Child of Fortune (寵児, Chōji, lit. Favorite) is a 1978 novel by Yūko Tsushima. In Japan, It won the Women's Literature Prize in the same year. An English...
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Child of Fortune is a 1985 science fiction novel by the American author Norman Spinrad. Like his previous book The Void Captain's Tale, Child of Fortune...
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Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is the first novel in Shreve's tetralogy to be set in a large beach house...
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"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from...
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Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series. The books follow the adventures of a former...
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Virginia, the novel follows Alice Raleigh, a precocious 12 year old white girl, recovering schizophrenic and heiress to a family fortune, as she is kidnapped...
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August 1860. It is a mystery novel and falls under the genre of "sensation novels". The story can be seen as an early example of detective fiction with protagonist...
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Friday's Child is a novel written by Georgette Heyer in 1944. It is generally considered one of Heyer's best Regency romances, and was reportedly the favourite...
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Sons of Fortune (ISBN 1-4050-2079-2) is a 2002 novel by English author Jeffrey Archer. Its working title was In the Lap of the Gods. Sons of Fortune talks...
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story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme...
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Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her...
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Norman Spinrad (redirect from Agent of Chaos (Norman Spinrad novel))
revisited in the 1985 novel Child of Fortune. The book contains elements of confession, love story, eroticism, and horror. Child of Fortune (1985) deals with...
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considerable fortune. Corporal Nettle – Nettle is one of Robbie's two companions during the Dunkirk evacuation. In the fourth and final section of the novel, an...
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The Void Captain's Tale (category American science fiction novels)
revisited in the 1985 novel Child of Fortune. The book contains elements of confession, love story, eroticism, and horror. Like Child of Fortune, The Void Captain's...
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Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The novel is narrated by Lyndon...
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The Wheel of Fortune (1984) is a novel by Susan Howatch and recounts the trials and tribulations of a fictitious British family, the Godwins, who appear...
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the American myth following Meyer's first novel, American Rust. The novel focuses on three generations of the McCullough family: Eli McCullough, the...
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novel by Stephen King published in 1979. The story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain...
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Mason Verger (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
they can conceive a child. Mason strings her along, knowing she cannot leave if she wants to see her share of the Verger family fortune; their father had...
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a 2020 fantasy novella by American writer Nghi Vo. It is the first book of the Singing Hills Cycle and was followed...
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Rhapsody: Child of Blood is a fantasy novel by American writer Elizabeth Haydon, the first book in The Symphony of Ages. It was first published in 1999...
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Nick and Nora Charles (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
son of a medical doctor from the fictional small town of Sycamore Springs in upstate New York. The novel's references to his being the child of an immigrant...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: Protégé (category Novels about child abduction)
2005 British horror novel written by Tim Waggoner and published by Black Flame. A tie-in to the Nightmare on Elm Street series of American horror films...
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Dombey and Son (category 1848 British novels)
and Son is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the lack of a son to follow...
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chronological order of the Thomas Harris novels about Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place...
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Villette (/viːˈlɛt/ vee-LET) is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe...
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The Sand Child (l'Enfant de sable) is a 1985 novel by Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun. First published in France, the novel's message expresses on multiple...
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by Lee Child. It was published in 1999 by Putnam in America and Bantam in the United Kingdom. It is written in the third person. In the novel, retired...
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2016-11-08. Illustrated by: Eric Fortune (2008-08-26). "Shade". Tor.com. Retrieved 2016-11-08. Jumper at the author's webpage Jumper novel at Amazon.com...
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