The Blood of Olympus is a young adult novel written by an American author whose books have been translated into how many languages?
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The Blood of Olympus The Blood of Olympus is a young adult novel written by American author Rick Riordan and is the fifth and final book in "The Heroes of Olympus" series. It was released on October 7, 2014. The seven demigods of the Prophecy of Seven—Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang—go on their final adventure to defeat Gaea while Nico di Angelo, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, and Coach Gleeson Hedge attempt to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood in order to prevent a war between the Roman and Greek demigods. The chapters are written from the perspectives of Jason, Piper, Leo, Reyna, and Nico, making it the first time in the series that someone other than one of the seven demigods of the prophecy is the viewpoint character. It is the second time that Percy appears without being a viewpoint character (first being in "The Lost Hero").
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Rick Riordan Richard Russell Riordan Jr. ( ; born June 5, 1964), better known as Rick Riordan, is an American author. He is known for writing the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series, about a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is a son of Poseidon. His books have been translated into 42 languages and sold more than 30 million copies in the US. Twentieth Century Fox has adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films. His books have spawned related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections.
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Roger Boylan Roger Boylan is an American writer (b. 1951) who was raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland. His Irish novel "Killoyle, "called "a virtuoso performance" by "Publishers Weekly", is published by Dalkey Archive Press. His second Irish novel, "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad", is published by Grove Press; the "Village Voice" said it resembled the work of James Joyce "at his comically prolix best." Both novels were translated into German by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt. The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, "The Maladjusted Terrorist", was published in German in 2007, and the entire Killoyle trilogy was reissued as a boxed set that year by the Swiss publisher Kein und Aber.
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Enrique Vila-Matas Enrique Vila-Matas (born March 31, 1948 in Barcelona) is a Spanish novelist. He is the author of several award-winning books that mix different genres like meta-fiction and have been translated into thirty languages.
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Kristopher Reisz Kristopher Reisz (born February 7, 1979) is an American authorknown for his young adult novels.
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List of books by John C. Maxwell The following is a list of books by John C. Maxwell. His books have sold more than nineteen million copies, with some on the New York Times Best Seller List. Some of his works have been translated to fifty languages. As of 2012, he has sold more than 20 million books in his career.
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Chris Kuzneski Chris Kuzneski (born 1969) is a "New York Times" bestselling American author. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages, have been published in more than 40 countries, and have sold millions of copies. His latest book, "The Prisoner's Gold", won the Thriller Award for the 2016 Book of the Year at a gala hosted by the International Thriller Writers (ITW) in New York City on July 9, 2016. His works have also been honored by the Florida Book Awards and named a Literary Guild's featured selection. In 2015, the Malta Tourism Authority invited Kuzneski to Malta in order to thank him for mentioning their country in his books.
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Mort Castle Mort Castle (born 1946) is an American horror author and writing teacher, with more than 500 short stories and a 17 books to his credit, including "Cursed Be the Child" (Leisure Books, 1994) and "The Strangers". Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional literary magazines to more off-the-wall or risqué markets. He has been nominated eleven times for the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction and winner three times.
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Alexander Stuart (writer) Alexander Stuart is a British-born, Los Angeles-based novelist and screenwriter. Stuart's books include "The War Zone", "Tribes", "Life On Mars" (which inspired the British television documentary, "The End of America"), "Five And A Half Times Three" (written with Ann Totterdell, about the death from cancer of their five-and-a-half-year-old son, Joe Buffalo Stuart), and the children's books, "Joe, Jo-Jo And The Monkey Masks" and "Henry And The Sea" (written with Joe Buffalo Stuart). Stuart's books have been translated into eight languages and published in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Israel.
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Blue Bloods (novel series) Blue Bloods is a series of vampire novels by Melissa de la Cruz. The series is set in Manhattan, New York. The complete series comprises seven books: "Blue Bloods", "Masquerade", "Revelations", "The Van Alen Legacy", "Misguided Angel", "Lost in Time", and "Gates of Paradise". The author also wrote two companion novels, "Keys to the Repository" and "Bloody Valentine", along with two spin-off series, "Wolf Pact" and "Witches of East End". "Blue Bloods: A Graphic Novel" was published on January 15, 2013. The publication date of the final novel in the series.
