request to see Offred in the library is an illegal activity in Gilead, but they meet nevertheless.__NEWL__They mostly play Scrabble and Offred is allowed to ask favours of him, either in terms of information or material items.__NEWL__The Commander asks Offred to kiss him "as if she meant it" and tells her about his strained relationship with his wife.__NEWL__Finally, he gives her lingerie and takes her to a covert, government-run brothel called Jezebel's.__NEWL__Offred unexpectedly encounters Moira there, with Moira's will broken, and learns from Moira that those who are found breaking the law are sent to the Colonies to clean up toxic waste or are allowed to work at Jezebel's as punishment.__NEWL__In the days between her visits to the Commander, Offred also learns from her shopping partner, a woman called Ofglen, of the Mayday resistance, an underground network working to overthrow the Republic of Gilead.__NEWL__Not knowing of Offred's criminal acts with her husband, Serena begins to suspect that the Commander is infertile, and arranges for Offred to begin a covert sexual relationship with Nick, the Commander's personal servant.__NEWL__Serena offers Offred information about her daughter in exchange.__NEWL__She later brings her a photograph of Offred's daughter which leaves Offred feeling dejected because she senses she has been erased from her daughter's life.__NEWL__Nick had earlier tried to talk to Offred and had shown interest in her.__NEWL__After their initial sexual encounter, Offred and Nick begin to meet on their own initiative as well, with Offred discovering that she enjoys these intimate moments despite memories of her husband, and shares potentially dangerous information about her past with him.__NEWL__Offred tells Nick that she thinks she is pregnant.__NEWL__Offred hears from a new walking partner that Ofglen has disappeared (reported as a suicide).__NEWL__Serena finds evidence of the relationship between Offred and the Commander, which results in Offred contemplating suicide.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, men arrive at the house wearing the uniform of the secret police, the Eyes of God, known informally as "the Eyes", to take her away.__NEWL__As she is led to a waiting van, Nick tells her to trust him and go with the men.__NEWL__It is unclear whether the men are actually Eyes or members of the Mayday resistance.__NEWL__Offred is still unsure if Nick is a member of Mayday or an Eye posing as one, and does not know if leaving will result in her escape or her capture.__NEWL__Ultimately, she enters the van with her future uncertain while Commander Fred and Serena are left bereft in the house, each thinking of repercussions of Offred's capture on their lives.__NEWL__The novel concludes with a metafictional epilogue, described as a partial transcript of an international historical association conference taking place in the year 2195.__NEWL__The keynote speaker explains that Offred's account of the events of the novel was recorded onto cassette tapes later found and transcribed by historians studying what is then called "the Gilead Period".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q161531	War and Peace	1869-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131964	Austrian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131964	Austrian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	155311	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155311	The novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg, at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer, the maid of honour and confidante to the dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna.__NEWL__Many of the main characters are introduced as they enter the salon.__NEWL__Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, who is dying after a series of strokes.__NEWL__Pierre is about to become embroiled in a struggle for his inheritance.__NEWL__Educated abroad at his father's expense following his mother's death, Pierre is kindhearted but socially awkward, and finds it difficult to integrate into Petersburg society.__NEWL__It is known to everyone at the soirée that Pierre is his father's favorite of all the old count's illegitimate progeny.__NEWL__They respect Pierre during the soiree because his father, Count Bezukhov, is a very rich man, and as Pierre is his favorite, most aristocrats think that the fortune of his father will be given to him even though he is illegitimate.__NEWL__Also attending the soirée is Pierre's friend, Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky, husband of Lise, a charming society favourite.__NEWL__He is disillusioned with Petersburg society and with married life; feeling that his wife is empty and superficial, he comes to hate her and all women, expressing patently misogynistic views to Pierre when the two are alone.__NEWL__Pierre does not quite know what to do with this, and is made uncomfortable witnessing the marital discord.__NEWL__Pierre had been sent to St Petersburg by his father to choose a career for himself, but he is quite uncomfortable because he cannot find one and everybody keeps on asking about this.__NEWL__Andrei tells Pierre he has decided to become to Prince Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov in the coming war (The Battle of Austerlitz) against Napoleon in order to escape a life he cannot stand.__NEWL__The plot moves to Moscow, Russia's former capital, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to the more European society of Saint Petersburg.__NEWL__The Rostov family is introduced.__NEWL__Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova are an affectionate couple but forever worried about their disordered finances.__NEWL__They have four children.__NEWL__Thirteen-year-old Natasha (Natalia Ilyinichna) believes herself in love with Boris Drubetskoy, a young man who is about to join the army as an officer.__NEWL__The mother of Boris is Anna Mikhaylovna Drubetskaya who is a childhood friend of the countess Natalya Rostova.__NEWL__Boris is also the godson of Count Bezukhov (Pierre's father).__NEWL__Twenty-year-old Nikolai Ilyich pledges his love to Sonya (Sofia Alexandrovna), his fifteen-year-old cousin, an orphan who has been brought up by the Rostovs.__NEWL__The eldest child, Vera Ilyinichna, is cold and somewhat haughty but has a good prospective marriage to a Russian-German officer, Adolf Karlovich Berg.__NEWL__Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) at nine is the youngest; like his brother, he is impetuous and eager to join the army when of age.__NEWL__At Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' country estate, Prince Andrei departs for war and leaves his terrified, pregnant wife Lise with his eccentric father Prince Nikolai Andreyevich and devoutly religious sister Maria Nikolayevna Bolkonskaya, who refuses to marry the son of a wealthy aristocrat on account of her devotion to her father and suspicion that the young man would be unfaithful to her.__NEWL__The second part opens with descriptions of the impending Russian-French war preparations.__NEWL__At the Schöngrabern engagement, Nikolai Rostov, now an ensign in the hussars, has his first taste of battle.__NEWL__Boris Drubetskoy introduces him to Prince Andrei, whom Rostov insults in a fit of impetuousness.__NEWL__He is deeply attracted by Tsar Alexander's charisma.__NEWL__Nikolai gambles and socializes with his officer, Vasily Dmitrich Denisov, and befriends the ruthless Fyodor Ivanovich Dolokhov.__NEWL__Bolkonsky, Rostov and Denisov are involved in the disastrous Battle of Austerlitz, in which Prince Andrei is badly wounded as he attempts to rescue a Russian standard.__NEWL__The Battle of Austerlitz is a major event in the book.__NEWL__As the battle is about to start, Prince Andrei thinks the approaching "day [will] be his Toulon, or his Arcola", references to Napoleon's early victories.__NEWL__Later in the battle, however, Andrei falls into enemy hands and even meets his hero, Napoleon.__NEWL__But his previous enthusiasm has been shattered; he no longer thinks much of Napoleon, "so petty did his hero with his paltry vanity and delight in victory appear, compared to that lofty, righteous and kindly sky which he had seen and comprehended".__NEWL__Tolstoy portrays Austerlitz as an early test for Russia, one which ended badly because the soldiers fought for irrelevant things like glory or renown rather than the higher virtues which would produce, according to Tolstoy, a victory at Borodino during the 1812 invasion.__NEWL__Book Two begins with Nikolai Rostov returning on leave to Moscow accompanied by his friend Denisov, his officer from his Pavlograd Regiment.__NEWL__He spends an eventful winter at home.__NEWL__Natasha has blossomed into a beautiful young woman.__NEWL__Denisov falls in love with her and proposes marriage, but is rejected.__NEWL__Nikolai meets Dolokhov, and they grow closer as friends.__NEWL__Dolokhov falls in love with Sonya, Nikolai's cousin, but as she is in love with Nikolai, she rejects Dolokhov's proposal.__NEWL__Nikolai meets Dolokhov some time later.__NEWL__The resentful Dolokhov challenges Nikolai at cards, and Nikolai loses every hand until he sinks into a 43,000 ruble debt.__NEWL__Although his mother pleads with Nikolai to marry a wealthy heiress to rescue the family from its dire financial straits, he refuses.__NEWL__Instead, he promises to marry his childhood crush and orphaned cousin, the dowry-less Sonya.__NEWL__Pierre Bezukhov, upon finally receiving his massive inheritance, is suddenly transformed from a bumbling young man into the most eligible bachelor in Russian society.__NEWL__Despite knowing that it is wrong, he is convinced into marriage with Prince Kuragin's beautiful and immoral daughter Hélène (Elena Vasilyevna Kuragina).__NEWL__Hélène, who is rumored to be involved in an incestuous affair with her brother Anatole, tells Pierre that she will never have children with him.__NEWL__Hélène is also rumored to be having an affair with Dolokhov, who mocks Pierre in public.__NEWL__Pierre loses his temper and challenges Dolokhov to a duel.__NEWL__Unexpectedly (because Dolokhov is a seasoned dueller), Pierre wounds Dolokhov.__NEWL__Hélène denies her affair, but Pierre is convinced of her guilt and leaves her.__NEWL__In his moral and spiritual confusion, Pierre joins the Freemasons.__NEWL__Much of Book Two concerns his struggles with his passions and his spiritual conflicts.__NEWL__He abandons his former carefree behavior and enters upon a philosophical quest particular to Tolstoy: how should one live a moral life in an ethically imperfect world?__NEWL__The question continually baffles Pierre.__NEWL__He attempts to liberate his serfs, but ultimately achieves nothing of note.__NEWL__Pierre is contrasted with Prince Andrei Bolkonsky.__NEWL__Andrei recovers from his near-fatal wound in a military hospital and returns home, only to find his wife Lise dying in childbirth.__NEWL__He is stricken by his guilty conscience for not treating her better.__NEWL__His child, Nikolai, survives.__NEWL__Burdened with nihilistic disillusionment, Prince Andrei does not return to the army but remains on his estate, working on a project that would codify military behavior to solve problems of disorganization responsible for the loss of life on the Russian side.__NEWL__Pierre visits him and brings new questions: where is God in this amoral world?__NEWL__Pierre is interested in panentheism and the possibility of an afterlife.__NEWL__Pierre's wife, Hélène, begs him to take her back, and trying to abide by the Freemason laws of forgiveness, he agrees.__NEWL__Hélène establishes herself as an influential hostess in Petersburg society.__NEWL__Prince Andrei feels impelled to take his newly written military notions to Saint Petersburg, naively expecting to influence either the Emperor himself or those close to him.__NEWL__Young Natasha, also in Saint Petersburg, is caught up in the excitement of her first grand ball, where she meets Prince Andrei and briefly reinvigorates him with her vivacious charm.__NEWL__Andrei believes he has found purpose in life again and, after paying the Rostovs several visits, proposes marriage to Natasha.__NEWL__However, Andrei's father dislikes the Rostovs and opposes the marriage, insisting that the couple wait a year before marrying.__NEWL__Prince Andrei leaves to recuperate from his wounds abroad, leaving Natasha distraught.__NEWL__Count Rostov takes her and Sonya to Moscow in order to raise funds for her trousseau.__NEWL__Natasha visits the Moscow opera, where she meets Hélène and her brother Anatole.__NEWL__Anatole has since married a Polish woman whom he abandoned in Poland.__NEWL__He is very attracted to Natasha and determined to seduce her, and conspires with his sister to do so.__NEWL__Anatole succeeds in making Natasha believe he loves her, eventually establishing plans to elope.__NEWL__Natasha writes to Princess Maria, Andrei's sister, breaking off her engagement.__NEWL__At the last moment, Sonya discovers her plans to elope and foils them.__NEWL__Natasha learns from Pierre of Anatole's marriage.__NEWL__Devastated, Natasha makes a suicide attempt and is left seriously ill.__NEWL__Pierre is initially horrified by Natasha's behavior but realizes he has fallen in love with her.__NEWL__As the Great Comet of 1811–12 streaks across the sky, life appears to begin anew for Pierre.__NEWL__Prince Andrei coldly accepts Natasha's breaking of the engagement.__NEWL__He tells Pierre that his pride will not allow him to renew his proposal.__NEWL__With the help of her family, and the stirrings of religious faith, Natasha manages to persevere in Moscow through this dark period.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the whole of Russia is affected by the coming confrontation between Napoleon's army and the Russian army.__NEWL__Pierre convinces himself through gematria that Napoleon is the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation.__NEWL__Old Prince Bolkonsky dies of a stroke knowing that French marauders are coming for his estate.__NEWL__No organized help from any Russian army seems available to the Bolkonskys, but Nikolai Rostov turns up at their estate in time to help put down an incipient peasant revolt.__NEWL__He finds himself attracted to the distraught Princess Maria.__NEWL__Back in Moscow, the patriotic Petya joins a crowd in audience of Tzar Alexander and manages to snatch a biscuit thrown from the balcony window of the Cathedral of the Assumption by the Tzar.__NEWL__He is nearly crushed by the throngs in his effort.__NEWL__Under the influence of the same patriotism, his father finally allows him to enlist.__NEWL__Napoleon himself is the main character in this section, and the novel presents him in vivid detail, both personally and as both a thinker and would-be strategist.__NEWL__Also described are the well-organized force of over four hundred thousand troops of the French Grande Armée (only one hundred and forty thousand of them actually French-speaking) that marches through the Russian countryside in the late summer and reaches the outskirts of the city of Smolensk.__NEWL__Pierre decides to leave Moscow and go to watch the Battle of Borodino from a vantage point next to a Russian artillery crew.__NEWL__After watching for a time, he begins to join in carrying ammunition.__NEWL__In the midst of the turmoil he experiences first-hand the death and destruction of war; Eugène's artillery continues to pound Russian support columns, while Marshals Ney and Davout set up a crossfire with artillery positioned on the Semyonovskaya heights.__NEWL__The battle becomes a hideous slaughter for both armies and ends in a standoff.__NEWL__The Russians, however, have won a moral victory by standing up to Napoleon's reputedly invincible army.__NEWL__The Russian army withdraws the next day, allowing Napoleon to march on to Moscow.__NEWL__Among the casualties are Anatole Kuragin and Prince Andrei.__NEWL__Anatole loses a leg, and Andrei suffers a grenade wound in the abdomen.__NEWL__Both are reported dead, but their families are in such disarray that no one can be notified.__NEWL__The Rostovs have waited until the last minute to abandon Moscow, even after it became clear that Kutuzov had retreated past Moscow.__NEWL__The Muscovites are being given contradictory instructions on how to either flee or fight.__NEWL__Count Fyodor Rostopchin, the commander in chief of Moscow, is publishing posters, rousing the citizens to put their faith in religious icons, while at the same time urging them to fight with pitchforks if necessary.__NEWL__Before fleeing himself, he gives orders to burn the city.__NEWL__However, Tolstoy states that the burning of an abandoned city mostly built of wood was inevitable, and while the French blame the Russians, these blame the French.__NEWL__The Rostovs have a difficult time deciding what to take with them, but in the end, Natasha convinces them to load their carts with the wounded and dying from the Battle of Borodino.__NEWL__Unknown to Natasha, Prince Andrei is amongst the wounded.__NEWL__When Napoleon's army finally occupies an abandoned and burning Moscow, Pierre takes off on a quixotic mission to assassinate Napoleon.__NEWL__He becomes anonymous in all the chaos, shedding his responsibilities by wearing peasant clothes and shunning his duties and lifestyle.__NEWL__The only people he sees are Natasha and some of her family, as they depart Moscow.__NEWL__Natasha recognizes and smiles at him, and he in turn realizes the full scope of his love for her.__NEWL__Pierre saves the life of a French officer who enters his home looking for shelter, and they have a long, amicable conversation.__NEWL__The next day Pierre goes into the street to resume his assassination plan, and comes across two French soldiers robbing an Armenian family.__NEWL__When one of the soldiers tries to rip the necklace off the young Armenian woman's neck, Pierre intervenes by attacking the soldiers, and is taken prisoner by the French army.__NEWL__He believes he will be executed, but in the end is spared.__NEWL__He witnesses, with horror, the execution of other prisoners.__NEWL__Pierre becomes friends with a fellow prisoner, Platon Karataev, a Russian peasant with a saintly demeanor.__NEWL__In Karataev, Pierre finally finds what he has been seeking: an honest person of integrity, who is utterly without pretense.__NEWL__Pierre discovers meaning in life simply by interacting with him.__NEWL__After witnessing French soldiers sacking Moscow and shooting Russian civilians arbitrarily, Pierre is forced to march with the Grand Army during its disastrous retreat from Moscow in the harsh Russian winter.__NEWL__After months of tribulation—during which the fever-plagued Karataev is shot by the French—Pierre is finally freed by a Russian raiding party led by Dolokhov and Denisov, after a small skirmish with the French that sees the young Petya Rostov killed in action.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Andrei has been taken in and cared for by the Rostovs, fleeing from Moscow to Yaroslavl.__NEWL__He is reunited with Natasha and his sister Maria before the end of the war.__NEWL__In an internal transformation, he loses the fear of death and forgives Natasha in a last act before dying.__NEWL__Nikolai becomes worried about his family's finances, and leaves the army after hearing of Petya's death.__NEWL__There is little hope for recovery.__NEWL__Given the Rostovs' ruin, he does not feel comfortable with the prospect of marrying the wealthy Marya Bolkonskaya, but when they meet again they both still feel love for each other.__NEWL__As the novel draws to a close, Pierre's wife Hélène dies from an overdose of an abortifacient (Tolstoy does not state it explicitly but the euphemism he uses is unambiguous).__NEWL__Pierre is reunited with Natasha, while the victorious Russians rebuild Moscow.__NEWL__Natasha speaks of Prince Andrei's death and Pierre of Karataev's.__NEWL__Both are aware of a growing bond between them in their bereavement.__NEWL__With the help of Princess Maria, Pierre finds love at last and marries Natasha.__NEWL__The first part of the epilogue begins with the wedding of Pierre and Natasha in 1813.__NEWL__Count Rostov dies soon after, leaving his eldest son Nikolai to take charge of the debt-ridden estate.__NEWL__Nikolai finds himself with the task of maintaining the family on the verge of bankruptcy.__NEWL__Although he finds marrying women for money repugnant, Nikolai gives in to his love for Princess Maria and marries her.__NEWL__ Nikolai and Maria then move to her inherited estate of Bald Hills with his mother and Sonya, whom he supports for the rest of their lives.__NEWL__Nikolai and Maria have children together, and also raise Prince Andrei's orphaned son, Nikolai Andreyevich (Nikolenka) Bolkonsky.__NEWL__As in all good marriages, there are misunderstandings, but the couples – Pierre and Natasha, Nikolai and Maria – remain devoted.__NEWL__Pierre and Natasha visit Bald Hills in 1820.__NEWL__There is a hint in the closing chapters that the idealistic, boyish Nikolenka and Pierre would both become part of the Decembrist Uprising.__NEWL__The first epilogue concludes with Nikolenka promising he would do something with which even his late father "would be satisfied" (presumably as a revolutionary in the Decembrist revolt).__NEWL__The second part of the epilogue contains Tolstoy's critique of all existing forms of mainstream history.__NEWL__The 19th-century Great Man Theory claims that historical events are the result of the actions of "heroes" and other great individuals; Tolstoy argues that this is impossible because of how rarely these actions result in great historical events.__NEWL__Rather, he argues, great historical events are the result of many smaller events driven by the thousands of individuals involved (he compares this to calculus, and the sum of infinitesimals).__NEWL__He then goes on to argue that these smaller events are the result of an inverse relationship between necessity and free will, necessity being based on reason and therefore explicable through historical analysis, and free will being based on consciousness and therefore inherently unpredictable.__NEWL__Tolstoy also ridicules newly emerging Darwinism as overly simplistic, comparing it to plasterers covering over icons with plaster.__NEWL__War and Peace is Tolstoy's longest work, consisting of 361 chapters.__NEWL__Of those, 24 are philosophical chapters with the author's comments and views, rather than narrative: Part 11 - Chapter 1 Part 14 - Chapters 1, 2 and 18 Part 2
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q466504	American Psycho	1991-03-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11690	Wall Street	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	163629	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163629	Set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of the late 1980s, American Psycho follows the life of wealthy young investment banker Patrick Bateman.__NEWL__Bateman, in his mid-20s when the story begins, narrates his everyday activities, from his recreational life among the Wall Street elite of New York to his forays into murder by night.__NEWL__Through present tense stream-of-consciousness narrative, Bateman describes his daily life, ranging from a series of Friday nights spent at nightclubs with his colleagues—where they snort cocaine, critique fellow club-goers' clothing, trade fashion advice, and question one another on proper etiquette—to his loveless engagement to fellow yuppie Evelyn and his contentious relationship with his brother and senile mother.__NEWL__Bateman's stream of consciousness is occasionally broken up by chapters in which he directly addresses the reader in order to critique the work of 1980s pop music artists.__NEWL__The novel maintains a high level of ambiguity through mistaken identity and contradictions that introduce the possibility that Bateman is an unreliable narrator.__NEWL__Characters are consistently introduced as people other than themselves, and people argue over the identities of others they can see in restaurants or at parties.__NEWL__Deeply concerned with his personal appearance, Bateman gives extensive descriptions of his daily aesthetics regimen.__NEWL__After killing Paul Owen, one of his colleagues, Bateman appropriates Paul's apartment as a place to host and kill more victims.__NEWL__Bateman's control over his violent urges deteriorates.__NEWL__His murders become increasingly sadistic and complex, progressing from simple stabbings to drawn-out sequences of rape, torture, mutilation, cannibalism, and necrophilia, and his grasp on sanity begins to slip.__NEWL__He introduces stories about serial killers into casual conversations and on several occasions openly confesses his murderous activities to his coworkers, who never take him seriously, do not hear what he says, or misunderstand him completely—for example, hearing the words "murders and executions" as "mergers and acquisitions".__NEWL__These incidents culminate in a shooting spree during which he kills several random people in the street, resulting in a SWAT team being dispatched in a helicopter.__NEWL__This narrative episode sees the first-person perspective shift to third-person and the subsequent events are, although not for the first time in the novel, described in terms pertaining to cinematic portrayal.__NEWL__Bateman flees on foot and hides in his office, where he phones his attorney, Harold Carnes, and confesses all his crimes to an answering machine.__NEWL__Later, Bateman revisits Paul Owen's apartment, where he had earlier killed and mutilated two prostitutes, carrying a surgical mask in anticipation of the decomposing bodies he expects to encounter.__NEWL__He enters the perfectly clean, refurbished apartment, however, filled with strong-smelling flowers meant, perhaps, to conceal a bad odor.__NEWL__The real estate agent, who sees his surgical mask, fools him into stating he was attending the apartment viewing because he "saw an ad in the Times" (when in fact there was no such advertisement).__NEWL__She tells him to leave and never return.__NEWL__Bateman's mental state continues to deteriorate and he begins to experience bizarre hallucinations such as seeing a Cheerio interviewed on a talk show, being stalked by an anthropomorphic park bench, and finding a bone in his Dove Bar.__NEWL__At the end of the story, Bateman confronts Carnes about the message he left on his machine, only to find the attorney amused at what he considers a hilarious joke.__NEWL__Mistaking Bateman for another colleague, Carnes claims that the Patrick Bateman he knows is too much of a coward to have committed such acts.__NEWL__In the dialogue-laden climax, Carnes stands up to a defiant Bateman and tells him his claim of having murdered Owen is impossible, because he had dinner with him twice in London just a few days prior.__NEWL__The book ends as it began, with Bateman and his colleagues at a new club on a Friday night, engaging in banal conversation.__NEWL__The sign seen at the end of the book simply reads "This is not an exit".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1824618	Kalimantaan	1998-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	163678	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163678	The novel uses of a variety of writing forms, including diary entries, letters, and straight narrative to tell its story.__NEWL__The author intentionally makes it difficult to determine what "really" happens in the story from dreams and fantasies of the characters.__NEWL__In 1839, an English adventurer arrived on the northwest coast of Borneo, commissioned to deliver a letter of gratitude to the Sultan of Brunei for having safely returned the crew of a British merchantman, lost on his coast.__NEWL__It was a region full of headhunters, pirate tribes, and slave traders.__NEWL__Most Europeans with the temerity to enter the region had never been heard from again.__NEWL__This particular adventurer, however, seems to know how to play one power against another and manages to keep his balance in the midst of chaos.__NEWL__After performing a service for the Sultan (resolving a local tribal conflict through the use of his schooner's guns and leading an organized assault on a small native river fort), he is named governor of Sarawak, subject to the Sultan of Brunei.__NEWL__Within a few years, he has become the Rajah of Sarawak, an independent state, and established a dynasty that will last one hundred years.__NEWL__Godshalk has changed names and details while evoking a sense of the time, place, and atmosphere of the real events.__NEWL__The real adventurer was James Brooke; Ms. Godshalk's is named Gideon Barr.__NEWL__James Brooke's schooner was named the Royalist; Gideon Barr's is the Carolina (named after his mother).__NEWL__James Brooke was succeeded by his nephew, Charles Johnson, who took the last name Brooke.__NEWL__Gideon Barr is succeeded by his nephew Richard Hogg (Ms. Godshalk does not deal with the change of last name since her story focuses on Gideon's life and ends with his death).__NEWL__Although many of the events described actually took place, one cannot simply change the names and read the novel as history.__NEWL__James Brooke's mother died in 1844, two years after he became Rajah.__NEWL__Gideon's mother dies in Borneo much earlier while he is in grade school in England, providing him an emotional link to Borneo James Brooke did not have.__NEWL__James Brooke never married a European, although there is evidence that he was married to a Malay woman.__NEWL__Gideon Barr marries an Englishwoman to provide himself an "air of permanence" as Rajah and we see much of the later portion of the story through Amelia Barr's eyes.__NEWL__Amelia Barr is fictional, but largely based on Margaret Brooke, wife of the second Rajah, and her book "My Life in Sarawak".__NEWL__Gideon also maintains a Malayan mistress who provides a note of tragedy in the way her presence poisons Gideon and Amelia's relationship.__NEWL__On the other hand, the 30,000 pounds that Brooke/Barr inherited at his father's death which enabled him to acquire his schooner, the massacre of the sons of the Sultan of Brunei, the Chinese insurrection of 1857, and the commission of inquiry in Singapore all took place as described.__NEWL__The inquiry in Singapore was concerned with the battle of Labuan in which Brooke/Barr led British warships in a pre-emptive strike against a pirate fleet, breaking the power of the Bugis for the next twenty years.__NEWL__Brooke/Barr's enemies attempted to use this against him by claiming he had used British naval power to slaughter innocent natives.__NEWL__Godshalk uses Malay words extensively in the book.__NEWL__While she provides a brief Malay glossary as an appendix, it does not cover all the words she uses.__NEWL__Enjoyment of Kalimantaan will be enhanced if one knows the following Malay words which are not in the glossary provided by the author: Kampilan, actually a Filipino word, designates a long native sword.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q849701	East of Eden	1952-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	161446	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161446	Samuel Hamilton is a warmhearted inventor and farmer.__NEWL__He and his wife Liza, immigrants from Ireland, raise their nine children on a rough, infertile piece of land in the Salinas Vallet.__NEWL__As the Hamilton children begin to grow up and leave home, a wealthy stranger, Adam Trask, purchases the best ranch in the Valley.__NEWL__Adam's life is seen in a long, intricate flashback.__NEWL__We see his tumultuous childhood on a farm in Connecticut and the brutal treatment he endured from his younger but stronger half-brother, Charles.__NEWL__Adam and Charles's father, Cyrus, was a Union Civil War veteran who was wounded in his very first battle and unable (or perhaps unwilling) to return to service; he nonetheless becomes an expert "armchair general" who uses his intellectual knowledge of military affairs and wounded-veteran status to become a military adviser in Washington, D.C.__NEWL__As a young man, Adam spent his time first in the military and then wandering the country.__NEWL__He was caught for vagrancy, escaped from a chain gang, and burgled a store for clothing to use as a disguise.__NEWL__Later, he wires Charles to request $100 to pay for his travels home.__NEWL__Adam later sends money to the store to pay for the clothes and damage.__NEWL__After Adam finally makes his way home to their farm, Charles reveals that Cyrus had died and left them an inheritance of $50,000 each.__NEWL__Charles is torn with fear that Cyrus did not come by the money honestly.__NEWL__A parallel story introduces a girl named Cathy Ames, who grows up in a town not far from the brothers' family farm.__NEWL__Cathy is described as having a "malformed soul"; she is evil and delights in using and destroying people.__NEWL__She leaves home one evening after setting fire to her family's home, killing both of her parents.__NEWL__She becomes a whoremaster's mistress, but he beats her viciously upon realizing that she is using him and leaves her to die on Adam and Charles's doorstep.__NEWL__Charles sees through Cathy's facade, but Adam falls obsessively and irrationally in love and marries her.__NEWL__However, unbeknownst to Adam, Cathy seduces Charles at the time of her marriage and falls pregnant with twins, leaving open the question of whether Adam or Charles is the twins' father.__NEWL__She attempts and fails at a primitive abortion with a knitting needle.__NEWL__ Adam – newly wed and newly rich – now arrives in California and settles with the pregnant Cathy in the Salinas Valley, near the Hamilton family ranch.__NEWL__Cathy neither wants to be a mother nor to stay in California.__NEWL__Though she warns Adam that she does not want to go to California and plans to leave as soon as she is able, Adam dismisses her, saying "Nonsense!"__NEWL__ Cathy gives birth to twin boys and attempts to leave shortly after.__NEWL__Adam tries to lock her in the bedroom to stop her.__NEWL__She convinces him to open the door, shoots him in the shoulder, and flees.__NEWL__Adam recovers but falls into a deep depression.__NEWL__He is roused out of it enough to name and raise his sons with the help of his Cantonese servant, Lee, and Samuel, who helps Adam name the boys Aron and Caleb, after different characters in the Bible.__NEWL__Lee becomes a good friend and adopted family member.__NEWL__Lee, Adam, and Samuel have long philosophical talks, particularly about the story of Cain and Abel, which Lee maintains has been incorrectly translated in English-language bibles.__NEWL__Lee tells about how his relatives in San Francisco, a group of Chinese scholars, spent two years studying Hebrew so that they might discover the moral of the Cain and Abel story.__NEWL__Their discovery that the Hebrew word timshel means "thou mayest" becomes an important symbol in the novel, meaning that mankind is neither compelled to pursue sainthood nor doomed to sin, but rather has the power to choose its path.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Cathy has become a prostitute at the most respectable brothel in the city of Salinas.__NEWL__She renames herself "Kate Albey" and embarks on a devious – and successful – plan to ingratiate herself with the madam, murder her, and inherit the business.__NEWL__She makes her new brothel infamous as a den of sexual sadism.__NEWL__Samuel finally dies of old age, but not before revealing his knowledge of Cathy's whereabouts.__NEWL__Hamilton is mourned by the entire town.__NEWL__After the funeral, Adam visits Kate at the brothel, to determine for himself that Hamilton's disclosure of Cathy's new life is true.__NEWL__Adam realizes that this woman who runs the brothel is indeed his wife.__NEWL__Kate renounces him and the entire human race, and shows him pictures of the brothel's customers, all pillars of the community.__NEWL__Adam finally sees her for what she is and pities her, leaving Kate to hate him.__NEWL__Adam's sons, Caleb ("Cal") and Aron – echoing Cain and Abel – grow up oblivious of their mother's situation.__NEWL__They are opposites: Aron is virtuous and dutiful, Cal wild and rebellious.__NEWL__At a very early age, Aron meets a girl, Abra Bacon, who is from a well-to-do family, and the two fall in love.__NEWL__Although there are rumors around town that Cal and Aron's mother is not dead but is actually still in Salinas, the boys do not yet know that she is Kate.__NEWL__Inspired by Samuel's inventiveness, Adam starts an ill-fated business venture and loses almost all of the family fortune.__NEWL__The boys, particularly Aron, are horrified that their father is now the town laughingstock and are mocked by their peers for his failure.__NEWL__As the boys reach the end of their school days, Cal decides to pursue a career in farming, and Aron goes to college to become an Episcopal priest.__NEWL__Cal, restless and tortured by guilt about his very human failings, shuns everyone around him and takes to wandering around town late at night.__NEWL__During one of these ramblings, he discovers that his mother is alive and the madam of a brothel.__NEWL__He goes to see her, and she spitefully tells him they are just alike.__NEWL__Cal replies that she is simply afraid and leaves.__NEWL__Cal decides to "buy his father's love" by going into business with Samuel's son Will, who is now a successful automobile dealer.__NEWL__Cal's plan is to make his father's money back, capitalizing on World War I by selling beans grown in the Salinas Valley to nations in Europe for a considerable premium.__NEWL__He succeeds beyond his wildest expectations and wraps up a gift of $15,000 in cash which he plans to give to Adam at Thanksgiving.__NEWL__Aron returns from Stanford University for the holiday.__NEWL__There is tension in the air, because Aron has not yet told their father that he intends to drop out of college.__NEWL__Rather than let Aron steal the moment, Cal gives Adam the money at dinner, expecting his father to be proud of him.__NEWL__Adam refuses to accept it, however, and tells Cal to give it back to the poor farmers he exploited.__NEWL__Adam explains by saying, I would have been so happy if you could have given me – well, what your brother has – pride in the thing he's doing, gladness in his progress.__NEWL__Money, even clean money, doesn't stack up with that.__NEWL__In a fit of rage and jealousy, Cal takes Aron to see their mother, knowing it will be a shock to him.__NEWL__Sure enough, Aron immediately sees Kate for who she is and recoils from her in disgust.__NEWL__Wracked with self-hatred, Kate signs her estate over to Aron and commits suicide.__NEWL__Aron, his idealistic worldview shattered, enlists in the Army to fight in World War I.__NEWL__He is killed in battle in the last year of the war, and Adam suffers a stroke upon hearing the news from Lee.__NEWL__Cal, who began a relationship with Aron's idealised girlfriend, Abra Bacon, after Aron went to war, tries to convince her to run away with him.__NEWL__She instead persuades him to return home.__NEWL__Lee pleads with the bedridden and dying Adam to forgive his only remaining son.__NEWL__Adam responds by non-verbally indicating that he forgives Cal, and then says "timshel", giving Cal the choice to break the cycle and conquer sin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q313129	Middlemarch	1871-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q174193	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	165326	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165326	Middlemarch centres on the lives of residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards – the years up to the 1832 Reform Act.__NEWL__The narrative may be considered to consist of four plots with unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke, the career of Tertius Lydgate, the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy, and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode.__NEWL__The two main plots are those of Dorothea and Lydgate.__NEWL__Each plot occurs concurrently, although Bulstrode's is centred on the later chapters.__NEWL__Dorothea Brooke is a 19-year-old orphan, living with her younger sister, Celia, as a ward of her uncle, Mr Brooke.__NEWL__Dorothea is an especially pious young woman whose hobby involves the renovation of buildings belonging to the tenant farmers, although her uncle discourages her.__NEWL__Dorothea is courted by Sir James Chettam, a man close to her own age, but she is oblivious to him.__NEWL__She is attracted instead to the Rev. Edward Casaubon, a 45-year-old scholar.__NEWL__Dorothea accepts Casaubon's offer of marriage, despite her sister's misgivings.__NEWL__Chettam is encouraged to turn his attention to Celia, who has developed an interest in him.__NEWL__Fred and Rosamond Vincy are the eldest children of Middlemarch's town mayor.__NEWL__Having never finished university, Fred is widely seen as a failure and a layabout, but is content because he is the presumed heir of his childless uncle Mr Featherstone, a rich but unpleasant man.__NEWL__Featherstone keeps as a companion a niece of his by marriage, Mary Garth; although she is considered plain, Fred is in love with her and wants to marry her.__NEWL__Dorothea and Casaubon experience the first tensions in their marriage on their honeymoon in Rome, when Dorothea finds that her husband has no interest in involving her in his intellectual pursuits and no real intention of having his copious notes published, which was her chief reason for marrying him.__NEWL__She meets Will Ladislaw, Casaubon's much younger disinherited cousin whom he supports financially.__NEWL__Ladislaw begins to feel attracted to Dorothea; she remains oblivious, but the two become friendly.__NEWL__Fred becomes deeply in debt and finds himself unable to repay what he owes.__NEWL__Having asked Mr Garth, Mary's father, to co-sign the debt, he now tells Garth he must forfeit it.__NEWL__As a result, Mrs Garth's savings from four years of income, held in reserve for the education of her youngest son, are wiped out, as are Mary's savings.__NEWL__Mr Garth thus warns Mary against ever marrying Fred.__NEWL__Fred comes down with an illness and is treated by Dr Tertius Lydgate, a newly arrived doctor in Middlemarch.__NEWL__Lydgate has modern ideas about medicine and sanitation and believes doctors should prescribe, but not themselves dispense medicines.__NEWL__This draws ire and criticism of many in town.__NEWL__He allies himself with Bulstrode, a wealthy, church-going landowner and developer who wants to build a hospital and clinic that follow Lydgate's philosophy, despite the misgivings of Lydgate's friend, Farebrother, about Bulstrode's integrity.__NEWL__Lydgate also becomes acquainted with Rosamond Vincy, who is beautiful and educated, but shallow and self-absorbed.__NEWL__Seeking to make a good match, she decides to marry Lydgate, who comes from a wealthy family, and uses Fred's sickness as an opportunity to get close to him.__NEWL__Lydgate initially views their relationship as pure flirtation and backs away from Rosamond after discovering that the town considers them practically engaged.__NEWL__However, on seeing her a final time, he breaks his resolution and the two become engaged.__NEWL__Casaubon arrives back from Rome about the same time, but suffers a heart attack.__NEWL__Lydgate attends him and tells Dorothea it is difficult to pronounce on the nature of Casaubon's illness and chances of recovery: that he may indeed live about 15 years if he takes it easy and ceases his studies, but it is equally possible the disease may develop rapidly, in which case death will be sudden.__NEWL__As Fred recovers, Mr Featherstone falls ill.__NEWL__On his deathbed, he reveals that he has made two wills and tries to get Mary to help him destroy one.__NEWL__Unwilling to be involved in the business, she refuses, and Featherstone dies with both wills still intact.__NEWL__Featherstone's plan had been for £10,000 to go to Fred Vincy, but his estate and fortune instead go to his illegitimate son, Joshua Rigg.__NEWL__Casaubon, in poor health, has grown suspicious of Dorothea's goodwill to Ladislaw.__NEWL__He tries to make Dorothea promise, if he should die, to forever "avoid doing what I should deprecate, and apply yourself to do what I should desire".__NEWL__She is hesitant to agree, and he dies before she can reply.__NEWL__Casaubon's will is revealed to contain a provision that, if Dorothea marries Ladislaw, she will lose her inheritance.__NEWL__The peculiar nature of the condition leads to general suspicion that Ladislaw and Dorothea are lovers, creating awkwardness between the two.__NEWL__Ladislaw is in love with Dorothea but keeps this secret, having no desire to involve her in scandal or cause her disinheritance.__NEWL__She realises she has romantic feelings for him, but must suppress them.__NEWL__He remains in Middlemarch, working as a newspaper editor for Mr Brooke, who is mounting a campaign to run for Parliament on a Reform platform.__NEWL__Lydgate's efforts to please Rosamond soon leave him deeply in debt, and he is forced to seek help from Bulstrode.__NEWL__He is partly sustained in this by a friendship with Camden Farebrother.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Fred Vincy's humiliation at being responsible for Caleb Garth's financial setbacks shocks him into reassessing his life.__NEWL__He resolves to train as a land agent under the forgiving Caleb.__NEWL__He asks Farebrother to plead his case to Mary Garth, not realizing that Farebrother is also in love with her.__NEWL__Farebrother does so, thereby sacrificing his own desires for the sake of Mary, who he realises truly loves Fred and is just waiting for him to find his place in the world.__NEWL__John Raffles, a mysterious man who knows of Bulstrode's shady past, appears in Middlemarch, intending to blackmail him.__NEWL__In his youth, the church-going Bulstrode engaged in questionable financial dealings; his fortune is founded on his marriage to a wealthy, much older widow.__NEWL__The widow's daughter, who should have inherited her mother's fortune, had run away; Bulstrode located her but failed to disclose this to the widow, so that he inherited the fortune in lieu of her daughter.__NEWL__The widow's daughter had a son, who turns out to be Ladislaw.__NEWL__On grasping their connection, Bulstrode is consumed with guilt and offers Ladislaw a large sum of money, which Ladislaw refuses as being tainted.__NEWL__Bulstrode's terror of public exposure as a hypocrite leads him to hasten the death of the mortally sick Raffles, while lending a large sum to Lydgate, whom Bulstrode had previously refused to bail out of his debt.__NEWL__However, the story of Bulstrode's misdeeds has already spread.__NEWL__Bulstrode's disgrace engulfs Lydgate: knowledge of the loan spreads and he is assumed to be complicit with Bulstrode.__NEWL__Only Dorothea and Farebrother retain any faith in him, but Lydgate and Rosamond are still encouraged to leave Middlemarch by the general opprobrium.__NEWL__Disgraced and reviled, Bulstrode's one consolation is that his wife stands by him as he too faces exile.__NEWL__When Mr Brooke's election campaign collapses, Ladislaw decides to leave the town and visits Dorothea to say his farewell, but Dorothea has fallen in love with him.__NEWL__She renounces Casaubon's fortune and shocks her family by announcing that she will marry Ladislaw.__NEWL__At the same time, Fred, having been successful in his new career, marries Mary.__NEWL__The "Finale" details the ultimate fortunes of the main characters.__NEWL__Fred and Mary marry and live contentedly with their three sons.__NEWL__Lydgate operates a successful practice outside Middlemarch and attains a good income, but never finds fulfilment and dies at the age of 50, leaving Rosamond and four children.__NEWL__After he dies, Rosamond marries a wealthy physician.__NEWL__Ladislaw engages in public reform, and Dorothea is content as a wife and mother to their two children.__NEWL__Their son eventually inherits Arthur Brooke's estate.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3819831	On the Beach	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3960	Australian continent	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q691	Papua New Guinea	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	155505	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155505	The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963.__NEWL__World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere.__NEWL__The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom by Egypt.__NEWL__Because the aircraft used in these attacks were obtained from the Soviet Union, the Soviets were mistakenly blamed, triggering a retaliatory strike on the Soviet Union by NATO.__NEWL__There is also an attack by the Soviets on the People's Republic of China, which may have been a response to a Chinese attack aimed at occupying Soviet industrial areas near the Chinese border.__NEWL__Most, if not all, of the bombs included cobalt to enhance their radioactive properties.__NEWL__Global air currents are slowly carrying the lethal nuclear fallout across the Intertropical Convergence Zone to the Southern Hemisphere.__NEWL__The only parts of the planet still habitable are Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the southern parts of South America, although they are slowly succumbing to radiation poisoning as well.__NEWL__Life in Melbourne continues reasonably normally, although the near-complete lack of motor fuels makes traveling difficult.__NEWL__People in Australia detect a mysterious and incomprehensible Morse code-like radio signal originating from the American city of Seattle, Washington.__NEWL__With hope that someone has survived in the contaminated regions, one of the last American nuclear submarines, USS Scorpion, placed by its captain, Commander Dwight Towers, under Australian naval command, is ordered to sail north from its port of refuge in Melbourne (Australia's southernmost major mainland city) to contact whoever is sending the signal.__NEWL__In preparation for this journey, the submarine makes a shorter trip to port cities in northern Australia, including Cairns, Queensland, and Darwin, Northern Territory; no survivors are found.__NEWL__Two Australians sail with the American crew:__NEWL__Lieutenant Peter Holmes, naval liaison officer to the Americans, and a scientist, Professor John Osborne.__NEWL__Commander Towers has become attached to a young Australian woman distantly related to Osborne, named Moira Davidson, who tries to cope with the impending end of human life through heavy drinking.__NEWL__Despite his attraction to Davidson, Towers remains loyal to his wife and children in the United States.__NEWL__He buys his children gifts and imagines them growing older.__NEWL__At one point, however, he makes it clear to Moira that he knows his family is almost certainly dead, and he asks her if she thinks he is insane for acting as if they were still alive.__NEWL__She replies that she does not think he is crazy.__NEWL__The Australian government provides citizens with free suicide pills and injections so they can avoid prolonged suffering from radiation poisoning.__NEWL__Periodic reports show the steady southward progression of the deadly radiation.__NEWL__As communications are lost with a city, it is referred to as being "out."__NEWL__One of the novel's poignant dilemmas is that of Peter Holmes, who has a baby daughter and a naïve wife, Mary, who is in denial about the impending disaster.__NEWL__Because he has been assigned to travel north with the Americans, Peter tries to explain, to Mary's fury and disbelief, how to kill their baby and herself, by taking the suicide pill should he not return from his mission in time to help.__NEWL__The bachelor Osborne spends much of his time restoring and subsequently racing a Ferrari racing car that he had purchased (along with a fuel supply) for a nominal amount following the war's outbreak.__NEWL__The submarine travels to the Gulf of Alaska in the northern Pacific Ocean, where the crew determines that radiation levels are not decreasing.__NEWL__This finding discredits the "Jorgensen Effect", a scientific theory positing that radiation levels will decrease at a much greater rate than previously thought, aided by the weather effects, and potentially allow for human life to continue in southern Australia or at least Antarctica.__NEWL__The submarine approaches San Francisco, observing through the periscope that the city had been devastated and the Golden Gate Bridge has fallen.__NEWL__In contrast, the Puget Sound area, from which the strange radio signals are emanating, is found to have avoided destruction because of missile defences.__NEWL__One crew member, who is from Edmonds, Washington, which the expedition visits, jumps ship to spend his last days in his home town.__NEWL__The expedition members then sail to an abandoned navy communications school south of Seattle.__NEWL__A crewman sent ashore with oxygen tanks and protective gear discovers that although the city's residents have long since perished, some of the region's hydroelectric power is still working due to primitive automation technology.__NEWL__He finds that the mysterious radio signal is the result of a broken window sash swinging in the breeze and occasionally hitting a telegraph key.__NEWL__After a brief stop at Pearl Harbor, the remaining submariners return to Australia to live out what little time they have left.__NEWL__Osborne takes his suicide pill while sitting in his beloved racing car.__NEWL__When Mary Holmes becomes very ill, Peter administers a lethal injection to their daughter.__NEWL__Even though he still feels relatively well, he and Mary take their pills simultaneously so they can die as a family.__NEWL__Towers and his remaining crew choose to scuttle the Scorpion in the open ocean, fulfilling a naval duty to not leave the unmanned vessel "floating about in a foreign port", after her crew succumbs to suicide or radiation poisoning.__NEWL__Moira watches the submarine's departure in her car, parked atop an adjacent hilltop, as she takes her suicide pill, imagining herself together with Towers as she dies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q193417	Madame Bovary	1857-01-01T00:00:00Z	14155	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	161242	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161242	Madame Bovary takes place in provincial Northern France, near the town of Rouen in Normandy.__NEWL__Charles Bovary is a shy, oddly dressed teenager arriving at a new school where his new classmates ridicule him.__NEWL__He struggles his way to a second-rate medical degree, and becomes an in the Public Health Service.__NEWL__He marries the woman his mother has chosen for him, the unpleasant but supposedly rich widow Héloïse Dubuc.__NEWL__He sets out to build a practice in the village of Tôtes.__NEWL__One day, Charles visits a local farm to set the owner's broken leg and meets his patient's daughter, Emma Rouault.__NEWL__Emma is a beautiful, poetically dressed young woman who has received a "good education" in a convent.__NEWL__She has a powerful yearning for luxury and romance inspired by reading popular novels.__NEWL__Charles is immediately attracted to her, and visits his patient far more often than necessary, until Héloïse's jealousy puts a stop to the visits.__NEWL__When Héloïse unexpectedly dies, Charles waits a decent interval before courting Emma in earnest.__NEWL__Her father gives his consent, and Emma and Charles marry.__NEWL__The novel's focus shifts to Emma.__NEWL__After Charles and Emma attend an elegant ball given by the Marquis d'Andervilliers, Emma finds her married life dull and becomes listless.__NEWL__Charles decides his wife needs a change of scenery and moves his practice to the larger market town of Yonville (traditionally identified with the town of Ry).__NEWL__There, Emma gives birth to a daughter, Berthe, but motherhood proves a disappointment to Emma.__NEWL__She becomes infatuated with Léon Dupuis, an intelligent young man she meets in Yonville.__NEWL__Léon is a law student who shares Emma's appreciation for literature and music and returns her esteem.__NEWL__Emma does not acknowledge her passion for Léon, who despairs of gaining Emma's affection and departs for Paris to continue his studies.__NEWL__One day, a rich and rakish landowner, Rodolphe Boulanger, brings a servant to the doctor's office to be bled.__NEWL__He casts his eye over Emma and imagines she will be easily seduced.__NEWL__He invites her to go riding with him for the sake of her health.__NEWL__Charles, solicitous for his wife's health and not at all suspicious, embraces the plan.__NEWL__Emma and Rodolphe begin an affair.__NEWL__She, consumed by her romantic fantasy, risks compromising herself with indiscreet letters and visits to her lover.__NEWL__After four years, she insists they run away together.__NEWL__Rodolphe does not share her enthusiasm for this plan and on the eve of their planned departure, he ends the relationship with a letter placed at the bottom of a basket of apricots delivered to Emma.__NEWL__The shock is so great that Emma falls deathly ill and briefly returns to religion.__NEWL__When Emma is nearly fully recovered, she and Charles attend the opera, at Charles' insistence, in nearby Rouen.__NEWL__The work being performed that evening was Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, based on Walter Scott's 1819 historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor.__NEWL__The opera reawakens Emma's passions, and she re-encounters Léon who, now educated and working in Rouen, is also attending the opera.__NEWL__They begin an affair.__NEWL__While Charles believes that she is taking piano lessons, Emma travels to the city each week to meet Léon, always in the same room of the same hotel, which the two come to view as their home.__NEWL__The love affair is ecstatic at first, but Léon grows bored with Emma's emotional excesses, and Emma grows ambivalent about Léon.__NEWL__Emma indulges her fancy for luxury goods and clothes with purchases made on credit from the merchant Lheureux, who arranges for her to obtain power of attorney over Charles' estate.__NEWL__All the same, Emma's debt steadily mounts.__NEWL__When Lheureux calls in Bovary's debt, Emma pleads for money from several people, including Léon and Rodolphe, only to be turned down.__NEWL__In despair, she swallows arsenic and dies an agonizing death.__NEWL__Charles, heartbroken, abandons himself to grief, preserves Emma's room as a shrine, and adopts her attitudes and tastes to keep her memory alive.__NEWL__In his last months, he stops working and lives by selling off his possessions.__NEWL__His remaining possessions are seized to pay off Lheureux.__NEWL__When he finds Rodolphe and Léon's love letters, he breaks down for good.__NEWL__He dies, and his young daughter Berthe is placed with her grandmother, who soon dies.__NEWL__Berthe then lives with an impoverished aunt, who sends her to work in a cotton mill.__NEWL__The book concludes with the local pharmacist Homais, who had competed with Charles' medical practice, gaining prominence among Yonville people and being rewarded for his medical achievements.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1215393	The Pearl	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q58731	Baja California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	165361	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165361	Kino, a poor pearl fisherman, lives with his wife Juana and their infant son Coyotito in La Paz, Baja California Sur.__NEWL__Kino sees a scorpion crawl down one of the ropes holding up the hanging box that serves as Coyotito's crib and tries to remove it.__NEWL__However, Coyotito shakes the rope, causing the scorpion to fall into the box and sting him.__NEWL__Kino and Juana visit the local doctor, but are turned away because of their poverty and his prejudices toward Amerindians.__NEWL__As Juana applies a seaweed poultice to the sting, Kino dives for oysters from his canoe, hoping to find a pearl valuable enough to cover the treatment fee.__NEWL__One oyster yields an immense pearl, which he calls "The Pearl of the World"; news of its discovery spreads quickly, and some of the family's neighbors start to resent Kino's luck in finding it.__NEWL__Unaware of these reactions, Kino envisions selling the pearl and using the money to improve his family's lives.__NEWL__The doctor visits them to treat Coyotito, even though the baby seems to be recovering, and Kino promises to pay him after selling the pearl.__NEWL__ That night, Kino drives off a thief who attempts to break into his house.__NEWL__Juana warns him that the pearl will destroy the family, but Kino insists that it is their only chance for a better life.__NEWL__He goes to sell it the next day, not knowing that all the pearl dealers in La Paz are working for a single buyer and conspiring to keep prices low.__NEWL__Pretending that Kino's pearl is of poor quality, they make offers of 1,500 pesos at most; he angrily rejects them, believing the pearl to be worth 50,000 pesos, and vows to sell it in the capital instead.__NEWL__ More thieves attack him that night, but he remains resolved to make the journey despite Juana's warning that the pearl is evil and her suggestions to get rid of it.__NEWL__After he forcibly stops her from throwing it into the ocean, he is attacked again; Kino kills one man in self-defense, and he and Juana hurriedly flee with Coyotito to avoid any reprisals.__NEWL__Discovering that Kino's canoe has been damaged and their house looted and burned in search of the pearl, the family takes refuge with Kino's brother and his wife before setting out for the capital the following night.__NEWL__As they travel, Kino spots a trio of men following them and Juana realizes that their intent is to take the pearl and kill the entire family.__NEWL__Leaving the road they have been using, Kino leads Juana into the mountains in order to leave fewer signs of their passage.__NEWL__They take shelter in a cave, only for the trackers to make camp by a pool of water below them.__NEWL__As Kino sneaks down to ambush the trio, one of them hears a cry and fires his rifle in its direction, thinking it to be a coyote pup.__NEWL__Kino attacks and kills all three men, then discovers that the shot has killed Coyotito.__NEWL__Kino and Juana return to La Paz with their son's body.__NEWL__After looking at the pearl one last time and seeing its surface reflect images of all the disasters that have befallen him, Kino throws it into the ocean.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4859885	Barchester Towers	1857-01-01T00:00:00Z	3409	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	165372	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165372	Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester.__NEWL__The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him.__NEWL__Owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see.__NEWL__His wife, Mrs Proudie, exercises an undue influence over the new bishop, making herself as well as the bishop unpopular with most of the clergy of the diocese.__NEWL__Her interference to veto the reappointment of the universally popular Mr Septimus Harding (protagonist of Trollope's earlier novel, The Warden) as warden of Hiram's Hospital is not well received, even though she gives the position to a needy clergyman, Mr Quiverful, with 14 children to support.__NEWL__Even less popular than Mrs Proudie is the bishop's new chaplain, the hypocritical and sycophantic Mr Obadiah Slope, who decides it would be expedient to marry Harding's wealthy widowed daughter, Eleanor Bold.__NEWL__Slope hopes to win her favour by interfering in the controversy over the wardenship.__NEWL__The Bishop or rather Mr Slope under the orders of Mrs Proudie, also orders the return of the prebendary Dr Vesey Stanhope from Italy.__NEWL__Stanhope has been in Italy recovering from a sore throat for 12 years and has spent his time catching butterflies.__NEWL__With him to the Cathedral Close come his wife and their three adult children.__NEWL__The younger of Dr Stanhope's two daughters causes consternation in the Palace and threatens the plans of Mr Slope.__NEWL__Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni is a disabled serial flirt with a young daughter and a mysterious Italian husband, whom she has left.__NEWL__Mrs Proudie is appalled and considers her an unsafe influence on her daughters, servants and Mr Slope.__NEWL__Mr Slope is drawn like a moth to a flame and cannot keep away.__NEWL__Dr Stanhope's son Bertie is skilled at spending money but not at making it; his sisters think marriage to rich Eleanor Bold will help.__NEWL__Summoned by Archdeacon Grantly to assist in the war against the Proudies and Mr Slope is the brilliant Reverend Francis Arabin.__NEWL__Mr Arabin is a considerable scholar, Fellow of Lazarus College at Oxford, who nearly followed his mentor John Henry Newman into the Roman Catholic Church.__NEWL__A misunderstanding occurs between Eleanor and her father, brother-in-law, sister and Mr Arabin, who think that she intends to marry Mr Slope, much to their disgust.__NEWL__Mr Arabin is attracted to Eleanor, but the efforts of Grantly and his wife to stop her marrying Slope interfere with any relationship that might develop.__NEWL__At the Ullathorne garden party held by the Thornes, matters come to a head.__NEWL__Mr Slope proposes to Mrs Bold and is slapped for his presumption; Bertie goes through the motions of a proposal to Eleanor and is refused with good grace and the Signora has a chat with Mr Arabin.__NEWL__Mr Slope's double-dealings are now revealed and he is dismissed by Mrs Proudie and the Signora.__NEWL__The Signora drops a delicate word in several ears and with the removal of their misunderstanding Mr Arabin and Eleanor become engaged.__NEWL__The old Dean of the Cathedral having died, Mr Slope campaigns to become Dean but Mr Harding is offered the preferment, with a beautiful house in the Close and fifteen acres of garden.__NEWL__Mr Harding considers himself unsuitable and with the help of the archdeacon, arranges that Mr Arabin be made Dean.__NEWL__With the Stanhopes' return to Italy, life in the Cathedral Close returns to normal and Mr Harding continues his life of gentleness and music.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4366944	The Dragon in the Sea	1956-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	158297	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158297	In a near-future earth, the West and the East have been at war for more than a decade, and resources are running thin.__NEWL__The West is stealing oil from the East with specialized nuclear submarines ("subtugs") that sneak into the underwater oil fields of the East to secretly pump out the oil and bring it back.__NEWL__Each carrying a crew of four, these submarines undertake the most hazardous, stressful missions conceivable, and of late, the missions have been failing, with the last twenty submarines simply disappearing.__NEWL__The East has been very successful in planting sleepers in the West's military and command structures, and the suspicion is that sleepers are sabotaging the subs or revealing their positions once at sea.__NEWL__John Ramsey, a young psychologist from the Bureau of Psychology (BuPsych), is trained as an electronics operator and sent on the next mission, replacing the previous officer who went insane.__NEWL__His secret mission is to find the sleeper, or figure out why the crews are going insane.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2975729	Whipping Star	1970-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	158341	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158341	In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other sentient species: Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban (among others) and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern among the species.__NEWL__After suffering under a tyrannous pure democracy which had the power to create laws so fast that no thought could be given to the effects, the sentients of the galaxy found the need for a Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab) to slow the wheels of government, thereby preventing it from legislating recklessly.__NEWL__In Whipping Star, Jorj X. McKie is a saboteur extraordinary, a born troublemaker who has naturally become one of BuSab's best agents.__NEWL__As the novel opens, it is revealed that Calebans, who are beings visible to other sentient species as stars, have been disappearing one by one.__NEWL__Each disappearance is accompanied by millions of sentient deaths and instances of incurable insanity.__NEWL__Ninety years prior to the setting of Whipping Star, the Calebans appeared and offered jumpdoors to the collective species, allowing sentients to travel instantly to any point in the universe.__NEWL__Gratefully accepting, the sentiency didn't question the consequences.__NEWL__Now Mliss Abnethe, a psychotic human female with immense power and wealth, has bound a Caleban (called Fannie Mae) in a contract that allows the Caleban to be whipped to death; when the Caleban dies, everyone who has ever used a jumpdoor (which is almost every adult in the sentient world and many of the young) will die as well.__NEWL__The Calebans begin to disappear one at a time, leaving our plane of existence (or exiting "our wave") to save themselves.__NEWL__As all Calebans are connected, if all were to remain in our existence, when Fannie Mae died, all Calebans would die.__NEWL__As each Caleban exits, millions of the ConSentiency are killed or rendered insane.__NEWL__McKie has to find Mliss and stop her before Fannie Mae reaches, in her words, "ultimate discontinuity", but he is constrained by the law protecting private individuals by restricting the ministrations of BuSab to public entities.__NEWL__McKie succeeds in saving Fannie Mae by opening a jumpdoor into space which shunts a large interstellar cloud of (presumably) hydrogen into her stellar body, rejuvenating her from her torture at the hands of the Palenki henchmen hired by Mliss Abnethe.__NEWL__Fannie Mae agreed to the contract with Abnethe in return for education.__NEWL__Calebans have great difficulty understanding and communicating with the more limited species of the ConSentiency (and vice versa), but Fannie Mae is curious.__NEWL__Abnethe's wealth provides the best tutors in exchange for Fannie Mae's agreement to take the whippings.__NEWL__Abnethe has an insane sadistic streak, but a court-mandated Clockwork Orange–style conditioning session leaves her unable to tolerate the suffering of others.__NEWL__Abnethe needs a Caleban to take the whippings because she still craves a way to satisfy her sadistic urges and Calebans do not broadcast their pain in a way that is easily recognized by other species.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7798366	Thrones, Dominations	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	156216	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156216	It is 1936.__NEWL__Lord and Lady Peter Wimsey, returned from a European honeymoon, are settling into their new home in London, where daily life is affected by the illness and then death of the king.__NEWL__The couple are personally happy, having resolved many of the problems in their relationship caused by character and circumstance, but must now tackle the practical details of bringing their lives together, including domestic and working arrangements, and social and family obligations.__NEWL__The couple become slightly acquainted with Laurence Harwell, a wealthy theatrical "angel", and his beautiful wife, whom he has rescued from poverty following her rich father's disgrace and imprisonment.__NEWL__After two years' marriage the Harwells are famously still devoted to one another, and when she is found dead at their weekend cottage in the country Wimsey is asked to help interview the distraught husband, and becomes involved with the investigation.__NEWL__(He is also asked to undertake sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the new king, and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming war with Hitler's Germany.)__NEWL__Suspicion falls on a writer known to have been in love with Mrs Harwell, and a talented but bohemian painter who had been working on portraits of both Harriet and the murdered woman.__NEWL__Two men who knew Mrs Harwell's father in prison, and who have been blackmailing him with threats to harm her, are also suspected.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Harriet straightens out her domestic situation, learning how to fulfill her new role whilst keeping her own identity, and finds a practical solution to allow Wimsey's devoted manservant Bunter to marry without having to leave the household.__NEWL__Harriet's unorthodox approach infuriates her sister-in-law (who believes Harriet has an obligation to abandon her career, do her duty to the family and produce an heir) but it allows her to solve most of the practical difficulties that might have stood in the way of a successful and happy marriage.__NEWL__She also discovers she is expecting a baby.__NEWL__After some plot twists, a second murder and a scene involving the hidden rivers and Victorian sewers that run under London, it is revealed that Harwell unintentionally killed his wife in a jealous rage, in the belief she was preparing to entertain a lover, although ironically her preparations had really been for him.__NEWL__Harwell might have gotten off with a manslaughter conviction, except that he later committed the premeditated murder of an actress who was in a position to disprove his alibi and tried to blackmail him.__NEWL__Harriet visits Harwell in prison to comfort him with the knowledge that his wife had not, after all, been unfaithful.__NEWL__In doing so, she finally banishes the lingering ghosts of her own imprisonment and murder trial, and the effect they have had on her relationship with her own husband.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1823273	Light in August	1932-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	156314	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156314	The novel is set in the American South in the 1930s, during the time of Prohibition and Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South.__NEWL__It begins with the journey of Lena Grove, a young pregnant white woman from Doane's Mill, Alabama, who is trying to find Lucas Burch, the father of her unborn child.__NEWL__He has been fired from his job in Doane's Mill and moved to Mississippi, promising to send word to her when he has a new job.__NEWL__Not hearing from Burch and harassed by her older brother for her illegitimate pregnancy, Lena walks and hitchhikes to Jefferson, Mississippi, a town in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County.__NEWL__There she expects to find Lucas working at another planing mill, ready to marry her.__NEWL__Those who help her along her four-week trek are skeptical that Lucas Burch will be found, or that he will keep his promise when she catches up with him.__NEWL__When she arrives in Jefferson, Lucas is there, but he has changed his name to Joe Brown.__NEWL__Looking for Lucas, sweet, trusting Lena meets shy, mild-mannered Byron Bunch, who falls in love with Lena but feels honor-bound to help her find Joe Brown.__NEWL__Thoughtful and quietly religious, Byron is superior to Brown in every way, but his shyness prevents him from revealing his feelings to Lena.__NEWL__The novel then switches to the second plot strand, the story of Lucas Burch/Joe Brown's partner Joe Christmas.__NEWL__The surly, psychopathic Christmas has been on the run for years, ever since at least injuring, perhaps even killing his strict Presbyterian adopted father.__NEWL__Although he has light skin, Christmas suspects that he is of African American ancestry.__NEWL__Consumed with rage, he is a bitter outcast who wanders between black and white society, constantly provoking fights with blacks and whites alike.__NEWL__Christmas comes to Jefferson three years prior to the central events of the novel and gets a job at the mill where Byron, and later Joe Brown, work.__NEWL__ The job at the mill is a cover for Christmas's bootlegging operation, which is illegal under Prohibition.__NEWL__He has a sexual relationship with Joanna Burden, an older woman who descended from a formerly powerful abolitionist family whom the town despises as carpetbaggers.__NEWL__Though their relationship is passionate at first, Joanna begins menopause and turns to religion, which frustrates and angers Christmas.__NEWL__At the end of her relationship with Christmas, Joanna tries to force him, at gunpoint, to kneel and pray.__NEWL__Joanna is murdered soon after: her throat is slit and she is nearly decapitated.__NEWL__The novel leaves readers uncertain whether Joe Christmas or Joe Brown is the murderer.__NEWL__Brown is Christmas' business partner in bootlegging and is leaving Joanna's burning house when a passing farmer stops to investigate and pull Joanna's body from the fire.__NEWL__The sheriff at first suspects Joe Brown, but initiates a manhunt for Christmas after Brown claims that Christmas is black.__NEWL__The manhunt is fruitless until Christmas arrives undisguised in Mottstown, a neighboring town; he is on his way back to Jefferson, no longer running.__NEWL__In Mottstown, he is arrested and jailed, then moved to Jefferson.__NEWL__His grandparents arrive in town and visit Gail Hightower, the disgraced former minister of the town and friend of Byron Bunch.__NEWL__Bunch tries to convince Hightower to give the imprisoned Joe Christmas an alibi, but Hightower initially refuses.__NEWL__Though his grandfather wants Christmas lynched, his grandmother visits him in the Jefferson jail and advises him to seek help from Hightower.__NEWL__As police escort him to the local court, Christmas breaks free and runs to Hightower's house.__NEWL__A childishly cruel white vigilante, Percy Grimm, follows him there and, over Hightower's protest, shoots and castrates Christmas.__NEWL__Having redeemed himself at last, Hightower is then depicted as falling into a deathlike swoon, his whole life flashing before his eyes, including the past adventures of his Confederate grandfather, who was killed while stealing chickens from a farmer's shed.__NEWL__Before Christmas' escape attempt, Hightower delivers Lena's child in the cabin where Brown and Christmas had been staying before the murder, and Byron arranges for Brown/Burch to come and see her.__NEWL__Brown deserts Lena__NEWL__once again, but Byron follows him and challenges him to a fight.__NEWL__Brown beats the braver, smaller Bunch, then skillfully hops a moving train and disappears.__NEWL__At the end of the story, an anonymous man is talking to his wife about two strangers he picked up on a trip to Tennessee, recounting that the woman had a child and the man was not the father.__NEWL__This was Lena and Byron, who were conducting a half-hearted search for Brown, and they are eventually dropped off in Tennessee.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1989233	Jack of Shadows	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	155763	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155763	The novel is set in a world that is tidally locked.__NEWL__Thus one side of the planet is always in light, and the other in darkness.__NEWL__Science rules on the dayside, while magic holds sway in the night.__NEWL__Powerful magical entities live on the night side of the planet, and for the most part the entities' magical powers emanate from distinct loci.__NEWL__Jack of Shadows (also known as Shadowjack), the main character, is unique among the magical beings in that he draws his power not from a physical location but from shadow itself.__NEWL__He is nearly incapacitated in complete light or complete darkness, but given access to even a small area of shadow, his potency is unmatched.__NEWL__Jack's only friend, the creature Morningstar, is punished by being trapped in stone at the edge of the night, to be released when dawn comes.__NEWL__His torso and head protrude from the rock, and he awaits the sun that will never rise.__NEWL__Jack seeks "The Key That Was Lost", Kolwynia.__NEWL__The Key itself and the consequences of its use parallel Jack's progress in his own endeavors.__NEWL__Ultimately, the Key will be responsible for Jack's salvation and his doom.__NEWL__Fleeing the dark side, Jack gets access to a computer and uses it to recover Kolwynia.__NEWL__This makes him unbeatable, but not all-powerful.__NEWL__Having made a mess of ruling with his new powers, he seeks the advice of Morningstar, who advises him to destroy The Machine at the Heart of the World, which maintains the world's stability, and set it rotating.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q272506	The Phantom of the Opera	1910-01-01T00:00:00Z	175	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	162189	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162189	In the 1880s, in Paris, the Palais Garnier Opera House is believed to be haunted by an entity known as the Phantom of the Opera, or simply the Opera Ghost.__NEWL__A stagehand named Joseph Buquet is found hanged, the noose around his neck missing.__NEWL__ At a gala performance for the retirement of the opera house's two managers, a young, little-known Swedish soprano, Christine Daaé, is called upon to sing in place of the Opera's leading soprano, Carlotta, who is ill, and Christine’s performance is an astonishing success.__NEWL__The Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, who was present at the performance, recognizes her as his childhood playmate and recalls his love for her.__NEWL__He attempts to visit her backstage, where he hears a man complimenting her from inside her dressing room.__NEWL__He investigates the room once Christine leaves, only to find it empty.__NEWL__At Perros-Guirec, Christine meets with Raoul, who confronts her about the voice he heard in her room.__NEWL__Christine tells him she has been tutored by the Angel of Music, whom her father used to tell them about.__NEWL__When Raoul suggests that she might be the victim of a prank, she storms off.__NEWL__Christine visits her father's grave one night, where a mysterious figure appears and plays the violin for her.__NEWL__Raoul attempts to confront it but is attacked and knocked out in the process.__NEWL__Back at the Palais Garnier, the new managers receive a letter from the Phantom demanding that they allow Christine to perform the lead role of Marguerite in Faust and that Box 5 be left empty for his use, lest they perform in a house with a curse on it.__NEWL__The managers assume his demands are a prank and ignore them, resulting in disastrous consequences, as Carlotta ends up croaking like a toad, and a spectator dies after the chandelier suddenly drops into the audience.__NEWL__The Phantom, having abducted Christine from her dressing room, reveals himself as a deformed man called Erik.__NEWL__Erik intends to hold her prisoner in his lair with him for a few days.__NEWL__Still, she causes him to change his plans when she unmasks him and, to the horror of both, beholds his noseless, sunken-eyed face, which resembles a skull dried up by the centuries.__NEWL__Fearing that she will leave him, he decides to hold her permanently, but when Christine requests release after two weeks, he agrees on the condition that she wear his ring and be faithful to him.__NEWL__On the roof of the Opera House, Christine tells Raoul about her abduction and makes Raoul promise to take her away to a place where Erik can never find her, even if she resists.__NEWL__Raoul tells Christine he will act on his promise the next day, to which she agrees.__NEWL__However, Christine sympathizes with Erik and decides to sing for him one last time as a means of saying goodbye.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to Christine and Raoul, Erik has been watching them and overheard their whole conversation.__NEWL__The following night, the enraged and jealous Erik abducts Christine during a production of Faust and tries to force her to marry him.__NEWL__Raoul is led by a mysterious Opera regular known only as "The Persian" into Erik's secret lair deep in the bowels of the Opera House.__NEWL__Still, they end up trapped in a mirrored room by Erik, who threatens that unless Christine agrees to marry him, he will kill them and everyone in the Opera House by using explosives.__NEWL__Christine agrees to marry Erik.__NEWL__Erik initially tries to drown Raoul and the Persian, using the water which would have been used to douse the explosives.__NEWL__Still, Christine begs and offers to be his "living bride", promising him not to kill herself after becoming his bride, as she had just attempted suicide.__NEWL__Erik eventually releases Raoul and the Persian from his torture chamber.__NEWL__When Erik is alone with Christine, he lifts his mask to kiss her on her forehead and is eventually given a kiss back.__NEWL__Erik reveals that he has never kissed anyone, including his own mother, who would run away if he ever tried to kiss her.__NEWL__He is overcome with emotion.__NEWL__He and Christine then cry together, and their tears "mingle."__NEWL__She also holds his hand and says, "Poor, unhappy Erik," which reduces him to "a dog ready to die for her."__NEWL__He allows the Persian and Raoul to escape, though not before making Christine promise that she will visit him on his death day and return the gold ring he gave her.__NEWL__He also makes the Persian promise that afterward, he will go to the newspaper and report his death, as he will die soon "of love."__NEWL__Indeed, sometime later, Christine returns to Erik's lair and by his request, buries him someplace where he will never be found, and returns the gold ring.__NEWL__Afterward, a local newspaper runs the simple note: "Erik is dead.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Christine and Raoul elope together, never to return.__NEWL__The epilogue pieces together bits of Erik's life, information that "the narrator" obtained from the Persian.__NEWL__It is revealed that Erik was the son of a construction business owner, deformed at birth.__NEWL__He ran away from his native Normandy to work in fairs and caravans, schooling himself in the arts of the circus across Europe and Asia, and eventually building trick palaces in Persia and Turkey.__NEWL__Eventually, he returned to France and started his own construction business.__NEWL__After being subcontracted to work on the Palais Garnier's foundations, Erik had discreetly built himself a lair to disappear in, complete with hidden passages and other tricks that allowed him to spy on the managers.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6673346	Long Voyage Back	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z	160764	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160764	war, the USSR will win.__NEWL__This is because the average Russian doesn't have a gun, so they can't all shoot each other and the army for food" Plot summary.__NEWL__The story concerns a hypothetical World War III between the USSR and the United States, and graphically depicts the ensuing carnage.__NEWL__One family and some friends try to run away in a sailboat, and the story describes their battles with nuclear winter and fallout, and with the ensuing collapse of civilization.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q748075	High Fidelity	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	160046	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160046	Rob Fleming is a 35-year-old man who owns a record shop in London called Championship Vinyl.__NEWL__His lawyer girlfriend, Laura, has just left him and now he's going through a crisis.__NEWL__At his record shop, Rob and his employees, Dick and Barry, spend their free moments discussing mix-tape aesthetics and constructing desert-island "top-five" lists of anything that demonstrates their knowledge of music, movies, and pop culture.__NEWL__Rob uses this exercise to create his own list: "The top five most memorable split-ups.__NEWL__" This list includes the following ex-girlfriends: 1) Alison Ashworth, 2) Penny Hardwick, 3) Jackie Allen, 4) Charlie Nicholson, and 5) Sarah Kendrew.__NEWL__Rob, recalling these breakups, sets about getting in touch with the former girlfriends.__NEWL__Eventually, Rob's re-examination of his failed relationships, a one-time stand with an American musician named Marie De Salle, and the death of Laura's father bring the two back together.__NEWL__Their relationship is cemented by the launch of a new purposefulness to Rob's life in the revival of his disc jockey career.__NEWL__Also, realizing that his fear of commitment (a result of his fear of death of those around him) and his tendency to act on emotion are responsible for his continuing desires to pursue new women, Rob makes a token commitment to Laura.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q468071	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	1963-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23666	Great Britain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	161884	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161884	Alec Leamas, a former SOE operative during World War II who fought in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands and Norway, is recalled from his posting as Station Head of Berlin Station, West Berlin's operational branch of the Circus, and returns to London in despair after watching the death of his final undercover operative, Karl Riemeck, a member of the praesidium in East Germany's Socialist Unity Party, at the hands of Hans-Dieter Mundt.__NEWL__Mundt, formerly a lower level intelligence operative who is known to the Circus for his involvement in the murder of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan a few years earlier, has risen to become the head of the East German Abteilung on account of his brilliant counter-intelligence aptitude, a skill demonstrated with his liquidation of Leamas' entire network.__NEWL__Finding himself with no operatives left, Leamas visits Circus chief Control and expresses a desire to get out of the intelligence community and "come in from the cold".__NEWL__Control asks him to instead stay "in the cold" for one last mission: defect to East Germany and frame Mundt as a double agent for SIS.__NEWL__Mundt's deputy, Jens Fiedler, Control explains, is beginning to believe that Mundt may be a turncoat, and could be a useful target for Leamas in this endeavour.__NEWL__In exchange for this, Leamas will keep anything he makes on the mission, in addition to a pension pot, and will be granted leave to retire from the service.__NEWL__In order to convince the East Germans' of Leamas' potential defection, the Circus demotes Leamas to the finance department, where he starts to exhibit signs of alcoholism.__NEWL__He eventually is sacked abruptly on rumours he was stealing money from the Circus' accounts to support the small pension he was granted by his superiors, and is forced to go on the dole.__NEWL__Eventually he takes a job in a small run-down library, whilst living in a low quality flat.__NEWL__Whilst there, he meets Liz Gold, the secretary of her local Communist Party of Great Britain branch, and the two gradually strike up a friendship, and eventually become lovers.__NEWL__After a period of illness reveals the extent of Liz's feelings for him, Leamas confides in her that a day is coming where he will say goodbye and she must not look for him.__NEWL__A few days later, he says goodbye, and takes the "final plunge" into Control's plan, getting arrested for assault and sentenced to three months in prison.__NEWL__Before fully involving himself in the scheme, he makes Control promise to leave Liz alone and out of the remit of the Circus.__NEWL__Upon his release, Leamas is approached by an East German recruiter who claims to know him from his time in Berlin.__NEWL__He lets him stay at his home, and introduces him to a contact who takes him across to the Netherlands on a faked passport.__NEWL__Whilst there, an intelligence agent from the East interviews him deeply on his past in the Circus at a safe house in the Netherlands, before then taking him across into East Germany and gradually meeting more senior officials of the Abteilung, all the while dropping occasional hints about payments to a potential double agent.__NEWL__Whilst this occurs, Liz is suddenly visited by the retired Circus agent George Smiley, who tells her to come to him should she need anything, enquires about her relationship with Leamas, and pays off the outstanding rent on Leamas' flat.__NEWL__Now in East Germany, Leamas is finally introduced to Fiedler, where he is held under guard in a sparsely decorated home in the middle of nowhere.__NEWL__His days consist largely of extended discussion about his past Circus work, combined with walking in the local countryside and hills with Fiedler or a guard.__NEWL__The two men often end up in philosophical debate, particularly on the topic of Leamas' more pragmatic view of life in comparison to Fiedler's idealist ideological views about life in East Germany.__NEWL__These conversations reveal what Leamas observes as a fear about both the righteousness of Fiedler's motivations, as well as the morality of what he does for his country.__NEWL__In contrast, Mundt is a brutal opportunist, also mercenary-like in manner, who left the Nazis after the war out of convenience and joined the Communists.__NEWL__Fiedler also notes his suspicions about Mundt as the men get closer, and Fiedler conveys his fears about Mundt's anti-semitism affecting him, a Jewish man.__NEWL__Towards the end of Leamas' tenure in interrogation with Fiedler, the extent of the power struggle in the Abteilung is exposed when Mundt abruptly arrests Fiedler and Leamas.__NEWL__In the panic Leamas inadvertently kills an East German guard, and awakes in Mundt's facility, where Mundt interrogates and tortures both men.__NEWL__It is then revealed, however, that Fiedler had also submitted an arrest warrant for Mundt, leading the East German régime to intervene and convene a court.__NEWL__Fiedler and Mundt are both released, and then summoned to present their cases to a tribunal convened in camera.__NEWL__During the trial, Leamas further elaborates on previous mentions of undercover payments to a foreign agent in bank accounts which match locations that Mundt had travelled to, whilst Fiedler presents other evidence implicating Mundt to be a British agent.__NEWL__Whilst Leamas is away, Liz receives an invitation from the East Germans to participate in an exchange of party members with the British Communist Party.__NEWL__Surprisingly, she is summoned by Mundt's attorney as a witness and forced to testify at the tribunal.__NEWL__She then admits Smiley paid the apartment lease, and that Smiley offered help should she need it.__NEWL__She also confesses that Leamas made her promise not to look for him, and that he said goodbye immediately before he assaulted the grocer.__NEWL__Leamas, realising his cover has been blown, offers to tell them about the mission in exchange for Liz's freedom, but realises the true nature of the scheme during the course of the tribunal.__NEWL__Fiedler is then arrested at the tribunal's end.__NEWL__Immediately after the trial, Mundt subtly locates and then releases Leamas and Liz from jail, and gives them a car to get from their current location to the Berlin Wall.__NEWL__During the drive, Leamas explains the entire situation to a bemused Liz.__NEWL__Mundt is actually a British double agent, who reports to Smiley, who is actually undercover in the mission and pretending to be retired.__NEWL__Mundt was turned against the East Germans before he returned following the murder of Samuel Fennan a few years earlier, and the mission's true target was Fiedler, who was closing on exposing Mundt as a double agent.__NEWL__On account of Leamas and Liz's intimate relationship, however, Mundt (and Smiley) were provided with the means of discrediting Leamas' ability to provide evidence to the tribunal, and as such discredit Fiedler.__NEWL__Liz, however, is shaken, and realises that to her horror, her actions have enabled the Circus to protect their asset Mundt at the expense of the thoughtful and idealistic Fiedler.__NEWL__When asked what will become of Fiedler, Leamas replies that he will most likely be shot.__NEWL__Although disgusted, Liz overcomes this on account of her love for Leamas.__NEWL__The two drive to the Berlin wall, and make a break for West Germany by ascending over the wall and through a section of sabotaged barbed wire atop the wall.__NEWL__Leamas reaches the top, but as he reaches down to help Liz, she is shot and killed by one of Mundt's operatives.__NEWL__She falls back down, and as Smiley calls to Leamas from the other side of the wall, he hesitates, before eventually descending the wall on the East German side to die.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1645466	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	1940-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	161903	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161903	The book begins with a focus on the relationship between two close friends, John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, deaf-mutes who have lived together for several years.__NEWL__Antonapoulos becomes mentally ill, misbehaves, and, despite attempts at intervention from Singer, is eventually put into an insane asylum away from town.__NEWL__Now alone, Singer moves into a new room.__NEWL__The remainder of the narrative centers on the struggles of four of John Singer's acquaintances: Mick Kelly, a tomboyish girl who loves music and dreams of buying a piano; Jake Blount, an alcoholic labor agitator; Biff Brannon, the observant owner of a diner; and Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland, an idealistic physician.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4658620	A Night of Serious Drinking	1938-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	163009	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163009	An unnamed narrator spends an evening getting drunk with a group of friends.__NEWL__As the party becomes intoxicated and exuberant, the narrator seemingly begins a journey that ranges from apparent paradises to hell.__NEWL__The fantastic world depicted in A Night of Serious Drinking is actually the ordinary world distorted and satirized.__NEWL__Various characters are termed Anthographers, Fabricators of useless objects, Scienters, Nibblists, Clarificators, and other absurd titles.__NEWL__Yet the inhabitants of these strange realms are only too familiar: scientists dissecting an animal in their laboratory, a wise man surrounded by his devotees, politicians, poets expounding their rhetoric.__NEWL__These characters perform humorous antics and intellectual games, which they consider to be attempts to find meaning.__NEWL__In the second half of the book there is an early description of a linguistic strange loop (a set of verbal references which seem to repeat conceptually) which the character terms a "Taglufon."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q552238	Daniel Deronda	1876-01-01T00:00:00Z	7469					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	230019	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230019	Daniel Deronda contains two main strains of plot, united by the title character.__NEWL__The novel begins in late August 1865 with the meeting of Daniel and Gwendolen Harleth in the fictional town of Leubronn, Germany.__NEWL__Daniel finds himself attracted to, but wary of, the beautiful, stubborn, and selfish Gwendolen, whom he sees losing all her winnings in a game of roulette.__NEWL__The next day, Gwendolen receives a letter from her mother telling her that the family is financially ruined and asking her to come home.__NEWL__Gwendolen pawns a necklace and debates gambling again to make her fortune.__NEWL__However, her necklace is returned to her by a porter, and she realises that Daniel saw her pawn the necklace and redeemed it for her.__NEWL__From this point, the plot breaks off into two separate flashbacks; one gives us Gwendolen's history and the other Daniel's.__NEWL__In October 1864, soon after the death of Gwendolen's stepfather, Gwendolen and her family move to a new neighbourhood.__NEWL__It is here that she meets Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt, a taciturn and calculating man who proposes marriage shortly after their first meeting.__NEWL__At first she is open to his advances, but upon discovering that Grandcourt has several children with his mistress, Lydia Glasher, she eventually flees to the German town where she meets Daniel.__NEWL__This portion of the novel sets Gwendolen up as a haughty and selfish, yet affectionate daughter, admired for her beauty but suspected by many in society because of her satirical observations and somewhat manipulative behaviour.__NEWL__She is also prone to fits of terror that shake her otherwise calm and controlling exterior.__NEWL__Daniel has been raised by a wealthy gentleman, Sir Hugo Mallinger.__NEWL__Daniel's relationship to Sir Hugo is ambiguous, and it is widely believed, even by Daniel, that he is Sir Hugo's illegitimate son, though no one is certain.__NEWL__Daniel is an intelligent, light-hearted and compassionate young man who cannot quite decide what to do with his life, and this is a sore point between him and Sir Hugo, who wants him to go into politics.__NEWL__One day in late July 1865, as he is boating on the Thames, Daniel rescues a young Jewish woman, Mirah Lapidoth, from attempting to drown herself.__NEWL__He takes her to the home of some of his friends, where they learn that Mirah is a singer.__NEWL__She has come to London to search for her mother and brother after running away from her father, who kidnapped her when she was a child and forced her into an acting troupe.__NEWL__She finally ran away from him after discovering that he was planning to sell her into prostitution.__NEWL__Moved by her tale, Daniel undertakes to help her look for her mother (who turns out to have died years earlier) and brother; through this, he is introduced to London's Jewish community.__NEWL__Mirah and Daniel grow closer and Daniel, anxious about his growing affection for her, leaves for a short time to join Sir Hugo in Leubronn, where he and Gwendolen first meet.__NEWL__From here, the story picks up in "real time".__NEWL__Gwendolen returns from Germany in early September 1865 because her family has lost its fortune.__NEWL__She is unwilling to marry, the only respectable way in which a woman could achieve financial security; and she is similarly reluctant to become a governess because it means that her social status would be drastically lowered from wealthy landed gentry to almost that of a servant.__NEWL__She hits upon the idea of pursuing a career in singing or on the stage, but a prominent musician tells her she does not have the talent.__NEWL__Finally, to save herself and her family from relative poverty, she marries the wealthy Grandcourt, despite having promised Mrs. Glasher she would not and fearing that it is a mistake.__NEWL__She believes she can manipulate him to maintain her freedom to do what she likes; however, Grandcourt has shown every sign of being cold, unfeeling, and manipulative himself.__NEWL__Daniel, searching for Mirah's family, meets a consumptive visionary named Mordecai.__NEWL__Mordecai passionately proclaims his wish for the Jewish people to retain their national identity and one day be restored to the Promised Land.__NEWL__Because he is dying, he wants Daniel to become his intellectual heir and continue to pursue his dream to be an advocate for the Jewish people.__NEWL__Although he is strongly drawn to Mordecai, Daniel hesitates to commit himself to a cause that seems to have no connection to his own identity.__NEWL__Daniel's desire to embrace Mordecai's vision becomes stronger when they discover Mordecai is Mirah's brother Ezra.__NEWL__Still, Daniel does not believe that he is a Jew and cannot reconcile this fact with his affection and respect for Mordecai/Ezra, which would be necessary for him to pursue a life of Jewish advocacy.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Gwendolen has been emotionally crushed by her cold, self-centred, and manipulative husband.__NEWL__She is consumed with guilt for possibly disinheriting Lydia Glasher's children by marrying their father.__NEWL__On Gwendolen's wedding day, Mrs. Glasher curses her and tells her that she will suffer for her treachery, which only exacerbates Gwendolen's feelings of dread and terror.__NEWL__During this time, Gwendolen and Deronda meet regularly, and Gwendolen pours out her troubles to him at each meeting.__NEWL__During a trip to Italy, Grandcourt is knocked from his boat into the water, and after some hesitation, Gwendolen jumps into the Mediterranean in a futile attempt to save him.__NEWL__She is consumed with guilt because she had long wished he would die and fears her hesitation caused his death.__NEWL__Coincidentally, Daniel is also in Italy having learned from Sir Hugo that his mother lives there.__NEWL__He comforts Gwendolen and advises her.__NEWL__In love with Daniel, Gwendolen hopes for a future with him, but he urges her onto a path of righteousness, encouraging her to help others to alleviate her suffering.__NEWL__Daniel meets his mother and learns that she was a famous Jewish opera singer with whom Sir Hugo was once in love.__NEWL__She tells him that her father, a physician and strict Jew, forced her to marry her cousin whom she did not love.__NEWL__She resented the rigid piety of her childhood.__NEWL__Daniel was the only child of that union, and on her husband's death, she asked Sir Hugo to raise her son as an English gentleman, never to know that he was Jewish.__NEWL__Upon learning of his true origins, Daniel finally feels comfortable with his love for Mirah, and on his return to England in October 1866, he tells Mirah this and commits himself to be Ezra/Mordecai's disciple.__NEWL__Before Daniel marries Mirah, he goes to Gwendolen to tell her about his origins, his decision to go to "the East" (per Ezra/Mordecai's wish), and his betrothal to Mirah.__NEWL__Gwendolen is devastated, but it becomes a turning point in her life, inspiring her to finally say, "I shall live.__NEWL__" She sends him a letter on his wedding day, telling him not to think of her with sadness but to know that she will be a better person for having known him.__NEWL__The newlyweds are all prepared to set off for "the East" with Mordecai, when Mordecai dies in their arms, and the novel ends.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2492950	Nine Princes in Amber	1970-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	230089	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230089	Carl Corey wakes in a medical clinic, with little to no knowledge of who he is or how he got there.__NEWL__He suspects he is being overmedicated, so he overpowers the nurse and doctor and escapes his room.__NEWL__He finds the manager of the clinic, and learns that he was recovering from a car accident in a private clinic, paid for by his sister, Evelyn Flaumel.__NEWL__He flees and heads to her house.__NEWL__She addresses him as Corwin and calls herself Flora.__NEWL__Hiding his lack of memory, he convinces her to let him stay.__NEWL__In Flora's library he locates a set of customized Tarot cards— the Trumps—whose Major Arcana are replaced with images which he recognizes as his family.__NEWL__As he looks over the cards he remembers all his brothers: sneaky Random, Julian the hunter, well-built Gérard, arrogant Eric, himself, Benedict the master tactician and swordsman, sinister Caine, scheming Bleys, and the mysterious Brand.__NEWL__He also views his four sisters: Flora who offered him sanctuary, Deirdre who was dear to him, reserved Llewella, and Fiona, whom Corwin hated.__NEWL__His brother Random contacts him via telephone and Corwin promises to give him protection.__NEWL__Random arrives, pursued by mysterious spined, bloodshot-eyed humanoid creatures, and during the ensuing battle Corwin learns that he has superhuman strength.__NEWL__The combined efforts of Corwin, Random, and Flora's dogs ultimately defeat the attacking creatures.__NEWL__Later, in a guarded conversation in which Corwin continues to mask his memory loss, Random asks Corwin whether he wishes to "try", to which Corwin agrees, only learning later that he has agreed to attempt to seize the throne of Amber.__NEWL__They set off in a car and the world begins to change around them as they drive.__NEWL__Corwin realizes that Random is somehow causing the changes.__NEWL__They ultimately end up in the Forest of Arden, the territory of their brother Julian who is allied with Corwin's enemy, Eric.__NEWL__Julian's beasts confront Random and Corwin, and eventually Julian himself appears on his steed Morgenstern to hunt them down.__NEWL__In the ensuing chase, Corwin unhorses Julian and takes him prisoner.__NEWL__Seeing that their leader is held hostage, Julian's men let Corwin and Random proceed through the forest.__NEWL__After setting Julian free and proceeding on foot to Amber, they encounter their sister Deirdre who reveals she has fled from Eric's court.__NEWL__Corwin finally reveals that he has very little memory of his identity or their destination, so Deirdre convinces him to walk the Pattern, which she believes will cure his amnesia.__NEWL__The three then travel to Rebma, a reflection of Amber underwater, and there they meet Moire, the queen of Rebma, and explain their intentions.__NEWL__Because Rebma is a reflection of Amber, there is also a reflection of the Pattern, which Corwin is to walk to restore his memory.__NEWL__Although Random is imprisoned for past offenses in Rebma and sentenced to wed a blind girl named Vialle, Corwin convinces the queen to allow him to walk the Pattern.__NEWL__After receiving advice from Random and Deirdre, he succeeds in negotiating the Pattern, experiencing flashbacks of his previous life, which stretches back over centuries to his time in Amber, and recalling the incident that caused his amnesia, when Eric beat him unconscious and left him to die of the Black Death in medieval England on our Earth.__NEWL__He remembers the powers which his heritage and the Pattern grant him - the power to walk through shadow, and to pronounce a powerful curse before dying.__NEWL__After he completes the Pattern he uses its power to project himself into the Castle of Amber.__NEWL__Searching the castle library, Corwin finds a pack of the Trumps and encounters an old servant friend.__NEWL__However, Eric enters the library and he and Corwin begin to duel.__NEWL__Although intimidated at first by Eric's immense skill, Corwin gets the upper hand in the sword fight and injures Eric on the arm.__NEWL__When soldiers of the castle move in to protect Eric, Corwin retreats and uses a Trump to contact his brother Bleys, who teleports Corwin to his location in Shadow.__NEWL__Corwin then agrees to aid Bleys in his attempt to assault Amber and defeat Eric.__NEWL__Corwin gathers a large group of warriors from Shadow and assembles a navy, while Bleys creates an army on land.__NEWL__From here Corwin attempts to contact his brothers, looking for allies.__NEWL__Caine, although supporting Eric, gives Corwin a promise of safe passage by sea, as does his brother Gérard.__NEWL__When he attempts to reach Brand, he views him in a prison and Brand desperately asks Corwin to free him before his image disappears.__NEWL__Unable to reach Benedict, on a whim Corwin attempts to use a Trump to contact his father Oberon, who has been missing for years and is presumed dead.__NEWL__Corwin succeeds in reaching Oberon, who encourages him to seize the throne, but the contact is quickly lost.__NEWL__When Corwin contacts Random, Random reveals that Eric has contacted him and revealed the full extent of his defenses, which are vast and powerful.__NEWL__Furthermore, Random tells Corwin that Eric has gained control over the mysterious Jewel of Judgment, which allows him to control the weather among other things.__NEWL__Despite Random's misgivings, Corwin remains resolute in his desire to attack Amber with Bleys.__NEWL__As the invasion begins, Corwin travels with the navy by sea but finds Caine waiting for him with a superior force, apparently in violation of their agreement.__NEWL__Eric then contacts Corwin by Trump and reveals that he knew about his plans from Caine.__NEWL__The two engage in a mental duel which Corwin is unable to break free from.__NEWL__After the two exchange taunts, Corwin launches a full mental assault on Eric, which defeats him and leaves him with the knowledge that Corwin is his superior.__NEWL__Corwin then joins in the battle although it is hopeless: Caine's forces are already destroying Corwin's navy and he escapes via Trump to Bleys and his army.__NEWL__Bleys has been constantly assaulted by creatures of Shadow and the poor weather conditions that have been created by Eric's use of the Jewel of Judgment.__NEWL__Although they eventually reach Amber, their forces have dwindled and they barely fight their way up Kolvir, the mountain on which Castle Amber is situated.__NEWL__Bleys is ultimately pushed off a cliff, although Corwin throws him his pack of Trumps to allow him to escape the fall.__NEWL__Corwin then uses his few remaining forces and pushes through, eventually reaching the castle grounds, but before he can reach the throne or Eric, his remaining forces are surrounded and he is captured.__NEWL__Corwin is brought forth in chains to endure Eric's coronation.__NEWL__Julian, who is at Eric's side, instructs Corwin to hand the crown of Amber to Eric, who will crown himself King of the one true world.__NEWL__Corwin instead crowns himself King of Amber, but he is quickly beaten by the guards and eventually throws the crown at Eric.__NEWL__Eric then crowns himself, and sentences Corwin to be imprisoned, and his eyes burned out.__NEWL__As hot irons are used to destroy his eyes, Corwin utters a powerful curse on Eric and Amber.__NEWL__Blind and imprisoned beneath the castle, Corwin is driven to near insanity, although rare visits and smuggled gifts from his friend Lord Rein help him maintain his spirit and hope.__NEWL__After a year has passed in blindness and solitude, he is let out to eat at Eric's table on the anniversary of the coronation before being thrown into the dungeons again.__NEWL__After years have passed, Corwin's eyesight begins to regenerate, and he begins an escape attempt by whittling the door with a spoon he stole from Eric's table.__NEWL__Before he can escape in this manner, Dworkin, the mad sorcerer and creator of the Trumps, appears out of nowhere, having seemingly walked through the dungeon wall.__NEWL__He explains that he entered Corwin's cell by drawing a picture and walking through it, and wishes to return in the same way.__NEWL__Dworkin uses Corwin's sharpened spoon to draw a Trump image of his quarters on the wall, but before he leaves, Corwin persuades him to draw the Lighthouse of Cabra on the opposite wall.__NEWL__Using this drawing as a Trump, Corwin projects himself out of his prison.__NEWL__At Cabra he meets Jopin, the keeper of the lighthouse, but does not reveal his true identity.__NEWL__Jopin helps Corwin rehabilitate from his prison ordeal as Corwin aids Jopin in his activities around the lighthouse.__NEWL__Once he is fully recovered, Jopin recognizes Corwin, and shows him that the Vale of Garnath, previously a pleasant valley adjacent to Amber, has become a warped and twisted evil place, which Corwin recognizes as the result of his own curse.__NEWL__Corwin takes Jopin's craft Butterfly and sails away, while sending a message to Eric via a black bird, stating that he will return to claim the throne.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2996611	The Guns of Avalon	1972-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	230092	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230092	Corwin has escaped the dungeons of Amber, where he was imprisoned by his hated brother Eric, who has seized the throne.__NEWL__All of Corwin's siblings believe that guns can never be brought to the medieval world of Amber, as all gunpowders seem inert there.__NEWL__But Corwin has secret knowledge: in the shadow world of Avalon, where he once ruled, there exists a jeweler's rouge that will function as gunpowder in Amber.__NEWL__Corwin plans to raise a legion of shadow soldiers, and arm them with automatic rifles from the shadow world Earth.__NEWL__Corwin sets out through the endless worlds of shadow in search of Avalon, his one-time home.__NEWL__As Corwin nears Avalon, he passes through a land called Lorraine.__NEWL__As it is near to Avalon in Shadow, some aspects of it are similar — it is a medieval kingdom, ruled once by a shadow version of Corwin, more recently by a king named Uther.__NEWL__The shadow Corwin that once ruled Lorraine, is remembered as a demonic tyrant and Corwin assumes an incognito identity as Sir Corey of Cabra.__NEWL__Corwin comes across a wounded man, whom he recognizes as a shadow of Lance, a knight of Avalon.__NEWL__Corwin carries Lance back to a nearby fortress, the Keep of Ganelon.__NEWL__Along the way, Corwin slays two giant hellcats — feline demons who call him the "opener", confirming his fears that he is responsible for the corruption of the vale of Garnath.__NEWL__Corwin meets with Ganelon, whom he also knows, though Ganelon does not recognize him.__NEWL__Ganelon had once been Corwin's right-hand man in Avalon, until Ganelon betrayed him (alluding to Ganelon the Traitor, of medieval literature), for which crime Corwin banished him into an unfamiliar shadow — this one, apparently — and left him to die.__NEWL__But Ganelon lived and, as he tells Corwin, rose from leading an outlaw band to become leader of all the forces of Lorraine fighting against a strange evil: a constantly expanding dark circle of toadstools from which demonic creatures and soulless men emerge.__NEWL__Suspecting that this relates to the blood curse he pronounced against Amber (at the end of the previous volume), Corwin agrees to help.__NEWL__While recuperating from his imprisonment and training with the soldiers of Lorraine, Corwin meets a local camp follower, also named Lorraine.__NEWL__Corwin senses that someone is trying to speak to him by means of the Trumps (magical tarot cards), and blocks the attempt; Lorraine describes seeing a vision of a man whom Corwin recognizes as his father.__NEWL__She also reveals that her daughter — whom she had conceived by witchcraft — was the first person to die in the dark circle.__NEWL__A winged demon, Strygalldwir, arrives at the window to challenge Corwin; Corwin, after demonstrating a little-seen spellcasting capability, kills Strygalldwir with his Pattern-sword Grayswandir.__NEWL__Corwin, Ganelon, and Lance lead an army against the dark circle.__NEWL__On the top floor of a tower, Corwin slays the enemy leader, a goat-headed creature.__NEWL__The enemy is revealed to come from the Courts of Chaos, a place far across Shadow from Amber, past where the shadows cease to follow ordinary rules of reality.__NEWL__Lorraine runs off with an officer called Melkin.__NEWL__Corwin pursues them; finding that Melkin has murdered and robbed Lorraine, he kills Melkin with his bare hands.__NEWL__Corwin and Ganelon journey on toward Avalon.__NEWL__A young deserter tells them that the forces of Avalon, led by a man known as the Protector, have recently been battling a horde of demonic, cave-dwelling hellmaids — a force of evil somehow similar to the dark circle in Lorraine.__NEWL__Corwin and Ganelon journey on and meet the Protector, who turns out to be Corwin's long-lost brother Benedict, the most formidable swordsman and military strategist in existence.__NEWL__Benedict's forces have defeated the hellmaids, but he has lost his arm in the battle.__NEWL__Benedict greets Corwin cordially, but refuses to support his claim to the throne.__NEWL__Benedict also reveals that their father, King Oberon, did not abdicate, as Corwin had believed, but simply vanished.__NEWL__Benedict sends Corwin and Ganelon on to his country house.__NEWL__There, Corwin meets a young woman named Dara, who tells him that she is Benedict's great-granddaughter.__NEWL__Because of her bloodline, she is anxious to learn more about the Pattern of Amber.__NEWL__Walking the Pattern gives the royalty of Amber the ability to walk in Shadow.__NEWL__Trading information with her, Corwin learns that Benedict has been visited there by brothers Julian, Gérard, and Brand.__NEWL__In Avalon, Corwin arranges to purchase large amounts of jeweler's rouge, obtaining capital by journeying through Shadow to a parallel Earth where he harvests diamonds from an African coast that has never seen human habitation.__NEWL__Returning to Benedict's house, he encounters Ganelon, who jokingly tells him that several fresh human bodies are buried in the garden.__NEWL__Corwin is reluctant to get involved in the local intrigue.__NEWL__Later, Dara finds him, and they become lovers.__NEWL__Corwin sets off into Shadow with his jeweler's rouge.__NEWL__He and Ganelon notice a strange phenomenon: a black road, similar to the dark circle in Lorraine, cuts through Shadow, apparently stretching from Amber to all the Shadows.__NEWL__The grass along the black road encircles the ankles of Ganelon, and Corwin has to free him.__NEWL__Corwin is able to destroy a section of the black road by focusing his mind on the Pattern, then Corwin receives a Trump contact, which he assumes to be from Benedict.__NEWL__Corwin believes Benedict to be angry at having discovered either that Corwin has been using Avalon to arm himself for an attempt on the throne (compromising Benedict's neutrality) or that Corwin has slept with Dara.__NEWL__Corwin tries to escape further into Shadow, but Benedict pursues and eventually catches him.__NEWL__Benedict accuses Corwin of being a murderer, to Corwin's surprise, and a duel ensues.__NEWL__Completely outmatched, Corwin tricks Benedict into moving into a patch of the strange black grass, allowing Corwin to knock him unconscious.__NEWL__Corwin summons Gérard via Trump to care for Benedict.__NEWL__Corwin journeys to our Earth, and has an assembly line set up to produce the ammunition he needs to assault Amber.__NEWL__While that is happening, he visits his old house in New York, where he finds a message from Eric, pleading for peace.__NEWL__Corwin rejects this.__NEWL__He recruits his army from a similar Shadow to the one home to the army he recruited for his assault with Bleys, and trains them in the use of firearms.__NEWL__Then he leads them through shadow to attack Amber.__NEWL__However, upon reaching Amber, Corwin finds a desperate battle against wyvern riders from the Courts of Chaos.__NEWL__He also finds Dara wandering about the battlefield, and orders some men to guard her.__NEWL__After assisting in the battle and dispatching the threat, he confronts Eric, who has been wounded during the battle.__NEWL__Before he dies, Eric passes the Jewel of Judgement to Corwin and pronounces his death curse on the enemies of Amber.__NEWL__Dara, having disposed of her guards, rides past Corwin on horseback, toward Amber.__NEWL__Corwin, suddenly apprehensive, contacts his brother Random via trump, and has Random teleport him into Amber.__NEWL__They reach the chamber of the Pattern to find that Dara is already walking it, shifting into all manner of strange and grotesque shapes as she does.__NEWL__Completing her Pattern walk, she announces to Corwin in a low, inhuman voice that "Amber will be destroyed", then vanishes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2996937	Sign of the Unicorn	1975-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	230094	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230094	Eric is dead, and Corwin now rules Amber as Regent — but someone has murdered Caine and framed Corwin.__NEWL__Random tells his part of the story.__NEWL__Corwin decides to find out what happened to Brand who is either missing or dead, and begins to find his obsession with the throne is a two-edged sword that may cost him his life, as it has his brothers'.__NEWL__Corwin returns to Castle Amber bearing the body of one of the spined, bloodshot-eyed humanoid creatures that had pursued Random to Flora's house on Earth—one that had moments earlier killed his brother, Caine.__NEWL__Fearing that he has been framed for Caine's murder, Corwin summons Random, who tells him the story how he came to be chased across shadow to end up in New York City: Random had been enjoying life out in a shadow, Texorami, that he had selected/created to be an ideal place to gamble, hang-glide and especially play the drums.__NEWL__One day he received an unusual Trump call in the form of the Jack of Diamonds, that spoke to him as his brother, Brand, asking for help to escape from an unfamiliar shadow.__NEWL__Random set out to rescue Brand from the shadow, a land lit without a sun, where boulders orbit each other in complicated patterns.__NEWL__He found the tower where Brand was imprisoned, but could not overcome its guardian, a transparent, glass, prismatic, dragon-like creature.__NEWL__Spined humanoids pursued Random through shadow.__NEWL__Seeking an ally, he headed for Earth, hoping to exploit Flora, but finds Corwin instead.__NEWL__Since Corwin had been missing for so long.__NEWL__Random assumes the creatures belonged to him, and though confused when Corwin fights the creatures, is sufficiently frightened to aid Corwin in getting to Amber.__NEWL__After hearing Random's story, Corwin descends to the chamber of the Pattern, to attune himself to the Jewel of Judgement, a powerful artifact given to Corwin by Eric as he lay dying, which gives its wearer among other powers control of weather in Amber.__NEWL__He walks the pattern, and then commands it to project him into the Jewel.__NEWL__He is metaphysically carried through a higher-dimensional Pattern within the Jewel, emerging with what he describes as a "higher octave" of awareness.__NEWL__Corwin then teleports himself to a high tower of the castle.__NEWL__After testing his new attunement to the Jewel, he summons Flora.__NEWL__He learns that most of his brothers had sought him in shadow during his absence — some to try to find him; some to implicate Eric in their father, Oberon's death.__NEWL__Gérard accompanies Corwin to the Grove of the Unicorn, where Caine was killed.__NEWL__Gérard fights Corwin, and later threatens him physically while all of the siblings are watching through trumps and is told that if he turns out to be responsible for Caine's death, Gérard will kill him, and that if Gérard is killed, the siblings will know Corwin did it.__NEWL__Corwin points out that if someone wants to kill Corwin and free themselves from suspicion, they now only have to kill Gérard.__NEWL__Gérard, angered, accuses him of trying to complicate matters.__NEWL__The two brothers return to Caine's body, and see a glimpse of the Unicorn.__NEWL__Corwin then arranges a family meeting, allowing Random to re-tell his tale.__NEWL__While not entirely convinced of Corwin's innocence, they agree to attempt to recover the one remaining person who has seen these creatures — Brand.__NEWL__With their combined efforts, they are able to contact Brand through the trump, and pull him through to Amber.__NEWL__Although Brand was relatively intact in his cell, they find he has been stabbed as he is brought to them.__NEWL__Gérard pushes the others aside and gives first aid to Brand, while the others realize the implications of the stabbing — one of them must have tried to kill their brother.__NEWL__The siblings guardedly discuss who the would-be murderer might be.__NEWL__Fiona points out that only she and Julian are sensible suspects — and she is "innocent of all but malice".__NEWL__She also warns Corwin that the Jewel is more than just a weather-control device; in truth, it is an artifact of great power which draws upon its bearer's life force — and may well have been what killed Eric.__NEWL__She says that when people around the bearer seem to be statue-like, the bearer is near death.__NEWL__Corwin heads for his rooms, discussing matters with Random, who has a hard time keeping up with Corwin.__NEWL__Corwin enters his room, but notices too late a figure poised to stab him.__NEWL__However the stab itself appears to be so slow that it only grazes him.__NEWL__Corwin blacks out.__NEWL__He awakens in his former home on Earth, bleeding and nearing death.__NEWL__He drops a pillow, but it hangs in the air.__NEWL__He realizes that the Jewel is killing him, so he hides it in the house's compost heap and heads for the road, hoping to hitch-hike to a hospital where he can recover.__NEWL__He is eventually picked up by Bill Roth, a lawyer who recognizes him as Carl Corey, the name Corwin had used in the past to pass for a human.__NEWL__In hospital, he learns that his car accident happened during his escape from a mental asylum, where he had been committed by a Dr. Hillary B. Rand by his brother Brandon Corey.__NEWL__He is contacted via Trump by Random, who returns him to Amber, saying that Brand has woken up and wishes to speak to him.__NEWL__Brand gradually tells Corwin about how he, Bleys and Fiona had removed Oberon and tried to claim the throne, but were opposed by the triumvirate of Eric, Julian and Caine.__NEWL__He says that after he objected to Bleys and Fiona's plan to ally with the forces of Chaos, he was pursued and came to Earth seeking Corwin as an ally—trying to restore his memories with shock therapy—but was captured and imprisoned in the tower where Random found him.__NEWL__During the conversation, Brand displays pyrokinetic abilities.__NEWL__Corwin then heads to Tir-na Nog'th, the mysterious, moonlit Amber-in-the-sky where he hopes to gain insight into the situation.__NEWL__His sword Grayswandir has special properties in the moonlit city, having been forged upon the stairway to Tir-na Nog'th.__NEWL__With Random and Ganelon watching him from mount Kolvir, he ascends to Tir-na Nog'th, and in the throne room sees Dara as queen, flanked by Benedict wearing a metallic arm.__NEWL__This dream-version of Dara tells him her origins and the ghostly Benedict is able to reach Corwin with the arm.__NEWL__A fight ensues.__NEWL__Corwin cuts off the arm, and is trumped back to Kolvir by Random, with the arm still clutching his shoulder.__NEWL__The three set off for Amber, but are drawn through shadow — which should be impossible this close to Amber — and come to an enlarged version of the Grove of the Unicorn, where they see the eponymous beast.__NEWL__They are led back to where Amber should stand, but instead there is a plateau on which there is a copy of the Pattern.__NEWL__With a shock, Corwin and Ganelon realize that this is the true, Primal Pattern, of which the one in Amber is but the first shadow.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2657392	The Hand of Oberon	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	230095	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230095	Corwin explores the true Amber, and finds the source of the Black Road, in the damaged primal Pattern.__NEWL__He learns that to repair the damage will require the Jewel of Judgement, which he must retrieve from Earth.__NEWL__Corwin, Random and Ganelon go down to the Primal Pattern and see that it is damaged, with a dark stain obscuring the pattern from the center to one edge, in the shape of the corrupted Vale of Garnath.__NEWL__They also see a pair of objects at the pattern's centre.__NEWL__While Corwin and Random discuss whether it would be safe to walk a damaged pattern, Ganelon runs through the stain to the center and retrieves the objects - a dagger, and a pierced Trump card.__NEWL__A purple griffin-like beast emerges from a cave, and Random's horse runs onto the pattern.__NEWL__The horse is consumed/ripped apart by a rainbow-coloured tornado.__NEWL__Ganelon discusses what it was like to run on the stain, and asks Random to drop a small amount of blood on the pattern.__NEWL__The blood drop stains the pattern in the same way, and they realize that the trump must have been used to spill blood onto the pattern by someone at its centre.__NEWL__Random recognizes the trump as that of his Rebman son, Martin.__NEWL__Corwin recognises the style of the trump as that of Brand.__NEWL__Ganelon proposes that Corwin use the Trumps to contact Benedict, who transports them to the slopes of mount Kolvir.__NEWL__Random and Benedict, who had known and was fond of Martin, set off through shadow to find him, or if necessary avenge his death.__NEWL__Corwin returns to Amber to inform Random's wife, Vialle, that Random will be gone for a while.__NEWL__Discussing matters with her, he realizes that now Eric is dead he no longer wants the throne - but he still loves Amber and wishes to repair the damage, even though he is no longer sure it is his fault.__NEWL__Corwin then descends into the depths of the castle to find his former cell in the dungeons.__NEWL__On the way to his cell, Corwin meets Roger Zelazny, who makes an appearance in his own book.__NEWL__The author describes himself as a "...lean, cadaverous figure... smoking his pipe, grinning around it".__NEWL__In his dialogue with Corwin, Roger states that he is "...writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity".__NEWL__This may or may not be a not-so-subtle description of the entire Chronicles of Amber series.__NEWL__Once in his former cell, Corwin uses the trump that Dworkin drew on the wall to project himself to the mad sorcerer's chambers.__NEWL__Dworkin incorrectly assumes that Corwin is Oberon, and reveals to him in a vaguely metaphoric manner that he, Dworkin, is Oberon's father (and that the mother was the Unicorn), and that he drew the Pattern using the "Jewel of Judgement", which was given to him by the Unicorn after he fled from Chaos.__NEWL__Dworkin then describes how the damage to the Pattern could be fixed if he destroyed himself, erasing the pattern and allowing Oberon to draw another.__NEWL__Dworkin takes Corwin to the Primal Pattern, past the purple griffin, Wixer.__NEWL__Dworkin then realizes that it is Corwin, and explains that there is a way to mend the Pattern using the Jewel of Judgement, though that would be more difficult, and probably fatal to the person who attempted it.__NEWL__Dworkin then loses control of his madness, transforming into a monstrous beast and pursuing Corwin back into his chambers.__NEWL__Corwin escapes via a Trump which he finds there.__NEWL__He finds himself in the Courts of Chaos, a great castle which looks out over the Abyss, a swirling black/white hole, under a half-colored-stripy, half-black-swirly sky.__NEWL__Corwin remembers being brought here as a child by Oberon, to see that this is in fact the true source of all creation, not Amber.__NEWL__A strange, pale rider attacks Corwin, but is defeated.__NEWL__A familiar-seeming man approaches with a crossbow, but spares Corwin after recognizing him by his blade.__NEWL__Corwin contacts Gérard via Trump, and learns that because of the time differential between Amber and Chaos he has been missing for eight days.__NEWL__Corwin takes the pierced trump of Martin to Brand, who admits stabbing Martin through the trump in order to damage the pattern, as part of his cabal's scheme to capture Oberon.__NEWL__He tries to persuade Corwin to use the Trump to kill Bleys and Fiona, as he was stabbed.__NEWL__He asks for the Jewel to help him to restrain them, but Corwin is unconvinced.__NEWL__Ganelon, who is with Benedict, contacts Corwin via Trump.__NEWL__Benedict is now wearing the metallic arm from Tir-na Nog'th.__NEWL__Corwin gives Benedict the trump of the Courts.__NEWL__Gérard arrives via Trump.__NEWL__Brand has gone missing, and his room is covered in blood.__NEWL__Gérard becomes convinced that Corwin has finished Brand off, and starts to fight Corwin.__NEWL__Ganelon stops Gérard's punch and knocks him unconscious with several blows, giving Corwin time to escape.__NEWL__Corwin flees into the forest of Arden, hoping to retrieve the Jewel from Earth.__NEWL__A manticora follows him, but Julian arrives and kills it.__NEWL__Julian explains that the Eric-Julian-Caine triumvirate arose only to oppose Brand's cabal, taking the throne to prevent Bleys from claiming it.__NEWL__When Corwin arrived with Bleys, they assumed he had joined the cabal, but when (after his capture) they realized he only wanted the throne, Julian suggested blinding him as an alternative to killing him.__NEWL__Julian tells Corwin how Brand has acquired strange powers, including becoming a "living Trump", capable of teleporting himself or other objects through shadow.__NEWL__Corwin proceeds to Earth, musing on his new-found respect for Julian.__NEWL__He arrives to find that the compost heap where he hid the Jewel of Judgment is gone.__NEWL__With the help of Bill Roth, he tracks down the heap, but the Jewel has been claimed by a red-headed artist.__NEWL__Corwin contacts Amber and has guards posted on the Patterns in Amber and Rebma, hoping to prevent Brand from using them to attune himself to the Jewel.__NEWL__Fiona contacts him via Trump, and projects herself to Earth.__NEWL__She then leads Corwin to the Primal Pattern, taking a short-cut through a starry tunnel.__NEWL__She explains that she and Bleys had imprisoned Brand because he had decided to destroy the Pattern and re-create, reshaping the multiverse according to his own liking.__NEWL__They kept him alive because they believed he might be helpful in repairing the damage.__NEWL__She also explains that Brand tried to kill Corwin on Earth because he saw a vision in Tir-na Nog'th that Corwin would defeat him.__NEWL__Fiona confirms that Bleys survived the fall from the cliff in the first book.__NEWL__They arrive to find Brand already on the Primal Pattern.__NEWL__Corwin follows, hoping to slay Brand while he is distracted, but he realises that slaying Brand would further damage the Pattern.__NEWL__He instead gets close enough to ask the Jewel to summon a tornado, which seems to destroy Brand as it did Random's horse, but Fiona assures Corwin that Brand survived.__NEWL__Leaving Fiona to guard the Primal Pattern, Corwin goes to his tomb to meet Random and Martin, who have just arrived.__NEWL__Martin tells Corwin how he was attacked by Brand, and how he met Dara in shadow.__NEWL__Ganelon contacts Corwin to tell him that Tir-na Nog'th will appear tonight, along with its version of the Pattern.__NEWL__Reasoning that Brand will attempt to attune himself there, Ganelon asks Benedict to walk the Pattern in Amber, ready to teleport himself there when it appears and tells Corwin to keep permanent contact with Benedict through the Trump to teleport him out in case the city becomes immaterial.__NEWL__Corwin rides to the top of Kolvir and contacts Benedict via the Trump.__NEWL__Tir-na Nog'th appears, and Benedict teleports himself there.__NEWL__Brand appears shortly afterwards, and tries to persuade Benedict to allow him to re-create the Pattern.__NEWL__Benedict refuses and Brand, partly attuned to the Jewel, uses it to freeze Benedict in place.__NEWL__Neither Corwin nor Benedict can now prevent Brand from walking Tir-na Nog'th's Pattern and fully attuning himself to the Jewel, but the mechanical arm moves of its own accord, snatching the Jewel and choking Brand with the chain.__NEWL__Brand teleports away, leaving the chain.__NEWL__Corwin and Benedict decide that the arm being the right weapon in the right place at the right time is too unlikely a coincidence to be true, and so it must have been arranged by some guiding force — Oberon.__NEWL__Together, they try Oberon's Trump, and find that contact comes easily.__NEWL__They are answered by a grinning Ganelon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2657600	The Courts of Chaos	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	230096	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230096	Corwin sulks in Castle Amber's library while Oberon gives the family orders.__NEWL__Random persuades Corwin to leave, but they are held back by an invisible force.__NEWL__They watch as Corwin's sword appears and chops off Benedict's new arm.__NEWL__Dara and Martin are with Benedict.__NEWL__Corwin learns from Martin's trumps that the crossbowman who spared him is Merlin.__NEWL__Dara tells how Brand bargained with the Courts of Chaos.__NEWL__They wished to replace him with Merlin, but Dara feared that neither would keep their word.__NEWL__Still unconvinced, Corwin contacts Fiona.__NEWL__She confirms Dara's authority, and says that Oberon is about to repair the Pattern.__NEWL__Hoping to save Oberon, Corwin grabs the Jewel, but he is paralyzed by Oberon's magics.__NEWL__Oberon has a final talk with his son.__NEWL__Corwin explains that he no longer wants to rule.__NEWL__Once Corwin confirms Dara's authority, Benedict uses the trump of the Courts of Chaos to begin his attack.__NEWL__Dara talks to Corwin.__NEWL__Dara then leaves to give the rest of the family their orders.__NEWL__Gérard is ordered to stay and guard Amber, while Julian and Random are to stay in Arden.__NEWL__Oberon arrives, and asks Corwin for some of his blood.__NEWL__He breathes life into the blood, and it becomes a red raven.__NEWL__Oberon tells Corwin that the raven will follow him through shadow.__NEWL__Corwin's orders are to hellride towards Chaos as fast as possible.__NEWL__He must bear the Jewel through shadow.__NEWL__Corwin says goodbye to his father, and sets off.__NEWL__Now that he knows that Amber is just the first Shadow, he finds he can shift shadow there more easily.__NEWL__As he rides towards Chaos, he follows the Black Road.__NEWL__After a time, he notices the black road begin to come apart; shortly after, the raven arrives and gives him the Jewel.__NEWL__Corwin is unsure whether this means that Oberon has succeeded or failed.__NEWL__Brand arrives, telling him that he watched Oberon fail, and that Corwin must give him the Jewel so he can create a new Pattern.__NEWL__Corwin refuses, and forces Brand to leave.__NEWL__He notices an unusually large storm following him, and takes refuge in a cave.__NEWL__The cave's other occupant, a nameless stranger who has also sought shelter from the storm, casually mentions some local legends about the Archangel Corwin, who, according to scripture will ride before a storm at the end of the world.__NEWL__The real Corwin dismisses this story as nonsense and commands the Jewel to quell the storm.__NEWL__Eventually he falls asleep.__NEWL__When he wakes, his horse has been kidnapped.__NEWL__He says goodbye to the stranger and tracks his horse to a cave, blocked off by a large boulder, which he shatters.__NEWL__Inside, leprechauns are celebrating a feast.__NEWL__Observing his great strength, they return his horse and invite him to join them.__NEWL__Succumbing to their odd charm, he starts to fall asleep, but rouses himself in time to see them preparing to slaughter him.__NEWL__He awakes and rushes outside.