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Summary. For several years, Wally Lamb taught writing skills to inmates at the York Correctional Institution, a women's prison in Niantic, Connecticut. The book contains personal stories written by the inmates dealing with their lives. Most were sexually, physically, or mentally abused, and came from impoverished backgrounds. Reception
Contents. Shōgun (novel) James Clavell’s Shōgun (1975) is a novel based on events and figures of 1600 Japan when the Azuchi–Momoyama period neared its end as the Edo period was about to begin. The third book published, but the first chronologically placed, in Clavell's six-volume Asian Saga, by 1980 it had sold six million copies worldwide.
Dune. (novel) Dune is a 1965 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny 's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966.
Website. nianticlabs .com. Niantic, Inc. ( / naɪˈæntɪk / ny-AN-tik) [2] is an American software development company based in San Francisco. Niantic is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games Ingress and Pokémon Go. The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 as an internal startup within Google.
Lolita. Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia. The protagonist is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He describes his obsession with a 12-year-old "nymphet", Dolores Haze, whom he ...
Little Fires Everywhere is the second novel by the American author Celeste Ng. It was published in 2017 by Penguin Press. The novel takes place in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where Ng grew up. The novel focuses on two families living in 1990s Shaker Heights who are brought together through their children. Ng described writing about her hometown as "a ...
37505041. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry [3] and a tribute to individualistic principles. [citation needed] It was adapted into the Broadway (and ...
Scythe (novel) Scythe is a 2016 young-adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth.