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2 unusual facts about The Book


Storyteller Café

The toys dress up as Bible characters and re-enact the Bible stories as one of them narrates the story from The Book.

Each night, as the Storyteller Café closes its doors, the toys which decorate its shelves come to life, and their present-day adventures become triggers for stories from The Book.


Bring 'Em Back Alive

Bring 'Em Back Alive may refer to the book by the collector of animals, Frank Buck, published in 1930. Buck created the documentary film of the same name in association with RKO Pictures, released in 1932. A 1980s fictional television series of the same name revolves on Frank Buck in Singapore.

Esquel

Another important tourist attraction is the narrow-gauge train (with 75 cm between the rails), known as La Trochita locally and in English as The Old Patagonian Express, after the book by Paul Theroux.

Indigenous Peoples in International Law

"...The scope, detail, and documentary rigor of the book make it an essential reference for future work in the field."-American Political Science Review

Meyers Leonard

The book and subsequent movie tell the story of Michael Oher, a boy who was homeless and didn't have much of a family life.

Oružjem Protivu Otmičara

The new lineup recorded the album Komadić koji nedostaje (The Missing Piece), which got the name after the book by Shel Silverstein, and the cover of the album is the one used as the book cover.

The Profane Exhibit

Podcast, hosted by Creep Creepersin, featured an episode devoted to the two upcoming Harbinger International projects, The Profane Exhibit, and The Book.

The Selfish Gene

In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he "can readily see that the book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents" and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.


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A Great and Terrible Beauty

In July, 2006, Icon Productions, the film production company run by Mel Gibson, announced that it would adapt the book into a film based on A Great and Terrible Beauty, to be written and directed by Charles Sturridge.

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

At one stop on the book tour associated with the publication and release of the book at the David A. Clarke School of Law of the University of the District of Columbia, Jackson's message was perceived as saying that American history can be studied as an analysis of race, but that economics and the tension between states’ rights and federal rights are the true basis of a domestic history revolving around pursuit of economic development, political power, and personal freedom.

A Princess of Landover

The book began a prologue on the witch Nightshade still trapped in the form of a crow in a cage in Woodland Park Zoo, having been exiled from Landover for more than five years.

Abdelkrim Ghallab

Interview with Abdelkarim Ghallab, Remembering for Tomorrow (publication of the European Cultural Foundation and Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, Annette van Beugen and Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla) about his autobiographical books The Seven Doors (Sab'at abwab), The Book of Formation, An Unjust Old Age (al-Shaykhukha alzalima) and Cairo Reveals its Secrets (al-Qahira tabuhu an asrariha).

All Saints Church, Patcham

The commissioners produced a book, The Book of All The Auncient Ancient Customs heretofore used amonge the fishermen of the Toune of Brighthelmston, whose orders were enshrined in law.

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

The book is about the October 1, 1910 bombing of The Los Angeles Times building by union members that caused later attacks, but the later ones failed.

Anguish Languish

Anguish Languish, an ersatz language constructed from English language words, was created by Howard L. Chace, who collected his stories and poems in the book Anguish Languish (Prentice-Hall, 1956).

Balazuc

It is the subject of the book 'The Stones of Balazuc' by Yale historian John M. Merriman.

Burma Chronicles

Edith Mirante of The Irrawaddy was more critical of the book, calling Delisle's grasp on Burmese politics "literally sketchy" and saying that Delisle lacked "the black and white bravura of other graphic storytellers such as Marjane Satrapi... or Alison Bechdel...".

Catholicon Anglicum

However on a recommendation made by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), administered by Arts Council England, an export ban has been placed on the book by culture minister Ed Vaizey.

City of the Spider Queen

The book was published in 2002, and was written by James Wyatt, with cover art by Todd Lockwood and interior art by Scott Fischer, Rebecca Guay, Vince Locke, Raven Mimura, Puddnhead, Christopher Shy, Ben Templesmith, and Sam Wood.

Cranbury, New Jersey

Jan Morris (born 1926), Welsh travel writer and historian, lived in Cranbury for several months in the 1950s whose impressions of the town are recorded in the book Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America.

Dave Jenks

In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, Jenks became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek's best-seller list.

Die Frau im Mond

The book was turned into a movie one year later by Fritz Lang, Von Harbou's husband.

East New Market, Maryland

Thus the continued use of the older burial ground of their former location at "Union Chapel" was no longer needed; it coincides with a more general trend known the rise of the cemetery movement (for a general discussion of the topic of the cemetery movement see the book Lincoln at Gettysburg by historian Garry Wills)

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writings of Hunter S. Thompson

The book was edited by Jann S. Wenner, co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone, and a friend of Thompson.

From Wimbledon to Waco

The Williamses do not live in Wimbledon, nor do they reach Waco, but as Nigel Williams explains in the last chapter of the book "I like the title..."

