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  • Thumbnail for Cthulhu Mythos
    The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of Anglo-American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term...
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    Julia Peterkin (October 31, 1880 – August 10, 1961) was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature...
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  • The Stromata (Greek: Στρώματα), a mistake for Stromateis (Στρωματεῖς, "Patchwork," i.e., Miscellanies), attributed to Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – c...
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  • Chris Rankin is a New Zealand-born British actor, director, and producer who is best known for playing Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise...
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  • The 640s decade ran from January 1, 640, to December 31, 649. February 27 – Pepin the Elder, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, dies and is succeeded by...
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    Leonor Fanny "Norah" Borges Acevedo (March 4, 1901 – July 20, 1998), was an Argentine visual artist and art critic, member of the Florida group, and sister...
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  • The Amulet of Samarkand is a children's novel of alternate history, fantasy and magic. It is the first book in the Bartimaeus Sequence written by English...
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  • Appointment in Samarra, published in 1934, is the first novel by American writer John O'Hara (1905–1970). It concerns the self-destruction of the fictional...
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  • Scott Warren Siegel (born 1951[citation needed]) is a US writer of mostly young adult shared universe science-fiction and fantasy, generally with his wife...
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  • Captains of the Sands (Portuguese: Capitães da Areia) is a Brazilian novel written by Jorge Amado in 1937. The novel tells of a gang of one hundred street...
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    Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782. The...
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  • The Icemark Chronicles is a series of books consisting of The Cry of the Icemark, followed by Blade of Fire, and Last Battle of the Icemark and the prequel...
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    La Petite Fadette, also published in English under the titles Little Fadette. A Domestic Story (1849), Fadette. A Domestic Story (1851) and Little Fadette...
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  • Catherine Butler (born 25 January 1963 in Romsey, Hampshire; formerly Charles Cadman Butler) is an English academic and author of children's fiction. Butler's...
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  • Awful Auntie is a children's book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Tony Ross. It is the seventh book by Walliams, a television comedian best...
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  • The Pleasure of the Text (French: Le Plaisir du Texte) is a 1973 book by the literary theorist Roland Barthes. Barthes sets out some of his ideas about...
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    Edna Iturralde (born 1948) is an Ecuadorian author who has won multiple national and international awards. She is considered the most important figure...
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    Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World is an educational book by John Hope Bryant, published in August 2009.[citation needed] Operation...
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  • The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption is a 2012 autobiography of Rodney King (1965–2012). Known by a videotape as a victim of Los Angeles...
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