__NEWL__As he leaves, the leader of the wee folk recognizes him as the Archangel Corwin from local legends, mentioned before by the nameless stranger.__NEWL__He starts to move into shadow, but as he moves further from the cave where he slept the universe starts to come apart around him.__NEWL__He realizes that the storm was a wave of Chaos, moving away from Amber as the multiverse is destroyed.__NEWL__He begins to doubt whether Oberon was successful.__NEWL__Using the jewel, he is able to overtake the storm and return to the diminishing multiverse.__NEWL__A strange lady dines with him and attempts to seduce him, but remembering his encounter with the pale lady on the black road (who may or may have not been a copy of Dara), and that he's working to a deadline, he declines.__NEWL__Brand ambushes him with a crossbow, mortally wounding his horse, but the blood raven reappears and plucks out one of Brand's eyes.__NEWL__Corwin puts down his horse and continues striding through shadow.__NEWL__Corwin cuts a branch off a tree as a walking aid.__NEWL__The tree complains, but when it learns that he is Oberon's son it gives him its blessing.__NEWL__It says that it is Ygg, and that Oberon planted it in Amber's distant past to mark the boundary between Order and Chaos.__NEWL__It tells him to plant the staff somewhere it will have the chance to grow.__NEWL__A talking raven named Hugi (of the usual color) arrives, and tries to distract Corwin with fatalistic philosophy.__NEWL__It shows Corwin the head of a mostly-drowned Giant, who will not even allow the possibility of rescue.__NEWL__A mythological jackal offers to lead Corwin on a short-cut to the Courts, but instead leads him to its lair, where Corwin kills it in self-defense.__NEWL__He finally finds a shadow with the Courts' sky, but is aghast to discover that the Courts still lie across a huge wasteland.__NEWL__The raven Hugi returns and pointedly tells him it knew all along, so he kills it for his dinner.__NEWL__As the metaphysical storm approaches Chaos, Corwin decides that Oberon must have failed, so he plants his staff and begins to use the Jewel to inscribe a new Pattern.__NEWL__The process evokes memories of his former life in Paris, France, and is given the impression that these somehow shape the new Pattern.__NEWL__He finishes, but is exhausted, and he collapses at the new Pattern's center.__NEWL__Brand projects himself to Corwin and steals the Jewel.__NEWL__Corwin loses consciousness.__NEWL__Corwin awakes to find the area surrounding his Pattern transformed.__NEWL__The sky is now white, and the staff has grown into a tree.__NEWL__Corwin realises that he is at the center of a Pattern, and commands it to teleport him to the Courts.__NEWL__He arrives in the courts, only to be challenged to single combat by someone who introduces himself as Borel, Master at Arms of the Courts of Chaos.__NEWL__He removes his armour to make the fight fair, but Corwin, having no time for a fair fight, slays him then and there, although he does feel slightly guilty about it afterward.__NEWL__Corwin finds Brand with Fiona, Random and Deirdre, at the edge of the Abyss.__NEWL__Fiona is keeping him psychically bound, but Brand has Deirdre as a hostage.__NEWL__Suddenly an image of Oberon fills the sky, telling them that Corwin must use the Jewel to save them from the oncoming Chaos storm, and gives them a blessing.__NEWL__Corwin makes use of the distraction and his attunement to the jewel to super-heat Brand, but Brand realizes what's happening and starts to cut Deirdre.__NEWL__She pulls herself free, and Brand is shot in the chest and throat with a bow.__NEWL__He staggers, and grabs Deirdre's hair.__NEWL__They both fall into the Abyss.__NEWL__Corwin tries to follow her, and Random has to knock him out.__NEWL__Corwin wakes up to see Caine there, alive and well.__NEWL__He explains how he faked his own death and spied on the others using the Trumps.__NEWL__It was him who shot Brand, using silver-tipped arrows, just in case.__NEWL__They watch Amber's armies crush the forces of Chaos while the storm continues to advance.__NEWL__A funeral procession, led by Dworkin, emerges from the storm front, accompanied by all sorts of various fantastic beasts.__NEWL__Fiona appears with Dara and Corwin's son, Merlin.__NEWL__Corwin discusses with Fiona the possibility that two Patterns now exist; she can't decide whether that is good or bad.__NEWL__Dara arrives, angry with Corwin for killing Borel, and then leaves.__NEWL__Merlin arrives with her, but stays, eager to learn more about his father.__NEWL__The Unicorn appears from the Abyss, wearing the Jewel of Judgement.__NEWL__It examines each of the Amberites in turn, then kneels in front of Random.__NEWL__The rest of the family kneel in front of him too, and pledge their allegiance to him as the new King.__NEWL__Random takes the Jewel, and Corwin is able to guide him through the attunement process.__NEWL__Corwin is exhausted, and stays with Random while the others go to the Courts, where they think they should be safe.__NEWL__Merlin stays, and asks to hear about his father's adventures.__NEWL__Corwin begins narrating the Chronicles to his son.__NEWL__Random is successful, and the Trumps become active.__NEWL__They contact Gérard, who tells them that the multiverse is fine, although seven years have passed.__NEWL__Corwin reflects on his changed attitudes towards his family, and on the changes in himself.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q224078	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	1926-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	243069	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243069	The book's narrator, Dr James Sheppard, introduces himself and explains these are his memoirs of a murder which happened in his town.__NEWL__In King's Abbot, wealthy widow Mrs Ferrars unexpectedly commits suicide, distressing her fiancé the widower Roger Ackroyd.__NEWL__At dinner that evening in Ackroyd's home of Fernly Park, his guests include his sister-in-law Mrs Cecil Ackroyd and her daughter Flora, big-game hunter Major Blunt, Ackroyd's personal secretary Geoffrey Raymond, and Dr James Sheppard, whom Ackroyd invited earlier that day.__NEWL__During dinner, Flora announces her engagement to Ackroyd's stepson, Ralph Paton.__NEWL__After dinner, Ackroyd reveals to Sheppard in his study that Mrs Ferrars had confided in him that she was being blackmailed over the murder of her husband.__NEWL__He then asks Sheppard to leave, wishing to read a letter from Mrs Ferrars that arrives in the post, containing her suicide note.__NEWL__Once home, Sheppard receives a call and leaves for Fernly Park again, after informing his sister that Parker, Ackroyd's butler, has found Ackroyd murdered.__NEWL__But when Sheppard arrives at Fernly Park, Parker denies making such a call; yet he, Sheppard, Raymond, and Blunt find Ackroyd dead in his study, stabbed to death with a weapon from his collection.__NEWL__Hercule Poirot, living in the village, comes out of retirement at Flora's request.__NEWL__She does not believe Paton killed Ackroyd, despite him disappearing and police finding his footprints on the study's window.__NEWL__Poirot learns a few important facts on the case: all in the household, except parlourmaid Ursula Bourne, have alibis for the murder; while Raymond and Blunt heard Ackroyd talking to someone after Sheppard left, Flora was the last to see him that evening; Sheppard met a stranger on his way home, at Fernly Park's gates; Ackroyd met a representative of a dictaphone company a few days earlier; Parker recalls seeing a chair that had been in an odd position in the study when the body was found, that has since returned to its original position; the letter from Mrs Ferrars has disappeared since the murder.__NEWL__Poirot asks Sheppard for the exact time he met his stranger.__NEWL__He later finds a goose quill and a scrap of starched cambric in the summer house, and a ring with the inscription "From R" in a goldfish pond in the gardens.__NEWL__Raymond and Mrs Ackroyd later reveal they are in debt, but Ackroyd's death will resolve this as they stood to gain from his will.__NEWL__Flora admits she never saw her uncle after dinner; she was taking money from his bedroom.__NEWL__Her revelation throws doubts on everyone's alibis, and leaves Raymond and Blunt as the last people to hear Ackroyd alive.__NEWL__Blunt reveals he is secretly in love with Flora.__NEWL__Poirot calls a second meeting, adding Parker, the butler; Miss Russell, the housekeeper; and Ralph Paton, whom he had found.__NEWL__He reveals that the goose quill is a heroin holder belonging to Miss Russell's illegitimate son, the stranger whom Sheppard met on the night of the murder.__NEWL__He also informs everyone that Ursula secretly married Paton, as the ring he found was hers; it was discarded after Paton chastised her for informing his uncle of this fact, which had led to the termination of her employment.__NEWL__Poirot then proceeds to inform all that he knows the killer's identity, confirmed by a telegram received during the meeting.__NEWL__He does not reveal the name; instead he issues a warning to the killer.__NEWL__When Poirot is alone with Sheppard, he reveals that he knows him to be Ackroyd's killer.__NEWL__Sheppard was Mrs Ferrars' blackmailer and murdered Ackroyd to stop him knowing this; he suspected her suicide note would mention this fact, and so he took it after the murder.__NEWL__He then used a dictaphone Ackroyd had, to make it appear he was still alive when he departed, before looping back to the study's window to plant Paton's footprints; Poirot had noted an inconsistency in the time he mentioned for the meeting at the gates.__NEWL__As he wanted to be on the scene when Ackroyd's body was found, he asked a patient earlier in the day to call him some time after the murder, so as to have an excuse for returning to Fernly Park; Poirot's telegram confirmed this.__NEWL__When no-one was around in the study, Sheppard removed the dictaphone, and returned the chair that concealed it from view to its original place.__NEWL__Poirot tells Sheppard that all this information will be reported to the police in the morning.__NEWL__Dr Sheppard continues writing his report on Poirot's investigation (the novel itself), admitting his guilt and wishing his account was that of Poirot's failure to solve Ackroyd's murder.__NEWL__The novel's epilogue serves as his suicide note.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q727861	The A.B.C. Murders	1936-01-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	243087	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243087	Returning from South America, Arthur Hastings meets with his old friend, Hercule Poirot, at his new flat in London.__NEWL__Poirot shows him a mysterious letter he has received, signed "A.B.C.", that details a crime that is to be committed very soon, which he suspects will be a murder.__NEWL__Two more letters of the same nature soon arrive at his flat, each before a murder being carried out by A.B.C., and committed in alphabetical order: Alice Ascher, killed in her tobacco shop in Andover; Elizabeth "Betty" Barnard, a flirty waitress killed on the beach at Bexhill; and Sir Carmichael Clarke, a wealthy man, killed at his home in Churston.__NEWL__In each murder, an ABC Rail Guide is left beside the victim.__NEWL__The police team for the investigation, led by Chief Inspector Japp, includes Inspector Crome, who doubts Poirot's detective abilities, and Dr. Thompson, who tries to profile the killer.__NEWL__Poirot forms a "Legion" of relatives of the deceased to uncover new information: Franklin Clarke, Sir Carmichael's brother; Mary Drower, Ascher's niece; Donald Fraser, Betty's fiancé; Megan Barnard, Betty's elder sister, and Thora Grey, Sir Carmichael's young assistant.__NEWL__Following a meeting with the third victim's widow, Lady Clarke, one key similarity between the murders is established – on the day of each murder, a man selling silk stockings has appeared at or near each crime scene.__NEWL__Despite this information, Poirot wonders why the letters were sent to him, rather than the police or the newspapers, and why the third letter misspelled Poirot's address, causing a delay in his receipt of it.__NEWL__Soon, A.B.C. sends his next letter, directing everybody to Doncaster, where it is suspected that the next murder will occur at the St. Leger Stakes race meeting that day.__NEWL__However, the murderer strikes at a cinema instead, and the victim's name does not match the alphabetical pattern of the other killings.__NEWL__The police soon get a tip-off about the man linked to the murders – Alexander Bonaparte Cust, an epileptic travelling salesman, who suffers from memory blackouts and constant agonizing headaches as the result of a head injury during the First World War.__NEWL__Cust flees his apartment but collapses upon arriving at the Andover police station, where he is taken into custody.__NEWL__Apart from claiming that a stocking firm hired him, he lacks any memory of committing the murders but believes he must be guilty of them – he had been at the cinema when the last murder occurred and found blood on his sleeve and a knife in his pocket after he had left.__NEWL__The police learn that the firm in question never hired Cust.__NEWL__Their search of his room turns up an unopened box of ABC railway guides and the typewriter and fine paper used in A.B.C.'s letters, while the knife is discovered in the hallway outside his room where he dropped it.__NEWL__Poirot doubts Cust's guilt because of his memory blackouts, and especially because he had a solid alibi for the Bexhill murder.__NEWL__Calling a Legion meeting, Poirot proclaims Cust's innocence, and exposes Franklin Clarke as the A.B.C. murdererer.__NEWL__His motive was simple: Lady Clarke is slowly dying from cancer, and upon her death, Carmichael would probably marry his assistant.__NEWL__Franklin feared a possible second marriage, as he wants all of his brother's wealth, so he chose to murder his brother while Lady Clarke was still alive.__NEWL__A chance encounter with Cust at a pub gave Franklin the idea for the murder plot – he would disguise his crime as part of a serial killing.__NEWL__Having created the letters Poirot would receive, Franklin set up Cust with his job, giving him the typewriter and other items Franklin would use to frame him for the murders.__NEWL__A suggestion by Hastings makes clear that the third letter was misaddressed intentionally because Franklin wanted no chance of the police interrupting that murder.__NEWL__Franklin then followed Cust to the cinema, committed the last murder, and planted the knife on him as he left.__NEWL__Franklin laughs off Poirot's theory but panics when he is told that his fingerprint has been found on Cust's typewriter key and that Milly Higley, a co-worker of Betty Barnard, saw him in her company.__NEWL__Franklin attempts to end his life with his own gun, only to find that Poirot has emptied it with the help of a pickpocket.__NEWL__With the case solved, Poirot pairs off Donald with Megan.__NEWL__Later, Cust tells Poirot that the press has made him an offer for his story; Poirot suggests that he demand a higher price for it and that his headaches may have arisen from his spectacles.__NEWL__Once alone, Poirot tells Hastings that the claim of the fingerprint on the typewriter was a bluff but is pleased that the pair "went hunting once more".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15975190	Primary Colors	1996-01-16T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	242555	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242555	The book begins as an idealistic former congressional worker, Henry Burton, joins the presidential campaign of Southern governor Jack Stanton, a thinly disguised stand-in for Bill Clinton.__NEWL__The plot then follows the primary election calendar beginning in New Hampshire where Stanton's affair with Cashmere, his wife's hairdresser, and his participation in a Vietnam War era protest come to light and threaten to derail his presidential prospects.__NEWL__In Florida, Stanton revives his campaign by disingenuously portraying his Democratic opponent as insufficiently pro-Israel and as a weak supporter of Social Security.__NEWL__Burton becomes increasingly disillusioned with Stanton, who is a policy wonk who talks too long, eats too much and is overly flirtatious toward women.__NEWL__Stanton is also revealed to be insincere in his beliefs, saying whatever will help him to win.__NEWL__Matters finally come to a head, and Burton is forced to choose between idealism and realism.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2915310	Shadow of the Hegemon	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	241025	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241025	In Shadow of the Hegemon, all of the Battle School graduates, except Ender, return to Earth in 2197 A.D., where Ender's brother Peter, using his online pseudonym Locke, arranges for Ender to be returned to Earth; but Valentine, under the pseudonym Demosthenes, uses Peter's violent past against him to keep Ender exiled.__NEWL__Shortly after their return, the members of the unit Ender commanded (called his Jeesh, an Arabic word meaning 'army'), with the exception of Bean, are seized as strategists in an upcoming struggle for world dominance, by Achilles de Flandres (ah-SHEEL), who subjects them to solitary confinement.__NEWL__Bean having imprisoned Achilles in the previous novel, Achilles attempts (unsuccessfully) to kill Bean.__NEWL__The Delphikis go into hiding, while Bean joins forces with Sister Carlotta.__NEWL__After he discovers an encoded message sent by Petra confirming that the Russians are Achilles' backers, he works to free her and the others, while helping Peter come to power.__NEWL__When Peter publishes under the 'Locke' pseudonym that Achilles is a murderer, the Battle School graduates are released, excepting Petra, whom Achilles brings to India.__NEWL__From there, he requests plans for an invasion of Burma and then Thailand, for which Indian Battle School graduates, including Sayagi and Virlomi, develop plans for brute-force attacks involving long supply lines.__NEWL__Petra arranges a different plan of stripping India's garrisons along the Indo-Pakistani border, which she expects will never happen, until a meeting with Pakistan's prime minister, in which Achilles encourages the two nations to make peace among themselves and declare war on other neighbors; secretly giving China the opportunity to annihilate the Indian army.__NEWL__Petra finds an ally in Virlomi, who reveals to Bean that Petra is a prisoner, and eventually escapes the military compound to bring rescue.__NEWL__Courtesy of Bean's and Sister Carlotta's assets, "Locke" is nominated publicly for the position of Hegemon, allowing Peter to unmask himself.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Bean enters the Thai military under the patronage of Suriyawong (Suri), a fellow Battle School graduate and (nominal) head of Thailand's planning division, and trains 200 Thai soldiers against India.__NEWL__When the Thai Commander-in-Chief betrays Suriyawong and Bean, Bean hides himself and Suri in the barracks of his troops, and sends word for rescue, while Thailand prepares for war.__NEWL__Sister Carlotta's airplane, en route to Bean's location, is destroyed by a Chinese SAM, and Bean receives an earlier-recorded message, in which she describes the relationship between Anton's Key and Bean's brilliance, but also informs him that his life expectancy will be drastically reduced as a result.__NEWL__Bean and Suriyawong use the troops Bean has trained to halt Indian supply lines.__NEWL__While striking a bridge, they meet Virlomi, who defects to their side.__NEWL__With the aid of Bean's soldiers and Locke's distinguished connections, they move on Hyderabad, where Bean rescues Petra.__NEWL__Furthermore, "Locke" publishes an essay detailing the Chinese betrayal just as it is happening, and on the basis of this prescience (and other miracles over the years)__NEWL__Peter Wiggin is elected Hegemon over the world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q218950	Prince Caspian	1951-10-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2886622	Narnia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2886622	Narnia	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	242128	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242128	Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie are magically whisked away from a British railway station to a beach near an old and ruined castle.__NEWL__They determine the ruin is Cair Paravel, where they once ruled as the kings and queens of Narnia.__NEWL__They discover the treasure vault where Peter's sword and shield, Susan's bow and arrows, and Lucy's dagger and bottle of magical cordial are stored.__NEWL__Susan's horn for summoning help is missing, as she left it in the woods the day they returned to England after their prior visit to Narnia.__NEWL__Although only a year has passed in England, 1300 years have passed in Narnia.__NEWL__The children rescue Trumpkin the dwarf from soldiers who are about to drown him.__NEWL__Trumpkin tells the children Narnia's history since their disappearance: Telmarines conquered Narnia, which is now ruled by King Miraz and his wife, Queen Prunaprismia.__NEWL__Miraz usurped the throne by killing his brother, King Caspian IX, the father of Prince Caspian.__NEWL__Miraz tolerated the rightful heir, Prince Caspian, until his own son was born.__NEWL__Caspian escaped from Miraz's castle with the aid of his tutor Doctor Cornelius, who schooled him in the lore of Old Narnia, and gave him Queen Susan's horn.__NEWL__Caspian fled into the forest but was knocked unconscious when his horse bolted.__NEWL__He awoke in the den of a talking badger, Trufflehunter, and two dwarfs, Nikabrik and Trumpkin, who accepted Caspian as their king.__NEWL__The badger and dwarves took Caspian to meet many creatures of Old Narnia.__NEWL__During a midnight council, Doctor Cornelius arrived to warn them of the approach of King Miraz and his army; he urged them to flee to Aslan's How in the great woods near Cair Paravel.__NEWL__The Telmarines followed the Narnians to the How, and after several skirmishes the Narnians appeared close to defeat.__NEWL__At a second war council, they decided to wind Queen Susan's horn in the hopes that it would bring help.__NEWL__Trumpkin and the Pevensies make their way to Caspian.__NEWL__The trek proves difficult, but Aslan appears to Lucy and instructs her to guide the others behind him.__NEWL__Aslan sends Peter, Edmund, and Trumpkin ahead to Aslan's How to deal with treachery brewing there, and follows with Susan and Lucy.__NEWL__Peter, Edmund, and Trumpkin arrive and drive out or kill the creatures threatening Caspian.__NEWL__Peter challenges Miraz to single combat: the army of the victor in this duel would be considered the victor in the war.__NEWL__Miraz accepts the challenge, goaded by lords Glozelle and Sopespian.__NEWL__Miraz loses the combat, but Glozelle and Sopespian declare that the Narnians have cheated.__NEWL__The lords command the Telmarine army to attack, and in the commotion that follows, Glozelle stabs Miraz in the back.__NEWL__Aslan, accompanied by Lucy and Susan, summons the gods Bacchus and Silenus, and with their help brings the woods to life.__NEWL__The gods and awakened trees turn the tide of battle and send the Telmarines fleeing.__NEWL__Discovering themselves trapped at the Great River, where their bridge has been destroyed by Bacchus, the Telmarines surrender.__NEWL__Aslan gives the Telmarines a choice of staying in Narnia under Caspian or returning to Earth, their original home.__NEWL__After one volunteer disappears through the magic door created by Aslan, the Pevensies go through to reassure the other Telmarines, though Peter and Susan reveal to Edmund and Lucy that they are too old to return to Narnia.__NEWL__The Pevensies find themselves back at the railway station.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6498118	Laughing Gas	1936-09-25T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	234280	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234280	Drone Reginald ("Reggie") Swithin, narrator of the story, is the third Earl of Havershot.__NEWL__He is 28, unmarried, and has a face like a gorilla.__NEWL__As the new head of his family, he is assigned a delicate task by his Aunt Clara and by Plimsoll, the family lawyer: He is to go to Hollywood and look for Aunt Clara's son, his cousin Eggy, who seems to have got himself into trouble, and bring him back home.__NEWL__In particular, Reggie is to prevent Eggy from getting engaged, let alone married, to some American gold-digger who would undoubtedly be far beneath the titled family.__NEWL__On the train from Chicago to Los Angeles, Reggie meets the famous film actress April June, and immediately falls head over heels in love with her.__NEWL__Once in Hollywood, he completely forgets to look for Eggy until, one night, he bumps into him at a party that April June is giving.__NEWL__What is more, Eggy is accompanied by Ann Bannister, Reggie's ex-fiancée, who is now engaged to Eggy.__NEWL__According to Eggy, Ann wants to reform him: make him drink less, and get a job as well.__NEWL__As the host of the party, the seemingly wonderful, tender, and caring April June ("Money and fame mean nothing to me, Lord Havershot") is difficult to get hold of.__NEWL__When he finally succeeds in doing so and is just about to propose to her, Reggie's tooth—in the nick of time, as it turns out later—starts hurting so badly that he has to postpone all his plans, hurry home, and make an appointment with a dentist.__NEWL__On the following afternoon, he is in I. J. Zizzbaum's waiting-room when he gets to know Joey Cooley, the 12-year-old movie star and darling of all American mothers.__NEWL__Joey is also going to have a tooth out, but Joey is going to be operated on by B. K. Burwash, Zizzbaum's rival—they have a common waiting-room—exactly at the same time as Reggie.__NEWL__Presently reporters storm the dentist's practice to take photos of Joey and interview him.__NEWL__Both Reggie and Joey get laughing gas as anaesthetic.__NEWL__When Reggie regains consciousness he finds himself spoken to by B. K. Burwash, and also in the latter's chair.__NEWL__He concludes that there has been a switch in the fourth dimension: Joey's and his souls have changed bodies.__NEWL__Before he can clear up the situation, he is shoved into a car and brought "home".__NEWL__Joey's home in Hollywood—originally he is from Chillicothe, Ohio, where his mother lives—is the Brinkmeyer estate, a kind of golden cage for little Joey.__NEWL__He has been informally adopted by T. P. Brinkmeyer, Hollywood film mogul, and his middle-aged sister, Miss Brinkmeyer, who turns out to be particularly nasty.__NEWL__Gradually, Reggie, in Joey's body, gets to know the latter's daily practice, which he finds horrifying:__NEWL__He has been put on a strict diet consisting mainly of dried prunes—but now he has the appetite of a 12-year-old!__NEWL__He must not leave the grounds except on official occasions, and he is not given any pocket money.__NEWL__He finds out very quickly that he can beat Miss Brinkmeyer's strict regime by climbing out of his bedroom window onto the roof of an outbuilding.__NEWL__He finds some confederates among the Brinkmeyers' staff (all of whom are aspiring actors who want to attract Brinkmeyer's attention by playing their servant roles in real life): The gardener readily supplies him with Mexican horned toads and some frogs (to hide in Miss Brinkmeyer's room and clothes); and Chaffinch, the butler, even suggests to him that he may be able to sell Joey's tooth to the press (who in turn might be willing to give it to a souvenir hunter) at the considerable price of $5,000.__NEWL__Desperate for some cash, Reggie agrees but is cheated out of the money by Chaffinch, who takes the money and runs off to New York.__NEWL__Moreover, Reggie is very disturbed when he learns that Ann Bannister has been hired to serve as girl Friday for Joey.__NEWL__For example, her duties include bathing the boy, which Reggie categorically refuses.__NEWL__In the meantime, Joey, in Reggie's body, embarks on a tour of vengeance:__NEWL__He has sworn to (literally) "poke" all the unpleasant people around him "in the snoot", starting with his press agent and the director of a recent film of his.__NEWL__He also enters the Brinkmeyer estate and pushes Miss Brinkmeyer into the swimming pool.__NEWL__Wherever he goes, eyewitnesses describe him as looking like a gorilla.__NEWL__(Fair-haired Reggie Havershot admits earlier on in the novel that he is not particularly handsome.)__NEWL__On the other hand, wherever Eggy (whose complexion, especially in the morning, is described as "greenish") meets Reggie in Joey's body, he thinks his drinking habits have got the better of him.__NEWL__He starts to panic and joins the Temple of the New Dawn, a temperance organisation, eventually becoming engaged to one of its promoters, Mabel Prescott.__NEWL__(All this happens in the course of only two days.)__NEWL__One of the meetings between Reggie/Joey and Eggy is when Eggy is hired as the kid's elocution teacher.__NEWL__Reggie/Joey is also harassed by two other child film stars who live in the neighbourhood, but at least he discovers that he can outrun them.__NEWL__Also, he is kidnapped, but the whole abduction turns out to be a publicity stunt he has not been warned of.__NEWL__While Reggie's soul is still inside Joey's body Reggie also realises that his beloved April June is a "pill" and a scheming and selfish little beast jealous of everybody else's success.__NEWL__When they are alone at her place, she even kicks him with her foot because by his turning up he has disturbed an interview for some magazine or newspaper.__NEWL__On the next morning his career abruptly comes to an end when it is in all the papers that he drank liquor and smoked.__NEWL__At more or less the same time, a coincidence ends Reggie's ordeal: Just as he is walking along a street near where he has been held prisoner, Joey/Reggie comes along driving a police motorcycle and hitting the kid.__NEWL__After a brief period of being unconscious, they both come to again, to discover that they have switched bodies again.__NEWL__They both have to flee the city immediately: Joey because he wants to escape the Brinkmeyers' wrath; and Reggie because he does not want to be caught by the police for what Joey did while walking around in his body (poking several people in the nose, stealing a police motorcycle and similar misdemeanours).__NEWL__Ann Bannister has organised a car that will bring Joey back to his mother in Ohio, and Reggie readily agrees to accompany him.__NEWL__He also makes up with Ann, and they are going to be married.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11279562	Trainspotting	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23436	Edinburgh	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	233084	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233084	Mark and Simon (a.k.a.__NEWL__Sick Boy) are watching a Jean-Claude Van Damme video when they decide to go buy heroin from Johnny Swan (also called "Mother Superior") since they are both feeling symptoms of withdrawal.__NEWL__They cook up with Raymie and Alison.__NEWL__After being informed that he should go and see Kelly, who has just had an abortion, Renton goes home to finish his video instead.__NEWL__Mark initially tries to come off heroin by acquiring a bare room and all the things he will require when coming down (canned soup, headache medicine, and pails for vomit).__NEWL__When withdrawal begins to set in, however, he resolves to get another hit to ease the decline.__NEWL__Unable to find any heroin, he acquires opium suppositories which, after a heavy bout of diarrhoea, he must recover from a public lavatory.__NEWL__Simon attempts to pick up girls while being annoyed by Mark, who wants to watch videos.__NEWL__Sick Boy loses Renton and launches into an internal monologue that is self-glorifying and nihilistic.__NEWL__The chapter "It Goes Without Saying" opens with the death of an infant, Dawn, whose mother Lesley is a heroin addict and acquaintance of the main characters.__NEWL__The cause of death is unclear; characters speculate that it may have been a cot death or caused by neglect.__NEWL__The Skag Boys are unsure of how to respond.__NEWL__Sick Boy becomes notably more emotional and distressed than the others and eventually breaks down as well, stating he is kicking heroin for good.__NEWL__Simon does not explicitly state that he was the child's father, playing to the title of the story.__NEWL__Mark wants to comfort his friend, but is unsure how and cooks a shot for himself in order to deal with the situation.__NEWL__A sobbing Lesley asks him to also cook her up a hit, which Mark does but makes sure he injects himself before her, stating the action "goes without saying".__NEWL__After an argument with his girlfriend Carol, Second Prize meets Tommy in a pub, and Tommy confronts a man who is punching his girlfriend.__NEWL__They are shocked to find the woman supports her abusive boyfriend instead of her would-be liberators by digging her nails into Tommy's face, inciting a brawl.__NEWL__While the couple slips out unnoticed, Tommy and Second Prize find themselves taking the blame for the whole affair from the pub locals.__NEWL__Renton, Begbie and their girlfriends meet up for a drink before going to a party, but it ends when Begbie throws a glass off a balcony, hitting someone and splitting open their head, setting off a huge pub brawl.__NEWL__In another scene, Tommy comes around to Renton's flat (shortly after Renton relapsed) after being dumped by his girlfriend.__NEWL__Renton reluctantly gives him some heroin, setting off Tommy's gradual decline into addiction, HIV/AIDS, and later, death.__NEWL__Later, Renton's brother Billy and his friends Lenny, Naz Peasbo, and Jackie are waiting for their friend Granty to arrive for a game of cards, as he is holding the money pot.__NEWL__They later find out that Granty is dead and his girlfriend has disappeared with the money, prompting them to beat Jackie, whom they knew to have been sleeping with her.__NEWL__Later, Begbie and Lexo have pulled an unknown crime, so Begbie decides to lie low in London with Renton.__NEWL__The chapter covers their train journey.__NEWL__Spud manages to kick heroin, and visits his grandmother, where his mixed-race uncle Dode is staying.__NEWL__He recounts the trouble that Dode has had with racism growing up, particularly an event when he and Spud went to a pub and were assaulted by white power skinheads.__NEWL__This abuse led to a fight, which left Dode hospitalised, where Spud visits him.__NEWL__Renton has kicked heroin and is restless.__NEWL__He picks up a girl at a nightclub, Dianne, unaware that she is only fourteen.__NEWL__He is later forced to lie to her parents at breakfast the following morning.__NEWL__Despite his guilt and discomfort, he sleeps with Dianne again when she shows up at his flat.__NEWL__Spud, Renton and Sick Boy take some ecstasy and stroll to the Meadows where an excited Sick Boy and Renton try to kill a squirrel but stop after Spud becomes upset by their actions towards the animal.__NEWL__He states to the reader that you can't love yourself if you hurt animals as it's wrong and compares their innocence to that of Simon's dead baby Dawn.__NEWL__He also states that squirrels are "lovely" and "free" and that "that's maybe what Rents can't stand" indicating Mark envies those he feels are completely unbound and free.__NEWL__Mark is ashamed and Spud forgives him quickly and the pair embrace, before Simon breaks them up.__NEWL__Renton and Spud are in court for stealing books.__NEWL__Renton gets a suspended sentence owing to his attempts at rehabilitation, while Spud is sentenced to ten months in prison.__NEWL__Renton relapses and has to suffer heroin withdrawal at his parents' house, where he experiences hallucinations of the dead baby Dawn, the television programme he is watching, and the lecture provided by his father.__NEWL__He is later visited by Sick Boy and goes out to a pub with his parents, whose unnerving enthusiasm acts as a veneer for their authoritative treatment.__NEWL__ Renton's brother Billy dies in Northern Ireland with the British Army.__NEWL__Renton attends the funeral; there, he almost starts a fight with some of his father's Unionist relatives, and ends up having sex with Billy's pregnant girlfriend in the toilet.__NEWL__Renton discusses the hypocrisy of Unionism and the British in Northern Ireland.__NEWL__Renton is stranded in London with no place to sleep.__NEWL__He tries to fall asleep in an all-night porno theatre, where he meets an old homosexual named Gi, who lets him stay at his flat.__NEWL__Later, Renton, Spud, Begbie, Gav, Alison and others venture out for another drink and something to eat.__NEWL__Spud and the others reflect upon their sex lives.__NEWL__Spud, Begbie, and a teenager have engaged in a criminal robbery.__NEWL__Spud recounts the crime and comments on Begbie's paranoia and how the teenager is likely to get ripped off by the pair.__NEWL__Gav tells Renton the story of how Matty died of toxoplasmosis after attempting to rekindle his relationship with his ex using a kitten.__NEWL__The group attends Matty's funeral, where they reflect on his downfall, and what may have caused it.__NEWL__Later, Renton returns to Leith for Christmas and meets Begbie, who beats up an innocent man after having seen his alcoholic father in the disused Leith Central railway station.__NEWL__He visits a former drug dealer, Johnny Swan, who has had his leg amputated as a result of heroin use, and he visits Tommy, who is dying of AIDS.__NEWL__Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Second Prize go to London to engage in a low-key heroin deal and see a Pogues gig.__NEWL__The book ends with Renton stealing the cash and going to Amsterdam.__NEWL__Renton thinks to himself that he will send Spud his cut, as he is the only 'innocent' party.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7732627	The Eustace Diamonds	1872-10-01T00:00:00Z	7381					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	233097	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233097	In this novel, the characters of Plantagenet Palliser, his wife Lady Glencora and their uncle the ailing Duke of Omnium are in the background.__NEWL__The plot centres on Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace and is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother.__NEWL__While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological delight in lying, even when it cannot benefit her.__NEWL__(Trollope comments that Lizzie sees lies as "more beautiful than the truth."__NEWL__)__NEWL__Before he dies, the disillusioned Sir Florian discovers all this, but does not think to change the generous terms of his will.__NEWL__The diamonds of the book's title are a necklace, a family heirloom that Sir Florian gave to Lizzie to wear.__NEWL__Though they belong to her husband's estate (and thus eventually will be the property of her son), Lizzie refuses to relinquish them.__NEWL__She lies about the terms under which they were given to her, leaving their ownership unclear.__NEWL__The indignant Eustace family lawyer, Mr Camperdown, strives to retrieve the necklace, putting the Eustaces in an awkward position.__NEWL__On the one hand, the diamonds are valuable and Lizzie may not have a legal claim to them, but on the other, they do not want to antagonise the mother of the heir to the family estate (Lizzie having only a life interest).__NEWL__Meanwhile, after a respectable period of mourning, Lizzie searches for another husband, a dashing "Corsair" more in keeping with her extravagantly romantic fantasies.__NEWL__She becomes engaged to a dull, but honourable politician, Lord Fawn, but they have a falling out when her character becomes better known, especially her determination to keep the diamonds.__NEWL__She then considers her cousin, Frank Greystock, even though he is already engaged to Lucy Morris, a poor but much beloved governess of the Fawn daughters.__NEWL__Greystock is a successful lawyer and Member of Parliament, but his income is inadequate to his position and spendthrift lifestyle.__NEWL__Lizzie believes he can shield her from the legal proceedings being initiated by Mr Camperdown.__NEWL__Another more Corsair-like possibility is one of the guests at her Scottish home, the older Lord George de Bruce Carruthers, a man who supports himself in a somewhat mysterious manner.__NEWL__Among the other guests is a young woman named Lucinda Roanoke, whose financially straitened aunt, Mrs Carbuncle, is desperate to marry her off.__NEWL__Despite Lucinda's deep detestation of the brutish Sir Griffin Tewett, the aunt has her way and the mismatched couple become engaged.__NEWL__Things take a dramatic turn on a trip to London.__NEWL__Lizzie, out of fear of Mr Camperdown, keeps her diamonds with her in a conspicuous strongbox.__NEWL__One night, at an inn, the strongbox is stolen and everybody assumes the jewellery is lost.__NEWL__As it turns out, Lizzie had taken the gems out and put them under her pillow, but acting on her first instincts, she perjures herself when she has to report the theft to the magistrate, thinking that she can sell the diamonds and let the robbers take the blame.__NEWL__Suspicion falls on both Lizzie and Lord George, acting either together or separately.__NEWL__In any case, the thieves, aided by Lizzie's disloyal maid, Patience Crabstick, try again and succeed in their second attempt.__NEWL__Lizzie feigns illness and takes to her bed.__NEWL__Lady Glencora Palliser pays Lizzie a visit to offer her sympathy.__NEWL__The police begin to unravel the mystery, putting Lizzie in a very uncomfortable position.__NEWL__In the end, the diamonds are lost, the police discover the truth, and Lizzie is forced to confess her lies, though she escapes legal retribution since her testimony is needed to convict the criminals.__NEWL__Both Frank Greystock and Lord George become disgusted by her conduct and desert her.__NEWL__Lucinda Roanoke grows to loathe Sir Griffin more and more intensely until, on what would have been the day of their wedding, she loses her sanity.__NEWL__Frank Greystock returns to Fawn Court to marry Lucy Morris.__NEWL__Mr Emilius, a foreign crypto-Jewish clergyman, woos Lizzie while she is in a vulnerable state and succeeds in marrying her (though it is hinted earlier in the book, and is later confirmed in Phineas Redux, that he is already married).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4767661	Anna of the Five Towns	1902-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	233098	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233098	The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England.__NEWL__Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church.__NEWL__The novel tells of Anna's struggle for freedom and independence against her father's restraints.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7754941	The Old Wives' Tale	1908-01-01T00:00:00Z	5247	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	233099	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233099	The book is broken up into four parts.__NEWL__The first section, "Mrs Baines" details the adolescence of both Sophia and Constance, and their life in their father's shop and house (a combined property).__NEWL__The father is ill and bedridden, and the main adult in their life is Mrs Baines, their mother.__NEWL__By the end of the first book, Sophia (whose name reflects her sophistication, as opposed to the constant Constance) has eloped with a travelling salesman.__NEWL__Constance meanwhile marries Mr Povey, who works in the shop.__NEWL__The second part, "Constance", details the life of Constance from that point forward up until the time she is reunited with her sister in old age.__NEWL__Her life, although outwardly prosaic, is nevertheless filled with personal incident, including the death of her husband, Mr Povey, and her concerns about the character and behaviour of her son.__NEWL__The third part, "Sophia", carries forward the story of what happened to Sophia after her elopement.__NEWL__Abandoned by her husband in Paris, Sophia eventually becomes the owner of a successful pension.__NEWL__The final part, "What Life Is", details how the two sisters are eventually reunited.__NEWL__Sophia returns to England and the house of her childhood, where Constance still lives.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1476619	Their Eyes Were Watching God	1937-09-18T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	244659	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244659	Janie Crawford, an African-American woman in her forties, recounts her life starting with her sexual awakening, which she compares to a blossoming pear tree kissed by bees in spring.__NEWL__Around this time, Janie allows a local boy, Johnny Taylor, to kiss her, which Janie's grandmother, Nanny, witnesses.__NEWL__As a young enslaved woman, Nanny was raped by her white enslaver, then gave birth to a mixed-race daughter she named Leafy.__NEWL__Though Nanny wanted a better life for her daughter and even escaped her jealous mistress after the American Civil War, Leafy was later raped by her school teacher and became pregnant with Janie.__NEWL__Shortly after Janie's birth, Leafy began to drink and stay out at night, eventually running away and leaving Janie with Nanny.__NEWL__Nanny, having transferred her hopes for stability and opportunity from Leafy to Janie, arranges for Janie to marry Logan Killicks, an older farmer looking for a wife.__NEWL__However, Killicks doesn't love Janie and wants only a domestic helper rather than a lover or partner; he thinks she doesn't do enough around the farm and considers her ungrateful.__NEWL__When Janie speaks to Nanny about her desire for love, Nanny, too, accuses Janie of being spoiled and, soon afterwards, dies.__NEWL__Unhappy, disillusioned, and lonely, Janie leaves Killicks and runs off with Jody (Joe) Starks, a glib man who takes her to the all-black community of Eatonville, Florida.__NEWL__Starks arranges to buy more land, establishes a general store, and is soon elected mayor of the town.__NEWL__However, Janie soon realizes that Starks wants her as a trophy wife to reinforce his powerful position in town and to run the store, even forbidding her from taking part in the town's social life.__NEWL__During their twenty-year marriage, he treats her as his property, criticizing her, controlling her, and physically abusing her.__NEWL__Finally, when Starks's kidney begins to fail, Janie says that he never knew her because he would not let her be free.__NEWL__After Starks dies, Janie becomes financially independent through his estate.__NEWL__Though she is beset with suitors, including men of means, she turns them all down until she meets a young drifter and gambler named Vergible Woods, known as "Tea Cake".__NEWL__He plays the guitar for her and initially treats her with kindness and respect.__NEWL__Janie is hesitant because she is older and wealthy, but she eventually falls in love with him and decides to run away with him to Jacksonville to marry.__NEWL__They move to Belle Glade, in the northern part of the Everglades region ("the muck"), where they find work planting and harvesting beans.__NEWL__While their relationship is volatile and sometimes violent, Janie finally has the marriage with love that she wanted.__NEWL__Her image of the pear tree blossom is revived.__NEWL__Suddenly, the area is hit by the great 1928 Okeechobee hurricane.__NEWL__Tea Cake is bitten by a rabid dog while saving Janie from drowning and becomes increasingly jealous and unpredictable.__NEWL__When he tries to shoot Janie with his pistol, she fatally shoots him with a rifle in self-defense and is charged with murder.__NEWL__At the trial, Tea Cake's black male friends show up to oppose her, but a group of local white women arrive to support Janie.__NEWL__After the all-white jury acquits Janie, she gives Tea Cake a lavish funeral.__NEWL__Tea Cake's friends forgive her, asking her to remain in the Everglades.__NEWL__However, she decides to return to Eatonville.__NEWL__As she expected, the residents gossip about her when she returns to town.__NEWL__The story ends where it started, as Janie finishes recounting her life to Pheoby.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2743935	Anthem	1938-01-01T00:00:00Z	1250					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	234527	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234527	Equality 7-2521, a 21-year-old man writing by candlelight in a tunnel under the earth, tells the story of his life up to that point.__NEWL__He exclusively uses plural pronouns ("we", "our", "they") to refer to himself and others.__NEWL__He was raised like all children in his society, away from his parents in collective homes: the Home of Infants from birth until five years old, then the Home of Students from five to fifteen.__NEWL__He believes he has a "curse" that makes him learn quickly and ask many questions.__NEWL__He excels at the Science of Things and dreams of becoming a Scholar, but when the Council of Vocations assigns his Life Mandate at fifteen, he is assigned to be a Street Sweeper.__NEWL__Equality 7-2521 accepts his street sweeping assignment as penance for his Transgression of Preference in secretly desiring to be a Scholar.__NEWL__He works with the handicapped Union 5-3992 and International 4-8818, the latter of whom is Equality's only friend (which is another Transgression of Preference, because all are supposedly equal in their society).__NEWL__Despite International's protests that any exploration unauthorized by a Council is forbidden, Equality explores an underground tunnel near the City Theatre tent, and finds metal tracks.__NEWL__Equality believes the tunnel is from the Unmentionable Times of the distant past.__NEWL__He begins sneaking away from his community at night to use the tunnel as a laboratory for scientific experiments, using garbage he has taken from the Home of the Scholars.__NEWL__He is using stolen paper from the Home of the Clerks to write his journal, by candlelight, using candles stolen from the larder at the Home of the Street Sweepers.__NEWL__While cleaning a road at the edge of the City, Equality meets Liberty 5-3000, a 17-year-old Peasant girl who works in the fields.__NEWL__He commits another transgression by thinking constantly of her, instead of waiting to be assigned a woman at the annual Time of Mating, in which men aged twenty and over, and females of eighteen and over, are assigned to each other solely for breeding.__NEWL__She has dark eyes and golden hair, and he names her "The Golden One".__NEWL__When he speaks to her, he discovers that she also thinks of him.__NEWL__He reveals his secret name for her, and Liberty tells Equality she has named him "The Unconquered".__NEWL__Continuing his scientific work, Equality rediscovers electricity.__NEWL__In the ruins of the tunnel, he finds a glass box with wires that gives off light when he passes electricity through it.__NEWL__He decides to take his discovery to the World Council of Scholars; he thinks such a great gift to mankind will outweigh his many transgressions and lead to him being made a Scholar.__NEWL__However, one night, his absence from the Home of the Street Sweepers is noticed.__NEWL__He is whipped and held in the Palace of Corrective Detention.__NEWL__The night before the World Council of Scholars is set to meet, he easily escapes; there are no guards because no one has ever attempted escape before.__NEWL__The next day, he presents his work to the World Council of Scholars.__NEWL__Horrified that he has done unauthorized research, they assail him as a "wretch" and a "gutter cleaner" and say he must be punished.__NEWL__They want to destroy his discovery so it will not disrupt the plans of the World Council and the Department of Candles.__NEWL__Equality seizes the box, cursing the council before fleeing into the Uncharted Forest that lies outside the City.__NEWL__In the forest, Equality sees himself as damned for having left his fellow men, but he enjoys his freedom.__NEWL__No one will pursue him into this forbidden place.__NEWL__He only misses Liberty.__NEWL__On his second day of living in the forest, Liberty appears; she followed him into the forest and vows to stay with him forever.__NEWL__They live together in the forest and try to express their love for one another, but they lack the words to speak of love as individuals.__NEWL__They find a house from the Unmentionable Times in the mountains and decide to live in it.__NEWL__While reading books from the house's library, Equality discovers the word "I" and tells Liberty about it.__NEWL__Her first words to him are, “I love you.”__NEWL__Having rediscovered individuality, they give themselves new names from the books: Equality becomes "Prometheus" and Liberty becomes "Gaea".__NEWL__Months later, Gaea is pregnant with Prometheus' child.__NEWL__Prometheus wonders how men in the past could have given up their individuality; he plans a future in which they will regain it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q83799	We	1924-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15180	Soviet Union	234555	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234555	A few hundred years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a journal that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.__NEWL__Like all other citizens of the One State, D-503 lives in a glass apartment building and is carefully watched by the secret police, or Bureau of Guardians.__NEWL__D-503's lover, O-90, has been assigned by One State to visit him on certain nights.__NEWL__She is considered too short to bear children and is deeply grieved by her state in life.__NEWL__O-90's other lover and D-503's best friend is R-13, a State poet who reads his verse at public executions.__NEWL__While on an assigned walk with O-90, D-503 meets a woman named I-330.__NEWL__I-330 smokes cigarettes, drinks alcohol, and shamelessly flirts with D-503 instead of applying for an impersonal sex visit; all of these are highly illegal according to the laws of the One State.__NEWL__Both repelled and fascinated, D-503 struggles to overcome his attraction to I-330.__NEWL__She invites him to visit the Ancient House, notable for being the only opaque building in the One State, except for windows.__NEWL__Objects of aesthetic and historical importance dug up from around the city are stored there.__NEWL__There, I-330 offers him the services of a corrupt doctor to explain his absence from work.__NEWL__Leaving in horror, D-503 vows to denounce her to the Bureau of Guardians, but finds that he cannot.__NEWL__He begins to have dreams, which disturbs him, as dreams are thought to be a symptom of mental illness.__NEWL__Slowly, I-330 reveals to D-503 that she is involved with the Mephi, an organization plotting to bring down the One State.__NEWL__She takes him through secret tunnels inside the Ancient House to the world outside the Green Wall, which surrounds the city-state.__NEWL__There, D-503 meets the inhabitants of the outside world: humans whose bodies are covered with animal fur.__NEWL__The aims of the Mephi are to destroy the Green Wall and reunite the citizens of the One State with the outside world.__NEWL__Despite the recent rift between them, O-90 pleads with D-503 to impregnate her illegally.__NEWL__After O-90 insists that she will obey the law by turning over their child to be raised by the One State, D-503 obliges.__NEWL__However, as her pregnancy progresses, O-90 realizes that she cannot bear to be parted from her baby under any circumstances.__NEWL__At D-503's request, I-330 arranges for O-90 to be smuggled outside the Green Wall.__NEWL__In his last journal entry, D-503 indifferently relates that he has been forcibly tied to a table and subjected to the "Great Operation", which has recently been mandated for all citizens of the One State in order to prevent possible riots; having been psycho-surgically refashioned into a state of mechanical "reliability", they would now function as "tractors in human form".__NEWL__This operation removes the imagination and emotions by targeting parts of the brain with X-rays.__NEWL__After this operation, D-503 willingly informed the Benefactor about the inner workings of the Mephi.__NEWL__However, D-503 expresses surprise that even torture could not induce I-330 to denounce her comrades.__NEWL__Despite her refusal, I-330 and those arrested with her have been sentenced to death, "under the Benefactor's Machine".__NEWL__Meanwhile, the Mephi uprising gathers strength; parts of the Green Wall have been destroyed, birds are repopulating the city, and people start committing acts of social rebellion.__NEWL__Although D-503 expresses hope that the Benefactor shall restore "reason", the novel ends with the One State's survival in doubt.__NEWL__I-330's mantra is that, just as there is no highest number, there can be no final revolution.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7739767	The History Man	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	239433	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239433	Howard Kirk is a lecturer in sociology at the local university.__NEWL__He is a "theoretician of sociability".__NEWL__The Kirks are trendy leftist people but living together for many years and the advance of middle age have left unfavourable traces in their relationship.__NEWL__It is Barbara Kirk who notices this change, whereas Howard is as enthusiastic and self-assured as always.__NEWL__Officially, the Kirks oppose traditional gender roles just as fiercely as the exploitation of humans by other humans.__NEWL__Practices have crept into their lives, which do not live up to such high standards, Howard writes books, while Barbara—stranded with much of the housework and two little children—would like to but never gets round to it.__NEWL__Any female student who comes to live with—rather than work for—them is made to babysit and perform domestic chores.__NEWL__When Howard and Barbara meet in their third year at the University of Leeds, Howard is a virgin.__NEWL__They are religious, working-class and during their student years cannot afford more than the bare necessities of life.__NEWL__A few years after their graduation, in the summer of 1963, the "old Kirks", already a married couple living in a small bedsit, metamorphose into the "new Kirks" when one day, while Howard is at the university where he works as a lecturer, Barbara has spontaneous, casual sex with an Egyptian student.__NEWL__This fling triggers a series of events.__NEWL__When he has got over the shock, Howard begins to associate with all kinds of radical people.__NEWL__The Kirks make many new friends.__NEWL__They smoke pot at parties, Barbara develops a new interest in health food and astrology, Howard grows a beard and they both start having "small affairs".__NEWL__When Barbara gets pregnant, rather than cancelling his class, Howard takes his students to the clinic to watch his wife giving birth.__NEWL__Finally, in 1967, he is appointed lecturer at Watermouth and right from the start he is intent on radicalising that bourgeois town, especially the new university, an institution that he describes as 'a place I can work against'.__NEWL__The novel chronicles a term in the lives of Howard and Barbara.__NEWL__Howard's intolerance concerning non-Marxist, especially conservative, thinking makes him persecute one of the male participants of his seminar who wears a university blazer and a tie (which make him look like a student from the 1950s) and insists on being allowed to present his paper in the traditional, formal way, without being interrupted and without having to answer questions before he has finished his train of thought.__NEWL__In front of the others Howard calls him a "heavy, anal type" and what he has prepared for class "an anal, repressed paper", without considering his hypocrisy.__NEWL__Kirk succeeds in having the student, a "historical irrelevance", expelled from the university.__NEWL__Whereas Howard selects his many sexual partners from among the people who work at the university (students as well as faculty members) on Saturday mornings, Barbara Kirk regularly goes on "shopping trips" to London to visit the same young man.__NEWL__The Kirks consider the parties they throw in their house a success if at least some of their guests have sex in the many rooms they provide for it.__NEWL__At one point in the novel, Howard's promiscuity gets him into trouble when he is told that he might be sacked for "gross moral turpitude" (which he defines to a female student of his as "raping large numbers of nuns") but he shrugs off this accusation as being based on "a very vague concept, especially these days".__NEWL__A number of supporting characters round off the vivid picture of the permissive society of the early 1970s.__NEWL__There is Henry Beamish, one of Howard's colleagues whose childless middle-class marriage to Myra has been largely unhappy.__NEWL__There is Dr. Macintosh, a sociologist from Howard's department who, despite his pregnant wife, can be convinced by Howard that having sex with one of his students during the end-of-term party is the right thing to do.__NEWL__Flora Beniform is a social psychologist with rather unconventional research methods: she sleeps with men in whom she is professionally interested to elicit information.__NEWL__At the end of the novel Howard and Barbara are still together and all their friends admire their stable yet "advanced" marriage.__NEWL__Howard has even further metamorphosed into "the radical hero" who is "generating the onward march of mind, the onward process of history".__NEWL__According to his philosophy, things, especially those he likes, are bound to happen: this is called "historical inevitability".__NEWL__The trajectory of the Kirks' life together ends when Barbara attempts suicide during a party.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q53592	From the Earth to the Moon	1865-01-01T00:00:00Z	12901	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	245137	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245137	The story opens some time after the end of the American Civil War.__NEWL__The Baltimore Gun Club, a society dedicated to the design of weapons of all kinds (especially cannons), comes together when Impey Barbicane, its president, calls them to support his latest idea.__NEWL__He's done some calculations, and believes that they could construct a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the Moon.__NEWL__After receiving the support of his companions, another meeting is held to decide the place from which the projectile will be fired, the dimensions and materials of both the cannon and the projectile, and which kind of powder they are to use.__NEWL__An old enemy of Barbicane, a Captain Nicholl of Philadelphia, designer of plate armor, declares that the entire enterprise is absurd and makes a series of bets with Barbicane, each of them of increasing amount, over the impossibility of such a feat.__NEWL__The first obstacle, enough money to construct the giant cannon (and against which Nicholl has bet $1,000), is raised from a number of countries in America and Europe.__NEWL__Notably, the U.S. donates four million dollars, whilst England, at first, does not give anything.__NEWL__In the end, nearly five and a half million dollars are raised, which ensures the financial feasibility of the project.__NEWL__Stone's Hill in "Tampa Town", Florida is chosen as the site for the cannon's construction.__NEWL__The Gun Club travels there and begins construction of the Columbiad cannon, which requires the excavation of a and circular hole, which is completed in the nick of time, but a surprise awaits Barbicane: Michel Ardan, a French adventurer, plans to travel to the moon aboard the projectile.__NEWL__During a meeting between Ardan, the Gun Club, and the inhabitants of Florida, Nicholl appears and challenges Barbicane to a duel.__NEWL__The duel is stopped when Ardan—having been warned by J. T. Maston, secretary of the Gun Club—meets the rivals in the forest where they have agreed to duel.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Barbicane finds the solution to the problem of surviving the incredible acceleration that the explosion would cause.__NEWL__Ardan suggests that Barbicane and Nicholl travel with him in the projectile, and his proposition is accepted.__NEWL__In the end, the projectile is successfully launched, but the destinies of the three astronauts are left inconclusive.__NEWL__The sequel, Around the Moon, deals with what happens to the three men during their voyage from the Earth to the Moon.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1198633	The Futurological Congress	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	244205	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244205	Ijon Tichy is sent to the Eighth World Futurological Congress in Costa Rica by professor Tarantoga.__NEWL__The conference is set to focus on the world's overpopulation crisis and ways of dealing with it.__NEWL__It is held at the Costa Rica Hilton in Nounas, which is 164 stories tall.__NEWL__Lem is fiercely satirical from the start, and absurdities abound at the Hilton with its guaranteed "BOMB-FREE" rooms and the extravagances of Tichy's suite, which include a palm grove and an "all-girl orchestra [that] played Bach while performing a cleverly choreographed striptease".__NEWL__The conference itself is no less absurd.__NEWL__Papers and presenters are too numerous to allow for full presentations.__NEWL__Instead, papers are distributed in hard copy and speakers call out paragraph numbers to call attention to their most salient points.__NEWL__In the middle of his first night at the conference, Tichy drinks some tap water in his hotel room, and his wild hallucinogenic trip begins, though it never becomes any more or less absurd than the brief glimpse of reality Lem presents in the beginning of the book (if indeed the congress is meant to be reality).__NEWL__He realizes the next day that the government has drugged the public water supply with "benignimizers", a drug that makes the victim helplessly benevolent.__NEWL__Events spiral out of control at the Hilton, which was already so chaotic that charred corpses from bombing attacks would be covered with tarps where they lay while guests went about their business.__NEWL__The government ends up bombing the hotel, and Tichy escapes into the sewer, where rats walk around on their hind legs.__NEWL__Tichy is evacuated from the scene by the military: first he escapes by jetpack, only to realise he is hallucinating (falling in the sewer water to find he never left).__NEWL__After returning to reality, he is rescued again and this time evacuated by helicopter, but during his rescue the helicopter crashes, and he awakes in the hospital, where he finds that his brain has been transplanted into the body of an attractive young black woman.__NEWL__Protesters attack the hospital, and Tichy is nearly killed again.__NEWL__This time when he wakes up, he finds that he has been transplanted into the body of an overweight, red-haired man, however this too is an illusion (again, broken when Tichy falls into the sewer water).__NEWL__When the military once again arrive to rescue everyone in the sewer Tichy refuses to move, believing that it is another illusion.__NEWL__He is then found by counter-revolutionaries, who shoot him.__NEWL__Awaking in another hospital, Tichy's mental state grows increasingly fragile as he cannot distinguish reality from hallucination (giving the staff inane nicknames, such as "Hallucinathan" and "Hallucinda"), and the medical staff make the decision to freeze him until a time when medicine can help his condition.__NEWL__He awakes in the year 2039, and at this point, the novel adopts the format of a journal that Tichy keeps to chronicle his experience in this new world.__NEWL__His future shock is so great that he finds he is being introduced to the world in small stages by the medical staff.__NEWL__In most regards, this future society is Utopian.__NEWL__Money is no object.__NEWL__One can simply go to the bank and request any sum and borrow it interest-free.__NEWL__There is no effort made to collect the debt, either, as most people take a drug that instills a sense of pride and work-ethic, which would disallow defaulting on the debt.__NEWL__Tichy learns that there is an inherent bias against defrostees, and that there are a great deal of words that he does not understand.__NEWL__Like cityspeak, and many other sci-fi futuristic languages, it is a mishmash of words with clear enough English roots, though Tichy is mystified by it.__NEWL__Also, mood is highly regulated by drugs.__NEWL__Tichy gets involved with a woman, and during an argument, she deliberately takes a drug called recriminol to make her more combative, which prolongs the tiff.__NEWL__Following their break-up, Tichy becomes deeply disillusioned with the "psychem" mentality, wherein drugs regulate every waking moment of the day.__NEWL__He resolves to stop taking any drugs and confides to his friend, professor Trottelreiner, that he can't stand this new world.__NEWL__Trottelreiner explains that the Narcotics and hallucinogens that Tichy is tired of are trifles compared to "mascons", which are so powerful that they mask whole swaths of reality.__NEWL__Trottelreiner explains, "mascon" derives from mask, masquerade, mascara: "By introducing properly prepared mascons to the brain, one can mask any object in the outside world behind a fictitious image—superimposed—and with such dexterity, that the psychemasconated subject cannot tell which of his perceptions have been altered, and which have not.__NEWL__If but for a single instant you could see this world of ours the way it really is—undoctored, unadulterated, uncensored—you would drop in your tracks!"__NEWL__The professor then gives Tichy a flask of "up'n'at'm, one of the vigilanimides, a powerful countersomniac and antipsychem agent.__NEWL__A derivative of dimethylethylhexabutylpeptopeyotine".__NEWL__With his first sniff of up'n'at'm, Tichy watches as the gilded surroundings of the five-star restaurant they are in evaporates into a dingy concrete bunker, and his stuffed pheasant turns into "the most unappetizing gray-brown gruel, which stuck in globs to my tin — no longer silver — fork".__NEWL__But this first dose is just the beginning of Tichy's journey.__NEWL__He sees that people do not drive cars or ride in elevators, but they run in the streets and climb the walls of empty elevator shafts, which explains why everyone in this new world is so out of breath.__NEWL__Robots whip people in the street and protect order.__NEWL__Through successive doses of more and more powerful types of up'n'at'm, Tichy sees increasingly horrible visions of the world, climaxing in a frozen horrorscape where people sleep blissfully in the snow, and the police robots are revealed to be people who are convinced that they are robots.__NEWL__The frozen state of the world explains why he has always found the new world to be so cold.__NEWL__In a state of panic, Tichy realizes that he is "no longer safely inside the illusion, but shipwrecked in reality", and he desperately seeks the seat of power.__NEWL__He ascends in a skyscraper to encounter his acquaintance George P. Symington Esquire, who sits in a modest office and explains to Tichy that he and a few others employ mascons as a way of maintaining order: "The year is 2098 ... with 69 billion inhabitants legally registered and approximately another 26 billion in hiding.__NEWL__The average annual temperature has fallen four degrees.__NEWL__In fifteen or twenty years there will be glaciers here.__NEWL__We have no way of averting or halting their advance — we can only keep them secret."__NEWL__"I always thought there would be ice in hell," I said.__NEWL__Tichy realizes his only course of action and tackles Symington, pushing them both out of the window.__NEWL__They plummet to the earth, but instead of colliding with the frozen ground, Tichy splashes into the black, stinking waters of the sewer beneath the Costa Rica Hilton, revealing that his suspicions were right all along: the whole future world he experienced was an illusion.__NEWL__He realizes that it is now the second day of the Eighth World Futurological Congress.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2249650	Underworld	1997-10-03T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	245395	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245395	The prologue is a fictionalized account of The Shot Heard 'Round the World, a home run by Bobby Thomson on October 3, 1951, that won the National League pennant for the New York Giants against their cross-town rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers.__NEWL__In DeLillo's account, the game-winning ball is caught by a young black fan named Cotter Martin, while J. Edgar Hoover, watching in the stands, is informed in the middle of the game of the first Soviet test of the hydrogen bomb.__NEWL__The remainder of the novel, comprising six parts and an epilogue, is a reverse chronological account of the life of Nick Shay, the man who ultimately ends up with the baseball, from his undirected existence as an executive of a waste management company in Arizona in the 1990s back to his childhood in the Bronx in the 1950s, though the non-linear narrative includes a large number of digressions and ancillary subplots.__NEWL__Part 1 takes place in 1992.__NEWL__Nick Shay lives in Arizona with his wife, Marian, who is having an affair with his colleague, Brian Glassic.__NEWL__Nick visits an art installation of painted B-52 aircraft in the desert by Klara Sax, with whom Nick is later revealed to have had an affair forty years earlier.__NEWL__It is revealed that Nick killed a man when he was a teenager, and that Nick's father disappeared when Nick was a child after going out to get a pack of Lucky Strikes.__NEWL__Nick prefers to imagine that he was killed by the Mafia.__NEWL__In a flashback to 1951, Cotter Martin's father takes the baseball from his son with the intention of selling it.__NEWL__In Part 2, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Marian begins her affair with Brian, while Nick acquires the baseball from an avid baseball memorabilia collector named Marvin Lundy after Brian meets Lundy on a trip to New York City to see the Fresh Kills Landfill.__NEWL__Elsewhere, in the Bronx, a pessimistic, germophobic nun named Sister Edgar, who was Nick Shay's Catholic school teacher in the 1950s, works among the unbelieving poor and sick.__NEWL__A videotape of a serial killer nicknamed the Texas Highway Killer is described.__NEWL__In Part 3, in the spring of 1978, Nick attends a waste management conference in the Mojave Desert and meets a swinger named Donna, while Marvin Lundy traces the baseball to San Francisco.__NEWL__Part 4, in the summer of 1974, mainly concerns Klara Sax, who is working as an artist in New York City, and Matt Shay, Nick's brother, a former chess prodigy, who is a scientist in the nuclear weapons program in New Mexico.__NEWL__Part 5 encompasses the 1950s and 1960s, beginning with Nick Shay in juvenile detention, following Nick's relationship with a woman named Amy and later with his future wife Marian, and Matt's courtship of his wife Janet.__NEWL__Lenny Bruce's comedy routines on the Cuban Missile Crisis are mentioned several times.__NEWL__In another flashback, Cotter Martin's father sells his baseball to Charles Wainright, a white fan standing in line with his son outside of Yankee Stadium.__NEWL__Part 6, from the fall of 1951 to the summer of 1952, relates how Nick Shay, running loose after his father left his family, accidentally kills his friend George Manza.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Nick and Brian travel to Kazakhstan to watch a demo of a new waste disposal system that incinerates the waste with a nuclear explosion.__NEWL__Nick confronts Brian about his affair with Marian, but decides to stay with Marian.__NEWL__Esmeralda, a feral girl in the Bronx whom the Catholic nuns were trying to save, is raped and murdered.__NEWL__Her image then miraculously appears on a billboard.__NEWL__Sister Edgar dies shortly after witnessing the miracle.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1646002	Forever Amber	1944-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	246554	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246554	Judith Marsh has been engaged since birth to her neighbor, John Mainwaring, heir to the Earl of Rosswood.__NEWL__In 1644, she has her engagement broken off when her family and the Mainwarings find themselves on opposing sides of the English Civil War.__NEWL__During a break in the fighting, John visits Judith and the two consummate their relationship.__NEWL__Pregnant, Judith abandons her family and goes to Parliamentarian territory on John's instructions, introducing herself as Judith St. Clare.__NEWL__There, she ends up staying with farmer Matthew Goodegroome and his wife Sarah.__NEWL__Judith dies in childbirth after naming her daughter Amber (after the color of John's eyes).__NEWL__In 1660, Amber, now a flirtatious teenager, is being raised by the Goodegroomes in ignorance of her origins.__NEWL__She meets a band of Royalists who inform her that Charles II of England is returning.__NEWL__Amber is particularly attracted to Lord Bruce Carlton.__NEWL__During a fair, she lures him into the woods and loses her virginity to him.__NEWL__After she persuades him, Carlton reluctantly takes her to London, but tells Amber he will not marry her and she will come to regret her choice.__NEWL__In London, Carlton makes Amber his mistress.__NEWL__She quickly grows accustomed to their luxurious lifestyle.__NEWL__She longs to marry Carlton and believes becoming pregnant will make him marry her.__NEWL__However, when she does become pregnant, Carlton announces plans to become a privateer.__NEWL__He leaves Amber a significant amount of money and tells her if she is clever she can legitimize herself and her child by marrying well.__NEWL__Left alone, Amber is befriended by a woman named Sally Goodman and passes herself off as a rich country heiress.__NEWL__Sally introduces Amber to her nephew Luke Channell, who Amber quickly marries out of fear that her pregnancy will soon be visible.__NEWL__She soon discovers Sally and Luke are not who they appear.__NEWL__When they realize she is not as wealthy as she claimed they abandon her, leaving her penniless.__NEWL__Amber is pursued by creditors and taken to a debtors' prison.__NEWL__Salvation comes when she catches the eye of Black Jack Mallard, a highwayman who takes Amber with him when he escapes.__NEWL__Black Jack takes Amber to Whitefriars, where she is introduced to the ways of criminals and gives birth to a son who she gives to a countrywoman to raise properly.__NEWL__Black Jack hires a student of noble birth, Michael Godfrey, to educate Amber, and begins to use her as bait in schemes where she lures handsome, rich men to quiet corners before Black Jack robs them.__NEWL__Amber attracts the attention of Bess, Black Jack's former lover, whose jealous behavior towards Amber results in Bess being kicked out.__NEWL__Bess avenges herself by turning in Black Jack and his conspirators.__NEWL__Amber manages to escape and happens upon Michael, who offers her his protection.__NEWL__She becomes his mistress.__NEWL__Terrified that her debts will one day catch up with her, Amber learns that actors are protected from arrest (through being servants of the King) and uses her connections to find a position with the King's Company.__NEWL__Though she is not a great actress, Amber uses her beauty to earn larger parts, hoping to attract the attention of a man who can afford to keep her as his mistress.__NEWL__She catches the eye of Captain Rex Morgan, the paramour of fellow actress Beck Marshall, and succeeds in persuading him to pay to keep her.__NEWL__Morgan falls in love with Amber and offers to marry her, but she resists, wanting a wealthier husband.__NEWL__Amber eventually attracts the attention of the King and sleeps with him twice before his mistress, Barbara Palmer, intervenes.__NEWL__Depressed, Amber decides to marry Rex, but Bruce returns from his travels, and Amber realizes she is still in love with him.__NEWL__This leads to a duel between Bruce and Rex, resulting in Rex dying and Bruce leaving once more.__NEWL__Now bereft Amber falls deeper into prostitution.__NEWL__Shunned and unwell following an abortion, she flees to Tunbridge Wells where she meets a rich elderly widower, Samuel Dangerfield, and seduces him into marriage by pretending to be a modest young widow.__NEWL__Dangerfield's puritanical family is horrified, though she becomes friends with his daughter Jemima, who is only a few years younger than herself.__NEWL__Amber discovers her new husband is financing Bruce, and re-starts her affair with him, hoping to conceive a child she can pass off as her husband's.__NEWL__Amber becomes pregnant then discovers her stepdaughter is also pregnant by Bruce, who abandons both of them.__NEWL__Amber finds a suitable husband for Jemima and is left extremely wealthy after Samuel dies.__NEWL__Shortly after their child is born Bruce returns, and both he and Amber contract plague.__NEWL__They both survive but Bruce abandons her again, and Amber decides to marry for a third time, to the avaricious but influential Earl of Radclyffe.__NEWL__Now a countess, Amber intends to go to court and become the King's favored mistress, replacing Barbara Palmer.__NEWL__Her husband interferes in these plans and forces her to move to the country.__NEWL__As revenge, Amber seduces her new husband's son and is discovered.__NEWL__Her husband attempts to poison the pair, succeeding in killing his son.__NEWL__The Earl then flees to London, where Amber has him killed (using the Great Fire of London to cover up the crime).__NEWL__Finally free, she becomes the King's mistress and becomes pregnant by him.__NEWL__The King arranges a marriage – Amber's fourth – to Gerald Stanhope.__NEWL__Bruce returns, and Amber continues cheating on her husband with both the King and Bruce.__NEWL__Bruce reveals that he is married and intends to make their son his lawful heir, to which Amber reluctantly consents, knowing it will secure his future.__NEWL__Amber becomes the King's primary and official mistress, and he makes her Duchess of Ravenspur.__NEWL__As Amber is at the height of her power and influence, Bruce returns once again and resumes his affair with Amber.__NEWL__Bruce's wife Corinna discovers the affair and Bruce finally leaves Amber for good.__NEWL__Amber confronts Corinna, revealing that she is the mother of Bruce's son.__NEWL__While the two are quarreling, Bruce returns and he and Amber get into a violent fight, broken up by Corinna.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to Amber, the Duke of Buckingham (one of the influential men to which Amber prostituted herself) decides Amber is a threat and makes a plan with a former enemy, Lord Arlington, to get rid of her.__NEWL__The two men write Amber a note claiming Corinna has died.__NEWL__A hopeful Amber leaves England in pursuit of Bruce, hoping he will finally marry her, unaware that Corinna is alive and well.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q734976	Lord of Light	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	231295	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231295	Lord of Light is set on a planet colonized by some of the remnants of "vanished Urath", or Earth.__NEWL__The crew and colonists from the spaceship Star of India found themselves on a strange planet surrounded by hostile indigenous races and had to carve a place for themselves or perish.__NEWL__To increase their chances of survival, the crew has used chemical treatments, biofeedback and electronics to mutate their minds and create enhanced self-images, or "Aspects", that "strengthened their bodies and intensified their wills and extended the power of their desires into Attributes, which fell with a force like magic upon those against whom they were turned.__NEWL__" The crew has also developed a technology to transfer a person's atman, or soul, electronically to a new body.__NEWL__This reincarnation by mind transfer has created a race of potential immortals and allowed the former crew members to institute the Hindu caste system, with themselves at the top.__NEWL__The novel covers great spans of time.__NEWL__Eventually, the crew used their now-great powers to subjugate or destroy the native non-human races (whom they characterize as demons) while setting themselves up as gods in the eyes of the many generations of colonist progeny.__NEWL__Taking on the powers and names of Hindu deities, these "gods" maintain respect and control of the masses by maintaining a stranglehold on the access to reincarnation and by suppressing any technological advancements beyond a medieval level.__NEWL__The gods fear that any enlightenment or advancement might lead to a technological renaissance that would eventually weaken their power.__NEWL__The protagonist, Sam, who has developed the ability to manipulate electromagnetic forces, is a renegade crewman who has rejected godhood, taking for himself the role of Siddhartha Gautama/Buddha.__NEWL__Sam is the last "Accelerationist": He believes that technology should be available to the masses, and that reincarnation should not be controlled by the elite.__NEWL__Sam introduces Buddhism as a culture jamming tool and strives to cripple the power of the gods with this "new" religion.__NEWL__His carefully planned revolt against the gods takes place in stages: "An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time.__NEWL__One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7757993	The Practice Effect	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	239007	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239007	A scientist by the name of Dennis Nuel is working at, and attending, an institute of scientific research and pioneering work into the fictional scientific field of "Zievatronics", the manipulation of Time and Space.__NEWL__After the death of his mentor, however, he is taken off the project and another professor takes over.__NEWL__After a time, the device that has been created to move through space and time, known as the "Zievatron" encounters operational problems and is fixed to the co-ordinates of a world that appears to be very similar to our Earth in most respects, and Dennis is re-recruited to help fix it.__NEWL__He volunteers to be sent to the other world in order to fix the other part of the Zievatron.__NEWL__On arriving to this planet, he finds the Zievatron dismantled and critical parts of it missing.__NEWL__Of the three surveillance robots sent through to this planet, he finds two have also been broken apart.__NEWL__After a while, he finds the last robot, intact and still functioning, and uses it to view any recorded images that might help him identify what it was that happened to the Zievatron.__NEWL__In this world, instead of objects wearing out as you use them, they improve.__NEWL__This is referred to as the Practice Effect.__NEWL__For example, swords get sharper with use, baskets get stronger the more things they carry, mirrors, furniture and decorations look more attractive the more they are looked at.__NEWL__The downside to this being that an object's condition deteriorates over time if not put to use.__NEWL__Under this system, members of society's higher strata employ servants to Practice their own possessions to perfection.__NEWL__It is eventually discovered that the Practice Effect is the result of an elusive, biologically-engineered creature known as a Krenegee Beast that causes a change in a law of thermodynamics.__NEWL__This creature emits a field under which the Practice Effect works.__NEWL__The closer one is to the Krenegee Beasts, the more efficient the Practice that is done.__NEWL__The Practice Effect can take many months before an object reaches its maximum point of "practice", but the process is sped up if one is under a Felthesh Trance.__NEWL__The presence of a Krenegee Beast speeds up the process more than a Felthesh Trance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q471142	The Tommyknockers	1987-11-10T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	231759	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231759	While walking in the woods near the small town of Haven, Maine, Roberta "Bobbi" Anderson, a writer of Wild West-themed fiction, stumbles upon a metal object that turns out to be a protrusion of a long-buried alien spacecraft.__NEWL__Once exposed, the spacecraft begins to release an invisible gas into the atmosphere that gradually transforms people into beings similar to the aliens who populated the ship.__NEWL__The transformation, or "becoming," provides them with a limited form of genius which makes them very inventive but does not provide any philosophical or ethical insight into their inventions.__NEWL__The spacecraft also prevents those affected by it from leaving town, provokes psychotic violence in some people, and causes the disappearance of a young boy, David Brown, who his older brother Hilly teleports to the planet referred to as Altair 4 by the Havenites.__NEWL__(Altair 4 is a reference to Forbidden Planet.)__NEWL__The book's central character is James Eric Gardener, a poet and friend of Bobbi, who goes by the nickname "Gard."__NEWL__He is somewhat immune to the ship's effects because of the steel plate in his head, a souvenir of a teenage skiing accident.__NEWL__Gard is also an alcoholic and is prone to binges that result in violent outbursts followed by lengthy blackouts.__NEWL__As Bobbi is almost totally overcome by the euphoria of "becoming" one with the spacecraft, Gard increasingly sees her health worsen and her sanity disappear.__NEWL__Gard feels he has little to live for aside from his friendship with Bobbi and decides to stay with her to try to halt her decline.__NEWL__He witnesses the transformation of the townspeople, discovers the torture and mutilation of Bobbi's dog Peter, and people being killed or worse when they pry too deeply into the strange events.__NEWL__Over the course of several weeks Gard, Bobbi, and others continue to unearth the ship.__NEWL__After exploring the ship and returning to Bobbi's home, Gard plans to kill Bobbi as he can see she is no longer human.__NEWL__Using a gun, Bobbi forces Gard to swallow a lethal dose of Valium.__NEWL__As they talk, he shields his mind, pulls his own gun out, and shoots Bobbi.__NEWL__As Bobbi dies, she telepathically screams and alerts the townspeople, who then swarm to her home, intent on killing Gard for fear that he intends to harm the ship.__NEWL__Ev Hillman, David and Hilly's grandfather, helps Gard escape into the woods in exchange for saving David Brown from Altair 4.__NEWL__Gard enters the ship, near death after his struggle with the townspeople.__NEWL__With his last ounce of strength, he activates the ship and telepathically launches it into space.__NEWL__This results in the eventual deaths of nearly all of the changed townspeople, but prevents the possibly disastrous consequences of the ship's influence spreading to the outside world.__NEWL__Very shortly afterward, agents from the FBI, CIA, and "The Shop" invade Haven and take as many of the Havenites as possible (killing nearly a quarter of the survivors), along with a few of the devices created by the altered people of Haven.__NEWL__In the last pages, David Brown is discovered safe in Hilly Brown's hospital room.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q466103	The Difference Engine	1990-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	245885	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245885	The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure who, as is portrayed in the book, was a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities "undertaken in the service of Her Majesty".__NEWL__Linking all their stories is the trail of a mysterious set of reportedly very powerful computer punch cards and the individuals fighting to obtain them.__NEWL__Many characters come to believe that the punch cards are a gambling "modus", a programme that would allow the user to place consistently winning bets.__NEWL__The last chapter reveals that the punched cards represent a program that proves two theorems, which, in reality, would not be discovered until 1931 by Kurt Gödel.__NEWL__Ada Lovelace delivers a lecture on the subject in France.__NEWL__Defending the cards, Mallory gathers his brothers and Ebenezer Fraser, a secret police officer, to fight the revolutionary Captain Swing, who leads a London riot during "the Stink", a major episode of pollution in which London swelters under an inversion layer (comparable to the London Smog of December 1952).__NEWL__After the abortive uprising, Oliphant and Sybil Gerard meet at a cafe in Paris.__NEWL__Oliphant informs her that he is aware of her true identity but will not pursue it.__NEWL__However, he wants information that would compromise her seducer, Charles Egremont MP, now regarded as an obstacle to the strategies and political ambitions of Lords Brunel and Babbage.__NEWL__Sybil has longed for an opportunity for vengeance against Egremont, and the resultant political scandal destroys his parliamentary career and aspirations for a merit lordship.__NEWL__Oliphant also encounters a Manhattan-based group of feminist pantomime artists.__NEWL__After several vignettes that elaborate on the alternate historical origins of the world of The Difference Engine, Lovelace delivers her lecture on Gödel's Theorem, as its counterpart is known in our world.__NEWL__She is chaperoned by Fraser and castigated by Sybil Gerard, who is still unable to forgive Ada's father, the late Lord Byron, for his role in her own father's death.__NEWL__At the very end of the novel is a depiction of an alternate 1991 from the vantage point of a computer, which is revealed to be the narrator as it achieves self-awareness.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q835739	Cujo	1981-09-08T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	236599	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236599	In the summer of 1980, the middle-class Trentons have recently moved to the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine from New York City with their four-year-old son, Tad.__NEWL__Donna Trenton has recently had an affair with a local man named Steve Kemp.__NEWL__After Donna ends the relationship, Steve spitefully reveals the affair to her husband, Vic Trenton.__NEWL__In the midst of this household tension, Vic's advertising agency, Ad Worx, is failing due to a scandal over a cereal called Red Razberry Zingers.__NEWL__Vic is forced to travel out of town, leaving Tad and Donna at home alone.__NEWL__ The blue-collar Cambers are longtime residents of Castle Rock.__NEWL__Joe Camber is a mechanic who dominates and abuses his wife, Charity, and their ten-year-old son, Brett.__NEWL__Charity wins a $5,000 lottery prize and uses the proceeds to bargain with Joe to finally allow her to take Brett on a trip to visit Charity's sister in Connecticut and show him the possibility of a better life.__NEWL__Joe acquiesces and secretly plans to take a pleasure trip to Boston with his friend, alcoholic Gary Pervier.__NEWL__ While the Cambers are getting ready for their trips, their dog Cujo, a large, good-natured Saint Bernard, chases a rabbit in the nearby fields and inserts his head in the entrance to a small cave.__NEWL__A bat bites him on the nose and infects him with rabies, against which Cujo is not vaccinated.__NEWL__Charity and Brett leave town, though Brett suspects Cujo is sick.__NEWL__Cujo then kills Gary.__NEWL__After Joe discovers the body, Cujo kills him as well.__NEWL__Donna, with Tad, takes their failing Ford Pinto to Joe for repairs.__NEWL__The car breaks down in the Cambers' dooryard, and as Donna attempts to find Joe, Cujo appears and attacks her.__NEWL__She is able to get back in the car, but Donna and Tad are trapped when Cujo continues to stalk and attack them.__NEWL__The interior of the car becomes increasingly hot in the summer sun.__NEWL__During one escape attempt, Donna is bitten in the stomach and leg, but manages to escape back into the car.__NEWL__She plans to run for the house but abandons the idea because she fears the door will be locked and that she will be subsequently killed by Cujo, leaving Tad alone.__NEWL__Tad becomes catatonic with fear and begins to have seizures.__NEWL__Steve Kemp goes to the Trenton home to attack Donna, then ransacks it when he finds it empty.__NEWL__Vic returns to Castle Rock after several failed attempts to contact Donna.__NEWL__The police suspect Steve Kemp of kidnapping Donna and Tad.__NEWL__To explore all leads, the state police send Castle Rock Sheriff George Bannerman out to the Cambers' house, but Cujo attacks and kills him.__NEWL__Donna, after witnessing the attack and realizing Tad is in danger of dying of dehydration after days in the car, battles the weakened Cujo and kills him with a baseball bat.__NEWL__Vic arrives on the scene, having remembered the broken car, as the fight ends, but finds Tad has already died from dehydration and heatstroke.__NEWL__The authorities pull a distraught Donna from Tad's body and take her to the hospital.__NEWL__A veterinarian removes Cujo's head for a biopsy to check for rabies prior to the cremation of his remains.__NEWL__Charity receives a phone call and learns of Cujo's rampage and her husband's death.__NEWL__Several months later with both the Trenton and Camber families trying to move on with their lives.__NEWL__Donna has completed her treatment for rabies and her injuries.__NEWL__The Trentons' marrriage has survived, as well as Vic's business, and they mourn Tad together.__NEWL__Charity, now working in order to support herself and Brett, gives Brett a new, vaccinated puppy.__NEWL__A postscript says that the hole Cujo chased the rabbit into was never discovered.__NEWL__It also reminds the reader that Cujo was a good dog who always tried to keep his owners happy, but the ravage of rabies drove him to violence.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6910972	More Joy in Heaven	1937-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	237140	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237140	Powerful and moving Story of an Ex-Criminal's struggle for rehabilitation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q135515	The Sound and the Fury	1930-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	229593	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229593	The first section of the novel is narrated by Benjamin "Benjy" Compson, a source of shame to the family (primarily his mother) due to his diminished mental capacity; the only characters who show genuine care for him are Caddy, his older sister, and Dilsey, a matronly family retainer.__NEWL__His narrative voice is characterized predominantly by its nonlinearity: spanning the period 1898–1928, Benjy's narrative is a series of non-chronological events presented in a stream of consciousness.__NEWL__The presence of italics in Benjy's section indicates significant shifts in the narrative.__NEWL__Originally Faulkner conceived the use of different colors of ink to signify chronological breaks.__NEWL__This nonlinearity makes the style of this section particularly challenging, but Benjy's style develops a cadence that, while not chronologically coherent, provides unbiased insight into many characters' true motivations.__NEWL__Moreover, Benjy's caretaker changes to indicate the time period: Luster in the present, T.P. in Benjy's teenage years, and Versh during Benjy's infancy and childhood.__NEWL__In this section we see Benjy's three passions: fire, the golf course on land that used to belong to the Compson family, and his sister Caddy.__NEWL__But by 1928 Caddy has been banished from the Compson home after her husband divorced her because her child was not his, and the family has had to sell pastureland to a local golf club to finance Quentin's Harvard education.__NEWL__In the opening scene, Benjy, accompanied by Luster, a servant boy, watches golfers on the nearby golf course as he waits to hear them call "caddie"—the name of his favorite sibling.__NEWL__When one of them calls for his golf caddie, Benjy's mind embarks on a whirlwind course of memories of his sister, Caddy, focusing on one critical scene.__NEWL__In 1898 when their grandmother died, the four Compson children were forced to play outside during the funeral.__NEWL__In order to see what was going on inside, Caddy climbed a tree in the yard, and while looking inside, her brothers — Quentin, Jason and Benjy — looked up and noticed that her underwear was muddy.__NEWL__This is Benjy's first memory, and he associates Caddy with trees throughout the rest of his arc, often saying that she smells like trees.__NEWL__Other crucial memories in this section are Benjy's change of name (originally "Maury", after his maternal uncle, a wastrel) in 1900 upon the discovery of his disability; the marriage and divorce of Caddy (1910), and Benjy's castration, resulting from an attack on a girl that is alluded to briefly within this chapter when a gate is left unlatched and Benjy is out unsupervised.__NEWL__Quentin, the most intelligent of the Compson children, gives the novel's best example of Faulkner's narrative technique.__NEWL__We see him as a freshman at Harvard, wandering the streets of Cambridge, contemplating death, and remembering his family's estrangement from his sister Caddy.__NEWL__Like the first section, its narrative is not strictly linear, though the two interweaving threads, of Quentin at Harvard on the one hand, and of his memories on the other, are clearly discernible.__NEWL__Quentin's main obsession is Caddy's virginity and purity.__NEWL__He is obsessed with Southern ideals of chivalry and is strongly protective of women, especially his sister.__NEWL__When Caddy engages in sexual promiscuity, Quentin is horrified.__NEWL__He turns to his father for help and counsel, but the pragmatic Mr. Compson tells him that virginity is invented by men and should not be taken seriously.__NEWL__He also tells Quentin that time will heal all.__NEWL__Quentin spends much of his time trying to prove his father wrong, but is unable to do so.__NEWL__Shortly before Quentin leaves for Harvard in the fall of 1909, Caddy becomes pregnant by a lover she is unable to identify, perhaps Dalton Ames, whom Quentin confronts.__NEWL__The two fight, with Quentin losing disgracefully and Caddy vowing, for Quentin's sake, never to speak to Dalton again.__NEWL__Quentin tells his father that they have committed incest, but his father knows that he is lying: "and he did you try to make her do it__NEWL__and i__NEWL__i was afraid to i was afraid she might and then it wouldn't do any good" (112).__NEWL__Quentin's idea of incest is shaped by the idea that, if they "could just have done something so dreadful that they would have fled hell except us" (51), he could protect his sister by joining her in whatever punishment she might have to endure.__NEWL__In his mind, he feels a need to take responsibility for Caddy's sin.__NEWL__Pregnant and alone, Caddy then marries Herbert Head, whom Quentin finds repulsive, but Caddy is resolute: she must marry before the birth of her child.__NEWL__Herbert finds out that the child is not his, and sends Caddy and her new daughter away in shame.__NEWL__He also rescinds his offer of a bank job to Caddy's brother, Jason, who holds Caddy responsible for this misfortune and never forgives her.__NEWL__Quentin's wanderings through Harvard (as he cuts classes) follow the pattern of his heartbreak over losing Caddy.__NEWL__For instance, he meets a small Italian immigrant girl who speaks no English.__NEWL__Significantly, he calls her "sister" and spends much of the day trying to communicate with her, and to care for her by finding her home, to no avail.__NEWL__He thinks sadly of the downfall and squalor of the South after the American Civil War.__NEWL__Tormented by his conflicting thoughts and emotions, Quentin commits suicide by drowning.__NEWL__The third section is narrated by Jason, the third child and his mother Caroline's favorite.__NEWL__Ironically, he is the only child who does not want, need, or return her love.__NEWL__It takes place the day before Benjy's section, on Good Friday.__NEWL__Of the three brothers' sections, Jason's is the most straightforward, reflecting his single-minded desire for material wealth.__NEWL__This desire is made evident by his (bad) investments in the cotton market, which symbolize the financial decline of the South.__NEWL__ By 1928, Jason is the economic foundation of the family after his father's death.__NEWL__He supports his mother, Benjy, and Miss Quentin (daughter of Caddy, the second child), as well as the family's servants.__NEWL__His role makes him bitter and cynical, with little of the passionate sensitivity that we see in his older brother and sister.__NEWL__He goes so far as to blackmail Caddy into making him Miss Quentin's sole guardian, then uses that role to steal the support payments that Caddy sends for her daughter, amounting to tens of thousands of dollars over 15 years (to maintain a mistress in Memphis and play the stock market).__NEWL__Miss Quentin and her boyfriend/lover recoup some of the funds which Jason absconded by stealing his strongbox, in which he kept thousands of dollars in cash.__NEWL__ This is the first section that is narrated in a linear fashion.__NEWL__It follows the course of Good Friday, a day in which Jason decides to leave work to search for Miss Quentin, who has run away again, seemingly in pursuit of mischief.__NEWL__Here we see most immediately the conflict between the two predominant traits of the Compson family, which Caroline attributes to the difference between her blood and her husband's: on the one hand, Miss Quentin's recklessness and passion, inherited from her grandfather and, ultimately, the Compson side; on the other, Jason's ruthless cynicism, drawn from his mother's side.__NEWL__This section also gives us the clearest image of domestic life in the Compson household, which for Jason and the servants means the care of the hypochondriac Caroline and of Benjy.__NEWL__April 8, 1928, is Easter Sunday.__NEWL__This section, the only one without a single first-person narrator, focuses on Dilsey, the powerful matriarch of the black family servants.__NEWL__She, in contrast to the declining Compsons, draws a great deal of strength from her faith, standing as a proud figure amid a dying family.__NEWL__On this Easter Sunday, Dilsey takes her family and Benjy to the "colored" church.__NEWL__Through her we sense the consequences of the decadence and depravity in which the Compsons have lived for decades.__NEWL__Dilsey is mistreated and abused, but nevertheless remains loyal.__NEWL__She, with the help of her grandson Luster, cares for Benjy, as she takes him to church and tries to bring him to salvation.__NEWL__The preacher's sermon inspires her to weep for the Compson family, reminding her that she's seen the family through its destruction, which she is now witnessing.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the tension between Jason and Miss Quentin reaches its inevitable conclusion.__NEWL__The family discovers that Miss Quentin has run away in the middle of the night with a carnival worker, having found the strongbox in which Jason had a hidden collection of cash and taken both her money (the support from Caddy, which Jason had stolen) and her money-obsessed uncle's life savings.__NEWL__Jason calls the police and tells them that his money has been stolen, but since it would mean admitting embezzling Quentin's money he doesn't press the issue.__NEWL__He therefore sets off once again to find her on his own, but loses her trail in nearby Mottson, and gives her up as gone for good.__NEWL__After church, Dilsey allows her grandson Luster to drive Benjy in the family's decrepit horse and carriage to the graveyard.__NEWL__Luster, disregarding Benjy's set routine, drives the wrong way around a monument.__NEWL__Benjy's hysterical sobbing and violent outburst can only be quieted by Jason, who understands how best to placate his brother.__NEWL__Jason slaps Luster, turns the carriage around, and, in an attempt to quiet Benjy, hits Benjy, breaking his flower stalk, while screaming "Shut up!"__NEWL__After Jason gets off the carriage and Luster heads home, Benjy suddenly becomes silent.__NEWL__Luster turns around to look at Benjy and sees Benjy holding his drooping flower.__NEWL__Benjy's eyes are "empty and blue and serene again."__NEWL__In 1945, Faulkner wrote an appendix to the novel to be published in the then-forthcoming anthology The Portable Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley.__NEWL__At Faulkner's behest, however, subsequent printings of The Sound and the Fury frequently contain the appendix at the end of the book; it is sometimes referred to as the fifth part.__NEWL__Having been written sixteen years after The Sound and the Fury, the appendix presents some textual differences from the novel, but serves to clarify the novel's opaque story.__NEWL__The appendix is presented as a complete history of the Compson family lineage, beginning with the arrival of their ancestor Quentin Maclachlan in America in 1779 and continuing through 1945, including events that transpired after the novel (which takes place in 1928).__NEWL__In particular, the appendix reveals that Caroline Bascomb Compson died in 1933, at which time Jason had Benjy committed to the state asylum in Jackson, fired the black servants, sold the last of the Compson land, and moved into an apartment above his farming supply store.__NEWL__It is also revealed that Jason had himself declared Benjy's legal guardian many years ago, without their mother's knowledge, and used this status to have Benjy castrated.__NEWL__The appendix also reveals the fate of Caddy, last seen in the novel when her daughter Quentin is still a baby.__NEWL__After marrying and divorcing a second time (to a "minor moving picture magnate" in Hollywood), Caddy moved to Paris, where she lived at the time of the German occupation.__NEWL__In 1943, the librarian of Yoknapatawpha County discovered a magazine photograph of Caddy in the company of a German staff general and attempted separately to recruit both Jason and Dilsey to save her; Jason, at first acknowledging that the photo was of his sister, denied that it was she after realizing the librarian wanted his help, while Dilsey pretended to be unable to see the picture at all.__NEWL__The librarian later realizes that while Jason remains cold and unsympathetic towards Caddy, Dilsey simply understands that Caddy neither wants nor needs to be saved from the Germans, because nothing else remains for her.__NEWL__The appendix concludes with an accounting for the black family who worked as servants to the Compsons.__NEWL__Unlike the entries for the Compsons themselves, which are lengthy, detailed, and told with an omniscient narrative perspective, the servants' entries are simple and succinct.__NEWL__Dilsey's entry, the final in the appendix, consists of two words: "They endured."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q973883	Lonesome Dove	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1553	Nebraska	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	238534	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238534	In the late 1870s, Captain Woodrow F. Call and Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae, two famous retired Texas Rangers, run the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium in the small Texas border town of Lonesome Dove.__NEWL__Working with them are Joshua Deets, an excellent tracker and scout from their Ranger days; Pea Eye Parker, another former Ranger who is loyal and reliable, but unintelligent; Bolivar, a retired Mexican bandit who works as their cook; and Newt Dobbs, a 17-year-old boy whose mother was a prostitute named Maggie and whose father is widely thought by the outfit to be Call, though Call has never acknowledged this.__NEWL__Jake Spoon, another former Ranger, arrives in Lonesome Dove after an absence of more than 10 years, during which he has traveled widely across the United States.__NEWL__He reveals that he is on the run, having accidentally shot a dentist in Fort Smith, Arkansas.__NEWL__The dentist's brother happened to be the town's sheriff, July Johnson.__NEWL__Reunited with Gus and Call, Jake's description of the Montana Territory inspires Call to gather a herd of cattle and drive them north, to begin the first cattle ranch north of the Yellowstone River.__NEWL__Call, who has grown listless in retirement, is attracted to the romantic notion of settling pristine country.__NEWL__Gus is less enthusiastic, but changes his mind when reminded that the love of his life, Clara, lives on the Platte River near Ogallala, Nebraska, which would be on the route to Montana.__NEWL__The Hat Creek outfit rustles thousands of cattle from across the border in Mexico and recruits local cowboys in preparation for the drive.__NEWL__Ironically, Jake Spoon soon decides not to go at all, having made himself comfortable with the town's only prostitute, Lorena Wood, who is smitten with him after he promises to take her to San Francisco.__NEWL__At Lorena's insistence, however, Jake and she ultimately trail along behind the cattle drive.__NEWL__In Fort Smith, the young and inexperienced sheriff, July Johnson, reluctantly departs town on the trail of Jake Spoon, taking his 12-year-old stepson Joe with him.__NEWL__July's wife Elmira, who regrets her recent marriage to him, leaves shortly afterwards to search for her former lover Dee Boot.__NEWL__Inept deputy sheriff Roscoe Brown is sent after July to inform him of her disappearance, and has many misadventures and strange encounters through Arkansas and Texas, assisted by a young girl named Janey, who escapes from sexual slavery to accompany him.__NEWL__Roscoe eventually reunites with July and Joe when they rescue Janey andhim from bandits in Texas.__NEWL__As the cattle drive moves north through Texas, the Hat Creek company encounters dust storms, dangerous river crossings, and many other adventures.__NEWL__Jake tires of Lorena and abandons her to go gambling in Austin.__NEWL__Left alone, she is abducted by an Indian bandit named Blue Duck, a notorious and mercilessly vicious old nemesis of the Texas Rangers.__NEWL__Gus goes in pursuit, and while traveling along the Canadian River, he encounters July's group.__NEWL__Gus and July attack Blue Duck's bandit encampment, killing the bandits and rescuing Lorena; however, Blue Duck has already made his escape, having murdered Roscoe, Joe, and Janey in the process.__NEWL__A devastated July continues his journey in search of Elmira, while Gus and Lorena return to the cattle drive.__NEWL__Lorena has been repeatedly raped, and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, is frightened of interacting with anybody other than Gus.__NEWL__The two still follow the cattle drive north, and sleep in a tent some distance behind the other cowboys.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jake Spoon is in Fort Worth.__NEWL__Hearing that July Johnson has been looking for him, Jake leaves Texas in a hurry in the company of the Suggs brothers, who are, he soon realizes, cruel bandits.__NEWL__Jake becomes increasingly alarmed by the brothers' actions as they travel north into Kansas; the gang progresses from robbery to cold-blooded murder, but Jake is too frightened and outnumbered to either kill them or escape.__NEWL__When the gang attacks a trail boss known to Gus and Call, the former Rangers of the Hat Creek outfit go in pursuit of them.__NEWL__The ex-Rangers are dismayed when they apprehend the Suggs brothers and find Jake alongside them.__NEWL__Jake pleads with his former comrades that he had no choice but to go along with things for fear of his own life, but Gus and Call stand firm that he has "crossed a line", and they solemnly hang him alongside the Suggs brothers.__NEWL__Newt, who had idolized Jake as a child, is left deeply upset.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Elmira, pregnant with July's child, has come into the company of a rough buffalo hunter named Zwey, a simple man who seems to believe he is now "married" to her.__NEWL__Arriving in Nebraska, they come across the horse ranch of Clara Allen, Gus' former lover, whose husband, Bob, has become a brain-damaged invalid after being kicked in the head by a mustang.__NEWL__Clara delivers Elmira's baby son, but Elmira and Zwey leave almost immediately afterwards for Ogallala.__NEWL__Dee Boot is held in the Ogallala jail, scheduled to be hanged for his accidental murder of a young boy; Elmira collapses while speaking to him, and Boot is hanged while she recuperates in a doctor's house, leaving her heartbroken and depressed.__NEWL__July arrives at Clara's ranch, learns what has transpired, and goes to see Elmira, but she refuses to speak to him.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards, she orders Zwey to take her east, back towards St. Louis.__NEWL__Anguished and heartbroken, July feels compelled to follow her, but at Clara's insistence, he remains at the ranch with her family and his son, instead, whom Clara has named Martin.__NEWL__Word later reaches them that Elmira and Zwey were killed by Sioux.__NEWL__The Hat Creek outfit arrives in Nebraska, and Gus takes Lorena, Call, and Newt to visit Clara.__NEWL__Lorena, who has fallen in love with Gus, fears that Gus will abandon her for Clara.__NEWL__Clara is happy to see Gus, but has no desire to rekindle their romance; however, she takes in Lorena, whose post-traumatic stress is easing and who quickly feels comfortable with Clara and her daughters.__NEWL__Gus, rebuffed by Clara and no longer Lorena's sole caretaker, decides to continue on the cattle drive and see the journey to Montana through to its end.__NEWL__In Wyoming, several horses are stolen by half-starved Indians.__NEWL__Call, Gus, and Deets chase after them, and Deets is killed in the ensuing confrontation by the group's only remaining brave.__NEWL__Shortly afterward, Gus informs Newt that Call is his father, something Newt has always dreamed of, but he is too upset by Deets' death to give it much thought.__NEWL__After a desperate crossing through the arid basins of Wyoming, the cattle drive arrives in Montana, which proves as lush and beautiful as Jake had described.__NEWL__Scouting ahead of the main herd, Gus and Pea Eye are attacked by Blood Indians, and Gus is badly wounded by two arrows to the leg.__NEWL__Besieged in a makeshift dugout in the bank of the Musselshell River for several days, Gus' wounds become infected, and his health declines.__NEWL__After a heavy rain, he sends Pea Eye down the swollen river to seek help, but Pea Eye loses his clothing, boots, gun, and food in the river and stumbles naked and unarmed for a 100-mile walk across the plains.__NEWL__Starving, delirious, and suffering from exposure, he is discovered by the rest of the cowboys on the verge of death.__NEWL__Call then sets out alone to rescue Gus.__NEWL__Meanwhile, feverish and dying, Gus leaves the river shortly after Pea Eye, taking his chances and escaping the Indians.__NEWL__He makes it to Miles City, Montana, and collapses unconscious, waking to find that a doctor has sawed off his gangrenous leg.__NEWL__His other leg is also infected, but Gus refuses to let the doctor amputate it.__NEWL__Call arrives in Miles City and fruitlessly tries to convince Gus to have his other leg removed to save his life; Gus, however, would rather die than be an invalid.__NEWL__Gus asks Call to bury him in an orchard in Texas where he used to picnic with Clara, and Call begrudgingly agrees.__NEWL__After writing letters to Clara and Lorena, and urging Call to accept Newt as his son, Gus dies of blood poisoning.__NEWL__Call leaves Gus' body in storage in Miles City, intending to return him to Texas after the winter.__NEWL__He continues north with the cattle drive, despondent over losing his closest friend.__NEWL__Eventually, the remaining members of the Hat Creek outfit establish a ranch in the fertile and ungrazed wilderness between the Missouri River and the Milk River.__NEWL__Call suffers from depression all winter, no longer caring about the cattle drive or the ranch, and contemplating what to do about Newt.__NEWL__Before leaving in the spring, he puts Newt in charge of the ranch and gives him his horse, his rifle, and his family watch, but still cannot bring himself to publicly acknowledge the boy as his son.__NEWL__Newt is inwardly upset, but accepts the gifts, nonetheless.__NEWL__Call, ashamed of himself, leaves the ranch.__NEWL__Call retrieves Gus's body, packed in a coffin with salt and charcoal, and begins the long journey south in an old buggy.__NEWL__In Nebraska, he gives Gus' letters to Clara and Lorena, and explains that Gus has left his half of the cattle interests to Lorena.__NEWL__Lorena is devastated by Gus' death and refuses to open her letter; standing silently by his coffin day and night, she suddenly faints.__NEWL__Clara considers the journey a whimsical folly typical of Gus and urges Call to bury him on her ranch, instead, but Call refuses, having given Gus his word.__NEWL__Clara tells Call she despises him as a "vain coward" for refusing to claim Newt as his son, and he leaves Nebraska haunted by her condemnation.__NEWL__The story of the cowboy transporting his dead friend's body spreads across the plains, and Call takes a circuitous route through Colorado and New Mexico to avoid the increasing attention.__NEWL__In Santa Rosa, he discovers that Blue Duck has been captured by a sheriff's deputy and is about to be hanged.__NEWL__Call visits Blue Duck in his jail cell, and Blue Duck taunts him, pointing out that he raided, killed, raped, and kidnapped with impunity throughout his life, despite the best efforts of the Texas Rangers.__NEWL__On the day of his hanging, on his way to the roof where the gallows await him, Blue Duck jumps out a third-story window, pulling along with him the sheriff's deputy who had caught him, killing them both.__NEWL__Arriving back in Texas exhausted, despondent, and wounded from a bullet to his side, Call buries Gus by the spring in the orchard near San Antonio, true to his word.__NEWL__He then rides on to Lonesome Dove, where the cook Bolivar, who had abandoned the cattle drive before it left Texas, is delighted to see him again.__NEWL__In town, Call finds that the saloon has burned down; the proprietor, who had been madly in love with Lorena, committed suicide after her departure by burning down his saloon while he remained inside.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1004005	Frindle	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	241512	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241512	Nicholas "Nick" Allen is a class clown who has been formulating creative schemes throughout grade school.__NEWL__At the start of fifth grade in 1987, he is unhappy because his English teacher is the no-nonsense Mrs. Granger.__NEWL__One day, in an attempt to forestall, Nick decides to question Granger on where each word in the dictionary comes from.__NEWL__This backfires, as Mrs. Granger assigns him an essay about it.__NEWL__From this experience, Nick learns that individuals get to determine what words mean, and when he comes across a gold colored pen in the street, he decides to give a "pen" a new name: frindle.__NEWL__Nick's classmates really like the idea and soon, every child in the fifth grade starts using the word frindle.__NEWL__Mrs. Granger makes any students who are caught saying frindle stay after school and write lines, but this proves to be a problem, as this causes almost every student to stay after school.__NEWL__The school principal decides to visit Nick's house to end the use of frindle, but the situation is beyond Nick's personal control, and the word's usage cannot be curtailed.__NEWL__Frindle starts to gain national attention, and a family friend purchases the merchandising rights to the word.__NEWL__The word frindle spreads across the nation, and Nick thinks through the trouble that this one scheme has caused.__NEWL__In the epilogue, Nick is a young adult.__NEWL__Mrs. Granger sends him a new copy of the dictionary, recently updated to include new words, including the word frindle.__NEWL__She includes a letter, in which she explains that she intentionally stood against the word in order to make it more popular.__NEWL__Nick sends back a present — the pen that started it all, engraved with the words, "This object belongs to Mrs. Lorelei Granger, and she may call it any name she chooses."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760968	The Riven Kingdom	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16986340	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16986340	For hundreds of years, the small island kingdom of Ethrea sat in the middle of a precariously balanced treaty agreement that ensured peace.__NEWL__With the king on his deathbed, and no male heirs, Princess Rhian must find a way to keep the kingdom out of the hands of the evil Prolate Marlan, and prevent a war.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733122	The Fairy-tale Detectives	2005-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16987265	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16987265	Eleven-year-old Sabrina and seven-year-old Daphne are orphans who go to live with their grandmother (who they thought was dead) in the small town of Ferryport Landing, New York.__NEWL__After the kidnapping of their parents and going through countless abusive foster homes, Sabrina is incredibly suspicious and hesitant to trust their grandmother.__NEWL__Sabrina, having been told her whole life that her grandmother is dead, believes she is an imposter. '__NEWL__Granny' lives with a man named Mr. Canis, who she says helps her take care of the house.__NEWL__They soon find out that their grandmother is a very strange person.__NEWL__Her house is filled with fairy tale books.__NEWL__Her dog, Elvis, initially attacks Sabrina.__NEWL__Her door has eight locks and eight different keys, her car has a rope rather than a seatbelt and they are told that they aren't allowed to let anyone or anything in the house without Granny or Canis' permission first.__NEWL__Granny claims that she was very close with their parents and has received letters from them in the past.__NEWL__That night, Sabrina attempts to escape with Daphne through the woods but they are attacked by small bugs that resemble fireflies.__NEWL__When Granny finds them, she refers to the bugs as pixies, and keeps them away with a mysterious blue dust that seems to put them to sleep.__NEWL__Granny doesn't seem angry, but she has their windows nailed shut.__NEWL__Afterwards, Granny and Mr. Canis drive with the girls through the town, eventually reaching what appears to be the scene of a crime; a house that has been completely crushed into rubble.__NEWL__Granny and Canis leave the girls alone to go investigate the scene and while Sabrina and Daphne wait, they encounter Mr. Seven and his employer, Mr. Charming.__NEWL__Both seem to have a serious disdain for the Grimm Family, despite being familiar with Granny and Mr. Canis.__NEWL__Granny finds a fresh leaf on the ground and decides that it's from a beanstalk, but Mr. Charming seems eager to dismiss and cover up the case.__NEWL__Granny tells the girls she believes the house has been stepped on by a giant.__NEWL__Sabrina thinks she's gone crazy, and Daphne thinks she's joking, but later they both realize that the rubble is sitting in the indentation of a massive footprint.__NEWL__At the house, Granny finally informs the girls that they are late descendants of the Brothers Grimm.__NEWL__She tells them that every fairy tale the Brothers Grimm wrote was actually an accurate account of something that really happened.__NEWL__She explains that in the past, fairy tale creatures, or 'Everafters', and normal humans lived side by side.__NEWL__However, much later in history, as tensions grew, magic was banned and any dangerous Everafters were captured and caged.__NEWL__The Grimm brothers collected and documented as many stories as they could of Everafters, and became friends with many of them in the process.__NEWL__Many everafters moved to America to build a safe community, with Wilhelm Grimm as their leader.__NEWL__As the human population began to grow, rebel groups formed in Ferryport landing in order to eradicate the human population.__NEWL__In order to prevent an all out war, Wilhelm Grimm went to Baba Yaga, a powerful witch, and asked her to put a spell over the town keeping all everafters in permanently.__NEWL__Baba Yaga granted this in exchange for Wilhelm's freedom, meaning one grimm would always have to stay in Ferryport Landing for the spell to stay intact.__NEWL__Granny tells them that the peace in Ferryport Landing is fragile, and it's the Grimm Family's job to maintain it.__NEWL__The family later goes to the hospital to visit the farmer who was injured in the giant accident, only to find that Mr. Charming (revealed to be Prince Charming) has beaten them and erased the farmer's memory.__NEWL__Despite this, they interview the farmer's wife at his bedside.__NEWL__The farmer's wife, Mrs. Applebee, informs them that her husband had sworn he'd seen a giant, but she believes a different theory.__NEWL__She says there was a British man who often visited their farm and asked to rent their field, but became hostile when they refused.__NEWL__She says that later, the man had returned, apologized for being so rude, and offered to pay for them to stay in New York City as an apology.__NEWL__Mrs. Applebee had gone with her sister rather than her husband.__NEWL__When they arrived, the hotel had no record of their reservation.__NEWL__On the way out, the family is ambushed by a group of 'goons' who threaten the Grimms to abandon the case.__NEWL__Granny is not scared, and instead sees this as a sign they are on the right path.__NEWL__Granny decides to follow the gang and find out who employed them in a stakeout.__NEWL__On the way, she tells them about giants.__NEWL__the only person to ever have successfully robbed and killed a giant was Jack,(from Jack and the Beanstalk), but now he works at a retail store in town.__NEWL__On the stakeout, while granny and canis are distracted, sabrina makes an attempt to escape with Daphne, despite Daphne's protests.__NEWL__just after they leave the car, it is attacked by a giant.__NEWL__The giant, chanting about how he must find "the englishman" picks up the car, containing granny and canis, and walks away with it, leaving the girls alone in the woods with only granny's handbag.__NEWL__They try to hitchhike, but encounter Officer Hamstead, one of the three little pigs.__NEWL__He offers to drive the girls home, but they discover he works for Mr. Charming, and make an escape.__NEWL__The girls follow pixie lights into the woods and soon meet Puck (from A Midsummer Night's Dream).__NEWL__Puck originally believes they are spies and tries to drown them, claiming they have stolen the old lady away from him.__NEWL__they mistake him for the infamous Peter Pan, which enrages him even further.__NEWL__He originally decides that he won't help them find granny because he is a self-proclaimed villain.__NEWL__Ultimately he follows them home, helps them get back into the house, and agrees to help them save their grandmother just because she was kind to him and fed him since he was little.__NEWL__Puck and Sabrina share a clear hatred for each other and spend the majority of the time bickering.__NEWL__Sabrina and Daphne find their father's diary, detailing his accounts with Mayor Charming.__NEWL__It reveals that the upcoming fundraiser ball at prince charming's mansion is a scam he created to make money after a series of business fails.__NEWL__They also find out that giants are very gullible.__NEWL__They theorize that Mayor Charming tricked a giant into crushing the house for him, and that Mayor Charming is the 'Englishman'.__NEWL__The girls later find a letter in granny's purse telling them to enter the room in her house that she previously declared off limits.__NEWL__Inside, they discover the Magic Mirror from Snow White that is in their home.__NEWL__They can ask the Mirror any rhyming question, and it will answer.__NEWL__They first ask if granny is alive, to which the mirror replies that both her and canis are okay.__NEWL__They then find out that they are still in the car in the giant's shirt pocket.__NEWL__When they ask who they can go to, to help defeat the giant, the mirror shows them Jack the giant killer, sitting in a cell.__NEWL__At the same time, they are pursued by the police, Officers Hamstead, Swineheart, and Boarman (from The Three Little Pigs).__NEWL__Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck escape the house on a magic carpet and fly to the Ferryport Landing prison where they rescue Jack.__NEWL__The officer guarding Jack is Ichabod Crane (from "Sleepy Hollow"), so the girls disguise themselves as the Headless Horseman to distract him while Jack escapes.__NEWL__While they fly away, Jack purposefully attracts attention from the police.__NEWL__Then the giant makes a reappearance and chases them through town, causing destruction everywhere they go.__NEWL__Jack seems to enjoy the attention, while Sabrina and Daphne struggle to stay on the carpet.__NEWL__They get home and Jack decides they should spend the night, though Sabrina is hesitant to let him stay in their house.__NEWL__Late at night, Puck and Sabrina discuss their distrust for Jack, only to stumble upon him and the dog in a fight.__NEWL__Puck accuses Jack of having 'sticky fingers', or thieving.__NEWL__They briefly fight before the girls stop them.__NEWL__Jack keeps mentioning his "big plan", but refraining from telling the girls what it is.__NEWL__After this secrecy causes Sabrina to finally snap and ream Jack, he reveals that his plan is for them to sneak into Charming's office during the fundraiser ball and steal his city planning blueprints.__NEWL__Jack believes this will lead them to wherever Charming wants to send the giant next.__NEWL__The group uses the mirror to get disguises as well as the Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz.__NEWL__Sabrina (disguised as Momma Bear from Goldilocks) and Daphne (disguised as the Tin Man) are told by the mirror that their disguises will wear off at nine o' clock.__NEWL__The sisters use the magic slippers to get into Charming's mansion.__NEWL__The girls encounter many fairy tale creatures who all discuss Granny Relda's incident with the giant.__NEWL__The whole town is familiar with the Grimm family.__NEWL__The Everafters have a blatant disdain for the Grimms and loudly discuss how they hope the family will soon die out so they can leave the town.__NEWL__They are only interrupted by Briar Rose, or Sleeping Beauty, who defends the Grimm family.__NEWL__The girls also find out that there is a possibility that their parents were kidnapped rather than just having abandoned the girls.__NEWL__Sabrina sneaks away into the mayor's office, where she finds tape recordings of the giant crushing the farmer's house.__NEWL__Suddenly, Sabrina is caught by Prince Charming, who already has Daphne.__NEWL__He threatens to kill them if they don't tell him who they really are.__NEWL__He also mentions that he doesn't want to join the "Scarlet Hand", a 'revolution'.__NEWL__The girls change back into themselves just in time, as a giant arrives outside the party.__NEWL__Charming attempts to throw them outside, but the party has formed a mob that is impossible to penetrate.__NEWL__The Three Witches start to fight the giant, which Daphne protests as Granny and Canis are still in its pocket.__NEWL__King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table fight the giant off, and the guests leave the party, enraged with Charming.__NEWL__The girls demand that Charming give them their grandmother back, sure that he is in control of the giant.__NEWL__However, Charming's tapes reveal the real culprit: Jack, who had tricked them and who was the one who had set loose the giant hoping that by killing it in front of a crowd of news reporters he would come back into his former fame.__NEWL__Charming sent Hamstead to take them out of town long enough to kill the giant and save their grandmother.__NEWL__The girls ask why Charming would want to help them, and he replies 'I have my reasons'.__NEWL__They return home quickly after this realization to find that Jack has ransacked their home and injured Elvis.__NEWL__Jack has stolen several magic beans from the Mirror.__NEWL__Charming and the girls get weapons from the mirror and go to fight Jack, who has released a new giant and is attempting to anger it.__NEWL__Sabrina accidentally kills the giant with Excalibur and enrages Jack.__NEWL__Jack tries to kill Sabrina and Daphne but they are rescued by Mr. Canis, who turns out to be the Big Bad Wolf and the giant is sent back to its kingdom accompanied by Jack to meet its queen.__NEWL__The girls discover that a shady organization known as the "Scarlet Hand" is responsible for kidnapping their parents.__NEWL__It is also revealed that Puck will be moving in with them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7206083	Po-on	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	16987645	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16987645	The events in Poon A Novel happened from 1880s to early 1900s, when an Ilocano family abandoned their beloved barrio in order to overcome the challenges to their survival in southern Pangasinan in the Philippines, and also to flee from the cruelty they received from the Spaniards.__NEWL__One of the principal characters of the novel is Eustaquio Salvador, a Filipino from the Ilocano stock who was fluent in Spanish and Latin, a talent he inherited from the teachings of an old parish priest named Jose Leon in Cabugao.__NEWL__He was an acolyte aspiring to become a priest.__NEWL__He was also knowledgeable in the arts of traditional medicine.__NEWL__The only hindrance to his goal of becoming a full-fledged priest was his racial origins.__NEWL__He lived in a period in Philippine history when a possible Filipino uprising against the Spanish government was about to erupt, a time after the execution of three mestizos, namely Mariano Gomez, José Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (or the Gomburza, an acronym for the three) at the erstwhile known Cavite (which is then renamed to Bagumbayan; now known as Rizal Park) on February 17, 1872.__NEWL__There were signs that a revolution will happen, despite the lack of unity among the inhabitants of the Philippines islands at the time, as pampangueños generally sided with the enemy.__NEWL__Another approaching occurrence was the help the Filipinos would be receiving from the Americans in finally removing the governing Spaniards from the archipelago after three hundred years.__NEWL__The novel recreates the societal struggles in which the characters of Po-on were situated, which includes the protagonist Istak's personal search for life's meaning and for the true face of his beliefs at principles.__NEWL__Throughout this personal journey, he was accompanied by a dignity that is his alone.__NEWL__He was assigned the task of delivering a message to President Emilio Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine revolutionaries, but died at the hands of American soldiers fighting at the Tirad Pass, inevitably unable to recount the contents of the letter to Aguinaldo.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3300215	Mauprat	1837-01-01T00:00:00Z	2194	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	16987881	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16987881	The novel's plot has been called a plot of female socialization, in which the hero is taught by the heroine how to live peacefully in society.__NEWL__Mauprat resembles the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.__NEWL__As this would suggest, the novel is a romance.__NEWL__However, Sand resists the immediate happy ending of marriage between the two main characters in favor of a more gradual story of education, including a reappraisal of the passive female role in courtship and marriage.__NEWL__Sand also calls into question Rousseau's ideal version of the female education as described in his novel Emile, namely, training women for domesticity and the home.__NEWL__The novel, set before the French Revolution, depicts the coming of age of a nobleman named Bernard Mauprat.__NEWL__The story is narrated by the old Bernard in his country home many years later, as told to a nameless young male visitor.__NEWL__Bernard recounts how, raised by a violent gang of his feudal kinsmen after the death of his mother, he becomes a brutalized "".__NEWL__When his cousin Edmée is held captive by Bernard's "family", he helps her escape, but elicits a promise of marriage from her by threatening rape.__NEWL__Thus begins the long courtship of Bernard and Edmée.__NEWL__The novel ends with a dramatic trial scene, similar to that in Stendhal's The Red and the Black.__NEWL__During the period Sand wrote the novel, she was gradually becoming more interested in the problem of political equality in society.__NEWL__She had read widely about the views of socialist thinkers such as Pierre Leroux, with whom she went on to form a journal, the .__NEWL__In keeping with Sand's interest in equality, Mauprat depicts a new type of literary figure, the peasant visionary Patience.__NEWL__In addition, part of the novel takes place during the American Revolutionary War.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7732547	The Eternal Conflict	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16988081	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16988081	The novel concerns two conflicts.__NEWL__One is between the sexes, the other in a woman's mind.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5151165	Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z	17050560	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17050560	Charlie Pritchard arrives in the fictitious North Wales seaside town of Permadoc on 1 April 1929.__NEWL__After seven years working for Cadwallader's Mercantile Bank, the 23-year-old is discontented as he takes up his job in the local branch, especially because he is to lodge with the branch manager, Ewan Rhys-Jones.__NEWL__Ewan and his wife, Gladys, immediately start throwing their daughter, 27-year-old Ida, at Charlie.__NEWL__Charlie and Ida become good friends and begin a sexual relationship, but without any romance involved.__NEWL__Charlie's serious interest is focused on the woman who works at the Rainbow Café, two doors down from the bank.