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Mariana (Vaz novel) Mariana is the 1997 second novel of Katherine Vaz, originally written in English, published by Flamingo/HarperCollin. The novel was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998. The novel has been translated into more than six languages including Portuguese, Italian, and Greek.
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Percy Jackson &amp; the Olympians Percy Jackson & the Olympians, often shortened to Percy Jackson, is a pentalogy of adventure and mythological fiction books written by American author Rick Riordan, and the first book series in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles. Five supplementary books, along with three graphic novels, have also been released. More than 45 million copies of the books have been sold in more than 35 countries.
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Rick Yancey Richard "Rick" Yancey (born November 4, 1962) is an American author who has gained acclaim for his works of suspense, fantasy, and science fiction aimed at young adults.
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Elizabeth Knox Elizabeth Fiona Knox, ONZM, (born 15 February 1959, in Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eleven novels, three autobiographical novella, and a collection of essays. Her best known works are "The Vintner's Luck", which won several awards, has been published in nine languages, and has been made into a film of the same name by Niki Caro, and "The Dreamhunter Duet", a literary fantasy series for teen readers. Her most recent novel was "Mortal Fire", published in 2013, which has won several awards.
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Stephen R. George Stephen R. George is a Canadian author of horror fiction, suspense and dark fantasy. He writes under his own name and the pseudonyms Jack Ellis and Valerie Stephens. He has published 14 novels. His novels have been translated into Italian, Polish, Russian, and Norwegian. His short stories have appeared in a number of publications and anthologies including "Cemetery Dance" and the "Hot Blood" series. George was born in Scotland in 1959; he lives and works in Canada.
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Alexander O. Smith Alexander O. Smith (born February 8, 1973) is a professional English–Japanese translator and author. While his output covers many areas such as adaptation of Japanese novels, manga, song lyrics, anime scripts, and various academic works, he is best known for his software localizations of Japanese video games including "Vagrant Story", "", and "Final Fantasy XII". He currently resides in Kamakura, Japan, where he operates his own contract localization business, Kajiya Productions, and is co-founder of a translation and publishing company, Bento Books.
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Ramona Badescu (author) Ramona Badescu (sometimes written Ramona Bădescu) is a French author of children's literature. Born in Romania, Badescu immigrated to France at the age of 10. She has published 25 books in French since 2002, that have subsequently been translated into English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, German, Korean, Norwegian, and Greek.
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Lisa Ann Sandell Lisa Ann Sandell is an American author of young adult novels. She has written and published three books, "A Map of the Known World", "Song of the Sparrow" and "The Weight of the Sky".
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Christopher Andersen Christopher Peter Andersen (born May 26, 1949) is an American journalist and the author of 34 books, including many bestsellers.
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Tempted (Cast novel) Tempted is the sixth volume of the "House of Night" fantasy series, written by American P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. It was published in October 23, 2009 by St. Martin's Press, an extension of Macmillan Publishers. By February 2010, according to "Publishers Weekly", it had already sold 1.1 million copies. The book has been translated in more than 20 different languages .
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Miyuki Miyabe Miyuki Miyabe (宮部 みゆき "Miyabe Miyuki", born December 23, 1960) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and young adult literature. Her most famous novels in the English-speaking world are "Crossfire" (クロスファイア), published in 1998, and "Kasha" (火車), translated by Alfred Birnbaum as "All She Was Worth", published in 1999. Among anime fans, her fantasy novel "Brave Story" is well regarded; it has notably been adapted into an animated film, an "alternate retelling" manga series, and a series of video games.
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Camp Half-Blood chronicles Camp Half-Blood Chronicles is a media franchise created by author Rick Riordan, encompassing three five-part novel series, three short-story collections, two myth anthology books, a stand-alone short story, an essay collection, a guide, four graphic novels, two films, a video game, a musical, and other media. Set in the modern world, it focuses on groups of demi-god teenagers, and features many characters from Greek and Roman mythology. The first series, "Percy Jackson & the Olympians", follows the adventures of a teen named Percy Jackson at a summer camp for Greek demigods. The second series, "The Heroes of Olympus", introduces several more lead characters and a second camp for Roman demigods. The third series, "The Trials of Apollo", follows the now-mortal god Apollo, with appearances by many characters from the first and second series.