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First Book

As president and co-founder of First Book, an organization providing new books to children in need, Kyle Zimmer is a member of the Board of Directors for Ashoka.



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1628 in poetry

Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland

88 Poems

It includes a number of poems published in magazines, the poems which appeared in Hemingway's first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, and 47 previously unpublished poems that were found in private collections and in the Hemingway papers held by the Kennedy Library.

A. J. Quinnell

When the author was preparing to publish his first book, Man on Fire, he wanted to keep his real identity a secret.

Adam Ulam

In his first book - Titoism and the Cominform - published in 1952 and based on his Ph.D. thesis, he argued that the Communist focus on certain goals blinded them to the disastrous socioeconomic side effects which could weaken their hold on power.

Aldgate

In 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first book by an African American was published in Aldgate after her owners could not find a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts.

Alex Coles

DesignArt (Tate Publishing, 2005), his first book, triggered a debate about limited edition design, principally in the art and design market.

Angwantibo

A subplot in Gerald Durrell's first book, The Overloaded Ark, centres on his attempts to secure an angwantibo for zoological study.

Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell

On arrival in India, MacDonnell served initially in various districts of Bihar and Bengal, and on the basis of his experiences in the Bengal Famine of 1873–4, he wrote his first book, Food-Grain Supply and Famine Relief in Bihar and Bengal, published in 1876.

Barry R. Schaller

His first book, A Vision of American Law: Judging Law, Literature, and the Stories We Tell, which addresses law, literature, and American cultural issues, was widely reviewed and received the Quinnipiac Law School award for excellence.

Betty Eadie

During a 2004 interview on Coast to Coast AM radio with George Noory, she said she was disappointed following her first book's publication that she was not permitted to return to the Celestial realm, but that while she could not presently know the full scope of her earthly purpose, she understood a film based on Embraced would also follow.

Bunnicula

A 1982 animated TV special (from Ruby-Spears) by the same name was created based on the first book and aired on the ABC Weekend Special.

Christopher Noxon

His first book was Rejuvenile.

Cristiano Godano

On January 16, 2008, he published his first book, the anthology of short novels I vivi ("The Living"), for Rizzoli.

Daniel Falconer

He also wrote copy for Weta's first book 'The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island' showcasing the illustrative work of the entire design department at Weta Workshop.

David Alan Johnson

In his first book, Hume, Holism, and Miracles, Johnson purports to have refuted David Hume's popular argument for the irrationality of belief in testimony of miracles (as can be found in his essay entitled "Of Miracles") as well as several reconstructions of Hume's argument (most notably that of Bayesian philosopher Jordan Howard Sobel).

Del Sol Press

The first book published by the press was a revision of Michael Brodsky's 1978 novel, Detour.

Ed Salamon

Salamon’s first book ‘’Pittsburgh’s Golden Age of Radio’’, was published in 2010 by Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local history books in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Federation of Children's Book Groups

Anne Wood, a British children’s television producer, and creator of the Teletubbies, established the first Book Group to promote enthusiasm for and about children's book in 1965.

George Sessions Perry

Finally, in 1937, The Saturday Evening Post published one of his stories, and soon thereafter Doubleday published his first book, Walls Rise Up, a comic novel about three vagrants living along the Brazos River.

Girls' Night In

The first book in the series, Girls Night In, was launched in London in June 2000 and subsequently in Australia in October 2000, with writers including Maggie Alderson, Wendy Holden, Lisa Jewell, Marian Keyes, Kathy Lette, Alecia McKenzie and Freya North.

Harrington on Hold 'em

The level of play in major poker tournaments have gotten significantly tougher and more competitive since the release of the first book in the series, according to several experts on poker tournaments, including poker professional Blair Rodman and Mason Malmuth, the owner of the books' publishing company.

Idris Davies

Before his first book was published in 1938, Davies' work appeared in the Western Mail, the Merthyr Express, the Daily Herald, the Left Review and Comment (a weekly periodical of poetry, criticism and short stories, edited by Victor Neuburg and Sheila Macleod).

In Search for Khnum

The novel In Search for Khnum is, for the writer and Egyptologist Hussein Bassir, the first book with a Pharaonic setting among contemporary Egyptian literature in the style of ‘90s generation’.

