In what year was the book Torch by author Cheryl Strayed published?
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Torch (book) Torch is the debut novel of American author Cheryl Strayed. Published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by "The Oregonian" as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. The book presents the story of family crisis and grief through the failing health and subsequent death of a mother of two children in Minnesota. The book is loosely based on the real life of the author.
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Cheryl Strayed Cheryl Strayed ( ; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host. The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published widely in national magazines and anthologies.
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What Was Lost What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. "What Was Lost" won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award.
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Rowan of Rin (novel) Rowan of Rin is a children's fantasy novel by Australian author Emily Rodda. It is the first in the five-book series of the same name. It was first published in 1993 and re-released in 2003 together with the fifth and final book in the series: "Rowan of the Bukshah". In 1994, the novel won the .
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Sam Stone Sam Stone is a British author of gothic, horror, fantasy, science fiction and more recently a playwright for film and stage. She is the commissioning editor of Telos Publishing imprint Telos Moonrise. Stone's debut novel "Gabriele Caccini" (authored as Paigan Stone) won the silver award for best horror novel 2007 with "ForeWord" in the USA. She was shortlisted for the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards for her second novel, "Futile Flame". This book was also a finalist in "ForeWord"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Book of the Year Awards in 2009 and the third book in the series, "Demon Dance", was also a finalist for the 2010 Foreword magazine Awards and won the August Derleth Award for Best Novel in the British Fantasy Awards 2011. This made her the first female writer to win the Award since Tanith Lee did so in 1980. However, after the awards were announced, there was controversy over the voting and so Stone publicly returned the Award, not wishing to be associated with something which might have been awarded erroneously. The BFS then declared that the voting was valid, but then in a later statement announced that the Best Novel would be declared a 'No Award' for that year. Stone was not consulted in this decision. She also won the Best Short Story Award in the British Fantasy Awards in the same year.
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List of Torchwood episodes "Torchwood" is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. A spin-off from the 2005 revival of long-running science fiction programme "Doctor Who", "Torchwood" aired four series between 2006 and 2011. The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from BBC Three to BBC Two to BBC One, and acquiring US financing in its fourth series when it became a co-production of BBC One and Starz. In contrast to "Doctor Who", whose target audience includes both adults and children, "Torchwood" is aimed at an older audience. Over its run, the show explored a number of themes; prominent among these were existentialism, homosexual and bisexual relationships, and explorations of human corruptibility. During the course of the programme, episodes of "Torchwood " aired over series.
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The Crystal Palace (novel) The Crystal Palace is the second novel in "The Book of Elementals" series by Phyllis Eisenstein. (The first novel "Sorcerer's Son" was first published as a mass market paperback from Del Rey Books in 1979.) "The Crystal Palace" was originally released in 1988 as a mass-market paperback from Signet. It was last in-print in both hardcover and trade paperback in the 2002 omnibus volume "The Book of Elementals" (with "Sorcerer's Son") from Meisha Merlin Publishing. (Eisenstein completed the manuscript for the final volume in the trilogy, "The City in Stone", but the novel was left unpublished after Meisha Merlin suddenly ceased operations in 2007.)
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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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A Feast for Crows A Feast for Crows is the fourth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series "A Song of Ice and Fire" by American author George R. R. Martin. The novel was first published on October 17, 2005, in the United Kingdom, with a United States edition following on 8 November 2005.
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Tiny Beautiful Things Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar is a book written by the American author Cheryl Strayed. The book was published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House Publishing, on July 10, 2012, and debuted at No. 5 on the "New York Times Best Seller list" in the advice and self-help category. "Tiny Beautiful Things" is a collection of essays compiled from Strayed's "Dear Sugar" advice column, which she wrote anonymously, on "The Rumpus" online literary magazine.
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Torchy (comics) Torchy is a comic strip and, primarily, a series of comic books featuring the ingenue Torchy Todd, created by the American "good girl art" cartoonist Bill Ward during 1944. The character was ranked 97th of the 2011 "Comics Buyer's Guide's" "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
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The Chronicles of Tornor The Chronicles of Tornor is a fantasy series by American lesbian author Elizabeth A. Lynn. The first book in the series, "Watchtower" (1979), won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel; its sequel, "The Dancers of Arun" (1979) was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the same year. It is one of the earliest fantasy series to feature positive gay protagonists whose relationships are an unremarkable part of the cultural background, as well as to present explicit and sympathetic depictions of same-sex love. The third title in the series is "Northern Girl" (1980).
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Dying of the Light Dying of the Light is American author George R. R. Martin's first novel, published in 1977 by Simon & Schuster. Martin's original title for this science fiction novel was After the Festival; its title was changed before its first hardcover publication. The novel was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978, and the British Fantasy Award in 1979.
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Pants on Fire (Cabot novel) Pants on Fire is a young adult novel written by Meg Cabot. It was published in May 2007 in the United States. It has since been published in 10 other countries, and is published in the United Kingdom under the name "Tommy Sullivan is a Freak". It was written as a standalone novel.
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Burning Shore Press Established in 2005, Burning Shore Press is a publisher of serious "underground" literature and is based in Long Beach, California. It has thus far published the novel "Heaping Stones", by Rob Woodard, and the play "Don Giovanni", by Dan Fante, and "Songs From The Shooting Gallery", the debut book of poetry from New York-based writer Tony O'Neill, Scheduled publications include"What Love Is", Rob Woodard's second novel, "The Boiler Room", Dan Fante's acclaimed first play, and "King of Long Beach", Rob Woodard's first collection of poetry.
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Midnight Lamp Midnight Lamp, first published in 2003, is the third of a series of five books written by Gwyneth Jones and set in a near-future version of the United Kingdom. It was nominated for both the 2003 BSFA, and the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
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Something Wicked (book) Something Wicked (ISBN  ) is a book (novel) written by Carolyn Hart and published by Bantam Books (now owned by Random House) on 1 May 1988 which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989.
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Stray (novel) Stray is a novel by A. N. Wilson. It is a precursor to his picture book "The Tabitha Stories", as it follows the life of Tabitha's father. The book was published in Great Britain in 1987, by Walker Books and was re-published in the United States by Orchard Books in 1989. "Stray" is dedicated to "A.L.R," who "reserved his kindest comments for a cat."
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How to Train Your Dragon How to Train Your Dragon is a series of twelve children's books written by British author Cressida Cowell. The books are set in a fictional Viking world and focus on the experiences of protagonist Hiccup as he overcomes great obstacles on his journey of Becoming a Hero the Hard Way. The books were published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK and by Little, Brown and Company in the US. The first book was published in 2003 and the last one in 2015. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world.
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Fire Bringer Fire Bringer is a young adult fantasy novel by David Clement-Davies published in 1999, in the United Kingdom and 2000, in the United States.
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Flyy Girl Flyy Girl is young adult/new adult literature and an urban fiction book written by Omar Tyree. The book was originally published by Mars Productions in 1993 and republished by Simon & Schuster for adults in 1996. The novel is regarded to be the genesis of the modern urban-fiction/street-lit movement that would later gain momentum in 1999 with the publication of Sister Souljah's "The Coldest Winter Ever".
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Margaret Beames Margaret Beames (born 18 October 1935) is a multi-award-winning author of children's books who lives in Feilding, New Zealand. Her first book was "The Greenstone Summer", published in 1977. Since then, she has had at least 35 books published.