__NEWL__The beautiful Delphine is the prime attraction of the Café, and Charlie learns that she runs it with her brother, Beppo.__NEWL__Charlie comes to the attention of the two when he stops a factory worker's advances on Delphine, long enough for Beppo to notice what is going on and intervene.__NEWL__Things deteriorate at Charlie's lodgings when Ida leaves for London.__NEWL__Gladys and Ewan assume it has something to do with Charlie, and the atmosphere at the bank, never too good, become even worse.__NEWL__Charlie is therefore all too ready to listen when Delphine makes a proposal to him — she, her brother and Charlie should rob the bank, tunneling from the café into the basement, where the vault is, and obtaining or forging keys to the locks.__NEWL__At first Charlie is dismissive, but then he decides that he has “damn all to lose”.__NEWL__The planning for the bank break-in continues, with Charlie continuing to hope for a relationship with Delphine.__NEWL__When the Rhys-Joneses decide there may be some chance of salvaging the hoped-for marriage to Ida, and Ewan approaches Charlie, Charlie pretends that he and Ida had considered marriage, but that, given the bank's slow promotion pace, there seemed no point.__NEWL__Ewan reassures Charlie, and tries to get rid of another bank employee in the hopes of getting a better job for Charlie.__NEWL__Charlie writes Ida a letter, and calls the bank heist off, but Beppo blackmails him by threatening to use some preparatory drawings made by Charlie, threatening to send them to the bank's home office.__NEWL__Charlie is shocked when he spies on Delphine and Beppo and learns they are actually lovers, not brother and sister.__NEWL__Angered and disgusted, he decides to go his own way after the heist.__NEWL__Ida sends a letter saying she is coming home on the very day set for the heist.__NEWL__Charlie replies that he will be away at his father's retirement ceremony, and asks her to come the following week.__NEWL__The day of the heist arrives, a Saturday, and Charlie succeeds in obtaining a final key from the possession of Ewan.__NEWL__He does so by drugging Ewan and his wife with their bedtime cocoa.__NEWL__While waiting for Delphine, he notices a half-burned envelope in the fireplace.__NEWL__It is a passport envelope, addressed to “Mr. and Mrs. Giuseppe Beppolini”.__NEWL__He rifles the couple's travel bags and finds a passport for a married couple and train tickets to a destination different from the port Charlie had been told would be the escape route.__NEWL__Realizing that the couple have deceived him and intend to swindle him out of the money, Charlie slips the passport and tickets into his pocket.__NEWL__Charlie and Beppo break through the wall, enter the vault, and take about twenty thousand pounds.__NEWL__On their return to the café, they find that Delphine has discovered Charlie's subterfuge, and has turned on the lights and music in the café to cover any altercation.__NEWL__Beppo takes out a gun, but Charlie rushes him, knocking him down a flight of stairs as the gun goes off.__NEWL__Beppo dies of a broken neck, and Charlie finds that the bullet has hit Delphine, killing her.__NEWL__In a state of shock, Charlie answers a knock on the café door.__NEWL__It is Ida, just returned, having through Charlie's lies and somehow sensed his predicament.__NEWL__She assists him in disposing of the bodies, in an area in which fill is being placed to level the ground for a park.__NEWL__They bury the bodies and the money, and return to the Rhys-Jones house.__NEWL__Charlie asks Ida to marry him, and she agrees, though without much enthusiasm, revealing that the reason she ran off to London was because she was pregnant with Charlie's child, which was then given up for adoption.__NEWL__Ironically, it will be the only child they will ever have.__NEWL__Once Gladys and Ewan awaken from their drugged sleep (the key being returned), they are delighted.__NEWL__On the following day, the bank manager and his future son-in-law elect arrive on Monday morning at the bank to find that it has been robbed.__NEWL__The investigation drags on for weeks.__NEWL__At the end, Ewan is forced to retire.__NEWL__Ewan defies the bank directors, making it clear that the head office in Cardiff is responsible for the heist, since they gave him inadequate security.__NEWL__He stalks off, gets drunk, catches pneumonia, and dies only days later.__NEWL__After the funeral, one of the police inspectors makes it clear he suspects Charlie, but there is no evidence of involvement, and Charlie and Ida marry as planned.__NEWL__Charlie rises to become a bank manager himself, and the two live to old age.__NEWL__When Ida dies, Charlie returns to Penmadoc, seeking to rid himself of the ghosts of the past, and rents a room in what had been the Rhys-Jones house.__NEWL__To his shock, he sees that the park where the Beppolinis lie buried is being dug up for a car park.__NEWL__He watches every day, until they and the money are found, but there is no evidence after forty years to connect Charlie with the skeletons and the money, even when the bodies are identified.__NEWL__Charlie learns that he is dying.__NEWL__He begins to write his story (this book), intending it to be lodged with a solicitor and released after his death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q339908	Miramar	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q79	Egypt	17051385	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17051385	The novel is set in 1960s Alexandria at the pension Miramar.__NEWL__The novel follows the interactions of the residents of the pension, its Greek mistress Mariana, and her servant.__NEWL__The interactions of all the residents are based around the servant girl Zahra, a beautiful peasant girl from the Beheira Governorate who has abandoned her village life.__NEWL__As each character in turn fights for Zahra's affections or allegiance, tensions and jealousies arise.__NEWL__In a style reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, the story is retold four times from the perspective of a different resident each time, allowing the reader to understand the intricacies of post-revolutionary Egyptian life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7546600	Smuggler's Moon	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16865814	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16865814	Sir John and Jeremy are sent to East Anglia to investigate smuggling, but when the smugglers turn to murder, Sir John takes it as a brazen assault on the law.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4925216	Blanquernation	1276-01-01T00:00:00Z	17100250	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17100250	The central character of the novel named after him, Blanquerna, was born to Evast and Aloma.__NEWL__Before marrying, Evast, a nobleman, had wanted to follow a religious life but at the same time wished to experience matrimony.__NEWL__He became a merchant after his marriage to Aloma, and he gives his son an education based on religious and philosophical pursuits.__NEWL__In the second part of the novel, Blanquerna confronts the same choice his father did: between a celibate life and a married one.__NEWL__Blanquerna decides to become a hermit, which saddens his mother; she tries to have her son marry the beautiful Cana.__NEWL__But Blanquerna persuades Cana to become a nun, and she later becomes an abbess.__NEWL__Blanquerna also faces sexual temptation in the form of a maiden named Natana.__NEWL__This second part includes a description of the seven sins.__NEWL__In parts three through five of the novel, Blanquerna, having chosen a religious life, becomes a monk (though he desires to become a hermit instead), and quickly becomes an abbot.__NEWL__In time, he is elected pope.__NEWL__The road to the papacy is not easy; Blanquerna is constantly faced with troublesome decisions and temptations, and he is not perfect.__NEWL__Indeed, Blanquerna "is made credible precisely because he is prone to make mistakes and to experience temptation, and in the end this gives him an authority which other authorities are obliged to recognize.__NEWL__" Blanquerna's life takes him through widely varying places and social strata, from uninhabited forests and wildernesses to the dense Roman urban landscape of thieves and prostitutes, from interactions with young maidens to interactions with popes and emperors.__NEWL__As he matures, Blanquerna listens to the advice of a jongleur, a "wise fool" named Ramon.__NEWL__Blanquerna reforms the Church completely as pope, with Ramon’s help, and finally becomes the hermit he had always desired to be.__NEWL__As a hermit, he composes a book of meditations to help his fellow hermits defeat temptation: this is the Llibre d'Amic e d'Amat, which consists of 365 love poems.__NEWL__This text "purports to offer the protagonist’s mystical confessions, based on personal experience and examples of 'Sufi preachers,' as a guide to contemplation within the apostolic utopia of a reform of contemporary Christendom."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q739461	The Assassini	1990-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17033977	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17033977	Set in 1982, while the Roman Catholic Church is preparing to elect a successor to the dying pope, Callistus IV, the book describes the attempts of lawyer Ben Driskill to solve the murder of his sibling, Sister Valentine, a nun who was an outspoken activist and a thorn in the Church's side.__NEWL__Driskill's world-spanning investigation leads him to the discovery of a document from a forgotten monastery in Ireland, which proves the existence of the Assassini, an age-old brotherhood of killers, once hired by princes of the Church to protect it in dangerous times; and the person who now controls them in his Machiavellian bid for power.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4883405	Belladonna	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17035775	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17035775	Book ends with Belladonna making herself even more evil than the Eater of the World inside of the school that she had been kicked out of in the events of Sebastian.__NEWL__She traps the Eater of the World and somehow Michael finds a way to bring her back to the world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1219070	Lords of Creation	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16984030	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984030	Homer Ellory awakes in the year 5000 AD after sleeping for 3,000 years and discovers the Earth in a state of barbarism.__NEWL__He befriends the people of North America who have been conquered by the Antarkans.__NEWL__Ellory leads a revolt, but is captured by the Antarkans, imprisoned in the Antarkan city of Lillamra and sentenced to death.__NEWL__The Lady Ermaine falls in love with him and enables his escape.__NEWL__He returns to North America, where he leads a second revolt.__NEWL__After the surrender of Antarka, he is proclaimed the leader of the Earth's peoples.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5420299	Exiles of Time	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16984909	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984909	After a strange bloodstone amulet is found in an ancient Arabian tomb by archaeologists, the native employees of the expedition attack the others when they refuse to leave.__NEWL__One of the archaeologists, Lance Vidor, seeks refuge in the tomb, where he is transported to a different point in the time circle of Earth.__NEWL__Vidor finds others who have been summoned to the time period for the purpose of saving the Earth from an oncoming comet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7717852	The Big Wave	16985103	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16985103	Kino lives with his family on a farm on the side of a mountain in Japan while his friend, Jiya, lives in the fishing village below.__NEWL__Though everyone in the area has heard of the big wave no one suspects that when the next one comes, it will wipe out Jiya's entire family and fishing village below the mountain.__NEWL__Jiya soon must leave his family behind in order to keep the fisherman traditions alive.__NEWL__Jiya, now orphaned, struggles to overcome his sadness and is adopted into Kino's family.__NEWL__He and Kino live like brothers and Jiya takes on the life of a farmer.__NEWL__Even when the wise Old Gentleman offers Jiya a wealthy life at his rich castle, Jiya refuses.__NEWL__Though Jiya is able to find happiness again in his adopted family, particularly with Kino's younger sister, Setsu, Jiya wishes to live as a fisherman again as he comes of age.__NEWL__When Jiya tells Kino that he wishes to marry Setsu and return to the fishing village, Kino fears that Jiya and Setsu will suffer and it is safer for them to remain on the mountain as a farmer, thinking of the potential consequences should another big wave come.__NEWL__However, Jiya reveals his understanding that it is in the presence of danger that one learns to be brave, and to appreciate how wonderful life can be.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1170423	The Angel's Game	2008-04-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1492	Barcelona	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	16990885	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16990885	The Angel's Game is set in Barcelona in the 1920s and 1930s and follows a young writer, David Martin.__NEWL__In a once-abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, Martín makes his living by writing sensationalist crime stories under a pseudonym.__NEWL__The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque, "grand guignol" tales about the city's underworld.__NEWL__His own life begins to take on a dramatic bent, in the form of a number of complex relationships: with Pedro Vidal, his patron, with Cristina, the daughter of Vidal's chauffeur, and with Isabella, a young admirer of David and his work.__NEWL__Furthermore, the history of the house he lives in begins to seep into his life - in a locked room within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.__NEWL__At the same time he receives a letter from a reclusive but wealthy French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him an irresistible offer.__NEWL__He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed—an attempt at a new religious work with the power to change hearts and minds.__NEWL__Yet as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7048388	Nomad	1950-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16992679	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16992679	The novel concerns Guy Maynard, of Earth, who is rescued from his Martian captors by Thomakein of the planet Ertene, an invisible wandering planet.__NEWL__After spending time on Ertene, Maynard returns to Earth where he uses the knowledge he gained to launch an invasion against the newly discovered planet Mephisto.__NEWL__He returns to Earth a hero, but is later court martialed and driven from the Galactic Patrol.__NEWL__He seeks refuge on Ertene by impersonating their ruler.__NEWL__When he is discovered, he flees to Mephisto and there raises an army enabling him to conquer the Solar system becoming its emperor.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7745120	The Lady Decides	1950-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16992827	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16992827	The novel concerns a man with a dream and an allegorical quest through Spain.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2444178	The Innocent Mage	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16982625	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16982625	Asher of Restharven wishes to own his own boat so that he may get away from his six brothers and spend time with his father.__NEWL__He goes seeking fortune in Dorana and ends up in service of the young Prince Gar.__NEWL__Unknown to the both of them a secret organization called the Circle is watching Asher for he is the one foretold in the prophecy to save the kingdom.__NEWL__The Doranen have ruled Lur with magic after fleeing the evil Morg who took over their homeland.__NEWL__For an Olken (Lur's original inhabitants) it is unlawful to use magic.__NEWL__Any Olken who breaks the law will be executed.__NEWL__Asher has come to Lur‘s capital city to make his fortune.__NEWL__He begins as a worker in the stables of the Royal Palace but is soon made an assistant to the magicless Prince Gar, who is the mediator between the Olken and the Doranen.__NEWL__Soon, he hopes to gain enough money to buy a boat and fish with his father for the rest of his life.__NEWL__But unrest starts to show among the Olken.__NEWL__It has been prophesied that the Innocent Mage will be born, and the Circle is dedicated to preserving the magic of the Olken until the saviour arrives.__NEWL__The Circle have been watching Asher, and as the city streets are filled with Olken rioters, his life takes a bitter turn.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5374676	Empress of Mijak	2007-06-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16982821	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16982821	Hekat, the protagonist, is a girl born unwanted and as a burden to her family.__NEWL__Her father beats his wife and rapes Hekat on the insistence that she should birth him more sons to plough the fields in the dry desert wasteland known as the Anvil.__NEWL__ Hekat is sold to the slave traders Abajai and Yagji.__NEWL__Once sold, she begins her journey to the south, through the wealthier, greener Mijak, to reach the traders' home city of Et-Raklion.__NEWL__Along the way, Abajai teaches her how to speak courteous Mijaki, how to dress, and how to sing and dance, and keeps her away from the rest of the slaves.__NEWL__Hekat realizes too late that Abajai still sees her as just a slave who would fetch a good price from the warlord Raklion.__NEWL__Heartbroken, Hekat runs and joins Et-Raklion Warlord's army with the help of a nameless god.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7740110	The Homunculus	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16982839	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16982839	The novel concerns Colonel Horatio Bumble who has retired to his ancestral home with his wife, Helen and their Pekingese, Lady.__NEWL__The Bumbles are childless.__NEWL__Colonel Bumble employs the siblings Pete and Sarah at his home.__NEWL__The Colonel is also attempting to create a baby through parthenogenesis.__NEWL__As a result of his experiments, the Colonel is kidnapped and Sarah rescues him by employing supernatural means.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7765687	The Spare Room	2008-04-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	16952261	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16952261	The novel is told from the first person perspective of a woman, Helen, who lives in Melbourne near her family.__NEWL__A friend Nicola, who is ill with bowel cancer, comes to stay with Helen in order to pursue alternative therapy for her disease.__NEWL__The cancer is considered terminal by her doctors.__NEWL__Helen is suspicious of the treatment and becomes more so as she sees its deleterious health effects.__NEWL__As the three weeks of the novel progress Helen becomes increasingly angry with Nicola for denying the seriousness of her illness, forcing those around her to do emotional work on her behalf in confronting her death, and in making light of them for doing so.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, Nicola returns to mainstream oncology treatment, and the doctors find that some of her symptoms are due to cancer having destroyed part of her vertebrae.__NEWL__The novel flashes forward to the months ahead, where Nicola returns to Sydney and eventually dies.__NEWL__A number of friends and family, including Helen, take turns as her caretaker.__NEWL__Nicola only truly embraces her death when a Buddhist friend tells her that in dying, she has something to teach them.__NEWL__The novel draws heavily on both events and details from Garner's life.__NEWL__The narrator Helen lives next door to her daughter Eva and Eva's children, as Garner does with her daughter Alice Garner and her children, and plays the ukulele as Garner does.__NEWL__The events in the novel are based on Garner's spending a period caring for her friend Jenya Osborne when Osborne was dying.__NEWL__Garner chose to use her own first name for the narrator character as she wanted to admit to the least attractive or acceptable emotions that she felt as her friend died.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7539303	Slaves of Sleep	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17038668	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17038668	The novel concerns Jan Palmer, a young millionaire, who surprises a prowler who is attempting to burgle his collection of antiques.__NEWL__The prowler opens a jar that bears the seal of Sulayman releasing an Ifrit, named Zongri, that was imprisoned.__NEWL__The Ifrit kills the thief and curses Palmer with eternal wakefulness.__NEWL__At night, Palmer assumes the identity of an adventurer in another dimension where the Ifrits rule the humans under the Ifrit queen where he becomes embroiled in the conflict between Zongri and the Ifrit queen.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6494821	Last of the Duanes	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16838742	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16838742	Buckley "Buck" Duane is the son of a famous Texas gunslinger, a fact that brings him almost nothing but trouble.__NEWL__Duane shoots a man who threatens him and flees his hometown of Wellston to avoid the law.__NEWL__Mixing with outlaws while on the run, he clings desperately to the last of his principles until he rescues a girl named Jennie from the hands of an outlaw king.__NEWL__However, he loses her shortly after the escape and then begins to wander aimlessly, desperation growing as the worth of life slips away.__NEWL__Three years into his life on the run, he begins to hear of a Texas Ranger captain who seeks to meet him.__NEWL__After running in with vigilante posses of homesteaders and nearly being lynched in a town he'd never been for a murder he didn't commit, he finally seeks out the ranger captain to discover he is wanted to infiltrate and break up an elusive gang of cattle rustlers in exchange for a pardon from the governor.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7753401	The Nemesis of Faith	1849-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	17030638	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17030638	The story of Markham Sutherland is presented through various letters, journals, and the third-person account of the novel's supposed editor, Arthur.__NEWL__Sutherland, under pressure from his father to become a clergyman, confesses to Arthur his reservations about accepting the Thirty-Nine Articles and contemporary English Christianity in general.__NEWL__In particular, Sutherland is concerned about the depiction of God in the Old Testament, God's patronage of the Israelites on non-moral grounds, the doctrine of Eternal Punishment, and the supposed inerrancy of the Bible.__NEWL__Sutherland was profoundly influenced by John Henry Newman in his early years, but was ultimately unable to accept Newman's doctrines.__NEWL__Sutherland also seeks guidance in the writings of Victorian historian and sage Thomas Carlyle (who was Froude's chief intellectual influence in later years), but finds no solutions.__NEWL__Tormented by his doubts and subsequent alienation from his family, Sutherland becomes morbidly depressed.__NEWL__On Arthur's advice, Sutherland takes orders, hoping that his doubts will eventually pass when he enters a more active life.__NEWL__Because of the selectivity of his sermons, however, his parishioners begin to suspect him of Socinianism.__NEWL__When Sutherland is tricked into making a harsh criticism of the British and Foreign Bible Society, claiming that the text of the Bible without clerical guidance is more likely to lead to wickedness than to Christian faith and virtue, his doubts are revealed, and he is forced to resign his position.__NEWL__Sutherland travels to Como to rest and recover from illness, indulging in free religious speculation while there.__NEWL__He befriends Helen Leonard, who sympathises with his troubles and listens to his doubts.__NEWL__Helen's dull, unloving husband prefers to spend time away from his wife, and leaves her in Sutherland's company for the season.__NEWL__Helen and Sutherland fall in love, causing both great anxiety, although the relationship never becomes physical.__NEWL__The two consider eloping, but Helen decides she cannot leave her daughter, Annie.__NEWL__During this conversation, however, the unsupervised Annie dips her arm into the lake, causing her to fall ill and die soon after.__NEWL__Sutherland again becomes depressed, believing that his religious speculations have brought himself and Helen into sin.__NEWL__He plans suicide, but is stopped at the last moment by an old friend, representative of John Henry Newman.__NEWL__Sutherland retires to a monastery, although his repentance is short lived, and he dies still in doubt.__NEWL__Helen, meanwhile, separates from her husband and retires to a convent, although she is unreconciled with the Church because she maintains that her love for Sutherland is holier than her marriage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4749992	An Experiment in Treason	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17031088	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17031088	A pack of confidential letters is stolen from the Secretary of State for the American Colonies.__NEWL__With cross-Atlantic tensions rising, Sir John is ordered to interrogate the American representative in London, one Benjamin Franklin.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7170518	Personal Injuries	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16829053	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16829053	The novel begins with Robbie Feaver seeking advice from attorney George Mason, the narrator.__NEWL__Feaver admits that he has been bribing several judges in the Common Law Claims Division to win favorable judgments for years.__NEWL__U.S. Attorney Stan Sennett has uncovered Feaver's secret and wants Feaver to strike a deal to get at the man he believes to be at the center of all the legal corruption in the metropolitan area, Brendan Tuohey, the Presiding Judge of Common Law Claims and heir apparent to the Chief Justice of Kindle County Superior Court.__NEWL__An undercover scheme is put in motion to trap the guilty parties.__NEWL__The novel follows the FBI as it pursues the legal community of Kindle County in a web of tapped phones, concealed cameras, and wired spies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6549474	Limitations	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16829319	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16829319	Like Turow's other novels, it is set in fictional Kindle County in Illinois, and he revives some familiar characters, including George Mason from Personal Injuries and Rusty Sabich, the hero of his acclaimed fiction debut, Presumed Innocent.__NEWL__Mason is now a judge, faced with the challenge of deciding a high-profile case involving a rape case that reawakens his long-suppressed guilt over his own role in a similar incident decades before.__NEWL__To compound this inner struggle, Mason finds himself the object of threatening e-mails from an unknown source, all while trying to care for his cancer stricken wife.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q549360	Requiem for a Spanish Peasant							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	17020313	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17020313	The story is narrated by a third-person omniscient narrator who has insight into Mosén Millán's thoughts and feelings.__NEWL__Three distinct planes of narration exist in the novel: the present, Millán's recollections of his relationship with Paco from birth to death, and the ballad the altar boy sings which recounts Paco's life.__NEWL__In the present, Millán, fatigued, prays as he awaits the requiem mass with recollections of Paco's life.__NEWL__As he prays he rests his head against a wall—a habit—which bears a dark spot.__NEWL__The altar boy comes and goes and both remark on the lack of people attending mass.__NEWL__Millán, feeling guilty knowing that he played a role in Paco's death, asks the altar boy to leave the church to look for mass attenders in the town square when the altar boy sings the parts of the ballad that refer to Millán.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1394365	Falkner	1837-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	17022245	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17022245	As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner from committing suicide; Falkner then adopts her and brings her up to be a model of virtue.__NEWL__However, she falls in love with Gerald Neville, whose mother Falkner had unintentionally driven to her death years before.__NEWL__When Falkner is finally acquitted of murdering Neville's mother, Elizabeth's female values subdue the destructive impulses of the two men she loves, who are reconciled and unite with Elizabeth in domestic harmony.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16257905	Midnight's Choice	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1761	Dublin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27	Republic of Ireland	16898816	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16898816	Midnight's Choice is set in the city of Dublin, in Ireland.__NEWL__The events of the book take place "a few days after New Year", although exactly which year is uncertain.__NEWL__Tess faces a terrible choice between the eternal purity of a phoenix's existence, and the darkness that is the unlife of a vampire.__NEWL__In the form of a phoenix, Tess flies out of her room to join Kevin, who is now permanently in the shape of such a magical bird.__NEWL__She tries to ask Kevin what has happened to him since they last spoke, but her mind is overwhelmed by the purity and beauty of the phoenix's nature, and she instantly loses interest in asking questions.__NEWL__The following night, she becomes worried about the restless behaviour of her pet rat Algernon, and her animal-mind detects a telepathic summons being sent to all the rats in the city.__NEWL__Algernon breaks out of his cage and escapes into the sewers, and as a rat Tess follows him to an empty house filled with thousands of his kind.__NEWL__There, she discovers that the source of the mysterious call is a male Switcher.__NEWL__The next day, Tess investigates the house, and sees a red haired boy standing in the doorway of a house across the street.__NEWL__Somehow sensing that he is the Switcher, she resolves to speak to him when she gets the chance.__NEWL__Upon reading a newspaper article, Tess discovers that the phoenix has been captured in the Phoenix Park, and is now on display in Dublin Zoo.__NEWL__Therefore, she sets off to visit the Switcher and ask for help in breaking her friend out of confinement.__NEWL__Tess finds the boy (Martin) sleeping in the darkness of his room, and tells him that she knows he is a Switcher.__NEWL__Martin agrees to help her, but only on the condition that she return to his house that night so that he can demonstrate his skill as a Switcher to her.__NEWL__When she does return, he takes her for a walk through the streets, and then demonstrates the truly awesome and horrible skill which he has learned by Switching into a vampire.__NEWL__Martin feeds on her blood, the shock of which stimulates Tess' survival instincts, and she Switches into the only form in which she will be safe from Martin: a vampire.__NEWL__Once she is in this form, all of Tess' revulsion toward the concept of vampirism vanishes, but Martin warns her not to kill her victim when she feeds, as doing so would arouse suspicion.__NEWL__After much hunting, the two come upon a young couple in a car, on whose blood they feed.__NEWL__For the next few days, Tess behaves scornfully toward her parents, upsetting them greatly.__NEWL__At last when her mother mentions the phoenix, the memory of her time as one of those glorious, pure bird dispels the lingering aspects of the vampire personality, and she apologises for her behaviour.__NEWL__The family visit the zoo to see the bird, and there Tess meets Lizzie, who claims to be worried about something.__NEWL__The old woman informs her that the phoenix is a powerful force of good, and will change many lives, but according to the nature of the world, some dark force must have come into existence to balance out the presence of the phoenix.__NEWL__Upon entering the building in which the bird is caged, Tess is suddenly overcome by a feeling of joy and warmth, and realises that the bird is having this effect on everyone who sees it.__NEWL__Outside, she and her parents enjoy a game of Frisbee, all their arguments forgotten, not even becoming upset when Tess accidentally loses the Frisbee in the bushes.__NEWL__However, Lizzie tells Tess that she has "work to do", and is wasting time.__NEWL__Tess visits Martin again, and he explains to her the gruesome circumstances of his father's death.__NEWL__She is horrified, but he seems not to care.__NEWL__He takes her into the crypt which he plans to make his home, and she realises that he has been using the rats to excavate this crypt.__NEWL__She tells him that she never wants to return to being a vampire, but Martin claims that now he has bitten her, she will become one of the undead as soon as she dies.__NEWL__He tells her that his fifteenth birthday is the following day, and, because he intends to remain a vampire, he offers her the chance to join him willingly.__NEWL__She refuses, claiming that if she chooses to become an immortal phoenix, she will never succumb to death or vampirism.__NEWL__So as to destroy Tess' confidence, Martin sends the city's rats to kill Kevin at the zoo, but the phoenix escapes with Tess's help.__NEWL__He and Martin confront each other in the park, and Tess steps between them, where she is confronted with the choice between becoming like either of them.__NEWL__Martin uses his hypnotic powers to coerce her, and in turn Kevin uses his purifying powers to draw her toward him.__NEWL__Tess alternates between allegiances and the struggle within her becomes so strong that it begins to damage her mind.__NEWL__As she tries desperately to choose her path, Tess suddenly remembers some prior advice given by Lizzie, and realises what she is doing wrong: She has been convinced that she must choose to be either a vampire or a phoenix, when in fact, the option of simply remaining human was never closed to her.__NEWL__Tess chooses to retain her humanity, and this somehow transforms both Martin and Kevin back into their human forms.__NEWL__Martin, his defences lowered, breaks down over the loss of his father, but when Tess tries to comfort him, he realises he is vulnerable and runs off into the trees.__NEWL__Tess follows, but slips on the Frisbee which she lost earlier.__NEWL__Tess enters Martin's home in the form of a cat, and but doesn't see Martin there.__NEWL__She checks on Martin's mother, on whom Tess has realised that Martin had been feeding for a while before she met him.__NEWL__However it seems that his mother is still alive, though exhausted.__NEWL__Tess takes Kevin back to her home, where they discuss the events of the past few days.__NEWL__Kevin claims that because he and Martin balanced each other out, Martin's return to humanity meant that Kevin too lost his supernatural form.__NEWL__Their discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Algernon, who informs them that Martin has disappeared, and that his control over the rats of the city is broken.__NEWL__Tess and Kevin realise that Martin has chosen to remain human, and decide to help him through his newly exposed grief.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7751714	The Mislaid Charm	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16899424	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16899424	The novel concerns Henry Pickett, a traveling salesman, and his adventures after he acquires a magical tribal charm belonging to some gnomes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5988184	Identical	2008-08-26T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16899542	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16899542	From the bookjacket "Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for Congress.__NEWL__Everything on the surface of their lives seems Norman Rockwell perfect, but underneath run deep and damaging secrets.__NEWL__Kaeleigh is the good girl-her father's perfect flower, something she has tried so hard to be since she was nine and he started sexually abusing her.__NEWL__She cuts herself and binge eats, desperate to feel something normal.__NEWL__Raeanne uses painkillers, drugs, alcohol, sex, and purging as an outlet to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite.__NEWL__Both girls must figure out how to become whole, but how can they when their world has been torn to shreds?"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7621417	Strange Life of Ivan Osokin	1910-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	16900898	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16900898	When the protagonist realizes that he can recall having lived his life before, he decides to try to change it.__NEWL__But he discovers that, because human choices tend to be mechanical, changing the outcome of one's actions is extremely difficult.__NEWL__He realizes that without help breaking his mechanical behavior, he may be doomed to repeat the same mistakes forever.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6414305	Kinsmen of the Dragon	1951-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17048903	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17048903	The novel concerns an empire of invisible wizards and adventure in the realm of Annwyn.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775982	The World Is Full of Married Men	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16880989	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16880989	Set in London in the swinging sixties, middle-aged advertising executive David Cooper cheats on his wife Linda.__NEWL__When he meets the young and beautiful Claudia Parker, David wants to marry her.__NEWL__However, Claudia has different ideas; she wants to be a model, an actress, and a star.__NEWL__When Linda finds out about the affair she ends the marriage and files for divorce.__NEWL__At first protesting, David finally relents and moves into an apartment with Claudia.__NEWL__After six months however, the pair are sick of each other and now that the divorce is finalized, Linda has started seeing Hollywood film producer Jay Grossman.__NEWL__Realizing his mistake in letting Linda go, David fails to win her back and falls into an alcoholic stupor that renders him virtually impotent and only able to perform with his mousy spinster secretary, Miss Fields, who ultimately falls pregnant with his child.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767098	The Stud	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16881690	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16881690	Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy Arab businessman, Benjamin Khaled.__NEWL__She spends his money on her nightclub Hobo, partying, shopping, and lovers.__NEWL__She hires a manager, Tony Blake, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her sexual demands.__NEWL__Tony loses interest in Fontaine and turns his attention to her young step-daughter Alexandra, who uses him to make another man she is interested in jealous.__NEWL__Tony, oblivious to this fact, pursues Alexandra while double-crossing Fontaine by making a deal with businessman Ian Thaine to buy his own club by saying that Fontaine is in on the deal.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Benjamin's attentions stray to model Dolores after he finds out about Fontaine's various affairs.__NEWL__When Fontaine is faced with Benjamin divorcing her and Tony double-crossing and leaving her to set up his own club she puts the wheels in motion to turn the tables.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4962010	Brethren	2006-08-24T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	17063939	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17063939	The novel describes the fictional story of a young teenager by the name of William Campbell who starts out as a sergeant and later is promoted to a full Knight Templar.__NEWL__He is tasked with the search of the Book of the Grail which, if ever in the wrong hands, could potentially result in the downfall of not only the Anima Templi (a secret order within the Temple), but also the Temple itself.__NEWL__However, Will finds he's not alone in the search of the book.__NEWL__There are also Prince Edward and The Order of the St John's or the Hospitallers who want the Book as part of their plans to bring down the Temple.__NEWL__The story of Will Campbell runs parallel to that of Baybars Bundukdari, a slave who rose to become Sultan of the Mamluks motivated purely by his hatred of the Franks.__NEWL__In the earlier parts of the story, Will does not know that his father James Campbell is also part of the Anima Templi (or Brethren) and that there is a contact deep within Baybars' circle of trusted advisors who works with the Brethren to achieve long-lasting peace in the Holy land and the reconciliation of the three dominant faiths of the West: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.__NEWL__The book has a sequel written by the same author.__NEWL__"Crusade" follows Will as he becomes further entangled in the Brethren and Baybars.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6945060	My Bonny Light Horseman	2008-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17103727	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17103727	The story starts with Jacky back on sea after visiting her dear friend, Amy Trevelyne, after her adventures throughout the U.S. frontier.__NEWL__She sails her ship Nancy B. Alsop while waiting for Jaimy to come back from the Orient to marry her.__NEWL__Soon though, a British warship, HMS Dauntless has come to imprison Jacky and her crew but after an intense confrontation with Bliffil (an old nemesis of Jacky's) and British soldiers, Jacky surrenders, asking that the British spare her crew.__NEWL__Much to their dismay, Captain Hudson and the officers accept her request and sail away.__NEWL__Despite Jacky's skeptical attitude once aboard, she is realized as nothing but a young, innocent girl that was wrongly labeled a rogue by King George, despite Bliffil's accusation of her being known as "Tuppence a lay" on HMS Dolphin and a threat to every man board.__NEWL__She soon meets up with two acquaintances, David "Davy" Jones and Joseph Jared; she also befriends the Dr. Sebastian and Captain Hudson of the Dauntless.__NEWL__Bliffil nags at Jacky, bullying her until the crew can not take it anymore.__NEWL__The crew, especially Jared, threaten him on several occasions should Bliffil ever again threaten her.__NEWL__Jacky gains her freedom from the ship for being a docile captive.__NEWL__She takes up with Dr. Sebastian and paints him a much-acclaimed portrait and portfolio.__NEWL__He shows her a rare Mexican dung beetle and she meets his other assistant.__NEWL__Once Captain Hudson hears and sees of her talent, he has her paint him a portrait of his own.__NEWL__Later, Hudson and Sebastian meet in private discussing how they feel about Jacky being thought of as a "rogue" and a "pirate" by the King himself.__NEWL__They sail to British waters but after the senior crew is struck with food poisoning, Jacky persuades Hudson to allow her to take command.__NEWL__While Hudson and the rest of Dauntless' crew that ate the fish are ill, the Dauntless is attacked by the French and Dutch.__NEWL__Jacky is forced to strike the colors, but not before she's had the ill officers brought to their stations on stretchers, to preserve their honor.__NEWL__The crew is taken to the French prison of Cherbourg.__NEWL__Jared takes to sleeping in the same bed as Jacky, to still her post-traumatic stress disorder.__NEWL__Hudson is soon paroled, and Jared assaults Bliffil as he continues to insult Jacky (Now claiming to be male Midshipman "Jack Kemp", a play on "Jack Hemp").__NEWL__The Dauntless prisoners are joined by the captured crew of HMS Mercury, and Jaimy has been severely wounded.__NEWL__Bliffil had passed a note to a guard, and Jacky is exposed as the pirate La Belle Jeune Fille sans Merci, "The Beautiful Young Girl Without Mercy".__NEWL__A lawyer by the name of Jardineaux comes for Jacky to take her to the guillotine.__NEWL__Jared again attempts to kill Bliffil, but is beaten down by the guards.__NEWL__She is sent to be executed, but en route to the site of the execution, she is switched with another girl.__NEWL__She is sent back to London to meet with First Lord Thomas Grenville and Mr. Peel of Naval Intelligence, with Bliffil attending.__NEWL__Upon her arrival, she attacks the three and attempts to garrote Bliffil.__NEWL__Grenville and Peel smooth things over__NEWL__and she releases Bliffil from near-death.__NEWL__Grenville leaves Mr. Peel to give Jacky the mission and he informs her of the cover-up.__NEWL__British Intelligence wants the French to believe that Jacky Faber is dead in order to send her back across the channel as a spy.__NEWL__Jacky is to train as a ballerina, performing in a Parisian nightclub frequented by French officers, who often vie to "escort" the young girls home.__NEWL__She is told that if she refuses the mission, British Intelligence intends to "hurt" the ones she loves.__NEWL__Jacky cannot bear to lose her orphanage, but bargains to have Dr. Sebastian, Jaimy, Jared and Davey released.__NEWL__Jacky spends the next two weeks training in Ballet, shopping for new clothing and gear, and visiting both St Paul's Cathedral and the Fletcher household, family of her betrothed.__NEWL__Jaimy's father and brother both receive her much more warmly than his mother had (in Under the Jolly Roger), and grimly bear the news of Jaimy's injuries.__NEWL__The last night Jacky is in England is the first night Jaimy is at home, and the two share a tender moment before she has to leave for her mission.__NEWL__The British escort Jacky to France where they place her in Paris.__NEWL__She establishes herself in an apartment, and learns that Jardineaux is her "Control".__NEWL__She acquaints herself with her Royalist Handler by the name of Jean-Paul de Valdon and they establish a fast friendship, guiding her through the Notre Dame de Paris, The Louvre (notably, a painting of one of his relations, Charlotte Corday the assassin of Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat Jacky joins the troupe "Le Petit Gamine" under the name Jacqueline Bouvier, and she is approached by her first target, one Field Marshal de Groote, nicknamed "The Goat" by the other girls.__NEWL__Jacky offers to meet him the following Tuesday evening, and then arranges for his wife to catch him "in the act".__NEWL__He arrives on the night of the sting dressed in a wolf mask, earlier having referred to her as "Little Red Riding Hood".__NEWL__After plying de Groote with Cognac laced with Paregoric and prying Napoleon's troop movements out of him, his wife arrives brandishing pistols.__NEWL__The ensuing altercation injures de Groote, disabling him and attracting the attention of the police.__NEWL__Jardineaux proposes to next have Jacky serve as a camp follower, trailing Napoleon's men.__NEWL__Jacky, offended, decides to dress as a man, this time joining Napoleon's messengers, granting her ready access to military documents.__NEWL__She assumes the name Jacques Bouvier a West Point Cadet.__NEWL__Upon arrival, she is given the duties of training a unit of inexperienced, untrained soldiers.__NEWL__She runs afoul of a Major Levesque but also makes friends amongst the officers and soldiers under her command.__NEWL__She and her soldiers, nicknamed the "Clod Hoppers" due to their rough, country origins meet Napoleon, presenting him with a captured Prussian flag.__NEWL__Soon afterwards, Jacky is reunited with Jean Paul and Randall Trevelyne.__NEWL__They see action in the Battle of Jena and Napoleon releases her from the Army, awarding her a Legion of Honour.__NEWL__After war, she gives Mathilde to her assistant-in-war Denis Dufour.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jaimy is fully awaken from his concussion and tries to find what happened to Jacky after the stint at the French prison.__NEWL__They find out she was working in Paris so they set sail aboard Nancy B. Alsop.__NEWL__Jacky's days of war are over and she reports back to Paris.__NEWL__She meets Jardineaux there, where things turn fierce.__NEWL__Jardineaux tells Jacky his disappointment in her for not killing Napoleon and brands her a traitor.__NEWL__He holds her at gunpoint and has her ride with him to the docks where he would kill her.__NEWL__Once there, Jean Paul appears to reveal more of what Jardineaux had plotted for Napoleon and just as soon as Jardineaux is about to kill Jacky.__NEWL__Jean Paul impales him with Jacky's shiv (which he had taken prior to her being taken to the dock), saving Jacky.__NEWL__Before this, however, Jardineaux showed Jacky that her ship, Nancy B. Alsop was coming into dock.__NEWL__So she leaves Jean Paul at the dock to be picked up by Jaimy, Higgins and the rest of the crew, saying, "I have come home."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12968429	My Brother, My Executioner	1973-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q928	Philippines	16872853	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16872853	My Brother, My Executioner, tackles the narrative about two half brothers – Luis Asperri and Victor.__NEWL__Luis is the biological, yet illegitimate, son of Don Vicente Asperri, a rich feudal landowner.__NEWL__At a young age, Luis was taken by Don Vicente from his underprivileged mother and half-brother, Victor, who were both living in Sipnget, Rosales in Pangasinan, a province in the Philippines.__NEWL__After studying in Manila, Luis became a writer and editor for a radical left-wing magazine.__NEWL__When Luis was finally able to return to Rosales, he found out that his half-brother, Vic – the nickname of Victor - became a full-pledged leader of rebels who were against the existence of rich landowners.__NEWL__Thus, the brothers meet again both “as allies and as adversaries” because of their opposing social beliefs, views, status and principles.__NEWL__These conflicts are their mutual misfortunes in life as brothers.__NEWL__Luis identifies with the luxury offered by city life, while Vic detests these materialistic privileges.__NEWL__Furthermore, although Luis considers himself as a liberal, he is more like his father, Don Vicente.__NEWL__He followed the will of Don Vicente by marrying Trining, his cousin – instead of a girlfriend in Manila – in order to preserve the wealth of the family.__NEWL__Luis Asperri is against putting down his status as a wealthy landowner for the benefit of the peasantry.__NEWL__He is against the goals of the uprising of the Hukbalahap or Hukbong Bayan Laban sa mga__NEWL__Hapon – a “people’s army against the Japanese occupiers” represented by the leadership of his half-brother, Vic.__NEWL__The event occurred in Philippine history during the 1950s.__NEWL__The Hukbalahap remained active even after World War II.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775981	The World Is Full of Divorced Women	1975-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	16905773	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16905773	In New York City, English journalist Cleo James finds her husband having sex with her best friend, and she knows it's time to end the marriage.__NEWL__In London, Muffin, the hottest nude model in town, finds her man wants more from her than she can give.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7769616	The Torch	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16979393	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16979393	The novel is set in the year 3010, in the ruins of New York after a comet has devastated the Earth.__NEWL__Fortune is the captain of the army of the Towermen, those who live in the remaining skyscrapers and rule the city with an iron hand.__NEWL__He is taken captive by the people of the Island of the Statue.__NEWL__There, Fortune learns of a prophecy that states that the people will be free when the torch burns in the hands of the statue.__NEWL__Fortune is redeemed by his captors and leads them in a revolt against his former masters.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7589523	St. Leon	16980181	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16980181	Count Reginald narrates the story of his life, beginning with the death of his father when he was an infant.__NEWL__He was brought up by his mother, "a woman of rather a masculine understanding, and full of the prejudices of nobility and magnificence."__NEWL__Reginald has grand notions of aristocratic honour, and, inspired by his uncle, the Marquis de Villeroy, he joins the Italian war of 1521–6, hoping to achieve military renown in the battle of Pavia.__NEWL__Reginald is knighted by King Francis I, while fighting for the French against the Spanish Imperial army, but the King is captured and imprisoned by Charles V.__NEWL__The King's exile changes the climate in France from one in which "the activity of the field" is exchanged "for the indulgences of the table.__NEWL__" On his return home, Reginald, now twenty years old is forced by the death of his mother to take charge of his own affairs.__NEWL__He is quickly led astray by a life of spending too much, keeping mistresses, and gambling.__NEWL__He lives like this for two years and quickly depletes his fortune.__NEWL__He meets the beautiful and accomplished nineteen-year-old Marguerite Louise Isabeau de Damville, whose education has benefited from the society of Clement Marot, Rabelais, Erasmus, and Scaliger, and whose drawing has been encouraged by Leonardo da Vinci.__NEWL__Reginald courts Marguerite, who is the daughter of the Marquis de Damville, but Reginald's reputation as a gambler causes the Marquis to warn him that he should be careful not to ruin himself and his daughter.__NEWL__The Marquis allows them to marry, but by the time he is in his thirties, Reginald is living beyond his means and has returned to gambling.__NEWL__The Marquis does not live to see this development.__NEWL__Marguerite moves their family to Switzerland and pays off her husband's debts by selling their possessions.__NEWL__She tries to convince him that the simpler life of a peasant will make the whole family happier and more virtuous.__NEWL__However, while they are beginning their farming life, their crops and animals are unexpectedly destroyed in a fierce storm.__NEWL__Disturbed by the sight of a dead woman and child, Reginald realizes he is fortunate when he returns home to find his family is safe.__NEWL__He dismisses his former love of money and rank.__NEWL__Seeing the casualties of a fierce storm reveals to him that his new life as a subsistence farmer is more valuable than he imagined, but that it is a life subject to the precarious whims of fortune.__NEWL__This development gives Godwin scope to expatiate on the Swiss system of storing corn in public reserves in case of natural disasters.__NEWL__Reginald applies for national relief and a disbursement from the public treasury to enable him to restock his farm.__NEWL__But relief is refused on the grounds that he is not Swiss.__NEWL__Government officials are sent to remove the family from the country altogether without giving them time to sell their cottage.__NEWL__A compassionate neighbour lends them money against the house and they leave for Lake Constance.__NEWL__The neighbour dies, and his estate passes to a relative, Monsieur Grimseld, who steals their house.__NEWL__Reginald risks imprisonment to return to Switzerland to reclaim his cottage as his family are beginning to starve.__NEWL__Grimseld is fined for fraud, and Reginald is given the money for his farm.__NEWL__Volume 2 begins in the year 1544.__NEWL__An old man arrives at the family's house at Lake Constance, claiming to be a Venetian called Francesco Zampieri, but his true identity remains a mystery.__NEWL__He is being pursued by the Inquisition.__NEWL__Zampieri reveals to Reginald the secret of immortality and the art of multiplying gold.__NEWL__Only one person is permitted to know these secrets at any one time.__NEWL__The secret of immortality is an elixir made from herbs that when consumed bring youth and vigour.__NEWL__It cures sickness, but cannot save anyone from injury.__NEWL__Reluctant to keep a secret from his wife, Reginald is forced to remain silent about the gift and Zampieri dies shortly afterwards.__NEWL__Francis I returns to France from his imprisonment in Spain, finding the country in a great upheaval, with Charles V and Henry VIII in the process of invading northern France.__NEWL__Unwilling to return to his simple domestic life, Reginald plans to repurchase the estate that he lost, but in order to make it seem like he has regained his wealth gradually and not in suspicious circumstances, he moves to the city of Constance and pretends that Zampieri had given him 3,000 crowns.__NEWL__Constance is in the process of becoming Protestant.__NEWL__Reginald is quickly seduced into spending a great deal of money and arouses the suspicion of his countryman, Gaspard de Coligny.__NEWL__Reginald's son, Charles, becomes aware of the shame that wealth with an inexplicable origin has brought and disowns his father and leaves.__NEWL__Marguerite is also suspicious and guesses that he has found the Philosopher's Stone.__NEWL__Reginald tells her not to reveal this and not to enquire further about it.__NEWL__She is ill, but as the elixir can only be drunk by an "adept", he cannot give it to her.__NEWL__The suspicions about Reginald's wealth grow to such a height that the magistrate has him arrested and questioned.__NEWL__He is asked about the disappearance of the stranger and about his new wealth, but refuses to cooperate.__NEWL__Monsieur Monluc, a Frenchman, arrives, and Reginald appeals to him for help.__NEWL__Monluc investigates the case, interviews Marguerite.__NEWL__Reginald tells him the honorable name of St. Leon which removes the necessity for an explanation and he does not provide a reason.__NEWL__Monluc refuses to help him further.__NEWL__Marguerite advises Reginald to escape from the prison.__NEWL__He attempts to bribe a turnkey, Hector, but he refuses to help because he is loyal to the keeper and he reveals this to the keeper.__NEWL__The keeper asks for a bribe.__NEWL__Reginald hands over a large sum but is led to a dungeon instead and chained to a wall.__NEWL__Hector is imprisoned because he is the only person who knows about the bribe.__NEWL__The keeper asks for more money, and Reginald is forced to trust him, and this time he is released provided he takes Hector with him in order to make the latter appear to be an accomplice.__NEWL__In volume 3, Reginald, his family, and Hector set out for Italy.__NEWL__One evening, while Hector and Reginald are taking an evening walk while the family are at an inn in the Alps, Reginald hears a man shrieking and is attacked by a large black dog.__NEWL__The dog takes him to a man who is wounded and dying.__NEWL__Reginald and Hector dress his wounds, and Hector runs back to the inn to get help.__NEWL__The man's name is Andrea Filosanto.__NEWL__He had been taking his mother's dower to her and was robbed.__NEWL__He dies, and the dog grieves for him.__NEWL__Reginald takes the dog, Charon, into his family.__NEWL__A few months later, the dog finds the assailant, who is apprehended, confesses to being one of the robbers, is tried, convicted, and executed.__NEWL__Reginald settles in Pisa, and is protected by the Filosanto family and the family of the woman Andrea was about to marry, the Carracciuoli, who are powerful in the Pisan territory.__NEWL__Reginald spends some time practicing alchemy in a grotto, employing Hector as an assistant.__NEWL__Hector tells his girlfriend about the experiments, and Reginald quickly gains the reputation of being a sorcerer.__NEWL__His girlfriend's other lover, Agostino, is jealous and seeks revenge.__NEWL__Reginald is shunned, and someone shoots at their house at night.__NEWL__The dog is killed, and Hector is attacked.__NEWL__The attack is motivated by the suspicions about magic and by Hector's being of African origin.__NEWL__Reginald addresses the mob in an attempt to vindicate himself, but they throw mud at him and accuse him of witchcraft.__NEWL__He leaves to consult with the Marchese Filosanto, and the rest of the family leave for Lucca, heading for Spain.__NEWL__They leave Hector in charge of their house in Pisa.__NEWL__When Reginald goes back to Pisa, he finds that the mob have burned his house down, that Hector has gone mad and has escaped his carers and has died defending the house.__NEWL__Hector was tortured by the mob, and it is clear that the crime is racially motivated.__NEWL__Marguerite has a miscarriage in Lucca.__NEWL__The family continue to Spain, and Marguerite dies in Barcelona.__NEWL__Distraught, the family continues to Madrid.__NEWL__Here, the daughters are looked after by Mariana, a former companion of their mother's.__NEWL__Reginald repurchases his family's French estate, and he gradually separates himself from his children, considering this to be a virtuous action.__NEWL__They are told to think and speak of him as if he were dead.__NEWL__The family still do not know the whereabouts of Charles.__NEWL__Reginald moves to Madrid and spends time studying natural philosophy and ethics.__NEWL__He is followed by two men, who are eventually revealed to be informers for the Inquisition.__NEWL__He is arrested and imprisoned for sorcery.__NEWL__Philip II returns to Spain after his marriage to Queen Mary, and he oversees an auto da Fé in Seville.__NEWL__Philip then travels to Valladolid for another auto da Fé, at which Reginald is to be burned alive.__NEWL__The elixir of life cannot protect him from this punishment.__NEWL__While processing to Valladolid from Madrid, a horse is frightened and kicks, and in the confusion, Reginald escapes and breaks into the house of a Jewish convert to Christianity, Mordecai.__NEWL__Just as he had appealed to the turnkey as a member of an oppressed minority, so Reginald appeals to Mordecai to help him escape the Inquisition.__NEWL__Mordecai helps him change his clothes and fetches the herbs needed for the elixir of immortality.__NEWL__Reginald now has visibly aged such that he looks like a man of eighty.__NEWL__He drinks the elixir and becomes as young and healthy as he was on his wedding day.__NEWL__He leaves without Mordecai's knowledge.__NEWL__During his escape, Reginald accidentally witnesses the auto da fé and is horrified.__NEWL__At the beginning of volume 4, Reginald visits his daughters disguised as an Armenian merchant.__NEWL__He has now been away from them for twelve years.__NEWL__Louisa is 28, Marguerite (named after her mother) is 24, and Julia died four years previously after her fiancé had been imprisoned by his father for intending to marry her.__NEWL__Reginald pretends to have known their father and informs them of his own death.__NEWL__He hopes that the death certificate that he gives them will remove the dishonour from his family.__NEWL__Reginald leaves for Hungary and takes a house in Buda, intending to use his money to revitalize the economy after the devastation of a long war.__NEWL__He gives charity to poor people, becomes a corn-dealer and an architect, and takes a new name: "the sieur de Chatillon" (p. 366).__NEWL__Problems occur, however, when demand for corn becomes too great and the people suspect him of manipulating the market for personal gain.__NEWL__Reginald presents himself to the Turkish Pasha of Buda, Muzaffer Bey.__NEWL__But Bey blames him for causing civil unrest and investigates the unknown origins of Reginald's wealth.__NEWL__Reginald is forced to bribe him.__NEWL__He then meets Bethlem Gabor, a misanthropic arms dealer, and a native of Hungary, whose wife and children have been murdered.__NEWL__Like Reginald, Bethlem spends a great deal of time wandering, and they share their sorrows and become friends.__NEWL__The civil unrest eases as the crops that Reginald has ordered to be sown are ripening and are being successfully protected by soldiers.__NEWL__Three months have passed since Reginald first became acquainted with Bethlem.__NEWL__After expecting to meet him while travelling, Reginald is captured by Austro-Hungarian freebooters.__NEWL__He escapes and finds Bethlem, but without warning, Bethlem takes him to one of his castles and puts him in the dungeon.__NEWL__Reginald is left without food for thirty-six hours, and then he is given food and chained to a wall.__NEWL__Bethlem gives as his reason for his hostility: that Reginald had helped an enemy of his, unknowingly, and that although he and Reginald had suffered the same loss of their families, Reginald had reacted to it by being kind to a great number of people and Bethlem had done the reverse.__NEWL__Bethlem feels shamed by this.__NEWL__Reginald tries to pay Bethlem to let him go, and requests a chest from his house.__NEWL__Bethlem opens the chest and discovers that it contains alchemical equipment.__NEWL__He demands gold, making it clear that he intends to keep Reginald locked up forever in order to supply it.__NEWL__In the dungeon Reginald dreams that he is rescued by a knight in armour, who turns into a female angel, and that they fly away together leaving the castle in flames.__NEWL__Something close to this vision comes true.__NEWL__Bethlem visits Reginald's cell to tell him that the castle is under siege, and that he is experiencing remorse for keeping him captive.__NEWL__Bethlem gives Reginald the means to escape, making him promise not to do so for twenty-four hours.__NEWL__Reginald waits six hours, justifying his inability to keep his promise with the argument that it was extorted under duress.__NEWL__He spends two hours trying to get out of the caverns, but finds that the aids he left on the walls on his way in are no longer helpful.__NEWL__He hears a loud shout and is startled, and concludes that he is near the outside.__NEWL__But a large amount of smoke convinces him to wait before he attempts to leave and he returns to the dungeons risking suffocation.__NEWL__He hides in a different cell from the one to which he was confined in case Bethlem returns.__NEWL__Eventually, Reginald leaves the castle in ruins and approaches some soldiers.__NEWL__He immediately recognizes his son Charles, who has changed his surname to de Damville.__NEWL__Charles is now thirty-two.__NEWL__Ruminating over what has happened, Reginald cannot account for Bethlem's hostile actions or his remorse and he forgives him.__NEWL__Charles does not recognize his father, who appears to be twenty-two, even though the other soldiers notice their similarity.__NEWL__Intending not to disgrace his son, Reginald adopts the name Henry d'Aubigny.__NEWL__Charles and Reginald quickly become friends, and Charles reveals his history.__NEWL__He is fighting the Turks, and prefers not to fight in the wars between Protestants and Catholics.__NEWL__He is also in search of Chatillon because of his known friendship with Bethlem Gabor.__NEWL__Reginald does not reveal that he is Chatillon.__NEWL__Charles recounts that he fought with General Castaldo in the battle of Muhlberg in 1547, whom he served for seven years.__NEWL__He recalls the siege of Erlau (Eger, Hungary) and notes the bravery of the women of the city, and the siege of Ziget (Sisak in Croatia).__NEWL__Ziget was governed by Horvati, a Christian, and was besieged by the Turkish Pasha of Buda.__NEWL__The Pasha lost the siege and died of grief and mortification.__NEWL__While Charles sympathizes a great deal with his son and is proud of his achievements, he regards his role as a Christian warrior as religious fanaticism.__NEWL__Charles has fallen in love with Pandora, the niece of the palatine of Hungary, Nadasti, whom he first met when she was fourteen.__NEWL__Pandora's father died in the siege of Ziget, leaving her a poor orphan and Nadasti prefers Charles to marry one of his own daughters.__NEWL__Charles realizes that he cannot support a wife on his pay, and he needs the uncle's consent.__NEWL__Reginald sees Pandora and is struck by her beauty, good sense and naturalness.__NEWL__He is determined to use his wealth to enable them to marry, but needs to find a way to make it seem appropriate.__NEWL__Reginald discovers that Pandora's mother had been a Venetian, and that her mother's uncle sailed with the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro to conquer Peru.__NEWL__Her uncle having died during the mission, he did not receive a portion of the treasure.__NEWL__Pandora being his sole surviving relative would have inherited this treasure.__NEWL__Reginald finds, by chance, a man who had sailed on the same ship, Benedetto Cabriera, who has lost all of his money due to a series of calamities.__NEWL__Reginald pays him to pretend that Pandora's uncle had received his share, and that it had been bequeathed to her.__NEWL__While waiting for Benedetto to appear with the money in Hungary, Reginald learns that Charles has rejected Pandora because he thinks, incorrectly, that she is in love with Reginald and is an ‘unfeeling coquette’.__NEWL__Pandora explains to Reginald that they must no longer see each other, and is interrupted by Charles's arrival, faints and is caught by Reginald increasing Charles's suspicions.__NEWL__Charles remonstrates with them both and leaves them speechless.__NEWL__Reginald yearns to tell his son the truth about his identity and learns his greatest lesson about solitude: more than a dungeon, solitude is alienation from your child.__NEWL__Reginald leaves for Presburg and meets Charles, who is on his way to accompany Mary, Queen of Scots back to her native land.__NEWL__Charles confronts his father with a letter from Andrew, Count of Bathori, accusing Reginald of being Chatillon and an alchemist.__NEWL__He tells Reginald that he lost his father to alchemy and challenges Reginald to a duel.__NEWL__Reginald agrees, but leaves Presburg before the appointed time.__NEWL__Charles and Pandora are reconciled, and the remainder of Reginald's story is devoted to tracing the development of Charles's virtues and to expressing his own regret at realizing the importance of his family too late.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6020831	Indian Killer	1996-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5083	Seattle	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16972562	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16972562	A serial killer terrorizes Seattle, hunting and scalping white men.__NEWL__The crimes of the so-called 'Indian Killer' triggers a wave of violence and racial hatred against the city’s Native American population.__NEWL__John Smith, born Indian and raised by whites, desperately yearns for his lost heritage and seeks his elusive true identity; he also battles the severe mental illness that has plagued him since childhood.__NEWL__He meets Marie, an Indian activist outraged by people like Jack Wilson, a mystery writer who claims to be part Indian.__NEWL__As bigoted radio personality Truck Schultz incites whites to seek revenge, tensions mount and Smith fights to slake the anger that engulfs him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7090881	On	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16973869	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973869	The story follows the life of an adolescent named Tighe (pronounced, roughly, Tig-Hee).__NEWL__Tighe's village is built on the ledges and crags of an enormous cliff-face, called the Wall or the World-wall.__NEWL__Every morning, the sun rises from the bottom of the wall, and every evening it sets at the top.__NEWL__The first part of the novel introduces Tighe and the hardness of life in his village, the abuse Tighe receives from his family members, and the unusual (to us) state of his world.__NEWL__Partway through this part of the book, Tighe's parents mysteriously disappear, and his grandfather takes care of him.__NEWL__Tighe concludes that his parents must have fallen off the wall.__NEWL__Eventually Tighe himself falls off, falls over 10 miles, and lands in the midst of an army preparing for war.__NEWL__He survives.__NEWL__While recovering from his injuries, he learns the local language, and that the army will soon attack the Otre, a nearby civilisation.__NEWL__Tighe is drafted into the army, but the campaign goes badly, and Tighe's entire platoon is lost.__NEWL__Tighe himself is captured by the Otre and sold as a slave.__NEWL__During the battle, he sees a silvery flying object that he takes as an enemy balloon, and that calls his name.__NEWL__However, he is forced to run from Otre troops before he can react.__NEWL__The slave trader who buys Tighe takes him on a long journey across the wall, intending to sell him in a large city.__NEWL__Before arriving at the city, they again encounter the silvery flying object.__NEWL__The pilot is a man who speaks Tighe's native language, and looks very like his grandfather.__NEWL__He kills the slave trader and takes Tighe on board his craft.__NEWL__Tighe's mother is on board, but in a nonresponsive mental state.__NEWL__The pilot, who Tighe calls Wizard, is in control of technology that is highly advanced by our standard, almost incomprehensibly so for Tighe.__NEWL__He tries to explain that gravity once pointed towards the centre of the Earth, but catastrophically changed due to mankind's over-dependence on Zero Point Energy as an energy source.__NEWL__He explains that he had implanted machinery in Tighe's and his mother's brain when they were young, but he avoids Tighe's questions about his identity, or where Tighe's father is.__NEWL__Tighe grows to mistrust the Wizard, and after his mother dies, he shoots the Wizard in the eye with a firearm.__NEWL__This only blinds and irritates the Wizard, but it gives Tighe the opportunity to escape from the Wizard's craft.__NEWL__The environment outside the craft is inhospitable, but Tighe is rescued by others with similar technology to the Wizard's.__NEWL__They question him, and release him.__NEWL__The last two chapters describe how Tighe makes his way slowly back in the direction of his village.__NEWL__The story ends with Tighe rounding a corner on a shelf, and suddenly re-encountering the Wizard, whose plans for Tighe have apparently not changed.__NEWL__According to the author's website, this ending received some criticism, but seemed to the author to be the only possible way the story could end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17114037	Murder in Millennium VI	1951-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17067988	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17067988	Set 6,000 years in the future, the novel concerns the murder of the head of a matriarchal society.__NEWL__Victor Mitchel and his parents and sister struggle to replace her and find the killer before the society collapses.__NEWL__The novel is unique in that anything which would have been known to the people of its time was not explained.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7572460	Space Platform	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17068483	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17068483	America seeks to construct a Space Platform (station) to be deployed into medium Earth orbit.__NEWL__It will provide a waystation for deeper exploration of space, prevent "them" from continuing to threaten freedom around the world via atomic war by providing both monitoring and near-space military supremacy to the USA, and serve humanity by providing a facility to conduct "nuclear experiments" too dangerous to perform on Earth.__NEWL__The construction project is subject to a relentless campaign of sabotage by its enemies (obviously the Communists, though they are never explicitly named as such).__NEWL__The forms of sabotage include murder, blackmail, fuel tampering, missile attacks on flights, bombings of ground supply routes, and even radiological terrorism.__NEWL__Within this broader context, the novel centers on Joe Kenmore, a master machinist whose father's company is tasked with building the pilot gyroscopes which will be responsible for attitude control of the Platform.__NEWL__It opens with Joe being tasked by Kenmore Machine Tool to accompany the ultra-precision mechanism to its destination and oversee its installation.__NEWL__Following the attack upon their flight which damages the gyros, it continues with the work of Joe and his friends to salvage the project while battling relentless saboteur attacks.__NEWL__They discover that the damaged gyros can be rebalanced in their damaged state and construction reaches completion.__NEWL__Upon completion, a last-ditch attack is made against the Platform on the ground by saboteurs.__NEWL__This is followed by a long-range missile tipped with a nuclear warhead, which is successfully intercepted.__NEWL__"A certain block of associated countries" threaten to walk out on the UN.__NEWL__The launch suddenly becomes do-or-die, as if it is not in place to prevent atomic war it is about to incite one.__NEWL__Along the way, naturally Joe meets the beautiful and brilliant daughter of the Major commanding the construction project, and they fall in love.__NEWL__At the end, Leinster breaks the 4th wall and informs the reader that he has attempted to describe a realistic scenario whereby a space station would be placed into orbit.__NEWL__He indicates the advantage of launch sites near to the equator, and describes a multi-stage launch process which begins with the use of numerous small jet-powered craft ("pushpots") to lift the station and begin its flight, JATOs aboard the pushpots to accelerate it to several thousand MPH, and finally solid fuel rockets which minimize weight by burning away their tubes as the propellant combusts.__NEWL__The descriptions of the Platform's heavy (steel) construction are unrealistic, given that weight is recognized as crucial.__NEWL__Suggesting that launchers will combust Beryllium in Fluorine to maximize energy per unit of fuel is not incorrect as far as energy release, but downplays spectacular corrosion and toxicity problem.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7572535	Space Tug	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17068763	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17068763	The novel concerns the problems of the running of a space station.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5135745	Cloudesley	17069117	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17069117	William Meadows, the son of the curate of Epworth in North Lincolnshire, is sent to sea as a boy after his father dies.__NEWL__He finds himself ill-suited to a nautical life and leaves the ship at Archangel in Russia in the final years of the reign of Peter the Great (the 1720s).__NEWL__He falls foul of John Ernest Biren, the principal minister of Empress Anna, who ruled Russia from 1730 to 1740 and returns to England.__NEWL__His sister and brother-in-law rent a farm from.__NEWL__Earl Danvers (Richard Herbert) of Axholme.__NEWL__Lord Danvers, who has seen some of William's correspondence with his sister from his time in Russia, invites him to Millwood Park; he is fifty, a widower with one remaining son, Lord Bardsley who is 11.__NEWL__Lord Danvers, a solitary man with a tendency to melancholy, gives William the job of secretary and reveals his extraordinary history.__NEWL__Richard dislikes his status and financial prospects as a younger son whose brother, Arthur, will inherit the earldom from their cousin, Robert.__NEWL__When Arthur unexpectedly dies in a duel in Austria and his wife, Irene, dies shortly after giving birth, Richard hides the identity of his infant nephew.__NEWL__Arthur's servant, Cloudesley, brings up the boy in Italy and marries the servant of the boy's mother, Eudocia.__NEWL__They call him Julian Cloudesley.__NEWL__Richard returns to England and marries Selina and they have four children.__NEWL__All but one of them die at the age of eleven, and Selina dies.__NEWL__Cloudesley tries to convince Richard that he should reveal his secret and restore the boy to his position and entitlements, but Richard refuses.__NEWL__Eudocia dies, and Cloudesley goes to Britain to confront Richard, but when he is away Cloudesley's friend, Borromeo, with whom he has left the 18-year-old Julian, writes to say that Julian has gone missing.__NEWL__Julian found it difficult to live with Borromeo, a blue beard character, and left to join his friends in the countryside whom he does not know belong to a group of bandits.__NEWL__Cloudesley is shot by one of the bandits, Francesco, and his secret about Julian's birth is left with his misanthropic friend, Borromeo.__NEWL__Robert dies, making Richard Baron Alton and Earl Danvers.__NEWL__Having formed a close bond with the chief bandit, St. Elmo, Julian returns to them.__NEWL__Borromeo writers to Lord Danvers to tell him of Cloudesley's death and of Julian's disappearance.__NEWL__Danvers sends Meadows to find Julian, who is now 21.__NEWL__Julian is about to be executed with the rest of the bandits.__NEWL__Meadows asks the consul-general to intervene, but he is only prevailed upon to do so when Lord Danvers arrives to confess his guilt.__NEWL__Danvers is dangerously ill and has recently lost his last child.__NEWL__St. Elmo, Francesco, and the rest of the gang are executed and Julian is released.__NEWL__Lord Danvers is buried according to his wishes in an unmarked grave in Naples.__NEWL__Witnesses are produced in England to corroborate the truth of Julian's birth for the English courts, and Meadows writes to Borromeo to inform him of what has happened.__NEWL__Borromeo learns that “The true key of the universe is love” (289).__NEWL__He renounces his misanthropy and proclaims that the most important human trait is “disinterested affection” (289).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8000545	Wild Blood	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z	16914694	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16914694	The (very short) first chapter of this book takes place in Dublin, however the majority of the book is set in County Clare, in Western Ireland.__NEWL__The story begins a few days before Tess' fifteenth birthday.__NEWL__Tess is sent to stay with her cousins while her parents are on holiday, but unfortunately finds that her fifteenth birthday will fall while she is still away from home.__NEWL__As she struggles with the choice of what permanent form to take when she loses her powers; a choice in which a mysterious and chilling force soon takes an interest.__NEWL__At her cousins' farm, Tess discovers that the house is infested with rats, which enrages her (easily angered) uncle Maurice, who is planning to sell the nearby wood for development.__NEWL__Tess' cousin Orla protests, but when she mentions 'Uncle Declan', Maurice becomes furious, and terrifies them all into silence.__NEWL__The next morning, Orla claims that she is going to see their uncle Declan, but Tess declines the offer to join her.__NEWL__Kevin (who has come to help Tess through her birthday) poses as an exterminator, and Maurice agrees to pay him £100 to get rid of the rats.__NEWL__Kevin sets about his work, playing a flute and pretending to lure the rats in a manner similar to that of the Pied Piper; in fact he is using his knowledge of the rats' telepathic language to send out a sort of evacuation order.__NEWL__Unfortunately, Maurice finds the corpse of a rat a few days later and takes this as proof that Kevin did not complete his contract.__NEWL__He therefore decides not to pay Kevin, and orders the youth to leave.__NEWL__While Maurice is showing a property developer around the woods, Tess explores the area with her cousins.__NEWL__She is suddenly dazzled by a flash of light, and when she recovers the three children have disappeared.__NEWL__Maurice and the developer arrive moments later, and they all see Kevin standing nearby, seemingly implicating him as a kidnapper.__NEWL__Maurice commands his wife not to call the police, after which he sets out to find the children.__NEWL__Tess asks her aunt Deirdre about Declan, and is shocked to learn that he is Maurice's long-dead twin brother.__NEWL__When Tess finds Kevin, he is adamant that he has not been anywhere near the woods since Maurice ordered him to leave.__NEWL__Tess explains the situation, and he informs her of his belief that an ancient, magical presence may be abroad in the woods, one which even they, with their experience of the supernatural world, have never imagined.__NEWL__In the form of a rat, Tess summons the rats of the area to see if they know anything of her cousins' disappearance.__NEWL__One white rat (identifying herself as "Cat Friend") transmits an image of four pairs of feet, which Tess recognises as Colm's, Orla's, Brian's and, unfortunately, Kevin's.__NEWL__Returning to the farm, Tess again asks about Uncle Declan, and Deirdre reveals that twenty years previously, Maurice's brother Declan disappeared near where the children went missing.__NEWL__The loss of his twin traumatised Maurice, and he spent days searching for Declan in the woods.__NEWL__Tess tracks down Cat Friend, but is surprised when the rat provides her with an image of her cousins and Kevin walking straight through the face of a crag.__NEWL__At Cat Friend's suggestion, Tess becomes a rat and holds onto Cat Friend's tail, allowing Cat Friend to pull her through the rock-face.__NEWL__Inside, Tess finds an enormous fairy sidhe, within which she finds her missing cousins along with Kevin and another boy.__NEWL__Orla introduces the boy as Uncle Declan, and Kevin explains to Tess that the person she saw kidnapping her cousins was in fact Declan, who used a glamour to disguise himself.__NEWL__Declan tells Tess that he and Maurice were both Switchers in their younger days, and that on their fifteenth birthday they agreed to become members of the Tuatha Dé Danaan so that they could retain their powers; however, at the last moment, Maurice broke his promise and remained human.__NEWL__Ever since then, Declan has resented his brother for abandoning him, and has harassed him in various forms.__NEWL__Declan goes on to explain that all Switchers are descended from the Tuatha de Danaan, which is why they possess the ability to change their forms.__NEWL__When Declan states that his kind are forced to return to Tír Na nÓg when their homes are destroyed, Tess realises that Maurice had intended to sell the land in the hope that Declan would be banished from his life forever, and that Declan is therefore holding Maurice's children hostage.__NEWL__However, Orla speaks up, claiming that her father loves Declan, and moved by her words, Declan agrees to speak to his brother.__NEWL__They find each other in the woods, and reveal the years-old sorrow borne by each at the loss of the other, Maurice explaining that he didn't abandon Declan, but simply hesitated when he considered what their disappearance after their transformation would do to their parents, the hesitation causing him to pause just long enough for him to miss his chance to transform.__NEWL__The rift between them is healed, and Declan agrees to let the children go, as long as Maurice promises not to sell the land, a condition to which Maurice happily agrees.__NEWL__Once the children are safely with their father, Declan offers to show Tess the possibilities which face her if she chooses to become like him.__NEWL__She agrees, but promises Kevin that she will return to speak to him before her time is up.__NEWL__With Declan, Tess discovers the true extent of her powers and her heritage: She learns how to Switch other objects, how to control the weather, and how to ride the wind, as well as dancing with her immortal ancestors on Ben Bulben.__NEWL__With the moment of her fifteenth birthday only a few minutes away, Tess rides the wind back to where Kevin waits, informing him of her choice to remain a fairy.__NEWL__However, having spent the past few hours considering everything, Kevin insists that this is the wrong choice, and that she should remain human.__NEWL__He reminds her of one of Declan's prior statements about fairies adapting to human perceptions, and tells her that becoming like Declan may make her nothing more than "a figment of someone else's imagination".__NEWL__Furthermore, he claims that with their knowledge of the animal world, he and Tess can fight for the world's animals, and protect them from the ever-more-dangerous human race.__NEWL__Tess agrees, and chooses to live out a mortal life as a human.__NEWL__Despite Declan's original fury at this rejection, he accepts Tess' choice.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7751341	The Mightiest Machine	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16862416	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16862416	The story is the first to feature Campbell's hero Aarn Munro.__NEWL__This space opera novel concerns the harnessing of energy from the sun and encounters with aliens who turn out not to be truly alien at all.__NEWL__It also touches on the legends of ancient civilizations on earth, Mu in this case, and what may have happened to them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5449360	Final Blackout	1948-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16864642	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16864642	A lieutenant (known in the book only as "The Lieutenant") becomes dictator of England after a world war.__NEWL__The Lieutenant leads a ragtag army fighting for survival in a Europe ravaged by 30 years of atomic, biological and conventional warfare.__NEWL__As a result of the most recent war, a form of biological warfare called soldier’s sickness has ravaged England, and the U.S. was devastated by nuclear war.__NEWL__At the start of the novel, a quarantine placed on England due to the soldier's sickness prevents The Lieutenant from returning to England from his encampment in France.__NEWL__The Lieutenant commands the Fourth Brigade, which is composed of one hundred and sixty-eight soldiers from multiple nations, leading them throughout France in search of food, supplies, arms and ammunition.__NEWL__Soon, Captain Malcolm informs The Lieutenant that all field officers are being recalled to General Headquarters (GHQ) with their brigades to report to General Victor, the commanding officer at GHQ.__NEWL__Upon the brigade's arrival at GHQ, The Lieutenant is informed by General Victor and his adjutant Colonel Smythe that he is to be reassigned and will be stripped of his command.__NEWL__He is confined to his quarters and is told his entire brigade will be broken apart and assimilated into another brigade.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in the barracks at G.H.Q., the Fourth Brigade learns of crucial news through back channels: the existence of a vaccine for the soldier's sickness, and General Victor's plans for their brigade.__NEWL__The men decide to rebel, and break through the defenses of the barracks, free The Lieutenant and kill Captain Malcolm.__NEWL__The Fourth Brigade successfully escapes G.H.Q. in France and begins to make their way to London, along with other soldiers who are dissatisfied with General Victor's command.__NEWL__A battle ensues between General Victor's men and The Lieutenant's troops.__NEWL__The Lieutenant and his expanded Fourth Brigade eventually successfully take control of London and subsequently all of England and Wales.__NEWL__The Lieutenant's government runs smoothly for years, until the battleship USS New York arrives from the U.S. carrying two United States Senators and Captain Johnson, captain of the New York and commander of the U.S. fleet.__NEWL__Under threat from the U.S. battleship, The Lieutenant negotiates terms to transfer power to the Senators' associates – General Victor and Colonel Smythe.__NEWL__If anything happens to General Victor and Colonel Smythe, the country would be controlled by its officer corps, chaired by the Lieutenant's confidant, Swinburne.__NEWL__In addition, The Lieutenant requests that immigration of Americans to England be kept to no more than 100,000 per month, and demands that a favorable price be set for the purchase of land from their English owners.__NEWL__After these terms are established, The Lieutenant opens fire on General Victor and his men and a battle ensues.__NEWL__General Victor, Colonel Smythe, The Lieutenant, and several of The Lieutenant's men are killed.__NEWL__Years later The Lieutenant's men still control England, and a flag flies honoring his memory.__NEWL__A memorial plaque at Byward Gate on Tower Hill reads: "When that command remains, no matter what happens to its officer, he has not failed."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7747958	The Loch	2005-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16865147	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16865147	This synopsis is told in chronological order, as opposed to the order events happen in the novel.__NEWL__Shortly after the death of William Wallace, a group of Knight Templars bring his heart to Loch Ness with the intent to hide it in an underground cavern.__NEWL__They are aware that monsters use the cavern as a path to the ocean, so they deliberately block their path so they can serve as guardians.__NEWL__Each year the Knights will raise and lower a gate that allows several adult monsters to enter but not leave.__NEWL__Believing the monsters are the spawn of Satan and using them makes them complicit, the Knights rename themselves the Black Knights.__NEWL__In the resulting chaos the monsters kill all but one of them, Wallace's cousin and protagonist Zachary Wallace's ancestor, who swears to protect the relic.__NEWL__ Hundreds of years later Scottish-American marine biologist Zachary Wallace has found his career ended and his name disgraced after a disastrous expedition into the Sargasso Sea results in the loss of an expensive submersible and its pilot.__NEWL__The submersible had been attacked by an unseen creature Zachary identifies as the source of the mysterious phenomenon "The Bloop".__NEWL__He is able to escape the creature, but drowns in the process.__NEWL__He is revived, but suffers severe PTSD and night terrors, drinking heavily to keep them at bay.__NEWL__His self-destruction is interrupted when he learns that his father Angus is on trial for murder back in Scotland and needs his help.__NEWL__He is being accused of murdering wealthy land developer Johnny Cialino over debts owed from Angus selling Cialino the Wallace family land.__NEWL__A suspicious Zachary complies and when back in Scotland, reunites with his childhood friend True MacDonald and his sister Brandy, with whom Zachary is immediately smitten.__NEWL__During the trial Angus claims that Cialino was attacked by the Loch Ness Monster after falling into the Loch Ness.__NEWL__He and his lawyer, Angus's son and Zachary's half-brother Maxie, also claim that Zachary was attacked seventeen years ago by the monster, but survived after he was pulled from the water by True's father, Albin "Crabbit" MacDonald.__NEWL__Zachary is forced to take the stand, where he is questioned about not only the attack but a rejected dissertation he had written about the possibility of the Loch Ness Monster's existence.__NEWL__He vehemently denies that the attack was anything other than a submerged log resurfacing from the bottom of the loch and adds that he had only gone out to the loch due to Angus ditching him to go sleep with a teenager.__NEWL__ Increased attacks on visitors eventually forces Zachary to realize that although the legends surrounding "Nessie" are just folklore, a monster does truly exist and that Angus's claim about his childhood was true.__NEWL__To find out the full truth he investigates the loch, a process hampered by the Black Knights order, one of whom is Albin.__NEWL__The town council hires Zachary's former boss David, who had fired him while he was still in hospital, to lead teams of monster hunters in an expedition to find and capture Nessie.__NEWL__David is quick to malign Zachary in a press conference, infuriating Zachary, particularly when he hires Brandy to serve as captain for her looks and because he wants to sleep with her.__NEWL__For her part, Brandy sees this as an opportunity to punish Zachary for not being honest and open with her about his phobias and feelings, only entertaining David's advances when she knows Zachary is around.__NEWL__Through his investigations Zachary learns that the monster's violent behaviors were caused by construction near its lair as well as oil pollution that has been seeping into Loch Ness.__NEWL__It also becomes clear that previous hunts for the monster were futile due to the use of active sonar, which aggravates it and sends it deep underwater.__NEWL__Zachary informs David that he must use passive sonar to find the monster in exchange for access to his sonar arrays.__NEWL__David successfully locates the monster and tries to trap it in Urquhart Bay, only for this to fail and cost him his life.__NEWL__The disaster does, however, result in Brandy and Zachary reconciling and becoming a couple.__NEWL__That same night Zachary puts the final pieces of the puzzle together and realizes that Nessie is a distant cousin and predecessor to the Anguilla eel.__NEWL__Talks with members of the Black Knight also informs him of the gate and its destruction due to dynamite blasting for bridge construction many years ago.__NEWL__Several monsters remained, but eventually they died off until only Nessie was left.__NEWL__This causes Zachary to realize that the monsters were migrating to the Sargasso Sea and that the attack on his expedition was caused by other monsters that remained outside of the Loch.__NEWL__ Zachary decides that he must clear the path and free Nessie, particularly when the trial ends with Angus found guilty, as this would help provide the needed information to keep his father safe from a possible death penalty.__NEWL__He convinces True to retrieve a deep sea diving suit, which Zachary uses to travel to the monster's lair.__NEWL__On the way he is attacked by Nessie and dragged into the lair, which is filled with large and aggressive eels.__NEWL__It is also the place where the oil is leaking into the loch.__NEWL__Zachary is able to hold them off using his lamps and by setting the oil on fire.__NEWL__He clears the blockage keeping the tunnel closed, but is trapped underwater in the process.__NEWL__He almost dies from drowning again, but is saved by his father (who escaped from prison to rescue him) and Albin.__NEWL__The three men are then forced to fight Nessie, as the monster is too vicious and aggressive to leave alive.__NEWL__Just as death seems certain Zachary finds his ancestor's sword and uses it to slay the Loch Ness Monster.__NEWL__The three men make their way to the surface and reunite with Brandy and True.__NEWL__Before leaving, however, Zachary brings along the body of Cialino, in order to show proof that Angus was innocent.__NEWL__ Zachary spends the next few days in hospital while Albin reconnects with his children, with whom he had been somewhat estranged.__NEWL__During his stay he is visited by his father, who reveals that he had wanted the monster dead himself for several reasons: the monster had killed his father while they were handling the gate and because it had also gone after Zachary.__NEWL__Angus had brought Zachary to Scotland and deliberately provoked him in order to force his son to face his demons.__NEWL__He then gives Zachary a document giving him half of the family land, which was only being leased to Cialino to build a resort.__NEWL__Once out of the hospital Zachary is given access to underground tunnels used by the Black Knights, who induct him into the Knights Templar.__NEWL__Afterwards Zachary informs Angus that he had found evidence that Cialino's death was not accidental and that Angus had conditioned the monster to attack under specific conditions.__NEWL__Furthermore, Angus was aware that Cialino was abusing his wife and was also responsible for the oil leak, giving him ample reason to want the man dead.__NEWL__Angus does not give Zachary an answer and instead winks before driving off with Cialino's widow.__NEWL__ The novel ends with Zachary and Brandy, now married, leading a successful investigation to find the monsters in the Sargasso Sea.__NEWL__His night terrors have not resurfaced and the two are expecting a child.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775943	The World Below	1929-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17042961	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17042961	The novel concerns a man who travels 500,000 years into the future with the aid of a time machine.__NEWL__There he encounters a race of intelligent furry beings, the Amphibians.__NEWL__With their help he explores the planet and is eventually captured by the Dwellers, super-intelligent beings who direct the destinies of the planet.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6665285	Lock and Key	2008-04-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17106013	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17106013	After her drug and alcohol addicted mother abandons her, child services forces 17-year-old Ruby Cooper to move in with her sister, Cora, who had left for college when Ruby was young.__NEWL__Ruby is upset about this arrangement and continues to wear the key to her old home on a chain around her neck.__NEWL__After learning she will be transferring to a new high school, Ruby attempts to run away but is found out.__NEWL__Nate Cross, Jamie and Cora's next-door neighbor, covers for her.__NEWL__Over the span of the story, Ruby slowly becomes closer to Nate.__NEWL__ As Ruby adjusts to her new life, she learns Cora had not been avoiding her; in fact, Cora had been trying to rescue Ruby from their mother but had always been stopped.__NEWL__Ruby feels overwhelmed with all this, so she skips school to take alcohol and drugs, and later finds herself in Nate's car when he picks her up.__NEWL__Ruby comes home to a furious Jamie, who accuses her for being ungrateful to him and her sister.__NEWL__Having seen resemblances between herself and her mother that night, Ruby becomes determined to change her ways.__NEWL__One of Nate's clients, a high-strung woman named Harriet, offers Ruby a job at her jewelry store in the mall.__NEWL__Harriet's business booms after a line of key-shaped pendants, inspired by Ruby's necklace, becomes an instant hit.__NEWL__Harriet struggles with a conflict of her own: Because of her independence, she is reluctant to form a relationship with Reggie, who owns the kiosk next to her.__NEWL__Throughout the story Ruby becomes suspicious about Nate's father, and eventually learns that he abuses Nate.__NEWL__Nate is defensive about this, and that leads to them fighting and breaking up.__NEWL__One day, Cora and Jamie inform Ruby that the police had found her mother unconscious in a hotel room and was sent to a rehabilitation center.__NEWL__Later, Ruby finds out that Nate has run away, but finds him in an apartment room that she and Nate had visited while she was tagging along with him on his job.__NEWL__Ruby drives Nate to the airport when he decides to leave his father to live with his mother.__NEWL__After a sudden realization, she takes the key to the yellow house off its chain, replaces it with the key to Cora and Jamie's house, and hands the necklace to Nate.__NEWL__At the end of the school year, Ruby gives her English report on the meaning of family.__NEWL__For evidence, she shows two pictures, both of family.__NEWL__The first was of Jamie's huge family, while the second was taken at Ruby's eighteenth birthday party.__NEWL__After trying for months, Cora learns she is finally pregnant, and Ruby is accepted to the same university as Nate.__NEWL__She wants to write a letter to her mother, but not knowing what to say, simply mails a copy of her acceptance letter.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, she stands in the backyard, and as Cora and Jamie are calling for her to leave for her graduation, she takes out the old key to the yellow house from the pocket of her robe and drops it into the koi pond.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7727997	The Creator	1946-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17107438	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17107438	The novelette suggests that our universe was not created by God.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7769331	The Time Stream	1946-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16857366	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16857366	The novel concerns time travel and links the world Eos at the beginning of the universe with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1088001	Chronicle in Stone	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q222	Albania	17095632	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17095632	Each chapter is followed by an alternate chapter, a short "Fragment of a Chronicle" written by the town's official chronicler.__NEWL__The regular chapters are written in the first person, in the voice of a child, an alter ego of the young Kadare.__NEWL__He is fascinated with words, and reads Macbeth, as Kadare himself did when he was eleven.__NEWL__He applies human drama, imagining blood and crime everywhere.__NEWL__In Kadare's home town, ravaged by history, we see characters walking down the street with severed heads under their arms; the Italian fascists hang several young Albanian rebels, the Greek occupants kill "enemies" chosen according to the whims of their spies, and the Germans indulge in the killing of hundred-year-old women.__NEWL__Toward the end of the novel, the absurdity of the political situation culminates in a whirlwind-like scenario, in which within two weeks or so, the town changes hands several times: from the Italians to the Greeks, back to the Italians, back to the Greeks, the Italians, the Greeks, until finally no one is in control.__NEWL__Each time the Italians come, they bring along two groups of women, one of nuns and one of prostitutes.__NEWL__Each time the town changes hands, another proclamation by another garrison commander is posted and another flag is raised.__NEWL__Each time another flag is raised, the Albanian Gjergj Pula changes his name to Giorgio (when the Italians come), to Yiorgos (for the Greeks) and to Jürgen Pulen with the arrival of the Germans, a name he never gets a chance to use because the Germans kill him as soon as they enter the town, nor does he get to use "Yogura," which he prepared in case of a Japanese invasion.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7797537	Three Hundred Years Hence	1836-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16955957	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16955957	The novel concerns a hero who falls into a deep sleep and awakens in the Utopian states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7261793	Pushing the Bear	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17025398	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17025398	Pushing the Bear tells the story of Cherokee removal in the Trail of Tears.__NEWL__Diane Glancy weaves the story together through the voices of a variety of characters, the majority of whom are Cherokee Indians, but also through historical documents, missionaries and the soldiers who were responsible for guiding the Cherokee along the trail.__NEWL__Glancy describes the horror and tribulations close to thirteen thousand Cherokee Indians faced from the months of September 1838 to February 1839.__NEWL__Maritole, a mother, wife, daughter and aunt, is the main voice in the novel.__NEWL__Her character reveals the thoughts of the women, the relationship between soldiers and those walking the trail, and the losses, both emotionally and physically, that the people suffered.__NEWL__Through the plethora of voices, Glancy is presents the knowledge of Indian Removal, with the perspectives of those who walked, suffered and died along the trail.__NEWL__After nine hundred miles of trudging through mountains, snow and water, the bitterness and pain experienced by the Cherokee is combined with their sense of helplessness and their sorrow over losing their connection with their land, their livelihood, their traditional gender roles, and their family.__NEWL__The novel travels chronologically through each month and location along the Trail of Tears.__NEWL__Glancy taps into an emotional and horrific, but historically accurate account of what many now refer to as Indian genocide.__NEWL__In an interview with Jennifer Andrews for the American Indian Quarterly, Glancy tells Andrews that "the land had to give me permission to write.__NEWL__The ancestors had to give permission to write, too.__NEWL__For instance, I started off Pushing the Bear with one voice, and it wasn't enough.__NEWL__I had to go back and add her husband and everybody who had traveled with them on the Trail of Tears.__NEWL__It takes many voices to tell a story, and I think we carry those voices within us" (Andrews 651).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7561176	Song of the Saurials	1991-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17091126	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17091126	This novel is the final book of the Finders Stone Trilogy.__NEWL__Akabar bel Akash has visions that the god Moander is returning to the Realms, so he brings the band of adventurers back together again to counter this threat.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5462184	Flower Net	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148	People's Republic of China	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17085241	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17085241	The time frame for Flower Net is January 10, 1997 – March 14, 1997.__NEWL__The main narrative ends February 13, 1997—just before the death of Deng Xiaoping on February 19.__NEWL__Much of the story involves flashbacks to the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and its traumatic impact on the lives of a great number of people.__NEWL__The novel's key characters are Liu Hulan, inspector in the Ministry of Public Security and a Red Princess, and David Stark, Assistant U.S. Attorney, who loves her.__NEWL__Gary Krist writes that "Hulan is a provocative mixture of vulnerability, bitterness and hardheaded practicality," a survivor of the Cultural Revolution who has learned that survival means hiding her emotions from the outside world.__NEWL__The book begins with the murders of two young men, one the son of the U.S. ambassador to China and the other the son of one of the richest and most powerful men in China.__NEWL__For reasons not clear to Hulan and David, the Chinese and American governments come to the unusual agreement that the two should jointly investigate the murders.__NEWL__Their initial assumption is that the killings must be related to the Rising Phoenix, a criminal gang operating in both China and Los Angeles.__NEWL__The case is complicated because Hulan and David have previously been lovers, and each is devoted to his or her country.__NEWL__See also describes Vice Minister Liu and his frosty relationship with Hulan, his daughter.__NEWL__Near the end of the novel seven gruesome murders are solved.__NEWL__Although the young men of the Rising Phoenix are indeed involved, the murderer hounding Hulan and David is revealed to be Hulan's father, Vice Minister Liu, who has been consumed by greed and the desire for revenge, mistakenly blaming his daughter for the hard time he served in a Chinese work camp early in the Cultural Revolution and for the serious injuries his wife, Hulan's mother, suffered during the same period.__NEWL__The narrative concludes with Hulan's thoughts of the coming spring and her anticipation of the birth of her first child.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16156431	Goddess of Yesterday	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17085697	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17085697	Anaxandra is the only daughter of Chrysaor, a chieftain who rules an uncharted island in ancient Greece.__NEWL__One day King Nicander of Siphnos comes and demands hostage and tribute, he takes Anaxandra to be the playmate of his daughter Callisto.__NEWL__Unable to return home, she comes to love the small island of Siphnos and lives there for six years with Nicander's family.__NEWL__One day, ships come into Siphnos harbor and kill everyone except Anaxandra, who survives by pretending to be Medusa by wearing an octopus on her head.__NEWL__Found by Menelaus, king of Sparta, Anaxandra assumes the identity of Princess Callisto, believing that Menelaus will otherwise abandon her.__NEWL__Brought into Menelaus's household in Sparta, all the members of his family welcome her, except Menelaus’s beautiful wife, Helen.__NEWL__Suspicious of "Callisto," Helen's animosity towards Anaxandra places her in greater danger than ever.__NEWL__When Menelaus Leave for Crete to repay its king for slaves, Paris, a prince of Troy arrives to plunder Sparta's treasury and takes an eager Helen away with him.__NEWL__To save Helen's daughter Hermione from leaving, Anaxandra takes her place and soon becomes the sole protector of Helen's infant son, Pleisthenes.__NEWL__Upon arriving in Troy, Anaxandra is exposed again by Helen, who will stop at nothing to make Anaxandra suffer and neglects her own son in favour of her new life as the bride of Paris.__NEWL__Helen is quickly beloved by all of Troy, save Paris's sister Cassandra.__NEWL__Cassandra has foreseen that Helen will destroy the city, but she is cursed so her prophecies will never be believed.__NEWL__In spite of her suffering, Anaxandra befriends Cassandra and Andromache, the bride of Prince Hector.__NEWL__When Menelaus learns that Paris has stolen Helen and the treasures of Sparta, he calls upon his brother Agamemnon and all of Helen's former suitors who have sworn to defend his honour and to declare war upon Troy.__NEWL__As Helen revels in the war that will occur for her sake, Anaxandra finds herself falling in love with Euneus, the neutral king of Lemnos who is a friend of Hector.__NEWL__Torn between her love of Troy and her loyalty to Menelaus, Anaxandra must find a way to rescue Pleisthenes and return the young prince to his father before Troy is destroyed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7758429	The Problem Child	2006-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16995033	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16995033	Sabrina is confronted by a mentally challenged girl who has kidnapped her parents (who may be the person mentioned in the title) and a vicious monster, continues to fight when Puck comes to save her (once again, he complains).__NEWL__Just then, the portal which Sabrina used to get to her parents burns out, and Sabrina and Puck are trapped in an old asylum.__NEWL__Puck and Sabrina escape, but Sabrina is injured by the monster.__NEWL__After her injuries heal at the hospital, Sabrina goes back with her family to Relda's house where they hold a celebration to welcome back Sabrina.__NEWL__That night, after investigating through many journals, the criminal becomes clear: Little Red Riding Hood.__NEWL__The following night, wanting to know about Red Riding Hood, Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck go to the ruins of the asylum where she had met the Everafter child.__NEWL__They search for medical files in hopes of finding a clue, but a mysterious man discovers them.__NEWL__He seems to know Sabrina and Daphne's name, but thinking that he is part of the Scarlet Hand, the three escape back to her grandmother's house.__NEWL__In the morning, Sabrina, Daphne, Relda and Puck travel to the newly built school for the opening ceremony, where Mayor Prince Charming gives a speech.__NEWL__However, he is distracted when the Queen of Hearts announces that she dislikes Charming's ideas and she will seek election as mayor.__NEWL__Suddenly, just as the chaos began, the mysterious man Sabrina had met at the ruin pops out of nowhere.__NEWL__He turns out to be Jacob Alexander Grimm, Relda's son and Henry's brother who gets Sabrina addicted to magic and later gets her into trouble with Baba Yaga, an ancient witch who is rumored to be a cannibal.__NEWL__That night, while everyone was asleep, Sabrina sneaks into the room where Jacob was sleeping, to take a look at the files in search for clues.__NEWL__She accidentally wakes Jacob, but instead of sending her back to bed, he explains about a few things about Red Riding Hood.__NEWL__The kidnapper had fallen in despair after she had lost many people that she had cared for, and thinking that her dead kitten was the ferocious monster called the Jabberwocky, she went on kidnapping other people she thought she had lost.__NEWL__That was how the sister's Grimm's parents were kidnapped, with Little Red Riding Hood thinking that they were her dead parents.__NEWL__Red Riding Hood seems evil only because of the Jabberwocky; once the Jabberwocky is killed, she is not to be feared.__NEWL__Sabrina discovers that the only thing that can kill the Jabberwocky is the Vorpal blade, which was divided into three pieces and distributed to separate places in Ferryport Landing.__NEWL__They already have the first piece.__NEWL__Sabrina, Daphne, and Jacob must find the remaining two.__NEWL__Uncle Jake wants to take Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck out for a drive.__NEWL__Granny sends Sabrina to get Puck, where she finds him pouting because Granny gives more attention to Uncle Jake then him.__NEWL__Sabrina tells him that the whole family cares about him, he believes what she's trying to say is that she loves him and kisses her on the lips.__NEWL__Later during their drive, at a restaurant labeled the "Blue Plate Special" the Jabberwocky attacks and rips Puck's wings off.__NEWL__After two narrow escapes, they get hold of the pieces from the Little Mermaid, who is hugely fat, turning to food for comfort, after being left by an unknown "topsider".__NEWL__They set off searching for Baba Yaga, the cannibal witch who has the last piece of the Vorpal Blade, who asks for Merlin's Wand as an exchange.__NEWL__Sabrina disagrees, but Uncle Jake gives it to Baba Yaga without Sabrina's permission.__NEWL__As they were leaving, Sabrina stole the Shoes of Swiftness from Uncle Jake's overcoat, and went to Baba Yaga to retrieve the wand.__NEWL__She makes the mistake of accidentally picking up the wrong wand and holding it backwards, thus turning her into a frog (Charming had to kiss her in order to turn back into herself).__NEWL__Sabrina tries connecting the pieces together, and finds a puzzle on the blade, which was supposed to show who the Blue Fairy was disguised as so as she could make the sword into one whole object.__NEWL__The Blue Fairy turns out to be a waitress at a restaurant.__NEWL__After the sword is mended, Sabrina and Daphne fight the Jabberwocky and kill it.__NEWL__Afterwards, Uncle Jake is so addicted to magic that he attacks the Blue Fairy with the Vorpal Blade and forces her to grant him a wish.__NEWL__He wishes for all her power, and the fairy is forced to give it up.__NEWL__He uses the fairy's powers to take away the Everafters' immortal powers, which begins to kill them.__NEWL__He gives everyone else a wish, and Sabrina wishes that "Uncle Jake, you're smart, you've got a great family, and you're a Grimm.__NEWL__I wish that deep down you had always known how much power that gave you".__NEWL__This alters the past and changes where Uncle Jake attacks the Blue Fairy to Uncle Jake being happy with how it turned out and hugs Granny.__NEWL__Sabrina and Daphne then get their parents back, but they could not be woken, as far as they know of, and Puck is getting weaker.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7718602	The Blind Spot	1951-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16995594	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16995594	The novel concerns an interdimensional doorway between worlds.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733992	The Finishing School	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16959943	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16959943	The school is run by Rowland Mahler and his wife Nina Parker.__NEWL__Rowland is trying to write a novel but discovers that a new star pupil, Chris Wiley, only seventeen is also writing a novel, which eclipses Rowland's efforts.__NEWL__Frustrated by his own inability to make progress, and increasingly aware of Chris' prodigious talent, Rowland becomes obsessed with the boy, occasioning dry ironies about twists in human relations.__NEWL__Chris recognises this and keeps his novel under wraps whilst at the same time encourages his attention, increasing Rowland's frustration.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q152629	Tell No One	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1408	New Jersey	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16860065	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16860065	David and Elizabeth Beck, both 25 years old and married for less than a year, are celebrating the anniversary of their first kiss at a secluded lake when Elizabeth is abducted and later murdered.__NEWL__Although the killer is found and prosecuted, David never gets over the tragic incident.__NEWL__On the eighth anniversary of Elizabeth's death, two long-dead bodies are unearthed at the same lake where the kidnapping occurred.__NEWL__In addition, David receives a shocking email from an unidentified source that mentions a phrase only David and Elizabeth should know.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2778917	Arturo's Island	1957-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q72432	Procida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	16861890	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16861890	In the novel, Arturo, a small boy, grows up on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples.__NEWL__The island is the location of a penitentiary.__NEWL__Arturo lives in a gloomy mansion bequeathed to his father.__NEWL__The boy's education comes from books dedicated to male hero worship and chivalry in the mansion's library.__NEWL__Arturo idolizes his dead mother.__NEWL__She died giving birth to him.__NEWL__He worships his tall, blond father, who is often absent.__NEWL__Arturo is a natural athlete who enjoys boating and swimming on the island.__NEWL__The only creature with whom he can share joy is his dog, Immacolatella.__NEWL__The building of the same name, including its historic fountain, is a famous edifice that stands at the water’s edge at the port of Naples.__NEWL__As Arturo's mother died giving birth to him, his beloved dog dies, giving birth to her only litter of pups.__NEWL__When Arturo is 14, his father brings home a new bride, Nunziatella, a woman only two years older than Arturo.__NEWL__Hearing his parents make love at night disturbs the boy.__NEWL__ Soon Arturo falls in love with Nunziatella, who is attracted to him but rejects his sexual advances.__NEWL__Nunziatella gives birth to a blond child who, for a time, replaces Arturo in her affections.__NEWL__Later, Arturo discovers that his father has fallen in love with a prisoner in the island's penitentiary.__NEWL__In the novel's finale, the convict is released from the penitentiary.__NEWL__Feeling betrayed by his father, Arturo leaves the enchanted island for the mainland.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7193214	Pig Heart Boy	1997-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16931535	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16931535	Thirteen-year-old Cameron Joshua Kelsey has a serious heart condition, and urgently needs a transplant.__NEWL__He has been given hope and turned down twice.__NEWL__So in desperation, Cameron's father secretly contacts Dr. Richard Bryce, a transgenics expert.__NEWL__Cameron, a.k.a.__NEWL__Cam, finds out through coming home early and discovering his parents arguing about it.__NEWL__Cameron's mother, Catherine, is not happy that his father arranged this without her being involved and does not want her son to have a pig's heart.__NEWL__Cameron decides he wants to see his fourteenth birthday, and the rest of his life, and thus chooses to have the transplant.__NEWL__However, Cameron is sworn to secrecy about the nature of the transplant, but secretly he tells his best friend Marlon.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Cameron goes to see Trudy, the pig that will be donating a heart to Cameron.__NEWL__His mother announces she is pregnant because she does not want her baby to be damaged by the X-Ray needed to see the pigs.__NEWL__Cameron is delighted and proceeds to make recorded videos for his unborn sibling, in case he dies during the operation, which eventually goes ahead and is successful.__NEWL__But Cameron is furious when he discovers that Marlon has told his parents, who in turn have told the newspapers about the pig heart.__NEWL__Cameron is let out of hospital, but he is now famous and his family are constantly bothered by the media.__NEWL__Even worse, the girl Cameron likes does not want to be near him anymore because she thinks he has germs, and some animal rights protesters threaten him and his family.__NEWL__At some point in the book, Cameron is out with his friends (having made up with Marlon) joking about on their way to the burger shop.__NEWL__Then a friendly lady politely asks Cameron if his surname is Kelsey.__NEWL__Cameron trusts her and says yes, only for her to reveal she has a bucket of red liquid behind her back and hold it high above her head.__NEWL__Cameron knows what is coming and put his hands up in protest as she tips the liquid on him.__NEWL__He tastes the liquid and realises it is pig's blood.__NEWL__Marlon screams abuse and Cameron is taken to casualty.__NEWL__Cameron has always liked swimming, and decides he is now fit enough, so he spends more time at the swimming pool, trying to touch the bottom like his friends did.__NEWL__He finally manages it, but gets trapped underneath the surface and accepts that he is going to drown.__NEWL__However, Marlon saves his life.__NEWL__Dr. Bryce tells Cameron that his new heart is being rejected by his body, and that he will need another transplant.__NEWL__Cameron refuses, as he is sick of the attention.__NEWL__However, when his grandmother dies, he realises that life is important, and he wants to be around for his younger brother or sister, whom he has decided to call Alex.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7771439	The Unexpected Guest	1999-09-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16932679	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16932679	On a foggy night, the car of a man called Michael Starkwedder breaks down near an isolated house and, entering it, he finds the body of a dead man slumped in a chair.__NEWL__A woman stands over the corpse, gun in hand, and confesses to the murder.__NEWL__She gives her name as Laura Warwick, the wife of the dead man.__NEWL__She explains that he was always drunk and abusive.__NEWL__Michael decides not to turn her in to the police, and the two decide to come up with a cover-up story to protect Laura.__NEWL__In the end, they settle on an enemy from the past, by the name of MacGreggor, whose son was run over by Richard Warwick, the dead man, several years ago.__NEWL__They slip a paper in Richard's pocket with the date of the accident, saying "Paid in full.__NEWL__" Then they stage the murder so it appears to have been recent, alerting the residents of the building.__NEWL__The police are soon alerted and begin to investigate.__NEWL__It is revealed that MacGreggor is dead, and suspicions are exchanged.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Michael discovers that Laura was having an affair with another man, whom she believes murdered Richard.__NEWL__He, however, believes her to be guilty.__NEWL__Finally, it is revealed that Michael is MacGreggor and he had come to avenge his son.__NEWL__He shouts this to Laura, along with the fact that he cares for her, and jumps through the window, running away.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20771386	Spider's Web	2000-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23298	Kent	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16933300	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16933300	Clarissa Hailsham-Brown is the wife of a foreign diplomat Henry.__NEWL__There are three guests in the house – her godfather Sir Rowland "Roly" Delahaye, Hugo Birch and a young man named Jeremy Warrender.__NEWL__When Jeremy is given the opportunity of being alone with Clarissa, he confesses his love for her.__NEWL__But Clarissa, taking her duties of being a faithful wife to Henry and a step mother to Pippa, rejects his proposal.__NEWL__Later when Pippa returns from school she indulges herself in exploring parts of the manor house with Jeremy and reveals a secret passage.__NEWL__ The three guests then make their departure to the local golf club.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Clarissa is confronted by a visitor to the house, a man named Oliver Costello, who happens to be Pippa's mother's second husband as well as a drug addict.__NEWL__He states that in future Pippa will have to stay with her mother.__NEWL__He leaves the house and is escorted off by Miss Peake, the manor house's gardener.__NEWL__A few minutes later Henry Hailsham-Brown arrives home and innocently reveals the intended secret arrival of the Soviet Premier in London.__NEWL__He has to go and meet him at the local airport and will return later.__NEWL__ The room empties and Costello is seen sneaking around the living room.__NEWL__Clarissa soon discovers his body in the drawing-room.__NEWL__It is believed that Pippa has killed him with a golf club in desperation and dilemma.__NEWL__Clarissa devises a plan with the three returning guests to dispose of the body.__NEWL__Unfortunately, before they can dispose of the body, the police arrive and say that they have had an anonymous phone call, suggesting that a murder has taken place at the house.__NEWL__When questioned, Clarissa and the guests all lie about the facts, hoping to cover up the murder that it is thought that Pippa has committed.__NEWL__Clarissa on being asked to tell the truth, changes her story a number of times and gets herself entangled in a 'spider's web'.__NEWL__The police soon find that Costello's body is missing.__NEWL__It was taken by Miss Peake to an upper bedroom so that the police wouldn't come across it while they searched the house, and the individuals are interviewed.__NEWL__ Later, when Jeremy is alone, in an attempt in pretending to comfort Pippa, he tries to smother her with a pillow, but stops as Clarissa approaches him.__NEWL__Clarissa, who is keen and acute at understanding things, discovers that it is Jeremy who had murdered Charles Sellon, an antique shop owner and the previous owner of the manor house, because he had something valuable in his possession.__NEWL__The item which Jeremy has been looking for, is somewhere in the house and not the antique shop.__NEWL__That was why Costello approached Clarissa, thinking that she was Mrs Brown, the owner of the manor house and the partner in his antique shop business.__NEWL__It is then revealed that Miss Peake is Mrs Brown (Clarissa is Mrs Hailsham-Brown).__NEWL__Since Jeremy was on the same mission as Costello, Costello had to be eliminated.__NEWL__The item which the rogues have been searching for is a postage stamp, which would have fetched the sum of £14,000.__NEWL__Jeremy tries to kill Clarissa as she is the only one remaining who knows his secret.__NEWL__However, the police are eavesdropping on them and arrest him.__NEWL__The three guests leave and Henry returns home.__NEWL__Clarissa learns that the Premier was not at the airport as part of a security set up, but is still expected to visit the house.__NEWL__The play closes as Clarissa and Henry get ready for the visit of the Premier.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7372455	Roxy's Baby	2005-06-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	17075751	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17075751	Roxy is a fifteen-year-old girl living with her mother, her younger sister, and her new step-dad.__NEWL__Upset about her father's death and resentful of her mother remarrying, she begins to rebel.__NEWL__She attends a party where she has sex for the first time.__NEWL__Soon realising she's pregnant, Roxy runs away from home in fear.__NEWL__She goes to London, hoping to stay a shelter she read about, but quickly leaves when she realises the woman in charge will phone the police, when she learns Roxy is underage.__NEWL__Luckily, she finds help in the form of Mr and Mrs Dyce, a couple who host young pregnant women in their country house.__NEWL__Things quickly become suspicious; the girls in the Dyces' care are completely cut off from the rest of the world, not allowed to leave the grounds, or even read newspapers or listen to the radio, and once a girl is sent into the birthing room she's never seen again.__NEWL__The Dyces have answers to all of these, but things still seem odd.__NEWL__One night Roxy slips out, and discovers the Dyces have an extremely sinister motive behind their kindness...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7723463	The Cloning of Joanna May	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	17077656	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17077656	Joanna May was once married to Carl May, the wealthy CEO of a nuclear energy corporation, but they have been divorced for ten years after Joanna was caught in an incidental love affair.__NEWL__Carl arranged an "accident" for the lover and summarily locked Joanna out of all their homes, consigning her to an apartment.__NEWL__Since then, Carl May has done everything in his power to make Joanna's life difficult.__NEWL__When Joanna decides she's had enough, and pays a visit to her former husband, she is in for a surprise – Carl May has made several clones of her.__NEWL__Carl plans to take one or more of the clones as Joanna's replacement.__NEWL__The clones have been raised by foster parents without knowing about each other.__NEWL__Each has become an archetype: an active career woman, a model with an icy disdain for men, a childless married woman contemplating an affair, and a mother trying to protect her children from their violent father.__NEWL__Carl's plans backfire when they meet each other and their "mother".__NEWL__Sub-plots in the book involve Carl's current mistress, a "kept woman" who is passed from one rich patron to another, and Carl's past life.__NEWL__He was brought to the UK as a boy from eastern Europe and abused by foster parents to the point where he was kept in a cage next to a dog.__NEWL__He was freed only when the foster parents were arrested for cruelty to animals.__NEWL__Nobody cared about him as a boy, and as a result he cares nothing for others.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733196	The Fall of Colossus	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	17080244	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17080244	Five years have passed since the super computer called Colossus used its control over the world's nuclear weapons to take control of humanity.__NEWL__In our timeline, that would place this story in the 1990s or the early 2000s.__NEWL__All references in the novel, however, place it in the 22nd century, with the 20th and 21st being mentioned in the past.__NEWL__Colossus has been superseded by an even more advanced computer system built on the Isle of Wight, which has abolished war and poverty throughout the world.__NEWL__National competition and most sports have been replaced by the Sea War Game, where replicas of World War I dreadnoughts battle each other for viewing audiences.__NEWL__A group known as the Sect, which worships Colossus as a god, is growing in numbers and influence.__NEWL__Yet despite the seeming omnipresence of Colossus' secret police and the penalty of decapitation for anti-machine activities, a secret Fellowship exists that is dedicated to the computer's destruction.__NEWL__Charles Forbin, in his early 50s in this and the first novel, is the former head of the design team that built and activated the original Colossus.__NEWL__He now lives on the Isle of Wight with his wife and son, serving the computer as Director of Staff.__NEWL__Though contemptuous of the growing cult of personality around Colossus, he has reconciled himself to Colossus' rule.__NEWL__His wife Cleo, now 28 years old (35 in the previous novel), loathes Colossus and is a member of the Fellowship.__NEWL__One afternoon while taking her son to a secluded beach, she receives a radio transmission from the planet Mars.__NEWL__Identifying Cleo as a member of the Fellowship, the transmission offers help to destroy Colossus and asks her to return to the same spot the next day for further instructions.__NEWL__She returns with Edward Blake, Colossus' Director of Input and the head of the Fellowship.__NEWL__Together, they receive instructions to obtain a circuit diagram of one of Colossus' input terminals and a sample of the information that is fed into it, along with instructions to proceed to two locations — one in St. John's, Newfoundland, the other in New York's Central Park — to receive further transmissions.__NEWL__Though Blake passes the necessary information along to Cleo, she is quickly arrested by the Sect and sentenced by Colossus to spend three months at an "Emotional Study Center" on the island of Tahiti, where she is repeatedly raped as part of an experiment designed to help Colossus better understand human emotion.__NEWL__Now under suspicion, Blake approaches Forbin, who is devastated by his wife's arrest.__NEWL__Explaining the details of their plot, Blake convinces Forbin to help after explaining the details of Cleo's captivity.__NEWL__Forbin travels in disguise with the requested information, first to St. John's, then to New York City, where he receives an incomprehensible mathematical problem that the transmission claims will destroy Colossus once it is fed into the computer.__NEWL__Upon his return, Forbin slips the problem to Blake, who enters it into Colossus.__NEWL__While Forbin converses with the computer, Colossus begins to make verbal errors, then stops.__NEWL__Increasingly erratic, it attempts to warn Forbin of a threat from outer space that it was preparing to meet, but breaks down before it can complete the message.__NEWL__Now free of Colossus' rule, Blake moves to seize power, using the automated fleets of the Sea War Games to threaten the world's capitals.__NEWL__As Blake gloats, Forbin tells him of Colossus' warning.__NEWL__Requesting any reports of unusual astronomical activity, they learn that two contacts have been detected leaving Martian orbit and are now heading toward the Earth.__NEWL__The novel ends with the two men hearing a radio transmission repeating "Forbin, we are coming".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4743158	American Beauty	2006-09-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16995823	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16995823	It is graduation time for the A-List crew.__NEWL__That means lavish yacht parties, designer caps and gowns, and saying bye-bye to high school for good.__NEWL__Despite the festivities, Anna is not in a partying mood.__NEWL__Ben has been acting distant__NEWL__and she is worried.__NEWL__Maybe her father's hot tattooed intern, Caine Manning, will help cheer Anna up!__NEWL__Ever since her illicit kiss with Parker, Sam has been Eduardo-less and heartbroken.__NEWL__But hopefully Sam will use her brains and considerable means to get creative about winning Eduardo back.__NEWL__And infamous Cammie?__NEWL__She could not care less about graduation, not when she is so close to unraveling the mystery of her mother's death.__NEWL__She will stop at nothing to find out the truth.__NEWL__The book starts out with Anna driving to Sam's pre-graduation party on her father's new yacht.__NEWL__While talking to Cyn, her best friend from New York, she stops to let a couple cross the street, and a woman hits the back of her car.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5689750	The Laws of Our Fathers	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16825737	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16825737	When last seen in Turow's The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a prosecutor with the U. S. Attorney's office in Kindle County with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy.__NEWL__She becomes one of the narrators here.__NEWL__Now she is a Superior Court Judge presiding over the murder trial of one Nile Eddgar, who is accused of arranging the murder of his ghetto-activist mother.__NEWL__The story is told in two parallel narratives, one regarding the current trial and the other taking the reader through the 1960s.__NEWL__Many of the minor characters in The Laws of Our Fathers also appear in Turow's other novels, which are all set in fictional, Midwestern Kindle County.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12335202	Reversible Errors	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16826160	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16826160	Reversible Errors revolves around three 1991 murders for which Rommy Gandolph was convicted.__NEWL__It begins with attorney Arthur Raven being assigned to handle the final appeal of said death row inmate.__NEWL__Though the lawyer does not even want the case, he discovers some problems with the conviction.__NEWL__Unlikely allies are found, including the police officer who made the arrest and the judge who presided over the initial trial.__NEWL__It becomes a race against the clock to determine the truth.__NEWL__The novel's 42 chapters are arranged in two parts, titled Investigation and Proceedings; the action is set in 2001.__NEWL__Many of the minor characters also appear in Turow's other novels, which are all set in fictional Kindle County, located in the Midwestern United States.