J. G. A. Pocock

His first book, entitled The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law elucidated the common law mind, showing how thinkers such as the English jurist Edward Coke (1552–1634) built up a historical analysis of British history into an epistemology of law and politics; and then how that edifice later came to be subverted by scholars of the middle to late seventeenth century.

Jean Daive

His first book, Décimale blanche (Mercure de France, 1967) was translated into German by Paul Celan, and into English by Cid Corman.

Jeff Maysh

Jeff Maysh’s first book was published in November, 2007, ‘Brown Bread Fred’ is a ghost-written autobiography of London bank robber Freddie Foreman.

Jenna Heap

In the first book Magyk on her 10th birthday Jenna comes to know from Marcia that she is actually the princess and that she has been discovered.

John P. Reese

His first book, The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use From Wall Street's Best (Dearborn, 2002. ISBN 978-0976510109), was co-authored with Todd O. Glassman and examined the strategies of eight different stock market investors—Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, William O'Neil, Warren Buffett, David Dreman, Martin Zweig, Kenneth Fisher, and James O'Shaughnessy.

John Stewart Collis

His first book, on George Bernard Shaw, was published in 1925, followed by biographies of Havelock Ellis, Strindberg, Tolstoy, the Carlyles and Christopher Columbus.

Juli Zeh

Her first book was Adler und Engel (translated into English as Eagles and Angels by Christine Slenczka), which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel.

Leonard Levy

Levy's first book was a revision and expansion of his doctoral dissertation on Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Linius Pallitax

In the first book of the series (chronologically), The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Linius is the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax and father of one of the stories protagonists, Maris and a friend of the sky pirate Wind Jackal.

Liu Cixin

Tor Books announced it will publish an English translation by Ken Liu of the first book in the trilogy as The Three-Body Problem.

May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss

May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss is the first book of Arnab Ray, the famous Indian blogger.

Melyngar

The prized horse of Prince Gwydion, Melyngar is most visible in the first book in the series, The Book of Three.

One Day, All Children

One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (ISBN 1586481797) is the first book by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America.

Pedro Guilherme-Moreira

In May 2011, Guilherme-Moreira published his first book: the novel A Manhã do Mundo, (literally The Morning of the World), with seal of Publicações Dom Quixote, a book based around the September 11 attacks.

R. M. Ballantyne

He published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America, and for some time was employed by the publishers Messrs Constable.

River Derwent, Cumbria

This is the Derwent river mentioned in the first book of William Wordsworth's The Prelude.

Saint-Gildas

The first book by the Irish writer Julia Kavanagh, Saint-Gildas, or, The Three Paths (1847) is largely set in the village in the eighteenth century.

Ship of Destiny

Ship of Destiny continues where The Mad Ship left off and reveals some of the secrets that were hinted at in the first book and second books.

Skulduggery Pleasant

Tanith Low is a master swords-woman who is first introduced while battling a troll on London Bridge in the first book.

Still Pond, Maryland

George Hepbron (1863–1946) wrote basketball's first book titled How to Play Basketball.

Tate Adams

Dolmen published his first book of engravings, Soul Cages, and on returning to Melbourne he completed linocuts to illustrate the Dolmen press reprint of Riders to the Sea.

The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil

The title of the song refers to Winnie the Pooh as well as folk singer Fred Neil: parts of the lyric are taken from A. A. Milne's first book of children's poetry When We Were Very Young, including the poem "Halfway Down," which includes the words "Halfway down the stairs Is a stair where I sit" and the poem "Spring Morning."

The Six Swans

Daughter of the Forest, the first book of the Sevenwaters trilogy by Juliet Marillier, is a detailed retelling of this story in a medieval Celtic setting.

The Warriors of Spider

The Warriors of Spider is the first book in the Spider Trilogy, written by W. Michael Gear and first published in 1988.

Thomas Sautner

Reviewer Eva Riebler of the Austrian literary magazine Etcetera pinpoints to the author's intention to "save the wisdom of the Yeniche people", and she compares the first book even to The Little Prince of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Trout bum

Use of the term is similar in tone and meaning to the antiquated term, "Surf Bum." The term was popularized by author John Gierach, whose first book, Trout Bum is an anthology of informal, narrative essays on flyfishing; and magazine articles he wrote before 1986.

Two Years' Vacation

Deux ans de vacances is the first book Shiori Shiomiya reads from the shelves of the school library during a flashback to her childhood in the anime The World God Only Knows.