Children's Book of the Year was awarded to JK Rowling for the third of her phenomenally successful novels about apprentice wizard Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - a book named by the judges as runner-up to the overall winner.
There is a National Institutes of Health project to get us there, an X Prize to reward whoever gets there first, and a book (a great read) named after the idea.
So Lewis fired his childhood pal, Dakan, sending him off to write a Heroes comic book, and named himself chief executive in early 2003.
That same year a South Carolina singing instructor named William Walker published a widely popular hymn book combining the now-familiar tune with Newton's words.
Twist had sued the creator of the Spawn comic book series over a Mafia enforcer character named Antonio Twistelli, a.k.a.
Then in 1998 a futurist named Harry Dent , in a book called The Roaring 2000s, took a similar tack.
Dakan had brought in his grad school buddy, a classics scholar named Jack Emmert, to build a game featuring the science fiction of comic-book superheroes-without paying license fees for established characters like Batman or Spider-Man.
Named a New York Times bestselling business book, Basic Black is now in its eighth printing.
In 1795, German scholar August Wolfe published a book that questioned the very existence of an author named Homer.
German scholar August Wolfe in 1795 published a book that questioned the very existence of an author named Homer.
So far we've talked to the anti-war leader Cindy Sheehan and to a woman named Kayla Williams, who wrote a book about her experiences as a soldier in Iraq.
And with more pairs of decks sold every year and the ever-growing prominence of "named" DJs, this book is a worthy account of a massive and still evolving phenomena.
The 60-year-old writer equalled the record of his friend and rival, the late Ted Hughes, after his translation of Anglo Saxon epic poem Beowulf was named the best book of 1999 at a ceremony in The Brewery, near London's Barbican.
They were the first Lamb I ever read, and I'm ashamed to say I only bought the book because I'd read elsewhere that a man named Lamb had visited his friend Leigh Hunt, in prison for libeling the Prince of Wales.
For instance in the book, before going into the games a girl from District 12 named Madge gives Katniss her mockingjay pin.
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The book begins in an Afghan village in 1952, where a boy named Abdullah travels on foot through the desert with his father and his younger sister, Pari.
The book sprang from images I'd actually seen: a man named Vishnu dying on the steps of my parents' apartment building in Mumbai, a cup of tea someone had left lying untouched next to his body.
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Two years later he was named defensive coordinator for Dartmouth, and he published a football book, Perimeter Attack Offense.
The shortlist also includes Peter Porter and Ruth Padel and the prize is named after Eliot - a founder member in 1953 of the Poetry Book Society.
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For his book, Dean spent more than a year on the circuit with a champion Australian shepherd named Jack, following him to more than 30 competitions, including Westminster in 2010 and 2011.
Held at cocktail bar Le Carmen, which was once the home of composer Bizet and is named after his famous opera, the concept of Book Club is simple: bring a favourite book to swap.
And there are many, many stories - a colleague of mine named David Cooke, Professor David Cooke at the University of California, Berkeley, has written a book recently on the marketing of higher education in the United States.
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Some woman got hypnotized a long time ago and said she used to be an Irish girl named Bridey Murphy, who died, and she had all these details, and there was a book, but reporters checked and the dead girl never existed.
And the most famous dish in the capital is named after it: the Peking roast duck, a dish said to be first written into a recipe book in 1330 by Hu Sihui, an inspector of the imperial kitchens when the capital of China was in the city of Nanjing.
Under the plan approved in principle by the board Wednesday night, publishing assets such as the Journal, the Times of London, the New York Post and scores of other papers along with the HarperCollins book publisher and the education business, will be spun off as a separately traded company that is yet to be named.
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