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762232	The Sandman	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z	16927909	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16927909	The book records the life and times of a good-natured serial killer (William "Mackerel" Burton) who murders for the fun of it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7767188	The Suffrage of Elvira	1958-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	16963222	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16963222	The novel describes the slapstick circumstances surrounding a local election in one of the districts of Trinidad.__NEWL__Its main character is Surujpat Harbans.__NEWL__It also delves into the multiculturalism of Trinidad, showing the effects of the election on various ethnic groups, including Muslims, Hindus, and Europeans.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5428499	Faces in the Moon	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1649	Oklahoma	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16930074	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16930074	The novel begins in present time.__NEWL__Lucie returns to her mother's house when Gracie has fallen ill.__NEWL__While her mother is in the hospital, Lucie stays at Gracies house, and her memories take her back to different parts of her childhood.__NEWL__We are offered a glimpse into a very bleak reality.__NEWL__Lucie is required, at the age of four, to make breakfast for Gracie and her current boyfriend, J.D. One morning while Gracie is sleeping off the drinking from the previous night, J.D. begins to verbally abuse Lucie.__NEWL__He mimics her; he tells her shes trash and so is her mother.__NEWL__All of this is being said while the four-year-old makes him breakfast.__NEWL__After J.D. sexually molests her, Gracie decides to take Lucie to the farm to stay with Lizzie.__NEWL__Unaware of the abuse, she only sees that J.D. is upset with Lucies lack of respect for two years, and most of the novel takes place during this time.__NEWL__It is here that Lucie hears more stories of her heritage.__NEWL__Arriving a child wise beyond her years to the pain of the world, Lucie's time at the farm allows her to learn how to be a child, to play, to pretend.__NEWL__It is Lizzie, a "full-blooded" woman, who mediates the young girl's relationship to the traditional past.__NEWL__Lizzie not only represents an alternative to Gracie's dissolute lifestyle, but she also helps preserve the history and meaning of the lives of the women in the family by telling and retelling stories imbued with what she thinks it means to be an Indian woman.__NEWL__Years later, when Gracie is hospitalized, Lucie returns to Oklahoma, and with her return come the memories of childhood.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7737844	The Great Man	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16897760	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16897760	The story takes place five years after the death, at 78, of celebrated painter Oscar Feldman, the "great man" of the title.__NEWL__Two competing biographers, both working to document the life and times of a man who made his fortune painting nude women, turn for information to the women who had shared his life: his wife, his mistress, and his sister, who is also a painter.__NEWL__Oscar Feldman was married to Abigail, the daughter of a rich Jewish family.__NEWL__They have a son who has autism.__NEWL__For many years Oscar had an affair with Teddy.__NEWL__Together they have twin daughters, Ruby and Samantha.__NEWL__Ruby never married whereas Samantha is married and has children.__NEWL__Oscar´s sister Maxine was quite successful as a painter earlier, but later was almost forgotten by the art community.__NEWL__Her brother had always been more famous than Maxine, which was quite ironic: Oscar became well known in the art world for a diptych of two female nudes, Helena and Mercy.__NEWL__Helena was actually painted by Maxine.__NEWL__It was a picture of then lesbian lover.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7531225	Sister of My Heart	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	16888830	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16888830	Princess in the Palace of Snakes follows two cousins from birth until their wedding day.__NEWL__The sudden death of their fathers on a hunt for rubies sends Anju and Sudha's mothers into premature labor, and the two girls are born twelve hours apart.__NEWL__From a young age the girls become best friends, sisters, and each other's constant companion.__NEWL__Anju and Sudha grow up in a household run by their three mothers: Pishi, Gouri, and Nalini.__NEWL__Even though Anju and Sudha call each other sisters, they are technically cousins.__NEWL__Pishi is the girls’ aunt.__NEWL__Pishi's youngest brother, Bijoy Chatterjee, married Gouri.__NEWL__Anju is their daughter.__NEWL__So in addition to Pishi and Gouri, there is Nalini, Sudha's mother.__NEWL__Beautiful and calm, Sudha is a storyteller and dreams of designing clothes and having a family.__NEWL__Anju has a fierce spirit and longs to study Literature in college.__NEWL__The girls get caught skipping school and this event, along with a health scare in the family, suddenly changes plans for college to plans of marriage.__NEWL__Book one ends with Anju and Sudha getting married on the same day.__NEWL__Sudha will move in with her husband and in-laws who live in another part of India.__NEWL__Anju's husband works in the United States, and she plans to join him after getting a visa.__NEWL__Sudha learns a dark secret about their family's past.__NEWL__Shame and guilt over keeping this secret causes Sudha to pull away from Anju.__NEWL__But her love for her sister does not falter, and she even refuses to elope for fear it would damage Anju's reputation.__NEWL__On the night of their double wedding, Anju becomes aware of her husband's attraction to Sudha.__NEWL__Anju does not blame Sudha, but it is with some relief the two young women begin to live separate lives.__NEWL__In The Queen of Swords Sudha quickly learns the ways of her demanding and controlling mother-in-law.__NEWL__After five long years, Sudha is elated to learn she is pregnant.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Anju's life in the United States has not entirely turned out as she expected.__NEWL__Anju and Sudha exchange regular letters and short phone calls, but their old intimacy is missing.__NEWL__The friends discover they are pregnant at the same time and both seem finally happy.__NEWL__Sudha's mother-in-law finds out that Sudha's child is a girl.__NEWL__She demands Sudha abort the baby, believing the first child should be a son.__NEWL__Sudha has nowhere to turn, leaving her husband would be grounds to talk to each other again as true sisters.__NEWL__Refusing to tie her life to another man and realizing Anju needs her, Sudha and her daughter decide to go to the United States.__NEWL__After many years, the sisters are reunited, but future obstacles still loom.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7639551	Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	16891317	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16891317	Sunday Simmons is an aspiring actress.__NEWL__The daughter of a South American father and French mother, she left Rio de Janeiro to attend a drama academy in London.__NEWL__Two days after her departure, her parents were killed in a car crash.__NEWL__Charlie Brick was forty and famous.__NEWL__He was one of the best comedic actors in the world, but his relationships with women had never failed to disappoint him, including his cold, unloving wife Lorna.__NEWL__Herbert Lincoln Jefferson was working as a chauffeur for one of the Hollywood film companies.__NEWL__While his grotesquely fat wife, Marge, watched TV and ate all day, he was indulging in perverse sexual fantasies.__NEWL__The lives of the three characters intertwine when they meet in Hollywood.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6692092	Lovehead	1974-01-01T00:00:00Z	16894965	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16894965	Margaret Lawrence Brown - female rights activist and feminist - has taken up the cause of prostitutes to get them off the streets.__NEWL__While delivering a speech at Central Park she is assassinated.__NEWL__Rio Java, a former underground film star with four kids and no husband had been saved from a life of porn films and was now a staunch supporter.__NEWL__After the assassination Rio gets together with Margaret's two half-sisters, Lara Crichton and Beth Lawrence Brown, to plan revenge on Enzio Bassalino, head of an all-powerful mafia clan.__NEWL__Unhappy with the hookers leaving the streets and going on strike, he had a hit put out on Margaret.__NEWL__The three women decide to go about with their revenge by targeting Enzio's three sons: Frank, Nick and Angelo Bassalino.__NEWL__Their weapon: sex.__NEWL__The result: a bloodbath of sexual mayhem through the dangerous corridors of organised crime.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4927706	Blood Shot	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1297	Chicago	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	16896268	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16896268	V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she's never been a woman who breaks a promise.__NEWL__Returning to her old neighborhood for a school reunion, she finds herself agreeing to search for a childhood friend's missing father, a man her friend never knew and about whom her friend's dying mother will not speak.__NEWL__What ought to have been a routine missing-persons case rapidly turns up a homicide; and Warshawski must battle corrupt local politicians and businessmen, who do all they can to derail her investigation.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3177443	Jerry of the Islands	1917-01-01T00:00:00Z	1161					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	50951691	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50951691	Jerry was born in Santa Isabel Island, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago.__NEWL__Jerry's owner was Mr. Haggin, who worked as a plantation guard and used Jerry to chase black slaves.__NEWL__Higgin gave Jerry to Mr. Van Horn, Captain of ship Arangi, under condition to return the dog if something bad happens.__NEWL__The ship was engaged in delivering so-called "reverse" slaves who worked for three years on a plantation.__NEWL__During a stop on Malaita island, Arangi was attacked by the natives, who killed the captain and skipper.__NEWL__Jerry was kicked from the ship, which was looted and burned.__NEWL__A native boy found Jerry in the sea and delivered the dog on the shore.__NEWL__Later, Jerry was brought to a village, where tribe chief Bashto decided to use Jerry for improving the breed of local dogs.__NEWL__Jerry received a taboo status and began to live among the tribesmen.__NEWL__Jerry led a fairly quiet life until local sorcerer Agno decided to use the dog for a sacrifice.__NEWL__To overcome its taboo status, Agno arranged Jerry to attack a holy bird megapoda, which also had a taboo status.__NEWL__Jerry stole the bird eggs, which were kept for chief Bashta.__NEWL__Jerry was spotted while killing the fourth bird.__NEWL__The bird's taboo status was higher than that of Jerry; therefore, the dog could be sacrificed.__NEWL__However, old blindman Nalasu bought Jerry for a pig to protect himself against an expected vendetta.__NEWL__Later, the village was destroyed by British as a part of punitive operation to retaliate for the loss of Arangi.__NEWL__Nalasu got killed; Jerry escaped and hid in the jungle.__NEWL__Having stayed there for a long time, Jerry began to look for people.__NEWL__Out in the beach, the dog saw a distant ship and plunged into the sea, thinking it is Arangi and hoping to see his beloved Captain Van Horn.__NEWL__The ship was the yacht Ariel traveling around the world.__NEWL__People on board noticed the dog and saved it.__NEWL__One of the crewmen recognized the dog and announced that it is a dog of Mr. Haggin form Santa Isabel Island.__NEWL__Later, the yacht arrived at Tulagi harbor, where a commissioner who knew Mr. Haggin sent him a message.__NEWL__Mr. Haggin sailed to the island with dog Michael, who was the brother of Jerry.__NEWL__The brothers—Jerry and Michael—met each other just to be separated ten days later.__NEWL__Jerry stayed on the yacht Ariel with its owner, Villa, while Michael stayed on the island.__NEWL__They met each other once again several years later in California.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27985487	The Cardboard Crown	1952-01-01T00:00:00Z	51109910	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51109910	The novel follows the story of Alice Langton, as told by her grandson Guy de Teba Langton, who pieces the story together from her diaries and family gossip.__NEWL__Alice is trapped in a life where her happiness is a secondary consideration among the rest of the family, who make continual demands on her money.__NEWL__Alice moves constantly between her homes in Australia and Europe, always longing for the home she does not inhabit.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3824773	The Morning Watch	1951-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	51113281	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51113281	The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal boarding school (based on Agee's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good Friday in 1923.__NEWL__Part I opens with Richard waking up to participate in the 4 AM shift of a nightlong prayer vigil in the school's chapel; in Part II he goes to the chapel, prays, and decides to attend the 4:30 shift as well; in Part III he leaves the chapel at 5 AM with two other boys, and they all run off to swim in the lake rather than go straight back to their dormitory, knowing they will be punished for this infraction.__NEWL__On their way to the lake, Richard discovers the intact shed skin of a locust, clinging to a tree; at the lake, the boys swim and then kill a snake; as they head back to school, Richard takes the locust shell with him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28043993	Undone	2013-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	51022506	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51022506	Marianna Coltari wants nothing to do with the Amoveo civil war, she would rather live it up in the city and hang out at her favorite night club (that just happens to be run by a vampire coven).__NEWL__When her brother Dante hires his human employee Pete Castro as her bodyguard, things get interesting.__NEWL__Pete is a retired cop and doesn't want anything to do with guarding a party girl like Marianna__NEWL__but he is doing it as a favor for his friend.__NEWL__But when Pete finds out about the Amoveo and the pair are in hiding from an enemy.__NEWL__Pete is Marianna's lifemate and there attraction is undeniable but can he protect her.__NEWL__But a person from Pete's past May hold the biggest secret of all and the means to fight their enemies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28043997	Stiletto	2016-01-01T00:00:00Z	51117620	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51117620	Following the events chronicled in The Rook, Odette Leliefeld, great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of the Grafters' leader finds herself a member of the delegation negotiating the complex details of the peace agreement between the Grafters and the Checquy Group.__NEWL__The residual hostility and suspicion between the groups makes things difficult and forces Checquy Rook Myfanwy Thomas to reassign Pawn Felicity Clements from a coveted position on an assault team to serve as Odette's personal bodyguard.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a series of manifestations that could be of Grafter origin threaten the negotiations.__NEWL__Could the negotiations be an intricate double cross or are things not quite what they seem?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28043991	Unleashed	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	51021698	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51021698	Samantha Logan is a struggling artist whose career in New York City is not going the way she wants.__NEWL__She must move back to her hometown of Westerly, RI and move in with her grandmother.__NEWL__For a while she's been having dreams about a mysterious man.__NEWL__Much to her surprise the man of her dreamworld is her grandmother's next door neighbor, Malcolm Drew.__NEWL__Malcolm Drew is a member of an ancient race of shapeshifters called the Amoveo.__NEWL__But the biggest secret of all is that he tells Samantha that she is also an Amoveo, a hybrid.__NEWL__Her father was an Amoveo and her mother was a human with psychic powers.__NEWL__The Amoevo race is dying out and now a new chapter is beginning with humans being lifemates.__NEWL__But in the background of Samantha and Malcolm's budding romance a war is brewing among the Amoveo, one that will put the two of them in the middle.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q26964695	Blackass	2015-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1033	Nigeria	51091316	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51091316	The novel concerns Furo Wariboko, a Nigerian man, who wakes up one day to discover that he has become white.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28429603	Black Lightning	1964-01-01T00:00:00Z	51173978	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51173978	Tempe Caxton is an ageing television presenter who is recovering from a suicide attempt following the end of her career and the breakdown of a love affair.__NEWL__In hospital she learns that her dead son has left a part-Aboriginal child in a north coast town.__NEWL__The novel follows Caxton's journey of discovery into her own family's past and the living conditions of Australia's original inhabitants.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q26972750	Such Pleasure	1949-01-01T00:00:00Z	51174439	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51174439	The novel follows the life of Bridget Malwyn, the illegitimate daughter of an Irish peer and an English governess.__NEWL__Malwyn transforms over the course of the novel from being young and romantic through to an old disillusioned, objectionable old woman who lives in the past.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19031436	Maurice Guest	1908-01-01T00:00:00Z	51175304	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51175304	In turn-of-the-century Leipzig, Maurice Guest, a young English provincial, falls madly in love with an Australian woman, Louise Dufrayer.__NEWL__The novel follows this doomed affair to its tragic end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4417229	Hearts of Three	1920-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	50934762	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50934762	Young descendant of the pirate Henry Morgan, who left him a rich heritage, wants to find the treasure of his ancestor.__NEWL__On the way, he meets his distant cousin, also Henry Morgan.__NEWL__Together, they will find dangerous adventures, unknown lands, and love.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24902061	Quicksand	1928-01-01T00:00:00Z	50901420	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50901420	Nella Larsen introduces the educated mixed-race protagonist, Helga Crane, who struggles to find her identity in a world of racialized crisis in the 1920s.__NEWL__The novel begins with Helga teaching at a southern black school in Naxos which is meant to be a fictional mirror of the Tuskegee Institute.__NEWL__Helga is the daughter of a Danish mother, who died when she was an adolescent, and a West Indian father, who is absent.__NEWL__Her early years were spent with her Danish mother and White step-father who loathed her, and there began her torn relationship with her split identity.__NEWL__The novel gives us a glimpse into the dichotomy of biracial identity and the divergence into two vastly different worlds as the protagonist travels through uniquely different cultural spaces from the 1920s Jazz Age Harlem to Copenhagen, Denmark.__NEWL__While teaching in Naxos, Helga Crane suffers from social angst as she is discontented with the social uplift philosophy delivered by a white preacher.__NEWL__The theme of mainstream white influence is further developed throughout the novel.__NEWL__She is repelled by the subjugate demeanor of her superiors with consideration to their attempts to whitewash her black counterparts and she criticizes the Booker T. Washington-inspired sermon that reinforces racial segregation and warns black students that striving for social equality will lead them to become avaricious.__NEWL__This incites her first endeavor of escapism where she quits her job and moves to Chicago.__NEWL__There, her white maternal uncle, now married to a bigoted woman, shuns her.__NEWL__The inimical encounter instigates her move to Harlem.__NEWL__When in Harlem, Helga Crane becomes the secretary to a refined, but often hypocritical, black middle-class woman who is obsessed with the "race problem".__NEWL__She is then launched into her third hankering to flee.__NEWL__Crane visits her maternal aunt in Copenhagen.__NEWL__Although she enjoys the lavishness of her new voyage, she is treated as a highly desirable racial exotic which forces her to return to New York City.__NEWL__Close to a mental breakdown, Crane happens onto a store-front revival and has a charismatic religious experience.__NEWL__After marrying the preacher who converted her, she moves with him to the rural Deep South.__NEWL__There she is disillusioned by the people's adherence to religion.__NEWL__In each of her moves, Crane fails to find fulfillment.__NEWL__She is looking for more than how to integrate her mixed ancestry.__NEWL__She expresses complex feelings about what she and her friends consider genetic differences between races.__NEWL__Throughout the development of the novel, though driven by the search for racial identity, Helga also rejects intimate relationships with every man she encounters at each destination.__NEWL__It isn't until she fully indulges in an intimate relationship that she is forced to exist in one space (Deep South) and becomes stuck.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25332234	Eho Hamara Jeevna	1968-01-01T00:00:00Z	50987104	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50987104	Bhano, a poor woman belonging to a poor farmer family in rural areas of Punjab, is the female protagonist of the novel.__NEWL__In her village women are often treated as commodity and sold for a little money.__NEWL__Bhano's father was ready to sell her daughter and arranges her marriage with Sarban, a resident of Moranwalli village.__NEWL__After her marriage she faces harassment and tortures.__NEWL__Sarban's four unmarried brothers try to abuse her sexually.__NEWL__The friends of Sarban also harass her.__NEWL__After the death of Sarban, Bhano's life becomes more miserable and her father tries to sell her once again to the brothers of Sarban.__NEWL__Bhano tries to escape by committing suicide.__NEWL__A man named Narain saves her and accepts her as his wife without denying to give any social recognition.__NEWL__Because of circumstances and patriarchal setup in her society Bhano fails to fulfil even her simplest goals in life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28429602	Picnic Races	1962-01-01T00:00:00Z	51140244	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51140244	Set in the fictional Australian country town of Gubba, the novel details the town's preparations for its upcoming centenary celebrations, the social and financial factions in the town and the discovery of something long thought lost.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18393840	The Sword of Summer	2015-10-06T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q100	Boston	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	50915922	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50915922	The novel opens on the sixteenth birthday of protagonist Magnus Chase, who has been living on the streets of Boston since his mother Natalie's death two years ago.__NEWL__After learning that his uncle Randolph has unexpectedly sent his uncle Frederick and cousin Annabeth to search for him, Magnus breaks into Randolph's house to look for answers.__NEWL__Randolph catches Magnus and drives him to Longfellow Bridge, claiming that Magnus is the son of a Norse god, making him the target of an unnamed magical enemy.__NEWL__Randolph tells the boy that he must magically retrieve an ancient sword (Sumarbrander, or the "Sword of Summer") hidden in Boston Harbor to protect himself.__NEWL__A fire giant known as Surt appears, and begins to destroy the bridge.__NEWL__Magnus attacks Surt with the sword to allow other pedestrians time to escape.__NEWL__As he realizes that he is about to die, he manages to wound the giant and hurl the two of them off the bridge.__NEWL__He dies on impact with the water.__NEWL__Magnus awakens in a place called Hotel Valhalla as an einherjar, where he is told he will spend eternity training for Ragnarök.__NEWL__He is introduced to the Valkyrie who brought him to Valhalla, Sam, and to his new einherjar hallmates.__NEWL__During Magnus' welcome feast, the three Norns pronounce Magnus a son of Frey and deliver a confusing prophecy.__NEWL__The hotel's ruling council banishes Sam the Valkyrie for apparently "wrongly choosing" Magnus.__NEWL__That night, Magnus's friends Hearth and Blitz arrive and reveal they are actually an elf and dwarf, respectively.__NEWL__They convince him to leave the hotel.__NEWL__In Midgard, the trio joins up with Sam.__NEWL__The group meets with the god Mimir, who tasks them with finding the Sword before Surt and bringing it to the island of Fenris Wolf.__NEWL__They retrieve the sword from the sea goddess Ran and journey to Nidavellir to secure a new binding for the Wolf.__NEWL__During the quest, Magnus experiences dream-visions of Loki, and once even of the goddess Hel offering to reunite him with his late mother—a proposal he struggles to refuse.__NEWL__After a detour to Jotunheim, where they help the god Thor and Magnus discovers new magical powers, they finally arrive at Fenris's island.__NEWL__Despite being attacked by a group of Valkyries, some of Magnus' hallmates, and Surt, they successfully rebind the Wolf.__NEWL__Magnus has a brief vision of his father Frey before returning to Hotel Valhalla to stand trial for his disobedience.__NEWL__Before he can be punished, however, Magnus's hallmate X stands and reveals himself to be the god Odin, in disguise.__NEWL__Odin rewards each of the heroes in turn, finally offering Magnus a chance to return to life or choose a different afterlife.__NEWL__Magnus declines, but returns to Boston to speak with his cousin Annabeth.__NEWL__The two hold a funeral for Natalie Chase and exchange stories of each other's lives as demigods.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in the epilogue, Loki punishes Randolph for not being able to stop Magnus from rebinding Fenris.__NEWL__Loki implies that Randolph's family will be in danger if the man does not cooperate.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25841042	Kothe Kharak Singh	1985-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	51032851	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51032851	Kothe Kharak Singh is a political novel and the main events of the plot take place in a village in Punjab.__NEWL__The novel presents three generations and narrates the struggle for Indian independence before the partition of the Punjab.__NEWL__It also describes the socio-economic and cultural changes the state was witnessing at that time.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q26158076	Hag-Seed	2016-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	51149909	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51149909	Hag-Seed follows the life of Felix, once experimental artistic director of the Makeshiweg theatre festival, now an exiled man who speaks to his daughter's ghost.__NEWL__Felix's fall from the theatrical elite is brought about by the betrayal of his right-hand man, Tony.__NEWL__Using Felix's vulnerability after the death of his wife Nadia post-childbirth and the death of his beloved daughter Miranda, Tony used his influence and connections to oust Felix from his position and then have the board instate himself in the role.__NEWL__Worst, for Felix, is the cancellation of his production of The Tempest.__NEWL__A play which he had thrown himself into in order to cope with the loss of his own Miranda.__NEWL__After an unceremonious firing and being escorted to his car, Felix decides that he must entirely retreat from the theatrical world he's known.__NEWL__Felix plunges into a form of self-inflicted exile, aiming to escape the press he imagines will humiliate him and those who betrayed him.__NEWL__He moves into a ramshackle cottage off the grid and relies on his unofficial, cash-in-hand landlords, Maude and Bert, for his power access.__NEWL__Nine years into his seclusion, Felix has spent his time imagining a life shared with his dead daughter and keeping track of the two men who betrayed him; Tony and the minister of heritage Sal O'Nally.__NEWL__Following an advertisement for a teaching position at the literacy program in the Fletcher County Correctional Institute, Felix applies for the position using the name 'Mr. Duke'.__NEWL__Hired by Estelle, who recognises him as Felix, Felix convinces her to give him a chance in the position to teach through performing Shakespeare - and to keep his true identity a secret.__NEWL__A professor at Guelph University, Estelle will not be involved in the day-to-day running of the program.__NEWL__However, as his work proves a success, she secures further funding and eventually organises a visit to a prison performance by two newly appointed government ministers, Tony and Sal.__NEWL__Four years into the prison program, Felix now has his opportunity for revenge.__NEWL__Choosing to finally stage The Tempest he casts Anne-Marie, his original actress for the role of Miranda and begins readying the actors within the prison as part of his revenge scheme.__NEWL__The play culminates in a drug fueled chaotic performance of the play, Sal and Tony are frightened and punished.__NEWL__The novel ends with Sal's son Freddie becoming the embodiment of the character of Ferdinand and is set up with Anne-Marie.__NEWL__Felix is restored to his former position and finally, like Prospero sets Ariel free, he releases the ghost of his daughter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24807433	Tarzan on the Precipice	2016-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	50918820	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50918820	Set between the novels Tarzan of the Apes and The Return of Tarzan, the story opens after Tarzan hides the revelation of his true identity of Lord Greystoke from Jane Porter, since he believes she will be happier marrying his cousin William Cecil Clayton.__NEWL__Tarzan leaves Wisconsin and heads north into Canada, where he discovers a lost civilization of Vikings.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3307965	Michael, Brother of Jerry	1917-01-01T00:00:00Z	1730					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	50960781	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50960781	Michael, an Irish terrier, was born and raised in the Solomon Islands.__NEWL__The dog now works as a slave hunter aboard a schooner on a mission to recruit native islanders for work.__NEWL__One day the captain accidentally leaves Michael on a beach and sails away.__NEWL__Michael was then abducted by Dag Daughtry, a steward on another ship, who initially planned to sell the dog for money.__NEWL__However, later he got attached to Michael and takes the dog to a trip around the world.__NEWL__A major theme in the book is how various animals are taught to perform for the public.__NEWL__In his Forward, Jack London says that this was a major reason for writing the book.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16387244	The Name of Action	1930-01-01T00:00:00Z	36575661	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36575661	Disillusioned by Britain, wealthy youth Oliver Chant is sent abroad to Trier (Germany) by UK Communist leader Kurtz.__NEWL__Kurtz had been exiled to Britain by Trier's new dictator Demassener and promised Oliver Chant that he'd be part of a dramatic rebellion.__NEWL__Chant arrives in Trier with orders to meet up with the underground party run by a Jewish poet, Joseph Kapper and comrades Torner (an artist) and Lintz (a shoe maker).__NEWL__It becomes apparent that the small faction are not interested in bloodshed, but spreading dissent against the Dictator only by literature and posters.__NEWL__By a strange turn of events the dictator's wife, Anne-Marie Demassener, enters the party's quarters seeking help from a minor car accident.__NEWL__She claims that her husband is more than aware of what these men do and isn't in the least concerned.__NEWL__Oliver Chant is invited to meet her husband that night, where he witnesses the mother of an executed gun runner come pleading for her son's body.__NEWL__Over the course of the evening Chant becomes infatuated with the dictator's wife.__NEWL__He heads back after the town's curfew, and after being cornered by local police is rescued by the poet Kapper, who shoots the policeman dead in the street.__NEWL__Kapper and Chant dispose of the body in the canal and then send Kapper's wife out with a tray of raw butcher's meat to spread over the area where the murder took place.__NEWL__In the morning Kapper and Chant argue over the murder, and further conflict arises when Kapper shows him the party's next propaganda poster which is a slur on the dictator's wife.__NEWL__Chant vows to leave the group and the country.__NEWL__He visits Anne-Marie Demassener to bid farewell and to declare his love for her.__NEWL__During his visit the owner of a canal boat enters, and tells her of the murdered policeman he fished out of the river.__NEWL__Anne-Marie presumes Chant is involved and tells him to leave the country; he proposes that she come with him, which (though unhappy herself) she mockingly rejects.__NEWL__Chant vows to stay on in Trier and try and fight for her.__NEWL__He goes back and, overruling a humiliated Kapper, leads the party on a planned rebellion.__NEWL__Chant arranges for a risky liaison to smuggle in arms by canal boat.__NEWL__Anne-Marie is destined to interfere with his plans again, making him question the motive for his involvement and giving Kapper an opportunity to lead the party to success by other means.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7847098	Tru Confessions	1999-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36619738	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36619738	Trudy is a twelve-year-old girl who both wants to have her own television show and ‘cure’ her developmentally delayed brother Eddie.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1031831	The White Rose	1929-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96	Mexico	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q183	Germany	36535432	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36535432	The novel concerns the efforts of Condor Oil, a (fictional) American oil company, to purchase a Mexican ranch from its unwilling owner.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7559688	Someone Was Watching	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36568799	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36568799	After taking a family trip to their summer cabin for Memorial Day Weekend, 13-year-old Chris Barton is supposed to be watching his 3-year-old sister, Molly.__NEWL__However, he wanders away for a few minutes to film scenery with his video camera, and eventually falls asleep.__NEWL__When he wakes up, he quickly returns to where he last saw Molly, only to find that his parents have also fallen asleep and his sister is nowhere to be found.__NEWL__When her coloring book is found at the end of a nearby dock, it is believed that the little girl has fallen into the river drowned.__NEWL__Days of searching turn up nothing, and many assume that Molly's body was pulled too far downstream and is lost.__NEWL__Six months later, Chris makes a discovery on his video camera that may prove Molly didn't drown in the river that day.__NEWL__He instead believes that she was kidnapped and may still be alive.__NEWL__With the help of his best friend, Pat, the two set off on a journey from Wisconsin to Florida to discover the truth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7601814	Starfarers	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36569648	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36569648	Earth sends out a spaceship to investigate starfaring in far distance space of which traces have been found.__NEWL__The ship Envoy, bearing a crew of six men and four women, travels at speed close to the speed of light.__NEWL__At the end of the journey the crew meets a Centaur-like species on a planet they call Tahir that has left spacefaring behind.__NEWL__Sentient life is also detected in connection with a nearby black hole, a reading confirmed by the Tahirans.__NEWL__Their interest aroused, the Earthlings can send a combined crew to investigate.__NEWL__Communications with this "Holont" is established and much knowledge acquired.__NEWL__Differences aboard the ship, however, lead to the death of three men (Brent, Russek and Cleland), and female pilot Kilbirnie crashes into the black hole.__NEWL__The six Earthlings left drop the Tahirans off at their homeworld and head towards Earth.__NEWL__In between the story jumps regularly back to the development of human society over the gaps of many thousand years and to that of the Kith, the closed group doing the starfaring, who are often shunned by the rest of Earth.__NEWL__The Kith have their own settlements on different planets, where some retire to from time to time.__NEWL__Earth has changed over the long period of time taken up by the voyage of the Envoy, and no one is much interested in spacefaring anymore.__NEWL__On Harbor, a colony of Earth, the Envoy crew finds remainders of the Kith society, which still are connected to spacefaring.__NEWL__But the last ship to plot trade-routes in space, the Fleetwing, disappears from tracking.__NEWL__The cause is a Zero-Zero-failure ripping off the rear part of the ship.__NEWL__The Envoy sets out on a rescue mission as soon as possible but twenty years of outside time have passed by the time they reach the Fleetwing.__NEWL__They save the remaining crew, thus building a foundation of experienced spacefarers to start spacefaring anew with the knowledge acquired from the Holont.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736610	The Girl on the Stairs	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22	Scotland	36612526	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36612526	This psychological thriller is set in Berlin.__NEWL__It revolves around the central character, Jane, who has recently moved from Glasgow to the city with her lover Petra.__NEWL__As Jane adjusts to her new life and pregnancy she becomes curious about the neighbour’s daughter Anna, the arguments she hears through the wall and Anna’s strange appearance on the stairs.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7306263	Redshirts	2012-06-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36437275	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36437275	In the prologue, several senior officers of the Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union, lament the unusually high number of casualties of low-ranking crew members during recent away missions and conclude that they will need more crewmen to replace them.__NEWL__The Intrepid takes on five new ensigns including Andrew Dahl, an expert in alien religions and xenobiology.__NEWL__Dahl quickly discerns that the crew is extremely phobic of being near the senior officers and of going on away missions due to their high fatality rate.__NEWL__Over the course of several missions, various crew members suggest that the deaths are due to incompetence, superstition, or cosmic forces, requiring "sacrifices" of some crew members so that others will survive.__NEWL__After several close calls, Dahl meets Jenkins, a crew member who offers a different theory: their reality and timeline are under periodic influence of a badly written television show from the past.__NEWL__As the writers create the plot, characters' free will temporarily ceases in order to progress "the Narrative" of the show.__NEWL__This is why otherwise good officers are occasionally incompetent, Ensigns make poor decisions, and the ship has mysterious technology on board to produce last-minute inventions and medicines which would otherwise be impossible to produce: the narrative is subject to the skill of the writers, who are not military or scientific experts and need to artificially maintain a high sense of drama with on-screen deaths.__NEWL__Jenkins explains that Dahl and the other Ensigns' routine duties and colorful histories will inevitably make them targets of "the narrative" when the writers need "glorified extras" to kill for emotional impact.__NEWL__The Ensigns kidnap a senior officer and proceed to travel to the past with the mission of convincing them to stop the show.__NEWL__Once there, they meet their actor doubles and realize that they are exact doppelgängers; even their imagined backstories became integral events of the Ensigns' lives.__NEWL__Dahl strikes a deal with the show's producer and head writer, who is Jenkins's double, to save the life of the producer’s comatose son by switching him with his crew member double.__NEWL__Because the producer's son appeared on the show as an extra, one of the crew members is effectively his identical twin, and will revert to the young man's personality by staying in the past.__NEWL__Conversely, Dahl reasons that bringing the comatose son into the future will allow them to use "the Narrative" to their advantage, letting the advanced technology and reality-altering properties of the writing revive him.__NEWL__Dahl and the Ensigns return to the future and live out the new revised plot created by the head writer, which includes saving the "injured crewman" they had on board.__NEWL__While rescuing the ship, Dahl sacrifices himself to save a senior officer for the sake of the narrative.__NEWL__Awakening later, Dahl receives a message from the writers and producers explaining his recovery, and they promise to make the lives of the crew meaningful instead of using death as a quick plot device.__NEWL__Dahl then compares the close calls he has had with those of the TV show's protagonists, and deduces that there is another narrative protecting him, which makes him wonder if he is actually a protagonist in another story.__NEWL__The novel features three epilogues.__NEWL__In the first one the head writer deals with writer's block as a consequence of his bad writing choices.__NEWL__In the second one the producer's son, having reverted to his personality from the crewman who switched with him, determines to do something useful with the second chance at life he's been given.__NEWL__In the third one an actress, who once played an extra on the show, receives a message showing intimate details of the woman whose life—and death—she helped create.__NEWL__She memorializes her lost "sister" on a beach and meets the head writer of the show, with both realizing that their characters on the show were married.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7765978	The Spoilers							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36655948	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36655948	Young fearless prospector Roy Glenister and his older partner, Dextry are headed back to Nome on the first ship of the season, eager to return to protect their gold claim called the "Midas", which promises to yield them great wealth.__NEWL__On the trip, they defend a young woman who boards the ship from her pursuers—and who is also intent on reaching Nome as soon as possible.__NEWL__Glenister immediately begins to fall for the young beauty, who turns out to be Helen Chester, niece of Judge Arthur Chester, recently appointed as the first federal judge for the Alaska Territory—the "law" is coming to the wild northern frontier.__NEWL__Except it turns out the law is crooked.__NEWL__The Judge and the federal marshall are really under the thumb of strongman politician Alexander McNamara.__NEWL__After reaching Nome, McNamara succeeds in being appointed receiver of all the most lucrative mining claims in the region, based on fraudulent disputes over the validity of the miners' claims.__NEWL__Glenister, Dextry, and a number of naive Swedes are dispossessed of their lands.__NEWL__The miners hire lawyers to fight on the legal side, and also form a vigilante group to fight the "law".__NEWL__McNamara rules ruthlessly, running the mines himself.__NEWL__Glenister sinks into despair, believing that Helen is in on the conspiracy against the miners, and almost loses his stake in the Midas in a night of reckless gambling.__NEWL__He is only saved from that fate by Cherry Malotte, whose unrequited love for Glenister has brought her to Nome.__NEWL__Helen slowly learns about the scheme being perpetrated by McNamara, her uncle, and others, while her affections are torn between Glenister and McNamara.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5158140	Conan of the Red Brotherhood	1993-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36373850	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36373850	From a fortress on the island of Djafur, Conan (using his alias as Amra the Lion) builds the piratical Red Brotherhood into a virtual naval empire on the Vilayet Sea.__NEWL__In one raid, Conan accidentally rescues Philiope, a nobleman's daughter, who in time threatens his romantic interests towards Olivia (a holdover from the previous story, "Shadows in the Moonlight").__NEWL__However, Amra's activities present a major challenge for the region's dominant power, the empire of Turan.__NEWL__In the capital of Aghrapur, Emperor Yildiz, his son Yezdigerd, and their underlings plan on destroying his forces.__NEWL__Their wizards come up with various obstacles including a steam engine, zombie-manned ships, centipede-like creatures, and a huge monster from the depths of the sea.__NEWL__Conan, however, emerges triumphant with each encounter.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6535598	Leviathan Wakes	2011-06-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36373870	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36373870	The ice hauling ship Canterbury (nicknamed the Cant by Belters) is en route from Saturn's Rings to Ceres Station when it encounters a distress signal.__NEWL__Five members of the Cant's crew are dispatched in a shuttle to investigate: executive officer James "Jim" Holden, a former officer in the UN Navy (UNN); chief engineer Naomi Nagata, a Belter; pilot Alex Kamal, a veteran of the Martian navy (MCRN); engineer Amos Burton; and medic Shed Garvey.__NEWL__They discover an abandoned transport vessel called the Scopuli.__NEWL__They find no trace of the ship's crew, but they do discover the beacon transmitting the distress signal.__NEWL__Suspecting that the ship may be a trap set by pirates, they take the beacon and begin returning to the Cant.__NEWL__Before they can make it, an unknown stealth warship arrives and, without warning, destroys the Cant with nuclear weapons.__NEWL__Holden sends an angry message to the attacking ship, but it ignores him and departs.__NEWL__Based on the highly advanced technology of the warship and the discovery that the beacon from the Scopuli is of Martian origin, the survivors suspect the MCRN of being behind the attack.__NEWL__With the shuttle damaged by the debris field, lacking the necessary fuel or supplies to reach a port, and fearful that should they put out a distress signal of their own, the attackers may return, Holden broadcasts a message out to the entire system implicating Mars in the destruction of the Cant, hoping to negate any attempt to kill them as part of a cover-up.__NEWL__In response, the shuttle is ordered to rendezvous with the MCRN battleship Donnager, flagship of Mars' Jupiter Fleet.__NEWL__En route, they receive a message from Fred Johnson, chief of Tycho Station, an engineering outpost and construction platform, offering his support.__NEWL__Johnson had been a highly decorated commander in the UNN when he was ordered to brutally quell a Belter uprising, for which he was nicknamed the "Butcher of Anderson Station.__NEWL__" Guilt-stricken, he had resigned his commission and become an advocate for the rights of Belters.__NEWL__As the shuttle makes its way to the rendezvous, they are pursued by a group of unknown ships.__NEWL__On Ceres Station, Belter detective Josephus "Joe" Miller of Star Helix Security, the Earth-based private security firm responsible for policing the station, is contracted to locate Julie Mao, daughter of wealthy magnate Jules-Pierre Mao, and send her back to her family on Luna against her will.__NEWL__When Holden's message reaches Ceres, riots erupt, which leads Miller to discover that the station's riot gear is missing.__NEWL__Aboard the Donnager, the ship's captain denies any knowledge of MCRN involvement in the attack on the Canterbury, and instead suspects that one or more of the survivors from the shuttle may have bombed the Cant as an act of OPA terrorism.__NEWL__The unknown ships that were pursuing the shuttle ignore warnings to change course and are fired on by the Donnager.__NEWL__To the surprise of the Martian crew, the ships return fire and are revealed to be the same stealth ships that attacked the Cant.__NEWL__Despite the fact that the Donnager is one of the most advanced and deadly warships in the Solar System, it is steadily overwhelmed by the mysterious enemy ships and eventually boarded.__NEWL__During the battle, a railgun round penetrates the hull, decapitating Shed.__NEWL__Realizing that the Cant survivors are the targets of the attack, a team of the Donnager's Marine contingent are ordered to evacuate them.__NEWL__Although all of the Martian Marines are killed in the process, the four surviving Cant crew members are able to escape aboard the corvette Tachi just before the Donnager is scuttled.__NEWL__Still unsure of who is trying to kill them, they decide to go to Tycho Station.__NEWL__There, the Cant survivors share what they've seen with Fred Johnson, who reveals that he is an influential member of the OPA.__NEWL__They receive new transponder codes for the Tachi from Fred, disguise the ship as a gas hauler, and rename it the Rocinante.__NEWL__Fred sends the Roci (as her crew nicknames her) to Eros Station to find an OPA operative working under the pseudonym Lionel Polanski.__NEWL__On Ceres, Miller has noticed an exodus of criminals from the station.__NEWL__He also discovers that Julie Mao's father had warned her of an attack in the Belt just two weeks before the destruction of the Cant.__NEWL__He is then confronted by Anderson Dawes, leader of the Ceres chapter of the OPA, who tells him that Julie Mao had joined the OPA and had disappeared while performing an important mission for them aboard the Scopuli.__NEWL__Dawes cautions Miller not to investigate the matter any further.__NEWL__Miller presents this information to his boss, Captain Shaddid, but she also instructs him to drop the case.__NEWL__Miller, however, finds himself obsessing over Julie and, when he persists, he is fired by Shaddid, who is revealed to be in collusion with Dawes.__NEWL__However, Miller is still able to access docking logs for all of the ports in the Belt, which he had been granted access to before his termination.__NEWL__Realizing that the Scopuli was the same ship mentioned in Holden's broadcast, he is able to discern that the Rocinante is the former Tachi from its registry information, and he departs for Eros.__NEWL__On Eros, Miller finds the crew of the Roci at a hotel where Lionel Polanski was listed as a guest.__NEWL__In Polanski's room, they find the body of Julie Mao covered in a strange organic growth.__NEWL__On her phone, Miller finds logs detailing the progression of her affliction, which seems to be fueled by exposure to energy and radiation, and the coordinates of an asteroid where one of the ships that attacked the Cant is docked.__NEWL__Before they can leave the station, a radiation alert is declared and station security begins herding people into radiation shelters.__NEWL__Miller recognizes some of the security officers as criminals from Ceres, who are wearing the missing Star Helix riot gear.__NEWL__He and Holden stay behind to investigate while the rest of the crew is sent back to the Roci.__NEWL__They discover that the people in the shelters have been dosed with an unknown substance and exposed to extremely high levels of radiation.__NEWL__As they make their way to the docks, they realize that the people in the shelters were infected with the same organism as Julie and the radiation was used to feed its rapid growth.__NEWL__They see the infected attacking the security forces and spreading the infection to anyone who had been able to avoid the radiation chambers.__NEWL__They escape as it is being overrun.__NEWL__Fred contacts Holden and tells him that analysis of a data chip belonging to one of the dead Marines from the Donnager reveals that the mysterious stealth ships were built on Luna.__NEWL__Holden makes another public broadcast sharing this information, hoping to ease the tensions created by his prior implicating of the MCRN.__NEWL__This strategy backfires, however, and the UN, fearing that they will be blamed for the attack on the Donnager, launch a preemptive strike against the MCRN by destroying Deimos, site of a Martian military installation, which results in a standoff between the two sides.__NEWL__Miller and the crew of the Roci follow the coordinates from Julie's phone and find one of the stealth ships, called the Anubis, abandoned.__NEWL__In the reactor room, they find that the same organic growth that was on Julie Mao's body has consumed the entire remaining crews of the Anubis and the Scopuli, whom they had taken prisoner.__NEWL__They find a video explaining that the organism is a biological replication mechanism created by extrasolar aliens and placed on Phoebe which was then launched into the Solar System with the intent of reaching Earth and hijacking its early biosphere in order to create something, but was captured by Saturn's gravity instead, thus sparing Earth.__NEWL__Protogen, the corporation who had discovered the entity on Phoebe and dubbed it the "protomolecule," orchestrated its release on Eros as an experiment, to try to find out what it was designed to do.__NEWL__They had carried out the false flag attack on the Cant in order to start a war that would distract the Solar System from what was happening on Eros.__NEWL__The Roci crew nuke the Anubis and return to Tycho Station, where they discover that data is being transmitted from Eros to a secret Protogen facility.__NEWL__They attack the station, with the Roci destroying the two stealth ships guarding it, and Miller and Fred leading a boarding party consisting of Fred's OPA soldiers, who are able to capture it.__NEWL__The lead scientist, Antony Dresden, reveals that all of the scientists on the station had been "modified to remove ethical restraints," so that they could emotionlessly perform their research without empathy for the victims on Eros.__NEWL__He emphasizes the importance of understanding the Protomolecule, not only for its innate scientific value, but to protect against the clear threat presented by the aliens who created it.__NEWL__Realizing that Dresden's rationale is likely to be accepted by the powers that be on Earth and Mars, and his horrific research allowed to continue, Miller shoots Dresden without warning, angering Holden. "__NEWL__He was going to get away with it," Miller explains later, "He was talking us into it.__NEWL__All that about getting the stars and protecting ourselves from whatever shot that thing at Earth?__NEWL__I was starting to think maybe he should get away with it.__NEWL__Maybe things were just too big for right and wrong."__NEWL__Back on Tycho, Miller and Fred come up with a plan to destroy Eros to prevent anyone else from trying to obtain a sample of the protomolecule.__NEWL__They intend to commandeer Tycho's main project, the massive Mormon generation ship Nauvoo, and crash it into Eros at the correct speed and angle to propel it into the Sun.__NEWL__Miller leads a team onto the exterior of Eros to plant bombs to detonate its ports, so that no one can get in and sample the protomolecule before it is destroyed.__NEWL__He then decides to stay behind and die when they go off.__NEWL__Just before the Nauvoo impacts the station, the trajectory of Eros is inexplicably altered.__NEWL__The Protomolecule has an advanced method of spaceflight that can negate g-force and inertia.__NEWL__Eros then sets out for Earth, the largest source of biomass in the Solar System, at a speed that no human-made ship can match.__NEWL__Miller takes one of the bombs into the station to attempt to destroy its maneuvering capabilities.__NEWL__However, listening to the voices on the communication system, he realizes that Eros is being guided by Julie Mao, who believes she is piloting her racing pinnace.__NEWL__He finds her infected body is the host in a parasitic relationship with the protomolecule.__NEWL__He is able to convince her to direct Eros away from Earth.__NEWL__The station crashes into the surface of Venus, where the Protomolecule begins assembling a new, unknown structure.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5158164	Conan the Gladiator	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36375866	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36375866	In the city of Thujara in Shem, Conan becomes involved in a street brawl and injures Roganthus, the strong man of a traveling circus troupe.__NEWL__A combination of regret over the troupe's loss and attraction for another member, the beautiful panther-trainer Sathilda, leads Conan to offer his own services as a stand-in for Roganthus.__NEWL__Joining the troupe, he accompanies them first to the town of Senjaj and then across the river Styx to Stygia, where they hope to become wealthy performing in the capital of Luxor.__NEWL__Stygia is usually depicted as a realm of decadent evil, crawling with sinister priests and sorcerers; in this novel, however, the local priests of Set are portrayed more as a fraternity of knowledge-seekers.__NEWL__Luxor is ruled by a tyrannical emperor, Commodorus, who forces Conan's troupe to fight for their lives in his arena against exotic warriors and wild beasts.__NEWL__Conan is disturbed at having to kill opponents with whom he feels some affinity, such as rebel Stygians and the Kushite Muzudaya.__NEWL__Soon, he's temporarily converted by a priest and fellow captive into an uncharacteristic pacifist.__NEWL__Exercising his military knowledge, he forms his fellow gladiators into a defensive phalanx at one point.__NEWL__The plot, seemingly building to a climactic final battle, is instead resolved by a catastrophic natural disaster, in the course of which Commodorus meets a fitting fate and much of Luxor is devastated.__NEWL__Everyone in Conan's troupe escapes from Luxor with the aid of a rebellious priest.__NEWL__In the wake of this event, Conan returns to Shem seeing different employment.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13265795	Canada	2012-06-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36511368	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36511368	After his parents are arrested for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is left to fend for himself.__NEWL__His twin sister Berner has run off, leaving him to a family friend who secrets him away to Saskatchewan, Canada.__NEWL__There Dell is to live with the American Arthur Remlinger, a man with a cool demeanor and a hidden inner violence that threatens Dell's well-being.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7602554	Starters	2012-03-12T00:00:00Z	36550777	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36550777	Starters takes place in a futuristic Los Angeles, where a biological weapon has killed everyone not vaccinated against it.__NEWL__The only ones that survive the attack are either under 20 or over 60 years of age, due to being given priority for the vaccine before the war.__NEWL__The term "Starters" refers to those under the age of 20, while "Enders" is used to describe the survivors over the age of 60.__NEWL__Because Starters are underage and not allowed to work, many of them are starving and desperate, not having funds to afford necessities.__NEWL__Some Starters have heard of an illegal way to earn money by allowing Enders to temporarily inhabit their bodies via a neuro-chip implanted by the Body Bank.__NEWL__Sixteen-year-old Callie is one such Starter, who has lived in abandoned buildings with her brother Tyler and friend Michael thus far to survive.__NEWL__When her temporary home is smoked out and cleared of people, she resorts to the Body Bank in order to provide for the three of them.__NEWL__She is startled to awaken in the life of a rich Ender after her neurochip malfunctions.__NEWL__Callie initially relishes the chance to live a lavish life where she wants for nothing and even finds herself dating the grandson of a U.S. Senator, but soon discovers that the Ender she's linked to has big plans to bring down the Body Bank, and not everyone she meets is what they seem.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7696226	Telegraph Avenue	2012-09-11T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36551772	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36551772	Set in 2004, Archy Stallings, who is black, and Nat Jaffe, who is Jewish, are proprietors of Brokeland Records, a record shop located in north Oakland for twelve years.__NEWL__Their used vinyl business is threatened by ex-NFL superstar Gibson Goode's planned construction of his second Dogpile Thang megastore two blocks away.__NEWL__They feel betrayed because their local city councilman, Chandler Flowers, has switched sides, and now supports Dogpile.__NEWL__A subplot concerns their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, who are partners in Berkeley Birth Partners, a midwifery business.__NEWL__A home birth goes wrong, the mother is rushed to the hospital, and the attending physician, after taking care of the mother, insults Gwen in a racially tinged manner.__NEWL__She blows up, and the doctor has the hospital start procedures to drop Gwen and Aviva's hospital privileges.__NEWL__Another storyline concerns Luther Stallings, Archy's father, an actor in blaxploitation films in the 70s.__NEWL__He was never a part of Archy's life, and Archy wants nothing to do with him.__NEWL__Luther has been in and out of jail and on and off drugs since his acting career ended, has been clean for over a year, and he keeps himself trim.__NEWL__He is involved with his former co-star Valetta Moore.__NEWL__Luther had been best friends with Chandler in the old days.__NEWL__Their friendship came to an end, after Luther abetted Chandler in the murder of a drug dealer.__NEWL__Luther is trying to exploit his knowledge in order to finance the making of a film.__NEWL__Another storyline concerns Julius Jaffe, Nat and Aviva's 14-year-old son, and his new best buddy, Titus Joyner, who has shown up from Texas after his grandmother died.__NEWL__Titus, it turns out, is Archy's long lost son.__NEWL__His arrival is the last straw in Gwen's relationship with Archy.__NEWL__Setting up a gig for a fundraiser for an Illinois politician, Barack Obama, running for U.S. Senate, Archy learns of the death of Cochise Jones, Archy's spiritual father, and Archy fills in.__NEWL__Obama is impressed with the performance, and tells Gwen he admires Archy's dedication to doing what he loves.__NEWL__Gwen takes those words to heart, and resolves to stand up for herself.__NEWL__The first stand she takes is to walk out on Archy.__NEWL__The funeral for Jones is held in the store.__NEWL__Plans are made, people get drunk, and the stage is set for shaking up everyone's future.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14554857	City of Heavenly Fire	2014-05-27T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36552470	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36552470	Shadowhunters of the Los Angeles Institute meet to discuss the army of Endarkened Shadowhunters when the army, led by Sebastian Morgenstern, ambush the Institute, endarken some shadowhunters, and kidnap Mark Blackthorn, leaving Mark's five half-siblings and Emma Carstairs to escape to Alicante.__NEWL__Maryse Lightwood announces to the New York Institute that an emergency meeting is due in Alicante to discuss the attack on five Institutes around the world.__NEWL__Clary Fray reluctantly leaves Simon Lewis to be guarded by Maia Roberts and Jordan Kyle for his safety.__NEWL__However, Simon is kidnapped by Maureen Brown and her vampire aides to be her groom, but Raphael Santiago frees and helps him to come to Alicante.__NEWL__Praetor Lupus, the brotherhood of werewolves, is soon attacked by the Endarkened with Jordan and Praetor Scott among the casualties, resulting in Bat Velasquez and Rufus Hastings battling for the position of pack leader.__NEWL__Rufus is about to deliver the death blow to Bat when Maia Roberts steps in and challenges Rufus.__NEWL__The vacuum of power is finally ended when Maia kills Rufus, becoming the new leader, and also tricks Maureen into drinking holy water so the latter's aide, Lily, can usurp her to become the leader of the vampire clan.__NEWL__At Alicante, Emma and Julian Blackthorn are interrogated using the Mortal Sword, Clary comforting the former when she breaks into tears.__NEWL__Choosing to accept her Morgenstern heritage, Clary claims Heosphoros, the twin of Sebastian's Phaesphoros, as her sword.__NEWL__The Seelie Queen, now allied with Sebastian, sends Meliorn to ask the Downworlder Representatives (Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Magnus Bane, and Raphael) to join them; when they refuse, he brings them to Edom, the realm of demons.__NEWL__Jace Herondale is injured during the ensuing conflict and burns Brother Zachariah back into his Shadowhunter persona.__NEWL__An Endarkened soon gives an ultimatum for the Clave to hand over Clary and Jace.__NEWL__Clary, Jace, Simon, and Isabelle and Alec Lightwood, force the Seelie Queen to send them to Edom.__NEWL__Confronting Sebastian, Clary pretends to agree to rule by his side, but then stabs him with Heosphoros, reverting him back momentarily to the brother she could have, Jonathan Morgenstern, who destroys the Infernal Cup before he dies, killing the Endarkened, including Luke's sister, Amatis.__NEWL__To escape Edom, Magnus summons his father, Asmodeus, who offers a way out in exchange for Magnus' immortality and life.__NEWL__Simon offers a lighter option: his immortality and memories of the Shadow World.__NEWL__The Clave punishes the faeries and sends Emma to live with the Blackthorns.__NEWL__Alec and Magnus reconcile and get back together.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Clary scatters Jonathan's ashes in Lake Lyn and mourns for Simon.__NEWL__Several months later, Jocelyn and Luke hold their wedding, attended by numerous Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike.__NEWL__Simon has remembered bits of the Shadow World as well as his relationship with Isabelle.__NEWL__Attending the wedding is also Tessa Gray and Brother Zachariah (whose identity is not revealed), both of them having formally introduced themselves to Clary.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6110912	Jack	1989-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36376568	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36376568	Jack is a 15-year-old boy who is dealing with the divorce of his parents Anne and Paul, as he starts to develop a crush on his friend Maggie.__NEWL__He must also deal with the subsequent revelation that his father Paul is gay and now living with a male partner after his separation from Anne.__NEWL__When news of his father's liaison spreads in his high school, Jack is bullied by some students.__NEWL__He learns that his friends also are dealing with difficult issues: Max reveals that his father beats his mother.__NEWL__Maggie has a gay father and shares her feelings about learning that.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7747386	The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection	2012-04-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36376887	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36376887	Precious Ramotswe is pressed by troubles of two people close to her.__NEWL__Mma Silvia Potokwane, who heads the orphan farm and Fanwell, the younger of the two assistant mechanics, both need help.__NEWL__The weight of serious problems for these friends seems to limit the ideas from her usually prolific mind.__NEWL__Then a stranger from America appears at her office to say hello, none other than Clovis Andersen, the author of the book on which she and Mma Makutsi rely for good advice.__NEWL__Recently widowed, he is in the country to visit a friend who is setting up public libraries in Botswana.__NEWL__Mma Makutsi is married to Phuti Radiphuti, and Phuti is watching the progress of the new house being built for them.__NEWL__Mma Potokwane is dismissed from her position at the orphan farm by the board, which has decided to build a central cafeteria in place of meals cooked and served at the homes by the housemothers.__NEWL__She and the housemothers feel this new building will ruin the children's lives, allowing no time together over meals.__NEWL__Mma Potokwane sees no way around this dismissal and tries to move on with her life.__NEWL__Clovis Andersen suggests they follow the money, that is, learn who is to gain by getting the contract to build this unwanted cafeteria.__NEWL__Then Fanwell agrees to repair a vehicle for a friend, which the friend claims he bought from someone and plans to sell it on.__NEWL__The friend is dealing in stolen vehicles, and the police arrest both of them.__NEWL__This arrest shakes Fanwell to his core.__NEWL__The garage and the detective agency are upset.__NEWL__He did not know it was a stolen vehicle until the police told him it was.__NEWL__Mr J L B Matekoni finds a lawyer for his assistant, but the lawyer proves to be incompetent, which is humorous except when Fanwell is relying on him.__NEWL__Mma Ramotswe persuades Mma Potokwane to return to town from her lands, after a harrowing journey on a track that mires her little white van in sand enough to cover the tires.__NEWL__She has some ideas forming after speaking with the board member who wants this cafeteria built, Mr Ditso Ditso.__NEWL__He allows the visit rapidly as he fears he is being investigated by the government.__NEWL__He relaxes when he realizes that Mma Ramotswe and Clovis Andersen are there to discuss Mma Potokwane.__NEWL__He gets tense again when the topic of the building is brought up.__NEWL__Andersen notices these changes in his behavior, concluding that the man has something to hide.__NEWL__On the day Fanwell appears in magistrate court, Charlie, the other assistant, communicates by signs to the other defendant, who abruptly changes his plea from not guilty to guilty, and states clearly that Fanwell had no knowledge that the vehicle was stolen.__NEWL__Fanwell is free.__NEWL__Returning to Mma Potokwane's situation, they visit the secretary who serves both Mma Potokwane and the board, pressing her to show them the documents for the proposed cafeteria.__NEWL__They learn that multiple bids were submitted, competitive in price, but that the contract was given to a different firm, at a price 50% higher than the bids.__NEWL__The contractor is the brother of Violet Sephoto.__NEWL__Mma Makutsi joins the other two detectives to visit Mma Soleti (Nails) at her salon, where the owner knows that Violet is the mistress of Mr Ditso Ditso.__NEWL__The three proceed to visit him a second time.__NEWL__Andersen notes that he is not on strong ground giving an overpriced contract to the brother of his mistress.__NEWL__Mma Ramotswe makes it clear what Ditso must do: resign from the board, cancel the contract for the construction, make a donation to the orphan farm and cancel the dismissal of Mma Potokwane.__NEWL__Mma Ramotswe is regaining her insightful ways with people as this case comes to its denouement.__NEWL__Andersen visits Grace and Phuti for dinner, where in conversation the idea of an academy for private detection, with Andersen as the teacher, is proposed.__NEWL__Phuti speaks with a worker at their house under construction to learn that the contractor was using bricks paid for by Phuti, on his own new house; the worker gives him a guide on how to recoup his money.__NEWL__Andersen then visits Mma Ramotswe to learn the plants in her garden.__NEWL__She now offers help to him, in his sorrow at the loss of his wife.__NEWL__She does not accept his self description as a nobody, who printed those books himself, selling few.__NEWL__She talks of the importance of remembering the late people in one's life and keeping in mind that they would want you to be happy, keep living.__NEWL__He is ready to return to Muncie, Indiana.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17026238	A Walk in Wolf Wood	1980-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	36599462	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36599462	John and Margaret Begbie are two adolescent siblings from England vacationing in Germany with their parents.__NEWL__While resting at the edge of an area of the Black Forest, which is named "Wolfenwald" ("Wolf Wood"), they suddenly see a strange man dressed in archaic garments running past them, weeping.__NEWL__Curious, and with their parents distracted, they follow him and soon come upon a gold medal they saw around the stranger's neck and which he lost in his flight.__NEWL__Then they follow his trail to an ancient, derelict cottage in the forest, where they find the stranger's clothes under the bed.__NEWL__Dusk suddenly falls, and the two children are menaced by a huge wolf appearing at the hut.__NEWL__John chases it away by hurling the medal at him, and he and Margaret run back to their campsite, only to find their parents and the car mysteriously missing.__NEWL__After settling down for the night, in the hopes their parents will return soon, they are woken at dawn by the re-appearance of the wolf being chased by a medieval-looking hunting party.__NEWL__After Margaret sends them the wrong way, and noting more and more features in the surrounding area changing gradually, the children begin to believe that they have been caught in some sort of weird dream.__NEWL__Lacking an alternative, they return to the cottage, where they are surprised to find it inhabited by the weeping stranger.__NEWL__The latter introduces himself as Mardian, a courtier and close friend to one Duke Otho, the ruler of these parts, and explains that he is the wolf the children have encountered.__NEWL__Five years previously, Duke Otho was wounded in battle and since then rendered unable to walk, even though by all rights he should have fully recovered.__NEWL__Otho became bitter towards Mardian, who had to stand in for him since that time, a sentiment which attracted Almeric, an evil, ambitious nobleman and enchanter at Otho's court.__NEWL__Lusting after the Duke's wealth and lands, he tried to gain Mardian's aid in his schemes, but failed.__NEWL__After unsuccessfully attempting to assassinate him, Almeric used his knowledge of the black arts to curse Mardian into becoming a wolf every night and to turn himself into Mardian's doppelgänger.__NEWL__Mardian suspects that Almeric will soon murder Otho (whom he has been slowly poisoning) and the Duke's son, Crispin, to assume the Duke's title for himself, and that John and Margaret were transported into his era by the power of trust and fidelity between Mardian and Otho, symbolized by the near-identical amulets they are wearing, in order to set things right.__NEWL__After hearing this story, John and Margaret pledge themselves to Mardian's cause.__NEWL__After being given clothes matching this timeline and getting explained how to help him, the children lock themselves away while Mardian turns into his wolf form upon nightfall.__NEWL__After sating his animalistic bloodthirst on a kill in the forest, Mardian leads John and Margaret to the Duke's still-ruined castle and into a secret room ony he and Otho knew about, before leaving them with his amulet and with a previously arranged promise to return the following night.__NEWL__The next morning, the magic transition is complete, and John and Margaret emerge into a castle bustling with medieval life.__NEWL__While John ends up as one of the pages serving the castle's inhabitants, Margaret is collared and put into the castle's nursery.__NEWL__In the gardens, she incidentally overhears a conversation between Almeric and Crispin, who is suspecting that his father's unnatural illness must be linked to the wolf (Mardian) he's been hunting.__NEWL__After nearly being recognized by a lady at court who was part of the hunting party, Margaret confines herself to the secret room.__NEWL__The same evening, Hans encounters Justin, Duke Otho's personal page who has been roughed up by his jealous peers.__NEWL__Seizing his chance, John trades clothes with Justin to bring Mardian's amulet to the Duke.__NEWL__At first he tries to do so surreptitiously, but is found out.__NEWL__After he manages to present the amulet and Mardian's tale to the Duke, Otho snaps out of his poison-induced daze and takes charge to arrest Almeric for his treachery.__NEWL__However, in the meantime Almeric comes to the secret room (which he somehow found out about and which he has been using as his secret laboratory), captures Margaret and discovers her connection with Mardian.__NEWL__When the werewolf returns, Almeric takes Margaret hostage, but John and Duke Otho's arrival foils his attempt to leave Mardian to be slain by the castle guards.__NEWL__Otho has the wolf and Almeric brought to the surface, where with the sunrise Mardian is turned back to his human self.__NEWL__Almeric is accidentally exposed to the magic powder he used to curse Mardian, is turned into a werewolf himself and flees.__NEWL__With Almeric's poisons fading, the Duke regains his ability to walk and joyfully reunites with Mardian.__NEWL__After a celebration and a farewell to Mardian, John and Margaret leave the castle and abruptly find themselves back in their own time, just as their parents are packing up to continue the trip.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5050817	The Sea Lady	1902-07-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	36572720	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36572720	The intricately narrated story involves a mermaid who comes ashore on the southern coast of England in 1899.__NEWL__Feigning a desire to become part of genteel society (under the alias "Miss Doris Thalassia Waters"), the mermaid's real design is to seduce Harry Chatteris, a man she saw "some years ago" in "the South Seas—near Tonga," who has taken her fancy.__NEWL__This she reveals in a conversation with the narrator's second cousin Melville, a friend of the family who adopts "Miss Waters".__NEWL__As a supernatural being, she is unimpressed with the fact that Chatteris is engaged to the socially-minded Miss Adeline Glendower and is trying to make amends for his wastrel youth by entering politics.__NEWL__With mere words, the mermaid shakes both Chatteris and Melville's faith in their society's norms and expectations, enigmatically telling them that "there are better dreams".__NEWL__In the end, Chatteris is unable to resist her alluring charms, though succumbing supposedly means his death.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7843824	Triptych	2011-04-09T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	36589596	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36589596	Before The novel begins in a small Welsh town in 2013, where Basil Grey, a mechanical engineer and a member of the United Nation's run Institute, has just witnessed his lover, an alien named Kalp, being shot to death in their living room.__NEWL__Basil's coworkers, led by Agent Aitken, shot him for a traitor and a spy, and drag Basil out of the house and to the Institute's interrogation rooms.__NEWL__He is joined by his wife, Gwen Pierson, and as she tries to convince him that Kalp had betrayed them, Basil has a revelation about a small mechanical device he had seen in the Institutes workrooms, which he has nicknamed a "Flasher".__NEWL__Part I: Back Narrated by Evvie Pierson, the first part of the book opens on a fall day in 1983 on the Pierson Family farm.__NEWL__Evvie's gardening is interrupted when an alien spaceship crash lands in her raspberry patch and the pilot attempts to murder both her and her infant daughter, Gwennie.__NEWL__They are saved by Basil Grey and an adult Gwen Pierson, who didn't realize that the Flasher would make them travel backwards in time.__NEWL__Over the course of twenty four hours, Basil attempts to repair the Flasher so they can make a return trip to the 21st Century; Gwen, Basil, and her father Mark bury both the body of the alien pilot and the space ship; and Gwen reveals to Evvie that they have a tumultuous relationship in the future and that Gwen has stopped speaking to her mother.__NEWL__Evvie blames herself and resolves to do her best to repair the rift when Gwen has grown up.__NEWL__Gwen also reveals that she was married to both Kalp and Basil in a triad relationship called an Aglunate, a tradition of Kalp's people, but that Kalp was killed for selling secrets about the Institute to a group of assassins who are targeting Institute employees.__NEWL__With the help Evvie, Basil and Gwen realize that the assassins are time travelling to target Aglunated Institute Employees and as such, Kalp can't have been the traitor.__NEWL__Overwhelmed with relief and grieving their lost lover, Basil and Gwen return to 2013 to clear Kalp's name and to try to locate the actual traitor.__NEWL__Evvie writes a letter to Kalp, intending to warn him of his impending death in an effort to change the future.__NEWL__Part II: Middle Told from Kalp's POV, this section encompasses his first meeting with Basil and Gwen (who are already dating and living together) at the Institute through to his death.__NEWL__Kalp is assigned to a team with Gwen and Basil, who are working together to try to build a solar power generator based on shared alien technology.__NEWL__Over the course of the section, it is revealed that Kalp's home planet was destroyed in a natural disaster and a very small ship of refugees was able to escape and seek asylum on Earth.__NEWL__Kalp's family – his Agulnates Maru and Trus – were among the dead.__NEWL__Kalp had volunteered to work at the Institute, which was set up by the United Nations in an effort to aid the aliens in acclimatizing to human cultures.__NEWL__Overwhelmed by the kindness shown to him by Basil and Gwen, Kalp soon falls in love with the couple and moves in with them.__NEWL__He convinces them to become his lovers on Christmas Eve, several hours after Gwen has revealed that she has fallen pregnant with Basil's child.__NEWL__There is an extremely negative media backlash to their Aglunation, and as a result the Aglunate is attacked outside of a concert hall.__NEWL__Gwen loses the baby and Kalp is grievously injured.__NEWL__An unknown assassins group begins to target Institute Employees, and Kalp is suspected of selling Institute training secrets to the group and placed under house arrest.__NEWL__Kalp receives a vaguely threatening letter from an anonymous stranger and decides that he must attempt to escape the Institute and clear his name.__NEWL__He is, however, caught by Agent Aitken and shot.__NEWL__Part III: After Basil and Gwen have returned to 2013 twenty four hours after they left.__NEWL__At first they are taken into custody for being AWOL and theft, but they eventually convince the Institute of both Kalp's innocence and their own.__NEWL__They are allowed to join a secret ops mission to break the assassin's circle and capture the ring leaders.__NEWL__During the assault, Gwen and Basil stumble upon a warehouse where exactly the same alien ship that they shot down in 1983 is preparing to travel back in time.__NEWL__They are surprised by the pilot – not an alien after all, but Agent Aitken, who reveals that she is both the mastermind behind the assassins circle and the traitor.__NEWL__She is an extreme bigot and zealot and has vowed to purge the world of the disgusting, unnatural people who participate in Aglunates, and has figured out how to use the alien technology to travel in time to kill those who accept and love the aliens before they can grow up and pervert the Institute.__NEWL__Gwen is injured in the attempt to stop her, and Basil unsuccessful at destroying the ship.__NEWL__He is, however, able to sabotage it.__NEWL__He then realizes that Agent Aitken has travelled back to the Pierson Farm in 1983, where he and Gwen will shoot the ship down and kill Aitken before the rogue agent has the ability to murder infant Gwennie.__NEWL__Next Basil and Gwen travel to the Pierson Farm in 2013 to retrieve the buried space ship and Aitken's remains.__NEWL__They travel alone in order to maintain their privacy and to keep media speculation to a minimum before the trial of the remaining assassins.__NEWL__After they have unburied the space ship, Mark coerces Basil to join him in mucking out barn.__NEWL__They discuss Basil's intentions towards Gwen, and Mark reminds Basil that he owes him a favour for destroying their betamax.__NEWL__Mark then offers Basil a family heirloom ring with which he'd like Basil to propose marriage to Gwen.__NEWL__Basil decides that he will, both in memory of Kalp and in order to open a new chapter in their lives where the shadow of the tragedy can finally be left behind.__NEWL__As he approaches the farm house with the ring, Basil catches sight of Evvie and Gwen's tearful reconciliation through the kitchen window.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13580871	Cry Wolf	1976-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q258	South Africa	36590556	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36590556	The plot is set minorly in Dar-es-Salaam and majorly in the Ethiopian desert-lands sometime in the 1930s, just as the Axis powers were starting to pursue their colonial ambitions.__NEWL__The novel starts off in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania.__NEWL__Jake Barton, an engineer from Texas, and Major Gareth Swales, a British hustler, form an uneasy alliance in order to refurbish four armoured cars which Swales is planning to sell to an Ethiopian prince, Lij Mikhael.__NEWL__During their meeting and proposed selling, they meet the American reporter Victoria "Vicky" Campbell and both the men are smitten at once.__NEWL__Later the Lij tells them that he is buying the armoured cars as well the ammunition to fight the Italians, who are planning an invasion of Ethiopia, but owing to an international embargo imposed on Ethiopia, he can not import weapons by himself and consequently asks Swales to smuggle the cars into Ethiopia via French and British Somaliland.__NEWL__He also dispatches the services of his nephew Gregarious to help.__NEWL__Vicky also volunteers to help.__NEWL__The four of them ship the cars in a slave ship, then drive it from the seashore across the desert to the Ethiopian highlands, where they are met by the Ras Gholum and the Ethiopian people.__NEWL__On the Italian side, Colonel Count Aldo Belli has been ordered the task of securing the Wells of Chaldi, a seemingly barren piece of land where it seems there will be no action taking place, in order to remove him from the more important locations which require more battle-hardened personnel, contrary to the Count who gets the position owing to his proximity to Mussolini.__NEWL__He sets off to the Wells, engaging in all forms of luxury at the cost of time and hardships for his comrades, and with the help of his trusted Major Luigi Castelani, manages to engage the Ethiopians in an ambush, and inflates the amount of losses caused by him and his men.__NEWL__The Lij then requests Barton and Swales to stay and help the Ethiopians, in the process enlisting the help of another Ras.__NEWL__Unknowing to him, this Ras has betrayed him to the Italians.__NEWL__After a whirlwind of events, Vicky starts falling in love with Jake.__NEWL__The Italians, on the other hand, start their invasion plans.__NEWL__At the end, with all the best efforts of the Ethiopians, the Italians break down their defences and reach the town of Sardi, which had been the rally point for the protagonists.__NEWL__With nowhere to go, Vicky, Sara, Gregarious and Jake get into the plane, with a severely injured Gareth who was shot by the invading Italian forces.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7736527	The Girl Who Could Fly	2008-06-24T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36446766	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36446766	Piper McCloud is a schooled farm girl who lives in Hoghland County with her parents, Betty and Josh McCloud.__NEWL__She is characterized as talkative and imaginative.__NEWL__Her parents shield her from the outside world because Piper has the innate ability to float.__NEWL__This power was discovered when she was a baby by Betty, who believes it is karmic punishment because she was too old for children when Piper was born.__NEWL__After noticing that baby birds learn to fly from being pushed out of the nest, Piper decides to jump off of the roof.__NEWL__This works and she discovers she has the ability to fly as well as float.__NEWL__This worries her mother, and Piper is forbidden from continuing her pursuit of flying.__NEWL__Disregarding this, Piper perfects her flying in secret.__NEWL__Betty later tells Piper that they'll be going to the Fourth of July picnic.__NEWL__This excites Piper, since it is her first social event (and chance to make friends) outside of church.__NEWL__However, Millie Mae Miller, the McClouds' neighbor and local gossip, has spread a rumor that Piper is mentally unwell and that's why she isn't allowed to go to school.__NEWL__Piper meets a girl named Sally Sue, and the two begin to become friends.__NEWL__Before this friendship can grow, Sally Sue is revealed to be Millie Mae's daughter, and begins being rude to Piper over the rumors.__NEWL__Piper lashes out and reveals she saw Millie Mae kick the Millers' dog.__NEWL__Sally Sue is scared and - not knowing that Piper can fly - thinks she is spying on her family.__NEWL__After this debacle, the children organize a baseball game, for which Piper is picked last.__NEWL__Piper embarrasses herself when she continuously misses the ball during the game, which delights Millie Mae and seems to make Betty and Joe feel bad.__NEWL__Determined to prove herself, Piper flies into the air to catch a fly ball.__NEWL__Everyone falls silent and fearful, grabbing their children and leaving the scene.__NEWL__The next morning, Piper finds her house surrounded by reporters trying to get the latest scoop on 'The Girl Who Could Fly'.__NEWL__A bodyless voice (later revealed to be J) tries to communicate with Piper in her room.__NEWL__The McCloud family is soon contacted by Dr. Letitia Hellion, the head of an organization called I.N.S.A.N.E. (Institute of Normality, Stability, And Non- Exceptionality).__NEWL__After a visit from Dr. Hellion, Piper eventually agrees to reside in the academy and board, on the condition that she does not fly.__NEWL__Her father gives her a hand carved bird tied to a blue ribbon wrapped in a handkerchief before she leaves as something to remember him by.__NEWL__When she does arrive, she enters the school and takes the elevator down to Level Thirteen with Dr. Hellion, who explains that not only do they foster humans, but plants and animals with unique abilities as well.__NEWL__Piper is given a uniform and asked about food preferences before arriving at Level Thirteen, where all the children live and learn.__NEWL__She meets the other members of the academy as well, including Ahmed and Nalen Mustafa (who can control the weather), Bella Lovely (who can change the color of objects), Boris Yeltsinov (who can turn objects to stone), Conrad Harrington III (who has super-human intelligence), Daisy (who has super-strength), Jasper (who does not know his ability), Kimber (who can manipulate electricity), Lily Yakimoto (who has telekinesis), Myrtle Grabtrash (who has super-human speed), Smitty (who has x-ray vision), and Violet (who shrinks or grows based on her emotional state).__NEWL__All of the students are hostile to Piper at first, but after outwitting Lily, she earns most of their respect.__NEWL__Conrad, however, is still openly hostile to her and the rest of the class.__NEWL__One mealtime, Bella is seen making rainbows.__NEWL__At first, everyone cheers, until they realize Bella is crying.__NEWL__Conrad had told her the nefarious true intentions of I.N.S.A.E. (to eradicate their gifts), and Bella is not able to cope with this.__NEWL__She has a nervous break, forgets her powers, and it announced she will be sent home.__NEWL__Piper bonds with Dr. Hellion and the kids but at the graduation of now powerless Bell, Conrad finally pushes her to her tipping point.__NEWL__He steals her hand-carved bird and throws down the chute to the incinerator.__NEWL__She attacks Conrad and they are both sent to Dr. Hellion's office.__NEWL__While on their way, Piper escapes to the incinerator and meets a growling rose, which a machine nearby sprays a gray, acidic substance on.__NEWL__She meets a turtle with a heavy block crushing its back.__NEWL__Piper decides to leave her bird and save the animals.__NEWL__She frees the turtle who leaps into the air, escaping out of a window.__NEWL__Whilst trying to catch it, Piper finds a black cricket and finds he is being bound with sticky glue.__NEWL__Using some Q tips, she gets rid of the glue and takes the cricket, which she names Sebastian.__NEWL__She hears two adults coming and hides in a dark room, where she finds a chained giraffe.__NEWL__She strokes it lovingly and it glows in happiness.__NEWL__While hiding, she hears Dr. Hellion's voice.__NEWL__When the scientists find the black cricket missing, CCTV reveals Piper took it.__NEWL__Dr. Hellion walks to her office, thinking Piper is there.__NEWL__Piper flies with difficulty to the woman's office and spots a phone, which she uses to dial her Ma and__NEWL__Pa. Conrad ends the call and dissects the phone, proving it to be bugged.__NEWL__He hands her her wooden bird and explains he made a replica and threw the replica in the trash.__NEWL__He tells her to keep the cricket and play along.__NEWL__Conrad immediately blurts to Dr. Hellion that Piper was hiding something, and tells her Bella took a black cricket and let Piper touch it.__NEWL__Dr. Hellion questions him about the fight over him throwing Piper's bird in the trash, which he denies and Piper holds her bird up.__NEWL__After lights out, Conrad explains that the academy, called I.N.S.A.N.E, tries to make everything that walks through its doors normally.__NEWL__Through the food, they give the children a unique formula tailored to deactivate their abilities.__NEWL__They do the same thing with the animals and plants, and if all fails, I.N.S.A.N.E. destroys them.__NEWL__Conrad was only picking on Piper so she could wake up and fly.__NEWL__Piper refuses to escape with him unless the rest are going, and begins to encourage them to dream about using their talents in a good way.__NEWL__The only person she can't get an answer out of is Jasper, who is scheduled to graduate soon (students graduate once they have fully lost their power).__NEWL__Conrad and Piper tell the kids about I.N.S.A.N.E. and plan an escape.__NEWL__The escape plan fails and Dr. Hellion puts Piper in a M.O.L.D.__NEWL__(Molecular Orientating Limitation Device), then leaves to wait for Piper to succumb.__NEWL__A man with the power of invisibility known as J reveals himself and tries to get Piper out, but she refuses and J leaves.__NEWL__Sebastian comes and sings to her, revealing his talent, but is effectively killed by Dr. Hellion with agent A's shoe, which causes Piper to blackout.__NEWL__Afterward, it is revealed that Conrad had betrayed his classmates.__NEWL__Dr. Hellion has found out about the students’ escape plan and threatened Conrad to remove his frontal lobe.__NEWL__He makes a deal with Dr. Hellion that if he tells her the details of the escape plan, he will be released from I.N.S.A.N.E. However, Dr. Hellion tricked Conrad, stating that since a guardian's signature is required to permit his leaving and that she was placed as his caretaker by his father, Conrad could not leave.__NEWL__Conrad is confused about how he could have possibly failed and isolates himself.__NEWL__He realizes that he has the most likely answers to questions, but not the right ones.__NEWL__Piper arrives a few weeks later and Conrad wakes from weeks of lying in bed, thinking that she might know the answers.__NEWL__The kids find that Piper has forgotten who she was and is physically disabled.__NEWL__Later, when the students tried to escape again, they struggle about what to do with Piper.__NEWL__Conrad announces that he'll stay behind Piper to confront authorities.__NEWL__Jasper refuses and finally remembers his talent, which is healing.__NEWL__He heals Piper and she remembers herself and how to fly.__NEWL__They revolt instead of escape, which seems to succeed.__NEWL__Conrad then tries to convince his father, an important politician, to give ownership of the school to the kids.__NEWL__As the children are leaving the school to catch a glimpse of the sun, Dr. Hellion is waiting for them with a stun baton.__NEWL__Piper and Dr. Hellion fight and Dr. Hellion grabs Piper's leg as she flies off, leading to Dr. Hellion uncovering she also has the ability to fly.__NEWL__She expresses guilt over the death of her sister, Sarah, who fell to her death after Letitia carried her into the sky.__NEWL__Piper is not able to convince the woman to re-embrace her abilities and Dr. Hellion falls to her death.__NEWL__I.N.S.A.N.E. becomes a safe-haven for plants and animals with special abilities under the guidance of the former students.__NEWL__Piper reunites with Joe and Betty, who come to accept her ability to fly.__NEWL__Several months later, Conrad joins Piper as a part of her family, being abandoned by his own.__NEWL__Later, after the gifted children help Piper win the Lowland County Fourth of July Baseball game, Conrad and Piper are talking on the roof.__NEWL__Piper reveals to him that J came to her and told her that the kids from I.N.S.A.N.E. were not safe yet, and there was another, hidden place where they belonged instead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5912077	Hotel Vendome	2011-11-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36456327	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36456327	This novel tells the story of Hugues Martin, a graduate of the prestigious École hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland.__NEWL__He owns the Hotel Vendome, an illustrious hotel located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5188690	Crossings	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36456524	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36456524	The ship Normandie makes a voyage from Washington, D.C. to France despite an impending war.__NEWL__Aboard the ship is American Liane de Villiers, the young wife of an old ambassador to France.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7110751	Our Lady of Alice Bhatti	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z	36459420	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36459420	The story revolves around the everyday life of a Christian nurse working in a government hospital in the Pakistani city of Karachi.__NEWL__The author explained that it was a love story, but some critics suggested that the novel is also a statement on the plight of religious minorities living in Pakistan.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4631472	2312	2012-05-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36390851	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36390851	The novel is set in the year 2312, in the great city of Terminator on Mercury, which is built on gigantic tracks in order to constantly stay in the planet's habitable zone near the terminator.__NEWL__Swan Er Hong, an artist and former asteroid terrarium designer, is grieving over the sudden death of her step-grandmother, Alex, who was very influential among the inhabitants of Terminator.__NEWL__After the funeral procession, a conference is held among the family and the close friends of Alex, some of whom Swan has never heard of.__NEWL__This includes Fitz Wahram, a native of the moon Titan, whom Swan dislikes.__NEWL__Following the conference, Swan decides to head out to Io to visit another friend of Alex's, called Wang, who has designed one of the largest qubes, or quantum computers.__NEWL__While Swan is visiting Wang on Io, an apparent attack of some sort fails.__NEWL__An attack on Terminator shortly follows; a meteorite of artificial origin destroys the city's tracks, stopping the city and exposing it to sun, essentially cooking it.__NEWL__As Swan travels, she learns more of the mystery surrounding her grandmother's death and the destruction of her home-city of Terminator.__NEWL__With Wahram and Genette, Swan travels throughout the solar system and investigates an escalating series of conspiracies.__NEWL__Inspector Genette eventually discovers how the artificial meteorite that destroyed Terminator was created: someone launched a large number of smaller objects on trajectories that would eventually cause them to coalesce above Mercury, but low enough that the planet's defense system could not destroy the now large object in time.__NEWL__The complexity of the attack leads her to determine that quantum computers must have been used.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Swan and Wahram become involved in restoring and re-wilding the climate-change-ravaged Earth by returning thousands of species from space-based temporary environments to their home environments on the Earth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7702610	Terminal	2013-05-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	36620726	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36620726	The book begins with Jiggs in the inner world discovering that Drake is still alive, but has been affected by the nuclear radiation from the explosion at the end of Spiral.__NEWL__He also finds the burnt body of Rebecca One lying near Drake.__NEWL__Jiggs rescues Drake and carries him to the Topsoil.__NEWL__At the same time, Elliott and Will are trapped in the inner world, in the destroyed city of New Germania.__NEWL__They meet three New Germanians who have survived the virus released in the inner world and, along with them and a Bushman called Woody, they go to explore one of the Pyramids from the jungle.__NEWL__Also, they find out that the Bushmen are part Styx (because they speak the Styx language at a much higher pitch).__NEWL__After they get into the Pyramid, something unexpected happens as Elliott touches a trident sign (like the ones that Dr. Burrows and Will found on their first exploration of the Pyramid).__NEWL__The Pyramid vanishes into thin air and an enormous tower appears out of nowhere in the jungle.__NEWL__Elliott senses that there is something missing from the tower, then she and Will find out that at the top of the tower there is a portal to Topsoil, and so they teleport themselves to London.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Chester is Topsoil with Stephanie, Old Wilkie, and Parry.__NEWL__Still grieving over the deaths of his parents during Professor Danforth's betrayal in the previous book, he discovers that Parry is still allied with Danforth and the death of his parents was being part of a plan.__NEWL__He then runs away from the others with Martha.__NEWL__Danforth is infiltrated within the Styx, but he soon finds out that, after he is no longer needed, he is sentenced to death by the Styx.__NEWL__He manages to save his life, taking prisoners Rebecca Two and her crush (Franz, the New Germanian driver).__NEWL__Now that they are finally Topsoil, Will and Elliott go to the British Museum because Elliott feels that she might find something very important there.__NEWL__She proves to be right__NEWL__and she finds a sceptre emanating a blue glow.__NEWL__When she and Will want to get out of the museum, they find themselves surrounded by Armagi.__NEWL__A tank driven by Drake and Jiggs suddenly appears.__NEWL__Elliott is saved, but Will is caught by the Styx.__NEWL__Elliott senses that she has to go to St. Paul's Cathedral, as she somehow knows that by doing this she might put an end to the threat of the Armagi, who seem to be moving towards the rest of the world to conquer it.__NEWL__While Elliott, Drake and Jiggs are inside St. Paul's, Parry, Danforth and his team are watching them from the buildings around.__NEWL__As Danforth goes towards St. Paul's, trying to get through the Armagi, he is surrounded by Chester, Stephanie and Martha.__NEWL__Chester tries to kill Danforth but he is stopped by Stephanie and Martha.__NEWL__He gets angry and says some rude words to Martha, who kills him with her crossbow, then is elevated in the air and taken away by the Brights.__NEWL__Elliott uses the sceptre and the dome of St. Paul's disappears just like the Pyramid from the inner world.__NEWL__Some Styx (including Rebecca Two and Alex) appear, carrying Will as a prisoner.__NEWL__Alex lays her eggs inside Will, in the view of everyone.__NEWL__As he tries to save Will, Drake gets shot and killed by two Limiters.__NEWL__Saving the situation, Elliott strikes the ground with the sceptre and all of the Armagi and Styx (including Elliott) get teleported inside the inner world, where they will all be killed by the virus, except for the vaccinated Elliott.__NEWL__At the end of the book, Will finds himself inside a topsoil hospital, reunited with his mother and with Bartleby, one of the original Bartleby's kittens, who resembles his father.__NEWL__Elliott, who was trapped inside the Tower from the inner world, puts the sceptre in its place in the tower and suddenly the earth starts to move and get away from the Solar System.__NEWL__It is revealed that the Earth is a huge spaceship sent on a mission and, because the sceptre was stolen, the spaceship remained trapped in the Solar system.__NEWL__Now that the sceptre is again in its place, Earth starts its journey again towards Home.__NEWL__Will also finds out that, even though the eggs were removed, they may have turned him into a Styx.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7762189	The Samurai Kill	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z	36543134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36543134	A biological weapon of unknown species attacks scuba divers in the Pacific Ocean, killing them with its sting before disappearing.__NEWL__It manifests as green vegetation.__NEWL__Nobody knows where it came from, or its motive.__NEWL__It sabotages top secret U.S. installations operating a "Star Wars"-type project, and destroys a Soviet spy ship.__NEWL__The lifeform inflames the tension between the United States and Russia.__NEWL__Nick Carter is fast on the tracks of the mysterious force, but a plot has already been triggered.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7130575	Pandemonium	2012-02-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36545012	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36545012	The book follows up the events of Delirium.__NEWL__Lena is now in the Wilds alone, and the sequel begins by switching the chapters from the present "now" and the past "then" point of view of Lena until they are joined together in Chapter 13.__NEWL__Unfortunately for her, the Wilds are less wonderful than she thought.__NEWL__She becomes very weak and is found nearly dead by a group of people.__NEWL__She is helped her back to health by the group, which takes place as her new family.__NEWL__She is now free of the "cure," but she and her acquaintances decide that they must do the same for everyone else and restore society to its former state.__NEWL__That is easier said than done, as Lena and her group have much standing in their way.__NEWL__The book also follows Lena in her life while she lives in New York City with two other characters from the Wilds: Raven and Tack.__NEWL__She is part of the DFA, the Deliria Free America, and during one of its rallies, she is kidnapped by other Invalids, called Scavengers, and held in captive with Julian Fineman, the leader of the youth division of the DFA.__NEWL__Julian is unable to receive the procedure because he has a brain tumor.__NEWL__With the memory of Alex's sacrifice in mind, she navigates her way out of the place with Julian.__NEWL__Lena slowly begins to fall in love with Julian as he begins to tell more about his abusive father, his real thoughts in the disease, and why he really joined the DFA.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1193957	The Golden Volcano	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	36473072	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36473072	Two Canadians, Summy Skim and Ben Raddle, are unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike.__NEWL__They encounter many things such as disaster, disease, and extreme weather.__NEWL__On the way back to Montreal, where the two cousins reside, Ben Raddle and Summy Skim are trapped in a large flood that floods the entire Klondike.__NEWL__Ben has a disease and a broken leg, and needs to be taken to the hospital to be seen by the trustful Dr. Pilcox.__NEWL__Summy Skim and their guide, Bill Steel, bring the unfortunate man to the hospital, where he is healed a few months later.__NEWL__On the way out to a hunt, Summy Skim, Bill Steel, and the trusted Indian, Neluto, discover a man, torn apart, and lying under a tree.__NEWL__They come to the man's rescue, and bring him back to the hospital, where he dies a few days later.__NEWL__Before he dies, the man tells Ben Raddle and Summy Skim of a volcano of pure gold named the "Golden Mount".__NEWL__The cousins and their guides then get a caravan together to return to the Golden Mount.__NEWL__While out on a hunt, Summy Skim and Neluto discover the two villains and their caravan, plotting to take over the volcano.__NEWL__Summy Skim and Neluto return to camp, where they tell the others, and a plan is formulated.__NEWL__Ben Raddle plans to force the volcano to erupt by emptying the river into a hole he will dig into the volcano.__NEWL__The plan succeeds; the villains, having made their way to the top of the mountain, are immediately forced down by the eruption.__NEWL__Summy Skim shoots the Texans, Hunter and Malone, the leader of the villains.__NEWL__The volcano erupts into the sea, causing Summy Skim and Ben Raddle to leave with less money than they came with.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5458712	Flesh and Fire	2009-10-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36466229	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36466229	The book begins with a brief history of the Lands of Vin.__NEWL__It is narrated by a Washer, or preacher, of the Collegium, the main religious body.__NEWL__Nearly fifteen hundred years before the events that take place in Flesh and Fire, the Lands of Vin were ruled by arrogant prince-mages, who derived their power from spellwine.__NEWL__To put an end to the prince-mages' tyranny, Zatim, a demigod more commonly referred to as "Sin Washer", drastically reduced the magic contained in the spellgrapes used to make spellwine.__NEWL__The prelude of the book describes a mutant grub infestation Master Vinart Sionio of Iaja discovers in his vineyards.__NEWL__The mutation is caused by magic, and could only have been created by another Vineart.__NEWL__The plot then comes to Jerzy, an adolescent slave owned by Master Vineart Malech of The Berengia.__NEWL__When Jerzy in entranced by the smell of crushed grapes during the harvest, Malech takes interest in Jerzy.__NEWL__Malech then tests Jerzy's ability to sense magic, and begins training Jerzy to become a Vineart.__NEWL__During this time, the first of a series of strange events occur.__NEWL__First, an unusually large order of healwines is placed by the island kingdom of Atakus.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in Atakus, Prince Erebuh has just received a negotiator from a Vineart on the nearby island of Ekai concerning the loss of three ships carrying spellwine.__NEWL__This is highly unusual, as Atakus, a key port for ships, makes extensive use of spellwines to ensure fair weather.__NEWL__After Prince Erebuh gives the negotiator his reply, the prince's most trusted daughter, Thais, visits the negotiator, who kills her then commits suicide.__NEWL__Upon further investigation by Atakus's Master Vineart, Edon, it is discovered that the negotiator's actions were not his own, but under the influence of spellwine.__NEWL__Malech continues teaching Jerzy the process in crafting spellwines.__NEWL__A few months into Jerzy's training, Malech's primary field becomes infested with rootglow, though it is out of season for the disease.__NEWL__The infestation is contained, but does significant damage to Malech's vines.__NEWL__Then a wagon sent to collect healwines for a nearby town is destroyed, with no apparent cause.__NEWL__Malech begins to send inquiries to other Vineart, and discovers they have also been seeing an unusual number of accidents.__NEWL__In Aktakus, Prince Erebuh decides to completely isolate the island in a veil of fog, at the suggestion of Master Vineart Edon.__NEWL__Cooper Shen, a member of the Cooperage Guild then brings Malech news of sea serpents sighted near Atakus, the first sighting in over seven generations.__NEWL__Two weeks later, a messenger from Prince Ranulf arrives, and tells Malech that a sea serpent has destroyed the entire town of Darcen.__NEWL__The messenger also brings a request for spellwines to cleanse the area contaminated by the sea serpent, and Malech sends Jerzy with the messenger to determine which spellwine will be necessary.__NEWL__When Jerzy reaches Prince Ranulf's encampment, the sea serpent resurfaces, but is quickly killed by spells which Prince Ranulf and Jerzy cast.__NEWL__Jerzy returns with pieces of the serpent, and Malech determines that it was created using magic.__NEWL__Malech then sends Jerzy to study with Vineart Giordan of Aleppan, while secretly instructing Jerzy to find how much of the recent events has taken public interest.__NEWL__Giordan's dependence on the maiar of Aleppan is already under criticism from the Collegium, and when news of the exchange reaches Washers in Upper Altenne, they send Brother Darian to learn more about Jerzy.__NEWL__Jerzy arrives in Aleppan by boat, and begins his training with Giordan.__NEWL__Ao, a trader with the Eastern Wind Trading Clan, notices Jerzy's attempts to eavesdrop on the conversations of nobles, and offers to teach Jerzy how to be less conspicuous.__NEWL__Near Atakus, a Caulic ship attempts to locate the island, and determine the cause of its disappearance.__NEWL__The Caulic fleet also intends to capture Atakus's valuable ports.__NEWL__Jerzy also comes in contact with the maiar's daughter, Mahault, who shares how her father has not been acting normally in the past year.__NEWL__The sentiment is echoed by others who Jerzy meets with access to the court.__NEWL__After Ao and Mahault take interest in Jerzy's attempts to collect information, Jerzy solicits Ao's help in finding useful gossip.__NEWL__When Jerzy secretly tastes Giordan's grapes to determine if they were used to create the sea serpent, he is spotted by Brother Darian.__NEWL__Darian accuses Jerzy of break the Command, and apostasy, a crime punishable by death.__NEWL__During the trial, Giordan attempts to defer all blame to Jerzy, but the maiar and Darian are intent on finding Giordan guilty.__NEWL__Giordan panics, and attacks the guards.__NEWL__Mahault and Ao use the commotion to free Jerzy and the city.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7776166	The World of William Clissold	1926-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	36467065	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36467065	As its subtitle suggests, The World of William Clissold is not a conventional novel.__NEWL__Only slightly more than half its pages are devoted to events in the eponymous protagonist's life; the others are devoted to extended discussions of general ideas, "everything as it is reflected in my brain."__NEWL__The World of William Clissold is written in the first person, except for a "Note before the Title Page" by Wells and an "Epilogue" by William Clissold's brother, Dickon.__NEWL__The rest of the novel is divided into six books.__NEWL__In "Book the First: The Frame of the Picture" William Clissold describes his general worldview, describing his loss of religious faith and view of human life as "The Adventure of Mankind;" this part includes a description of a meeting with Carl Gustav Jung, whom Wells had met in 1924.__NEWL__The first part of this book is said to have been written in his brother's London abode; the second part in William Clissold's house in Provence. "__NEWL__Book the Second: The Story of the Clissolds—My Father and the Flow of Things" recounts the upbringing of William Clissold and his brother Dickon, which was violently disrupted by the suicide of their businessman father, Richard Clissold, after he was convicted and sentenced to prison for fraud; it includes long passages on "systems in history," the ideas of Karl Marx, and the development of the institution of money. "__NEWL__Book the Third: The Story of the Clissolds—Essence of Dickon" tells the story of his brother's family life and innovative career in advertising, and includes extensive commentary on the historical importance of World War I.__NEWL__"Book the Fourth: The Story of the Clissolds—Tangle of Desires" focuses on William Clissold's love life, telling the story of his unsuccessful marriage to Clara and his affairs with Sirrie Evans and with Helen, a famous actress, and culminates in his meeting Clementina, a young Scotch-Greek woman who becomes the final love of his life.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Book the Fifth: The Story of the Clissolds—The Next Phase" is almost exclusively devoted to developing the notion of a worldwide "open conspiracy" of business leaders, politicians, scientists, and intellectuals to establish a "World Republic" devoted to the betterment of human life (a dominant notion in Wells's later life that is developed at length here for the first time).__NEWL__"__NEWL__Book the Sixth: The Story of the Clissolds—Venus as Evening Star" is an extended analysis of the relations between men and women, and culminates in his decision to marry Clementina.__NEWL__But as the epilogue recounts, the death of William Clissold and Clementina a few days later, on 24 Apr 1926, in an automobile accident, prevents the realisation of William Clissold's plans.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7108553	Othappu	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	36381906	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36381906	The novel opens with Marghalitha coming to her home after defrocking herself, as per her own wishes.__NEWL__Her family is shocked and lock her up in a store-room outside the house used for keeping raw bananas for ripening.__NEWL__For three days she is kept locked up without food or water.__NEWL__Eventually she leaves her home when she realizes that no matter what, her mother or brothers would not accept her back into the family.__NEWL__She wanders around and even makes a train journey to Angamali, where she spends the night in a hospital as she feels it would be the safest place for her.__NEWL__She is then brought by Fr.__NEWL__Roy Francis Kareekkan to stay with John Kasheesha, who is a friend.__NEWL__Fr.__NEWL__Kareekkan is the second important character.__NEWL__He is disillusioned about his role within the church and also is strongly attracted to Marghalitha.__NEWL__Marghalitha stays with John Kasheesha and his family, until the scandal comes to be known among his family members, which forces Marghalitha to leave so as to avoid conflict within Kasheesha's family.__NEWL__She is taken care for a while by her cousin Rebecca and later makes her way to the jungle retreat of Augustine, a Christian freethinker and social reformer.__NEWL__Here Fr.__NEWL__Kareekkan expresses his desire to leave the priesthood to be with her.__NEWL__Kareekkan attempts to live with Marghalitha and brings her to his parents.__NEWL__His parents are shocked and his father commits suicide by hanging himself.__NEWL__This breaks Kareekkan who is both psychologically, emotionally and ideologically weak.__NEWL__When he discovers that Marghalitha is pregnant with his child, he abandons her and goes to live in a church as a sweeper in a distant place where no one would recognize him.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Augustine gives Marghalitha an orphan boy to care for, named 'Naanu'.__NEWL__Marghalitha, Naanu and her unborn child are left to fend for themselves.__NEWL__However, Marghalitha gains a new confidence and radiance and starts to realize she is a pilgrim on a revolutionary road, where she has to fight the existing norms and social structure.__NEWL__She refuses the wealth willed to her by her mother and boldly sets out to fulfill her individual destiny, along with Naanu and her unborn child and free from the constraints of the church, but also her family and social conventions.__NEWL__The novel also has several biblical allegorical references like three nuns bringing gifts for her unborn child, referring to the Magi bringing gifts to Christ.__NEWL__Rebecca also enacts the role of Mary when she visits Marghalitha, discerning that she is pregnant.__NEWL__Several Bible verses are also used by the characters to state or express themselves from time to time.__NEWL__Joseph is making a commentary on the Church rather than explaining the thought processes of her character.__NEWL__She does succeed in unravelling those processes, but shies away from trying to analyse or explain the hows and whys thereof.__NEWL__The main theme is that institutionalised church does not satisfy in the end.__NEWL__The Church, which is powerful and rich, does not reflect the tranquility of Jesus.__NEWL__It is in John Kasheesha's home and Augustine's eccentric forest mission where the reader finds that, rather than an institution, it is the individual who can truly follow Christ and try to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.__NEWL__And yet the author leaves the whole issue open-ended.__NEWL__Neither Margalitha nor Karikkan finds a convincing solution to the problem from which they seek to run away.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16386946	Meanwhile	1927-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	36476546	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36476546	Meanwhile is divided into two books: "The Utopographer in the Garden" and "Advent".__NEWL__In the first book, Cynthia and Philip Rylands, a wealthy British couple, are entertaining guests at Casa Terragena, an Italian villa with a famous garden on the Italian Riviera.__NEWL__Among the party are a prominent author, "the great Mr. Sempack," an American aesthete, Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, the beautiful, vivacious Lady Catherine, Col. and Mrs. Bullace, Lady Grieswold, and a number of others.__NEWL__At dinner, Sempack, a brilliant talker with ideas similar to Wells's, expounds the idea that a "Great Age" is certain to come, and that contemporaries are obliged in the present to live, as it were, "meanwhile": "Since nothing was in order, nothing was completely right.__NEWL__We lived provisionally.__NEWL__There was no just measure of economic worth; we had to live unjustly ...__NEWL__We were justified in taking life as we found it; in return if we had ease and freedom we ought to do all that we could to increase knowledge and bring the great days of a common world-order nearer, a universal justice, the real civilisation, the consummating life, the days that would justify the Martyrdom of Man."__NEWL__A crisis is precipitated when Cynthia Rylands, who is pregnant with her first child, surprised her husband engaged in a dalliance "in the little bathing chalet" with one of their guests, a Miss Clarges.__NEWL__She is distraught and confides in Sempack, who offers her wise advice in a long letter: she should not forgive her husband, but rather "realize that there is nothing to forgive."__NEWL__Mrs. Rylands accepts Sempack's notion that her husband's real problem is not infidelity but idleness, and the first book ends with him departing at her urging for a visit to England, where his family's vast coal holdings are at risk in the crisis that culminated in the 1926 general strike.__NEWL__The novel's second "book" is dominated by Philip Rylands's letters describing the British political situation ("many of the leading participants in the strike appear in the novel without disguise") and his recruitment to the Open Conspiracy, Wells's plan for establishing a World Republic.__NEWL__But it is also punctuated with a number of subplots, some comic, some dramatic.__NEWL__Lady Catherine undertakes the seduction of an unwilling Mr. Sempack, but before this affair can be consummated, she flees to join a British fascist committed to fighting the class war back at home.__NEWL__Mrs. McManus, a nurse from Ulster who comes to assist Mrs. Rylands in the last stages of her pregnancy, is a memorable comic character.__NEWL__And Mrs. Rylands, with the help of Mrs. McManus, comes heroically to the aid of Signor Vinciguerra, a liberal Italian leader being hunted by Italian fascists in her garden; she succeeds in helping him escape to France.__NEWL__Meanwhile concludes with the return of a now devoted, engagé Philip to Cynthia after she has given birth to their son.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7775370	The Wizard of Karres	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36661173	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36661173	After safely arriving at the planet Emris at the end of the previous story, Captain Pausert is asked to transport the Nartheby sprite Hantis on an important mission so that she can meet with the Empress.__NEWL__Accompanying him is Goth, the Leewit, Hulik do Eldel, and Vezzarn from the original story, along with Pul, Hantis' talking grik-dog.__NEWL__They quickly learn that several groups are after them, presumably attempting to learn the secret of their Sheewash drive, which they have used when they need to escape from a difficult situation.__NEWL__They eventually learn that their mission is to prevent a plague of nanites from taking control of people.__NEWL__They are being hunted by the ISS (secret service) which is under the influence of the nanites, the remaining gang of Agandar the pirate who is after the drive, and Sedmon, the Daal of Uldune (a planet that caters to pirates and others who have covert needs) who is also after the drive.__NEWL__They land on Vaudevillia, a planet for carnivals, and join up with Petey, Byrum and Keep, "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy".__NEWL__Eventually Agandar's lieutenant catches up with them, and is killed in a sword fight during a Shakespearian play.__NEWL__The Daal of Uldune arrives shortly later, reveals that he has been trying to help them, agrees to fund the carnival, and travels with them.__NEWL__At one point, Pausert and his group (except Hulik) separate from the carnival and are taken back in time to meet one of Hantis' ancestors.__NEWL__The same nanite plague is happening in that time period, and Pausert is able to stop the plague from spreading.__NEWL__Upon returning to their own time, they are able to meet the empress and stop that plague as well.__NEWL__Pausert learns that the witches of Karres deliberately did not teach him how to use his klatha powers because he had the inherent ability to exceed their capabilities if allowed to learn on his own.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5511078	Fuzzy Nation	2011-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36360458	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36360458	On the human colony planet Zara XXIII, Jack Holloway is a rebellious former lawyer working as a contract surveyor for the firm Zaracorp.__NEWL__He is fired for causing environmental damage after letting his dog set off explosives (again).__NEWL__However, the explosion uncovers a massive trove of tremendously valuable sunstones.__NEWL__Holloway persuade the Zaracorp manager that the sunstones are now by rights his; the manager agrees to a rider to his contract to grant him a greater share of the spoils.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Holloway meets a family of clever, cat-like creatures which he dubs the fuzzys.__NEWL__The family of fuzzys moves into his home.__NEWL__Holloway calls his ex-girlfriend Isabel Wangai, Zaracorp's biologist, to meet them.__NEWL__Isabel comes to believe the fuzzys are a sapient species.__NEWL__If confirmed by a Colonial Authority judge, this would require Zaracorp to leave the planet and cede its natural resources.__NEWL__Zaracorp executives attempt to bribe Holloway to testify against Isabel's theory.__NEWL__Holloway eventually comes to agree that the fuzzys are sapient after realizing that they speak their own sophisticated language at a pitch too high for humans to hear, and argues strongly for the species in court.__NEWL__This makes the fuzzys a target by surveyors and Zaracorp employees seeking to protect their financial interests; two of the fuzzy family are killed by a Zaracorp guard.__NEWL__The fuzzys then reveal to Holloway that they are able to speak audible English, which they learned from a literacy program on a tablet lost by a surveyor years earlier.__NEWL__In the court proceedings that ensue, a fuzzy testifies to the murders of his children.__NEWL__Holloway also embarrasses Zaracorp by persuading his line manager to testify that Holloway's contract was never reactivated after the rider was approved, giving Holloway outright control of the sunstone seam he found.__NEWL__Zaracorp loses its exploration and extraction license for trying to deceive the judge.__NEWL__Holloway, Isabel, the line manager, and other helpers become the human guardians of the fuzzys.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7230171	Porky	1983-05-12T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	36397757	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36397757	"Porky" is Heather's nickname because her father keeps pigs in a field at their ramshackle bungalow just off the A4 near Heathrow Airport.__NEWL__Heather is eleven when her mother has an extended stay in hospital over the birth of her second child, leaving Heather alone with her father at home.__NEWL__He begins to abuse her sexually.__NEWL__Heather is already a troubled child, bullied at school with few friends.__NEWL__As the abuse continues, she becomes more troubled and takes to thieving and promiscuity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q661565	Fall-out	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z	36516906	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36516906	The story deals with a Chernobyl-type nuclear disaster happening on German soil.__NEWL__The heroine of the story is a fourteen-year-old girl who flees the contaminating cloud of radiation and experiences the ensuing breakdown of social order.__NEWL__The story begins at school where Janna-Berta and the other students and teachers are alarmed of a nuclear accident in the vicinity.__NEWL__She returns home.__NEWL__Her younger brother Uli is alone because the parents are away and the grandparents on vacation.__NEWL__Together, they flee by bicycle, because all the neighbours have already left.__NEWL__They meet chaos on the roads.__NEWL__Uli collapses with his bicycle and is run over by a car and killed.__NEWL__Janna-Berta, in shock, is taken to the station in Bad Hersfeld.__NEWL__She wants to return to her brother to bury him, is contaminated by radiation, and collapses.__NEWL__She wakes up in a provisional hospital in Herleshausen, where she witnesses the hardships of others.__NEWL__She learns of the extent of the disaster from television and a nurse.__NEWL__Her hair falls out.__NEWL__She makes a friend, Ayse, who later dies from radiation poisoning.__NEWL__Her aunt from Hamburg finds her and tells her that her parents and youngest brother, who had been with them, are dead.__NEWL__The news was intended to be kept secret.__NEWL__Janna-Berta stays with an aunt, who is not responsive to the girl's needs and wants to return to normality as soon as possible.__NEWL__She moves to another aunt, Almut, who shows solidarity with the victims.__NEWL__When her hometown is no longer banned, she returns.__NEWL__On the way, she finds her brother's body and buries it.__NEWL__She also finds her grandparents at home.__NEWL__They have just returned from their vacation and cannot believe what has happened until she tells them the shocking truth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115656	The Rembrandt Affair	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36642152	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36642152	Gabriel Allon and his team seek a lost Rembrandt whose previous owners have included both Holocaust victims and terrorists.__NEWL__In addition to regularly recurring characters, Julian Isherwood in his role as a gallery owner features prominently.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6417126	Kiss the Dead	2012-06-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36359042	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36359042	Kiss the Dead centers on U.S. Marshal Anita Blake as she attempts to sort through her ever increasingly complicated personal life while dealing with a vampire that is breaking both vampire and human laws by turning underage teens and children into the undead.__NEWL__Meanwhile Anita also has to deal with the fragile ego of the ancient vampire , whose jealous behavior threatens the physical and emotional well-being of all around him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4898198	Betrayal	2012-03-27T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36422619	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36422619	This novel tells the story of film director, Tallie Jones, a Hollywood legend who experienced betrayals from the people she least expects.__NEWL__Tallie Jones is 39 years old.__NEWL__She is a successful director with critically acclaimed films and commercially successful productions.__NEWL__She has great and fabulous relationships with her aging father and lawyer, Sam Jones; her daughter in college, Maxfield; her boyfriend of four years and film producer, Hunter Lloyd; and finally, her personal assistant of seventeen years and best friend since film school, the glamorous Brigitte Parker.__NEWL__In short, she lives in a perfect world of success.__NEWL__But one day, it was called to her attention by her long-time accountant, Victor Carson that she is losing money without her knowledge from her financial records.__NEWL__Apparently, she is losing $25,000 monthly for the last three years.__NEWL__When Tallie finds out, she is completely at lost on how this has been happening since she fully trust that her well-ordered personal assistant, Brigitte takes care of everything.__NEWL__But nevertheless, Victor tells her to go look after it for somebody might be embezzling money from her.__NEWL__She confronts Brigitte with regards to this matter and tells her that her boyfriend, Hunt has been asking her for cash for the last three years.__NEWL__She also tells Tallie that Hunt has been cheating on her as he is involved with another woman for a year and that it took her many years to tell her the truth because she was protective of her relationship and does not intend to ruin the current happiness that she has felt for four years with Hunt.__NEWL__Tallie was extremely disappointed upon knowing it.__NEWL__She also felt that both Hunt and Brigitte have never been truthful to her.__NEWL__She also was disappointed the dishonesty and insincerity that Hunt have shown her.__NEWL__She then hires a private investigator to verify the accuracy of what Brigitte told her.__NEWL__After a few days, the private investigator does report to her that indeed her boyfriend has been involved with a woman named Alice Morrisey for a year now and that the woman is expecting a child.__NEWL__Also, it was also known that Hunt and Brigitte have been having an affair for three years before Alice came into the picture.__NEWL__Upon receiving the pictures, she was deeply hurt and confronts him about it at home.__NEWL__Hunt admits of the relationship and tells her that he is about to marry Alice.__NEWL__When she asked him to leave the other woman, he rejects the idea and leaves the house instead.__NEWL__As for the money that she is losing, Tallie hires special agent from the FBI named Jim Kingston to investigate the matter.__NEWL__After many weeks of investigation, it was apparent that it was not Hunt that was taking away her money as Brigitte told her.__NEWL__Instead, it was her personal assistant herself who is involved in the embezzlement.__NEWL__After evidence have been gathered, she makes the decision to fire her personal assistant.__NEWL__Things get worse as Brigitte shoots Hunt and kills him in the process.__NEWL__Her personal assistant was arrested and brought into prison to be locked up for eighteen years.__NEWL__As Tallie experiences these betrayals, her father died of natural process.__NEWL__She tries to recover from these negative events that took place and Jim helps her during the healing process.__NEWL__Romance blossoms between the two__NEWL__and they end up marrying each other.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4659968	A Talent for Loving	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36498999	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36498999	In the 16th century an Aztec priest has cut off his own hand and used the bloody stump to lay a curse upon a blasphemous Spanish conquistador and all his direct descendants.__NEWL__The curse: that once any of the descendants, whether male or female, have tasted physical love, even in the form of a single kiss, they will spend the rest of their lives as being nearly sexually insatiable.__NEWL__Three centuries later the beautiful young virginal daughter of a fabulously wealthy Texas rancher and gambler is its latest victim.__NEWL__An elaborate set of contests and races is arranged to choose which of two cowboys will win her hand in marriage.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15139081	The Ghost and The Goth	2010-07-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36539558	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36539558	Alona Dare was the most popular girl in school, at least she was until she was hit by a bus.__NEWL__Returning to the scene of her death as a ghost, she expects everyone to be upset over her death, but her classmates move on faster than she had hoped.__NEWL__The only person that can see and hear her is Will Killian, the school outcast and ghost-talker.__NEWL__Alona, used to getting her own way, haunts Will until he agrees to help her figure out how to cross over to the big white light that she keeps expecting.__NEWL__Will has problems of his own; every ghost in Groundsboro High, including a seething black mass of energy, knows that he can see them, and they all want him to carry out their final wishes.__NEWL__Will and Alona have to work together to get the ghosts to move on, and figure out what Alona has to do in order to move on to the white light.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4752870	Ancient Light	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z	36557842	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36557842	Ancient Light is narrated by Alexander Cleave, a 60-something year-old retired actor, and takes place 10 years after the death of his daughter Cass in Eclipse.__NEWL__Cleave begins to record his memories of a first, unlikely affair he had at age 15 with Mrs Gray, a married woman 20 years his senior. "__NEWL__Billy Gray was my best friend__NEWL__and I fell in love with his mother.__NEWL__" The book moves between memories of this affair and his current state of grief he shares with his wife Lydia, touching on themes of family, love, grief, and the reliability of memory.__NEWL__His solitude is interrupted by an offer to play the lead in a film entitled The Invention of the Past.__NEWL__The film is to be based on the life of literary theorist Axel Vander, the man with Cass when she killed herself in Italy.__NEWL__On the set Cleave bonds with Dawn Devonport, an emotionally fragile young ingenue mourning the death of her father.__NEWL__As Cleave continues to narrate his past relationship with Mrs Gray to its inevitable conclusion, the father-daughter relationship grows between him and Dawn.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3818702	The Ark Sakura	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z	36475744	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36475744	The novel begins with the protagonist, who calls himself Mole, going to a flea market in order to find people to live aboard his "ark," an abandoned mine that he has outfitted so that it will withstand the nuclear holocaust that he predicts is imminent.__NEWL__His eye is caught by a man selling insects called clockbugs.__NEWL__The insect dealer has two shills, or sakura as they are known in Japanese, working for him, one an aggressive, impulsive young man, and the other a sly but attractive woman.__NEWL__When Mole offers the insect dealer a ticket aboard his ark, it is stolen by the shills.__NEWL__After chasing the pair of them back to the ark, Mole and the insect dealer discover that the shills are not the only intruders: other unseen, unwelcome people have been prowling the dark corridors as well.