Name the debut novel by the American writer of young adult fiction, which became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a movie starring the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016?
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Matthew Quick Matthew Quick (born October 23, 1973) is an American writer of adult and young adult fiction. His debut novel, "The Silver Linings Playbook", became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted as a movie of the same name starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, and Chris Tucker.
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Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her films have grossed over $5.5 billion worldwide, and she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016. She appeared in "Time"'s 100 most influential people in the world in 2013 and in the "Forbes" Celebrity 100 in 2014 and 2016.
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Guiyeoni Guiyeoni (born 1985) is the pen name of internet novelist Lee Yoon-sae. She first reached fame with her novels "He Was Cool" and "Romance of Their Own", which spawned commercially successful films of the same name, as with another book, A Wolf's Attraction. Since then, one of her other books, "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do", has become a film starring Jang Keun-suk. A movie of "To My Boyfriend" is also in planning stages. Despite her commercial success, Guiyeoni has been criticized for her lack of literary perfection, overuse of emoticons, and unrealistic setting in her works. Besides the aforementioned novels, she has also written "Africa", "Five Stars", and written and illustrated a manhwa called "Syndrome".
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Noni Carter Noni Carter (born May 22, 1991) is an American author from Fayetteville, Georgia, whose first book, "Good Fortune", was released by Simon & Schuster in January 2010. The young-adult novel is about the life of a slave girl who was snatched from her homeland in Africa in the early 19th century and brought to the United States, where she eventually escaped from a plantation and fled to freedom. Carter, who started attending Harvard University as a freshman in the fall of 2009, is one of the youngest writers signed by Simon & Schuster.
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Y (novel) Y is the debut novel of American-Canadian writer Marjorie Celona. It was published in 2012 by Hamish Hamilton.
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Erica Kennedy Erica Kennedy (March 24, 1970 – c. June 13, 2012) was an American author, blogger, news correspondent, fashion journalist, and singer. Her 2004 novel "Bling", became a "New York Times" bestseller. In 2010, she was named to the list of 100 most influential African Americans, as published by "Ebony" magazine and known as the "Ebony Power 100".
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The Sellout (book) The Sellout is a 2015 novel by Paul Beatty published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the UK by Oneworld Publications in 2016. The novel takes place in and around Los Angeles, California, and concerns a protagonist who grows artisanal marijuana and watermelons. Beatty has stated his motivation for writing the novel was that "[he] was broke".
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Every Secret Thing (film) Every Secret Thing is a 2014 American crime film directed by Amy J. Berg and written by Nicole Holofcener, based on a 2004 novel of the same name written by Laura Lippman. The film stars Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, Danielle Macdonald, and Nate Parker, and is notable for being Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand's debut as producer. The film was released theatrically on May 15, 2015 and on home video on August 4, 2015.
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Pamela Erens Pamela Erens is an American writer who appeared on a list compiled by the "Reader's Digest" of "23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now". She has written three critically acclaimed novels. Her debut novel, "The Understory" (2007), was a fiction finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Erens's second novel, "The Virgins" (2013), received accolades from many sources including "The New York Times", "The New Yorker" and "Vanity Fair". It was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award . Her newest novel, "Eleven Hours," was published in May 2016. It was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New Yorker , NPR , and Kirkus . Erens has also written essays and critical articles for publications such as "The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Virginia Quarterly Review," and "Los Angeles Review of Books."
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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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Rachelle Dekker Rachelle Dekker (born June 6, 1986) is the author of the Christy Award Winning, Dystopian, Fantasy novel "The Choosing", the first novel in the "The Seer Book Series". She is the eldest daughter of "New York Times" best-selling author, Ted Dekker.
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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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Bradley Cooper Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor. He was one of the world's highest-paid actors for three years, and has been nominated for various accolades, including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Cooper appeared in "Forbes" Celebrity 100 on two occasions and "Time"'s list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.
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Taraji P. Henson Taraji Penda Henson ( ; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, singer and author. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest-roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in "Baby Boy" (2001). She received praise for playing a prostitute in "Hustle & Flow" (2005) and a single mother in David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008); for the latter, she received Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress; for the former, she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination. In 2010, she appeared in the comedy "Date Night" and co-starred in the remake of "The Karate Kid".
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Caitlin Greer Caitlin Greer (born 20th century) is an American actress and voice-over artist. Her voice was used in Rockstar Games' "Bully" as Beatrice. She is the narrator of "The New York Times"-bestselling "Hush, Hush" novel by Becca Fitzpatrick. She has narrated many other books, but "Hush, Hush", is her most known work.
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Yoojin Grace Wuertz Yoojin Grace Wuertz (born 1980) is an American novelist who was reviewed for her 2017 book "Everything Belongs To Us".
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Lauren Weisberger Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller "The Devil Wears Prada", a "roman à clef" of her experience as a put-upon assistant to "Vogue" editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
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The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The book's first chapter appeared in "The Paris Review" in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides told "3am Magazine": "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus". The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola.
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Under the Never Sky Under the Never Sky is a 2012 young adult debut novel by Veronica Rossi and is the first in a trilogy. The book follows two teens, a girl that has always lived within a protected city and a boy who is both a Night Seer and a Scire, as they attempt to survive. Film rights to the trilogy have been optioned by Warner Brothers Studios, with the novel being sold in more than 25 international markets. Book 2 of the trilogy, "Through the Ever Night," was released in the United States on January 8, 2013 and became both a New York Times and a USA Today Best Seller before the month was over. The final installment, "Into the Still Blue," was released January 28, 2014 however the final novel did not receive as much praise as the preceding books.
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Manhattan Night Manhattan Night is a 2016 American crime film written and directed by Brian DeCubellis. It is based on the 1996 novel "Manhattan Nocturne" by Colin Harrison. The film stars Adrien Brody, Yvonne Strahovski, Jennifer Beals, Campbell Scott, Linda Lavin and Steven Berkoff. The film was released on May 20, 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere.
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Andy Weir Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist whose debut novel, "The Martian", was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott in 2015. He also worked as a computer programmer for much of his life. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016.
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Nora Grey Nora Grey is the fictional protagonist of the "Hush, Hush" series by author Becca Fitzpatrick. She is a sixteen-year-old (seventeen as of 'Silence') high school student who, after experiencing a strange attraction to him, falls in love with a fallen angel.