History of North Dakota

Some politicians, including Joe Satrom, blame the book for (un)inspiring a generation of leaders to lower their expectations for the state's future.

Hoxton Story

The book also features a newly commissioned portfolio of portraits by Leo Asemota of the residents that were interviewed.

Ibn Khordadbeh

Along with maps, the book also includes descriptions of the land, people and culture of the Southern Asian coast as far as Brahamputra, The Andaman Islands, peninsular Malaysia and Java.

Jill Bolte Taylor

After Bolte Taylor's representative, transmedia agent and attorney Ellen Stiefler, conducted an auction for worldwide publishing rights to "My Stroke of Insight," Penguin won the book.

John Richard de Capel Wise

The book contained sixty-two illustrations drawn by Walter Crane and engraved by William James Linton.

John Vaillant

The book was also selected for the 2012 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads, defended by lawyer and television personality Anne-France Goldwater.

Laxmangarh

The fictional character Balram Halwai from the bestselling novel The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga came from a village by the same name, but it isn't be the same village, because the book is actually set in the Gaya District in the vicinity of Bodh Gaya in the state of Bihar.

Limited geography model

These models, developed in an effort to reconcile claims in the Book of Mormon with archaeology and geography, have situated the book's events in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Great Lakes area.

Louis Blom-Cooper

Despite this, solicitor Gareth Peirce accused Blom-Cooper of "shoddy research" and "total nonsense" in respect of the book.

Margaret Rogers

Her years of service were memorialized in the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by her daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks, who worked as a seamstress, also in the White House.

Memoirs of a Dervish

Writing in The Spectator, Anthony Sattin finds the book "a more enlightening type of memoir" than what he sees as the current fad of the "misery memoir".

Mounsi

The book draws heavily on Mounsi's growing up amidst petty crime in the red-belt suburbs and could be seen as a companion piece for films like La Haine.

Richard Le Gallienne

The book My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887, and in 1889 be became for a brief time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett.

Solaria

At the end of the book, it was suggested that the Solarians had modified themselves so much that they no longer counted as human, and that their behavior could no longer be predicted by psychohistory, necessitating the creation of Galaxia.

Sunset Song

Soon after directing The House of Mirth in 2000, English filmmaker Terence Davies and producer Bob Last planned their own adaptation of the book but had difficulty securing financing.

Susila Budhi Dharma

Although the author described himself as a conventional Muslim, the book's name chimes with ancient Indian wisdom.

Tauriel

The character does not appear in the original book, but was created by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as an expansion of material adapted from the book, and first appears in the second film in that trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, released December 13, 2013.

Terry McGurrin

McGurrin recently wrapped up as the story editor for the new 2011 Cartoon Network/YTV show Scaredy Squirrel (which is based on the book series of the same name).

The Closet

The Celluloid Closet, a 1995 American documentary based on the book of the same name by Vito Russo

The Colditz Story

It is based on the book written by Pat Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War and who was the Escape Officer for British POWs within the castle.

The Dot and the Line

In 2005, Robert Xavier Rodriguez made a musical setting of the book for narrator and chamber ensemble with projected images, and in 2011 he made a version for full orchestra.

The Kiss Seen Around the World

The man who frequently appears throughout the episode calling Peter (and later Neil) a phony is named Holden Caulfield in the credits, a reference to the character of the same name who is the protagonist of the 1951 book The Catcher in the Rye, known to use the word "phony" many times throughout the book.

The Maid of Sker

He graduated in 1847, but the book was not completed and published until 1872, three years after Lorna Doone.

The Meeting at Telgte

Theodore Ziolkowski wrote in The New York Times that "Grass has chosen his historical analogy with brilliant precision" and that "the book is diverting as a history of 17th-century German literature, liberally sprinkled with quotations from the works and poetic treatises of the period".

The Millionaire Mind

The book debuted at #2 on the New York Time's Bestseller list on February 18, 2000 and received press and reviews from Fred Barnes, Katie Couric and Donald Trump.

The New New Deal

He also argued that "Obama comes across as similarly unaware of the limits of top-down planning" in the book as well as that the 2010 midterm elections provided a rejoinder to President Obama's economic policy vision.

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

The Pinkerton Labor Spy

The author of the book, Morris Friedman, had worked in the agency as Mr. McParland's stenographer.

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Valerie Landau

Engelbart and Landau also collaborated on writing the book "The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart" along with co-author Eileen Clegg.

Witchcraft Today

In the book Gardner also repeats the claim, which had originated with Matilda Joslyn Gage, that 9 million victims were killed in the European witch-hunts.

Wizard's First Rule

Starring Craig Horner as Richard and Bridget Regan as Kahlan, the series was produced by Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, and expanded upon some of the themes of the book's storyline, but bore only a passing resemblance to the book on a grander scale.

Woman in the Mists

It is written by the Canadian author Farley Mowat, himself a conservationist and author of the book Never Cry Wolf.