__NEWL__Mole comes to accept the presence of the two shills in exchange for their help in repelling the intruders.__NEWL__But his fantasy of having power over the other residents of the "ark" unwinds as matters become more and more complex.__NEWL__As a brigade of old men, a band of school girls, and a group of wayward youths all come to occupy the hull of the "ark," Mole is forced to abandon his creation, his sanctum breached and his heart broken by the female sakura who rejects his advances.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7535450	Skinheads	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z	36443443	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36443443	Skinheads is based around three generations of the same family—Terry English, his nephew Ray (aka Nutty Ray), and Terry's fifteen-year-old son, Lol (named after the ska singer Laurel Aitken).__NEWL__While the bulk of the book is set in the present day, it includes recurring sections from periods considered key to skinhead culture—1969 and the early 1980s—with events linking to the overriding story.__NEWL__Terry is the main character, an original skinhead approaching his fiftieth birthday and mourning the loss of his wife, while attempting to keep the volatile Ray out of trouble and being concerned that his son, Laurel, might be a closet hippy.__NEWL__Terry is also facing a life-or-death problem but finds strength in his long-term friendships, the responsibilities of running a minicab firm, a dream to reopen the boarded-up and recently rediscovered Union Jack Club, and his ongoing love of Jamaican ska and bluebeat.__NEWL__Ray, meanwhile, is angry and on edge, but doing his best to hold his life together.__NEWL__However, he does not like drug dealers and especially those trying to sell to his children.__NEWL__If Terry reflects the easygoing music of his youth, then Ray mirrors the aggression and street politics of Oi! punk, while facing the same smears levelled at the original movement.__NEWL__Lol is a much more relaxed character who plays less of a role in the main story, but with his musical interests, shows the fusion of ska, punk, and Oi!__NEWL__in bands like Rancid, as well as the political and cultural shifts of the previous decades.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17011330	Under the Beetle's Cellar	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36452008	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36452008	Set near Austin, Texas it tells of Samuel Mordecai, a fanatical self-proclaimed prophet who kidnaps a bus-load of schoolchildren and their driver, a Vietnam veteran.__NEWL__The captives are to be held underground for fifty days on starvation rations and without external contact as "earth purification" in preparation for the imminent end of the world.__NEWL__Surrounded by police and FBI, Mordecai's fortified compound is at the centre of world-wide media attention.__NEWL__Molly Cates is a journalist with the Lone Star Monthly, who interviewed Mordecai two years previously and is the only person outside the cult to have had any contact with him.__NEWL__The book is set in the last four days of the siege and has two narrative streams: one of them underground, as the driver battles to keep up the spirit of the children and prepare for the end of the fifty days; the other follows Molly Cates as she investigates Mordecai's past to find a key to breaking his fanatical resolve as it becomes increasingly apparent that the children are to be sacrificed as part of his apocalyptic plan.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7768568	The Testament of Mary	2012-11-13T00:00:00Z	36449398	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36449398	At an unspecified age, when Mary is close to death, she is regularly visited by followers of her son who wish to record her testament before she dies.__NEWL__However they are antagonistic towards Mary because they believe her son, Jesus, was a Messiah, a claim which she refuses to support.__NEWL__Mary reflects that, like many young men, her son left their small town for opportunities in Jerusalem.__NEWL__Marcus, a cousin of hers, later visited her to reveal that her son was being closely watched by Roman and Jewish authorities after appearing to cure a man who could no longer walk; the cousin urged Mary to have Jesus return to live with her to save his life and not draw further ire.__NEWL__In order to speak to Jesus, Mary travels to a nearby wedding where news that Jesus has resurrected Lazarus, a childhood friend, precedes his arrival.__NEWL__At the wedding Mary tries to convince Jesus to return to Nazareth but he ignores her.__NEWL__Some of the revellers later claim that Jesus turned water into wine but Mary questions their sobriety and did not personally witness this account.__NEWL__She later leaves in order to protect herself.__NEWL__Marcus visits Mary again to tell her that her son has been arrested and will be crucified.__NEWL__Mary travels to the city with Mary, one of Lazarus' sisters, and one of her son's followers, who promises protection, in order to witness the event, still believing there is something she can do to save him.__NEWL__As she witnesses the violent crucifixion she spies Marcus and realizes he has lured her there to be arrested like the rest of her son's followers.__NEWL__Knowing they believe she will never abandon her son before he dies, Mary and the others flee anyway, thinking only of saving her life.__NEWL__The three flee through the countryside and do desperate things in order to survive with Mary eventually losing all respect for her guide as she realizes he has no plan to save them.__NEWL__She also notices that she and Mary begin having the same dream in which a flood of water returns her now resurrected son to her.__NEWL__The trio eventually find safety and Mary, Lazarus's sister, departs to go home and live a normal life.__NEWL__Jesus's followers attempt to convince Mary that her son was the son of God and to claim that she was there to see his resurrection which she disputes.__NEWL__When they tell her that her son died to save the world they are angered when she tells them it wasn't worth it.__NEWL__No longer able to go to temple, Mary speaks to a replica of the statue of the goddess Artemis, confessing her hope that someday she will be dead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4731051	Allan and the Holy Flower	1915-01-01T00:00:00Z	5174					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	36450149	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36450149	Brother John, who has been wandering in Africa for years, confides to Allan a huge and rare orchid, the largest ever found.__NEWL__Allan arrives to England with the flower and there he meets Mr. Stephen Somers.__NEWL__Due to a mixup at auction, Somers ends up paying a huge sum for a particularly rare flower.__NEWL__His Father agrees to cover the cost of the flower but also disinherits his son.__NEWL__Stephen resolves to sell the flower and use it to finance an expedition to Africa to recover a live specimen of the huge orchid Allan brought back with him.__NEWL__They meet Arabian slave traders, warrior tribes, cannibals, and a giant gorilla.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1866618	Liza of Lambeth	1897-01-01T00:00:00Z	16517	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148349	Lambeth	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	69931	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69931	The action covers a period of roughly four months—from August to November—in a year in the 1890s.__NEWL__Liza Kemp is an 18-year-old factory worker and the youngest of a large family, now living alone with her aging mother.__NEWL__Very popular with all the residents of Vere Street, Lambeth, she likes Tom, a boy her age, but not as much as he likes her, so she rejects him when he proposes.__NEWL__Nevertheless, she is persuaded to join a party of 32 who make a coach trip (in a horse-drawn coach, of course) to a nearby village on the August Bank Holiday Monday.__NEWL__Some of the other members of the party are Tom; Liza's friend Sally and her boyfriend Harry; and Jim Blakeston, a 40-year-old father of 5 who has recently moved to Vere Street with his large family, and his wife (while their eldest daughter, Polly, is taking care of her siblings).__NEWL__The outing is fun, and they all get drunk on beer.__NEWL__On their way back in the dark, Liza realises that Jim Blakeston is making a pass at her by holding her hand.__NEWL__Back home, Jim manages to speak to her alone and to steal a kiss from her.__NEWL__Liza feels attracted to Jim.__NEWL__They never appear together in public because they do not want the other residents of Vere Street or their workmates to start talking about them.__NEWL__One of Jim Blakeston's first steps to win Liza's heart is to go to a melodramatic play with her on Saturday night.__NEWL__Afterwards, they have sex.__NEWL__When autumn arrives and the nights get chillier, Liza's secret meetings with Jim become less comfortable and more trying; they must meet in the third-class waiting-room of Waterloo station.__NEWL__To Liza's dismay, people do start talking about them despite their precautions.__NEWL__Only Liza's mother, a drunkard and a simple person, doesn't know about their affair.__NEWL__After Liza's friend, Sally, gets married, she soon becomes pregnant.__NEWL__With Sally married and stuck at home, and even Tom seemingly shunning her, Liza feels increasingly isolated, but her love for Jim keeps her going.__NEWL__They do talk about their love affair: about the possibility of Jim leaving his wife and children ("I dunno if I could get on without the kids"); about Liza not being able to leave her mother, who needs her help; about living somewhere else "as if we was married".__NEWL__Soon the situation deteriorates completely; Mrs Blakeston, who is pregnant again, opposes Jim's affair with Liza by refusing to talk to him, then goes around telling other people what she would do with Liza if she caught her, and those people inform Liza, who is frightened.__NEWL__One Saturday afternoon in November, Liza is on her way home from work when the angry Mrs. Blakeston confronts her, spits in her face, and physically attacks her.__NEWL__Quickly a crowd gathers, not to abate the fight, but to abet it.__NEWL__("The audience shouted and cheered and clapped their hands.")__NEWL__ Eventually, both Tom and Jim stop the fight, and Tom walks Liza home.__NEWL__Liza is now publicly stigmatised as a "wrong one", a fact she herself admits to Tom ("Oh, but I 'ave treated yer bad.__NEWL__I'm a regular wrong 'un, I am").__NEWL__Tom wants to marry Liza, but she tells him that "it's too lite now" because she thinks she is pregnant.__NEWL__Tom says he wouldn't mind that, but she insists on refusing.__NEWL__Meanwhile, at the Blakestones', Jim beats up his wife.__NEWL__Other residents hear them and young Polly appeals to some for help, but they choose not to interfere in other people's domestic problems ("She'll git over it; an' p'raps she deserves it, for all you know").__NEWL__When Mrs Kemp comes home and sees her daughter's injuries, all she does is offer her some alcohol (whiskey or gin).__NEWL__That evening they both get drunk.__NEWL__During the next night Liza has a miscarriage.__NEWL__Mr Hodges, who lives upstairs, fetches a doctor from the nearby hospital, who soon says he can do nothing for her.__NEWL__While her daughter is dying, Mrs Kemp has a long talk with Mrs Hodges, a midwife and sick-nurse.__NEWL__Liza's last visitor is Jim, but Liza is already in a coma.__NEWL__Mrs Kemp and Mrs Hodges are talking about the funeral arrangements when they hear Liza's death rattle and the doctor declares her dead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q138046	England, England	1998-08-27T00:00:00Z	71290	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71290	England, England is divided into three parts entitled "England", "England, England" and "Anglia".__NEWL__The first part focuses on the protagonist Martha Cochrane and her childhood memories.__NEWL__Growing up in the surrounding of the English countryside, her peaceful childhood is disrupted when her father leaves the land family.__NEWL__Martha's memories of her father are closely related to playing a Counties of England jigsaw puzzle with him.__NEWL__The second part, "England, England", is set in the near future.__NEWL__Martha is now in her forties and is employed by the entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman for a megalomaniacal project: Sir Jack aims to turn the Isle of Wight into a gigantic theme park which contains everything that people, especially tourists, consider to be quintessentially English, selected according to what Sir Jack himself approves of.__NEWL__The theme park − called "England, England" − thus becomes a replica of England's best known historical buildings, figures and sites.__NEWL__Popular English tourist attractions and icons of "Englishness" are crammed together to be easily accessible without having to travel the whole of "real" England.__NEWL__While working on the set-up of the project, Martha starts an affair with one of her colleagues, Paul Harrison.__NEWL__They discover Sir Jack's adult baby fetish and blackmail him with incriminating evidence when Sir Jack wants to dismiss Martha.__NEWL__She thus becomes CEO of the Island project, which turns out to be a highly popular tourist attraction.__NEWL__As a consequence of the huge success, "England, England" becomes an independent state and part of the European Union, while the real, "Old England" suffers a severe decline and increasingly falls into international irrelevance.__NEWL__After a major scandal in the theme park, however, Martha is eventually expelled from the island.__NEWL__The third part of the novel, "Anglia", is set decades later and depicts Martha who has returned to a village in Old England after many years of wandering abroad.__NEWL__The original nation has regressed into a vastly de-populated, agrarian and pre-industrial state without any international political influence, while "England, England" continues to prosper.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q190192	Dune	1965-12-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	71416	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71416	Duke Leto Atreides of House Atreides, ruler of the ocean planet Caladan, is assigned by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV to serve as fief ruler of the planet Arrakis.__NEWL__Although Arrakis is a harsh and inhospitable desert planet, it is of enormous importance because it is the only planetary source of melange, or the "spice", a unique and incredibly valuable substance that extends human youth, vitality and lifespan.__NEWL__It is also through the consumption of spice that Spacing Guild Navigators are able to effect safe interstellar travel.__NEWL__Shaddam sees House Atreides as a potential future rival and threat, and conspires with House Harkonnen, the former stewards of Arrakis and the longstanding enemies of House Atreides, to destroy Leto and his family after their arrival.__NEWL__Leto is aware his assignment is a trap of some kind, but is compelled to obey the Emperor’s orders anyway.__NEWL__Leto's concubine Lady Jessica is an acolyte of the Bene Gesserit, an exclusively female group that pursues mysterious political aims and wields seemingly superhuman physical and mental abilities, such as the ability to decide the sex of their children.__NEWL__Though Jessica was instructed by the Bene Gesserit to bear a daughter as part of their breeding program, out of love for Leto she bore a son, Paul.__NEWL__From a young age, Paul has been trained in warfare by Leto's aides, the elite soldiers Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck.__NEWL__Thufir Hawat, the Duke's Mentat (people with superhuman intelligence), has instructed Paul in the ways of political intrigue.__NEWL__Jessica has also trained her son in what Bene Gesserit disciplines she can.__NEWL__His prophetic dreams interest Jessica's superior, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam.__NEWL__She subjects Paul to the gom jabbar, a deadly test that causes blinding pain as part of an assessment of the subject's self-control.__NEWL__To her surprise, Paul passes despite being exposed to more pain than any others before him.__NEWL__Leto, Jessica, and Paul travel with their household to occupy Arrakeen, the capital on Arrakis formerly held by House Harkonnen.__NEWL__Leto learns of the dangers involved in harvesting the spice, which is protected by giant sandworms, and negotiates with the planet's native Fremen people, seeing them as a valuable ally rather than foes.__NEWL__Soon after the Atreides' arrival, Harkonnen forces attack, joined by the Emperor's ferocious Sardaukar troops in disguise.__NEWL__Leto is betrayed by his personal physician, the Suk doctor Wellington Yueh, who delivers a drugged Leto to the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and his twisted Mentat, Piter De Vries.__NEWL__Yueh, however, arranges for Jessica and Paul to escape into the desert, where they are presumed dead by the Harkonnens.__NEWL__Yueh replaces one of Leto's teeth with a poison gas capsule, hoping Leto can kill the Baron during their encounter.__NEWL__The Baron narrowly avoids the gas due to his shield, which instead kills Leto, De Vries, and others.__NEWL__The Baron forces Hawat to take over De Vries' position by dosing him with a long-lasting, fatal poison and threatening to withhold the regular antidote doses unless he obeys.__NEWL__While he follows the Baron's orders, Hawat works secretly to undermine the Harkonnens.__NEWL__After fleeing into the desert, Paul realizes he has significant powers as a result of the Bene Gesserit breeding scheme, inadvertently caused by Jessica bearing a son and his exposure to high concentrations of spice.__NEWL__In visions, he foresees futures in which he lives among the planet's native Fremen, and is also informed of the addictive qualities of the spice.__NEWL__It is revealed Jessica is the daughter of Baron Harkonnen, a secret kept from her by the Bene Gesserit.__NEWL__After being captured by Fremen, Paul and Jessica are accepted into the Fremen community of Sietch Tabr, and teach them the Bene Gesserit fighting technique known as the "weirding way".__NEWL__Paul proves his manhood by killing a Fremen named Jamis in a ritualistic crysknife fight and chooses the Fremen name Muad'Dib, while Jessica opts to undergo a ritual to become a Reverend Mother by drinking the poisonous Water of Life.__NEWL__Pregnant with Leto's daughter, she inadvertently causes the unborn child, Alia, to become infused with the same powers in the womb.__NEWL__Paul takes a Fremen lover, Chani, and has a son with her, Leto II.__NEWL__Two years pass and Paul's powerful prescience manifests, which confirms for the Fremen that he is their prophesied messiah, a legend planted by the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva.__NEWL__Paul embraces his father's belief that the Fremen could be a powerful fighting force to take back Arrakis, but also sees that if he does not control them, their jihad could consume the entire universe.__NEWL__Word of the new Fremen leader reaches both Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor as spice production falls due to their increasingly destructive raids.__NEWL__The Baron encourages his brutish nephew Glossu Rabban to rule with an iron fist, hoping the contrast with his shrewder nephew Feyd-Rautha will make the latter popular among the people of Arrakis when he eventually replaces Rabban.__NEWL__The Emperor, suspecting the Baron of trying to create troops more powerful than the Sardaukar to seize power, sends spies to monitor activity on Arrakis.__NEWL__Hawat uses the opportunity to sow seeds of doubt in the Baron about the Emperor's true plans, putting further strain on their alliance.__NEWL__Gurney, having survived the Harkonnen coup to become a smuggler, reunites with Paul and Jessica after a Fremen raid on his harvester.__NEWL__Believing Jessica to be the traitor, Gurney threatens to kill her, but is stopped by Paul.__NEWL__Paul did not foresee Gurney's attack, and concludes he must increase his prescience by drinking the Water of Life, which is traditionally fatal to males.__NEWL__Paul falls into unconsciousness for several weeks after drinking the poison, but when he wakes, he has clairvoyance across time and space: he is the Kwisatz Haderach, the ultimate goal of the Bene Gesserit breeding program.__NEWL__Paul senses the Emperor and Baron are amassing fleets around Arrakis to quell the Fremen rebellion, and prepares the Fremen for a major offensive against the Harkonnen troops.__NEWL__The Emperor arrives with the Baron on Arrakis.__NEWL__The Emperor’s troops seize a Fremen outpost, killing many including young Leto II, while Alia is captured and taken to the Emperor.__NEWL__Under cover of an electric storm, which shorts out the Emperor's troops' defensive shields, Paul and the Fremen, riding giant sandworms, assault the capital while Alia assassinates the Baron and escapes.__NEWL__The Fremen quickly defeat both the Harkonnen and Sardaukar troops.__NEWL__Paul faces the Emperor, threatening to destroy spice production forever unless Shaddam abdicates the throne.__NEWL__Feyd-Rautha attempts to stop Paul by challenging him to a ritualistic knife fight, during which he attempts to cheat and kill Paul with a poison spur in his belt.__NEWL__Paul gains the upper hand and kills him.__NEWL__The Emperor reluctantly cedes the throne to Paul and promises his daughter Princess Irulan's hand in marriage.__NEWL__As Paul takes control of the Empire, he realizes that while he has achieved his goal, he is no longer able to stop the Fremen jihad, as their belief in him is too powerful to restrain.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1649862	The Big Sleep	1939-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q65	Los Angeles	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	68348	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68348	Private investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the home of the wealthy and elderly General Sternwood, in the month of October.__NEWL__He wants Marlowe to deal with an attempt by a bookseller named Arthur Geiger to blackmail his wild young daughter, Carmen.__NEWL__She had previously been blackmailed by a man named Joe Brody.__NEWL__Sternwood mentions that his other, older daughter Vivian is in a loveless marriage with a man named Rusty Regan, who has disappeared.__NEWL__On Marlowe's way out, Vivian wonders if he was hired to find Regan, but Marlowe will not say.__NEWL__Marlowe investigates Geiger's bookstore and meets Agnes, the clerk.__NEWL__He determines that the store is a pornography lending library.__NEWL__He follows Geiger home, stakes out his house, and sees Carmen enter.__NEWL__Later, he hears a scream, followed by gunshots and two cars speeding away.__NEWL__He rushes in to find Geiger dead and Carmen drugged and naked, in front of an empty camera.__NEWL__He takes her home but when he returns, Geiger's body is gone.__NEWL__He quickly leaves.__NEWL__The next day, the police call him and let him know the Sternwoods' car was found driven off a pier, with their chauffeur dead inside.__NEWL__It appears that he was hit on the head before the car entered the water.__NEWL__The police also ask if Marlowe is looking for Regan.__NEWL__Marlowe stakes out the bookstore and sees its inventory being moved to Brody's home.__NEWL__Vivian comes to his office and says Carmen is being blackmailed with the nude photos from the previous night.__NEWL__She also mentions gambling at the casino of Eddie Mars and volunteers that Eddie's wife, Mona, ran off with Rusty.__NEWL__Marlowe revisits Geiger's house and finds Carmen trying to get in.__NEWL__They look for the photos, but she plays dumb about the night before.__NEWL__Eddie suddenly enters; he says he is Geiger's landlord and is looking for him.__NEWL__Eddie demands to know why Marlowe is there; Marlowe takes no notice and states that he is no threat to him.__NEWL__Marlowe goes to Brody's home and finds him with Agnes, the bookstore clerk.__NEWL__Marlowe tells Brody that he knows they are taking over the lending library and blackmailing Carmen with the nude photos.__NEWL__Carmen forces her way in with a gun and demands the photos, but Marlowe takes her gun and makes her leave.__NEWL__Marlowe interrogates Brody further and pieces together the story: Geiger was blackmailing Carmen; the family driver, Owen Taylor, did not like it__NEWL__and so he snuck in and killed Geiger, then took the film of Carmen.__NEWL__Brody was staking out the house too and pursued the driver, knocked him out, stole the film, and possibly pushed the car off the pier.__NEWL__Suddenly, the doorbell rings and Brody is shot dead; Marlowe gives chase and catches Geiger's male lover, who shot Brody thinking he killed Geiger.__NEWL__He had also hidden Geiger's body, so he could remove his own belongings before the police got wind of the murder.__NEWL__The case is over, but Marlowe is nagged by Rusty’s disappearance.__NEWL__The police accept that he simply ran off with Mona, since she is also missing, and since Eddie would not risk committing a murder in which he would be the obvious suspect.__NEWL__Mars calls Marlowe to his casino and seems to be nonchalant about everything.__NEWL__Vivian is also there, and Marlowe senses something between her and Mars.__NEWL__He drives her home and she tries to seduce him, but he rejects her advances.__NEWL__When he gets home, he finds Carmen has snuck into his bed, and he rejects her, too.__NEWL__A man named Harry Jones, who is Agnes's new partner, approaches Marlowe and offers to tell him the location of Mona.__NEWL__Marlowe plans to meet him later, but Eddie’s henchman Canino is suspicious of Jones and Agnes's intentions, and kills Jones first.__NEWL__Marlowe manages to meet Agnes anyway and receives the information.__NEWL__He goes to the location in Realito, a repair shop with a home at the back, but Canino – with the help of Art Huck, the garage man – jumps him and knocks him out.__NEWL__When Marlowe awakens, he is tied up, and Mona is there with him.__NEWL__She says she has not seen Rusty in months; she only hid out to help Eddie and insists he did not kill Rusty.__NEWL__She frees Marlowe, and he shoots and kills Canino.__NEWL__The next day, Marlowe visits General Sternwood, who remains curious about Rusty's whereabouts and offers Marlowe an additional $1,000 fee if he is able to locate him.__NEWL__On the way out, Marlowe returns Carmen's gun to her, and she asks him to teach her how to shoot.__NEWL__They go to an abandoned field, where she tries to kill him, but he has loaded the gun with blanks and merely laughs at her; the shock causes Carmen to have an epileptic seizure.__NEWL__Marlowe brings her back and tells Vivian he has guessed the truth: Carmen came on to Rusty and he spurned her, so she killed him.__NEWL__Eddie, who had been backing Geiger, helped Vivian conceal it by helping to dispose of Rusty's body, inventing a story about his wife running off with Rusty, and then blackmailing her himself.__NEWL__Vivian says she did it to keep it all from her father, so he would not despise his own daughters, and promises to have Carmen institutionalised.__NEWL__With the case now over, Marlowe goes to a local bar and orders several double Scotches.__NEWL__While drinking, he begins to think about Mona "Silver-Wig" Mars, but never sees her again.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1304516	A Friend of the Earth	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q99	California	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	69868	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69868	A Friend of the Earth is the story of Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater, a U.S. citizen born in 1950, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish ("I'm a mess and I know it.__NEWL__Jewish guilt, Catholic guilt, enviro-eco-capitalistico guilt: I can't even expel gas in peace."), whose personal tragedy fits in with, and adds to, the gloomy atmosphere created in the novel.__NEWL__Egged on by Andrea, the woman he loves, he becomes a committed "Earth Forever!"__NEWL__activist (an allusion to the radical environmental group Earth First!)__NEWL__in the 1980s, is imprisoned for ecotage, but eventually cannot change anything.__NEWL__On top of that, he suffers the loss of his first wife when their daughter is only three and of his daughter when she is only 25.__NEWL__When the novel opens, Tierwater is a 75-year-old disillusioned ex-con living on the estate of a famous pop star in the Santa Ynez Valley, north of Santa Barbara, in California and looking after the latter's private menagerie.__NEWL__Maclovio Pulchris, the singer, has had the idea of preserving some of the last surviving animals of several species in order to initiate a captive breeding programme at some later point in time, choosing to preserve the animals no one else would.__NEWL__Tierwater has been working for Pulchris ("Mac") for ten years when, in 2025, Andrea, his ex-wife and stepmother to his daughter Sierra, contacts him after more than 20 years.__NEWL__She and a friend of hers, April Wind, move in with Tierwater, officially for April Wind to write a biography, or rather hagiography, of Sierra Tierwater, his daughter, who died in 2001 as a martyr to the environmentalist cause (falling out of a tree in old growth woodland in which she had been living for about three years).__NEWL__In the course of the next few months the situation deteriorates even more.__NEWL__The rain and the wind destroy the animals' cages, and subsequently they have to be kept in Pulchris's basement.__NEWL__One morning one of the lions gets loose and attacks and kills the singer, as well as a number of employees.__NEWL__As a consequence, the other lions are shot—and thus lions as a species become extinct.__NEWL__(There is just one surviving lion in the San Diego Zoo left.)__NEWL__Jobless and penniless, Tierwater, who has fallen in love all over again with Andrea, is evicted from the estate by Pulchris's heirs.__NEWL__Along with Andrea, Tyrone leaves the compound, heading for a mountain cabin owned by Earth Forever!__NEWL__somewhere in the forest which decades ago served as a hideout.__NEWL__They arrive there with only one of Pulchris's animals in tow: Petunia, the Patagonian fox, which they now keep as their domestic animal, passing it off as their dog.__NEWL__In the final scene of the book, a teenaged girl comes hiking along the trail where the forest surrounding the dilapidated cabin would have been.__NEWL__Tierwater and Andrea, who again call themselves husband and wife now, have a glimmer of hope that life will soon be like life 30 years before, as the novel ends on an optimistic note.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3902680	Picnic at Hanging Rock	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	70206	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70206	The novel begins with a brief foreword stating that whether the novel "is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves" and implying that the events occurred.__NEWL__At Appleyard College, a private boarding school for upper-class girls near Mount Macedon, Victoria, a picnic is being planned for the students under the supervision of Mrs. Appleyard, the school's headmistress.__NEWL__The picnic entails a day trip to Hanging Rock, on St. Valentine's Day in 1900.__NEWL__One of the students, Sara, who is in trouble with Mrs. Appleyard, is not allowed to go.__NEWL__Sara's close friend Miranda goes without her.__NEWL__When they arrive, the students relax, and eat lunch.__NEWL__Afterward, Miranda goes to climb the monolith with classmates Edith, Irma, and Marion despite being forbidden to do so.__NEWL__The girls' mathematics teacher, Greta McCraw, follows behind them separately.__NEWL__Miranda, Marion, and Irma climb still higher in a trance-like state while Edith flees in terror; she returns to the picnic in hysterics, disoriented and with no memory of what occurred.__NEWL__Miss McCraw is also nowhere to be accounted for except for being seen by Edith who passed her ascending the rock in her underwear.__NEWL__The school scours the rock in search of the three girls and their teacher, but they are not found.__NEWL__The disappearances provoke much local concern and international sensation with rape, abduction, and murder being assumed as probable explanations.__NEWL__Several organized searches of the picnic grounds and the area surrounding the rock itself turn up nothing.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the students, teachers and staff of the college, as well as members of the community, grapple with the riddle-like events.__NEWL__Mike Fitzhubert, an Englishman who was picnicking at the grounds the same day, embarks on a private search of the rock and discovers Irma, unconscious and on the verge of death.__NEWL__When he fails to return from his search, he is found in an unexplained daze, sitting at the rock with Irma, by his friend and uncle's coachman, Albert Crundall.__NEWL__Concerned parents begin withdrawing their daughters from the prestigious college, prompting various staff to leave; the college's handyman and maid quit their jobs, and the French instructor, Mlle.__NEWL__Dianne de Poitiers, announces that she will be getting married and leaving the college as well.__NEWL__A junior governess at the college, Dora Lumley, also leaves with her brother Reg, only for both to be killed in a hotel fire.__NEWL__Amidst the unrest both in and around the college, Sara vanishes, only to be found days later, having apparently committed suicide (her body was found directly beneath the school's tower, with her head "crushed beyond recognition").__NEWL__Mrs. Appleyard, distraught over the events that have occurred, kills herself by jumping from a peak on Hanging Rock.__NEWL__In a pseudo-historical afterword purportedly extracted from a 1913 Melbourne newspaper article, it is written that both the college and the Woodend Police Station, where records of the investigation were kept, were destroyed by a bush fire in the summer of 1901.__NEWL__In 1903, rabbit hunters came across a lone piece of frilled calico at the rock, believed to have been part of the dress of the governess, Miss Greta McCraw, but neither she nor the girls were ever found.__NEWL__According to her editor Sandra Forbes, Lindsay's original draft of the novel included a final chapter in which the mystery was resolved.__NEWL__At her editor's suggestion, Lindsay removed it prior to publication.__NEWL__Chapter Eighteen, as it is known, was published posthumously as a standalone book in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock by Angus & Robertson Publishing.__NEWL__The chapter opens with Edith fleeing back to the picnic area while Miranda, Irma, and Marion push on.__NEWL__Each girl begins to experience dizziness and feel as if she is "being pulled from the inside out.__NEWL__" A woman suddenly appears climbing the rock in her underwear, shouting "Through!", and then faints.__NEWL__This woman is not referenced by name and is apparently a stranger to the girls, yet the narration suggests she is Miss McCraw.__NEWL__Miranda loosens the woman's corset to help revive her.__NEWL__Afterwards, the girls remove their own corsets and throw them off the cliff.__NEWL__The recovered woman points out that the corsets appear to hover in mid-air as if stuck in time, and that they cast no shadows.__NEWL__She and the girls continue together.__NEWL__The girls then encounter what is described as "a hole in space", by which they physically enter a crack in the rock following a lizard; the unnamed woman transforms into a crab and disappears into the rock.__NEWL__Marion follows her, then Miranda, but when Irma's turn comes, a balanced boulder (the hanging rock) slowly tilts and blocks the way.__NEWL__The chapter ends with Irma "tearing and beating at the gritty face on the boulder with her bare hands.__NEWL__" The missing material amounts to about 12 pages; the remainder of the publication The Secret at Hanging Rock contains discussion by other authors, including John Taylor and Yvonne Rousseau.__NEWL__The suspension of the corsets and description of the hole in space suggest that the girls have encountered some sort of time warp, which is compatible with Lindsay's fascination with and emphasis on clocks and time in the novel.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4660460	A Vicious Circle	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z	73217	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73217	The novel chronicles the life of Amelia, the only daughter of newspaper tycoon Max de Monde who, after having spoiled Amelia beyond hope while she was still young, abandons her when she becomes pregnant.__NEWL__Amelia decides to marry Mark Crawley, the father of her child, an ambitious young critic intent on shaking off his humble background.__NEWL__Suddenly, the young couple find themselves in desperate need of money and, at first, accommodations.__NEWL__While she stays at home raising their daughter Rose, Amelia metamorphoses from spoiled brat to mature and responsible mother, whereas her husband loses all interest in the housewife he now realizes he has married.__NEWL__Amelia is encouraged to stay on her chosen path by Grace, her cleaning woman—who is also her niece (without either of the women being aware of this), and by Tom Viner, a young doctor who becomes their lodger.__NEWL__A Vicious Circle also follows the life of Mary Quinn.__NEWL__An Irish girl lacking a university education, Mary has a natural writing talent and rises to become a prominent reviewer of new fiction after having been left by her lover of many years, Mark Crawley.__NEWL__Mary makes friends with Adam Sands, a yet unpublished author who keeps his homosexuality a secret from almost everyone including his own mother.__NEWL__When he is dying of an AIDS-related disease, Mary is the only person who remembers and eventually takes care of him.__NEWL__When the recession of the 1990s hits the country everyone seems to be affected by it.__NEWL__Max de Monde, who has even plundered his daughter's trust fund, spectacularly commits suicide by crashing his helicopter against the ground.__NEWL__Amelia leaves Mark and is planning to raise her daughter as a single parent.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1197181	The Beach	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	72018	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72018	Richard, a British backpacker meets a mentally disturbed Scot going by the alias of Daffy Duck at a hotel in Bangkok.__NEWL__Daffy tells Richard about a beautiful island with a hidden lagoon and beach, located in the Gulf of Thailand, where he settled years prior.__NEWL__The beach is inaccessible to tourists and can only be located by a map, which Daffy leaves for Richard.__NEWL__Shortly thereafter, Richard discovers that Daffy has died by suicide.__NEWL__Wanting company in his search, Richard befriends a travelling French couple, Étienne and Françoise, and the trio sets out to find what they hope might be an untouched paradise.__NEWL__On their way to the island, Richard gives a copy of the map to Sammy and Zeph, two Americans he meets on Koh Samui.__NEWL__When the three finally reach the hidden beach — after bribing a local boat pilot, swimming from an adjacent island, discovering a cannabis plantation in the jungle, and avoiding its armed owners, and eventually jumping over a waterfall — they discover a group of approximately 30 backpackers who have largely shut off the outside world to live a slow-paced life of leisure under the de facto leadership of an American woman called Sal and her South African lover Bugs, who, along with Daffy, founded the community there in 1989.__NEWL__They reside in hand-built wooden huts and tents, located near a large, beautiful beach and lagoon that are encircled by cliffs and connected to the sea by underwater caves.__NEWL__When Richard, Étienne, and Françoise arrive, it is already 1995, six years after the founders came to the beach.__NEWL__The founders have chosen only a small number of friends and acquaintances to come to the island, and thus newcomers are not welcome, but they are not sent away because doing so would jeopardize the secrecy of the community.__NEWL__The residents fear that if word gets out, the beach will become overrun with tourists and ruined, like many of Thailand's other beauty spots.__NEWL__They are also mindful of upsetting the Thai cannabis farmers, with whom they originally agreed to keep to separate territories but who have more recently warned them not to bring anyone new to the island, as the farmers fear discovery by the police.__NEWL__After initial suspicion, the group accepts the trio when they explain about Daffy's map and his death back on the mainland.__NEWL__As the community aims to be self-sufficient, work is divided into rosters for gardening, fishing, cooking, and carpentry.__NEWL__Richard, Françoise, and Étienne become part of the fishing detail.__NEWL__For several months, Richard finds life on the island idyllic, fishing in the mornings and relaxing the rest of the time.__NEWL__He befriends a few other members of the community: Keaty, a fellow Englishman hooked on his Game Boy; Gregorio, a Spaniard on his fishing detail; Unhygienix, the Italian head chef obsessed with soap, as he handles fish every day; Jesse and Cassie, two lovers; Ella, who works second-in-command to Unhygienix; and finally, Jed, the loner of the group whose mysterious job involves going alone into the jungle.__NEWL__Richard later discovers that Sal has assigned Jed to be the island's guardian: He watches the sea and shores of the neighboring islands for any signs of people attempting to discover the beach.__NEWL__Jed also has a sideline of stealing some cannabis from the Thai farmers' side of the island.__NEWL__One day, Unhygienix informs everyone that their rice supply has been infected by a fungus, and Sal announces an emergency rice run — an occasional discreet trip to the mainland by boat to bulk-buy rice and other essentials.__NEWL__Due to the laborious nature of the task, no one volunteers for it except Jed, who, to the bewilderment of most others, always takes the job.__NEWL__Richard also volunteers, and so the two travel back to Koh Phangan for their supplies.__NEWL__It is during the rice run that Jed learns that Richard gave a copy of the map to Sammy and Zeph, when Jed coincidentally wanders past and overhears the two Americans relaying the urban legend of the beach to some Germans.__NEWL__The rice run goes without a hitch, but soon, accompanied by three Germans they met on the mainland, Zeph and Sammy make their way to the nearest island to the beach, which worries Richard, as he will be blamed if they successfully reach the community.__NEWL__Soon afterward, Sal reassigns Richard to the perimeter detail to partner with Jed and keep a close eye on the potential invaders.__NEWL__With a free spot in Gregorio's fishing detail, Keaty takes Richard's place.__NEWL__A few days later, he mistakenly catches a dead squid that gives severe food poisoning to most of the group.__NEWL__The few remaining healthy members struggle to nurse the sick residents back to health.__NEWL__Richard returns from his sentry duty to find that Bugs has punched Keaty in the face for his mistake.__NEWL__Richard, having never liked Bugs' arrogant nature, instigates a heated argument with him in front of the whole group, which leads to a division of the community into several cliques.__NEWL__On this day, only two of the fishing details are still in operation, and the best detail, comprising three Swedes — Christo, Sten, and Karl — who fish outside the safe lagoon area, is attacked by a shark.__NEWL__The camp only finds out about the shark attack upon the return of one of the three, Karl, in the early evening.__NEWL__Karl carries Sten on his back to the village, where Sten is discovered to have already bled to death.__NEWL__While Karl was not physically harmed by the shark, he suffers severe emotional trauma from having watched his friend die.__NEWL__He subsequently spends his time sitting in a dug-out hole on the beach and not talking to anyone, barely accepting food and water.__NEWL__Richard realizes that Christo is still missing and, at his own risk, retrieves him from partially submerged caves of the lagoon.__NEWL__Richard is praised for his heroic rescue of Christo, who at first seems fine but later collapses, owing to the internal bleeding from having been rammed by the shark.__NEWL__Due to Christo's grave wounds, he requires Jed's presence in the camp, because only Jed has the medical knowledge to tend to him.__NEWL__This leaves Richard to work the sentry detail alone.__NEWL__A few days later, a funeral is held for Sten near the jungle waterfall, and Sal gives a decisive speech that somewhat restores social harmony.__NEWL__She announces that it is 11 September, so they will thus be celebrating the Tet festival in three days' time.__NEWL__Spending long hours alone in the forest as he hikes between lookout spots, Richard begins to experience hallucinations in which Daffy appears: They converse and patrol together the part of the island that Richard refers to as the DMZ.__NEWL__Richard comes to appreciate that Daffy killed himself because he could neither endure the unravelling of his elitist vision of the beach as the group grew in size, nor bear the thought of a return to either backpacking or settled life, and notes that he is also falling prey to that way of thinking.__NEWL__Richard realizes the reason why Daffy gave him the map — as well as spread rumors of the island all over Thailand — so that many travelers would come looking for the beach, inevitably leading to its becoming a tourist destination.__NEWL__Daffy describes this act as "euthanizing" the community, and Richard was merely a pawn in Daffy's revenge plan.__NEWL__This comes to a head following the arrival of the American/German group by raft.__NEWL__Unlike Richard, Étienne, and Françoise, who managed to overcome all obstacles in getting to the beach, the newcomers never make it past the most dangerous hurdle: the cannabis farmers.__NEWL__Richard witnesses them being first beaten violently and then dragged away.__NEWL__The sound of gunshots implies that the farmers have murdered the intruders.__NEWL__Richard returns to the community campsite to immediately inform Sal and Jed of what happened.__NEWL__He then goes to the beach to visit Karl, who attacks Richard, provoking Richard to attack him before he gets free and runs off into the jungle.__NEWL__On the day of the Tet festival, Sal obliquely asks Richard to kill Karl because of the threat he poses to the group's now-fragile social integrity, complaining that she constantly has to lift morale in the wake of the poisoning incident and Sten's death.__NEWL__Richard swims out to the cave where the group's only boat is kept, only to find that Karl has used it to escape to the mainland.__NEWL__Étienne corners Richard thereafter, and Richard soon discovers that Étienne, along with the rest of his clique, has become frightened of Richard's "doing things" for Sal.__NEWL__Disillusioned with the beach, Richard convinces Étienne, Françoise, Jed, and a paranoid Keaty to leave the beach for good, and euthanizes the dying Christo.__NEWL__Now fully aware of what Sal is willing to do to protect the beach, they decide to spike the food for the Tet celebration and escape on the raft that the doomed backpackers used.__NEWL__Night falls, and the party begins.__NEWL__People are in a celebratory mood, drinking fermented coconut milk.__NEWL__Prior to dinner, Keaty and Richard spike the stew that Unhygienix cooked with a huge quantity of cannabis to immobilize the group.__NEWL__Richard and his friends are about to slip away when the cannabis farmers arrive, threatening all of them with guns, as they believe that the beach dwellers invited the recent arrivals.__NEWL__The farmers beat up Richard and leave the bloodied corpses of the American/German backpackers as a warning.__NEWL__At the sight of this, the extremely intoxicated group experiences a collective mental breakdown and starts to rip the corpses apart in a frenzy.__NEWL__A bloodied Roxxy confesses to Richard that she never wanted to be a permanent resident of the beach and dreams of a city-life between Los Angeles and New York but says she believes the beach will always call her back.__NEWL__After saying her goodbyes, she kills herself by diving backwards off the top of the beach's cliff.__NEWL__Sal discovers that Richard has spread the secret of the beach when she picks up the map he drew for Zeph and Sammy.__NEWL__Upon hearing this, the now unstable community members attack Richard with sharp objects.__NEWL__Richard believes that he is about to die, but he is saved when Françoise, Étienne, Keaty, and Jed return from the beach armed with their fishing spears to drive the others off, seriously wounding Sal and Bugs in the process.__NEWL__Richard and his rescuers make their planned escape on the raft.__NEWL__In the epilogue, it is revealed that the five friends got away and split up when they reached the mainland.__NEWL__It has been a year and one month since their departure from Thailand, and Richard has returned home to England.__NEWL__He hasn't heard from Françoise and Étienne, but states he is likely to bump into them eventually, because "the world is a small place, and Europe is even smaller".__NEWL__He still maintains contact with Keaty and Jed.__NEWL__By chance, Keaty and Jed end up working new jobs in the same building, although for different companies; similar to how they both happened to stay in the same guest house years before they first met at the beach.__NEWL__Richard hears in a news report that Cassie has been arrested in Malaysia for smuggling a large amount of heroin and will be the first Westerner to be executed in the country in six years.__NEWL__He wonders whether anyone else got off the island, particularly Unhygienix, whom he liked.__NEWL__He believes that Bugs died and hopes that Sal died too, because he dislikes the idea of her "turning up on his doorstep".__NEWL__Richard finishes by saying that he is content with his life, although he carries a lot of scars: "I like the way that sounds.__NEWL__I carry a lot of scars".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q212340	To Kill a Mockingbird	1960-07-11T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q49042	Southern United States	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	73408	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73408	The story, told by the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County.__NEWL__Nicknamed Scout, she lives with her older brother Jeremy, nicknamed Jem, and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer.__NEWL__They also have a black cook, Calpurnia, who has been with the family for many years and helped Atticus raise the two children.__NEWL__Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer.__NEWL__The three children are terrified, yet fascinated, by their neighbor, the reclusive Arthur "Boo" Radley.__NEWL__The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo, and few of them have seen him for many years.__NEWL__The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house.__NEWL__After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone is leaving them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place.__NEWL__Several times the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their disappointment, he never appears in person.__NEWL__Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell.__NEWL__Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability.__NEWL__Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus's actions, calling him a "nigger-lover".__NEWL__Scout is tempted to stand up for her father's honor by fighting, even though he has told her not to.__NEWL__One night, Atticus faces a group of men intent on lynching Tom.__NEWL__This crisis is averted in an unexpected manner: Scout, Jem, and Dill show up, and Scout inadvertently breaks the mob mentality by recognizing and talking to a classmate's father, and the would-be lynchers disperse.__NEWL__Atticus does not want Jem and Scout to be present at Tom Robinson's trial.__NEWL__No seat is available on the main floor, but the Rev. Sykes, the pastor of Calpurnia's church, invites Jem, Scout and Dill to watch from the colored balcony.__NEWL__Atticus establishes that Mayella and Bob Ewell are lying.__NEWL__It is revealed that Mayella made sexual advances toward Tom, resulting in her being beaten by her father.__NEWL__The townspeople refer to the Ewells as "white trash" who are not to be trusted, but the jury convicts Tom regardless.__NEWL__Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken.__NEWL__Atticus is hopeful that he can get the verdict overturned, but Tom is shot 17 times and killed while trying to escape from prison.__NEWL__Despite Tom's conviction, Bob Ewell is humiliated by the events of the trial.__NEWL__Atticus explains that he destroyed Ewell's last shred of credibility.__NEWL__Ewell vows revenge, spitting in Atticus' face, trying to break into the judge's house and menacing Tom Robinson's widow.__NEWL__Finally, he attacks Jem and Scout while they are walking home on a dark night after the school Halloween pageant.__NEWL__Jem suffers a broken arm in the struggle, but amid the confusion, someone comes to the children's rescue.__NEWL__The mysterious man carries Jem home, where Scout realizes that he is Boo Radley.__NEWL__Sheriff Tate arrives and discovers Ewell dead from a knife wound.__NEWL__Atticus believes that Jem was responsible, but Tate is certain it was Boo.__NEWL__The sheriff decides that, to protect Boo's privacy, he will report that Ewell simply fell on his own knife during the attack.__NEWL__Boo asks Scout to walk him home.__NEWL__After she says goodbye to him at his front door, he disappears, never to be seen again by Scout.__NEWL__While standing on the Radley porch, Scout imagines life from Boo's perspective.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q968314	Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	63996	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63996	In 1947, in Maine, Andy Dufresne, a banker, is tried and convicted of the double murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence.__NEWL__He is sent to Shawshank State Penitentiary to serve a double life sentence.__NEWL__There, he meets Red, a prisoner who is known in the prison for his ability to smuggle in contraband items.__NEWL__Andy asks Red to get him a rock hammer, which he uses to shape rocks he collects from the exercise yard into small sculptures.__NEWL__He later requests a large poster of Rita Hayworth, which he hangs on the wall above his bed.__NEWL__Over the years, Andy uses his financial knowledge to assist various prison staff.__NEWL__ In October 1967, Andy tells Red about “Peter Stevens”, a pseudonym under which Andy had sold off his assets and invested the proceeds.__NEWL__Andy tells Red that one day "Peter Stevens" will own a small seaside resort hotel in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.__NEWL__On the morning of March 12, 1975, after 28 years in prison, Andy disappears from his locked cell.__NEWL__After a search, warden Samuel Norton discovers that the poster pasted to Andy’s cell wall covers a man-sized hole – Andy had used his rock hammer to slowly chip a tunnel through the wall.__NEWL__In September 1975, Red receives a blank postcard from McNary, Texas, a "tiny town" near the Mexican border, and surmises that Andy crossed the border there.__NEWL__ In March 1977, Red is paroled.__NEWL__He finds a letter wrapped in plastic addressed to him from "Peter Stevens" inviting him to join Andy in Mexico and $1,000 in cash.__NEWL__The story ends with Red preparing to break his parole and follow Andy to Mexico.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q471926	The Eyes of the Dragon	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q923244	Delain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	64010	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64010	The Eyes of the Dragon takes place entirely within the realm of Delain (which itself is located within In-World from The Dark Tower series, as established in "The Little Sisters of Eluria").__NEWL__It is told from the perspective of an unnamed storyteller/narrator, who speaks casually and frankly to the reader, frequently adding his own commentary on characters' motivations and the like.__NEWL__King Roland's magician, Flagg, seeking to destroy the Kingdom of Delain, sees his plans being ruined by the good heart of Queen Sasha.__NEWL__After Sasha gives birth to Peter, a noble and worthy future king, Flagg realizes that his position, his plans, and his life may be in danger because of Peter.__NEWL__When Sasha is pregnant with a second son, Flagg seizes the opportunity.__NEWL__He forces the Queen's midwife to wound Sasha while the second son, Thomas, is born.__NEWL__Sasha bleeds to death and Flagg begins plotting to remove Peter.__NEWL__As Peter becomes a teenager, he begins the custom of bringing a glass of wine to his father before bed each night.__NEWL__Flagg decides to use this as a means of framing Peter.__NEWL__He dissolves a poison called Dragon Sand in a glass of wine and delivers it to the king after Peter leaves.__NEWL__Previously, in an attempt to win Thomas' friendship, Flagg had shown him a secret passage where Thomas could spy on his father.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to Flagg, when he delivers the poison, Thomas is watching through the glass eyes of the mounted head of Roland's greatest trophy, Niner the dragon.__NEWL__Flagg plants evidence incriminating Peter.__NEWL__After a brief trial, during which the judge decides Peter is guilty, he is locked up in the enormous tower called the Needle in the center of the city.__NEWL__Thomas is then crowned King, although he is only twelve years old; due to his youth and his fearful inexperience, he allows Flagg enormous amounts of power.__NEWL__At the start of his long stay in the Needle, Peter manages to send a note to the judge who convicted him, Anders Peyna, with the seemingly innocuous requests to have his mother's old dollhouse and napkins with his meals.__NEWL__Peyna is puzzled by the requests, but, seeing no harm in them, grants them.__NEWL__Five years later, Peter escapes from the Needle, having used the toy loom in the dollhouse and threads from the napkins to make a rope.__NEWL__After the escape he and his allies rush to get Roland's bow and arrow.__NEWL__However, it is not to be found because Thomas had it once they got into the king's "sitting room".__NEWL__Flagg, now revealed as a demonic being, is about to kill them when Thomas reveals himself and tells Flagg that he (Thomas) watched Flagg poison Roland.__NEWL__Thomas shoots Flagg in the eye, but Flagg uses magic to disappear and escape.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, Peter is declared to be the rightful king.__NEWL__Thomas, who has become deeply hated in Delain, sets off alongside his butler, Dennis, to find Flagg.__NEWL__They find him and confront him, but the narrator does not reveal the outcome.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q846175	Dolores Claiborne	1992-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	64024	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64024	Dolores Claiborne, an opinionated 65-year-old widow living on the tiny Maine community of Little Tall Island, is suspected of murdering her wealthy, elderly employer, Vera Donovan.__NEWL__The novel is presented as a transcript of her statement, told to the local constable and a stenographer.__NEWL__Dolores wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill Vera, whom she has looked after for years, but does confess to orchestrating the death of her husband, Joe St. George, almost 30 years before.__NEWL__Dolores's confession develops into the story of her life, her troubled marriage, and her relationship with her employer.__NEWL__ She first describes her relationship with her employer, which began when Vera and her millionaire husband purchased a summer home on Little Tall Island in 1949 and hired Dolores as a maid.__NEWL__Able to cope with Vera's brutally exacting standards, Dolores rises from maid to housekeeper at the Donovan home.__NEWL__After Vera's husband dies in a car crash in the late '50s, Vera spends increasing time at her island house, eventually moving there permanently.__NEWL__Vera suffers a series of strokes in the 1980s, whereupon Dolores becomes the woman's live-in caretaker and reluctant companion.__NEWL__As the wealthy woman slips into dementia, Dolores comforts her from terrifying hallucinations of a force she calls "the dust bunnies.__NEWL__" When Vera is lucid, Dolores combats her increasing mind games and power plays.__NEWL__ Dolores further reveals that when she began working at the Donovan house, her marriage to Joe St. George was already in distress due to his alcoholism, as well as verbal and physical abuse.__NEWL__Their children, Selena, Joe Jr., and Pete, are unaware of the abuse.__NEWL__The marriage problems escalate one night in 1960 when Joe viciously hits Dolores in the small of her back with a piece of stove wood over a perceived slight.__NEWL__In retaliation, Dolores smashes a ceramic cream pot over his head and threatens him with a hatchet, swearing she will kill him if he ever strikes her again.__NEWL__This confrontation is witnessed by their teenaged daughter, Selena.__NEWL__Joe stops beating Dolores, and she allows him to leave the island community in an effort to save face.__NEWL__Selena does not realize Dolores was abused and acted in self-defense, and Joe uses the hatchet incident to gain sympathy from her.__NEWL__A rift grows between mother and daughter.__NEWL__In 1962, Dolores notices Selena has become increasingly withdrawn, frightened, unsociable and neglectful of her appearance.__NEWL__After speculating she has met a boy or become involved in drugs, Dolores finally confronts her daughter as they return home on the island ferry.__NEWL__She explains the truth of the hatchet incident and, against her wishes, Selena then admits her father molested her.__NEWL__Overwhelmed, Selena nearly jumps off the side of the ferry, but Dolores stops her and comforts her, vowing to protect her.__NEWL__That night, she considers murdering Joe, describing the urge to kill him as the opening of an "inside eye."__NEWL__Instead, she confronts him, promising to have him arrested if he ever touches Selena again.__NEWL__Dolores then resolves to protect her children by leaving Joe.__NEWL__When she attempts to withdraw her children's savings accounts to fund their escape, she discovers Joe has stolen everything she had saved.__NEWL__In despair, she breaks down crying at work, confiding in Vera.__NEWL__An unusually sympathetic Vera reveals she has had some sort of experience with Dolores' "inside eye", and casually remarks that men like Joe often die in accidents, leaving their wives everything.__NEWL__As she departs, she implies she arranged the car crash that killed her own husband and advises Dolores "sometimes, an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Dolores begins plotting Joe's death, but she does not find an opportunity to execute her plan until the summer of 1963.__NEWL__Vera becomes obsessed with a total solar eclipse that will be visible from the island, convinced the event will convince her estranged children to visit her.__NEWL__She plans a massive viewing party on the island ferry.__NEWL__Knowing the island will be mostly empty at that time, Dolores ensures Selena is sent to camp, and Joe Jr. and Pete are sent on a trip to visit family.__NEWL__Dolores marks the location of a dried-up stone well in a patch of brambles on the edge of their property.__NEWL__When it becomes clear her children will not be joining her during this time, Vera becomes despondent and lashes out at her hired help, calming only after Dolores confronts her over the unjust firing of one of the maids.__NEWL__ On the day of the eclipse, Dolores buys Joe a bottle of scotch and makes him a sandwich, getting him drunk and comfortable, and they share a moment of physical affection for the first time in many years.__NEWL__As the eclipse begins, Dolores has a vision of a young girl in the path of the eclipse who is being sexually abused by her father at that same moment.__NEWL__Reminded of what she has set out to do, she deliberately enrages Joe by claiming she has recovered the money he had stolen, provoking him into attacking her.__NEWL__She flees into the brambles, leading Joe to the well and tricking him into stepping on the rotted boards that cover it.__NEWL__The planks break, and he falls into the well, but is not instantly killed.__NEWL__He calls out for help for some time before eventually losing consciousness.__NEWL__Dolores returns to the house and falls asleep.__NEWL__She has a nightmare, then checks the well.__NEWL__She arrives to discover Joe has regained consciousness and has nearly managed to climb out.__NEWL__He grabs at Dolores and attempts to pull her in with him.__NEWL__She hits him in the face with a rock, and he falls back into the well, dead.__NEWL__Dolores reports Joe missing, and his body is found after several days of searching.__NEWL__Joe's death is ruled an accident despite the suspicions of the local coroner and rumors.__NEWL__Dolores is free of Joe, but her actions damage her relationship with Selena, who also suspects her mother killed her father.__NEWL__The narration finally comes to the circumstances of Vera's death, an incident which has led Dolores to tell her story.__NEWL__She confesses that Vera, in one of her hallucinations, managed to exit her wheelchair and fled in terror from "the dust bunnies", falling down a flight of stairs.__NEWL__As Vera falls, Dolores has a terrifying vision of Joe's ghost, covered in dust.__NEWL__Somehow alive and lucid despite her injuries, Vera begs Dolores to help end her suffering.__NEWL__Dolores fetches a rolling pin, but Vera dies before she can use it.__NEWL__The incriminating scene is discovered by the local mailman, who suspects Dolores of killing the old woman and forces her to call the police.__NEWL__That night, Dolores is harassed and threatened by members of the island community who believe she has already escaped punishment for murder in the past.__NEWL__The next day, Dolores receives a phone call from Vera's lawyer, who informs a shocked Dolores that she has inherited Vera's entire fortune—nearly $30 million.__NEWL__Dolores initially refuses the money in favor of Vera's estranged children, but then learns they were killed in a car crash in 1961, and Vera had spent the last 30 years of her life only pretending they were still alive.__NEWL__Knowing the inheritance will be seen as a motive for murder and worsen the case against her, Dolores convinces herself the only way to clear her name is to confess everything.__NEWL__Feeling at peace with herself at long last, she ends her statement.__NEWL__ Several newspaper articles provide an epilogue to the story, revealing Dolores was cleared of any blame in Vera's death and anonymously donated Vera's fortune to the New England Home For Little Wanderers.__NEWL__The final article implies Dolores and Selena have reconciled and that Selena will be coming home for the first time in 20 years.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q629445	Gerald's Game	1992-05-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	64025	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64025	Jessie Angela Mahout Burlingame and her husband Gerald, a successful and aggressive lawyer, travel from Portland to their secluded lake house in western Maine near Kashwakamak Lake for a spontaneous romantic getaway.__NEWL__The titular "game" involves handcuffing Jessie to the bed for lovemaking, a recent addition to their marriage that Jessie only pretends to enjoy, though Gerald finds it exciting.__NEWL__This time, however, Jessie finds herself reluctant after being handcuffed to the bedposts and asks to stop, only to be ignored by Gerald, who pretends her protests are only part of their game.__NEWL__Realizing her husband is deliberately feigning ignorance and that he plans to rape her, Jessie lashes out, kicking Gerald in the chest.__NEWL__The shock causes him to have a fatal heart attack.__NEWL__He dies, leaving Jessie still handcuffed to the bed.__NEWL__At first, Jessie is only horrified at her husband's death and fears the humiliation of being discovered semi-naked and handcuffed, but she quickly realizes the situation is far more dire: it is unlikely that she or Gerald will be missed for several days, no one will think to look for them at the lake house, and all the usual lake residents have gone for the season.__NEWL__There is a real possibility that Jessie will die if she cannot escape.__NEWL__While Jessie frantically explores and rejects plans, a combination of panic and thirst causes her to hallucinate voices: "The Goodwife" or "Goody Burlingame," a Puritanical version of herself that undermines her escape attempts by insisting things will be fine and that she should wait to be rescued; "Punkin," a representation of Jessie as a 10-year-old girl; Ruth Neary, a college roommate whom Jessie abandoned after a conversation that strayed dangerously close to uncovering Jessie's childhood; and Nora, Jessie's former psychologist, whom Jessie likewise abandoned when Nora questioned Jessie's relationship with her father.__NEWL__Guided by these voices, Jessie realizes that "Goody's" advice to wait for rescue stems from a subconscious belief that she deserves to be trapped in this situation, even if it means her death.__NEWL__When she probes for the reason behind this self-destructive belief, Jessie is able to recall a long-repressed memory of being sexually abused by her father during a solar eclipse when Jessie was ten.__NEWL__Her father manipulated young Jessie into believing that she was complicit, resulting in lifelong feelings of shame and guilt.__NEWL__Jessie also remembers an inexplicable event in the aftermath of the abuse, during which she experienced a momentary psychic connection with an unknown woman.__NEWL__The memories cause Jessie to acknowledge how unhappy and controlling her marriage to Gerald was, leading her to suspect she gave up her independent and courageous spirit for the security of being Gerald's trophy wife.__NEWL__Waking from an imaginary confrontation with all these characters to a dark bedroom, Jessie sees a tall, gaunt apparition, whom she initially mistakes for the spirit of her long-dead father and whom she nicknames "Space Cowboy" (after a 1969 Steve Miller song, used again later in "The Joker").__NEWL__The figure shows her a wicker basket of jewelry mixed with human bones.__NEWL__Unsure if the figure is another hallucination, Jessie dismisses it, saying aloud it is "only made of moonlight," which seems to make it vanish.__NEWL__Her inner voices, however, believe the figure is real and that it will return to harm Jessie if she does not escape by the next night.__NEWL__The following morning, Jessie manages to secure a drink of water from a glass on the bedside table.__NEWL__Refreshed and encouraged by her own ingenuity in getting the water, she renews her efforts to escape, first by trying to break the headboard, then by trying to slip off the bed and push it to the bureau where the keys are placed.__NEWL__Inspired by her memory of the eclipse, in which her father warned her not to cut herself on the smoked glass panes they used as eclipse viewers, Jessie breaks the water glass and uses a sharp shard to slice her wrist, giving herself a degloving injury to lubricate her skin enough to slide her right hand from the cuff.__NEWL__She is then able to escape the bed, reach the keys, and free her other hand, only to faint from blood loss.__NEWL__When she awakens, it is nearly dark and the Space Cowboy, now undeniably real, has returned.__NEWL__Jessie throws her wedding ring at his box of jewelry and bones, thinking that is what he wanted all along.__NEWL__Still dazed and weak with blood loss, she reaches her car and drives away, only to discover the Space Cowboy hidden in the back seat.__NEWL__Jessie crashes and is knocked unconscious.__NEWL__Months later, Jessie is still recuperating from her ordeal.__NEWL__An attorney at Gerald's law firm assists her in covering up the incident to protect her and the law firm from scandal, but Jessie feels this is another version of burying her trauma, just as she buried her childhood abuse years before.__NEWL__To free herself, Jessie writes to the real Ruth, with whom she has not spoken in decades, detailing what really happened at the lake house and subsequent events.__NEWL__The "Space Cowboy" had turned out to be a serial killer and necrophile named Raymond Andrew Joubert who had been living in and robbing lake houses in the area.__NEWL__Jessie confronted Joubert at his court hearing, where Joubert mocked her "made of moonlight" statement, confirming that the encounter really occurred and causing Jessie to spit in his face.__NEWL__Being able to directly confront the man who once terrified her allowed her to face the other manipulative men in her life, including her father and Gerald, freeing her of fear and allowing her to deal more honestly with her past.__NEWL__She apologizes for abandoning Ruth, acknowledging that Ruth had confronted her with a truth she could not then face, and hopes they can resume their friendship.__NEWL__After mailing the letter, Jessie is able to sleep without nightmares for the first time since her ordeal at the lake house.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q930666	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon	1999-04-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	64026	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64026	The story is set in motion by a family hiking trip, during which Trisha's brother, Pete, and mother constantly squabble about the mother's divorce from their father, as well as other topics.__NEWL__Trisha falls back to avoid listening and is therefore unable to find her family again after she wanders off the trail to take a bathroom break.__NEWL__Trying to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she slips and falls down a steep embankment and ends up hopelessly lost, heading deeper into the heart of the forest.__NEWL__She is left with a bottle of water, two Twinkies, a boiled egg, celery sticks, a tuna sandwich, a bottle of Surge, a poncho, a Game Boy, and a Walkman.__NEWL__She listens to her Walkman to keep her mood up, either to learn of news of the search for her, or to listen to the baseball game featuring her favorite player, and "heartthrob", Tom Gordon.__NEWL__As she starts to take steps to survive by conserving what little food she has with her while consuming edible flora, Trisha's family return to their car without her and call the police to start a search.__NEWL__The rescuers search in the area around the path, but not as far as Trisha has gone.__NEWL__The girl decides to follow a creek because of what she read in Little House on the Prairie (though it soon turns into a swamp-like river), rationalizing that all bodies of water lead eventually to inhabited areas.__NEWL__As the cops stop searching for the night, she huddles up underneath a tree to rest.__NEWL__Eventually, a combination of fear, hunger, and thirst causes Trisha to hallucinate.__NEWL__She imagines several people from her life, as well as her hero, Tom Gordon, appearing to her.__NEWL__It's left unclear whether increasingly obvious signs of supernatural events in the woods are also hallucinations.__NEWL__Hours and soon days begin to pass, with Trisha wandering further into the woods.__NEWL__Eventually, Trisha begins to believe that she is headed for a confrontation with the God of the Lost, a wasp-faced evil entity who is hunting her down.__NEWL__Her trial becomes a test of a 9-year-old girl's ability to maintain sanity in the face of seemingly certain death.__NEWL__Wracked with pneumonia and near death, she comes upon a road, but just as she discovers signs of civilization, she's confronted by a bear, which she interprets as the God of the Lost in disguise.__NEWL__Facing down her fear, she realizes it's the bottom of the ninth, and she must close the game.__NEWL__In imitation of Tom Gordon, she takes a pitcher's stance and throws her Walkman like a baseball, hitting the bear in the face, and startling it enough to make it back away.__NEWL__A hunter, who has come upon the confrontation between girl and beast, frightens the animal away and takes Trisha to safety, but Trisha knows that she earned her rescue.__NEWL__Trisha wakes up in a hospital room.__NEWL__She finds her divorced parents and older brother waiting near her bedside.__NEWL__A nurse tells the girl's family that they must leave so that Trisha can rest because "her numbers are up and we don't want that".__NEWL__Her father is the last to leave.__NEWL__Before he does Trisha asks him to hand her a Red Sox hat (autographed by Tom Gordon) and she points towards the sky, just as Tom Gordon does when he closes a game.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q466288	The Green Mile	1996-08-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	64029	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64029	Featuring a first-person narrative told by Paul Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines nursing home writing down his story in 1996, and his time in 1932 as the block supervisor of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row, nicknamed "The Green Mile" for the color of the floor's linoleum.__NEWL__This year marks the arrival of John Coffey, a 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) tall powerfully built black man who has been convicted of raping and murdering two young white girls.__NEWL__During his time on the Mile, John interacts with fellow prisoners Eduard "Del" Delacroix, a Cajun arsonist, rapist, and murderer; and William Wharton ("Billy the Kid" to himself, "Wild Bill" to the guards), an unhinged and dangerous multiple murderer who is determined to make as much trouble as he can before he is executed.__NEWL__Other inhabitants include Arlen Bitterbuck, a Native American convicted of killing a man in a fight over a pair of boots; Arthur Flanders, a real estate executive who killed his father to perpetrate insurance fraud; and Mr. Jingles, a mouse, to whom Del teaches various tricks.__NEWL__Paul and the other guards are irritated throughout the book by Percy Wetmore, a sadistic guard who enjoys antagonizing the prisoners.__NEWL__The other guards have to be civil to him despite their dislike of him because he is the nephew of the Governor's wife.__NEWL__When Percy is offered an administrative position at the nearby Briar Ridge psychiatric hospital, Paul thinks they are finally rid of him.__NEWL__However, Percy refuses to leave until he is allowed to supervise an execution, so Paul hesitantly allows him to run Del's.__NEWL__Percy deliberately avoids soaking a sponge in brine that is supposed to be tucked inside the electrode cap to ensure a quick death in the electric chair.__NEWL__When the switch is thrown, the current causes Del to catch fire in the chair and suffer a prolonged, agonizing demise.__NEWL__Over time, Paul realizes that John possesses inexplicable healing abilities, which he uses to cure Paul's urinary tract infection and revive Mr. Jingles after Percy stomps on him.__NEWL__Simple-minded and shy, John is very empathic and sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of others around him.__NEWL__One night, the guards drug Wharton, then put a straitjacket on Percy and lock him in the padded restraint room so that they can smuggle John out of prison and take him to the home of Warden Hal Moores.__NEWL__Hal's wife Melinda has an inoperable brain tumor, which John cures.__NEWL__When they return to the Mile, John passes the "disease" from Melinda into Percy, causing him to go mad and shoot Wharton to death before falling into a catatonic state from which he never recovers.__NEWL__Percy is then committed to Briar Ridge as a patient.__NEWL__ Paul's long-simmering suspicions that John is innocent are proven right when he discovers that it was actually Wharton who raped and killed the two girls and that John was trying to revive them.__NEWL__Later, John tells Paul what he saw when Wharton grabbed his arm one time, how Wharton had coerced the sisters to be silent by threatening to kill one if the other made a noise, using their love for each other.__NEWL__Paul is unsure how to help John, but John tells him not to worry, as he is ready to die anyway, wanting to escape the cruelty of the world.__NEWL__John's execution is the last one in which Paul participates.__NEWL__As Paul approaches the conclusion of his written story, he offers it to his friend Elaine Connelly to read.__NEWL__After she finishes doing so, he introduces Mr. Jingles to her just before the mouse dies, having lived 64 years past these events.__NEWL__Paul explains that those healed by John gained an unnaturally long lifespan.__NEWL__Elaine dies shortly after, never learning how Paul's wife died in his arms immediately after they were involved in a bus accident in 1956, and that he then saw John's ghost watching him from an overpass.__NEWL__Paul seems to be all alone, now 104 years old, and wondering how much longer he will live.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q384160	The Long Walk	1979-07-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	64035	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64035	In a dystopian America, a major source of entertainment is the Long Walk, in which one hundred teenage boys walk without rest along U.S. Route 1.__NEWL__If they fall below a pace of , they receive three warnings and are subsequently shot by a group of soldiers on an accompanying half-track.__NEWL__The last boy left walking receives a large sum of money and a "Prize" of his choice.__NEWL__Ray Garraty from Androscoggin County, Maine arrives at the start of the Walk on the Canada-Maine border, where he meets several other Walkers such as the sardonic McVries, the friendly Baker, the cocky Olson and the enigmatic Stebbins.__NEWL__The Major, the leader of the secret police force known as the Squads, starts the Walk.__NEWL__Throughout the first day, Garraty befriends Baker, Olson, and several other Walkers such as Abraham and Pearson, growing particularly close to McVries and becoming particularly intrigued by Stebbins.__NEWL__A Walker named Barkovitch reveals to a reporter that he's in the Long Walk to 'dance on the graves' of other participants, and later provokes another Walker into attacking him, resulting in the Walker's death and Barkovitch being ostracized.__NEWL__Garraty succeeds in surviving the night.__NEWL__Scramm, the odds-on favorite in Vegas, tells Garraty that he has a pregnant wife and so will have sufficient motivation to keep going.__NEWL__Garraty decides that his motivation will be surviving until Freeport as this will allow him to see his girlfriend Jan in the crowd.__NEWL__The Walkers begin to resent the Major, and McVries stops walking in an attempt to fight the soldiers, but is saved by Garraty.__NEWL__In return, McVries saves Garraty's life after Garraty experiences hysterics when the spectators increase in number.__NEWL__This camaraderie infuriates Olson, who is now severely fatigued and wants Garraty to die.__NEWL__Garraty reveals to the others that his father was Squaded, and a fight almost breaks out between McVries and another Walker, Collie Parker, when Parker claims that only 'damn fools' are Squaded.__NEWL__Stebbins tells Garraty both that he believes he's going to win, and that the Walkers are all participating because they want to die.__NEWL__McVries and Baker both seem to be examples of this, due to McVries seeking pain and Baker's fascination with death; McVries also tells Garraty that he will sit down when he can't walk any further.__NEWL__Stebbins also advises Garraty to watch Olson, who keeps walking despite being unresponsive.__NEWL__After Garraty brings Olson out of this state, Olson attacks the soldiers and is killed slowly and brutally.__NEWL__Scramm catches pneumonia and becomes unable to finish the Walk, and the other Walkers agree that the winner should provide financial security for Scramm's wife.__NEWL__Garraty asks Barkovitch to join the agreement, and Barkovitch agrees as he has become lonely and manic in his isolation from the others.__NEWL__Garraty also asks Stebbins, who tells Garraty that there was nothing special about Olson and that he was lying; Garraty, however, believes that Stebbins came to a realization that scared him.__NEWL__Scramm thanks the others and is killed in an act of defiance against the soldiers.__NEWL__After developing a charley horse, Garraty is given three warnings and has to walk for an hour to lose one.__NEWL__To distract himself, he tells McVries about how he felt a compulsion to join the Walk and that his mother was blinded by the thought of financial security.__NEWL__McVries reveals that he joined the Walk against the wishes of his family, and Abraham tells Garraty that he didn't withdraw after being accepted due to the amusement it provided his town.__NEWL__Garraty begins to suffer from doubts about his sexuality and masculinity due to suppressed memories re-emerging, especially after McVries hints that he is sexually attracted to Garraty.__NEWL__This causes Garraty to lash out at a deteriorating Barkovitch, and Barkovitch dies by suicide when the rest of the Walkers begin taunting him.__NEWL__Garraty wakes the next morning to find that many Walkers (including Pearson) have died overnight, as Barkovitch predicted.__NEWL__When the Walkers arrive in Freeport, Garraty attempts to die in Jan's arms but is saved by McVries.__NEWL__As a response, Abraham convinces the Walkers to make a promise to stop helping each other, which Garraty does reluctantly.__NEWL__This has disastrous consequences: Parker starts a revolution against the soldiers but is killed when nobody joins in; Abraham removes his shirt and catches pneumonia overnight because nobody can offer him a replacement, resulting in his death; Baker falls over and gains a severe nosebleed, and is given three warnings as nobody can help him up.__NEWL__On the morning of the fifth day, Stebbins reveals to Garraty and McVries that he is the Major's son, and that his Prize would be acceptance into the Major's household.__NEWL__However, Stebbins has become aware that the Major is using him as a 'rabbit' to cause the Walk to last longer, which has worked, as seven Walkers make it into Massachusetts.__NEWL__Baker, now somewhat delirious and described as a 'raw-blood machine', tells Garraty that he can't walk any further and thanks Garraty for being his friend.__NEWL__Garraty unsuccessfully tries to talk him out of suicide.__NEWL__With Baker dead, the only remaining Walkers are Garraty, Stebbins and McVries.__NEWL__As Garraty tells him a fairy tale, McVries falls asleep and begins walking at the crowd, and Garraty breaks his promise and saves him; however, McVries chooses to sit down and die peacefully.__NEWL__A distraught Garraty is beckoned by a dark figure further ahead, and decides that he will give up because Stebbins cannot be beaten.__NEWL__When he tries to tell Stebbins, Stebbins clutches at him in horror and falls over dead.__NEWL__His corpse is shot when the Major arrives.__NEWL__This leaves Garraty the uncomprehending winner.__NEWL__He ignores the Major and approaches the dark figure (whom he believes to be another Walker), declaring that there is 'still so far to walk'.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q261281	Solaris	1961-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	64199	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64199	Solaris chronicles the ultimate futility of attempted communications with the extraterrestrial life inhabiting a distant alien planet named Solaris.__NEWL__The planet is almost completely covered with an ocean of gel that is revealed to be a single, planet-encompassing entity.__NEWL__Terran scientists conjecture it is a living and a sentient being, and attempt to communicate with it.__NEWL__Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, arrives aboard Solaris Station, a scientific research station hovering near the oceanic surface of Solaris.__NEWL__The scientists there have studied the planet and its ocean for many decades, mostly in vain.__NEWL__A scientific discipline known as Solaristics has degenerated over the years to simply observing, recording and categorizing the complex phenomena that occur upon the surface of the ocean.__NEWL__Thus far, the scientists have only compiled an elaborate nomenclature of the phenomena, and do not yet understand what such activities really mean.__NEWL__Shortly before Kelvin's arrival, the crew exposed the ocean to a more aggressive and unauthorized experimentation with a high-energy X-ray bombardment.__NEWL__Their experimentation gives unexpected results and becomes psychologically traumatic for them as individually flawed humans.__NEWL__The ocean's response to this intrusion exposes the deeper, hidden aspects of the personalities of the human scientists, while revealing nothing of the ocean's nature itself.__NEWL__It does this by materializing physical simulacra, including human ones; Kelvin confronts memories of his dead lover and guilt about her suicide.__NEWL__The "guests" of the other researchers are only alluded to.__NEWL__All human efforts to make sense of Solaris's activities prove futile.__NEWL__As Lem wrote, "The peculiarity of those phenomena seems to suggest that we observe a kind of rational activity, but the meaning of this seemingly rational activity of the Solarian Ocean is beyond the reach of human beings."__NEWL__He also wrote that he deliberately chose to make the sentient alien an ocean to avoid any personification and the pitfalls of anthropomorphism in depicting first contact.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25338	The Little Prince	1943-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	63425	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63425	The narrator begins with a discussion on the nature of grown-ups and their inability to perceive "important things".__NEWL__As a test to determine if a grown-up is as enlightened as a child, he shows them a picture depicting a boa constrictor which has eaten an elephant.__NEWL__The grown-ups always reply that the picture depicts a hat, and so he knows to only talk of "reasonable" things to them, rather than the fanciful.__NEWL__The narrator becomes an aircraft pilot, and one day, his plane crashes in the Sahara desert, far from civilization.__NEWL__The narrator has an eight-day supply of water and must fix his aeroplane.__NEWL__Here, he is greeted unexpectedly by a young boy nicknamed "the little prince.__NEWL__" The prince has golden hair, a loveable laugh, and will repeat questions until they are answered.__NEWL__The prince asks the narrator to draw a sheep.__NEWL__The narrator first shows him the picture of the elephant inside the snake, which, to the narrator's surprise, the prince interprets correctly.__NEWL__After three failed attempts at drawing a sheep, the frustrated narrator draws a simple crate, claiming the sheep is inside.__NEWL__The prince exclaims that this was exactly the drawing he wanted.__NEWL__Over the course of eight days in the desert, while the narrator attempts to repair his plane, the prince recounts his life story.__NEWL__He begins describing his tiny home planet: in effect, a house-sized asteroid known as "B 612" on Earth.__NEWL__The asteroid's most prominent features are three minuscule volcanoes (two active, and one dormant or extinct) and a variety of plants.__NEWL__The prince describes his earlier days cleaning the volcanoes and weeding unwanted seeds and sprigs that infest his planet's soil; in particular, pulling out baobab trees that are constantly on the verge of overrunning the surface.__NEWL__If the baobabs are not rooted out the moment they are recognised, its roots can have a catastrophic effect on the tiny planet.__NEWL__Therefore, the prince wants a sheep to eat the undesirable plants, but worries it will also eat plants with thorns.__NEWL__The prince tells of his love for a vain and silly rose that began growing on the asteroid's surface some time ago.__NEWL__The rose is given to pretension, exaggerating ailments to gain attention and have the prince care for her.__NEWL__The prince says he nourished the rose and tended to her, making a screen and glass globe to protect her from the cold and wind, watering her, and keeping the caterpillars off.__NEWL__Although the prince fell in love with the rose, he also began to feel that she was taking advantage of him, and he resolved to leave the planet to explore the rest of the universe.__NEWL__Upon their goodbyes, the rose apologises for failing to show that she loved him.__NEWL__She wishes him well and turns down his desire to leave her in the glass globe, saying she will protect herself.__NEWL__The prince laments that he did not understand how to love his rose while he was with her and should have listened to her kind actions, rather than her vain words.__NEWL__The prince has since visited six other planets, each of which was inhabited by a single, irrational, narrow-minded adult, each meant to critique an element of society.__NEWL__They include: It is the geographer who tells the prince that his rose is an ephemeral being, which is not recorded, and recommends that the prince next visit the planet Earth.__NEWL__The visit to Earth begins with a deeply pessimistic appraisal of humanity.__NEWL__The six absurd people the prince encountered earlier comprise, according to the narrator, just about the entire adult world.__NEWL__On earth there were: 111 kings ...__NEWL__7,000 geographers, 900,000 businessmen, 7,500,000 tipplers, 311,000,000 conceited men; that is to say, about 2,000,000,000 grown-ups.__NEWL__Since the prince landed in a desert, he believed that Earth was uninhabited.__NEWL__He then met a yellow snake that claimed to have the power to return him to his home, if he ever wished to return.__NEWL__The prince next met a desert flower, who told him that she had only seen a handful of men in this part of the world and that they had no roots, letting the wind blow them around and living hard lives.__NEWL__After climbing the highest mountain he had ever seen, the prince hoped to see the whole of Earth, thus finding the people; however, he saw only the enormous, desolate landscape.__NEWL__When the prince called out, his echo answered him, which he interpreted as the voice of a boring person who only repeats what another says.__NEWL__The prince encountered a whole row of rosebushes, becoming downcast at having once thought that his own rose was unique and thinking his rose had lied about being unique.__NEWL__He began to feel that he was not a great prince at all, as his planet contained only three tiny volcanoes and a flower that he now thought of as common.__NEWL__He laid down on the grass and wept, until a fox came along.__NEWL__The fox desired to be tamed and taught the prince how to tame him.__NEWL__By being tamed, something goes from being ordinary and just like all the others to being special and unique.__NEWL__There are drawbacks since the connection can lead to sadness and longing when apart.__NEWL__From the fox, the prince learns that his rose was indeed unique and special because she was the object of the prince's love and time; he had "tamed" her, and now she was more precious than all of the roses he had seen in the garden.__NEWL__Upon their sad departing, the fox imparts a secret: important things can only be seen with the heart, not the eyes.__NEWL__The prince finally met two people from Earth: Back in the present moment, it is the eighth day after the narrator's plane crash and the narrator and the prince are dying of thirst.__NEWL__The prince has become visibly morose and saddened over his recollections and longs to return home and see his flower.__NEWL__The prince finds a well, saving them.__NEWL__The narrator later finds the prince talking to the snake, discussing his return home and his desire to see his rose again, who, he worries, has been left to fend for herself.__NEWL__The prince bids an emotional farewell to the narrator and states that if it looks as though he has died, it is only because his body was too heavy to take with him to his planet.__NEWL__The prince warns the narrator not to watch him leave, as it will upset him.__NEWL__The narrator, realising what will happen, refuses to leave the prince's side.__NEWL__The prince consoles the narrator by saying that he only need look at the stars to think of the prince's loveable laughter, and that it will seem as if all the stars are laughing.__NEWL__The prince then walks away from the narrator and allows the snake to bite him, soundlessly falling down.__NEWL__The next morning, the narrator is unable to find the prince's body.__NEWL__He finally manages to repair his aeroplane and leave the desert.__NEWL__It is left up to the reader to determine if the prince returned home or died.__NEWL__The story ends with a drawing of the landscape where the prince and the narrator met and where the snake took the prince's corporeal life.__NEWL__The narrator requests to be immediately contacted by anyone in that area encountering a small person with golden curls who refuses to answer any questions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6316133	Just Like That	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	71567	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71567	The novel chronicles the lives of a group of Jews – or rather, a Jewish family – in the U.S.A., in particular New York City, over a period of roughly seven months during 1991 and 1992.__NEWL__There is little action.__NEWL__Rather, the novel describes in greater detail the feelings of the protagonist and what goes on in her immediate surroundings.__NEWL__Most of the characters in the novel are Jewish, and the reader gets a vivid picture of the lives of assimilated Jews in the U.S.A. It is told by a third person narrator who is very close to Esther Zepler's thoughts.__NEWL__There are frequent flashbacks to both the distant and the not-so-distant past and numerous references to the Holocaust.__NEWL__Edek Zepler is a Holocaust survivor who was born Edek Zeleznikow in Łódź, Poland in 1915, where his father owned several apartment blocks.__NEWL__He got married in the Łódź ghetto to Rooshka but had to marry her again after the war in a DP Camp in Germany.__NEWL__That is where their daughter, Esther, was born in 1950.__NEWL__In 1951 the family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia.__NEWL__When the novel opens, Edek Zepler is an old man of 76 who certainly enjoys good food, a man living alone with his dog in the old house in Melbourne, feeling rather alone—in spite of an active Jewish community in his neighbourhood—and without any life in him since his wife's death in 1986 ("The saddest thing did already happen to me.__NEWL__My wife died.__NEWL__Nothing can be sad after that.").__NEWL__He regularly phones his family, who have moved to Manhattan.__NEWL__The only close relative still in Melbourne is his grandson, Zachary, who studies medicine there.__NEWL__His life takes a decisive turn when, on a visit to New York, he meets Josl and Henia Borenstein again, a couple he last saw in the German DP camp.__NEWL__Now that Josl Borenstein has died of cancer, Edek and Henia gradually feel more and more attracted to each other.__NEWL__In spite of several (alleged) proposals of marriage from millionaires, Henia, herself a rich widow, wants to spend the rest of her life with Edek and invites him to stay with her at her Florida home.__NEWL__Eventually, Edek packs up all his things, sells his house and moves to the U.S.A. He is cordially taken up by Henia's friends, who belong to several associations (for example the Zionist Federation).__NEWL__Although mostly agnostic, he even pays an occasional visit to the synagogue.__NEWL__The problem he has to face towards the end of the novel would be considered rather severe by the average person, but Edek Zepler just laughs it off: Henia's two sons want him to sign a pre-nuptial agreement so that he would not inherit anything if Henia died first (and so that he would not be able to bequeath the Borenstein fortune to Esther and his grandchildren).__NEWL__Such an agreement, Esther and her husband Sean warn him, might mean that he could be left even without a place to stay after her death.__NEWL__But Edek Zepler does not mind ("In that case, I'll come and live with you.").__NEWL__He signs everything and is married to Henia.__NEWL__Esther Zepler is the only child of Edek and Rooshka Zepler.__NEWL__She was born in a German DP camp in 1950.__NEWL__In 1951 her parents decided to emigrate to Australia, where she spent most of her life.__NEWL__In 1968, aged 18, she became a rock journalist – just like Lily Brett herself – and in this capacity also visited New York.__NEWL__As a young woman, she married a gentile and had a son, Zachary, now 21, and a daughter, Zelda, now 16, by him.__NEWL__However, her first marriage was characterized by a "lack of lust", and when she met Sean Ward, a painter and yet another gentile, she left her husband for him.__NEWL__Nobody would guess that Sean, Esther, Zachary, Zelda and Kate – Sean's 19-year-old daughter by his first wife, who died of cancer – are a patchwork family.__NEWL__For one thing, Sean looks Jewish although he is not; for another, they all understand each other well__NEWL__and there is a certain feeling of belonging amongst them.__NEWL__When the novel opens they have just moved to New York City, and Esther starts working as a writer of obituaries.__NEWL__Although on the surface level Esther's life seems to be in perfect order – she has got a good job, she is happily married, her children are well-behaved, they all are quite wealthy, they do not suffer from any illnesses – Esther is constantly suffering in some way or other.__NEWL__She has always seen herself as "a person with so much to sort out", and this is why she has been in analysis for a quite a number of years.__NEWL__She spends a fortune on it and even has to sell her mother's diamond ring.__NEWL__At one point in the novel, she learns the difference between compulsive and obsessive behaviour (compulsive behaviour is to do with action, obsessive behaviour with thoughts) and promptly thinks she herself shows both types of behaviour.__NEWL__She suffers from agoraphobia as well as claustrophobia.__NEWL__When she was 15, back home in Australia, her father let her drive his car in public until they were stopped by the police.__NEWL__Now, as an adult, she is afraid to drive, and considers herself lucky that you do not really need a car in New York City.__NEWL__She is neurotic, a woman with "excessive anxieties and indecisions", and likely to panic when having to face things.__NEWL__She is all for drugs: beta blocker, Valium, Mylanta, and other pills.__NEWL__On the other hand, Esther neither smokes nor drinks.__NEWL__Generally, although she likes, and is able to enjoy, sex, she is very reluctant to talk about it, especially in public.__NEWL__But all around her, people keep talking freely about sex in general and also about their own sex lives, whereas Esther does not even want to imagine her father sleeping with Henia Borenstein, and is slightly embarrassed when she sees them holding hands under the table.__NEWL__Esther often feels "fouled by her parents' past".__NEWL__She is haunted by her dead mother.__NEWL__She is preoccupied with the Holocaust and owns more than 400 books on the subject.__NEWL__Her thoughts about the lives of Jews in Nazi Germany are again and again woven into the novel.__NEWL__She ponders about medical experiments conducted by Nazi physicians; about the gas chambers in the death camps, implicitly comparing a crowded New York subway with a cattle wagon to Auschwitz; the Nazis making soap with human fat; Pope Pius XII and Roman Catholicism; displaced Jews after World War II; anti-Semitism in general; Neo-Nazis in Germany and Austria; the world population of Jews in 1939 and today and the fact that there were "no Jews left" in Poland after World War II; business in the DP camps (i.e. bartering with cigarettes), coffee but also Nazi memorabilia; and she considers with disgust a video game on CD-ROM entitled "How to Survive the Holocaust".__NEWL__She is also preoccupied with death and dying on a more general level.__NEWL__For example, she reads a book on suicide, which she finds invigorating rather than depressing.__NEWL__Fear of death seems to be her constant companion; she continuously sees death as a danger and a menace.__NEWL__Esther also seems to have inherited her mother's "guilt at having survived".__NEWL__At one point in the novel, she speaks of a Jewish "weariness gene".__NEWL__But Esther is also critical of the other Jews she meets in America.__NEWL__There is Sonia Kaufman, who considers Esther as her best friend.__NEWL__Sonia is a lawyer working for the same law firm as her Jewish husband Michael.__NEWL__As opposed to Esther, Sonia has had affairs throughout her married life.__NEWL__Her current lover used a broken condom while they were making love, and now Sonia is pregnant for the first time in her life.__NEWL__As it turns out soon, she is expecting twins.__NEWL__The real problem now is that she cannot possibly say who the father is.__NEWL__Sonia hopes that they will look like her husband, who is looking forward to the birth of his children and has no idea that his wife has had sex with another man.__NEWL__The problem is solved in rather a humorous, light-hearted way at the end of the novel: The twins – two girls – look like her mother.__NEWL__The Kaufmans will be able to afford two nannies, so they will not have any problems combining their careers and their family life.__NEWL__Then there are Joseph and Laraine Reiser.__NEWL__The Reisers are "arseholes".__NEWL__They are filthy rich Jews who live the life of the super-rich in a very pronounced way, never mingling with ordinary people, on whom they seem to look down.__NEWL__Joseph Reiser is an entrepreneur "doing business with Germany"—in itself a suspicious activity—and a would be-patron of the arts:__NEWL__Time and again he talks to Sean Ward about coming to his studio, implying that he might want to buy one of his paintings, but he never seems to get round to doing so.__NEWL__Sean and Esther meet them twice: first, at one of their big parties, and later when they are invited to their Long Island beach house.__NEWL__Esther feels guilty when one of the Reisers´ cars (a stretch Mercedes limo with a fax machine) comes to pick them up.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1042294	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	69111	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69111	While hitchhiking through the galaxy, Arthur Dent is dropped off on a planet in a rainstorm.__NEWL__He appears to be in England on Earth, even though he had seen the planet destroyed by the Vogons.__NEWL__He has been gone for several years, but only a few months have passed on Earth.__NEWL__He hitches a lift with a man named Russell and his sister Fenchurch (nicknamed "Fenny").__NEWL__Russell explains that Fenny, who is sitting in a drugged state in the back seat of the car, became delusional after worldwide mass hysteria, in which everyone hallucinated "big yellow spaceships" (the Vogon destructor ships that "demolished" the Earth).__NEWL__Arthur becomes curious about Fenchurch, but he is dropped off before he can ask more questions.__NEWL__Inside his inexplicably undamaged home, Arthur finds a gift-wrapped bowl inscribed with the words "So long and thanks for all the fish", into which he puts his Babel Fish.__NEWL__Arthur thinks that Fenchurch is somehow connected to him and to the Earth's destruction.__NEWL__He still has the ability to fly whenever he lets his thoughts wander.__NEWL__Arthur puts his life in order, and then tries to find out more about Fenchurch.__NEWL__He happens to find her hitchhiking and picks her up.__NEWL__He obtains her phone number, but shortly thereafter loses it.__NEWL__He discovers her home by accident when he searches for the cave in which he had lived on prehistoric Earth; Fenchurch's flat is built on the same spot.__NEWL__Arthur and Fenchurch find more circumstances connecting them.__NEWL__Fenchurch reveals that, moments before her "hallucinations", she had an epiphany about how to make everything right, but then blacked out.__NEWL__She has not been able to recall the substance of the epiphany.__NEWL__Eventually discovering that Fenchurch's feet do not touch the ground, Arthur teaches her how to fly.__NEWL__They have sex in the skies over London.__NEWL__In her conversation with Arthur, Fenchurch learns about his adventures hitchhiking across the galaxy, and Arthur learns that all the dolphins disappeared shortly after the world hallucinations.__NEWL__Arthur and Fenchurch travel to California to see John Watson, an enigmatic scientist who claims to know why the dolphins disappeared.__NEWL__Watson has abandoned his original name in favour of "Wonko the Sane", because he believes that the rest of the world's population has gone mad.__NEWL__Watson shows them another bowl with the words "So long and thanks for all the fish" inscribed on it, and encourages them to listen to it.__NEWL__The bowl explains audibly that the dolphins, aware of the planet's coming destruction, left Earth for an alternate dimension.__NEWL__Before leaving, they pulled the Earth from a parallel universe into this one and transported everyone and everything onto it from the one about to be destroyed.__NEWL__After the meeting, Fenchurch tells Arthur that, while he lost something and later found it, she found something and later lost it.__NEWL__She desires that they travel to space together, and that they reach the site where God's Final Message to His Creation is written.__NEWL__Ford Prefect discovers that the Hitchhiker's Guide entry for Earth has been updated to include the volumes of text that he originally wrote, instead of the previous truncated entry, "Mostly harmless".__NEWL__Curious, Ford hitchhikes across the galaxy to reach Earth.__NEWL__Eventually he uses the ship of a giant robot to land in the centre of London, causing a panic.__NEWL__In the chaos, Ford reunites with Arthur and the two of them and Fenchurch commandeer the robot's ship.__NEWL__Arthur takes Fenchurch to the planet where God's Final Message to His Creation is written, where they discover Marvin.__NEWL__Due to previous events, Marvin is now approximately 37 times older than the known age of the universe and is barely functional.__NEWL__With Arthur's and Fenchurch's help, Marvin reads the Message ("We apologise for the inconvenience"), utters the final words "I think...__NEWL__I feel good about it", and dies happily.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5386184	Eric Brighteyes	1890-01-01T00:00:00Z	2721					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	69113	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69113	Eric Thorgrimursson, nicknamed "Brighteyes" for his most notable trait, strives to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair.__NEWL__Her father Asmund, a priest of the old Norse gods, opposes the match, believing Eric to be a man without prospects.__NEWL__Deadlier by far are the intrigues of Swanhild, Gudruda's half-sister and a sorceress, who desires Eric for herself.__NEWL__She persuades the chieftain Ospakar Blacktooth to woo Gudruda, making the two men enemies.__NEWL__Battles, intrigues, and treachery follow.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q323146	About a Boy	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	74257	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74257	Set in 1993 London, About a Boy features two main protagonists: Will Freeman, a 36-year-old bachelor, and Marcus Brewer, an incongruous schoolboy described as "introverted" by his suicidal mother, Fiona, despite his tendencies to bond and interact with people.__NEWL__Will's father wrote a successful Christmas song, the royalties of which have afforded Will the ability to remain voluntarily redundant throughout his life – he spends his plentiful free time immersing himself in 1990s culture, music, and pursuing sexual relations with women.__NEWL__After a pleasant relationship with a single mother of two, Angie, Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women.__NEWL__For this purpose, he invents a two-year-old son called Ned.__NEWL__Will then makes a number of acquaintances through his membership of the single parents group, two of which are Fiona and her son Marcus.__NEWL__Although their relationship is initially somewhat strained, they finally succeed in striking up a true friendship despite Will being largely uninterested during the early-middle stages of the novel.__NEWL__Will, a socially aware and "trendy" person, aids Marcus to fit into 1990s youth culture by encouraging him not to get his hair cut by his mother, buying him Adidas trainers, and introducing him to contemporary music, such as Nirvana.__NEWL__Marcus and Will's friendship strengthens as the story progresses, even after Marcus and Fiona discover Will's lie about having a child.__NEWL__Marcus is befriended by Ellie McCrae, a tough, moody 15-year-old girl, who is constantly in trouble at school because she insists on wearing a Kurt Cobain jumper.__NEWL__He also spends some time with his dad Clive, who visits Marcus and Fiona for Christmas together with his new girlfriend Lindsey and her mother.__NEWL__Clive has a minor accident during some D.I.Y. work, and breaks his collarbone.__NEWL__This prompts Clive into having "a big think" about the meaning of his life, and he summons Marcus to Cambridge to see him.__NEWL__Marcus decides to bring Ellie along with him for support; however, they are arrested on the way as Ellie smashes a shop window displaying a cardboard cut-out of Kurt Cobain – accusing the shopkeeper of "trying to make money out of him" after his suicide.__NEWL__Meanwhile, to Will's despair, he falls in love with a woman called Rachel.__NEWL__Rachel is a single mother with a son named Ali (Alistair), who is the same age as Marcus.__NEWL__The two originally fight, but quickly become friends.__NEWL__Will's emotional faculties are liberated and he begins to "shed [his] old skin" of emotional indifference; simultaneously Marcus is becoming more typical of his age, and he begins to enjoy his life more.__NEWL__The penultimate scene takes place in a police station in Royston (a small suburban town), where nearly every significant character in the novel is present, their common link being Marcus.__NEWL__The novel ends during a three-way dialogue between Marcus, Will and Fiona, where Will, to see if Marcus has truly changed, proposes the idea that he play a Joni Mitchell song on Fiona's piano, which she is enthusiastic about.__NEWL__However, Marcus responds saying he "hates" Joni Mitchell, whereby Hornby concludes the novel with the narration saying "Will knew Marcus would be OK".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2222	Uncle Tom's Cabin	1852-03-20T00:00:00Z	203					http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	71989	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71989	The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts.__NEWL__Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza—to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader.__NEWL__Emily Shelby is averse to this idea because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold; Emily's son, George Shelby, hates to see Tom go because he sees the man as his friend and mentor.__NEWL__When Eliza overhears Mr. and Mrs. Shelby discussing plans to sell Tom and Harry, Eliza determines to run away with her son.__NEWL__The novel states that Eliza made this decision because she fears losing her only surviving child (she had already miscarried two children).__NEWL__Eliza departs that night, leaving a note of apology to her mistress.__NEWL__She later makes a dangerous crossing over the ice of the Ohio River to escape her pursuers.__NEWL__As Tom is sold, Mr. Haley takes him to a riverboat on the Mississippi River and from there Tom is to be transported to a slave market.__NEWL__While on board, Tom meets Eva, an angelic little white girl.__NEWL__They quickly become friends.__NEWL__Eva falls into the river and Tom dives into the river to save her life.__NEWL__Being grateful to Tom, Eva's father Augustine St. Clare buys him from Haley and takes him with the family to their home in New Orleans.__NEWL__Tom and Eva begin to relate to one another because of the deep Christian faith they both share.__NEWL__During Eliza's escape, she meets up with her husband George Harris, who had run away previously.__NEWL__They decide to attempt to reach Canada, but are tracked by Tom Loker, a slave hunter hired by Mr. Haley.__NEWL__Eventually Loker and his men trap Eliza and her family, causing George to shoot him in the side.__NEWL__Worried that Loker may die, Eliza convinces George to bring the slave hunter to a nearby Quaker settlement for medical treatment.__NEWL__Back in New Orleans, St. Clare debates slavery with his Northern cousin Ophelia who, while opposing slavery, is prejudiced against black people.__NEWL__St. Clare, however, believes he is not biased, even though he is a slave owner.__NEWL__In an attempt to show Ophelia that her views on blacks are wrong, St. Clare purchases Topsy, a young black slave, and asks Ophelia to educate her.__NEWL__After Tom has lived with the St. Clares for two years, Eva grows very ill.__NEWL__Before she dies she experiences a vision of heaven, which she shares with the people around her.__NEWL__As a result of her death and vision, the other characters resolve to change their lives, Ophelia promising to throw off her personal prejudices against blacks, Topsy saying she will better herself, and St. Clare pledging to free Tom.__NEWL__Before St. Clare can follow through on his pledge, he dies after being stabbed outside a tavern.__NEWL__His wife reneges on her late husband's vow and sells Tom at auction to a vicious plantation owner named Simon Legree.__NEWL__Tom is taken to rural Louisiana with other new slaves including Emmeline, whom Simon Legree has purchased to use as a sex slave.__NEWL__Legree begins to hate Tom when Tom refuses Legree's order to whip his fellow slave.__NEWL__Legree beats Tom viciously and resolves to crush his new slave's faith in God.__NEWL__Despite Legree's cruelty, Tom refuses to stop reading his Bible and comforting the other slaves as best he can.__NEWL__While at the plantation, Tom meets Cassy, another slave whom Legree used as a sex slave.__NEWL__Cassy tells her story to Tom.__NEWL__She was previously separated from her son and daughter when they were sold.__NEWL__She became pregnant again but killed the child because she could not tolerate having another child separated from her.__NEWL__Tom Loker, changed after being healed by the Quakers, returns to the story.__NEWL__He has helped George, Eliza, and Harry enter Canada from Lake Erie and become free.__NEWL__In Louisiana, Uncle Tom almost succumbs to hopelessness as his faith in God is tested by the hardships of the plantation.__NEWL__He has two visions, one of Jesus and one of Eva, which renew his resolve to remain a faithful Christian, even unto death.__NEWL__He encourages Cassy to escape, which she does, taking Emmeline with her.__NEWL__When Tom refuses to tell Legree where Cassy and Emmeline have gone, Legree orders his overseers to kill Tom.__NEWL__As Tom is dying, he forgives the overseers who savagely beat him.__NEWL__Humbled by the character of the man they have killed, both men become Christians.__NEWL__George Shelby, Arthur Shelby's son, arrives to buy Tom's freedom, but Tom dies shortly after they meet.__NEWL__On their boat ride to freedom, Cassy and Emmeline meet George Harris' sister Madame de Thoux and accompany her to Canada.__NEWL__Madame de Thoux and George Harris were separated in their childhood.__NEWL__Cassy discovers that Eliza is her long-lost daughter who was sold as a child.__NEWL__Now that their family is together again, they travel to France and eventually Liberia, the African nation created for former American slaves.__NEWL__George Shelby returns to the Kentucky farm, where after his father's death, he frees all his slaves.__NEWL__George Shelby urges them to remember Tom's sacrifice every time they look at his cabin.__NEWL__He decides to lead a pious Christian life just as Uncle Tom did.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1196500	I, the Jury	1947-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	70258	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70258	The novel opens as private detective Mike Hammer is called to the apartment of insurance investigator Jack Williams, a very close friend who was crippled saving Hammer's life during shared World War II military service in the Pacific.__NEWL__Losing his arm rendered Jack unfit for police work, so he put his experience to use by investigating insurance fraud.__NEWL__Williams has been murdered in a particularly cruel way, deliberately shot in the stomach to make the death slow and painful.__NEWL__Mike vows vengeance, declaring that Jack's murderer will die the same way Jack did.__NEWL__Prior to his death, Jack had fallen in love with Myrna Devlin when he stopped her from committing suicide by jumping from a bridge.__NEWL__Williams asked Dr. Charlotte Manning, a young, beautiful, blonde, and well-to-do psychiatrist, to admit Myrna to her clinic for psychotherapy.__NEWL__After Myrna became clean, she and Williams became engaged.__NEWL__The couple maintained a casual friendship with Manning.__NEWL__Over time, Williams comes to suspect that Hal Kines, one of Manning's college students who has spent some time at her clinic and who has become one of her casual acquaintances, is in fact a criminal.__NEWL__In the course of his investigation, Hammer meets and begins to fall in love with Dr. Manning.__NEWL__In the course of the novel, they become engaged.__NEWL__Taking time out from his investigation on a Saturday morning, Hammer picks up Myrna Devlin and gives her a lift to an estate in the country, owned by the lovely Bellamy twins, for a gigantic all-day party.__NEWL__Charlotte Manning says she has some business to attend to and will be there in time for a tennis game due to take place that evening.__NEWL__After an unsuccessful attempt at playing tennis himself, Hammer gets rid of his sleep deficit by spending all day in his room, fast asleep, with "old junior" — his gun — close to him.__NEWL__He is woken up just in time for dinner, during which Harmon Wilder, the Bellamys' lawyer, and Charles Sherman, Wilder's assistant, are pointed out to him.__NEWL__This is a fine — and the final — distractor in the novel: Wilder and Sherman are suddenly missing from the party after Myrna Devlin has been found shot.__NEWL__In fact they had illicit drugs on them and did not want to be found out.__NEWL__During the tennis game, Mary Bellamy asks Charlotte if she can "borrow" Hammer.__NEWL__She then leads him into the woods, where they have sex.__NEWL__They return to the party just as a maid discovers Myrna's body in an upstairs room, in front of a large mirror.__NEWL__Both Hammer's friend Pat Chambers and other police are called in, and the alibi of each guest is checked.__NEWL__Now having another reason to seek vengeance, Hammer redoubles his efforts to discover the killer.__NEWL__Soon he has uncovered a wide-ranging narcotics rings, one that Jack had been on the verge of exposing.__NEWL__Back home, Hammer retreats into his apartment to think.__NEWL__Finally, he knows the identity of the killer: Dr. Manning.__NEWL__Confronting her, Hammer keeps his promise and kills her in the same excruciatingly painful way she had killed his friend Jack.__NEWL__When the dying murderer asks Hammer how he could act in such a cruel manner, Hammer replies "It was easy!".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3374876	Thinks ...	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	70375	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70375	Helen Reed, an English novelist in her early forties, arrives at the University of Gloucester to spend the term there as "writer-in-residence" and to teach a creative writing class.__NEWL__Still grieving over the death of her beloved husband, Helen thinks a change of scenery might be a good idea to get over her loss.__NEWL__Apart from the English Department, she is intrigued by the department of Cognitive Science and by its head, 50-year-old Ralph Messenger, to whom she is introduced at a social function very soon during her stay.__NEWL__Helen feels curiously attracted by Messenger__NEWL__but she soon learns about his reputation as a womaniser.__NEWL__When a student submits some chapters from the novel she is writing, Helen recognises one of the male characters as having been modelled on her late husband Martin.__NEWL__Gradually it dawns upon Helen that her husband must have had a succession of young lovers, with everyone except herself knowing everything.__NEWL__During a fundraising event, Carrie tells Helen she knows about her husband's flings and, by taking a lover herself, tries to get back at him.__NEWL__Ralph Messenger, she is quite sure, does not know anything about her affair.__NEWL__Helen decides to get on with her life and allows herself to be drawn into an affair with Messenger.__NEWL__Soon, Helen ponders whether she is falling in love with him.__NEWL__When he is waiting for Helen in her maisonette, Messenger cannot resist the temptation to turn on her laptop and read parts of her journal.__NEWL__This is how he learns about his wife's infidelity.__NEWL__When Helen enters her apartment, his jealousy gets the better of him so that he cannot hide the fact that he has invaded her privacy.__NEWL__Ralph Messenger undergoes surgery, after which he loses his reputation as a woman-chaser.__NEWL__In 1999, he publishes a new book entitled Machine Living and in due course is awarded a CBE.__NEWL__He never confronts Carrie with her affair and remains married to her.__NEWL__Helen Reed returns to London and resumes writing.__NEWL__In the following year she publishes Crying is a Puzzler, a novel about life on campus quite similar to that of the University of Gloucester.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7717845	The Big U	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	65002	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65002	The story chronicles the disillusionment of a number of young intellectuals as they encounter the realities of the higher education establishment parodied in the story.__NEWL__Over time their lives and sanity disintegrate in different ways through a series of escalating events that culminates with a full-scale civil war raging on the campus of American Megaversity.__NEWL__Told in the first person from the perspective of Bud, a lecturer in Remote Sensing who is new to the university, the book attacks and makes fun of just about every conceivable group at university, though its portraits of the nerds/computer scientists/role players tend to be more detailed than those of other factions.__NEWL__The events take place at a fictitious big university consisting of a single building (a central complex with eight towers containing student housing), making the university an enclosed universe of its own.__NEWL__Stephenson uses this fact to take what starts as a mostly realistic satire and move it further and further into the realm of improbability, with giant radioactive rats, hordes of bats and a lab-made railgun.__NEWL__The book was written while Stephenson attended Boston University.__NEWL__The fictional campus' design is based on a BU dormitory, Located at 700 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, it is one of the largest dorms in the US.__NEWL__The character of President Septimius Severus Krupp shares a number of similarities with then–BU President John Silber, although his name—like those of his predecessors as president of the big U—is taken from the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus.__NEWL__The neon Big Wheel sign plays a part reminiscent of the Boston Citgo sign just east of the BU campus in Kenmore Square.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q466057	Childhood's End	1953-08-24T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	63335	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63335	The novel is divided into three parts, following a third-person omniscient narrative with no main character.__NEWL__In some editions, the short first chapter is a separate prologue rather than the beginning of the first part.__NEWL__In the late 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union are competing to launch the first spacecraft into orbit, for military purposes.__NEWL__When vast alien spaceships suddenly position themselves above Earth's principal cities, the space race ceases.__NEWL__After one week, the aliens announce they are assuming supervision of international affairs, to prevent humanity's extinction.__NEWL__They become known as the Overlords.__NEWL__In general, they let humans go on conducting their affairs in their own way.__NEWL__They overtly interfere only twice: in South Africa, where, some time before their arrival, apartheid has collapsed and been replaced with aggressive persecution of the white minority; and in Spain, where they put an end to bull fighting.__NEWL__Some humans are suspicious of the Overlords' benign intent, as they never visibly appear.__NEWL__The Overlord Karellen, the "Supervisor for Earth," who speaks directly (behind a one-way glass viewscreen) only to Rikki Stormgren, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, tells Stormgren that the Overlords will reveal themselves in 50 years, when humanity will have become used to their presence.__NEWL__Stormgren smuggles a device onto Karellen's ship in an attempt to see Karellen's true form.__NEWL__He partially succeeds, is shocked by what he sees, and chooses to keep silent.__NEWL__Five decades after their arrival, the Overlords finally reveal their appearance: large bipeds that resemble the traditional Christian folk images of demons, with cloven hooves, leathery wings, horns, and barbed tails.__NEWL__ Men called them Overlords They had come from outer space— they had brought peace and prosperity to Earth__NEWL__But then the change began.__NEWL__It appeared first in the children —frightening, incomprehensible.__NEWL__Now the Overlords made their announcement: This was to be the first step in the elimination of the human race and the beginning of—What?__NEWL__Humankind enters a golden age of prosperity at the expense of creativity.__NEWL__The Overlords are interested in psychic research, which humans suppose is part of their anthropological study.__NEWL__Rupert Boyce, a prolific book collector on the subject, allows one Overlord, Rashaverak, to study these books at his home.__NEWL__To impress his friends with Rashaverak's presence, Boyce holds a party, during which he makes use of a Ouija board.__NEWL__Jan Rodricks, an astrophysicist and Rupert's brother-in-law, asks the identity of the Overlords' home star.__NEWL__George Greggson's future wife Jean faints as the Ouija board reveals a number which has no meaning to most of the guests.__NEWL__Then Jan recognizes it as a star-catalog number and learns that it is consistent with the direction in which Overlord supply ships appear and disappear.__NEWL__With the help of an oceanographer friend, Jan stows away on an Overlord supply ship and travels 40 light years to their home planet.__NEWL__Due to the time dilation of special relativity at near-light-speeds, the elapsed time on the ship is only a few weeks, and he has arranged to endure it in hibernation brought on by a drug known as narcosamine.__NEWL__Although humanity and the Overlords have peaceful relations, some believe human innovation is being suppressed and that culture is becoming stagnant.__NEWL__One of these groups establishes New Athens, an island colony in the middle of the Pacific Ocean devoted to the creative arts, which George and Jean Greggson join.__NEWL__The Overlords conceal a special interest in the Greggsons' children, Jeffrey and Jennifer Anne, and intervene to save Jeffrey's life when a tsunami strikes the island.__NEWL__The Overlords have been watching them since the incident with the Ouija board, which revealed the seed of the coming transformation hidden within Jean.__NEWL__Well over a century after the Overlords' arrival, human children, beginning with the Greggsons', begin to display clairvoyance and telekinetic powers.__NEWL__Karellen reveals the Overlords' purpose: they serve the Overmind, a vast cosmic intelligence, born of amalgamated ancient civilizations and freed from the limitations of material existence.__NEWL__The Overlords themselves are in an "evolutionary cul-de-sac (dead end)"; unable to join the Overmind, they serve instead as a kind of "bridge species", fostering other races' eventual union with it.__NEWL__As Rashaverak explains, the time of humanity as a race composed of single individuals with a concrete identity is coming to an end.__NEWL__The children's minds reach into each other and merge into a single vast group consciousness.__NEWL__If the Pacific were to be dried up, the islands dotting it would lose their identity as islands and become part of a new continent; in the same way, the children cease to be the individuals which their parents knew and become something else, completely alien to the "old type of human".__NEWL__For the transformed children's safety — and also because it is painful for their parents to see what they have become — they are segregated on a continent of their own.__NEWL__No more human children are born and many parents die or commit suicide.__NEWL__The members of New Athens destroy themselves with an atomic bomb.__NEWL__Jan Rodricks emerges from hibernation on the Overlord supply ship and arrives on their planet.__NEWL__The Overlords permit him a glimpse of how the Overmind communicates with them.__NEWL__When Jan returns to Earth (approximately 80 years after his departure by Earth time) he finds an unexpectedly altered planet.__NEWL__Humanity has effectively become extinct and he is now the last man alive.__NEWL__Hundreds of millions of children – no longer fitting what Rodricks defines as "human" – remain on the quarantined continent, having become a single intelligence readying themselves to join the Overmind.__NEWL__Some Overlords remain on Earth to study the children from a safe distance.__NEWL__When the evolved children mentally alter the Moon's rotation and make other planetary manipulations, it becomes too dangerous to remain.__NEWL__The departing Overlords offer to take Rodricks with them, but he chooses to stay to witness Earth's end and transmit a report of what he sees.__NEWL__Before they depart, Rodricks asks Rashaverak what encounter the Overlords had with humanity in the past, according to an assumption that the fear that humans had of their "demonic" form was due to a traumatic encounter with them in the distant past; but Rashaverak explains that the primal fear experienced by humans was not due to a racial memory, but a racial premonition of the Overlords' role in their metamorphosis.__NEWL__The Overlords are eager to escape from their own evolutionary dead end by studying the Overmind, so Rodricks's information is potentially of great value to them.__NEWL__By radio, Rodricks describes a vast burning column ascending from the planet.__NEWL__As the column disappears, Rodricks experiences a profound sense of emptiness when the children have gone.__NEWL__Then material objects and the Earth itself begin to dissolve into transparency.__NEWL__Rodricks reports no fear, but a powerful sense of fulfillment.__NEWL__The Earth evaporates in a flash of light.__NEWL__Karellen looks back at the receding Solar System and gives a final salute to the human species.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4288844	The Go-Between	1953-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	73517	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73517	In the book's prologue, Leo Colston chances upon a diary from 1900, the year of his thirteenth birthday, and gradually pieces together a memory that he has suppressed.__NEWL__Under its influence, and from the viewpoint of what he has become by the midpoint of "this hideous century", Leo relives the events of what had once seemed to him its hopeful beginning.__NEWL__The importance of his boarding school's social rules is another theme running through the book and complicates Leo's interaction with the adult world. "__NEWL__Curses" of his devising had routed boys who were bullying Leo at school and had given him the reputation of a magician, something that he came to half-believe himself.__NEWL__As a result, he is invited as a guest to spend the summer at Brandham Hall, the country home of his school friend, Marcus Maudsley.__NEWL__There the socially clumsy Leo, with his regional accent, is a middle-class boy among the wealthy upper class.__NEWL__Though he does not fit in, his hosts do their best to make him feel welcome, treating him with kindness and indulgence, especially their daughter Marian.__NEWL__When Marcus falls ill, Leo is left largely to his own devices and becomes a secret "postman" for Marian and nearby tenant farmer Ted Burgess, with whom she is having a clandestine relationship.__NEWL__Leo is happy to help Marian because he has a crush on her and likes Ted.__NEWL__Besides, Leo is initially ignorant of the significance or content of the messages that he is asked to carry between them and the well-meaning, innocent boy is easily manipulated by the lovers.__NEWL__Although Marian and Ted are fully aware of the social taboo that must make their relationship a matter of the utmost secrecy, Leo is too naïve to understand why they can never marry.__NEWL__The situation is further complicated by the fact that Marian is about to become engaged to Hugh, Viscount Trimingham, the descendant of the area's nobility who formerly lived in Brandham Hall.__NEWL__ As he begins to comprehend that the relationship between Marian and Ted is not to do with "business", as they have claimed, Leo naively believes that Marian's engagement ought to bring the correspondence between her and Ted to an end.__NEWL__Feeling increasingly uncomfortable about the general atmosphere of deception and risk, Leo tries to end his role as go-between but comes under great psychological pressure and is forced to continue.__NEWL__Ultimately, his unwilling involvement has disastrous consequences when Marian's mother makes him accompany her as she tracks the lovers down to their hiding place and discovers them having sex.__NEWL__The trauma that results leads directly to Ted's suicide and Leo's nervous collapse.__NEWL__In the epilogue, the older Leo summarises how profoundly the experience has affected him.__NEWL__Forbidding himself to think about the scandal, he had shut down his emotions and imaginative nature, leaving room only for facts.__NEWL__As a result, he has never been able to establish intimate relationships.__NEWL__Now, looking back on the events through the eyes of a mature adult, he feels it is important to return to Brandham some 50 years later in order to tie up loose ends.__NEWL__There he meets Marian's grandson and finds Marian herself living in her former nanny's cottage.__NEWL__He also learns that Trimingham had married Marian and acknowledged Ted's son by her as his own.__NEWL__Trimingham had died in 1910; Marcus and his elder brother had fallen in World War I, Marian's son in World War II.__NEWL__In the end, the elderly Marian persuades Leo, the only other survivor from her past, to act once more as go-between and assure her estranged grandson that there was nothing to be ashamed of in her affair with Ted Burgess.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2466091	Choke	2001-05-22T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	69485	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69485	Choke follows Victor Mancini and his friend Denny through a few months of their lives with frequent flashbacks to the days when Victor was a child.__NEWL__Victor had grown up moving from one foster home to another, as his mother was found to be unfit to raise him.__NEWL__Several times throughout his childhood, his mother would kidnap him from his various foster parents, though every time they would eventually be caught, and he would again be remanded over to the child welfare agency.__NEWL__In the present-day setting of the book, Victor has left medical school to support his feeble mother, who is now in a nursing home.__NEWL__In order to pay for elder care for his mother, he resorts to being a con artist.__NEWL__Victor goes to various restaurants and purposely causes himself to choke midway through his meal, luring a "good Samaritan" into saving his life.__NEWL__He keeps a detailed list of everyone who saves him and sends them frequent letters about fictional bills he is unable to pay, causing them to send him money out of sympathy.__NEWL__ Victor works at a re-enactment museum set in colonial times, where most of the employees are drug addicts or, in Denny's case, a fellow recovering sex addict.__NEWL__He spends most of his time on the job guarding Denny (who is constantly being caught with "contraband" items that do not correspond with the time period of the museum) in the stocks.__NEWL__The two met at a sex addiction support group and later applied together to the same job.__NEWL__Denny is later fired from the museum, and begins collecting stones from around the city to build his "dream home".__NEWL__While growing up, Victor's mother taught him numerous conspiracy theories and obscure medical facts which both confused and frightened him.__NEWL__This and his constant moves from one home to another have left Victor unable to form lasting and stable relationships with women.__NEWL__As a result, Victor finds himself getting sexual gratification from women on a solely superficial level.__NEWL__Later on, he starts talking to his mother again for the first time in years.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q936801	Watership Down	1972-11-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23204	Hampshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	67317	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67317	In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a runty buck rabbit who is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction.