John Michael Green, is an American author, vlogger, writer, producer, actor and editor, and won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, titled what?
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John Green (author) John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, vlogger, writer, producer, actor and editor. He won the 2006 Printz Award for his debut novel, "Looking for Alaska", and his sixth novel, "The Fault in Our Stars", debuted at number one on "The New York Times" Best Seller list in January 2012. The 2014 film adaptation opened at number one at the box office. In 2014, Green was included in "Time" magazine's list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World. Another film based on a Green novel, "Paper Towns", was released on July 24, 2015.
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Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska is John Green's first novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile. It won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, and led the association's list of most-challenged books for 2015 due to profanity and sexually explicit scenes. The story is told through teenager Miles Halter as he enrolls at a boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life, and was inspired by Green's experiences as a high school student.
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Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker" (1989), "The New New Thing" (2000), "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" (2003), "" (2006), "Panic" (2008), " Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood" (2009), "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" (2010), "" (2011) and "Flash Boys" (2014). He has also been a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair" since 2009. His most recent book is called "The Undoing Project".
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Blindsight (Watts novel) Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It garnered nominations for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed 'Burns-Caulfield' that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the solar system, followed by their subsequent first contact. The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology. "Blindsight" is available online under a Creative Commons license. Its sequel "Echopraxia" came out in 2014.
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Utopia (Child novel) Utopia (ISBN  ) is the first solo novel by Lincoln Child published in 2002. It is set in a futuristic amusement park called "Utopia", a park that relies heavily on holographics and robotics. Dr. Andrew Warne, the man who designed the program that runs the park's robots, is called in to help fix a problem. But when he gets there, he finds out that the park is being held hostage by a mysterious man known as John Doe.
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Night Huntress Night Huntress is a series of "New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy romance novels by author Jeaniene Frost. The first novel was published in 2007 by Avon and takes place in a world where supernatural creatures exist but are not known to the general public at large. The series initially focused around the character of half-vampire Catherine "Cat" Crawfield and her full-vampire lover Bones, but eventually shifted focus to other characters such as Vlad Tepesh, a character that Frost had initially not planned to include.
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Pilot (Prison Break) "Pilot" is the first episode of the American television series "Prison Break", which premiered on August 29, 2005 in the United States. That night, it was aired as the first of a two-part pilot special, along with "Allen", which broadcast straight after this episode. The episode was directed by series producer Brett Ratner, noted director of such works as "Rush Hour" and "Red Dragon", and written by series creator and producer Paul Scheuring. The episode was given numerous positive reviews in not just the US, but from the majority of the rest of world, reaching record ratings in various countries.
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Zack O'Malley Greenburg Zack O'Malley Greenburg (born March 8, 1985, New York City) is an American writer, journalist and former child-actor. He is a senior editor at "Forbes" magazine, where he covers music, media and entertainment. He is also the author of two books: "Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire" (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2014), and "Empire State of Mind (book): How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office" (Penguin/Portfolio, 2011). He played Lorenzo Odone in the 1992 film "Lorenzo's Oil".
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Epiphany Jones Epiphany Jones is the debut novel by Michael Grothaus published in June 2016. The novel is a literary thriller, social satire, and dark comedy about America's obsession with sex, celebrity, and the internet, which explores a pornography addict’s unwilling relationship with a woman who thinks she can speak to God and their entanglement with sex traffickers that cater to the Hollywood elite. Grothaus has stated that his personal experiences at the Cannes Film Festival and his disillusionment with the Hollywood film industry were strong inspiration for the novel.
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Such A Pretty Girl Such A Pretty Girl is a 2007 young adult novel by American author Laura Wiess. The book was first published on January 2, 2007 through MTV Books and deals with the subject matter of a teenage girl that must deal with the reality that the father that molested and sexually abused her and several others is getting an early release from jail.
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Man Gone Down Man Gone Down is the debut novel of U.S. author Michael Thomas. It won the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, with Thomas receiving a prize of €100,000 (£85,000, US$140,000). "Man Gone Down" is also recommended by "The New York Times".
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Ghost Radio Ghost Radio is the debut novel from author Leopoldo Gout, a film producer, film director, graphic novelist, writer, and composer. "Ghost Radio" was published in 2008 by HarperCollins.
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Misfortune (novel) Misfortune, is the 2005 debut novel by Wesley Stace. The "Victorian" novel revolves around a cross-dressing heir/heiress. The book was one of the "Washington Post"'s Books of the Year and chosen by Amazon.com as one of the Ten Best Novels of 2005. It was also nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The author, better known as singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, recorded the traditional ballads and folk songs in the book on the The Love Hall Tryst's 2005 album "Songs of Misfortune".
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Stoner (novel) Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 2003 by Vintage and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern.
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Too Much, Too Late Too Much, Too Late is novel written by Marc Spitz that was originally released on February 28, 2006 by Three Rivers Press.
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Adrianne Harun Adrianne Harun is an American writer of prose. Her debut novel, "A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain" (a book about "where evil comes from", according to the author), was published by Penguin in 2014. Claire Vaye Watkins called the book a "breathless, absorbing novel", and the book received many other positive reviews, one reviewer describing it as the "buzz book of the season".
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Green on Blue Green on Blue: A Novel is a 2015 work of fiction written by Elliot Ackerman. Set in modern-day Afghanistan, it is told through the point of view of Aziz, a young boy who must join the Special Lashkar "–" a U.S. funded militia "–" in order to save his injured brother. Dr. Truman Anderson has called "Green on Blue" a “morally complex debut novel" for how Ackerman explores the themes of loyalty to family and nation, revenge, and the brutality of war throughout the novel.
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Dan Brown Daniel Gerhard "Dan" Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, most notably the novels "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013). Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013), have been adapted into films.
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Zzyzx (film) Zzyzx is a 2006 thriller set in the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas. The film was written by Art D'Alessandro, produced and directed by Richard Halpern, and stars Kenny Johnson, Robyn Cohen, Ryan Fox, and Kayo Zepeda.
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Divergent (novel) Divergent is the debut novel of American novelist Veronica Roth, published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2011. The novel is the first of the Divergent trilogy, a series of young adult dystopian novels set in the Divergent Universe. The novel "Divergent" features a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago and follows Beatrice "Tris" Prior as she explores her identity within a society that defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with five factions, which removes the threat of anyone exercising independent will and re-threatening the population's safety. Underlying the action and dystopian focused main plot is a romantic subplot between Tris and one of her instructors in the Dauntless faction, nicknamed Four.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a novel by John Green and David Levithan, published in April 2010 by Dutton Juvenile. The book's narrative is divided evenly between two boys named Will Grayson, with Green having written all of the chapters for one and Levithan having written the chapters for the other, presented in an alternating chapter fashion. The novel debuted on "The New York Times" children's best-seller list after its release and remained there for three weeks. It was the first LGBT-themed young adult novel to make it to that list.
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First Light (Stead novel) First Light is a young adult science fiction and mystery novel by Rebecca Stead, first published in 2007. The novel follows Peter, who is in Greenland with his father and mother for research on global warming, and Thea, who lives in Gracehope, an underground colony located below Greenland. "First Light" explains how global warming is melting Gracehope and Peter and Thea's attempt to persuade the people to leave. The novel addresses the effects of global warming as a theme.