__NEWL__He and his brother Hazel fail to convince the Threarah, their Chief Rabbit, of the need to evacuate; they then try to convince the other rabbits, but only succeed in gaining nine followers, all bucks.__NEWL__Captain Holly of the Sandleford Owsla (the warren's military caste) accuses the group of fomenting dissension against the Threarah and tries to stop them leaving, but is driven off.__NEWL__Once out in the world, the travelling group of rabbits finds itself following the leadership of Hazel, who had been considered an unimportant member of the warren before.__NEWL__The group travels far through dangerous territory.__NEWL__Bigwig and Silver, both former Owsla and the strongest rabbits among them, keep the others protected, helped by the ingenuity of Blackberry (the cleverest rabbit) and Hazel's good judgment.__NEWL__Along the way, they cross the River Enborne, and evade a badger, a dog, a crow, and a car.__NEWL__Hazel and Bigwig also stop three rabbits from attempting to return to the Sandleford warren.__NEWL__They meet a rabbit named Cowslip, who invites them to join his own warren.__NEWL__The majority of Hazel's group are relieved to finally be able to sleep and feed well, and therefore decide to overlook the strange and evasive behaviour of the new rabbits.__NEWL__Fiver, however, senses nothing but death in the new warren.__NEWL__Later, Bigwig is caught in a snare, only surviving the ordeal thanks to Blackberry and Hazel's quick thinking.__NEWL__Fiver deduces the new warren is managed by a farmer, who protects and feeds the rabbits but also harvests a number of them for their meat and skins.__NEWL__He admonishes the others in a crazed lecture for not realizing the residents of Cowslip's warren were simply using Hazel and the others to increase their own odds of survival.__NEWL__The Sandleford rabbits, badly shaken, continue on their journey.__NEWL__They are soon joined by Strawberry, a buck who leaves Cowslip's warren after his doe is killed by one of the snares.__NEWL__Fiver's visions instruct the rabbits to seek a home atop the hills.__NEWL__The group eventually finds and settles in a beech hangar on Watership Down.__NEWL__While digging the new warren, they are joined by Captain Holly and his friend Bluebell.__NEWL__Holly is severely wounded, and both rabbits are ill from exhaustion, having escaped both the violent human destruction of the Sandleford Warren and an attack by Cowslip's rabbits along the way.__NEWL__Holly's ordeal has left him a changed rabbit, and after telling the others that Fiver's terrible vision has come true, he offers to join Hazel's band in whatever way they will have him.__NEWL__ Although Watership Down is a peaceful habitat, Hazel realizes there are no does, making the future of the new warren certain to end with the inevitable deaths of the buck rabbits present.__NEWL__With the help of their useful new friend, a black-headed gull named Kehaar, they locate a nearby warren called Efrafa, which is overcrowded.__NEWL__Hazel sends a small embassy, led by Holly, to Efrafa to present their request for does.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Hazel and Pipkin, the smallest member of the group, scout the nearby Nuthanger Farm, where they find a hutch with rabbits inside.__NEWL__Despite their uncertainty about living wild, the hutch rabbits are willing to come to Watership.__NEWL__Two nights later, Hazel leads a raid on the farm, which frees three of the hutch rabbits before the farmer returns.__NEWL__Hazel's leg is wounded by a shotgun blast, and he is rescued by Fiver and Blackberry.__NEWL__When the embassy returns soon after, Hazel and his rabbits learn that Efrafa is a police state led by the despotic General Woundwort, who refuses to allow anyone to leave his range of control.__NEWL__Holly and the other rabbits dispatched have managed to escape with little more than their lives intact.__NEWL__However, Holly's group has managed to identify an Efrafan doe named Hyzenthlay, who wishes to leave the warren and can recruit other does to join in the escape.__NEWL__Hazel and Blackberry devise a plan to rescue Hyzenthlay's group and bring them to Watership Down.__NEWL__Bigwig is sent to do the mission, and infiltrates Efrafa in the guise of a member of the Owsla, while Hazel and the rest wait by a nearby river.__NEWL__With help from Kehaar, Bigwig manages to free Hyzenthlay and nine other does, as well as a condemned prisoner named Blackavar.__NEWL__Woundwort and his officers pursue, but the Watership rabbits and the escapees use a punt to escape down the River Test.__NEWL__Travelling down the river, the group navigate through some bridges, in which one doe is killed.__NEWL__Once clear of Efrafa, they make the long journey home, losing one more rabbit to a fox along the way.__NEWL__They eventually reach Watership, unaware they are being shadowed by one of Woundwort's patrols, led by Campion, who reports back to Efrafa.__NEWL__Later that summer, the Owsla of Efrafa, led by Woundwort himself, unexpectedly arrives to destroy the warren at Watership Down and take back the escapees.__NEWL__Through Bigwig's bravery and loyalty, Fiver's visions, and Hazel's ingenuity, the Watership Down rabbits repulse the attack and unleash Nuthanger Farm's Labrador on the Efrafans.__NEWL__Despite being gravely wounded by Bigwig, Woundwort refuses to back down; his followers flee the dog in terror, leaving Woundwort to stand his ground against the dog unobserved.__NEWL__His body is never found, and Groundsel, one of his former followers, continues to fervently believe in his survival.__NEWL__After releasing the dog, Hazel is nearly killed by one of the farmhouse cats.__NEWL__He is saved by young Lucy, the former owner of the escaped hutch rabbits.__NEWL__Upon returning to Watership, Hazel effects a lasting peace and friendship between the remaining Efrafans and his own rabbits.__NEWL__Some time later, Hazel and Campion, the intelligent new chief of Efrafa, send rabbits to start a new warren at Caesar's Belt, to relieve the effects of overcrowding at both their warrens.__NEWL__As time goes on, the three warrens on the downs prosper under Hazel, Campion, and Groundsel (their respective chiefs).__NEWL__Woundwort never returns, and becomes a heroic legend to some rabbits, and a sort of bogeyman to frighten children, to others.__NEWL__Kehaar rejoins his flock, but continues to visit the rabbits every winter.__NEWL__However, he refuses to search for Woundwort, showing even he still fears him.__NEWL__Many years later, on a cold March morning, an elderly Hazel is visited by El-ahrairah, the spiritual overseer of all rabbits and the hero of the traditional rabbit stories told over the course of the book.__NEWL__El-ahrairah invites Hazel to join his own Owsla, reassuring Hazel of Watership's future success and prosperity.__NEWL__Leaving his friends and no-longer-needed physical body behind, Hazel departs Watership Down with the spirit guide.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q467139	The Player of Games	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	68857	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68857	Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famously skillful player of board games and other similar contests, lives on Chiark Orbital, and is bored with his successful life.__NEWL__The Culture's Special Circumstances (SC) inquires about his willingness to participate in a long journey but won't explain further unless Gurgeh agrees to participate.__NEWL__While he is considering this offer, one of his drone friends, Mawhrin-Skel, which had been ejected from SC due to its unstable personality, convinces him to cheat in one of his games in an attempt to win in an unprecedentedly perfect fashion.__NEWL__The attempt fails, but Mawhrin-Skel uses its recording of the event to blackmail Gurgeh into accepting the offer, so that he can use his connections with SC to request that Mawhrin-Skel be admitted back into SC as well.__NEWL__Gurgeh spends the next two years travelling to the Empire of Azad in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where a complex game (also named Azad) is used to determine social rank and political status.__NEWL__The game itself is sufficiently subtle and complex that a player's tactics reflect their own political and philosophical outlook.__NEWL__By the time he arrives, he has grasped the game but is unsure how he will measure up against opponents who have been studying it for their entire lives.__NEWL__Gurgeh lands on the Empire's home planet of Eä, accompanied by another drone, Flere-Imsaho.__NEWL__As a Culture citizen, he naturally plays with a style markedly different from his opponents, many of whom stack the odds against him one way or another, including by forming backroom agreements to cooperate against him (which is allowed by the game's rules) and placing bets on the game requiring the castration of the loser.__NEWL__As he advances through the tournament he is matched against increasingly powerful Azad politicians, and ultimately the Emperor himself in the final round.__NEWL__ __NEWL__The final contests take place on Echronedal, the Fire Planet, which undergoes a periodic natural conflagration fueled by native plants that produce huge amounts of oxygen.__NEWL__The final game is timed to end when the flames engulf the castle where the event takes place, symbolically renewing the Empire by fire.__NEWL__However, faced with defeat, the Emperor's men destroy the castle's fire-suppression systems and start a closer fire front, as the Emperor places cards representing this within the game.__NEWL__With the castle surrounded by fire, the Emperor attempts to kill Gurgeh.__NEWL__Instead, the Emperor is killed by a shot from his own weapon, deflected by Flere-Imsaho, who later refuses to tell Gurgeh if it was coincidental after rescuing him from the fire.__NEWL__Flere-Imsaho reveals that Gurgeh's participation was part of a Culture plot to overthrow the corrupt and savage Empire from within, and that he, the player, was in fact a pawn in a much larger game.__NEWL__He is further told that in the aftermath of the final game, the Empire of Azad collapsed without further intervention from the Culture.__NEWL__Although Gurgeh never discovers the whole truth, in the final sentences of the novel the narrator is revealed to be Flere-Imsaho, who had been disguised as Mawhrin-Skel to manipulate Gurgeh into taking part in the game.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q74362	Excession	1996-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	68863	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68863	The Excession of the title is a perfect black-body sphere that appears mysteriously on the edge of Culture space, appearing to be older than the Universe itself and that resists the attempts of the Culture and technologically equivalent societies (notably the Zetetic Elench) to probe it.__NEWL__The Interesting Times Gang (ITG), an informal group of Minds loosely connected with Special Circumstances, try to manage the Culture's response to the Excession.__NEWL__The Affront, a rapidly expanding race which practises systematic sadism towards subject species and its own females and junior males, also try to exploit the Excession by infiltrating a store of mothballed Culture warships and using them to claim control of the mysterious object.__NEWL__The Sleeper Service, an Eccentric General Systems Vehicle (GSV) who had nominally left the Culture, is instructed to head to the location of the Excession by the ITG.__NEWL__As a condition the Sleeper Service demands that Genar-Hofoen, a human member of Contact, attend it to seek a resolution with his ex-lover, Dajeil, who lives in solitude on the GSV.__NEWL__They had had an intense love-affair and, after a series of sex changes, had each become impregnated by the other until Genar-Hofoen was unfaithful and Dajeil attacked Genar-Hofoen, killing the unborn child.__NEWL__Dajeil then suspended her pregnancy and withdrew from society for 40 years and the Sleeper Service hopes to effect a reconciliation between them.__NEWL__As the stolen Affront fleet approaches the Excession, the Sleeper Service deploys a fleet of 80,000 remote controlled warships, in a misguided attempt to neutralize the threat.__NEWL__It transpires that the Affront have been manipulated into their grab for power by members of the ITG who thought it was morally imperative to curb the Affront's cruelty by any means, and intend to use the Affront's theft of Culture warships as an excuse for war.__NEWL__The Excession releases a wave of destructive energy towards the Sleeper Service.__NEWL__In desperation, the Sleeper Service transmits a complete copy of its personality, its "Mindstate", into the Excession, which has the effect of halting the attack.__NEWL__The Excession then vanishes as mysteriously as it appeared and the brief war with the Affront is halted.__NEWL__During these events, and after speaking with Genar-Hofoen, Dajeil decides to complete her pregnancy and remain on the Sleeper Service, which sets course for a satellite galaxy.__NEWL__Genar-Hofoen returns to the Affront, having been rewarded by being physically transformed into a member of the Affront species (whose company he finds more stimulating than that of the Culture's people).__NEWL__The book's epilogue reveals that the Excession is a sentient entity that was acting as a bridge for a procession of beings that travel between universes.__NEWL__It also assesses whether the species and societies it encounters are suitable to be enlightened about some unknown further existence beyond the universe; as a result of events in the story the Excession concludes that the civilisations it has encountered in this universe are not yet ready.__NEWL__It also takes the name given to it by the Culture – The Excession – as its own – in an oblique reference to the aforementioned Affront species, who had been named by another species in an attempt to label them as a lost cause of hyper-sadistic freaks.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q884010	Look to Windward	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	68870	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68870	The Chelgrians are a race of centaur-like cat aliens with three hind-limbs and a humanoid catlike torso.__NEWL__Major Quilan, a Chelgrian, has lost the will to live after the death of his wife, killed during the Chelgrian civil war that resulted from the Culture's interference.__NEWL__A high-ranked Chelgrian priest offers Quilan the chance to avenge the Chelgrians who died by taking part in a suicide mission to strike back at the Culture.__NEWL__His "Soulkeeper" (a device normally used to store its owner's personality upon their death) is equipped with both the mind of a long-dead Chelgrian admiral and a device given to the Chelgrians by a mysterious group of Involved aliens that can transport wormholes through which weapons can be delivered.__NEWL__Quilan is then sent to the Culture's Masaq' Orbital, ostensibly to persuade the renowned composer Mahrai Ziller to return to his native planet Chel, but in reality on a mission to destroy the Orbital's Hub Mind.__NEWL__To protect him from detection at Masaq', Quilan's memory is selectively blanked until he reaches his target, thus preventing the Mind from reading his thoughts.__NEWL__Ziller lives in self-imposed exile on Masaq', having renounced his privileged position in Chel's caste system.__NEWL__He has been commissioned to compose music to mark a climactic event in the Idiran-Culture War.__NEWL__Upon hearing of Quilan's visit, and suspicious of his reason for travel, Ziller scrupulously avoids him.__NEWL__Quilan succeeds in placing the wormholes in the Orbital's Hub, but the Mind was already aware of the plot because Quilan's operator, the long dead admiral housed in his Soulkeeper, is actually a turncoat spy for the Culture.__NEWL__Although unable to track the locations on the other ends of the wormholes, the Mind suggests that the Involved "aliens" assisting Quilan's mission may have been a group of bellicose Culture minds seeking to keep the Culture from being too complacent.__NEWL__Having struggled with painful memories of the Idiran-Culture war, when it was the General Systems Vehicle Lasting Damage, the Mind reveals to Quilan that it intends to destroy its own higher functions, essentially committing suicide, and offers to take Quilan with it.__NEWL__Quilan, who had become unsure of his own mission after experiencing dreams of his dead wife wearing the silvery skin of the Mind's avatar, agrees.__NEWL__They both commit suicide simultaneously during the climax of Ziller's concert, leading to much shock and outrage.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, a nightmarishly efficient E-Dust Assassin is unleashed by the Culture in 'retribution' against the Chelgrian priest who acted as a pawn for the bellicose Culture Minds, as well as his immediate co-conspirators.__NEWL__The assassin kills the priest gruesomely by transforming into a swarm of insects that eat him from the inside out.__NEWL__Throughout the book there is a subplot about a Culture ethologist named Uagen Zlepe spending his time on a distant alien air sphere and discovering hints about the Chelgrian plot to destroy the Masaq' Orbital's Hub Mind.__NEWL__He attempts to warn the Culture, and the reader is led to believe that his intervention is the reason why the Mind knew about Quilan's sabotage, but ultimately he fails to get his message out and dies.__NEWL__His dead body is resurrected using alien technology an entire galactic grand cycle later, long after all the events of the story have ended.__NEWL__Back in the present, the Chelgrian admiral Huyler's personality, kept alive from Quilan's Soulkeeper, and the real source of the Mind's foreknowledge regarding the attack, is given a new body and becomes an ambassador to the Culture, enjoying a very high standard of living.__NEWL__He says he is close to convincing Ziller to return to Chel, fulfilling Quilan's cover mission.__NEWL__The T.S. Eliot poem which the novel takes its name from is, in part:  Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss.__NEWL__ __NEWL__A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers.__NEWL__As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool.__NEWL__ Gentile or Jew__NEWL__O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.__NEWL__ The fate of Phlebas in the poem is similar to that of Uagen Zlepe in the novel.__NEWL__The title may also refer to the state of mind of the Masaq' Orbital Hub Mind and Major Quilan, both already having died in spirit during their respective wars.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q339923	Use of Weapons	1990-09-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	68871	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68871	The book is made up of two narrative streams, interwoven in alternating chapters.__NEWL__The numbers of the chapters indicate which stream they belong to: one stream is numbered forward in words (One, Two ...), while the other is numbered in reverse with Roman numerals (XIII, XII ...).__NEWL__The story told by the former moves forward chronologically (as the numbers suggest) and tells a self-contained story, while the latter is written in reverse chronology with each chapter successively earlier in Zakalwe's life.__NEWL__Further complicating this structure is a prologue and epilogue set shortly after the events of the main narrative, and many flashbacks within the chapters.__NEWL__The forward-moving narrative stream deals with the attempts of Diziet Sma and a drone named Skaffen-Amtiskaw (of Special Circumstances, a division of Contact Section) to re-enlist Zakalwe for another job.__NEWL__He must make contact with Beychae, an old colleague, who lives in a politically unstable star cluster, to further the aims of the Culture in the region.__NEWL__The payment that Zakalwe demands is the location of a woman, named Livueta.__NEWL__The backward-moving narrative stream describes earlier jobs that Zakalwe has performed for the Culture, ultimately returning to his pre-Culture childhood with his two sisters (Livueta and Darckense) and a boy his age named Elethiomel whose father has been imprisoned for treason.__NEWL__As the two streams of the narrative conclude, it emerges that Elethiomel and Zakalwe commanded two opposing armies in a bloody civil war.__NEWL__Elethiomel took Darckense hostage before finally having her killed and her bones and skin made into a chair, to be sent to Zakalwe, who attempted suicide upon receiving it.__NEWL__After the successful extraction of Beychae, a severely wounded Zakalwe is taken back to his homeworld to see Livueta.__NEWL__She rejects him and reveals that "Cheradenine Zakalwe" is in fact Elethiomel who had stolen the real Zakalwe's identity after Zakalwe had successfully killed himself during the civil war.__NEWL__Elethiomel suffers an aneurysm and Skaffen-Amtiskaw performs surgery in an attempt to save him; it is left unspecified whether Elethiomel survives.__NEWL__The epilogue is a continuation of the prologue.__NEWL__Whether the story told by these "bookends" takes place prior to, or after, Zakalwe/Elethiomel suffers an aneurysm, is not immediately obvious.__NEWL__The clue that it takes place not long after is "Zakalwe pushing his hand through long hair that isn't there any more …"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q623394	Carrie	1974-04-05T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	67003	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67003	In 1979 Chamberlain, Maine, Carietta "Carrie"__NEWL__White is a 16-year-old girl ridiculed for her frumpy appearance and unusual religious beliefs, instilled by her despotic mother, Margaret.__NEWL__One day, Carrie has her first period while showering in the girls' locker room after physical education class.__NEWL__Carrie is terrified, having no understanding of menstruation as her mother, who finds sexuality sinful, never taught her.__NEWL__While Carrie panics, her classmates, led by a wealthy, popular girl named Chris Hargensen, mock her and throw tampons and sanitary napkins at her.__NEWL__The gym teacher, Rita Desjardin, has Carrie compose herself and sends her home.__NEWL__On the way, Carrie practices her unusual ability to control objects from a distance.__NEWL__She recalls using this power was when she was three to cause stones to fall from the sky.__NEWL__Once Carrie gets home, Margaret furiously accuses Carrie of sin and locks her in a closet.__NEWL__The next day, Desjardin reprimands the girls who bullied Carrie and gives them a week's detention; Chris refuses to comply and is punished with suspension and exclusion from the prom.__NEWL__After her influential father fails to reinstate her, Chris decides to take revenge on Carrie.__NEWL__Sue Snell, another popular girl who bullied Carrie in the locker room, grows remorseful, and asks her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to invite Carrie to the prom instead.__NEWL__Carrie is suspicious, but accepts and begins sewing a prom dress.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Chris persuades her boyfriend Billy Nolan and his gang of greasers to gather two buckets of pig blood as she prepares to rig the prom queen election in Carrie's favor.__NEWL__The prom initially goes well for Carrie:__NEWL__Tommy's friends are welcoming, and Tommy finds he is attracted to Carrie as a friend.__NEWL__Chris successfully rigs the election, and Carrie and Tommy are elected prom queen and king.__NEWL__However, at the moment of the coronation, Chris, from outside, dumps the pig blood onto Carrie's and Tommy's heads.__NEWL__Tommy is knocked unconscious by one of the buckets and dies.__NEWL__The sight of Carrie drenched in blood invokes laughter from the audience.__NEWL__Carrie leaves the building, humiliated.__NEWL__Outside, Carrie remembers her telekinesis and decides to enact vengeance on her tormentors.__NEWL__Using her powers, she seals the gym, activates the sprinkler system, inadvertently electrocuting many of her classmates, and causes a fire that eventually ignites the school's fuel tanks, destroying the building in a massive explosion; only a few lucky staff and students escape.__NEWL__Carrie, overwhelmed by rage, thwarts any incoming effort to fight the fire by opening the hydrants within the school's vicinity, then destroys gas stations and cuts power lines on her way home.__NEWL__She unleashes her telekinetic powers on the town, destroying several buildings and killing hundreds of people.__NEWL__As she does this, she broadcasts a telepathic message, showing the townspeople that the carnage was caused by her.__NEWL__Carrie returns home to confront Margaret, who believes Carrie has been possessed by Satan and must be killed.__NEWL__Margaret tells her that her conception was a result of what may have been marital rape.__NEWL__She stabs Carrie in the shoulder with a kitchen knife, and Carrie halts Margaret's heart as she says a prayer.__NEWL__Mortally wounded, Carrie makes her way to the roadhouse where she was conceived.__NEWL__She sees Chris and Billy leaving, having been informed of the destruction by one of Billy's friends.__NEWL__After Billy attempts to run Carrie over, she takes control of his car and sends it into a wall, killing Billy and Chris.__NEWL__Sue, who has been following Carrie's "broadcast", finds her collapsed in the parking lot, bleeding from the knife wound.__NEWL__The two have a brief telepathic conversation.__NEWL__Carrie had believed that Sue and Tommy had set up the prank, but realizes Sue is innocent.__NEWL__Carrie forgives her bullying and dies, crying out for her mother.__NEWL__A state of emergency is declared and the survivors make plans to relocate.__NEWL__Chamberlain foresees desolation in spite of the government assisting on rehabilitating the worker districts.__NEWL__Desjardin and the school's principal blame themselves for the disaster and resign from teaching.__NEWL__Sue publishes a memoir based on her experiences.__NEWL__A "White Committee" report investigating paranormal abilities concludes that there will be others like Carrie.__NEWL__An Appalachian woman enthusiastically writes to her sister about her baby daughter's telekinetic powers and reminisces about their grandmother, who had similar abilities.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4271834	Love and Mr Lewisham	1899-01-01T00:00:00Z	11640	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q84	London	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	66219	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66219	At the beginning of the novel, Mr Lewisham is an 18-year-old teacher at a boys' school in Sussex, earning forty pounds a year.__NEWL__He meets and falls in love with Ethel Henderson, who is paying a visit to relatives.__NEWL__His involvement with her makes him lose his position, but he is unable to find her when he moves to London.__NEWL__After a two-and-a-half-year break in the action, Mr Lewisham is in his third year of study at the Normal School of Science in South Kensington.__NEWL__He has become a socialist, declaring his politics with a red tie, and is an object of interest to Alice Heydinger, an older student.__NEWL__However, chance brings him together again with his first love at a séance.__NEWL__Ethel's stepfather, Mr Chaffery, is a spiritualist charlatan, and Mr Lewisham is determined to extricate her from association with Chaffery's dishonesty.__NEWL__They marry, and Mr Lewisham is forced to abandon his plans for a brilliant scientific career followed by a political ascent.__NEWL__When Chaffrey absconds to the Continent with money he has embezzled from his clients, Lewisham agrees to move into his shabby Clapham house to look after Ethel and Ethel's elderly mother (Chaffrey's abandoned wife).__NEWL__Wells's friend Sir Richard Gregory wrote to him after reading the novel: "I cannot get that poor devil Lewisham out of my mind head, and I wish I had an address, for I would go to him and rescue him from the miserable life in which you leave him."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7769230	The Tie That Binds	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z	71029	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71029	The story opens with the narrator, Sanders Roscoe, defending his neighbor Edith Goodnough to a reporter trying to dig up dirt on her.__NEWL__She has been accused of murdering her brother Lyman.__NEWL__Sanders seems disappointed in the sheriff for caving in to the reporter, saying that to understand what happened you would have had to know Edith's story, which he begins to tell.__NEWL__In 1896, newlyweds Roy and Ada Goodnough leave Iowa and settle down in northeastern Colorado under the Homestead Act.__NEWL__Roy eventually succeeds in growing wheat.__NEWL__Ada bears him two children: Edith, who is born in 1897, and Lyman, born two years later.__NEWL__Hannah Roscoe, the narrator's grandmother, helps deliver Edith and Lyman.__NEWL__Very soon Ada regrets leaving Iowa.__NEWL__Her husband turns out to be a bully, an angry and violent man who makes her and their children work very hard on the farm.__NEWL__When she dies in 1914, aged only 42, Edith has to take over all of Ada's chores and duties.__NEWL__Then, in 1915, Roy's hands get entangled in a machine, and nine of his fingers are chopped off.__NEWL__He treats Edith and Lyman as his "self-sired farmhands", bossing them around and making all decisions himself.__NEWL__As the two siblings grow up, they start looking for means of escape but soon realize that they are stuck on their father's farm.__NEWL__For the next 37 years, Edith performs the duties of farmer, housewife and nurse without ever complaining, and refusing to get involved with men except for a brief romance with the narrator's father, who Edith loves but refuses to marry.__NEWL__Despite her rejection, he never gets over her.__NEWL__Lyman finally sees his chance of escape when in 1941 the United States is attacked by Japan.__NEWL__In the middle of the night and with the help of the Roscoes, he leaves the farm and goes to the city to join the armed forces.__NEWL__At 42 he is too old to enlist and instead embarks on a 20-year tour of the United States.__NEWL__During those years, Edith never doubts that brother will return.__NEWL__He does in the early 1960s, almost ten years after their father's death at 82.__NEWL__For six years Edith and Lyman, now both in their sixties, live happily together in their farm house.__NEWL__Then in 1967, the Goodnoughs, Sanders and his wife Mavis, now eight months pregnant, decide to go to the county fair together.__NEWL__They stay late into the night, drinking and having a good time, but on the way home Lyman crashes his car, causing Mavis to miscarry and giving himself a head injury from which he never truly recovers.__NEWL__Edith looks after her brother, who becomes more and more reclusive, eventually refusing to leave the house and his new obsession: planning trips around the country that he'll never take.__NEWL__As they grow older and frailer, Edith decides to move everything downstairs and close off the second story, and enlists Sanders' help.__NEWL__Upstairs, he discovers only one bedroom with only one bed, a fact which Edith does not attempt to disguise, saying only that they moved the extra bed out when Lyman came home to make room for his things.__NEWL__In the following years, Edith draws some pleasure from spending afternoons with Rena, Sanders' daughter, who is born in 1969.__NEWL__But soon it becomes too dangerous for Rena to go to the Goodnoughs on her own, as Lyman, who has regressed to infancy, is prone to unprompted outbursts of violence.__NEWL__Eventually, on New Year's Eve 1976, Edith, is unable to care for Lyman but unwilling to put him in a home.__NEWL__She has Lyman put on his best clothes, cooks a three-course dinner for him, waits for him to fall asleep and then sets fire to their house.__NEWL__The fire is detected too soon and the two siblings are evacuated.__NEWL__However, Lyman never recovers from the injuries inflicted by the fire and dies soon afterwards.__NEWL__In the spring of 1977 Edith is still lying in a hospital bed with a policeman stationed outside her room and facing charges of attempted murder.__NEWL__The Roscoes visit every day.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15852232	Urmel from the Ice Age	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z	68768729	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68768729	At the time of the dinosaurs, a mother Urmel lays an egg.__NEWL__A short time later, however, an Ice Age begins and the egg is covered in snow.__NEWL__It eventually freezes in the ice.__NEWL__A long time later, the natural history professor Habakuk Tibatong developed a method of teaching animals to speak.__NEWL__Because of the envy and attacks of his professor colleagues, he has to leave his home to settle with Tim Inkblot, a little orphan boy, and the talking domestic pig Wutz on the small island of Titiwu.__NEWL__There are other animals on the island that Tibatong taught to speak at the beginning of the story.__NEWL__Each of the animals is through a typical speech errors characterized: The Penguin Ping articulates the sibilant " sh" as "pf" the Waran Wawa lisp, the elephant seal soul-Fant constantly singing songs whose dismal effect through consistent diphthongization respectively affection of Vowels are significantly increased, and the shoebill Schusch reads the vowel "i" to "ä"[⁠__NEWL__ɛ ⁠] one.__NEWL__Pig, who can speak almost flawlessly, takes on the job of housekeeper, while the other animals on the island regularly take part in voluntary language lessons in Professor Tibatong's school.__NEWL__One day an iceberg is washed ashore with a large egg, from which, after a short incubation period, an Urmel hatches, which is then raised by Wutz and also learns to speak.__NEWL__According to Tibatong's theory, the Urmel are the evolutionary link between the dinosaurs and the mammals.__NEWL__In the course of his childhood, Urmel has to endure various adventures, in particular the disempowered and therefore bored King Pumponell of Pumpolonien as a big game hunter after him.__NEWL__The deposed monarch is also called "King Futsch" because his homeland declared itself a republic, whereupon he had to abdicate, so his kingship is " gone ".__NEWL__King Futsch came to the island in a helicopter with his servant Samuel, known as Sami, to take the Urmel to Museum Director Zwengelmann in Pumpolonien.__NEWL__On his escape from Futsch, Wawa hides the Urmel in a cave where a large crab lives on an island in the middle of an underground lake and where nitrous oxide leaks from a source.__NEWL__Together with Sami, King Futsch follows the supposed traitor Wawa into the cave, where he actually wants to mislead them, but under the influence of the laughing gas the king takes the crab for Urmel and tries to kill it with his hunting rifle.__NEWL__Due to the noise of the gunfire, the entrance to the cave collapses, so that both Wawa and his hunters are trapped and are now in great danger.__NEWL__The other islanders are alerted to the accident by an earthquake, whereupon a rescue operation can begin.__NEWL__All those buried are finally rescued in Wutz' "slumber barrel", which has been converted into a submarine, through an underground connection channel to the sea.__NEWL__The Urmel becomes friends with King Futsch, who promises not to hunt it anymore.__NEWL__As a farewell, Tibatong gives the king a bucket that supposedly contains the "invisible fish".__NEWL__Futsch is happy to have at least something to show the vain dwarf man - even if it's just a hoax.__NEWL__The Urmel should be kept secret so that it can grow up undisturbed on Titiwu.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108619623	Razorblade Tears	2021-07-06T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	68663751	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68663751	Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee are ageing ex-cons living in rural Virginia.__NEWL__When their sons, a black and white couple with a baby daughter, are brutally murdered, the two men team up and embark on a quest for revenge.__NEWL__As they try and track down their sons' killers, they also confront their own prejudices toward their sons and each other.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108607575	The Son of the House	2021-05-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1033	Nigeria	68650769	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68650769	The Son of the House is focused mainly on Nwabulu, who as was sent out by her step mother to work as a servant.__NEWL__She falls in love with a boy from a wealthy family who impregnates her and then denies the pregnancy.__NEWL__Nwabulu is sent back to the village where she was married to a man whose grandmother is eager to get a grandson.__NEWL__Meanwhile, there is also an independent teacher named Julie who has fallen in love with a wealthy man married man named Eugene who wants nothing more than a son.__NEWL__ When both women are kidnapped they tell each other their stories and find that they have more in common then they once thought.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108617663	Trio	2020-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131491	Brighton	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	68746545	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68746545	The three characters are intertwined, the main narrative being the shooting in Brighton of a film produced by Kydd, starring Viklund and directed by Wing's husband.__NEWL__Viklund's ex-husband, a radical bomber then appears, having escaped from prison and demanding money from her.__NEWL__The FBI make contact with Viklund who then flees to Paris in the middle of the film.__NEWL__Kydd finds her and tries her to complete the film.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Wing unsuccessfully attempts to mimic Woolf's suicide and so retreats to a rehab staffed by nuns.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108907129	The Night Watchman	2020-03-03T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7856437	Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	68865814	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68865814	Thomas Wazhashk, a night watchman at a jewel bearing plant and an Councilor, works to comprehend the consequences of a new termination bill drafted by Arthur Vivian Watkins heading to the floor of the United States Congress.__NEWL__In 1953, Thomas and other people begin to fear the implications of this bill.__NEWL__As Thomas tries to save his tribe from termination, his niece Patrice embarks on a journey to Minneapolis in order to find her sister, Vera.__NEWL__Patrice Paranteau, a young woman and a former high school valedictorian, balances the demands of both modern and traditional life.__NEWL__She works at the jewel bearing plant and earns just enough to help her mother Zhanaat and her brother Pokey.__NEWL__Patrice's alcoholic father comes home sporadically to threaten the family for cash.__NEWL__Patrice uses her saved money to look for her sister Vera, who vanished after moving to Minneapolis with her husband.__NEWL__During her journey, Patrice encounters abuse and danger.__NEWL__The lives of the young boxer, Wood Mountain and his mother, Juggie Blue intersect with those of many others living on the reservation as they each make the best out of their respective circumstances.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24870872	Han no Hanzai							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17	Japan	68740480	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68740480	At a circus performance, a young woman is killed during a knifethrowing act by the hands of her husband Han, a professional knifethrower of Chinese descent and a devout, converted Christian.__NEWL__Han is arrested immediately after the incident.__NEWL__A judge first questions the circus director, then Han's assistant, and finally the defendant.__NEWL__The circus director and the assistant emphasise Han's professionalism, his educated, good manners, and his impeccable conduct.__NEWL__On second thought, the assistant adds that the couple had always been kind to others, but treated each other disparagingly.__NEWL__In his testimony, Han confesses that he detested his wife since she gave birth to a child she had from another man (and which died soon after birth), and had contemplated the possibility of her death.__NEWL__Yet, although he hadn't been afraid of being sent to jail, which couldn't have been worse than his unhappy marriage, he felt too weak to commit such a crime, which he would also have considered a sin.__NEWL__He hadn't had any intention to kill his wife on this day, and has no explanation for the incident.__NEWL__Asked by the judge, Han admits freely that he felt no sorrow after his wife's death.__NEWL__The judge sends Han out of the room and, suddenly feeling agitated, declares him not guilty.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3182996	Johnny chien méchant	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z	68690970	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68690970	The novel is set during a civil conflict in an unnamed West African country.__NEWL__The setting resembles recent conflicts in Rwanda and Liberia where the government has been overthrown by insurgents and racial and tribal tensions are being fanned.__NEWL__It is told from two points of view – Laokolé, a sixteen year-old girl about to sit her final exams and the titular Johnny, a young rebel about the same age.__NEWL__The story begins with Laokolé hearing of an upcoming period of looting.__NEWL__She buries her valuables and takes her mother and younger brother and flees with other refugees.__NEWL__Johnny on the other hand is excited for the upcoming looting, feeling triumphant and ready to get his due.__NEWL__Laokolé must push her mother in a wheelbarrow and soon loses her brother.__NEWL__They find some respite in a UN compound but the organisation is crowded and eventually the foreign workers are evacuated, leaving the local population alone.__NEWL__She alone is given the opportunity to flee with the foreigners but refuses.__NEWL__ Outside the compound every refuge is attacked by rebels.__NEWL__Johnny is enjoying the rampaging, although constantly finds himself trying to justify the rape, robbery and murder.__NEWL__ The two stories converge with the author bringing Laokolé and Johnny together, with a semi-happy but hopeful end.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q109109548	A Song for Arbonne	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z	68684678	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68684678	The story is set in Arbonne, a fictional country bordered by the countries of Arimonda, Gorhaut, Gotzland, Portezza and Valensa.__NEWL__Residents of these countries worship one of two deities, the war god Corannos or the mother goddess Rian.__NEWL__ The main protagonist is a Coran soldier named Blaise from Gorhaut.__NEWL__Like other men of his country, he is a ruthless warrior devoted to Corannos.__NEWL__A mercenary for hire, he leaves the increasingly politically corrupt Gorhaut, in which a puppet king has been installed after resolution of a long war with Valensa.__NEWL__The leaders intend to conquer Arbonne to the south, a land ruled by women and observant of the god Rian, and abolish the worship of the female deity.__NEWL__The blind Priestess of Rian, religious leader in Arbonne, informs the country's political leaders of the impending arrival of Blaise, who is hired by the powerful duke and troubadour Bertran de Talair.__NEWL__The latter is engaged in a decades-long feud with another nobleman, Urte de Miraval.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108685283	The Plot	2021-05-11T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	68687637	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68687637	In the past, Jacob Finch Bonner wrote a reasonably successful novel.__NEWL__But he was unable to produce anything fruitful after that.__NEWL__Now, Bonner is a has-been and he knows it.__NEWL__He is also a Professor in a shabby Vermont MFA program.__NEWL__One day, Bonner appropriates a story-idea developed by one of his students, now deceased.__NEWL__While alive, the student bragged that the plot (story idea) is a guaranteed best seller.__NEWL__So, upon learning of the student's death, Bonner uses the essentials of the student's plot to write his new book.__NEWL__In the novel, the book that Bonner writes is entitled Crib.__NEWL__World-wide success and accolades pour down on him.__NEWL__Then at the pinnacle of all the adulation, Bonner receives an anonymous email claiming he is a thief.__NEWL__Hence, Elizabeth Egan of the New York Times writes: "And if you’re a reader who likes stories where a terrible decision snowballs out of control, this book is just what the librarian ordered.__NEWL__Welcome to a spectacular avalanche."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108413894	A Beautiful Crime	2020-01-28T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q641	Venice	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	68646919	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68646919	Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory arrive in Venice, leaving behind their lives in New York City.__NEWL__They first met two months earlier at the memorial service of Freddy van der Haar, Clay's previous boyfriend who bequeathed to him a collection of silver antiques and his share of a Venetian nicknamed "".__NEWL__After Nick and Clay learned that the antiques were forgeries, they devised a plan to settle their debts by selling the pieces to Richard West, a wealthy American expatriate who finances cultural conservation projects in Venice.__NEWL__Four years ago, while Clay interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, he also worked as Richard's personal assistant.__NEWL__When he failed to gain a permanent post at the museum, Clay was devastated to learn Richard was responsible for his rejection and has since held a grudge against him.__NEWL__Nick intentionally runs into Richard and poses as an expert silver appraiser while concealing his relationship with Clay.__NEWL__He is invited to a dinner party at Richard's home, which shares a wall with .__NEWL__A few days later, Nick performs a spurious authentication and persuades Richard to purchase the silver for $750,000.__NEWL__Nick and Clay celebrate their successful transaction, but Nick begins to worry how long the money will last and devises a plan to sell to Richard, who has long wanted to merge it with his own residence.__NEWL__Clay is reluctant because the property partly belongs to Freddy's estranged sister Cecilia, but he eventually agrees to the scheme and flies to Paris to arrange forged documents identifying him as the sole owner.__NEWL__Nick visits Richard again, hoping to persuade him to complete the purchase of , but he is horrified to see Dulles Hawkes, a retired silver appraiser whom Richard has invited to view his newly purchased antiques.__NEWL__Dulles immediately detects the forgeries but plays along with the ruse, and he later threatens to divulge the scam unless Nick has sex with him in his hotel that night.__NEWL__Nick is forced to oblige.__NEWL__Afterwards, Dulles continues to blackmail Nick, insisting they will have sex again the next day and demanding half of the profits of the scam.__NEWL__A panicked Nick follows Dulles to the hotel elevator, which is under repair, and impulsively pushes him down the empty elevator shaft.__NEWL__Dulles dies on impact and Nick flees the hotel.__NEWL__Clay agrees to sell to Richard for four million euros.__NEWL__On his way to the final meeting to complete the transaction, Clay is stopped by Richard's assistant Battista, who has discovered Richard has been anonymously financing a planned tourist development in the city.__NEWL__Battista, a vocal protestor against the development, tells Clay the meeting is a trap; Richard has traced Cecilia, discovered the documents are forgeries, and notified the police.__NEWL__Richard, who is still unaware of Nick and Clay's relationship, casually reveals the setup to Nick.__NEWL__Enraged, Nick fights with Richard and strikes him in the head with a doorstop.__NEWL__Clay is suspected in the investigation but Battista provides an alibi and exposes Richard as the anonymous investor.__NEWL__The attack is ultimately attributed to an unknown protestor.__NEWL__Richard, who has been rendered indefinitely mute from the attack, is transferred to a neurological clinic in Leipzig.__NEWL__Nick moves to a nearby island to avoid scrutiny while Clay remains in Venice, and they continue to communicate discreetly.__NEWL__Five months later, Clay travels to the island when they decide it is safe for him to do so, and they joyfully reunite.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108887906	Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth	2021-09-28T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1033	Nigeria	68847039	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68847039	The novel takes place in an imaginary version of Nigeria.__NEWL__A secret society made up of highly-placed members of the nation's political and religious elite trades in human body parts for use in religious rituals.__NEWL__The body parts are stolen from a hospital run by Dr. Menka, whose friend Duyole is about to begin a prestigious job at the United Nations in New York City.__NEWL__Duyole is targeted by mysterious forces who try to prevent him from taking the new position.__NEWL__The story is intended as an allegory of the state-sponsored corruption that is common in Nigeria and similar African nations.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108739340	Butterfly Fish							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1033	Nigeria	68720957	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68720957	The novel focuses on Joy, a Nigerian London-based photographer who lives with her mother.__NEWL__As the novel progresses, Joy's mother dies leaving her with the family inheritance which includes her grandfather's journal and a bronze from Benin Kingdom, she is tasked grieving for her dead mother and finding her family secrets.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3700722	Chevengur	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15180	Soviet Union	68701788	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68701788	The novel takes place somewhere in the south of Russia and covers the period of war communism and the New Economic Policy, although real events and the area have been transformed in accordance with the logic of the myth.__NEWL__Alexander Dvanov, the main character of the novel, lost his father early, who drowned himself out of curiosity before the afterlife.__NEWL__His adoptive father Zakhar Pavlovich somewhat resembles the writer's father (at the same time, the image of Alexander is partly autobiographical).__NEWL__"__NEWL__At seventeen, Dvanov still had no armour under his heart - no faith in God, no other mental peace ...".__NEWL__Going “to look for communism among the amateur population”, Alexander meets Stepan Kopenkin - a wandering knight of the revolution, a kind of Don Quixote whose Dulcinea becomes Rosa Luxemburg.__NEWL__Kopenkin saves Dvanov from the anarchists of Mrachinsky's gang.__NEWL__The heroes of the novel find themselves in a kind of communist reserve - a town called Chevengur.__NEWL__Residents of the city are confident in the coming offensive of the communist Paradise.__NEWL__They refuse to work (with the exception of Subbotniks, meaningless from a rational point of view), leaving this prerogative exclusively to the Sun; they eat pasture, resolutely socialize their wives, and cruelly deal with bourgeois elements (destroying, Platonov emphasizes, both their body and soul).__NEWL__The revolutionary process in Chevengur is led by the fanatic Chepurny, Alexander's half-brother Prokofiy Dvanov "with the makings of a grand inquisitor", the romantic executioner Piyusya and others.__NEWL__In the end, the city is attacked by either the Cossacks or the Cadets; in a fierce battle, the defenders of the commune show themselves as true epic heroes and almost all die.__NEWL__The surviving Alexander Dvanov on Rocinante Kopenkina (nicknamed Proletarian Power) goes to the lake where his father drowned himself, enters the water and reunites with his father.__NEWL__Only Prokofy remains alive, "weeping on the ruins of the city among all the property he inherited"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q108660761	The President's Daughter	2021-06-07T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	68676359	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68676359	U.S. President and former Navy Seal Matthew Keating monitors an American military operation from the White House Situation Room.__NEWL__The operation enters Libyan territory without permission to raid the base of Muslim extremist terrorist Asim Al-Asheed.__NEWL__The operation kills several terrorists as well as Al-Asheed's civilian wives and children, but Al-Asheed escapes.__NEWL__Against the advice of his staff, Keating decides to publicly admit to the operation and apologize for its failure.__NEWL__Al-Asheed learns of this and swears revenge on Keating.__NEWL__Two years later, Keating has lost his re-election campaign and lives quietly in rural New Hampshire with his family.__NEWL__Al-Asheed has built up a new terrorist group and secured the aid of Jiang Lijun, an agent of China's Ministry of State Security.__NEWL__Lijun hates the U.S. because of his father's death in the 1999 U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.__NEWL__ Al-Asheed's team infiltrates Keating's town and kidnaps Keating's daughter, Melanie, while she is hiking.__NEWL__The U.S. government, whose new president still harbours dislike for Keating, refuses to let Keating join the search for Melanie because he is no longer a military or government employee.__NEWL__Lijun's boss, Li Baodong, orders him to obtain Melanie so that China can gain prestige by returning her to the U.S.__NEWL__However, Lijun privately decides to let Al-Asheed keep Melanie.__NEWL__Lijun meets with Al-Asheed and offers him further support.__NEWL__Al-Asheed escapes an attack by U.S. police and flees the country with Melanie.__NEWL__Al-Asheed releases a video in which he names his ransom demands for Melanie's release, but Keating does not believe Al-Asheed intends to let Melanie live.__NEWL__(This is confirmed by chapters from Al-Asheed's perspective.)__NEWL__Keating decides to take matters into his own hands.__NEWL__He flees his Secret Service guards and obtains the help of several friends in the American, Saudi and Israeli militaries and intelligence agencies.__NEWL__Keating's ad-hoc team eventually locates Al-Asheed's new Libyan compound.__NEWL__Baodong informs Lijun that he recorded the meeting in which Lijun did not negotiate with Al-Asheed for Melanie.__NEWL__He threatens Lijun with blackmail if he does not secure Melanie.__NEWL__He also says that the Chinese embassy in Belgrade had a secret military installment underneath it, thus Lijun should not consider his father an innocent victim and should end his grudge against the U.S.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Melanie frustrates Al-Asheed with several escape attempts.__NEWL__Lijun travels to Al-Asheed's compound and attempts to negotiate for Melanie's handover, but Al-Asheed kills his bodyguards and takes him prisoner.__NEWL__Hours later, Keating and his team secure military passage to Libya and attack the compound.__NEWL__In the ensuing battle, Melanie is rescued and Al-Asheed is killed.__NEWL__Lijun, with no other options for escape, travels back to the U.S. with Keating's team under the cover story of being an innocent civilian prisoner.__NEWL__Lijun then escapes into Chinese custody.__NEWL__The U.S. government declines to charge Keating's team with any crimes.__NEWL__Baodong kills Lijun for his failures and to cover up China's involvement in the affair.__NEWL__Keating returns to New Hampshire, but vows to run for president again in the next election.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q85797066	Rhythm of War	2020-11-17T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	63076272	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63076272	The prologue is from Navani's perspective, in which she recalls Gavilar's death and his involvement with strange spheres of light.__NEWL__The book begins with Kaladin traveling to his hometown of Hearthstone, to rescue the citizens and pick up a famous Herdazian general, The Mink.__NEWL__Navani, Dalinar, and many Radiants arrive on a flying machine to assist Kaladin in evacuating the city.__NEWL__While the evacuation begins, the Radiants get into a battle with the Fused, which ends with no conclusive winner.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Kaladin is baited into a fight with his former friend Moash, who somehow induces Kaladin to have visions of traumatic experiences.__NEWL__Kaladin escapes to the flying machine and they fly away with the townspeople on board.__NEWL__While returning, Navani is contacted by a mysterious stranger, who tells her that creating magic devices called fabrials is unethical and wrong.__NEWL__Fabrials are created by imprisoning a spren in a gemstone.__NEWL__After returning to Narak, Dalinar relieves Kaladin of duty due to his battleshock and increasing depression.__NEWL__Kaladin searches for a way to continue serving those around him without fighting and starts assisting his father in the infirmary, eventually finding greater purpose in helping those with mental issues through group therapy and more progressive treatments.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Shallan and her split personalities infiltrate the Sons of Honor to curry favor with Mraize and the Ghostbloods, a clandestine organization that hints at secrets beyond the world of Roshar.__NEWL__During the mission, Shallan discovers a hidden notebook mentioning mysterious terms (referring to other worlds in the Cosmere universe) and considers breaking free of the Ghostbloods.__NEWL__Mraize sends her on one final mission, promising her full Ghostblood membership and knowledge after she finds and kills Restares in Lasting Integrity, the honorsprens' base in Shadesmar.__NEWL__Listening to the Mink's advice, Shallan, Adolin, and a few Radiants head to Shadesmar as diplomatic envoys to encourage more honorspren to bond with humans, while Dalinar and Jasnah set off to fight on the Emul battlefront in a strategic maneuver and leave Navani and Kaladin behind at their home base of Urithiru to manage matters.__NEWL__Taravangian supports the Emul battlefront, plotting for his troops to betray the rest of the human army on Odium's orders, though Dalinar foresees and plans ahead for this betrayal.__NEWL__After the battle, Taravangian is captured as a traitor and begins to see ways to thwart Odium through Nightblood, the black sword.__NEWL__ Led by Raboniel, who claims to have found a way to end the war permanently, the Fused invade and take control of Urithiru by corrupting the Sibling, the tower spren, which causes all the Radiants in the tower except Kaladin and Lift to fall unconscious.__NEWL__Navani and the Sibling manage to activate a shield before the Sibling is fully corrupted, powered by four hidden nodes.__NEWL__Navani surrenders and is enlisted by Raboniel to aid in her research.__NEWL__Together, they discover that Voidlight and Stormlight can be mixed into Warlight.__NEWL__They also find anti- types of light, something that can permanently kill spren and Fused: a discovery that can end the cycle of war.__NEWL__Aided by Navani, the Sibling, and Dabbid, Kaladin escapes with an unconscious Teft to a hidden room in the upper levels of Urithiru.__NEWL__Kaladin's depression grows increasingly worse, with Moash and Odium sending him visions to drive him to suicide, but keeps busy by defending the nodes under the instruction of Navani and the Sibling.__NEWL__Venli, Rlain, and Dabbid help to take care of Teft and free Lift from the Fused, who can wake the unconscious Radiants with her healing powers.__NEWL__ Increasingly suspicious, Dalinar looks at Urithiru through the Stormfather and realizes the tower has been occupied by the enemy.__NEWL__He decides to seek out another Bondsmith, Ishar the Herald, to increase his powers and fight back.__NEWL__However, Ishar has been driven insane through the centuries and attacks Dalinar.__NEWL__He is defeated by Szeth and temporarily sane, tells Dalinar to meet him in Shinovar for further instruction.__NEWL__Dalinar discovers that Ishar has been experimenting with spren bodies in the Physical Realm.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Shallan and Adolin travel through Shadesmar.__NEWL__Adolin undertakes a legal battle in Lasting Integrity to convince the honorspren that humans are worth bonding again.__NEWL__Shallan realizes that Restares is actually Kalak, a Herald, and judge of the trial.__NEWL__She attempts to assassinate him but in doing so, releases her repressed memory of killing her first spren Testament.__NEWL__Adolin's dead Shardblade, Mayalaran, speaks at the trial, revealing that the ancient spren chose to sacrifice themselves with the Knights Radiant.__NEWL__Shallan ends her association with the Ghostbloods and sets herself firmly against them.__NEWL__ Navani, Kaladin, Teft, and Lift fight to wake the Radiants and liberate Urithiru.__NEWL__Teft and Lift infiltrate the infirmary while Kaladin provides a distraction by fighting one of the Fused outside.__NEWL__However, Moash is waiting and kills Teft, then throws his corpse to Kaladin.__NEWL__Kaladin's father is thrown off the tower by another Fused.__NEWL__Consumed by grief, Kaladin jumps off the tower into the highstorm, where he is saved by Dalinar and the Stormfather.__NEWL__He states the Fourth Ideal and saves his father, then returns to reclaim the tower.__NEWL__Dalinar later recruits Kaladin to join him in Shinovar to help treat Ishar's mental issues.__NEWL__Navani encounters Moash during her escape attempt.__NEWL__He tries to kill Navani but she bonds with the Sibling, becoming a Bondsmith; she repels Moash and reverses the corruption of the tower through anti-Voidlight.__NEWL__Blinded, Moash flees Urithiru and is later reclaimed by Odium.__NEWL__The remaining Fused attack the infirmary; Venli teams up with Rlain, Leshwi, and the humans to protect the unconscious Radiants, showing that the singers and humans can live in harmony.__NEWL__She eventually reunites with an escaped group of listeners who are eager to bond with spren, redeeming herself and her past role in bringing about Odium.__NEWL__Dalinar meets with Odium in a vision, where Odium, shaken by the loss of Urithiru and the failure of so many of his plans, agrees to a contest of champions.__NEWL__Dalinar is able to manipulate Odium into swearing that whoever wins, Odium will enforce an end to the war and withdraw his influence from Roshar entirely.__NEWL__Szeth leaves Dalinar to pursue his next Ideal and visits Taravangian in his cell, intending to kill him once and for all.__NEWL__Before he can do so, Odium pulls Taravangian (and unintentionally Nightblood) into a vision, where Taravangian stabs Odium and kills his Vessel (the person who serves as the mind directing Odium's power), taking its place.__NEWL__The newly born Odium (who is still bound by the old Odium's agreements) tricks Wit, leaving him unaware of Odium's new identity.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3222570	The Gobi Desert (novel)							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	63078284	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63078284	Set in 1928, the plot revolves around two Russian biologists who travel to the Gobi Desert in search of a rare animal, that they are planning to protect from a fascist politician who was overthrown, who plans on sending it to the biggest animal smuggling ring in European history.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q86752292	Run Me to Earth	2020-01-28T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1384	New York	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	63072079	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63072079	Run Me to Earth is divided into six stories that extend over the course of six decades, primarily between 1969–1977.__NEWL__The novel begins in 1969 but later jumps to 1974 and 1977, before moving back to 1969 and then finally jumping forward to 1994 and 2018.__NEWL__It takes place mostly in Laos but also in New York, Spain and rural France.__NEWL__The novel employs a third-person omniscient narrative, alternating its focus between the different characters.__NEWL__Stream of consciousness is often used to reveal the characters' inner thoughts.__NEWL__In 1969 in Laos during the Laotian Civil War, Alisak and brother and sister Prany and Noi are homeless teenage orphans who have been friends since childhood.__NEWL__The three orphans are spotted sleeping by a river by a nurse who recruits them to work for a hospital overlooking the Plain of Jars.__NEWL__It is a makeshift field hospital housed in an abandoned farmhouse that was formerly ran as a tobacco plantation owned by a French tycoon known as the Tobacco Captain, who has since gone missing.__NEWL__The three orphans work as orderlies in the hospital and couriers, delivering medical supplies on motorbikes left by the Tobacco Captain.__NEWL__They driver over hazardous terrain into the town of Phonsavan, risking the threat of aerial bombings and unexploded cluster bombs.__NEWL__They form a friendship with Vang, the French doctor who runs the hospital.__NEWL__They wonder where they will go once the hospital is evacuated, speculating either Thailand or France.__NEWL__The brother of the Tobacco Captain, a country doctor, offers to sponsor the three orphans into France.__NEWL__Vang later announces the return of American planes and the hospital is evacuated.__NEWL__While riding on their motorbikes toward the helicopter, they are separated.__NEWL__Alisak is sent to Perpignan in Southern France.__NEWL__He is driven by a Thai women named Karawek.__NEWL__They arrive at "the Vineyard" where Alisak is greeted by the Tobacco Captain's brother, who he learns is named Yves.__NEWL__He later meets a woman named Marta, who works at "the Vineyard".__NEWL__Auntie last saw Prany and Vang four years prior in a camp before it was raided and burned.__NEWL__Auntie and Vang were childhood friends growing up in Vientiane, Laos.__NEWL__Prany and Vang were captured by the Pathet Lao four years ago.__NEWL__Touby tells Auntie that Prany and Vang are in a prison in the northeast close to Vietnam, where they share a cell and are tortured by "the interrogator" and two other men.__NEWL__Prany has lost the use of one of his hands.__NEWL__When Vang and Prany came to her camp, they rarely spoke to each other.__NEWL__Auntie remembers when Vang told her that despite pleas from the helicopter, Prany had turned and went back for them.__NEWL__When Vang tried to speak of Noi, he began to weep.__NEWL__Prany and Vang are released after seven years in the reeducation center.__NEWL__When they are released, Prany and Vang plot revenge on "the interrogator" and kill him.__NEWL__Prany later meets Khit, and together they travel to the old farmhouse hospital.__NEWL__Prany takes a doctor's coat and puts it on, finding an old piece of paper with a circle written on it.__NEWL__He puts it back in the pocket, knowing it "belonged only there, in a private memory.__NEWL__" He is met by Auntie, who he tells to bring Khit to Thailand instead of himself.__NEWL__Prany gives his envelope of money to Auntie, who believes Prany will be caught for his actions but agrees to take Khit.__NEWL__Prany makes Khit promise to remember the name "Alisak".__NEWL__He takes off the doctor's coat and puts it on Khit.__NEWL__He later realizes he left the piece of paper in the pocket of the coat.__NEWL__Noi remembers working for "the Frenchman"–the Tobacco Captain–in his kitchen and cleaning up after parties in his house.__NEWL__Vang tells Noi that they are leaving that night for France.__NEWL__The four of them–Alisak, Prany, Vang and Noi–ride towards the helicopters on motorbike, with a nurse traveling with Noi on her bike.__NEWL__Noi swerves hard and goes over a bump while riding fast.__NEWL__She searches for Alisak then finds him looking back at her with an expression which Noi views as "the greatest gift, like something wonderful and old, as though, like some unrecognized promise, they had been given a chance, all of them together, to become old."__NEWL__Noi lets go of the handlebars and the nurse leans into her, screaming.__NEWL__For Noi, "it was, just then, in all that sudden, immense quiet, enough."__NEWL__Khit travels to Perpignan, where she meets Marta.__NEWL__She tells Marta that she spent two years in Thailand at Auntie's camp.__NEWL__Auntie convinced a couple to pretend that Khit was their daughter, and they moved to Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City before moving to Poughkeepsie, New York.__NEWL__Khit learns that Prany and Vang were charged with the murder of the interrogator and executed.__NEWL__Marta tells Khit that Alisak may be in Sa Tuna, Spain.__NEWL__Khit travels to Spain, where she meets Isabel.__NEWL__With a seventeen-year-old piece of paper in her pocket, she walks to Alisak's shop and ring's the bell by the door.__NEWL__Alisak thinks of Prany and Noi and the hilltop where they built their first successful fire.__NEWL__Alisak, sixty-six years old, is working at a bicycle and moped shop in northeastern Spain.__NEWL__He is going to a birthday party for the father of Isabel, whose uncle Alisak used to work with.__NEWL__He thinks of Khit, who came to his shop years ago and gave him a piece of paper she believed belonged to Prany.__NEWL__As Alisak arrives at the party and looks along the bright seaside towns, he is reminded once again of the hilltop, the sound of animals, the river moving below and the "three children fighting sleep so that they can catch the last moments of a small pocket of fire."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q96387318	Let Go My Hand	63272977	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63272977	Louis Lasker his father Larry is in his seventies and suffering from MND.__NEWL__Together they accompany in their VW camper from Dover to Dignitas in Switzerland.__NEWL__Louis older twin brothers Ralph and Jack join his father as they visit champagne-producing châteaux, ancient caves and go to concerts of classical music, but as they journey to Zurich to consider euthanasia...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q85794115	Possession	1963-01-01T00:00:00Z	63090647	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63090647	The action of Possession begins around the year 1949, and continues through the 1950s and early 1960s.__NEWL__An Englishwoman, Lady Caroline Bell, discovers Valmiki, a teenage goatherd who has been painting in local caves, in a village in South India.__NEWL__Snatching Valmiki from the protection of an elderly local swami, she brings him back to London as an exotic pet artist.__NEWL__Jealously guarding Valmiki's attachment to her, Lady Bell cannot stop him eventually returning to India after the suicide of Ellie, a concentration camp survivor whom Valmiki paints and makes pregnant.__NEWL__She follows him back to India, to find him spiritually reattached to the swami and once again painting in the caves around his village.__NEWL__The 'possession' of the book's title refers both to the woman's desire to own the man, and to his state of being 'possessed' by a foreign identity and values.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19355880	Watchtower	63148247	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63148247	Watchtower is a novel that is first in a trilogy about Tomor Keep.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12057749	The Light Ages							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	62971385	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62971385	The Light Ages takes place in an industrializing England that relies on the mining of aether, a magical fifth element.__NEWL__Society is structured by a rigid labor caste system of guilds.__NEWL__The narrator and protagonist of the novel, Robert Borrows, belongs to a lowly guild in a Yorkshire mining village.__NEWL__He eventually journeys to London, where he joins a group of thieves, pickpockets, and revolutionaries who seek to overthrow the caste system.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28530525	Patria	2016-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q95010	Gipuzkoa	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q29	Spain	62981009	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62981009	The novel delves into the world of murderers, their victims and the family context of both.__NEWL__The story begins when ETA definitively abandons its armed struggle.__NEWL__A widow, Bittori, goes to the cemetery to visit the grave of her husband who had been killed by ETA.__NEWL__Given the new situation, she decides to return to the house and the town where they had lived before the attack.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q85845300	A Place for Us	2018-06-12T00:00:00Z	63072303	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63072303	The book is split up into four parts.__NEWL__Part one opens at the eldest daughter, Hadia’s wedding in Northern California.__NEWL__Rather than accepting an arranged marriage, Hadia decides to build her life with a man of her choice, Tariq, whom she met in medical school.__NEWL__Hadia decides to invite their estranged brother, Amar, who returns after 3 years of no communication with his family.__NEWL__He is confronted with the familiarity of the faces from his past life when greeting the guests, including his first love Amira Ali.__NEWL__His family watches him from a distance, careful not to say anything to upset him.__NEWL__Their mother, Layla, is frantically running around, attending to guests, and making sure that her daughter’s event flows smoothly.__NEWL__She searches for her husband, Rafiq, in the crowd to look at him and share a moment to appreciate where they came to in life.__NEWL__Part two of the book gives readers glimpses of the past that offer insight into how everything led up to the wedding.__NEWL__It opens with a memory of the Fourth of July, the first one Hadia recalls celebrating.__NEWL__The three young siblings begged their father to take them to see the fireworks.__NEWL__Hadia and her sister Huda sit together cross-legged, eyes lighting up in awe from the fireworks.__NEWL__A young Amar.__NEWL__meanwhile, is leaning against his mother, eyes wide in wonder.__NEWL__The scene jumps to a young Layla in India, talking to her younger sister Sara about a potential proposal from a man named Rafiq in America.__NEWL__She wonders about the houses and the roads there and if she will follow Rafiq to America.__NEWL__As young kids, Hadia worries about Amar, who lies to protect her and Huda, further upsetting their father.__NEWL__She thinks about what her understanding of jealousy is by listening to her mother’s comments about other women.__NEWL__She also thinks about how she feels about other girls talking about Abbas Ali, her childhood crush.__NEWL__ Rafiq comes home one night with the news that Abbas has died in a car accident.__NEWL__Both Hadia and Amar join Rafiq in the car to stop by the Ali house to grieve with the family.__NEWL__Amar stops by Amira’s__NEWL__(Abbas's younger sister) room, both of them finding the slightest comfort in each other’s presence.__NEWL__Layla travels back home to Hyderabad, India without the rest of her family.__NEWL__She seeks comfort in her prayers and love for God.__NEWL__Amar gets into a fight at school when three boys corner him in the locker rooms and tell him to go back to his country.__NEWL__They tell him that Rafiq looks like a terrorist, and Amar throws the first punch at one of the boys.__NEWL__When Rafiq is called by the school nurse to come get him, Amar wished his mother was there to get him instead.__NEWL__  During a wedding of someone from their community, Amira and Amar meet to go on a private walk on the seventieth floor.__NEWL__Amar recalls a guy named Simon, who survived the car accident that Abbas was in.__NEWL__He follows him to party and drinks beer for the first time.__NEWL__He debates telling Amira but does not want to impact the way she thinks of him.__NEWL__Months before Hadia’s graduation, she takes her younger siblings to an ice cream shop.__NEWL__Amar confides in his sisters; he tells them that he feels as if he no longer belongs at school due to being a Muslim.__NEWL__At the masjid, he struggles to listen in on religious lectures.__NEWL__He recalls the time him and Abbas discussed religious stories and how they would someday leave and create a life for themselves.__NEWL__Layla finds a box in Amar’s room containing a photo of Amira, she panics and thinks that Amira will be a distraction for Amar.__NEWL__This results in her going to the Ali house to talk to Amira’s mom to expose their children’s relationship.__NEWL__Amira’s parents force her to end things with Amar, due to his bad reputation.__NEWL__At a family dinner, the last one before Hadia leaves for medical school, Hadia asks anyone if they have seen her watch, which results in Rafiq accusing Amar.__NEWL__Amar goes silent and feels as if he is watching his life from someone else’s perspective.__NEWL__He worries that his heart is too stained by sins and that he cannot recover.__NEWL__He confides in pills to deal with the loss of Abbas, Amira and what he thinks is the loss of love of his parents.__NEWL__Part three opens back up at Hadia’s wedding.__NEWL__The parents notice Amira and Amar talking.__NEWL__Amar is surprised that Amira asked to speak to him in private.__NEWL__He actively puts in effort to pretend as if he no longer loves her.__NEWL__He knows that even if he finds another woman, he will always care for Amira.__NEWL__He shows her the scars from his needles and asks her not to tell anyone.__NEWL__Amar confides in her and tells her that he struggled after they broke up.__NEWL__Amira tells him that it was his mother who came to her house to tell her mother about their relationship.__NEWL__Amar begins to spiral and starts drinking at a nearby bar.__NEWL__He sits outside the venue trying to recover so he can go back for his sister.__NEWL__Rafiq is sent out by Layla to find Amar for the family photo.__NEWL__Amar realises that he is exhausted at being angry and cries into his father’s arms.__NEWL__Part four is from Rafiq's perspective, he is speaking to Amar as if he was there with beside him.__NEWL__When Rafiq is older he is being admitted into the hospital where Hadia is working.__NEWL__This is the first time he is able to witness her working.__NEWL__Hadia is now a respected doctor and a mother of two children.__NEWL__Rafiq talks to Amar about his grandchildren, Abbas and Tahira, that he is much more calmer and loving now.__NEWL__He finds himself throwing out Amar’s old exams, only to take it back out of the trash and place it in his desk drawer.__NEWL__Rafiq recalls on his mistakes and where he went wrong with Amar, admitting that he believed it was his fault that Amar left.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1198407	Eckbert the Blond	1797-01-01T00:00:00Z	63053195	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63053195	Eckbert lives an idyllic life, secluded in a castle deep within a forest in the Harz Mountains, with his wife Bertha.__NEWL__The two find happiness in their refuge away from the corrupting influences of society.__NEWL__They have no children but enjoy life together.__NEWL__Phillip Walther, Eckbert's one contact with society, shatters this harmony during a visit at the outset of the story.__NEWL__Walther had become a close friend of Eckbert over the years as the two frequently rode about Eckbert's demesne.__NEWL__Eckbert feels compelled to share his secret with Walther as his only confidant.__NEWL__He invites Walther to stay the night and enjoy familiarities and dine with Bertha.__NEWL__She reveals the secret of her childhood and begins the frame story.__NEWL__Bertha escaped from a life of hunger, poverty and abuse at a young age.__NEWL__She found herself at the center of fights between her mother and father.__NEWL__She ran away from their pastoral home, begged on the streets, and made her way into the woods.__NEWL__An old woman took Bertha to a cabin and taught her to weave, spin, and read as they live together with the old woman's animals—a dog and a magical bird.__NEWL__The anthropomorphic bird sings a variety of songs encased by the concept of Waldeinsamkeit, or the feeling of being alone in the forest, and the bird lays a precious stone each day.__NEWL__The birds songs always begin and end with Waldeinsamkeit.__NEWL__For instance:  Bertha and the old woman find this arrangement pleasing, but Bertha yearns to meet a knight from the stories she has read.__NEWL__After six years of living with the old woman, Bertha steals a bag of precious stones and departs the home, taking the bird with her.__NEWL__As she runs away, she realises that the old woman and the dog won't be able to survive without her.__NEWL__She regrets her decision and wants to head back, but then she comes across her childhood village.__NEWL__She finds out about her parents deaths, and decides to head to the city instead of back to the old woman.__NEWL__She rents a house and gets a housekeeper, but she feels threatened by the fact that the bird keeps singing louder, about how he misses the forest.__NEWL__The bird terrifies her and she strangles it as she leaves and marries Eckbert.__NEWL__Walther listens to this story, reassures her that he can imagine the bird, and the dog "Strohmian".__NEWL__Walther and Bertha retire to bed while Eckbert worries whether his familiarity with Walther and the story will compromise him.__NEWL__Bertha becomes ill and lies dying a short time after confessing her sins to Walther.__NEWL__Eckbert suspects Walther may be to blame For Bertha's condition.__NEWL__He believes Walther may have been secretly planning for the death of Bertha.__NEWL__His paranoia and suspicions grow more intense after he realized that Walther revealed the name of Bertha's dog, Strohmian, when she never mentioned it during the story.__NEWL__Eckbert encounters Walther in the woods while on a ride and shoots his friend.__NEWL__Eckbert returns home to find his wife as she dies from a guilty conscience.__NEWL__After the death of his wife and friend, Eckbert finds solace in frequent excursions from his home and befriends a knight named Hugo.__NEWL__Eckbert suffers from a guilty conscience after witnessing his wife's death and murdering his friend.__NEWL__He becomes paranoid and increasingly finds it difficult to disentangle the perception of reality with his imagination.__NEWL__Hugo appears to be his murdered friend Walter and he suspects that Hugo may not be his friend and reveals the secret of Walther's murder.__NEWL__Eckbert fearfully flees into the forest and stumbles upon the place where the old woman found Bertha as a little girl and led her through the forest.__NEWL__He hears a dog barking.__NEWL__He recognizes the sound of the wondrous bird singing.__NEWL__Eventually he meets the old woman who immediately recognizes him.__NEWL__She curses him for Bertha's theft and abrupt departure.__NEWL__The old woman tells Eckbert that she was Walther and Hugo, at the same time, and that he and Bertha are half-siblings from the same noble father.__NEWL__Bertha had been sent away from home to live with a shepherd.__NEWL__This news of his incestuous relationship deeply affects Eckbert's already weakened constitution.__NEWL__He quickly descends into paranoia, delusion, and madness shrieking in agony before he dies.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7734244	The Fishermen	37220258	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37220258	All the persons introduced are muzhiks; there is no introduction of “high life.”__NEWL__The plot is as simple as that of a Greek drama, but it touches the deepest springs of human life: honor and treachery, pure unselfish love and ignoble passion, joy and tragedy.__NEWL__The principal persons are found in the izba of the patriarchal old fisherman, Glyeb Savinitch, whose large family is increased at the beginning of the action by the adoption of a mischievous and surly little boy, Grishka, the son, born out of wedlock, to “Uncle Akim,” a distant relative of Glyeb's wife, Anna Savelyevna, a ne'er-do-well, boastful, idle, lazy and improvident, who comes to Glyeb's home to beg shelter and shortly afterward dies there, painfully and pathetically, leaving his “godson” for his relatives to bring up.__NEWL__ On the other side of the river lives Uncle Kondrati with his granddaughter, the gentle and charming Dunya.__NEWL__Glyeb and Kondrati are contrasted: the one proud, powerful, moody, violent-tempered (generally just and kindly), full of peasant wisdom often expressed in clever proverbs;__NEWL__the other calm, serene, religious and noble.  The story is a tragedy in humble life.__NEWL__Grigorovich, as few other modern writers, succeeds in truthfully contrasting vice and depravity with the virtues of unselfishness and pure love, the ugly traits of human nature with the finer qualities which often exist side by side in the same characters.__NEWL__But Grigorovich is never pessimistic; in the end some element of good triumphs.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7928340	Vienna Prelude	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z	37155161	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37155161	Elisa Lindheim, a Jewish/German musician has helplessly stood by as her rights as a Jew are slowly taken away.__NEWL__When she and her family attempt to leave their homeland of Germany to take refuge in Austria, her Jewish father is arrested and held for ransom by the notorious Gestapo.__NEWL__As Hitler's noose draws tighter around the Jews, Elisa must seek the help of handsome American journalist, John Murphy.__NEWL__Together they must find her father and find a way to get him out of Germany to safety.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6652049	Little Star	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	37155398	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37155398	In 1992, a musician named Lennart finds in the woods an infant left for dead.__NEWL__He takes her to his wife, Laila, and the two raise the child in secrecy, believing that her catatonic and trance-like state will result in her being perceived as mentally ill.__NEWL__Their adult son, Jerry, frequently visits the child, whom he names Theres. Lennart becomes obsessed with Theres due to her angelic voice.__NEWL__He convinces her never to leave the house by telling her that the world is full of "big people" who want to eat up the "little people," like her.__NEWL__He begins to teach her about music and states that music and love are found in the heart and in the mind.__NEWL__When Theres is approximately twelve, she violently dismembers both Lennart and Laila in an attempt to find the love inside their heads.__NEWL__Afterwards, Jerry whisks her away to Stockholm to start a new life.__NEWL__He ultimately enters her in the reality show, Idol, where she dazzles the viewers with her voice, but eventually is voted off the show due to her inability to engage the audience.__NEWL__In November 1992, a girl named Teresa Svensson is born.__NEWL__Her best childhood friend is a neighbor named Johannes.__NEWL__Teresa grows up to be an introverted girl, and as a teenager, begins to write poetry and post it online.__NEWL__Around this time, Teresa witnesses Theres' performance on Idol, and is mesmerized.__NEWL__Discovering that the one commenting on her poetry is the same person she saw on television, Teresa believes that their friendship was fated from the beginning, and they form a deep connection.__NEWL__She visits Theres' apartment every weekend, where the two compose music with Theres singing and Teresa writing the lyrics.__NEWL__Around the time when Theres first appears on Idol, a middle-aged talent agent named Max Hansen also catches sight of the girl, and becomes infatuated with her.__NEWL__He contacts her with the intention of taking advantage of her voice as well as her body.__NEWL__Theres agrees to his offer due to wanting her own CD.__NEWL__In his hotel room, he attempts to perform oral sex on her, but Theres perceives this to be him trying to "eat her up" and stabs him in the back with the stem of a wine glass.__NEWL__He begins to develop a masochistic complex as a result.__NEWL__Despite what happened, Theres still demands to have a CD made of her, and Hansen agrees due to the two not caring about the money or a signed legal document.__NEWL__They record a studio-enhanced version of their song; however, Theres and Teresa still prefer their homemade version, so they create a video of Theres lipsynching the song and post it online under the pseudonym "Tesla".__NEWL__The video quickly accumulates one million hits and Hansen is furious, but is unable to take legal action due to there being no legal documentation to begin with.__NEWL__Soon afterwards, Teresa goes on a trip into the mountains with her family.__NEWL__While there, she comes across a newspaper article on the mysterious "Tesla", and becomes severely depressed knowing that no one realizes the lyrics are her work.__NEWL__Her parents check her into a mental institution and a while later, she is released, and returns to Theres' apartment to find her sharing their music with a number of other girls.__NEWL__Heartbroken, she returns home and refuses to answer any messages from Theres for some time, but the two eventually get back together.__NEWL__Theres takes her to the local convenience store where Teresa murders the owner in cold blood; the "life essence" inside the man is believed to make Teresa happy.__NEWL__Ultimately, Theres, Teresa and the other girls form a cult they call "The Wolves of Skansen".__NEWL__Together, they kidnap Max Hansen and torture him to death with a power drill: a process he takes extreme sexual delight in.__NEWL__They then make plans to go on a killing spree at Sing Along at Skansen in order to obtain life.__NEWL__To make sure she is ready, Teresa goes to Johannes' house and beats him to death with a hammer.__NEWL__She and the rest of the girls then carry out their plan while Theres sings ABBA's "Thank You for the Music" on stage.__NEWL__The other girls murder thirty people but are all captured, while Theres and Teresa manage to escape the vicinity.__NEWL__Teresa reveals that she had earlier cut a hole in the fence surrounding the wolf enclosure, hoping they would join in the massacre, but Theres takes her hand and says that they will go to the wolves instead.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3018953	The Silver Linings Playbook	2008-09-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37112577	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37112577	The book is narrated through the eyes of Pat Peoples, and occasionally Tiffany's through letters.__NEWL__A former history teacher who has moved back to his childhood home in Collingswood, New Jersey, after spending time in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital, Pat believes he has been away only a few months, but soon realizes it has been years, and struggles to piece together his lost memories and what has become of his wife, Nikki.__NEWL__He has a hypothesis that life is a film created by God and that its "silver lining" will be the end of "Apart Time" with Nikki.__NEWL__ Pat embarks on a plan of self-improvement in order to win Nikki back, including regular running and working out in a home gym.__NEWL__At a dinner with his friend Ronnie and his wife Veronica, Pat is introduced to Tiffany Webster, who has also moved back home after losing her job after her husband's death.__NEWL__Pat runs with Tiffany, who started out by following him every day, and she volunteers, in a letter, to be a go-between between him and Nikki, if he will train in a dance routine with her so that she can enter a competition.__NEWL__He agrees, and they enter and win.__NEWL__After the contest, Pat suggests a meeting with Nikki at the place they got engaged, and despite a letter saying they will never meet up, he slips away from his family on Christmas Day to meet her.__NEWL__Nikki is not there; Tiffany is, and admits she has forged Nikki's letters and that she had been trying to help Pat move on and gain closure with his marriage because she, Tiffany, is in love with Pat.__NEWL__Pat is furious that the last two months of correspondence were a lie.__NEWL__In shock Pat runs into an unfamiliar neighborhood and is assaulted.__NEWL__By chance, he encounters Danny, his friend from the Baltimore mental health facility.__NEWL__Danny helps Pat get to a hospital and reunite with his family.__NEWL__Pat still does not recall how or why he was separated from his wife, and only when he watches the wedding video, which his mother had hidden, do the memories eventually return — with the realization that he and Nikki will never be reunited.__NEWL__After several weeks, Pat recovers from his injuries, and after receiving a letter, agrees to meet Tiffany.__NEWL__Pat explains that he asked his brother Jake to drive him to see Nikki, and observed her from afar, finally realizing she has a new family and is happy, and thus accepts it as the ending of the movie of his life.__NEWL__Tiffany gives Pat a cloud chart as a belated birthday present and they lie on the ground and watch the clouds together.__NEWL__Pat pulls Tiffany close__NEWL__and she tells him that she needs him.__NEWL__As they lie there on a frozen soccer field in the middle of a snowstorm, Pat kisses her and says, "I think I need you too."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7304772	Red Rain	2012-10-09T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37210464	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37210464	Intending to write about the small beach town's local flavor and unusual death rituals, Lea Sutter travels to Cape Le Chat Noir for her travel blog.__NEWL__Her plans are shattered when a terrible hurricane decimates the town, killing off most of its inhabitants.__NEWL__The experience shakes Lea, spurring her to take Daniel and Samuel, two twelve-year-old twin orphans, home with her.__NEWL__Lea's decision doesn't sit well with her husband Mark, who has been experiencing stress over the backlash for his recent child psychology book.__NEWL__He finds Daniel and Samuel to be strange, especially after they demand that his sister Roz move out of the guest house so they can live there.__NEWL__Their strangeness also stands out to Lea and Mark's children Elena and Ira, who find it hard to trust Daniel and Samuel.__NEWL__Lea insists that their behaviors are due to PTSD and enrolls them at the local school.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Daniel and Samuel have begun stealing various objects from people around them as well as using their unusual supernatural powers to intimidate and control the people around them.__NEWL__Knowing that Mark doesn't trust them, the twins frame him for multiple murders in the hopes that it will get rid of Mark.__NEWL__The plan initially works, but eventually backfires when Daniel and Samuel take control of many of the local children.__NEWL__With the help of a woman named Martha Swann from Cape Le Chat Noir, Lea realizes that the twins are actually the product of a failed ritual to reanimate the dead in the 1930s.__NEWL__Lea also realizes that she herself was a product of a similar, separate ritual, having died during the hurricane during her visit to Cape Le Chat Noir.__NEWL__Lea manages to stop the twins and save her family, but at the cost of her own existence.__NEWL__The book ends with Mark and his sister Roz looking on in horror as they watch her son Axl use similar powers as Daniel and Samuel, claiming that they taught him a trick.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7280292	Radiance	2010-08-31T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37212252	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37212252	Riley Bloom crossed the bridge into the afterlife following a car crash - with her parents and her beloved dog, Buttercup.__NEWL__The afterlife is situated in - Here & Now .__NEWL__And it turns out that the afterlife is not just an eternity of leisure.__NEWL__Riley meets The Council where she is assigned a job as a Soul Catcher, with weird__NEWL__but maybe cute boy as her guide whose name is Bodhi.__NEWL__Her first assignment will take her back to earth, to everything she's left behind - where she must find the Radiant Boy, a ten-year-old, long - lost spirit in the haunting castles of England for centuries, who doesn't want to move on.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2274863	The House of Hades	2013-10-08T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37196916	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37196916	After Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson fall into Tartarus at the end of The Mark of Athena, the other five demigods of the "Prophecy of Seven" (Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez and Piper McLean), aided by Nico di Angelo and Coach Hedge, prepare to go to Greece to find and close the Doors of Death from the mortal world in order to prevent the monsters of Gaea's army from continuously resurrecting.__NEWL__In Bologna, the Argo II is raided by the Kerkopes; Leo goes after them to retrieve his stolen Archimedes's sphere, and takes an agricultural book belonging to Triptolemus and an astrolabe made by Odysseus as recompense.__NEWL__He also sends the Kerkopes to harass the Roman army massing at Camp Half-Blood.__NEWL__In Venice, Frank, Hazel and Nico retrieve barley cakes designed to protect them from poison in the Necromanteion from Triptolemus.__NEWL__In exchange for the barley cakes, Frank has to get a replacement snake for Triptolemus’ chariot, which is powered by two snakes.__NEWL__After remembering that his father, Mars, can turn enemies to snakes, Frank decides to battle all the Katobleps (cow monsters) in exchange for a snake.__NEWL__He defeats all of the monsters and receives the blessing of Mars for his heroism, becoming physically stronger, much more confident, and gaining a snake for Triptolemus.__NEWL__During a later encounter with the bandit Sciron and after a meeting with the goddess Hecate, Hazel successfully learns to manipulate the Mist, a power that alters other people's reality layers by deceiving them.__NEWL__At Jason's behest, the demigods travel to Split to visit the tomb of Diocletian, retrieve his powerful scepter, and leave a note for Reyna (who has been asked by Annabeth to find the Greek demigods).__NEWL__The god Cupid, guardian of the scepter, refuses to relinquish it until Nico admits that he once had a crush on Percy Jackson.__NEWL__While sailing through the Adriatic Sea, the ship is attacked by Khione and the Boreads.__NEWL__Piper uses her powerful charmspeaking skills to defend the group.__NEWL__During the attack, Leo is transported to Ogygia, where he falls in love with Calypso.__NEWL__Although he leaves the island, Leo promises to return for her.__NEWL__While Leo is detained, the rest of the crew meets with Notus, who helps Jason to realize that he has chosen to be a Greek rather than a Roman demigod, settling an internal conflict within himself.__NEWL__Jason later gives up his praetorship to Frank in accordance with this decision.__NEWL__Arriving at the Necromanteion, the reunited crew is attacked by Clytius, Pasiphaë, and a group of their minions.__NEWL__Each of the demigods uses some aspect of their newly strengthened powers or identities to help defeat these monsters; for example, Hazel's new power and alliance with Hecate helps her defeat Pasiphaë and Clytius.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Percy and Annabeth travel through Tartarus to the other side of the Doors of Death, aided by the Titan Iapetus, who now goes by "Bob" after a previous encounter with Percy, the giant Damasen, and a few other beings.__NEWL__As the other demigods fight in the world above, Percy and Annabeth's group reach the Doors of Death and fight the personification of Tartarus, eventually destroying the chains holding the Doors in place.__NEWL__Bob stays behind amongst hordes of angry monsters to defend the Doors while Percy and Annabeth escape and reunites with the other five demigods, who successfully close the Doors of Death.__NEWL__Reyna arrives on her dying Pegasus and Annabeth tasks Reyna, a Roman, with bringing the Athena Parthenos (using the Argo II's hold) back to Camp Half-Blood to appease both the Greeks and Romans, with Nico and Coach Hedge volunteering to accompany her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16842190	Hate List	2009-09-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37197431	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37197431	The novel deals with the aftermath of a school shooting.__NEWL__It is a first person narrative from the point of view of Valerie Leftman, whose boyfriend Nick Levil was the shooter.__NEWL__Interspersed through the novel are newspaper articles about the events.__NEWL__Valerie and Nick have compiled a Hate List, a list of people and things they hate; Valerie sees it as an inside joke between the two of them, but Nick is more serious.__NEWL__When he brings a gun to school and starts shooting people, Valerie puts herself in front of his next victim, Jessica Campbell, and is shot in the leg.__NEWL__After this, Nick kills himself.__NEWL__Once Valerie wakes up in the hospital to face the consequences, she soon realizes that she harbors some of the blame for the people who were killed or wounded.__NEWL__Had she not discussed before how much she hated them?__NEWL__Maybe even egged him on a little?__NEWL__With Nick gone, she's really the only one left to face the blame.__NEWL__Six months after the shooting, Valerie returns to school and steadily begins to cope with the loss of her boyfriend, the loss of her former friends, her family's resulting issues, and how it all will affect her future.__NEWL__People now view Nick as a monster, her classmates are torn between calling her a victim or a part of the whole plan, her friends no longer talk to her, her parents' marriage is ending, her brother resents her, the girl whose life she saved befriends her, and she considers the possibility of attending college even though her name is attached to the tragedy.__NEWL__This novel follows her as she learns to forgive, to stand up for herself, and journey from mental anguish to mental stability.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6024759	Indigo Blue	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	37089932	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37089932	Indigo "Indie" Collins is an 11-year-old girl in Year Six who enjoys daydreaming.__NEWL__The story implies she is living in England.__NEWL__She lives with her mother, her mother's boyfriend Max and her baby sister Misti.__NEWL__Max and Indigo's mother keep arguing and Indigo's Mum becomes a victim of domestic abuse.__NEWL__One morning they move to a new flat in hopes to get away from Max.__NEWL__Indie is also really worried that her best friend Jo does not like her very much anymore, because Indie is not telling her about Max.__NEWL__When they move to the flat, they don't like it at first.__NEWL__They share the house with Ian, a man above them, and Mrs Green, the owner of the house, a grumpy old lady on the bottom floor.__NEWL__Without much money, Indie's family have to fix up the flat and learn to survive.__NEWL__After a while Indigo's mom agrees to go on a date with Max and he physically injures Indie's mother and is put on trial.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Indigo is looked after by her foster mother followed by her gran who comes from Wales.__NEWL__This story was written by Cathy Cassidy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735925	The Gates Ajar	1868-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36984579	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36984579	Mary Cabot of Homer, Massachusetts, has recently been notified of Royal Cabot’s death, the brother to whom she is intensely devoted.__NEWL__He was a soldier, "shot dead" in the American Civil War.__NEWL__Their parents are deceased, and Mary is unable to find sympathy and relief from anyone –acquaintances, the church deacon, or pastor.__NEWL__Losing her religious faith, she increasingly despairs.__NEWL__Eventually she turns to Winifred Forceythe, her widowed aunt who arrives from Kansas with her daughter, Faith.__NEWL__Over the course of their conversations, Winifred offers an inspiring image of heaven and gradually restores her niece's faith.__NEWL__Winifred Forceythe soon dies, leaving Mary Cabot as guardian of her cousin, Faith.__NEWL__Having again found meaning in life, her outlook is joyful.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20715444	Bury Elminster Deep	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37126288	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37126288	Elminster has been rendered bodiless and unable to perform magic by the Spellplague and the death of his goddess Mystra.__NEWL__He tries to find a way to stop Lord Manshoon from taking over the kingdom of Cormyr.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7722773	The Christmas Tree	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1761	Dublin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27	Republic of Ireland	37127688	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37127688	At the age of 45, Constance Keating a failed writer living in London, having just given birth to a daughter is told that the weakness she had been experiencing was not as a result of her pregnancy but due to Leukaemia.__NEWL__She has returned to her childhood home in Ballsbridge, a suburb of Dublin, determined to die at home and not fight the disease in hospital - much to the consternation of her sister Bibi, who has agreed to look after the baby.__NEWL__She writes to Jacob Weinberg, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor with whom she had a brief affair whilst on holiday in Italy, to tell him he is a father and inviting him to come and take the baby away and look after it.__NEWL__As Christmas approaches and the disease advances, she drinks whisky and the occasional painkiller, under the care of Bill, her sympathetic GP, and Bridie, a young Catholic girl recruited by her sister.__NEWL__The narrative switches between her slow decline and episodes from past life, including leaving Trinity College and moving to London, her literary failures, the death of her parents, and prominently her short time spent with Jacob.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5451294	Fire	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34	Sweden	37129302	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37129302	There has been 10 weeks since the Chosen ones defeated the emissary of the demons.__NEWL__But everything is far from good.__NEWL__The Chosen ones have problems coming both from the normal world and the magical one.__NEWL__Linnéa still grieves Elias and the families of Minoo and Vanessa are falling apart.__NEWL__The mysterious council are all but friendly towards them and the signs of the apocalypse is appearing; the woods are dying, heat waves plague the town and the Chosen ones have more enemies than ever.__NEWL__The dead will return to the living, secrets will be brought to light, hearts will be broken and a fire will rise...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5616397	Guilty Wives	2012-03-26T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37125195	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37125195	This book is about four friends who are foreigners living in Bern, Switzerland, with their husbands.__NEWL__These four women decide to have a four-day holiday at a lavish resort overlooking Monte Carlo, on the French coast.__NEWL__For two days they have a lavish time, sunbathing at the pool, gambling with loads of money, dining on expensive food and drinking only the best champagne.__NEWL__On the second night they are invited to spend a night on an expensive yacht in the harbor.__NEWL__After having a drunken, indulgent night on the yacht they wake up to police raiding the harbor, taking everyone off all the boats there.__NEWL__Next, they find themselves accused of a horrible crime they did not commit.__NEWL__The only evidence implicates the four wives.__NEWL__They stand accused in court, facing years, if not their entire lives, in prison.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5765812	Hind's Kidnap	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z	37137893	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37137893	Six years before the novel begins, Jack Hind was obsessed with solving the Hershey Laurel kidnapping.__NEWL__With the Laurel parents Sears and Shirley dead, and no ransom note received, the police effectively closed the case, and told Hind to quit.__NEWL__Which he did upon marriage to Sylvia.__NEWL__Several aspects of Hind's life are revealed during the novel.__NEWL__Hind's parents died when he was young, and willed that Hind be raised by a guardian who was a batchelor and unrelated to Hind.__NEWL__Hind seems to have inherited well—the guardian left him a "viaticum"—the closest Hind does to work is recording people for a radio show, "Naked Voice", and some substitute teaching at a college.__NEWL__The novel itself is divided into three parts.__NEWL__The novel begins with the chapter "Faith, or The First Condition", Hind running down three flights of stairs in his building.__NEWL__Intending to visit Sylvia, his estranged wife living one block away, on a peace mission, he surprises a very tall elderly woman putting a note in his mailbox.__NEWL__ As the woman leaves, Hind takes the note, which reads "If you're still trying to break the kidnap, visit the pier by the hospital.__NEWL__" Immediately, Hind is obsessed with the Laurel case all over again, and heads to the pier.__NEWL__He begins a daily vigil, eventually awarded when he overhears two people of Asian descent, one of whom mentions Hershey Laurel.__NEWL__They take off, and Hind follows.__NEWL__Hind loses them when they go into the headquarters of Santos-Dumont Sisters, Incorporated.__NEWL__His friend, Madison "Maddy" Beecher runs the Center for Total Research, a spin-off of S-D housed in the same building complex.__NEWL__Hind visits Beecher, but Beecher likes to talk, so Hind is unable to get the help he expected.__NEWL__Beecher dragoons Hind into joining Beecher with his wife Flo and their 9-year old son for dinner.__NEWL__While talking away, Beecher mentions a somewhat crazed phone call at work about a mad genius named, to the best of Beecher's memory, "Lowell, Lawlor, Laura".__NEWL__The closeness to Laurel is enough to convince Hind that this is a clue.__NEWL__Returning home, Hind thinks he sees the same elderly woman again.__NEWL__Rather than chase after the woman, he heads to his vestibule to see what note she may have left, and is rewarded with "Hooked with a wood, into the forest, it will lead you well beyond the pier—if you're interested."__NEWL__Hind interprets it as a reference to Ashley Sill and his golf-course-country-club.__NEWL__Hind waited two weeks, and then drove the three hundred miles to the Sills' place, located about 10–20 miles from the Laurel home and the last place young Hershey had been seen.__NEWL__Hind is surprised to learn that he was expected, tipped off by Sylvia.__NEWL__The next morning, meditating on the clue, the word "well" catches his attention, and he thinks it's a reference to the well on the Laurel property.__NEWL__Visiting, he talks with the current resident, whose polite talk is interpreted by Hind as another clue, veiled references to his friend Dewey Wood, back in the city.__NEWL__So Hind hangs out with Wood, hanging on to his every word, expecting a clue to drop out.__NEWL__But Wood mostly wants to talk about Oliver Plane, who has irresponsibly abandoned his summer teaching duties, just as classes are about to begin.__NEWL__At some point, another acquaintance comments on Plane's general lack of maturity, referring to "a child inside Oliver trying to get out."__NEWL__At which point Hind realizes he must talk to Plane.__NEWL__Hind ends up substituting for Plane.__NEWL__He tries to see clues on campus or in anything connected with his students.__NEWL__He has an affair with one of the students, Laura Rosenblum, and naturally discusses the Laurel case with her.__NEWL__But her final essay for the course refers to the kidnapping in ways that taunt Hind: "Call the kidnapers Sylvia and Jack, Mr. Hind, call the kid May... how like our own life is this event!__NEWL__" The chapter ends with Hind concluding he should return to Sylvia.__NEWL__A long monologue by Sylvia.__NEWL__Almost every paragraph begins with a "V".__NEWL__At first addressing May, then Jack, she continues even after Jack falls asleep.__NEWL__Sylvia talks about her and Jack, and their friends, in great, disjointed detail.__NEWL__Hind takes Sylvia's monologue as a clue to treat people as people, not clues: "Take each person formerly a clue and ignore the Laurel utterly.__NEWL__If any one was to be a true clue, any one could be so only leading nowhere."__NEWL__And so Hind resolves to reverse the treasure hunt of clues.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4677752	Actress in the House	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q881	Vietnam	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q881	Vietnam	37204414	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37204414	The novel is told in three portions, "First Night", "First Week", "First Love", and a short epilogue, "Extend".__NEWL__Several time frames are included in the novel, mostly told using the present tense, frequently with no direct indication that the present tense of one book section is unrelated to the present tense of the immediately previous book section.__NEWL__The main events of the novel are set in 1970, late 1982 to early 1983, and late 1996.__NEWL__Set mainly in downtown Manhattan, the main characters are Bill Daley, an American lawyer in his mid-40s, and Becca Lang, a Canadian actress in her mid-20s.__NEWL__Bill's wife Della died of an aggressive illness in late 1983, after seven years of marriage.__NEWL__Bill's brother Wolf lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.__NEWL__He is a civil engineer specializing in geology, who tends to get injured on the job.__NEWL__One late afternoon, November 1996, stage actress Becca Lang makes a strange call to Bill Daley's law office.__NEWL__She says she is looking for help regarding an eviction, Daley tries to beg off, saying it is not his area of practice, but the call intrigues him enough to keep him listening, and then to track her play Unwed Blood down, and he books two tickets for that Wednesday night.__NEWL__He puzzles trying to figure out who "van Diamond" is, the man who Becca claims recommended she call Daley.__NEWL__Daley attends with Helen, his usual companion.__NEWL__They are slightly bothered by Leander, who is sitting in front of them.__NEWL__At the climax of the first act, Becca tells Barry (playing Becca's brother) that she has told his wife about his adultery.__NEWL__And Barry slaps Becca excessively hard, drawing blood, and Becca staggers, almost off the stage.__NEWL__During intermission, Daley talks to Leander, outside, offering to help him find a job.__NEWL__Leander does not return for the second act.__NEWL__After the show, Helen goes home alone, Daley goes backstage, talks with Barry, then has the empty stage to himself.__NEWL__Becca comes up from the seats to talk to Daley, and after a while, Daley reveals that he is the lawyer she called two days before.__NEWL__They go out for a long night together, and end up at Daley's home.__NEWL__Along the way, Becca talks about herself, her sticky situation, and also very knowledgeably about the history of New York.__NEWL__In cut-ins, we learn of the night in 1982 when Lotta, a sometime client, calls Daley in the middle of the night because a small earthquake causes some of her ceramic fake art to fall off a shelf and shatter.__NEWL__She intends to sue Connecticut, the location of the epicenter.__NEWL__Unable to get back to sleep, Daley calls Wolf, who invites Daley to Australia for one week, part of an engineering project Wolf will be consulting for.__NEWL__Daley goes, leaving his wife Della with their surprise guest, Ruley Duymens, a banker who is interested in financing Della's dance group.__NEWL__Daley's interest in Becca increases when he realizes "van Diamond" is Becca's phonetic version of Ruley's name.__NEWL__Becca performs for Daley a one-woman autobiographical show, something Becca is thinking of performing for the public.__NEWL__Her life seems to have included ambiguous abuse, possibly incestuous, involving her father and her older brother Bruce, but it's unclear if Becca thinks there is anything wrong.__NEWL__Similarly, Becca returns to Unwed Blood as if the slap witnessed by Daley was just an aberration, not worth being concerned about.__NEWL__Becca is also under pressure from the play's producer Beck to stay in the show, which he wants to take uptown.__NEWL__Beck is providing, through Bruce, for her large but mostly empty Manhattan loft.__NEWL__They pay a visit to her place.__NEWL__The super shows up, and makes it clear that so far as he knows, her eviction is proceeding.__NEWL__Daley and Becca develop a casual, Platonic intimacy.__NEWL__They are sleeping together in the nude, yet apparently not having any sex.__NEWL__Becca knows something of Daley's involvement with a war atrocity when he served in Vietnam, and Daley, taken aback, tells her the full story, involving three Cambodian POWs, one adult woman Cambodian POW, Than, whom Daley knew, and one tween Cambodian girl.__NEWL__Taken up in a helicopter for transfer, the POWs are bound.__NEWL__Daley is given solo controls for a brief moment, not really knowing what he's doing, and when the pilot takes the controls back, the five Cambodians are gone.__NEWL__Daley evicts Becca Monday morning.__NEWL__Tuesday morning, at the end of his run, Daley sees Bruce Lang sitting on his step, waiting for him.__NEWL__They talk, and eventually Daley tells Bruce of the time he saw Ruley, during diving lessons for Della, slap her brutally.__NEWL__Becca moves back.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7753349	The Necromancer	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37088834	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37088834	The story revolves around Justin Gravesand, a boy who believes his late twin brother was murdered by his father.__NEWL__Brought up in a Catholic background, Justin sets out to find the truth.__NEWL__He dug up his brothers bones.__NEWL__In his youth, Justin takes interest in sexual pleasures and has intercourse with his school teacher.__NEWL__Later Justin became interested in learning and became a scholar.__NEWL__He then visits a brothel with his friends James and Wendy and meets Anya, James' beautiful girlfriend.__NEWL__He confronted the owner of the club, who identifies himself as the necromancer or the master.__NEWL__He then experiences hallucinations regarding sex with corpses.__NEWL__In the end, Justin communicates with his brother through necromancy and learns that he had killed his own brother with a sharp object.__NEWL__The novella ends as Justin becomes the necromancer, "I am the monster.__NEWL__I am necromancer himself."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q117293	Poor Folk	1846-01-01T00:00:00Z	2302	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q34266	Russian Empire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q159	Russia	37159503	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37159503	Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments.__NEWL__Devushkin's, for example, is merely a portioned-off section of the kitchen, and he lives with several other tenants, such as the Gorshkovs, whose son groans in agonizing hunger almost the entire story.__NEWL__Devushkin and Dobroselova exchange letters attesting to their terrible living conditions and the former frequently squanders his money on gifts for her.__NEWL__The reader progressively learns their history.__NEWL__Dobroselova originally lived in the country, but moved to St. Petersburg (which she hates) when her father lost his job.__NEWL__Her father becomes very violent and her mother severely depressed.__NEWL__Her father dies and they move in with Anna Fyodorovna, a landlady who was previously cruel to them but at least pretends to feel sympathy for their situation.__NEWL__Dobroselova is tutored by a poor student named Pokrovsky, whose drunken father occasionally visits.__NEWL__She eventually falls in love with Pokrovsky.__NEWL__She struggles to save a measly amount of money to purchase the complete works of Pushkin at the market for his birthday present, then allows his father to give the books to him instead, claiming that just knowing he received the books will be enough for her happiness.__NEWL__Pokrovsky falls ill soon after, and his dying wish is to see the sun and the world outside.__NEWL__Dobroselova obliges by opening the blinds to reveal grey clouds and dirty rain.__NEWL__In response Pokrovsky only shakes his head and then passes away.__NEWL__Dobroselova's mother dies shortly afterwards, and Dobroselova is left in the care of Anna for a time, but the abuse becomes too much__NEWL__and she goes to live with Fedora across the street.__NEWL__Devushkin works as a lowly copyist, frequently belittled and picked on by his colleagues.__NEWL__His clothing is worn and dirty, and his living conditions are perhaps worse than Dobroselova's.__NEWL__He considers himself a rat in society.__NEWL__He and Dobroselova exchange letters (and occasional visits that are never detailed), and eventually they also begin to exchange books.__NEWL__Devushkin becomes offended when she sends him a copy of "The Overcoat", because he finds the main character is living a life similar to his own.__NEWL__Dobroselova considers moving to another part of the city where she can work as a governess.__NEWL__Just as he is out of money and risks being evicted, Devushkin has a stroke of luck: his boss takes pity on him and gives him 100 rubles to buy new clothes.__NEWL__Devushkin pays off his debts and sends some to Dobroselova.__NEWL__She sends him 25 rubles back because she does not need it.__NEWL__The future looks bright for both of them because he can now start to save money and it may be possible for them to move in together.__NEWL__The writer Ratazyayev, who jokes about using Devushkin as a character in one of his stories offends him, but genuinely seems to like him.__NEWL__Eventually Devushkin's pride is assuaged and their friendship is restored.__NEWL__The Gorshkovs come into money because the father's case is won in court.__NEWL__With the generous settlement they seem to be destined to be perfectly happy, but the father dies, leaving his family in a shambles despite the money.__NEWL__Soon after this, Dobroselova announces that a rich man, Mr. Bykov who had dealings with Anna Fyodorovna and Pokrovsky's father, has proposed to her.__NEWL__She decides to leave with him, and the last few letters attest to her slowly becoming accustomed to her new money.__NEWL__She asks Devushkin to find linen for her and begins to talk about various luxuries, but leaves him alone in the end despite his improving fortunes.__NEWL__In the last correspondence in the story, on September 29, Devushkin begs Dobroselova to write to him.__NEWL__Dobroselova responds saying that "all is over" and to not forget her.__NEWL__The last letter is from Devushkin saying that he loves her and that he will die when he leaves her and then she will cry.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7746998	The Letter Left to Me	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37175190	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37175190	In January, 1946, the 15-year-old narrator (unnamed except for the "Junior" that distinguishes him from his father) receives an envelope addressed to him found amongst his late father's papers.__NEWL__The contents are a two-page letter of fatherly advice, identifying Senior's main regrets in life as words of warning.__NEWL__A few bits from the letter are quoted, they are "bland homilies" and "banal twaddle".__NEWL__Junior initially puzzles over the form of the letter, not really noticing the content: the fact that the letter was dated to three years previously, the fact that it was typed—which his father never did, the fact that he had no idea of its existence, the fact that the envelope itself, addressed to him, had last been seen in a safe-deposit box.__NEWL__At his mother's suggestion, the letter is shared with the family.__NEWL__An older relative with a print shop prepares, without asking, a hundred copies, causing Junior some small embarrassment at school.__NEWL__And when he goes to college, the Dean gets a copy, and thinks so highly of it, he has copies prepared for and mailed to every student.__NEWL__Although Junior is not identified in these copies, he can't help but be obsessed by how his classmates respond to their copies.__NEWL__He is appalled that some of his friends think the letter is stupid or even fake.__NEWL__On the other hand, he is elated when others find it charming.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8031359	Women and Men	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37033868	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37033868	The novel, nominally set in 1976–77, but with long passages set in 1893–4, 1945, 1960–2, and 1973, centers around the life, the partly mythic ancestry, and the partly science fictional future of James Mayn, a business and technology journalist.__NEWL__He lives in the same Murray Hill building as one Grace Kimball.__NEWL__Grace has numerous close ties with just about everyone Jim knows in the novel.__NEWL__These ties include the ordinary, day-to-day interactions with people who know Jim and Grace, and the extraordinary, as Grace's dreams closely parallel the mythic version of Jim's grandmother's life.__NEWL__Jim and Grace "never quite meet", although Jim goes so far as to knock on Grace's door but then changes his mind.__NEWL__There is a MacGuffin in the guise of a never-performed opera Hamletin based on Hamlet by a Chilean woman, the mother of the zoologist Mena.__NEWL__The opera apparently has magical powers, anathema to fascists and dictators.__NEWL__A production in a former warehouse in the Upper West Side is in rehearsals.__NEWL__ What follows is a version of the events in the novel arranged in a timeline.__NEWL__Large portions of the story are told in a "spiral" style, with a little bit told at first, then repeated with a little bit more, and so on.__NEWL__Often, multiple plotlines are advanced nearly simultaneously, in long rushing sentences that refer to minor details across the decades and centuries.__NEWL__As an example, some important characters go without a name until very late in the novel.__NEWL__Marion Hugh Mayne founds the Windrow Democrat as an advocacy newspaper for Andrew Jackson, and writes a diary.__NEWL__He knows Morgan, an Alsatian mathematician.__NEWL__Samuel Colt opens his first factory in Paterson.__NEWL__The factory fails.__NEWL__Inspired by the Mexican War, Samuel Colt opens his second factory in Hartford.__NEWL__One of the pistols has a (double) life of its own.__NEWL__The Statue of Liberty arrives in the U.S. at Bedloe's Island and the pieces are uncrated.__NEWL__Margaret, aged 12, is on the island, looking at the inside of the face, when the Hermit-Inventor tells her to go west.__NEWL__During the 1880s and the early 1890s the "double Moon" was visible in the Four Corners region, especially after a green flash.__NEWL__After one such flash, the last Anasazi sees the Moon double.__NEWL__A pistol that traces back to Colt's original factory casts two shadows, and the Anasazi admitted to uncertainty of which of two stories is the correct one regarding the pistol's provenance.__NEWL__The American Marcus Jones, studying locoweed, meets the Chilean Mena, studying the javelina (also called "peccary" or "wild pig") migrating up from the Southern Hemisphere.__NEWL__She sees him casting a doubled shadow from the Moon as he gets off his bicycle.__NEWL__Jones publishes his first article on locoweed classification "Guide to Western Biology" Margaret goes west with Florence, fellow Windrow girl, to the Chicago World's Fair, reporting for the family newspaper.__NEWL__After the Fair, they traveled together, but when visiting a slaughterhouse, Florence got sick and returned home, while Margaret continued to tour the West, including Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.__NEWL__Margaret returns, partly with Coxey's Army, with Alexander (not yet engaged to her) looking for her in the Army.__NEWL__Margaret spends three nights in jail for Mary Richardson.__NEWL__Sarah is in France.__NEWL__Jim is born, 1930.__NEWL__Sarah has an affair with Bob Yard.__NEWL__Brad is born, 1933, presumed to be the son of Yard.__NEWL__The Hermit-Inventor of New York shows up at a beach where Sarah is with Jim, Brad, and the Yards.__NEWL__The playing between Jim and Brad gets out of hand, and Jim at one point tries to stomp hard on Brad, helplessly lying down in the sand.__NEWL__But Jim suddenly finds himself frozen, stuck at an impossible "extragravitational" angle, giving Brad time to get away.__NEWL__Sarah disappears, presumed a suicide, off the same beach where a rogue U-boat waits off-shore.__NEWL__On the submarine is the composer of Hamletin, a great-niece of Mena.__NEWL__Jim—who hasn't even tried to practice driving yet—steals Yard's pickup truck one evening.__NEWL__He gives up when he discovers T.W. was in the bed.__NEWL__Brad's Day: Brad has a breakdown in the music room.__NEWL__Pearl Myles, Jim's journalist teacher, assigns the class "an imaginary news story".__NEWL__Jim hitches a ride to the fatal beach.__NEWL__Francis Gary Powers and the U-2 he was piloting is shot down over Soviet airspace.__NEWL__The Eisenhower administration says the U-2 was merely a weather research plane.__NEWL__Jim finds himself strongly interested in meteorology as a result.__NEWL__Jim tells Mayga of his visions of the future.__NEWL__She is abruptly called back to Chile.__NEWL__Jim learns from Ted that she dies in a fall while walking with her husband and paper magnate Morgen.__NEWL__She is presumed to have been murdered.__NEWL__The Hamlet score was recovered from her body.__NEWL__Jim and Spence are at the December 1972 night launch of Apollo 17.__NEWL__Jim sees Spence talk with the Chilean McKenna, who later talks to Jim about his "economical prisoner" (George Foley) who has a theory of the Colloidal Unconscious.__NEWL__Jim meets Jean at the May 1973 Skylab launch.__NEWL__Ted is diagnosed with a terminal disease.__NEWL__Jim visits near Ship Rock, to report on mining/energy.__NEWL__He meets Dina West, an Albuquerque-based environmentalist, and Ray Vigil, a Navajo supporter of local geothermal energy, which Jim explains is impossible.__NEWL__Jim sends a message entitled "The Future" to Flick.__NEWL__Jim tells Jean of his visions of the future, going back to the 1940s.__NEWL__Jean is doubtful, suggesting the idea of torus-shaped space stations hadn't yet made it into the science fiction magazines of his youth.__NEWL__Larry attends college.__NEWL__George Foley smuggles his story out of prison.__NEWL__Independent Messenger Unit set up, and delivers the Hamlet-based libretto.__NEWL__Jim has the Safe Bomb dream.__NEWL__T.W. is killed, giving his name as Thomas Winwooley.__NEWL__The Hamletin dress rehearsal is performed, with McKenna, Clara, de Talca, Mayn, Jean, Grace, Maureen in attendance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7157684	Peaches for Monsieur le Curé	2012-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	37033886	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37033886	Vianne Rocher, Roux, Anouk and Rosette are living on a houseboat on the River Seine.__NEWL__Anouk is fifteen and Rosette is eight.__NEWL__Vianne believes that she may have found peace.__NEWL__Then she receives a letter from Lansquenet-sous-Tannes from Armande Voizin.__NEWL__Armande died eight years ago; she had left the letter, sealed within a letter for Luc, her grandson, when he attains 21.__NEWL__Armande had predicted that Lansquenet will need Vianne again.__NEWL__Vianne should visit, if only to put flowers on an old lady's grave.__NEWL__Vianne is intrigued and, seeking an excuse to escape the heat of the Paris summer, takes her daughters to Lansquenet.__NEWL__The major change is the settlement of Muslims from North Africa in the old tanneries on the other side of the river.__NEWL__Here is a mosque complete with minaret.__NEWL__Reynaud, the priest, Vianne's adversary in Chocolat, has had trouble with these Moroccans, having been accused of setting fire to the Muslim school where Vianne's chocolaterie was; Reynaud denies all knowledge of the fire, but "the court of public opinion" has already found him guilty.__NEWL__The school was run by a Muslim woman called Inès, who wears the full niqab face-veil, and who is viewed with suspicion from both sides of the river.__NEWL__The Moroccan community is filled with gossip about her; the French locals are suspicious of her because of the veil she wears, blaming her for the increasing numbers of women now wearing the niqab.__NEWL__Vianne is drawn to Inès, partly because she was living in Vianne's chocolate shop before it burnt down, and partly because Inès reminds her of aspects of herself.__NEWL__Both are single women with a young daughter; both are the subject of gossip and speculation.__NEWL__But, unlike Vianne, Inès does not seem to want to mix or be accepted into the community.__NEWL__She remains silent and aloof, impervious to kindness or offers of help.__NEWL__Even Vianne's chocolates have no power over her, as she and the rest of the Moroccan community are fasting for Ramadan.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Vianne's old friend Joséphine, the battered wife in Chocolat who now runs the village café, has also changed.__NEWL__She greets Vianne with affection, but seems embarrassed to see her.__NEWL__Vianne soon learns that Joséphine has had a son, a boy called Jean-Philippe (Pilou), who is now eight years old.__NEWL__Vianne finds it hard to understand how her old friend could have concealed this fact from her for all this time, and tries to find out who Pilou's father is, with no success.__NEWL__Vianne begins to suspect that Roux, whom she once believed might form a loving relationship with Joséphine, may be the boy's father.__NEWL__Vianne decides to stay for a few more days, if only to discover the truth behind the mystery of Pilou's parentage and the fire at the old chocolaterie.__NEWL__She finds out that her old adversary, Francis Reynaud, is about to lose his parish.__NEWL__A younger, trendier priest, Père Henri Lemaître, has taken over his duties pending an inquiry into the arson attack, and Reynaud is unhappy and humiliated.__NEWL__Vianne promises to help him clear his name and regain his position.__NEWL__She moves into Armande's old house, now owned by Luc Clairmont, and begins to get to know the Moroccan community.__NEWL__She befriends one of the Muslim families, and slowly begins to earn their trust.__NEWL__Gradually she learns of the tensions that run beneath the surface; of family feuds; malicious rumours; political machinations and prejudices on both sides of the river.__NEWL__Behind all of these tensions stands the figure of Inès Bencharki.__NEWL__But is she the cause of the unrest, or just another victim?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7497359	Shine	2011-05-01T00:00:00Z	37078525	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37078525	In Black Creek, North Carolina, 16-year-old Cat Robinson's gay best friend, Patrick Truman, is left temporarily comatose from a brutal and discriminatory act of violence.__NEWL__Cat feels guilty for having become recently estranged from Patrick due to unrelated personal trauma, though she now vows to find his attacker, knowing the police will do little to help.__NEWL__Cat's own tortured past has caused her to withdraw from the world for three years, but she begins to return by taking the criminal investigation into her own hands.__NEWL__She starts by questioning members of her conservative Christian community, which is ravaged under the surface by a crippling culture of meth.__NEWL__Cat confronts members of what she calls the "redneck posse", led by cocky, wealthy, homophobic Tommy Lawson.__NEWL__The posse also includes Cat's detached older brother, Christian, as well as Beef Pierson: an ex-athlete, high-school dropout, and long-time sympathizer with Cat's past struggles.__NEWL__Cat quickly uncovers several of the community's secrets: that Bailee-Ann, Beef's girlfriend, is cheating on him with Tommy and that Beef himself is a struggling meth addict; in fact, many of Cat's peers are also revealed to be former or continuing meth addicts and/or dealers.__NEWL__After a shallow talk with Bailee-Ann, Cat becomes doggedly followed by Bailee-Ann's foul-mouthed and neglected kid brother, Robert, who claims to be Beef's best friend and protégé.__NEWL__While researching at a local library, Cat is viciously insulted by Jason Connor, a passing college boy whom she inadvertently offends and who, though from a poor background, pretends to be high-class.__NEWL__She soon learns that Jason is actually another distressed friend of Patrick, and she and Jason ultimately make up, become confidants and allies, and later even share romantic feelings.__NEWL__Meanwhile, a flashback reveals that Cat was sexually molested by Tommy three years ago, leading to an inability to continue maintaining relationships, thus naturally causing the deterioration of her friendship with Patrick.__NEWL__Convincing herself that Tommy must be Patrick's assailant, Cat confronts Tommy at last, only for him to apologize for his past wrongs, while sincerely affirming his innocence in the hate crime against Patrick.__NEWL__Cat, with Jason's help, learns that Patrick has been maintaining a secret boyfriend, and they track the unknown lover to a gay bar, where Cat is astonished to realize that he is in fact Beef.__NEWL__Still-closeted, Beef, during a meth-fueled rage, apparently beat Patrick up and then framed the scene to look like a hate crime.__NEWL__The impulsive young Robert, who once admired Beef, now questions Beef's manliness as a gay man and threatens Beef's cover.__NEWL__Under the influence of meth once more, Beef consequently abducts Robert and takes him to a high cliff called Suicide Rock.__NEWL__Cat and Christian together pursue Beef, who threatens to push Robert from the summit of the cliff.__NEWL__Cat climbs the rock face, grabs Robert, and falls with him off the cliff, together safely landing in a swimming hole below.__NEWL__Christian and Beef then scuffle, and Beef slips off the cliff to his death.__NEWL__Afterward, at the hospital, Patrick finally awakens from his coma and is joyously greeted by Cat.__NEWL__The teenagers agree to pose Beef's death as an accident and to remain silent about his meth problem, in order to preserve his dignity in the community.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7656218	Swimming Home	2011-11-01T00:00:00Z	37027433	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37027433	In the summer of 1994 the poet Joe Jacobs (Polish émigré Jozef Nowogrodzki) is on vacation in a summer home in the south of France with his wife Isabel, his daughter Nina, and their friends, the couple Mitchell and Laura.__NEWL__The tranquillity is ruined when Joe's fan Kitty Finch turns up.__NEWL__Her fascination with, and sexual attraction to Joe are obvious, but Isabel invites her to stay anyway.__NEWL__Isabel is a foreign correspondent whose work has repeatedly taken her away from her family, and who has grown to tolerate Joe's constant infidelities.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Kitty's mental problems become more and more obvious, yet Nina is the only one who dares to address the issue.__NEWL__Towards the end it seems clear that Kitty is poised to kill herself.__NEWL__In the end, however, it is actually Joe who kills himself.__NEWL__As it turns out, Kitty's mental issues were just a reflection of his much more deep-founded depression.__NEWL__The story ends with a current-day confessional from the now adult Nina to her late father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17052993	Flirting With Fate	2012-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	37245494	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37245494	A journey of a boy where he yearns for love...almost finds it but fate takes it away from him.__NEWL__The story of this book begins in the suburbs of Shimla where a little boy is adopted in an orphanage.__NEWL__He gets all attention and love there but yearns to be adopted by a wealthy family.__NEWL__A turn of events happen where he is rejected often, this giving birth to the devil in him.__NEWL__As and when he is denied love and acceptance, Anand, the boy turns to crime to get what he wants.__NEWL__Petty thefts and lies slowly lay their foundation in him and soon he moves onto larger crimes like rape and murder.__NEWL__After committing plenty of petty crimes in Shimla, he moves to Delhi to make quick money and return to Shimla to his lady love.__NEWL__He does that…makes quick money the wrong way but when he returns, his girl is no longer his.__NEWL__The cruel twist of fate teaches him a lesson and he reaps what he has sown…it all comes back when he is hit step by step by God who enables Karma to return.__NEWL__The highlight of the book is a dog Fluffy who is a witness to all the crimes but is unable to tell anyone, being a dog…but his constant chatter and him sharing his thoughts now and then is a unique concept.__NEWL__The end is completely unpredictable with each scene being a compelling read, making the book difficult to put down.__NEWL__The mystery remains how Anand is punished in the end.__NEWL__Join Anand in this journey of love, lust, greed, revenge, redemption and realization...__NEWL__a chilling thriller…..__NEWL__an emotional roller coaster which we all go through in our lives, but rarely admit .
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4661174	Aag Ka Darya	37245912	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37245912	Set across "four Indian epochs (the classical, the medieval, the colonial, and the modern post-national)", Hyder traces the fates of four souls through time: Gautam, Champa, Kamal, and Cyril. "__NEWL__Gautam (appearing first as a student of mysticism at the Forest University of Shravasti in the fourth century B.C.E.) and Champa (throughout embodying the enigmatic experience of Indian women) begin and end the novel; Muslim Kamal appears mid-way through, as the Muslims did, and loses himself in the Indian landscape; and Cyril, the Englishman, appears later still.__NEWL__"__NEWL__Their stories crisscross "over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7300209	Reached	2012-11-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37246070	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37246070	Told in the alternating perspectives of Xander, Cassia, and Ky, the novel begins with Xander attending the welcoming ceremony of a new baby born into the Society.__NEWL__Xander is now working as an official in the medical department with another official named Lei, but he is secretly working for the Rising, a network of rebels against the Society.__NEWL__He reveals that the tablets given to newborns are switched by rebels which contain immunity to the red, memory-erasing tablets and immunity to the viral plague which is ravaging the Society.__NEWL__Cassia is working in the Capital as a sorter while Ky is in Camas training to be an Airship pilot for the Rising.__NEWL__When Ky and Indie are placed on the same ship to deliver medical supplies to Grandia City, the leader of the Rising, called the Pilot, reveals that they are on a special mission to initiate the rebellion and bring the cure for the plague as the Society plunges into disarray.__NEWL__Months later, the Rising has taken control of the Society, but the majority of its resources are being put into curing the infected.__NEWL__However, the medics realize the virus has mutated into a more dangerous form.__NEWL__Those who had been immunized are not safe from the mutated virus, but those who caught the first strain of the virus are immune, signified by a red mark on their back.__NEWL__In Central, Cassia forms a group of people willing to share their art and talents with each other called the Gallery.__NEWL__Lei does not have the mark and contracts the virus.__NEWL__Indie picks up Cassia and Xander on an airship and brings them to the Pilot where it is revealed that Cassia and Xander are immune, but Ky is not.__NEWL__After being exposed to the virus, Ky starts getting sick.__NEWL__They agree to help the Pilot find the cure by working with villagers in Endstone outside of the Society who are immune.__NEWL__There, Ky is bedridden with the virus while Cassia works with the head sorter.__NEWL__Xander works with a renowned scientist named Oker to develop a cure.__NEWL__Cassia meets Anna, Hunter's mother-in-law who lead to farmers out of the Carving.__NEWL__The work for the cure is arduous and the lines between the Rising and the Society begin to blur; Oker tells Xander that the blue tablet is a trigger for the virus, not a poison and that the Society purposefully infected everyone.__NEWL__Oker dies before he could develop the cure, but Cassia realizes that Oker had discovered that Mariposa Lily was the cure before he died.__NEWL__Xander makes the cure from jail and they administer it to Ky.__NEWL__The Pilot arrives, demanding a cure, stating that a faction in the Rising intends to usurp his position.__NEWL__Cassia insists that the cure is working on Ky and the Pilot rushes Cassia, Xander, and Ky to Camas.__NEWL__It is revealed that Indie died after her plane crashed when she ran out of fuel after realizing she contracted the virus and tried to leave.__NEWL__The Pilot tells them that while the Rising was a real rebellion, it has become so infiltrated by the Society that there are few differences between them.__NEWL__Cassia goes to Keya to try and cure her sick parents because her mother can lead them to more Mariposa Lily and discovers her father is already dead.__NEWL__Xander begins administering the cure to a trial group in Camas, while Cassia's mother begins to recover.__NEWL__Cassia has a realization that she unknowingly added Ky to the Matching Pool but could not remember because of the red tablet.__NEWL__At the end of the novel, they have begun to administer the cure on a large scale and defeat the virus.__NEWL__An election in Camas is held to determine the new leader of the society.__NEWL__Xander and Lei confess their love for each other and stay in Endstone; Lei was Laney, the match of Vick.__NEWL__Ky and Cassia convince Anna to leave Endstone in order to run for office and represent the people rather than the Society or the Rising.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q185822	Time Must Have a Stop	1944-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	37044390	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37044390	The story initially follows Sebastian Barnack, a seventeen-year-old poet with the beauty of a della Robbia angel, and his desire to procure formal wear for a friend's party despite the wishes of his father John, an anti-fascist lawyer and socialist politician, who believes his son shouldn't live a decadent lifestyle while others suffer.__NEWL__Sebastian, in turn, believes his father's treatment of him comes from his strong physical resemblance to his late mother.__NEWL__Sebastian's mission takes him to holiday with his rich uncle Eustace, a hedonistic and highly indulgent man who has a great fondness for his young nephew.__NEWL__While staying with his uncle, Sebastian—a virgin—embarks upon a love affair with Veronica Thwale, a widow who closely resembles Mary Esdaile, a character of his own imagination that he tells tales to his friends about.__NEWL__Eustace agrees to buy his nephew formal wear and even bestows a painting by Degas upon him.__NEWL__Sebastian has an intense sexual encounter with Mrs. Thwale, and he feels the holiday has been an unmitigated success.__NEWL__However, before the weight of Eustace's generosity can be felt he dies of a heart attack, leaving Sebastian in a deep panic about the future of his outfit.__NEWL__Sebastian steals the painting to sell to fund his tuxedo but an auditor of the late uncle's estate notes the missing Degas and accusations of theft against innocent employees multiply.__NEWL__Sebastian remains silent, while others are accused and suffer.__NEWL__Finally, he knows he must get the Degas back.__NEWL__Unable to do so himself, he enlists the help of his father's cousin Bruno, a deeply religious bookshop owner.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the spirit of Eustace, an atheist, lives on and is used as both a narrative tool to allow Huxley to show the fate of characters across time and distance but also adds a hint of comic irony when Eustace's eccentric mother-in-law Mrs. Gamble hosts a seance to talk to her dead son-in-law but the second-rate medium involved garbles his message to Sebastian.__NEWL__Bruno is able to retrieve the painting but at great cost – calling on friends that inadvertently make himself an enemy of the Italian Fascisti.__NEWL__The Fascist police imprison and mistreat Bruno, and hasten his declining health.__NEWL__Sebastian, driven by his guilt, undertakes the care of his dying uncle and while doing so is altered by the old man's sureness and spirituality.__NEWL__Bruno effects a transformation in Sebastian and, rather than adopting Eustace's hedonism, the young poet seeks a more religious outlook.__NEWL__In the epilogue, set in the midst of the Second World War, Sebastian, who has lost a hand in combat, begins writing a comparative work of the world's religions, inspired by Bruno, that echoes Huxley's own Perennial Philosophy.__NEWL__His father, while not enamoured by his son's new approach to life, finally shows him respect.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7756730	The Peripheral	2014-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q93332	Appalachian Mountains	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37047746	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37047746	The novel begins sometime in the near-future in a small town in rural America.__NEWL__Flynne Fisher works at a local 3D printing shop and lives with her mother and her brother Burton, who sustained brain trauma from cybernetic implants he received while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps' elite Haptic  Recon unit.__NEWL__When Burton heads to another town to counter-protest the protests of a religious extremist group known as Luke 4:5, he asks her to take over his job working security in a video game/virtual world for a supposedly Colombian company called Milagros Coldiron.__NEWL__Flynne takes the job and notices the game world looks suspiciously like London, but far more empty and more futuristic.__NEWL__Piloting a security quadcopter, she fends off paparazzi drones from an unknown woman's high-rise apartment.__NEWL__On the second night of doing so she witnesses a man and a woman out on a balcony, where the woman is apparently killed and gruesomely devoured by a swarm of nanobots; Flynne is uncertain whether this is real or part of a virtual game.__NEWL__The novel alternates between Flynne's experiences and those of Wilf Netherton, a publicist who lives in the early 22nd century, seventy years later than Flynne's time, and several decades after an apocalyptic period known as the Jackpot took place.__NEWL__As the book begins, Wilf is working with Daedra West, an American artist/celebrity/diplomat, on establishing relations with a group of deformed native humans known as "Patchers," on an enormous cultivated garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean.__NEWL__However, Daedra's reckless behavior triggers her personal security system, killing all the Patchers and their boss, Hamed al-Habib.__NEWL__Wilf is fired (he assumes; he doesn't check his mail) and goes to his friend Lev Zubov's house.__NEWL__Lev, the son of a powerful and wealthy Russian family that moved to Britain several generations ago, is a "continua enthusiast.__NEWL__" He has introduced Wilf to "stubs" which are alternate pasts whose futures begin to deviate from the ones that lead to his and Wilf's present at the moment contact is made from their present - a contact only possible in a data sense and only made possible by a mysterious quantum computer running in China.__NEWL__Milagros Coldiron is Zubov's front organization for accessing the stub in which Flynne and Burton live.__NEWL__Inhabitants of Flynne's time are able to access the early 22nd century of Zubov and Netherton via headsets built using a 3D printer and technological knowhow passed back to them from the 22nd century.__NEWL__These headsets allow the wearer's consciousness to inhabit and control a 'peripheral' a.k.a.__NEWL__an artificial physical human body in the 22nd century.__NEWL__Using this technology, Wilf had hired Burton Fisher from his stub to act as drone security for Daedra's sister, Aelita, as a novelty gift to her.__NEWL__When Aelita goes missing, Wilf realizes that the drones controlled by Flynne were the only witness of the event while all other recording devices were disabled.__NEWL__Returning from his trip, Burton tells Flynne that Milagros Coldiron wants to speak with her.__NEWL__Via a video call, she tells Wilf and the others about what she saw on the tower, but Wilf is reluctant to tell her that the murder was not part of a game.__NEWL__He does tell Flynne that an assassination contract has been put out on Burton, on their timeline, using the darknet.__NEWL__Burton responds by getting his military colleagues to set up a perimeter around their house.__NEWL__Shortly after, his friend Conner, a triple amputee who uses a motorized, road-capable wheelchair, kills four armed men in a car heading up the country road to their house, using a mentally-controlled gun rig.__NEWL__Milagros Coldiron begins using their advanced technology and foreknowledge to build financial and political power in the past.__NEWL__Wilf, Lev, and their allies in the further future are visited by Inspector Ainsley Lowbeer, investigating Aelita's disappearance.__NEWL__When they tell her what Flynne told them, she insists that Flynne be brought to the future via a peripheral (a cyborg avatar that users can connect to from another location) via the quantum server so that Flynne can identify the man who was present when Aelita died, to help solve the case.__NEWL__Lev and his assistants Ash and Ossian send back 3D printing instructions for a peripheral-controlling headset, which Flynne's computer-savvy friends Macon and Edward use to create a connectivity headband for her called "the crown".__NEWL__She connects to a peripheral that has been brought to Lev's house, where Wilf explains that this is really the future, albeit not one possible for her now that her timeline has been altered.__NEWL__Lowbeer notices that Daedra is holding a new party at her sister's apartment, and she gets Wilf to get himself and Flynne's peripheral invited, with Wilf pretending that the peripheral will be controlled by a woman who studies neoprimitive art and is a huge fan of Daedra's work.__NEWL__Deciding they might need extra muscle to confront Daedra, Wilf's group recruits Conner to manufacture another crown and control another peripheral, a bodyguard for Wilf at the party; Conner is ecstatic at being able to walk again while piloting a peripheral.__NEWL__Meanwhile, back in the 21st century, a second group of assassins is killed by Burton's military colleagues.__NEWL__Milagros Coldiron attempts to "buy" the state governor, who, like most officials of the time, is corrupt, to avoid a police investigation.__NEWL__Burton's group use Milagros Coldiron's money and connections to build a secure base and acquire military equipment.__NEWL__Flynne is kidnapped by one of Burton's colleagues under blackmail by a local drug baron named Corbell Pickett.__NEWL__Pickett explains that the people who killed Aelita are operating a corporate collective called Matryoshka with the goal of killing Flynne, and Pickett is negotiating a higher reward before executing her.__NEWL__She is rescued by Burton and Conner, who kill Pickett’s security guards and destroy his compound.__NEWL__Wilf's crew in the future make her, Burton, and their friends executives of Coldiron USA, which is now battling economically and politically against Matryoshka around the globe, and declares their base the corporate headquarters.__NEWL__Wilf reveals that the Jackpot begins in the middle of the 21st century as a combination of climate change and other causes, followed by a series of droughts, famines, pandemics, political chaos, and anarchy.__NEWL__80% of the global human population dies off.__NEWL__But as this is going on, scientists have created nanotech called Assemblers that begins to rebuild society, as well as finding other scientific and engineering breakthroughs.__NEWL__As a result, everything is very efficient and advanced in Wilf's future, but it has mostly empty cities and most natural animal species are extinct.__NEWL__Wilf, Flynne and Conner (the latter two in their peripherals) go to Daedra's party, which has become a celebration of Aelita's life.__NEWL__Flynne spots the man who killed Aelita, but he and Daedra kidnap them, revealing themselves to be behind the plot to kill Flynne.__NEWL__Conner's peripheral is destroyed while trying to kill the kidnappers.__NEWL__The man who was present when Aelita was killed is revealed to be Hamed al-Habib, who had been "killed" by Daedra as a peripheral that day on the garbage patch, and had undergone surgery to revert himself to a more normal human form long ago.__NEWL__Daedra and Hamed have conspired with a city official named Sir Henry, who holds the position of remembrancer, to exterminate the patchers and sell their resources to profit themselves.__NEWL__Aelita was killed for reasons not entirely clear, most likely because Hamed and Daedra feared she was going to sell them out.__NEWL__Conner (operating a robotic weapon designed in another stub under Lowbeer's influence) and Burton (operating a peripheral-like exoskeleton) break into the room where Flynne and Wilf are being held.__NEWL__Flynne and Burton fire special weapons that direct Assembler nanobots, and both Hamed and Sir Henry are eaten down to the bone by the machines; Daedra is temporarily detained but is released after interrogation.__NEWL__In Flynne's world Matryoshka becomes completely inoperative and Milagros Coldiron gains uncontested power.__NEWL__Years later, Flynne winds up married to the police officer she had long been interested in; her brother and their friends find love as well.__NEWL__Conner receives a set of bionic limbs constructed from plans sent from the future.__NEWL__Wilf finds love with his former coworker from Canada, with whom he moves in.__NEWL__He and Flynne still connect back and forth between timelines to see each other; Flynne meets weekly with Lowbeer (via peripheral) to discuss the changes to Flynne's world that are being made through the funding of Milagros Coldiron in an attempt to avert the Jackpot.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7641315	Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains	2001-04-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	37241818	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37241818	The story has three narrative voices: Theobald Moon, 34 and overweight, who on the death of his mother sold the house they shared in Clapham, South London and emigrated to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, his story begins with his arrival, settling in an isolated mobile-home and his wonder at his surroundings.__NEWL__Jo, Theo's daughter whom he calls Jelly-O; she loves her father and helps him in his business of making ice-cream, but as she grows up starts to ask questions about her mother.__NEWL__She finds a stack of shoe boxes in a cupboard which her father will not discuss.__NEWL__Eva Ligocká who works in a Bata shoe factory in Partizánske, Slovakia but then falls in love with Tibor, an itinerant Ice cream van man.__NEWL__Eventually they escape to the West.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5575703	God's Grace	1982-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	36987313	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36987313	The book is divided into six parts, The Flood, Cohn's Island, The Schooltree, The Virgin in the Trees, The Voice of the Prophet and God's Mercy.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5019811	Caliban's War	2012-06-07T00:00:00Z	37094879	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37094879	On Ganymede, Mei Meng is kidnapped from her preschool by her doctor.__NEWL__Several hours later, Earth and Martian space marines are attacked and effortlessly killed by a super soldier, with Bobbie Draper, a Martian marine, the only survivor.__NEWL__Earth and Mars begin a shooting war which throws Ganymede into chaos.__NEWL__In the aftermath, Mei's father Praxidike Meng fruitlessly searches for his daughter in the midst of the societal breakdown in the Ganymede colony.__NEWL__Several months later, the crew of the Rocinante are tasked with delivering emergency aid to Ganymede.__NEWL__Meng spots James Holden during a food riot and asks the crew to help find his daughter.__NEWL__They agree and are able to trace her kidnappers to unused tunnels on the moon.__NEWL__Holden, Meng, and ship mechanic Amos Burton discover a secret lab.__NEWL__In the midst of a shootout with lab security, they inadvertently release another super soldier who kills some of the lab personnel.__NEWL__In the wake of the battle, the crew find remnants of the protomolecule and the corpse of Mei's friend, who was being treated by Mei's doctor for immunodeficiency.__NEWL__The crew rush to escape the station as more chaos erupts around them, and are able to make it back aboard the Rocinante.__NEWL__Draper is brought to the peace talks between Earth and Mars occurring on Earth, giving testimony regarding the super soldier attack on Ganymede.__NEWL__She violates diplomatic protocol and is dismissed by the Martian delegation, but is then hired by Chrisjen Avasarala, who is leading the UN negotiations.__NEWL__Draper discovers that Avasarala's assistant is betraying her, leading Avasarala to conclude that her UN superiors are trying to get rid of her, from which she deduces that a group within the UN is responsible for the super soldier attack.__NEWL__Avasarala allows Draper to be brought along as her bodyguard on a slow-moving yacht headed to Ganymede on an ostensible relief mission.__NEWL__On their way to Tycho station, the Rocinante crew discovers a super soldier stowed away in their cargo hold.__NEWL__They are able to lure out the creature using radioactive bait before vaporizing it with the ship's exhaust.__NEWL__The Rocinante is damaged during the encounter, but the crew learn more about the super soldiers.__NEWL__Holden confronts Fred Johnson, who he believes controls the only other sample of the protomolecule.__NEWL__Johnson denies involvement with the Ganymede incident and fires Holden's crew.__NEWL__They help Meng release a video asking for help searching for Mei, raising enough money to continue the search.__NEWL__Upon receiving information about Mei's doctor, Meng deduces that the super soldiers are being created on a base on Io.__NEWL__With the Rocinante repaired, they set out to recover Mei.__NEWL__On board the yacht, Avasarala sees Meng's video appeal and learns that a UN detachment is heading to intercept the Rocinante.__NEWL__The crew of the yacht prevent her from warning Holden, claiming that their communication systems are broken.__NEWL__When they refuse her demands to get the yacht repaired, Avasarala has Draper take control of the vessel.__NEWL__Avasarala sends a warning to Holden, and she and Draper board a racing pinnace to rendezvous with the Rocinante.__NEWL__After meeting Holden's crew, Avasarala and Draper share notes of the super soldiers.__NEWL__Realizing that they are several days away from being destroyed by the UN detachment, Avasarala convinces the crew to let her send this information to her contacts within the UN to prevent an all-out war.__NEWL__Draper and Avasarala convince the Martian fleet to help protect the Rocinante.__NEWL__This culminates in a space battle between the UN detachment, the Martian forces, and a second UN fleet loyal to Avasarala.__NEWL__With the UN Secretary General recalling the admiral hostile to the Rocinante, the battle ends in victory for the Martians and Avasarala's faction.__NEWL__The crew lands on Io, where Amos and Meng rescue Mei along with other immunodeficient children.__NEWL__Draper kills a super soldier using knowledge about its capabilities.__NEWL__The crew heads back to Luna, where the people responsible for the super soldier project are brought to justice.__NEWL__Avasarala is promoted, Meng is hired to oversee efforts to restore Ganymede, Draper returns to Mars, and the Rocinante takes a contract escorting a supply ship.__NEWL__Throughout the story, the solar system had been watching changes on Venus, which culminate with the launch of something unknown as the book ends.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17000766	Abaddon's Gate	2013-06-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37094911	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37094911	James Holden and his crew on the salvaged Martian warship Rocinante played a role in two major events in human history: saving the Earth from the first direct proof of alien technology discovered in our Solar System, and saving as many people as they could when a new form of the technology appeared on Jupiter's moon Ganymede.__NEWL__As part of the first incident, the alien technology crashed on Venus, where it churned for months doing something unknown while the solar system watched.__NEWL__When complete, the semi-intelligent collection of chemicals flew away from Venus and built a wormhole gate, called "The Ring", beyond the orbit of Uranus. "__NEWL__The Ring" acted as a gateway to an unknown number of other worlds.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7757648	The Polish Officer	1995-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q90	Paris	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37096342	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37096342	In September 1939, as Warsaw falls to the Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited to Poland's newly formed underground army, the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (ZWZ), or the Union of Armed Struggle.__NEWL__His first mission is to smuggle the national gold reserves out of the country by means of a refugee train to Bucharest.__NEWL__Under a series of aliases, De Milja undertakes various missions to sabotage German operations.__NEWL__These see him collude with fellow saboteurs in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, working with the underground in the tenements of Warsaw, assisting the British attack on German naval targets in the harbor of Calais, and teaming with partisan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7741090	The Hunters	2012-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	37180656	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37180656	Hal, the captain of the Heron, follows Zavac with the help of Rikard, a pirate who'd been betrayed by Zavac.__NEWL__However, Ingvar, a big, wise, but poor-sighted boy, contracts a fever from the arrow wound he received during the battle for Limmat.__NEWL__The Herons wait ashore, and Rikard escapes, but Lydia and Thorn quickly track him down and capture him once again.__NEWL__When Ingvar's fever breaks, the Herons continue on their chase after Zavac.__NEWL__They follow him to a town where they find evidence of Zavac, but he has already left.__NEWL__The Herons let Rikard go, but one of Zavac's men kill him for treachery.__NEWL__The Herons are accused of murdering Rikard, but they are cleared and they continue.__NEWL__However, Zavac learns of the Herons following him and he pays the Gatmeister of a nearby city to detain the Herons indefinitely.__NEWL__The Herons escape with the help of Lydia.__NEWL__They burn the Gatmeister's private yacht in revenge for beating up Hal when Hal wouldn't tell the Gatmeister where their cash chest was.__NEWL__They continue on to the pirate fortress Raguza, where the Seahawk stops them, but with the help of the Seahawk they enter Raguza under the guise of a pirate.__NEWL__Zavac learns of their presence, but the Herons talk to the Kopaljo first, and the Kopaljo takes the emeralds from Zavac that he stole from Limmat.__NEWL__He then banishes Zavac from Raguza.__NEWL__However, Hal challenges Zavac in a battle of ships.__NEWL__Hal cripples the ship with the Mangler, but it collapses on him.__NEWL__Ingvar frees him, and Hal goes on board__NEWL__The Raven, Zavac's ship, to recover the Andomal, Skandia's greatest treasure.__NEWL__Zavac nearly kills Hal, but Thorn saves Hal, and pins Zavac to the sinking Raven, and the Herons return to Skandia, where they are celebrated as heroes for retrieving the Andomal.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7738590	The H-Bomb Girl	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24826	Liverpool	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	37261436	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37261436	Set in October 1962, in Liverpool, actually in and around the authors own school, with the Cuban Missile Crisis looming, it concerns 14-year-old Laura Mann, who has been entrusted with a strange key and code number to memorize by her father, an RAF officer at Strike Command in High Wycombe.__NEWL__The key turns out to be for a nuclear armed Vulcan bomber and it becomes the target of time travellers from 2007, from alternate versions of Laura's own future, all seeking to change the course of history.__NEWL__The vibrant popular culture of 1960s Liverpool features prominently in the novel, the climax takes place during a Beatles concert at The Cavern Club with Cilla Black as cloakroom attendant.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5216006	Danger Key	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37258154	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37258154	The novel is set in March 1966.__NEWL__A CIA agent who monitors Cuban refugees in Florida has been killed in a hit and run accident.__NEWL__The agent had been following up the disappearance of an elderly Cuban refugee who had recently resettled in Florida and the murder of his family.__NEWL__The CIA investigations revealed that the elderly refugee is really Mr. Judas – an international terrorist and master spy.__NEWL__Carter is assigned to impersonate Ralph Benson – a bumbling CIA agent whose poor judgment led to the death of the CIA agent – in an attempt to flush out the assassins.__NEWL__Carter heads to the Florida Keys and visits a bar frequented by Benson and meets a woman who introduces herself as Ingra Brand – who matches eyewitness accounts of the person responsible for the hit and run death.__NEWL__Carter and Ingra Brand are followed by the local sheriff and his deputy.__NEWL__Carter is beaten and arrested.__NEWL__He is drugged and reveals his Benson cover but manages to escape.__NEWL__Benson's apartment is subsequently ransacked and the real Benson shot dead.__NEWL__Carter discovers that while he was drugged the sheriff and his deputy injected him with X-L Fluid – a substance that enhances the detection of alpha particles from radioactive sources – allowing suspects to be tracked without their knowledge.__NEWL__Carter is followed and attacked in Benson's apartment by the deputy who commits suicide rather than be interrogated.__NEWL__Recovering in hospital from the effects of the X-L Fluid, Carter teams up with Julia Baron (who assisted him in Run, Spy, Run; The China Doll; and Fraulein Spy).__NEWL__Hawk orders Carter and Baron to investigate a high-security NASA facility at Cape Sable, Florida – where Ingra Brand has recently worked on a secret missile system codenamed Project PHO.__NEWL__While Julia Baron investigates Ingra Brand's background at Cape Sable, Carter visits Ingra's father, Gunther Brand, in Senior City – an elderly persons' residential community on No Name Key, Florida.__NEWL__To gain access, Carter impersonates one of Brand's former colleagues but is rebuffed by Brand's personal physician – Dr Karl Orff – who insists Brand is virtually senile after suffering a series of strokes.__NEWL__Carter suspects that Brand is in fact quite well and being held against his will.__NEWL__As he departs, Carter is followed by a number of suspicious characters and only escapes after he kills five of them in a chase across the tiny island.__NEWL__Disguised as millionaire sports fisherman, Neill Crawford, Carter picks up Ingra Brand in a bar, administers an AXE truth drug, and interrogates her about the hit-and-run death of the CIA agent.__NEWL__She reveals that she had arranged to meet the CIA agent to seek his help concerning her father's health but was not present at the time of the agent's death – contradicting eyewitness statements.__NEWL__Carter believes Ingra was drugged by Dr Orff before she could meet the CIA agent and that a look-alike imposter killed the CIA agent in the hit-and-run.__NEWL__Ingra reveals that Orff had encouraged her to come to the bar tonight to see if she could flush out the agent responsible for the deaths at Senior City.__NEWL__Carter realizes he and Ingra have been set up and they narrowly escape being killed by a RDX shaped charge explosive concealed in Ingra's oversized handbag.__NEWL__Carter immediately tries to contact Gunther Brand and returns to Senior City on No Name Key.__NEWL__Gunther Brand is not at home.__NEWL__Instead Carter is attacked by an imposter posing as Brand and another henchman.__NEWL__Carter kills them both and searches the house.__NEWL__He finds documents linking Gunther Brand to Nazi scientists.__NEWL__Carter receives a message from AXE headquarters – Ingra Brand has just returned to the Cape Sable facility – meaning that the person accompanying Carter is also an imposter.__NEWL__Carter discovers that the imposter and the person working at Cape Sable are the twin daughters of Prof Lautenbach – a Nazi scientist recruited by Judas / CLAW and killed by Carter in a previous mission two years earlier (described in Fraulein Spy).__NEWL__Separated aged 3 at the end of World War II and raised separately, Ilse Lautenbach works for CLAW while Ingra Lautenbach was adopted by Prof Brand and works for NASA.__NEWL__Carter sets out to investigate the supposed Aquacity underwater construction project being built near Peligro (Spanish for 'danger')__NEWL__Key by Texan millionaire AK Atchinson.__NEWL__He discovers millions of dollars' worth of underwater submersibles and equipment but no sign of any construction project.__NEWL__Investigating further, Carter discovers an almost deserted mansion where AK Atchinson lives as a reclusive drugged zombie whose business empire has been taken over by Ilse Lautenbach and Judas to support their clandestine underwater construction project.__NEWL__Judas is actually overseeing construction of a massive 26-mile-long underwater tunnel from Peligro Key to Cape Sable where he intends to steal the computerized missile guidance system and destroy the base to prevent discovery of the theft.__NEWL__At Cape Sable, Julia Baron attempts to stop Ilse Lautenbach and CLAW henchmen from removing the missile guidance system.__NEWL__She is captured and brought back to Judas' underground command center beneath Atchinson's mansion on Peligro Key.__NEWL__Carter is trapped along with 100 American underwater construction workers tricked into working on the immense underwater tunnel.__NEWL__However, they succeed in breaking out and intercept the missile guidance system before it is loaded onto a waiting submarine.__NEWL__Carter is forced to return to Peligro Key when he discovers that Judas has captured Julia and she is about to be operated on alive by Dr Orff – a former Nazi doctor.__NEWL__Prof Brand foils Judas' attempt to leave Peligro Key with the missile component as Carter kills Ilse Lautenbach with Pierre the poison gas bomb.__NEWL__Carter kills Orff by slitting his throat.__NEWL__The underground command center explodes when Brand trips the self-destruct button – apparently killing Judas in the process.__NEWL__Carter and Julie escape and recuperate in Miami.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2499707	The Man from Mars	1946-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36	Poland	37188873	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37188873	An American reporter is accidentally forced to join a secret team of scientists who got hold of a crashed spaceship from Mars with a creature they dubbed "areanthrop" (Greek: Ares=Mars + anthropos=man) in it.__NEWL__The areanthrop seems to be a kind of cyborg: a sentient protoplasm which in the course of natural evolution built itself a "robotic suit", rather than developing a biological body.__NEWL__Scientists poke, prod and pry it with all means possible in attempts to study it.__NEWL__Eventually the areanthrop gives them a telepathic trip to Mars and seizes control over a member of the team, and after that it is completely destroyed.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7746113	The Last Threshold	2013-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37256319	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37256319	Now that Charon's Claw is destroyed, Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions—not only Dahlia Sin'felle and Artemis Entreri, but also the former Shadovar Ambergris and Afafrenfere rest in Neverwinter while they decide their next course.__NEWL__Drizzt is resolved to find Guenhwyvar, who has somehow been trapped in the Shadowfell and can no longer be summoned, but when he attempts to summon her some time later, he is successful.__NEWL__He devises a plan to take his companions, particularly Entreri, to rebuild Port Llast in order to show them there is something worthwhile and honorable to do with their skills.__NEWL__While seeking the help of Arunika, Drizzt and Dahlia find evidence of a vampire, which turns out to be Thibbledorf Pwent, Bruenor Battlehammer's loyal shield dwarf who had tragically been turned into a vampire by Dor'crae.__NEWL__Pwent resolves to remain in the sunlight and be destroyed; Drizzt and Dahlia leave him to go in peace and honor.__NEWL__The group heads north.__NEWL__In the Shadowfell, Effron is desperate to get back at his mother, Dahlia.__NEWL__He plans to steal Guenhwyvar in order to blackmail Drizzt into leaving Dahlia's side, but the panther is already gone and Lord Draygo Quick discovers his plan.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Jarlaxle and Athrogate are alive and well and working for Bregan D'aerthe.__NEWL__They find out that Tiago Baenre is seeking Drizzt Do'Urden, who now apparently travels with Artemis Entreri, whom Jarlaxle had both befriended and betrayed.__NEWL__Jarlaxle and Athrograte travel on Bregan D'aerthe business to the Shade Enclave.__NEWL__Drizzt's group travel to Port Llast so that Entreri can retrieve his dagger and Drizzt can enact his plan.__NEWL__They help rebuild Port Llast.__NEWL__Drizzt notices that Guenhwyvar does not seem to be getting enough rest.__NEWL__That is because Draygo Quick has in fact bound her to the Shadowfell, so she is unable to return home to the Astral Plane when unsummoned.__NEWL__At some point, Effron appears in order to capture Dahlia, but his heart is softened and he ends up joining Drizzt's group instead.__NEWL__Effron tells them about Guenhwyvar.__NEWL__Drizzt's group go to Draygo Quick's home to retrieve Guenhwyvar.__NEWL__In the process, Dahlia and Entreri are petrified, Drizzt and Effron are captured, and only Ambergris escapes.__NEWL__Drizzt remains a guest/prisoner of Quick for as long as a year before Jarlaxle, having learned of his whereabouts from Ambergris, mounts an assault by Bregan D'aerthe on Quick's residence.__NEWL__Drizzt and his companions are freed and unpetrified.__NEWL__They set forth for Icewind Dale, determined to wait out Tiago's search.__NEWL__In Icewind Dale, the group inadvertently wander into a portion of Iruladoon, spending a night there that lasts eighteen years.__NEWL__When they awake, it is 1484 DR__NEWL__and it seems the world has forgotten them.__NEWL__Drizzt resolves to stay in Icewind Dale and Dahlia, upset with him, attacks him.__NEWL__Entreri pulls Dahlia away, but not before Drizzt appears to succumb to his wounds on top of Kelvin's Cairn, hearing the voices of his long-dead friends beside him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6748000	Mandeville	37256694	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37256694	Orphaned at a young age due to his family's involvement in the English colonization of Ireland, Charles Mandeville is brought up in England by his reclusive uncle Audley Mandeville.__NEWL__His sister, Henrietta, is brought up by family friends.__NEWL__Charles attends Winchester school, where he is falsely accused of possessing a subversive print of Charles I and becomes jealous of the most popular boy, Lionel Clifford.__NEWL__He later discovers that an unprincipled boy named Mallison was responsible.__NEWL__The stain on Charles's reputation stays with him through his time at Oxford University, and is compounded by a misunderstanding about his involvement in a failed royalist plot.__NEWL__It was assumed that he was a coward for not taking part, but the role he was promised was unexpectedly given to Clifford.__NEWL__Charles becomes insane and is taken to a lunatic asylum in Cowley and then nursed back to health by Henrietta.__NEWL__Lord Montagu attempts a reconciliation between Charles and Clifford, but this fails.__NEWL__Mallison and his uncle, Holloway, become involved in managing Audley's Mandeville's estate.__NEWL__When Audley dies, Charles keeps them on, even though he knows that they are corrupt.__NEWL__Clifford converts to Catholicism while exile in Belgium, making Charles dislike him even more.__NEWL__Clifford and Henrietta fall in love while at Lord Montagu's house.__NEWL__On what he thinks is the eve of their marriage, Charles attempts to kidnap Henrietta, but the marriage has already taken place and he is wounded in the face by Clifford.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16249706	Maiden of Pain	2005-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37140863	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37140863	Maiden of Pain tells the tale of a priestess of Loviatar.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4898433	Better Angel	1933-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37152575	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37152575	The novel is a Bildungsroman recounting the passage of Kurt Gray—his surname plays on the author's Brown—from his adolescent years in central Michigan to mature adult and his development as a musician and composer.__NEWL__Kurt's teenage years are marked by "solitude, bookish seriousness, gender dislocation, and religion", a dislike of sports, and an interest in amateur theatricals.__NEWL__He memorizes Bible stories and experiences a Christian awakening that transforms into a spiritual devotion to poetry and music.__NEWL__At the University of Michigan, he has his first same-sex experiences and discovers the poetry of Swinburne, "a revelation".__NEWL__After graduating he explores the psychological literature of Jung, Freud, and Ellis, then Edward Carpenter, Plato's Phaedrus and Symposium (Plato), and Oscar Wilde.__NEWL__Kurt identifies a contrast between American religiosity and an alternative offered by the Europeans he reads, which he identifies as spiritual, even preferring the French spirituel: "The English never had created so exact a word for it.__NEWL__" The novel describes the love affair between Kurt and another man Derry, and their relationship with a third man, Tony.__NEWL__Brown later said that it was in the main autobiographical, that he based Kurt on himself, Tony on actor Alexander Kirkland, and Derry on Harry Burnett.__NEWL__Brown and Burnett were lovers for 60 years, beginning in 1926.__NEWL__All three of them worked together in the Yale Puppeteers on tour and then in their base at the Turnabout Theatre in Los Angeles.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17026020	A Smuggler's Bible	1966-01-01T00:00:00Z	37154230	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37154230	The novel consists of a frame story (summarized here indented), intercut with eight chapters that are the eight manuscripts mentioned in the frame story.__NEWL__the principal parts of david brooke The frame story is told from what seems to be a split-personality part of a consciousness, although it may simply be an extended metaphor for the mind of an author, keeping distinct his personal life and creative mental life: He doesn't know what I am, but he knows I'm in him and behind him.__NEWL__His name is David Brooke...__NEWL__[H]e senses that I—I—am his propulsion...__NEWL__I inhabit him.__NEWL__David is on a cruise ship heading to London.__NEWL__He has eight manuscripts, his memories, and they need to be made into one.__NEWL__An older Englishman approaches David, talks about smuggling, how it used to be a fine art, but now the current generation are mere amateurs.__NEWL__He gives David his card.__NEWL__David returns to the stateroom, and begins editing the first manuscript.__NEWL__He then rereads the manuscript, at which point the frame story stops and the text becomes that of the first manuscript.__NEWL__Forty-two-year-old Peter St. John runs an antiquarian bookstore in Brooklyn Heights.__NEWL__His father Hugh lives in London, his wife Sally and daughter Joan are staying in Maine for the summer.__NEWL__His friend David Brooke, aged 28, living in his parents' house, sometimes hangs around the store.__NEWL__He sometimes steals books, with St. John's knowledge.__NEWL__Walter Roy, a boy, has been stalking St. John from a distance.__NEWL__After a few times, St. John confronts Walt, and learns that, from a distance, Walt had thought St. John resembled Walt's father, William, who had been a 41-year-old stockbroker when he died the previous April.__NEWL__St. John ends up wanting to be fatherly to Walt, and give him a gift of an atlas, but Walt rebels against the idea and the gift.__NEWL__the blue address book The frame story resumes with David thinking about his earlier belief in solipsism from reading half an essay in the St. John store.__NEWL__But a week later, thinking about his mother's blue address book, and how it contained so many names he did not know, he concluded that such a thing was beyond him.__NEWL__Unable to find the rest of the essay, he continued to think about the issue, and this motivated him to write the eight manuscripts: "After The Shadow David had to project himself into a community.__NEWL__" David's thoughts expand to include Lamont Cranston, The Shadow, with the power to cloud men's minds.__NEWL__While David's wife Ellen plays chess with the man interested in smuggling, David edits his second manuscript.__NEWL__This manuscript consists of first person accounts by Mary Clovis, James Judah Lafayette, Abby Love, and Alonzo Morganstern, all residents on the same floor of the Kodak Hotel, now a boarding house.__NEWL__They share the floor with David Brooke, and one Luke Pennitt.__NEWL__There is also an account from Terri, the maid.__NEWL__Theodore Selbstein is their landlord.__NEWL__From Mrs. Clovis we learn that Pennitt has a coin collection, is very secretive, and does not want maid service, that Morganstern is a Communist, that Pennitt and Morganstern constantly argue, that Brooke has gone from quiet to noisy under Morganstern's influence, and that Pennitt is behind in his rent.__NEWL__Lafayette (originally Lamentoff) overhears Brooke talking with some girl.__NEWL__She's interested in him, but he's worried about Pennitt and his coins.__NEWL__She's also behind in her rent, and Brooke is willing to pay it.__NEWL__Terri would like to marry one Franklin Benjamin, who, it turns out, knows Brooke and questions Terri about him.__NEWL__Selbstein has her check Pennitt's room for anything interesting.__NEWL__Eventually she finds an odd machine in his closet, with screw-rods and other things she can't figure out, but her description satisfies Selbstein's curiosity.__NEWL__The girl with Brooke turns out to be Abby Love.__NEWL__She describes in great detail Brooke's conversations with Pennitt on coins.__NEWL__She has a big fight with Brooke, writes him an IOU for back rent, and leaves him for at least a day.__NEWL__Morganstern lies to Brooke about being a former pro boxer.__NEWL__He admits to having to move around a lot.__NEWL__Selbstein tells him that Pennitt is being evicted for nonpayment and that Love has never missed a rent check.__NEWL__That chapter ends with a section of pure dialogue, as Selbstein is evicting Pennitt.__NEWL__It turns out that Pennitt's coin collection was manufactured by Pennitt using the odd machine in his closet.__NEWL__blind john jones and the ice-cream sculpture After the narrator mocks David, David returns to his third manuscript, which we learn is about his sister Ann's baby sent home from England.__NEWL__The narrator talks on about John Jones, the blind man of the Heights who sometimes entertained young David with a ventriloquism act.__NEWL__David overhears the smuggler-man outside his stateroom asking a steward to leave a note for David.__NEWL__David reviews the history of Eloy Mestrelle who introduced coining by mill and screw.__NEWL__He gets the note, which is an invitation for further conversation about smuggling, offering to show David a "true collector's item.__NEWL__" David's mother Julia, 60, is reading a cablegram telling of the time of arrival that afternoon of her seven-week-old granddaughter Julie at Idlewild, giving time but not the flight, while her daughter Ann and son-in-law Dan stay in London sightseeing, headed to Israel.__NEWL__Her husband, Halsey, 65, is in Chicago, and will be taking a train back to New York.__NEWL__David himself, now 31, is in New Hampshire, having moved there eighteen months previously.__NEWL__That night Julia gives a dinner, with guests Bobby Prynne, a friend of David, headed for a divorce and sweet on Julia in a way she finds creepy, friends Quincey and Sarah Fearon, and after they leave, her distant younger cousin Josie Wrenn shows up.__NEWL__The next morning, Julia meets Halsey at Penn Station, much to his surprise.__NEWL__reflex therapy, or what bruder didn't say The narrator David gives David a dream, where David is split into David A, who experiences the dream, and David B, who interprets the dream.__NEWL__Halsey is also in the dream.__NEWL__The main action is forced to occur eight times.__NEWL__The last time is going poorly, so the narrator wakes David up.__NEWL__There follows an interview/session of David with Dr. Bruder from some unspecified time and place.__NEWL__Back on ship, David overhears the smuggler and the scientist talk outside his stateroom, mentioning him.__NEWL__David gets back to working on manuscript four concerning the Amerchromes, pondering Dr. Bruder's advice.__NEWL__David handles the seven-level screwdriver, to the narrator's objection, that David had stolen from Michael Amerchrome.__NEWL__Upon hearing Ellen show up, David pockets the screwdriver.__NEWL__Michael Amerchrome narrates in first person about himself, his "famous historian" father Duke, 54, and his stepmother, Mary, 35, Duke's third wife.__NEWL__Michael presumes the second wife was his mother, of whom he has no memories.__NEWL__Duke's past includes an eclectic list of job titles, but Michael admits he knows nothing beyond the titles.__NEWL__As an example, he mentions Duke's work acting in and directing a documentary, but which Duke does not let Michael see.__NEWL__The family frequently moves.__NEWL__Duke is currently in his second year as a professor at a young New Hampshire university.__NEWL__suicide in a camel's hair coat the canal street hypnotist the black box integration and the man upstairs
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7206189	Pobby and Dingan	2000-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	37016138	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37016138	Set in the opal mining community of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales it tells of the eponymous Pobby and Dingan, imaginary friends of Kellyanne Williamson, sister of Ashmol and daughter of an opal miner.__NEWL__One day Pobby and Dingan 'disappear' leaving Kellyanne bereft.__NEWL__At first Ashmol tells Kellyanne to just snap out of it but as her condition deteriorates and she stops eating, Ashmol resolves to find her lost friends...
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7797192	Threat Vector	2012-12-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	37065627	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37065627	Chinese leader Wei Zhen Lin has been dealing with mounting political opposition over his country's economic recession.__NEWL__He tries to commit suicide in order to avoid his inevitable arrest when he is prevented by General Su Ke Qiang, the leader of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).__NEWL__Aware that his life now depends on the hawkish military leader, Wei resolves to recoup his country's economic losses by retaking disputed territories in the South China Sea by military force, as well as Hong Kong, Macau, and finally Taiwan.__NEWL__ Expecting the United States to react to China's actions militarily, Su secretly orders cyberattacks on the country’s military infrastructure through sub rosa cyber espionage and cyber warfare militia Ghost Ship and its head, Dr. Tong Kwok Kwan.__NEWL__The Chinese Navy then aggressively harasses and sinks ships passing through the South China Sea, including an Indian aircraft carrier (sent there by India to protect its own interests).__NEWL__U.S. President Jack Ryan tries to resolve the conflict by covertly sending in a contingent of Marine fighter pilots in order to reinforce the Taiwanese Air Force.__NEWL__However, Su discovers this and further sanctions more cyber attacks on the U.S.__NEWL__Meanwhile, The Campus deals with a breach in their organization when a hit job on a cell of former Libyan intelligence officers in Istanbul attracts the attention of a mysterious hacker codenamed Center, who is later revealed to be Dr. Tong.__NEWL__They later find out about one of his associates, Zha Shu Hai (codenamed FastByte22), who is a fugitive from the United States and is pursued by CIA non-official cover operative Adam Yao in Hong Kong.__NEWL__While a SEAL Team Six unit sent by the Department of Defense captures Zha first after a crossfire with his 14K Triad bodyguards, Campus operatives Jack Ryan Jr. and Domingo Chavez, as well as I.T. head Gavin Biery, manage to gather intelligence from his hand-held computer, locating one of Center's command servers in Miami.__NEWL__Ryan and fellow Campus operative Dominic Caruso try to go there against orders from operations head Sam Granger, only to be nearly killed by Russian mobsters sent by Center.__NEWL__After dispatching their would-be attackers and hastily escaping from Miami, the cousins are suspended from their duties.__NEWL__Upon hearing news about Zha, Center relocates the Ghost Ship headquarters to Guangzhou.__NEWL__He later orders his hit squad, composed of a few Chinese special operations forces, to assassinate FastByte22 in a CIA safehouse in Georgetown in order to silence him.__NEWL__Center then arranges for Yao to be killed by a car bomb; however, the CIA officer survives the blast and goes off the grid, investigating Center on his own.__NEWL__Ryan later realizes that his girlfriend and CIA analyst Melanie Kraft had bugged his phone with a remote access trojan, explaining how Center knew of his whereabouts.__NEWL__Kraft had been blackmailed into spying on her boyfriend on behalf of corrupt FBI special agent Darren Lipton under orders from Center.__NEWL__While tailing Kraft on her way to work, Ryan witnesses and later intervenes on an attempt by Center's hit squad to assassinate her.__NEWL__After calling in retired Campus operative John Clark to take care of Kraft, he leaves for Hong Kong to find Yao.__NEWL__Center orders his hit squad to attack The Campus's headquarters in order to erase all their intelligence on Ghost Ship, killing Granger in the process.__NEWL__Clark and Kraft later intervene in the attack, killing all but two of the operatives.__NEWL__They also capture ex-SVR officer Valentin Kovalenko, who was unwittingly working for Center at the time.__NEWL__ In China, Ryan tracks down Yao, who had discovered the location of the Ghost Ship headquarters in Guangzhou.__NEWL__After he informs his father, the building is later destroyed in a coordinated airstrike by American fighter jets, killing Center and his colleagues.__NEWL__The two then flee to Hong Kong and rescue a Marine pilot who was shot down during the strike.__NEWL__Meanwhile, realizing that Su has been manipulating him for his own gain, Wei intentionally leaks his whereabouts during a phone call with President Ryan, who interprets it as an implicit plea to assassinate the military leader and passes this information to The Campus.__NEWL__Clark then travels to China and joins Chavez, Caruso, and Sam Driscoll, who were sent earlier by director of national intelligence Mary Pat Foley to liaise with an underground faction of Chinese dissidents.__NEWL__Together and with assistance from Russian foreign intelligence, they manage to ambush and assassinate Chairman Su in his motorcade with few casualties.__NEWL__Afterwards they plant Center's two surviving operatives there as scapegoats.__NEWL__President Ryan addresses the nation and threatens China with blockading the Strait of Malacca, crippling their economy by starving them of their oil supplies unless they cease military activity around the South China Sea.__NEWL__Once again cornered, Wei tries to commit suicide for a second time but ends up choking on his own blood.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Ryan and Kraft decide to break up due to their trust issues.__NEWL__The latter decides to resign from the CIA due to lying to the polygraph about her father being an unwitting asset for Egyptian intelligence.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4752859	Ancient History	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z	37033073	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37033073	The setting is one evening, circa 1970.__NEWL__Cy had intended to talk to the famous social scientist/writer/activist Dom (or Don, Cy isn't sure) who lives in the same Manhattan building as Cy.__NEWL__But upon arriving on Dom's floor of the building, he finds the police are removing Dom's body, reportedly a suicide.__NEWL__Cy enters the apartment, locks the door but leaves the chain off, and proceeds to commit in writing, with Dom's own paper and pen, all the things Cy had intended to say to Dom, and then some.__NEWL__The resulting manuscript is the sole content of the novel.__NEWL__Cy tells the rambling story of his own life, his friendships since childhood with Al (on vacations in the country) and with Bob (his neighbor in Brooklyn Heights), his marriage to Ev and their daughter Emma, her ex-husband Doug, later a suicide which Cy feels partly responsible for, his stepson Ted.__NEWL__He makes a major issue of the fact that Al and Bob have never met by his own connivance, but are about to.__NEWL__He confesses to stealing Dom's mail.__NEWL__He also writes a great deal about Dom's life and theories, and expresses concern that Dom's suicide might be Cy's fault.__NEWL__Halfway through, the narrative breaks off mid-sentence.__NEWL__As we learn in the resumption of Cy's writing, Dom's son-in-law and a police officer entered the apartment and looked around.__NEWL__Cy was hidden behind a curtain, but he had left the just-written manuscript on Dom's desk.__NEWL__The officer wasn't sure if he should treat the apartment as a crime scene: he was suspicious of the son-in-law's removal of Cy's manuscript, but let it go.__NEWL__When the two leave, Cy sees that his writing was taken.__NEWL__Cy then resumes his writing, even more frantic.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7960897	Wake	2008-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16	Canada	33409691	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33409691	Wake is set in 2012.__NEWL__Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Decter has been blind from birth.__NEWL__The Decter family recently moved from Austin, Texas to Waterloo, Ontario after Caitlin's father, Malcolm, received a job at the Perimeter Institute.__NEWL__Caitlin is emailed by Dr. Masayuki Kuroda, a scientist specializing in "signal processing related to V1."__NEWL__He believes that her blindness is caused by her retinas miscoding the visual information and offers to install a signal processor behind her left eye to unscramble the data.__NEWL__The device sends the data to a miniature computer, or "eyePod", which reprocesses the signals and returns them.__NEWL__The correct data is sent to her optic nerve, theoretically granting her sight.__NEWL__In duplex mode it sends and receives the signals, and in simplex mode it only sends them.__NEWL__Caitlin and her mother, Barbara, fly to Tokyo for the procedure.__NEWL__Although her pupils now react to light, Caitlin still cannot see.__NEWL__They return to Canada while Dr. Kuroda works on updating the software.__NEWL__A bird-flu epidemic with a mortality rate of at least 90% has begun in China.__NEWL__Dr. Quan Li, a senior member of the Communist Party, recommends the President order a culling of ten to eleven thousand people in the infected area with an airborne chemical.__NEWL__The President agrees and launches the Changcheng Strategy, cutting off all telephone, satellite, and wireless communication with the rest of the world, so that word of the culling does not spread beyond China's borders.__NEWL__Wong Wai-Jeng, a freedom blogger who is known online as Sinanthropus, attempts to circumvent Internet censorship in China along with many other hackers.__NEWL__Collectively they learn about the bird flu outbreak.__NEWL__Many days after enacting the Changcheng Strategy, Zhang Bo, the Minister of Communications, convinces the President to restore communications.__NEWL__The moment they are back up, Sinanthropus posts a blog, informing the world of the bird flu outbreak and the culling.__NEWL__He is tracked down by the police and, while attempting to flee, breaks his leg and is captured.__NEWL__The first software update Kuroda attempts is a partial success.__NEWL__Although Caitlin can still not see the outside world, it enables her to visualize the World Wide Web while the update downloads when the eyePod is in duplex mode.__NEWL__Dr. Kuroda speculates that the data being transmitted between the eyePod and his server in Tokyo is being interpreted by her optic nerve, allowing her to see this.__NEWL__He decides to travel to Waterloo to work with Caitlin on the implant more directly.__NEWL__In the interim, he suggests sending the retinal feed from her eyePod to his Tokyo server through Jagster, a fictional search engine, so that he can monitor how she reacts to different inputs.__NEWL__He dubs her ability to visualize the internet "websight".__NEWL__Caitlin notes that, along with websites and links, she can visualize a background in websight that looks like a chess board.__NEWL__Dr. Kuroda speculates that the background is made up of cellular automata, which Caitlin suggests is caused by corrupted packet loss.__NEWL__Several Zipf plots are run of the cellular automata, which has a negative one slope.__NEWL__The Decters, Dr. Kuroda, and Anna Bloom, a network cartographer, realize that means the cellular automata contain intelligent content, which Anna suggests is secret communications from the National Security Agency.__NEWL__They decide to keep investigating the cellular automata discreetly.__NEWL__In San Diego, California, Shoshana Glick, an ape-language researcher and graduate student, works at the Marcuse Institute, a primate research centre.__NEWL__Hobo, a chimpanzee-bonobo hybrid, communicates by sign language.__NEWL__Doctor Harl Marcuse, the owner of the Institute, sets up a connection with the Miami Zoo.__NEWL__Hobo communicates with an orangutan named Virgil in the first interspecies webcam call.__NEWL__The Marcuse Institute and Miami Zoo agree to announce the chat jointly, but the Miami Zoo leaks word of it to New Scientist, who go to the Georgia Zoo – Hobo's birthplace – for information on him.__NEWL__Georgia Zoo, fearing about the contamination between the captive chimpanzee and bonobo bloodlines, demand Hobo be returned to them so that he can be sterilized.__NEWL__Hobo paints a portrait of Shoshana, surprising everyone at the Institute as it had been believed that chimpanzees could only paint abstractly.__NEWL__Dr. Marcuse theorizes that the communication with Virgil had shown Hobo "how three-dimensional objects could be reduced to two dimensions.__NEWL__" The Marcuse Institute decide to record Hobo painting a second time and then go public, believing that the outcry over sterilizing him would force the Georgia Zoo to back down from their plans.__NEWL__The Georgia Zoo issues a lawsuit, planning to castrate Hobo.__NEWL__Dr. Kuroda sets up a final software patch.__NEWL__While at school, Caitlin decides to take a break from her work and switches the eyePod to duplex mode so she can look through websight.__NEWL__It fails to load and, disappointed, she returns the eyePod to simplex mode.__NEWL__She sees several lines crossing her field of vision and is surprised when she realizes that they are the edge of a lab bench and that she can now see.__NEWL__Barbara picks Caitlin up from school and informs her about the patch.__NEWL__Malcolm runs Shannon entropy graphs on the cellular automata to gauge how complex the information in them is.__NEWL__He shows Caitlin how to run it, and they discover that the information has little complexity.__NEWL__Dr. Kuroda holds a press conference, announcing the success of his invention that has made Caitlin able to see.__NEWL__Caitlin receives an electric shock which crashes the eyePod.__NEWL__She reboots it in duplex mode and sees a mirrored representation of her face in websight.__NEWL__An intelligence has spontaneously emerged on the Web.__NEWL__Cleaved in two when the Changcheng Strategy was enacted, the restoration of communications by China causes the two halves to coalesce, and it gains in intelligence.__NEWL__The intelligence can view Caitlin's eyePod feed.__NEWL__It believes that her vision is an attempt to communicate with it and, when her eyePod was rebooted, it sent an image of Caitlin in an attempt to communicate back.__NEWL__As Caitlin begins to learn how to read letters, the intelligence believes it is a further attempt to communicate and learns with her.__NEWL__When she switches to duplex mode, it takes that act to be a reward for its learning progress.__NEWL__Caitlin believes it to be "visual noise" as a result of gaining sight.__NEWL__Dr. Kuroda looks at the information on his server, and Caitlin realizes that the information is her reading exercises being bounced back to her.__NEWL__She then runs another Shannon entropy scan, realising that the information in the cellular automata has increased in intelligence.__NEWL__Caitlin deduces that the information is trying to communicate with her and decides to help it.__NEWL__Dr. Kuroda feels it is now time to return to Japan and informs her that, as she can now see, he will remove the duplex setting from her eyePod.__NEWL__Caitlin convinces him to keep it as is so that she can continue to see websight.__NEWL__She runs another Shannon entropy plot and realizes that the intelligence has increased yet again.__NEWL__She continues with her teaching efforts, leading the intelligence to different websites so that it can continue learning.__NEWL__She runs the Shannon entropy a fourth and fifth time and finds that the intelligence is double that of human complexity.__NEWL__The intelligence contacts Caitlin via email and wishes her a happy birthday.__NEWL__It thanks her for helping it to learn and invites her to communicate with it through instant messenger.__NEWL__She asks it what she should call it, and the intelligence replies "Webmind".__NEWL__Webmind and Caitlin decide to go forwards together.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4656252	A Dark Traveling	1987-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33455920	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33455920	When an injured scientist disappears into a parallel world that is the battlefield between the forces of light and dark, his children set out to find him.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15720194	Matadana	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	33457879	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33457879	The novel starts in a village Rangapura near Tumkur in Karnataka.__NEWL__It uses the Tumkur dialect of Kannada language.__NEWL__It is about Doctor Shivappa, medical graduate from Mysore Medical College, who is keen to help society and his village people.__NEWL__Shivappa gains immense popularity among the people across the villages.__NEWL__The story revolves around the politically influential people who uses Shivappa in the upcoming election for their benefit.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6888383	Modelland	2011-09-13T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33402286	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33402286	A young, awkward-looking girl by the name of Tookie De La Crème is invited to attend the legendary boarding school Modelland for a chance to join the Intoxibellas, the most celebrated models in all the world.__NEWL__Along the way she meets a plus-sized girl named Dylan, a girl named Shiraz, and an albino girl named Piper.__NEWL__Together they form a strong bond as they face the trials and tribulations of Modelland and endeavor to find the truth about why they were all accepted to it...and why a mysterious impostor seems to want nothing more than for them to be gone.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3549564	The Same Old Story	1847-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q159	Russia	33364609	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33364609	The novel is about a young Russian nobleman named Aleksander Aduev, who arrives in St. Petersburg from the provinces and loses his romanticism amidst the rampant pragmatic commercialism.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7729274	The Dead-Tossed Waves	2010-03-09T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33449283	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33449283	Gabry (Gabrielle) lives a quiet life in the town of Vista.__NEWL__She lives with her mother, Mary (the protagonist of the first novel), in a lighthouse isolated from the rest of town.__NEWL__Her best friend is Cira, and she is beginning to fall in love with Cira's brother, Catcher.__NEWL__Cira pressures Gabry to sneak over the wall protecting them from the Mudo to an abandoned amusement park with other teens from Vista.__NEWL__Gabry is afraid that Mudo will get through the un-cared for wall surrounding the park, but she goes when Catcher asks her to.__NEWL__On the other side, she and Catcher go off by themselves to talk and Catcher kisses her.__NEWL__A Breaker Mudo attacks the group, and Catcher is infected while trying to protect her.__NEWL__He tells Gabry to run before the Militia comes and arrests them, and she escapes over the wall, leaving Cira and Catcher behind.__NEWL__The city decides to send Cira and the others who weren't Infected to the Recruiters.__NEWL__Gabry visits Cira in jail and Cira asks her to sneak over the wall and make sure Catcher is okay.__NEWL__Later, Gabry asks her mother about her past and her father, and Mary accidentally slips and admits that she is not Gabry's biological mother.__NEWL__She found her in the Forest when she was very young.__NEWL__Gabry sails a small boat around the walls to the amusement park.__NEWL__She is attacked by Mudo and rescued by a stranger named Elias.__NEWL__Elias knows where Catcher is and leads her there.__NEWL__She promises to keep coming back until he turns, despite both boys saying that he is too dangerous.__NEWL__Elias sails back to the lighthouse with her to help her escape a Breaker.__NEWL__The next morning Mary says that after their conversation she has decided to go back to the Forest.__NEWL__Gabry refuses to go, but stays in the lighthouse and takes over Mary's duties, telling everyone Mary is sick.__NEWL__She finds Elias took the boat to prevent her from returning to Catcher, so she swims to the park.__NEWL__She can't find Catcher but sees Soulers, a cult that worships Mudo.__NEWL__She realizes that Elias is one of them because he has a shaved head and white tunic like they do.__NEWL__She watches as they purposefully infect a little boy due to their belief that being Mudo is a chance at eternal life.__NEWL__Elias sees her and chases after her__NEWL__but she calls him a monster and runs away.__NEWL__When she swims back, Daniel is there.__NEWL__He is suspicious about Mary's ‘sickness’ and about the knife Gabry carries, which she got from Elias and has Souler inscriptions on it.__NEWL__A storm comes the next few days, and the Militia hangs around the lighthouse to help her kill the extra Mudo washing ashore.__NEWL__Daniel follows her around and when they leave she goes to visit Cira for the last time.__NEWL__When she tries to sneak over the wall to Catcher, Daniel catches her.__NEWL__She stabs him to escape and leaves him, and later finds that he died from the stab wound.__NEWL__Surprisingly he is still human.__NEWL__Elias and Catcher tell her that he's immune, which is rare to the point that Gabry didn't think it was possible.__NEWL__Elias says that he's not really a Souler, but he tags along with them because it's the easiest way to travel from city to city, which he does because he's looking for his sister, Annah.__NEWL__Catcher insists that they rescue Cira, so he releases harmless Souler Mudo in Vista.__NEWL__In the chaos, Elias and Gabry break out Cira and the others.__NEWL__Cira tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrists because shet Catcher was Mudo, and even though Gabry binds her wounds she is very weak.__NEWL__They make it to a gate and since Catcher is immune he scouts ahead and finds where the gates start up again.__NEWL__They make it safely to the paths, but the Recruiters build walls out to the gates so they don't have to risk the Forest, which buys Gabry, Elias, Catcher and Cira time.__NEWL__The Recruiters ut that Catcher is immune and know he would be a tremendous resource for the Recruiters because he could fight the Mudo with no danger to himself.__NEWL__Gabry uses clues from Mary to get them on the right path to Mary's old village.__NEWL__On the way she gets closer to Elias and farther from Catcher (who still thinks he can infect her), and Cira develops a blood infection in her wrists.__NEWL__They make it to Mary's where they find Mary and Harry.__NEWL__Harry explains that he, Cassandra, and Jacob (Mary's friends from The Forest of Hands and Teeth) went back to the village after Mary left them and helped to reclaim the village from the Mudo for the few survivors.__NEWL__Harry and Cass got married but had no children, and Jacob married a girl who died having twins.__NEWL__The twins were Abigail and Annah, and they grew up friends with Elias.__NEWL__When Elias was seven and the girls were five they explored outside the gates, and when Abigail fell and skinned her knee Elias got scared that he would get in trouble.__NEWL__He and Annah left Abigail behind, planning on returning later, but got lost.__NEWL__Abigail was found by Mary a few days later and was so weak and tramutized that she couldn't even remember her name.__NEWL__Mary named her Gabrielle and took her to Vista, claiming her as her own.__NEWL__Annah and Elias ended up in the Dark City, where they pretended to be siblings and lived together until Elias had to join the Recruiters to get money.__NEWL__When he returned Annah was gone, and he was looking for her but found Gabry instead.__NEWL__Gabry is furious with Elias for not telling her but she forgives him.__NEWL__Cira asks Catcher to infect her since she is going to die anyway, but he refuses.__NEWL__Gabry is so upset when she hears this that she runs off to be alone, but Elias finds her and kisses her.__NEWL__She is upset because she thinks he only likes her because she is so similar to Annah.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Cira climbs the wall and tries to get infected, but Catcher chases after her and gets her inside the gates before she's infected.__NEWL__ The recruiters finally catch up, and when they break through the gates Mudo get through too.__NEWL__Cira lets herself get infected and when she turns she attacks a Recruiter, and Gabry watches him kill her.__NEWL__She, Elias, Mary, Catcher, and Harry get into the fences on the other side of the village and keep going.__NEWL__On the journey, Gabry gets more and more depressed because they don't even have a destination and she is thinking that Mudo aren’t really any different than her.__NEWL__Her mother talks to her and convinces her to just accept life the way it is and keep living fully.__NEWL__Gabry and Elias talk and Gabry realizes that she's still has feelings for Catcher even though he is much different now than he used to be, and isn't right for her.__NEWL__Elias kisses her and they realize they love each other, and Gabry wants to start something new and good with him instead of hanging onto her depressing past.__NEWL__Soon after, while they are walking in the dark, there is a section of fence that collapsed down a hill.__NEWL__Elias doesn't see it and falls over the side, getting stuck on a piece of fence just above where the Mudo can reach him.__NEWL__Catcher gets him up, but Elias's leg is badly broken.__NEWL__The Recruiters are about to catch up, and Elias makes Gabry and Catcher leave so that they can't capture Catcher or make him join the Recruiters by torturing Gabry.__NEWL__Gabry promises to wait for him in the Dark City so they can find each other again.__NEWL__Gabry and Catcher run away and climb a wall to get away.__NEWL__On the other side there is a big bridge covered with crashed cars and Mudo that goes over a valley filled with a horde of Mudo.__NEWL__Gabry knows she has to cross to escape, so she walks sideways along the tiny ledge on the outside of the bridge, holding onto the gate.__NEWL__There is a section that is almost all the way broken, and when the Recruiters follow, Catcher rolls cars to shift the weight of the bridge and eventually it crumbles so that the Recruiters can't follow.__NEWL__Gabry and Catcher continue on, hoping to get to the Dark City.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4802889	As I Wake	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z	33451023	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33451023	Ava Hanson wakes up in an ambulance and can't remember anything.__NEWL__In the hospital, she dreams of 56-412, a boy.__NEWL__She is diagnosed with Amnesia and is released from the hospital.__NEWL__She learns that she is seventeen, is a junior at Lakewood Day, and lives with her mother because her father died when she was younger.__NEWL__Even though her handwriting looks the same, and she looks the same, she can't shake the feeling that she is not Ava Hanson.__NEWL__Ava watches the boy in her dreams, but she can't shake the feeling that it's not a dream.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7318662	Revolution 2020	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q668	India	33268882	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33268882	This book follows the story of two friends separated by their ambitions and passions yet connected by their love for the same girl.__NEWL__While Gopal, who has experienced the harsh realities of life due to poverty aspires to become rich, his friend Raghav is a boy from a well-off family who desires to create a revolution in India by fighting corruption.__NEWL__Aarti and Gopal have been childhood friends since but have a platonic relationship.__NEWL__As teenagers, Gopal pushes Aarti for more, but she later reveals that she was not ready for anything.__NEWL__Gopal gets a low ranking in the AIEEE exams while Raghav is among the toppers.__NEWL__Gopal moves to Kota to join reputed coaching classes to help with his ranking.__NEWL__Raghav becomes a celebrity in the town after he passes the IIT entrance exam.__NEWL__Aarti falls for Raghav during Gopal's absence.__NEWL__Aarti and Gopal chat online, and Aarti reveals her relationship to Gopal, who is heartbroken.__NEWL__He studies hard but gets a low ranking in the AIEEE exam for the second time.__NEWL__His father dies shortly after .__NEWL__Raghav decides to become a journalist and pursue a career in a newspaper publishing house.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Gopal is contacted by a politician who wishes to build an engineering college on the highly valuable land that Gopal's family owns.__NEWL__Gopal agrees to the deal, and joins the system of corruption in India in order to build the college with the politician's black money.__NEWL__He is tired of giving white envelopes to officials but has no other choice.__NEWL__Raghav, now a journalist, exposes the corruption-funded college and is eventually fired from the newshouse.__NEWL__Raghav starts his own newspaper, Revolution 2020, to change the world and expose the corrupt system in India.__NEWL__After another expose, Raghav's newspaper is shut down by politicians and thugs, and he loses almost everything.__NEWL__Raghav is still passionate about his activism and forgets about Aarti.__NEWL__They are still unmarried.__NEWL__Aarti and Gopal reconnect and often meet after work in coffee shops and other places, unbeknownst to Raghav.__NEWL__Gopal books a hotel room in the same hotel that Aarti works.__NEWL__Gopal seduces Aarti who returns his love, giving in to years of suppressed feelings.__NEWL__Aarti falls in love with Gopal, and begins to cheat on Raghav.__NEWL__Gopal then decides to disclose to Raghav that him and Aarti are a couple.__NEWL__Gopal goes to Raghav's office but a chance encounter with a poor farmer and his kid who had come to Raghav for help shakes him up and he realizes the folly of money, power and wealth.__NEWL__He decides to let go of Aarti perhaps realising they were never meant to be together and Raghav would always remain Aarti's love.__NEWL__He with the help of politician invites two prostitutes as a part of his birthday surprise and ensures Aarti witnesses it, making her hate him forever.__NEWL__He anonymously helps Raghav get a job, and suggests he become a politician (MLA) to bring about the revolution he desired.__NEWL__Aarti and Raghav thereafter got married.__NEWL__Gopal becomes a rich and successful businessman, but is still heartbroken over Aarti.__NEWL__Despite sacrificing his lifelong love to bring about the revolution, Gopal still doubts whether he is a good man or not.__NEWL__After listening to Gopal's story, the author confirms that he is indeed a good man.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4779258	Tatja Grimm's World	1987-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33343325	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33343325	The book covers three episodes in the life of Tatja Grimm.__NEWL__Tatja, who grew up with barbarian tribes in the interior of a continent, has made her way to the coasts where there are several technologically advanced island-based civilizations.__NEWL__She finds her way to the Tarulle barge, a ship which publishes a magazine, Fantasie, that is distributed as it circumnavigates the islands.__NEWL__As science develops on the world, Fantasie has evolved from a fantasy magazine to including speculative fiction stories.__NEWL__Tatja bears a resemblance to Hrala, a recurring character in the stories, a fact which she uses to fool a superstitious island society that has imprisoned a group of scientists for attempting to use a telescope, an activity they regard as blasphemous.__NEWL__Five years later, Tatja has advanced to a management position on the barge, a surprising feat for a supposedly barbarian teenager.__NEWL__She enlists student astronomer Svir Hendrigs and his dorfox Ancho, a creature who emits telepathic signals that can deceive nearby humans, on a scheme to steal the last remaining archive of all issues of Fantasie, before it is destroyed by the mad regent of Crownesse.__NEWL__In fact, the entire scheme is a ploy by Tatja to assume the identity of the lost princess who was murdered by the regent.__NEWL__This eventually succeeds and Tatja becomes an impostor queen of a powerful realm.__NEWL__She remarks that everybody she has met is incredibly stupid in comparison to her, and begins to wonder whether humans actually evolved on her world or have arrived from space.__NEWL__Another few years later, Tatja finds a rebellion in her distant provinces.__NEWL__After her battle plans do not succeed fully, she is seduced by Jolle, ostensibly a chemist-turned-general in one of the factions loyal to her, who takes over command.__NEWL__Jolle reveals that he is like Tatja, and there is another like them, Profirio, who is commandeering the rebellion.__NEWL__Profirio is apparently a slaver from space whose employer has seeded Tatja's world with backwater humans, and has intended them to build up society until the world reaches a stable reproducing population, which will then be a regular supply of slaves, and it is Jolle's mission to stop him.__NEWL__The two have destroyed each other's ability to communicate with their respective spaceships and must rely on the budding astronomical capabilities of the mountain province in which the rebellion is taking place.__NEWL__Though signs point to Jolle being the slaver and Profirio being the rescuer, Tatja fails to realize this until it is almost too late, resulting in much death and destruction (which Jolle is only too happy to encourage).__NEWL__Eventually Profirio outplays Jolle just as he has commandeered a powerful telescope and has located his ship, and Tatja kills him.__NEWL__Profirio invites Tatja to join him on his ship and she promises Svir that she will return with genetic advancements for him, and that they will secretly guide the humans on the world to develop into a member of the galactic civilization.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4924906	Blanche on the Lam	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1454	North Carolina	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33382449	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33382449	Blanche on the Lam opens in a court room with Blanche being accused of writing bad checks and being sentenced to thirty days in jail to teach her a lesson.__NEWL__She has a small panic attack at the thought of having to spend thirty days in a small jail cell and asks to use the rest room where she ends up fuming over what has become of her life in Farleigh, North Carolina since moving there from New York City.__NEWL__She gave up better pay for the safety of her children and ended being unable to cover the checks she wrote, being accused of writing more bad checks than she had, and being sentenced to time in jail because of it.__NEWL__There is a disturbance out in the hall and she takes her chance to escape by slipping out of the restroom and making her way to the exit and out into the underground parking lot.__NEWL__She walks quickly out of the area and finds herself in the neighborhood to a job she had got from the Ty-Dee Girls agency she cancelled for that week.__NEWL__Luckily for her the agency has yet to send her replacement and the woman who comes out of the house does not question her about her apparent lateness.__NEWL__She is then brought into the house, instructed to serve lunch, and then be ready to depart the house so they can head to the country.__NEWL__After lunch Blanche and the family of four drive out to the country house by the sea.__NEWL__That day she learns that one of the family members, Aunt Emmeline, is a drunk or at least that is what she assumes, and is a witness to her Will signing that hands over the control of her nephew, Mumsfield‘s, money to his cousins, Grace and Everett.__NEWL__After the signing she learns from Nate, who has worked for the family for many years, that something was not right with the Will signing situation.__NEWL__He does not explain his reasoning but she intends to find out, all the while planning her move to New York, later Boston, to escape the Sheriff and the jail sentence she is running from.__NEWL__Later, after returning from running errands with Mumsfield, she finds the Sheriff at the country house and thinks she has been caught, but it turns out that Sheriff is there to see Everett.__NEWL__After she has calmed herself she wonders why the Sheriff was there if not for her, and is even more curious when she realizes how much time he is spending at the property.__NEWL__Nate refuses to tell her but Blanche is determined to find out.__NEWL__Aside from that mystery she is sure that Grace and Everett are trying to get hold or at least control of Mumsfield’s money because they have gone through all of Grace’s money.__NEWL__Listening to the news one morning on the radio she hears of the Sheriff’s suicide.__NEWL__She is happy that she does not have to worry about him anymore and that she does not have to leave for Boston, but it strikes her after she remembers the conversation she eavesdropped on just the evening before that the Sheriff would not have committed suicide.__NEWL__The man had just been saying that he did not want to leave the place he lived and worked in and had no plans give up his job as the Sheriff of the county.__NEWL__Not only did she hear that declaration, she also heard Everett threaten the man right after it, and that night she was woken up by a sound out of place for a country night and witnessed Everett rolling the limousine silently down the driveway.__NEWL__However, Blanche cannot assume that she is living with a murderer based on what she overheard and witnessed.__NEWL__The same day Nate comes and tells her that he saw someone wearing a pink jacket walking the short-cut route to the place where the Sheriff died.__NEWL__It is obvious he thinks it was Everett.__NEWL__Later that day Everett confronts Blanche about the whereabouts of Nate, and the next day he ends being dead.__NEWL__Killed in a house fire during the night.__NEWL__Blanche finds clues here and there and eventually learns that the Aunt Emmeline she saw sign the will was an impostor and that the real woman had been killed.__NEWL__After going over the clues she had and looking at what evidence she had already uncovered and seeing Grace again, she realized that she had been suspecting the wrong person of murder all along.__NEWL__Who would have thought sweet, believable, weary, frightened Grace would have been a serial killer?
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7733556	The Fatwa Girl	2011-09-25T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843	Pakistan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843	Pakistan	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843	Pakistan	33383331	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33383331	Amor vincit omnia — love conquers all, but in a land which has been conquered from the Moguls to the British and now where the Taliban and fundamentalists strive for hegemony, a young man named Omar faces a battle in winning the hand of the girl he loves.__NEWL__It is in this milieu that two lovers try to forge not only a relationship for themselves but also a society where peace and sanity prevail, battling the forces of hatred and sectarianism that threaten to tear their worlds — and a nation — apart.__NEWL__At once a quirky exploration of a society on edge and a tender tale of shattered innocence, The Fatwa Girl, reveals a deep understanding of the human heart and its often mysterious attachments.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5282706	Disquiet	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z	33393903	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33393903	Leigh wrote this novel about a mother of two young children who leaves her husband and goes to live with her mother in rural France.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16385661	The Eyes of the Tiger	1965-01-01T00:00:00Z	33395282	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33395282	The story is set in September 1965.__NEWL__Carter is in Geneva, Switzerland on Mission Tiger – a plan to steal a large gold and ruby statue of a tiger from Hermann Göring’s private Swiss bank vault.__NEWL__Former SS General Max Rader and Imperial Japanese Army Colonel Shikoku Hondo are also on their way to steal the tiger.__NEWL__The vault has been locked using a French key – a device that requires two matching key components to be inserted together – one half of which is kept by Rader and Hondo, respectively.__NEWL__Baroness Elspeth von Stadt – a West German intelligence agent – and the only person able to identify Max Rader after his recent plastic surgery – is assigned by AXE chief Mr. Hawk to help Carter.__NEWL__The Baroness claims to hate Rader as he executed her German army officer father following an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II.__NEWL__Carter fights with Hondo and recovers his half of the French key.__NEWL__Hondo is injured and is imprisoned by Rader while Carter and the Baroness take shelter at the isolated Villa Limbo on an island in Lake Geneva.__NEWL__The housekeeper, Osman, an employee of Rader, tries to kill Carter but is killed in the attempt.__NEWL__Carter hides the body and he and the Baroness flee to Geneva.__NEWL__To draw Rader out into the open, Carter allows the Baroness to be kidnapped by Rader's men.__NEWL__Rader contacts Carter to make a deal – the Baroness for Hondo's half of the French key.__NEWL__Carter agrees and is told to wait at the Villa Limbo for further instructions.__NEWL__Hondo escapes from Rader and lies in wait for Carter at Villa Limbo.__NEWL__Before Hondo can retrieve his half of the French key he is killed by Rader's men.__NEWL__Carter is summoned to Rader's castle to continue negotiations.__NEWL__The Baroness is tortured by Rader's men in the castle dungeons to force Carter to produce the key.__NEWL__Carter manages to release the Baroness and pursues Rader through the labyrinth of tunnels beneath the castle.__NEWL__Rader is cornered and Carter shoots him dead.__NEWL__Rader has hidden his half of the French key in the scar tissue beneath a dueling scar on his face.__NEWL__Carter cuts it out with Hugo - his stiletto.__NEWL__After the statue is safely recovered Carter discovers that the Baroness was Rader's mistress and former Hitler Youth member and was responsible for denouncing her own father to the Nazis.__NEWL__Carter gives her a bullet to kill herself with and a head start before reporting her to the authorities.__NEWL__The Baroness escapes to Paris and kills herself.__NEWL__Carter discovers that hidden inside the tiger statue is a list of the names of German children expected to launch the future Fourth Reich using money and valuables hidden in 20 sunken German submarines concealed in various locations around the world.__NEWL__Hawk informs Carter that the children will be watched as they grow up and the sunken submarines and their contents recovered.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7727067	The Company of Women	1981-01-01T00:00:00Z	33217387	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33217387	Father Cyprian is a Catholic priest whose parishioners include five women.__NEWL__These five form a circle of friendship.__NEWL__Among them is a child, Felicitas Maria Taylor, a serious-minded girl with no use for boys, dating, or fun.__NEWL__Rather, she dreams of the day she can become a great writer like Jane Austen.__NEWL__Felicitas develops as a composite of the older women.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7004483	Neverwinter	2011-10-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33435897	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33435897	The story begins shortly after the events occurring in Gauntlgrym.__NEWL__Drizzt and Dahlia are in the wilderness of the north planning to return to Neverwinter.__NEWL__Dahlia explains to Drizzt that although the Dread Ring has been broken, Sylora Salm will make it her priority to reestablish it by any means necessary.__NEWL__Deciding that their best course of action is to head to Luskan to regroup and learn what they may, the two head towards the town aided by Drizzt's magical unicorn Andahar.__NEWL__It is revealed that the unicorn, although magical in nature can be killed.__NEWL__It can also stay in the Realms for as long as needed with no time limit restraints.__NEWL__Because it has more vulnerabilities than his other magical familiar, Guenhwyvar, Drizzt is much more cautious when using Andahar.__NEWL__The pair soon encounter a caravan being chased by bandits.__NEWL__Drizzt immediately rushes to help.__NEWL__Dahlia questions his motives.__NEWL__Drizzt assumes that the caravan is goodly in nature, and Dahlia (perhaps more world wise though much younger than Drizzt) does not jump to the same conclusion.__NEWL__Drizzt speaks with the merchants who tell him they are representatives of the High Captains of Luskan.__NEWL__Nearly 100 years ago the High Captains played a major role in the death of Drizzt's long time friend Captain Deudermont.__NEWL__Drizzt rushes to engage the bandits while Dahlia needles him about how the world is not always black and white/ right or wrong (this is a major theme of the book as Dahlia continually questions Drizzt's morals).__NEWL__After defeating the first few bandits it is learned that they are starving farmers driven off of their lands by the High Captains' policies.__NEWL__They intended to rob the caravan to feed themselves and their families.__NEWL__Drizzt and Dahlia share a meal with the bandits and Drizzt begins to question his ethics in this dark time throughout the North.__NEWL__Sylora Salm stands with her new lieutenant and Ashmadai zealot Jestry Rallevin in front of the greatly weakened Dread Ring.__NEWL__Sulkir Szass Tam appears in the Ring and lets Sylora know that he is displeased with her efforts and is prepared to destroy her for her failure.__NEWL__Before he can act the insane lich Valindra Shadowmantle arrives.__NEWL__Although insane she has moments of clarity and cunning which she uses to convince Szass Tam to spare their lives.__NEWL__As a result, Szass gives Sylora a wand that lets her channel the powers of the Dread Ring and commands her to conquer Neverwinter and complete the Dread Ring once again.__NEWL__Sylora sends Jestry to attend Valindra and to keep an eye on her, tempting him with the promise of making him her lover.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Herzgo Alegni commands for Barrabus the Grey to be brought before him and explain why his orders to kill Sylora were not carried out.__NEWL__Barrabus explains that she was too well guarded and suggests that if he were given his dagger back (a gem encrusted life stealing dagger) that he might be able to accomplish the job.__NEWL__Drizzt and Dahlia reach the outskirts of Luskan.__NEWL__They take a detour to the farmlands so that Drizzt may learn of their condition.__NEWL__He finds a farmhouse occupied by a woman and her five children after her husband has left.__NEWL__He tries to give them money which Dhalia stops him from doing.__NEWL__They leave the farm with more of Drizzt's moral values being questioned.__NEWL__Sylora uses the power of the wand she acquired to raise a fortress in which to direct her campaign.__NEWL__Valindra reveals that she still possesses the soul of the vampire Korvin Dor'crae.__NEWL__She also seeks out a woman named Arunika who promises to help her with her insanity.__NEWL__Barrabus arrives in Neverwinter on behalf of the Shadovar and offers to help the town defend itself.__NEWL__At first skeptical Barrabus reminds them that the Shadovar used to protect the town before the primordial cataclysm and that he himself lived through it by hiding under the town bridge.__NEWL__Drizzt and Dahlia enter Luskan and shortly after Dahlia uses a magic item to alter her appearance.__NEWL__She did so after entering the town because she did not mind (wanted) some of the High Captains to know she was there.__NEWL__The two make their way to Jarlaxle's apartment to see if they can find word of him or Athrogate.__NEWL__They are presumed dead but Drizzt believes in Jarlaxle's ability to survive any situation.__NEWL__They are soon attacked by Ship Renthor seeking revenge against Dahlia for killing their High Captain.__NEWL__Things go badly for the two until they are rescued by Beniago of Ship Kurth.__NEWL__Drizzt notices Beniago has a jewel encrusted dagger that he swears he has seen before, but shakes it off and concludes that his mind is playing tricks on him.__NEWL__Sylora continues to gather her forces when Hadencourt a malebranche devil in the service of Szass arrives.__NEWL__Sylora assigns him the task of heading north and destroying Dahlia.__NEWL__Valindra gathers her forces in preparation of attacking Neverwinter.__NEWL__Before the attack Jestry and Sylora go to visit Valindra's friend Arunika who promises them her help.__NEWL__It is also revealed that she is a succubus.__NEWL__The attack on Neverwinter occurs and Barrabus takes to the field and begins to turn the battle.__NEWL__At the predetermined time Herzgo leads the Shadovar forces in and defeats the Ashmadai forces.__NEWL__But instead of Herzgo being held as the hero the townfolk cheer for Barrabus, who suggest the name of the bridge be renamed for him "The Walk of Barrabus".__NEWL__The Shadovar begin to reestablish their power in Neverwinter.__NEWL__Drizzt and Dahlia are offered alliance with Ship Kurth which they conditionally accept.__NEWL__Returning to Jaraxle's apartment Dahlia continues to questions Drizzt's morals.__NEWL__The conversation ends with the two of them becoming lovers and going to bed.__NEWL__Dahlia sneaks off and goes to rob Ship Kurth of some of their jewels.__NEWL__This is a setup and Dahlia soon finds herself in a fight against Beniago against his magic dagger (of life stealing) and in a room full of traps she doesn't know.__NEWL__She is injured and poisoned by one of these traps and is saved by Drizzt.__NEWL__She claims she had everything in hand but did not.__NEWL__They make their escape out of Luskan but Dahlia soon succumbs to the poison.__NEWL__Drizzt takes her to the farmhouse the two visited earlier and begs the woman for help.__NEWL__She says she will call the local herb man but that they need a dose of the poison in order to make an antidote.__NEWL__Drizzt returns to Luskan and trades the antidote from Beniago for the promise to support him in future once he has taken the title of High Captain of Ship Kurth.__NEWL__Drizzt returns in time and is able to save Dahlia.__NEWL__The pair continue south where they are met by Hadencourt who poses as a friend.__NEWL__He soon attacks them and summons devils to help him.__NEWL__Drizzt and Dahlia begin a desperate battle in the woods.__NEWL__They are able to kill a few of the war devils' minions but are forced to run.__NEWL__They think they have escaped but the spirit of Dor'crae is able to track them and tell the devils where they are.__NEWL__The battle finally ends when Drizzt summons Andahar and impales Hadencourt.__NEWL__As the demon is dying it promises to get revenge and Drizzt tells him to get in line behind Errtu.__NEWL__In Neverwinter Herzgo is visited by Draygo Quick a powerful warlock of the Netherese and his master.__NEWL__Draygo wishes for Herzgo to finish his conquest of the region and leaves his disciple a teifling Effron the Twisted behind.__NEWL__Effron has one deformed arm and Herzgo and Effron openly despise each other.__NEWL__Valindra arrives in the cave of Arunika's master for their help.__NEWL__It is revealed that they are the Aboleth Sovereignty.__NEWL__The aboleth helps with Valindra's mental state and an alliance of convenience is formed between the Thayans and the Sovereignty.__NEWL__Jestry is brought to the Aboleth and is transformed using umber hulk skin.__NEWL__The process is fatal and will eventually kill him within the year, but he is transformed into a mindless slave with the sole purpose of being Sylora's champion against Dahlia.__NEWL__Herzgo learns of Arunika who is also called the Forset Sentinel by the locals.__NEWL__He visits her and is able to discern her true nature, he then forms an alliance with her.__NEWL__Herzgo returns to Neverwinter and begins to punish Barrabus for his renaming of the bridge after himself.__NEWL__The Claw is a sword carried by Herzgo and attuned to the soul of Barrabus.__NEWL__It is revealed that Barrabus cannot die even if he tries to kill himself.__NEWL__The sword will either stop him or bring him back to life.__NEWL__He is a slave to the sword with no hope of freedom except to kill Herzgo and take the sword which he cannot do as long as Herzgo wields the sword.__NEWL__The Thayans attack and use their new allies' umber hulks to attack from below.__NEWL__Barrabus' attacks are largely ineffectual and Herzgo carries the day and earns the peoples admiration.__NEWL__Dahlia and Drizzt continue on towards Neverwinter.__NEWL__Drizzt begins to share his past and recount stories of the Companions Of The Hall.__NEWL__Soon they are attacked by Shadovar and Dahlia exhibits a brutality Drizzt has never seen in her before and does not understand.__NEWL__He is reminded that there is much he does not know about her.__NEWL__Barrabus and Effron are assigned to work together and to hunt down Ashmadai.__NEWL__They come across a group led by Jestry.__NEWL__Effron does little and lets Barrabus do most of the work and take most of the risk.__NEWL__Barrabus is mostly successful except against Jestry whose new armor proves to be more formidable than even his own weapons.__NEWL__After the battle Herzgo learns that Dahlia returns in the company of Drizzt.__NEWL__Effron also reveals that he knows Dahlia Sin'felle's real name- Dahlia Syn'dalay of the Snakebrook clan.__NEWL__This fills Herzgo with terrible anger as he knows who she is now.__NEWL__Barrabus offers to go kill Dahlia and Drizzt alone.__NEWL__Barrabus knows of Drizzt's prowess and believes if he can get him to fight Herzgo he can kill him.__NEWL__He devises a plan to capture Dahlia alive and force Drizzt to fight Herzgo.__NEWL__He ambushes Dahlia but is then immediately ambushed by Drizzt.__NEWL__Drizzt looks at him and recognizes the face of Artemis Entreri.__NEWL__He doesn't believe it but is soon convinced when Artemis reveals intimate knowledge of him that only he would know.__NEWL__Artemis proposes a truce between the three and suggests they go kill Sylora.__NEWL__Drizzt and Dahlia do not trust him.__NEWL__He explains to Drizzt he grew bored of him long ago and has no vendetta against him.__NEWL__To Dahlia he explains it is nothing personal and that killing Sylora will meet both of their goals.__NEWL__As a final act of trust Artemis attacks Drizzt and holds his poisoned knife under his throat and pulls it back without harming him, proving that he has no intention of hurting him.__NEWL__Both Drizzt and Entreri are both surprised at how happy they are to see each other alive, for different reasons though.__NEWL__The three head towards Sylora's camp.__NEWL__There they are engaged by many undead, Ashmadai, Valindra, Sylora, and Jestry.__NEWL__Eventually Dahlia and Entreri are able to defeat Jestry.__NEWL__Valindra still suffers from some mental instability and spends the majority of the battle watching from afar.__NEWL__Sylora is eventually cornered in the Dread Ring.__NEWL__However, she has used the wand's power too much and drawn off too much of the Dread Ring's power and succumbs to combined attacks of Drizzt, Guenhwyvar, and Dahlia.__NEWL__In the aftermath of the battle Entreri tells them that he must return to Neverwinter as compelled to serve Herzgo.__NEWL__Dahlia upon hearing this name learns that her most hated foe is the leader of the Shadovar and declares she would have stayed by Sylora's side had she known.__NEWL__Entreri finds this useful but can't think of a way to exploit it.__NEWL__With Sylora dead Dahlia considered her business in the region finished until she learns of Herzgo whom she vows to kill.__NEWL__Sylora's life is preserved by the power of the Dread Ring but before she can do anything, Jestry returns as an undead under the control of Valindra and kills her.__NEWL__Effron and Herzgo contemplate Dahlia and share a mutual hatred of her, even greater than their hatred of each other.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4749793	An Anglo-American Alliance	1906-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33344777	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33344777	The novel is set in the future of 1960 and depicts a world that is geopolitically broadly similar to that of 1906, with the US and the UK as the world's major colonial powers.__NEWL__Casparian stated in the preface that the purpose of the book was to show the desirability of a world government, to which he saw the establishment of an Anglo-American federation as a first step.__NEWL__There are limited technological advances, such as prenatal sex discernment, suspended animation and a cure for laziness (which benefits the "negroes of the Southern States", according to the novel).__NEWL__Telescopes have shown intelligent life on other planets, which is described in interludes unconnected to the rest of the novel.__NEWL__The novel follows the romance of two young upper-class women, the Briton Aurora Cunningham and the American Margaret MacDonald, who attend the same ladies' seminary in Cornwall and pursue a secret romantic relationship.__NEWL__After graduation, Margaret has herself surgically transformed into a man, Spencer Hamilton.__NEWL__As a famous musician, Hamilton courts and marries Aurora, and they live happily ever after.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5305385	Dragongirl	2010-07-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33345519	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33345519	Dragongirl is set primarily during a few months of year 508 AL (After Landing on Pern), beginning weeks after the start of the "Third Pass" of the Red Star and its attendant Threadfall.__NEWL__Primarily it continues the story of gold dragonrider Fiona of Fort and the people she leads.__NEWL__In broad terms, it continues the history of the crisis that the start of every Pass brings to Pern, the third such crisis.__NEWL__Until nearly the end of Dragonheart, Fiona had been a very young Weyrwoman in the past, during a long episode of time travel.__NEWL__She had led a large group of young dragons and young dragonriders with the primary purpose simply to survive and to mature in the relative safety of the past.__NEWL__That worked, and so they gained time, or adult man- and dragonpower, for the Pernese to handle the current crisis.__NEWL__Upon return from the past, Fiona is no longer Weyrwoman, but she has that experience, and the proven love and loyalty of many who had traveled with her.__NEWL__Early in Dragongirl, the entire force of centrally located Telgar Weyr is lost to a sudden disaster — all its mature dragons and dragonriders, about 300 pairs.__NEWL__That leaves only the support population, with almost no adult men, and some of the young, retired, or sick.__NEWL__Fiona's group of recent travelers is transferred to Telgar, among others, and she is Weyrwoman again.__NEWL__Following the plague that had decimated the dragons, and the loss of an entire Weyr, the remaining dragons are overstretched, and the limited numbers lead to even further casualties.__NEWL__The novel follows Fiona, now as Weyrwoman of Telgar, as the dragonriders come to realize that there are no longer enough dragons to protect the planet for the whole Pass.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760466	The Return of the Soldier	1918-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q23220	Berkshire	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	33222225	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33222225	The novel begins as the narrator, Jenny, describes her cousin by marriage, Kitty Baldry, pining in the abandoned nursery where her dead first son would have been raised.__NEWL__Occupied with the domestic management of the Baldry estate just outside London, the two are almost completely removed from the horrors of war.__NEWL__The only exception is that Kitty's husband, Chris Baldry, is a British soldier fighting in France.__NEWL__While Kitty laments in the nursery, Margaret Grey arrives at the estate bringing news to the two women.__NEWL__When Jenny and Kitty meet her, they are surprised to find a drab middle-aged woman.__NEWL__And even more to their shock, Margaret tells them that the War Office notified her of Chris's injury and return home, not Kitty and Jenny.__NEWL__Kitty dismisses Margaret from the estate trying to deny that she could have been the recipient of such information.__NEWL__Soon after, another of Jenny's cousins notifies the two women that he in fact has visited Chris and that he is obsessing over Margaret, whom he had had a summer fling with 15 years before.__NEWL__Soon after, Chris returns shell-shocked to the estate believing he is still 20, but finding himself in a strange world which had aged 15 years beyond his memory.__NEWL__Trying to understand what is real for Chris, Jenny asks Chris to explain what he feels to be true.__NEWL__Chris tells her the story of a romantic summer on Monkey Island, where Chris at the age of 20 fell in love with Margaret, the inn-keeper's daughter.__NEWL__The summer ends with a rash departure by Chris in a fit of jealousy.__NEWL__After Chris tells this story, Jenny travels to nearby Wealdstone to bring Margaret back to help Chris understand the difference between his remembered past and reality.__NEWL__She arrives at Margaret's dilapidated terraced house to find her dishevelled and taking care of her husband.__NEWL__Jenny convinces Margaret to return with her to the estate to help Chris.__NEWL__Upon Margaret's return, Chris recognises her and becomes excited.__NEWL__Before returning to her home, Margaret explains that 15 years have passed since their Monkey Island summer and that Chris is now married to Kitty.__NEWL__Chris acknowledges this passage of time intellectually but cannot retrieve his memories and still pines for Margaret.__NEWL__Margaret continues to visit, and Jenny's initial dislike for the woman turns to friendship, gratitude, and eventually, near hero-worship as she realises that Margaret has an inner goodness that transcends her desperate appearance and class standing.__NEWL__Jenny recognises the artifice of the house she and Kitty have so painstakingly decorated for Chris is a poor substitute for the love and temporary home he finds in Margaret.__NEWL__Jenny spends a lot of the time lamenting her inability to be part of this Chris-Margaret inner sanctum.__NEWL__Jenny goes on at length describing the conflict between this grief over her lost closeness with her cousin and admiration for Margaret, Chris and their relationship.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Kitty continues to despair about Chris's memory loss and his attachment to Margaret.__NEWL__Unlike Jenny, she refuses to see Margaret and does not respect the truth that this new/old relationship is doing Chris some good.__NEWL__Truthfully, the only time Chris is happy is when he is with Margaret.__NEWL__Kitty is not satisfied that he cannot be cured and one day announces the impending arrival of a Dr Gilbert Anderson, a psychoanalyst.__NEWL__Dr. Anderson, expected to take a novel tack, arrives during one of Margaret's visits and questions the women.__NEWL__Margaret perceptively recommends a course of treatment: Margaret must confront Chris with the existence of his late son, Oliver, who died at age two, five years ago.__NEWL__Margaret knows Chris will not be able to deny reality if he has to deny his child.__NEWL__Jenny leads Margaret to the sad, well-maintained room where Oliver once lived.__NEWL__Margaret grieves for her own child whose death at the same age and time as Oliver's makes her feel a connection between the two.__NEWL__Amid this pain, Margaret and Jenny contemplate not "curing" Chris and instead letting him just be happy.__NEWL__But Jenny realises Chris will have no dignity if he has no truth and almost simultaneously, Margaret voices a similar thought.__NEWL__The final scene of the book has Jenny watching from the house as Margaret confronts Chris with the truth of Oliver.__NEWL__Impatiently, Kitty wonders what is going on.__NEWL__Jenny recognises, even from a distance, that Chris' whole bearing has changed and he is no longer trapped in his youth.__NEWL__He is a soldier again, or as Kitty exclaims "He's cured!__NEWL__"__NEWL__Jenny's silence on the subject leads us to reflect on whether this cure is really a good thing after all.__NEWL__He will lose the love of his life and have to return to the horrors of the war, and, if he survives, the superficial life he has had with Kitty and Jenny.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7167934	Perfect	2011-09-13T00:00:00Z	33444469	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33444469	From the bookjacket "Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be.__NEWL__For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.__NEWL__Cara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide.__NEWL__For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love.__NEWL__Kendra covets the perfect face and body—no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there.__NEWL__To score his perfect home run—on the field and off—Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back.__NEWL__And Andre realizes that to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never understand.__NEWL__Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go?__NEWL__What would you give up to be perfect?"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7092199	Ondine	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z	33213026	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33213026	The novel begins in 1678 during the reign of Charles II of England.__NEWL__To settle a land dispute, Lord Warwick Chatham jousts in Charles II's court against Lord Hardgrave, his long-standing enemy.__NEWL__Warwick wins the battle and walks to a stream for a drink of water.__NEWL__Here, he first sees Ondine, though he is unsure if she is real.__NEWL__Later in his quarters, Warwick refuses the advances of the lady Anne Fenton.__NEWL__Then, his wife, Genevieve, comes to him because she had a nightmare about Warwick's grandmother, who met a suspicious death.__NEWL__Warwick assures her that he will protect her, yet he is too late to save her as she falls from the window later.__NEWL__Warwick is convinced that she was murdered, but Charles II believes she committed suicide.__NEWL__A year later, Warwick is traveling to his home in North Lambria when he meets a death procession.__NEWL__After asking his coachman, Jake, if it is true that a woman can be saved from the gallows if someone takes her in marriage, he tells him to follow the procession.__NEWL__Warwick does not recognize Ondine as the woman he saw in the water only a year before.__NEWL__Ondine is on her way to be hanged for poaching an animal on a lord's property.__NEWL__In the last minutes of her life, Ondine regrets that she could not find the traitor who killed her father and would've killed her had she not run away.__NEWL__She thinks it too good to be true when Warwick saves Ondine from the hangman's rope by marrying her.__NEWL__Her only thought is of leaving him, but after trying to escape once, she realizes that being Warwick's wife can provide her with the protection she needs to devise a plan to clear her father's name.__NEWL__Through constant bickering with Warwick, she is able to play the part of his wife in front of his brother and the servants.__NEWL__Ondine is, however, constantly plagued by nightmares of her father's death by the hands of her step uncle, William, and cousin, Raoul, who threatened to incriminate her as well if she did not marry Raoul.__NEWL__She is also frustrated by her new husband's lack of communication with her about his family history.__NEWL__She learns that his grandmother is rumored to have been murdered by his grandfather's mistress.__NEWL__Later, she discovers that Mathilda was the daughter of her grandfather's affair, and Clinton is Mathilda's son.__NEWL__Warwick constantly dismisses Ondine's temper and frustrations.__NEWL__He tells everyone that she is pregnant hoping to lure out his wife's killer.__NEWL__Ondine knows something else is going on after she hears a voice whispering her name in bedchamber.__NEWL__Overshadowing this fear is the prospect of going to court with Warwick because she does not want to be recognized as a traitor.__NEWL__Despite their bickering, Warwick and Ondine both see glimpses of good in each other and are falling in love.__NEWL__Ondine's fear of going to King Charles II's court is unfounded.__NEWL__As soon as Charles II and her have a moment alone, he informs her that he believes her innocent of treason and encourages her to play Warwick's game then return home to clear her father's name.__NEWL__She plays the game very well much to Warwick's dismay.__NEWL__He becomes jealous of the attention she is giving the king, while she becomes jealous of the Lady Anne's attention to Warwick.__NEWL__Their mutual feelings of frustration result in their finally consummating their marriage.__NEWL__Once back in the Chatham manor, Ondine is attacked by a hooded figure in a mask and pushed into the family tomb.__NEWL__Not sure whom to suspect, Warwick plans another trip to court to lure out the killer.__NEWL__Anne and Lord Hardgrave reveal the truth of Warwick and Ondine's marriage, but Warwick gives a loving speech that has everyone enchanted, not revolted, with the love story.__NEWL__On an outing, Ondine is snatched away by pirates.__NEWL__She suspects Anne and Lord Hardgrave, but there is no proof.__NEWL__After saving Ondine, Warwick immediately rushes her back to the Chatham manor and announces that he will be divorcing Ondine and sending her away the next morning.__NEWL__Ondine is constantly confused by Warwick's actions because she doesn't know that he truly loves her and is pushing her away to protect her.__NEWL__That night, Mathilda drugs Ondine and attempts to hang herself and Ondine to right the history of the family to quiet the ghosts that haunt her mind.__NEWL__She succeeds in killing herself, but Warwick arrives in time to save Ondine.__NEWL__Warwick has changed his mind about sending Ondine away, but she doesn't know this.__NEWL__Ondine leaves the next morning for her home in Rochester to try to clear her father's name.__NEWL__Ondine returns to her home, Deauveau Place, in the hopes of finding the forged papers that incriminate her and her father.__NEWL__Her step uncle, William, is wary of her, but Raoul is pleased to see her.__NEWL__Ondine agrees to wed Raoul in one month.__NEWL__In the meantime, Warwick has visited Charles II and learned the truth of Ondine's secret.__NEWL__Warwick plans to find a way to stay close to Ondine, and Charles II says that he will plan a visit to Deauveau Place as well.__NEWL__That night Ondine searches William's study but doesn't find anything.__NEWL__After becoming violently ill twice in one night, she realizes she is carrying Warwick's child.__NEWL__At a nearby tavern, Warwick, Clinton, Justin, and Jake inquire about the Deauveau Place.__NEWL__They learn that William is looking for a blacksmith.__NEWL__Warwick decides to apply for the position.__NEWL__Clinton and Justin are to return to court to see if they can find any witnesses to Ondine's father's death, and Jake will stay at the tavern to see what more he can learn.__NEWL__Ondine continues her search for the documents with no luck.__NEWL__Knowing that William wants a physician to examine her, Ondine tells Raoul that while she was gone she had married a peasant.__NEWL__Knowing that she has bought herself some time, she breathes easier until Warwick visits her in her room that night, and she is renewed with fear by the danger he presents to the both of them by being there.__NEWL__Things escalate rapidly after William discovers that Ondine is pregnant.__NEWL__Anne overhears Clinton and Justin speaking to a witness to Ondine's father's murder, and she and Lord Hardgrave immediately set in motion a plan to pay William for Ondine so that Anne may have Warwick to herself.__NEWL__Hardgrave, however, plans to kill Warwick.__NEWL__Jake witnesses their meeting at the tavern and is able to warn Warwick.__NEWL__On the day this is supposed to happen, Ondine meets Warwick so that they may leave together.__NEWL__Raoul walks in on them as they embrace and shoots Warwick.__NEWL__William takes Ondine just as Hardgrave approaches.__NEWL__Hardgrave goes to see Warwick's corpse for himself.__NEWL__Warwick, however, is not dead, and they duel.__NEWL__Warwick kills Hardgrave.__NEWL__In the meantime, Ondine has escaped from William and ran to the woods.__NEWL__Raoul, Warwick, and William follow.__NEWL__Justin and Clinton arrive and follow as well.__NEWL__Raoul refuses to fight Warwick, so William kills his own son; then, Warwick kills William and takes Ondine back into her home to recover.__NEWL__The king arrives, and Ondine learns that the witness has come forward to clear her father's name.__NEWL__The Chatham men and the king go to the tavern where Anne is staying, and the king forces her to marry a governor on a remote Caribbean island.__NEWL__Some months later, Warwick and Ondine welcome a baby boy into the world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4746235	Amigoland	2009-01-01T00:00:00Z	33234186	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33234186	As Fidencio and Celestino catch up, Socorro learns that their falling out concerned a story the old men cannot agree on: Was it true that their "Papa Grande" saw his family killed by Indians and was then kidnapped and brought north?__NEWL__They decide to set out on a four-day bus trip to Linares to search for the truth about their grandfather and about each other.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1631416	Marked	2007-10-28T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1649	Oklahoma	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33230852	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33230852	Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird lives in a world where vampires, or "vampyres" have always existed.__NEWL__One day, during school, Zoey is marked by a Tracker to become a fledgling vampyre at the Tulsa House of Night, a boarding school where she will be trained to become an adult vampyre.__NEWL__She gets stopped outside in the parking lot by her boyfriend Heath, and his friends who call her a freak and drive away.__NEWL__Zoey then hurries home to tell her mom.__NEWL__Her mother, Linda Heffer, blames her for the Mark and, together with her ultra-religious husband (Zoey's stepfather/step-loser), she tries to keep Zoey at home, to be presented to the Elders of the People of Faith, an anti-vampyre group.__NEWL__As fledglings need to be constantly in the presence of an adult vampyre so that their bodies won't reject the Change, Zoey flees to her grandmother Sylvia, a Cherokee Wise Woman.__NEWL__On the way, she passes out and has a vision with the vampyre goddess, Nyx, who announces to Zoey that she will be her "eyes and ears" at the House of Night.__NEWL__The goddess leaves Zoey with the words "Darkness does not always equate to evil, Light does not always bring good" which becomes a very frequent and important message throughout the series.__NEWL__Zoey wakes up at the school in the presence of her grandmother and the vampyre headmaster – her future mentor, Neferet.__NEWL__She finds out that her Mark is all filled in, unusually for fledglings, but follows her intuition and doesn't mention the vision to Neferet.__NEWL__As a fledgling vampyre, Zoey has the opportunity to change her name and does so, taking her grandmother's surname, Redbird, before parting with her.__NEWL__Aphrodite, another fledgling then takes her to her room, where she meets Stevie Rae, her new roommate and, future best friend.__NEWL__Through Stevie Rae, Zoey meets and befriends Damien, Erin, and Shaunee.__NEWL__She also meets the snobby, beautiful leader of the Dark Daughters and Sons, Aphrodite, a fledgling with the power to see the future.__NEWL__To humiliate Zoey she invites her to join the Dark Daughters, who are an elitist group.__NEWL__Her new friends counsel her to accept so that they can get insight into Aphrodite's doing's.__NEWL__During the ritual, Aphrodite feeds her fledgling blood and Zoey discovers a new craving, unusual for her age.__NEWL__Embarrassed, she flees – but finds Heath, her ex-boyfriend, and Kayla, her best friend, who have come to the school in an attempt to bust Zoey out.__NEWL__Zoey stumbles upon them while Kayla is hitting on Heath.__NEWL__An angry confrontation ensues with her now ex-best friend and Zoey loses control.__NEWL__She scratches Heath and drinks from the wound, creating an Imprint with him.__NEWL__Kayla freaks out and runs away; Zoey eventually persuades Heath to leave too.__NEWL__When they have gone, Zoey discovers that Erik Night, a handsome fifth former and Dark Son whom she met earlier, has seen the whole scene.__NEWL__He comforts her and escorts her back to the dorm.__NEWL__That night she is chosen by a cat, whom she names Nala.__NEWL__The following day, she meets Neferet, who explains to her that an Imprint is a link that takes place between an adult vampyre and his or her human Consort.__NEWL__As it is very unusual that Zoey could create an Imprint in her first month of being a "vampyre", she places Zoey into a senior vampyre sociology course.__NEWL__Zoey discovers that she has affinities for the five elements of air, fire, earth, water, and spirit – something that has never happened before in vampyre history.__NEWL__Stevie Rae, Damien, Shaunee, and Erin each gain an affinity for one element as well.__NEWL__Zoey is (spitefully) invited back to the Dark Daughters and Sons' Samhain celebration, where they honor the spirits with some blood.__NEWL__Everything goes fine until sobered up Heath stumbles upon the scene and tries to bring Zoey back with him.__NEWL__Aphrodite accidentally summons evil spirits which try to take Heath's fresh human blood.__NEWL__Zoey steps in; she and her friends use their newfound abilities to stop the spirits.__NEWL__Neferet, who happens to witness everything, takes Aphrodite's status as leader of the Dark Daughters and Sons and gives it to Zoey instead.__NEWL__As they go home, Aphrodite angrily informs Zoey that "it's not over yet – you don't understand."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3284521	Chosen	2008-03-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33281760	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33281760	Back at the House of Night, Zoey realizes that, as a leader of the Dark Daughters, she has to choose someone else to fill the position of Earth in her circle.__NEWL__Much to everyone else's displeasure, she chooses Aphrodite, when she manifests a new affinity for the Earth.__NEWL__Zoey also feels more and more estranged from Erik, because of the lies she tells to hide her relationship with Loren.__NEWL__During the night Erik finishes the Change, she loses her virginity to Loren and Imprints with him, breaking her previous one with Heath.__NEWL__Erik walks in on them and angrily breaks up with Zoey.__NEWL__She pulls herself together and leaves to gather her friends, planning to tell them about Stevie Rae, to cast a circle and heal her.__NEWL__On the way, Zoey chances upon Loren and Neferet and hears him confess that Neferet had made him seduce Zoey, for her to become alienated from her closest friends, and that he actually loves Neferet.__NEWL__Heartbroken, Zoey leaves to get Damien, the Twins and Aphrodite.__NEWL__She had planned to use the occasion to cure Stevie Rae and introduce her to her friends.__NEWL__Because of Loren's meddling, Stevie Rae arrives before Zoey has the chance to explain her to her friends and they feel betrayed, but agree to finish the ritual.__NEWL__When Zoey is about to invoke Earth, Stevie Rae attacks Aphrodite in a fit of jealousy and drinks from her and Changes into the first red adult vampyre.__NEWL__Aphrodite is terrified to discover that her own mark has disappeared and runs away through the secret exit with Stevie Rae after her, leaving Zoey alone with the rest of her friends.__NEWL__Zoey does her best to explain and she manages to get them to listen until Erik shows up and reveals her infidelity and her relationship with Loren.__NEWL__This shatters Damien and the Twins' last bit of faith in her.__NEWL__On the way back she is seized by a series of spasms, and founds out much later that they came from her Imprint with Loren breaking as he died.__NEWL__Acting from apparent grief at his loss, Neferet declares war on all humans.__NEWL__Zoey realizes that Neferet is lost to sense, pulls herself together and faces Neferet down after the Council.__NEWL__During the confrontation Zoey begins to doubt herself.__NEWL__When she is unsure if she is strong enough to stand against Neferet on her own, she feels the strength of her elements and the tingle of her new marks and is confident in Nyx and the power she has been given.__NEWL__Afterwards, she heads to her dorm and finds that Erik witnessed her exchange with Neferet.__NEWL__He wants to believe her, but is still hurt because of Zoey cheating on him.__NEWL__Tiredly, with Nala in tow, Zoey heads to bed, but not before hearing her goddess whisper, "Believe in yourself, Daughter, and get ready for what is to come."
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6752204	Mantrap	1926-06-03T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33378051	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33378051	Ralph Prescott, a lawyer with the New York City firm of Beasley, Prescott, Braun and Braun, is feeling the stress and strain of the demands placed on him by city and career.__NEWL__With a fellow club-member, E. Wesson Woodbury, he decides to travel west into the Canadian wilderness for a vacation of fishing and canoeing.__NEWL__Woodbury has made the arrangements, and all that Prescott need do is show up.__NEWL__Travelling by train through Winnipeg, the duo make their way to the Flambeau River, then to the former logging town of Whitewater.__NEWL__Although Prescott impresses his travelling companion with his handling of a surly innkeeper, the two are already finding themselves to be incompatible.__NEWL__Woodbury chides Prescott over his decision, for example, to carry a pillow in his gear.__NEWL__Taking the steamer Emily C. Just upriver to their departure point, Prescott and Woodbury finally set out with their native guides / canoe men, but tensions between them grow and tempers fray.__NEWL__After several misadventures in both canoeing and camping, they are openly hostile to one another.__NEWL__It is at this point that they encounter Joe Easter, of the Easter Trading Company.__NEWL__Ralph elects to abandon Woodbury and accept Easter's invitation to stay with him at his place further up the Mantrap River, at the small trading post of Mantrap Landing.__NEWL__Easter and Prescott travel with Lawrence Jackfish, Easter's native factotum, and upon arriving meet McGavity, Easter's dour Scottish competitor in trade, and Easter's wife, Alverna, a former manicurist from the Hotel Ranleagh in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who Easter met while in town and married the next day.__NEWL__In the ensuing days, Alverna's discontent with the limited social sphere of Mantrap Landing in general, and with Joe Easter in particular, becomes apparent.__NEWL__While tensions are on the rise with the indigenous Cree tribes who also inhabit the area, due to a suspension of their credit with the trading posts, tensions also grow with the introduction of Ralph Prescott to the local social dynamic.__NEWL__Prescott has little experience of women and is a bachelor, and soon he falls for Alverna's charms, but is simultaneously repulsed by the thought of betraying Joe Easter, whom he considers a friend.__NEWL__On reflection, Prescott also feels guilty at abandoning E. Wesson Woodbury, and is several times on the verge of deciding to depart to find him.__NEWL__Finally, after a meeting with the Cree at which the traders make their case for having their bills paid in order to restore the Cree's credit, only to be met with derision, Prescott leaves Mantrap Landing.__NEWL__Lawrence Jackfish pilots him, but they do not get far before Alverna catches up to the canoe and demands that Prescott take her with him.__NEWL__Suffering with a mixture of misgivings over betraying Joe Easter and his inconstant love for Alverna, Prescott agrees.__NEWL__The route they have taken, however, is longer and harder than anticipated, and as their supplies dwindle, Prescott and Alverna awaken to discover that Lawrence Jackfish has taken most of the supplies and the canoe.__NEWL__As they attempt to continue on foot, they flag down a hydroplane carrying firefighters to battle a nearby wildfire, but the plane cannot carry them.__NEWL__Instead, it drops a few supplies with which they attempt to continue their journey.__NEWL__However, shortly thereafter Joe Easter catches them up, and Prescott meditates on the idea of shooting him outright, but does not.__NEWL__Easter has come not to reclaim Alverna and punish Prescott, but to save Prescott from the mistake that he himself made, of becoming involved with Alverna.__NEWL__Easter goes on to explain that his stocks and warehouse have been destroyed by a fire set by the Cree in reprisal for the traders having cut off their credit: he is now broke and without resources or home (the fate of the others at Mantrap Landing is unclear).__NEWL__Easter wants to make a new start in Winnipeg, and even entertains the idea of travelling with Ralph Prescott to New York to try his luck there.__NEWL__Faced with a choice of whom to take home with him, Prescott chooses Easter, to Alverna's disgust.__NEWL__After escaping the forest fire together, the three make their way to Winnipeg, where Alverna is put on a train for Minneapolis.__NEWL__Prescott learns that Woodbury had already passed through Winnipeg, and that Woodbury had claimed: "He volunteered that he had chucked you, deserted you, because you were so highbrow that he was bored!"__NEWL__Although Joe Easter has agreed to travel with Ralph Prescott to New York City, he eludes Prescott after shamming drunkenness at a party in an effort to convince Prescott that he is not fit for the sort of life which Ralph envisions.__NEWL__Prescott travels homeward, leaving Joe Easter to start anew in Winnipeg.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4120049	Tarantula	1984-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	33379330	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33379330	Richard Lafargue is a renowned plastic surgeon keeping a young woman, "Eve", locked against her will in his villa.__NEWL__Alex Barny, a wanted fugitive after robbing a bank, decides to change the look of his face in order to avoid capture.__NEWL__He contacts Lafargue about the procedure and arranges to meet at his home.__NEWL__ Another story surrounding a young man named Vincent Moreau is also told via first person narrative.__NEWL__After raping Lafargue's daughter (resulting in her mental and emotional deterioration), Vincent is captured and imprisoned by the plastic surgeon.__NEWL__At first, Vincent doesn't know the identity of his captor, but discovers it after suffering a series of brutal and twisted acts of torture.__NEWL__ __NEWL__Eventually, it is revealed that "Eve" is actually Vincent.__NEWL__As both an act of revenge and an attempt to replace the daughter that was destroyed, Lafargue performs a sex change operation on the imprisoned Vincent, and forces him to live as his wife.__NEWL__Throughout the story, Vincent struggles with the horror of what was done to him and the erasure of his own identity.__NEWL__He maintains fragments of his personality, and seems to despise Lafargue at times.__NEWL__ In the final sequence, Alex arrives at Lafargue's home, but meets Vincent, transformed as Eve.__NEWL__Vincent instantly recognizes Alex as his former criminal accomplice, who was also present during the rape of Lafargue's daughter.__NEWL__During an altercation, Lafargue shoots and kills Alex in front of Vincent.__NEWL__Vincent appears to have given up on holding on to his former identity and desire to escape when he submits to becoming Eve and helps Lafargue cover up the incident.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q276914	Warm Bodies	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33227749	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33227749	In a post-apocalyptic future, a male zombie still in the early stages of decay lives in a community of the dead in an abandoned airport near the city.__NEWL__He cannot remember his name, and refers to himself as "R".__NEWL__After the collapse of human civilization, zombies hunt for the living, seeking to eat their brains; doing so allows them to relive the memories, feelings, and thoughts of their prey.__NEWL__Zombies whose flesh has completely decayed away are known as "Boneys", which act as "pack leaders" of sorts to the others, who are known as "Fleshies" and still retain traces and behaviors from their previous lives as humans, though R explains that most of the behaviors are done out of force of habit rather than an attempt to "live".__NEWL__R, a Fleshy, is unusual as he shows distaste for eating human flesh, and can form several coherent syllables in one breath, and collects various objects from the outside world that he hoards in his "house", a Boeing 747 airliner parked at the airport.__NEWL__In a hunt, R feeds on the brain of a young man named Perry.__NEWL__After experiencing his memories, R sees Perry's girlfriend Julie, and in a moment of mercy, saves her from the others.__NEWL__He disguises her scent with zombie blood, and takes her home where he hides her in the 747 airplane.__NEWL__He slowly gains Julie's trust, and convinces her to stay for a while until the others forget about her.__NEWL__R feeds her food from the airport's restaurant, entertains her with his treasures, including a record player, and Julie tries to teach him to drive a car which R has managed to get started.__NEWL__She also tells him a little bit about her life.__NEWL__In time, R begins feeling guilty over killing Perry, but continues to eat the remains of his brain, seeing it as a rare treasure, and experiences many of Perry's memories.__NEWL__Julie is attacked by several zombies, and R helps her fend them off.__NEWL__His fellow zombie M is confused and angered by his behavior, but relents his attack.__NEWL__However, several Boneys, attracted by the noise, arrive, and one of them shows R some old photos of the dead and living fighting each other, telling him that they need to maintain the status quo.__NEWL__They leave along with the rest, and R takes Julie back to the airplane.__NEWL__In the morning, Julie convinces R to take her home, and they leave while the dead watch them.__NEWL__The Boneys attack and try to kill Julie, but with M's help, they get away in R's car.__NEWL__On the way to the city, they camp out in a suburban house, and Julie allows R to share a bed with her.__NEWL__The next morning, Julie calls her father, and sends R out for fuel.__NEWL__When he returns, Julie is gone.__NEWL__R begins walking back to the airport in a heavy rainstorm, and feels cold for the first time since he "died".__NEWL__On the road, R runs into M and some other zombies who have been chased out by the Boneys.__NEWL__M explains that, ever since the confrontation with the Boneys in the airport, the zombies have been changing like R, and experiencing things such as dreams and old memories.__NEWL__R decides to go after Julie, and follows her scent to an abandoned stadium converted into a large community for human survivors, led by Julie's father Grigio.__NEWL__After disguising himself as a human, R locates Julie's house and sees her on her balcony, and they reunite.__NEWL__R has further visions of Perry's memory; some form of Perry's soul is living inside R, and has intertwined with R's own.__NEWL__He also realizes that Perry and Julie had started to become distant from each other shortly before Perry's death, largely due to Perry beginning to lose his will to live.__NEWL__During a party in the community, R becomes intoxicated, and, no longer able to control his zombie instincts, attacks a guard, infecting him and causing a small outbreak in the stadium.__NEWL__Grigio discovers R, and, deducing what he is, attacks him despite Julie's protests, but is stopped by Julie's friend Nora, allowing Julie and R to escape.__NEWL__Outside, the crowd of zombies has grown.__NEWL__What Julie and R have between them has infected many others, causing them to change and seek to regain their humanity.__NEWL__However, as they deliberate on what to do next, the Boneys attack both the Living and Fleshies alike.__NEWL__The couple meets up with Nora, and they flee to a roof where they see the battle between the Boneys and the Living.__NEWL__As they watch, Julie has an epiphany: the plague started because the human race crushed itself beneath the weight of its negative emotions, until it released a dark force that changed the humans so that everyone could see their evil.__NEWL__In the midst of the chaos and bloodshed, R and Julie kiss; the strength of their love cures R of the plague completely and both their eyes turn gold.__NEWL__Grigio, not believing that a cure for the plague exists and thinking that R has infected Julie, attempts to kill them both, but is stopped by one of his own soldiers and attacked by a Boney.__NEWL__As Julie shoots the Boney, both it and Grigio fall off the roof of the stadium shriveling into dust and bones.__NEWL__The action apparently causes the rest of the Boneys to flee, and the battle ends with the Living and Dead establishing peace.__NEWL__The epilogue reveals that in the aftermath of the battle, the word about the origins of the plague was spread among the other surviving communities, allowing for a true chance at a cure, and R looks forward to what the future now brings, for the Living and the Dead both.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2499983	Betrayed	2007-10-02T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33247807	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33247807	Zoey has been a vampyre fledgling for only a month now and she already is the leader of the Dark Daughters and the local High Priestess in training.__NEWL__She has been chosen by a cat, called Nala, has a tight-knit group of friends and a claimed to be gorgeous maybe-boyfriend in Erik Night.__NEWL__The situation is stable when a strange string of murders among the ranks of local football players leads the police and the human media to the Tulsa House of Night.__NEWL__ At her first parent visitation, Zoey is reunited with her family for the first time in a month.__NEWL__With them comes her grandmother, but is saddened to notice the stiffness of her parents, which contrasts strongly with the loving and friendly behavior of Stevie Rae's mother.__NEWL__Neferet comes upon their meeting and is almost immediately engaged in a religious dispute by Zoey's stepfather.__NEWL__In the ensuing argument, Zoey's parents vow never to come to the House of Night again, and Neferet kicks them out.__NEWL__The same night, Zoey witnesses Aphrodite being verbally abused by her parents and starts developing sympathy for her enemy.__NEWL__Later on, she chances upon Neferet scolding Aphrodite and is shocked by this new side of her mentor.__NEWL__That day, Neferet invites Zoey for a private dinner.__NEWL__Upon hearing that Zoey saw her and Aphrodite, she informs her that the latter's visions were no longer valid, as Nyx had withdrawn her gift, and advises Zoey to keep her distance.__NEWL__Later on, while watching TV, Zoey learns of the death of one of the high school football players whom she knew and goes on a walk to clear her head.__NEWL__She chances upon a crying Aphrodite who claims to have had another vision, that included Zoey's grandmother.__NEWL__She asks for a favor for her help and asks Zoey to take an oath.__NEWL__Unwilling to risk her grandmother's life, she accepts and learns that Aphrodite has seen her grandmother in a car, stuck on a collapsing local bridge, at a precise time.__NEWL__Zoey calls her grandmother to tell her to stay at home and then she and her friends make a call to the police about a bomb on the bridge, to keep other people away from it, around the time it was set to fall.__NEWL__Aphrodite's vision turns out to be true, making Zoey begin to doubt Neferet.__NEWL__When two of her ex-boyfriend's friends disappear and are found murdered, she begins to suspect Neferet has something to do with it, especially after witnessing her discussing the murders with "undead", supposedly deceased students in a dream.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Zoey must make decisions regarding her love life, as she is drawn to her ex-boyfriend Heath due to their Imprint, maintains a relationship with fledgling peer Erik Night and captures the interest of Poet Laureate and teacher Loren Blake.__NEWL__Zoey reorganizes the Dark Daughters, now that she is in charge of them, but Neferet takes credit for most of her new ideas at the first new Dark Daughters ritual.__NEWL__Shortly after the ritual, her best friend Stevie Rae rejects the Change and dies.__NEWL__As Zoey grieves over Stevie Rae, she learns that Heath too has disappeared, following the two other murders.__NEWL__Using her Imprint, a connection formed when vampyres consume a person's blood, she is able to locate him and takes off to retrieve him.__NEWL__She finds out that Heath is being held captive by "undead" fledglings.__NEWL__Using her elemental affinities, Zoey frees Heath, but also finds out that it was Neferet who changed the dying fledglings into the "undead" creatures – one of which is Stevie Rae.__NEWL__The fledglings had lost their humanity and reverted to an almost feral state.__NEWL__She runs away with Heath, vowing to return.__NEWL__At the school, Neferet attempts to erase Zoey's memory, but Zoey recovers her memory and starts hatching a plan to help her former best friend.__NEWL__Zoey now has to use her bravery to save her best friend.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q386293	The Solitude of Prime Numbers	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16287	Province of Turin	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38	Italy	33487387	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33487387	As a seven-year-old girl, Alice Della Rocca is forced by her father to take skiing lessons, although she hates the ski school and has no particular aptitude for the sport.__NEWL__One morning, Alice is separated from the rest of the group and falls off a cliff, sustaining serious injuries.__NEWL__Alice will remain crippled for the rest of her life.__NEWL__Mattia Balossino is a gifted and intelligent child, unlike his twin sister Michela, who has a intellectual disability.__NEWL__Isolated from the rest of his peers because of his uncomfortable sister, Mattia lives his childhood in solitude.__NEWL__When he and his sister are invited to a classmate's birthday party, Mattia leaves Michela in a park so he can attend the party without her.__NEWL__Upon his return to the park a few hours later, Michela has disappeared, perhaps drowned in a nearby pond, and is never found despite a police search and investigation.__NEWL__These events deeply affect the lives of both Alice and Mattia.__NEWL__During adolescence, Alice suffers from anorexia nervosa and is snubbed by boys as a cripple.__NEWL__With no social life, Alice draws the attention of Viola Bai, a popular but cruel girl in her class, who toys with Alice and briefly allows Alice into her circle of friends.__NEWL__With Viola's encouragement, Alice meets Mattia.__NEWL__Mattia is difficult to get along with; he is not interested in social interactions and has an unhealthy tendency to cut himself.__NEWL__Alice and Mattia form an unusual friendship: each of them carries on with their own lives; however they return to look for one another.__NEWL__They continue to "date" even after high school.__NEWL__Both attend a university, where Mattia studies mathematics, and where Alice drops-out to pursue her passion for photography.__NEWL__When Alice's mother Fernanda is hospitalized for cancer treatment, Alice meets Fabio Rovelli, a young doctor who takes an interest in her.__NEWL__Mattia, meanwhile, completes his degree and receives an offer to teach at a university in Northern Europe (probably in Norway).__NEWL__While he is debating whether to leave Italy and take the job, Mattia finally tells Alice about Michela, and the two kiss for the first time.__NEWL__However, an argument between them convinces Mattia that leaving is the right decision.__NEWL__Later, Fernanda dies and Alice marries Fabio, while Mattia lives alone abroad.__NEWL__The marriage between Fabio and Alice gradually disintegrates.__NEWL__Fabio wants a child, but Alice, who hasn't menstruated for years because of anorexia, cannot get pregnant and refuses to change her eating habits.__NEWL__The couple separates and Alice falls into depression.__NEWL__Elsewhere, Mattia is a successful mathematics professor at his foreign university.__NEWL__He and Alberto, a colleague and fellow Italian, make an important discovery regarding algebraic topology.__NEWL__When celebrating at Alberto's house, Mattia meets Alberto's friend Nadia, and spends the night with her.__NEWL__Back in Italy, the photographer employing Alice insists on driving her to the hospital to get help for her depression.__NEWL__While there, she encounters an apparently a disabled woman who looks a lot like Mattia, and Alice wonders if it could be Michela.__NEWL__She writes to Mattia, urging him to come home without telling him why.__NEWL__Mattia accepts the invitation and returns to Italy.__NEWL__Alice, now unsure about what she saw, avoids telling him why she asked him to come.__NEWL__The two friends spend an afternoon together during which she kisses him and realizes that she's still in love with him.__NEWL__In spite of this, they both realize they cannot overcome the walls that separate them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7729313	The Dead River	1971-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q222	Albania	33429538	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33429538	The story revolves around the romantic love between the two main characters, Vita and Adil, and the ill fates of three Albanian families which all meet in a little town called Trokth in Albania.__NEWL__The seemingly independent stories that revolve around the three families are well interwoven with the fates of the two lovers.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7091810	Once Upon a Crime	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33360522	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33360522	Henry and Veronica Grimm are still under a sleeping spell and Puck, their fairy friend, is terribly sick after being attacked by the Jabberwocky.__NEWL__Puck is rapidly running out of time so Granny Relda, Mr. Canis, Mr. Hamstead, and the girls are taking Puck to Faerie, where Puck's family live, where they hope he will be able to help.__NEWL__Sabrina is astonished to discover that Faerie lies in the heart of her old home, New York City.__NEWL__To make matters even more complicated she learns that Puck is the son of the King of Faerie, Oberon himself.__NEWL__Apparently, Puck was banished by his father and Oberon is not inclined to help Puck now, even though his son is terribly sick.__NEWL__Finally, his wife Titania persuades Oberon to allow Puck to be healed but soon after the process is begun Oberon is poisoned and dies.__NEWL__It isn't long before the Grimms find themselves deeply involved in an investigation to find out who murdered Oberon.__NEWL__It appears that Cobweb, a fairy, did the deed.__NEWL__He certainly is on the run and therefore appears guilty of the crime.__NEWL__And yet something about the whole business does not seem quite right.__NEWL__In addition to the investigation, Sabrina learns that her mother was not the person she thought she was.__NEWL__Veronica wanted to be a part of the Grimm legacy, and help the fairytale community.__NEWL__Puck's history surprises the Grimm family, when it is revealed that he was engaged, his ex-fiancée a pretty fairy called Moth.__NEWL__She seems to hate Sabrina because she believes that she (Sabrina) likes Puck.__NEWL__Puck's healing cocoon, where his body is stored while it recovers, chooses Sabrina as its protector, revealing that she is the one person that he trusts above everyone else.__NEWL__Eventually, Moth asks Sabrina to do a special honor to Puck's cocoon.__NEWL__She gives Sabrina a drink that happens to be poisoned.__NEWL__As Sabrina suffers in pain Moth reveals that she poisoned Oberon.__NEWL__Fortunately, Puck hatches from his cocoon just in time to get her out of the nasty situation, and into a cocoon of her own in the process.__NEWL__Later, Sabrina emerges from her cocoon, which helped her survive.__NEWL__She is eager to know whether Moth was a member of the Scarlet Hand, but to her disappointment, she isn't.__NEWL__The girls, Granny and Puck then discover Veronica's journal of fairy tale accounts in the possession of Mr. Diggs, otherwise known as the Wizard of Oz.__NEWL__He reveals that he was the one that put the mark on Oberon's corpse, and then sends a six-story robot in the shape of the wicked witch of the west to kill them, but fails.__NEWL__Puck becomes the leader of the fairies after his father's funeral and lets Sabrina make a speech that her mother wrote to all of the Everafters in New York, encouraging them to work together.__NEWL__The family then leave, but Sabrina is a little sad/down when Puck doesn't come to say goodbye, only to discover that he is coming home with them - atop the witch robot.__NEWL__Sabrina suppresses her happiness that he coming with them.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5158191	Conan the Victorious	1984-11-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33486266	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33486266	Naipal, court wizard to King Bandharkar of the city-state of Ayodha in Vendyha, prepares to bargain with a demon, Masrock, to win control of the kingdom and rid himself of his rivals, the Black Seets of Mt. Yimsha.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in the Turanian city of Sultanapur, a Vendhyan-supported plot has resulted in the assassination of a prince.__NEWL__Conan, employed in guarding a smugglers' ship, is rumored to have been hired to commit the crime.__NEWL__Turanian spymaster Lord Khalid sends his apprentice, Jelal, into Vendhya to find out if a northerner was truly involved.__NEWL__Running for his life, Conan eventually makes it to the docks and to his friend/fellow smuggler Hordo, whom he met during his time with Karela the Red Hawk.__NEWL__Hordo suggests that Conan leave with him on his next delivery of "fish" and he agrees.__NEWL__While examining the chests, they feel strangely light and, when questioned, the Vendhyan merchant who owns the crates flees.__NEWL__However, as he escapes, the merchant accidentally slices Conan with a hidden blade.__NEWL__The crates contain nothing except dried leaves of an unknown origin.__NEWL__Unfortunately, the blade was poisoned and Conan discovers that the antidote may lie in Vendhya, the original destination of their cargo.__NEWL__At the mouth of the Zaporaska River in Vendhya, the smugglers question a tribe of Vendhyan warriors who are receiving their cargo.__NEWL__After discovering their chests have been tampered with, the warriors accept Hordo's explanation in a suspicious way.__NEWL__Moments later, Conan and his crew learn that the Vendhyans were planning to kill them once their cargo was delivered.__NEWL__Soon, an army of Vendhyan tribesmen attacked and set their ship alight, stranding them.__NEWL__During the battle, Conan gets close enough to see a caravan loading their crates.__NEWL__Unsure if the caravan will be friendly or not, the crew split up, one will follow the caravan, and another returned home by walking along the coast.__NEWL__Conan's crew eventually close the distance and, by nightfall, have come within feet from the caravan's distant bonfire.__NEWL__Conan assumes the identity of a Vendhyan merchant and, after a brief conversation with the captain of the caravan guard, they learn that the owner will speak with them in the morning.__NEWL__During the night, a Khitan merchant approaches the smugglers and offers in hiring them as his guards.__NEWL__In Vendhya, Naipal discovers Conan has become embroiled in his schemes.__NEWL__Believing Conan's involvement is purposeful, he plans to kill both the Cimmerian and his companions.__NEWL__After his agents in the caravan attempt without success in slaying Conan, Naipal lays a trap for him in the lost city of Gwandikian.__NEWL__Soon, Conan takes the bait.__NEWL__Lured into an ancient tower, he's attacked by a swarm of cobras and narrowly escapes.__NEWL__Afterward, Conan searches for an antidote to his poisoned wound in a nearby forest, where he has been told it can be located.__NEWL__Soon, he discovers the herbalist who originally treated him and learns he was in fact cured by his first treatment; the man had lied about it then to secure the Cimmerian's aid.__NEWL__He, presumably, is Naipal's true adversary.__NEWL__A final conflict between the two sorcerers ensues, in which both end up dead at the hands of the demon each tried to control, and the demon itself is destroyed by the spells they had lain on it.__NEWL__Conan, surviving, decides to return home.__NEWL__On the way, he encounters Lord Khalid's agent Jelal.__NEWL__The spy has completed his investigations and cleared the Cimmerian of complicity in the Vendhyan plot against Turan.__NEWL__He gives Conan a parchment and instructs him to present it at the headquarters of the Turanian army on his return to Sultanpoor.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6900754	Monkey Island	1991-01-01T00:00:00Z	33487165	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33487165	11-year-old Clay Garrity's dad, an art director, is out of work; Clay's mother trained for a good job - but it wasn't enough, especially with a baby coming.__NEWL__Unable to cope, Dad disappeared; now, without warning, Clay's distraught mother has also abandoned him, leaving him in an unsavory welfare hotel.__NEWL__When a neighbor suggests calling the police, Clay bolts, afraid that becoming a foster child would mean losing his mother forever.__NEWL__He lands in a park with Buddy, a hard-working young black man who can't earn enough for a rent deposit, and Calvin, a retired teacher who lost everything in a fire.__NEWL__Weeks later, their fragile existence is destroyed by an invasion of raging toughs ("the stump people") who demolish their meager, hard-won amenities and scatter the park's inhabitants.__NEWL__Indirect results include Calvin's death; Clay, weak from malnutrition and exposure, is hospitalized.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q627192	Divergent	2011-04-25T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1297	Chicago	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33348496	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33348496	In post-apocalyptic Chicago, survivors are divided into five factions:__NEWL__Abnegation, the selfless; Amity, the peaceful; Candor, the honest; Dauntless, the brave; and Erudite, the intelligent.__NEWL__All 16-year-olds are tested to determine the faction that suits them best, but they select their own faction at the Choosing Ceremony.__NEWL__Those who do not complete initiation become "Factionless" and live on the streets as outcasts.__NEWL__The main character, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior, cannot choose before she takes the test.__NEWL__Her inconclusive test results (Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite) mark her as "Divergent," and the test administrator, Tori, warns her never to tell anyone.__NEWL__Agonizing over her future, Beatrice decides to leave Abnegation, her blood, and to join Dauntless.__NEWL__Her brother Caleb chooses Erudite.__NEWL__The new Dauntless initiates jump onto a moving train to Dauntless headquarters and are instructed to jump onto the roof.__NEWL__Most make it, but one initiate falls to her death, and another is too afraid to jump.__NEWL__When they are later ordered to jump into the compound entrance, Beatrice jumps first.__NEWL__Reaching the bottom, she tells the instructor, Four, that her name is Tris.__NEWL__Four explains that unlike the other factions, which accept all successful initiates, only the top ten Dauntless initiates will stay, and the rest become Factionless.__NEWL__Tris befriends several fellow initiates like Christina, Will, and Al but comes into conflict with others like Peter, Drew, and Molly.__NEWL__In the first stage of initiation, they are trained in guns, knives, and hand-to-hand combat.__NEWL__Despite her lack of physical strength, Tris finishes in sixth place.__NEWL__A relationship emerges between Tris and Four, and Tris is pummeled by Peter in a fight.__NEWL__After the first-stage rankings are announced, the second-place Peter stabs the first-place Edward in the eye.__NEWL__Edward leaves to become Factionless, followed by his girlfriend Myra, which allows Peter to take Edward's place as the first-place initiate.__NEWL__On Visiting Day, Tris's mother tells Tris to stay strong but not to bring too much attention to herself during training.__NEWL__Erudite stirs dissent against the city's Abnegation leadership and accuses its leader, Marcus, of abusing his son.__NEWL__The rumors are fueled by the fact that Marcus's son, as well as Tris and Caleb, have all left Abnegation, which is also alleged to be hoarding supplies.__NEWL__The initiates enter the second stage and face hallucinations based on their deepest fears.__NEWL__Tris's Divergent abilities give her an advantage and earn her the top rank.__NEWL__Peter, Drew, and Al attack Tris; threaten sexual assault; and nearly throw her to her death, but Four intervenes.__NEWL__Al begs Tris's forgiveness, but she rejects him, and he later dies by suicide.__NEWL__The final stage gathers the initiates' fears into a simulated "fear landscape" to test their acquired skills.__NEWL__Tris and Four grow closer, and he lets her into his own fear landscape.__NEWL__She discovers that he has only four fears, hence his nickname.__NEWL__In Four's final fear, Tris also learns that he is Marcus's son Tobias and that the claims of abuse were true.__NEWL__Four uncovers Erudite's plans to use Dauntless to stage an attack on Abnegation.__NEWL__Tris overcomes her fear landscape, and the Dauntless initiates are injected with a "tracking" serum.__NEWL__Tris shares her feelings for Tobias and is later ranked first at the initiation ceremony.__NEWL__The serum transforms the Dauntless into hypnotized soldiers to attack Abnegation.__NEWL__Tris and Tobias's Divergent abilities allow them to remain unaffected by the serum and escape to the Abnegation compound.__NEWL__Tris is shot, and they are captured.__NEWL__The Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews, the mastermind of the attack, injects Tobias with an experimental serum that overrides his Divergence.__NEWL__Under Jeanine's control, Tobias oversees the attack from the Dauntless control room.__NEWL__Tris is almost drowned in a tank but is rescued by her mother, who reveals that she is also Divergent before she is killed while she helps Tris escape.__NEWL__Tris is forced to kill Will, who attacks her under the influence of the simulation.__NEWL__She finds her and Tobias's fathers and explains the truth behind the attack.__NEWL__They fight their way to Dauntless headquarters, where Tris's father sacrifices himself.__NEWL__Tris is attacked by the mind-controlled Tobias.__NEWL__Unable to kill him, Tris surrenders, which causes Tobias to break free of the serum's control.__NEWL__They shut down the Erudite simulation and free the Dauntless.__NEWL__They rejoin the initiates and board a train to the Amity sector to find the Abnegation survivors.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6757004	Marching Men	1917-09-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1297	Chicago	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33224741	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33224741	The novel begins with the fourteen-year-old Norman McGregor packaging a loaf of bread for his uncle, the "village wit", – who ironically nicknames him "Beaut" because of his off-putting appearance – in his mother Nance's Coal Creek bakery (bought with the savings of her late husband/Beaut's father "Cracked" McGregor).__NEWL__Not long after, frustrated by the local miners expecting bread on credit without first settling their debts, Beaut closes the bakery during a miner's strike.__NEWL__That evening, as the now-drunk miners move to ransack the bakery (and assault Beaut), he is saved by a troupe of soldiers marching in formation.__NEWL__After the episode, the bakery remains closed and Nance goes to work at the mining office while Beaut idles about.__NEWL__When Beaut is 18 years old, his mother becomes too ill to work and the young man gets a job as a stableboy.__NEWL__One day, as a prank, his fellow stableboys get Beaut (a teetotaler up to that point) blind drunk with a "horrible mess" made just for that purpose.__NEWL__Having reached a breaking point, Beaut takes the rest of his father's savings and leaves Coal Creek for Chicago on the same evening.__NEWL__He arrives in the City just after the 1893 World's Fair.__NEWL__Despite a shortage of jobs, McGregor easily finds a warehouse job and settles into a routine of work during the day and night school/independent reading at night.__NEWL__One day, in a break from the ordinary, the usually unsocial McGregor gives in to the urging of his neighbor Frank Turner, a barber and amateur violin-maker, and goes to a dance.__NEWL__Despite his aloofness, McGregor meets Edith Carson, a frail, mousy, and somewhat homely milliner/shop owner, with whom he develops a platonic relationship.__NEWL__Book III begins with Beaut returning to Coal Creek for his mother's funeral.__NEWL__During the funeral procession, the miners who attend fall spontaneously into step and Beaut is once-again inspired by the power of marching men.__NEWL__Back in Chicago, Edith Carson, who had gained a modicum of wealth through her shrewd business dealings, loans McGregor the money necessary for him to quit working full-time and attend school to become a lawyer, his long-time ambition.__NEWL__Not long after McGregor is admitted to the bar, the son of a wealthy industrialist is found murdered.__NEWL__In order to quell newspaper speculation as to their involvement, the political bosses decide to redirect the media's attention by framing and demonizing small-time thief Andy Brown, an acquaintance of McGregor.__NEWL__From jail, Brown requests that McGregor act as his lawyer.__NEWL__Though McGregor refuses at first, he ends up with the job.__NEWL__After an unsuccessful solo investigation, McGregor turns to wealthy heiress-turned-settlement house-volunteer, Margaret Ormsby, for help.__NEWL__Margaret, a "new woman" who dresses fashionably, is self-assured in demeanor, and is capable of acting independently is bothered by McGregor's bluntness, but decides to aid him nevertheless.__NEWL__On a tip from Edith Carson, and with Ormsby's connections, McGregor is able to clear Andy Brown of any wrongdoing.__NEWL__In the interim, Margaret Ormsby and McGregor develop a romance.__NEWL__While McGregor is slowly building up his idea of marching men (his law practice on the backburner), he decides that he wants to marry Margaret Ormsby.__NEWL__As he is leaving a formal party at her family's mansion, McGregor asks Margaret to marry him, but gets nervous and flees before she can respond.__NEWL__A few weeks later, McGregor falls asleep at the house of Edith Carson and wakes up with her stroking his hair.__NEWL__Realizing that their relationship is more intimate then he had thought, he goes to Margaret and reveals his past experiences with women.__NEWL__Margaret hears McGregor's confession and declares that she will still marry him, but first, she must go talk to Edith.__NEWL__A few weeks later, when McGregor is in the neighborhood for a teamster's strike, he finds that Edith's shop had recently come under new ownership.__NEWL__Rushing to the train station, he finds Edith about to depart.__NEWL__Together, they go to the Ormsby house and in a confrontation Margaret cedes her claim over McGregor to Edith.__NEWL__As Edith and McGregor are leaving, Margaret's father, David, leader of a plow trust (nicknamed "Ormsby the Prince" by the City's oligarchs), extends a hand to McGregor.__NEWL__The two men shake, the narrator noting their polite antagonism towards each other.__NEWL__Soon, the marching men idea blooms with workers coming together and marching to and from work in the evenings.__NEWL__Becoming nervous over newspaper reports and rumors of the worker gatherings, several "men of affairs" discuss the matter.__NEWL__David Ormsby volunteers to dissuade to McGregor from further organizing but cannot communicate his point to the impassive McGregor.__NEWL__The marching men movement peaks during a demonstration on Labor Day, climaxing with a speech by McGregor.__NEWL__Riding in a carriage with her father at the fringe of the demonstration, Margaret Ormsby is overcome by McGregor's oration, but later professes her allegiance to her father.__NEWL__The book ends that same night with a solitary David Ormsby, a foil to the stereotype of the ruthless businessman, at his window overlooking the city, meditating on his life choices: "What if McGregor and his woman knew both roads?__NEWL__What if they, after looking deliberately along the road toward beauty and success in life, went, without regret, along the road to failure?__NEWL__What if McGregor and not myself knew the road to beauty?"
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18788563	The Third Gate	2012-06-12T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33225623	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33225623	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.__NEWL__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 swamp.__NEWL__Other members of the expedition include the head of security Frank Valentino, technician Cory Landau, archaeologist Tina Romero, and mechanic Frank Kowinsky.__NEWL__Also accompanying the expedition is Rush's wife Jennifer, who has been maintaining a special connection to "the other side" after a near-death experience where she technically died in a car crash, but was revived by her husband.__NEWL__Rush uses his special method of hypnosis to put Jennifer into a lucid state through which they can communicate with the spirits within the tomb below them, which they believe to be that of Narmer himself.__NEWL__The base of operations is a massive group of canvas-covered outposts floating in the middle of the Sudd, simply referred to as "The Station.__NEWL__" Once they finally manage to create a passageway down to the tomb entrance—nicknamed the Umbilical Cord—they slowly begin excavation through the first two chambers, known as the Gates, with the Third Gate containing the tomb of Narmer himself, while the first two Gates contain rooms full of treasure.__NEWL__However, when Romero studies the mummified remains within the Third Gate, she realizes that the remains are of a female body.__NEWL__Logan similarly draws a conclusion based on the mannerisms Jennifer displayed whenever possessed by the spirit, and deduces that it has to be a female spirit inhabiting her during the sessions, not that of a man.__NEWL__Thus, they realize that Narmer's queen, Niethotep, must have killed Narmer by poisoning him and taking his place in the tomb.__NEWL__Shortly after this discovery, Jennifer is fully possessed by the spirit of Niethotep once more, which then sabotages the ventilation system on the base and starts a fire in the engine room.__NEWL__She then takes two cylinders of nitroglycerin and uses one to damage the Umbilical Cord, killing Kowinsky, while holding the second one in her hand to keep everyone at bay.__NEWL__Valentino orders an evacuation of the Station, with most personnel taking as much treasure with them as possible, and escapes in one of the rafts along with Stone, Romero, and Landau.__NEWL__Logan and Rush stay behind to try to bring back Jennifer Rush and cast out the evil spirit of Niethotep, but they are unsuccessful in doing so; Niethotep throws the final canister of nitroglycerin down between her and Rush, creating an explosion that kills both of them while narrowly sparing Logan.__NEWL__Logan grabs a handful of treasure and escapes on one of the final rafts before the base explodes and sinks into the Sudd.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7844169	Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma	1915-01-01T00:00:00Z	33482458	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33482458	The whole first part takes place in Rio de Janeiro.__NEWL__Quaresma is shown as a wise, but naïve nationalist who spent years of his life in private studies on Brazil.__NEWL__After 30 years, he finally found the right time to put in action his plan for improvement of Brazilian government and society.__NEWL__Quaresma is fluent in German, French and English; however, he only reads works of Brazilian authors or foreign authors whose works were about Brazil.__NEWL__His favorite authors were those who were considered the most patriotic: José de Alencar and Gonçalves Dias.__NEWL__He is seen as eccentric by his neighbors.__NEWL__Lima Barreto shows Quaresma's neighbors as pedant and mediocre people, a criticism of the urban society of late 19th century.__NEWL__For example, the shallow relationships between the daughter of General Albernaz, Ismênia, and her fiancé.__NEWL__She appears to be a disinterested girl who thinks that the only purpose in life for a woman is to find a husband; her fiancé is a man who is lauded just because he finished college.__NEWL__General Albernaz, who is a neighbor of Quaresma, is a miserable man: in spite of his high title, he never fought a single battle.__NEWL__He lies about military deeds, and in fact, he only achieved generalship because of his many years in service.__NEWL__Other characters are seen as purely mediocre: none of them has real value and are bureaucrats.__NEWL__Quaresma's plan is soon put in action: he sends a requirement to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies requesting a change in the official language of Brazil.__NEWL__He wanted the Tupi language, which is indigenous and pure Brazilian, in the place of Portuguese, since Portuguese was "imported" from the European settlers.__NEWL__Quaresma was seen as crazy by the press and was harshly satirized.__NEWL__To worsen the situation, Quaresma accidentally sent a document in Tupi to the Ministry, and was fired.__NEWL__The story continues in an asylum, where Quaresma was sent after these events.__NEWL__However, his friend Coleoni and his goddaughter Olga still believed in him and his plan.__NEWL__The second part of the book illustrates the struggles of the rural properties in Brazil.__NEWL__Healthy and retired, Quaresma is convinced by Olga to sell his house and buy a countryside estate.__NEWL__He tries to prove the fertility and richness of Brazilian soil, which was so praised by the Portuguese in the letter of discovery sent to the Portuguese king in the 1500s.__NEWL__Quaresma's plan was to promote the agricultural development of Brazil, in hopes of bringing economical growth to the country.__NEWL__However, his property is infested by sauva ants, invasive plants and succumbs to weather.__NEWL__In spite of his efforts, the property fails.__NEWL__In addition, he sees himself dealing with the small mentality and defamation by the town's politicians and people, who cannot understand his political neutrality.__NEWL__In the end, Quaresma abandons his property to go support the President in Rio against the Navy.__NEWL__The last part is the climax of the book.__NEWL__During the Second Naval Revolt (Segunda Revolta da Armada), Quaresma is finally disappointed by the crude reality of the Brazilian government.__NEWL__When the revolt erupts, Quaresma takes President Floriano Peixoto's side and quickly comes back to Rio, to help the President in the confrontation.__NEWL__Upon his arrival in the capital, Quaresma is received by Floriano Peixoto, and brings him a document on difficulties of the national agriculture.__NEWL__However, Peixoto pays no attention to the document.__NEWL__As a supporter of the regime, Quaresma is put in charge of a squad, albeit his lack of military experience.__NEWL__In his squad, many of the soldiers had been forced to enlist, including his friend and guitar teacher, Ricardo Coração-dos-Outros (this character's last name is actually a pun, meaning "Heart-of-others").__NEWL__Quaresma becomes deeply disappointed when he sees the violence of the regime and its arbitrary acts.__NEWL__He soon realizes Peixoto's contempt about him and becomes even more disappointed when he kills one of the rebels.__NEWL__When the revolt is subdued, Quaresma is put in charge of prisoners.__NEWL__At that point, all his illusions about Brazil had vanished.__NEWL__After seeing the unfair executions and cruelties committed against the prisoners, he sends a letter exposing the situation to the President.__NEWL__The President, who actually had ordered those crimes, accuses Quaresma of treason and arrests him.__NEWL__Quaresma's goddaughter and Ricardo try to save him, but are not successful.__NEWL__In the end, all his projects failed: his attempt to make Tupi language official, the agricultural enterprise and his trust on the Brazilian government.__NEWL__Quaresma is finally executed by the President he admired, and for the sake of the country he loved.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6660878	Ljubezen.si	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z	33325086	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33325086	Anja and Andraž are thirteen-year-old teenagers who have the same problem; love.__NEWL__Both are wondering how to deal with this new emotion, what to do, how to approach the other person and reveal their feelings to him/her.__NEWL__Soon at the beginning, we learn that Anja's first love is Andraž, but she doesn't tell anyone, not even her best friend Lili.__NEWL__She decides to reveal her love to Andraž at the school dance, as she is sure that he feels the same way about her.__NEWL__However, at the end of the dance, he experiences a shock; Andraž does not like her, but her friend Lili, who reciprocates this feeling.__NEWL__Anja is first furious, feels betrayed and never wants to see Lili again.__NEWL__However, the very next day she finds out that her friend is sincerely in love, that Lili did not betray her, as she did not know about her crush on Andraž.__NEWL__She decides not to confess her love to Andraž and tries to forget him.__NEWL__Tilen helps her with this.__NEWL__Unfortunately, things get complicated again; Rok, who also knows Anja's secret, only accidentally reveals it.__NEWL__Because the children behave smartly, talk and resolve the problem, they remain friends.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7742364	The Interrogation of Gabriel James	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z	33242498	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33242498	The story opens in Billings, Montana where high school sophomore Gabriel James is interrogated by two policemen concerning two murders that he apparently knows about.__NEWL__The officer leading the interview is a suspicious yet sympathetic woman, and the second officer is a rude and quick to judge man whose attention to the interrogation seems to shift drastically from extreme interest to seeming apathetic.__NEWL__Their differences in style leads to several exchanges between them throughout the book.__NEWL__As the interrogation starts, Gabriel introduces his ex-girlfriend Anita and goes on to tell how he and Anita were forced to break up after her parents became aware of a camping trip the two took alone weeks before.__NEWL__This is the first of many problems Gabriel has girls and gives the reader the impression of a confused teenage boy.__NEWL__As the police continue to ask questions, they are introduced to Danny Two Bull and learn about a string of pet murders that have been occurring since the arrival of Danny.__NEWL__After transferring from a Native American reservation, Danny Two Bull joins Gabriel's high school cross country team.__NEWL__Though Danny is very reserved, he makes it known that he is there to prove that a Native American can outrun any white man.__NEWL__The pet murders are thought to be a threat towards Danny after he opens his locker to find a dead dog inside.__NEWL__As the pet murders continue, Gabriel gradually becomes more curious as to the people behind them and, in hopes of getting some information, asks a local homeless man named Durmond Williams if he has heard or seen anything.__NEWL__Durmond informs Gabriel of a pair suspicious teenage twin boys with a yellow truck who have just recently arrived in town.__NEWL__After being denied a date by a shy seemingly sheltered classmate named Raelene, Gabriel becomes obsessed with the uncovering reason behind the rejection.__NEWL__Several attempts to talk to Raelene push her away even more and this only fuels Gabriel's interest.__NEWL__The book takes a slightly creepy turn that leaves the reader with an uneasy feeling.__NEWL__As Gabriel's week prolongs the thought of Raelene turns into an obsession and he goes to her house late one night.__NEWL__While snooping around the secluded farm house he looks through a window to see Raelene naked in an aprin watching TV with her father and brother, each of them naked as well.__NEWL__Gabriel races away with more questions than he came with fueling this obsession even more.__NEWL__By now the story is coming together as flyers are being left around campus with a manifesto being signed by a one “Doc.__NEWL__Death MDD.”__NEWL__After seeing Raelene's brother with the twins in the yellow truck and the release of the flyers, Gabriel begins to suspect the three of them for the recent events.__NEWL__Determined to get more clues he proceeds to return to the secluded farm house one night.__NEWL__As he approaches the house he is attacked by a goose which in turn alarms the rather old father.__NEWL__Armed with a shot gun the man yells for Gabriel as he struggles with the steps.__NEWL__This gives time to retreat to his car all the while attempting to fight off the goose.__NEWL__Not being able to get to his car fast enough he runs straight into the twins and Raelene's brother.__NEWL__He is assaulted, immobilized and is forced to listen to the gang decide his destiny.__NEWL__After debating whether to kill or seriously damage him they decide to bring him into the house and let their father decide.__NEWL__When he gets inside he is forced into a chair, surrounded by the gang and the father begins to question his son about Gabriel.__NEWL__After discovering he is a classmate of Raelene's he sends one of the twins to move his car out of sight leaving one twin with a shotgun, Raelene's brother and the old father.__NEWL__During a discussion Gabriel manages to get a hold of the shotgun, and miraculously escape.__NEWL__The interrogation comes to an end and the officers release Gabriel.__NEWL__Feeling much of the weight lift from his shoulders he was left with the thought of the future and what legal matters still remained.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7720091	The Bridge to Never Land	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33479051	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33479051	One day Aidan Cooper and Sarah Cooper discover a secret compartment in their father's massive oak desk.__NEWL__There was a small hidden door in the desk, inside was an envelope that contains a piece of very thin, almost translucent, white paper, on which, handwritten in black ink, are a series of seemingly random lines; among them are what appear to be fragments of letters, but not enough to make sense.__NEWL__At the bottom of the page is a verse about Peter Pan and a reference to a real hotel in London.__NEWL__As it happens, the Copper family is about to embark on a trip to Europe, so the children decide that while in London, they will try to locate the hotel.__NEWL__After some careful sleuthing, they manage to discover its location, and once inside, they find another clue.__NEWL__The Bridge to Never Land takes Sarah and Aidan on a quest that challenges them to solve a series of puzzles, which gradually convince them that Peter Pan is not fiction after all.__NEWL__They discover what happened to the remainder of the starstuff cache that Molly and Peter fought to protect many years ago.__NEWL__They also find out that in the early twentieth century, Molly and the other Starcatchers embarked on one last great mission to find a way to protect Never Land, a mystical island with magical creatures and a precious starstuff supply, from the increasingly intrusive outside world.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7761640	The Roving Party	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	33480776	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33480776	John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man.__NEWL__This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre.__NEWL__With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize.__NEWL__Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the visceral intensity of his hunt.__NEWL__And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal quarry, the much-feared warrior, Mannalargenna.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4641182	5 do 12h	1998-01-01T00:00:00Z	33260633	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260633	The story is set at a time when Slovenia was still part of the common state of Yugoslavia.__NEWL__Jaka, a fourth-year high school student, is a sworn skinhead.__NEWL__He is believed to be an anarchist.__NEWL__At the heart of his life are parties until the early hours of the morning, socializing with friends and girlfriends, and fights.__NEWL__In most cases, these fights are caused by alcohol, which Jakov's team, Grega, Tork and Žagar, consume in large quantities.__NEWL__The consequences of such behavior are inevitable for the protagonist.__NEWL__He was expelled from school just before the end of his fourth year due to a large number of unjustified hours and reprimands.__NEWL__However, Jaka does not give up and decides to finish high school.__NEWL__He buries himself in books and studies all day.__NEWL__His friends help him with his studies, and his parents stand by his side all the time.__NEWL__Teachers allow him to take exams before the end of the school year and thus complete the year in front of other classmates.__NEWL__He now has plenty of time to think about his life.__NEWL__He slowly realizes that the violence is not going anywhere, that Lea, the girl he fell madly in love with, is not right for him, and he decides to enroll in history studies after serving his military service.__NEWL__The story has a happy ending as Jaka falls in love with Vanja, a longtime friend.__NEWL__So he finally finds the love he has been desperately looking for all along and eventually finds it where it has always been, right in front of his nose.__NEWL__Reading Zajc's novel, we realize that the representatives of various subcultures from the late 1980s, which we all feared and avoided, are quite ordinary people with their values, ideals, emotions and, after all, fears.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4812605	Ata je spet pijan	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z	33260639	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260639	The novel is written as a memory, from a distance, surrounded by a story from Latin America, where the first-person narrator Čatko fled from his native Slovenia because of the problems he got into.__NEWL__Namely, Ata Čatko is engaged in dirty business of forced recovery of money.__NEWL__He usually takes her away without any unpleasant consequences, but this time one of the recovered people recognized him in the newspaper and threatened him.__NEWL__In order to protect his otherwise neglected family, his father kills the person and takes him to Argentina, saying goodbye to his exciting life, which in the "new world" now represents living with a good drink, white powder and women.__NEWL__He can't go home, otherwise he doesn't even think about it.__NEWL__His wife Lola and son Tin are waiting for him at home, as well as his constant mistress, many coincidences, beer friends, bohemians, and last but not least, colleagues in the "profession" - mafia debt collectors.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8079665	Čaj s kraljico	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z	33260662	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260662	Vili Vaupotič, a young academic painter, goes to London to reap fame and success with his works of art.__NEWL__On the way across the English Channel, he sees his ideal of love and female beauty, Sandrina, with whom he has not met for a long time.__NEWL__Vili is constantly losing his paintings, but his life's journey from the countryside to a prestigious mansion, where he eventually lands as a family portraitist, ends with the betrothal of the "Queen of Egypt" seeking a rich man and shattering the myth of the perfect Sandrina.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5266924	Devet fantov in eno dekle	1963-01-01T00:00:00Z	33260836	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260836	The story takes place during the Second World War in a place along the Sava and is built in two parts.__NEWL__Before Ivan said goodbye to his girlfriend Majda, he was thinking about the secret operation they would perform that day.__NEWL__He then went to the train station to wait for Angelo, who was supposed to bring explosives for their campaign.__NEWL__But Angela didn't show up.__NEWL__So he headed towards the tent where they were gathering with rebel friends.__NEWL__Angela arrived by a later train because she had to avoid a pursuer in the city.__NEWL__Ivan was not waiting for her at the station, so she went to the barber shop to ask Milan for help.__NEWL__But there was a German soldier whom Angela found suspicious.__NEWL__In all the confusion as she tried to save herself, she forgot her briefcase with the explosive on the barber table, and successfully reached the tent herself.__NEWL__Nine boys and one girl, aged between sixteen and twenty-one, huddled here in the evening.__NEWL__There was a raging storm outside.__NEWL__Majda jumped into the tent and warned them that the Germans had been looking for them all day.__NEWL__She suggested that they run away as soon as possible, but at the same time she wanted Ivan to stay with her.__NEWL__She told him she was pregnant, but he nonetheless decided to give up his beliefs and fight the occupier and ran away with the boys and Angela.__NEWL__They were soon captured by German soldiers.__NEWL__In the second part, Metka tells the story.__NEWL__Four SS soldiers were housed in their house, so Metka had to sleep on a sofa in her parents' room.__NEWL__The parents were afraid that they would be relocated and that they would lose all their property.__NEWL__The father wanted Metka to study for the German exam, which all the children had to pass if they wanted to continue their education.__NEWL__Metka did not want to study, so she could not answer the question on the exam.__NEWL__However, everyone passed the exam.__NEWL__A few days later, towards evening, soldier Müller called Metka to the airfield to answer a difficult question about life and death in front of the gathered company.__NEWL__When Metka answered correctly, Müller was very pleased to win the bet.__NEWL__The colonel's remark about the stupidity of the Balkans greatly upset Metka's father, who swept everything he had achieved from the table in front of him with a swing.__NEWL__One morning, a completely changed Müller returned home.__NEWL__At night, Metka's father told his mother that the Germans had captured nine boys and one girl.__NEWL__They were interrogated and tortured all day and all night, but no one said anything.__NEWL__They were then taken to the forest, where they dug their own graves, and the Germans shot them into it.__NEWL__Müller was in command.__NEWL__One of the boys did not want to fall, he was shot by three, and he was still standing.__NEWL__So Müller shot him up close and before he fell, the boy looked at him mockingly.__NEWL__They then leveled the ground so that this grave would never be found.__NEWL__In the morning, it was written on the chestnut tree in front of the house that any resistance to the existing administrative order would be punished immediately.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5285852	Dnevnik Hiacinte Novak	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z	33260842	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260842	Hyacinth is a middle-aged divorcee who, one day after reading The Bridget Jones Diary, decided to start writing the diary herself.__NEWL__She is the mother of two growing adolescents, employed at the post office, where one day she meets a handsome real estate entrepreneur, Florjan Korošec.__NEWL__He gets involved in a love affair with him, which, after the "Undercover" mission, in which he and two friends, Hilda and Sara, try to expose Sarah's husband.__NEWL__During the action, Hiacinta meets Florjan, who later goes to the bar with the girls, where Sara tries to seduce him.__NEWL__Hyacinth, who meanwhile got a job at Florjan's company due to financial problems, jealously goes home, thinking that Florjan cheated on her.__NEWL__At the same time, she is tormented by the news that Florjan is married and that she may not be perfect herself, but the latter later turns out to be untrue.__NEWL__Sara continues her seduction game under the pretext that she wants to buy a seaside weekend where she could write in peace, even though she’s not really a writer at all.__NEWL__Hiacinta stands in her way, trying to get rid of her with a trick: she hides the money she stole from Florjan's safe in the trunk of her stoenka.__NEWL__When Hyacinth comes to work unsuspecting one day, Florjan and Sara and the police are waiting for her.__NEWL__She is accused of stealing money, but it later turns out that Sara is guilty of this crime, so she lands in prison and Florjan returns to Hyacinth.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5448457	Filio ni doma	1990-01-01T00:00:00Z	33260871	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260871	The novel is divided into three parts and each tells the story of one of the main characters, namely Helene Brass, her granddaughters Filio and Uria.__NEWL__However, all three stories are inextricably linked, so after reading in your head, we put together the whole story.__NEWL__The story takes place on an unnamed island, which creates a sense that it could be here and now.__NEWL__Only by the names of some people (Mare, Kate, Lukrija, etc.) can we imagine a Dalmatian island, which has been hinted at by literary historians, namely Mljet.__NEWL__After the shipwreck, 42-year-old Helena Brass, her unnamed daughter and a boy named Helena Uri find themselves on this island.__NEWL__Helena gets to know life and the unusual and cruel rules of the island in the new area.__NEWL__Namely, women and men are separated, the former live in the Upper Town, the latter in the Lower, and all are in charge of their tasks.__NEWL__The residents are dressed in costume, wash clothes, take care of food and children, and men work in the vineyards, fish market, fish.__NEWL__We are immediately shown the subordinate position of women, as they do not have the right to decide, they do not socialize with each other as in "normal" societies, there is even torture and cruel punishment of disobedient women (sodomistic rape).__NEWL__In addition, they are shown as a kind of "womb" for childbirth, as men come to them night after night, and even more cruel is that each of them is visited by a different man each time (they systematically take care of these night visits).__NEWL__Thus, reproduction is taken care of, everything is fixed, even a violent termination of pregnancy is allowed.__NEWL__Daughters can stay with their mothers and suffer the same fate as all women, and boys from the age of eight onwards are taken and taken to the Lower Town, where they are prepared for their life's tasks and work.__NEWL__All this is in favor of the "normal" functioning of the island, which is owned by a man from the mainland.__NEWL__His orders are carried out by the Island Commander.__NEWL__As a person who is not from here, Helena finds it difficult to get used to a new life, to rules that deprive her of her freedom and take away her dignity.__NEWL__However, he tries to change things for the better as he prepares women to clean their houses together, open a laundry and even a school.__NEWL__All of this leads to the punishments she has to endure, but she has protection from the Commander, who is her lover.__NEWL__Her daughter gives birth to Filio, but does not care for her, so Helena takes care of it.__NEWL__He also raises Uriah, who is then taken to the Lower Town and raised to be the new governor of the island, and this resists the sensitive boy as he sees the cruel things happening near him.__NEWL__His only bright spot is Filio, because of which she insists and who also visits her at night when her time (sexual maturity) comes.__NEWL__Although she doesn’t know who he is, she develops feelings for him and bows to life on the island.__NEWL__However, she becomes pregnant and her pregnancy is forcibly terminated, so she decides to flee to the mainland.__NEWL__Uri is left alone and some time after she becomes the manager, he too goes after her.__NEWL__Filio lives life on the mainland, becomes a painter, organizes exhibitions, and meets Uri there.__NEWL__He returns to the island when Helena is ill and buries her after her death.__NEWL__It is also strong enough then to resist past lives and memories.__NEWL__As well as the island and the rules on it are changing and more and more people are leaving it.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5511157	Fužinski bluz	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z	33260879	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260879	The story of Fužine Blues takes place on June 13, 2000.__NEWL__This day is not any day, but the day of the football match between Slovenia and Yugoslavia in the European Championship qualifiers, which ends in a draw 3: 3, or as one of the storytellers Janina says , 6: 0 for Yugoslavia or 6: 0 for themselves.__NEWL__The spatial framework has been carefully chosen, as Skubic lived in Fužine for some time.__NEWL__Fužine is a block of flats in Ljubljana, famous for its great national diversity.__NEWL__These are parallel stories of four protagonists, who are first spatially connected, as they all live on the tenth floor of the same ironworks.__NEWL__Each of them tells their own story in their own “dialect”.__NEWL__They tell about their work, friends, environment, love, random acquaintances and co-workers.__NEWL__On this day, which is even more important for each individual, each of them strives to do something different that would change his situation.__NEWL__Peter Sokič - Pero, a former heavy metal player in his early thirties, is trying to bring together his former klapa from fifteen years ago, but he is not particularly successful.__NEWL__He finally says goodbye to his youthful society, which has partly died or lost its compass, given in to addiction, and partly renounced its youthful values and settled down, settled down.__NEWL__The memory of the infamous fights and lewd "drunks" shows the personal distress of an abandoned, lonely advertiser who can't get over his unrequited love for Irena, which pushes him to the brink of madness in drunken hallucinations full of violence.__NEWL__Igor Ščinkavec, a real estate agent in his mid-forties, is inflatingly talking about concluding contracts with his clients.__NEWL__Together with his southern assistant Zoki, he tries to become an apartment seller overnight as a bus driver, gets involved in an absurd dispute with the Montenegrin mobster, Janina's uncle Mladen Mirković, and gives the impression of an invulnerable, tough and uncompromising businessman.__NEWL__Sixteen-year-old Janina Pašković, a Montenegrin father after her father, is a typical high school student, spends her days in bars, avoids school obligations with friends and strives to become as popular and accepted as possible among her peers.__NEWL__While searching for his own identity, he unexpectedly discovers tenderness and sexuality in the embrace of his best friend Daša.__NEWL__Vera Erjavec is a retired professor of Slovene who is interested in graffiti on the walls of Ljubljana and therefore passionately describes them and finds out their meaning.__NEWL__He is constantly thinking about the language and its grammar, about the correctness of the language and about the young people who use that language, about his failed marriage and about his former neighbor Adam Zaman, to whom he cultivates unrecognized feelings.__NEWL__Under the pretext of the spatial problems of the faculty department, she visits him on this day after many years, but she returns home without any success and, even more confused than before, fails to recognize her repressed eroticism.__NEWL__All four heroes seek their place in the community, trying to find meaning in their miserable lives, but each of them is too weak in himself to guide and tame his destiny, as they cling too much to the past and fail to face the present.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5388724	Erik Menneskesøn	33305848	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33305848	Erik Menneskesøn is a 13-year-old retrieved to Asgard to help liberate the goddess of youth/eternal life Idun from the Jotuns.__NEWL__His journey takes him through Asgard, the underworld and the land of the dead Hel as well as Jötunheimr.__NEWL__With him, he has the daughter of Thor; Þruðr(Trud).__NEWL__Erik goes through his quest and he starts to fall in love with Trud, and she with him. "__NEWL__The Fight Over the Sword" takes place on Laesoe where Erik is on holiday with his girlfriend Marie from his school.__NEWL__Here he finds the sword Gram.__NEWL__The Jotuns are trying to get the sword and Odin comes in disguise to help protect the sword.__NEWL__In "Kvasers Blood" Erik once again becomes intertwined in the world of the gods.__NEWL__This time, however, it is the Jotuns who wants Erik's assistance.__NEWL__Útgarða-Loki is trying to get Erik to see things from the Jotuns' perspective and together with his daughter, Gunnlöð tries to get skjaldemøden back from the gods.__NEWL__The last volume, "the fate of the gods", is about Ragnarok, which literally means "Fate of the gods" and is the end of the world.__NEWL__On a holiday in Iceland Erik experiences an earthquake and a flood that strikes him out.__NEWL__When he wakes, he is once more in Asgard.__NEWL__In Asgard, the Jotuns are attacking and everything indicates that Ragnarok is in progress.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7760801	The Ring of McAllister	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z	33307407	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33307407	Will Lassiter is a seventeen-year-old who lives in the town of Red Fork.__NEWL__When his neighbor, Dr. Octavio Perez, vanishes from the mysterious Stone Manor, Lassiter becomes enveloped in a mystery that involves the late Algernon McAllister, a well-known patron of the town.__NEWL__The protagonist locates Perez, rescues his daughter, and discovers the secret of the abandoned mansion.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2943238	Wind Rider's Oath	2004-05-01T00:00:00Z	33252190	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33252190	At the end of The War God’s Own, Bahzell had accepted the surrender of the much larger force commanded by the Sothoii Baron Tellian.__NEWL__Bahzell, Brandark and Kaeritha are now visiting the Baron's castle from which the baron rules a large portion of the Sothoii Empire.__NEWL__The surrender by Baron Tellian has caused political unrest within the Sothoii nation as does the presence of Bahzell and his entourage of Hradani, members of most recent chapter of the War God's monks.__NEWL__Bahzell and his fellow Hradani run to the aid of the remnant of a herd of Coursers who were attacked by minions of one of the evil gods.__NEWL__For centuries these phenomenal, sentient horses have been revered by the Sothoii.__NEWL__They sometimes form lifelong mental links with a few select Sothoii warriors who are then known as "Windriders".__NEWL__Bahzell is the first non-Sothoii to become a windrider and rides a Courser who, like Bahzell, has become a champion of the war god.__NEWL__This, along with the obvious effort and sacrifice the Hradani have made to save the Coursers does much to alleviate the political tensions.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Kaeritha, another war god champion, obeys her call to the Sothoii Warmaids, who are keen that there is no diminution of their legal rights.__NEWL__The devotees of the vile gods continue - as a third strand of their long-planned attack on the Sothoii - to manipulate and attack in Baron Tellian’s own lands.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3283718	The Mark of Athena	2012-10-02T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41	Greece	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q41	Greece	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33355795	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33355795	Six months after the events of The Lost Hero, Leo Valdez has constructed a flying trireme named Argo II, for use in the quest to Greece and Rome to stop Gaea from awakening.__NEWL__Leo, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, and Annabeth Chase, accompanied by Coach Hedge, arrive at Camp Jupiter to rendezvous with Percy Jackson and Roman demigods Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque.__NEWL__Camp Jupiter's praetor Reyna tells Annabeth that in order to unite Greek and Roman demigods against Gaea, they have to retrieve the Athena Parthenos, a giant statue of Athena that was stolen by the Romans from the Greeks in ancient times.__NEWL__The statue can only be retrieved by the demigod children of Athena through the help of the Mark of Athena, and no one has succeeded.__NEWL__Their conversation is interrupted by an Eidolon, who possesses Leo and forces him to attack the Roman camp.__NEWL__This causes the paranoid augur, Octavian, to convince the Romans that the Greeks are a threat and have to be destroyed.__NEWL__The seven demigods escape Camp Jupiter and briefly land near the Great Salt Lake.__NEWL__While there, Leo meets Nemesis, who gives him a fortune cookie that will help him if he breaks it, though doing so has consequences.__NEWL__Then, the group heads to Kansas, where Percy, Jason, and Piper disembark to find Bacchus, who tells them that they should find Phorcys.__NEWL__Gaea sends Eidolons to possess Percy and Jason in Kansas but they are repelled by Piper's charmspeak.__NEWL__When the demigods meet Phorcys and his sister, Keto, at the Georgia Aquarium, they turn out to be hostile, and the demigods are forced to battle them.__NEWL__Throughout the journey, tensions rise between Hazel, Frank, and Leo, especially when Leo discovers that Hazel's previous boyfriend was Leo's identical-looking great-grandfather.__NEWL__The group also learn that Nico di Angelo, who has been captured by the Giants during his travel to find the Doors of Death, is dying and must be saved.__NEWL__While searching for the Mark of Athena at Fort Sumter in Charleston, the demigods are ambushed by the Romans, but Reyna decides to let Annabeth continue her search for the Athena Parthenos, telling her that their next encounter will not be friendly.__NEWL__Annabeth finds a map about the mark of Athena, and returns to the ship.__NEWL__While crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Argo II is attacked by the Scolopendra, one of Keto's children, and Leo, Frank, and Hazel are briefly sent underwater to Chiron's brother, the Ichthyocentaurs.__NEWL__While traveling to Rome, they dodge Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and sail through the Mediterranean Sea, confronting Chrysaor along the way.__NEWL__There, the group splits up: Hedge guards the ship; Percy, Jason, and Piper scout the Colosseum; Frank, Hazel, and Leo search for Nico; and Annabeth looks for the Athena Parthenos.__NEWL__Percy and Jason defeat Ephialtes and Otis, the twin Giants who captured Nico, with the help of Bacchus.__NEWL__Frank, Hazel, and Leo are trapped by the Eidolons underground, but Leo uses his fortune cookie to bail them out.__NEWL__Annabeth, meanwhile, faces a variety of challenges, eventually confronting Arachne and defeats her using trickery, pushing her into Tartarus.__NEWL__The demigods secure the Athena Parthenos and save Nico, however Arachne uses her remaining silk and pulls Annabeth and Percy into Tartarus; Percy hanging on the edge, asks Nico to meet them at the other side of the Doors of Death and falls into the abyss.__NEWL__Leo realizes that Percy and Annabeth's fall are the "consequences" mentioned by Nemesis and feels personally responsible.__NEWL__The remaining members set sail for Greece.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4705791	Awakened	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33303850	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303850	Zoey and Stark reassure their connection by having sex under the wishing tree and become connected.__NEWL__Zoey finds out that she wields the ancient magick of the fey and can bring back old fey that serve her elements, prompting Queen Sgiach to ask her to stay on Skye indefinitely and be her successor.__NEWL__Aphrodite and Darius leave Skye, but Zoey and Stark decide to stay a little longer while Stark recuperates.__NEWL__Zoey continuously senses Darkness on Skye, leading her to believe that she cannot hide from Darkness anymore.__NEWL__Neferet returns to the House of Night.__NEWL__In an attempt to draw Zoey back from Skye after Kalona's failed mission, Neferet kills Jack as a debt payment to Darkness.__NEWL__Finding out about Jack's death, Zoey realizes that no matter how good she feels on Skye, Tulsa is her home and she has responsibilities as a High Priestess and returns.__NEWL__Kalona finds out that he can enter Stark's mind because of the immortality he breathed into him.__NEWL__For the same reason, he realizes that the oath he swore to Neferet doesn't apply to him anymore as he hasn't been fully an immortal since his return.__NEWL__Neferet allows Zoey to light Jack's funeral pyre and during the ceremony, Neferet asks Zoey for forgiveness to regain everyone's trust.__NEWL__Zoey accepts the fake apology even though she sees through Neferet, but many other people think the apology is genuine.__NEWL__Neferet summons Darkness to drag Rephaim to the funeral and accuses him of being allied with Darkness and Stevie Rae for being allied with Rephaim, then orders the Sons of Erebus to kill both of them.__NEWL__Kalona interferes and faces the Sons of Erebus with Rephaim.__NEWL__The two fight, but Rephaim only defends himself rather than attacking the warriors.__NEWL__Stevie Rae asks her friends to cast a circle to stop the battle and save Rephaim.__NEWL__She asks Kalona for his son's freedom and he grants it and takes off.__NEWL__A white feather falls from him, symbolizing his good deed.__NEWL__The feather breaks Stevie Rae's concentration and Dragon Lankford lunges to kill Rephaim.__NEWL__Convinced by Stevie Rae's words, Zoey steps between them and stops Dragon, arguing that Rephaim is on the same side, having chosen the path of Light.__NEWL__Nyx appears then and forgives Rephaim, bespelling him to take human form at night and raven form during the day, to atone for killing Anastasia.__NEWL__She also talks to Damien and Dragon, to convince them to move on, then disappears.__NEWL__Rephaim goes to Dragon and offers his service to pay for the grief he had caused, but Dragon rejects him.__NEWL__When Zoey tries to calm Dragon, he lashes at her for her age.__NEWL__Because Neferet and Dragon do not accept him at the House of Night, Zoey, her friends, and the red fledglings leave to start a new House of Night on their own in the tunnels, with Zoey being the "vampyre queen", Stevie Rae being the High Priestess, Aphrodite being the Prophetess, Kramisha being the Poet Laureate, and all the red fledglings and Zoey's friends being the students.__NEWL__Towards the end of the book, Neferet cooperates with the white bull and intends on sacrificing Sylvia Redbird, but ends up killing Linda Heffer (who had recently left Zoey's stepfather due to his infidelity) to create a Vessel for her (someone who has to obey her completely) as a weapon to use against Zoey.__NEWL__Meanwhile, in the Otherworld, Heath is given the opportunity by Nyx, to be the lost soul in this Vessel and he chooses it over being reborn in the real world or remaining in the Otherworld; this way, he can help Zoey in the modern world.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Stark and Zoey are making out and preparing to have sex for their third time, but Stark becomes aggressive, which is unlike himself.__NEWL__He bites Zoey, but she is finally able to stop him (It is implied that it was Kalona, not Stark, in Stark's soul, who took over and got aggressive).__NEWL__When they go to sleep, Zoey has a dream where she learns of her mother's death and realizes that her mother really cared for her.__NEWL__The book ends with Zoey waking up with this new realization and beginning to cry and grieve for her mother's death, and Stark being there to comfort her.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5265200	Destined	2011-10-25T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33304926	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33304926	The book is told from no less than 11 points of view, respectively Zoey, Stevie Rae, Rephaim, Kalona, Stark, Aurox, Neferet, Shaunee, Lenobia, Dragon, and Erik.__NEWL__In the prologue, Zoey is seen with Stark.__NEWL__She notices Darkness on him and commands Spirit to send the Darkness away.__NEWL__Zoey is unsure about the death of her mother.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Aurox kills a human person.__NEWL__The white bull comes and tells Aurox and Neferet that he can create chaos.__NEWL__Neferet plans to use Aurox to kill the white bull and rule the world as the Goddess of Vampyres.__NEWL__Zoey and her friends return to school where she blindsides Neferet by initiating a Skype meeting with Duantia, the leader of the High Council.__NEWL__She gives her version of the events in Awakened and puts Neferet in the uncomfortable position of having to accept Rephaim at the House of Night.__NEWL__Next, she asks for a second House of Night under the Tulsa depot, but although Stevie Rae is accepted as the High Priestess of all the red fledglings by the Council, Duantia doesn't give a full answer regarding the request.__NEWL__In the garden, Rephaim is visited by three of his Raven Mocker brothers, sent to him by Kalona to use his supposed misery and consequent bitterness to spy for him and even turn to Darkness.__NEWL__They are stunned to see him in his human form.__NEWL__Their meeting is interrupted by Aurox who kills one of them and proceeds to attack Rephaim.__NEWL__He is stopped by Stevie Rae, but not before she, Rephaim and Zoey see him half-shift into a bull.__NEWL__Neferet appears and diffuses the conflict, calling Aurox her gift from the Goddess.__NEWL__Erik hears the commotion, but he falls under the Tracker compulsion before he can actually intervene.__NEWL__He finds Shaylin, a blind girl, and she makes him stumble over the traditional lines, so that when he finally marks her and she reveals a red Mark he blames himself.__NEWL__Shaylin recovers her eyesight and gains her first gift, the very rare True Sight, which allows a person to 'see' others in colors.__NEWL__Confused, Erik decides to take her to Stevie Rae.__NEWL__At the school, Zoey receives a visit from her grandmother, who confirms Linda's death and leaves for a seven-day period of mourning.__NEWL__Zoey runs off to mourn and Aurox finds her.__NEWL__He offers her a Kleenex, just like Heath used to.__NEWL__At the bus, Erik presents them with the girl.__NEWL__Neferet appears and Shaylin pretends to faint, later telling them she had the general color of dead fish eyes.__NEWL__The next day at school, Rephaim feels the call of his father and calls Zoey to stand witness to the meeting.__NEWL__Kalona appears on the wall and offers them a truce against Neferet, which Zoey reluctantly accepts.__NEWL__As the discussion takes place during her first class, with Neferet, she skips it altogether.__NEWL__When she returns to the school building for her second period she finds out that the Council has sent Thanatos, a vampyre Priestess with an affinity for Death, to report on the situation at the House of Night, much to Neferet's displeasure.__NEWL__As Thanatos too can see the threads of Darkness, Zoey finds her sympathetic and eventually reveals her concerns about Neferet and her mother's death.__NEWL__Thanatos offers to perform a reveal ritual at the place of Linda's death on the fifth day of mourning.__NEWL__Back at the depot, Zoey and her friends sit down to discuss the events.__NEWL__Rephaim finds unexpected support in Shaunee, who empathizes with him because of her father, but this leads to a break between the Twins, as Erin doesn't understand why Shaunee feels so strongly about this.__NEWL__Two more prophecies, one from Kramisha and one from Aphrodite, warn of Rephaim's death at the reveal ritual, probably at the hand of Dragon, so Thanatos asks him to remain at the House of Night, which he doesn't obey.__NEWL__While wondering in the tunnels, Shaunee spots Kalona, waiting for his son.__NEWL__Shaunee gives him her iPhone so that he can contact him until she can get him another phone.__NEWL__Neferet finds out about the reveal ritual and sends Aurox to intervene.__NEWL__During the ritual, he charges out in his bull form but is stopped by Dragon, who sacrifices himself to save Rephaim.__NEWL__The ritual continues anyway; Zoey and her grandmother discover the real circumstances of Linda's murder.__NEWL__Dragon's death is what closes up the ritual, but Rephaim is seriously injured as well.__NEWL__Kalona arrives on the scene – having been called by Stevie Rae – and he expresses regret, asking Nyx not to kill Rephaim for his own mistakes.__NEWL__The request is granted, Rephaim regains consciousness.__NEWL__Thanatos then proceeds to Dragon and guides him to the Otherworld.__NEWL__A gateway is opened and everybody can see him happily reunited with Anastasia.__NEWL__Thanatos decides to become the new High Priestess of the Tulsa House of Night.__NEWL__Much to everybody's surprise, Kalona pledges himself as Thanatos's Warrior.__NEWL__As they leave the scene, Zoey and her friends see a vision of Nyx, who reminds them that the fight will continue.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17156977	The Grounding of Group 6	1983-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	33391440	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33391440	Five wayward teens are sent by their parents to an exclusive picturesque boarding school in Vermont to be killed.__NEWL__They are: Nat Rittenhouse, the school’s hired assassin and leader of 'group of 6'; ends up bonding with the group, tells them what is meant to happen to them, and helps them to survive in the woods near the school.__NEWL__Later, while the entire faculty is out hunting for them, they enter the school and find information about their parents' deal with the school.__NEWL__The group then returns to the woods.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7741069	The Hunter	1999-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q408	Australia	33392852	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33392852	The book opens with the arrival in Tasmania of a man with the assumed identity of "Martin David, Naturalist" (referred to as M in the narrative).__NEWL__He is met at the home of Lucy Armstrong, where he is staying, by her children, Sass and Bike.__NEWL__The following morning, he meets Jack Mindy and is escorted up the escarpment towards the plateau.__NEWL__He learns that Jarrah Armstrong, the husband of Lucy and father to her children, has been missing in the area since last summer.__NEWL__M meets Lucy for the first time at the home.__NEWL__Against his own conviction that her father is dead, he promises to Sass that he will try to find him.__NEWL__Over the next few weeks he makes two excursions into the wilderness, for the last confirmed sighting of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), but returns from each without success.__NEWL__Arriving back he finds Lucy "drug addled and confused" and that Sass has rummaged through his belongings after suspecting him of lying about her father.__NEWL__M again ventures several times to the plateau, and each time he returns to the house he observes Lucy's condition gradually improving.__NEWL__During one he discovers presumed remains of Jarrah Armstrong; in another, he encounters the print of the thylacine and fails to shoot what he suspects is the creature.__NEWL__On his return, he receives a message calling him away from Tasmania; as he leaves the family he admits to himself that he will miss them.__NEWL__After a prolonged absence, M arrives back in Tasmania to find the Armstrong house empty.__NEWL__Mindy's wife relates that during his absence Sass was admitted to a children's hospital in Sydney, having been involved in a house fire that left her severely burned.__NEWL__Lucy, suffering from a mental breakdown, was placed into a mental hospital and Bike was put into foster care.__NEWL__M returns to the escarpment, now patrolled by National Park people, and spends the following weeks subsisting in the forest.__NEWL__He comes across a camp set up by two adolescents —"Small" and "Tall"—and stalks them until he comes across the suspected "lair" of the thylacine.__NEWL__After a time he emerges from the lair and shoots the animal, killing it.__NEWL__He dissects it and then burns the body.__NEWL__On his return journey down the escarpment he encounters Tall and Small, who are unaware of his real purpose or actions.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3797230	The Unfortunates	1969-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	17878179	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17878179	A sportswriter is sent to a city (identifiable through landmarks as Nottingham) on an assignment, only to find himself confronted by ghosts from his past.__NEWL__As he attempts to report an association football match, memories of his friend, a tragic victim of cancer, haunt his mind.__NEWL__The city visited remains unnamed, however the novel contains an accurate description of Nottingham landmarks, its streetscape, and its environment in 1969, with additional recallings of 1959.__NEWL__The football ground in the novel is obviously Nottingham Forest's City Ground, whence the fictional football club 'City' comes.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7451018	Senselessness	2004-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q792	El Salvador	17878308	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17878308	A sex-obsessed lush of a writer is employed by the Catholic Church to edit and tidy up a 1,100-page report on the army's massacre and torture of the indigenous villagers a decade earlier.__NEWL__The writer becomes mesmerized by the poetic phrases written by the indigenous people and becomes increasingly paranoid and frightened, not only by the spellbinding words he must read, but also by the murders and generals that run the country.__NEWL__The country, never named, is identifiable as Guatemala through the mention of two presidents, Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo and Efrain Rios Montt.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7735336	The Frog King	2002-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17879621	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17879621	Harry Driscoll is an editorial assistant living in New York.__NEWL__He works for a major publishing house, but is failing to make an impression by not taking his job seriously.__NEWL__He constantly arrives at the office late and intoxicated.__NEWL__He is bitter, cynical and troubled but very charming.__NEWL__The only thing he (secretly) cares about is his long suffering girlfriend - Evie; but he is unable to commit, be faithful or tell her he loves her.__NEWL__Soon his self-destructive actions will send his life into a rapid descent.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5190151	Crusader	1999-10-15T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q812	Florida	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17843812	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17843812	The central character in Crusader is 15-year-old Roberta Ritter, who lives in south Florida with her widowed father.__NEWL__Roberta is an aspiring journalist, but works after school and on the weekends at Arcane, the virtual-reality arcade run by her father and uncle.__NEWL__Roberta is apathetic towards many facets of her life.__NEWL__Her father acknowledges her presence, instead spending much of his free time with his girlfriend, Suzie.__NEWL__Roberta doesn't approve of the games offered in Arcane, which are all filled with over-the-top violence and covert racism, nor does she like having to deal with the arcade's often unsavory clientele.__NEWL__Roberta deals with coming of age problems, criticized by her cousin's popular friend Nina for her disinterest in make-up and never having menstruated.__NEWL__She also is forced to come to terms with finding many of the people around her to be motivated by self-interest and the deaths of both an elderly friend, Winston Peters, and her mother.__NEWL__Roberta takes it upon herself, with the occasional help of some friends and her high school journalism teacher, to investigate a series of incidents at the mall where Arcane is located.__NEWL__These incidents range from hate crimes perpetrated against vendors, to rumors that the mall developers are planning to have the mall burned down in an insurance scam.__NEWL__She also begins to dig into the facts surrounding her mother's murder.__NEWL__Roberta likes the idea of muckraking as a way of unveiling hidden injustice, but also becomes disillusioned with both her teacher and the local news station after witnessing the inability to pursue real journalism.__NEWL__Roberta discovers that on the day that her mother died, her father owed drug money to a local dealer.__NEWL__The dealer came to their family arcade while only Roberta's mother was working to collect what her father owed him.__NEWL__When there was not enough money in the register, the dealer shot Roberta's mother and fled the scene.__NEWL__After discovering her father is responsible for the death of her mother, Roberta separates herself from her father and moves on.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6937706	Murder at School	17723324	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17723324	Oakington is one of the lesser-known public schools in England, and Dr Roseveare, its headmaster, has been trying hard for seven years to improve its reputation.__NEWL__When, in the winter term of 1927-1928, one of the pupils is killed in his sleep by an old gas fitting falling down from the ceiling he contacts Colin Revell, an Old Boy, to discreetly investigate the matter.__NEWL__Not entirely convinced that there was no foul play involved but unable to pin down a motive on anyone, Revell leaves again after a few weeks, and most of the evidence is destroyed by the installation of electricity in the whole building.__NEWL__A few months later Revell is shocked to learn that the deceased boy's brother has also died under mysterious circumstances—he seems to have jumped into the school's indoor swimming pool late at night after the water had been drained—and travels to Oakington of his own accord.__NEWL__Now it turns out that the closest relative of the two brothers, who have been orphans for years, is actually a teacher at Oakington, and that he stands to inherit a small fortune.__NEWL__At the same time Revell falls in love with that teacher's beautiful young wife.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7960601	Waiting for the Galactic Bus	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17725250	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17725250	The tale begins with two college-age brothers, Barion and Coyul, members of an advanced alien world.__NEWL__Their race is endowed with the power to manipulate physical matter with their minds, a power which is exploited incessantly by the young adults.__NEWL__An accident strands the brothers on Earth, which at the time has no human race.__NEWL__The brothers hope for rescue, but eventually grow despondent.__NEWL__In their free time, they cause a series of evolutionary changes in the indigenous primates of Earth, which eventually lead to the blossoming of human civilization.__NEWL__The brothers grow fond of their project, which they ardently monitor, intervening when necessary.__NEWL__With all the progress they are able to endow humans with, they are never able to rid them of the dim memory of primal darkness, causing a permanent schism between intellect and emotion, which is termed "spiritual schizophrenia".__NEWL__Humans have an insatiable need to decipher the meaning of life, a thirst which leads to stubborn belief systems and immense amounts of violence.__NEWL__Eons later, the brothers' creation is in danger due to an unlikely courtship.__NEWL__Charity Stovall is a passionately religious young woman from a small American town.__NEWL__She is poised to marry Roy Stride, a violent young fascist.__NEWL__The young couple is oblivious to the fact that if they were to bear a child, it could possibly be more destructive than Hitler to human culture and possibly humanity itself.__NEWL__Subsequently, the two brothers literally put the duo through hell to keep them apart, subjecting them to outrageous scenarios beyond their control.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14980804	A Picture of Freedom	1997-03-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17725587	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17725587	The book is written in the form of a diary kept by Clotee, a young slave girl on a Virginia plantation in 1859.__NEWL__Clotee secretly teaches herself to read and write while fanning William, her owner's young son, during his lessons with his mother Miz Lilly.__NEWL__Clotee is discovered by Mr Harms, the tutor, who is actually an abolitionist working to help slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.__NEWL__When Clotee is given the opportunity to escape, she must decide whether to run away to freedom or stay behind to help other slaves escape.__NEWL__Clotee's best friend on the plantation is a very strong girl named Spicy.__NEWL__Spicy desperately wants to change her name to Rose (the name her mother picked out for her), but is forced to accept the name given by her owners.__NEWL__Clotee later writes in Spicy's Bible, the only keepsake that Spicy has from her mother, that Spicy's name is actually Rose.__NEWL__Spicy is also in love with Hince, the person who Clotee calls her "brother-friend".__NEWL__Clotee and Spicy are the property of "Mas' Henley," a cruel man.__NEWL__While Master Henley never whips or beats Clotee in the book, he does strike Spicy across the face in the final chapter.__NEWL__Mistress Lilly Henley is a weak, foolish woman and a disinterested mother.__NEWL__Clotee's mother was Lilly Henley's personal maid, but Master Henley forced his wife to sell her maid; Clotee's mother later died far from her daughter.__NEWL__Clotee's father is not present in the story as he drowned in the river before she was born.__NEWL__Mistress Lilly often tries to make Clotee her little pet, claiming that Clotee's mother was a very good friend of hers.__NEWL__Clotee always finds a way to decline and Lilly soon gives up, taking another housemaid under her wing and trying to turn the household servants against each other.__NEWL__When Ely Harms is driven off the Henley Plantation, Clotee takes his place as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.__NEWL__Clotee comes up with a plan so that Mr Harms didn't get arrested.__NEWL__Clotee eventually runs away; we later learn that she has become a teacher.__NEWL__She also keeps up correspondence with William Henley, who becomes an abolitionist as well.__NEWL__Clotee dies at the age of 92, and the book ends with the quote from her gravestone: "Freedom is more than a word".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817746	Tom Swift and His Air Scout	1919-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17725634	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17725634	World War I still rages on in Europe, and Tom Swift is still inventing wartime technology, but inspiration comes in the form of infatuation: while taking Mary Nestor for a brief flight, he is unable to communicate due to the noise of the engine, which sets Tom onto the track of developing a totally silent airship.__NEWL__While Mary Nestor was the spark, Tom intends to offer this to the United States government for use on the western front.__NEWL__While this is still a germ of an idea, Tom is approached by Mr. Gale and Mr. Ware, representatives of the Universal Flying Machine Company, a competing airship manufacturer.__NEWL__Tom is offered a lucrative salary to join the firm, but Tom is uninterested in the money.__NEWL__Tom's refusal infuriates the men, and events are set in motion, which include the (accidental) kidnapping of Mr. Nestor, Mary's father.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5499750	Free Baseball	2006-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17973693	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17973693	Felix is a Cuban boy who came to the USA with his mother when he was three years old.__NEWL__He has a passion for baseball and wins two tickets to a minor league baseball game via a radio competition.__NEWL__Going to the game with his babysitter, they become separated when Felix learns that the opposing team has a Cuban player, believing that he might be able to share information about Felix's father, a famous baseball player on the Cuban national team who stayed behind when Felix and his mother emigrated.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7658405	Swindle	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17865380	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17865380	A smart, young boy named Griffin Bing decides to invite his entire class grade over for a sleepover in an old, abandoned house that is slated to be demolished after the town's plan for using as a new space in their town to make a skate park was thrown out because of their youth.__NEWL__However, on the night of the sleepover, only Griffin and his best friend Ben Slovak show up.__NEWL__Griffin finds a vintage baseball card.__NEWL__The card was a 1920 Babe Ruth trading card worth $974,000.__NEWL__S. Wendell Palomino, or Swindle as the boys call him, stiffed them and gave Griffin only 120 dollars for the card.__NEWL__Griffin gave half to Ben.__NEWL__The boys attempt to steal the card from a safe in Palomino's shop, but it has been moved.__NEWL__After discovering that it is in his house, they group up with a few other people and decide to steal the card back in an elaborate heist.__NEWL__The team consists of Griffin, Ben, Melissa, Savannah, and Pitch, but Darren blackmails them into letting him also join the team.__NEWL__They steal the card, but leave a little evidence to their identity, and they are caught.__NEWL__However, news of Swindle's swindling comes out in the newspaper, and he does not press charges-instead, he gets a dose of karma and his shop does not see many visitors anymore.__NEWL__The card goes on auction, selling for 974,000 dollars, with the money eventually going to a town museum and the skate park.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q27463	Strait is the Gate	1909-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	17930827	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17930827	The story is set in a French north coast town.__NEWL__Jerome and Alissa, cousins, as 10- to 11-year-olds make an implicit commitment of undying affection for each other.__NEWL__However, in reaction to her mother's infidelities and from an intense religious impression, Alissa develops a rejection of human love.__NEWL__Nevertheless, she is happy to enjoy Jerome's intellectual discussions and keeps him hanging on to her affection.__NEWL__Jerome thereby fails to recognize the real love of Alissa's sister Juliette, who ends up making a fairly unsatisfactory marriage with M. Tessiere as a sacrifice to her sister Alissa's love for Jerome.__NEWL__Jerome believes he has a commitment of marriage from Alissa, but she gradually withdraws into greater religious intensity, rejects Jerome and refuses to see him for longer and longer stretches of time.__NEWL__Eventually she dies in Paris from an unknown malady which is almost self-imposed.__NEWL__The ending of the novel occurs ten years after Alissa's death with the meeting of Jerome and Juliette.__NEWL__Juliette seems content to have a happy life with five children and a husband, but their conversation together in a room that resembles Alissa's concerns whether or not one can hold onto a love that is unrequited; as Jerome still loves Alissa, so it would seem that Juliette still loves Jerome, though both loves are equally as impossible.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7721536	The Case of the Stick	17932670	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17932670	Damião (pronounced Da-mi-ow) is a young man who escapes from a seminary.__NEWL__Afraid that if he returns home, his father will force him to return to the seminary, he goes to ask help of Miss Rita, a widow and the lover of Damião's godfather, João Carneiro.__NEWL__She agrees to help him, and he hides in her house, where she has a number of girls working for her.__NEWL__When Rita asks why he does not speak with his father, Damião tells Rita that his father does not listen to anyone.__NEWL__Rita suggests that he seek help from his godfather.__NEWL__At first, Damião resists, but eventually agrees, and João Carneiro is sent for.__NEWL__While they wait for João Carneiro at Rita's house, Damião tells jokes to the girls.__NEWL__In one of them, a slave named Lucrécia, is distracted from her work.__NEWL__Seeing this, Rita threatens to beat Lucrécia with a stick, the usual punishment, if she does not finish her work.__NEWL__Feeling sympathy for the small scared black girl Damião decides that if Lucrécia does not finish the work, he will try to protect her, but says nothing.__NEWL__João Carneiro arrives and Rita tries to convince him to intercede with Damião's father.__NEWL__She is insistent, and sends him off.__NEWL__Then she tells Damião to go eat dinner.__NEWL__Some local women come to Rita's house for coffee and conversation.__NEWL__After the women leave later in the day, Damião becomes increasingly nervous and, certain that if he remains at Rita's house, his father will find him and send him back to the seminary, he decides to try to escape.__NEWL__Clad in a chasuble, he begs Rita for some plain clothing.__NEWL__Laughing, she tells him to relax, and that everything will turn out well.__NEWL__But soon a note from João arrives with the news that the father is unconvinced.__NEWL__Damião sees that Rita is his only hope.__NEWL__She takes a pen and paper and writes a note to João telling him that if he cannot convince the father, they will never see each other again.__NEWL__Then Rita goes to the collect the work from the girls.__NEWL__Seeing that Lucrécia has not finished her work, she takes Lucrécia by the ear and tells Damião to fetch the stick.__NEWL__He is torn between his desire to help the girl, who begs him for help, and his desire to escape the seminary, he feels remorse, but gives Miss Rita the stick.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7730290	The Disappearing Dwarf	1983-02-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17691282	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17691282	Professor Wurzle, a know-it-all scientist, inveigles Jonathan, the master cheeseman of the High Valley, into accompanying him on a trip downriver.__NEWL__Wurzle's real plan is to revisit Hightower Castle, from which the heroes routed Selznak in the previous novel.__NEWL__There the pair discover a treasure map and encounter Miles the Magician, a travelling wizard, in a nearby inn.__NEWL__Miles alerts them that the Squire, a linkman they befriended in the previous novel, has disappeared.__NEWL__Learning that Selznak was seen nearby at the time they fear the worst.__NEWL__The trio travel to the Territory, ruled by the Squire's father.__NEWL__There they once again encounter linkmen poets Bufo and Gump, as well as Twickenham the elf, who flies the mysterious elfin airship.__NEWL__Twickenham and Miles determine that the Squire has accidentally activated the Lumbog Globe, a magical paperweight allowing travel into the land of Balumnia.__NEWL__Balumnia can also be reached through magical doors, using one Jonathan, Ahab, the Professor, Miles, Bufo, and Gump enter Balumnia.__NEWL__The group has adventures as they make their way to Landsend, a major port and subject of the treasure map.__NEWL__The dark presence of Selznak and an omnipresent, sinister witch is mitigated by light encounters with an inept stage magician, and an extraordinarily extended panegyric to the virtues of coffee.__NEWL__In Landsend the adventurers encounter the natural fool Dooly with his grandfather Theophile Escargot, who trades in Balumnia using his marvellous submarine.__NEWL__After searching for the treasure, the group splits and Jonathan, Ahab, and the Professor find themselves once again menaced by the evil Selznak, who is plotting to use the Lumbog Globe to terrorize the High Valley.__NEWL__As in the previous novel, however, unexpected allies such as the Strawberry Baron and Cap'n Binky of the magical blend prove crucial in resolving the plot.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7711918	The 47th Samurai	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17692816	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17692816	The story begins with Bob Lee now living in Idaho.__NEWL__There along with his wife, former wife of his spotter Donny Fenn, he is cultivating his land by using a scythe.__NEWL__The story starts while Bob Lee is cutting away at his land with the scythe while an expensive car pulls up.__NEWL__Bob Lee is aggravated by this, since his previous encounters with such cars and men in them have led him into troublesome situations.__NEWL__Having this predisposition to the men within the car, Bob Lee confronts them to make them leave him and his family alone.__NEWL__Instead he finds a man roughly the same age as himself, looking for Bob Lee, since he is the son of the man that was killed by Bob's father during the battle of Iwo Jima.__NEWL__Here the book changes to the situations that led to the awarding of the Medal of Honor, to Earl Swagger during a battle on Iwo Jima.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5332749	Echo Round His Bones	1967-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17711632	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17711632	Captain Nathan Hansard is an officer of the United States Army in the near future, when a machine has been developed to transmit matter instantly.__NEWL__The United States has created a Mars base, Camp Jackson Mars, to which supplies and personnel are transmitted regularly.__NEWL__Captain Hansard, stationed at Camp Jackson Earth, is reassigned there and thus is transmitted.__NEWL__Hansard, however, discovers an unknown side effect of the process.__NEWL__He is not on Mars but remains on Earth in a phantom state; unable to be perceived by anyone in the original world.__NEWL__He is able to walk through buildings and swim through solid ground.__NEWL__He can only fully interact with other copies of people or items sent through the matter transmitter.__NEWL__Air and water are available near another transmitter that sends these to Mars, but he has no food.__NEWL__He is pursued by a group of soldiers in the same situation who have turned to cannibalism, waiting nearby to kill other newly created duplicates.__NEWL__Hansard is saved when he finds a friendly group of two duplicates of the transmitter's elderly and wheelchair-using inventor, Panofsky, and three copies of Panofsky's wife, Bridgetta.__NEWL__She has adopted various roles named Jet, Bridget and Bridie.__NEWL__They explain that each time anyone is transmitted, a copy (or "echo") of that person is made.__NEWL__The original Panofsky is providing provisions to the group.__NEWL__He believes theoretically that this copying process is taking place and is sending the group food and drink on the pretext of testing the effect of transmission on foodstuffs.__NEWL__For a time, they are able to avoid the soldiers.__NEWL__Eventually, however, they are found and Hansard kills the leader of this group, at the expense of the death of one Panofsky duplicate and of one of the Bridgettas, whom Hansard was about to marry.__NEWL__Meanwhile, the original world is faced with nuclear disaster.__NEWL__An order is sent to Mars with the original Hansard (Hansard 1) to launch nuclear weapons on to Earth on a certain date.__NEWL__Copies Hansard 2 and Panofsky 2 decide that this must be stopped at all costs, but they need to be able to communicate with someone in the original world.__NEWL__This might possibly be done by a copy occupying the same space as the original and subtly affecting the original's mind during sleep.__NEWL__Hansard 2 transmits to Mars (creating a Hansard 3 echo who dies) and links up with Hansard 1 to communicate a plan to avoid the destruction of the Earth.__NEWL__Hansard 1 builds some transmitters and places them in specific spots on the Earth.__NEWL__He then transmits the Earth to the other side of the sun to avoid the nuclear weapons.__NEWL__To atone for guilt about killing a child during the Vietnam War, Hansard 1 chooses not to be transmitted and dies, left behind in space.__NEWL__The Earth's echo, Earth 2, becomes solid for Hansard 2.__NEWL__Earth 1 and Earth 2 are now safe, with Panofsky 2 making plans to retrieve the Moon, left behind when Earth 1 was transmitted.__NEWL__It is no longer orbiting the insubstantial Earth 2.__NEWL__Multiple weddings take place between the three Hansard and Bridgetta duplicates on Earth 2.__NEWL__They are transmitted to different destinations for their respective honeymoons, creating further, tertiary, duplicates.__NEWL__Panofsky wishes the latter, via a note, "Happy Honyemoon".
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7817743	Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters	1921-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17897539	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17897539	While Tom and Ned Newton are reviewing financial records, a fire breaks out at the fireworks factory in town.__NEWL__Assisting the firemen, they rescue Josephus Baxter, Mr. Baxter is developing a new dye formula and has hired out laboratory space at the factory.__NEWL__During the mayhem created by the fire and the rescue, Mr. Baxter loses the formula, but he is positive that the owners of the factory have stolen it.__NEWL__Tom feels pity for the man and allows him the use the labs at the Swift Construction Company.__NEWL__While observing the blaze, Tom wonders if there is not a more efficient way to fight the fire, especially having troubles with multi-storied buildings or skyscrapers.__NEWL__These thoughts lead him to develop a new fire suppressant chemical, and an air-borne system to deliver the new chemicals to the upper stories of skyscrapers.__NEWL__Tom also rescues a small boat in distress, with the aid of a naphtha launch.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7033702	Night of the Hawk	1992-01-01T00:00:00Z	17869299	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17869299	The novel prologue retells part of the events of Flight of the Old Dog from the perspective of crew member David Luger, as he makes the decision to sacrifice himself in order to allow his crewmates to take off from a Soviet airbase and return home.__NEWL__He subsequently awakens in a Soviet military hospital, where Soviet KGB officers have begun plans to brainwash him and make use of his extensive technical knowledge.__NEWL__Five years later, a special operations mission to rescue a Lithuanian CIA agent/defector recovers a photo of Luger, now brainwashed into working for a Soviet aircraft design bureau under a false identity.__NEWL__USAF Col. Paul White, leader of the CIA extraction team, recognizes Luger, having formerly worked with both him and fellow Old Dog crew member Patrick McLanahan.__NEWL__After receiving no substantive response from the normal chain of command, White seeks out Lieutenant General Bradley Elliot, commander of the top-secret High-Technology Aerospace Weapons Center (HAWC) or Dreamland facility and former leader of the Old Dog mission.__NEWL__Elliot convinces his superiors to authorize a mission to rescue Luger, but is unconvinced that they will follow through, and so conspires with White to set up his own mission.__NEWL__Simultaneously, General Dominikas Palcikas, commander of the Lithuanian Self-Defense Forces, labors under the challenge of creating a post-Soviet identity for his forces while training them to defend against a possible invasion from neighboring Belarus and its power-hungry military commander, General Voschanka.__NEWL__As matters come to a head in Lithuania, General Voschanka invades, threatening to overrun the country at the same time as the mission to extract Luger goes in.__NEWL__Despite the unauthorized nature of the additional forces gathered by Elliot and White, the American President and military commanders have no choice but to make use of those forces to stop the Belarusian invasion.__NEWL__Elliot's high-tech bombers and White's commandos successfully aid the Lithuanian forces in repelling the Belarusian invasion, along with Luger and McLanahan, who steal the Russian stealth bomber which Luger was forced to help design, the fictional Fiskious Fi-170.__NEWL__In a final act of desperation and revenge, General Voschanka launches a nuclear missile at Vilnius, which is intercepted in the nick of time by one of Elliot's bombers.__NEWL__Back in the United States, Luger is reunited with the rest of his former crewmates at Dreamland, where a DIA official states he must be take into custody due to his long absence.__NEWL__The HAWC staff manage to switch Luger with the defector and the President allows Luger to stay at HAWC under Elliot's authority.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7748235	The Long Night of the Grave	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17857064	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17857064	The novel concerns mummies in the Connecticut town of Oxrun Station, a suburb of New York.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8051735	Yellow Fog	1986-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21	England	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17858918	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17858918	The novel concerns the vampire Don Sebastian in Victorian England.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5216001	Danger Guys Series							http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17859385	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17859385	Noodle and Zeek are excited about an adventure store opening in the local mall.__NEWL__Once at the mall, they come face to face with two big guys who are unloading things from the back of a truck.__NEWL__Noodle and Zeek get in the truck to look at the stuff the guys are unloading, but the door closes behind them and the truck drives away.__NEWL__Later, the truck slows down, its doors fly open and Zeek is thrown out.__NEWL__Noodle jumps out to find him and once together they realise they are underground.__NEWL__ They walk a little while and come to a huge opening.__NEWL__They see a temple which the two big guys are looting and have also kidnapped two explorers.__NEWL__Noodle and Zeek manage to outsmart the baddies and free the couple (but not before getting chased by a huge stone a la Indiana Jones).
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7033913	Nightmare Inn	1993-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17882257	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17882257	All the books of the series are set at the same location, the New Arcadia Inn, formerly known as the Arcadia Inn.__NEWL__The resort is luxurious and located in a forest in the northeastern part of the United States.__NEWL__It has a gruesome history of murder and violence from beyond the grave.__NEWL__All the primary characters are teenagers, which is a common format of the young adult novels.__NEWL__Though each book is a stand-alone story, they are all inter-connected by two recurring characters, a young girl named Sarah (who plays an important part in the first novel and is portrayed as a secondary character in subsequent stories) and the inn's caretaker/manager, who is intimately familiar with the hotel's history.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7759903	The Red Necklace	2007-10-04T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q145	United Kingdom	17891337	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17891337	The story is principally set in and near Paris between 1789 and 1792.__NEWL__Yannick "Yann" Margoza, an orphaned gypsy boy, who can throw his voice, read minds and predict the future, works in the Théâtre du Temple, with his guardians Topolain a magician, and Têtu a dwarf who can move objects with his mind.__NEWL__The trio is invited by the mysterious and sinister Count Kalliovski to perform at the chateau of the Marquis de Villeduval for him and his guests.__NEWL__Unbeknownst to them, Count Kalliovski is an old enemy from Têtu and Topolain's past.__NEWL__They run into him in the library of the chateau but it is too late for them to escape so they decided to leave the bullet catch out of the performance.__NEWL__During one trick with the pierrot, Yann has a disturbing premonition in which the guests are all carrying their bloodied severed heads.__NEWL__Têtu and Topolain hurriedly try to end the show but Kalliovski insists on performing the bullet catch.__NEWL__He tampers with the pistol which instantly kills Topolain.__NEWL__While hiding from Kalliovski, Yann meets the Marquis' abused and neglected daughter Sido, and is instantly smitten by her.__NEWL__After escaping back to Paris with Sido's help via a secret passage in her chamber, Têtu warns Yann he is in grave danger and insists he travel to London.__NEWL__Yann is bitter about this but eventually agrees.__NEWL__Têtu's friend, Monsieur Cordell, arranges for Yann to stay with Henry and Juliette Laxton in London, who happen to be Sido's maternal aunt and uncle.__NEWL__Têtu also tells Cordell that Kalliovski is actually a former Russian gypsy and secretly Yann's father; he was obsessed with Yann's mother Anis, who was working with Têtu and Topolain in circus.__NEWL__The trio eventually fled to escape his wrath but he tracked them down and murdered her after she rejected him.__NEWL__ While trying to get Yann to safety, Têtu is shot by Kalliovski's henchman, Milkeye, while Yann is smuggled out of the country by Cordell and Mr Tull.__NEWL__Despite the Laxtons' kindness to him, Yann is unhappy and homesick.__NEWL__After attempting to run away, he rescues a poor but eccentric actor named Mr Trippen from being robbed by throwing his voice to distract the thugs.__NEWL__Mr. Laxton apologises to Yann and employs Trippen as his new tutor.__NEWL__As Yann grows older he successfully adapts to English society but seems to have lost his gift to throw his voice and read minds.__NEWL__He becomes keen to learn about Têtu's telekinetic abilities, known as the 'threads of light'.__NEWL__One day, he meets a family of gypsies: Talo Cooper, his wife Orlenda, and his grandfather, Tobias.__NEWL__After Orlenda reads his fortune, Tobias successfully teaches Yann how to see and control the threads of light and gives him a magic talisman.__NEWL__Yann also receives news from Cordell that Têtu is alive.__NEWL__At the same time, the body of an old acquaintance of the Marquis is found by the Thames, and Yann suspects Kalliovski after Cordell notices his necklace around the victim's neck.__NEWL__Yann and the Laxton's also learn that Kalliovski intends on making Sido his bride, prompting Yann to return to France and rescue her.__NEWL__ During Yann's absence, the political situation in France worsens with the impending threat of The French Revolution.__NEWL__Maître Tardieu, the Marquis' lawyer visits him one day warning him that he is bankrupt, and delivers a letter from Kalliovski demanding him to repay his debts, and asking for Sido's hand in marriage.__NEWL__The Marquis initially refuses until he is threatened with a cryptic warning: Remember your wife.__NEWL__Unwilling to suffer Kalliovski's wrath, he reluctantly agrees.__NEWL__Sido is understandably horrified by this arrangement, but is powerless to against both Kalliovski and the Marquis' wishes.__NEWL__During her father's fête one night, she overhears a heated conversation between the Marquis and his friend, Madame Perrien.__NEWL__Fearful for her life, she begs him to lend her money to repay her debts to Kalliovski.__NEWL__However, the Marquis refuses and ignores her warning that his own dealings with the Count will backfire.__NEWL__Perrien is indeed later murdered by Kalliovski, much to the Marquis' horror.__NEWL__He gradually descends further and further into madness.__NEWL__The chateau is soon destroyed by a mob, prompting Sido and her father to escape through a secret tunnel with the help of their servants and are given refuge by another of The Marquis' friend, the Duchesse de Lamantes.__NEWL__ Yann eventually returns to Paris and his old home, now renamed the Théâtre de la Liberté, and reunites with Têtu, Didier, the caretaker of the theatre, and Monsieur Aulard, the manager.__NEWL__Têtu is overjoyed to see him and that he too can see the threads of light, and finally tells him the truth about his father.__NEWL__Yann and Sido are briefly reunited and realises that he can read her mind again.__NEWL__He tries to persuade her to forget the Marquis and come back to England with him.__NEWL__She explains her situation including her engagement to Kalliovski, and that the Duchesse had advised her and her father to find Mr. Tull who would smuggle them out of the country.__NEWL__Yann, however, remembers his encounter with Tull the night he was smuggled out of France and warns Sido not to trust him and let him take her instead.__NEWL__He and Têtu later meet with Maître Tardieu who informs them that the Marquis wrote instructing him to end Sido's betrothal, but when he informed Kalliovski he received no reply.__NEWL__He gives them a bag of jewels that belonged to Sido's mother, Isabelle Gautier, and Armand de Villeduval, the Marquis' half brother.__NEWL__Upon noticing seven familiar red garnets, Têtu realises that Isabelle and Armand were murdered by Kalliovski on the Marquis' behalf.__NEWL__Yann attempts to see Sido again the next day but is too late as she and the Marquis have already been captured by Tull who was working for Kalliovski.__NEWL__During the night, Kalliovski visits an ill and exhausted Sido in prison and blackmails her into marrying him.__NEWL__He then taunts her and threatens her with rape before she passes out.__NEWL__Kalliovski arranges to have her moved to her own cell and nursed back to health.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Yann and Maître Tardieu meet with her in prison however, the ever gentle and good-hearted Sido cannot bring herself to abandon her insane and helpless father.__NEWL__After she is taken away, Maître Tardieu reveals that Isabelle and Armand were lovers –therefore, Sido is not the daughter of the Marquis, but of Isabelle and Armand; the pair had been attempting to elope to London with a three-year-old Sido at the time of their murder.__NEWL__This gives Yann and Têtu an idea that might help change Sido's mind.__NEWL__They invite Kalliovski to a performance with a pierrot to distract him while Yann and Didier attempt to break into his apartmento find the love letters from Sido's parents.__NEWL__He discovers a room full of automatons made from Kalliovski's murdered victims known as 'The Sisters Macabre' which he uses to hide all his secrets.__NEWL__He also discovers that Kalliovski can also has telekinesis, only known as the 'Threads of Darkness'.__NEWL__Milkeye suddenly emerges and shoots Yann in the shoulder.__NEWL__Although weak, he uses his new magic abilities to make The Sisters Macabre talk.__NEWL__One of them opens a draw in their chest revealing the letters from Sido's parents and Kalliovski's 'Book of Tears' containing all the names of those who had borrowed money from him.__NEWL__He passes out but is rescued by Didier and taken back to the theatre where Têtu treats his wound.__NEWL__Meanwhile, Sido finally decides that the Marquis isn't worth trying to help and that should Yann come for her, she will go with him.__NEWL__ She is spared from the bloodshed the next day when she is tried but fortunately found innocent, only to be abducted by Kalliovski.__NEWL__Didier manages to stop his carriage by drawing a mob to it allowing him and Yann to rescue Sido.__NEWL__ Yann confesses that although he loves her, Sido's family are waiting for her in London as he is staying behind to help more aristocrats escape from France.__NEWL__Sido doesn't want to be separated from Yann again but eventually agrees and he gives her his talisman.__NEWL__Kalliovski is revealed to have survived the mob.__NEWL__Sickened and enraged that he was defeated by a son he never wanted, he vows vengeance.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5463909	Focus			http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q60	New York City	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17891865	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17891865	The novel is set in New York towards the end of the Second World War.__NEWL__Its protagonist is a Gentile named Newman, a personnel manager for a large company, who lives with his mother.__NEWL__Newman shares the prejudices of his neighbor Fred, who is determined to deal with the "new element" in their neighborhood, particularly a Jewish candy store owner called Finkelstein.__NEWL__However, Newman is an essentially timid man who mostly wants to keep his head down and be left alone to get on with his life.__NEWL__Newman's life changes when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses whose style is somehow "Jewish" to several bigoted observers, and they decide he may be Jewish himself.__NEWL__He hires a prospective secretary whom his boss thinks is an assimilated Jew using a WASP-sounding fake name, and is later informed that he won't get a promotion and will be moved to an interior office where people can't see him.__NEWL__He is furious about being mistreated (and it's strongly implied, being marked as Jewish at all) and quits; ironically, he later gets a new job at a company where the owner and many of the staff are actually Jewish.__NEWL__As antisemitism mounts throughout the city, a Christian Front-type group organizes to turn general ill will into action, Newman marries a girl called Gertrude.__NEWL__She has seen antisemitism mobilized at close quarters before, when she lived with the ringleader of an organization that abused Jews in California (someone whose views that the U.S. will soon get rid of all Jews she notes without any editorial comment), and recognizes how risky a position Newman is in when his garbage can, as well as Finkelstein's, is turned over in the night.__NEWL__She has also been mistakenly identified as Jewish, and is angry at this, because she is a Christian and is disgusted that anyone would think she is Jewish, not because she thinks anti-Semitism is wrong and hateful.__NEWL__Newman's principles and character mean that he would prefer to stand aside while the persecution of Finkelstein continues – his own latent antisemitism tacitly endorses it, while his reticence makes it hard for him to participate.__NEWL__But, accidentally caught up as a victim, non-participation is not an option.__NEWL__An attempt by Newman to convince Fred and his collaborators of his allegiance to their cause by attending an antisemitic rally results only in his being again taken for a Jew, attacked and ejected. Approached afterwards by Finkelstein, Newman tries to politely sell Finkelstein on the idea of leaving the neighborhood and moving somewhere where he will not be threatened.__NEWL__Finkelstein forcefully tells Newman he will not move: the anti-Semitic forces want to take over the U.S. (confirming what Gertrude told him earlier) and their crusade against Jews does not make any sense in that context because Jews comprise a very small percentage of the population.__NEWL__Newman eventually tells Gertrude he's never really given his anti-Semitic thoughts any thought and now that he has, he has disavowed the bigotry and won't support it in any way, and he responds to her angry attempts to get him to change his mind by ignoring her.__NEWL__Finally, Newman and Finkelstein are together attacked in the street by a gang of men, whom they fight off.__NEWL__Newman realizes he cannot count on Gertrude and walks away from their marriage, later going to the police to report the attack.__NEWL__Asked by an officer "How many of you people live there?"__NEWL__he stops trying to play along with bigotry and angrily repeats his account of the attack, leading the police to take down his statement and for Newman to move into a new chapter in his life.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5593487	Grail Prince	2003-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17822296	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17822296	Before his death, King Arthur sends young Galahad, the oldest son of Lancelot and Elaine, on a quest to find the lost treasures of an ancient king — a Grail, a Spear, a Sword — which will safeguard Britain's future.__NEWL__For Galahad, the search becomes a transformative journey into manhood.__NEWL__His quest challenges his famed gallantry and purity, the traits that set him apart in Arthurian legend as the only knight fit for and worthy of the quest for the Holy Grail.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6512637	Ledfeather	2008-08-08T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17938729	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17938729	A young Blackfoot man discovers the 1883 letters of an Indian Agent, whose decisions have "impacted the lives of generations of Blackfeet Indians.__NEWL__"__NEWL__As the novel progresses, it is shown that this young man, Doby Saxon, and the Indian Agent may be the same soul inhabiting two separate bodies, and the Indian Agent has been forced to live in the future on the same reservation still plagued by the consequences of his decision.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2740921	Albert Savarus	1842-01-01T00:00:00Z						http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142	France	17921273	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17921273	Rosalie is the only daughter of the Wattevilles, a distinguished family of Besançon.__NEWL__Her father is very timid and spends his time working on a lathe, while her mother is quite proud and domineering.__NEWL__Her mother is trying to encourage Rosalie to take an interest in M. de Soulas, who is a young fop.__NEWL__At a dinner party, the Abbe reports the spectacular success of a lawyer Savaron, who has settled quietly in the town.__NEWL__Rosalie takes an interest in the lawyer, who is good-looking, and gets her father to build a gazebo in the garden with the secret intent of being able to watch Savaron.__NEWL__Savaron is successful in several cases, and it becomes known that he has started a local literary journal.__NEWL__Rosalie persuades her father to subscribe, and reads a story obviously penned by Savaron.__NEWL__In Savaron's story, two young men are touring in Switzerland.__NEWL__From a boat on a lake, Rudolfe, one of the young men, becomes captivated by a girl he sees leaning out of a window in a house on the lakeside.__NEWL__He instantly decides to stop in the village, and makes enquiries.__NEWL__He is told that the girl is a young English girl staying with her grandfather who has come there for his health with a dumb girl as a servant.__NEWL__Rudolfe tries to obtain invitations and eventually creeps into the garden and overhears the two girls talking Italian.__NEWL__It emerges that they are Italian émigrés who are hiding in Switzerland.__NEWL__Furthermore, it turns out that the girl, Francesca, is married to the old man.__NEWL__Rudolfe befriends them and enters into a chaste love affair with the girl.__NEWL__They are in love and agree to wait until the old man dies to get married.__NEWL__News comes that their exile has been lifted and the Italians depart to Geneva, where Rudolfe is to meet them later.__NEWL__When he gets there, it turns out that Francesca is a princess and her husband is a Duke.__NEWL__Rudolfe is invited to the house, and they swear undying love, before Rudolfe departs to make his name in the world.__NEWL__When Rosalie has read the story, she suspects it is the true story of Savaron, and becomes jealous.__NEWL__She tricks her servant into obtaining Savaron's correspondence, and after a letter to Leopold, finds letters to the Princess and confirms that the story is true.__NEWL__Savaron tries to make his name in the town and stands for elections.__NEWL__There is much complex politicking to obtain him the vote.__NEWL__Wrapped up in it is a lawsuit over M. de Watteville's land.__NEWL__Rosalie persuades her father to enlist the help of Savaron, but he refuses to come into the open about it until after the election, because of possible effects on the electorate.__NEWL__Suddenly just before the election, Savaron disappears and is never heard of again.__NEWL__Rosalie's mother tries to push the marriage with M. de Soulas but Rosalie is totally opposed.__NEWL__Thus they fall out and after the death of her father, Rosalie is left in very difficult circumstances.__NEWL__In response to Rosalie's taunt, her mother ends up marrying de Soulas herself.__NEWL__Rosalie seeks the aid of the Abbe to find Savaron, and confesses to him the awful secret she has hidden.__NEWL__It turns out that not only did she intercept Savaron's mail and prevent it reaching him, but she also substituted letters to the Princess.__NEWL__In particular she wrote that Savaron was to marry herself and so Savoron's disappearance is linked to the marriage of Francesca to another man shortly after the death of her old husband.__NEWL__Savaron is tracked down to a monastery where he has shut himself off from the world.__NEWL__Rosalie is still vindictive and tries to find Francesca, delighting in telling her what happened and handing over the letters.__NEWL__Shortly afterwards Rosalie is horribly disfigured in a steamboat accident on the river Loire.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7619159	Stonedogs	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z	17969133	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17969133	The novel deals with issues such as alienation, social decay, drug use and New Zealand gang culture, as well as political and environmental issues.__NEWL__Speaking of the novel, Marriner told an interviewer, "I've been pretty disillusioned with mainstream society for a while, I just don't see a future in it.__NEWL__And I've been moving in working-class circles and watching the quiet desperation everyone lives their lives through.__NEWL__So the novel comes from there, and questions where we're going environmentally and politically.__NEWL__" There are strong left-wing political themes expressed; Marriner has cited leftists such as Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk and Leon Trotsky as influences.__NEWL__The story revolves around the protagonist, Gator, an unemployed young adult with anti-capitalist and neo-Nietzschean philosophies, and his friends in Rotorua.__NEWL__All are involved in recreational drug use.__NEWL__After they try to purchase LSD from members of the fictional gang "The Rabble", Gator causes an incident and makes an enemy in the leader of the gang chapter.__NEWL__After a tip-off from his friend Steve, whose cousin is a gang prospect, Gator and the others plan to steal the harvest of the gang's marijuana crop.__NEWL__They drive their Holden to Northland and after unplanned events take place attempt to sell their haul to a gang of Auckland skinheads, later running into trouble with a corrupt police officer.
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4966448	Bridge of Sighs	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z		http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1384	New York	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30	United States of America	17969404	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17969404	The n